In Seoul, North Korea, Zhu Cijiong was discussing matters with the North Korean monarchs and ministers in the Ideological Hall of Gyeongbokgung Palace.
Li Jie passed away more than half a year ago, and Li Jie has officially succeeded to the throne as King of Joseon.
After the failure of the last coup, North Korea's officialdom suffered a large-scale purge. The Kim family and the Shin family withdrew from the center, and Koo In-hyuk became the leader of the government.
Most of the newly promoted officials are pro-Ming faction.
Especially the two training supervisors, Park Dong-hee and Kim Jae-yu, are both die-hard fans.
Needless to say, Lee Seung-hyun, who is sitting on the throne of Joseon at the moment, has actually become a puppet. Whether it is Goo In-kyung, the head of the civil servants, or Park Dong-hee, the head of the military generals, Kim Jae-woo has no regard for him at all.
In their eyes, only Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ming Dynasty, was the real king of Korea.
"King of Korea, I just received an urgent delivery from Nanjing."
"After the new year, I, the Ming Dynasty, may send my heavenly troops north to attack the Jiannu at any time."
"This Northern Expedition will lead to failure if it fails, so I, Ming Dynasty, will do my best."
"As a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, North Korea should also send troops to participate in the Northern Expedition?"
When Li He heard this, he was already cursing in his heart. The war between the Ming Dynasty and the slaves has nothing to do with us, Korea? Why should we, Korea, send troops to participate in the war? Do vassal countries deserve to be used as cannon fodder?
But on the surface, Li? could only agree.
"Yes, of course North Korea will send troops to participate in the war."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Renhe and other civil servants and military generals also echoed.
Even if he didn't agree with it, he couldn't do it, and he didn't dare to offend the Ming Dynasty. The evil star Zhu Cijiong really dared to kill people with a knife. What's more important is that their children are all studying in Nanjing Imperial College.
Zhu Cijiong smiled and asked, "How many people will we send?"
Li Xiang's face trembled and he asked in a low voice: "Is ten thousand troops enough?"
"Ten thousand people?" Zhu Cijiong just chuckled when he heard this, without commenting.
"Otherwise, 20,000?" Li Xie looked embarrassed, 20,000 was already the limit.
Zhu Cijiong was too lazy to talk nonsense with Li? He turned his eyes directly to Park Dongxi and Jin Zaiyu: "What do you think?"
"Prince Ding." Park Dongxi and Kim Jaeyu said at the same time, "Since the formation of the North Korean new army, it has only been trained and has never experienced a single actual combat. This Northern Expedition to establish slaves is an excellent training opportunity, so the final general
I will sincerely ask King Ding to allow the entire North Korean New Army to participate in the Northern Expedition, and all 40,000 new troops will go!"
Li? said anxiously: "Prince Ding, isn't this bad?"
"King of Korea, this is also a good thing for North Korea."
Zhu Cijiong's eyes turned cold: "If an army cannot experience a war, it will not grow. Also, as a vassal state, it should bear the obligations of a vassal state. This matter is settled."
Li? was immediately silent, not daring to say another word.
Zhu Cijiong snorted coldly and said: "Also, you don't have to worry about mutiny or foreign enemies. The 20,000 soldiers transferred from the Ming Dynasty to Gyeonggi Province are enough to ensure the safety of Seoul."
The 20,000 town troops were transferred from Guide Mansion.
It was Huai'an Prefecture Xiangyong who had participated in the Shanyang War.
Most of the 20,000 people Chongzhen chose were those who had not yet married. The promised benefit was that after arriving in North Korea, not only would each daughter be allocated fifty acres of land, but also if a son was born in the future, each daughter would be allocated an additional twenty-five acres when he became an adult.
The kindness of the mother rewards the field.
This condition is much better than the conditions in Xuzhou Town and Guide Town. When the soldiers in Xuzhou Town and Guide Town give birth to a son, only the eldest son can inherit the land, and the other sons can only earn the family business on their own.
Therefore, as soon as the news was announced, the unmarried Xiangyong from Guide Prefecture enthusiastically signed up.
In the end, Chongzhen selected 20,000 unmarried ones from the 200,000 Huai'an village warriors.
This is only part of the entire immigration plan of Chongzhen and his sons. In the near future, the entire Eight Roads of Korea will be occupied by soldiers from various provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and will eventually evolve into Korea Town.
It's just that the soldiers in this Korean town are all Han Chinese.
As for the original Koreans, they will be moved to various major cities.
Facing Zhu Cijiong's arrangement, Li Jing dared to get angry but did not dare to speak.
After coming out of the Ideological and Political Hall, Zhu Cijiong turned his eyes towards Nanjing.
At this time, my father should be holding an imperial meeting, right?
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At this very moment, Chongzhen indeed held an imperial meeting in Yilun Hall.
Ma Mingluan, director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and almost everyone in Nanjing's various departments participated in the meeting.
Seeing Gao Qiqian walking in, Chongzhen immediately waved and said, "Gao Banban, you are back just in time. Hurry up and find the detailed map of Beizhili for me."
"Old slave obeys the order."
Gao Qiqian quickly took a few young eunuchs to find the detailed map of Beizhili from the mountains of maps.
After finding the detailed drawing, Gao Qiqian asked the young eunuch to bring a ladder and hung it on the north wall of Yilun Hall with his own hands.
"Okay, very good. It will be much more intuitive with the detailed map of Beizhili." Chongzhen nodded happily, then looked around at Ma Mingluan, Yan Yingyuan and other officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and said, "Let's start discussing the first topic."
"In the Northern Expedition, from which direction should the attack be launched?"
Speaking of this, he added: "My dear friends, you can speak freely."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Sen rushed to say: "Your Majesty, I thought the troops should be divided into two groups."
"Come to the front." Chongzhen motioned Zheng Sen to walk to the map, and asked Gao Qiqian to hand him the long wooden pole.
Zheng Sen took the long wooden pole, pointed to the huge map of Beizhi and said: "The left road crosses the Yellow River from Kaifeng Prefecture to the north, breaks into Shanxi via Weihui Prefecture, goes all the way north to capture Datong, and then knocks on Juyongguan from Xuanfu and goes south, approaching the capital.
!The right road passes by sea to Gaizhou Guard, and after joining forces with the Gaizhou Guard garrison, it goes straight to Shanhaiguan via the Liaoxi Corridor."
Speaking of this, Zheng Sen tapped the map with a long wooden pole and said: "In this way, we can form a two-sided encirclement of Jiannu, block his escape north or east, and finally encircle and annihilate him in the capital.
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"That's right." Chongzhen said happily, "Splitting the troops into two groups is a good idea."
"Your Majesty, I have a different opinion." Chen Zilong stepped forward and said loudly.
"Brother among men, please speak." Zheng Sen politely handed the long wooden pole to Chen Zilong.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Chen Zilong did not save face for Zheng Sen, but criticized him very rudely: "Your Majesty, I think that dividing the troops into two groups is a bad strategy.
In the Battle of Saarhu that year, our Ming Dynasty was defeated by the division of troops."
Zheng Sen's handsome face immediately fell and he said anxiously: "The Battle of Saarhu is incomparable with this Northern Expedition."
"I think there is no difference between the two." Chen Zilong said, "The Holy One once said that a lion fights a rabbit with all his strength. I believe that this Northern Expedition should focus on attacking from the front and decide the outcome with one blow."
Zheng Sen retorted: "It is certainly much easier to concentrate our forces to defeat them from the front, but if Jiannu fled north or retreated to the white mountains and black waters of Liaodong, wouldn't it be like the confrontation between the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and they would fall into a protracted stalemate?
?If it takes decades or even hundreds of years to eradicate them, what should we do?"
"That is a matter of the future." Chen Zilong said, "The first thing that needs to be considered now is to regain the capital!"
Zheng Sen retorted: "Confucius said: People who do not have long-term concerns must have immediate worries. If we cannot prepare for rainy days and eliminate in advance the escape route for slaves fleeing north or east, it may lead to catastrophe in the future."
"Confucius said: A teacher is too good, a businessman is not as good as he is, and too much is not enough." Chen Zilong retorted tit for tat, "It is good to plan ahead and plan in advance, but if you plan too much, you will miss the big deal."
The two started a heated debate quoting scriptures, and neither could refute the other for a while.
Other scholars also supported one faction, and there was a quarrel in the Yilun Hall.
In the end, it was Chongzhen who suggested: "Zheng Sen and Chen Zilong, why don't you each play a game?"
"Don't you dare disobey me?" Zheng Sen agreed happily and said to Chen Zilong, "Brother Renzhong, how about you play the role of a slave first, and the younger soldiers will attack you in two groups?"
"I'm afraid you won't make it." Chen Zilong stroked his sleeves and said, "Come here."
"Quick, let's play the chess pieces." Jiang Tianyi, who had been promoted to the rank of General Staff Section, immediately led a dozen of the staff members to start placing war chess pieces on the sand table in the center of the Yilun Hall.
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Beijing, Nuange, Prince Rui's Mansion.
Dorgon just opened the window to breathe for a while, and then started coughing violently again.
"Master, didn't the doctor say you can't blow in the wind? Why did you open the window again?" Hou Fangyu hurriedly came forward, closed the window again, and put on the fur for Dorgon heartbrokenly.
Dorgon just sighed quietly.
It seems that this body can hardly be used easily anymore.
In the summer, it looks almost better.
Unexpectedly, after the weather turned cold, I started to get sick again.
It can be said that in the current situation of the Qing Dynasty, it is really difficult to survive without a good body.
"Xiao Houzi, what did Horqin Mongolia say?" Dorgon tightened his fur and asked, "Is the intrusion by the Ming army's scout cavalry really that serious?"
"Return to my master, this is quite serious."
Hou Fangyu replied worriedly: "Nearly a thousand more horses have been lost in the past half month."
Dorgon suddenly changed his expression: "Nearly a thousand more horses were lost in the past half month? Didn't we lose more than 10,000 horses before and after?"
"Yes." Hou Fangyu sighed softly and said, "From the beginning of the year to now, the Horqin tribe's banners have lost more than 10,000 riders, and three of the ten banners' strong men have been lost."
"Damn it!" Dorgon's facial muscles began to twitch violently.
At this time, Qi Chongge, a bachelor of Hongwen Academy, walked in hurriedly.
"Master, something big has happened." Qi Chongge said with a dark face, "The Fan family's spies just sent back the news. Nan Ming has been secretly preparing for it since half a year ago, and now he is almost ready."
"Are you almost ready?" Dorgon asked blankly, "What are you preparing for?"
"Master, of course we are preparing for the Northern Expedition." Qi Chongge said anxiously, "The Ming army is about to launch the Northern Expedition!"
"Northern Expedition?!" Dorgon's expression suddenly changed, "Is it impossible? Not long ago, didn't the Luo brothers send back news that it would take at least two more years in the Southern Ming Dynasty before the Northern Expedition is possible?"
"Master, most of the Luo family brothers have been instigated to rebel."
Qi Chongge stamped his feet and said, "We were cheated."