Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 262 King Liu Bei, let's retrace the path of Ming Taizu's rise together! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

Ouch, this attitude is okay!
Li Zhongshan looked at Shang Shuying who took the lead to kneel down to him, and then looked at Liu Jinzhong who stood still behind him, and immediately saluted, and said gently to Shang Shuying: "Princess Bei, are you A dignified concubine, why do you give such a big gift to me? Are you trying to kill the official? Get up quickly."

Shang Shuying was not polite, stood up, looked at Li Zhongshan with a smile and said: "Since the supervisor of the cabinet has asked Jian Guo to transfer my concubine as a general, and Jian Guo has agreed, I should obey the dispatch and follow the etiquette in the army. Serving the supervisor, the supervisor should not break the rules of the army just because the concubine is the concubine of the Northern King. If the concubine violates the military law, the supervisor will punish the concubine, but he will ask Shang Fang to cut off the concubine's head with the sword. He has no complaints either. The King of the North will definitely not blame the supervisor for his strict military law!"

Hey, Li Zhongshan glanced at his military adviser Zhou Chang out of the corner of his eye—this Shang Shuying has become smarter, and has seen through our plan!

Then Li Zhongshan looked at Liu Jinzhong again, Liu Jinzhong said with a smile: "Superintendent, Shuying has led soldiers into battle and knows the rules in the army. She is now a general under your command, so naturally she must abide by the military law. If it is true She violated the military law, and she deserved it for the supervisor beheading her with a sword!"

Li Zhongshan smiled and said: "The King of the North is serious. Although the military law is ruthless, as long as you guard it honestly, you will be fine." Then he shouted again: "Xiaohuan!"

"The servant is here!"

Yang Xiaohuan, also in military uniform, stepped forward from behind Li Zhongshan.

"General Shang will be incorporated into your family camp," Li Zhongshan ordered, "you must take good care of it."

"Yes!"

The so-called family camp is actually a hostage camp!

Of course, Li Zhongshan transferred Shang Shuying to his command not to let her charge forward, but to take her as a hostage pledged by Liu Jinzhong.And Liu Jinzhong is definitely not the only one who wants to hand over the hostages!
Liu Jinzhong's subordinates, including his own system and the generals of the original Xushun government system, are all going to be handed over as hostages.

If the hostages handed over were female relatives or minor children, a team of Guangdong Hakka female soldiers led by Yang Xiaohuan would be in charge of guarding them, which was called the family camp.

If the hostages handed over are young athletes, they will be incorporated into Li Zhongshan's "Shanzi Camp", which is his personal camp.

When Li Zhongshan was pulling troops in Guangdong, he did not force the officers under him to hand over hostages.

Because the foundation of the Guangdong New Army is the Fentian Township Army, and the backbone of it comes from the township military capitals allocated to the fertile coastal land—the entire capital (equivalent to the administrative unit of the township) is a township military household, and every household comes from Li The land was allocated to the family, and Ding served as a soldier.The family members of these town soldiers are naturally under the control of the Li family, and there is no possibility of rebellion at all.

The military backbones who followed Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan and his son from the north to Guangdong all brought their family members. These family members lived in Zhaoqing at the beginning, and Zhang Xiaoyu and Zhang Xiaobao took care of them.

Later, some of the family members who followed Li Zhongshan moved to Macao, Foshan and Guangzhou Fucheng, where Wu Xiaotu and Li Fuhan took care of them.

Later, those military officers who came out of the Guangdong Lecture Hall also divided their houses in Guangzhou and Zhaoqing. Of course, their family members also went to the city!

Of course, the above-mentioned resettlement work for military dependents is carried out on a voluntary basis, not compulsory.

However, this principle of "no coercion" can no longer be implemented in Nanjing. Yingtian is surrounded by enemies, and the situation is still a bit dangerous.

Therefore, the family members of the five-county regiment training army in Yingtian Jiangnan are now detained by Lu Sanhao and taken to Nanjing City for "protection".

The backbone of Li Zhongshan's Huai army is mostly strong men from Chuzhou, Fengyang, Hezhou, and Sizhou in the north of the Yangtze River. Of course, it is impossible for them to bring their families to Nanjing to join the army.But this time, isn't Li Zhongtang going to lead the team to manage Huaixi?Why are you being polite?Control it as much as possible, at least there is a small leader in the team who must hand over the hostages!
As for Liu Jinzhong's subordinates, they didn't bring any family members with them when they followed Geng Jingzhong to Nanjing, but now many people's family members have come from Chaozhou Prefecture, and some people, such as Liu Jinzhong himself, are newly married here in Nanjing. daughter in law.

And these family members of Liu Jiajun are now living in Jiangpu County, and they were not sent to Geng Jingzhong.

Li Zhongshan asked Shang Shuying to be his general, in fact, he was implying that Liu Jinzhong would take the lead and hand over his wife as a hostage to him!
If Liu Jinzhong is willing to take the lead, then the others will have nothing to say, who can refuse to pay?

And handing over the hostages is tantamount to surrendering!
Liu Jinzhong used to be a half-vassal of Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan and his son. His territory in Chaozhou Prefecture was under the protection of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He handed over the hostages, and did not formally surrender to the Li family and his son.Moreover, he was also the Northern King of the Ming Dynasty, theoretically equal to Li Fuchen, and even married Gege Shang Shuying of the Pingnan Palace, the enemy of the Li family.And with the help of Geng Jingzhong, the good thing was done!

This Liu Jinzhong's position made Li Zhongshan and his dog-headed military adviser Zhou Chang a little uncertain.

And Zhou Chang proposed this method to test Liu Jinzhong by asking for Shang Shuying as a general. If Liu Jinzhong handed over Shang Shuying readily, it means that he married Shang Shuying to swallow up the people in Duke Xushun's mansion. .Now that the goal has been achieved, if you want to continue to be the eagle dog of the Li family, then this vassal (the vassal of the Li family) can continue to be raised.

If Liu Jinzhong refuses to hand over someone, then this Liu Jinzhong must not stay!
As for Shang Shuying, Zhou Chang's suggestion is to wait for the task of managing Huaixi to be completed, and then find a reason to kill her with Shang Fang's sword, so that she can borrow her good-looking head for use Come to force Geng Jingzhong and Monk Zhixin!

But seeing Shang Shuying being so obedient now, it's hard to find a reason to kill her!
Thinking of this, he glanced at Shang Shuying again, and found that this woman was standing beside Yang Xiaohuan, also looking at himself!

"The last general of the Taiping Mansion, Ma Weixing, is meeting with the supervisor of the cabinet!"

As soon as Li Zhongshan took his gaze away from Shang Shuying, another general attending the court announced loudly.

Li Zhongshan turned his head and saw that he was an unshaven man about the same age as Liu Jinzhong, with a ferocious face and a strong accent.

"Mr. Ma, please come up," Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "You always talk about seniority, but you are the elders of Er, and Er Ada and your older brother Uncle Ma are brothers."

This Ma Weixing and Wu Sangui's fierce general Ma Bao are brothers. They originally surrendered to Wu Sangui together. Later, the Qing court felt that there were too many rebels under Wu Sangui. It was not good, so Ma Weixing was transferred to Fujian, where he was controlled by Geng Jimao and Geng Jingzhong. .This belongs to represent Pingxi Palace to go to Fujian and Jingnan Palace to exchange rebellion experience!
"Supervisor, it is the Three Treasures who are brothers and sisters with Nan Wang, not the lower officials." Ma Weixing stood up, and did not use his relationship with Ma Bao to get close to Li Zhongshan. Instead, he stepped aside and let others continue to announce their names and official positions.

His indifferent attitude is not surprising. Zhou Chang had already analyzed it with Li Zhongshan.Liu Jinzhong may readily hand over Shang Shuying, but Ma Weixing will never hand over hostages to Li Zhongshan.

Because Ma Weixing's younger brother is Ma Bao, who was originally a family member of Wu Sangui and went to Fujian to exchange experience in rebellion.Now that they want to bring the troops back to Wu Sangui's camp, how could it be possible to hand over the hostages to Li Zhongshan?
However, Li Zhongshan ordered Ma Weixing's generals to help Ma Weixing return to Wu Sangui's camp. In other words, he wanted a fierce general like Ma Weixing to help his good friend Wu Shifan, and at the same time weaken Geng Jingzhong.

After Ma Weixing saluted and passed the name, Liu Jinzhong and Ma Weixing's generals saluted Li Zhongshan one by one, and finally Li Zhongshan and Liu Jinzhong met each other with respect.

Although Liu Jinzhong had already handed over the hostages, he was the Northern King of the Ming Dynasty after all. Li Zhongshan was only a minister of the Ministry of War and the governor of Jiangbei, and he was not qualified to let Liu Jinzhong attend the ceremony.

After the two met, Liu Jinzhong smiled and pointed to the Puzikou city road not far from the pier: "Master, please speak in the city."

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "Okay! I just have something to talk to Bei Wang and Ma Zongzhen!"

"Master, please!"

Although Puzikou is only a town, it is the key point for entering Nanjing from Huaixi. It is separated from Nanjing by the Yangtze River. It has always been the only way for merchants from Huaixi to and from Nanjing.This town was already very prosperous in the era when Zhu Yuanzhang ruled the world, so it was well repaired by Zhu Hongwu, an infrastructure madman.In the following hundreds of years, it continued to be built and repaired. When the Hongguang Dynasty was about to end, Ma Shiying sent people to repair Puzikou City. Unfortunately, it was useless in the end!
But now this Jiangbei bridgehead in Nanjing has become a truly impregnable fortress with the joint efforts of Lu Sanhao and Liu Jinzhong!

The [-] Northern Expeditionary Army led by Li Zhongshan will temporarily settle down in this fortress, and before he himself crosses the Yangtze River, the Northern Expeditionary Army that arrived earlier has already been led by He Tianran, Yu Haitao, and Wang Leiyong. Under the control of more than ten thousand troops.

Probably because Jieshu's army had arrived in Hezhou, which was very close to Puzikou Town, so this originally very prosperous town had become a rather simple military city.Almost all the shops in the city were covered with door panels, and the merchants had fled long ago. Only the peasants conscripted from Jiangpu County were like industrious worker ants, pushing small carts and carrying poles, and continuously transporting supplies from Nanjing City from the wharf. Pick up and enter Pukou town.

Liu Jinzhong occupied a rather spacious and luxurious house in Puzikou Town, and at the moment he had already prepared a banquet in the house for Li Zhongshan to wash away the dust.It was not time for dinner yet, and the cook invited from Yangzhou was busy at the back, while Liu Jinzhong and Ma Weixing invited Li Zhongshan and Zhou Chang into the second hall to drink tea and talk.

Li Zhongshan exchanged pleasantries with Liu Jinzhong and Ma Weixing for a while, and finally started talking about serious business.I saw him with a serious face: "North King, Ma Zongzhen, this time I have an important errand, and everyone understands it. Now Nanjing is surrounded by enemies, and the Tartar army is at every step. The situation is difficult to open for a while, so the East King He proposed this method of using the Northern Expedition to encircle Wei and save Zhao."

Hearing Li Zhongshan mentioned the Northern Expedition, Liu Jinzhong couldn't help frowning: "Master, the decree of the supervisory state said that we should follow the example of Emperor Taizu's Northern Expedition, cross the Huaihe River and the Yellow River, smash Youyan, and regain the Northern Capital! Do you really want to fight like this? This seems a bit risky, right?"

"It's not just a little risky?" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "It's really very risky!"

"Then you still want to cross the Huaihe River and the Yellow River to the north, and go straight to Youyan?"

"Yes!" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "Isn't that how Emperor Taizu went to the Central Plains to restore China?"

"But our current territory and military strength don't seem to be comparable to those of Emperor Taizu back then?" Liu Jinzhong frowned, appearing worried about the future of the Northern Expedition.

"That's why we have to imitate the method of Emperor Taizu's Northern Expedition!" Li Zhongshan said, "How did Emperor Taizu do the Northern Expedition back then? It was the Red Scarf Army of the Han and Song Dynasties who swept the land of Youyan, not us. Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty. King of the North, do you still remember how Emperor Taizu made the Northern Expedition?"

"This... Emperor Taizu didn't defeat Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and others, and then conquered the southeast half before going north." Liu Jinzhong said, "We are still far behind!"

Li Zhongshan said: "Taizu also rose step by step! At the beginning, Emperor Taizu was a beggar monk. If he wanted to, he would go to Haozhou, which is now Fengyang Mansion, where he voted for Guo Zixing. Then he gradually became under Guo Zixing's hands. After emerging, he got another chance to take Chuzhou, and then Hezhou. It was only after Guo Zixing's death that he crossed the river to seize Jiqing Road. After taking Jiqing Road, Taizu really took off. Yes. We already have Yingtian, which is Jiqing Road, but why can’t we fly too high? In my opinion, the Haozhou and Hezhou roads are missing.”

"Haozhou and Hezhou are missing?"

Li Zhongshan nodded and said with a smile: "Jiqing is a good place. There are plenty of money and food. The only fly in the ointment is that there are no elites from Huaixi! The Jiangnan regiment trained by Lu Zhongtang is better than my Huai army and Beibei army. Wang, your Jiangbei Army is always a bit of a loser, right? This time we will aim to take Hezhou, Fengyang, Sizhou, Yingzhou, Luzhou, and Liu'an Prefecture! Take the source of troops in Huaixi in the In my hands, I will open up the contact with Li Zhongwang and Wu Xiwang, and form a siege to Jie Shu who is entrenched in Jiujiang, Anqing, Nanchang and other places!"

This Li Zhongshan has a big appetite!
After listening to Li Zhongshan's words, Liu Jinzhong and Ma Weixing already understood what Li Zhongshan was thinking.

What Li Zhongshan wanted was not only Huaixi, but also Anqing, Jiujiang, Nanchang... and the Jiangxi territory between Guangdong, Jiujiang, and Nanchang.

After taking these sites, the land traffic between Nanjing and Guangdong will be unimpeded.At that time, Li Zhongshan will not only get Huaixi soldiers continuously, but also get muskets, artillery and silver from Guangfu!

The powerful Guangdong new army can also go north to help!

At that time, the old Li family can not only swallow Geng Jingzhong, drive away or eliminate Yue Le, Li Zhifang, Fan Chengmo and others, and completely control the southeast, but also break the wrist with Wu Sangui, or turn Wu Sangui into Chen Youliang !
Liu Jinzhong thought for a while and asked: "But now there are soldiers from the Jiangbei and Jiangxi battalions of the Manchu Qing in the north of the Yangtze River. How can we take over Huaixi, the source of soldiers? We only have [-] troops. !"

"Let's pretend to be the Northern Expedition!" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "Let's pretend to be like the Red Scarf Army of Han and Song Dynasties, and give them a tiger and a tiger, and sweep the land of Youyan! And we can also let Wu Shifan cooperate. He fought from Nanyang to Luoyang , we will cut off the canal after crossing the Huai River, and fight north along the Grand Canal."

"Will Wu Shifan cooperate with us?" Liu Jinzhong was a little uncertain.

"Then there will be a general town of Lao Ma!" Li Zhongshan turned his head to look at Ma Weixing, "Does the general town want to return to the command of the Western King? Do you want to assist the descendants of the Western King?"

Ma Weixing didn't want to get involved in the Northern Expedition, but he had to go north only after being named by Li Zhongshan.Now suddenly listening to Li Zhongshan talk about his return to the West Palace, I feel like I have gotten lucky.

And he can directly vote under Wu Shifan's command. From now on, he will be the old man of Shisun Mansion!Although he is old and may not be able to see Wu Shifan ascend the throne, he still has sons and grandsons!
"Zhongtang," Ma Weixing still couldn't believe it, "I'm a servant of the Third Prince, a subordinate of the Eastern King. Can I really go to the Western Palace to serve?"

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "Of course! But you have to take a little risk and act as a tiger and ben three thousand who will go straight to Youyan. As long as Ma Zongzhen is willing to fight northward for a while after Liu Beiwang and I cross the Huai River, After that, it is up to you, Mr. Ma, to decide. No matter where you go, Beiwang and I will take care of you!

In addition, I will write a book and recommend Ma Zongzhen to Shifan! "

"Okay!" Ma Weixing was a straightforward person, "It's a deal!"

At the same time, Jiangsu Province, Huai'an Prefecture!

Huai'an is the old purpose of the Caodu Yamen, and it is still the core of the water transportation business.Although Mingzhu moved the Caodu yamen to Yangzhou before, the only thing that can be moved is a yamen, and the warehouses, docks, shipyards, etc. related to water transportation are still in Huai'an.

So I was ordered to transfer rice, silk, and cloth to the Pearl of Beijing, and these days I returned to Huai'an to work on these things.He also came with Cao Xi, made in Suzhou, and Yuan Linjing, head of the Jiangnan branch of Ruixin Church.These two don't plan to stay in the southeast anymore. They have to take the benefits they have earned in the past two years, as well as the inventory of Suzhou Weaving, and the remaining silver deposits of Ruixintang, and run away together.
And just when the three of them were about to take the official ship to go north together, an amazing news reached Huai'an!
It turns out that Fengyang Prefecture, the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, was defeated in one fell swoop by a Northern Expedition army of tens of thousands of people sent by the "Little Ming Dynasty" in Nanjing without paying attention!
The Ming army who broke through Fengyang did not intend to give up, and immediately crossed the Huaihe River, and posted everywhere "Three thousand tigers, sweeping the land of Youyan", which means that the Northern Expedition is about to go to Beijing!
Is this appetite too big?
And the water transportation to the north will not be interrupted because of this Northern Expedition, right?

No, you have to hurry up!

(End of this chapter)