Chapter 456 Chang Guowei
Zhu Hongsan saw that the Zheng family's fleet did not follow and completely relieved. Although he was not afraid of fighting with the Zheng family, he could win according to his estimate, the consequences were too serious. Now the strategic form of Nanzhili and Zhejiang is too good, and there are basically no Qing army. In addition, Zhejiang is full of rebels, and only a few prefectures are in the hands of the Qing Dynasty. It can be said that the ruling foundation is very weak. This is a good opportunity for the Northern Expedition to occupy Nanjing.
However, if there is a conflict with the Zheng family, the Qing Dynasty fishermen will benefit. After all, the Zheng family is weak and there are more than 200,000 troops there. Zhu Hongsan cannot pacify the Zheng family without one to two years of effort. The Qing Dynasty in the north will take advantage of the opportunity to be held back by the Zheng family. After all, the Qing Dynasty now controls most of China and its overall strength is more than Zhu Hongsan, who only occupy one province. Therefore, he ignores the Zheng family and the Yongli regime in Huguang, and defeats the Qing army in Nanzhili, and then occupies China's most prosperous provinces in Zhejiang and Nanzhili, and uses the money and resources of Nanyang to drag down the Qing Dynasty. This is Zhu Hongsan's grand strategy.
So just now, Zhu Hongsan saw the Zheng family navy leaning forward and immediately ordered his warship to fire cannons to warn him and chased the Zheng family away.
The most dangerous Quanzhou Prefecture was Fuzhou Prefecture. From then on, there was basically no force on the sea surface that could threaten the Guangdong Navy. Some pirates saw that this size had already run far away, so they dared to stroke the tiger's beard.
When passing by the sea outside Quanzhou, Cao Fang asked from the side: "Emperor, Fuzhou Prefecture is ahead. Will you go and see Princess Yuyang?"
Thinking of his poor daughter, Zhu Hongsan sighed. He had never suffered such a big loss in his life. His wife was killed, his daughter was arrested, and now he has a child.
Now that he heard Cao Fang talk about his sad things, Zhu Hongsan shook his head slightly, "No need, Xiao Yuer is pregnant now and should be about to give birth, so why don't you go? How did Li Yuanyin treat my daughter?"
As Zhu Hongsan's favorite daughter, Zhu Yu certainly has a secret spy from the East Factory and the Jinyiwei around him. Cao Fang quickly replied when he heard Zhu Hongsan's question: "Go back to the emperor, Li Yuanyin is very good to the princess. I have inquired about it. Li Yuanyin had several wives, concubines and children in his early years, but they all disappeared in the war, so he was very respectful to the princess. Li Chengdong was also planning to find him a few concubines, but they were all rejected by Li Yuanyin!"
Zhu Hongsan felt a lot better when he heard that Li Yuanyin was good to his daughter.
"Hmph! This Li Chengdong is really ignorant of life and death. He dares to find a woman to fight for her husband with my daughter!"
Cao Fang saw Zhu Hongsan angry when he saw him, and asked in a low voice: "Emperor, Li Chengdong killed the queen, do you want it..."
Zhu Hongsan heard that Cao Fang was going to kill Li Chengdong. It was not the time now. His power is really weak. If Li Chengdong, a typical person who bought bones with a daughter, would he dare to surrender to him in the future? Li Chengdong not only could not move, but also had to give him a high official and generous salary to support him!
"No, Li Chengdong should not move. If you send an order, you must ensure that Li Chengdong is absolutely not in danger!" If Li Chengdong wants to do anything at this time, it will definitely be counted on Zhu Hongsan's head, so you must also ensure that Li Chengdong lives well.
Passing Fuzhou Prefecture is Fujian, close to Zhejiang. After that, you will enter the war zone. Although the Qing Dynasty in eastern Zhejiang has not yet formed a stable rule, it has entered the war zone, so the fleet has to replenish fresh water and fresh vegetables in Fenghuomen Water Village outside Funing Prefecture. After all, the fleet has 50,000 people, and the daily consumption is still considerable.
Fenghuomen Water Village is one of the five major water villages in Fujian. It was built in the 28th year of Yongle and was affiliated with the Fujian Metropolitan Division. However, for more than a hundred years, the Fenghuomen Water Village was increasingly undervalued by the imperial court. During the Zhengtong period, only one of them was left to stay. However, in the Jiajing period, the Japanese pirates emerged, and the role of Fenghuomen Water Village was highlighted. In June of the 26th year of Jiajing, the court sent Zhu Wan, the right deputy chief censor of the Censorate, to govern Zhejiang, and
Admiral Fujian's five prefectures, Fu, Xing, Zhang, Quan and Jianning. Zhu Wan inspected the coastal defense situation along Funing in March 28, and selected Dongchong Aoli Village to build Guanjing Yangshui Village. That is, with Fenghuomen Water Village as the center, Liujiang Water Village was set up in the north and Guanjing Yangshui Village in the south, making the north and south connected together. The water village was about to be built, but Zhu Wan could not be an official, so she was caught by Jiajing and chopped her head before the water village was completed.
After the Japanese pirates were pacified, Fenghuomen Water Village followed the old path. By the time of Chongzhen, the imperial court had no money. Of course, such a coastal defense unit that was useless had to be abolished. Hundreds of thousands of postmen were dismissed and these hundreds of people were left? Therefore, Fenghuomen Water Village was completely abandoned.
It was not until Zhu Hongsan occupied Guangdong and sent a fleet to use Zhoushan as a base to prepare for counterattack of Nanzhili. In order to prevent the Zheng family forces in Fujian, Fenghuomen Water Village was reused by the Guangdong Navy. Now it has become a relay station in Zhoushan and Guangdong Sea Road. There are 200 sailors stationed in the water village all year round, and there are two small gunboats worth 100 tons.
Fenghuomen Water Village had already received news that the fleet was coming, and purchased a large amount of fresh vegetables. When the fleet arrived, it started shipping.
The fleet stayed at Fenghuomen for three days. It was not a good thing to travel long distances in this era. Navy sailors could do it, but more than 20,000 other army soldiers could not stand it.
After the renovation was completed here, it was September 20th. The Guangdong Navy began to start anchoring and officially entered the Zhejiang War Zone.
Close to Fujian is the Wenzhou Prefecture of Zhejiang, which belongs to southern Zhejiang. The main battlefield of Zhejiang is Shaoxing, Taizhou, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Jiaxing Prefectures in eastern Zhejiang. Wenzhou is still quite peaceful. Several Qing army outposts along the coast saw the black fleet and were frightened to light the beacon and fled. They probably went to Fucheng to report the news. Zhu Hongsan didn't care about them, and his primary goal was Zhoushan.
Going further north, you will reach Taizhou and Ningbo. These two places were where the rebels resisted fiercely. Several fishing villages along the coast seemed to have been burned, and the fishermen did not know where they went. When they passed by Changguowei, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhu Hongsan saw that the entire Changguo County was burned. It looked dark from a distance and didn't want to look like a living person.
Zhu Hongsan didn't know what was there, pointed to the ruins and asked Zhang Huangyan beside him: "Xuanzhu, you are from Ningbo, where is that place? It seems to be a city!"
"Your Majesty, you are talking about Changguo Guard. Although it is just a garrison, this place was a county town in the Tang Dynasty. In the Hongwu period, it was changed to a garrison in order to prevent Japanese pirates. There were originally more than 20,000 people in this place, and it was a very prosperous large county town. I didn't expect it to become a ghost now. It seems that there is no living person!"
Zhu Hongsan remembered that when he asked the Jinyiwei to assist the rebels in eastern Zhejiang and Songjiang and Changshu, how could he still be like this with assistance?
Zhu Hongsan looked at Qian Lide, the commander of the Jinyiwei next to him, and asked, "Fatty Qian, didn't I ask you to give weapons to the rebels?"
Qian Lide complained in his heart. The emperor said this back then, but within a few months, the King of Lu Zhu Yihai was in Ningbo. In order to release the Qing Dynasty to go south to eliminate the King of Lu, the emperor reduced his support for the rebel army. But Qian Lide dared to say these words, isn’t this arbitrary trap for the emperor!
Qian Lide gritted his teeth and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the Jinyiwei has limited funds. In addition to the eastern Zhejiang, there are also northern provinces. Jiangxi and Huguang all need Jinyiwei to support it, so there are fewer here in Ningbo!"
When Zhu Hongsan heard Qian Lide being looking for reasons, he suddenly remembered that he had secretly ordered that he would not support Zhejiang East, just to use the full hand to destroy King Lu, but afterwards he forgot to restore assistance to Zhejiang East. Now he remembered that after Qian Lide said this. But now there are civil servants around him, and Zhang Huangyan, a native of Ningbo, was still looking at him. He was really embarrassed to admit that it was his order, and there was no way to let Qian Lide take the blame.
"Hmph! Qian Lide, the war is about to begin. I will remember you first and settle the score with you after the matter is finished!" Zhu Hongsan said simply, but he did not expect that Zhang Huangyan heard that it was because Qian Lide did not assist Zhejiang in accordance with the emperor's order. When he saw the burned Changguo County in the distance, he said angrily: "Your Majesty, I impeach Qian Lide for mediocrity and inaction, causing countless casualties in the people in Zhejiang!"
Zhang Huangyan's words made Zhu Hongsan embarrassed. Qian Lide followed his orders and could not push his subordinates out to block the gun. In this way, he would still work for him in the future, and he would not be the same as the unlucky emperor Chongzhen.
"Mysterious, I have already said that it is not the time, so I will talk about it later!"
"But Your Majesty, hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Zhejiang died tragically under the sword of the Qing army because they had no weapons. What should they do? Please punish Qian Lide severely!"
Seeing Zhang Huangyan’s arrogant face, Zhu Hongsan was a little unhappy. He had already shown that he wanted to protect Qian Lide. Can’t Zhang Huangyan still see this?
"Xuanzhu, don't say it, I have your own decision!"
Qian Lide saw that Zhang Huangyan was still resolute and insisted on curing his own sins. Not only did he feel resentful, but since you, Zhang Huangyan, don’t blame me, don’t blame me.
Qian Lide said on the side: "Mr. Zhang is so resolute and unwilling to forgive me. I don't think he is worried about the people of eastern Zhejiang! Are you still missing the days when Ningbo accompanied King Lu?"
Qian Lide said this very cruelly. Although everyone present knew that Zhu Yihai, the King of Lu, was killed by Zhu Hongsan, they still wanted to say that Zhu Yihai, the King of Lu, died of illness. But now Qian Lide said that Zhang Huangyan was still missing King of Lu, was he going to do something to betray Zhu Hongsan?
Zhu Hongsan's eyes twitched when he heard Qian Lide say this. He was most afraid that his subordinates would not be loyal to him. If he found out, he would definitely have killed the wrong person and not let him go.
"Haha, don't talk nonsense, do you have any evidence?"
Chapter completed!