In the city of Nanjing, Gan Hui led an army of 50,000 to attack Jianghuai, and after capturing Huai'an, he was unable to continue to go north.

Gan Hui led the army to stay behind, and Yao Qisheng was recruited back by Zheng Chenggong.

In the backyard of Zheng's mansion, Zheng Chenggong and Yao Qisheng sat opposite each other.

Zheng Chenggong sighed and said: "If you regret not listening to Xizhi's words, you will suffer this big defeat." So much so that the recovering of Huguang was a failure! ”

Yao Qisheng hurriedly replied: "The general is serious, with 60,000 soldiers and horses to resist the Qing army of 300,000, kill more than 200,000, and try to protect Anhui and other places. The Ancient Masters are no different! ”

Zheng Chenggong shook his head and said: "Xizhi doesn't need to put gold on my face, after the Qing army defeated the Great Western Army, it will run thousands of miles non-stop." Our army was fighting against nothing more than a group of tired troops. If it was a rested Qing army, our army would not be able to resist it at that time. ”

Yao Qisheng shook his head and said: "If the Qing army rests well, I am afraid that the general has already conquered Jiujiang, and then the city will be defended, with the advantage of our army's firearms, the Qing army is only afraid that the casualties will be greater!" ”

When Zheng Chenggong heard this, he pondered for a while and said: "It's hard to say, with my mentality at the time, I'm afraid that even if I have a strong city in hand, I will go out of the city to fight the Qing army." ”

Yao Qisheng didn't know what to say, shaking the paper fan and being silent.

With Zheng Chenggong's mentality at that time, I am afraid that this will really be the case!

Zheng Chenggong said: "Xizhi, with the current situation of our army, we will not be able to attack again in a year or two!" Could it be that in the past few years, he has been doing nothing like this? ”

Yao Qisheng said: "Of course not, our army can do a lot of things. In this year, our army successively captured the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jiangnan, and there were students from the University of Political Science and Law, officials who had taken refuge in the past, and even more squires who had been promoted. ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded, and said with a gloomy face: "I will send someone to do this!" ”

During this period of time, there have been secret agents who have reported that there are many officials who prey on the common people, and some even have fornicated with the Manchus, but they have not been touched because of some scruples. Now, there's time to teach them how to behave!

"In addition, in the past, the Manchu Qing Dynasty encircled most of the land, and now these lands have been recovered, and it is easy to solve with the title deed, but it is a troublesome thing without the title deed. There were many people who came to the door to make trouble, saying that the land was theirs, and that it had been robbed by the Qing army before, and now they wanted to go back. And taxes are also a problem, whether to follow the old practice of the Ming Dynasty, or follow the Manchu Qing, or from the new customization, the general must have a number in his heart! ”

Hearing Yao Qisheng say about the land, Zheng Chenggong was big for a while.

The land problem in China has been a big problem since ancient times!

Even in modern times, in fact, there is no good solution. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the issue of agriculture and agriculture has been plaguing China.

Land is related to the basis of the government, and if you are not careful, you will shake the foundation.

Zheng Chenggong said carefully: "I will think about this matter carefully!" ’

Yao Qisheng actually didn't have a very good way to deal with the land, and after reminding Zheng Chenggong, he continued: "As for recuperation and persuasion of Sangnong, I won't talk about these clichés anymore, and the generals know it." In addition to these internal affairs, there are three foreign affairs that our army needs to pay attention to? ”

"Hee Zhi, please?"

"The first is that our army occupies geography and people in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, so there are many squires and people to help each other in marching and fighting, and it is easy to conquer. However, in this sortie, it can be seen that our army lacks eyes and ears in Huguang and other places, and the Qing army is slow to find out the situation. Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud: know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. General, our army should spread the ears and eyes of Huguang and Beidi so that it can facilitate our army's march and combat in the future. ”

Zheng Chenggong pondered for a while and said: "As it should be, I will let Chen Yonghua contact the righteous soldiers and squires from all over the country to be the eyes and ears of our army, and at the same time, let the Four Seas Commercial Bank open grain stores, cloth shops, restaurants, and green buildings in various places to collect information!" ”

Yao Qisheng nodded, "Also, now our army occupies the five provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangnan, Li Chengdong occupies Guangdong and Jiangxi, and the Great Western Army occupies Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, as well as part of Xichuan and Hunan, and now the south of the Yangtze River is occupied by forces that are "loyal" to the Ming Dynasty, except for the Qing army to occupy Hubei and part of Hunan. Unless someone openly betrays Daming, none of the three of us can attack each other's chassis. If anyone dares to attack the other army, I am afraid that most of his subordinates will defect and be suppressed by the other two and the Qing army. Our army is not afraid of them, but if we clash with them, we will only lose the Qing army. So unless the Qing army can break them, we won't be able to touch their chassis for the time being! ”

"You mean that we don't care about their lives or dead in the future, we only care about developing our own!" Zheng Chenggong asked.

"Well, in the past, when our army was weak, we could only join forces with others to resist the Qing army, but now our army has occupied the richest area in China, with a lot of food and money, and we are not afraid of the Qing army. Xia Guan thought that it was not easy to join forces with them again, and he should make friends and attack closely, and ally with the Dzungar Department of Moxi and Tsarist Russia. ”

When Zheng Chenggong heard that he wanted to form an alliance with Tsarist Russia, he flatly refused: "No, Tsarist Russia's wolf ambition has always been greedy for my Chinese land, and forming an alliance with him has no intention of opening the door to welcome thieves." ”

Yao Qisheng persuaded: "General, the alliance with Tsarist Russia is only temporary, as long as our army unifies China, it will inevitably fight against Tsarist Russia to determine the frontier." Just like the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Gaozong was not allied with the Turks in order to fight for favorable conditions, and when the unification was stable, Tang Taizong immediately sent troops to attack the Turks. General, this is all expedient! ”

Yao Qisheng is not a modern person, and he does not know the future harm of Tsarist Russia to China, and he does not know that Tsarist Russia has robbed more than 1.5 million square kilometers of land in China.

In this era, Zheng Chenggong wanted to drive away the Tartars and restore the Han Dynasty, and the other was to complete what modern times could not do, kill the devils and Tsarist Russia.

Zheng Chenggong said resolutely: "Our army fights against the Qing army, in the final analysis, it is our own business. Two brothers fight, when will it be the turn of outsiders to intervene! I absolutely disagree with the alliance with Tsarist Russia."

"In that case, it can only be divided into Manmeng! The Manchus and Mongolia are not monolithic, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always adopted a policy of marriage to Mongolia since the beginning of Huang Taiji, and at the same time adopted the reverence and release to control its life. A large part of the Mongols were hostile to the Manchus, especially the so-called golden people, who considered them the most noble and disdained the Manchus. The Great General may send someone to transfer their relations. ”

"Okay, as long as the benefits are enough, I don't believe that they won't rebel!" Zheng Chenggong said coldly.

Now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has suffered successive defeats, Xia Guan believes that there must be many dissenting people in the Qing Dynasty. The general should send more people to contact, let them do internal response, pass on news, and even rebel and defect to our army if necessary. ”

"This is not a problem, there are many Jiangnan people among the officials of the Qing Dynasty, and they have a lot of connections with my teacher Qian Xiangyi, I asked Qian Shangshu to write out the list of those people, and I sent someone to try to rebel." Zheng Chenggong said.

"As long as you can do these three things well, plus the general always attaches importance to military discipline, and the Zheng family army is well-trained, with the advantage of firearms, you will definitely be able to defeat the Qing army in the future and recover the north!"

After hearing Yao Qisheng mention the Zheng family's army, Zheng Chenggong pondered for a while and said: "Xizhi, after this defeat, I found that the soldiers of the Zheng family army fought loyally and bravely, and our firearms were also sharp, but they were still lacking. I intend to form a military academy! (To be continued.) )