Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Great Ming Dynasty was sitting in the study room of Qianqing Palace, looking at the newspaper sent by Hong Chengchou, his face was very ugly.
The Tatars stationed troops in Yizhou, besieged Jinzhou, and even attacked Tashan. Cao Bianjiao defended Tashan for half a month and defended the city. When the Tatars withdrew, they carried away the wounded and corpses in the city, but Cao Bianjiao's troops still captured and beheaded one hundred and one Tatars. Level 13 shows how fierce the battle was. The soldiers under Cao Bianjiao also suffered a lot of casualties, with 253 dead and 427 injured.
Ma Ke, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, and Tang Tong, the commander-in-chief of Miyun, have rushed to Tashan to support Cao Bianjiao. There are now 40,000 troops stationed in Tashan City, and there is no risk of defense.
But the matter of supporting Jinzhou and driving away the Dongnu army from Yizhou never started at all.
The Tatar soldiers and horses are very powerful, even stronger than before. Now the Tatars not only have Jiannu slave soldiers who are good at riding and shooting, but also have tens of thousands of firecrackers. These firecrackers are all Han soldiers and they are slave chiefs. Tai Chi was built in accordance with Li Zhi's Hu Ben division. The soldiers were all equipped with fire guns and their combat power was astonishing. Hong Chengchou's memorial said that Cao Bianjiao suffered a lot from these fire guns soldiers on Tashan. The guards on the city wall could only hide behind the wall when defending. Behind the wall, I dare not show my head.
Forty thousand reinforcements defended Tashan City, consuming countless amounts of food and wages every day, which made Zhu Youjian extremely distressed. Although Zhu Youjian levied three new taxes on wages, a large amount of new taxes were used locally to make up for previous years' debts. It was transferred and kept, but very few actually received it from Taicang. Zhu Youjian was still very nervous at work.
Although these reinforcements spent a lot of money on Zhu Youjian, they only dared to stay in the fortified city and did not dare to go out of the city to fight with the Qing army in the wild. I wonder if Hong Chengchou could fight with the Qing army when the 130,000 reinforcements gathered together. Decisive battle in Jinzhou.
I don’t know when the siege of Jinzhou will be solved.
Zhu Youjian sighed and picked up Li Zhi's memorial again. He had kept this memorial on his desk and read it countless times.
Li Zhi stated in the memorial that he had obtained 720,000 taels of property by ransacking his house in Shandong, and that he would escort them all to the capital soon.
This is good news, which has alleviated Zhu Youjian's lack of money to a great extent. Speaking of which, the money Li Zhi gave to Zhu Youjian in the past few years has amounted to several million taels. Taicang's normal annual income is, It was only a few million taels. For the sake of this money, Zhu Youjian ignored Li Zhi's atrocities of killing more than 400 people in Shandong.
After all, it was Zhu Youjian who gave Li Zhi permission to send troops to guard the newspaper. From the moment Zhu Youjian agreed to Li Zhi's troops stationed in Shandong, Zhu Youjian knew that Li Zhi would kill many people.
Li Zhi's murder is no longer news.
But what annoyed Zhu Youjian was Li Zhi's last sentence. Li Zhi actually said that more than 10,000 Huben divisions had all been stationed in Shandong, and they were still unable to suppress Shandong Chu Xiao's secret opposition to the newspaper. Now Huben division is trapped in the quagmire of Shandong If you can't draw it out, you won't be able to support Jinzhou for the time being.
Zhu Youjian raised his eyebrows, with a look of anger on his face.
But with a sigh, Zhu Youjian lost his anger again. What Li Zhi did had made Zhu Youjian completely lose his temper. If Zhu Youjian was still angry at Li Zhi for resisting the decree last month, this month His temper has been drained away, leaving only helplessness.
Now Zhu Youjian no longer has any confidence in directly commanding Li Zhi. If Li Zhi wants to do something, he must bargain with him like a merchant, and use incentives to induce him.
In this bargaining, Zhu Youjian is undoubtedly the weaker party. In recent years, wars have been raging in the Ming Dynasty. Every time, Li Zhi has made contributions at critical moments. Li Zhi has become the mainstay of Zhu Youjian. Now that Jinzhou is in emergency, Li Zhi
Zhi Lai refused to go to support, so Zhu Youjian had no confidence in the frontline war.
Hong Chengchou's memorial also proves that the Ming army without Li Zhi was very passive against the Qing army. If you want to break the siege of Jinzhou, you really don't know that you have to wait until the year of the monkey and the horse.
Zhu Youjian was already angry. No matter how angry he became, he still had to beg Li Zhi in the end. Now even if Li Zhi disobeys the imperial edict and bargains with Zhu Youjian, or even stays in Shandong without sending troops, Zhu Youjian will not be able to make him angry.
Come out on fire.
Seeing that the emperor was looking through Li Zhi's memorial again, Wang Cheng'en raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, is Li Zhi staying in Shandong and not leaving?"
Zhu Youjian sighed and said, "Not entirely."
Wang Chengen was stunned, and said angrily: "Your Majesty is a wise man, but I don't understand. This Li Zhi said that he would support Jinzhou on the condition of publishing a newspaper in Shandong. Now that the newspaper has been published, he has stayed in Shandong and refused to leave. It's not all right.
yes?"
Wang Chengen couldn't stand what Li Zhi had done.
Wang Chengen originally encouraged the emperor to agree to Li Zhi's publishing of newspapers in Shandong, believing that Li Zhi would immediately support Jinzhou if he got this condition. Unexpectedly, now that Li Zhi got an advantage, he still behaved and refused to send troops until the newspapers were properly produced. Wang Chengen was a little bit
He regretted that he had spoken for Li Zhi and became angry with Li Zhi for delaying sending troops.
He did not send troops but openly issued a memorial to express his sorrow. Since ancient times, no one has been so arrogant in disobeying the imperial edict.
But now that things have happened, the emperor has lost his temper.
Zhu Youjian looked at the imperial city outside the window and said slowly: "As soon as Li Zhi's soldiers leave, the newspaper distribution in Shandong will be overthrown by the gentry. Li Zhi supported Jinzhou on the condition of publishing newspapers in Shandong. Now,
Once the army leaves, this benefit will no longer be available. The so-called merchant pays with one hand and delivers with the other. Now that he cannot hold on to the hot money, he is naturally unwilling to deliver the goods."
Wang Chengen was stunned and asked: "What does the emperor mean?"
Zhu Youjian looked at the window and said helplessly: "As of now, I am the only one who has stepped forward to help him stabilize the circulation of newspapers in Shandong."
Wang Chengen looked surprised and said: "How can the emperor help Li Zhi publish newspapers?"
Zhu Youjian said: "I will send a thousand Jin Yiwei to Shandong to investigate openly and covertly, and arrest those who secretly make things difficult for Li Zhi's newspaper. These Thousand Jin Yiwei are stationed in Shandong, which is more powerful than Li Zhi's more than 10,000 Huben division garrison.
It’s effective. Li Zhi no longer has to worry about his newspaper being smashed, smashed, burned or robbed.”
Wang Chengen thought for a while and said loudly: "Your Majesty, you must not do it at this time!"
"Your Majesty, Li Zhi is now the most serious thief among the scholars in the world, and I can't wait to kill him as soon as possible. Li Zhi's newspaper is the vanguard of Li Zhi's propaganda against the scholars. If the emperor sends out the royal guards to pave the way for Li Zhi's newspaper, the world's scholars will
How does Lin want to see His Majesty?"
"If Shilin classifies the emperor and Li Zhi as one, then all the officials in the court will be blown up. I'm afraid those civil servants will risk their lives with the emperor!"
Zhu Youjian took a breath and said slowly: "At this time, we can only ask Li Zhi's newspaper not to confront the gentry of the world, but only publish some major news events from various places every day. In this way, the gentry will not find this newspaper so eye-catching.
"
Wang Chengen knelt on the ground with a plop and said loudly: "Your Majesty, be careful!"
"If the matter is urgent, follow the authority. This matter has been settled as it is. The civil servants can only remonstrate with all their might, point fingers and scold others, and cannot come up with new tricks."
Wang Chengen was lying on the ground, speechless.
Zhu Youjian stood up and took a few deep breaths. "The air in this deep palace is getting more and more turbid. I really want to conquer Liaoxi in person and go out to have a look."
