On the south bank of Taihu Lake, Zhenze is a large industrial and commercial town on the canal.
Zhu Yihai ordered the flag-bearing battalion to polish their armor and put on new blouses, and then went out of the city in order to greet King Deng and the four governors.
The original duty of the flag-bearer battalion was to guard the ceremony. At this time, tall and brave warriors were carefully selected, wearing mercury armor, sabers on their waists, bows on their backs, spears in their hands, and war flags held high, and lined up to greet them.
The pilgrims who had trekked all the way were moved when they saw this military appearance.
Huang Daozong, the censor of Zuoqiandu and the governor of Jinquyan, saw this military appearance and praised it greatly, "No wonder the supervising country raised troops for the Northern Expedition and won every battle. With this military appearance alone, the Tatars should be invincible."
Zhu Chenggong, who was given the surname of the country, also stopped to look at the soldiers and horses. Although he knew that these soldiers must be specially selected, just like the Han generals before the imperial court, he was not an ordinary rich man.
, but his family is in the Southeast Sea, and he is no stranger to the army. At a glance, he can see that these mighty honor guards are not only just appearance, they exude the smell of iron and blood, they are truly from the heap of dead people.
veteran.
Thinking of the mission of this trip, Zhu Chenggong felt complicated. His father hoped that he would take this opportunity to meet with Lu Jianguo to find out the true nature of this young supervisor. If he is really the master of ZTE, the Zheng family of Fujian will give his full support and let him think about it.
The method was appreciated by Lu Jianguo and he succeeded in becoming the son-in-law of Jianguo. In this way, the Zheng family's status in Fujian would be more stable.
If Lu Jianguo had the same virtue as Hongguang, Lu Wang, etc., then the Zheng family would never bet on him. Although Nanyang King Zhu Yujian refused to cooperate before, Zheng Zhilong has placed Zhu Yujian's younger brother, Tang King Zhu Yuxuan, in
Fujian, they were very polite and courteous to close the relationship. This was a trick of the Zheng family. If Lu Jianguo failed, then they would support the Tang king.
If it doesn't work out, Zheng Zhilong has another trick, that is, he brought Hong Chengchou's mother, wife and children to Fujian a few years ago and has been supporting them well. Now Hong Chengchou is a bachelor of the Jiangnan Governor's Inner Academy, just in case this happens.
The Ming Dynasty had exhausted all its vitality, and with Hong Chengchou's mother in hand, it could still contact Hong Chengchou, a great Qing noble, through this relationship, and surrender to the Qing Dynasty through his relationship. With the Zheng family's strength and status in the Southeast Sea,
He believed that his future was not inferior to that of Wu Sangui and Sanshun Wang.
Zheng Zhilong, the back-up man, did not tell his young and enthusiastic son, but asked him to see if Lu Jianguo was really the Mingjun of ZTE. Zhu Chenggong was very dissatisfied with his father's wait-and-see attitude. In his opinion, at this time of national crisis,
, Since King Lu has the courage to stand up and lead the fight against the Qing Dynasty, then as officials of the Ming Dynasty, everyone must support him loyally and not be half-hearted or inconsistent.
The eldest son of the Zheng family offshore group, because he studied and received elite education since he was a child, he followed a completely different path from his fathers, so his thoughts were completely different from those of his fathers who were both thieves and businessmen. In his heart, Zhu Chenggong and Jiangnan
There is no difference among the scholars who returned to society.
During this year, he returned to his hometown in Fujian from the Imperial College in Nanjing, and then went north from Fujian to Wuyue. The road he used to take has now changed greatly. People are anxious and uneasy. The further north they go, the more turbulent they become.
But after arriving in eastern Zhejiang, I felt a different atmosphere. This place is close to the Tartar front line, but everyone's eyes are not so confused.
He was a little puzzled before, but after crossing the sea, he began to understand more and more. Jiaxing was originally a land occupied by the Tatars, but now the counties and villages of Jiaxing Prefecture are quieter and more peaceful than those in Fujian and Guangdong, and the people are actually here.
Live and work in peace and contentment under the iron heel of the Tatars?
At first he found it unbelievable, but then he suddenly realized that it was not the Tatars who made them live and work in peace and contentment, but His Highness Jian Guo, who personally initiated the Sixth Division's Northern Expedition and forcibly carved out a piece of territory in Jiaxing, who changed this place.
The time is short, but the changes are huge.
The people have been exempted from arrears accumulated over the years, taxes have been reduced for three years, three salaries have been suspended, etc., the bandits have been eliminated, bandits have been cracked down, a bureau has been established to raise funds to support the people without hurting the people, and the army has built a camp of long-term husbands to serve instead of conscripting men to be husbands.
These things are unimaginable without burdening the people, but they are already being officially implemented here.
There are no random apportionments, no various solicitations for donations, and even rural roads are smoother and safer.
The most important thing is that the 10,000 soldiers of Jianguo went northward, and it is said that the number has been expanded several times by now, but his soldiers and horses have not broken military discipline and looted everywhere.
The Zheng family started out as pirates. Later, they accepted the recruitment and monopolized the southeastern sea trade. All merchant ships at sea must fly the flag awarded by the Zheng family. The Zheng family awarded different flags and received different money according to the size of the merchant ship. Large ships received three thousand per year.
taels of silver. For this alone, the protection fee collected by Zheng was as high as more than 10 million taels of silver.
And the Zheng family relied on its powerful force to control the shipping routes after defeating other pirates, monopolizing the Chinese goods in the Ming Dynasty's foreign trade, and actually acted as the agent of the Ming Dynasty in the trade with Spain, forming an actual
Zheng-Spanish trade.
The Zheng family used force to support their monopoly on trade and obtained a large amount of money through it. However, their political status did not match the strength of the Southeast King. When they were first recruited, Zheng Zhilong was just a guerrilla.
Over the years, the Zheng family has been working hard to join the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty's political circles in order to obtain a higher position to protect their lucrative interests.
But even though he was awarded the title of Earl of Nan'an during the Hongguang Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong's maritime group, headquartered in Fujian, was still part-time in the pirate business.
They also frequently attacked the Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish.
Even, they still often robbed people along the coast, and would go ashore to rob from time to time.
The Zheng family's huge armed force has better military discipline in recent years than in the past, but it can only be said to be average, and it still retains many of the bad habits of pirates.
Compared with the Northern Expeditionary Army of Lu Jianguo, there is a huge difference.
He has been in the army and knows that it is difficult to lead a good army of soldiers and horses, and it is even more difficult to make the soldiers with swords and guns obedient and observe military discipline.
He couldn't imagine how Lu Jianguo did all this.
Zhu Yihai's newly formed flag-bearer battalion three-service honor guard made its majestic appearance for the first time, which really shocked these various people from the south.
Even the generals of the Chuang Army, Li Jin, Hao Yaoqi, and Yuan Zongdi, had seen the world. They had once entered Beijing with King Chuang and stood in the Emperor's Golden Palace.
But they were also shocked by Zhu Yihai's honor guard. They didn't think these soldiers were elite. In fact, although the Chuang Army started as bandits, in the later period, there were many elite troops. Even the Chuang Army later became very capable and capable of fighting.
cavalry troops.
For example, one of Li Zicheng's tactics that repeatedly defeated the imperial army in his later period was called the Three Walls, which consisted of 30,000 cavalry in front and 30,000 heavy armored cavalry, just like the Iron Kites of Xixia in the history of Li Zicheng's hometown. The 10,000 cavalry in front dared to turn around and the rear formation dared to turn around.
Just chop and kill.
When attacking, the cavalry will advance like three walls. If they encounter ordinary officers and soldiers, they will directly break through and defeat them. If they encounter the very hard ones, the cavalry will pretend to be defeated, lure the enemy to break the formation and pursue them, and then wait for them to form.
After the formation was broken up, the infantry of the invading army surrounded and killed them with long spears.
Under Li Zicheng's three-wall cavalry offensive, the Ming army was basically unstoppable.
Later, Sun Chuanting was ordered to crusade against the Chuang Army. In order to deal with the Three Walls, he specially built 30,000 trains, and actually repelled Li Zicheng's Three Walls cavalry. But just when Sun Chuanting thought he could win, Li Zicheng unexpectedly
The fourth cavalry wall was taken out, the train formation collapsed, Sun Chuanting died, and the Chongzhen Dynasty was actually destroyed in this battle.
Thirty to forty thousand armored cavalry are the real threat to the world.
But what Li Jin and others were shocked at this time was how could Lu Jianguo do this. They heard that when he killed the envoy to the north of Taizhou and declared himself a supervisor, he had hundreds of servants guarding the palace.
Later, when I went to Taizhou and Ningbo, I started almost alone. When I crossed the sea, there were only 10,000 people, but most of the recruits and veterans came from various ministries. But in this short period of time, I managed to achieve such a scene.
"I think this person is really as powerful as Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty."
"Maybe he can really become something!"
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Zhu Yihai personally led the accompanying civil and military officers to welcome the group in front of the city gate.
From a distance, a man with gray beard and hair wearing a python robe quickly stepped forward, and then prostrated himself in front of Zhu Yihai, "Your Majesty Zhu Yujian pays homage to His Highness Jian Guo."
Zhu Yihai looked at this man. The most tragic emperor in history was full of passion and ambition, but in the end he only became a puppet of the Zheng Group. Emperor Longwu was considered the best among the emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but he had nothing.
The ambitious man had no choice but to die on the front line of the Northern Expedition.
"Uncle, please get up quickly!" Zhu Yihai helped King Deng up.
Historically, the two vassals of Tang and Shandong were fighting against each other, and Zhejiang and Fujian were in conflict, which ultimately accelerated the collapse of the Southern Ming Dynasty. In this time and space, Zhu Yihai was the first to take over the throne as soon as he came to supervise the country, and immediately sent people to chase Zhu Yujian.
After Zhu Yujian learned that Zhu Yihai was supervising the country, he quickly gave up the idea of supervising the country again.
Compared with history, due to a lack of information, the two men supervised the country separately. However, Emperor Longwu, who actually supervised the country earlier and proclaimed himself emperor, sent an edict to Zhu Yihai to abdicate and return to the vassal. In fact, Zhu Yihai did abdicate and return according to the edict.
Taizhou was defeated, but later Zhang Guowei and many other ministers in eastern Zhejiang believed that the Qing army was pressing down on the border and the country was facing a national crisis. At this time, we could not give in. We could only respect whoever regained Nanjing first in the future.
Zhu Yihai then hesitated to be invited back to Shaoxing. As a result, the conflict between the two families became more and more serious. You killed my envoys, and I killed your ministers. They also conferred titles and titles to each other's ministers and generals. The atmosphere created was so chaotic that the Tatars
I got a bargain.
"I violated the ancestral system, left the vassal territory without authorization, and led my troops to Wu. I ask you to punish me, but please don't let me go back. I want to stay and fight the Tatars together." Zhu Yujian said sincerely.
Zhu Yihai held Zhu Yujian's hand and said with some emotion, "The emperor's uncle insisted on going north to fight against the invaders despite being weak and sick. This is so loyal to the country. How could he be punished? The emperor's uncle stayed in the army and assisted in military affairs.
We, the descendants of Taizu and Emperor Gao, will fight the enemy side by side and rebuild the Ming Dynasty!"
Zhu Yujian burst into tears at these words. He remembered that when the Qing army entered the fortress, he recruited troops to go north to Qinwang, but he was reprimanded by Chongzhen, and was even convicted and imprisoned in the high wall of Fengyang. But now he led his troops to go north again, and was imprisoned by Lu.
The country has a completely different attitude towards him.
"Under the leadership of His Highness, the Ming Dynasty will surely be revived and restored."
"It is difficult for one person to survive alone. To restore the world, we must unite as one and work together to fight against the invaders. From the clans and vassals to the people of Li, from the mountains and grass to the barbarians, as long as they are willing to unite to fight against the invaders, the lonely capital