Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

There are many and complicated problems in the Ming Dynasty at this stage, but if we really want to simplify them, taxation and finance, education and imperial examinations, disaster management, and military control, these four major categories are the core. Around these cores, many branches have been derived and mixed together. Then it became what it is now.

If you want to touch these four types of cores, you will inevitably involve other levels, and then form a chain reaction. This is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen continued to peel off cocoons.

"Li Zicheng, I really underestimated you."

Emperor Chongzhen returned to Dongnuange, stared at the map of Liaodong in front of him, and said with a smile: "This kind of embarrassment can cause disturbances in southern Liaoning. It seems that Liu Xingzuo's cooperation with you is very effective.

Wang Banban, did the batch of flintlocks, thunderbolts and other firearms transferred from Xishan leave Tianjin Xingang and be transported to Dongjiang Town? "

"Already left Tianjin Xingang."

Wang Chengen hurriedly bowed and replied: "I left ten days ago, counting the time, the fleet should have arrived at Dongjiang Town."

"it is good."

Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile: "With this batch of firearms, if Li Zicheng can reach a deal, then the strength of the old battalion under his command should be greatly enhanced.

Keep stirring.

Ming Jianlu is so overwhelmed.

If the chaos under the rule of southern Liaoning becomes more and more obvious, then the advantage of the situation over Ming Dynasty will be more obvious. Maybe within two years, Western Liaoning and Southern Liaoning will be completely recovered. "

Seeing his emperor like this, Wang Chengen hesitated, he had something in his heart, he didn't know whether to say it or not.

"My lord... Why didn't you put such a sharp weapon as a flintlock under the command of the Liao army?" Wang Chengen hesitated for a long time, but still said bravely: "The servants followed the emperor to the west mountain and saw the power of the flintlock. , if it can be included in the Liao army, wouldn't the situation be more beneficial to our Ming Dynasty?

Selling it to Li Zicheng, a branch of thieves, is fine if they are the only ones in charge, but if Jianlu is asked to take some away on the battlefield, then..."

"I just want Jianlu to take it away."

Emperor Chongzhen turned around with a smile on his face, and said, "The flintlock gun developed by the Armed Forces Institute, although its power and range have been greatly enhanced, it is far from what I want.

If the corresponding rifling can be drawn in the flintlock, then both the power and the range will be greatly enhanced on the basis of the flintlock.

Just imagine, if the Jianlu Eight Banners, who have always been brave and good at fighting, experienced some defeats in the battle against a group of Liaodong rebels, what would the Jianlu executives think? "

"I must be thinking about where the Liaodong Rebel Army is good at."

Wang Chengen thought for a while, then leaned back and replied: "Once Jianlu found out that the Liaodong Rebel Army had equipped with flintlocks, their combat power increased significantly.

He will definitely ask his artisans to imitate the flintlock guns captured on the battlefield.

It's just that the emperor, if this is the case, wouldn't the combat power of Jianlu Eight Banners also increase accordingly?This is not good for Daming, is it? "

Wang Chengen was not clear about the history of the development of firecrackers, so in his field of vision, all he could think of was flintlock firecrackers. Once installed in the Eight Banners of Jianlu, the combat power would become stronger. Wouldn't it be even more difficult to suppress them? …

"Who said there is no benefit, if that's the case, I can't ask for it."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and waved his hands and said: "I want to set off an arms race in the border of Liaodong, so that Jianlu's precious war potential will be wasted on useless flintlocks.

The more Jianlu built, the worse their defeat would be in the future.

It would be best if at the end of this year, Jianlu would be able to capture a batch of flintlocks from Li Zicheng's troops on the battlefield. "

Wang Chengen was stunned.

He didn't understand why his emperor would say such a thing.

"Since the 47th year of Wanli, the battle between Daming and Jianlu has always been more defeated than won. The vast territory and cities in Liaodong were all taken away by Jianlu."

Emperor Chongzhen stretched out his hand and said: "This also made the whole Ming Dynasty more and more serious about talking about slavery, and no one noticed the fatal flaw of Jianlu.

That is the core staff is too small.

This also makes Jianlu Eight Banners unable to experience any fork in the road, unable to withstand any defeat, otherwise, it will be an existence that will never be restored.

Now in the border of Liaodong, I have planted a few mines for Jianlu. As long as they step on them, they will continue to deplete their war potential. "

The core idea of ​​the pan-Liaodong strategy is to effectively use the advantages of Ming Dynasty to continuously weaken the potential of Jianlu, no matter what method is used.

Now it is called Dongjiang Town, Denglai, Tianjin, Juehua, Liaoqian and other places, and the practice of maritime sabotage has gradually achieved tactical results.

This tactic focused on training troops, and at the same time reduced the Jianlu soldiers, no matter if they were real Tartars or Ertars, as long as they could be killed, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care which one was more and which was less.

This undoubtedly reduces the war potential of Jianlu.

However, relying on these two items alone is not enough. The successful development of the flintlock made Emperor Chongzhen see the third possibility, which is to set off an arms race.

As long as Jianlu enters this pit, he will have to spend resources and money to continuously make flintlock guns. As for drawing rifling and researching more advanced firearms, it is beyond what Jianlu can achieve.

In the final analysis, Jianlu is a small regional regime, and it seriously discriminates against the Han people internally, so how could it have such a background.

"By the way, I asked you to select reliable candidates, go to Liaodong, and issue a secret decree to Sun Chengzong. How is this going?" Thinking of the Emperor Chongzhen here, he remembered another thing, and asked Wang Chengen.

"Reporting to the emperor, five days ago, the servant girl received the news that the troops had already passed through the Shanhaiguan Pass." Wang Chengen saluted and said, "If you count the time, it should have been sent to Governor Sun by now."

"Ah."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "The delivery was just in time, the current situation in Liaodong is so chaotic, it just provided some help for the reform of the former Liao Dynasty.

I hope that Sun Chengzong can judge the situation and make careful arrangements for the reform of the former Liao Dynasty. If this matter can be done well, the burden on the court will be much lighter. "

As he said that, Emperor Chongzhen turned around again and looked at the map of Liaodong. On the map with distinct areas, it seemed to come alive.

The frontier army of Liao, the general of Liaodong, Li Zicheng's troops, the Eight Banners of Jianlu, Dongjiang Army...

These forces emerged before the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, and it was so clear what kind of trend they would develop in the future. If the pan-Liaodong strategy could be implemented, then Ming's advantage would become more and more obvious.