Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1489

Ganzhou Prefecture is located in the south of Jiangxi, at the junction of the two provinces of GDFJ. It has always been the key to the two provinces going south.

Thinking that when the Qing army went south, Jin Shenghuan, who inherited Zuo Liangyu’s forces, owned most of Gan Province, but the southernmost Ganzhou Prefecture was granted by the Qing government to Wang Zamao (Wang Deren), who was born in a peasant army. He came up with an idea for them to restrain each other and monitor each other.However, Li Chengdong, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren also rebelled together because they were dissatisfied with the treatment of the Qing court. This was beyond the Qing court's expectation, and their efforts were wasted.

Later, Jin Shenghuan was besieged and defeated by the Qing army, and Wang Deren, who was stationed in Ganzhou, was also in danger.At that time, if the people on the east bank had not been vigorously restraining the coastal areas and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Nanming and Shun armies had rarely cooperated with each other, it is estimated that Ganzhou would have been taken by the Qing army, and Wang Deren would not have been at ease for many years. .

Later, Guo Sheng, the general of the Dashun Zhongying System and JX Jiedu envoy, fought bloody battles with the Qing army. Geng Zhongming, the main force of the JX Qing army, suffered a devastating blow. This JX changed a new owner in a short period of time. But Ganzhou is still in the hands of Wang Zamao, and it has been maintained until his death.

After the death of Wang Deren, who had run Ganzhou for many years, the forces of all parties once again focused their attention on this key place. In the end, Dashun was one step ahead. They took advantage of the favorable opportunity of Wang Deren's rivalry, and continued to intimidate and lure Wang Deren's old department. , Divide up and attract tricks, and finally openly sent troops into Ganzhou City. After many actions, he finally firmly grasped this important town in southern Ganzhou in his own hands.

And Ganzhou's "betrayal" to Dashun was undoubtedly a serious humiliation to the Nanming court, whose territory was getting smaller and smaller, so they were "angry", "shocked", "worried", and "terrified" up.The units of Zheng Chenggong and Li Chengdong, who had been in constant friction in Chaozhou Prefecture before, also turned hostility into friendship under the mediation of the Nanming court bosses.After all, the geographical location of Ganzhou Prefecture is really important, both of them feel threatened if they go to FJ or GD.

In addition, the Nanming court also began to deploy troops to the border to counter the threat of the Shun army.Although their combat effectiveness is very suspicious, and their morale is not very high, but at this critical moment, they can't take much care of them. Who made the bandits of the Shun Army want to annex them?The rabbit bites people when it is anxious, not to mention that monarch who has always looked down on Dashun's bandits!What's more, I heard that Kunming sent envoys to secretly go to the area controlled by the Qing court, intending to unite with the Manchu and Qing courts to destroy Dashun, and play the trick of "borrowing captive bandits" again—although Dashun was destroyed after Dashun was destroyed. It will be their turn next time, but if they can survive for a while, you, Dashun, want my life now, so I will fight you hard!These southern provinces, I would rather give them to the Tartars than to you thieves who have grown rebellious bones in the back of their heads and are too deceitful!

This kind of situation with chicken feathers all over the place is the situation that the Dashun court faced after Li Guo had just passed away.Over the past few years, they have repeatedly provoked friction against Nanming, and they have also continuously encroached on Nanming's territory. So far, they have accumulated considerable hatred, and finally detonated because of the situation in Ganzhou.Today, Nanming has almost become their open enemy. A large amount of troops and materials have been drawn to the southern border, but the Huguang front in the north is still facing tremendous pressure from the Qing court's 20 troops. A line of defense that has been inadvertently operated for many years is Will be broken by the Qing court, just thinking about it makes my palms sweat.

Li Laiheng was also unlucky, his adoptive father Li passed away, and he had just succeeded to the throne for a few days, before he had time to promulgate the reign title and amnesty the world, so he encountered such a problem, and it didn't feel very safe to deal with it.In the end, in desperation, I thought of the Dongguo people who were very influential among the southern forces, so I quickly sent people to the fortress of Madang Town to get in touch with the representatives of the East Bank, and asked them to come forward to mediate and ease the situation, but this is not easy. Woolen cloth?

Not to mention that all the forces in the south have lost trust in the Dashun court, the people on the east bank themselves are quite dissatisfied with the Shun army's annexation of Ganzhou, because they have destroyed the fragile military balance in the south, and have the potential to trigger a full-scale war This is unacceptable to people on the east coast who have always advocated maintaining the status quo.Furthermore, the Shun Army, a military and political group, can be described as "repeatedly taught". When the Ming Army forces in the south of HN were flattened, the people on the east coast warned them once. Later, they "don't know how to repent" and pulled them back from the Southern Ming court. Many former peasant armies extended their power to the junction of Hunan and Guizhou at the same time. This was another incident that caused tension with Nanming.

In this battle for Ganzhou, the Shun Army Group finally put itself in such a dangerous situation, and it was their own fault.After all, there are not many really stupid people in this world. Now everyone can see that the Shun Army "has great ambitions" and wants to take advantage of the favorable opportunity of successive years of disasters in the north to quickly expand its territory, strengthen its own strength, and lay a solid foundation for the future and the overall development of the Qing court. After laying a good foundation for the war (the target of this expansion is undoubtedly the Nanming court that is close at hand), everyone started to prepare their troops one after another, planning to deal with the annexation war of the Shun army. The Shun Army on the front line of Huguang was under great pressure—in this way, things would be a little embarrassing!

The Southern Exploration Team, which is in charge of the situation in the south, held several seminars on the situation in the south before, and conducted a lot of analysis on the current situation in the south and possible future variables. The conclusion is that the Shun army has no possibility of unifying the south in the short term, but The act of annexing Ganzhou must also be beaten.Therefore, Jiang Zhiqing, a member of the Southern Exploration Team, ordered to immediately seize a batch of repaired firearms, artillery, carriage parts and other military supplies that should have been returned to the Shun Army. The dividends of Chuangji Investment Company were also frozen from that day on. All kinds of trade—except grain trade—stopped, the training program for military officers and government officials was immediately suspended, personnel were repatriated to Changsha, and most of the personnel in the Madang representative office were evacuated, leaving only a few people headed by Captain Guo Puxia to stick to their responsibilities. Liaison functions.

This level of beating is not yet able to mass-produce muskets and cannons—Shunjun has been preparing to build an arsenal, but limited by technical capabilities and raw material sources, the output has not been large, and even maintenance can only be small. Making small troubles——for the Shun army, it was definitely very uncomfortable.Moreover, once the trade is cut off, more than half of the sources of strategic materials such as war horses, medicines, saddles, horns, tendons, and cowhide will be cut off. up.

Of course, the people on the east coast are beating and beating, but they still have a good grasp of the speed.Don’t you see, although the new diplomacy written by the Southern Exploration Team to Li Laiheng is harsh, although they have basically cut off bilateral trade, and although they have privately contacted some generals of the Zuoying who have always had a good relationship with the East Bank, they are stationed in the Madang Fortress However, the inland river gunboat fleet never evacuated, and continued to patrol the river and monitor the Qing army as usual.And as long as this small fleet stays on the Yangtze River, the Qing army will have some scruples about crossing the south and south on a large scale. This is probably another rebalancing of the situation in the south by the people on the east coast.

It is actually quite understandable for the people on the east coast to do this, because they do not want the Shun army to die, and they do not want their military and political group, which can withstand the sharpness of the Qing army, to disintegrate.It's just that what the Shun army did before made the people on the east bank feel a little annoyed. They felt that the regime's own will was too strong, and it was already a little out of their control, so they gave them some beatings.However, for now, the Shun Army Group and the East Bank are relatively consistent in general, and their cooperation is greater than their differences. Therefore, this is the last reason why the East Bank Inland River Gunboat Troops have always been stationed at the Madang Fortress and never left. main reason.

A series of suppression actions by the Southern Pioneering Team against the Shun Army has also been copied to Liang Xiangjian. After all, he is the highest military officer in the name of the Far East San Francisco and has the right to read this information.However, Liang Xiangjian doesn't bother to pay more attention to these "broken things" now, and delegates all power to Jiang Zhiqing (of course, even if he doesn't delegate power, he is actually in charge of the operation). His current main energy is actually on SD's disaster relief. In terms of action, it is not a drought, but a flood that was unexpected in the past three years!

Yes, you read that right, after three years of drought, the entire SD (including the neighboring HNHB Jiangbei area) has suffered heavy rains and even hail this year. Many crops that are not easy to plant have been severely damaged, and they can be harvested in autumn. Geometry is really hard to say.Moreover, this is still in the Denglai area where many water conservancy facilities have been built over the years. In SD Xisi Prefecture, where the water conservancy has been in disrepair for a long time, the disaster caused by this continuous heavy rain may be even more serious.Not to mention, there is a bigger hidden danger in the SDHN area, that is, whether the Yellow River will break its embankment under the condition of heavy rain and soaring water level. This is a serious natural disaster not much lower than the level of drought!

Moreover, SD has been plagued by droughts, locust plagues, and floods in recent years, which is extremely unusual. Many people feel uneasy, wondering whether God is punishing SD so that everyone's life is so sad these days.There are even some people who are worried that this kind of punishment is endless, and there will be no more serious punishment in the future.These rumors have a great market in the SD West Fourth Mansion, and they spread quickly. The government has repeatedly prohibited them, and finally they can only let them go. What's more, many local officials of the Qing court are also a little bit worried.

However, people on the east coast have no control over what is going on in the west of SD, and they have little interest in it. The most important thing for them now is how to resettle the disaster victims from all over the country, whose number has slowly increased to 34.You must know that this is not a small number, it is a huge number of people that you need to invest in a lot of food and real money to feed, and now SD is undoubtedly lacking these things-after a long time of more than two years in a row, the Far East Three Almost the last bit of Phan's old capital was squeezed out and used to buy food, but it was not enough, so that he owed a lot of debts. Among them, the Dutch East India Company alone owed 200 million guilders. The difficulty of food for people.

Fortunately, after two or three years of hard work, the Denglai Pioneering Team finally saw a glimmer of victory.Although the heavy rain also brought them great troubles, thanks to the water conservancy facilities built by the people over the years (at the time, there was a lot of public dissatisfaction. changed), these torrential rains did not cause serious floods in Denglai Second Mansion, on the contrary, they were stored in large quantities in lakes, reservoirs, and ponds, moistening a large area of ​​thirsty land and bringing a lot of water to the wilting wheat seedlings in the field. Although it is not easy to estimate the amount of the precious water of life, this year's harvest should be much higher than last year's. This is extremely important for relieving the food pressure of Denglai Second Prefecture.

Because of this, the large number of disaster victims collected by SD this year, except that some continue to be transported by boat to Dandong, Kuandian, Ezodi, Sakhalin Island, Amur River Basin and other places for reclamation and planting (by the way, to enrich the local population), most Some people still stayed in the Second Mansion of Denglai to open up wasteland on the spot (there is a lot of open space in Dengzhou anyway) in order to increase the local food production.I believe that as long as the food crisis is successfully overcome and the population is finally digested, the strength of the entire Denglai Pioneering Team will be improved to a higher level. About this matter, Liang Xiangjian is also very clear.

Fortunately, at present, there are almost no new refugees coming to Denglai, and Liang Xiangjian no longer intends to continue to expand the territory of the Denglai pioneer team. Let this matter of SD go by in such a muddle. Well, Lao Liang is about to retire anyway, so there's no need to ask for trouble before leaving.

"There are more than 30 disaster victims. At the beginning, I never thought that so many people would be recruited! I thought it was ridiculous to take the initiative to search for disaster victims without self-control. But fortunately, the most difficult period has passed. Yes, SD's grain harvest this year should be 200% more than in previous years if there are no accidents. This is a huge amount of grain, which can greatly reduce the pressure on food and debt on our heads. Owing to East India The company’s 30 million dong debt can be repaid slowly. The 10 yuan debt owed to the Bank of Taiwan will be offset by policies in the future. As for the [-] yuan owed to the North Koreans and Ningbo businessmen, well, Let’s owe it first, anyway, they have made a lot of money over the years, especially those merchants involved in the trade with the Netherlands.” Sitting in his office in Yantai City, Liang Xiangjian thought with emotion.

(End of this chapter)