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Chapter 766: Tianjin Guardian

When Li Chengen saw that the emperor wanted to educate his grandson Zhu Shengduo, he quickly took the eunuch out. It would be better not to listen to this way of being a king.

Li Chengen stood outside and looked at the weather. The weather was very bad these days. It was probably snowing, and the sky was covered with lead clouds. Li Chengen's mood was similar to the sky, full of grayness. Li Chengen was by the emperor for a long time and knew that the emperor was in poor health and suffered from the "Hongmai" disease (that is, hypertension). This disease can be said to be big or small. When it is okay, it is like a normal person. If you get sick, you will be an acute disease and you may have a stroke.

China's feudal monarchy has been in place for thousands of years, and there have been institutional arrangements for this sudden situation, that is, the prince. So Zhu Hongsan is now suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage, and the prince in Nanjing will immediately take over the country, and it will not cause any major changes. The country's established policies will be implemented step by step. Of course, this refers to the national level, but for individuals, it is not certain. After all, the emperor will be the minister of the emperor!

This is what Li Chengen is worried about. As Zhu Hongsan's close servant, he must act like he is centered on the emperor. He has always treated the prince with a false appearance and even monitored the prince according to the emperor's instructions. In this way, the prince will definitely hate Li Chengen. When the prince comes to power, Li Chengen can go home to take care of his old age, it will be considered a burning incense.

Today, when Li Chengen saw the way of Emperor Pope Sun Weijun, he couldn't help but think of himself. What should he do in the future!

Just when Li Chengen was sad, a knight wearing a red jacket and four yellow flags on his back came in at the door. It was the Eight Hundred Miles of Rapid Army who reported to him.

The knight came to Li Chengen and knelt down on one knee and said, "Caishou Governor, Jinan Military Newspaper! Yangzhou Governor Zhao Guodong captured Jinan in one day, and Prince Zheng of the Qing Dynasty, Jier Harang died!"

When Li Chengen heard this, he was overjoyed. He didn't care about his feelings. He quickly took the military newspaper to the house and shouted softly: "Emperor! Emperor! He was overjoyed! Jinan won a great victory!"

Zhu Hongsan in the room said in a deep voice: "Okay! Come in!"

After Li Chengen entered the house, Zhu Hongsan waved his hand and asked the eunuch to lead Zhu Shengduo out to play. He took the military newspaper and read it carefully. The above is very simple, but he just told the battle that more than 10,000 Qing troops guarding the city ran away, but most of the generals were eliminated, some surrendered and some committed suicide, and the enemy Shou Jier Harang died in battle.

Zhu Hongsan expected that Jinan would win the battle, but Zhu Hongsan did not expect that Zhao Guodong could take Jinan on the first day, so Zhu Hongsan was still very happy.

"Okay, Lao Li, notify the Military Affairs Office to record the merits of Zhao Guodong and the others, and also bring the map of the north!"

After the little eunuch opened the map, Zhu Hongsan stood in front of the map and thought for a long time. Now he had three armies in the Central Plains, one was Makun from Henan. They were attacking Zhangde Mansion, but no news came yet. Another one was Qian Yong, who took two divisions to Dongchang Mansion. Good news should be coming soon. The last one was Zhao Guodong from Jinan.

Now Zhao Guodong took Jinan in one day. Although it was good news, it disrupted Zhu Hongsan's offensive pace. According to Zhu Hongsan's arrangement, these three teams would be pushed to the feet of Beijing, so that the young emperor Shunzhi had no chance to run away. However, no news came from the other two routes, and Zhao Guodong from Jinan had achieved the set goal. In this way, the three directions would definitely be disconnected.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it and wanted the eunuch to call Yao Qisheng. After all, he was in charge of military aircraft and asked him about his opinion.

After Yao Qisheng came, he heard the emperor's question and thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, why bother to be imprisoned by the situation? Isn't it good to fight each of the three armies?"

"Now our army is short of troops, with only more than 30,000 troops per unit, and the largest number of Zhao Guodong is only 45,000. I am afraid that they will encounter strong enemies!"

"Your Majesty, there is still strong resistance in the entire Northern Zhili? The battle in Jinan was so smooth because the Qing Dynasty had no available soldiers, and they used some of the guards of the former Ming Dynasty. How could these people deal with Zhao Guodong's tiger and wolf army?"

Zhu Hongsan nodded repeatedly when he heard Yao Qisheng say this. He was afraid of being beaten by the Qing army in Anshan Lake, and forgot that this was already the last vital force of the Qing Dynasty.

"Xizhi, you are a military aircraft of the Military Affairs Office. What do you think should you do?"

Yao Qisheng looked at the map and pointed to a location on the map and said, "Your Majesty, what our army is facing now is not the Qing Dynasty, but here! Datong, Shanxi! There is also Jiang Rang, a former rebel general in Ming Dynasty, and he still has 50,000 or 60,000 troops in his hand. These people are all the border troops of the past and are still very combat-effective. I am afraid that Jiang Rang will be unfair!"

When mentioning Jiang Rang, Zhu Hongsan made his teeth itch. In recent years, Zhu Hongsan really supported Jiang Rang in order to set up a trap for the Qing Dynasty. In the past few years, Zhu Hongsan actually sent Jinyiwei to send Jiang Rang a large number of silver and weapons, and even the most precious muskets were sent in hundreds of shots. Zhu Hongsan originally thought that Jiang Rang could inspire his conscience, so he came hard behind the Qing Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Rang was a slave of four surnames who were even more dirty than Li Chengdong. Jiang Rang was the general of Datong at first. When Li Zicheng came, he surrendered to Li Zicheng. When the Qing Dynasty came, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Later, Ajige oppressed him, Jiang Rang raised the banner of anti-Qing again and met the Shenwu regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Just last year, Jiang Rang relied on small profits to re-enter the Qing Dynasty, so that the Qing Dynasty, who was guarding against him, could take action against Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan, such a garbage scumbag, could not wait to die!

In the past few months, Zhu Hongsan did not pay attention to Jiang Rang in order to deal with Jiergalang and did not have a border with Shanxi. Now it is different. Jiergalang has failed, and the Qing Dynasty has been determined to withdraw from the historical stage. The next step is to Zhu Hongsan to perform on stage. Zhu Hongsan has never liked to use the army to lead the people. This is the case with the Three Feudatories Rebellion in later generations, so Zhu Hongsan must eliminate this Jiang Rang counter-revolutionary group that has been entrenched in Datong for more than ten years.

"Xizhi, you are right. What should you do when you say you are going to deal with Jiang Rang?"

"Your Majesty, it's very simple, divide the troops! Zhao Guodong is now extremely powerful, and Li Yuanyin's troops have 100,000 people. It's safe to go to Beijing! Qian Yong and Ma Kun join forces and then enter Shanxi to deal with Jiang Rang!"

Zhu Hongsan looked at the map and said, "Xizhi, you think this is good? Let Qian Yong and the others go to Shunde, Baoding, and then leave Zijing Pass and enter Shanxi! How about Zhao Guodong's troops going north to Tianjin directly?"

Yao Qisheng bowed and said, "Your Majesty is the one who says he wants it!"

"Okay, then your Military Affairs Office will draw an order to let Qian Yong conquer Dongchang Prefecture and Ma Kun meet with him, and take Qian Yong as the main force and Ma Kun as the deputy to go to Jiangran, Shanxi, and I and Zhao Guodong go to Tianjin and attack Beijing directly!"

After the grand strategy was completed, Zhu Hongsan waited for another five days in Pingyin, and transported the lost supplies to Nanjing, and at the same time made up for the shortage of the Imperial Guard Division. Then he set off for Jinan and met with Zhao Guodong, went north to Dezhou, and took Li Yuanyin's 50,000 cavalry to the Tianjin Guard.

On the way, Zhu Hongsan received news that the Qing army in Zhangde Mansion and Dongchang Mansion were both wiped out, and Yue Le also died in Dongchang Mansion. So far, there was no longer a single established army in the Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Hongsan rushed to Dezhou to meet with Li Yuanyin on August 15th, and then led 100,000 people to the north along the canal. On the first day of September, he arrived at the outer periphery of Tianjin, Jinghai.

Tianjin is abbreviated as Tianjin, which means the place where the emperor travels, also known as Jingu, Tianjin, etc. Tianjin began with the opening of the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty. At the intersection of the South Canal and the North Canal, the current Sancha River estuary of the Jingang Bridge is known in history as "Sanhui Haikou" and is the earliest birthplace of Tianjin. After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Tianjin became a water and land terminal for southern grain and silk transportation. In the Jin Dynasty, "Zhigu Village" was established in Zhigu, and in the Yuan Dynasty, "Haijin Town" was established, which was a military center and a grain transfer center.

In the second year of Jianwen in the Ming Dynasty, King of Yan Zhu Di crossed the Grand Canal here to fight for the throne. After Zhu Di became the emperor, in order to commemorate the "Jingnan Campaign", he renamed this place to Tianjin on November 21, the second year of Yongle, which means the ferry crossing of the emperor. As a military important place, Tianjin began to build a city and set up a guard in the Xiaozhigu area southwest of Sanchahekou, called Tianjin Guard, which opened a new page for Tianjin's urban development, and later it added Tianjin Zuowei and Tianjin Right Guard.

Now that Zhu Hongsan has reached the periphery of Beijing, everyone in the world knows that the Qing Dynasty is already in a desperate situation, so when Zhu Hongsan's army came to Tianjin Guard, the local officials did not intend to defend themselves, but directly opened the city to surrender, kneeling outside the city to welcome the arrival of Emperor Shenwu.

Zhu Hongsan did not enter the city when he arrived in Tianjin, but instead stationed directly outside the city. Tianjin was in the sea, and when he arrived here, he contacted the fleet drifting in the Bohai Bay. Zhu Hongsan then realized that Zhao Guoliang had already captured Shenyang, the hometown of the Qing Dynasty, four months ago. He is now leading his troops from Shenyang to Ningyuan.

Zhu Hongsan was overjoyed when he heard this news. He had already seized the retreat of the Qing Dynasty. Seeing that the little emperor Shunzhi was still running there, would he run to Mongolia to herd sheep? Although the Qing Dynasty and Mongolia have been married for generations, did you have no idea how the Qing Dynasty dealt with the Mongolians back then? Now the Qing Dynasty is in trouble. Do you think those Mongolian barbarians can let you go? So the only way out for the little emperor Shunzhi is to surrender.

Zhu Hongsan wanted the Qing Dynasty to surrender not to make a family of Manchus and Han families, but Zhu Hongsan did not want to cause great damage to Beijing, because Zhu Hongsan really wanted to rebuild the capital in Beijing. However, this was just a thought in Zhu Hongsan's mind, because most of the officials of Zhu Hongsan's group were from the south, and Zhu Hongsan started his business in the south. At the same time, Nanjing was also the capital of the Ming Dynasty in terms of legal principles, so Zhu Hongsan estimated that if he proposed to build the capital in Beijing, the voices of opposition from the court would have been very loud. So Zhu Hongsan didn't say anything about this matter, and wanted to do it secretly by himself and cook the raw rice into a cooked rice.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Hongsan wanted the Qing Dynasty to surrender and peacefully transfer of power.
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