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"Lu Yuan, how is Liu Chong's situation in Jinzhou at this time?"

In the cabin of the three-masted gunboat, Li Zixiao was in a good mood because of the smooth outcome of the battle, and asked Lu Yuan about the situation in Jinzhou at this time.

"General Qiyu, the situation in Jinzhou is stable, and Liu Chong and Li Sheng are doing well in Jinzhou.

Li Sheng was in charge of the affairs of Lushun and Jinzhou, and Liu Zhong was in charge of leading his troops to defend against the enemy in the area of Hongzui Fort, and they cooperated very well.

From beginning to end, the traitor army led by Shang Kexi never broke through the area of Hongzui Fort that Liu Chong personally guarded, let alone hit Jinzhou.

Half a month ago, Liu re-set a trap to lure Shang Kexi into the trap, defeated Shang Kexi's tens of thousands of troops in a battle, forced Shang Kexi to flee back to Gaizhou in embarrassment, and captured more than 3,000 people.

Since then, Shang Kexi has never left Gaizhou, obviously he doesn't plan to deal with Liu Chong by himself, and it is estimated that he will have to wait for the Tartars to support him. ”

After Lu Yuan heard Li Zixiao's inquiry, he truthfully reported to Li Zixiao.

After listening to Lu Yuan's report, Li Zixiao nodded with a smile and said, "Liu Chong is steady, Li Sheng is careful, and the two of them are really difficult to deal with."

How many times did Hong Sheng send supplies to Jinzhou during this time? Does Liu Chongke have any other requirements? ”

Before Li Zixiao attacked Zhenjiang, he had already arranged for the navy to divide into two routes, one was responsible for cooperating with Zhenjiang and the other was responsible for supporting Jinzhou.

Lu Yuan stayed in Zhenjiang to cooperate with Li Zixiao, while Hong Sheng led two other naval fleets, responsible for staying on Tamna Island and supporting Jinzhou.

"General, Lao Hong has delivered supplies to Jinzhou five times in the past two months, including ammunition, weapons, armor, food, cloth, medicine and other materials.

At present, Liu Chong lacks nothing in Jinzhou, and the only thing he lacks may be a soldier.

Hong Sheng had previously obtained the permission of the general and was able to recruit 2,000 recruits in Jinzhou, making Liu Chong's men close to 10,000.

In order not to occupy the troops in Liu Chong's hands, Li Sheng also planned a militia of 3,000 people in the rear, responsible for maintaining order in the rear.

But general, you also know that the 8,000 'Zhenliao Legions' in Liu Chong's hands at the beginning were mainly based on the city defense army, and the elite of our White Dragon Army was only 2,000 people.

After this period of fighting, Liu Chong also lost thousands of people in his hands, and those city defense troops were barely able to deal with the traitor army that was still gratifying.

I am afraid that against the elite of the Tartars, I will be defeated, and the recruits re-recruited by Liu will not be able to be reused in a short time.

Liu Zhong was worried that after the Tartars ended the Songjin War, they would mobilize the Tartar elite to attack Jinzhou.

At that time, with less than 10,000 troops in Hong Sheng's hands, he is afraid that it will be difficult to hold Jinzhou.

Therefore, Liu Chong asked Hong Sheng to tell the general, hoping that after the end of the Zhenjiang war, the general could send an elite of our White Dragon Army to aid Jinzhou. ”

"Well, I've thought of this a long time ago, when I chose to give up Zhenjiang and protect Jinzhou, I didn't plan to give up Jinzhou again.

And Liu Chong's analysis is also very correct, after the end of the Songjin War in the Tartars, we will never be allowed to bury this nail in Jinzhou, and we will inevitably attack Jinzhou in a big way.

At that time, Liu Chong will face greater difficulties, and the men and horses in his hands are indeed not enough, you sent someone to inform him, so that he can rest assured, and I will send reinforcements to support him after a while. ”

"Yes, when I return to Phi Dao, I will send someone to inform Liu Chong."

"By the way, how is the canal in Golden State being built now? This is the key to whether Liu Chong can hold Jinzhou in the future. ”

Li Zixiao remembered his original plan, in order to keep this lonely enclave, digging through the Isthmus of Jinzhou was the most reliable defense.

Otherwise, even if Li Zixiao sent another 10,000 horses to Liu Chong, it would be difficult for him to resist the attack of the Tartars in Jinzhou.

After all, the geographical location of Golden State is too important, and Huang Taiji will never allow Li Zixiao to bury nails here.

Otherwise, when the Tartars enter the customs in the future, there is still such an enemy force in their rear, and they can copy their back at any time.

It is estimated that when the time comes, Li Zixiao will have the opportunity to come to Shengjing City again, and Huang Taiji will never allow such a thing to happen a second time.

Therefore, Li Zixiao and Liu Chong both knew that Jinzhou would fight in the future, and Liu Chong had never regarded Shang Kexi as an opponent.

Liu Chong has always been on guard against the Tartars, but fortunately, the main force of the Tartars was dragged in Songjin at this time, leaving Liu Chong with enough time to gain a firm foothold.

"General Hui, the excavation of the Jinzhou Isthmus Canal has always been Li Shengzai's personal responsibility.

Li Sheng organized tens of thousands of migrant workers, who have been working since last winter.

It's just that the winter is too cold for their progress to be fast, but since the beginning of spring and the warmer weather, their digging speed has increased significantly.

Now, they have dug through the isthmus, and the canal is ten zhang wide and four zhang deep, which is obviously not enough, and they are also widening it further and digging this canal deeper.

By the time Tartar completely ended the Songjin War and turned to deal with Liu Chong, it is estimated that the canal would have been completely completed.

This canal is definitely worth 30,000 troops, Liu Chong relies on this canal to hold Jinzhou, and it is definitely not easy for the Tartars to capture it. ”

Lu Yuan also smiled and said to Li Zixiao.

"Well, it seems that the situation in Golden State is developing in a good direction, then I am relieved. Before returning to Jiangbei, I will go to Jinzhou again.

Everything is going well in Golden State, so what is the situation on Tamna Island now? The nearly 80,000 people sent before can be properly settled? ”

When he heard Li Zixiao ask about the resettlement of the relocated people on Tamna Island, Lu Yuan showed a wry smile on his face and said, "General, you are still prescient in this matter.

Then a group of scribes were transferred from Jiangbei in time to be responsible for the resettlement of these displaced people, otherwise I would have to die of sorrow. ”

Lu Yuan is also a relatively pure military general, he likes to lead the army to fight, and he has a headache for the complicated work involved in the resettlement of so many people.

Li Zixiao looked at Lu Yuan's happy look at this time, and shook his head helplessly, and asked with a smile: "Who did Qian Guangyuan send over?" ”

"Lord Qian has sent a total of more than fifty scribes this time, and the person headed by is Zhou Qing."

"Zhou Qing?"

After Li Zixiao heard this, he was also a little surprised, he didn't expect Qian Guangyuan to send Zhou Qing over.

Zhou Qing and Li Zifeng are the only two, after coming from the Li family in Jinling, they were accepted by Li Zixiao, and arranged for the two to work in Jiangbei.

Zhou Qing has been in Yangzhou before, responsible for maritime trade.

In particular, he assisted Lin Yuluo, dealt with the affairs of the Li family's fleet, and organized other merchant fleets to go to sea together to trade with Japan.

"How's he doing?" Li Zixiao also wanted to know Zhou Qing's ability now.

If Zhou Qing's ability is really good, with Li Zixiao's feelings for Zhou Bo, he will definitely allow Zhou Qing to continue to work under him.

Even Zhou Qing will be regarded as a key training object by Li Zixiao, and after being sharpened, he can be reused in the future.

"Zhou Qing did a good job, he managed the 80,000 people in an orderly manner, and he arranged for young and strong men to repair roads, expand docks and other affairs.

Those young men had daily work and could get food as a reward, which also gave them peace of mind and stopped making trouble.

And fulfill the promise of the previous general, and began to open up land on Tamna Island, reclaiming arable land and distributing it to the people.

Zhou Qing said that they tried to reclaim enough arable land before summer planting, and Zhou Qing did a very good job, but when he came, the island was much more stable.

I can't say much about the specifics, but the general should go back to Tamna Island and see for himself! ”

"Hmm."

After hearing Lu Yuan's words, Li Zixiao nodded, it seems that Uncle Zhou's son is still quite good and worth using.

Li Zixiao is really short of talents now, military talents are not the most lacking, what he lacks most is experienced internal affairs talents.

At this time, there were thousands of civil officials and officials under Li Zixiao, but at least two-thirds of them were officials of the former Ming Dynasty.

Of course, most of these officials are middle- and lower-level officials, and there are not many left.

After all, Li Zixiao is still not very at ease with these former Ming officials, especially high-level officials, who are not absolutely reliable, and he will never stay.

Last time, Jiangbei almost made a big deal because of those officials who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty and some guys who were unwilling to be lonely.

But those middle and lower-level officials, Li Zixiao chose to stay, these people don't have as many thoughts as those high-ranking officials, and their loyalty to Daming is also dispensable.

These low-level officials value their promotion opportunities more, as long as Li Zixiao can give them a better chance of promotion and fortune, most of these people will follow him.

At the same time, Li Zixiao had to retain these old Ming officials, and the main reason was actually the scarcity of talents under him.

So that in a short period of time, he simply couldn't find so many available officials to take over the positions of these Ming officials.

In order to ensure local stability, the normal order of Jiangbei, and the normal operation of the government at all levels under his command, he can only continue to use these low-level officials in the old Ming Dynasty.

The continued retention of these old officials of the Ming Dynasty provided many benefits to Li Zixiao's smooth reception of Jiangbei.

But there are also many disadvantages, such as these old officials of the Ming Dynasty, when they thought they were officials, they all exercised all kinds of corrupt abilities.

Let them not do things well, let them have various money-making abilities, but they are a strong batch.

Even if Li Zixiao took over Jiangbei and formulated strict punishments for corruption among officials, it still could not put an end to the greed for money in the hearts of those old officials.

Li Zixiao must not let this kind of atmosphere spread, at this time, Da Ming is already a dying old man, and it is normal for these situations to occur.

However, the forces under Li Zixiao at this time are in a period of nascent expansion, and history shows that any newly rising force, during this period, the rule of officials is the clearest.

Li Zixiao didn't want his officials and these old officials of the Ming Dynasty to learn these bad things.

It's a pity that although the talents cultivated by Li Zixiao Wentang are increasing year by year, they are still insufficient.

Li Zixiao has secretly accelerated the screening and replacement of those old officials of the Ming Dynasty.

He asked Zeng Qi's 'Listening to Heaven Pavilion' to continue to investigate the grassroots officials under his command, those who could continue to be retained, and those who had bad deeds would be replaced by the students who graduated from Wentang as soon as possible.

Li Zixiao chose this method of 'moisturizing things silently', and completely controlled Jiangbei little by little.

But this still can't be changed, for a long time in the future, there will be a large number of old officials under Li Zixiao.

Among these old officials of the Ming Dynasty, many of them are still loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and they are willing to do things for Li Zixiao at this time, because Li Zixiao is still the general of the Ming Dynasty after all.

But if one day in the future, when Li Zixiao decides to stand on his own, it is difficult to guarantee that those people will not take the opportunity to make trouble, these people are hidden dangers.

Moreover, with Li Zixiao's expansion plan set in his heart at this time, this time when he returns to Jiangbei, he will officially attack Shandong and Kaifeng.

At that time, Li Zixiao will control more territory, but he does not have so many talents, so he can only continue to appoint this plan and retain the old officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, Li Zixiao is impossible to stand on his own in a short period of time, and the time left for him is still sufficient, enough for him to slowly screen and replace those old officials of the Ming Dynasty who are not credible and have too many bad deeds.

And Zhou Qing, as the son of Zhou Bo, can definitely be regarded as a person that Li Zixiao can trust, as long as Zhou Qing's ability is not too bad, Li Zixiao will reuse him.

Because at this time, to a certain extent, the talents that Li Zixiao needs, loyalty is the first, and ability can only be ranked second.

This point is common to the rise of major kings in history.

Loyalty is far more important than ability.

Don't say anything about nepotism, no matter who you are at this time, you will use the person you trust the most, which is better than using someone you don't know and finally being stuck in the back.

Especially in the period of Li Zixiao's rapid rise, talents are scarce, and his best way is to appoint his closest clansmen.

After all, the clan and he are a community of interests, and it is the least likely to betray him.

However, Li Zixiao basically didn't know much about his own people, and his predecessor was full of resentment towards his family.

When Li Zixiao had just entered this body, he swore to the remaining resentment of his predecessor that he would avenge him, set up another Li family, and never go back in this life.

It is precisely because of this that he has not returned to the Li family in Jinling for all these years, and even the people sent by the Li family to contact him have all been driven back by him.

Because of this, he was criticized by those corrupt people, and some people with ulterior motives spread rumors that he was an unfilial person and had no general demeanor.

For this, Li Zixiao has long known that he will be criticized, but he still insists on doing it, because this is his oath to his 'self'.

Even if he is lucky enough to be an emperor in the future, this may become a stain on his life.

But Li Zixiao still chooses to do this, he firmly believes that 'no one is perfect', and he can follow the example of Li Erdi.

Li Er's enemy is for the throne, killing his brother and imprisoning his father, but this flaw still can't hide his reputation as an emperor through the ages.

Many people in later generations have blackened Li Er, but everyone asks themselves, how many emperors can surpass Li Er in Chinese history.

Li Zixiao's understanding of the emperor's profession is not to compare who is more holy, but to compare who is more mediocre, who is more vegetable and more garbage than whom.

Look at how many emperors have been produced in the history of China, most of them are mediocre people, they are on the road of misery and food, all the way down.

There is no such thing as the most mediocre, only more mediocre.

Li Er's success, to borrow a sentence, is all set off by his peers!

Li Zixiao firmly believes that even if he becomes an emperor in the future, as long as he does no worse than Li Er, this flaw on his body can be completely ignored.

And only in this way can it be more reflective that he is a normal person, and the saint should continue to leave it to Confucius!

Therefore, in this case, Li Zixiao of course wants to reuse Zhou Qing.

(End of chapter)