Lord of Ming Dynasty

In one month, the reorganization of the three field brigades was completed. This time, they were all fully staffed, and all their equipment was replaced with Jin Kai Type [-] matchlock guns. A guard brigade was also reorganized and fully staffed.

Originally, Zhang Qiang wanted to organize a guard brigade team, but think about it, the establishment is too big to command, so it is divided into the first guard brigade, the second guard brigade, and the first guard brigade is directly under the establishment, with 1000 people. The Second Guards Brigade, 1 people have just registered zero. The first brigade guards the capital of Jinhua Prefecture, and the second brigade guards the county seat of Xianju. There is an entire industrial center, where a large number of arsenals, artillery factories, and research institutes are concentrated. There are many arsenals and artillery factories. The enterprises affiliated to the factory are all concentrated there.

Ironworks, steelworks, granular gunpowder factories, and a horse ranch where the Mongolians raised horses on a small plain, where many war horses were produced; there is also a refined salt processing factory, sea salt is transported by water to reach Xianju County, and then use the abundant water resources there to wash, cook, filter, and finally form Jinhua's characteristic white salt like later generations.

Many small honeycomb coal factories are manufactured in the homes of the people in the periphery, and then distributed in the factory. There is also a large factory built with honeycomb coal stoves.

In the jade processing factory, the famous Qingtian jade is transported here, refined, then carved, packaged, and distributed to other places. Qingtian jade is gradually becoming famous.

A reservoir is under construction. After the reservoir is completed, a shipyard research institute next to the reservoir is under construction. Some improved sailboat accessories will be produced there. In the future, some special and sophisticated accessories from other shipyards will be built here to avoid technical surprises. vent.

Considering the need to maintain a technological advantage, the factory of the low-level version of the takeaway arquebus guns will keep a few, and then use those arquebus guns to trade with the outside world in exchange for a large amount of commercial trade profits.

With so many key enterprises and research institutes concentrated, of course they must be protected. In addition to the large-scale garrison troops of thousands of households in each county, each key factory has a garrison battalion, and smaller factories are guarded by hundreds of households.

The research institute was guarded by the battalion-level unit of the Second Guards Brigade, and the Second Guards Brigade completely took over the defense of Xianju County.

All the troops stationed here were brought back to Jinhua Mansion for reorganization, and all those who did not meet the requirements were thrown into the militia. The militia did not appear in Xianju County. The better soldiers were sent to the garrison, and the better soldiers were sent to the In the field brigade, the best soldiers are sent to the guard brigade.

Immediately carry out the reorganization of other field brigades, and the far-off gold reform [-] matchlock guns were produced, and a steady stream of troops were recalled as elite soldiers, and then new training was carried out in Jinhua Mansion. After the training was completed, new troops were formed.

Currently, according to the plan, the second batch of [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th Field Brigades and the [-]nd Guards Brigade are being reorganized and are expected to be completed by the end of the month.

At that time, Jinhua Prefecture, Taizhou Prefecture, and Chuzhou Prefecture, the core of the original Jinhua Rebel Army, will be completely under the protection of the most elite troops, and they will be able to attack the enemy at any time.

Except for the troops of Milin and Wei Wuji who are fighting outside, as well as the naval forces maintaining Ningbo Mansion and Zhoushan Islands, the other troops are transferring elites back to Jinhua Mansion and forming new troops.

Since the reorganization of the new troops had not been completed, the [-]st, [-]nd, and [-]rd field brigades of the newly reorganized troops had to go to the front line to guard Taizhou, Chuzhou, Quzhou and Jianning, where the situation was most tense.

Therefore, in addition to the [-]st Guards Brigade, the three reorganized field brigades have been sent to various places a few days ago to perform coordinated defense tasks.

The crisis of the Longwu court is becoming more and more worrisome. The bureaucrats are fighting among themselves, and the Longwu Nanming officials who are shivering like seagulls are thinking of fleeing Fujian, which has just stabilized for less than a year and a half.

What is even more dangerous is that the Guangzhou government has been disconnected, and it can only be supplied and assisted by the navy, but the navy has been made things difficult and blocked by Zheng Hongkui's troops, and Portuguese warships are harassing the river. On land, two traitors Kong Youde, Shang Kexi's army is threatening the Guangzhou government.

Under the pressure of the Qing army, many generals of the Ming army of the Yongli court defected and surrendered to the Qing army. Guangzhou became an isolated island, an enclave of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Hu Kui and Feng Wuyu have sent people to ask for help many times, asking for instructions on whether to abandon the Guangzhou Mansion. People in the Guangzhou Mansion are also panicked. , and the magistrate is going to defend the city to the death and be loyal to the country, but the governor has soldiers in his hands, and the magistrate has no soldiers in his hands, only some organized young volunteers.

Facing the Jinhua Rebels, they were one hostile and one wooing. Hu Kui and Feng Wuyu were not easy to do. They wanted to withdraw and settle everything. The cunning of Ming officials was really difficult for the straightforward Hu Kui.

While Zhang Qiang was thinking about something, the captain of the guard, Bagyaru, came in and reported, "Your Excellency, the imperial court has sent someone here, let us go out to meet him."

Zhang Qiang rolled his eyes, "Who has such a big face and needs me to greet him?"

Zhang Qiang's governor's locality is quite full and nourishing. It has been a long time since he had contact with the Longwu court. He is far away from the hustle and bustle and is not restricted by those pedantic Nanming officials. Zhang Qiang can freely transform this land according to his own ideas, his own territory. .

"I heard that there are a few eunuchs, and some imperial guards. They said they came to announce the decree." Bagyaru said in a low voice.

Zhang Qiang frowned, Long Wu shouldn't be such a reckless person, is he overwhelmed by the recent situation, doesn't he know the agreement he made with him?

In fact, it is not that the Longwu court did not attack and speak ill of Zhang Qiang, but Zhang Qiang was out of sight and out of mind. Jin Sheng would sometimes tell him through letters about the slander and attacks on him by the newly recruited officials in the Longwu court. Many people saw the stability of the people in the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army, the prosperity of the business, and so many elite troops who repeatedly defeated the Qing army. They thought of coming to take over and attacked him in the court many times, but these were all blocked by Long Wu. .

These people even went to You Haibo and He Jin's place. Zhu Dayou's internal monitoring intelligence personnel had already told Zhang Qiang about this, but Zhang Qiang believed that they were clowns, so there was no basis for it, while He Jin and You Hai Bo is more discerning. Every time Nanming officials contacted them secretly and wanted to use them to disturb Zhang Qiang's territory and poach Zhang Qiang's corner, they always reported to Zhang Qiang immediately, defended themselves, and admitted their mistakes. Therefore, Zhang Qiang They were never held accountable for their mistakes.

This is not a mistake, it should be that people hurriedly cleared themselves up and expressed their loyalty to him, so Zhang Qiang let them run the Chuzhou capital with confidence. In addition to the garrison troops, there are also some completely cold-armed troops belonging to the Chuzhou capital. He Jin is directly under the jurisdiction, You Haibo is in charge of the government, and He Jin is in charge of the army, which is equivalent to the commander of the military division, and they cooperate well with each other.

"In addition, my lord, Zhu Dadian, Minister of the Ministry of War, has also come, and he said that he wants to see you first." The captain of the guard, Bagyaru, said.

Chapter 242 Make the World Chaos, Zhu Dadian's Friendship

Zhu Dadian came to see him. Speaking of Zhu Dadian, Zhang Qiang thought of his daughter Zhu Panpan and Zhu Panpan's maid Xiancui.

The maid Xiancui actually misses Zhang Qiang very much. When he came to this world, he always wanted to have a woman. The other traversers were full of harems, and beauties threw themselves on him shamelessly.

And I don't know why, I don't have the predestined relationship with beautiful women, and when I meet Zhu Panpan, she looks like a Li Bingbing-level beauty at first glance, but she is glamorous and difficult to approach, and she has conflicts with herself.

She always thinks about her father being controlled by Zhang Qiang, and she is living outside, alone, with only the maidservant to accompany her. She can say that she hates Zhang Qiang to the core.

Zhu Dadian probably also has knots in his heart, but he can't know, because for him, it's like sleepwalking, and it's impossible to remember what happened during the period. It was only after the woman told the people around him that he knew that it was still very difficult at the beginning. Angry, but then faced with the situation in Nanming, facing the Jinhua rebel army getting stronger and stronger, and now it finally became the climate, he also had to change his thinking.

The reason why corrupt officials can rise to high positions is not only because they talk, but also because they have self-knowledge, can adapt to changes at any time, and know how to compromise. Otherwise, like some stunned officials, they may die of anger if they fail to reach high positions , or was killed.

Zhu Dadian has repeatedly served as the prefect, governor, scholar, minister of the Ministry of War, minister of the Ministry of War, minister of the Ministry of Rites, and minister of the cabinet. , Don't they know that he is greedy?Doesn't he have a good reputation?

We all know, but he has also fought wars, foreigners, rebels, rogues, and even the Qing army. A very talented person, a very capable member, so the court wanted it all.

In fact, Zhang Qiang is also considering Zhu Dadian, whether to accept it or not.

The situation is very clear. In the past, I started my business by controlling him. Later, he also echoed himself in the Longwu court, and dealt with some attacks and slanders from other people in the Longwu court for him, and even A greedy Nanming official who wanted to seize his own fortune.

I just gained a firm foothold in Jinhua Mansion, and when Taizhou Mansion was not very stable, I needed his support. Even if Chuzhou Mansion was captured, if the Longwu court separated me and attacked me, then It was very detrimental to his own development. At that time, Jin Sheng was still handling government affairs for himself here, and he had not yet served as Minister of the Ministry of Officials in the Longwu court. There was only one Zhu Dadian in the Longwu court.

If there is friction between myself and the Longwu court, it will be the Qing army that will benefit. One has just gained a firm foothold and the other has not yet established a firm foothold, which is very detrimental to development.

Without Zhu Dadian's help, it would be very difficult for him to cope.

Look at Jin Shenghuan. At that time, Longwu had just been proclaimed emperor by Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Hongkui, Zhang Guowei, etc., established a court in Shaoxing, and was forced to leave Fuzhou to ascend the throne. Those who do not stand firm will attack and annihilate each other.

Belonging to Jin Shenghuan, King Lu's army of Lu Jianguo, Li Youde was defeated by the Longwu court, and defected to the Qing army, which weakened the strength of King Lu. At the same time, Longwu himself was almost defeated by Li Chengdong, Boluo Belle, Liu Liangzuo and others Killed in Tingzhou Prefecture.

After being rescued by himself traveling thousands of miles away, the re-emerging Longwu court in Fuzhou Prefecture had to rely on himself at that time.

After I handed over the [-] to [-] captured soldiers of the Ming army and the soldiers of the Han army flag to the Longwu court, after the Longwu court gained its own force, it began to disobey itself and created friction many times. Su Guansheng, Qian Bing Teng and others wanted to take back their position as governor many times, jumping up and down, if Zhu Dadian hadn't been around, Long Wu would not be able to deal with those officials by himself.

Because he is a banner after all, a banner, and those officials have other choices, King Gui, who is clamoring to stand on his own, retreats to Fuzhou, King Lu of Xiamen, and Supervisor of Lu, or everyone's orthodox choice. In order to control the court, Long Wu had to These officials deal with it carefully, and sometimes even if they know it is wrong, they have to go along with these officials.

After subduing some officials and cultivating confidantes, Long Wu felt that he was in power, so he became more assertive. It was his intention to resolutely move the line to the front line of Tingzhou Prefecture.

Tingzhou Prefecture surrounded by Binzhou Prefecture, Raozhou Prefecture, Ji'an Prefecture, and Ganzhou Prefecture on three sides is not safe, but Quanzhou Prefecture is much safer. At that time, there was a strong army led by Xiao Fei sent by Zhang Qiang to guard.

Even though Zheng Caiyang was obedient to the Yin behind him, he wanted to please him while trying to control the court of Lu Jianguo, and Zheng Hongkui was there to support him. However, he was also under the protection of the powerful Ming army, but after a period of forbearance, he still moved to the front line of Tingzhou Prefecture.

At this time, Hu Kui withdrew to Guangzhou Mansion, Ganzhou Mansion was recovered, Zhangzhou Mansion was recovered, Xiao Fei was adjusted to face the enemy Qing army, because Zhang Qiang wanted to eradicate Zheng Cai, and faced the enemy Qing army's Jinhua Rebel Army's protective belt weakened.

Long story short, the cooperation between Zhu Dadian and Jin Sheng enabled Zhang Qiang to develop with peace of mind without being harassed by the Nanming officials who were hostile to him in the Longwu court, especially the protection of Zhu Dadian, who has always been famous and in a high position.

Under such considerations, Zhang Qiang decided to meet Zhu Dadian. He guessed that Zhu Dadian had come to him for protection. The situation of the Longwu court was critical now, and many officials wanted to find another place.

And Zhu Dadian, who has a relationship with Zhang Qiang, of course chose Zhang Qiang.

In front of all the officials, he once wanted to adopt his daughter Zhu Panpan under the name of Longwu, become a concubine, and then marry Zhang Qiang.

I can’t say how much he loves Zhang Qiang, how optimistic he is, it’s just because Zhang Qiang’s current Jinhua Rebel Army is the most powerful force in this area and the southeast area, especially after the joint crusade against the Portuguese, Dutch, and Qing army, he helped After Zheng Chenggong regained and unified Baodao, coupled with recent actions, he expanded his sphere of influence to the entire territory of Zhejiang.

Now he not only owns the whole territory of Zhejiang, but also owns some border state capitals in Fujian. After obtaining Xiamen, Kinmen, the islands and the peninsula from Zheng Chenggong, he can say that he already owns more than one-third of Fujian's territory. You can be the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian.

"Bring him to see me, and let the eunuchs and Yulin soldiers sent by Longwu wait for him." Zhang Qiang still chose to meet Zhu Dadian first.