Zhu Yihai rode into Suzhou City under the protection of Yu Lin.
He was riding a white horse, wearing silver armor, looking around. Suzhou, an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, was indeed one of the most prosperous cities in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, he was very lucky. He was not slaughtered like Yangzhou, nor was he like Nandu.
Beijing was also looted.
Because they surrendered after hearing the news, Suzhou basically remained unchanged. Only Yang Wencong led his troops into the city of Suzhou, killed Duduo and Qian Qianyi's surrender envoys, killed several puppet officials, and then opened the treasury.
He took out some silver and gave it to some Ming troops as severance pay, and took a batch of money and food to evacuate.
Yang Wencong wanted to defend Suzhou at that time, but there were few troops and horses under his command, and the army had no fighting spirit, so he had to abandon the defense of Suzhou. When he left, he did not destroy the city of Suzhou. He retreated first, and the Qing army's forward had arrived outside the gate of Suzhou that day.
The city of Suzhou did not suffer any real war. Although Tu Guobao was very greedy and cruel in Suzhou, compared with many Central Plains cities that were destroyed in the war, Suzhou was lucky.
Jinwu Town made a surprise attack on Suzhou and captured it almost without a fight.
At this time, Suzhou City did not even feel the atmosphere of war. There were not many people on the street. Some people heard that Wang Shi had entered the city and came to greet him, but most of them were ordinary people, traders and lackeys. Those gentry and powerful men
On the contrary, only a few of the big households came, and many families only sent a few people to greet them in a symbolic manner.
They were obviously not optimistic about Lu Jianguo and felt that the Qing army was powerful.
"These damn guys deserve to be killed." Yang Wencong, who had followed him into the city, entered Suzhou again with mixed emotions. He had gone south from Zhenjiang and attacked and killed the recruiting envoys in Suzhou City, but he could not stay behind. He did not expect to come back so soon.
But the attitude of these people in Suzhou City made him angry. At first, these people also regarded him as a plague god.
I wished he could leave as soon as possible, but no one agreed to stay in Suzhou together.
Now that Wang's army is going on an expedition to the north and recovering the state, these people still have this attitude.
"When the Tatars entered Suzhou, they gave them a grand and warm welcome."
Zhu Yihai had long been accustomed to it, "In this land of Sanwu, there are loyal Jiangdong righteous men, but there are also weak Wuxia cowards, so don't worry too much."
"I respectfully welcome Your Highness." Fu Yamen said.
Yuan Zongdi, Zhang Mingbin, Ma Jixiang, Chen Bangding and other Ma Jun generals were all waiting to pay their respects. Zhu Yihai's identity as a supervisor was not revealed to anyone outside just now.
"Everyone sit down."
"I neglected my duty and allowed Tu Guobao to escape." Zhang Mingbin apologized many times and dug three feet into the ground, but could not find Tu Guobao's figure.
"If you run away, run away. If you run away, the monk can't run away from the temple. If you run away this time, you will catch him next time. Besides, didn't you also dig out the underground vault of Tu Guobao? The harvest is very rich." Zhu Yihai smiled.
To comfort.
Zhang Mingbin handed over a list, "I am also very surprised. This national treasure can really be collected. I dug such a big secret room under the governor's office and hid so much gold and silver. I have sealed up all the property.
Send troops to guard it, no matter what happens."
Zhu Yihai took it and looked at it. The list was quite long, mainly gold and silver, but also some precious items such as jewelry and tortoiseshell. Regardless of these luxuries, the two items of gold and silver alone were astonishing.
There are more than 7,000 taels of gold, more than 300,000 taels of silver, and the other items are probably worth no less than 100,000 taels.
"This guy is indeed quite greedy. He has only been the governor of Jiangning for how many months?"
Zhu Yihai thought about the fact that Tu Guobao was too greedy in history, so even the Qing court couldn't stand it. He was demoted and punished at first, but he showed no remorse and worsened the situation. So later Dorgon personally ordered his dismissal and investigation, and Tu Guobao finally committed suicide out of fear of crime.
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Comparing Tu Guobao's greed with Zhu Dadian's, they are both greedy and relatively capable. Of course, in real terms, Tu Guobao's ability is far inferior to Zhu Dadian's.
Calculating the time, Zhu Dadian should have arrived in Huguang. I don't know whether taking over Huguang will go smoothly, or whether He Tengjiao will honestly give up his position and take over.
"In addition to discovering the secret vault of the Tu national treasure, we also found the deputy general of the Chinese Army Zou Xixiang, his nephew Fubiao Guerrilla Yang Guohai and other close confidants, all of whom had more than 10,000 taels of silver. Among them, Yang Guohai secretly deposited silver points, and a total of ten gold and silver were recovered.
More than 10,000 taels. This Yang Guohai used his power as a national treasure to smuggle salt crazily, and even smuggled sulfur and saltpeter. He even dared to resell armor, horses, birds, and muskets from the army."
The two prefectures of Suzhou and Songjiang in the south of the Yangtze River were both important tax areas in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty. The grain taxes paid by the two prefectures even accounted for a huge proportion of the imperial court.
In the case of Suzhou Prefecture, the money and grain turned over are mainly divided into money and grain turned over to the inner government of Beijing, including gold flowers and silver for the inner transport warehouse, Jiebang silver, white grain and silver for the supply warehouse, and natural wax tea,
The gifts were given to Jia and Dingziku in the form of natural three-colored damask cloth, natural color wide white cloth, etc., as well as the white grain and silver given to the wine, vinegar and noodle game, and the lumi, white grain, and silver given to the feudal lord.
In addition, rice must be paid to Taicang, Jingtongcang, and Yamen of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In addition, white grain and silver must be handed over to Guanglu Temple, silver for four divisions of labor materials and various materials must be turned over to the Ministry of Industry, and silver for livestock materials, medicinal materials, etc. must be turned over to the Ministry of Rites. This does not include the grain and silver that must be escorted to Nanjing.
Materials etc.
A rough calculation shows that the main land tax in Suzhou is worth more than 30,800 taels of silver, the autumn grain is worth more than 663,800 taels of silver, and the supplies of materials are worth about 43,800 taels of silver.
There are more than a hundred taels, and the customs duty on banknotes is about 65,000 taels.
The salt tax is about 15,000 taels, the miscellaneous tax is about 5,000 taels, the Yao servants can get more than 115,000 taels of silver, and the total of several major items is about 900,000 taels.
Land tax accounted for more than 70%, and Yao's silver accounted for more than 10%. The two items combined accounted for 85%. Later, due to the revision of commercial tax, the amount was increased from more than 5,000 taels to more than 200,000 taels. Therefore, Suzhou
The total tax amount is 1.1 million taels of silver, and commercial tax accounts for 18%.
The tax revenue of Suzhou is far higher than that of Zhejiang Province.
Suzhou plus Songjiang plus Nanjing account for one-third of the world's tax revenue.
"Is there any silver grain in Suzhou's treasury?"
"There are only tens of thousands taels of silver, but there are more than 30,000 shi of rice, more than 2,000 shi of wheat, more than 3,000 shi of beans, as well as many weapons and armors, even blunderbuss and artillery, and a lot of iron and other materials for making weapons and armors.
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After hearing the news, Zhu Yihai became energetic.
Many of his 50,000-strong Northern Expedition army only have one long spear. As for armor, they are even more lacking, and firearms and gunpowder can only be used sparingly.
"As expected of Jiangnan's financial and taxation center, Suzhou is indeed rich, so we should quickly count and move them."
"Really unruly?"
Although Zhu Yihai has said his strategic plan more than once, he must trade space for time and be prepared for a protracted war. He cannot rush to fight with the Qing army. He must first buy time, train soldiers, stabilize people's hearts, and do everything one by one.
Let's wait until we get stronger and then fight again.
Therefore, the purpose of this Northern Expedition is not to recover lost territory or seize many cities, but to conduct mobile operations and eliminate some enemy forces. The most important thing is to attack the capitulationists in Jiangnan, awaken the people, support the uprising, and let everyone
I know that Ming Dynasty is still fighting hard and has not died yet.
No matter how many cities are captured, they will not defend them now, but they will try their best to seize materials, money and food to support the army.
But when Zhu Yihai really said he wanted to withdraw, everyone was still reluctant to leave.
"Since we can capture Suzhou now, wouldn't it be easier to come back in the future? So don't be afraid of breaking these bottles and cans. They are a burden to us now, and we have to travel light."
Zhu Yihai also knew that the governor Zhang Guowei had given Zhu Yihai more than once and put forward his recovery strategy. In summary, his strategy was actually the same as Sun Chengzong's management of Liaodong during the Chongzhen period of the Apocalypse.
It means fighting for every inch of land, advancing steadily, first seizing Hangzhou, and then using fortress tactics, relying on big cities like Hangzhou, Songjiang, and Suzhou, advancing step by step, defending the city with the Tatars, and relying on the big cities to fight the Tatars. He believes that
Sun Chengzong's tactics at that time were very effective outside the customs. If the eunuchs had not sabotaged them, they would have been pushed all the way to Fushun and Shenyang.
Of course, Zhu Yihai believed that Sun Chengzong's tactics back then had helped turn the tide of the war outside the Pass, but they might not be able to win in the end, let alone be applicable to today's era.
Now we are fighting for every inch of land with the Tatars, and Dorgon would laugh out loud in his dreams.
Although Zhu Yihai is just a history buff, he knows history after all and is equivalent to half a prophet. Based on the historical trend, Zhu Yihai's strategy is to first lead the Northern Expedition with his own army, fight in chaos in Sanwu, and engage in mobile guerrilla warfare. This step,
It was not only to slow down the Qing army's march south to the base camp in eastern Zhejiang, but also to build up the prestige of his prison state and even to manage his own real men.
Without a real army, the governor or the emperor are actually just puppets held up in the sky.
Going north to Sanwu is to gain prestige and win the hearts of the people, and it is also the basis for training and expanding the army to increase strength. Only when this step is taken well can the next step begin.
Zhu Yihai has already opened up the situation in Sanwu, and has also begun to operate further afield, such as letting Zhu Dadian go to Huguang to supervise the division, recruit the remaining troops of the Chuang Army, win over Huguang officials to block Yinxi, and kick out He Tengjiao. This step is to be able to operate in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
Open up a new battlefield and base area to contain the Qing army.
He has now begun to deploy the third step, which is to wait for Wang Zhiren to solve Zhoushan's worries, then go to the Shaoxing front line to take charge, and then transfer Zhang Guowei to Jiangxi to supervise the division. At that time, he will also send Zhang Mingzhen to bring an elite team with him. They will
Go to reinforce Ganzhou.
Ganzhou is the key to the next whole chess game, connecting Huguang to the west, Zhejiang and Fujian to the east, Guangdong and Guangxi to the south, and the Yangtze River to the north, leading to the Central Plains.
Ganzhou itself is also mountainous and dangerous, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. Therefore, as long as Ganzhou can be defended well, the east and west will form a big dragon, and the entire front will be alive.
The Ming army was able to put pressure on the Qing army from fronts thousands of miles east and west at the same time, making the Qing army exhausted. Zhu Yihai's final strategy was to seize the strategic initiative in his hands.
Historically, Nanming suffered successive defeats, not because the Qing army was so powerful that it was invincible, but because Nanming never had a clear strategic plan. In other words, there were serious internal conflicts and each had their own agenda, so they were unable to unify internally and deal with the outside world.
All the forces in the Southern Ming Dynasty were fighting independently. The Qing army could mobilize calmly and concentrate its forces to defeat them one by one. Their troops could be transferred from Nanjing to Jingzhou, from Shaanxi to Sichuan, and from Hangzhou to Jiangxi. The most elite
The Eight Banners soldiers were also deployed everywhere, and coupled with the constantly integrated green camp soldiers who surrendered to the army, they finally encroached and advanced step by step. However, it was not until the Kangxi period that the remaining Zhongzhen camp in eastern Sichuan was wiped out and the Zheng family in Taiwan was pacified.
Please remember the first domain name of this book: ._
