Chapter 121 The Situation in the World (5)
The history of the previous life is like this, since the present life has passed through the Yongli Emperor, this tragedy can not be repeated, the current central situation after his hard work, is much better than the Yongli court in history, because of his strong and reasonable guidance, the center has not been a large-scale party struggle, the internal friction is not serious, and it can still be twisted into a fist to the outside world. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Moreover, the center also directly administers a forbidden army of about 20,000 people and a patrol battalion of 30,000 or 40,000 people, and actually controls Guangxi and half of Guangdong, which is quite powerful. The authority of the center was also gradually established in a series of wars with Li Chengdong, and no warlord dared to provoke easily. The Yongli Imperial Court is no longer a banner from afar, but the nominal and de facto co-masters of the Xinjiang ministers and military leaders in various places.
Now that the 100,000 army of King Sanshun and Duke Shun is about to go south, Zhu Youlang deeply understands that it is difficult to compete with the 20,000 or 30,000 troops in the center and the warlords in Huguang, and it is necessary to integrate other forces and resist together to have a glimmer of life.
Looking around the southern provinces, he found that there were not many people to fight for.
Such as Huguang's Zhongzhen Battalion, Guizhou's Xianzhong Yubu, Jiangxi's Jin Shenghuan, Guangdong's Li Chengdong, Fujian's Zhu Chenggong, Jiangsu's Zhejiang Lu Wang and Zhang Huangyan.
Huguang's loyal battalion has about 50,000 elite soldiers, and leaders like Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others still have some ability, and their strength should not be underestimated.
The leaders of the rest of the Xianzhong tribe, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, are both loyal and righteous people with a strong national outlook, and in the original history, after Zhang Xianzhong's death, they returned to the Yongli court. Later, in accordance with the emperor's holy decree, he sent troops to Huguang, and became a famous king twice, and eventually became a generation of good generals who resisted the Qing Dynasty. Now they are in Guizhou, lacking food and salary, and in an embarrassing situation.
Jin Shenghuan of Jiangxi and Li Chengdong of Guangdong were very dissatisfied with the Manchu Qing at this moment, and it was also a good time to recruit rebels.
As for Zhu Chenggong of Fujian and Zhang Huangyan of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they are a little beyond the reach of the Yongli court, and they are their own masters, and they have not yet respected Yongli as the master, so it is impossible to take it for their own use, so they can only find a way to unite with it, block the Qing army on the eastern front, so that they cannot drive straight in, and reduce the pressure on the center of the Ming Dynasty from the east.
Zhu Youlang believed that when the time comes, as long as the forces of all parties are integrated and balanced, and there is no internal friction, it will not be impossible to compete with the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Of course, all of this presupposes a strong and convincing center.
Fortunately, he still had more than half a year to enrich the financial and military strength of the center, and everything was still in time, so Zhu Youlang immediately made a decision and summoned Wei Guangchuan, who was in charge of the foreign town and Fusi, and ordered him to immediately arrange for him to enter Guangdong, Jiangxi and Guizhou, and promised to wait for the opportunity to appease the military and political officials and leaders of the rebel army who were interested in rectifying the three places, focusing on Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren and Li Chengdong.
After Wei Guangchuan received the order and left, Zhu Youlang summoned his cronies and ministers - Wu Zhenyu, the imperial history of the left capital, and appointed him as a recruiting envoy, leading the pedestrian department to do pedestrians, and went to Fujian and Zhejiang to persuade Zhu Chenggong to fight against the Qing Dynasty with King Lu.
The day before Wu Zhenyu's trip, Zhu Youlang held a banquet in the palace and personally served him, Wu Zhenyu was grateful, and said that he would not complete the emperor's order and swear not to return to the court. Then he took the pedestrians and the officers and soldiers of the 500 sailors to take a few sea boats and went north to Fujian by sea, to Nanao, Kinmen and other places where Zhu Chenggong was stationed.
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At the beginning of September in the first year of Yongli, in Changsha City, Hunan, the governor of the back hall walked three inner study rooms.
There are four-axis ancient paintings hanging on the wall: "Xuanyuan Asks", "Fusheng Tomb Ceremony", "Bingwu Asks the Cow", "Song Jing Guan History", which looks very simple and elegant.
There was a marble and gold table in the room, and there was a tea tray and a purple shirt wood plate, and the tea tray contained a tea tube and a set of blue and white tea utensils, and in the plate were some dried fruit cakes.
There are also black lacquer and gold screens, luodian chairs, and cloisonne lamp stoves decorated with animal patterns, spitting out the wisps of smoke of heavy sandalwood, and the faint fragrance echoes in the room.
On the east side of several cases, there is a four-fold screen with gold edging, which divides the whole wing into two, and the outer room is slightly larger. There was a carved window, which was now halfway open, and the setting sun was shining in, making the room full of light.
There is a desk and a tube hat chair near the window, and there is a Huang Aya holy decree on the desk, as well as the blue and white pen holder of Jingdezhen, and the high-grade elephant pipe wolf pen from Runzhou, in addition to the four treasures of the study, there are bookshelves, pen washes, paperweights, etc.
On the official hat chair sat an old man in his fifties, with a cross-collar and wide sleeves, a purple robe decorated with a brocade robe on his chest and back, a second-grade belt of plain jade, a head with lacquered yarn horns, a small sharp and narrow face, a face like official jade, a sparse white beard, and a pair of thin eyes.
This tall and very thin old man is He Tengjiao, the secretary of the military department and the imperial history of the right capital, the governor of the military affairs of Huguang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, and the number one minister of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
The governors of the Ming Dynasty had to add the titles of the Imperial Court and the Ministry of War to restrain the local civil and military officials. There is no precedent for the governor of Huguang to control the military affairs of the five southwestern provinces since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but since the opening of Huguang, the Ming army has been defeated and retreated, and has long withdrawn from Hubei, and even Yuezhou, the gateway to Hunan, has been lost.
He Tengjiao Ziyun Cong, born in a scholarly disciple, was promoted in the first year of the Apocalypse, and when he was an official in Nanyang, he also did something in terms of suppression, and he also met the Tang King at that time, and later Emperor Longwu. For this old man of Nanyang, Emperor Longwu treated him sincerely, and was soon promoted from the governor of Huguang to the military governor of Huguang and other five provinces. Full authority to control the military and political affairs of Huguang. He Tengjiao was very happy with Emperor Longwu's holy family, and wrote letters everywhere to show off his special relationship with the emperor, saying: "The new is the old man of Nanyang, the combination of fish and water, and my generation is also destined." "I feel very good, and I feel a little bit of Mr. Wolong and Liu Xianzhu.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, since the failure of the battle of Jingzhou, the Huguang Ming army collapsed, and Longwu died a year ago.
In the past few days, He Tengjiao has been so exhausted that he has whitened half of the originally well-maintained beard. Now he is more than fifty years old and has not yet reached the sixtieth birthday, but he is already born early. The day before yesterday, he suddenly received the holy decree that the Son of Heaven promoted himself to the rank of Dongge University Scholar and entered the cabinet with the book of the Ministry of War.
ps: No accident, Emperor Nanming will be on the shelves the day after tomorrow, work hard to save the manuscript, and strive to explode on the day of the shelf.