At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

In the city of Nanjing, the busy Sun Guozhu picked up a piece of silver and looked at it non-stop.

"Your Majesty, this is the newly made silver coin of the Majesty. It is worth one tael. What do you think of its quality?" Wan Niance said respectfully.

Sun Kewang stared at his own portrait on the silver and said: "Yes, in the future we have to issue silver coins so that the people can see Gu day and night, so that they know who is really good to them!"

"The king's strategy of casting silver coins is very clever. From now on, the common people will get used to using silver coins. We can print whatever words we want."

"Lest any ignorant people be deceived." Wan Niance said in surrender.

If you want to deal with the gentry, the most important thing is to snatch their right to speak.

If they had the right to speak, what would they be able to do if they were so weak and added some domestic slaves at most!

After a stone's throw, the landlords' armed forces in the north who attacked and killed Dashun officials did not come about by deceiving the common people.

So Lord Sun has to learn a lesson.

Regarding the right to speak, Sun Guozhu not only sent propaganda teams to the mountains and countryside, but also developed a series of methods.

For example, some operas, such as the story of the king's slaying monsters and the story of the king's pacification of chaos, were all arranged for the people of Jiangnan.

When he was in Guangdong and Guangxi, he promoted opera and established a theater troupe, which was specially organized by the camp management.

The actors were so excited that they almost cried after eating the royal food.

This has greatly enriched the spiritual life of the people of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Compared with the gentry, Sun Guozhu's troupe is undoubtedly a dimensionality reduction blow.

Now that we have arrived in Jiangnan, arrangements have been made for the people as soon as possible.

He developed various operas, which were organized by the government and escorted by heavenly soldiers before driving. He traveled around the south of the Yangtze River to promote Sun Kewang's policies.

Although this move is still not enough, it can at least prevent the gentry from deceiving many people when they make trouble.

Without the common people to follow and cause chaos, the gentry would be nothing!

If the Jiangnan gentry still refuses to accept it, Lord Sun will go straight to the white-haired girl!

When the common people burst into tears and then incited them, they would tear up the gentry themselves without the need for the front army to take action in person!

In addition to opera, Sun Guozhu also produced newspapers and wooden comics.

With the active performance of Fang Yuxuan and other officials from the Ministry of Rites, Sun Guozhu's great image can be said to be in full swing in Jiangnan!

Of course, compared with these, making new money is undoubtedly a more efficient behavior.

The silver dollar in the hands of Sun Guozhu is similar to Yuan Datou, full of weight and of good quality.

It bears the portrait of Lord Sun. Although the quality is not comparable to that of later generations, it is already the limit of this era.

The common people have to see this silver dollar every day.

When the common people saw the great Lord Sun every day, his image as a ruler was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Then carve a few words on it, and it will be whatever Lord Sun says from now on.

You don’t have to read the newspaper, you don’t have to listen to the opera.

But you can’t use the money, right?

Under the combination of Sun Guozhu's punches, the Jiangnan gentry will no longer be able to make waves.

As long as the people don't follow them, the more they disturb Sun Guozhu, the happier he will be.

The gentry from Guangdong and Guangxi, Jiangxi, Shaanxi-Gansu, Shanxi and other places devoted themselves to the fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Although we in the Qing Dynasty have suppressed it, this is the time when the local climax occurs, and we in the Qing Dynasty do not need to bleed to suppress it.

Needless to say, Guangdong and Guangxi, Pingnan and Jingnan are still the three vassals of Dingnan. The Qing Dynasty has to send military pay every year.

The rebels in Jiangxi had been causing the Qing Dynasty to lose blood until Jie Chongxi and Liu Wenhuang were overthrown.

He Zhen, Sun Shoufa, Wu Dading and Gao Ruli from Shaanxi and Gansu first made a fuss.

Then Mirayin, Ding Guodong, and Wang Yongqiang came again.

As a result, the Qing Dynasty had to invest a lot of food, wages, troops and horses to suppress it, which consumed countless resources.

After Jiang Xiang raised his troops, almost all of Shanxi was recovered, forcing Dorgon to devote the main force of the Eight Banners to suppress it.

These places all caused the Qing Dynasty to lose blood, and even threatened the rule of the Qing Dynasty for a time.

But only Jiangnan, even at the climax of the uprising, was sending a large amount of money and food to our Qing Dynasty.

It can be said that our Qing Dynasty relied on blood transfusions from Jiangnan to suppress uprisings across the country.

At this level, Sun Kewang is still scared.

In the past, the hair-cutting order gave the gentry the support of the common people, but even this could not defeat Li Chengdong and his gang.

The Eighty-one Day in Jiangyin was indeed a memorable day, but it made an indelible contribution to the fight against the Qing Dynasty.

However, similar stories exist across the country.

Gao Youcai defended Fugu County, and Wu Sangui surrounded Fugu County in August of the sixth year of Shunzhi.

It was not until November of the following year that the county seat was captured and Gao You committed suicide.

Jiangyin's deeds were commendable, but Yan Yingyuan dealt with Liu Liangzuo, the fifth scumbag of the war. After the Eight Banners soldiers came with the red-coated cannon, they did not last long.

After Wang Yongqiang's death, Gao Youcai resisted Sanguizi in Fugu County for more than a year.

Who can say this performance is worse than Yan Yingyuan?

In fact, in the final analysis, it is still a question of the right to speak. The right to speak in regions such as Shaanxi and Gansu is not as strong as that of Jiangnan.

So many deeds were thrown into the corners.

The Jiangnan area has been weak in culture for a long time, and it is really not good in terms of combat effectiveness.

It is undeniable that when the uprising in Shaanxi, Gansu and other areas reached its peak, the Qing Dynasty had to invest a large number of soldiers and horses with food and wages to suppress it.

Only when the Jiangnan Uprising was at its peak, our Qing Dynasty's annual 8 million salary and 4 million in grain were never cut off.

Therefore, even if the common people participate extensively, Sun Guozhu is not afraid that the situation in Jiangnan will completely collapse, and the food and salary he should receive will not be much less, even if it is small.

But now that the gentry's voice has been weakened, Sun Guozhu is no longer afraid.

Jiangnan gentry, if you want to dance, just dance.

Compared with their fighting power, their property is undoubtedly more valuable.

Even a bald person can become the captain of a transportation brigade.

Can the Jiangnan gentry compare with the bald ones?

No matter how hard he pulls, the principal will still be the one who robs the whole city and is the most outstanding person in the world.

If the Jiangnan gentry dared to jump, Sun Kewang would dare to suppress them.

In all likelihood, after the suppression, after excluding military expenditures, he, the leader of the country, can still make a lot of money!

In November, after the autumn harvest, there were many riots in Jiangnan.

A total of more than 120,000 people from the Six Town Jiaqian Army and the incorporated Green Camp and Rebel Army suppressed the attack with all their strength.

After Liang Cheng led a thousand soldiers and horses to suppress the Qiantang gentry, more than two million yuan was confiscated from their homes.

After giving away 70% according to the old rules, the remaining 30% was distributed to soldiers and civilians.

In the same month, gentry rebellions occurred one after another in Suzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other places.

The soldiers and horses in each town mobilized with all their might and quickly put out the rebellion.

Then countless amounts of money and food were copied.

According to Sun Guozhu's rules, after 70% is turned over to the treasury, the remaining 30% is given to the people, and the rest is divided among the garrison to quell the rebellion. At this moment, the eyes of the entire Jiaqian Army and the local army turned red.

When a rebellion broke out near Changzhou Prefecture, the garrison in Suzhou was so happy that all the rebel gentry were wiped out by divine soldiers and generals overnight.

After the silver earned was handed over to Sun Guozhu and part of it was distributed to the people, the rest was distributed by himself.

When the Changzhou garrison was overjoyed and came to suppress the rebellion, they were surprised that the rebel gentry had lost their lives and money.

The Changzhou garrison was furious and quickly caught up with the Suzhou garrison. The two armies had a small-scale firefight for the spoils of war.

When the Sixth Department of Administration was still worried about the chaos in Jiangnan.

Carloads of gold and silver have been delivered to Lord Sun's treasury.

Wan Niance, Fang Yuxuan, Ouyang Zhi and others were almost shocked.

As the rebellion continued, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River began to lose their heads.

However, the Jiaqian Army and the local army suffered very few casualties and were smiling happily.

The common people also received money and food, and they all laughed from ear to ear.

Sun Guozhu looked at the mountains of gold and silver in Nanjing and smiled slightly, but the civil and military personnel of the Sixth Administrative Department fell into confusion.

In short, the Jiangnan gentry thought that they were tigers, but they did not expect that they would turn into kittens when they showed their abilities.

Tigers can eat people, but kittens can only scratch people.

When the jackals, tigers and leopards under Sun Guozhu beat the kitten to death, they found that the kitten's body was even thicker than the tiger's whip.

In this situation, the Jiangnan gentry was desperate and quickly stopped resisting, secretly eating dozens of bowls of food that was missing and crying alone.

But when the New Year was approaching, an urgent battle report was sent to Nanjing.

"Send the order, quickly send Liang Cheng and Chen Jian to Beijing, mobilize the Hussars to cross the river, and prepare for reinforcements from the north!"

Sun Guozhu frowned when he saw the news sent by Zhang Sheng.

"My lord, the Duke of Han is acting too arrogantly. If a saint behaves this way, I'm afraid it will cause waves in the world!" Wan Niance sighed.

He is a civil servant, and the natural person Zhang Sheng has caused great harm to Yan Shenggong's mansion.

"What Yan Shenggong is, they are just a group of shameless Tatars." Sun Kewang said disdainfully: "The top priority now is to rescue Zhang Sheng."

"As for the Confucius Mansion in Qufu, since all the family property has been confiscated and everyone has been killed, let's just establish the Southern Sect of Huizhou as the official Yan Shenggong orthodoxy."

Sun Kewang really didn't take Yanshenggong seriously.

Since Zhang Sheng had already ransacked his house, he might as well just deal with the remaining people without stopping.

Just pull up the Nanzong of the Kong family in Quzhou and stand it up.

Although Nanzong is not a good thing now, when the Tatars came, they hid in Huizhou, did nothing, and did not move south, so they just shaved their heads silently.

However, compared to the group of people from the North Sect, the South Sect is still better.

Since the Queen of Saints has such a great reputation, for the sake of the scholars in the world, Sun Guozhu simply gave up and let Nan Zong take the throne.

"Master, this is a wonderful strategy!" Wan Niance said with great joy.

After copying the saints and killing a group of saints, this is indeed a big problem.

But after the king directly refused to recognize the people in Qufu as saints, wouldn't the problem be solved?

high! It’s really high!

"Well, whether it's the Qufu North Sect or the Quzhou South Sect, it's hard for me to pay attention to them now."

"The most important thing now is that Zhang Sheng secretly leads his troops north to attack Beijing. With his 18,000 men going deep alone, it is very likely that the entire army will be annihilated!" Sun Kewang sighed.

Zhang Sheng's solo move put his Northern Expedition on the path of Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty is now extremely empty, it cannot be captured by a lone army of less than 20,000 people.

The Manchu Qing still had 50,000 new soldiers in Xuanfu, Datong, and Beijing, more than 10,000 old and weak bannermen in Beijing, and 9,000 capable Eight Banners outside the Pass.

Apart from anything else, if the hundreds of thousands of Manchus in Beijing organized themselves, Zhang Sheng would never be able to take Beijing.

Although the Duke of Han can fight, he can't break this game no matter how hard he fights!

Unless the Manchus themselves made a series of mistakes.

But although the Manchu Qing Dynasty is half dead now, the power of death is still there!

What's more, it's a tiger that's not dead yet?

If you want to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you need to go there with a large army and push forward all the way.

Beijing, which was not lost by Xianfeng and others in later generations, how could the Manchu Qing Dynasty lose it now?

So now we directly send reinforcements to find a way to fish Zhang Sheng out.

Otherwise, this trusted general and his 18,000 elites would be drowned in the sea of ​​Manchu troops, which would be a huge loss to Lord Sun.

Two days later, Chen Jian, the commander-in-chief of Huqi Town, and Commander Jinyiwei notified Liang Cheng to return to Beijing as soon as possible.

"Let's all take a look. Zhang Sheng is eager to attack. He has already led his troops to raid Confucius' mansion, and now he is probably on the edge of the Yellow River." Sun Kewang gave Zhang Sheng's memorial to Chen Jian and Liang Cheng in an angry manner.

"What!" Chen Jian and Liang Cheng looked at the memorial and were shocked.

"With an army going north alone, how could the Duke of Han make such a mistake?" Chen Jian said in surprise.

"Gu is about to ascend the throne. He doesn't want to succumb to Feng Shuangli and wants to conquer Beijing and make contributions." Sun Kewang said slowly.

"What can we do?" Liang Cheng said in shock.

"Originally I just wanted Zhang Sheng to lead troops to disrupt Henan and Shandong, but I didn't expect that he, who is not afraid of death, would go north secretly."

"When he comes back, let's see how I deal with him!"

Sun Kewang said angrily: "Now Feng Shuangli and Zhang Sheng have gone west, Wang Shangli is in Hunan, and Wang Ziqi is in Guangdong."

"The lonely twenty-two towns are scattered, and there are only six towns in Jiangnan now."

"For the current plan, the only way is to send Hu Wei and Hu Qi Zhen north to meet Zhang Sheng."

"Then the land and naval forces were dispatched to assist."

"Please rest assured, Lord, the general will rescue the Duke of Han in the end." Chen Jian and Liang Cheng said with cupped hands.

"Okay, with a thousand Tiger Guards alone, a thousand Jinyi Guard sentries, and the eight thousand cavalry from Huqi Town, you two can temporarily go north to rescue, and you must pick up Zhang Sheng's troops!" Sun Kewang said solemnly.

"The general will definitely live up to his mission as the leader of the country!" Chen Jian and Liang Cheng took the order.

After learning that Zhang Sheng was eager for success, Sun Kewang had to mobilize the Tiger Guard, Jinyi Guard, and Hussar Town, and gathered 10,000 cavalry to go north for rescue.

Then they quickly arranged Yingyang Town and Tieqi Town to cross the Yangtze River north and temporarily stationed in Yangzhou.

After doing this, he sent the navy to go north through the canal and wrote to Zhang Huangyan.

Ask him to lead the Zhejiang Navy from the Zhoushan and Songjiang areas along the sea route to Denglai.

After all these arrangements were made, it was already approaching December.

Zhang Sheng's private trip north disrupted Sun Kewang's plan, but fortunately the Jiangnan gentry was not very capable.

Therefore, there is no harm in deploying soldiers and horses from two or three towns among the six towns.

The remaining soldiers and horses can still maintain Lord Sun's rule over Jiangnan.

But at this time, after half a year of delay.

Wu Sangui finally returned to Kunming with Yongli, preparing to embark on the Northern Expedition. (End of chapter)