Chapter 395: Tang Lu (I) (Text)
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Fighting on the front lines is in full swing.
Shaoxing Mansion was beaming.
After Ma Shiying left, the major event of the courtiers supporting King Lu as the prison soon settled.
Zhang Guowei, Zhu Dadian, and Song Zhipu entered the cabinet as cabinet scholars, and the famous officials and gentry in eastern Zhejiang all sought a half-official position, such as Yu Huang as the secretary of the military department, Li Xiangchun as the secretary of the household department, and so on. Zhai Zhe was crowned as the Duke of Yueguo, awarded the seal of General Pinglu, and Fang Guoan was crowned as the Marquis of Zhendong, and Zhang Mingzhen and Xiao Zhiyan were both crowned earls.
Zhang Guowei was the superintendent and commanded all the troops and horses.
The reward for this matter has not yet ended, and Zong Mao has submitted a thick list to the cabinet that has just taken office. These were sent out of Hangzhou City by Chen Zilong, and after Zhai Zhe saw them, he ordered someone to send them to Zong Mao and asked him to present them to the cabinet of several bachelors.
In addition to the demand for grain and grass, it includes all kinds of saltpeter, firewood, oil and salt, etc., and the amount is huge. If you want to support such a huge war in the remote corner of eastern Zhejiang and meet these requirements, you are afraid that you will not be able to do it even if you scrape the ground.
"In addition to these materials, the army's food and salary have also been owed for several months, please don't let the soldiers chill."
Several Dongkaku University scholars looked at each other, and the list was passed around in the hands of several people like a hot potato, only to know that this position was not so easy to do.
"Shaoxing Mansion is the richest in eastern Zhejiang, followed by Ningbo Mansion, which can provide food and salary, Yiwu; Dongyang has many mountains and forests, can be used for firewood and saltpeter, Taizhou Linhai has a little salt field, please the cabinet to step up the urging of all localities, transport materials to Xiaoshan camp, otherwise once there is a mutiny, it will be too late to regret. ”
Zong Mao had already had an idea, and after waiting for a while, he saw that several cabinet scholars were at a loss, so he was not polite.
"Yue Guogong means that extraordinary laws should be practiced in extraordinary times, and the current qiē is mainly military affairs, and the county officials should choose more locals who are familiar with the local area, so as to facilitate the gathering of materials. Yue Guogong recommended Qian Sule as the prefect of Ningbo, Xiong Rulin as the prefect of Shaoxing, and Zhu Ge Lao was in charge of the money and grain of Jinhua Mansion, and the materials and money and grain were collected and immediately handed over to Xiaoshan Xingying for processing, so that Yue Guogong could also give an explanation to the soldiers. ”
"In addition, Chen Zilong, who was in Songjiang in the former military department, made great contributions when he recovered Hangzhou, and was assisting in defending the city in Hangzhou.
Several cabinet scholars flipped through the list, and the rumbling pages were mixed with Zongmao's voice.
About half an hour later, the list returned to Zhang Guowei's hands, and he put it on the table, the thick pile of paper and Zong Mao's words made him feel like he was sitting on the stove.
Although Zhai Zhe's words are reasonable, according to the convention, money, grain and other materials need to be handed over to the imperial court from all over the country, and then the imperial court will allocate them uniformly. Zhai Zhe meant that after the money and grain were handed over everywhere, all of them would be sent to the Xiaoshan camp, and the ministers of the government would only be left with an empty shelf.
In fact, these land endowments are far from the requirements of military salaries.
"This is the letter that the Duke of Yue ordered me to submit, and I invite King Lu and the superintendent to come to Hangzhou in person to boost the morale of the soldiers."
Zong Mao finally went to Zhai Zhe's recital. He regarded himself as Zhai Zhe's agent here, and he was not very respectful when he spoke to several cabinet scholars.
"It's time to go to Hangzhou City!" Zhang Guowei brushed his beard. He is not afraid of death, and those who can go to the Lu Prison State in eastern Zhejiang to take up their posts have no courtiers who are afraid of death, and the spineless ones have long been recalled by the Qing court. But backbone cannot be turned into bread.
"Please play King Lu, the soldiers are looking forward to it."
Zong Mao sneered in his heart, he didn't personally go to the battlefield to kill people, but he didn't wander around the battlefield in the grassland. Zhang Guowei is not afraid, isn't King Lu afraid? If these two people were really willing to go to Hangzhou City, wouldn't it be more convenient for him to act in Ningshao.
After waiting for a day, King Lu really refused Zhang Guowei's request.
I have heard that the cannon is rumbling under the city of Hangzhou, staying in Shaoxing **** wine accompaniment, singing and dancing every day, why should he go to find that unhappy.
King Lu did not go to Hangzhou, and approved all of Zhai Zhe's performances.
Qian Sule and Xiong Rulin already have the merit of supporting, and it is not too much to divide them into Ningbo Mansion and Shaoxing Prefecture according to Zhai Zhe's meaning. Chen Zilong was the governor of Zhejiang, supervising Hangzhou, Dong Zhining and Lin Shi, who were among the six mad births of Ning Shao, were appointed as the commanders of Yiwu and Dongyang counties respectively, and the students who started in eastern Zhejiang were appointed as county officials in Jinhua and Taizhou respectively. Of course, the former leaders, Sun Jiaji and Zheng Zunyu, who were the most famous, were left in the army by Zhai Zhe.
The official positions in various places were drafted, and all parts of eastern Zhejiang were like a machine to raise the materials needed by Hangzhou City.
Zhang Guowei was still considering whether he wanted to go to Hangzhou in person, and a column of 300 soldiers rushed from Xiaoshan to Shaoxing.
The soldiers carried the banner of the word "Fang" and surrounded a civilian official on horseback, who was Ma Shiying.
The soldiers were blocked by Meng Kang's army twenty miles outside Shaoxing Mansion, and Ma Shiying rode alone with Meng Kang into the city to meet Zhang Guowei and King Lu, and handed over Fang Guoan's recital.
Seeing King Lu, Ma Shiying was triumphant, and swept away the bad luck of being driven away before.
"The soldiers of the Marquis of Zhendong are making trouble, and some people are clamoring to take refuge in the Qing Dynasty, and he can't hold it down, so he begs me to come to King Lu to find a way!"
With the support of the military town, he was not afraid that King Lu and the cabinet would not compromise with him.
It was another piece of music that left several Dongkaku scholars speechless.
They are all soldiers who stretch out their hands to ask for money, Zhang Guowei finally realized the difficulty of sitting on the auxiliary seat of Zishan, Mo said that he has no silver in his hand, even if he has silver, there is a Yue Guogong here eyeing him, and he does not dare to hand over the silver to Fang Guoan.
The cabinet and a group of courtiers discussed for a long time, and finally came up with the stupidest and most effective way, "Order the general Zhai Zhe of the Yue Kingdom to quell the chaos of the Fang Guoan army." "These people are not stupid, seeing that Ma Shiying can bring Fang Guoan's soldiers from the Xiaoshan camp, it means that Zhai Zhe has long acquiesced to his behavior.
It's just that such an edict is tantamount to the imperial court's acquiescence to Zhai Zhe's control over the Ministry of State Security and his direct control of the land endowments in various places.
Zhai Zhe could do it himself, but the order from the court of King Lu was even more justifiable.
The edict has not yet reached the Qiantang River.
On the road from Jinhua's camp in Xiaoshan, four or five men dressed as merchants were beating horses and galloping.
When they reached the gate of the camp, the men turned over and dismounted, and when they landed, their steps were a little vain, and the horses kept panting.
After ordering the soldiers guarding the gate to report inside, after a while, Fang Jin personally walked out of the camp quickly and introduced these people into the big tent of the Chinese army.
The tents were open, and the summer breeze was blowing back and forth.
As soon as those people entered the camp, they saw Zhai Zhe kneeling on the ground and said: "I was ordered by my lord to go to Fujian to contact the Zheng family, and I saw Zheng Zhilong handing in the letter, but he didn't reply for a long time. The king of Tang will ascend the throne in Fuzhou, and the messengers to Huguang, Yunnan and Jiangxi are continuous, and the messengers to eastern Zhejiang are coming after us, and there are also rewards for the adults, so we are in a hurry to come back. ”
Zhai Zhe was stunned, "When will King Tang ascend the throne in Fuzhou?" ”
"On the sixth day of the leap month, Zheng Zhilong from Nan'an Bo entered Yong'an to take up the post of superintendent, I waited in Fuzhou for eight days, and I heard that Huang Daozhou and others supported the Tang King in Quzhou on the way south, and the Tang King Foundation Laying Ceremony will be held at the end of the month, I am worried that the adults will not know this news, so I traveled day and night, and I was tired of running and dying several horses before arriving here."
The messenger was covered with dust and black eyes, and the road was full of mountains, and in many places he could only use two legs.
"Good!" Zhai Zhe clapped his hands, "Do it well!" ”
He said yes, but his brows were clumped.
"Go down and rest!"
Fang Jin led the two out of the account.
King Tang ascended the throne, King Lu served as the supervisor of the country, so that the Ming Dynasty had two emperors, which is not a good thing! Zhai Zhe leaned back in his chair, feeling why the weather had suddenly become so hot.
In terms of time, King Lu only took office as a prisoner, and the edicts of King Tang to various places have already been issued. So have Huguang, Guangxi, and Yunnan already enshrined the Tang Dynasty as their king? What is the attitude of the Tang King towards eastern Zhejiang? If King Lu also sends an edict to the outside world now, how will the whole country react?
Zhai Zhe shook his head, King Tang issued an edict more than ten days in advance, and I am afraid that there has already been feedback from all over the country. King Lu issued another edict, and all localities will either not be called, or they will use this as an excuse to divide the territory, which is not conducive to the Qing Dynasty.
The current problem is to resist the Qing Dynasty, at least to drive the Qing prisoners out of Jiangnan, and only by gathering all the forces of the Ming Dynasty can this goal be achieved.
"Someone!"
"In!"
"Call Liu Suifeng over!"
"Yes!"
After a cup of tea, Liu entered the account with the wind and saw Zhai Zhe lying on the table rubbing his head.
"Your Excellency!"
"King Tang will ascend the throne in Fuzhou!"
"Ahh Liu exclaimed with the wind, and he immediately saw the crisis in it.
"I originally wanted to recover the prestige of Hangzhou and send edicts to various places after King Lu took office as the superintendent, but I didn't expect Zheng Zhilong to wait first." Zhai Zhe was deeply remorseful.
No matter how fast he is, he can't be as fast as Zheng Zhilong, the king of Tang had already taken office as a prisoner before he attacked Hangzhou, and there were famous ministers such as Huang Daozhou who were promoted by him before and after the saddle. Qing Lu has not yet set foot in the whole territory of Fujian, unlike Ning Shao, who has submitted a surrender table, and is so troublesome on the front line.
"How's that to be?" Liu Suifeng also ran out of ideas.
"What do you think of King Tang and King Lu?"
"I'm not familiar with King Tang in the next."
Zhai Zhe rubbed his head vigorously, and said distressedly: "Right now, my goal is to ask the Zheng soldiers and horses of Fujian to go north and share the pressure for me." The Zheng clan has 100,000 soldiers and horses, even if most of them are sailors, there are 30,000 foot soldiers. Jiangnan can't hold on, no matter which king becomes the emperor, it is a castle in the air. ”
"What do you mean?"
"I want you to go to Fujian to see what Tang Wang and Zheng Zhilong have to say?"
"Let the Zheng family go north?"
"Yes, as long as the Zheng family is willing to go north, I can accept any conditions, the place occupied by the Qing captives is so big, just take some places and come back, it is enough for us to share." Zhai Zhe's words were very explicit.
"As far as I know, the Zheng family only values sea trade!" Liu Suifeng is not optimistic.
Zhai Zhe leaned back in his chair and looked at the roof, "You visit King Tang for me, and make my attitude vague." ”
"I don't care who is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't care if I can control the government. The long-term can be considered in the long run, and if you can't defeat the Qing Yu now, what you have is just a mirror. ”
"Your Excellency is wise!" Willow was impressed by the wind.
"I have an army of 50,000, and Hangzhou is in my hands, it depends on whether King Tang has that vision!" Zhai Zhe had to admit that he was already one step behind when he supported King Dailu.
At present, he has only one goal, as the two most powerful military towns in the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng family and Ning Shao must work together.