Chapter 66: Reaction (Part II)
Returning to the house, Chen Wen bathed and changed clothes, rested for a while, and then continued to dispose of the official documents. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info There is still one day left tomorrow, and there is still a lot of work, meetings, appointments, and you may not be able to spare a day for a day. However, tomorrow will be the thirtieth day of the lunar month, and official business will always have to be handled before Chinese New Year's Eve, and Chen Wen also plans to take advantage of the New Year to rest for a few days to accumulate more energy for the arrival of next year, the twelfth year of the eternal calendar.
"It seems that the king's congratulatory letter has been delivered, and this country surname is really good at finding the time. Since everyone has spoken, then approve it, isn't it just seeds, farm tools or something, sell! ”
In April, when Chen Wen was still sweeping Huguang, Zheng Chenggong set out from the Central Left Institute and marched eastward to attack Taiwan in a big way. After this period of recovery, especially after carving up Geng Jimao's industry with Chen Wen, the strength has recovered somewhat, and the size of the army is slightly larger than in history.
It's just that, with a little bit of a word, the overall strength has not increased much, but the process of the battle is devastating. Among them, Zheng Chenggong used the mortar artillery group manufactured and trained by Chen Wen to destroy the fortress of the Dutch, which was not unexpected by Chen Wen, but before that, Zheng Chenggong fought with the Dutch in the field, but he used a bottle with a national surname that was filled with gunpowder in a porcelain bottle, lit the fuse, and threw it.
"God really wants to give the national surname a few more decades of life, and it is really unknown who belongs in the world."
Chen Wen sighed, it's a pity that God didn't let the country surname live for a few more years in history, but this time, Yongli will not go to Myanmar for the time being, Li Dingguo is still running around in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty does not dare to move Zheng Zhilong to this point.
"I want the intelligence officers of the Zhongzuo Institute to investigate, the prince of Yanping County, has there been any behavior that is not in line with etiquette recently."
"The last will obey."
The Military Intelligence Department sent a number of classified reports, which were to be sent directly to Chen Wen. Chen Wen carefully read it, gave instructions one by one, and after the military intelligence report was completed, he asked people to summon the old and young remnants of North Korea.
The reason why it is called the old and the young is because North Korea has been officially destroyed by the Manchus this year. The Li family, the Korean royal family, was arrested and brought to Beijing by the Qing court without exception, and the Qing court used bannermen and Han Chinese as civil officials in Korea, used herdsmen recruited from southern Mongolia to form a core occupation army, and improved the status of the untouchable "bangzi" in Korea, acting as a defender of civil security, so as to form a puppet army. Nowadays, there is no such thing as a vassal state of Korea, and there are only two provinces of North Goryeo and South Goryeo of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
"His Royal Highness the King of Qi, the Heavenly Dynasty is in the lower country, the name is vassal, it is the same as the father and son, the country name of North Korea was given by Emperor Taizu Gao, and Emperor Xian is the grace of reinvention of the lower country. Now the Tartars are destroying the country because of the nostalgia of the Heavenly Dynasty, and they also ask His Royal Highness the King of Qi to send troops as soon as possible to rescue the people of the lower country from the suffering of hanging upside down. ”
These remnants of North Korea, who simply fled to Japan when they saw that the situation was not good, wept and wiped their tears in front of Chen Wen at this moment, so as to look at the misery of the people who lost their country.
Crying Qin Ting, such a drama Feng Jingdi also came to Japan once that year. From this point of view, North Korea still has a very good understanding of Chinese culture, not to mention any spiritual, inner and other things, at least the appearance is still made. It is said that these days, these brothers are fine in the post house and on the street, and as soon as they see the officials of the Qi Palace, they immediately change their tears and tears, and their professionalism is also commendable.
"In this case, you will first explain the situation in your country, and this king should have an understanding."
"Knowing oneself and knowing that the other is invincible, His Royal Highness the King of Qi is worthy of being the head of the vassal kings of the Celestial Empire, and the world-famous general who killed the slave chief Zierharang, the villain must know everything and say everything."
Hearing this compliment, Chen Wen also shook his head with a smile, and then said to them: "The head of the vassal king, don't dare to be." This king is now a prince, and he has received the title of prince and prince, and he is indeed the highest-ranking vassal of the dynasty, but his Royal Highness the King of Jin, who is now the most trustworthy, so this sentence is still exempt from the words of the head of the vassal king, and it should not be. ”
The horse's fart slapped on the horse's leg, and the old North Korean former governor Yin Dang closed his mouth, and the middle-aged shepherd next to him swallowed his saliva, and quickly led the topic to Chen Wen's question just now.
"Returning to His Royal Highness the King of Qi, the Tartars have committed many atrocities in the lower country, and it is difficult to write about it......"
"This king doesn't want to hear about any atrocities, this king has seen a lot of things that the Tartars have done in China, and he is not inferior to you. Today is the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and this king still has a lot of official business, so I don't have time to listen to you cry. Now to get to the point, this king has heard that the Tartars have formed the Eight Banners of Goryeo in your country, but is this so? ”
Chen Wen rudely interrupted the words of the North Korean officials, he was really not interested in gossiping with these North Koreans, there are many situations in North Korea, before Zheng Qi and Ono Ichiro were attacked by the Qing army and the North Korean puppet army sailors when they went to North Korea, the sailors who escorted them did not take too much advantage, and the casualties on both sides were equal, but they captured a Qing army officer and tortured a lot of things. All he needs to know now is the truth, and he believes that these remnants still have some way to go in North Korea to a greater or lesser extent.
"The villain is guilty, the villain is guilty."
Chen Wen frowned, the middle-aged shepherd was sweating profusely, and he didn't even dare to wipe it, and entered the main topic: "Back to His Royal Highness King Qi, this is indeed the case." The whole country of Haeguk is divided into eight provinces: Gyeonggi, Chungcheong, Gangwon, Hwanghae, Jeolla, Gyeongsang, Pyongan, and Hamgyeong. ”
"What is the scale of the Eight Banners of Goryeo?"
"As far as the villain knows, there are two hundred people in each cow record, and now each flag has ten cattle records, and two yellow flags are more, and there are fifteen cattle records each."
There are more than two yellow flags, and together they are only thirty Niulu, and if you count the other six flags, it is a total of ninety Niulu. It doesn't seem like much, but if you count 200 people per cow, then this is 18,000 Goryeo Eight Banners.
According to the report of the Military Intelligence Department, the Manchu Qing Dynasty captured no less than 3,000 fish skin tartars in the recent year, recruited 5,000 Mongols to supplement the Mongolian Eight Banners, and reorganized no less than 10,000 green battalions and coats, especially the Eight Banners Wrappers, into the Eight Banners of the Han Army. In this way, the losses of the Manchu Army's Eight Banners in Jiangnan have recovered at least seven or eight in numbers. Only this combat power, I'm afraid it won't be able to ease up for a while.
"This king heard that the Tartars are still in North Korea to get a doctor?"
"Back to His Royal Highness the King of Qi, they are all traitors who don't want their ancestors."
"Sure enough."
For different regions, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's ruling policies were also very different, for example, the Mongols, the formation of the alliance flag, the promotion of the Yellow Religion, and the notorious policy of reducing the Ding, while for the Han land, it was to promote Confucianism, open the science and take scholars, and win over the landlords and scholars to suppress the civil rebellion.
Now, against Korea, the Manchus used a puppet army equivalent to the Green Battalion formed by untouchables such as "Bangzi", and formed the Eight Banners of Goryeo at the same time as the opening of the branch to strengthen the core force, just like the Han land. It is precisely because North Korea is different from Mongolia and Tibet and is deeply influenced by Chinese culture that it has today's situation.
"In this way, how to deal with it, this king still needs time to think about it. If you are not in a hurry, you can go to Kunming and meet the Son of Heaven. That's it for today, if the king has any questions, he will send someone to find you, and if you think of something, you can also hand it over to the officials of the post house. ”
Now that the DPRK has become an arm of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Chen Wen has not yet thought about whether to send troops to make some articles there, and he needs to further understand the current situation in the DPRK, and he is not in a hurry to do so. However, there are some things that can be used to make a fuss in advance.
"Use this as the core argument and let the pens of the Department of Missions write it well."
"My Majesty, is this going to be sent to the palace?"
"No, print thousands of copies of what you have written, and let Zheng Qi and Ichiro Ono send those things to Japan, and give the Japanese a reason to die."
Someone was sent to see off the group of North Koreans, and Chen Wen continued to handle official business until dinnertime. After dinner, Chen Wen sat in his study and read the "Science" magazine, which he had read in the first few issues of this year when he was in Wuchang, and many of them were whimsical and interesting.
At this moment, what he is holding in his hand is the last issue of the eleventh year of Yongli, and it is also a issue that has just been published for a long time, one of which mentions that there is a kind of copper caliper in Xinmang, which is composed of a fixed ruler, a fixed claw, a fish-shaped handle, a guide trough, a guide pin, a combination of sets, a movable ruler, a movable claw, a handle, etc., which is extremely similar to the vernier calipers of later generations, and there is not much difference in usage and use.
The contributor claimed that he had a collection at home and that he had a graphic on it. Chen Wen read it in the magazine and was also shocked. But if I think about it carefully, I seem to vaguely remember that I have read similar articles on the Internet before, and the title seems to be similar to "Shock, ancient Chinese high-tech products are thousands of years ahead of the world" and something like that. Of course, the shock of that article was not a waste of emotion, but it was a real thing with archaeological objects.
Chen Wen remembers that according to modern archaeological results and ancient written and graphic descriptions, there were many world-leading inventions and creations in ancient China, such as the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, and even the Ming Dynasty in which he lived at this time. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, however, China had left the impression of foreigners with nothing but braids, foot binding, and all the words associated with ignorance.
"Fortunately, it's not too late, the vernier caliper has already been remembered, and I don't know when the track of the Qin people will be remembered. In my life, I probably won't see the train come out, but if I can see the steam engine, it will not be in vain. ”
"What the husband just said, the concubine didn't hear clearly."
"It's nothing, I'm thinking about things, and the lady continues to teach Xinruo to write."
At the age of three, according to Chen Wen's thoughts, children still have to liberate their nature and play at the age of play, Zhou Yueying thinks that children should start learning early, at least literacy should start early, and almost say the words such as "children want to win at the starting line", if she really knows, maybe it will cause some resonance.
Chen Wen has been fighting outside all the year round, and the children are too young, so don't think about the enlightenment of the children, so you have to hand it over to Zhou Yueying to be responsible. Although he didn't like to start enlightenment education so early, he saw that his daughter seemed to be very interested, so he simply let his daughter write in the study and encouraged him.
Just looking at the magazine, I felt something, and I whispered something in my mouth, but it interfered with the mother and daughter. However, Zhou Yueying looked at the time and instructed her daughter to write the rest of the words and go back to her room to sleep, while she chatted with Chen Wen again.
"Husband, that Shanhaiguan general soldier, you really don't want to participate in the righteous act?"
Listening to Zhou Yueying's tone, Chen Wen also knew that his wife didn't have a good impression of Wu Sangui. After all, it is not the time to rush to the crown and be angry for the red face, Wu Sangui switched the Tartar in, and the result is that China has come to the edge of the cliff of dying in the Tartar again. If it weren't for Chen Wenli to turn the tide, I'm afraid that the country would have died now.
However, as far as Chen Wen knew, the scholar class did not have much ill feelings towards Wu Sangui. Many people think that Li Chuang has harmed the interests of the Confucian class, and Wu Sangui switched on and off to borrow troops to beat Li Chuang, and even following the Tartars to do evil all these years is understandable. This kind of sense, probably won't be reversed until Yongli is strangled to death by Wu Sangui with a bowstring.
"Of course, Wu Sangui wants to take advantage of the fire, what am I going to mix into, but people don't even mention half of me in the text, what kind of fun do I have in this gratuitous past."
Wu Sangui's inscription had already been read by Chen Wen as early as when he was in Huguang, and at that time he also ridiculed Li Guoying, the governor of the Sichuan-Shaanxi trilateral who was sacrificed by Wu Sangui, saying that he was missing a good slave who led the horses and pedaled the Manchurian soldiers. Even Tu Mancheng, he could understand the hidden thoughts in it. It's just that understanding is understanding, personally, Chen Wen doesn't like Wu Sangui, a traitor in troubled times, and from the perspective of the overall interests of the Ming Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Zhejiang, there is no need to mess up his original rhythm because of this unexpected incident.
"Husband, Wu Sangui won the Eight Banners Army under the city of Xi'an, if he contacts the imperial court and leads the southwest army north, His Majesty will come to the royal army again......"
"The Imperial Driver? Lady, our son of heaven, I'm afraid we don't have the guts. For the husband to march into Guizhou, if it weren't for Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, one went north to guard the gate, and the other guarded the center of Kunming, I am afraid that he would have abandoned the city and fled. He had done too much of this before, and it was more likely that he would have hoped for his guts than to hope that the Tartars would commit mass suicide in Jingshi now. ”
"Then what if King Jin and Wu Sangui join forces to march east?"
Zhou Yueying's question is to the point, Li Dingguo is a military commander who can create miracles, such a person has been in Nanming He and Zheng Chenggong are just two people, once Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui join forces, with the current strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there is indeed a problem.
"Lady, have you read these two reports?"
Chen Wen stretched out his hand and picked up the two reports on the case, Zhou Yueying has been tutoring her daughter in literacy and writing today, how can she have the time to read this. Seeing that Chen Wen picked it up, she reached out and took it, and read it carefully, until she read the second copy, she was relieved.
"Now it seems that the impact that King Jin can have on the outcome is not as huge as the concubine imagined. I'm afraid that the King of Jin will be influenced by Wu Sangui, especially Wu Sangui's loyal and brave battalion leader. ”
There were two reports, one was a report from the Beijing station of the Military Intelligence Department on the news of the new army organized by the Manchu Qing Dynasty after they fled to Henan, and then sent to Chen Wen's case through the hands of these "anti-Qing righteous soldiers" who were "in the heart of the Qing Dynasty and in the palace of the King of Qi", while the other was a report from the Beijing station of the Military Intelligence Department about the news about the new army that the Manchus had organized.
"It's nothing, once the army has developed to this stage, there will be many things that they can't afford. Now, what the husband is more concerned about is whether the Spanish phalanx of the two knives that Wu Sangui learned from those Southeast Jingbiao is more powerful, or the new army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is still under secrecy, is more powerful. Of course, if it's a lose-lose situation, it must be excellent. ”