Needless to say, matches are a necessity that every household needs. Pencils will also be widely used in Shilin. As for the clairvoyant, it was originally a luxury monopolized by Western merchants, but it was widely used in navigation and military, and its sales prospects were quite good.

Moreover, the role of matches and clairvoyants in military affairs is quite huge, and it can improve the strength of the Runing army. And these three commodities, in addition to the clairglass, the manufacture of matches and pencils is very simple, and it is easy to steal and imitate, so Wu Shigong ordered the establishment of this new workshop area, centralized all the newly opened workshops, and carried out militarized management in this workshop area.

Moreover, the effect of this bounty invention is quite good, the money spent is not much, and the construction workshops are basically raised by the gentry, so you can get these industries that will lay golden eggs, and you can also realize them in the future to obtain huge profits.

In addition, these workshops will also sign long-term underwriting agreements with Sihai Commercial Bank, so that Runingjun can still obtain rich sales revenue. It is simply another "gold mine" that has been discovered, which makes Wu Shigong feel like he has unintentionally planted willows and willows. In these days, Wu Shigong has been recalling those modern commodities and wants to increase the types and quantities of those bounty inventions.

"General Wu! May the Lord bless you! Father Corolla crossed and saluted Wu Shigong.

"Hello Father!" Wu Shigong hurriedly returned the salute.

As the group passed by the clairing mirror workshop, Father Corolla was greeted by a group of Catholic clergy, and the jishu of this workshop was brought out by Father Corolla and other Catholic missionaries.

Among those missionaries, there happened to be one who knew the principle of making a clairvoyant. So he instructed several craftsmen to make the clairvoyant. Although there is no glass, it can be replaced by crystal, so this clairvoyant mirror is still not inferior to those Western clairvoyants. Besides, at this time, the Western clairvoyant mirror was originally hard to find, so the difference between glass and crystal was negligible.

And passed the matter. Wu Shigong also had a bad taste in his heart, whether he could apply for patents for those advanced Western jishu, make China a big country, and make money from foreigners.

"General Wu! I just baptized John a few days ago, and he is really a strong child, and he will surely become a brave knight in the future. Can God believe in my lord when he is in glory? Because of his close relationship with Wu Shigong, Father Corolla once again wooed Wu Shigong to become religious. And John is the youngest son born to Wu Shigong by Caroline, and she also gave this youngest son a Western name.

"Our Ru Ningjun is concerned about freedom of religious belief, and you can preach freely here. It is sufficient to follow the regulations of the Religious Affairs Bureau. Wu Shigong smiled and looked at him.

The reason why Father Corolla and these missionaries donated the method of making the clairvoyant mirror was that they wanted to preach freely on Wu Shigong's territory, so Wu Shigong's answer was already very satisfactory to them. As for Wu Shigong himself, Father Corolla is also very patient, and he doesn't care how many more years he will wait. It doesn't hurt even if Zuihou's wait doesn't come to fruition, as long as Wu Shigong himself maintains this friendly attitude towards Catholicism.

When Wu Shigong left the clairvoyant mirror workshop. Deng Qifan on the side joked: "Look at Master Naka so persevering." If he is seen by intelligence, he will come to pestering Changjing again. ”

Wu Shigong immediately hahadaxiao, he smiled and said: "That little monk only knows how to chant Buddha in the deep mountains, and he won't even do the errand of the medicine department after coming back this time." Looking at the momentum of the mission, it is indeed inferior to those foreign missionaries. But we don't have to worry about him. But! Are you religious? Do you believe in Buddhism? ”

"Don't talk nonsense about ghosts and gods!" Deng Qifan immediately replied with a straight face. Then the two looked at Daxiao.

People like Wu Shigong and Deng Qifan are even religious. It is also impossible to show a tendency towards a certain religion in the outside world, so this sentence of Confucianism has become the standard answer.

In the leap month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang ordered Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shaanxi, to lead the Shaanxi army from Xixiang in Hanzhong into Sichuan, and pursued from behind the peasant army; Ordered Zuo Liangyu to lead the main force of Huguang to be stationed in the line of Xing'an (now Ankang) and Pingli. Waiting for Zhang Xianzhong to return to Shaanxi, he will face the attack.

However, Zuo Liangyu did not agree with Yang Sichang's deployment, believing that if Zhang Xianzhong did not go north to Shaanxi but west to the Chengdu Plain, the situation would be uncontrollable.

It should be said that under such backward communication conditions at that time, Zuo Liangyu, as the former commander of the enemy, was more familiar with the enemy's situation. Besides, Zuo Liangyu's command skills are not bad, and his opinions are relatively correct.

However, Yang Sichang was not satisfied, because this was the first time he commanded a major campaign to encircle and suppress the peasant army, but when he encountered Zuo Liangyu's veto, Yang Sichang felt that his prestige was threatened.

So Yang Sichang strictly ordered Zuo Liangyu to act according to the jihua he had formulated. But Zuo Liangyu ignored Yang Sichang's order at all. Maybe he's used to it; Perhaps he stuck to his right opinion. So after Zuo Liangyu declared his opinion to Yang Sichang, he entered Sichuan on his own without waiting for an order, and went to attack with the Shaanxi army.

On the seventh day of the first month of February, the Ming army encountered Zhang Xianzhong's troops at Agate Mountain in Taiping (now Wanyuan) County, Sichuan. The peasant army held the hill, and the Ming army attacked in three directions. This time, the Ming army recuperated for a long time, and won a complete victory by attacking and working hard, killing more than 3,000 peasant soldiers, Zhang Xianzhong's military advisor Pan Duao and several wives and concubines were captured, and Zhang Xianzhong's personal "heavenly flying knife" big knife was also captured. Some small peasant armies that followed Zhang Xianzhong surrendered.

Immediately after this victory, the Ming army won several victories in Hanxi Temple, Papaya Creek and other places. Zhang Xianzhong was repeatedly hit hard and was in a very critical situation, so he had to go into the mountains and avoid the enemy.

The victory of Agate Mountain was a rare victory in the war of the Ming army against the peasant army in the past few years, and it was not because Yang Sichang concentrated his forces and made a correct strategic deployment.

However, this victory became a new starting point for the internal disharmony and self-friction and collision of the Ming army. After the Battle of Onyx Mountain, Zuo Liangyu was extremely proud, thinking that this great achievement was achieved because he did not listen to Yang Sichang's dispatch and did his own thing, and no longer put the supervisor in his eyes. And Yang Sichang wanted to take advantage of Zhang Xianzhong's difficult situation, take advantage of the victory, chase after him, completely annihilate Zhang Xianzhong's troops, and ordered Zuo Liangyu to go into the mountains to search and suppress many times. At this time, Zuo Liangyu led his troops back to Zhuxi in Huguang to rest. Yang Sichang passed on strict orders many times, but Zuo Liangyu did not listen to them.

But this strange scene is not that Zuo Liangyu doesn't know the truth of killing them all. Because Zhang Xianzhong once sent people to Zuo Liangyu's camp to persuade: "Xianzhong is here, so the public opinion is more important than the imperial court." The public allowed the department to burn and loot, the cabinet (Yang Sichang) was suspicious and arbitrary, and if there was no loyalty, the public would be destroyed soon! Zuo Liangyu left a way for Zhang Xianzhong to survive for the sake of self-respect.

Yang Sichang was not a very powerful person, and he was quite angry at Zuo Liangyu's unruliness, and once reported to the imperial court to remove him from his position as a thief general, and replaced it with He Renlong, the general soldier of Shaanxi. And Emperor Chongzhen still completely obeyed Yang Sichang's arrangement, and soon gave an order. But Zuo Liangyu's strength and prestige are not comparable to He Renlong after all, Yang Sichang hesitated, and asked the court to withdraw his fate, still using Zuo Liangyu.

In this way, Zuo Liangyu's resentment was even greater, and He Renlong was also very dissatisfied with the superintendent because of the loss of the Ping Thief General. After that, Yang Sichang not only couldn't move Zuo Liangyu, but even the Shaanxi army did not obey the order.

Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of the chaos in the Ming army headquarters and no one to chase and intercept him, and quietly led the army back to the Xingshan and Fangxian areas of Huguang, and soon joined up with Luo Rucai's department.

The encirclement and suppression of the peasant army has reached the present, although the Ming army has won a great victory in Agate Mountain, it has led to the loss of peace among the generals and commanders of the Ming army, and the two main forces of the peasant army have converged again, making the situation complicated. At this time, the sound of "rumbling" war drums also came from outside the Liaodong Pass.

In March of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji ordered Prince Zheng Jierharang, Dorobelle Duoduo and others to lead troops to build Yizhou City (Yixian County, Liaoning), "stationed in Tuntian, so that Ningjin outside Mingshan Customs is not allowed to cultivate". That is to say, the Qing army besieged Jinzhou with trench warfare in accordance with the plan of the Dalinghe Campaign, besieged Tuntian for a long time, and prepared to capture Jinzhou by cutting off grain.

And Jinzhou Shou Zu Dashou reported to the Ming Court: "Jincheng rice is only for more than a month, and the bean is less than a month, if the cunning voice is more urgent, Ning Jinqi is interrupted, then the pine, apricot, Jin three cities have been precarious, the day is not over." So the Ming court strictly ordered Hong Chengchou to go to Jinzhou as soon as possible to rescue.

At this time, Hong Chengchou had already transferred Wang Pu, Yang Guozhu, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Cao Bianjiao, Ma Ke, Wang Tingchen, Wu Sangui and other eight general soldiers, with 130,000 infantry and cavalry, but he still felt that his strength was insufficient, and once again asked the court to transfer Wu Shigong's Runing army.

After the imperial court received the report, it asked Yang Sichang for advice on whether the Runing army could be mobilized.

At this time, Yang Sichang felt that he had defeated Zhang Xianzhong and other peasant armies one after another, and the situation was very good. Besides, the Runing Army has also been grinding foreign workers, and it is not very willing to contribute, and this army does not seem to have any. Therefore, Yang Sichang agreed to Hong Chengchou's request.

On April 21, the messenger came to the Runing Army and read out the decree that Wu Shigong should lead 7,000 troops to Liaodong to fight. In order to prevent the Runing Army from disobeying the edict, they even called Ye Zhong, the supervisor of the Runing Army.

In addition, Qincha is also very humane, and he brought Wu Shigong a private message from his home in the capital, which is self-evident.

And the Runing army also immediately discussed the situation in front of them, and Wu Shigong made a final decision and prepared to lead the army to the battle. In addition to being hostage to his family, Wu Shigong also felt that it was necessary to create the illusion that the main force of the Runing Army would go out in the outside world, so as to attract the approach of the peasant army, so that the Runing Army could carry out the strategy of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf.

But no one expected that it was this expedition that completely changed the original history, making the situation in the world suddenly blurred.

(End of Volume 6) (To be continued......)