Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 119 I didn't even try hard, you all fell down

Not only Zhu Zhongzhi, the "No. 17 Emperor of the Ming Dynasty" in Shanxi, couldn't figure it out, but even Zhu Zhongji, the "No. 17 Emperor of the Ming Dynasty" in Jiangsu, couldn't figure it out either.

Obviously, the big guys are all rebels who rebelled, and the difference is only in the morning and evening. The rest, such as emphasizing the people, ignoring the corvee, and even training the army, emphasizing firearms, etc., Zhu Zhongji feels that what he does is not enough. not bad.

Why can't the army under his own hands beat the army under Zhu Jinsong's?

If I have to say that there is any difference between myself and Zhu Zhongzhi's "brothers" and Zhu Jinsong's cheap brother, it should be the peasant association.

Jiangsu under his own rule and Shanxi under Zhu Zhongzhi's rule did not have peasant associations, and whether it was Zhu Jinsong who occupied Shandong and Henan, or Zhu Sanshun who responded to Zhu Jinsong in Yan'an Mansion, the territory under their hands There are peasant associations.

And this is also what Zhu Zhongji couldn't figure out the most.

Peasant associations, even if there are peasant associations in every village, besides helping the mud legs to say a few more good words, helping the government to complete the collection of taxes, and being able to replace the Baojia system in the Qing Dynasty, the rest is still there. What can I do?
Can we still count on people from the peasant association to help fight the war?

Isn’t this horse riding nonsense? Those people in the peasant association are still mud legs in essence. It’s almost the same to let these people farm the land. Let them take up swords, guns and guns to fight with people on the battlefield. Is it possible!

But the facts are obvious here, and Zhu Zhongji couldn't help but not believe it.

What's more terrible is that no matter whether Zhu Zhong and his ministers can figure it out or not, Zhu Jinsong's army has been advancing steadily, taking down a village today and a county tomorrow.

You may not know when you will hit Fengyang.

So now there are only two roads before Zhu Zhongji and his ministers.

Either continue to fight Zhu Jinsong to the end, or simply surrender early.

In all honesty, it's not that Zhu Zhongji hasn't thought about fighting Zhu Jinsong to the end. After all, Zhu Jinsong is too arrogant. In addition to using troops against Jiangsu, he is also marching toward Shanxi at the same time. The way of using troops is the most test of logistics and war potential, and Zhu Jinsong only occupies the two provinces of Shandong and Henan, and the chance of winning is not very high.

Moreover, I am not the only rebel here in Jiangsu, but I am the most powerful and famous. Once I am defeated by Zhu Jinsong's army, then Zhu Jinsong's next target must be those in Suzhou and Jiangning. Two traitors.

So, although I definitely can't beat Zhu Jinsong, I can definitely ask the two traitors in Jiangning and Suzhou to come over for help. After all, everyone must know the truth of the cold lips, and it may not be impossible to convince them. .

If he can contact Zhu Zhongzhi from Shanxi again, then the chance of winning must be on his side.

But there is an old saying that goes well, the hemp rope is only broken at the fine point, and bad luck is only for the poor.

Before Zhu Zhongji sent someone to contact the Jiangning Mansion and Suzhou Mansion's two gangs who also claimed to be the Ming Emperor's rebels, the Daming Emperor Zhu Zhongfeng from Suzhou Mansion sent someone to ask for help.

The reason why Zhu Zhongfeng sent people over was because Lin Shuangwen, the rebel who occupied Daliuqiu and Fujian, also played the banner of the Ming court, and came straight to Songjiang Mansion from the sea.

Of course, if it was only because of Lin Shuangwen's attack on Songjiang Mansion, then the Ming Emperor Zhu Zhongfeng who occupied Suzhou Mansion would not have sent someone to contact the other Ming Emperor Zhu Zhongji.

After all, there are so many Daming emperors in the world now, but Zhu Zhongfeng and Zhu Zhongji, the two "Daming emperors" are the closest to each other. It's good to say that they don't like each other. Hurry up and die.

The real reason why Zhu Zhongfeng sent someone to contact Zhu Zhongji for help was that Lin Shuangwen fought against the traitor Zhu Jinsong in Shandong.

Moreover, Lin Shuangwen does have two brushes in his hands. Not only is he good at sea battles, but he is also good at land battles. Even the firearms in Lin Shuangwen's hands are slightly better than those in Zhu Zhongfeng's hands.

If it's just that he can't beat Lin Shuangwen, that's fine. The real reason why Zhu Zhongfeng wants to die is that the people under Zhu Zhongfeng's hands and the country's sages and gentry rushed to lead Lin Shuangwen one by one.

Zhu Zhongji was immediately dumbfounded.

Well, I haven't sent anyone to ask you Zhu Zhongfeng for help, but you, Zhu Zhongfeng, sent someone to ask for help first?

How is this played?
Originally, Zhu Zhongji thought that even if he couldn't beat Zhu Jinsong, the anti-thief leader of Tianzi, at least he could contact Zhu Zhongfeng who was entrenched in Suzhou Mansion and another Ming emperor who occupied Jiangning Mansion. With the strength of the three families, not to mention defeating Zhu Jinsong , at least you can protect yourself, right?
The result is not so bad, the situation I am facing now is similar to that of Zhu Zhongzhi in Shanxi. Zhu Zhongzhi was flanked by Zhu Jinsong and Zhu Sanshun, and my three rebel groups were flanked by Zhu Jinsong and Lin Shuangwen's army.

What made Zhu Zhongji even more worried was that Zhu Zhongfeng sent someone to say that the common people and the sages under him were vying to lead Lin Shuangwen, so would the people under him and the sages be the same?
But the actual situation is similar to what Zhu Zhongji expected.

The common people of Fengyang Mansion and a group of sages and gentry from the village also scrambled to lead Zhu Jinsong's army.

The common people are not stupid. The news that Jiangsu and Shandong are so close, no matter how slow the news spread, it would take almost two years for the news to spread from Shandong to Jiangsu.

Think about what kind of life I have lived in Jiangsu, and then think about what kind of life the people in Shandong are living, and how the people should choose, isn't this an obvious thing? ?

Of course, the sage gentry in Fengyang Mansion are not stupid. Before leading the way for Zhu Jinsong's army, these sage gentry in Fengyang Mansion also chose to distribute the land to the people and then disperse part of their property.

These sages and gentry from the village thought very clearly, if they disperse part of their family property, they can still keep the other part. Even if the land is gone now, there will still be opportunities to get it back in the future, but if they really accompany Zhu Zhongji To die, then there is really nothing.

Now Zhu Zhongji was completely desperate.

Hit, but can't hit.

Not to mention that the people under his own hands and the sages and gentry of the village are scrambling to lead Zhu Jinsong's army, even a large part of the firearms in his hand come from Zhu Jinsong.

Now that the two families are fighting together, Zhu Jinsong, who doesn't talk about martial arts, directly cut off the supply of firearms on his side.

After losing the supply of firearms, the firearms in my hand were no better than fire sticks, and even caught up with non-burning fire sticks.

To put it bluntly, I, the Great Ming Emperor, no longer have the capital to continue fighting with Zhu Jinsong.

As for running...

Where can I, the Emperor of Ming, go?

In desperation, Zhu Zhongji simply gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, making the same choice as those under his command who were like the sages and gentry.

surrender.

In Jiang Shu, Zhu Zhongji did not dare to continue to use the name Zhu Zhongji, but used his original name, Yu Xingguo.

Yu Xingguo stated in his surrender letter that the reason why he raised troops against the Qing Dynasty was entirely at the call of Zhu Jinsong, and the reason why he pretended to be the fifth grandson of Emperor Chongzhen was also to call on more people in the world to fight against the Qing Dynasty. In order to drive the Tartars out of the customs as soon as possible.

Now that Zhu Jinsong, the real fifth grandson of the Chongzhen Emperor, appeared, he naturally didn't dare to use such a name as a counterfeit, so he surrendered honestly, and asked Zhu Jinsong, the real Ming Emperor, to forgive his sins. I hope that you, the old man, can see that I and someone took the initiative to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty and punish me lightly.

And as Zhu Zhongji, the most powerful of the three great Ming emperors in Jiangsu, took the lead in surrendering, the remaining Zhu Zhongfeng and the other "the fifth grandson of Emperor Chongzhen" naturally would not continue to hold on.

These two Ming emperors also successively sent letters of surrender to Zhu Jinsong.

The three Ming emperors in Jiangsu suddenly surrendered just like that, and Zhu Jinsong, the real emperor of Ming Dynasty, was also stunned by them.

You fell down before I tried my best?
In fact, not only the three Ming emperors in Jiangsu sent letters of surrender, but even Zhu Zhongzhi in Shanxi was wondering whether to send Zhu Jinsong a letter of surrender.

The reason is the same as the three Ming emperors in Jiangsu. Zhu Zhongzhi, the Shanxi version of the Ming emperor’s army, was beaten back and forth. Seeing that they lost a village today and a county tomorrow, it is estimated that they will be beaten to Taiyuan at some point. .

Zhu Zhongzhi didn't want to hold on any longer.

For these so-called emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the anti-thief leader who surrendered to Zhu Jinsong did not surrender to my Qing Dynasty.

Then it was the turn of Zhu Jinsong, the anti-thief leader of Tianzihao, to start having a headache.

Suddenly there are two more territories in Shanxi and Jiangsu provinces.It is also quite a pressure for Zhu Jinsong's version of the Ming court.

Among other things, every village has to set up a peasant association, and every prefecture, state, and county has to send officials. This has led to Zhu Jinsong's version of the Ming court once again experiencing a shortage of manpower.

Fortunately, before Zhu Jinsong, the anti-thief leader of Tianzihao, became emperor, the entire Menglianggu rebel group was sparing no effort to train manpower, so even if it suddenly took over the territory of two provinces such as Jiangsu and Shanxi, the manpower was still there. Barely enough.

It's just that Zhu Jinsong's version of the Ming court also lost the ability to continue to expand in a short period of time.

Of course, if it is only for a short period of time that it cannot continue to expand outwards, then Zhu Jinsong, the anti-thief leader of the Tianzi brand, will not have such a headache. What really makes Zhu Jinsong feel bad is that this series of changes has caused other people in the world. Rebels big and small sounded a wake-up call.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Zhu Zhongzhi, Zhu Zhongji, and Zhu Zhongfeng, the rebel groups who are also considered well-known among the rebels, lost so quickly.In addition to the reasons of the people, it is not unrelated to Zhu Jinsong's sudden cut off of their firearm supply.

This alerted the big and small rebels in the world.

Zhu Jinsong can cut off the supply of firearms to Zhu Zhongji, Zhu Zhongfeng, and Zhu Zhongzhi, can he also cut off the supply of firearms to himself?
And after losing the supply of firearms, how can these flintlock guns, matchlock guns and other firearms in his hands be better than fire sticks?

In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Zhu Zhongji and Zhu Zhongzhi and the others, these rebels, large and small, also began to figure out how to make firearms.

Of course, the R&D and manufacturing of such things as firearms cannot be done in a day or two, especially for rifled flintlock guns. If there is no eviscerating line on a steam lathe, then you can only rely on the master craftsman to dig out one by one by hand, and the efficiency is also low. As you can imagine.

But no matter what, these big and small rebels in the world have paid attention to the research and development of firearms, so it is definitely not good news for Zhu Jinsong.

It's just that Zhu Jinsong can't care about those big and small rebels for the time being.

In addition to Zhu Sanshun's return to Jinan Mansion soon, Ke Zhiming also brought some news that surprised Zhu Jinsong.

(End of this chapter)