Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 708

"Bachelor Jie, is Your Majesty suspicious of us?"

Mr. Yan Luo's real name is Luo Rong. At the beginning of the loyalty society, because he was the leader of the various tribes, he was worshiped as the president, admiral, Siyingtou, and the Chinese army.

The four battalions under his command are led by him, Xiao Sheng, Luo Yafu, and Zhang Ziyong respectively. Zhang An is the former leader of the left battalion under his former battalion.

After Zhu Yihai stabilized eastern Zhejiang and won the first Northern Expedition victory in Wu, he sent Zhang Guowei, Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen and others into Jiangxi. Rong was transferred to Zhang Mingzhen's army as a deputy.

He also reorganized a part of Luo Rong's troops. It was because Luo Rong, the leader, left that Zhang An later became the leader. But in terms of status in the world, there is no doubt that Luo Rong is far above Zhang An. .

Even though Zhang An is the leader of the Longwu Army now, he has only gained power for a few years. Many of his generals were still called Brother Luo Rong before, including Zhang An's deputy Xiao Sheng and Luo Yafu. The leaders of the four battalions above.

Jie Chongxi is dancing with his sword.

Although this man was born as a Jinshi in the second list, before Jin Shenghuan's recovery, he and the governor of Jiangxi presented to the Qing court, calling them the four major bandits in Jiangxi, and Jie Chongxi was on the list.

The four bandits are Jie Chongxi, Cao Dahao, Zhang Zisheng and Hong Guoyu.

These four men led a rebel army each, and they fought together. They were very brave. Cao Dahao was originally a general under Fang Guoan's command. After the defeat in Wuhu, he separated from Fang Guoan. All the way to Fuzhou and Gannan, fighting bravely.

Hong Guoyu and Wang Tizhong, Wang Deren and others were all under Bai Wang's subordinates.After Wang Tizhong killed Bai Wang and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Bai Wang's righteous son Wang Deren returned to Wang Tizhong, but Hong Guoyu took a battalion south and finally joined the Loyalty Society.

Zhang Zisheng was originally one of the leaders of Luo Rong's four major battalions. Later, after Zhang An took office, Zhang Zisheng refused to accept Zhang An, so he led his troops to join the loyalty society and joined forces with Jie Chongxi.

Jie Chongxi's sword dance is very good, he looks skinny, but he is a Confucian general with a sword. He is from Linchuan, Jiangxi Province. Risheng rose to serve as the King of Soldiers and arrived in Nanjing.

The Tartars fell into Nanjing and attacked Jiangxi. They uncovered Chongxi's head and wrapped a white scarf for their father's worries. They joined forces with friends from the same hometown, such as Fu Dingquan, to recruit troops, buy horses and raise the flag to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Persuade Luo Rong, Zhang Zisheng, and Ning Wenlong of the Jiulong Camp in Jianning to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Among the people in Jiangxi, Wanji and Yang Tinglin have the highest official positions, but Jie Chongxi and Fu Dingquan, friends from the same hometown, are also the mainstays, especially Jie Neng Wen Neng Wu, who has served as a prefect and served as the head of the official department. He worked as a military officer in Shizhong, and later he was awarded the censor of the capital.

Now he is a doctor in the Ministry of Officials and a student in the Prime Minister's Office, but this man holds high the banner of anti-Qing, bids farewell to his wife and children, contacts righteous men everywhere, recruits and trains General Jie, who has trained tens of thousands of horses, and he has attacked and recovered many cities .

He has great prestige among the Dongman refugees on the border of the four southern Jiangxi provinces.

"The position of deputy admiral of the Beijing camp is not small, let alone you have been granted the title of hereditary marquis."

"Zhang An has been named Duke." Luo Rong was a little dissatisfied.

Jie Chongxi was also made a Marquis. As a civil servant, he also had tens of thousands of soldiers under his command and made a lot of military achievements, so he was also made a Marquis. He didn't care about it.

The emperor asked him to enter the court as a doctor in the official department, which was not a high official position, but he immediately handed over the letter of the soldier talisman.

Jie Chongxi was a Jinshi civil servant, a poet, and a scholar of the Five Classics. When he started his army, he wore filial piety and raised the flag. He bid farewell to his wife and children, saying that if the Tartars were not expelled, I would never return alive. From now on, you You are like a widow, your son is like an orphan, mother and child are precious, don't worry about my life and death anymore.

He really puts life and death aside.

He raised the flag to raise troops not because he was greedy for power and fame, but because of the loyalty and patriotism of a scholar.

"Scholar Jie, you are now deeply favored and highly appreciated. It is natural for you to stand up and talk without back pain. The people I transfer here and there are like duckweeds without roots. What about the deputy admiral of the Beijing camp? Grade, but no real power."

"How can the deputy admiral of the Beijing camp say that he has no real power? This is a first-rank military position." Jie Chongxi said while dancing his sword.

The deputy admiral is indeed a real job, but for Luo Rong, since he was transferred to Zhang Mingzhen as a deputy, he has been a deputy for the past few years. He has lost his direct subordinates. Compared with a general like Zhang An, he I feel like I have no real power in my hands.

On the contrary, he was a bit envious of Jie Chongxi, although his current Wenxuan Secretary of the Ministry of Officials was only a fifth-rank doctor, but this was an extremely powerful and important position.

Among the 24 divisions of the six ministries, the three divisions of the Ministry of Officials, the Department of Literary Selection, the Department of Examinations, and the Department of Armory of the Ministry of War have the highest status.

It can determine the official career of civil servants, and it is more prominent than the general Qingshui yamen hall officials, so those who can hold this position must definitely be in the eyes of the emperor, and they must be trusted by the emperor.

Not to mention that Jie Zhongxi also added a part-time job as a bachelor's student in the Prime Minister's Office, so he can walk in the Prime Minister's Office on duty, which makes him a real confidant of the emperor's close ministers.

How can he have such a bright future from a first-rank deputy admiral like Jie Chongxi, a fifth-rank doctor.

Jie Chongxi laughed, and put the sword back into its sheath after dancing.

"I'm only a fifth-rank official, and I'm only promoted to the magistrate after passing the exam."

"Bachelors are at least promoted to inspectors, and then they are chief envoys, and even governors, and then they are ministers, and then they are ministers, and then they enter the cabinet to pay homage."

The two sat there chatting, but they didn't wander around.

After the new errand was completed, both of them also handed in the soldier seal letter, and they both left the barracks.

"Bachelor Jie, Deputy Admiral Luo, Your Majesty has summoned you."

The two looked at each other, quickly got up and changed their clothes, and then followed the messenger to see the emperor.

Not only that, but a bunch of officials had already gathered in the hall, Jie Chongxi looked at these familiar old faces, most of them belonged to the Jiangxi Loyalty Society.

In the early years, the Loyalty Society was very famous in Jiangxi, and all kinds of volunteers and local gentry joined the Loyalty Society to help and protect the Daming country. But now, everyone is deliberately downplaying and forgetting the Loyalty Society.

After all, no one wants to be suspected of forming a clique, and today we are very tired of forming a clique.

There are also people who are not members of the Loyalty Society, such as Peng Shunqing, the leader of the Jiangxi Peasant Army, Chen Hengyu and Ke Baochong, who claim to be the descendants of Chen Youliang, the leaders of the Ke and Chen families, Liu Dadao and Liu Nanzhi, the leaders of the refugee army, and the leader of the shed militia army. Zhu Yiwu and others.

These people are also leaders of influential forces in Jiangxi. They all rebelled against the imperial court earlier, and later raised the banner of anti-Qing.

He was recruited by the imperial court and organized into a group practice.

Most of the people under their command are farmers, small handicraftsmen, miners, and those refugees and shack dwellers who could not survive in the Chongzhen period.

Jie Chongxi noticed that there were a lot of people coming, and all the prominent and respectable people from Jiangxi who led troops to Nanyang this time arrived, but Zhang An, Luo Yafu and Xiao Sheng did not arrive.

Everyone is still wondering why the emperor suddenly summoned him.

There was a sudden thunderclap in the sky.

It was a sweltering afternoon, but suddenly there was a strong wind, and then it rained cats and dogs.

The emperor got up and walked to the corridor, watching the pouring rain, with his hands behind his back, he didn't speak, and everyone could only guess wildly.

Thunder and rain come and go quickly, and soon the clouds will gather and the rain will rest.

After a heavy rain, the mid-autumn afternoon was already a bit chilly.

"Thunderstorm, although the sound is scary, but it just came and went quickly, and I and Qing didn't get a drop of rain." The emperor smiled and turned back to the royal seat.

"Zhang An rebelled, and the Longwu army made trouble. I heard that Zhang An sent people to contact some old friends in Jiangxi. I don't know if Zhuqing will receive his letter?"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the hall was shocked.

The highest status in the palace is still Yang Tinglin and Wanji. They were the representatives of Jiangxi's anti-Qing Dynasty at the beginning.

Yang is now a cabinet co-organizer, and Wanji is a secretary of the Ministry of Officials and an assistant minister of the Prime Minister's Office, both of whom are central officials.Hearing this, he was quite shocked.

In terms of loyalty, Yang Tinglin and Wanji are among the best, but in terms of military capabilities, they are actually no different from He Tengjiao, Shi Kefa, and Jie Chongxi is better than them. Military is not their specialty. Fortunately, Zhu Yihai sent Zhang Guowei and Huang Daozhou there before Sitting in the town and letting generals like Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen be in charge of the military, it was able to avoid the defeat of Jiangxi's anti-Qing situation in history.

Although Yang and Wan are not good at military, they also know what Zhang An is. The imperial court mainly focused on the southeast coast, and Jiangxi didn't care much about it.

Even in order to contain Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren, Zhang An's troops were organized into the Longwu Army and moved to Raozhou. It was also intentional to use Zhang An to overthrow Luo Rong, the commander of the Fourth Battalion.

But they still underestimated Zhang An's ambition and courage, and dared to rebel here.

One must know that none of Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren, and Luo Rong is stronger than Zhang An, but although they have been somewhat domineering in recent years, who dares to mess around in front of the emperor?

"Your Majesty, are Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren colluding with him?" Wan Ji asked directly, not seeing the two of them.

"Zhang An sent someone to secretly contact them, and Hong Guoyu, Shao Wu's Guo Tiancai, and Jianning's Ning Wenlong also contacted them, but it is unknown whether they agreed."

Wanji asked to send troops immediately to quell the chaos.

But Zhu Yihai was not in a hurry.

The Longwu army was stationed in Songzhuang, dozens of miles south of Nanyang City, on the banks of the Baihe River.Songzhuang was originally a standing village, but due to the Tatars' enclosure, it became the Eight Banners farmland of the Tartars, and was destroyed by the war, becoming an abandoned village, and the Longwu Army directly entered and set up camp.

In fact, even if the 5000 men and horses turned against each other, Zhu Yihai would not be afraid, because there are so many soldiers and horses here.

All he was waiting for now was for them to play the banner of rebellion, which would be easier to deal with.

"hold on."

It didn't take long.

"Report to Your Majesty, Zhang An led the Longwu Army to raise the anti-banner, rebelled in Songzhuang, and has moved south."

"Oh, I see."

"Your Majesty, I am willing to lead troops to fight against the rebellious ministers and thieves!" Luo Rong took the lead to ask for an order, and Zhang Zisheng also hurriedly stood up. Both of them were from Dongdong thieves, and they were Zhang An's boss. There were also many five thousand dragon soldiers. It's their old department, and now they all want to atone for their crimes and avoid being implicated.

"No hurry, just wait."

The emperor picked up the teacup, very calm.

All the civil and military men from Jiangxi sat in the hall, although they had tea and snacks, they were all restless. Zhang An didn't want to rebel, and the Longwu army didn't know how to live or die, but this rebellion would inevitably implicate many people .

I don't know if Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren, Guo Tiancai, and Ning Wenlong will follow suit.

The emperor was still in the mood to talk about Jiangxi's development with everyone.

"Jiangxi is a good place, a land of fish and rice. Although southern Jiangxi is far behind, there is still great potential for development. The rice in Jiangxi, the porcelain in Jingdezhen, and the medicinal materials of camphor trees are all famous in the world. There is also tea in Jiangxi. , tea oil is also quite famous,

Although there are many mountains in southern Jiangxi, there are also many minerals. What's more, the Ganjiang River is thousands of miles away and has convenient water transportation. The nearest point to the Beijiang River in Guangdong is only more than ten miles away. The rivers are connected, the rivers and seas are connected, and the transportation between Jiangxi and Guangdong is more convenient. Small boats don't even need to go around the sea to go through Fujian, and they can be directly connected by water. This will definitely bring the development of the southern Gansu mountainous area, and greatly promote the mineral and mountain products. "

Everyone was thinking about Zhang An's rebellion, but the emperor suddenly threw out the Jiangxi-Guangdong Canal.

In fact, the construction of this canal was mentioned a long time ago.

After all, between Hunan and Guangxi, there is also a Lingqu Canal built in the Qin Dynasty, connecting the two ends of the Five Ridges.

The closest point between the two rivers between Jiangxi and Guangdong is indeed only about ten miles away. It is no problem to really repair it, but it will cost a lot of money. The technology is possible, and the effect it brings is huge and visible.

Jiangxi and Guangdong were already very wealthy in the Song and Ming Dynasties, especially the northern Jiangxi and Dawan Districts, and the Wuling area at the junction of the two provinces was the most backward. In the past, the Ganjiang River and the Beijiang Pearl River waterways were also important transportation routes. But after all, it is not easy to cross the Dayuling section.

"I think it can be repaired. If you want to get rich, you need to build roads first. If you want to develop, building canals is a shortcut. First let the Ministry of Industry approve the project, then measure the route, draw up the project plan, and then issue bonds. The two provinces will jointly start construction and build in stages. ·······"

"Report!"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Xiao Sheng, the commander-in-chief of the Longwu Army, and Luo Yafu, who killed the rebel general Zhang An, quelled the rebellion and appease the Longwu Army, and returned to Songzhuang to set up camp. I would like to mention the heads of the rebel generals Zhang An and others to offer."

Liu Chao brings exciting news.

The emperor just smiled, "Oh,"

"Jin Shenghuan's beheaded generals Huang Renlong, Song Kuiguang, Wu Zunzhou, Wang Deren beheaded his wife and younger brother Huang Tianlei, and his deputy Chen Fang, come here to plead guilty!"

"Ning Wenlong beheaded the deputy general Lu Wenlong and waited to plead guilty!"

"Guo Tiancai and Hong Guoyu both beheaded the son of Zhang An who came to dissuade him, and came to plead guilty."

"Report, the national surnames Zhu Shengli, Zhu Zhongyi, Zhu Pengfei, Zhu Dingguo, Zhu Chenggong, etc., all sent flying cavalry to report, and they have led troops to surround the Longwu army and so on."

Wanji, Yang Tinglin, Jie Chongxi, Fu Dingquan, Luo Rong and others realized at this time that the emperor's confidence was here, and the emperor had already made arrangements.

Zhang An's rebellion didn't stir up any waves at all. Not only did Xiao Sheng and Luo Yafu of the Longwu Army not agree with him, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren, Ning Wenlong, and Guo Tianlei were all sober, Huang Renlong, Huang Tianlei, these stupid guys They wanted to join the rebellion, but they were cut down mercilessly by their superiors and even their brother-in-law.

"Let's talk about the Ganyue Canal later. Let's talk about how to deal with the aftermath of the Longwu Army and others. Let's talk about it."

(End of this chapter)