After the tall and thin young man left, it was not long before he had drunk all the wine in his glass, and the scholar got up and left. Today, he made an appointment with a servant of the governor's yamen to drink flower wine, so naturally he couldn't miss the appointment.

At this moment, some of the officials in the yamen had already returned home, but Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, was discussing the current situation in the southeast with a few staff members who had just been accompanying him.

"Lord of the Army, since the Mandarin Duck Formation is available, you might as well go to the imperial court and train the Mandarin Duck Formation in the Zhejiang Green Camp to eliminate the big Lan thief Chen Wen."

The person who spoke was called Ji Zhenyi, a person from Taixing County, the capital of Yangzhou, and a Jinshi in Shunzhi for four years. Not long ago, Ji Zhenyi was still the magistrate of Lanxi County, Jinhua Prefecture, but the Qing army was repelled by the Ming army in Xiaoshun Town, Chen Jin issued an order to burn the Jinhua Mansion City, Lanxi, and Tangxi County occupied by the Qing army to avoid the enemy, and at the same time withdraw the official defenders, pull the defense line to the area of Longyou County, Quzhou Prefecture, and regroup forces to guard against the Zhejiang Ming army under Chen Wen, and he also arrived in Quzhou.

Abandoning the land was a felony in the Qing Dynasty, but not long ago, Chen Jin had just achieved a great achievement in capturing Zhoushan, and the Manchu Qing high-level officials also realized that Chen Jin protected Quzhou to prevent the Ming army from entering Jiangxi or Fujian from joining forces with Zhang Zisheng, the only remaining of the four great Kou in Jiangxi, or attacking Fujian, and cooperating with Zheng Chenggong's intention to completely disrupt Fujian.

As a result, Chen Jin, Zhang Guoxun, Ma Jinbao and others were not punished for the time being, and they will discuss after the recovery of Jinhua. However, for the time being, they have not filled the pit of the officials in Jinhua Mansion and the western counties, so they can only temporarily serve as staff members under Chen Jin, so as to prepare for resettlement after retaking Jinhua Mansion.

Ji Zhenyi's suggestion caused those former Jinhua Mansion officials to nod frequently, although they had not seen how the Ming army under Chen Wen repelled the Qing army last year, but the scene just now still doesn't explain the problem? Since the Ming army was able to use the Mandarin Duck Array to win, with the current strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as long as it copied its tactics, it could be crushed or even eradicated through an overwhelming superiority in manpower, material and financial resources. And until then. They can also return to Jinhua as an official.

Unlike Ji Zhenyi and other former Jinhua officials in the same year, Li Zhifang turned his attention to Chen Jin like other staff members present, after all, changing the military system is a major event, and he has the impression that the last Qi army had a confrontation with the Qing army in the Hunhe River decades ago, and many things in this may not be applicable.

As Li Zhifang expected, he heard Ji Zhenyi's eloquent talk. Chen Jin seemed a little hesitant. It is true that he is a member of the Blue Banner of the Han Army, but he was a Qing army that surrendered from the official position of the Dalinghe Dusi in the era of Huang Taiji, and he has heard of the Battle of Hunhe as a military general of Liaozhen, but it is limited to the period when he is a Ming army.

As for the surrender of the Manchu Dynasty, in his impression, it seems that when the masters of the Eight Banners boasted about how invincible the Eight Banners Army was in the world, they rarely mentioned the bloody battle of the Hunhe River. Especially the masters of the Eight Banners who should have participated in that bloody battle in those years, they seem to have always been secretive about it, although Chen Jin said that he couldn't understand what he meant. But there is no great need to touch the mold for such things.

Moreover, a few years ago, the high-level of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had already made a plan, and when Jiangxi was over, they would send a large army from Quzhou to attack Jinhua Mansion, plus the Hangzhou garrison of the Eight Banners, the Raising Battalion and the Fubiao Battalion that was being rebuilt, and the entire Zhejiang elite plus part of the Jiangxi Green Battalion to eliminate the Ming army that had just taken Jinhua.

"The stakes are high. The official will have to think again. With that, Chen Jin turned the conversation to something related to him. Edited by Zhu. How is the gentry in Jinhua Mansion who are interested in the imperial court? ”

The Zhu editor in Chen Jin's mouth is Zhu Zhixi, a talented man in Yiwu who Sun Yu had recommended to Chen Wen before, but as Zhou Jingting said, Zhu Zhixi won the ninth place in the second class in the first imperial examination in the Manchu Dynasty in the third year of Shunzhi. But if you think that at that time, the Qing army in Zhejiang only occupied the area of Hangjiahu, and eastern Zhejiang was still in the hands of Lu Jianguo, so this person rushed to participate in the imperial examination of the Manchu Dynasty. This manipulation can be seen.

"When returning to the army, the students exchanged letters with the gentry they knew well. The big Lan thief Chen Wen acted perversely in Jinhua Mansion, forcibly expropriated money and grain, and borrowed money in the name of beauty. At present, the people of Jinhua Mansion are full of grievances, such as the naked son looking at the king for a long time. Wait for Wang Shi to enter Jinhua Mansion. There will be a group of corresponders. ”

Zhu Zhixi returned home in the fourth year of Yongli, and at this moment Chen Jin was willing to call him an official position in the court, but he had to regard himself as a common man.

It's just that Ma Jinbao expropriated violently during the Jinhua Mansion, forcibly seized people's property, and even forced the whole family to death for this, and the degree of perverse behavior is comparable to Chen Wen. The people's grievances may be able to talk about it, as for the group of corresponding, I am afraid that the "vinegar master" Ma Jinbao is still in the Jinhua General Army for a day, and the vast majority of the gentry and people in Jinhua Mansion may not dare to have this idea.

Zhu Zhixi's words are quite exaggerated, which Chen Jin is not unaware of, but this statement is still quite beneficial in inspiring people's hearts, so naturally he doesn't want to point it through, just a few words of encouragement, and let Zhu Zhixi continue to contact the gentry. And he made up his mind, and when Jinhua's matter was over, he would praise the painting, after all, this person was the first imperial examination of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he had a promising future among the Han officials, and it was naturally necessary to make friends if he could make a good fate.

Everyone present is a human spirit, and they can understand the doorway as long as they think about it, and seeing that Zhu Zhixi has merit to take during the Ding Worry, he is naturally envious.

Chen Jin took advantage of the gap between picking up the teacup and drinking water, and saw that everyone's expressions had changed, and among those former Jinhua Mansion officials who were not very familiar, only Li Zhifang could still have a normal face, and the recognition of this person in his heart was even greater.

Although the Qing army was forced to withdraw from Jinhua Mansion before, Li Zhifang handled and reacted appropriately during that period, especially after the Jinhua Prefect was captured, and saved a lot of vitality for the Qing army. Originally, after learning of this person's merits, Chen Jin also planned to ask for credit for him, but with the defeat of the Qing army in Xiaoshun Town, this matter could only be put on hold temporarily, but among these temporary staff members at present, the most trustworthy one is Li Zhifang, the former Jinhua Mansion magistrate.

In particular, Li Zhifang had previously strongly advised Chen Jin to send people to the coast of Fujian to spread the news that Chen Wen had captured Jinhua Mansion, repelled the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, and Wang Jiang was captured. With a king's life in his body and a real power in his hands, it is estimated that it will not be long before the two will fight, and then they will have no energy to do anything else, so they can only wait for the Qing army to deal with other Ming armies that are fighting infighting. Catch them all.

However, if it were not for Wang Jiang being captured, the Qing army may not have such an opportunity, since the Qing army went south, there were many anti-Qing rebels in Zhejiang, but the only one that really made the Zhejiang Qing army scratch its head was the Ming army of Dalanshan, because this Ming army could not only support a large number of troops to fight. Moreover, it can achieve strict military discipline, so that the righteous army that may compete with the Manchus is the most threatening, and this has many credits from Wang Jiang.

If Chen Wen, the big Lan thief who has begun to use his troops and has begun to show the demeanor of a famous general, is paired with Wang Jiang, a practical civilian official who can support the army in a corner of Dalan Mountain, such a combination may not be so simple and can be pacified.

And now, without Wang Jiang, Chen Wen can only rely on forcibly demanding people's wealth in the name of borrowing, even if he can survive this year. If he can't pay back the silver tomorrow, he will not be able to stand firm in Jinhua Mansion. After all, what kind of goods those gentry are, Chen Jin, who has been an official for decades, knows it very well.

However, Chen Wen can last until next year, Chen Jin estimates that he is also thinking too much, as long as the Qing army in Jiangxi, Fujian, and Southern Jiangxi provinces completes the task of exterminating Zhang Zisheng, he can enter Quzhou in a big way, and then he wants to see what tricks the military general can use.

As for Zheng Chenggong, put up with him for months!

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Maybe it's telepathy, as far away as Quzhou, western Zhejiang. Chen Jin planned to free up his hands to deal with Zheng Chenggong again after eliminating Chen Wen, outside the city of Zhangzhou in southern Fujian. Zheng Chenggong inexplicably shivered in the big tent of the Chinese army besieging the city.

Two months ago, on the third day of the first lunar month, Zheng Chenggong led more than 2,000 ships to sail directly to Haicheng Port, the capital of Zhangzhou. He Wenxing, the general of Haicheng defending the city, and Gan Tiyuan, the magistrate of Haicheng County, surrendered to Kaicheng. A few days later, Zheng Chenggong divided his troops to cut off the Jiangdong Bridge, the main road leading from Quanzhou to Zhangzhou, and Wang Bangjun, the Manchu commander of Zhangzhou, was forced to defend the capital city of Zhangzhou. For a time, Zhangzhou "villagers erected flags in response". The Qing army was "surrounded by enemies on all sides, isolated and dangerous, urgent, and in all difficulties."

By the second day of the second month of February, after clearing the defenses outside the city. Zheng Chenggong decided to launch a general offensive. On the battlefield, the Ming army bravely attacked the city, while the Qing army resisted stubbornly. After the guerrilla battalion Wu Shizhen was killed by a cannon and failed to succeed in the assault, Zheng Chenggong had to order the excavation of tunnels in an attempt to break the city by collapse. And the so-called collapse method is the blasting of later generations.

The tunnel has been excavated for more than a month, and it is learned from the mouth of He Ming of the firearms battalion that the tunnel has been excavated, and it can ignite the bombing city just by filling it with gunpowder.

After last year's three battles and three victories in Cizao, Qianshan, and Xiaoyingling, the Fujian Ming army commanded by Zheng Chenggong can be described as a succession of victories, and for a time the Fujian Qing army had no troops that could be used to rescue Zhangzhou. With the fall of Zhoushan, the Zhoushan Ming army was also forced to go south to Fujian and entered the sea altar he occupied, only to become part of the Fujian Ming army under his command.

But in this world, there must be a disadvantage to everything, Zhoushan fell, the Zhejiang Qing army completely freed up its hands, and now the Fujian Qing army is powerless, and the Zhejiang Qing army will sooner or later go south to aid Fujian. In this way, his momentum in Fujian is likely to be curbed, and the military campaign to recover Zhangzhou may also be hindered.

Fortunately, the threat of the Ming army in Zhoushan is no longer there, but a Ming army general named Chen Wen suddenly appeared in Jinhua Mansion. Zheng Chenggong had previously asked Zhang Huangyan, a squire of the military department who came to contact, that it turned out that this Chen Wen had successfully annihilated an elite Qing army that had followed him in the context of the disastrous defeat of the Ming army in Siming Mountain last year, and then he learned about the battle that happened in Jinhua Mansion last year from the courtiers of Lu Jianguo.

Zheng Chenggong knew very well that Chen Wen's presence in Jinhua Mansion was very beneficial to him, as long as this person was in Jinhua Mansion for a day, it would be difficult for the Qing army in Zhejiang to bypass there to aid Fujian, and even the Qing army in Nanzhili and Jiangxi would be affected to a certain extent. After all, Jinhua is close to Hangzhou and Quzhou, and if Chen Wen takes either of these two prefectures, it will threaten the security of these two provinces.

The only thing that made him feel uneasy was that this person was Wang Yi's general, and Wang Yi was appointed by Lu Jianguo to be the governor of Zhejiang. What's more, not long ago, when Lu Jianguo entered Haitan, he also sent another soldier to canonize Chen Wen as an earl, and there seemed to be signs of returning to Zhejiang to merge with him.

Since ancient times, it has been a miracle for the ages, but the person who is supported has not been able to seize the supreme position, and the person who supports him is a great rebellion. The Zheng family offended the Lu clan too much in the matter of supporting the Tang Domain, and Zheng Chenggong would never believe that if the King of Lu won the world, the Zheng family would have good fruits to eat. Therefore, when Lu Jianguo made a big disturbance in Fujian, he continued to use the banner of Emperor Longwu, and was not willing to fight with the men and horses of the Lu Domain.

At present, Lu Fan is embarrassed, and the Zhoushan Ming army that arrived in Fujian is cut off, and he is already trying to win over, as long as time permits, he will definitely try to take this remnant army of not bandits as his own, so as to maximize the expansion of strength. But if Cao Conglong succeeds and Chen Wen merges with the Ming army of Lu Jianguo, then even if someone is in Zhejiang, there is a risk that Lu Fan and Gui Fan will compete for the throne and cause a civil war in the future, which will inevitably affect his long-term dreams and plans.

Since the first year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong swore against the Qing Dynasty in the name of "loyalty and filial piety to the general's guilty ministers" in Xiaojinmen, all he thought about was to do his best to achieve the great cause of Zhongxing for the Ming Dynasty.

In Zheng Chenggong's view, only in this way, while spitting Zheng Zhilong's betrayal of the Great Tomorrow and the Fujian fathers and elders in the history books of later generations, will it be recorded that although Zheng Zhilong has descended to the Tartars, his son has achieved Zhongxing for the Ming Dynasty. Only in this way can he wash away the shame that his father's bad deeds brought to the family and future generations.

Today, there is no Qing army in Fujian that can fight with it, and the Qing army in Zhejiang is also pinned down by the military general named Chen Wen. As long as Zhangzhou is taken, it can rely on the land and grain of this land, as well as the monopoly position of the Ishii Zheng family in maritime trade, to quickly roll the snowball.

It won't take long for him to recover all of Fujian, and even all the way north to Nanjing. At that time, as long as the water division locked the river and then integrated the south of the Yangtze River, only the ruined north remained, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not be able to hold out for long at all. And he can easily accumulate strength, and then follow the old road of Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to the Central Plains in the north.

At that time, Daming Zhongxing is hopeful, and he, Zheng Chenggong, can also completely wash away the shame of the second year of Longwu!

Back to this moment, whether Cao Conglong can succeed or not, and whether Chen Wen will merge with the remnants of the Lu Domain, these are not the most important things for Zheng Chenggong. As long as you are strong enough, you can cope with any change. And to be strong, it starts today.

"Light the fuse and prepare for the siege!" (To be continued.) )