Geographically, the current Bohai Sea is like the esophagus of the Manchu court, and the teeth composed of Han Korean officials, Mongolian garrisons, and Korean statemen gnaw some meat on the bone sticks of North Korea, and if they want to enter the esophagus and then satisfy the appetite of the Eight Banners Army in the capital, they must first pass through the throat between Lushun and Shandong, the southernmost tip of southern Liaoning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Ming army's surprise attack on Lushun was successful, and theoretically in this era without satellites, shipping was not necessarily completely cut off by the fleet of only a dozen or so ships of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, but it was impossible for the Qing court to transport all the income in Korea, and the huge losses were even more difficult for the Qing court to bear.

With Shunzhi's words, outside the main hall, Wu Liangfu also walked in tremblingly, and retreated after delivering an urgent report to Shunzhi.

"Look, another grain ship has been sunk by Zhejiang bandits." After a closer look, Shunzhi closed the fold, pinched a corner and slapped it on the imperial case.

The folds were passed among the magnates in turn, and everyone present frowned. Lushun fell at the end of the month, but throughout the first month, except for the Chinese New Year's Eve of the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve, the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang had to go out to sea for inspection almost every day, and in February now, four grain ships from Korea have been sunk by the Ming army.

Especially this time, this one is still escorted by two warships of the Korean Navy Division adapted from the Korean Navy Division. These three ships escaped back to one, and the sailors of the Ming army didn't even have the heart to capture the springboard, and directly spoke with artillery until it was sunk.

This signal is very bad, which shows that the Ming army in Lushun has enough grain and grass to support it for a long time, and the Qing court's route from Korea to Tianjin will be attacked by the Ming army's naval division indefinitely.

"Your Majesty, let's send a new army, bring those mortars with you, collapse Fort Arthur, and kill all the lone Zhejiang bandits, which also makes Chen Shun feel distressed!"

Fu Shou spoke out, even though it caused many relatives and nobles to echo him. Since there is no Jiangnan, North Korea's grain has replaced Cao grain and has become an important food supplement for the survival of the Eight Banners, losing Lushun, North Korea's food can't come by, and starving for a while is not enough, let alone their turn to be powerful, but if this goes on like this, the Qing court will only become weaker and weaker, which is by no means what they want to see.

However, when this side echoed loudly, Jidu, Doni, Tunqi, Aobai, Liu Cheng and others all frowned. Seeing that Shunzhi was about to be persuaded by Fu Shou, Ao Bai stood up and said loudly to Shunzhi: "Your Majesty, the slave thinks that this matter must not be done!" ”

As soon as this statement came out, the main hall of the Qianqing Palace should be quiet. Fu Shou and the others glared angrily at Aobai, but before they could refute it, Jidu, Doni and Tunqi immediately expressed their support for Aobai's opinion.

"At this point, do you still have to cower and shrink, did you make the Zhejiang bandits so scared that they didn't dare to go out of the house?"

Fu Shou shouted angrily, but Ao Bai sighed, and then said to Fu Shou and the other dignitaries present: "Prince Xian, the Zhejiang bandit inserted a nail in Lushun's mouth, and the court was naturally uncomfortable. But did the prince ever think that if the new army went out, there would be less Zhejiang bandits who could not suppress the city's foot cavalry, and if they went more, the Zhejiang bandits would have boats, and they would leave when they got on the boat, and we couldn't help it, and when the new army retreated, they could come back and continue to make waves. What's even worse is that if the Zhejiang bandits rise to the north during the period when the new army sent troops to southern Liaoning, how should the imperial court deal with itself at that time? ”

What Ao Bai said is true, the Manchu sailors in the north were all from the capture, the Zhili sailors, the Shandong sailors, the North Korean sailors, and even the former Dongjiang Town sailors.

Originally, there were a lot of them, but over the years, the financial pressure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was huge, and the money and grain were limited to supplement and expand the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, trying to eliminate all kinds of anti-Qing forces on land, the construction of the naval division had been stagnant for many years, the ships were seriously damaged, and the elite soldiers had already been transferred to the Green Battalion in various places, not to mention that there were no warships that could compete with this fleet, even if there was a naval battle, it could not compete with it.

Without the right to control the sea, Liaohai is like an open door, and this Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming army can come and go as soon as they want. The gains and losses of Fort Arthur did not matter, because the old army was not the opponent of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies, and the large-scale new army could not be stationed here for a long time. But at this time, Chen Wenshuai's army went on a northern expedition, and the number of new troops that could not meet the needs of the Qing court was one less and could not participate in the war, then the chances of victory would be even more discounted.

What is fundamental and what is subtle is self-explanatory. For the Qing court after the fall of Jiangnan, it was already a frightening step, and the impact of the current problem will not directly force the Qing court to death, but will only slowly stifle the Qing court's grain reserves and mobilization capacity, which is still tolerable, at least less than facing Chen Wen's Northern Expeditionary army with insufficient new troops, and thus being outnumbered and outnumbered.

"Then if it is according to what you say as a minion, can we still have some Yuan Chonghuan, who is as immobile as a mountain and turns a blind eye?"

Fu Shou is like this, because of the class of the master and slave, even if he has a temperament like Ao Bai, he has to suppress his anger and explain to Fu Shou: "It's not that you don't do nothing, the imperial court wants to use this time to complete the training of the new army as soon as possible." It's just a small scabies there, and Huainan is the place where Zhejiang bandits must fight......"

"You minion says this is!"

"Enough!"

Since returning from the counterinsurgency, Fu Shou has been targeting Jidu and their fellow coaches and deputy marshals, compared to Jidu and Doni are both princes of Heshuo, that is, Tunqi is also surnamed Aixin Jueluo, Fu Shou has to be more restrained, but for Ao Bai and Liu Cheng, he has always been cold and cold, and he is in trouble everywhere, especially when the latter is still a Han man who has been carried into Manchuria, even more so.

At this moment, it was just that Liu Cheng did not speak, otherwise the firepower would have already been displaced. Shunzhi knows a lot about the cats in this, but Fu Shou is the lord of the flag, and he is not strange on weekdays, this time he really wants to get a practical and effective solution as soon as possible, but the hall has fallen into such a situation, no wonder Shunzhi is furious.

"The emperor is angry."

Both sides of the dispute fell to the ground, even with a group of relatives and nobles. Flattening them again, Shunji sighed and stopped the two of them from arguing.

"What do you think?"

As soon as Shunzhi said this, everyone present focused their attention on Liu Cheng. At this moment, there is only him in the hall, the son-in-law of Kong Youde, the king of the late Dingnan, the goddaughter of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, and the husband of the Han Gege Kong Sizhen.

In fact, before Ao Bai stood up just now, he had already figured out all the ways here, but his identity was embarrassing, and Fu Shou's targeting of them, Liu Cheng simply kept silent after seeing Ao Bai's expression, waiting for this short-tempered colleague to go to Fu Shou's stumbling block. But now that Shunzhi has spoken, he has to bring his thoughts together.

"If you go back to the emperor, there is a way that the northerners ride horses and the southerners drive boats, and I in the Qing Dynasty established the country with horseback and archery, and it is not a strong point in water warfare. Whether it was the Haikou of the year or the Zhejiang bandits today, the strength of its sailors is far better than that of my Qing Dynasty, but who belongs to the world has been determined by land warfare since ancient times, and the slaves think that the scale of this Zhejiang bandit is limited to harassing grain ships. ”

Different from the time of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, the current Manchu Qing Dynasty has long been not Liaodong, but the capital under their feet and the Zhili that wantonly enclosed land and surrendered it. Compared with the main force of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in Huainan, although the Ming army in the north is aggressive, its strength is limited, and the harm it can cause is indeed as Liu Cheng said. It's just that being choked by someone like this is really unbearable, so Shunzhi will hesitate a lot about whether to send troops.

"Actually, the issue of transporting grain is not unsolvable. Nowadays, the imperial court transports grain from the north and south of Goryeo, which is nothing more than a full ship and a boat, if a fleet is formed and escorted by more warships, the space for Lushun and Zhejiang bandits to exert themselves is much smaller. Of course, there are many gaps in the water war, and too much loss is not what the imperial court wants, so it is better to simply transport it directly to Shandong, and take the land and canal into Beijing, the consumption on the road is more, but it is better than transporting it from Goryeo to Guannai through Liaodong. ”

North Korea is a country, that is, the north and south of Goryeo Province, the north is mountainous, the main grain production areas are in the south, if you take the Liaodong, the distance is too far, the official road is in disrepair, coupled with the vast land and sparse population of the grain transport team lack of supplies, the cost is unimaginable, I am afraid that it is good to transport ten stone of grain to the capital to have one stone. But if it is shipped to Shandong, such as Dengzhou, where Liu Cheng's father-in-law Lao Taishan had made trouble, and then divert to land, the conditions along the way are much stronger, and it is finally a feasible place.

Since Liu Cheng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he has had many advices, many of which have played a great role in the survival of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to this day. Shunzhi attaches great importance to Liu Cheng's opinion, and after listening to Liu Cheng's suggestion at this moment, he suddenly opened his mouth when he thought about it carefully.

But at this moment, perhaps unwilling to be refuted by this Han minion, Fu Shou asked Liu Cheng sharply: "According to what your slave said, the Zhejiang bandits in southern Liaoning have been ignored." This prince asks you, not to mention the harassment caused by the Zhejiang bandits to southern Liaoning, Shandong and Goryeo, but only to say that once the Zhejiang bandits go north, the grain route is in Shandong, which is closer to Huainan than Lushun. ”

What Fu Shou said was not entirely unreasonable, the problem of the Manchu Qing's sea control was not only in the Bohai Sea, but that all their sailors together might not be able to get this small fleet, let alone the main force of the sailors of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies. Compared with the sea ships reaching Tianjin directly, the risk factor of passing through Shandong is greatly increased, and even in this comparison, it is much safer to transport grain from Liaodong, at least the size of Lushun's army is not enough to support the operation in the hinterland.

"Back to the prince's words, the slave thought about this problem. It's just that the slave feels that there are priorities, and now the new army has only been expanded for half a year, except for the Praetorian Guard, the others are newly trained soldiers. The main force of the Zhejiang bandits is in Huainan, unless the Zhejiang bandits go north, the Praetorian Guard cannot leave the capital in one day, in case of accidents, but the other departments, with all due respect to the slaves, may not be able to take too much advantage if they really go, but it delays the limited training time. ”

What Liu Cheng said was a real fact, and all the magnates present nodded secretly. Seeing this, a smile crossed the corner of Liu Cheng's mouth, and it was fleeting, and then he said to Shunzhi: "Your Majesty, the situation of the Gongwei Army, the Wuwei Central Army and the Wuwei Left Army is not clear, but the weapons of the Wuwei Right Army are now only the spears captured from Wu Sangui, and nothing else. Forgive the incompetence of the minions, and now they have encountered the Zhejiang bandits, and the minions do not have the slightest confidence to win. ”

When he said this, Liu Cheng was heartbroken and ashamed on the surface, but in fact, he was relieved. At the same time, the magnates present were all stunned, they knew very well that the Wuwei Right Army was nominally at the same level of equipment as other new armies, but in fact, Ning Wan, the general director of the Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, put the supplement at the end.

This is not a decision to finish me alone, but the tacit understanding of the relatives and nobles. In the final analysis, Liu Cheng is now in Manchuria with the Yellow Banner, is a banner man, and married Xiaozhuang's goddaughter, but he is a Han after all, even if he makes great contributions, precautions are necessary, and at this stage, it will be reflected in the new army, at least the combat effectiveness of the Wuwei Right Army cannot exceed that of other new armies.

At this moment, Liu Cheng brought the topic to this, and Shunzhi was also quite embarrassed, and hurriedly expressed his approval of Liu Cheng's suggestion, and determined the method of forming a fleet to escort in North Korea and transport grain by land from Shandong. Of course, Shunzhi also said that he would urge Tianjin to implement the weapons and armor of the right army as soon as possible, so as not to affect the formation of the combat effectiveness of this new army.

The strategy was actually a retreat from the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies for the sea control over the sea area centered on Lushun. As a result, losses increased, but it was the most cost-effective way to do it at the moment compared to a long-term strategy that was difficult for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, such as building a naval division.

Walking on the way home, Liu Cheng was quite complacent, but he was also very dissatisfied. The dissatisfaction lies in the suppression of him by these magnates, and Liu Cheng even saw that there is even a hint of Shunzhi in this today, otherwise I am afraid that I will not have so much courage after Ningwan. But it is precisely because of this that this time the dispute over the Lushun matter has made it clear, Shunzhi needs to use his talents, and he also needs him to be restrained as other powerful people in the new army, so this suppression must be slowed down, even if it is only some.

"The defense of Yixia is not only for the Han people to guard against the barbarians, but the barbarians will also guard against the Han people, and even better than the Han people to guard against them."

Thinking of this in his heart, the corners of Liu Cheng's mouth couldn't help but reveal a little sarcasm. In this way, he rode back all the way, and soon rushed back to the mansion.

He and Kong Sizhen have already married, after this discussion, Liu Cheng hurriedly returned to the mansion, Wen Cun had very little thought, especially compared to the training of the Wuwei Right Army under his command, but the bombshell he threw down before the end of the discussion, wanting to blow up the effect he wanted, but the help of this Han personality was indispensable.

"I'm home!"

Before Liu Cheng returned to the house, in addition to Kong Sizhen, the masters and servants of the family came out to greet him. Kong Sizhen is Liu Cheng's wife, but she is even more of a Manchu character, and her identity is there, so she can't come out to greet her.

After entering the mansion, Liu Cheng hurried to the hall, where Kong Sizhen was already waiting. After meeting Li, the two soon talked about some recent events at home. Liu Cheng is outside, and all the affairs at home are handled by Kong Sizhen, Liu Cheng has listened carefully, and he also expressed great affirmation of Kong Sizhen's ability to handle housework. But when the matter was finished, Liu Cheng suddenly remembered something, and the answer he got made him angry.

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