Chapter 41: The Pillars of the Nation
"What is the situation in Nanjing?"
Yang Feng asked Lu Jiude. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At this time, it was already the second night, and even Wang Chengen and Li Yutian came from there.
"Back to Long Live Lord, it's very chaotic, all the generals in Jiangbei have begun to support their own troops, slaves and Ma Shiying are just relying on the old friendship with them to maintain, especially Zuo Liangyu, Nanjing is dominated by Shi Kefa, Wei Guogong is also a tablet, Shi Kefa is loyal, but he is indecisive, and he is not a person who can preside over the overall situation, and Qian Qianyi has a great influence on Shi Kefa during this time in Nanjing, in the final analysis, Shi Kefa is also a Donglin line."
Lu Jiude said cautiously.
"Leave them alone."
Yang Feng said: "I want them to make trouble, I want them to mess up, I just want to see who is my loyal minister in this world!" ”
Lu Jiude knelt there and didn't dare to speak.
"Then the city of Beijing is broken like child's play, I haven't died yet, those good ministers of mine can't wait to surrender to the rebellion, that Jiang Hao surrendered in Datong, that Tang Tong surrendered in Juyong Pass, that Li Guozhen also surrendered under the city of Beijing, and that Li Jiantai also surrendered in Baoding. They all surrendered one by one, I gave them high-ranking officials rich clothes and jade food, they sold me without hesitation, when I was poor, I borrowed some silver taels from them to defend the city, they immediately cried poor, I begged with tears but could not, and then they sold me as soon as they rebelled. When I went to the coal mountain to hang myself, there was only one Wang Chengen by my side, and my neck was put into a rope, and I realized at that time that my relatives were only you, and as for the courtiers, they could all be killed! I regret that I shouldn't have killed that Wei Zhongxian, if he was still here, why would I be where I am today! ”
Yang Feng said emotionally.
"Your Majesty, if Your Majesty says this, the slave and maid will have no regrets!"
Lu Jiude said as he lay on the ground and cried.
"You get up to speak, I summoned you here, I want you to go back and tell Han Zanzhou and the others, don't worry about the affairs of the court and politics, how they like to toss and how toss, don't the Donglin Party members want to take power? Just let them take the helm, so don't Zuo Liangyu and the others have to support the army and respect themselves? Then let them hug it! Don't leave them alone, you have one duty, you must ensure that I have money and food here, and the other is to send me some of the people I want. I want those Tan people, I want those shanty people, I want those miners, I want all the untouchables who have nothing to do with the Jiangnan gentry, you send them all to me, Taizu has given me a lot of good things, I am short of population now, as long as I have a population, I will retrain an invincible army that is truly loyal to me, at that time I will sweep away all the ugly things like Taizu, and create a new Ming Dynasty! ”
Yang Feng said impassionedly like Ling Baoyi's Kang Mazi.
"Slave Servant."
Lu Jiude said busily.
"It's just that these people will fight?"
He said confusedly.
"Those officers and soldiers would have been able to fight, but in the end, they beat Li Zicheng to the city of Beijing! One by one, what is the use of such an army coming? In the army that broke through the rebellion and besieged Shanhaiguan, I am afraid that more than half of them are official soldiers! I don't care if they fight, I just want them to be faithful! They can't be worse than those bandits and hungry people under Li Zicheng, right? Didn't those bandits and hungry people defeat the officers and soldiers? ”
Yang Feng said with a sneer.
Lu Jiude nodded.
He has led the army to the battlefield many times, naturally he knows very well what the virtues of officers and soldiers are, and he also knows very well where the Ming Dynasty lost, then Tama is from top to bottom, from literature to martial arts, there is no one loyal to the emperor at all, such an army does not lose, then there is no reason, but if there is another Zhou Yuji, Li Zicheng will not be able to go to Beijing.
"It's just Your Majesty, the King of Tang ......"
He didn't dare to say anything more.
Yang Feng has appointed the Tang King to supervise the country, but the emperor is in the north and the prison country is in the south, if this time is long......
"Who do you think is suitable?"
Yang Feng said.
"The slave and maid are brave, and they feel that King Fu is more suitable than King Tang."
Lu Jiude said cautiously.
"I understand your thoughts, but Nanjing is where the tomb of filial piety is located after all, and there is no room for mistakes, and the waste of King Fu is indeed easy to control, but I am afraid that he will not be able to defend Nanjing City one day! It is true that the king of Tang has to take a risk, but he is really talented, and I am still the emperor, if I don't die for a day, he will be a prisoner after all, if he really has the heart of disobedience in the future, can't I abolish him, as long as my army is trained, everything is a chicken and a dog! ”
Yang Feng said.
"The slave and maid understand, the slave and the maid will keep an eye on them with Han Zanzhou."
Lu Jiude said.
"Well, there is also a list here, after you return to Nanjing, in addition to moving those untouchables to the north, Han Zanzhou and you will send these people to me, and then find more craftsmen for me, guns and cannons, shipbuilders, gunpowder makers, in short, all kinds of craftsmen can find as many as they can, these are all I can use."
Yang Feng said.
Then Wang Chengen handed a roster to Lu Jiude, of course, this roster is some famous characters, for example, Yan Yingyuan must be listed, and Song Yingxing and the brothers will definitely not be able to run, Wu Youxing also has a share, and what is even more terrifying is that Lu Jiude also saw a very terrifying name on it......
"Your Majesty, is this Li Dingguo the one under Zhang Rebellion?"
He said in a trembling tone.
"Yes, it's him, we must find a way to recruit him, even if we can't surrender, try to save his life on the battlefield, this is Taizu's will!"
Yang Feng said.
Even if Li Dingguo will not surrender, try to let him have a good death, this person is still worthy of Yang Feng's respect, this is a real national hero.
Although I don't understand, but since the emperor said that it was the will of Taizu, then Lu Jiude didn't dare to ask more, although there are many people on this list, but in fact they are just a trivial matter, except for Li Dingguo's real difficulty level can be called five stars, the others are at most one star, even if Song Yingxing is just a former governor in the township at this time, his brother Song Yingsheng is in Guangzhou as a governor, and a small official like Yan Yingyuan is not worth mentioning.
"And,"
Yang Feng said suddenly: "Arrange a few low-level people to set up a business, and I will have some things to sell in the future." ”
"Slave Honor!"
Lu Jiude hurriedly said.
Yang Feng also has to make money, a small amount of modern mechanical watches, artificial gemstones, stainless steel tableware, silver-plated mirrors and other small things, from those Jiangnan gentry is also very good, and even with the help of Zheng Zhilong to expand the market, from Southeast Asia, India and even farther European countries to make money, not to mention anything else, just from Japan to get copper coins to make cannons is a good deal.
The only problem is Xiao Qian.
But it's not a big problem.
Yang Feng already knows how Xiao Qian gets these things, the car that is her carrier has a certain deformation ability, and can change anything without a large deformation amplitude, and within ten meters of her, she can directly absorb things that are not too big, for example, those soybeans are directly sucked by her helicopter and landed on a bulk carrier, and the medicine is sucked by an ordinary car from a truck transporting medicines, as for steel, it is simpler......
She usually hides in a pile of scrap steel in the image of a scrapped machine.
In short, Yang Feng doesn't have to worry about this matter.
"That's all for now, if there is anything in the future, I will give you a secret decree, you just arrange people to travel between the north and the south."
Yang Feng said.
In this way, he handed over all the affairs of Nanjing to the two eunuchs, in the final analysis, the eunuchs are the most trustworthy in these years, Lu Jiude is also very loyal, originally in history he supported King Fu, after the city of Nanjing was broken, he did not know where to go, this person has always been a supervisor on the battlefield, and has a very good relationship with Huang Degong, and Ma Shiying is also good. And Han Zanzhou is the Nanjing garrison eunuch, he committed suicide after the Qing army entered Nanjing in the original history, the loyalty of these two people can basically be guaranteed, and the rest is how they operate, which does not need Yang Feng to worry about.
None of these top eunuchs are good at stubble, and all of them are scheming, insidious and cunning.
Definitely won't let him down.
Anyway, it's none of his business how Nanjing loves to toss, no matter what the chaos looks like in the end, as long as he has the signboard of Chongzhen on his head, occupies the righteousness and then pushes it flat with the army, although this will be indispensable to war and death, but to this point of today, it is not possible to wash it without blood, otherwise he has escaped this catastrophe and the next catastrophe.
Now the key is farming.
Li Zicheng has withdrawn his army, and when he retreats back to Beijing now, it is estimated that Dolgon has also drilled out of the Rehe mountains, and then I am afraid that it will be the ultimate showdown between the two of them, as for which of them wins and who loses it does not matter to Yang Feng, Li Zicheng won, and he has no time to attack Shanhaiguan again, he has to be busy attacking the city to the south and attacking the Huahua world in the south of the Yangtze River, Dolgon won and also has no time to run to provoke His Majesty the Ming Emperor, he also has to hurry south to grab more territory.
In fact, they have clearly informed Yang Feng of this.
After Li Zicheng retreated, the main force returned directly to Beijing, but left the 40,000 former Ming army headed by Bai Guangen in Funing, and began to recruit the local people, with Jieshi Mountain as the core, in the area of Funing and Changli, to build a defense system, it is said that it is necessary to build a city wall that is obliquely inserted into the sea and dig a trench, making it clear that he is not ready to attack again, just block Shanhaiguan and don't let the Ming army go south, anyway, Shanhaiguan is in the hands of the Ming army and in his hands, it can block the Qing army from going south.
And the Qing army was also building fortresses.
It's just that they are repairing in Lianshan in the north of Ningyuan, this original small castle will be expanded into a real fortress, and even the Wuli River in the south of the city has been dug deep, ready to dig out a moat, in short, to block the possibility of the Ming army going north.
In this way, Yang Feng was relieved.
He can farm peacefully between these two walls of copper and iron.