Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 67
More than ten miles north of Linqing Prefecture, a Qing army was winding south along the east bank of the canal.

The leading general is tall, with a bearded face, wearing a bright yellow cotton armor trimmed with red, and a bowl helmet on his head. The tasseled spear on the top of the helmet is two feet high. The scarlet tassels are slightly swaying in the wind. A little cool.

This general is none other than Jiannu Xianghuang Banner Baya La Tiao Zhang Jing Aobai.

The current situation is slightly different from that in history. In history, it was Xianghongqi who cooperated with Wang Aoyong to appease Shandong, and Gushan Ezhen Yechen was the leader, but now it has been replaced by Xianghuangqi, and the leading general has also become Baiyintu.

However, the number of troops used was still not much, only two Jiala from the Xianghuang Banner and ten Niulu from the Han Army in the Zhenghuang Banner, in addition to more than [-] Baoyi and [-] troops from the Ming Dynasty.

The total strength is only [-].

Among them, there are only more than [-] slaves.

After entering the border of Shandong from Dezhou, the troops were divided into two groups. One was led by Gushan Ezhen Baiyintu of Xianghuang Banner, and went directly to Jinan, the capital of Shandong, via Pingyuan and Yucheng. Zhenghuangqi Han Army Gushan Ezhenzu Zerun was the deputy general, and continued to go south along the Grand Canal to Yanzhou Prefecture.

It can be seen from this that Dorgon's ambitions are not great.

At least at this time, Dorgon has not thought about unifying China.

Otherwise, he would not have just sent a partial army of less than [-] people to the south. This is completely a kind of political speculation, to see if there is any advantage to take advantage of.

In Dorgon's own words, it is, but an inch is an inch, and a point is a point.

Therefore, Oboi didn't have any sense of urgency, and just traveled south along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

However, what Obai never expected was that the journey was going smoothly, and the ancient city and Wucheng counties along the canal all looked forward to the direction of the soldiers.

In fact, at this time, the decree to cancel the hair-shaving order has spread throughout Beizhi, and has also spread to the counties in the ancient city and Wucheng that are close to Beizhi. .

There is no reason to resist, the Ming Dynasty is already rotten, wouldn't it be good to change the court?

So along the way, several county towns surrendered in anticipation, and Jiannu was warmly welcomed by the local officials, gentry and people. Obai followed Dorgon's order and did not burn, kill or plunder.

This situation gave Aobai a strong illusion.

As long as the Qing soldiers arrive, Dongchang Mansion and even Yanzhou Mansion will follow suit and surrender.

It is precisely because of such psychological expectations that Oboi would be extremely furious if he did not accept the news that the officials and gentry in a certain place would not surrender.

There was a sudden sound of horseshoes ahead.

Immediately, a small group galloped back at night without closing.

The leader was Yabran, who had just been promoted to the white armor, and there was an arrow stuck in the white armor.

Obai frowned when he saw this, and asked, "Yablan, what's the matter? Did you meet bandits?"

In the imagination of Oboi and even all Jiannu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan are all territories of thieves, so Yabran can only encounter thieves.

As for Daming, he had already shrunk to the south of the Yangtze River.

However, Yabran's answer made Oboi stunned for a moment.

"My lord, it's not bandit soldiers." Yabran said, "It's the Ming army!"

"What, the Ming army?" Obai said in astonishment, "Didn't Wang Aoyong and those surrendered generals of the former Ming Dynasty mean that the Ming army has shrunk to the south of the Yangtze River, so why is there still a Ming army in Shandong?"

"I don't know about the last general," Yabran said, "but it's really the Ming army."

After pondering for a moment, Aobai sent someone to call Zu Zerun and Gao Di to him.

Gao Di was the former commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan. He followed Wu Sangui to the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty, his [-] troops were eliminated by Dorgon, leaving only [-] people.

This time Gaodi also came to Shandong.

To put it bluntly, they came here to serve as cannon fodder for Jian Nu.

"Zu Zerun." Aobai always looked down on the Han people, so he called Zu Zerun by his first name, "Your Han army flag is protecting the baggage, and your movement speed is too slow, so let's take a boat and follow slowly, we have to go first. "

Zu Zerun didn't dare to stop him, he just advised him, "Your Excellency, be careful."

"Take care of yourself." Aobai snorted, beat his horse and walked away.

In less than half an hour, Oboi rushed to the city of Linqing with more than 1500 Eight Banners soldiers, more than 1500 coated servants and more than 3000 surrendered troops.

I saw that the sun and moon flag flying on the top of the city was indeed the Ming Dynasty's sun and moon flag. It was easy to identify, Oboi had fought against the Ming army in western Liaoning for more than ten years, and he was deeply impressed by the Ming Dynasty's sun and moon flag.

Obai said to Gaodi, "Go and persuade them to surrender."

Gao Di had no choice but to ride his horse to Linqing Chengguan.

"May I ask who is the lord in the city?" Gaudy clasped his hands.

"Ling Ji, the magistrate of Linqing Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty, is here." A young official wearing a black gauze and a green robe appeared on the top of the city.

Gaudí was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

After a long while, Gao Di said: "The Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty have arrived, why didn't Lord Ling come down early?"

Ling Ji said in disdain: "I only know that there are slaves outside the pass, but I don't know that there is a so-called Qing Dynasty. Dare I ask you what the Qing Dynasty is?"

Gao Di frowned, and said: "If Master Ling is acquainted, he should hurry up and accept the surrender, otherwise the Qing army will drive the troops to attack the city, and Linqing will be destroyed. Think twice."

"No need." Ling Yu said with a smile.

"Although let Jiannu let the horse come over."

"Linqing City is not something they can take down if they want to."

"In my Ming Dynasty, there are only Zhizhou who died in battle, and there are no cowards who surrendered."

Gao Di had no choice but to return to Oboi: "My lord, the Ming army in the city refuses to surrender."

"They are looking for death." Obai was furious immediately, "Gaudi, go collect wood and plan to build a ladder to attack the city."

"Hey!" Although Gaodi was full of reluctance, he had no choice but to agree. If he didn't agree, he would really kill people. This guy is extremely hostile to the Han people.

……

At the same time in Xuzhou.

Chongzhen has told Du Yinxi the entire strategic conception of the Huanghuai line of defense.

Looking at the sand table in front of him, Du Yinxi couldn't hide the shock in his heart. First, it shocked the grandeur of the entire Huanghuai defense line concept, and second, it shocked Chongzhen's foresight.

Unexpectedly, the Holy Majesty not only knows soldiers, but also has such foresight.

It is hopeful to hold the half of Jiangnan.

Du Yin Du always claimed to be a visionary, but he was not as far-sighted as Chongzhen in terms of the concept of the Huanghuai defense line, especially in the serious lack of awareness of the threat of Jiannu.

But what puzzled Du Yinxi was, why did Chongzhen tell him this?
"Because it is impossible for me to stay in Xuzhou forever." Chongzhen said, "After withstood the first wave of Jiannu's attack, I have to rush back to Nanjing to raise food and salaries and mobilize reinforcements."

"Otherwise, we will never be able to withstand Jiannu's second wave of attack."

"Jiannu's first attack was just a tentative attack."

"But for the second wave of attack, Jiannu will definitely go all out."

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "In case I don't have time to rush back to Xuzhou, I have to rely on you to take charge of the overall situation."

"Your Majesty!" Du Yinxi felt his blood rushing up in an instant, and at the same time he was a little panicked, "I'm afraid I won't be able to take on this important task, should I choose another important minister to sit in charge?"

"No, you can afford it." Chongzhen patted Du Yinxi.

"You have shown outstanding ability in Beixin Chaoguan and the prefect of Changsha."

"Also, don't put too much pressure on me, because I won't leave Xuzhou right away."

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "And at this stage, you only need to be responsible for farming affairs."

Du Yinxi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, if it was just farming, there would be no pressure.

While the monarch and his ministers were talking, Wang Chengen came in and reported: "Long live, the tank boat from Nanjing has arrived."

"The tank boat from Nanjing has arrived?" Chongzhen overjoyed, "Where is it? Who is in charge of escorting the boat?"

"It's Mr. Liu Zongzhou, the new censor of Zuodu." Wang Chengen said respectfully, "He's waiting outside the gate."

"Liu Zongzhou, the censor of Zuodu?" Chongzhen nodded lightly when he heard the words, thinking that Liu Zongzhou, the master of Neo Confucianism, was invited back into the court by the Donglin Party as expected.

This is to put pressure on him, right?
Immediately Chongzhen raised his hand and said: "Please come in."

After a while, a thin old man was ushered in.

Liu Zongzhou is already sixty-seven years old.

In fact, Liu Zongzhou will not live for a few years.

Chongzhen didn't dare to let him bow down, so he supported him early and said, "Mr. Ji Shan has worked hard all the way."

"It's not hard work for the veteran." Liu Zongzhou waved his hand and said, "I just have a heartfelt statement. The Holy Majesty is the king of a country, not the governor of a border town. How can he stay in Xuzhou for a long time?"

Sure enough, the Donglin Party brought out Liu Zongzhou to put pressure on him.

The Donglin Party still hopes that he will return to Nanjing to be a good emperor.

The reason is not complicated, because with Chongzhen in Xuzhou, many things are not easy to operate, such as the disappearance of the water transport, there is no way to hide it.

So Chongzhen did not pick up on this.

Chongzhen asked directly: "Mr. Jishan, how much of the tiger squatting cannons, Frang machine guns and various firecrackers I ordered the cabinet to collect this time? And the 180 million taels of silver that the Ministry of Households gave to the Governor's Yamen of Water Transport Have you paid enough? Has the remaining 180 million taels of silver been sent to Xuzhou?"

"Are there so many?" Liu Zongzhou was stunned when he heard this.

"As far as the veteran knows, only 100 million taels of silver was sent to the governor's yamen, and another 80 taels were entrusted to the veteran to send to Xuzhou for the emperor's use."

Chongzhen's face instantly collapsed.

360 million taels became 180 million taels?

This is a [-]% drift, which is really too much!
When is this, and you still engage in unspoken rules in officialdom?

This is the military salary of the soldiers in the border towns on the front line, how dare they drift away?

Chongzhen felt an inexplicable anger brewing in his chest.

No wonder some people say that Ming was not destroyed by natural disasters, exiled thieves, or slaves, but by drifting away. In fact, there is some truth to this statement. According to this method, no matter how powerful the finances are, they cannot bear it.

What's more, Daming's finances have been extremely exhausted.

(End of this chapter)