Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

"Hey, this is not what I want. If you want trouble, you can find an adult..."

At the critical moment, Li Yongxin, a brave general, also turned pale, and pushed all the responsibilities to Zhang Shouren.In the sad and angry eyes of the generals, Zhang Shouren also felt unable to bear the strength.

At the same time, Sun Liangdong, who has always been keen, also noticed the inadequacy of this riding battle plan, and he said proudly: "My lord, in this way, after firing a gun immediately, we must continue to connect. How can you have the time to put away the front gun, isn't it easy to lose it?"

"This..." Zhang Shouren said, "According to the training regulations, after firing the first blunderbuss, throw it quickly, then draw the second blunderbuss to fire, and after the second blunderbuss is thrown away, draw the third blunderbuss..."

All the generals present felt terrified. [

To say that the Fushan Army has never been poor since its establishment. First, it made a small fortune by beating pirates, and then robbed salt and sold it privately. Step by step, they took the road of getting rich. Now everyone can’t say that they are compared with real rich businessmen. , but it doesn't feel too much to spend money.

But no matter how rich you are, that’s not how you use it... Thousands of horses ride thousands of horses on this battlefield, and things as small as firecrackers are thrown on the ground, and thousands of rods and ten thousand rods are thrown down. It is very lucky to be able to recover two or three achievements.

Moreover, it cannot be said that Fushan wins every time... This seems a bit too arrogant. Even when the generals brag, they always say that their subordinates have no opponents in the country, that is, their colleagues in the same town can barely win. Arms wrestling, but to be honest, Donglu has a strong army, has excellent riding and shooting, and is united as one. Although it is a small country compared to Ming Dynasty, in terms of overall strength, it is actually superior to Ming Dynasty. If it really fights, Donglu There are always 20 soldiers and horses in the whole country, and Fushan only has less than [-] recruits, so it is too arrogant to be able to cover all the people in battle like this!

"My lord, this is absolutely impossible!"

"Too vain and wasteful!"

"At the end of the day, I thought it was impossible!"

After one sentence, a thousand layers of waves were stirred up, and the hall was filled with dissenting voices, talking like toads in a pond after the rain.

Zhang Shouren was furious when he heard such a commotion, he had no choice but to speak up, and kicked out all the rowdy Qiu Ba.

After all the generals left, Zhang Shouren turned his face and said to the few people who stayed behind with a tacit understanding: "These guys are gone, it's time for us to discuss serious matters!"

It was impossible to go north, and Zhang Shouren had no intention of staying in Huguang to kill the tiger. Yang Sichang was obviously jealous, and it was pointless to stay any longer.

What's more, Zuo Liangyu's group is also trying to make progress, and those who are fooled by Zhang Shouren want to reduce their family members to train more battalions, make more excellent firearms, and stay to compete with them. The hard-earned contacts will be wasted.

"Your Excellency thinks that there will be changes in the north in the future, so you want to start exploring the south?"

As expected of his brother-in-law, and he was a high-ranking subordinate who had been in Beijing and mastered the military situation, Zhang Shouren's plan was immediately exposed by Lin Wenyuan.

He laughed twice at the moment, which was the default.

The people present are nothing more than the three brothers of the Zhang family, Shi Fu Shi Lu Shi Qiang, one is responsible, the other is meticulous and the other is old-fashioned, and the burden is also a clerical one, so they can share secrets and come up with ideas.

On one side is the uncle, on the other side is the cousin brother, the only outsider staying in the room is Qu Rui who is beside Shen Mo.

The fate of the Ming Dynasty is slipping, Zhang Shouren's view is that it is precarious, and it will be over within a few years.Between the Zhang brothers and Lin Wenyuan, this judgment is only [-]% trustworthy at most, and this [-]% is because Zhang Shouren has not made any mistakes in his judgment so far, otherwise, he would not have half of it.

So although Lin Wenyuan's words were accurate, there was still a hint of sarcasm, obviously he didn't take Zhang Shouren's arrangement for granted.

"I always feel that there are still 200 million soldiers in Ming Dynasty. Among all the provinces, only Huguang and Henan still have a large number of thieves, and the rest of the place is relatively calm. You have to detour thousands of miles, the logistics are difficult, and you can't stay there for a long time, so it can't be said that there is a fear of subjugation.” [

"I think the same as Brother Shifu."

"Even so, your lord's arrangements are not bad, so start early so as not to be caught off guard."

"That's true, I listen to the adults."

"In order to operate, cloth is needed for Huguang, Fengyang to Yangzhou and Huai'an, and Jiangbei borders our Shandong, so it needs to be arranged early."

"There is a Yanzhou, Liu Zeqing is planning to seize the position of Jinan commander, Li Qingshan is probably behind the Yanzhou gentry and this person, we want to seize Jiangbei's territory through him, it will be difficult!"

The three Zhang brothers indeed have an outstanding side, that is, they are responsible and professional, and they are very hardworking on things.

A few years ago, he was a military cook who boiled salt by the sea, his eyes were red with bitterness, and he probably didn't even know who the Zhengyin official in Jiaozhou was at that time.Up to now, without a map, the whole South China is in the chest. This is not difficult for later generations, but it is commendable for the people at that time.

Among the ancients, it is rare for one in a hundred who can understand the geography of the province, and it is not necessarily possible to find a great talent who understands the geography of the whole of China among ten thousand people.

Therefore, among counselors, those who understand geography, understand human relationships, and plan well are first-class talents.Such talents are generally only found among scholars, and soldiers and men are born with insufficient talents. Except for a few outstanding people, it is very unlikely that such a monstrous character will appear.

At the beginning of the dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao banned military generals from contacting scholars. He had a profound lesson and foresight in this regard. His nephew Li Wenzhong was one of the Dukes of the Six Kingdoms at that time. The governor's mansion, because Zhu Yuanzhang raised a lot of scholars in the shogunate, thought that the conspiracy would not turn around, even though he was a nephew, the end was not good...

Now beside Zhang Shouren, there are a lot of generals who are equivalent to high-level scholars. The arguments of the three brothers of the Zhang family in front of them can only be expressed if they understand geography and understand the world situation. It is commendable.

However, the three brothers mentioned that Jiangbei, that is, the borders of Huai, Si, Xu, and Yang, which are close to Shandong, is indeed the place Zhang Shouren must get.

Xuzhou is a strategic location, not to mention its location. Sizhou is a strategic location from Henan to northern Anhui, and then from northern Anhui to Yangzhou. It is separated by the Huaihe River and surrounded by Hongze Lake. Keeping the prefectures of Sizhou, Xuzhou, and Huai'an is to strangle the strategic route to the south. The so-called guarding the river must guard the Huaihe, which roughly means these places.

In addition to strategic importance, these prefectures in Jiangbei have a very large population, well-developed agriculture, and rich mineral deposits. Huai'an and Yangzhou were the transshipment bases at that time. I don't know if tens of thousands of ships pass by every year. The commerce is very developed and the logistics is smooth. A very wealthy place.This kind of place is still a place where the people are fierce and fierce, and it is a place that has always produced strong soldiers. Compared with the Shandong Jiaolai people who are simple and kind, the Huaisi area has always been a place where professional rebels are everywhere.

The founding group of the Great Han was born in the Xuhuaisu area, and the founding generals group of the Ming Dynasty was born in the Huaisi area...

Apart from these, the most envious of Fushan Group is Huaiyang Salt...

The place where the salt was produced in the Ming Dynasty was the best quality well salt in Sichuan and Ganqing, and the place where the most and the most widely sold in the world was Huaiyang.

At that time, Huai'an Mansion had a very large area of ​​jurisdiction. In the coastal areas, there were countless salt nests in the Yancheng area in later generations, and there were more nests in several states such as Yangzhou and Taizhou. In Yangzhou alone, there were more than [-] salt merchants in the city. With production and sales of [-] million catties of salt and more than [-] million salt imports, it is well-deserved that it is the first place in the world to produce salt.

In the Ming Dynasty and the later Qing Dynasty, salt merchants in Huaiyang were powerful places with a lot of gold and silver. Among them, Yangzhou was the place where salt merchants entrenched, and Huai'an was the north-south transshipment center of water transport, and its status was still above Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Linqing, and Dezhou. , the governor of water transport was stationed in Huai'an, and in the Qing Dynasty, there were governors stationed in the festival, such as the governor of Nanhe River, which was the main thoroughfare between the north and the south. The business method has changed in a few years.

But now Jinan and Dezhou have not yet been obtained, and the law of the court's economic system still exists. I have never heard of a general who can serve as the commander-in-chief of the three towns and directly manage the local civil affairs. Qualified...

But Zhang Shouren obviously didn't want any name, what he wanted was substance.

At the moment, he said concisely: "Huaiyang Saltworks must be won. Huaiyang is prosperous in business and abundant in manpower. It is not like Jiangnan where the land is controlled by gentry and landlords. It is not easy to start. To win this place, together with Shandong, will compete with Donglu or Li Zicheng in the future. foundation.”[

Several people present were shocked when they heard the words. In the past few years, this was the first time Zhang Shouren raised the idea of ​​self-reliance.

But thinking about it, from a hundred households to a deputy thousand households, and then to a guerrilla general, he was born in the battle of Jinan, established his great achievements, then became the deputy general town, and then went south, captured and beheaded Zhang Xianzhong in another battle, and became the hope of the world. The No.1 Martial Arts of the Kingdom, the No.1 Martial General after Wanli, and the No.1 Worship General!

With such a means of qualifications and identity, it is probably not impossible to seek basic self-reliance, right?

Seeing that everyone was relatives and confidantes, they still looked tender on the outside and tender on the inside, Zhang Shouren smiled slightly, raised his palm and said: "The most upright people in the world since ancient times are nothing more than this dynasty, and the only one who uses the Son of Heaven to guard the country's gates against foreign enemies This Dynasty. Although the Son of Heaven fails everywhere in his actions, he is not a foolish emperor after all. He is in danger of subjugating the country because of his pursuit of governance. It is probably the current Dynasty. Even if I can stand on my own, I will not replace the Ming Dynasty. , but to promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages, and rebuild the Ming Dynasty, if this statement is violated, the world will not tolerate it."

Such an oath seems to be an act of self-doubt, and everyone is moved. Qu Rui, who had been watching silently for a long time, let out a breath, and interjected: "If you want to go back to Shandong, you should stay in Jinan except Liu Zeqing. Jiangbei still needs a slow plan!"