Volume 2 The deer is lost, and the world is chased

Chapter 250: Suzhou Mansion is agreed

"The steam train sat steadily, from Shanghai County to Huating took a stick of incense time, and then returned after arriving at the place, the people chasing along the way abounded, and the wind was cool and cool."

Zhao Xin was telling the attendees about his first experience of taking the train in the lobby of the yamen, and of course, many of them sat with him, but their cultivation was indeed a little higher than Zhao Xin's.

It wasn't until Chen Cao walked into the lobby that the venue was quiet.

"Well, how does this steam train make you all feel?"

Wang Xiaojie immediately said: "If this railway track is laid to Shanhaiguan, it is estimated that it will only take three days to arrive, and the sergeant has reduced the speed of the march, and the combat effectiveness will naturally rise sharply." ”

But all the generals in the army nodded in agreement with Wang Xiaojie's words, of course, it is indeed a good thing to use trains in the military.

"He is just a means of transportation, but he can't let the soldiers stop training, running five miles a day is a necessary training course, whether it is military or commercial, it can greatly speed up the footing;"

Chen Caowu said to himself: "If the civil use is appropriate, the carriage and horse fees will be appropriately charged, as long as the price is right, it will definitely make those businessmen rush to pull goods with train carriages, the amount not only increases, but also reduces the labor expenses of the carriages and horses in the past, their income naturally increases, the income of merchants increases, and the commercial tax also rises, which is what is usually said to sit at home and collect money." ”

The crowd laughed.

Chen Cao also laughed a few times, and then suddenly became serious: "Staying alone in Songjiang Mansion is not a long-term plan after all, Yunsheng has already discussed a new countermeasure with me before leaving, presumably you are already a little impatient." ”

Chen Cao looked around at everyone sitting at the big round table, all of them were his henchmen: "Emperor Taizu Wu got the Ming Dynasty because of a series of events caused by the tyranny of Mengyuan, but if you wait until the imperial court erodes to Mengyuan, I am afraid that it will not be possible in ten or twenty years, and many of you here are also old, and you will start to fight the world after ten years, and after success, it is estimated that this half of your body has also entered the loess, and then you will be powerless when you enjoy the glory and wealth." ”

The words have come to this, everyone here knows Chen Cao's extraneous voice, and the martial artists are all excited in their hearts, there are only a few literati, and Huang Chunyao is not there, but Xia Yunyi is left, and they all have their own thoughts.

Sun Chuanting was fortunately not present, otherwise at this moment, hearing that Chen Cao was actually preparing to rebel in front of so many people, he would definitely fall into the ground, and maybe that guy would notify the court in advance.

Only Man Gui, after listening to Chen Cao's words, his brows were twisted into a Sichuan character, he had been in Songjiang for so long, and he had also seen Chen Cao's means of governing the world, and he was more worried about his reputation while lamenting that the dynasty had such a great talent.

He started from Sun Chengzong's side, and was asked by Chen Cao to join the Dingwu Army after the First Guangning War, but the establishment has always belonged to Wang Xiaojie.

But from the perspective of the system of Ming officialdom, Man Gui belongs to the eunuch party in disguise and belongs to the eunuch party, otherwise he would not be able to sit in the position of the chief soldier of Jinzhou.

"What, what doubts does Man Gui have?"

Hearing that Chen Cao read his name, Man Gui hurriedly came back to his senses: "The last general is just worried. ”

"I am worried that the Ming Dynasty is vast and rich, I am worried that I will be scolded by the people all over the world after the rebellion, and I am worried that what will happen if the rebellion fails?"

Chen Cao ruthlessly told all the doubts in Man Gui's heart, and without waiting for Man Gui to respond, he said seriously: "My father said, in this world, everyone can get it, but the Zhu family can't continue to do it, I Chen Cao has to go down tomorrow, and I won't change the name of the country, Daming is still Daming, what this Gong wants to change is the legacy system left by the Confucian sage who has been implemented for more than 1,000 years, and this duke wants to let the people of the Ming Dynasty live the life of the people of Songjiang Mansion, and let all the people in the world participate in the political governance of the Ming Dynasty." ”

What a grand wish, of course, here in Chen Cao, this is not a wish, but a goal.

After hearing about Mangui, he also felt a lot, he had endured the bitter cold of the border pass for a long time in Liaodong, and after arriving in Songjiang, under the implementation of the new policy, he found that the people were better than before, and the farmers were more busy, even if the heavy tax on commerce was implemented, but not only did not decrease, but more and more.

What does this mean?

"The last general is ashamed..."

Except for a small number of people who have the mind of Man Gui, everyone else has no good impression of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Emperor of the Zhu family, and the untouchable military officers even want to slaughter the royal family of the Zhu family with their own hands, for no other reason, they have no sense of identity with Emperor Zhu Ming.

Because since Zhu Yuanzhang, the Zhu family has not regarded millions of untouchables as the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, and they are not even as good as beggars in the local area.

This is also the reason why Chen Cao only used untouchables from the beginning, because they all knew that once they rebelled, there was only one way, and there was no such thing as recruiting peace or surrendering, only fighting to the death.

From the right guard of Nanjing to the current Dingwu Army, with the vast majority of untouchables as the backbone, and the displaced people as the backbone, the Dingwu Army does not fall behind in every battle, which is also the reason why the generals from the Dingwu Army are so eager to rebel.

The Ming Dynasty was so bad that even if it was as brave as a border army, it was only a single enemy under the attack of flintlock muskets, not to mention the guard troops that had long been rotten.

The formation of this concept is because Huang Degong and Lou Xingye of the guard regiment completely annihilated the Beijing camp of Xuande Hou Jin and Zheng with a regiment of troops, and after that battle, the guards were like children in the eyes of the Dingwu army.

Song Che, as Chen Cao's second-in-command, the henchman of his henchmen, immediately said: "Could it be that the first step is to attack Suzhou?" ”

"Hahaha..."

Chen Cao raised his head and laughed, and then nodded: "What Shi Xiu said is right, the first step is to take Suzhou Mansion and have Susong and Song, so that we can have the capital to attack Nanjing." ”

Hearing this, everyone became serious, what Chen Cao was going to say now was not a joke.

"According to the report, there are more than 30,000 troops in the whole territory of Suzhou, and there are Yanding patrolling the salt road around Suzhou Fucheng, the Fu soldiers of Su Song's Governor Yamen and the town soldiers of Su Song's general Yamen, and the inspection divisions of Suzhou Fucheng, with a total strength of about 20,000."

Chen Cao passed down the detailed defense map and asked Zhao Xin to send them one by one to watch.

"The defense of Suzhou Mansion is not high, and my father has carefully studied it and roughly set two routes;"

Zhao Xin took the opportunity to spread the carefully drawn map of Susong on the large round table, and Chen Cao took the extended version of the teaching stick and knocked it on the map: "The first is to start from Qingpu and go straight to the city of Suzhou, and the second is from Jiading;

Jiading has more than 2,000 soldiers from Su Song's general Yamen, and the leader of the troops is a guerrilla general, and starting from Qingpu, on the way, he only needs to solve the inspection department along the way, and these people are like mustard grass, not to be afraid. ”

Obviously, if you start from Qingpu is a great achievement, you can go directly to the city of Suzhou without blood, although the town soldiers of 2,000 sounds exaggerated, but their nature is no different from the guards, the difference is that it is a waste of time to take Jiading all the way.

Everyone has a thought, that is, from now on, it is time to start fighting for merit.

It's just that Chen Cao has a strict order, his subordinates must not fight for merit, and he has been in the army for several years, and no one dares to break this system, so when Chen Cao looked at them, his face turned red one by one.

"Taking Suzhou is like harvesting crops in your own field, it is hand-to-hand, so don't think about the first war merit one by one, the Ming Dynasty is so big, the future merit is inexhaustible, why worry?"

Chen Cao prepared to set the tone well at the beginning, so as not to have a dirty psychology among the generals, so that his camp was not monolithic, and in the end it would be corrupted by people with ulterior motives.

"Jiading has a bit of a head all the way, so my father decided to focus on the new army Longwu Army, and Qingpu set off seems simple, but in fact it is all the way to Suzhou City, although there is no obstacle in the road, but the final key node is still in Suzhou City, so it is still mainly based on the Dingwu Army."

No matter what, as long as you can participate in the attack on Suzhou, it will be a credit, Song Che didn't care, Tang Yannian heard that the Dingwu Army had a share, and immediately smiled and arched his hand: "Once you can rest assured, the last general will definitely go to Suzhou first." ”

The general soldier of the Long Wu Army is his brother Tang Kainian, although he was transferred to the New Army as the chief soldier, but the momentum of the war has not diminished at all: "Please also ask the grandfather to make it clear that the last general and General Man will rush to Suzhou after conquering Jiading or attack the coastal guards along the way?" ”

"Knowingly asked,"

Chen Cao's stick immediately rowed towards the sea: "Jiading is the hard bone all the way, the new army must see blood after training, after Jiading is taken, Zhenhaiwei must be attacked, if it surrenders, it will be fine, and there is no one left in the coastal guards, as for Chongming Shazhou and other places, the free sailors will go, you don't have to worry." ”

"Ask Grandpa, if there are troops from the Chengwei Station, how to deal with it?"

Man Gui didn't want to kill his own people, especially those chicken-like guards.

"All the troops who surrender to Cheng will be disarmed, and those who are left in the garrison will be dismissed on the spot," Chen Cao's index finger knocked on the table, and said coldly: "The combat effectiveness of the garrison army is worrying, even if they are taken, it is just to make trouble for the new army, and these people are all veterans, and it is absolutely not okay to expect them to fight, as for the officers of more than 100 households in the garrison army, they will be temporarily guarded, and after screening, they will be selected to join the five armies." ”

Chen Cao's words are not unreasonable, these perennial cultivators are not as good as new soldiers who are used to plowing the fields all year round, and they are afraid of death in battle, and the degree of bullying of the soft and the hard is even more powerful.