Chapter 751: The Great War in the Central Plains (5)
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The Ming army led by Zhu Hongsan had crossed the Yellow River and entered the de facto north. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, because it was just in the Xiaoice period, it snowed in Hainan at the coldest time, although the Xiaoice period has eased now, but Zhu Hongsan knows that the Xiaoice period that led to the fall of the Ming Dynasty this time can not be truly relieved until the Kangxi period.
Zhu Hongsan was now sitting in a big tent on the shore of Ansan Lake, it was getting late outside, and all the soldiers except for the soldiers standing guard were resting. Because everyone knows that the fierce war is just around the corner, and if the war starts, it is not known how many days it will end, so we must seize all the time to rest.
Zhu Hongsan did not rest, as the emperor enjoyed his rights and paid obligations. During the Northern Expedition, Zhu Hongsan still had to approve the excerpts sent from the rear, of course, not all, but the cabinet could not handle it, or he needed the emperor's final arbitration, so the cabinet sent it to the front line and handed it over to the emperor for processing.
It was getting late now, and the big camp was on the shore of Ansan Lake, and a cool breeze blew over and made Zhu Hongsan shiver. Li Chengen, who was standing at the door, saw it and quickly ordered the little eunuch to lower the curtain and maintain the temperature in the tent.
"Emperor, it's not early, it's time to rest!"
Zhu Hongsan put down the pen and looked at Li Chengen, Li Chengen knew that this master was moody, and he would kill people when he stared, and he didn't know how he made his master angry, so he quickly lowered his gaze and didn't dare to look at Zhu Hongsan.
How do you know that Zhu Hongsan was not angry, but asked with a kind face: "Lao Li, I remember that your family is from Nanzhili?" ”
Li Chengen secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the emperor say this, and hurriedly replied: "Back to the emperor, the slave's hometown is in Wujiang County, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, and now it has been renamed Jiangsu Province!" ”
Suzhou? Isn't that a fellow countryman with Qian Qianyi in Changshu?
"Lao Li, so you and Qian Qianyi are both from Suzhou Mansion, Jiangsu, you are fellow countrymen!"
Li Chengen smiled bitterly, where can he talk to Qian Qianyi about fellow countrymen with his identity?
"Let the emperor laugh, the slave's family is poor, and Qian Ge Lao can't look down on such a poor person as the slave!"
Zhu Hong nodded, Li Chengen was a little pitiful, otherwise how could he cut that thing to be a eunuch?
"Lao Li, tell me how you became a eunuch with a promising career!"
Li Chengen has been by the emperor's side for a long time, knowing that this emperor likes to talk nonsense, he quickly bowed down and said: "Back to the emperor, the slave's family was originally a Wujiang farmer, my parents died early, and it was my brother who raised the slave!" Originally, my family still had more than a dozen acres of thin fields, and my brother and sister-in-law could still have some left after a year of hard work. The slave's brother wanted the slave to read and write, and it was best to jump out of the farm, so although the family was not rich, he still sent the slave to the private school in the town to study! ”
Li Chengen is in his forties this year, and while talking, he remembered his hard childhood, and slowly began to recall the past.
Originally, Li Chengen's fate was to read some books, at most he was a talent, and then spent his life in the countryside of his hometown, and then educated the next generation to read.
However, Li Chengen lived in the embryonic era of the bourgeoisie in the middle of the Wanli period, and anyone who has studied Capital knows the famous saying that "when capitalism comes to the world, blood and filth drip from head to toe from every pore", and China is no exception. In the Ming Dynasty, the economy of Jiangnan developed greatly, and in order to meet the cheap raw materials needed for overseas trade, some large landlords and big families in Jiangnan began to annex local land. It costs money to sell your things, and it's easier to turn you into a tenant.
So as a homesteader Li Chengen's family was framed by a local landlord in Wujiang, Li Chengen's brother died in prison, and his sister-in-law was sold to the hook fence with some appearance, and the family was only left with Li Chengen, who was less than 12 years old, and his nephew Li Zhun.
Although the young Li Chengen has read some books, he is not even a child, so he naturally has no ability to deal with these big families. In the end, he had no choice but to sell more than a dozen acres of land in his family, and then went to Suzhou with the silver.
The land is gone, but people are still alive, not to mention that Li Chengen also has a five-year-old nephew to support, so Li Chengen used the silver to bribe the weavers in Suzhou and became a servant by Cao Huachun's side.
Cao Huachun's family was humble when he was young, and he entered the palace at the age of twelve or thirteen. Because of his talent, diligence and studiousness, he received a good education in the palace, and was proficient in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and was deeply appreciated by the eunuch Wang An, who relied on him as a cronie. Later, the king of Xinxin accompanied and served the five emperors, Sun Zhu Youzhen. In the early years of the Apocalypse, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian was favored and killed, Wang An was killed, and Cao Huachun was implicated and expelled from Beijing, and came to Suzhou to work as a weaver.
It is precisely because of the similarity between Cao Huachun and Li Chengen's experiences that Cao Huachun likes this clever boy very much, and the next thing is to purify Li Chengen, change his name, enter the palace, and become Cao Huachun's godson, and his name is also changed to Cao Fang.
Zhu Hongsan heard Li Chengen talk about the history of blood and tears here, and after listening to it, he nodded and said: "Lao Li, you should thank the landlord who killed your brother at that time!" ”
Li Chengen is reminiscing about the past, and after hearing the emperor say this, he hasn't changed for a while, so what's the matter! It's too jumpy!
"Lao Li, look at it! That landlord killed your brother, so that you can go to Cao Huachun as a godson, go to Guangzhou City, and meet me! Look at you now, Dongchang Gonggong, what a powerful position, those low-level officials see your legs and stomachs turn tendons! And your nephew, if it weren't for your brother's death, would he be a hereditary brocade guard? So you have to thank the landlord today! ”
Li Chengen really had nothing to say when he heard the emperor say this, and Zhu Hongsan's logic was really unacceptable to ordinary people. If someone else dares to say this about Li Chengen, the factory director of Dongchang, it will really be a lantern on the thatched house - looking for! However, it was the emperor who spoke, it was different, Li Changgong was not a fart that Zhu Hongsan said, so he quickly nodded his head and agreed with Zhu Hongsan's statement.
Zhu HongsanNo matter how your Li Chengen's brother died, or how many people your sister-in-law was ridden, Zhu Hongsan's question today is exactly what he saw from the cabinet just now, that is, Jiangsu Province has begun to fully implement land surveying in Songjiang and Suzhou Provinces.
As for the result, you don't have to think about it to know, the place doesn't cooperate! Suzhou Prefecture has six counties under the jurisdiction of one state, and only Qian Qianyi's hometown Changshu County really began to measure, but it is also out of shape, and several other states and counties have not moved. As for Songjiang Prefecture, which is not as good as Suzhou Prefecture, the seven counties under its jurisdiction have not moved at all, for various reasons, such as the lack of manpower in the local area just after the military disaster, and the county's financial difficulties that need to be allocated from above, anyway, it is just one, and I don't want to work.
Zhu Hongsan was angry when he saw the excerpt transferred by the cabinet just now, so he chatted with Li Chengen. Now after Li Chengen's complaints, I see that there is still Zhu Hongsan in the world who is more miserable than his own life. Zhu Hongsan picked up the pen and wrote on the fold: "Got it!" Then he threw the pen aside. Now the Northern Expedition is the most important, Zhu Hongsan doesn't want to let the backyard catch fire at this time, everything will wait until the Northern Expedition is over.
Li Chengen lowered the curtain of the big tent just now, and now the temperature in the house is rising, but it is a little stuffy. Zhu Hongsan got up and came to the door, and said to the little eunuch: "Open the curtain!" ”
The little eunuch hurriedly stepped forward to open the curtain, and a cold air of an autumn night came in, and Zhu Hongsan's spirit was lifted.
Zhu Hongsan's big tent is on the shore of the lake, and five hundred meters away is the transport fleet, which is lit like stars in the night sky. Zhu Hongsan saw that his team was in a much better mood, yes! Although those stinky old nine hated it, they still have this team that is absolutely loyal to themselves, Mao Taizu is right, the power comes out of the barrel of the gun, as long as this army is captured, some reactionaries are paper tigers.
Zhu Hongsan was blown by the cold wind and his sleepiness was gone, and he turned to Li Chengen behind him and said, "Go, go out for a walk!" ”
Li Chengen hurriedly took out a big piece and draped it on Zhu Hongsan's body, and then walked out of the big tent with Jinyiwei and Zhu Hongsan, who were on duty at night.
Today's camp of the Ming army relies on Ansan Lake, one side is the lake, because a few hundred meters away is the fleet, so there is no wall on this side, but there are more soldiers patrolling.
Zhu Hongsan's big tent is less than 200 meters away from the lake, and Zhu Hongsan is walking on the soft land by the lake, and he is in a very good mood.
Tonight, because of the urgency of the situation, Han Sanqiang, the commander of the Praetorian Guard Division, was on duty in person, and he received a report from his subordinates that the emperor had not slept and went to the lake for a walk, and Han Sanqiang hurriedly took his military attachés to the lake.
After Han Sanqiang arrived, he saw Zhu Hongsan strolling by the lake, Han Sanqiang stepped forward and saluted and said, "Your Majesty, the night is windy, let's go back to the account!" ”
When Zhu Hongsan saw a group of military attachés coming, he was happy and asked, "Why haven't you guys rested?" ”
"Your Majesty, tonight is the last general's class, and now the enemy situation is unknown, the last general does not dare to rest!"
Hearing Han Sanqiang say this, Zhu Hongsan remembered that there were 50,000 Manchu cavalry on the opposite side! I don't know where to hide.
"Lao Li, how about the scout that you sent out before dark? Are you back? ”
"Emperor, the minions have been sent out to scout in four ways, and now the south and west are back, and the north and east have not come back, and the minions have already sent the second batch, see what is going on!"
There must have been traces of Yue Le's 50,000 cavalry marching, and it seems that there is a problem in the north and east.
"Did the person who delivered the letter to Li Yuanyin send out?"
"Back to the emperor, it was sent out before dark!"
"In sending three batches, we must send the news to Li Yuanyin!" Li Chengen agreed to go down and make arrangements.
Seeing that the emperor was so careful, Han Sanqiang asked, "Your Majesty, isn't it 50,000 people!" Ma Kun, that guy can use one and a half divisions to break Duoduo's 200,000 horses in Nanchang, and the last general can use one division to break Yue Le's 50,000 people! ”
Zhu Hongsan saw that Han Sanqiang was unconvinced, and scolded with a smile: "You guy, Ma Kun took advantage of the terrain in Nanchang back then!" Now we are different, here are all plains and hills, the cavalry can march for a hundred miles a day, if you don't arrange a plan to kill, it will be difficult to find them in the future! ”()
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