Chapter 413: A Scene (Text)
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The newly recruited soldiers of the Xiaoshan camp entered the city of Hangzhou in batches, sometimes just standing at the head of the city to feel the shock of blood and fire.
Veterans die, and recruits become veterans.
The soldiers in Hangzhou sang with their voices, the sound was not good, but combined with the cruel scene of the city in the past few days, the listeners all burst into tears.
After ten days of fierce siege, the outer walls of the city walls were covered with brown blood spots.
At last, Dodor could not hold it anymore, and the ethereal singing of the city gave him the feeling that this city was impassable.
Liu Liangzuo under Jiangyin City is also thinking so.
The one who is under the most pressure now is not Feng Qin, but Zong Mao. The canal was impassable, and the merchant alliance cooperated with Chen Zhigao, who was in charge of maritime commerce, to purchase a large amount of crude iron and saltpeter from Fujian, and the silver slipped out of his fingers like flowing water. He couldn't wait until the last minute to tell SΓΉ Zhai Zhe, the silver was gone, and a certain proportion of income and expenditure had to be guaranteed.
Zong Mao flipped through the account book every day and prayed in his heart: "I just hope this war won't last so long!" "It's only been a little over a month.
There is silver in Hangzhou City, and Ning Shao also has silver, and when it is a last resort, he can only reach out and take it cheekily.
Ten days later, the war slowed down a little, Zhai Zhe brought wine and meat into the city to reward the army, Chen Zilong, Feng Qin, and Li Zhian greeted each other at the water gate, and only then walked into the city gate to say a few words of greeting, and heard a burst of cheers not far away.
Chen Zilong was a little embarrassed and said: "I saw that the soldiers were fighting hard for days, so I asked the singers of the Kou family to build a stage, and they were singing "Jinshan War Drums" and "The Story of Double Martyrs". β
"Okay!" Zhai Zhe was not unhappy at all, and said with a smile: "I also invited them to sing in Ningshao." β
Li Zhi'an led the way, and several people walked over there.
When they got closer, the soldiers sat cross-legged, and in the distance some soldiers stood in the distance, sticking their heads forward, as if they could hear more clearly if they were an inch closer.
A stormy tune passed, and Wu Sheng sang on the stage: "...... If you want the wind and rain to go well, you can do it, if Hu Qi is not extinguished, the chicken and dog will not be restless,......" The voice was loud, and the sound of hanging aroused the surging blood in the chest.
The soldiers cheered again.
Zhai Zhe and the others approached, Feng Qin just wanted to ask those people to stop, Zhai Zhe waved his hand, led a few people into a nearby camp tent, and asked about the recent battle situation.
At the end of the scene, the soldiers returned to the camp in order, and the steward led the four singers to meet them.
Several singers were covered with sweat, and a long yarn was approved outside, and as soon as they entered the camp, they knelt on the ground: "Meet the general!" β
The singer Zhai Zhe once saw it in Ningbo Mansion, he raised his hand first and said, "Get up and speak!" Then I remembered and asked her, "What's your name!" β
The woman replied, "Slave Kou Qingsi." She stood up and raised her face, her face was flushed, and her eyebrows were slender, perhaps she had just sung Liang Hongyu's tune, which made Zhai Zhe feel a heroic aura rushing to her face.
He clapped his hands and approved: "You sing for my soldiers again, but I have no gold to reward you." β
Kou Qingsi bowed her head and said: "The soldiers bleed, and the slave family can't go into battle to kill the enemy as a woman, so they can only do their best, how can we talk about rewards!" β
Zhai Zhe shook his head again and again, and said, "No, how can the imperial court ignore the people who can make a contribution at this time?" Meritorious service will be rewarded, and guilt will be punished, this is my way of governing the army. β
He thought for a moment and said: "I heard that the Kou family has violated the taboo of the previous dynasty, and generations of women can only make a living in ****, I will play the court and ask His Majesty to pardon the Kou family." β
Kou Qingsi's body shook like an electric shock, and she was stunned for a moment, and then quickly knelt down, touched her head to the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "If this can be done, the slave family is willing to repay the cattle and horses for generations." β
From the moment the Kou family woman was born, she was destined to be a prostitute, even if she was virtuous, if she couldn't be good, she would inevitably have a pair of jade arms and thousands of pillows, and the fate of ten thousand people with red lips would be lost, and it was common to become a beggar when she was old and decrepit. Even if she is good, because she is not a woman from a good family, she can only be a concubine and be bullied by the eldest woman. Her sister Kou Baimen, graceful, beautiful, famous, was welcomed into the palace as a concubine by the prominent Baoguo Duke Zhu Guobi before the age of seventeen, but soon fell out of favor, which is an excellent fate.
These are the bad habits left by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di when the Ming Dynasty was founded. Zhu Yuanzhang demoted the descendants of Zhang Shicheng, who was his enemy, and the former Yuan and other sworn enemies to beggars and prostitutes for generations.
Since Zhai Zhe said it, he was naturally 100% sure that such a trivial matter came to King Lu, but it was just a gesture.
Kou Qingsi's forehead was bleeding.
Zhai Zhe waved his hand and said with a smile: "Hugh is going to knock, he has broken his face, and he won't be able to sing tomorrow!" β
Kou Qingsi got up at this time, tears flashing in her eyes.
This is a trivial matter for Zhai Zhe, and for the Kou family, it is a great joy to change the fate of the family.
Zhai Zhe did this, including asking for exemption from Tian Fu for the soldiers, not on a whim. Whether it is a righteous soldier who joined the army in eastern Zhejiang, or a squire who voluntarily donated money, even the singer in front of her, as long as she dares to stand up in such a time of crisis, she will pay back ten times the benefit.
In a word, they deserve it. Moreover, he wanted to let his followers know that General Pingyu remembered their benefits.
At the end of July, the war in Hangzhou was stable, and Zhai Zhe wrote to ask for merit for the generals.
King Lu issued an edict, Zhai Zhe no longer served as the general soldier, as the general of Pingyu, the governor of the left capital, in charge of the war against the Qing captives, the general soldiers of all walks of life were under his control, Xu Kaifu recruited staff managers, and ordered Zhang Guowei to supervise the army and enter the camp in Xiaoshan.
Chen Zilong was promoted to the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and the right attendant of the military department.
Xiao Zhiyan was promoted to the general army of Shaoxing and sealed the north.
Feng Qin was promoted to the general army of Hangzhou, and was named the Marquis of Yongning.
Zuo Ruo was promoted to the general army of Ningbo and sealed the army.
Zhang Mingzhen was the chief soldier of Chongming and was sealed in the west.
Fang Guoan, the former chief soldier of Zhejiang, and Wang Zhiren, the chief soldier of Wusong, were each promoted to marquis to duke.
The edict went to various places, and Huang Daozhou scolded after hearing about it in Huizhou Mansion.
This was a solid slap in the face of the Tang King, and it was also a counterattack to the Tang King Feng Yang Wencong and Yang Dingqing in charge of the Jiangnan war.
Liu Suifeng urgently made an appointment with Liu Zhongzao in Fuzhou, and bluntly said that Zhai Zhe's patience was limited, and if the Tang King did not make a decision, Zhai Zhe would support the King of Lu as the emperor in eastern Zhejiang. Of course, these are all made for people to see, and it is not a lot of titles to decide the fate of each person, and the battle situation in southern Anhui has actually become the focus of the competition between the Tang King and the Lu King.
Soon after Ji Hong left the city of Hangzhou, he sent a group of capable subordinates into the territory of Ningguo Mansion and flew the news there into eastern Zhejiang.
Tens of thousands of rebels from Ningguofu besieged Xuancheng, the capital city, and for more than 20 days in vain, Zhang Tianlu, the former commander of the Ming Guazhou who surrendered to the Qing court, led an army of 10,000 people to support.
Zhai Zhe urgently ordered Zuo Ruo to lead an army of 10,000, Zheng Zunqian and Sun Quanjing to lead 8,000 recruits, and go north along Fuyang to occupy Changhua County, which is at the junction of Ningguo Mansion and Huizhou Mansion. Huang Daozhou ordered the Huizhou Righteous Army to guard Yuling Pass and strictly prevent the soldiers and horses of eastern Zhejiang from entering Huizhou Mansion.
From the beginning of June to the beginning of August. In the past two months, the soldiers and horses of eastern Zhejiang have traveled to the north and south, and the generals of the various departments are nervous and do not even have the time to take a breath, and they need to deal with the siege of the Qing captives every day.
At this point, the tide of shaving has really flattened.
Although the deadline has not yet arrived, Duoduo knows that he will not be able to capture Hangzhou City within a month, and if the pressure is too tight, he is afraid that those soldiers under his command will turn around and invest in Daming. Dolgon didn't really come to punish him, but just sent the university scholar Hong Chengchou to the south to assist and coordinate the battle situation in Jiangnan. The important people's hearts, Hong Chengchou is here, it is to clean up the restless hearts of the people in Jiangnan under the shaving order.
When Zhai Zhe, who was rarely idle, remembered the family members of the generals on Zhoushan Island, and ordered them to be taken ashore and settled in Ningbo and Shaoxing.
The battle situation in southern Anhui has not changed much, and Ning Shao should be safe.
If Huang Daozhou can stabilize the battle situation in southern Anhui, it will of course be a good thing. At least before the Qing captives withdrew from Jiangnan, King Lu and King Tang would not meet each other, and Zhai Zhe could ensure that Zuo Ruo's mobile force was prepared. If Huang Daozhou can't defend southern Anhui, he can only do it himself.
After receiving the edict of King Lu, the Pinglu General's Mansion posted notices in Ningshao and Hangzhou to convene the staff, and the remuneration was handsome. If you have a talent and fame, you can sign up, and after the assessment, you will be selected for admission, and there will be people who are promoted and hired without examination.
Zhai Zhe summoned Fang Yizhi, who had been staying in Ningbo Mansion.
To this day, no one mentions the "Shun case" involved in Fang Yizhi, and most of the scholars who spat at him in Beijing have shaved their braids and knelt at the feet of the Jurchens.
Fang Yizhi has practiced some boxing sticks since he was a child, and his body is not weak, otherwise he would not have been able to escape from Beijing to Nanjing alone. After serving as a staff member in the Ningbo General Military Office for a year, the sea breeze blowing through eastern Zhejiang looked even stronger than before.
He greeted the generals he knew along the way, and the changes in the past two years made him seem to have changed as a person, and he couldn't see the vanity of the past. It's just that the stubborn eyes that are occasionally revealed reveal the arrogance in this person's heart.
Fang Jin led him into the big tent of the Chinese army, and Fang Yizhi respectfully saluted Zhai Zhe, "Meet the general!" β
"Mizhi, it's been a year since you served in our army," Zhai Zheluo pondered for a while, and quickly asked: "Are you willing to serve in my general's mansion for a long time, or are you willing to leave as an official?" β
Fang Yizhi thought for a while and said, "It's all up to the general's arrangement." β
He has the fame of being a jinshi, but he also has a record of "shun case", and he is afraid that he will not have a big future when he goes out to be an official, and it is easy to be grabbed by people to grab his pigtails. At least in the Ningshao General Military Mansion, he is very respected, and the general's eldest son, Zhai Tianjian, worships him as a teacher, so why should he leave? In eastern Zhejiang, the power to go out as an official is not as good as being in the general's mansion.
Hearing Fang Yizhi say this, Zhai Zhe said the latter words very smoothly, "That's good, the affairs of the general's mansion are increasing, King Lu has allowed me to open the mansion to recruit some staff to help, I want you to be the chief examiner!" β
"Me?" Fang Yizhi was surprised.
He thought that it was Zong Mao's power, and being the chief examiner meant that those staff members would have to give themselves a little bit of thin face in the future.
Zhai Zhe nodded, "Yes, the content of the assessment is also up to you, I want someone who can do things!" β
"Yes!" Fang Yizhi no longer shirked, and responded generously.
On 5 August, more than 200 students from eastern Zhejiang and Zuo Ruo from Songjiang gathered in Ningbo Mansion to participate in the assessment of the General's Mansion.
After the volume, the content of the assessment is varied, including strategy, arithmetic, and even physics, all of which are applied to the world, which makes the students who only know the eight-strand literature stunned.
Fang Yizhi was dressed in Confucian clothes, looking at the young and old people, looking at the students who were holding brushes and scratching their ears and cheeks, and said indifferently: "Don't be surprised. Confucianism is ashamed of not knowing anything. This is the general's palace to recruit officials, not the imperial court to open a department. β