In the autumn of the third year of Tianfa, it has been three years since the emperor succeeded to the throne. Now the world is settled, and Yunnan has been included in the territory. In the southeast region, except for Xiamen, Penghu and other islands, all the pirate rebellions have also been put down.
It is said that Liu Xiyao, the Maritime Economic and Strategic Envoy, is actively negotiating with Zheng Sen. Zheng Sen's request for vassal status has been considered by a large number of people in the Dashun court. Even His Majesty is quite interested. From this point of view, Southeast
The war that has lasted for many years in this area is about to end.
As for the border troubles, Myanmar is located in a remote overseas country. After Emperor Ming's departure, he basically had little appeal to China. Only in Liaodong and Korea, the Manchu Tatars still occupied two places, and they were vigorously building their troops. There was an impressive trend of resurrecting their troops.
Last year, Daishan invaded North Korea, and more than a year ago, rebels emerged in various parts of North Korea. However, due to lack of sufficient military equipment and effective training, they were brutally massacred by the Eight Banners of Manchuria.
Not only were the two groups of scholar-bureaucrats wiped out, but also the common people were slaughtered with butcher's knives. The brutality was horrific, almost to the extreme. In the Shun Dynasty, there were many officials who understood the righteousness, even though Li Laiheng repeatedly used various excuses to postpone the expedition to Liao and save Korea.
They were also resolute in carrying out military operations and would bring this matter up again in almost every court meeting.
What shocked Beijing even more was undoubtedly the fact that last month, eleven people from the envoys from North Korea committed suicide by cutting their necks in front of the imperial palace gate in Kaifeng at the same time, splattering blood on the golden river.
These envoys have been in China for a long time, but they have never been able to persuade the Dashun Army to send troops. Day and night, they felt the pain of their Korean compatriots. When the news came that the Qing army had carried out another massacre on a certain road, the envoys
The members of the regiment were indignant to the extreme, and they made the tragic determination to make Shenxu cry to Qin Ting.
They decided to die and use their lives and blood to awaken the Dashun court's attention to the Korean War.
After the blood of the eleven Korean warriors was spilled at the palace gate, even the emperor could no longer turn a blind eye to the Northeast War. Public opinion in the court was boiling, and many young officials who had not experienced the war against the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty were fighting.
, all came forward angrily, gathered in the main hall, and asked the emperor to send troops to avenge the righteous hatred of the Spring and Autumn Period for the vassal country.
But those veterans who have experienced successive years of chaotic wars since the late Ming Dynasty are much more cautious. They not only know the power of the Eight Banners Army, but also believe that Liaodong is already far away, let alone North Korea.
The matter of conquering Liao and rescuing Korea still needs to be considered in the long term.
However, there are also young officials who said with emotion: "We have been planning for a long time, we have been planning for a long time. We have been planning for more than a year, and the Tatars have strong soldiers and horses. From 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers and horses, they have grown to 70,000 or 80,000. If we continue with this plan, we will plan to reach Shanhaiguan."
Before?"
As soon as this statement came out, the court was in an uproar. Song Qijiao, the minister of the government, directly came out and asked the emperor to punish the minister for his blunder. Li Laiheng said with a smile:
"The ancestral law of Taizu and Taizong means that the country will not sin for speaking out, so why is this a crime? Where did the Taizai say this!"
As soon as the emperor said this, the direction of public opinion in the DPRK changed drastically. After all, for more than a year before, whenever the emperor encountered Korean affairs, he would always talk about him, either changing the topic, or bringing up the war in the southwest.
Now Li Laiheng suddenly asked the ministers to discuss the affairs of Korea in detail. It was obvious that he believed that the time was very ripe to conquer Liao and save Korea.
Fang Yiren secretly squeezed the wat tablet in his hand. He knew that this was because the Qing army had successfully searched and killed the descendants of the royal family in North Korea. According to North Korean envoys and Chinese businessmen in North Korea, throughout the last year, Daishan had been trying to completely disintegrate North Korea.
To resist people, two important measures were taken:
One is the mass search and killing of members of the Korean royal family. Anyone who has a blood relationship with the Korean royal family and is likely to inherit the throne will be thoroughly hunted down by the Qing army in search of mountains and seas, in order to completely cut off the Korean people's return to the country.
The role of hope;
Second, the Manchu royal family changed their surname Aisin Gioro to Jin. For example, Emperor Zhaohe Aisin Gioro Fulin changed his name to Jin Fulin, and Dai Shan also changed his name to Jin Dai Shan.
When the Manchu royal family changed their surname to Jin, they claimed that their ancestors originated from North Korea - this is not a completely false history. The Jurchen Jianzhou tribe has indeed lived in the border area close to North Korea for a long time, and the two sides have had many exchanges in history.
It's just that Daishan's approach was obviously to confuse the Korean people. The Qing Dynasty changed its surname to Jin and claimed to be a descendant of the Silla royal family. It was obviously just to occupy North Korea for a long time.
After Li Laiheng learned this information, he was basically able to judge that the Qing army's "vanguard for the king" work in North Korea was almost completed.
The so-called cleaning the house before treating guests, Daishan had already killed all the royal family and two groups of scholar-bureaucrats who were the pillars of Korean culture, and then started the work of changing names.
The Qing army was preparing to turn North Korea into a solid base, but they did not expect that the mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole behind them, the Dashun army's blade was already brewing with power, and it was about to launch bows and arrows against Liaodong, and a new round of the Northern Expedition was about to begin.
About to explode.
At this time, the war in the southwest had been completely settled. Li Laiheng had already made the decision to transfer many of the elite cavalry troops originally stationed in Yunnan back to the north, and ordered them to be stationed in the Beijing area for adaptive training.
Due to the severe cold climate in the Northeast, the Shun Army needed to raise an astonishing amount of cotton clothes and trousers for the Northern Expedition. Therefore, those businessmen in Hubei and Jiangnan areas who were the first to notice that the Liao expedition was imminent immediately increased investment and expanded cotton textile factories. These well-informed merchants
The people, led by Geng Yingqu, will later gain an extremely astonishing theory in the magnificent war against Liao.
The Chushang Group, which gradually developed from the two major business gangs of Huguang and Jiangyou, not only has the nature of the imperial merchants of the Shun Dynasty, but also has a particularly strong economic strength because it was the first to adopt a large-scale factory management method. It is now ranked No. 1 in Dashun.
A group of businessmen;
The Jiangnan Commercial Gang, which developed from the merchant gangs of Jiangning, Susong and Zhejiang provinces, quickly caught up with the Chu merchants due to its particularly strong wealth foundation. The Jiangnan Commercial Gang also began to introduce large-scale factories.
Business, and relying on the prosperous Jiangnan area as a foundation, it soon developed financial resources that were no less than those of the Chu merchant group.
As the war against the Liao Dynasty was approaching, these two major merchant gangs also headed northward. The Chu merchants went to Shaanxi and Shanxi, and the Jiangnan merchant gang went to Hebei and Shandong. They played a very important role in raising supplies, food, and military supplies for the Shun army in the future.
helpful effect.
As for later, the "Xikou" trade route established by Chu merchants played an immediate role in helping the Dashun army's expedition to the western region of Shuomo.
In later generations, the four famous generals of the Western Army, Li Maoheng, Zhao Zilao, Zhang Guowu, and Kang Dayan, wiped out Junggar, pacified Qinghai, expedition to Lhasa, and wiped out the Kazakh Sanyuzi in twenty years. They set up a mission to pursue Wei Huo.
An unparalleled contribution - the west entrance trade route established by Chu merchants was of great benefit.