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"Your Majesty, the minister feels that it is time to mobilize troops and horses to defend the Beijing Division. Geng's rebel army has many warships, its navy is invincible, and our Qing Dynasty has no sailors to compete with it. Geng rebel can continuously mobilize a large army to land from the Bohai Bay. This time Tianjin has not been captured is the best, I can still block it outside Tianjin, if Tianjin is lost, then Geng Shun will use Tianjin as a springboard, continue to attack the capital, and then it will be too late to transfer troops to the king! Chen Tingjing, the imperial historian of Zuodu, said to Kangxi with a worried face.

Chen Tingjing has been prosperous in the past two years, because he was Kangxi's teacher, and he is also talented, so he has been constantly promoted, the year before last was only a bachelor, last year he was a cabinet bachelor, and now he has done the Zuodu imperial history and the money law of the household department. Zuodu Yushi is an official position of the second grade, and in the 21st century of the new China, it is equivalent to the position of secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the minister of supervision of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and one of the nine standing committee members of the Political Bureau! So it is conceivable that such a position is now done by a Han person, so how much trust Kangxi has in him.

"The old minister seconded the proposal, Tianjin is in danger at the moment, and the capital is not the same. There were less than 60,000 soldiers and horses inside and outside the capital, and another 20,000 were sent to support Tianjin. There are only 40,000 soldiers and horses left in the huge city of Beijing, which is really a bit stretched. The old minister asked the emperor to decree and mobilize soldiers and horses from Zuo near Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi to enter Beijing and be escorted by King Qin. Suo Etu followed up and said that martial law in the capital was his idea from the beginning, and he was also one of the decision-makers. I know the situation in the capital well. The current capital is indeed dangerous.

"Your Majesty. In fact, the soldiers and horses of General Shengjing's Wa Nei are only two hundred miles away from the capital, so you don't need to be so nervous. There were also 30,000 Korean soldiers and horses with the Japanese people, so that the soldiers and horses on the capital side would not be less than 80,000, and even if the Geng rebels invaded Gyeonggi on a large scale, these soldiers and horses would be enough to protect themselves. On the contrary, at this time, if the soldiers and horses of Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi were mobilized to enter Beijing and be escorted by King Qin, it would inevitably cause panic on the front line. Also, Shandong is close to the south of the Yangtze River. Geng rebels have already occupied Xuzhou, and if Shandong is empty, Geng will not let go of this opportunity to continue north. If then, will it be difficult to transfer Prince An back? Mingzhu issued a different opinion at this time, he is now in charge of the Eight Banners soldiers, coordinating the internal and external defense of the capital, and he still has confidence in holding the capital. Although the soldiers and horses guarding Gyeonggi now are not as many as in the Chongzhen period of the former Ming Dynasty, these soldiers and horses are definitely not those waste troops of the former Ming Dynasty, and their combat power is extraordinary.

"Oh, North Korean reinforcements have arrived, too. That's great! Kangxi said excitedly. With 30,000 soldiers and horses from Korea, plus 15,000 from General Shengjing. Then in addition to the 20,000 soldiers and horses in the capital to support Tianjin, there will be nearly 80,000, and these troops are enough to defend the city. "North Korea, as a subject country of our Qing Dynasty, is embarrassed to be able to respond to our call this time. However, I remember that you mentioned to me earlier that the new king of Korea, Yi Zhuo, refused to provide food and salary support on the grounds of the weakness of the Korean state, right, and these 30,000 troops also need my Qing Dynasty to pay for the consumption of food and grass equipment? ”

"It's such an emperor. According to the Korean king Yi Yong, the DPRK has suffered a series of severe droughts in recent years, the people have not harvested any grain, the DPRK treasury is empty, and it is almost impossible to pay the army's food and salary. When our Qing Dynasty proposed to provide troops and horses to help quell the rebellion, he happily sent his army. First, it can save a large amount of food and salary expenditure, and it can also help the Qing Dynasty to quell the rebellion, and train this army into an elite soldier in a hundred battles. You must know that although North Korea seems to be stable in the country, the party struggle in its country is becoming increasingly fierce, and Li Zhuo also needs a real elite army and strong soldiers to help him consolidate his royal power. ”

"Well, no matter what, if he can send troops, it will be his success. By the way, Chen Tingjing, how is the recent grain and grass raised? Kangxi asked again.

"Back to the emperor, since the Jiangnan Cao Yun was cut off, the food and salary in the capital began to be stretched. Yesterday, the minister took stock again, and all the grain stored near the capital can only support the imperial court for half a year. After half a year, the court will have no food to use. Chen Tingjing replied with a worried face.

"Just tell me how much food there is in total, so that I can have a number!"

"The two granaries inside and outside the capital have a total of 400,000 stones, and the Tongzhou granaries have a total of 1.4 million stones! The capital consumes nearly 400,000 stones per month, even with the support of Henan, Shandong and other places, half a year is the longest time that the minister can support. There is still one thing that the minister has not finished talking about just now, Tongzhou is the granary of the imperial court, and Geng Shun must also be clear, so the emperor of Tongzhou granary has to guard against it, either send heavy troops to protect it, or slowly transport all the grain into the capital! ”

"It's unrealistic to transport grain into the capital, this Tongzhou is right under our noses, and it's on the edge of the capital, if Geng Rui really has the idea of opening up the grain and grass in the state, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp can also quickly support and arrive, which is not too worrying. Anyway, that Tongzhou City can be regarded as a high wall and a deep river, and its defense ability is not low! In this way, transfer 10,000 soldiers and horses to Tongzhou to strengthen the defense of Tongzhou, if the Geng rebel army really attacks the capital, both sides can support each other. ”

The opening of the Grand Canal gave birth to the construction of the state city. In the Ming Dynasty, the granary status of Tongzhou was more prominent, so it also became the focus of the northern nomads, and the military and economic status was extremely important. "Upper arch Jingque, lower control Tianjin...... The throat of the Sigi Auxiliary, the meeting of the land and water". The name of Tongzhou is "the righteousness of taking Caoyun Tongji". Tongzhou also built a city here very early, not as good as those big cities, but as far as a county is concerned, there are still few that can be compared. In the first year after Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, General Sun Xingzu followed the old site and built Tongzhou City again. The present Tongzhou City, "around nine miles and thirteen steps, even the battlement wall is three zhang and five feet high", there are four city gates, the east is called the Tongyun Gate, the west is called the Chaotian Gate, the south is called the Yingxun Gate, the north is called the Ning Cui Gate, the door has a building, and there is a large granary built in the city.

During the Ming Dynasty, a large area of open space was opened up outside the city of Tongzhou, and the west warehouse and the south warehouse were built. Later, someone asked the emperor not to leave the granary outside the city, but to build a new city. to be protected. So a new city was built outside. Such. The two cities are "tongues and teeth". The new city is smaller, "there are strange seven miles around", the east side is connected with the west side of the old city, there are west gates and south gates, and each has a city tower. At that time, limited financial resources, the city walls were much shorter, and the height was only one and a half zhang, less than half of the old city. Over time. The walls would continue to deteriorate, and at the height of the damage, people could climb over them. In order to protect the city, during the Zhengde period, moats began to be dug on three sides of the new city. In the nineteenth year of Wanli, that is, in 1591, the new city was "demolished and repaired, and the wall was three feet and five feet high, more than one zhang thick, and one thousand three hundred and forty zhang long", and the new and old city walls unified the height. And named the city gate of the new city: "The south gate is called Wangfan Cloud Table, and the west gate is said to be five feet to the sky." "In the twenty-second year of Wanli. On the basis of the old city god, dig a ditch to "divert the water of the Hui River into it", which not only has the solidity of the golden soup, but also can transport boats and boats.

Just a few years ago, Kangxi also ordered the renovation of the old and new cities. "The old city is 1,626 zhang and 5 feet, the new city is 1,263 zhang, the root of the city is 3 zhang and 4 feet wide, the top is 2 zhang and 3 feet wide, the outer height of the city is 3 zhang 4 feet, and the inner height varies from 2 zhang 23 feet to 3 zhang." The granary in the city is also constantly integrated, the old city has the middle warehouse and the east warehouse, and now, there is no east warehouse, in the Ming Dynasty has been merged into the middle warehouse. The west warehouse is in the new city, commonly known as the big warehouse, and the south warehouse is in the south gate of the new city.

This Tongzhou is almost equal to the granary, transporting, and preserving, close to the river, congenital convenience, storing millions of stone grain, "the country enters the southeast Cao to transport four million stones, and analyzes three out of ten stored in the granary", it can really be described as the granary of the world. In later generations, there was a TV series called the granary of the world, which talked about the granary of Tongzhou. Of course, Kangxi also knew the importance of Tongzhou, after all, when the Qing court did not enter the customs, it often opened the idea of opening the granary of the state. Since the Ming Dynasty, the northern nomads have regarded Tongzhou as fat. During the reign of Emperor Jing of the Ming Dynasty, a spy reported that the Warat invasion was going to occupy the city of Tongzhou. The court was in a panic, and the purpose of the people was to grab the grain, and they burned the granary first, and they would not occupy it. In the chaos, Emperor Ming Jing invited Zhou Wenxiang to the capital to discuss countermeasures. Zhou said that it was not a good policy to give up military supplies before the enemy arrived. It is better to issue a notice first, advance a year's military rations, and go and get it yourself. In this way, the grain returned to the capital, and the state was exempted from transportation, which was the best of both worlds. A few days later, Warat arrived, and the granaries were empty, and he got an empty city, and he departed in a huff.

"Forget it, let's mobilize people to transport the grain stored in the granary back to the capital, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case! Now everything must be cautious. Although Tongzhou is only forty or fifty miles away from the capital, if Geng Rui really attacks the capital, under the siege of the city, the soldiers and horses in the capital may really have no way to rescue. If the grain and grass are lost, they will all be rested. After thinking about it, Kangxi sighed and said. Kangxi, who is just twenty years old now, looks like he is thirty years old, and it has only been two years, which makes him look haggard, if the war situation continues to be unfavorable, it is certain that he will decline before he gets old. "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, it seems that I can't celebrate this festival. Chen Tingjing. ”

"The minister is here!" Chen Tingjing immediately responded.

"I know that money and food are tight now, but after all, this is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and according to last year's example, I will distribute some rice and grain to officials at all levels in the capital, so I will treat them as a reward. I know that this year, the imperial court has stopped issuing officials' salaries, and officials at all levels, especially those Qing officials who are already from humble backgrounds, are not having a good time. I have suffered them, and until the court succeeds in quelling the rebellion in the future, I will not forget the merits of each person. ”

Since Wu Sangui raised an army, the Qing court's food and salary were insufficient, and Kangxi issued an order to suspend the payment of all local officials in the country except for Beijing officials, and the income of Beijing officials was halved until the rebellion of the three feudatories was completely quelled in the future. Of course, Kangxi didn't know the means of the officials below to make money, even if he didn't have such a little money, he would still be able to get nourishment. However, although the officials are very corrupt, and the amount of money they loot is far greater than the salary, if the name or above orders that no wages are paid, it will make these local officials justifiably go to the people's fat and people's cream, because they will say: "If we don't pay our salaries, we will eat and wear what during this period." ”

But Kangxi's starting point is good, Chen Tingjing, Suo Etu, Mingzhu, etc. will not break it, otherwise they will offend the officials all over the world. As the highest officials in the Qing court, they must have their share of the salary this time, and they must take the lead in accepting it happily, so as to set an example for all the officials in the capital. As for whether they will contribute money and goods to the imperial court and pay tribute to the emperor to show their loyalty afterwards, that is their own business.

At this time, the city of Tianjin has been completely occupied by the Mawei army, Prince Kang Jieshu was captured, Fan Zhenlang was killed in battle, Bing Guangyan, deputy chief soldier of Tianjin, and several cronies will personally assist the Mawei army to persuade the Qing army to surrender in the city, and most of the remnants of the Qing army voluntarily surrendered. After the Fourth Division of the Mawei Army seized the opportunity to advance the city, there was no resistance at all, and under the shouting of Bing Guangyan's order, there were few troops who continued to resist, and the Mawei Army rushed straight to the east gate of the town.

After the east gate of the town was bombarded by 120 cannons in turn, there were less than 4,000 Qing troops left. The previous time in the city lost more than 1,000 people, after the city gate was broken, the artillery fire of the Mawei army continued to extend, and more than 1,000 Qing troops were killed and wounded. The remaining intact more than 3,000 people also have no will to fight, will have no will to fight, and the overall morale is low. The gates of this city are broken, is it necessary for this city to continue to be defended? All the Qing soldiers were thinking about how to escape from here, instead of continuing to resist to the death.

Tianjin City is not big, it is in the shape of a long strip, the length of the north and south is very long, but the width of the east and west is not wide, a total of only two kilometers, from the south gate to the east gate of the town The distance is only three kilometers. The horsetail army is very fast, and there is no weight on it, so it can run fast. The troops of the Fourth Division did not all go towards the east gate of the town, but only two battalions in total went straight to the east gate of the town, and the rest were all scattered to occupy the important yamen in the city. The two battalions here rushed to the east gate of the town, and the front one became fifty cavalrymen, which were also soldiers of the fourth division, and the war horses were the war horses under the command of Bing Guangyan. However, Bing Guangyan was not in charge of the cavalry troops, and there were less than a hundred war horses in his troops.

Fifty men were selected from the warriors who could ride horses, and they galloped to the east gate of the town on their horses. Many people and horses were sent to fight against the thousands of Qing troops at the east gate of the town, just to let the Qing army see that the Mawei army had fully attacked the city, and they were now making useless resistance. It only took seven or eight minutes for the soldiers of the Mawei Army to ride their horses to the east gate of the town, and the outcome was exactly as Jin Yinghu, the commander of the Fourth Division, expected, and suddenly the remaining Qing troops on this side collapsed. Everyone has entered the city, and they have already sent troops and horses to the city gate here, they are still stupidly staying here and preparing to ambush the Mawei army outside the city, is it still necessary? It's important to save your life! (To be continued......)