Chapter 136: The Situation in the Central Plains
On April 1, the 24th year of Zhizheng, that is, the day after Li Zhengju left, Hou Zongsheng directly controlled all the tea trees in the vicinity to the north of the river, and he planned to plant all the vacant land in the area north of the river with tea trees, and the tea trees in the south were not managed. In other words, the tea trees south of the river will not be protected by restrictions, which means that the trees in the south can be used as cash crops and as timber to maintain normal daily production. Roughly speaking, a tree that grows north of a river is a tall tree, and a tree that grows south of a river is a free tree. There are always people who say that life is unequal in the world, and now that the Chams are here, the status between trees is not equal. If I were given another chance, I would have to be born north of the river.
On April 2, the 24th year of Zheng, the Manchu army broke through the single-heavy Bulo, and the king of the single-heavy Bulo country hurriedly moved the capital to the northwest and moved to the area of today's Sukkadan, which is the northwesternmost point of the single-heavy Bulo country and the last line of defense of the single-heavy Bulo country, if they can't stand it, the single-heavy Bulo country is equivalent to being contributed, and the reinforcements of Sulu, Luzon and other countries also went from Sabah where the Maolu people lived to the Dayake people's residence, and together with the Bo Ni country, persuaded these tribes to break away from the control of the Majapahit. Many other tribes agreed to join the Boni tribe.
On April 9, the 24th year of the Zhizheng Dynasty, the parties engaged in a battle in the northern part of Kutai, in this battle, all sides of Borneo gathered nearly 80,000 men to attack, and Majapahit sent 30,000 men in the north to be responsible for the battle of troops in the north, and the two sides fought for two days, and finally ended in the defeat of all sides in Borneo, and both sides received losses of varying degrees. In this war, Majapahit also narrowly won, and the tribe he had supported among the tribes of the Dayaks informed the Manchu army in Belau of the whereabouts of the allied army in advance, so the Manchu army also made considerable preparations. If the trajectory of the coalition army had not been informed in advance, the number of victories and defeats would have been unpredictable.
The perspective pulls back to the Central Plains, with Zhu Yuanzhang's complete control of Xuzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang's position in the north has basically settled, and the people in the north have launched peasant uprisings many times with the support of Zhu Wu and Han Song.
Of course, in addition to suppressing the peasant uprising, the Wu army and the Yuan army also had many confrontations, and Yanzhou was also controlled by the Western Wu army many times. The Han army on the other side is not idle, crossing the Huai River many times, harassing Runing and other places, at present, Runing has been controlled by Chen Youliang for about two months, and the Han army is now based on Runing Nanyang, Xuchang and other places to launch a number of small-scale attacks, with the support of the people, Nanyang and Xuchang have been controlled by the Han army many times, but the Yuan army later recaptured these areas.
Tuhuan Timur saw that he couldn't resist the attack of the two countries, so he asked Li Siqi to launch an attack on Chen Han to relieve the pressure of the Yuan army, but he was directly ignored by Li Siqi, if they fought Mingxia, they would have more confidence and attack Chen Han, who had 600,000 troops, okay, even if they shared a considerable number of troops on the battlefield north of Runing, if half of it was divided, these 300,000, what would I Li Siqi fight? Who gave me the courage to confront the Han army? Liang Jing r? What's more, as soon as they attacked, the Han army would be able to detect their whereabouts, so the war would be even more difficult.
Of course, it was not good to refuse directly, but he did not have a safe way, so they directly detained the envoy in Qindi, and if Tuhuan Timur asked why he did not support, he pretended not to know, and claimed that the envoy had not been to Qindi at all. Presumably, Tuhuan Timur can't catch up with him Li Siqi's responsibility, and what they have to do is to let the Yuan envoy evaporate from the world.
On April 15, the twenty-fourth year of Zheng, Chen Youliang sent someone to visit Fang Guozhen, and now he obviously felt the pressure from Zhu Wu, and now Zhu Yuanzhang controls Suzhou and Hangzhou, which are known as the heavens, as well as Suzhou and Huzhou, the two major grain producing areas, in the Song Dynasty, there is a proverb that Suhu is ripe, and the world is full, it can also be seen that the two provinces of Suhu are very famous grain producing areas, and now Zhu Yuanzhang controls these two places, plus Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces also have a large population, providing Zhu Yuanzhang with a lot of manpower. Coupled with the later Yuan-Han War, Xuzhou fell into the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, which made Chen Youliang feel considerable pressure.
So he wanted to ally with Fang Guozhen and work together against Zhu Yuanzhang. Fang Guozhen did not express any opinion on this matter, Zhu Yuanzhang has also been wooing him, and the conditions provided by Zhu Yuanzhang to him made him extremely excited, but he was afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would unload the mill and kill the donkey. Besides, he is still an official of the Yuan Dynasty, in case Zhu Wu fails, and the Northern Yuan liquidates them in the end, what should he do.
Zhu Yuanzhang strengthened his ties with eastern Zhejiang half a year ago, hoping to recruit An Fang Guozhen, but he was always suspicious, did not show his attitude, and went back and forth directly in Yuan and Wu. Now that Chen Youliang has entered, he has thought about it again, if he refuses Chen Youliang, although he can make friends with Zhu Wu, but if he befriends Chen Youliang, it is very likely that they will be destroyed by Chen Youliang in the end, and then they will either be annexed by Zhu Wu or defeated by Chen Han. As for the counteroffensive of the Yuan army, I am afraid that the Yuan court will not let him go.
Now if you fight against Zhu Wu with Chen Han, it is needless to say that if you fail, if you succeed, on the one hand, you can befriend Chen Han, and on the other hand, you can also get the reward of the Yuan Court, killing two birds with one stone. Although the possibility of failure is very high, it is still much more effective than before.
So the two sides hit it off, and if one of them is attacked, the other must come to the rescue of the attacked party.
Besides, within the state of Wu, since the capture of Suzhou, the people of Suzhou have launched many uprisings, and people want to recover the Great Zhou. Although Zhang Shicheng said that he did not agree with the ambition of the world, indecisive, but he treated people generously, so he was very popular with the people, after his death, the people set up a statue for him to compile inscriptions, many people pretended to be Zhang Shicheng's possession, uprising against Wu, they got the support of many people, which is also the reason for the continuous uprising in Suzhou and the surrounding areas.
Zhu Yuanzhang has used troops in Suzhou no less than 100 times, and the problem of dishonesty in Suzhou has given him a headache, he regrets why he had to listen to the opinions of others in the first place, and he knew that he would have slaughtered the city earlier.