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The Mawei Army took Tianjin and sent troops to Beijing, and the successive victories shook the world, and the Qing court officials throughout the world, especially in the northern provinces, had changes in their hearts. Henan, Shandong, and Anhui are the provinces that are most dependent on the Mawei military control area, and in these days, officials from several provinces continue to secretly send letters to express their attachment, and many families from other places have also sent their descendants to Jiangnan. But most of the Qing court officials still didn't move, but you really have a lot of people who are still loyal to the Qing court, but most of them are on the sidelines, and they don't dare to make a final decision at will.

Tianjin and Bohai Bay were completely controlled by the Mawei Army, and the capital was threatened at any time, and the Qing court regarded the Mawei Army stationed in Tianjin as a thorn in the eye, and did not want to send troops to recover it all the time. Originally, the troops were not enough, but now the army around the capital has gathered, and the total number of troops has exceeded 150,000, and the proposal to send troops to attack Tianjin Cheng has been put on Kangxi's desk again. But Kangxi was still hesitating, Mingzhu became less active, and the remnants of the monument last time gave him a profound lesson and left a deep impression on him. The sharpness of the Mawei Army's artillery rifles is far from being comparable to their Qing army, and the charge of thousands of cavalry was actually blocked by dozens of artillery pieces and thousands of muskets, this is simply the revival of the strong bow battalion of the pre-Qin Dynasty, the cavalry can't rush forward, what use can other foot soldiers have? What's more, what kind of grenades does the Mawei Army have that can stop the enemy in close combat.

For a time, the motion to attack Tianjin was dragged down in this way, and no one continued to raise it for several days. The situation in the capital is tense, and Yue Le in Hubei and Tuhai in Shanxi are also in a bitter battle. It's good that Kangxi didn't drop his troops and returned to Beijing. Only a part of the troops and horses were mobilized. All the non-commissioned officers in the entire barracks knew about it. The news of the siege of the capital was noisy for a while, and the whole army was panicked, and the morale of the Wu army was obviously low when they fought against it. Hubei, it seems, is about to fall into the hands of Wu Sangui.

At this time, the Mawei Army's eyes no longer continued to stay near Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River, but attacked Anhui here. In fact, the emergence of Anhui in the south of the Yangtze River is the bag of the Mawei Army, but the northern area is the main point of the Mawei Army's current strategy.

Anhui was originally a part of Nanzhili, and in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, it became a separate province, and the name of the province was formed by the merger of the initials of Anqing and Huizhou. The name has remained in use for the twenty-first century. It can be seen that Anqing Mansion and Huizhou Mansion are the two most important cities in Anhui, and there is an important prefecture and county here in the former Ming Dynasty, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown Fengyang, and it is precisely because it is Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown that its status is relatively special and it is designated as the central capital of the Ming Dynasty. In contrast, Hefei, the provincial capital in later generations, was just an inconspicuous little brother, a very ordinary prefecture. The Qing court won the world, and Fengyang was naturally marginalized here, but the status of Anqing Mansion and Huizhou Mansion rose.

In later generations, the economy became more globalized. The coastal areas are relatively developed, but inland river transportation is more important in this era. Wherever it is next to the Yangtze River or the Grand Canal, the development is faster. Anqing Mansion is an important town along the Yangtze River and the largest city in Anhui, so its importance is self-evident. From a military point of view, Anqing Mansion has irreplaceable strategic significance. The large naval forces of the Mawei Army are now either holding their hometown in Fujian, or threatening the Qing court in the Bohai Bay, and there is half a fleet on the Yangtze River, although Wu Sangui does not dare to attack, and the Qing court has no naval division on the Yangtze River, but it is not enough to threaten Anqing, and Yue Le has also hoarded heavy troops here.

The map of this era is very abstract and difficult for ordinary people to understand, but if you open a modern topographic map of China, you can see that there is a very obvious natural barrier between the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the Dabie Mountain north of the Yangtze River, the Yellow Mountain, Tianmu Mountain and other mountainous areas in southern Anhui, like two gates on the left and one on the right, separating Central China and East China, separating the Jiangxi Basin and the Yangtze River Delta between the two gates, that is, there is a corridor between the Dabie Mountains and the mountainous areas of southern Anhui, from which the Yangtze River rushes through. Connecting Chu, Wu and Yue together, Anqing Mansion is located in the center of this corridor, like a lock hanging on the gate.

Dabie Mountain is the dividing line between Henan, Hubei and Anhui, and is a famous old revolutionary area. After Liu Deng's army advanced into Dabie Mountain, it deterred the entire Central and East China regions and seized the strategic initiative in the country. The mountainous area of southern Anhui is also a famous old revolutionary area. The base camp of the New Fourth Army, where the famous Southern Anhui Incident took place, where the old revolutionary base areas were mostly mountainous areas with mountains and mountains, and it was difficult to ensure the logistical transportation of large troops with ancient transportation conditions, so if they wanted to attack the lower reaches of the Yangtze River from Huguang and Jiangxi, or go upstream in reverse, they generally had to use the waterway of the Yangtze River and take the corridor between the Dabie Mountains and the mountainous areas of southern Anhui. Anqing is just stuck at the throat of the corridor area, so it has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.

In other words, Anqing is the gateway to Jinling. If you don't control this place, in the future, whether it is Wu Sangui or the Qing court's army, you can come from here to threaten Jiangnan, and the last time Leerjin's army crossed the river to attack Jinling is a good example. From here, along the Yangtze River to the northeast, there is the vast eastern plain area, a flat river, and there is no danger to defend the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement two hundred years later. The Taiping army and the Hunan army fought a general decisive battle in Anqing Province. And the Hunan army conquered Anqing, so the shape of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom deteriorated sharply, and Tianjing soon fell, and there is a saying that "the country was destroyed in the first war".

Huizhou Mansion is also very important, but now Huizhou is under the control of the Mawei Army, and only Anqing is an important place. The situation is different between Huizhou and Anqing, which is located south of the Yangtze River, southeast of Anqingfu, next to Jingdezhen, at the southernmost point of Anhui. Huizhou was renamed Huangshan City in later generations. It gives the impression of being an economically underdeveloped tourist city, but in fact it is not wealthy...... But in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Huizhou is the origin of the famous Huizhou merchants, which can be called the rich in the world.

The entire Huizhou Prefecture belongs to the mountainous area of southern Anhui, "six mountains, three rivers and one field", which is still a barren mountainous red soil, and the locals are forced to do business for their livelihoods. Hui merchants initially focused on mountain goods, timber, tea, silk, and pawnbroking, but after they became involved in the lucrative salt industry in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty. Hui merchants rose rapidly. Become a big merchant gang that can be compared with Jin merchants. It occupies a pivotal position in social and economic life.

The Qing army went south, and Yangzhou and other places where the Hui merchants gathered were looted and plundered, and the Hui merchants were also greatly damaged. However, the Qing rulers soon discovered that if they wanted to rule China for a long time and even realize their dream of "indefatigable business", it was definitely not enough to just burn, kill, loot and become robbers, but they had to establish a basic economic order and improve the maladministration of the Ming Dynasty, but they were originally robbers and could not play such a complex economic management work. Therefore, they began to look for agents among the Han people, and the famous Hui merchants became the preferred targets.

Soon after the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied Jinling, the salt industry monopoly system was improved, and this piece of big fat meat was handed over to the Hui merchants, who thus ushered in the second spring, and the development momentum was so fierce that even the old qualified traitor merchant group Jin merchants could not compare. Hui merchants have grown rapidly again in the past decade or so, and conservatively estimate that their total assets are more than ten times that of the state treasury. The current Yangzhou salt merchant Geng Jingzhong does not want to give them favorable conditions from the bottom of his heart, but the morale has passed after all. Moreover, when the Qing army entered the customs, they were not as excessive as the Jin merchants. However, if it is a different place, put the Hui merchants in Shanxi. It is estimated that it is not much better than Fan Yongdou and other Qing court imperial merchants.

In addition, as mentioned earlier, Hui merchants also actively demanded "progress" in politics. After the Qing court opened a branch in the south of the Yangtze River, scholars and scholars in other places were ashamed to participate in the imperial examination of the Qing court, but the Hui merchants were eager to let the next generation get rid of the identity of the merchants, "from Jia to Confucianism", "Confucianism into the Shi", full of enthusiasm for the Manchu imperial examination In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, there were as many as 54 academies in Huizhou Mansion, and there were many distributions in other large cities where there were more Huizhou merchants, such as Yangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai, Jinling, Hangzhou, Anqing, etc., in the history of the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, In Huizhou Prefecture alone, there were more than 290 jinshi and nearly 1,000 people.

Anqing Mansion is in the corridor north of the Yangtze River, the geographical location is very important, as the Mawei army is advancing step by step, it has also become the front line, the Qing army is stationed in heavy defense, but the Mawei army is also inevitable. Although the 50,000-strong Mawei Army in the city did not underestimate it, it was even more timid, but every army was enthusiastic and took the initiative to ask for battle. As for why, hehe, Anqing Mansion is next to the Yangtze River, and the Mawei Navy warships can use the heavy artillery on the battleships to break through the city of Anqing Mansion, and then the Mawei Army Infantry will attack again, and it will be easy to take Anqing.

After ten days of preparation, the Mawei army officially dispatched troops from Jiujiang, Raozhou, and Chizhou, and began to cross the range of Jinfu Anqing Mansion in Jinfu, while the Qing army concentrated all its main forces in Anqing Mansion to defend Anqing. Zhao Guozuo, the main general of the defenders, Xia Jingmei, the deputy commander, and Chang Jingong, the general soldier, led 53,000 troops, and were stationed in Anqing under the order of Yue Le's army, but they also received Yue Le's secret order, if they were really undefendable, they should save their strength and retreat to Huanggang to round with the large army.

The war on the south side continued, the Qing army was also defeated and retreated, and the bad news was sent to the capital one after another, and the ministers in the capital also began to have new ideas - to move the capital!

"Can't move the capital ......"

"Moving the capital to ......"

"Can't move the capital ......"

Several ministers in the palace quarreled, and Kangxi was also in a painful entanglement. On a winter night, the moonlight adds a bit of coldness to this cold winter. However, Kangxi didn't have the heart to appreciate such a beautiful scenery at all. Standing on the edge of the cloister in the courtyard, he unconsciously pinched a delicate leaf in his hand, and two thoughts echoed in his mind over and over again. One is to move the capital, and the other is not to move the capital.

Tangled, it's really tangled. Since the Mawei Army took Tianjin City, such twists and turns began to appear, and now it has developed to the point that there will be one or two letters in the recitals sent to Kangxi every day, explicitly or implicitly mentioning the matter of moving the capital. Some of these recitals came from the central government, while others came from the localities. There are Manchu ministers and Han ministers, and there are more Manchu ministers among them. They were just like the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, and those royal nobles were the first to run to the north. They think that they can't stay in the Central Plains anymore, so we will go to Liaodong again, anyway, it is our hometown.

Many Manchu ministers have basically reached a consensus, that is, they want to move the capital to Shengjing, that is, Shenyang. Now, all the supplies of foreign materials in the capital have been given to the Mawei military control. The Grand Canal was cut off, and all the transportation in the south of the Yangtze River was gone, which became the spoils of the Mawei Army. And the materials sent from Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and other places are also decreasing day by day, especially after Tianjin was taken, even the materials from Shandong and Henan are gone. Shanxi's little bit is a drop in the bucket. Land transport, how much can it be transported?

The shortage of materials in Beijing, the skyrocketing prices, the people in Beijing, especially the people in the outer city, are constantly moving out these days, and it is estimated that there will not be many people left in the outer city in a few days. Originally, Kangxi wanted to close the nine gates and prevent people from going out, but in this way, he would lose all the people's hearts. What's more, there are hundreds of thousands of Han people in the outer city, and if there is a riot, it will be difficult for the soldiers and horses around the capital to deal with it.

Emotionally speaking, Kangxi is really reluctant to leave the Forbidden City. He was born and raised here, ascended the throne here as the emperor, and here is his unforgettable qiē, how can he leave lightly? Sheng Jing, he has only been there twice when he is so old, and he froze to death, so he can't stand it at all. If he leaves like this, what evaluation will he leave in the history of the afterlife? But if he doesn't leave, he may be the next emperor to hang himself on the coal mountain.

In fact, all of the above are external factors. The most critical reason for Kangxi's reluctance to leave Jingshi was his judgment of the situation. Now the situation is not so bad, and he also said that if there is a chance of victory, it depends on how hard they work! If they retreat by themselves, then it will be difficult for them to fight back from Liaodong, and it can even be said that it is impossible again. In other words, even if they retreated to Shengjing, Yue Le's side was estimated to be defeated soon, and in the end, their forces were even weaker, how long could they survive in Shengjing?

No, there seems to be another possibility. To retreat as an advance, give up a large area, so that they will no longer be the target of the Mawei Army and the Wu Army, but when the time comes, Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong, the two traitors, will take the initiative to pinch each other. When they were both defeated, they continued to regain the world with the righteousness of the court. (To be continued......)