Chapter Seventy-Five: The New Army

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The canal wharf is brightly lit, and ten large ships are neatly docked on the shore. An**'s soldiers poured onto the big ship and moved the goods on it little by little.

First, there were bags of grain, Gu Zhenhua didn't care at all, he just piled them aside, and after the grain on them was moved, he finally revealed his true face.

"Let's work hard, 1, 2, 3, lift!"

6 Yong shouted with the soldiers, and lifted a mahogany box, the small box was only two feet square, not large at all, but the sturdy soldiers all bared their teeth and took great effort to move the box down.

"Open!"

After lifting the wooden cover, there was a flash of yellow light, and there were neat gold bars in it, which would blind people's eyes.

"Seventh brother, there are still a lot of chests on the ship, gold, silver and jewelry, ancient characters and paintings, in short, there are definitely a lot of valuable things."

There is no doubt that Gu Zhenhua bit a piece of big fat meat, but instead of having any joy, he gritted his teeth and couldn't stop running up in anger.

"Big brother, you immediately count the amount of treasures, and in addition, seize the ticket numbers of the Jin merchants in the whole city, and everyone will arrest me and torture them one by one, and squeeze out as much oil and water as you can. After three days, they were all pushed to the beach and cut down one by one! ”

"Okay, it's time to kill, it's better to destroy their three clans and let them know the fate of betraying the country!" Li Jibo snorted angrily and said: "Zhenhua, isn't there a lot of brothers who don't have daughters-in-law, snatch their wives and daughters and maids, and distribute them to the next one." ”

Gu Zhenhua suddenly smiled and said: "Old Li Tou, haven't you always advised me to do less things that hurt heaven and peace, why are you so ruthless this time?" ”

"Humph! They are not human beings at all, but Shuo rats, the Shuo rats of the Ming Dynasty, the executioners who slaughtered the people of Liaodong! ”

Li Jibo was furious, and couldn't help but say: "Gu Zhenhua, you know the saying that the Jurchen soldiers are invincible, right? ”

"Of course I know, in all fairness, the combat effectiveness of the Manchu Qing is indeed not weak, especially the war horses are sufficient, only they are allowed to beat you, and you are not allowed to fight them, which is very powerful."

"!" Li Jibo sneered unceremoniously: "The old man admits that the army of the Ming Dynasty has not been able to do it all these years, but when the old slave raised troops against the Ming, it was the forty-sixth year of Wanli, and the fierce generals and strong soldiers of the three major expeditions are still there, and the treasury is also full." When it comes to equipment, it is far better than Tartars. But why did my Ming army lose successive battles, and the old slave won successive victories within a few years and seized the entire land east of the river? ”

"You mean that the loss of the Ming Dynasty is not in the soldiers."

"That's right, throughout the old slave fought several big battles, without exception, Daming either had someone leak secrets, or someone acted as an internal response, so that the old slave succeeded one after another."

Gu Zhenhua frowned: "It was these businessmen who passed information on behalf of the old slaves, so that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to defeat the Ming Dynasty at the beginning of its rise?" ”

"It's not all." Li Jibo sighed: "Back then, Wang Jingluo said: Eastern affairs are separated from the Phi, one is worse than Qing and Fu, then worse than Kai and Tie, three is bad for Liao and Shen, and four is bad for Guangning. The initial bad is a dangerous situation, and then the bad is a defeat, the third bad is the endgame, and as for the four bad - donating the whole Liao, there is no situation to do! Gradually retreat to the mountains and seas, and there is no step back after that! ”

Thinking of the former benefactor Wang Zaijin, Li Jibo also sighed with emotion: "The beginning of the corruption of Liaodong is Salhu. Originally, the four-way army came out together, and the odds of victory were not small, but the old slave actually found out the news in advance, no matter how many ways you come, I will only go all the way. As a result, the 140,000-strong army fell short, and from then on, the power of the Manchus swelled more and more. ”

Gu Zhenhua also basically agreed with Li Jibo's statement, it is true that later generations found countless reasons for the victory of the Manchu Qing in the battle of Sarhu, but they could not withstand scrutiny, or take it for granted.

Yang Hao, the commander of the Ming army, was an important general who aided Korea, and his generals were also very familiar with the situation in Liaodong, and the overall arrangement was not inappropriate. The most terrible thing was the leakage of intelligence, which allowed the Manchus to seize the fighter.

Infinitely beautifying the victors and splashing dirty water on the losers is almost a common problem of human nature!

As a person who has been in the army for many years, Gu Zhenhua knows the horror of leaking information, and how many big battles have been won or lost, so he decided to focus on intelligence!

Li Jibo continued: "The old man often wonders who leaked the news, and the biggest suspect is Li Chengliang's son Li Rubai, who married the daughter of the second brother of the old slave, Shuerhaqi. Moreover, after the war, Yang Hao, who was in charge of the command, only went to his post and was not executed until the second year of Chongzhen. But Li Rubai was lost at that time, and after the defeat, he committed suicide in fear of sin, which is not too strange. You say that the one at the head is immortal, but the person below is dead, what is the reason for this? ”

Gu Zhenhua nodded and said: "Indeed, Li Chengliang has been in Liaodong for many years, and he and the old slave have a very close relationship. And Li Rubai grew up in Liaodong, it is impossible to make that kind of low-level mistake, I think most of them are afraid of the enemy and avoid war, and he is the leaker! ”

Li Jibo smiled bitterly again: "In the past, the old man was also so suspicious, but why is the dignified general Huzi willing to commit suicide and unwilling to serve the country and exterminate the Tartars?" The old man has been puzzled for many years. But now that he saw what Jin Shang had done, the old man finally understood. The businessman, the Tartar, the border general, the three constitute a close relationship, the interests are linked, if the Tartar is destroyed, their Li family's criminal evidence is exposed, and the door will be destroyed! ”

Hearing Li Jibo's words, Gu Zhenhua also immediately understood, putting aside those garbage words that sang praises for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a chain of evil appeared in front of him.

Jin merchants relied on smuggling money, and border generals such as Li Chengliang also made a lot of money, and the connivance of the old slaves in the early days was actually to raise their own respect.

But the result turned out to be the legacy of raising tigers, and when Li Chengliang's family made money, they also left a lot of shit. The old slave held the handle of a large number of border generals, enough incriminating evidence to kill them, forcing them to report the news to the old slave. Even on the battlefield, they had to release water and let the old slave win, otherwise the Ming army would kill the Manchu Dynasty's lair, and once the evidence of the crime was made public, they would probably destroy the nine clans!

This is the reason why Li Rubai would rather commit suicide than help the old slave win!

Li Jibo gritted his teeth: "These businessmen should all be killed, it is they who corrupt the border army, corrupt the situation in Liaodong, smuggle materials, provide intelligence, help buy officials, and maintain the exchange of criminal interests, which caused the situation to collapse, and the Ming Dynasty almost perished. ”

"That's right!" Gu Zhenhua sneered: "Not only to kill, but also to ruin their reputation!" Mr. Li, you are responsible for collecting evidence of their crimes, and then making these things public to the world as much as possible, so that the people can recognize the shameless faces of these people. ”

There is no doubt that the Jin merchants were a powerful arm of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and crippling and stinking them was tantamount to cutting off the Manchu source of materials and blindfolding the Manchus, which could have an unexpected effect. And is this also a powerful deterrent to traitors, so that those who hesitate will know the difficulty and retreat!

Li Jibo had already hated Jin Shang to the core, so he naturally took it upon himself to investigate thoroughly.

In line with the idea that they would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go, a total of more than 60 big businessmen were arrested.

After some investigation, more than four million taels of gold and silver were squeezed out of them. In addition, Fan Dacheng's treasure ship alone, plus the storage of the silver treasury, exceeded more than eight million taels, of which nearly five million taels were brought out by Gu Zhenhua and them from the capital.

The Fan family thought that they could make a lot of money, but they helped Gu Zhenhua save it for so long in vain, and now it is all back to Gu Zhenhua's hands!

Among the other three million taels, many of them were gold, silver and jewelry looted by the Manchus, and they were all handed over to the Fan family, to be sent to the south for cash, and then exchanged for materials to supply the Manchu war and buy off southern officials. As a result, all this money fell into Gu Zhenhua's hands, and the Manchu Qing's wishful thinking also went bankrupt.

If you count all the gold and silver found from the ticket number, Gu Zhenhua's wealth has reached an astonishing fifteen million taels!

The Ming Dynasty levied three salaries, which added up to less than 20 million taels of silver, and a small Tianjin gathered such wealth, how amazing, it is simply astronomical!

With this money, Gu Zhenhua had confidence, and his waist suddenly hardened.

Of course, in addition to catching money, the more important thing is to "arrest people", and in three days, Gu Zhenhua has recruited more than 1,700 qualified soldiers.

According to Gu Zhenhua's regulations, each soldier can get ten taels of silver, five loads of grain, and fifty catties of salt as a settlement fee.

Guarding Tianjin City, Gu Zhenhua doesn't care about food and silver, but ordinary people can't care less, sending a son to An** is equivalent to a windfall. Therefore, countless people flock to it, and the recruitment office is full of people, once a teenager is admitted, the family is like a New Year, and they are happy.

The admitted teenager wore a big red flower around his neck, like a groom official.

But these teenagers don't know that after entering An**, they did not step into heaven in one step, but fell into hell in one step!

The first 300 people selected for the first time, they have already started formal training, and for two days, they only did two things, one was running, and the other was standing.

Running around the city in the morning, running around the school field in the evening, standing for two hours in the morning, and standing for two hours in the afternoon, like a wooden stake, nailed there, moving a little, the instructor is a vicious stick, and after two days, dozens of people were beaten, and they were all bruised and purple.

"Kang Dali, you deserter, why did you come, don't you know how many sins I have suffered?" Zhao Tian couldn't help but complain.

Kang Dali smiled: "Little butcher, sue you and my brother have also passed the test, and both of my brothers are An** people!" ”

"Dali, I sue you, this is a fire pit, buddy, my legs are thinner to run, and my waist is broken when I stand."

"Hmph, a hundred tempered into steel, how can you fight with the Tartar if you don't practice!"

Zhao Tian glanced at this guy and said viciously: "I'll let you taste it tomorrow." ”

Just when everyone was chatting, suddenly Zhou Yingjie ran over with a few instructors and said loudly to them: "Uncle Zhongyong has an order, everyone gathers at the school field, and something important is announced." ”