Chapter Seventy-Three: Ming Optimus Prime
Turg stood silently outside the Yanmen Pass and sighed heavily. He and Abatai's soldiers marched into the Central Plains in two ways, Abatai entered from the side of the Gyeonggi Mountain Customs, and Turg entered Shanxi from Yanmen Pass. After the two armies converged near Gyeonggi, they divided their troops and plundered the world.
It's just that Turge was more unlucky, he first encountered a plague in Shanxi and couldn't get supplies in the wild, and after breaking through Shanxi and trying to enter Henan and Shaanxi, he was blocked by Sun Chuanting, who returned to his division.
In the face of Sun Chuanting, the famous marshal, the big city of Turg is not broken, and the small city is irrelevant to the Ming Dynasty. For a while, no one knew about the deputy marshal of the Qing army, so that when He Tuo was embarrassed to bring more than a thousand remnants of the defeated general from Shandong to the cavalry battalion of the Royal Guards Legion to pursue, everyone suddenly remembered that there was such a person as Turg.
In the face of Abatai's fiasco, Turg had no ambition to lead thousands of divisions to regain his ground, so he deserved to withdraw from the Great Wall under the watchful eye of the officers and soldiers.
This time, they no longer returned to Liaodong with a huge amount of gains like the previous five invasions, and only unprecedented losses were given to them.
and, the shattering of the myth of the invincibility of a Jurchen.
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When the last Qing soldiers left the Great Wall, the Ming could finally restore some tranquility. Peace, it seems, is back.
This was clearly a great start for the Royal Guard. They started the most enjoyable part.
In the residence of the Royal Guards Corps in Linqing New Town, Zhu Cihong happily announced the opening of the celebration banquet.
For a time, a large circle of places from Linqing New Town was occupied by the celebration banquet.
And the place located in the core of the university is full of tables and chairs. Put away the wine and meat.
It's just that the soldiers in the audience have little appetite. They all landed on the stage and watched a few slowly coming. It is rumored that the man will be in school uniform.
These people are naturally the generals of the Royal Guards Legion. That is, Zhu Cihong, Yang Wenyue, Si Qi and the lieutenants of the battalions and regiments.
Zhu Cihong stood in the middle, and when he saw everyone's eager eyes, he immediately smiled, waved his hand and said, "Come here alone, just to raise the level of our Royal Guards Legion." Lone will not talk nonsense and do something that wastes time, Lone will come over and say: Congratulations to everyone on this great victory that has been left for thousands of years! ”
Suddenly, I don't know who started it, very quickly. The whole army shouted one after another.
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
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Zhu Cihong smiled and waved his hand, and handed over the scene to Yang Wenyue and the others to be responsible.
After this battle, Zhu Cihong was finally able to calm down. With the successive relaxation of military affairs, Hu Bo and Wu Youxing relaxed one after another. They could finally be sure that Zhu Cihong was only occasionally suffering from the wind and cold, not infected with the plague.
There are many good news, but Zhu Cihong is also in a good mood.
The Qing army ran away, and Zhou Yanru was about to fall, and the army was busy with rewards and promotions that made the whole army happy. Even Zhao Shiyao, a small wealth fan who hurried over. He also set his eyes on the ten million taels of silver that had been seized.
This number, when Zhu Cihong heard it with his own ears, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
Historically, the Qing army sacked North China and handed over about one or two million taels to the Qing army's treasury. Of course, the military discipline of the Qing army will not be so strict. 40,000 soldiers. Hiding private goods up and down can falsely report millions of taels, not to mention that Abatai himself has to make a fortune. After all, Huang Taiji only rewarded 15,000 taels in the end.
In fact, it is not only a problem of false reporting. This time it was even more powerful than the sack of the Qing army in history. Chen Weidao, who didn't know whether to live or die, even cleaned up the Kong family, so he was naturally sharp.
And. Zhu Yipai, the king of Lu, buried the hidden silver, but was betrayed at the last moment. also followed and ordered the Qing army to loot it. And in the face of the pursuit of the cavalry battalion of the Royal Guards Legion, it was obvious that he could not escape with millions of taels of family assets, so he could only run for his life.
As a result, such a large sum of money can only fall on Zhu Cihong at the last moment.
As for the family wealth of ordinary people, Zhu Cihong naturally did not intend to take it for himself, but launched a post-war recovery plan, which was eventually used on the people. For those family wealth claimed to have been looted by the Qing army, Zhu Cihong naturally left all of them. Zhu Cihong knows a lot of things about the wealthy families who have changed the land deeds and robbed people's fields, this kind of place that no one can say, Zhu Cihong can't give it to the hands of the real bitter master.
In this way, the silver taels that finally converged into the silver treasury of Hengxin Qian Zhuang were tens of millions of taels.
Such a huge number shocked Zhu Cihong for a long time.
At the same time, on the other hand, an extremely rich political fortune also began to wait for Zhu Cihong's smile.
In the study of the Prince's Temporary Marshal's Mansion.
"Your Highness, Master Jing's letter from Shangshu." Zhang Zhen handed over a secret letter.
Zhu Cihong took it apart and looked at it, and immediately laughed: "The default status quo proposed by Da Si Nong that day has made a good ambush for now." This time, I can finally correct my name. ”
"What about Gu Jiang? Let him prepare and seal 800,000 taels into Beijing. Zhu Cihong said, gently stamping his big seal on an official document.
800,000 taels, this is obviously Zhu Cihong's gesture of goodwill to the imperial court.
Receiving Zhu Cihong's kindness, the court quickly gave Zhu Cihong a long-lost title seven days later.
"The generalissimo of Shandong, Shuntianfu and Henan."
Zhu Cihong's title of the last generalissimo in charge of the suppression of bandits in the Central Plains provinces has long been invalidated by the court, and Zhu Cihong's current responsibility for military affairs in Shandong and Henan is actually unjustifiable.
This time, although the court only gave the military power of Shandong, Shuntianfu and Henan, it had actually recognized the legitimacy of Zhu Cihong's military operations in these three places.
Zhu Cihong is the crown prince, and he is not an official who has entered the civil official sequence. Therefore, Zhu Cihong was quite entangled in how to arrange Zhu Cihong's position at the beginning. After all, if you are not a civilian official, it is not good to meddle in the personnel of civilian officials, and it is always a bit nondescript to have a superintendent in charge of all kinds of military affairs.
It's different to be a military attache like a generalissimo, and Emperor Chongzhen can give it as much as he wants.
It's just that Zhu Youzhen obviously wouldn't have thought of it. The title of generalissimo has made it difficult to check and balance the situation in which civilian officials overpower military attachés.
At this time, Zhu Cihong's group of soldiers who accompanied the military academy finally got a chance to take a vacation and were able to return to Beijing one after another.
Not long after, there were rumors of Zhu Cihong's legend among the Beijing teachers. (To be continued.) )