"Marquis of Nan'an, why did you come up with the idea of ​​surrendering to the Jiannu slaves?" Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian, asked sadly as soon as he entered the Marquis of Nan'an's mansion.

"Zai Ning, why do you say this?" Zheng Zhilong asked in shame and annoyance: "It's a lie that you made a false statement to surrender as a slave!"

Who easily leaked the secret discussions of the Zheng family to outsiders? Although Zheng Zhilong always puts interests first in his heart, he still needs some face in his official career for many years. Although the slave establishment is now powerful, it is obvious that he has replaced the Ming Dynasty.

, there are signs of changing course, but after hundreds of years of Ming Dynasty, there are still some scruples about the strong defense of Huayi.

"Nan'an Hou, in the past during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Cao Wei raised troops to attack Dongwu. Sun Quan's subordinates all persuaded him to stop his troops and surrender, but only Lu Su said that everyone can surrender to Cao, but generals cannot surrender to Cao." Zhang Kentang solemnly said

Di said: "Here, I will tell the Marquis of Nan'an this story again."

What do you mean? Everyone can surrender to slavery, but I can’t surrender?

After Zheng Zhilong was recruited by the Ming Dynasty, he also read some books. He also had many literati and staff to help him with writing and making suggestions. He knew the allusion of Lu Su who persuaded Sun Quan not to surrender to Cao Cao. Now that he thinks about it carefully, he will decide what to do.

The situation is actually somewhat similar to that of Soochow in the past. Many of his generals and officials have been demoted to the slaves. Naturally, they can still fulfill their duties, lead troops to fight, and stabilize the people in prefectures and counties. They can always rely on some skills to mix with the slaves.

meal.

But what is my identity? Even though I am said to be the King of the Southeast, I am actually just a wealthy merchant. If I don’t have the ability to separate and stand on my own, I am not just being slaughtered and eaten alive by others.

"The Marquis of Nan'an is the duty of a minister to support the Ming Dynasty. What's more, the Emperor Yongchu occupied Denglai, faced Jiannu directly, and led the world. This is the time when the Ming Dynasty is in danger. If you get help from the Marquis, it will be the same.

A timely help." Zhang Kentang said: "Jiannu is now very powerful.

, I don’t know how many people are servile and kneeling. In the past, there was Kong Youde who crossed the sea to surrender to thieves, which was a very gratifying person. Later, there were Wu Sangui and his like who lured thieves into the pass. Now there are many military generals who have no moral integrity and surrendered the state capital to Shunjian.

Slave. Dare I ask if the Lord Marquis does this, will it only be the icing on the cake for building a slave?"

After Zhang Kentang left, Zheng Zhilong sat behind several cases without saying a word for a long time.

"Damu, do you have anything else to say?" Zheng Zhilong asked softly when he saw the eldest son in the hall was hesitant to speak.

"What Zhang Futai said was from the bottom of his heart." Zheng Sen took a few steps forward and said earnestly to Zheng Zhilong: "Jiannu is a barbarian beast. If it sweeps the world and covers China, wouldn't it mean that the Mongolian and Yuan barbarians will invade it again?

What's wrong? Please think again, father."

"Well, are there any more?" Zheng Zhilong asked expressionlessly.

"..." Zheng Sen paused and said in a twisted voice: "If Jiannu really overthrew the Ming Dynasty, established a new dynasty, and created a unified and prosperous era, how could he tolerate his father's separatist rule of Fujian and Guangdong and control of the maritime territories? You need to know... Rabbit Death

Dog cooking.”

Zheng Zhilong looked at his eldest son quietly, and felt a little happy in his heart. In his youth, although he lived a luxurious life and was bossy, his imperial examination results were not satisfactory. Later, when he sailed and led troops to fight, he was just so-so. But in the past two years,

, but it has grown rapidly, and it has quite a gap in its mind, and it also has a certain vision of the general trend.

"Are you still wondering why I want to surrender?" Zheng Zhilong asked when he saw the corner of his eldest son's mouth moving a few times, as if he wanted to say something.

"Father, my Zheng family has tens of thousands of troops, ample food, pay and weapons, plus the dangerous mountains and rivers in Fujian and the advantages of boats on the sea, how can we..." Zheng Sen asked softly.

"People's hearts!" Zheng Zhilong said in a deep voice: "Although our Zheng family seems to have strong troops and abundant food and equipment, it is enough to achieve great things. However, our Zheng family started as pirates and gathered many forces. If we have been relying on the power of the sea to

With the continuous expansion and development of our land base, our power will naturally become stronger and stronger. However, once we face a tyrannical attack from the outside, the many combined forces under our Zheng family will inevitably have some different intentions."

"What do you think is the reason for Zhejiang's defeat in the past few months? Although Jianu's army is powerful and unstoppable, the many soldiers and horses of our Zheng family are not vulnerable to a single attack while guarding the city, right?

"

"Father, they are... trying to hide themselves for the future!" Zheng Sen was stunned.

"Hmph, what do you think?... In two days, bring some more exquisite gifts and five thousand shi of food, and take a boat to Denglai to meet Emperor Yongchu." Zheng Zhilong said coldly.

"Yes, father." Zheng Sen lowered his head and said, "Father, do you want Denglai to launch an offensive against the Jiannu slaves to relieve the pressure on our Zheng family in Fujian and Guangdong?"

"That's right." Zheng Zhilong nodded and said: "Shandong and Denglai are places where Beijing is constrained. If there is some movement, it will definitely attract the attention of the slaves. After a year of recuperation there, they must have accumulated some strength.

At this time, it is time to release one or two to relieve some pressure on Fujian, Guangdong, Huguang and other places... On the mainland, if it is really impossible to survive, it is not difficult to seize Tailu and become the power of Hanzhou. "

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August 3, 1646, Ming Dynasty, Nanchangshan Island.

For many Ming people on Changshan Island, the greatest happiness is to have a full bowl of gruel, half a piece of dry and hard pancake, or a piece of richly fragrant rice every morning and evening.

Although the food is not much, when you swallow the potatoes, you will feel an inexplicable excitement and satisfaction.

Yes, you don't need to be like the countless hungry people in Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jianghuai and other places who are waiting to be fed, dying slowly while waiting helplessly and desperately.

In order to ensure the logistical supply of the Qing army's east and west armies, officials at all levels in the so-called rear areas of the Qing Dynasty continued to collect grain and grass supplies from the people, scraping almost three feet from the ground, and transported countless grains and fodder all the way to Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, etc.

Among the frontline troops of the Qing army, they could concentrate on attacking various places to resist the Qing forces.

It may be that the Ming Dynasty was really not favored by God. From the late Wanli period until Chongzhen's death, natural and man-made disasters continued throughout the Ming Dynasty. Droughts, locusts, plagues, and refugee riots occurred one after another in many places, making the seemingly prosperous country in the past disappear.

In the Ming Dynasty, the "gnawing food" was riddled with holes, so that it was finally dying, allowing the slaves outside the pass to easily enter the pass, and then began to sweep the world.

After the slaves entered the country and occupied most of the north, although various natural disasters occurred from time to time in various places, the frequency and scope of the outbreaks were miraculously reduced. The plague that had been ravaging the north for more than ten years also suddenly

Disappeared, Hebei,

Henan, Shandong, Shanxi and other places are gradually getting better (according to later generations, during the Little Ice Age of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, from the Wanli period to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the situation was the most serious during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty), and people's livelihood has begun to slowly recover.

.

However, the war in the Ming Dynasty showed no signs of stopping. Instead, it set off one climax after another. The Jiannu, Shun Army, Western Army, and Ming Army fought heartlessly on the vast continent, devouring the lives of countless people.

After Denglai defeated another Jiannu attack in October last year, the Qing army gradually stopped large-scale fighting and began to enter a relatively peaceful confrontation. The two sides were roughly bounded by Mihe, Yihe and Yimeng Mountain, and were still

Both sides artificially created a large no-man's land to prevent the other party from suddenly breaking into their respective control areas.

As the order to shave heads was launched in the areas controlled by the Qing army, countless people would flee through numerous mountain trails, across Qingzhou and Linyi, into the area controlled by the Ming army in Denglai every day.

Considering that the food supply in Shandong could not satisfy the people under its jurisdiction, and also to create logistical pressure on Denglai, the Qing army also had a laissez-faire attitude towards the fleeing people and allowed them to flee into Denglai.

As of June this year, rough statistics from local governments in Denglai showed that the population in the areas controlled by the Ming army had exceeded three million. Moreover, people from the Jianghuai area were constantly fleeing from the areas controlled by the Qing army. When the Qing army occasionally intercepted them along the way,

After merely searching for the property of the fleeing people, they were allowed to leave. As a result, the vast majority of the refugees who fled were basically hungry people with nothing and needed all the daily necessities provided by the Denglai area.

Although more than 100 ships controlled by the Denglai area continued to transfer people to Jeju Island and Jangshan Island, they even helped the Qi State immigration fleet to transport people to Hanheung Island (today's Miyako Island in Japan) and

Annan region, but it is still difficult to alleviate the pressure on food supply.

At the beginning of the year, governments at all levels in the Denglai region organized countless hungry people and began to restore local agricultural production. However, the place was dilapidated and there was insufficient savings. Facing the food supply for three million people, it seemed a bit difficult to solve the problem.

Feeling of thirst.

When more than a dozen huge Qi immigration ships arrived at the docks of Changshan Island and Penglai County, both Qi officials and Denglai Ming officials could not help but let out a sigh of relief.

Finally, foreign food has been imported. Although it is still not enough for millions of people to eat, it can save some hungry people. In addition, tens of thousands of people can be diverted out, which can also slightly relieve the pressure on the local area.

"Zheng Zhilong asked us to send troops to Denglai to attack Jiannu to share their pressure in Fujian and Guangdong." After Niuhu met Qi Dajiang, the commander of the Qi Navy, he reported to him the recent situation in the Ming Dynasty, "Zheng Zhilong's offensive in Jiannu

Next, Zhejiang has been lost

All important places along the Jiangxi coast are currently relying on the steep mountain passes of Fujian to block the continued intrusion of Jiannu. However, as Jiannu divides his troops and prepares to invade Guangdong from Jiangxi, Zheng Zhilong may lose sight of one thing and fall into the other.

Under siege."

"In mid-June, Wu Sangui set out from Chengdu to attack Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and other Daxi armies in Chongqing. The two sides were still in a tug of war in Hechuan. Li Zicheng's Dashun army and Kong Youde's army fought several battles in Jingzhou. Although they suffered a lot of losses, they also lost a lot of money.

They withstood Jiannu's offensive and barely maintained several lines of defense in Jingzhou, Yichang, Jingmen and other places. However, when the main force of Jiannu's Eight Banners arrives, it is unclear whether they can continue to hold on."

"Then how should we respond?" Qi Dajiang couldn't help but frown when he heard this.

"Emperor Yongchu hopes that we will cooperate with them to leave Wei County and attack Qingzhou. At the same time, he also ordered Li Benshen's and Liu Zeqing's troops to cross the Yi River to attack Linyi and threaten Jining." Niu Hu replied.

"Shandong has been destroyed in the past few years. Even if we capture Qingzhou and Linyi, it may not be able to shake the Qing army's defense line, let alone lead the Qing army from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian to return reinforcements. If we continue to go deeper and attack Jinan and Jining,

Is Denglai capable of maintaining such a long supply line?”
Chapter completed!