53. 300,000 catties
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"Liu Guoxuan, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, led his troops to attack Quanzhou, and all the provinces were under him. (The first text is published in the reading room biquge.info)
The sea is broken, and Fujian Province is shaken. The reinforcements retreated to Zhangzhou, and Guoxuan discussed taking advantage of Quanzhou: Wu Shu divided his troops to restore Changtai, and Guoxuan led his troops to attack Tong'an. When the capital of Ya Dali transferred troops from Zhejiang to aid Haicheng, to Tong'an and Haicheng broke;
Hearing Guoxuan, he abandoned the city and retreated to Quanzhou, and Guoxuan supervised the land and water attack. Zuo Hu Weijiang won the attack on Nan'an, and went down. As a result, the county guards of Hui'an, Anxi, Yongchun, and Dehua all abandoned the city and fled one after another. ”——
Minhai Minutes
At the same time as the Zheng army in southern Fujian won a series of victories, Yang Xian, who was reinforced by Chen Liang and Chen Qiming of the left town of the water division, led 5,000 troops to attack Xinhui, and even went down to Doumen and Jiangmen, and the defenders of Xinhui were only 800, and they had no ability to resist in the face of Zheng Jun's soldiers, so they could only defend behind closed doors, but Yang Xian conquered it in one day, and then pointed directly at Fengcheng, causing the shock of Guangdong Province.
Shang Zhixin was on the Dianbai front, and when he heard that the rear was tight, he was horrified, for fear that Zheng Jun would take advantage of the need to attack Guangzhou, and he would immediately return to the division, but Zu Zeqing seized the opportunity to counterattack, and was able to escape back to Yangjiang after losing 3,000 people in the rear team.
Zu Zeqing had no ambition and just wanted to divide one side, so he was a little rich and peaceful, and when he saw the Shang army retreating eastward, he returned to collect Gao and Lian prefectures and counties, and fulfilled the dream of the so-called king of western Guangdong. Shang Zhixin has been given a chance to breathe, and after a little reorganization of the troops and horses, he left the general army of 2,000 people to defend Yangjiang, and he led the main force of 10,000 to return to the provincial capital.
At this time, Yang Xian besieged Shunde for three days, and then the whole army turned to the South China Sea to Linfoshan.
Foshan was called Jihua Township in the early years, and was renamed because three Buddha statues were dug up in Tapogang in the city. At the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Foshan and Hankou Town in Hubei, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi and Zhuxian Town in Henan were called China's "Four Famous Towns", and Beijing, Hankou and Suzhou were called "the four major gatherings in the world", and the iron smelting industry in the town was famous in Guangdong and well-known throughout the country.
However, no matter how prosperous Foshan is, it is only a town-level unit, with low walls and limited regimental training, and it may not be a problem to resist the attacks of thieves, but it is simply not able to fight against a well-trained army. Seeing Zheng Jun's vigorous slaughter, the gentry and merchants of the town, who were worried about the military disaster, sent people out of the town to mediate, and were willing to ransom Zheng Jun with 30,000 taels of silver to make a detour.
"Lao Jun?" Yang Xian couldn't help but sneer as he watched several representatives of the people and their offerings of beef wine and food. "You have a heart."
Although Yang Xian's face was gloomy, the representatives of the people still smiled and said: "The king is still rebellious, and the small people and the others should have eaten pot pulp." ”
"Really?" After Yang Xian dismounted, he circled around the three of them twice, reached out and grabbed one of the money rat whips, and pulled it hard, the man screamed in pain, but what made them even more distracted was Yang Xian's next words. "What is this? You are waiting to greet the king as a Tatar obedient people? Yang Xian dropped the braid he was holding in his hand and waved it casually. Come on, cut off the pig's tail from the back of their head! ”
"My lord, I can't!" Keeping their hair but not their heads, a few people were so frightened that they lay down there and kowtowed to Yang Xian. "Spare your life, spare your life!"
Yang Xian waved his hand and motioned for the pro-soldiers to retreat, and at the same time took a horse and sat down: "Spare your life, you just think about the Tartar to kill your head, it is difficult for the official's knife to be unhappy." ”
Several people crouched there and did not dare to raise their heads, but their bodies were still trembling, and even one of them faintly appeared on the lower body of the water.
Yang Xian pursed his lips disdainfully: "Say, what does this labor army mean?" ”
"Villains, villains think of the adults' soldiers." The first person on the left stumbled and said. "Big, although the adult's soldiers did not commit any crimes in the autumn, but, but Foshan Town is afraid that it will not be able to support it, and the people of the town are willing to give 10,000 taels of silver, no, 20,000 taels." Despite his fear, the businessman's instinct made him try to bargain with Yang Xian. "Please let the army pass through."
"Twenty thousand taels." Yang Xian's gaze froze, Zheng Jun's march to the South China Sea and Guangzhou was originally a bluff, and now this unexpected joy is naturally the icing on the cake, but he is also an old Jianghu, how could he be deceived by the other party's seemingly generous words. "What a big hand, Foshan is rich and famous in the world, how many people have been dedicated to Beiyu over the years, hehe, come here, order the towns to speed up the pace, and must enter Foshan before the unitary time, and then there will be a few traitors who are willing to serve the enemy, 20,000 taels, ten 20,000 taels may not be no"
"My lord," the man in the middle was anxious, Yang Xian's threat almost hit their death hole, once Zheng Jun entered the town, it was conceivable that it would be a catastrophe, even if someone escaped, but in case Zheng Jun made a murderous masterpiece, Foshan would be abolished. "Thirty thousand taels, no, fifty thousand taels, as long as the army does not enter the town, the reward is easy to say."
"Oh? Changed your mind again? Yang Xian touched his beard. Fifty thousand taels, tsk, it really deserves to be one of the four big in the world. "But Yang Xian wants more than just white silver." This clan is not a kidnapper, and he grabbed a few meat tickets for ransom. These words made the kneeling people look at each other, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of this Zheng Jun veteran, but it turned out that Yang Xian himself uncovered the hole card. In fact, 30,000 taels of silver is enough to reward the whole army, but," the three of them listened to Yang Xian as soon as their hearts sank. "Foshan has always been famous for iron smelting, before sunset tomorrow, the town needs to prepare 300,000 catties of refined iron, 30,000 taels of silver and a car and ship that should be transported to the military camp.
"Iron! 300,000 catties! "Listening to the numbers reported by Yang Xian, the person on the left suddenly shriveled to the ground." My lord, this, this number is too much, and it is only given for one day, so how can the rest be raised, and how to transport vehicles and ships, this comes and goes, 100,000 taels is not enough! ”
"Is 300,000 catties of refined iron a lot?" Yang Xian stood up, kicked Ma Zha away, and said menacingly. "There are tens of thousands of furnace households around Foshan, and the daily loss of the town can reach 10,000 catties, even if there is a profit or loss from trafficking, but the town is so big, will there be an inventory of 300,000 catties? Are you deceiving the old and ignorant? Yang Xian drew his sword and pointed at the person on the right who had not spoken. There is no fine iron, and the cast iron locks, iron wires, anvils, iron pots, iron woks, iron bells, iron needles, iron plows, rakes, and sickles can be counted, especially the cannons cast for Shang Zhixin."
It was scary enough to be pointed at by the cold sword before, but now that Yang Xian had taken the old man out, the person on the right fainted without saying a word. Looking at the ugliness of their companions, the other two were also frightened, so they could only nod desperately, for fear that if they didn't agree, they would anger Yang Xian and lose his head.
"Get out," Yang Xian thrust his sword back. "I won't be able to get anything before sunset tomorrow, and I will attack the town early the day after tomorrow, and there will be no chickens and dogs left at that time!"
Several representatives of the soldiers and civilians ran away in a row, and the adjutant general on the side asked with some confusion: "Junmen, why do you have to give them two days?" Xinhui also went down in one go, just a small town and a low wall, we can win it in one or two rounds, and when the time comes, what we want, it's not better than grinding our teeth with them. ”
"Shang Zhixin is coming back soon." Yang Xian's gaze looked westward. "We don't have more than one-third of his soldiers, so we can save a little." Yang Xian added. "Besides, it's easy to attack the city, and it's not difficult to grab some silver, but it's troublesome to collect iron and transport it out, and with the cooperation of the people in the town, it's naturally much faster."
The adjutant general was still a little puzzled: "Junmen, these 300,000 catties of iron can occupy the ship's position, Louchuan Town has been full of excitement when the army is transported, in case this is surrounded by Shang Zhixin's army, even if the army wins after the first battle, it is not only the casualties of capturing the town of Foshan, it is better to grab the silver and leave." ”
"There are so many new immigrants in Taiwan, and there is a shortage of iron tools, how can it be enough to produce 100,000 catties a month." Yang Xian was a worker before, and these numbers were naturally hidden in his heart. "It's easy to say anything about the fabric, but this iron tool is difficult to open the joints even if there is silver, if it weren't for the time being too tight this time, how could it only cost 300,000 catties with this dry wall grass." Speaking of this, Yang Xian patted the lieutenant general's shoulder. "I'm afraid that I will go and collect a few more long dragons to come, but I really don't want to cut down trees and tie wooden rows, and when the time comes, let's go down the river to see if he still has the courage to chase him to the beach?"
The three messengers fled back as soon as they reported, Foshan immediately jumped up, in the face of the invincible Zheng army in Guangdong Province, the rich gentry and eunuchs in Foshan town absolutely did not have the courage to fight, after a whole night of quarrels, the merchants of the town finally accepted Yang Xian's ultimatum, so from the next morning, the endless flow of transport teams will be bundles and piles of iron to the town wharf. Because the time was too tight, there was no time to weigh them one by one, and for fear that Zheng Jun would make a fuss about the amount, so the merchants could only calculate leniently, and in this way, the iron tools finally sent outside the town exceeded Yang Xian's requirements.
The mountain of iron tools was hidden by hundreds of small boats hidden by the townspeople and collected by Zheng Jun from Zhoubian Village along the dense small river of the Pearl River, and two days later entered the sea at Jinwan, and arrived at Zheng Jun's warships - more than 300,000 catties of iron were enough for these small boats to be transported three times, until the third day after all Zheng troops retreated with the ships, Shang Zhixin's department belatedly recovered Xinhui County and Jiangmen, and as for Doumen, he dared to enter carefully after the main force of Zheng Jun took the initiative to retreat.
Although Shang Zhixin did not want to face Zheng Jun directly, Yang Xian did not have the idea of stopping, and after the military ships transporting iron materials to Dongning took his troops back to Qiongzhou for three days to recuperate, he commanded his subordinates to go ashore in Xu Wen and went all the way north to Leizhou. The defenders of Leizhou fled when they heard the news, and in this way, the Zheng army was convenient for the Zu Zeqing Department under the banner of the Zhou army.
Although Zu Zeqing was annoyed that Zheng Jun was grabbing territory with him, because Zheng Jun's combat power was strong and Shang Zhixin's department was still likely to make a comeback, in order to leave a way back, he personally visited Yang Xian, and the two sides agreed to take the Luchuan Inspection Division as the boundary, return to the ancestral department in the north, and return to Zheng Jun in the south. At the same time, the ancestral army provided the Ming and Zheng sides with cattle, iron tools, cane sugar, and rice at low prices, and the Zheng army sent troops to assist the Shang army or the Qing army when they attacked
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