Chapter 330: Charging the Army to Yingzhou
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Correspondingly, the Ming Jingshi in the far north also ushered in the best day of the year.
All kinds of flowers and trees in the Forbidden City are blooming one after another, and Emperor Chongzhen finally has the mood to accompany his concubines to take a walk in the imperial garden of the back garden of Kunning Palace and enjoy the flowers.
Emperor Chongzhen, who has been frowning since the end of the fight, finally has a smiling face and a hearty laugh, and the palace maids and eunuchs in the Forbidden City are also relieved.
The emperor in the Forbidden City is the heaven of these people, the emperor is sad all day long, and their sky is not clear, and everyone's heart is like pressing a stone.
The change in Emperor Chongzhen's mood of course depends on whether the government is smooth or not, and on the military, government and people in various parts of the Ming Dynasty.
He also hopes that he can be completely happy and angry, but if a person has something on his mind, it will be revealed in his words and deeds no matter what.
Since the end of the Chinese New Year, the matter of the thieves entering Shanxi, the matter of the ministers writing against the opening of the sea, etc., have made him feel a little exhausted.
Fortunately, all of this has stabilized for the time being, and is changing for the better.
Niu Juming of the Ministry of War, led a group of people from the Ministry of War, lasted several months, and finally at the end of February, the situation of the mountains and rivers in Gyeonggi was made into a sand table.
East to Shanhai Town, west to Xuanfu Town, north to Rehe Fort, south to Daimyofu, whether it is the danger of the outer Great Wall, or the key pass of the Inner Great Wall, as well as the mountains, rivers, cities, roads, armies and so on of the entire prefectures and counties of Beizhili, all of them are displayed in a sand table with a length and width of six feet.
The miniature landscape on the sand table opened the eyes of several important ministers of the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department and was pleasantly surprised.
For example, Sima Qian wrote in the "Historical Records" about the situation in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang after his death: "With mercury as a hundred rivers and seas, the machine is instilled, with astronomy and geography below." ”
Naturally, the ministers of the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department knew about these things, so they were not too surprised to see the land of Gyeonggi vividly presented on a six-foot square sand table, although they were amazed by the ingenuity of the skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Industry.
However, with this thing, in the future, the emperor and the ministers of military aircraft will no longer have to talk on paper, and facing the sand table in front of them to point out the country and scold Fang Xuan, it is naturally much more accurate than the impression in their minds.
Of course, although Emperor Chongzhen never got tired of looking at the Gyeonggi topographic sand table in the Wuying Palace, what made him even more pleased was the news about Xu Hongzu reported by Zhou Yanru.
With the arrival of Xu Hongzu, the sand table production of the Ministry of War can be accelerated, at least the sand table production of several provinces in the northern Ming Dynasty can be completed quickly.
However, on March 21, what pleased Emperor Chongzhen the most was the victory report signed by Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Fan Jingwen, the governor of Zhejiang, and Cai Maode, the envoy of Zhejiang.
The civil unrest in western Zhejiang was quickly quelled in history, and the time spent in this time and space was two months longer than in history, also because of the effect of the butterfly wings of immigrants to the east.
Historically, after Zheng Zhilong was attached to the imperial court, Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers only thought that the southeast coast would be temporarily stable from now on, and did not think that they should use the huge fleet under Zheng Zhilong's command to transfer the coastal victims to Dongfan Island for resettlement.
Therefore, the civil unrest in Zhejiang during the same period in history did not have such a large scale as this life.
This time, the scale is so large, and there are so many chaotic people, and a large part of the reason is because of the resettlement method of immigrants to Dongfan.
However, even if such a big mess was caused, Emperor Chongzhen would not stop the pace of immigrating to the east, let alone punish Fan Jingwen and others who were a little fierce.
Because as long as the general direction is not wrong, a little problem in the details is completely within the scope of his tolerance and acceptance.
After receiving the report from Zhejiang, Emperor Chongzhen and the two ministers of military aircraft quickly agreed on the disposal of the chaotic people in western Zhejiang, and the remaining more than 18,000 chaotic people after the eleventh smash, regardless of men, women and children, were all filled with the army Yingzhou.
Regarding the suggestions in the joint concert of Wen Tiren and others, Emperor Chongzhen also fully agreed:
Zhao Jianji, the governor of Shenghu Prefecture, participated in politics in Zhejiang, and at the same time continued to serve as the governor of Huzhou.
Wucheng County, the capital of Huzhou Prefecture, was born as a deputy Gong Ling Mengchu with Jinshi, and with the first contribution to quelling the chaos, he was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Zhejiang Provincial Procuratorial Department.
Huzhou Prefecture Changxing County Commander Wenshi was also promoted to Huzhou Prefecture Tongzhi, and at the same time continued to serve as Changxing County Commander.
Tu Augly was exempted from capital punishment and followed Ling Meng's early army to continue to pursue the remnants of Niutou Mountain and Tianmu Mountain.
Cheng Zai was exempted from the death penalty, but the whole family and the population of the nine clans joined the army in Yingzhou with other rebels.
Yingzhou Island will become an important maritime strategic point in the future, although it is now occupied, but without a large population, such an occupation is unstable.
Only by transferring a large number of people to the island can it be said that this place has truly become the territory of China.
Historically, even if the population of Yingzhou Island was too small, it was gradually quietly emigrated by the North Koreans, and finally stolen. Of course, such mistakes cannot be made again and again.
And this is also the fundamental reason why Emperor Chongzhen would rather pay the price of civil unrest in Zhejiang, and insisted on transferring the affected population along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang to Dongfan Island for resettlement.
On these sparsely populated islands, population is not a burden, but an important strategic resource.
For Zheng Zhihu and the 5,000 troops led by him, Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts are the same as Wen Tiren's, since he has left Fujian, he will definitely not let him go back.
Therefore, with the will of Emperor Chongzhen to Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the governor of Zhejiang, there were also orders to Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu respectively.
In the holy decree given to Zheng Zhilong by Emperor Chongzhen, with the help of Zheng Zhihu's efforts to quell the rebellion in Zhejiang, Zheng Zhilong, the general of Jinxia coastal defense, was promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of Penghu Zhangquan and other places in Fujian, and Zheng Zhihu was also promoted to Su Song's general.
At the same time, Chongzhen also let the Zheng family fleet, which was docked at the mouth of the Qiantang River and led by Zheng Zhilong's brother Zheng Xing, take on the task of transporting the rebellious people from western Zhejiang to Yingzhou Island.
To transport one person to Yingzhou, the Yingzhou Town Guard will pay the freight according to the capitation, regardless of men, women and children, and two taels of silver per person.
This is also something that Zheng Zhilong can't refuse.
The 5,000 elites of the Zheng family army led by Zheng Zhihu and Chen Hui are actually equivalent to hostages in the hands of the imperial court as long as they are on land far away from Zheng Zhilong's base, as long as they are not too excessive, Zheng Zhilong has to be obedient.
Of course, if Zheng Zhilong knew that his younger brother Zheng Zhihu would die in a battle against Liu Xiang, the leader of the Guangdong pirates, in just a few years, then he would not be upset about it.
Zheng Zhihu is a very brave person, and he rushes to the front in every battle.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen in history, Zheng Zhilong accepted the order of the imperial court and led his main army to exterminate Liu Xiang, the leader of the big pirates who were rampant along the coast of Guangdong.
When Zheng Zhilong heard the news, he cried and fainted, and since then he has been inseparable from Liu Xiang, and has been chasing after him until he caught Liu Xiang and drowned him in the sea.
At the beginning of April, the relevant officials in Fujian and Zhejiang were all subject to the emperor's will, Zheng Zhihu and Chen Hui finally waited for Zheng Zhilong's reluctant letter to agree, with the imperial court's holy decree and order, once again embarked on the road to the north, all the way to Nanjing.
For them, although Nanjing is a good place, it is not the place they want to go, but in the current situation, they can't help but go.
Zhang Cunren's Zhejiang Guards had already returned to Hangzhou and Ningbo ahead of schedule, and no matter how clever Chen Hui sent by Zheng Zhilong to assist Zheng Zhihu was, he could only honestly accept the appointment, dismissal and dispatch of the imperial court on the premise that he could not tear his face with the imperial court and Fujian and Zhejiang officials.
At the same time, since he had reluctantly agreed to the imperial court's appointment, dismissal and dispatch of Zheng Zhihu, there was no need for him to oppose the imperial court's requisition of the Zheng family's fleet led by Zheng Xing.
Therefore, from the beginning of April, the rebels in western Zhejiang under Niutou Mountain, as well as the rebels who were successively arrested from other places, totaling about 20,000, began to be transferred to the mouth of the Qiantang River in phases and batches, from where they would board the Zheng family fleet led by Zheng Xing and the slightly smaller Zhoushan Water Division led by Weng Zhiqi to go north to Yingzhou Island to resettle the army.
For the current Emperor Chongzhen, even in this time and space, the Ming Dynasty will one day inevitably go to extinction, and before it falls, at least the land of Yingzhou Island, Dongfan Island, and Andong Town Shoufu will be completely incorporated into the territory of the Chinese nation.