1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 938
August 1677, 8, Nanjing, Rui Wangfu.

At this time, the land in the south of the Yangtze River has entered the midsummer season, and the relative humidity in the air is high, making it extremely hot.As the capital of the Great Qin Dynasty—Nanjing, a heavy rain last night brought a bit of refreshment and coolness to the steaming city.However, with the hot sunlight at noon, all the good feelings dissipated in an instant, making the whole city seem to enter a new "sauna" activity.

A luxurious palace carriage, under the guard of the imperial guards, slowly stopped at the entrance of the inner courtyard of Ruiwang's mansion. A waiting eunuch rushed to the front of the carriage flatteringly, gently opened the door, and greeted Rui Wang Sun Zhenghao. down.

"My lord, drink a cup of sour plum soup to relieve the heat." Eunuch He Gui graciously took a bowl of sour plum soup from the maid and handed it to Sun Zhenghao respectfully.

Sun Zhenghao threw the face towel to He Gui, took the bowl of sour plum soup, and drank it up in a few gulps.

"My lord, do you need another bowl?" He Gui asked cautiously.

"That's all." Sun Zhenghao waved his hands, and then asked casually, "Where is the princess?"

"Princess...is in the backyard." He Gui replied with an unnatural expression on his face.

"What happened in the mansion?"

"The concubine is sending... the side concubine... Li Niangniang." He Gui replied in a low voice with his head down.

"Huh?" Sun Zhengzheng stood up immediately after hearing the words, "Why does the princess... want to send Concubine Li?"

"The villain doesn't know..." It's not easy for a servant to meddle in the matter of the nobles in the palace.

Sun Zhenghao stepped up and walked towards the backyard. The princess has always been gentle and reasonable. Although some affairs are too arbitrary, she is not a domineering woman. She made things difficult and reprimanded them too much, and even disdained to compete with them for favor and flattery, maintaining the power and dignity that a big woman should have.

For nearly a decade, the princess was not so much his wife as his strongest political partner.Before marriage, he was just an idle son who only knew how to play and enjoy, and occasionally pretended to be a literati. He spent all day hanging out with those idle Confucian scholars, without any achievements, so that he never got the favor and favor of his father. reused.

However, after getting married to the princess of Qi, Sun Zhenghao gradually restrained his mind and learned to behave in the world, and at the same time, he also asked for some unimportant things in the court. Errand, began his counterattack road.With his wife's preaching and help, he managed to handle many matters assigned by the court and his father in an orderly manner, which made his father look up to him with admiration.

Today, Sun Zhenghao is even more entrusted with household deployment tasks. In the recent Korean War, he was also commended by his father for actively raising supplies, food and salaries, and effectively supporting and guaranteeing the operations of the front troops.

Therefore, Sun Zhenghao respected and loved this princess with outstanding ability and independent thinking. In the entire palace, her status was even more reclusive and dominant. It can be said that the fate and future of hundreds of people in the palace depended on her. She made up her mind.

However, in the past ten years, this princess has never dealt with any of her servants cruelly. Even if she made a mistake or violated the rules, at most she would only be fined or dismissed from the house.On weekdays, he never even hit the board or whipped him.

But he didn't want to send one of his side concubines today, and she was Li Niangniang, whom he loved very much.

"Hey, are you ready to be a hero to save the beauty?"

Princess Rui Qi Ziyi was sitting on a reclining chair, holding a round fan in her hand, shaking it gently.But in front of her, there were more than ten people kneeling, and the leader was that Li Niangniang who was so pitiful.

"You are..." Sun Zhenghao didn't know the reason, so he couldn't plead for mercy directly, but asked tentatively, "What did they do that provoked you to go to war?"

"What's the matter?" Qi Ziyi said with a smile: "Well, I'm jealous that Concubine Li is more beautiful than me, she can serve men better than me, and she can please you better than me."

"..." Sun Zhengzheng couldn't help being startled when he heard the words, and then he gave a wry smile, "Princess was joking....What's the matter?"

"That..." Qi Ziyi pointed to a young man kneeling behind Concubine Li, "Your uncle, Li Dacai, bragged to others in order to raise his status, that you are my Daqin reality!" The crown prince, I will be the emperor of Daqin in the future."

"What?" Sun Zhengzheng's face turned pale when he heard this, and the sweat on his forehead burst out in an instant, "He..., how dare he... dare to say such outrageous words!"

"Didn't you say these words to Concubine Li, and then pass them on to this talented Li?" Qi Ziyi looked at Sun Zhenghao jokingly.

"Bitch!" Sun Zhengzhen stepped forward, grabbed Concubine Li's hair, slapped her hard across the face, and then kicked to the ground again, "Bitch, why did I ever tell you this? Nonsense! You... are you going to put me to death?"

"My lord!" Qi Ziyi yelled coldly, "If you don't keep secrets, you will lose your ministers. If you don't keep secrets, you will lose your body. If you don't keep secrets, you will be harmed! When things happen, what is your ability to hit a woman? "

"I..., I didn't say those outrageous things." Sun Zhenghao turned his head and defended himself.

You know, his elder brother is born of a concubine, and he is weak and sick, and has difficulty seeing things, so naturally he is not ranked among the heirs to the throne; while the second elder brother, Sun Zhengqi, is resolute and tenacious, capable of writing and martial arts, and has the courage to do things. He even traveled to Qi State , was once the perfect candidate for the prince.

But in the battle of Qierhaizi two years ago, the troops he led were besieged by thousands of cavalry from the Qing Dynasty and were seriously injured.Although after many treatments and careful recuperation, one life was saved, but two legs and one arm were injured, and more than half of the face was destroyed, making him look like a disabled person.This made Sun Zhenghao suddenly the most popular candidate for the crown prince.

But this kind of thing, before the emperor formally proclaims and confirms it, can only be understood, not spread in words, let alone yelling all over the world, I, Sun Zhenghao, will be the crown prince, and will inherit the throne of the Great Qin Dynasty in the future.

One must know that Emperor Sun Kewang is not a generous king, he is even a little narrow-minded.Once he was told that his third son was so impatient to become the crown prince and inherit his throne, he might be furious, and he would immediately twist and choose another son to be the crown prince.

Didn't you see that in the Korean War, the Daqin army fought extremely hard against the Beiming army, which was far outnumbered by itself, and continued to lose troops and generals. In addition, the long logistics supply line drained the treasury.However, when Emperor Sun Kewang faced the mediation proposal of the Qi State Minister in Nanjing, he insisted on not accepting it. He insisted on competing with the remnants of the Northern Ming Dynasty in North Korea to win or lose.

But the question is, even if the Beiming army is defeated on the Korean battlefield, so what?It is a big deal for Beiming to withdraw from North Korea, and he can still continue to occupy Zhenzhou and Yunzhou safely.Even on Gengluo Island, which is not far from the North Korean mainland, our Daqin army can only look at the ocean and sigh, and can't hurt the slightest.

For the narrow-minded and stubborn emperor, Sun Zhenghao didn't dare to expect him to have any kind of father-son licking love, so he had high hopes for him.Since ancient times, the most ruthless emperor's family, if he has violated the prohibition or acted rebelliously, he may end up worse than his eldest brother and second brother who live in the mansion to heal their illnesses and recuperate.

"Princess, how to deal with these people?" Sun Zhengzheng was a little relieved when he heard that Qi Ziyi had brought everyone involved in this matter back to the mansion and temporarily suppressed the subsequent fermentation of this incident.

"How about killing them all?" Qi Ziyi said playfully.

After hearing this, more than a dozen people kneeling on the ground felt as if they were mourning, kowtowed and begged for mercy, and cried for a while.

"...Just according to what the princess said." Sun Zhenghao glanced at the side concubine Li, feeling a little bit unbearable, but still nodded ruthlessly in response.

"You are really cruel." Qi Ziyi rolled his eyes at Sun Zhenghao, "If I make such a mistake someday, will you kill me cruelly too?"

"Ziyi..." Sun Zhenghao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Just say what you say, I'll take care of everything... I'll do whatever you say."

"Choose a day and send them all to Ryukyu." Qi Ziyi stood up and gave Sun Zhenghao a bitter look, "It's all thanks to you that they can have what happened today."
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August 8th, Nanjing, Forbidden City.

"Sambo (Mabao) is also a battle-tested veteran, and the tens of thousands of troops are also elites selected from various places, but their performance on the Korean battlefield has disappointed me." On the path in the garden, there are flowers of various colors blooming all around, but there is no heart to appreciate them.

"Your servant is terrified." The stallion of the Syrian Kingdom, Wei Xinghuai, took a step back in a hurry, knelt down on the path, "Duke Huai deserves a holy grace, please impeach him, take him to justice, and follow the law of the country."

"What are you doing?" Sun Kewang's face darkened, "I have no intention of blaming you when I narrate the performance of Sanbao and the army on the battlefield. Although you are blood brothers, you shouldn't be so panicked just to prove your innocence. Go and impeach him!...Let's die."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ma Weixing got up and stood by the path with his hands down, with a look of panic still on his face.

"Alas..." Seeing this, Sun Kewang sighed, and walked towards the pavilion in front of him.

The old brothers who fought together in the past passed away one by one, and the few who were still alive were so terrified to see me, and there was no close relationship of mutual trust and mutual trust in the past.

Heh, the emperor's honor is really a lonely family in the end!
"In the Korean War, the difficulties encountered by our Qin army were not the responsibility of Sanbao alone." Sun Kewang sat on a soft stool, stretched out his hand and motioned for Ma Weixing to sit opposite him, "All the generals say that the Northern Ming army is extremely capable of fighting, not only is it flexible in tactics , moved quickly, and in the battle formation, well-trained, well-behaved, and his combat power was even a little higher than that of the Qing. Since the war last year, our Daqin army has not wiped out any of its formations On the contrary, the army lost again and again, relying on the superiority of troops to stabilize the front line. What do you think of this situation?"

"Your Majesty, the power of the Northern Ming Dynasty gradually expanded and rose with the support of the Qi State in Yunzhou 30 years ago." Ma Weixing cupped his hands and said, "The military force of the Northern Ming Dynasty was also established and strengthened by the Qi State. Training. As far as I know, there are also a large number of Qi military instructors in the command organs and general staff of the Ming army at all levels. Many generals in the Northern Ming Dynasty even directly trained in the local military schools of Qi. It can be said that, The Ming Army is almost a simple copy of the Qi Army. In addition, the Ming Army's equipment and weapon systems are superior to our Qin Army, and it is almost the same as the Qi Army. Therefore, the Ming Army's combat power naturally does not appear to be low. "

"..." Sun Kewang was silent for a while when he heard the words, and then he smiled wryly, "In this way, our Great Qin has seriously underestimated the military strength of the Northern Ming Dynasty. His Royal Highness Yong Wang not only has stronger sea power than our Great Qin, but also has stronger land combat power. It’s not something we can easily match.”

"Don't worry, Your Majesty." Ma Weixing saw that the emperor's words were somewhat desolate, and quickly comforted him: "Although Beiming's combat power is slightly stronger, it has a fatal flaw. The country is small and weak, and the population is not large, so it is difficult to compete with us. The Great Qin has been at a stalemate for a long time. As long as our Great Qin launches a fierce attack, we will definitely be able to drive all the Ming troops out of North Korea. Even our Great Qin can take advantage of the victory to directly attack Zhenzhou from Liaodong and North Korea, and cut off its arm. In this way, If Beiming does not bow its knees and surrender, it will be cornered by our Great Qin in the end, and it will be impoverished and defeated."

"If this is the case, I, Daqin, will not be able to live a life." Sun Kewang shook his head and said: "The Korean War has lasted for more than a year, and it has consumed more than 280 million taels of silver from the state. For this reason, the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs have already suffered terribly."

"Your Majesty..." Ma Weixing looked at the emperor worriedly.

"The people of Qi have proposed a new mediation plan." Sun Kewang said expressionlessly: "North Korea recognizes Daqin as its suzerain, but it is located in Jeolla Province, Chungcheong Province, Gyeongsang Province in the southeast and Xianning North Province in the northwest. Ming's sphere of influence, enjoys special interests, and allows local autonomy. As compensation, Beiming compensated Daqin with 30 taels of silver for military expenses."

"Will Beiming directly annex North Korea's three southeast provinces and Northwest Xianning North Province in the future?"

"No." Sun Kewang shook his head and said: "The Qi people said that in order to avoid conflicts between Qin and Ming in the future, they will not allow Beiming to annex the above-mentioned Korean territory and have direct contact with Daqin's sphere of influence. However, it is not ruled out that there will be other conflicts in those places in the future Build a Koryo Kingdom as a buffer between Qin and Ming."

"So... that's fine." Ma Weixing glanced at the emperor's expression secretly, and he seemed to have no angry expression. He smiled and said in agreement: "For a small North Korea, it is indeed not worthwhile to labor on an expedition. Ming only occupied the three southeast provinces of North Korea, handed over most of the North Korean territory to Daqin, and also paid... 30 taels of silver, and let Daqin recover a little... that... that loss."

"It's time for our Daqin military system to be changed." Sun Kewang looked at Ma Weixing, and said solemnly: "In the Korean battlefield, our Daqin army was completely superior in terms of equipment, command mechanism, and even morale. It is not as good as the Northern Ming army, so that in the case of having an absolute superiority in military strength, it is restrained everywhere, and it has been defeated repeatedly, which has damaged the prestige of our Great Qin State. I cannot let go of this."

"Military reform?"

"That's right." Sun Kewang said firmly: "We are not as skilled as others, so we have to learn from them honestly. Qi's army has been invincible in almost all battlefields for decades, and it is truly the foundation of a strong army. Fan. The little Beiming has such a good fighting power just by learning its superficiality. If so, our Great Qin army can also follow suit! For this matter, I will entrust you to organize our new Great Qin army."

"Minister, obey the order!" Ma Weixing immediately stood up, bowed deeply to the emperor, and promised loudly.

(End of this chapter)