On May 13 of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the Dashun army captured the city of Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was martyred by hanging, and Wang Chengen, the loyal governor of Dauchi, hanged together.

Jiashen was in a national disaster, the world was shocked, and the Ming Empire, which lasted for two hundred and seventy-six years, was finally destroyed in the hands of a peddler and pawn.

In the current situation, the Shandong army still belongs to the Ming court, and Li Zicheng has won the hearts of the people, and he is the first grass-headed king to take Beijing City, which is already taking the lead.

In the eyes of people of insight, Li Zicheng succeeded to the throne as emperor, which is already the destiny of heaven.

In the Jiangbei area, only Henan, Shandong, Huguang and several places are immovable, and the rest are almost all surrendered, Dashun occupies a large area of Jiangbei, Li Zicheng non-stop edict to surrender Pingxi Bo Wu Sangui and Anton Hou Wang contend.

Dashun promised the two to be kings, and rewarded the army with millions of silver in order to seek legitimacy.

On 15 May, a fast horse rushed to the foot of Nanjing, and the commander of the Shandong army defending the city saw that the other party was a cavalry from Beijing, so he naturally did not want to stop him, but only let him enter the city after a little interrogation.

The name of this cavalry is Li Ruolian, it is the commander of the Fusi Hall in Nanzhen, he entered the city and was not amazed by the prosperity of Nanjing City, and was directly taken to the Wuying Hall of Nanjing Imperial City.

At that time, Wang Zheng didn't know about this, and felt that Li Zicheng would not risk going to the Northern Expedition again, and discussed with Li Yan, Gu Junen and several other ministers of the staff office.

When they heard the news, the ministers of the Shandong Army Staff Office were shocked.

Now that two months have passed since Anping destroyed Zheng, and the entire Jiangnan is in the hands of the Shandong Army, Wang Zheng has used a large number of military forces to drastically cut the original Ming army in Jiangnan, and the reorganization and adaptation have all been rectified into foreign soldiers and horses, which is already the absolute authority of Jiangnan.

The armor and weapons that have been accumulated for many years are constantly loaded and shipped to various places, and the originally prosperous Jiangnan is now more prosperous and stable because of the control of a unified force.

This unifying force is the Shandong Army under Wang Zheng.

The Shandong army soldiers controlled the imperial prince's palace in various places, and the generals of each town were personally appointed by Wang Zheng, after the death of Zheng Zhilong and others, Wang Zheng threw an olive branch to the original Zheng family general Hong Xu.

Hong Xu was ordered to take the remnants of the Zheng Navy's division to anchor in Taihu Lake, seeing that the general trend had gone, he had no choice but to surrender the Shandong Army, and the remnants of the Zheng Navy's division under his command were reorganized into the original two Shandong Sailors.

The continuous reassignment of the remnants of the Zheng Navy, which made the prestige of the Shandong Sailors soar.

There are nearly 100 giant warships, thousands of medium-sized Shabai warships, and the stalls on the sea are getting bigger and bigger.

Under the Maritime Safety Bureau, there are the Ship Department and the Shipping Department, which are in charge of the affairs of naval warships, ordnance and maritime freight.

Although the Shandong army exterminated the original Zheng clan, it continued to throw olive branches to the remnants of the Zheng clan, revealing the intention of soliciting, and a large number of Kunlun slaves who surrendered were properly settled, but now Wang Zheng is worried about their establishment.

The Spanish foreign gun team hired by the original Zheng family decided to play for Wang Zheng unconditionally after negotiation, everyone knows that in fact, the so-called negotiation is just a matter of face, and Wang Zheng is naked threatening.

This person is not like Zheng Zhilong, he will not negotiate anything with anyone, nor will he hire other armies, and the meaning passed down to the following is very simple, this foreign gun team will either serve under his command or die.

Wang Zheng only fancy the muskets and early Western cannons in the hands of this foreign gun team, if it is popularized throughout the army, the Shandong army will catch up in this era of the rise of firearms, and the combat power is definitely a great improvement.

In other words, there is no shortage of capable craftsmen in the Shandong Army, and there are even a group of foreigners such as Jem who have settled in it.

The leader of this foreign spear team understood this truth, and without saying a few words, he asked Jem to convey his intention to serve.

The Shandong Army is very different from the Zheng family, the Zheng family is just a maritime group, but the Shandong Army is a brand-new regime with all aspects, and the sea and land army is not more than 500,000, but the difference is just a name, and the two sides are naturally not the same.

The reason why the Zheng family spends a lot of money on gold and silver to hire them every year, in addition to the fact that the Zheng family does not look at this money, the main reason is Zheng Zhilong himself.

Zheng Zhilong believes in Catholicism, especially respects Western missionaries, and pays the most attention to moral and trade issues.

When Jingshi Ti rode Li Ruolian into the Wuying Palace, Wang Zheng and the staff of the palace were discussing how to take Taiwan.

That's right, it's how to take Taiwan.

The Shandong army has already occupied the entire south of the Yangtze River, and before the decisive battle with Dashun, it is natural that a Taiwan island cannot be placed behind the buttocks.

Originally, Zheng reached an agreement with the Dutch East India Company, and the Dutch East India Company controlled Taiwan, and built two cities, Geranza City and Puruminsha City, garrisoning nearly 2,000 people.

The content of the transaction is yes, the Dutch East India Company only cooperates with the Zheng family, and the two parties are equal transactions, which can allow the Zheng people to enter and leave Taiwan freely, and both of them trade with Japan to seek huge profits.

At present, the Japanese shogunate is weak, and the feudal domains are in a state of chaos, and only the Dutch are allowed to trade with them, and the Zheng clan has won the right to trade, which is also one of the reasons why they can be rich and rival the country.

Zheng Zhilong, in addition to collecting cents of money for issuing maritime flags, the rest of the income is mostly transactions with Japan, the Netherlands and other countries, and the Shandong army has now seized the right to order flags, so it does not intend to let go of Taiwan.

In Wang Zheng's impression, the island of Taiwan has been China's inherent territory since ancient times, and it is really hateful that the Zheng family allowed the Dutch Maoyi to occupy Taiwan for the sake of its own interests.

At that time, in the face of the foreign envoy sent by the Dutch East India Company on the Taiwan side, Wang Zheng sneered and threw the agreement on the ground and stepped on it twice.

Wang Zheng only said one sentence, that is, the Shandong army will take Taiwan, and unless you disarm and surrender, there is no room for negotiation.

Although the Dutch East India Company was afraid of the Zheng family, it did not mean that they were interested in this nascent mainland regime, and the negotiations broke down, and the foreigner did not stay long, and left directly with a scolding.

In this regard, the Shandong Army became a complete enemy of the Dutch East India Company.

According to Wang Zheng's plan, the Shandong army will fight a blitzkrieg, dispatch all two naval divisions, carry four battalions of soldiers, encircle the island of Taiwan from four directions, and take Taiwan within one day.

The Shandong army only dispatched soldiers in this battle plan, and even the date and landing place had been found, the purpose was to let the Dutch foreigners see the strength of the Han people in the Central Plains at present.

If you don't bow your head, you can only die.

After hearing the news of the destruction of Beijing, although Wang Zheng was not surprised, he was still quite surprised that Li Zicheng would go north.

This time, there is no such thing as peace talks under the city of Beijing in history, and it seems that Li Zicheng is really in a hurry to jump off the wall, desperately trying to take Beijing and fight against himself.

Li Ruolian respectfully took out the holy decree and said in a loud voice:

"Anton Hou, Zuo Du Governor, and Shandong General Soldier Wang are vying to receive the holy decree of the Ming Emperor!"

Wang Zheng immediately walked down, knelt on the ground respectfully with a group of civil and military generals of the Shandong Army, clenched his fists and said:

"The ministers and kings are vying for orders!"

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: Anton waits for the king, bravely crowns the world, and has made great achievements, but he has been treated coldly, which is all my fault, and now the thief is going north, and the Beijing division should not exist..."

“... Named the king of Qi, given the hereditary prince of iron coupons, I and gave the surname of the country, in order to show orthodoxy, the soldiers and horses of the civil and military departments under the command of the king of Qi are all the troops of the Ming court, commanding the soldiers and horses of the world, and recovering the Ming Dynasty. ”