Chapter 260: Tang Shuren Zhu Yujian

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The sudden influx of money, especially hard currency like silver, into the market is a great disservice to the economy, not a bailout.

If there is more money on the market, prices will soar, and this simple and easy-to-see truth Wu Zheng understands.

But the problem is that, like the later generations who invested money in infrastructure, it is obviously not up to it in this era, and if you spend a lot of money and years on construction, an unexpected war will bring everything back to its original shape.

Even, if you can't fight and need to be transferred, will you leave these achievements to the Tartars or will they be completely destroyed?

So, after a few days of consideration, Wu Zheng decided on the way to use this windfall.

used half the money to form a brand new water division, but Wu Zheng couldn't get through the water army, so he could only rely on Wang Zhiren.

Therefore, placing the sailor under Wang Zhiren has become an unavoidable hurdle.

Wu Zheng also thought about personally controlling this water division, but after thinking about it again, Wu Zheng felt that it was unrealistic.

Even if he sent middle- and upper-level officers to control the Sailor Division, he would not be able to influence Wang Zhiren's subsequent changes in the officer level of the Sailor Division.

On the contrary, because of this, the discord between himself and Wang Zhiren was not worth the loss.

It's better to be generous and directly "send" this sailor to Wang Zhiren, then you can get Wang Zhiren's gratitude and owe yourself a favor.

Moreover, it is easier to control it from above, after all, these eight million need to be taken out of their own hands.

Also, with the strength of Wang Zhiren's Dinghai counties, there is no problem in feeding the current Dinghai Division, but suddenly he has to feed another new army that is larger than the original Water Division, and this pressure is enough to drag Wang Zhiren down.

In other words, as long as the imperial court was still under his influence, Wang Zhiren had to rely on himself for the supply of the new army.

Therefore, Wu Zheng had a plan to put the sailor under Wang Zhiren's command, and judging from the results of the negotiation between the two, the effect was good.

Wang Zhiren was obviously a smart person and understood the meaning of Wu Zheng's words.

In fact, when it comes to Wang Zhiren's current identity, many things don't need to be said too thoroughly.

Fools can understand that eight million taels is not eight taels, this doesn't mean that if you give someone away, you will give it away.

There is still half of it, Wu Zheng is still used in the military, and now Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Songjiang, Suzhou, Changzhou and even Yingtianfu, across thousands of miles, the soldiers needed are no longer the only remaining 40,000 or 50,000 people that Wu Zheng can deal with.

The need to recruit new soldiers and form a new army is imminent.

This is also the main reason why Wu Zheng agreed to temporarily negotiate a truce with the Qing court, and the Qing court wanted to rest, and Wu Zheng was more urgent.

Wang Zhiren is right, greed can't chew too much, progress is too fast, the foundation is not real, once there is a change, it will be a chain reaction.

Spending all such a large amount of wealth on the military, without spending a penny on people's livelihood, even Wu Zheng, the initiator, was a little dumbfounded by his decision.

But Wu Zheng knows that in this world, only the military can protect the people and things he wants to protect.

For the military, it is really for the people's livelihood, otherwise, everything is empty talk.

On the first day of the fifth month of the first year of Changping (1646), the Shaoxing government and the Qing court launched the first round of armistice negotiations.

Strange to say, the two sides have been fighting for seven or eight days, and the focus of negotiations has been held in Longtan, between Zhenjiang and Yingtianfu.

However, the expansion and mobilization of troops on both sides of the Jiangbei and Jiangnan banks are still proceeding intensely.

There is no intention of relaxing.

In fact, it is not surprising that although the Qing court was deflated on the front line of Hangzhou, they made great progress in the northwest and southeast.

The Qing army under Meng Qiaofang had occupied most of Shaanxi.

Wu Sangui and others have already occupied Hanzhong.

Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi's army from Yuezhou, Changsha, Xiangtan, and Hengzhou was like a bamboo.

Gongshun Wang Kong Youde and Le Ke Dehun also successfully conquered Taizhou and Wenzhou, and are marching to Fujian.

In other words, except for the area from Yingtianfu to Hangzhou, the Qing army occupied almost half of the south.

Although the area from Yingtianfu to Hangzhou is not small, it is only a small part of it in the entire land of China.

It is conceivable that how could the Qing court give up?

Therefore, the truce is only for the sake of a bigger and more ferocious war.

At this time, the situation in the Longwu Dynasty was already in danger.

Here, I have to talk about Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian.

Zhu Yujian is the ninth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang and was crowned King of Tang.

Zhu Yujian's life experience is relatively bumpy, compared with other royal families, he has experienced the bitter cold.

Zhu Yujian's grandfather, the old Tang King Zhu Shuoxi, was infatuated with the concubine, and he always cherished the son born to the concubine, and hated Zhu Yujian's father's son, Zhu Qiqi.

So, he secretly imprisoned Zhu Yujian's father and son in the Chengfeng Division, and wanted to starve them to death, when Zhu Yujian was only twelve years old.

Fortunately, there was a petty official Zhang Shutang who helped to secretly send some brown rice to spend the day.

In this way, Zhu Yujian's father and son lived in the prison cell for 16 years.

When he was in prison, Zhu Yujian immersed himself in hard reading, delved into Confucian classics, and did not waste time.

Later, Zhu Yujian's father was sick and dying, and when he was about to get out of his life, he was poisoned to death by his younger brother, who was eager to attack the throne of Tang Wang, in the second year of Chongzhen.

The old Tang King was ready to crown the son of his concubine as the son, and he also wanted to cancel Zhu Yujian's status as the son.

As a result, when the local official Chen Qiyu mourned the Tang prince, he secretly warned the old Tang king that the cause of the prince's death was unknown, and he rashly changed the hereditary candidate, maybe the court would blame him in the future.

The old Tang King was afraid that the law would be investigated, so he hurriedly appointed Zhu Yujian as his "grandson".

In the same year, the old Tang King also died, and Zhu Yujian took the throne of the Tang King.

Therefore, Zhu Yujian, who has such an experience, is very different from those pampered royal children.

He is educated, honest, and self-motivated.

It's a pity that in troubled times, although he has the intention to kill the thief, he has no power to return to heaven.

At the beginning of last year, the Hongguang Dynasty fell, Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, surrendered to the city of Hangzhou, Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty, Huang Daozhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Hongkui, etc., were called the prison in Fuzhou by Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, and then ascended the throne as the emperor.

can look at this list of supporters, you can know that the real power holder of the Longwu Dynasty is not Zhu Yujian, but Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui.

In troubled times, there is power only when there is an army, and the same is true for the emperor.

Therefore, no matter whether Zhu Yujian is determined to restore the country and recover the country, or whether he has the spirit of the lord of Zhongxing, he cannot get rid of Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui's manipulation of the government.

At the beginning of Zhu Yujian's ascension to the throne, he also made quite a lot of achievements, he established the main business of "driving captives", and after ten days on the throne, he killed the envoy Ma Dechang sent by the Qing court to surrender, and ordered the civil and military subjects to swear to resist the Qing Dynasty to the death, and decided to command the six divisions to prepare for the imperial expedition.

Of course, this was obstructed by the Zheng Zhilong brothers, and it was not realized, the purpose of these pirates to support Zhu Yujian was to put him by his side as a banner, how could he really take charge of the army and run away?