Chapter 337 The Messenger
was scared to death by Jiang Yueguang who said that Jin Shenghuan was so hanging. The rebellion is very secretive, and now only Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren know the details in the whole of Nanchang, and even Ma Ruyun only knows that his father-in-law and the two of them want to be anyway, but they don't know when and by what means.
didn't expect such a secret thing to be called through, and Jin Shenghuan became murderous for a while. It's not that Jin Shenghuan is ruthless, the main thing is that the strength of him and Wang Deren in Nanchang City is not as strong as that of Governor Zhang Yutianda. Because the two Jin Wang lost all their troops in Ganzhou, the remaining 30,000 old and weak remnants are still stationed in other places, but there are nearly 3,000 people in the Han Eight Banners in the city, and more than 2,000 are stationed in the Eight Banners. Although the garrison of the Eight Banners are all old people and children, those old guys are veterans who have fought for many years, not to mention more than ten soldiers who have fought Jin Shenghuan, but five or six are still about the same.
Jin Shenghuan stood up with a "whoop" and asked with a murderous face: "How do you know?" At the same time, he held the handle of the knife in his hand, preparing Jiang Yueguang to say something and immediately act to hack this old guy to death on the spot.
Although Jiang Yueguang is also a literati, he has been rolling in the court for many years, and he can be frightened by Jin Shenghuan.
"General Kim, please sit down and listen to me slowly!"
Jiang Yueguang only then told him about being asked by Qian Qianyi to come to help Jin Shenghuan, and as for being named the king of the county by Zhu Hongsan, he listened to Qian Qianyi.
Hearing Jiang Yueguang say this, Jin Shenghuan let out a sigh of relief and said, "The old gentleman is really scared to death!" You must know that there are only 2,000 troops in Nanchang City who obey my orders, and they are not the opponents of the Manchu Qing at all. ”
Jiang Yueguang smiled, and was not dissatisfied with Jin Shenghuan's rudeness just now.
"General Jin, the old man's whole family has been sent to Guangdong, the old man has no worries, the old man is here for General Jin's great cause anyway, dare to ask General Jin if there is anything that the old man needs to do?"
Hearing Jiang Yueguang ask, Jin Shenghuan sighed, he didn't want to rebel, he really couldn't help it. Zhang Yutian and Dong Xuecheng are really not things, and then stay in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and let these two people die. But rebellion is not about drinking water and eating, what to do, what to do, people are not forced to the end of the road that wants to rebel? These are completely different concepts from surrendering on the battlefield. In fact, Jin Shenghuan is hesitant in his heart now, and the hesitation in his heart will inevitably bring out his complexion. Jiang Yueguang has been in officialdom for more than 20 years, and he is playing this kind of observation and expression, and when he saw Jin Shenghuan sighing and not speaking, he knew that this guy had a repetition.
"General Jin, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to get reused from Emperor Shenwu anyway?"
Jin Shenghuan heard Jiang Yueguang ask, thought about it and nodded. In fact, this is just a worry for him, after all, he is in the past anyway, he used to have a bad relationship with Zhu Hongsan, that guy is ruthless, and now he can say anything to himself, and he really can't say what will happen in the future! "Zhu Hong's three words: Your mother, how did you guess my thoughts?"
Jiang Yueguang stroked his beard and said with a smile: "General Jin, do you know who the old man was entrusted to come?" ”
"Didn't the old gentleman just say that Qian Qian benefited Lord Qian?"
"Exactly! Qian Muzhai is the same as your General Jin, and he has also been an official in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he has the same background as General Jin, and General Jin can vote under Qian Muzhai! Qian Muzhai is the father-in-law of Emperor Shenwu, what are you afraid of with him as your protection? ”
Jin Shenghuan said hesitantly: "I also know what the old gentleman said in Xia, but I have had a dirty relationship with Emperor Shenwu before!" I am afraid that the emperor will come... ”
There were very few people who knew about Xinyang back then, and the people in the city didn't know the details, Ma Jiyuan's family were all orthodox scholars, holding the tradition of "hiding for His Holiness", and kept silent about Zhu Hongsan's bullshit back then.
Jiang Yueguang didn't expect Jin Shenghuan and Zhu Hongsan to know each other early, and hurriedly asked: "General Jin, the old man is here to help you regardless of life and death, please tell the old man the details!" You've known Emperor Shenwu before? ”
Jin Shenghuan thought about it, okay, since you want to join the Donglin Party, don't hide anything, it's not good to meet in the future. Thinking of this, Jin Shenghuan told him about guarding Xinyang back then.
In fact, Jin Shenghuan didn't know everything, he didn't know that Zhu Hongsan killed all the women in Ma Jiyuan's family except for Ma Ruyan's biological mother in order to escape for his life. But just let go of the city gate, use the fifty or sixty thousand people in the city to attract the attention of the rogues, and escape by himself, it was enough for Jiang Yueguang to be surprised.
Jiang Yueguang was furious in his heart, he didn't expect this Shenwu Emperor to be such a ruthless, ruthless and unrighteous person, he knew that it was better not to agree to Qian Qianyi.
"Faint King! O faint king! In order to flee for his life, he abandoned the people of the city, if the old man had known that he was this kind of person, he would never have allowed Qian Qianyi to go out of the mountain! ”
Jin Shenghuan heard Jiang Yue scolding Zhu Hongsan, and he also felt sympathy in his heart, and thought that he was broken by Zhu Hongsan's subordinates, he was angry in his heart, and said: "The last general is also bitter, he was broken by the big black man next to the emperor back then, and it took half a year to recover as before!" ”
There is a common hate, Jiang Yueguang and Jin Shenghuan can't help but look at it more and more pleasing to the eye, if it weren't for Jin Shenghuan's age and the huge ugliness, it is very likely to continue to write the basic story of Hou Sui and Zuo Liangyu.
Although both of them scolded Zhu Hongsan, neither of them was a child, and they knew that the best thing for them at present could only be to take refuge in Zhu Hongsan.
Jiang Yueguang in order to revive the great cause, and at the same time for the sake of the elders of Jiangxi, and now Jiangxi and Emperor Yongli's Guangxi are still separated by a Huguang, and He Tengjiao of Huguang is not a good thing, it is better to count on him than to count on Zhu Hongsan, who occupies two prefectures in Jiangxi. You must know that the geographical location of Ganzhou is very important, it is located in the upper reaches of the Ganjiang River, and it only takes five days to go down the river to Nanchang, so Zhu Hongsan is the best candidate to rescue Jiangxi.
Jin Shenghuan thought about it similar to Jiang Yueguang, the Guangdong army that could only fight was in the upper reaches of Nanchang, and it was a matter of minutes to occupy the whole of Jiangxi, if he didn't buy himself a good price in advance, and when the Guangdong Ming army arrived at the city of Nanchang, it would be too late at that time.
Because of this, the two scolded for a long time, and finally sighed and decided to pin their hopes on Zhu Hongsan. After the basic situation just now, the relationship between Jiang Yueguang and Jin Shenghuan has been pulled in a lot.
Jiang Yueguang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "General Jin, do you still have any difficulties?" If there is everything, you can talk to the old man directly. ”
"The last general wants to invite the old gentleman to go to Guangdong once, and ask His Majesty the Emperor to give me a gold medal for avoiding death!"
"General Jin, don't worry, the old man will definitely win the gold medal for you, if that faint gentleman doesn't agree, the old man will die in front of him!"
Hearing Jiang Yueguang make such efforts to help him, Jin Shenghuan couldn't help but be very grateful.
"Old man, there is another one, that is, please Your Majesty the Emperor can you put back all my captured soldiers, in Jiangxi, Wang Deren's strength is really not comparable to the Manchu Qing, it is best to give us thousands of muskets, if so, why worry about the great cause!"
Jiang Yueguang was a literati, and he didn't know the power of the new musket at all, and he thought it was the old-fashioned three-eyed musket.
"Please rest assured, General Jin, the old man will go south to Guangzhou, and he will definitely get a musket for General Jin, General Jin is waiting for my good news!"
After Jiang Yueguang promised Jin Shenghuan, he got up and said goodbye to Nanchang. At this time, his family was at home preparing to go to Guangdong, and Jiang Yueguang happened to go home to travel with his family.
Jiangxi is mountainous, and the best way to get to Guangzhou is actually to enter the Yangtze River, and then take the sea route to Guangzhou. But now because Nanzhili has been blocked by the Guangdong Navy, the sea route to Guangzhou has also been cut off, and the only way to go is by land.
Nanchang to Ganzhou is still a good walk, along the Ganjiang River upstream. However, Ganzhou was in the hands of the Ming army, and there were many outposts of the Qing army along the way out of Nanchang. However, although Jin Shenghuan's army lost its essence, the road slips he issued were still relatively easy to use, and coupled with the effect of silver, Jiang Yueguang came to Ganzhou ten days after leaving Nanchang.
When I arrived in Ganzhou, it was the world of Nanming, and now Ganzhou has become a large military camp. The people of the city fled to their deaths, and less than 30,000 remained. The 70,000 or 80,000 Qing prisoners outside the city became unpaid laborers, who ate two meals of sweet potatoes and rice a day, and were responsible for repairing the bombed city walls and the barracks of the new army. Zhu Hongsan's arrangement for these Qing troops was to get all of them to Luzon to open mines, but now Ganzhou's transportation capacity is limited, and by May, less than 20,000 people were transported.
When he arrived at the border of Ganzhou, the Qian family servant took out Qian Qianyi's name card, and all the cards along the road were released. Qian Qianyi is now the chief military aircraft of the Military Aircraft Department, and he is in charge of the army, and when he sees the name of his boss, he dares to search it, so he naturally has a green light all the way.
Jiang Yueguang saw that the Ming army in Guangdong was completely different from the Qing army, and the Manchu-controlled area was basically the same as the previous Ming Dynasty. However, when entering the border of Ganzhou, there are many checkpoints, but there is no cost at all. Jiang Yueguang is very strange, now is a troubled era, money is needed to fight a war, and there is no tax to collect centigold, how did Guangdong form such an elite musketeer?
On the way, Jiang Yueguang also asked the boat boss who ran the boat, why? The boss of the ship couldn't say why, he only knew that the merchant ships only collected taxes once at the Ganzhou wharf, and they did not collect other taxes in the whole territory of Guangdong with the receipts of the Ganzhou customs customs. There is also the fact that Guangdong's tax is very low, and the commercial tax is only one of ten taxes, which cannot be compared with Jiangxi at all, and Jiangxi has reached five of ten taxes under the leadership of Governor Zhang Yutian, so it still cannot meet daily needs. However, Jiangxi is not bad in the area controlled by the Manchus, and I heard that in the northern provinces, the taxes have been received next year, and it seems that the Manchus are completely dry and fishing.
After listening to what the ship boss said, Jiang Yueguang was also very interested in the Shenwu regime in Guangdong, and was full of expectations for his trip to Guangdong.