Mind is what a qualified politician or a wise monarch must have. The Qing court could use high-ranking officials to make the Han soldiers use it for their purposes, and Zhu Yongxing would not be stupid enough to push what he could win over to the Qing court.

Kong Sizhen, a female streamer, was only a symbolic old master of Guilin's Kong soldiers, but he had no substantive command power. Moreover, "the four chastity are beautiful but not virtuous, they regard themselves as the adopted daughter of the queen mother, and they are in charge of the affairs of the domain, and they regard Trillium as contemptuous." Sun Yanling is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he seems to be respectful and goes along with his wishes, but he secretly seizes power and stands on his own.

The inequality of political status between husband and wife cannot form a traditional relationship between husband and wife, so it is not surprising that there is a power struggle between husband and wife.

In fact, Kong Youde's old department is no longer as strong as it used to be, first the line Guoan died in Yunnan Province, and Ma Xiong only led dozens of cavalry to flee, Sun Yanling's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were demoralized, and the army's morale was chaotic, and it was impossible to stop the attack of the Ming army. However, if he was able to make a forced landing without a fight and reduce the casualties of the Ming army, Zhu Yongxing was still willing to make some concessions and tolerance.

"Isn't it as good as a Qing court Tartar?" Zhu Yongxing smiled faintly and said to Ye Hu: "Sue Fang Guangchen, as long as he does his best, whether the thing is successful or not, Gu Du promised him a prefect." If the government is properly governed in the future, and the government is outstanding, the governor and the governor are not extravagant. ”

"His Royal Highness is like the sea, and his subordinates are admired." Ye Hu bowed in the chair and said confidently: "With someone in the Wu Mansion to respond, things will be done." ”

Although the intelligence bureau has been deployed in the north for a long time, it has not penetrated into the key points. Zhu Yongxing asked the Intelligence Bureau to make a plan to rob Wu Yingxiong, but it was easy to say from the outside, but without the support of Wu Yingxiong's cronies, it was always very difficult. Now that Fang Guangchen is secretly going to Beijing, he can just join forces with the outside and join forces. The odds of success are very high.

From Fang Guangchen's attitude, it can be seen that the Wu soldiers are shaken, although Fang Guangchen is still thinking about the old master and repaying his kindness, but in essence, he has no confidence and begins to think about himself.

"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. Lonely can see it. Zhu Yongxing smiled and waved his hand. said: "If the matter is not successful, Wu Sangui is not worried, but it is just to delay the recovery of Shenzhou for some time." If things come to fruition, it will certainly speed up the course of the war, but internal strife in the military will still give Lone a headache. ”

It would have been a good thing to ask for the success of the Shuo army. But if Wu Jun is anyway, how to resolve the old accounts of the two families and the grudges of the soldiers. Another nuisance. But Zhu Yongxing has never given up fighting for Wu Sangui, or the soldiers of Wu, but he has more far-reaching ideas.

Liaodong, that is the place where the Tartars arose. Whether it is the climate, or the water and soil, it is a great difficulty for the Ming army, which is mostly from the south, and it will take a long time to adapt. in order to fight and fight on the black soil. And there are many officers and soldiers of the Wu Department who are of Liao origin, if they win over. You can save a lot of effort, and you may even plow the court and sweep the holes, and go straight to the Yellow Dragon.

"Sue sù Fang Guangchen, he is loyal to the old master, for the sake of Wu Sangui, and he admires it very much." Zhu Yongxing changed his words. Yan said: "But in the future, I will put this loyalty on the rise and fall of the country, on the rejuvenation of the nation, and on the people of Limin." ”

"Yes, His Highness's teachings, and his subordinates will tell me."

Zhu Yongxing nodded. After pondering for a long time, he said: "With Lone's warrant, you can ask the sailor to dispatch less than ten ships to cooperate. If Wu Sangui is anyway, Jiangnan can be snapped down, the soldiers will be killed and injured, and the people will be settled early. The trauma caused by this war to China is too heavy. ”

Huaxia was hit hard, but it also gave Zhu Yongxing room to show. When the edifice is about to collapse, the resistance from the world, tradition, pedantic, and corruption can be said to be the smallest, almost a blank sheet of paper for him to draw the chapter. As long as they can win the victory, as long as they can defeat the Qing army, people are very tolerant of other aspects.

"My subordinates will go all out to comfort His Highness's kindness and kindness." Ye Hu got up and saluted, said goodbye and left.

Zhu Yongxing put the text in one place, and took out the drawings sent by the Ministry of Engineering to study them carefully. Then he closed his eyes slightly, searching for relevant knowledge from his memory.

There are many types of military rockets recorded in the history books of the Ming Dynasty, which are more than 200 years ahead of the world in terms of quantity and quality, and rocket technology has always been the most advanced in the world. Looking at the name, it is also very domineering, like the Divine Fire Flying Crow, the Heaven-shaking Thunder Cannon, and even the second-stage rocket "Fire Dragon Out of the Water".

What puzzled Zhu Yongxing was that there were almost no examples of rockets making meritorious contributions, which meant land battles, not naval battles. After the gunpowder formula is improved, it is already the best ratio and can exert the greatest power, and Zhu Yongxing certainly hopes to make a breakthrough in the performance of the rocket.

The arsenal also lived up to expectations, and soon took out samples, conducted tests, and sent drawings and related numbers. Judging from the drawings, Zhu Yongxing feels that this kind of rocket is almost the same as the "Sky Monkey" released during the Chinese New Year, but the difference in size and material is the difference.

Replacing bamboo with metal is perhaps the biggest step forward for Congreve rocketry. As for the balance bar, from the "Sky Monkey" to the military rocket, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty may know it. In other words, the drawings that Zhu Yongxing has obtained now, in terms of the relevant numbers, are very close to the Congreve rocket more than a hundred years later.

"A cannon soul without a cannon body? It may be an exaggeration, but it is still a more practical weapon. Zhu Yongxing was thoughtful.

Rockets can carry incendiary bombs, explosive bombs, are highly mobile, have a much faster rate of fire than artillery, and the manufacturing process is not more complex than artillery. The disadvantage is that the accuracy is too poor, but it can be made up for in quantity. What's more, rockets could disturb the war horses, thus compensating for the inferiority of the Ming army in terms of cavalry.

Of course, according to Zhu Yongxing's memory, there is still room for improvement in the current rocket. For example, the long balance bar can be canceled, and three inclined stable spiral plates can be installed on the tail of the rocket, and the rocket will rotate itself due to the effect of aerodynamic force to achieve stability and improve accuracy; Then there is the configuration of the rocket launch vehicle, so that the launch of the rocket has a fixed track, which not only improves the launch speed, but also can reduce the risk of the rocket flying indiscriminately, so as to accidentally injure oneself.

Well, if you change it like this, you will have the prototype of the vehicle-mounted rocket launcher in later generations! Zhu Yongxing took a charcoal pen to sketch and painted, immersed in it, and was triumphant.

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"Bastard, at this eventful time, when the court is in urgent need of money, food, and soldiers, he still dares to talk nonsense. It really deserves to be killed. Ao Bai threw a piece of music to the ground angrily and scolded endlessly.

Sukh Saha hesitated, then stepped forward to pick it up and read it carefully.

"Stealing Qingyang belongs to one state and four counties, which is subordinate to the northwest pole and originally belonged to the Sanqin heavy land. Bitter cold and barren, large and different from the abdomen. The military affairs of the Ming season, the first Yanqing, extended for more than 20 years, no city no slaughter, no village no killing. In the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the place was slightly fixed, and only one out of ten remnants remained. They are all planted and descended, and there are no farmers. Today, Ningzhou, Anhua, and Heshui counties, sell children and women, and the year is deep, the men and women cry, and the people are not happy......"

This is the performance of Fu Honglie, the governor of Qingyang Prefecture, asking for the people's life, and it is a performance that has crossed the level. According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, the prefect's reciprocal message could only be reported to the governor for approval. At that time, Liu Bingzheng, the former governor of Gansu, was suddenly ordered to be transferred. inconvenient for inspection; The new governor Liu Doucai took over the provincial affairs, and he had no time to check. In addition, the imperial court issued a decree. It is forbidden for his subordinates to go on patrols at will, and it is impossible for ordinary people to travel more than 2,000 miles to appeal. In this case, Fu Hong could only skip the level and play. Ignoring the charge of overstepping the ranks, although Fu Honglie has a clean official, he also has merit.

Four years after the reign of Shunzhi from the Qing Dynasty, the war in Ganshan had ended. The society has become stable, and by the time Fu Honglie was appointed as the prefect of Qingyang, it had lasted for 15 years. In such a long time, the wounds of war should have been healed, and agricultural production and human reproduction should have been restored; At that time, the countryside was planted with a descendant. In more than ten years of agricultural practice, he should also become a real farmer. But in Fu Honglie's recital, why the land of Ganxi with Qingyang as the epitome is such a miserable scene, it can only be found from the Qing government itself.

Fu Honglie also mentioned the root cause in the recital, that is, the Qing government re-imposed and extorted excessive taxes. There are only three cents of silver produced in the land, but you have to levy more than five cents of silver, what is this not a heavy and excessive tax? The people are overwhelmed and flee, otherwise how can they live? Although the Qing court ostensibly took care of it in terms of policy, for some reason it did not report the abandoned land, and the wasteland was not removed, so the extra silver was added to the living households, and then the levy was increased, which made the people even worse.

The note also mentions the malpractice of "living households". A living household means that there are still living people in the household, and they are still living in the same place; A dead household is one who has no one in the house, either dies or flees. There is no one in the dead household, but the total amount of taxes has not decreased, which must be borne by the living household. In this way, the taxes of the living households are heavier, forcing them to survive, "so that the living households also flee, and the cooked land is also barren", "this escape is burdensome to the other, the remnants of the people gradually become peopleless, and the remnants of the land gradually become wasteland".

Wanton expropriation and extortion, coupled with the proliferation of maladministration, are the fundamental reasons why it has been difficult for society to maintain stability, production and the economy have not been fundamentally restored, and the people are still living in misery and misery for 15 years.

Su Ke Saha frowned again and again, and said hesitantly: "Although Fu Honglie is guilty, he is asking for his life for the people, and I am afraid it will not be easy to deal with it." It's better than-"

"Why not as good as what?" Ao Bai stood up stiffly, "If taxes and money and grain are not collected, how can we support the war in the south?" The troops of Gansu, Shaanxi and Henan are not adjusted, how to defend the coastal areas, defend the important places on both sides of the Yangtze River, and defend the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang? ”

The development of the shape shì was completely beyond the expectations of Ao Bai and others, and before the reinforcements arrived, Fuzhou fell, Geng Fan was defeated, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang faced the threat. The westward advance of the Yangtze River Naval Division, as well as the rendezvous with the Thirteen Families, forced the Qing court to consider the safety of coastal towns. Zhoushan, Chongming, and the Ming army had the intention of taking the island as a step and approaching the north step by step, and even the coastal areas of Shandong and Zhili had to be defended.

Looking at the situation of the entire war, although the area ruled by the Qing court was large, there were many loopholes, and it was impossible to make up for them. It's no wonder that the liver fire of Ao Bai is rising, and he is furious.

Sukh Saha was silent. Gan and Shaanxi withered, and they still had to pay grain and taxes, and they had to levy Yao service, how many elite soldiers could be adjusted? Moreover, the Ming army was in Sichuan step by step, and once Chongqing was conquered, it could go straight to Hanzhong, and how could it resist the emptiness of Ganshan and Shaanxi? More importantly, the troops of Gansu, Shaanxi and Henan did not practice water warfare, and their transfer to the banks of the Yangtze River did not play a big role. If it is transferred to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it may be possible to contain the offensive of the Ming army and keep the land of wealth.

"Speak!" Seeing that Sukh Saha stopped talking, he was even more dissatisfied, "There has to be a solution to things, whether it's good or bad, you can't let me go up alone, right?" ”

Suke Saha smiled bitterly and said: "The Ming army was able to cross the Yangtze River because the water division along the river was weak, and the soldiers were not accustomed to water warfare. Perhaps they could order Jingzhou, Yueyang, Wuhan, Jiujiang and other places to build warships and train naval forces to curb the enemy's eastward advance. In addition, the Dutch had a trade agreement and had a deep grudge against the Zheng family, so they might be able to get in touch. Borrow its sailors to secure the coast. Moreover, our army seems to be underwhelmed, but if we recruit all the kings of Beijing, Beile, Beizi and the slaves of the banner owner, we can immediately get tens of thousands of elite soldiers. ”

"Uh-huh. The slaves of the Ding family of the Zhuwangfu family were originally the elite of the Eight Banners, and they were those younger banner slaves. They are all very brave and abnormal-" Curb Bilong listened reasonably, nodded again and again, but saw Ao Bai glaring at him, and hurriedly closed his mouth.

Ao Bai really didn't expect Sukh Saha to be able to say four, five or six, these measures may not be feasible, let alone immediate, but it is better than helpless. This guy really has a bit of a brain, so you have to be careful in the future. Don't be deceived by his weakness of forbearance.

"Building warships and training naval forces is not a day's work, and it is not urgent." Ao Baixian verbally belittled and denied, but in fact, in his heart he had decided to summon his staff to improve it, and then took it as his own advice, "The Dutch's trade agreement is yesterday's yellow flower, and now the Ming army is strong." Will you be an enemy of it? Although it is good for the flag slave family to fight, they are used to being powerful and blessed in Beijing. If the expedition is far away, the fear and resentment are loud, and they refuse to apply. ”

Su Ke Saha listened to Aobai's strong words and vetoed all his proposals, his face turned iron-blue, and he snorted angrily. Go off in a huff.

Ao Bai looked at Suke Saha's back and sneered repeatedly, turned back to Kubilong and said: "Gong Ji, please come to my mansion to discuss, and always come up with a foolproof plan to show the ability of the auxiliary minister." ”

"Ahh What Ao Gong said is extremely true, and what he says is extremely true. He was stunned for a moment, and agreed without a word.

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Fuzhou has been restored, and the overall situation of Fujian Province has been decided. Taking advantage of the victory, the Ming army marched into the central and northern parts of Fujian Province and successively recovered Yanping (now Nanping), Shaowu (now still named), Funing (now Xiapu), Jianning (now still name), Changzhou (now Changting) and other strategic places. Many areas, but when they heard that the Ming army arrived, they responded one after another, saying that it was a matter of transmission, which was not too much. In a short period of time, the whole province of Fujian was occupied by the Ming army.

When the Qing army in Zhejiang heard that Fuzhou had fallen, they hurriedly dispatched troops and horses to seize Xianxialing and Fenshui Pass to prevent the Ming army from entering Zhejiang. After this adjustment, Zhejiang's defense is even more empty, except for a few important places.

Xianxia Ridge, which stretches between the vast mountains of Zhejiang and Fujian, was established more than 1,000 years ago because of the Huangchao rebel army entering Fujian, and opened more than 700 miles along the Xianxia Ridge to become the famous Xianxia Ancient Road. And set up Xianxia Pass, Fengling Pass and other nine places, Xianxia Pass is known as "the key to the southeast", "the throat of Fujian". There is a written record: "Xianxia is dangerous, only one horse is allowed." To the pass, the ridge is steep. Climb the ladder and ascend, and drive the pavilion to the void. Ascending to the strange wilderness, the path is winding, and every step is dangerous. Hanguan Sword Pavilion, as if it can be simulated, Chengtian set the male pass also. ”

The Fuding Water Dividing Pass was built in the five generations of "Kai Min King" when the king was judged, in order to ensure the safety of Fujian, in order to protect Wu Yue. It is also known as the "gateway to northeast Fujian", and it is a place where soldiers must fight.

But for the Ming army, the Xianxia Pass and the dangerous water dividing pass are no longer the only way to enter Zhejiang. With the help of the sailor, you can make a detour from the sea, go around the back of the dangerous pass, and go straight to Zhejiang. If they fought like this, the Qing army guarding Xianxia Pass and Fenshui Pass would suffer from the enemy on their backs and would be in chaos without a fight.

"Seize the pass and threaten Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Set up the West Road and wait for the order to enter Jiangxi. ”

Ma Bao, the king of Wei, read it several times, handed the letter to Wu Sanxing, frowned, and lay on the map to study it carefully.

"Threaten Jiangsu and Zhejiang, not enter Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Waiting for the order to enter Jiangxi, His Royal Highness wants to attack Jiangxi? Wu Sanxing confirmed it again and again, and was also a little confused.

Ma Bao snorted, studied the map for a long time before raising his head, guessed and said: "The north leads the west to attack, His Royal Highness wants to put Jiangsu and Zhejiang at the end, is it to wait for the enemy army to gather and annihilate it in one fell swoop?" Or do you want to point to the Yangtze River, join forces with friendly forces, and then work together to go east and take Nanjing directly? ”

Wu Sansheng didn't dare to answer lightly, and also compared and studied on the map, then looked at Ma Bao, and said tentatively: "What the prince guessed is reasonable, maybe His Royal Highness is not easy to decide, and is waiting for the timing to change." ”

Ma Bao shook his head lightly and said, "Let's do what I was ordered first!" If the two passes are captured, Fujian Province will have no worries, and it can rest assured that it will be able to draw troops and form the Western Route Army. ”

"That's what our army originally intended, but there is no need to change it." Although Wu Sanxing still didn't understand very well, the action in front of him had to continue, "Your Highness has a general view of the overall situation, and we are only in a corner, there are always some situations that we don't know and don't understand, so there is no need to speculate." ”

Ma Bao agreed, but there was another speculation in his mind. According to the traditional theory, he is already the king of one word, does His Royal Highness Min deliberately do this, and does not want him to make any more military exploits, so that there is no seal and no reward. Thinking about it this way, Ma Bao was not dissatisfied, but felt that this was the intention of His Royal Highness Min's preservation, which was beneficial and harmless to himself. After all, the concept of "high merit and great power" was deeply rooted in the hearts of people at that time.

"A division is good at attacking, and it is estimated that the Western Route Army will be dominated by it." Ma Bao guessed along this line of thought and said with a smile: "Well, the credit will make the young man stand more." Moreover, if they join forces with the Shuo army, the young people will not have past grievances, and it will not be easy to conflict. ”

"Now only the Annihilation Army is fully equipped, and there are more than tens of thousands, and it is also a balancing move of His Highness Min to transfer troops and horses to form another Western Route Army." Wu Sanxing thought differently from Ma Bao, he thought that Zhu Yongxing was afraid of causing dissatisfaction with other armies.

"Makes sense, makes sense." Ma Bao was inconvenient to say what he thought in his heart, so he hurriedly agreed with this idea.

................ (To be continued......