If Yuzhu said he wanted to fight, it would definitely be counterproductive.
Because the old emperor was extremely suspicious, he would follow Yuzhu's attitude and find out what was most beneficial to Yuzhu.
Did he serve as emperor for fifty-six years in vain?
Yuzhu shook his head and said: "Old man, the money in the national treasury is only enough for the northwest war. Let's not fight a big war in Dongwu for the time being, and focus on appeasement, right?"
The old emperor looked at Yuzhu's expression carefully, pondered for a long time, and then said slowly: "You can take the new army and half of the firearms battalion, take a boat and sea route to Qinzhou to land, and the logistical pressure will not be so great.
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Good guy, Yuzhu understood instantly, the old emperor dared to understand everything!
Not to mention anything else, just the march route mentioned by the old emperor showed that the old emperor obviously understood the super mobility of the new army's ability to fight south by boat.
Yuzhu has always stayed by the old emperor's side. He is the person who knows the old emperor best, no one else.
There have been several groups of Western missionaries around the old emperor. He has some understanding of the military and technological development in the West, especially in Europe.
It must be admitted that the old emperor was indeed a studious emperor, and he had quite a lot of modern scientific knowledge.
However, no matter how much the old emperor knew, he had a fatal flaw: he was the emperor of the Manchu banner people, not the emperor of the Han people themselves.
Winning over various ethnic groups, especially the Mongols, and suppressing the unusually large number of Han people together was the basic national policy of the Qing Dynasty that was decreed by Shunzhi and fully accepted by Kangxi.
"It's too cold, why don't you send me out of the capital?" Yuzhu shook his head like a rattle, making it clear that he didn't want to leave his comfort zone in the capital.
To be honest, among the bannermen and dignitaries in the capital today, unless they have no choice, who would be willing to go to the barbaric Southwest Yi land full of miasma and suffer hardships?
In the Qing Dynasty, the provincial capital of Guangxi Province was Guilin, so Guangxi was also called Gui Province or Xiang Province for short.
Most Manchus have little historical background, so they don’t quite know what Xiang Province means?
The so-called Xiang Province was actually a term first proposed by Han officials, which refers to Xiang County in the Qin Dynasty!
During the Qin Dynasty, there were three counties in Lingnan: Guilin County, Nanhai County and Xiang County.
Among them, Xiangjun includes part of Guangxi and the northern part of Annan.
To put it bluntly, the so-called Xiang Province was just a little trick played by the Han officials of the Qing Dynasty, who coveted the territory of the Later Li Dynasty in Annan and played a map cannon game.
However, precisely because of this obsession with talking, during the Qianlong Dynasty, Fukang'an once achieved a brief victory.
However, soon, the Qing army was defeated by Ruan Hui.
It was this Ruan Hui who sent an envoy to inform Qianlong face to face that the Emperor was in charge of Lingbei and Ruan Hui was in charge of Lingnan!
What do you mean, hehe, after Ruan Hui defeated Fukkangan, his ambition was to annex the Guangdong and Guangxi provinces of the Qing Dynasty.
To this day, in Annan history textbooks, Nguyen Hue is regarded as a national hero who fought against the Northern invaders for thousands of years.
In the eyes of the Annan people, Ruan Hui's historical achievements in resisting the North and establishing the country were much more impressive than Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty!
Seeing that Yuzhu was really not willing to lead the troops on the expedition, the old emperor did not want to do what he wanted, so he asked: "If you don't want to go, do you want me to go?"
Good guy, the old emperor actually said something about you. This is obviously irony.
Yuzhu lowered his head and murmured in a low voice: "Aren't you afraid that my son will be poisoned by the miasma?"
The old emperor groaned and said, "I will order Bai Jin and the imperial doctors to go with you."
Come on, after all the words have been said, if Yuzhu doesn't nod, he may really offend the old emperor.
Perhaps because he was worried about the long nights and many dreams, the old emperor immediately called Zhang Tingyu and ordered him to draw up a decree.
Zhang Tingyu held the decree in his hand and walked slowly to Yuzhu, but his heart was full of mixed feelings.
So far, Zhang Tingyu, who has been promoted to the position of minister of the Ministry of Rites and serves as the director of the South Study Room, has an excellent official career.
However, it depends on who you compare with. If it is Yuzhu, Zhang Tingyu can only lament: Far from it!
"The jade pillar accepts the imperial edict!" Zhang Tingyu straightened his waist and spoke a lot of Beijing movies. His words were correct and his accent was smooth, without any hint of Tongcheng accent.
Seeing that Yuzhu knelt down, Zhang Tingyu unfolded the edict and read loudly: "The emperor's edict is carried by heaven: the governor of the country, Yuzhu, pays homage to the general Zhengnan, and bestows the Baihong Sword to control the military affairs of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces...I admire this!"
"My son Yuzhu, I have received the edict to express my gratitude." After Yuzhu received the edict, he was secretly grateful.
If Yuzhu was a Han official, he would never have had such huge military power in the later years of Kangxi.
Regardless of whether it is Daiming or Daiqing, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces have always been a place plagued by wars because of the abundance of chieftains from Jisu.
Therefore, the Qing Dynasty stationed 50,000 Green Camp troops in Yunnan and 40,000 Green Camp troops in Guizhou, for a total of 90,000 Green Camp troops.
In addition, with the soldiers and horses that Yuzhu brought from the capital, he had more than 100,000 troops at his disposal.
Objectively speaking, since the San Francisco Rebellion, no Han official has been able to control so many troops.
Banner ministers managed the army, and Han ministers governed the people. This was the norm in the Qing Dynasty.
As the old emperor's decree was issued, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War were all busy.
In fact, Yuzhu had nothing to prepare. He only had to wait for the new army to come back from the west, then he would lead his troops to Tianjin Wei's harbor, board a ship and go south.
Since Tianjin Wei's seaport was the only foreign trade port in the entire northern part of the Qing Dynasty, there was no need to worry about recruiting large sea-going ships in the port area.
"God's Coming"
Yuzhu's headquarters for the general who conquered the south was located near the Yingying Terrace in Nanyuan.
Since the new army had not returned to the capital yet, Yuzhu actually didn't have much to do in the camp and was very free all day long.
On this day, Yuzhu had just finished his breakfast when he heard a report from his subordinates and asked Bai Jin to see him.
Bai Jin was born in Le Mans, France. He was not only an academician of the French Academy of Sciences, but also one of the six missionaries sent to the Qing Dynasty by Louis XIV.
That year, Kang Mazi suffered from malaria and almost died. Fortunately, two missionaries, Bai Jin and Zhang Cheng, found quinine, also known as cinchona, and saved the old emperor's life.
There is no one more meritorious than the Savior!
Therefore, among all the missionaries, the old emperor trusted Bai Jin and Zhang Cheng the most.
This time, the old emperor sent Bai Jin to go south to Yunnan and Guizhou with Yuzhu, and he was really protective of him.
As we all know, whether it is the big ravines of Yunnan-Guizhou or the jungles of Dongwu, they are indeed plagued places.
The old emperor was worried that Yuzhu had accidentally been poisoned by miasma, so he arranged for Bai Jin, who was proficient in Western medical skills, to stay by his side.
Bai Jin has been in the Qing Dynasty for a long time.
As early as the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi's reign, Bai Jin and other missionaries went to Ningbo Prefecture in Zhejiang Province.
As soon as they met, Bai Jin made his request.
"General, your Majesty has accepted a humble position. In your spare time, you can spread the gospel in the army." Bai Jin stood in front of Yuzhu with his body bent, his posture seemed very respectful, but there was a bit of aloofness in his bones.
Well, Yuzhu naturally knew that Louis XIV, who claimed to be the Sun King, sent Bai Jin to the Qing Dynasty, and it was definitely not possible for him to be a volunteer.