Chapter Forty-Eight: The Art of the Emperor

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Seeing that the business had been discussed, Wang Guoxing did not want to continue to suffer here, so he confessed and left in a hurry.

The next day, in Jinling City, in the palace of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen summoned Wang Guoxing in the imperial study.

"Is that what did you say, sir? It seems that Mr. is not optimistic about this battle of Yangzhou! After listening to the report, Zhu Youzhen muttered to himself.

"Holy Lord, Mr. said, this battle cannot be done, the key is that the people's hearts are not aligned, and please don't mind the Holy One." Wang Guoxing comforted.

"The people's hearts are not aligned, the people's hearts are not aligned......" Zhu Youzhen muttered to himself, his face became more and more ugly, and then he slammed the teacup in his hand on the ground, and roared loudly: "In the past ten years, when have I been unanimous?" Yuan Chonghuan, Wu Sangui, Zhu Chunchen, but none of the people I reuse are useful! The ministers mistook me and the country! ā€

"The Holy One is angry!" Wang Guoxing knelt down on one knee and said.

At this time, he could only say comfort.

"You forced me, you forced me!" Zhu Youzhen was talking to himself like a madman, and his lips kept trembling.

After a long time, he gradually stabilized his mood, turned his head and said to Wang Guoxing: "Spread my will, in order to show the determination of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty to fight to the death, from now on, we will fully support the Yangzhou war!" Zhu Yousong, the king of fortune, together with Zheng Sanjun, a scholar of Zhongji Temple, Liu Zongzhou, a scholar of Wenyuange, and Xu Shiqi, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, were stationed in Yangzhou to appease the people in the city. In addition, a large number of troops entered Yangzhou, and there was a lack of shelter from the wind and rain, but all the people who contributed their houses could go south by boat, and the imperial court would settle their residences, and then send them back to Yangzhou when the war was over. ā€

Zhu Youzhen said a lot in one breath, and first showed that he was going to fight to the death with the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Then the style of painting changed, and directly sent Zhu Yousong, who was at odds with him before, to the front line, along with three Donglin Party bigwigs and six cabinet members, except for Shi Kefa who voluntarily went to the front line, the remaining five people were forcibly sent out by Zhu Youzhen.

Shi Kefa went to Yangzhou to resist the Qing Dynasty, and he also had the power to supervise the division, and he could command and control all the troops in Yangzhou, and these three people were purely bare-bones commanders in the past, saying that they were appeasing people's hearts, but Zhu Youzhen was borrowing a knife to kill people.

Because in addition, Zhu Youzhen took out a list submitted by Dongchang and explained to Wang Guoxing: "The officials here also find a way for me to send them to Yangzhou!" ā€

It can be seen that this time Zhu Youzhen is murderous, using the housing problem to move the people in Yangzhou City, and then find a way to let these officials with improper intentions fill the vacancy, if these people defect to the enemy, they will be spurned by 10,000 people, and their property will naturally be confiscated.

If they were killed by the Manchus, it would be a big deal to give them the title of loyalty, and then they would be able to use the influence of these officials to obtain the full support of the families behind them, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

It's a pity that even Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that after the Qing court entered Yangzhou, it would do such a tragic and inhumane incident........

"That'..... Jingying Siwei, are you still transferred to Yangzhou? Wang Guoxing asked in a low voice.

The four guards of the Beijing camp naturally refer to the four guards guarding Nanjing City, of which there are two guards of 10,000 people directly under the forbidden army of the palace, and there are two Shenji battalions of 5,000 people, and the four guards are counted as miscellaneous soldiers such as logistics and other heavy soldiers, totaling about 30,000 people, and among these 30,000 people, almost all of them are recruits recruited in the past six months.

The main reason is that Zhu Youzhen himself is too suspicious, and he doesn't trust the troops in the hands of the general soldiers in various places, even including Shi Kefa's army.

Although Wang Guoxing is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he is also a part-time general of the Zhenguo University and the governor of the Jingying Four Guards.

In today's situation, Wang Guoxing has already understood that the emperor is clearing dissidents and going to Yangzhou, and it is estimated that few will be able to come back.

But earlier, in order to appease Shi Kefa, Chongzhen agreed, and transferred two guards from Beijing, a total of 15,000 people to Yangzhou..........

"The Beijing battalion was divided into two guards and went to Zhenjiang to stand by, and on the grounds of coordinating logistics in various places, they were stationed in Zhenjiang, and they must not cross the river to support." Zhu Youzhen thought about it, and then said.

Since it is a play, of course, you have to do a full set, Zhenjiang and Yangzhou are separated by a river, and it only takes half a day to cross the river, and Suzhou, where Li Hongfei is located, is only a day's journey, even if there is an accident, you can quickly withdraw into Suzhou.

Let the forbidden army maintain law and order in Zhenjiang and ensure the smooth flow of logistics, no one can refute it, after all, everyone knows that the four guards of the forbidden army are all new recruits, and it takes time to get acquainted with it, which is understandable.

"Weichen takes the order!" Wang Guoxing answered the order loudly.

As long as he is not allowed to die in vain, he is naturally happy in his heart, although the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die, but this time he went to Yangzhou, it is clear that he will be regarded as an outcast, if in this case, the emperor insists on sending him over, although Wang Guoxing will not say anything on the surface, but the chill is inevitable.

"That's right! Scott Lao, you have to find a way to rescue him at the last moment. Zhu Youzhen suddenly admonished.

It seems that Chongzhen still attaches great importance to Shi Kefa..........

Not only did Chongzhen value Shi Kefa, but Li Hongfei also did the same, and after learning about the current situation in Yangzhou, he immediately took a boat and rushed to Baoshan Town.

Today's Baoshan Town is no longer as desolate as half a year ago, although the snow covers the mountain, and the surroundings are white, but a few black dragons rising in the distance have a flavor of the nineteenth century, a western industrial city.

The first phase of the Suzhou Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. project has been completed and put into use at the end of October, including a large wood processing plant, a large steel mill with an annual output of 100,000 tons (100,000 tons was large at that time), an agricultural tool manufacturing plant, a precision instrument manufacturing factory, a weapons manufacturing plant, and a series of modern process manufacturing bases.

Needless to say, the production of agricultural implements for civilian use, the butts of flintlock pistols, and the carriages of artillery guns all require a large amount of wood.

Almost all the carpenters of Suzhou Heavy Industry are concentrated in this factory, and according to the orders placed above, they either produce agricultural tools, or produce gun butts, or produce gun carriages.

Don't look at the production of these things, most of them are only semi-finished products, but it is one of the indispensable ones among all finished products.

A carpenter industry that is inconspicuous in the outside world has become a department in Suzhou Heavy Industry, which is not inferior to the department of the Ordnance Bureau in scale and importance.