Zhu Yihai stood on the deck, looking far into the distance.
The blue sky and blue sea are full of beautiful scenery. The warship rides the wind and waves, heading north. On one side is the war-torn Central Plains, which is a purgatory on earth, but on the other side is the infinite scenery on the sea, which makes people feel trance-like.
Except for Zhu Yihai at this time, the people of Ming Dynasty at this time were either extremely afraid of the situation, especially the Tartars on the opposite side, believing that the Eight Banners were invincible and that the Ming Dynasty would inevitably fall. There were also a small number of people who were a little overconfident.
, believing that the Donglu population only had a population of 200,000 to 300,000 people after all. Even if they conquered Mongolia and conquered Korea over the years and broke into Guanzhong, it was just a temporary fluke. Now it has reached its limit.
However, after three hundred years of Ming Dynasty, the country can still be regrouped. As long as the people's hearts are controlled, the strength will still be stronger than that of the Tartars. At the very least, it can be divided into rivers to rule and protect half of the country in the southeast.
As for the intruder Li Zicheng who had made great progress and entered the city of Beijing, no one is optimistic about them anymore. Although when the intruders entered Beijing, countless civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty chose to surrender along the way, and many scholars and scholars also followed suit, thinking that
The country changed hands and the dynasty changed its surname.
But now, everyone agrees that those thieves who broke into the West will never be able to get on the stage and become popular.
Lao Zhu disapproved of Zhang Mingzhen's overconfidence, but he did not publicly attack his optimism. Anyway, in his plan, he would seize the time to visit Dinghai and Zhoushan. Even in his plan, the Zhoushan Islands would be the most vulnerable to the current anti-Japanese war.
The base camp of the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, no matter what, we must seize the time to meet the two generals, Wang Zhiren and Huang Binqing, and recruit them before the King of Tang ascends the throne.
"Zhang Qing has a good relationship with Mr. Wang?"
"Well, when we were fooling around in the capital, Mr. Wang and I had similar aspirations."
Wang Zhiren, the chief military officer of Zhejiang Province, had a brother named Wang Zhixin, who was Tianqi, the great eunuch of the Chongzhen Dynasty. During the Chongzhen period, he supervised the army's Jingying camp and supervised the Dongchang. This damn eunuch acted ruthlessly, and he did not know it when he supervised the Dongchang.
He has solved many unjust cases and is considered a tiger in the capital. He has also accumulated hundreds of millions of wealth and is secretly known as the richest eunuch.
With such a powerful eunuch brother, Wang Zhiren will naturally have a smooth career. Speaking of which, Wang Zhixin actually became a monk and became a eunuch in the palace. He was originally just a rogue, but later he was chased for debts due to excessive gambling debts.
Reluctantly, he purged himself and found connections to join the palace as a eunuch. Because he was smart and ruthless, he actually became a great eunuch along the way.
After he became successful, he naturally placed great emphasis on his brothers, nephews, and nephews in his hometown. He relied on nepotism and gave all his brothers, nephews, and nephews prestigious jobs.
His younger brother Wang Zhiren was even arranged to go to the capital camp by him. Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Zhiren were fellow villagers in Jiangning and had the same temperament, so they became good friends and had a very good relationship.
Later, Zhang Mingzhen also had a relationship with Wang Zhixin and joined the Beijing camp as a military attache.
After the intruders captured Beijing, Li Zicheng asked for a donation, but Wang Zhixin only offered 10,000 taels. Liu Zongmin had heard that he was extremely rich and asked for 300,000. Wang Zhixin refused to donate and was killed in prison.
At that time, Wang Zhiren was already the chief military officer of Susong. When the Hongguang Dynasty came to power, he was changed to the chief military officer of Zhejiang, and he was given the seal of the Japanese general and commanded the navy.
Zhang Mingzhen used his connections to join the Shipu guerrillas because Wang Zhiren was the commander-in-chief in Dinghai. It was naturally more convenient for him to serve under this old brother. After he took office, Wang Zhiren in Dinghai was indeed very helpful to him. He asked for money and food.
Soldiers were given to soldiers, and a lot of military attachés who could fight were assigned to him.
"It's said outside that Brother Jiuru has surrendered. What the hell, Brother Jiuru will never surrender. I have been friends with him for decades. I dare to guarantee his loyalty with my life."
Zhu Yihai nodded.
It goes without saying that Wang Zhiren is loyal, although Wang Zhiren also has many problems. For example, this person relied solely on his eunuch brother to rise through the ranks step by step. Moreover, this person has no education, is rough in leading troops, has poor military discipline, and has a strong sense of Beijing.
The smell of camp soldiers.
After moving to Dinghai, Ningbo, he did not disturb the people much, but this was a common problem among military leaders in the late Ming Dynasty. He still persisted very well in matters of national and national issues.
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Shaoxing, Yuyao.
After King Lu of Hangzhou surrendered to the captives, Wang Xuanru, the county school's tutor, immediately crossed the river to pay homage to the captive commander and presented him with a gold and silver list, etc., and was awarded the post of Yuyao County Magistrate.
After Wang Xuanru returned to Yuyao County, he immediately posted a notice announcing Yuyao's surrender to the Qing Dynasty. At the same time, he issued three orders. The first order was that all the taxes owed by the merchants in Yuyao County over the years must be paid within one month. Moreover, this year's summer
Taxes and autumn taxes are collected in advance and must be paid within one month.
Secondly, in order to welcome the Qing soldiers passing by southward, Wang Xuanru asked the people in the county to send men from each household to repair the roads, and they also had to repair them within a time limit.
Third, the Qing Dynasty's hair-shaving order was announced, requiring all soldiers and civilians to shave their heads.
Regardless of the hot weather and the poverty of many people who owed taxes, he sent people everywhere to collect taxes. If they couldn't pay, they would take away all the valuable things in the house. In fact, when the family was destitute and had nothing of value, he was forced to sell the women and children into slavery.
Finally, every family was forced to send strong men to build roads. The sun was like scorching hot and the construction period was tight. Everyone dug and tamped the soil under the scorching sun. Many people immediately fainted from heatstroke. However, Wang Xuanru sent people to whip people with whips to force the people to speed up the road construction.
"If this continues, how can we still survive?"
"Then the king's official gave us three days to shave our heads. How can we shave our parents' bodies randomly?"
"That's right, the pig tail that Wang Guguan shaved off his head looks so ugly. He still deliberately shows off every day. He's so fucking shameless."
Everyone complained softly while building the road.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the people's grievances are getting deeper and deeper.
"Reverse it!"
"Kill the dog officer!"
The people were furious. On the one hand, they were forcing taxes and on the other hand, they were conscripting young men and shaving their heads. The people felt that they could not survive.
Some young people took the lead in shouting that they were against it, and immediately people gathered in response.
Everyone just raised their hoes and shovels, surrounded Wang Xuanru, the dog official who came in a sedan to supervise the construction site, and beat him to death.
"What should we do now?"
Seeing the fake magistrate turned into meat, everyone was a little confused.
"Let's go to Sun's home and find Mr. Sun to preside over it."
"Is it the Sun family that has produced bachelors?"
"That's right, Mr. Sun today was once a doctor in the Ministry of War. Previously, Emperor Hongguang also recruited him to be a Jiujiang Daotai, but he did not go to live in seclusion in his hometown for some reason. Let's ask Mr. Sun to make the decision and lead us to fight against the invaders together!
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Henghe, Yuyao, Sun family.
Sun Jiaji was meeting a mysterious guest who suddenly arrived. He was entertaining the guest to drink tea, and he read the letter.
After reading several letters one by one, Sun Jiaji's face flushed and he was very excited.
“I didn’t expect King Lu to be so ambitious and responsible!”
The visitor was Song Nianzu, the eldest son of Song Zhipu, who was newly worshiped by Zhu Yihai as a bachelor of Dongge University and Minister of Etiquette. Wei Fengyi, a white-faced and handsome man with a beautiful beard in his young life, was now appointed as a judge of Dali Temple. This time, he was ordered by his father to serve among several people.
Under the escort of Jin Yiwei, he sneaked into Yuyao, Shaoxing to visit Sun Jiaji secretly.
Sun Jiajing and Song Zhipu had a good personal relationship in the past.
"To be honest, although I am living in seclusion in the countryside, the northern invaders invaded the south, and I am also secretly contacting the gentry and righteous people to start an uprising. Now that I know that King Lu has been ordered to take charge of the country in danger, it is really great news. We will mobilize our troops.
Righteousness will have a direction."
While they were talking, Sun Jiaji's son came back.
"Father, it is finished."
"The villagers who were building the road were in a rage. They killed the dog official Wang Xuanru and rebelled."
The rebellion of the able-bodied men on the road construction site in Yuyao was actually not a natural thing. Sun Jiaji had been instigating it behind the scenes in order to lead the people of Yuyao to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
"The villagers are coming to our house."
Sun Jiaji twirled his beard excitedly, "It's such good news. Finally the clouds opened and the moon can be seen. My son, let me tell you better news. King Lu of Taizhou has killed the Northern envoy. With the support of Song Gong and others,
He stood up and took over the throne to supervise the country."
"Ah, that's great."
Song Nianzu also admired Sun Jiaji and their uprising very much.
"What do we do next?"
Sun Jiaji stood up and said, "Follow me to meet the villagers."
Outside the gate of Sun's house, countless villagers came here.
The county magistrate appointed by the Tatars was beaten to death, and everyone knew that trouble had been caused. Yuyao was close to Hangzhou, and Tatar soldiers could cross the river at any time to retaliate or even massacre.
Many timid villagers had already ran away.
But there were also some angry villagers who came to the Sun family, hoping that the famous Sun Jiaji would lead them to resist the Tatars. The Sun family was the most famous gentry family here. Its fifth generation ancestor had been the governor of Jiangxi, and his grandfather was Tianqi.
Sun Jiaji, a great scholar in the imperial dynasty, was born as a Jinshi and worked as a doctor. Later, he was deprived of his post and imprisoned for offending the eunuch Gao Qiqian. Later, his sentence was reduced and he was released from prison. He was banished to Nanjing. During the Hongguang Dynasty, he returned to his hometown and lived in seclusion.
This kind of gatekeeper is naturally the first-class supporter for the villagers.
"Master Sun, please save us?"
Sun Jiaji looked at so many young men and said excitedly, "I want to tell you all the great news. King Lu has ascended the throne in Taizhou to supervise the country. Ming Dynasty has another king, and Ming Dynasty has not yet been destroyed."
"The rebels are raging in the north, but the events east of the Yangtze River are not yet known. How can we just sit back and wait for death and die in obscurity? The king of Lu is now supervising the country and has sent a message to the world to raise troops to serve the king. We will respond. If we can unite and row across the river to defend,
It will be a great achievement. Even if we fail to win, we can still delay the death of Lu Jianguo for a while, and besides, this may not be the case?"
"The King of Lu has long had a reputation as a virtuous man. Now that he has stepped forward to supervise the regency of the country and lead us, we will be able to revive. When I wait, won't I also be a hero of the new dynasty?"
The words made everyone excited.
The original panic was gradually replaced by excitement.
Among the crowd below, there were already members of the Sun family or his disciples, servants and followers waiting inside to take the lead in responding, so everyone even followed the crowd and shouted in response.
"Beat the drums and plant the flags!"
Sun Jiaji had served as a doctor in the Ministry of War, and he also knew something about military affairs, and he had already been planning the uprising, so the crowd was excited at this time, but it was carried out in an orderly manner.
Beat the drums and raise the flag of rebellion.
Sun Jiaji asked his brothers, nephews and disciples to each lead a team to organize the villagers, and then they beat drums and raised flags all the way to the county government office.
Capture all the dog officials who surrendered with Wang Xuanru in Yuyao City, control all the sects, occupy the government warehouse, then put up notices, and get swords, guns, etc. to distribute the volunteers.
"Song Gongzi, please take your dog back to Taizhou as soon as possible, report the victory to Lu Jianguo, and say that the spark in Yuyao has been ignited, and the whole county has upheld justice and returned to the Ming Dynasty!"
Sun Jiaji's friends in Yuyao City, such as Jinshi Shao Bingjie, Chen Xiangcai, Zhusheng Shao Yingdou, Lu Zhangcheng, Shen Zhitai, etc., had already conspired with him to revolt. At this time, they also called on their clan members, relatives and neighbors to revolt and come to join him.
Sun Jiaji immediately wrote another letter, asking his second son to invite Xiong Rulin, another squire registered in Yuyao, "Yu Yin is well versed in military affairs. When he was the magistrate of Tong'an County, Fujian Province in his early years, he led his troops across the sea and defeated the Dutch Red Yigui in Xiamen. We are waiting for him."
Raise the flag and let him lead the troops."
Song Nianzu came to Shao this time, but he did not expect that the progress was smoother than expected. He quickly killed the dog officer who surrendered and captured the city of Yuyao, as well as such enthusiastic local soldiers.
"His Royal Highness Jianguo will be very happy if he hears about Yuyao's great victory."