Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four: The Defeat of the Zheng Clan
The new paint in the canteen still exudes a strong and strange smell. Here, tens of thousands of new recruits were squatting on the ground with iron boxes produced by the Ministry of Works and eating lunch, while several officers wearing light armor interspersed in to maintain order.
The recruits trained for a morning and were exhausted. Fortunately, the canteen prepared enough food for them to make their original resentment disappear completely. Everyone either gathered together or squatted at the base of the wall to continue to eliminate the food in the iron box.
"The emperor is here..." A sharp long voice came in from outside the canteen. The canteen suddenly became quiet. Everyone stopped moving and looked at their companions at a loss.
"What are you still doing in a daze? Put down all the pig pans and pick them up." An officer was very annoyed by the surprise of the new recruits and shouted: "Stand up, let's see how I will act later. You will follow suit."
There were a jingling sound, and countless iron boxes for food were placed on the ground by the recruits, standing upright and straight. These recruits who had never seen the world were so shocked that they didn't even dare to show off.
First, dozens of sword-bearing guards appeared at the door. They quickly stood in half a circle at the door, observing the expressions of each recruit vigilantly, trying to find the suspicious ones from it. Then several eunuchs came in and carefully bowed up. Finally, Zhu Jun came in wearing a normal cold shirt. He looked around and countless pairs of eyes looked at him. After a moment of silence, the overwhelming sound of long live immediately submerged the entire canteen. Zhu Jun's eyes flashed, and he smiled and let everyone calm down. Several generals hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I hope the generals will come late, and I hope the emperor will forgive me."
Zhu Jun said with a refreshing voice: "Stop talking nonsense. I am hungry. Go and get me some food."
These generals are also 25 years old, so they didn't know so many rules. He laughed and said, "Your Majesty doesn't bother us to be simple and eat. Lao Li, please accompany the emperor, I'll go and get food for the emperor and the guards."
In a moment, in front of everyone, a large group of officers set aside a large table. They found a clean cloth shop and served a meal. Zhu Jun only saw a layer of light yellow rice underneath. The rice was colorful, white bamboo shoots, fat and oily pork, and a few half-green and non-yellow vegetables. Zhu Jun felt chills. He turned out to be trying to understand the food level of the recruits, but at first glance, he lost his appetite for trying.
Zhu Jun's face immediately turned dark. The general beside him saw that Zhu Jun's face was not good, and quickly apologized: "Your Majesty, there are only these dishes left in the canteen. If the emperor is not satisfied, I will let the chef cook it again."
Zhu Jun shook his head and used chopsticks to tick the meal, saying, "How much is the food the imperial court gave you? Why is this rice green and yellow? And this green vegetables and meat, you can eat it yourself, can you eat it?"
When Zhu Jun pointed to the meat, he clearly saw several generals staring straight at the fat meat he pointed at. "Where is the military officer?" Zhu Jun suppressed his heart and asked angrily.
"The last general is the quartermaster." A general came out tremblingly.
"I have received so much silver salary for you. You give me the soldiers to eat the land. That's all?" Zhu Jun was furious. His murderous intent was already flashing in his eyes.
The quarantine officer knelt down quickly and said, "Your Mahjong, the generals are not greedy for ink, one tael of silver. This... the meal is rich enough. There is rice, meat. The generals... the generals..."
The more excited the officer, the more he was, the more he was a little stuttered. After a while, he couldn't speak. At this time, the surroundings were surrounded by new soldiers. They dared not get too close to the ground. They only watched from two feet away.
The quarantine officer explained for a long time before Zhu Jun understood. It turned out that ordinary people's food in this era was more rough than this. It would be good for most people to eat a bowl of brown rice every day. If two green vegetables floated on the brown rice, the bamboo shoots would be considered as middle-aged peasants. If they could add another piece of meat, they could use it for the New Year's Eve dinner. Zhu Jun didn't believe it at first. He went to check the accounts himself and asked the guards who came together. This was what he believed.
For this reason, Zhu Jun ate a few bites of brown rice and comforted the recruits. Then he left a little embarrassedly. It turned out that he had become Sima Zhong, the idiot emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty who did not eat meat. Before traveling, he naturally had no worries about food and clothing. After traveling, he enjoyed the highest treatment. Even in the most difficult period, there was soft white rice, so how could he understand these?
On October 14, the training of recruits in the valley was gradually on track. The recruits gradually adapted to this intense life, and the education of the night school gradually showed results. Whenever Zhu Jun appeared, the recruits looked at him more and more awe, and the voice of shouting long live louder.
It was Zhu Jun who took a break from his busy schedule to find Qu Ci, and Zhou Xueer and his two daughters chatted. To be honest, it was very difficult for a man like Zhu Jun to sit in front of two beauties. But when Zhu Jun made a bad thought, he thought of Qu Ci's father and the innocent smile with Zhou Xueer's bright eyes and white teeth, which was like a basin of cold water poured on his head to dispel this evil idea.
At this time, an emergency military situation was coming quickly from the coastline and finally fell into the hands of Hu Yan, the commander of the Northern Fushi Division. Hu Yan did not dare to neglect and quickly requested an interview.
In the cold winter pavilion, Zhu Jun looked at his spy leader in disbelief, then lowered his head and walked: "Is this really true? Is Zheng Chenggong dead?"
"It's true that the Prince of Yanping died of illness in the early morning of the fifth day of the ninth month. What happened next was incredible. I don't know whether the news was true or false."
"Don't keep it a secret, say it quickly." Zhu Jun urged.
"It is said that Monk Geng Jingzhong Kexi led a 20,000 army each and sent it to Taiwan by the Dutch fleet. Zheng's family was defeated..."
"Ah? Is there anything wrong?" Zhu Junli couldn't speak on the spot.
It turns out that this matter has to start with Zheng Chenggong entering Taiwan. As early as a year ago, the Zheng navy defeated the Dutch warships and then landed in Tainan to attack the Dutch stronghold. Because of the unacceptable environment, Zheng Chenggong suffered from a cold and never got better. The condition was delayed until the fourth day of September. Zheng Chenggong was finally critically ill and urgently recruited the prince Zheng Jing to explain his last words under the account.
At this time, Zheng Jing was still in Xiamen and had not received any news that his father was critically ill. Huang Zhao in Taiwan offended Zheng Chenggong for his crimes and was not qualified to inherit the Zheng Dynasty and join forces with other generals to support Zheng Chenggong's fifth brother Zheng Xi to act as a general. The news reached Xiamen, and Zheng Jing announced that he was the crown prince. The Zheng Dynasty was therefore divided into two.
At this time, in order to eliminate the threat from the Qing army, Zheng Jing proposed to join the Qing Dynasty's tribute system, but he still retained the government and army, and sent envoys to Beijing to negotiate with Emperor Kangxi, and requested a ceasefire with the Qing army to gain the time to attack his uncle Zheng Zhi. If it were historical development, Zheng Jing would personally send a fleet to attack Taiwan and take back the rule of the Zheng family group at Heliao Port. Due to this internal struggle, the Zheng family group's old nest, Kinmen and Xiamen Island, will also be jointly captured by the Qing Dynasty and the Dutch in the spring of the following year. The Zheng family group began to occupy Taiwan for nearly half a century.
However, history deviated at this time. As the Dutch were in trouble in Southeast Asia, the two Dutch Dutch missions arrived in Fujian and Guangdong respectively to negotiate with Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi……
On September 25, Zheng Jing, who stayed in Xiamen, received the news that his uncle Zheng Xi had made himself a call for the general. He immediately ordered the Zheng army from Xiamen and Kinmen Island to advance to Taiwan. Halfway through the fleet, another even more amazing message came. Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi each led a 20,000 army to land at the Taiwan port and defeated his uncle Zheng Xi's army. The Dutch soldiers who had been hiding in the Dutch stronghold also took the opportunity to counterattack and defeated the Zheng army in Taiwan in Taichung. Zheng's central army had been surrounded by the Qing Dynasty and the Dutch army.
Zheng Jing was very awake. Taiwan was over. His uncle was over. He didn't care about attacking his uncle and quickly led the fleet back to Kinmen Island. At this time, he was like an ant in a hot pan. He had wanted to tear this uncle who was usurping the throne to pieces, but now he hoped that he could live for a while. Otherwise, the main island of Taiwan would fall. How could the two small islands of Xiamen and Kinmen resist the attacks of the Qing army and the Dutch?
On September 29, Zheng Zhi's entire army was wiped out. News of being killed by the Qing army in the chaos came. Zheng Jing was panicked. Now there are millions of Qing troops on the top and the Qing Dynasty in Taiwan. The Dutch coalition forces head north at any time. They guarded the two pellet islands with only one hundred ships and only ten thousand soldiers. What can they do to resist? Losing the Kinmen in Taiwan, the two islands in Xiamen immediately became dead. Not to mention anti-Qing, I am afraid that there is no possibility of self-protection.
A discussion within the Zheng family began quickly, and most of the staff members were discouraged by the current situation and persuaded Zheng Jing to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Zheng Jing sat upright and did not move, but sneered in his heart. Surrender. Even if the Xinshi Emperor could surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Jing would never surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Not to mention that his grandmother was raped and killed by the Qing army, his grandfather Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing army and was still executed by the Qing army. Zheng and the Qing Dynasty were irreconcilable enemies, not to mention that Zheng Jing would definitely be dead after surrendering. The Qing Dynasty would not believe him loyally. The reason why these staff members persuaded each other was just to save their lives. At this time, there was no time to consider his landlord.
At this time, a middle-aged Confucian scholar shouted: "Everyone in the world can surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but King Yanping must not surrender. Please pull all these fearless people down from the tent and behead them, otherwise they will be allowed to disturb the morale of the army and the Zheng family will be destroyed."
Zheng Jingxun looked at him and recognized that the person who was talking was joining the army. Chen Yonghua, the head of the Tiandi Society. Chen Yonghua had been stationed in Taiwan with Zheng Chenggong. When Zheng Chenggong was critically ill, he held Chen Yonghua's hand and asked him to assist the prince Zheng Jing ascend the throne. But he knew that Zheng Chenggong's body was not cold. Zheng Chenggong's fifth brother Zheng Xi proclaimed himself king under the support of a group of Taiwanese generals. Chen Yonghua knew that something was wrong, so he took a boat back to Xiamen overnight under the arrangement of the congregation, intending to attack Zheng Xi with Zheng Jing, but the situation took a sharp turn. In less than half a month, Taiwan fell.
"So it's Mr. Chen." Zheng Jing looked happy. He was not a fool. Among these people, only Chen Yonghua's words were truly considered for himself: "What are the plans for Mr. Chen? Xiao Wang listened to the danger in a scrupulous manner, and Zheng Jing's tone became much more polite.
"King Yanping, in Xiamen and Kinmen, we still have 100,000 military and civilians, various warships and hundreds of merchant ships. In addition, the fleet that deters the Dutch in the South Ocean is also heading towards Kinmen. With this calculation, we are enough to transport all military and civilians away by ship." Chen Yonghua paused and continued: "Now there is no place for us to stand in the world. It is better for the king to lead military and civilians, warships, and merchant ships to Nanyang together to join the new founding emperor in Myanmar."
"Travel to Xinshi?" Zheng Jing couldn't help but frown. After the Southern Ming retreated to the Yangtze River, Zheng supported Emperor Longwu to confront Yongli. After Emperor Longwu was captured and killed by the Qing army, although Zheng also accepted the title given by Yongli, both sides had their own ulterior motives. If they retreated to Myanmar, would Emperor Xinshi tolerate him?
"Is King Yanping afraid that the Xinshi Emperor would destroy the bridge across the river?" Chen Yonghua saw through Zheng Jing's thoughts.
"Xinshi is a person who is capricious, and we will go to invest rashly, maybe..." Zheng Jing's brows frowned tightly.
Chen Yonghua said: "Will King Yanping talk to Chen in another place? Chen is willing to offer a suggestion to ensure that Yanping King is worry-free." Chen Yonghua said, while looking at Zhou Pan's staff vigilantly.
"It's great. I want to have a drink with Mr. Chen. How about Mr. Chen going to the back garden of the palace to drink with Xiao Wang?" Zheng Jing knew Chen Yonghua's thoughts, and these staff members were no longer reliable.
Chapter completed!