Chapter 285 The Prosperity of the Great Yuan is Back!
Chapter 285 The Great Yuan Dynasty is back!
Author: Mu Yunfeng
Chapter 285 The Great Yuan Dynasty is back!
The Suzhou gentry used extremely high efficiency to mobilize their troops before Lan Yu started his general attack.
It's actually not that difficult.
Mainly because the commander of the Suzhou Guard led three thousand of his men and went north with Lan Yu.
As the magistrate of Suzhou, Yao Shan invited the generals who stayed behind to have a drink and discuss how to deal with the problem that Qi Tai and other rebels might flee to Taihu Lake. These generals were unprepared and were detained and imprisoned immediately after arriving at the government office. Then he
The civil servants in Suzhou city and the gentry from the two counties were summoned, and the so-called imperial edict of Emperor Daxing was read out in public. Several major family leaders who had already known through Huang Yue the so-called promise of King Wu immediately shouted long live.
Then it was time to welcome the King of Wu.
The latter had been waiting outside the city. A group of civil servants and gentry, led by Yao Shan, came out of the city to welcome King Wu to the vassal state.
Immediately afterwards, King Wu rode in a sedan chair and entered Suzhou amidst the bewildered people of Suzhou. He used the prefect's Yamen as his temporary palace, and then issued a notice or promise to calm the people.
Now I am truly the Holy Lord and Mingjun.
Even the gentry who originally didn't know the inside story were all excited.
At the same time, King Wu also decreed that since his bodyguard had not yet been formed, the gentry in each county was allowed to organize group training to protect the country and the people. As for raising funds by themselves...
"You really know how to play. Are you following the example of the Dutch gangsters who rebelled against the King of Spain?"
Yang Feng exclaimed.
I have to say that these people are still very smart.
Or it can be said that they all understand what the gentry likes. Of course, self-funding is to collect taxes from paintings. To put it simply, the tax package system is restored. The great Yuan Dynasty that the gentry has always missed is back. They have always missed the Great Yuan Dynasty in this place.
From the Yuan Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it became easier to organize regiments and train them. It was only thirty years ago. Didn’t these landlords have their own private armed forces thirty years ago? Now, the young and strong people in the clan who can fight are organized to become officers, and then
With the Japanese slaves, Korean slaves Annannu and others serving as soldiers, the weapons were not worth mentioning. At this time, Su Gang was still Su Gang. There were already a lot of cold weapons among the people. For example, no one in the gentry's house had a few cold weapons.
There are plenty of bows and arrows.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang encouraged civilians to hold cold weapons and encourage civilians to practice archery, so there is really no shortage of these things.
That means there are no firearms.
But this only takes some time. If they are used at full capacity, the iron smelting workshops near Suzhou can quickly manufacture all currently used firearms, even flintlock guns, because the Su Steel workshops here can already make spring plates.
"They still have to be able to withstand the first wave of attacks from the imperial court."
Sister Liu said.
Suzhou Wei did solve it.
Although the Suzhou Guards still had many soldiers and Yu Ding who could be organized, after Yao Shan detained all the generals, Qi Tai came forward and deceived the Suzhou Guards soldiers with the emperor's decree, and at the same time moved a large amount of property from the bank as rewards.
In the chaos, the latter couldn't tell whether what they said was true or false, and they had no one to decide, so they simply chose to sit back and watch.
Mainly because of the early propaganda, most soldiers believed the story that the emperor killed his brother...
Uh, I can't tell a story.
The rumors only tell in advance what he is going to do next.
It's not like he was wronged.
If Zhu Yunwen did not flee, when Zhu Yuanzhang's funeral was over, indeed all the rumors would become true. In this case, the soldiers could not be said to have a good impression of the emperor. To them, this was still just an internal fight between brothers in the royal family. And King Guangze
He is a victim, and the emperor is a tyrant who kills his brother, so since no one makes the decision, and the court has no orders, why should a group of small soldiers of his own take care of so many things? He will stick to the military garrisons and the command offices in the city, and then wait.
decide as things go!
In short, Suzhou Guards did not interfere.
Of course, the key is actually that the Suzhou gentry and the King of Wu really gave the money.
But there is more than just Suzhou Wei in Suzhou.
Jinshan Guards, Taicang Guards, Zhenhai Guards, Wu Song and other Qianhu Guards are all around here.
There are two guards in the nearest Taicang.
The guardsmen at this time were not the scumbags they would be later. Grassroots teams like the gentry could not withstand their attack. Even if they were only partially left behind, as long as they reacted quickly enough, they could assemble several thousand soldiers to invade Suzhou. In fact,
Even the word "attack" may not be used. After all, it is impossible for the gentry to complete group training in a short period of time. Even if they have Japanese slaves, it will take time to organize them, and it will not take long to get from Taicang to Suzhou.
but……
"Ma He, the time has come to test his loyalty to King Yan."
Yang Feng said.
Ma He's fleet was in Taicang.
He was loyal to Zhu Di, so he had to do things to cooperate with the Suzhou gentry.
If he is loyal to Zhu Yunxi, the Suzhou gentry will be dead.
"Master, Commander Ludu wants to see you."
Green Slave said.
"Let him come over."
Yang Feng said.
Lu Zhen now completely listens to him.
Moreover, Huining Dusi currently has five guards and nine guards who guard Qianhu Station. In fact, they all obey his orders, including Huining Guard, Jilin Guard, Longquan Guard, Jinghai Guard, and Wuguo Guard. Although Zhu Yuanzhang had previously said that some of the guards would be abolished.
So, since Yang Feng was able to guarantee military supplies, not only was it not abolished, it was actually increased.
For example, the Fishing Sea Guard Qianhu Station has been added.
It was also under the jurisdiction of Huining Dusi, and all military supplies had to be transported there.
In addition, there is a guard house in Hokkaido.
The capital of Huining covers a vast area, stretching from the Hulunbuir Prairie to Hokkaido, and even to the Arctic Ocean in the north. However, in fact, the number of Han military households currently in Huining is about the same as that of Yang Feng's reclamation team. Although the former has a larger number of personnel, it has
One guard station is equivalent to one thousand Han households, and one guard station is actually two or three Han households, plus merchants and craftsmen from Huining and other cities and a small number of civil servants who shed tears every day, the entire Huining has military registration
The total number of households and national registration is less than 20,000. As for the national registration, of course, Yang Feng's reclamation team is the main one, but these are only Han people. If you add those Mongolian Wus and other miscellaneous people who also belong to the Five Guards, as well as various slaves, this
The group directly under the imperial court still has a population of nearly 200,000, which is already rare in a place like this.
In fact, Yang Feng feels that he even has a bit of a Qing flavor.
real.
Although the majority were Han Chinese, he treated all ethnic groups in the group equally and never favored one over another in supplying military supplies. In fact, even the slaves were loyal to him.
What happened to the slave?
Those Korean slaves and Japanese slaves rarely had enough to eat in the past, but now they have enough to eat every day. Although rice and flour need to be transported from the mainland, they are only given to them occasionally. But sorghum, rice, woofou, and soybean oil are not given to them occasionally.
Stir-fried vegetables, bean sprouts, etc. can be eaten at will, not to mention that Huining in this era used sticks to beat roe deer and ladles to scoop out fish. There was also no shortage of these fish meat. Even because of the stable symbiotic relationship with the surrounding herdsmen, dairy products were plentiful, and these slaves ignored them all.
For a happy land, as for being scolded and whipped occasionally...
The master's whip is a gift to them.
Didn't they get whipped in Korea and Japan in the past?
Not only will he be whipped, he will also be hungry!
"Ambassador, Marquis Rinan asked again when to send troops. He has already received an imperial decree asking him to lead his army to attack Daning and solve Ning Fan."
Lu Zhen came over and saluted and said.
"Then what?
The emperor himself still did not say that his uncles were rebelling. When he attacked Daning, did he have to deal with the Liao Fan guards first? After dealing with the Liao Fan guards, he then dealt with the Ning Fan guards. A cannonball accidentally fell into the palace and killed him.
Afterwards, their uncle and nephew are still a family. How is Yang Wen going to face the revenge of his phoenix and grandsons?
He is not a young man anymore, so he still doesn’t understand this kind of thing?
As long as the imperial edict does not say that these vassal kings are rebels, then they are still a family.
He is still just an outsider.
Why should he, an outsider, take care of other people's family affairs?
If the emperor makes it clear that his uncles and brothers are rebelling, I will take you south to go to the king of Qin. But as long as he does not make this clear, we will keep guard. If he really attacks Guangning and kills the king of Liao,
Son, I can’t help the little princess causing trouble for him in the future.”
Yang Feng said.
Lu Zhen nodded.
Ambassador Yang is right!
As long as the emperor doesn't accuse his uncles of rebelling, he will still be a phoenix son and grandson. If there is a fight, there will be any surprises.
If you want to attack Daning, you must first deal with the Liao vassal. Once you forcefully attack Guangning, you will definitely have to use cannons. If a cannonball falls into the palace and kills a phoenix descendant, it is hard to say what will happen. Even if the emperor understands that it is
There is no use being loyal, others will take revenge. The King of Liao has five sons. Although they are only a few years old, they are the nephews of the little princess, and they are all treated as treasures. Not to mention being accidentally injured by cannonballs, or even being frightened and sick.
Faced with her anger, and this is Guo Ying's grandson, the Guo family's power is not comparable to that of Yang Wen.
There's really no need to be too aggressive about this kind of thing.
"Tell Yang Wen that we are all old brothers. He is now a Marquis. There is no need to fight for wealth and glory. He can just live in peace and stability."
Yang Feng said.
Lu Zhen left immediately.
This is enough, enough for Yang Wen to be honest.
In fact, this war has been going on for several months, and it has not been resolved now that spring is about to begin. The key is this issue. Zhu Yunxi never said that his uncles were rebels. For him, it is indeed out of consideration for family ties, and it seems that he is actually very benevolent.
After all, the death of King Xiang made him very embarrassed.
But……
So how can the front line work so hard like this?
You are still a family, even if you are fighting against each other now, you are still a family. Why should we outsiders fight for your family affairs?
There are rebels on the opposite side, and we fight to the death.
But on the opposite side is your uncle, brother, we fight to the death to kill them, and then you punish us afterwards to show that you are still a kind and good person, but it is us who lead the army who are ignorant? Even afterwards, they are still the phoenix and the dragon.
We are still vassal kings, and we are still ministers. We may be retaliated one day. What do we want?
No motivation to fight.
This is good.
There will be enough time for the situation to continue to ferment.
But Lao Zhu's funeral will be delayed.
Fortunately, it's not a big deal. The worst thing is to let him continue to freeze.
And at this moment.
Suzhou.
"These pieces of shit, these pieces of shit!"
Ambassador Yang's old friend and former Suzhou Guardsman Han Sheng's lips trembled as he looked at his subordinates who were being violently beaten with volleys of guns under the city wall in front.
He was the only one of the remaining generals of Suzhou Guard who was still outside. To be precise, he had retired at this time. His son was hereditary governor. When Yao Shan raised his army, he was in Jinshan Guard. Because of his close relationship with Yang Feng, the Han family and others
Business is booming every year, and Jinshanwei itself is also a commercial port, so there are many industries there.
After retiring, he traveled around and took charge of their family's business.
After Yao Shan raised an army, he captured his son. His two grandsons escaped from Suzhou and ran to Jinshan Guard to seek help from him. He immediately went to the commander of Jinshan Guard, and it was his own family who asked for 500 elite soldiers, and then personally led the raid by boat.
Suzhou. In his opinion, Yao Shan's rebellion was simply funny. A civil servant led a group of gentry and relied on some Japanese slaves to rebel. This was simply laughable. As long as he could return to Suzhou city and rely on his deterrence
It was enough, so he didn't take it seriously at all. Five hundred elite soldiers rushed to the gate of Suzhou City, and then found a ladder to climb the city wall. He brought these iron cans with full iron armor and cloth face armor. No matter how many gentry could be armed,
A Japanese slave is nothing more than a bow and arrow, and those soft bows among the people cannot shoot through this set of protection.
As long as he climbed up the city wall, opened the city gate, went in and shouted, the gentry would kneel down.
They are all old acquaintances of decades.
He knew exactly what those gentry were.
Besides, even if there are those who dare not to kneel down, they can just hit them with a whip or something like a mace.
Civil servants and scholars rebelled?
Isn't this nonsense?
The gentry started an army?
Can their bodies, which are capable of reciting poems and writing poems, carry a dozen pounds of iron whip?
However……
The heavy gunfire shattered his sweet dream.
Five hundred elite soldiers were falling down amidst the roar of bullets.
"No, this doesn't belong to your Suzhou Guard. The Suzhou Guard only has rapid-fire cannons and no magical muskets.
We at Jinshan Guard don’t even have so many magical weapons.”
The Jinshan Guard leading the team next to him said.
On the Suzhou city wall opposite, the musketeers suddenly appeared and were still firing at the retreating Jinshan Guards soldiers. They were obviously well-trained and accurate in their marksmanship, so this was not a case of Japanese slaves or gentry armed with young strength at all, but
They are the real elites of the army. And there are many of them, at least a thousand people. Even if we exclude the hundreds of cavalry that Fang Xiaoru is said to have brought, there are suddenly thousands more elites in this city.
And it was not the soldiers of the Suzhou Guard who switched sides.
Because the Suzhou Guard, as an old army that had not fought for a long time, did not have any magic weapons.
After the Japanese Empire was pacified, this area, including the Jinshan Guard and other coastal guards, had no war. At most, they occasionally went out to patrol the sea. But in fact, due to the strong navy, there were not even many pirates, so these guards had basically begun to retire.
Already.
Of course, new weapons will not be their turn.
"Of course they are not soldiers from the Suzhou Guards. This Tamar is a sailor from Ma He in Taicang. He has tens of thousands of sailors there. Report to the capital quickly that Ma He is colluding with the rebels in Suzhou. The rumors are correct. Fang Xiaoru's men
The cavalry are the people of King Yan."
Old Han said bitterly.
Then he waved his hand...
"Retreat, as long as they are here, we can't open Suzhou at all.
Damn it, I got so bold when I heard that Yang Feng died at sea."