Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

So no one thought too much about it, and the big guys started to enjoy it, those who ate candy ate candy, and those who ate alcohol drank alcohol.

Sugar...sweet of course!Although it is whiter, it still tastes the same.

But this "golden rum" wine is indeed a rare good wine!

Of course, it’s not about how good rum is, but that in this era, the Chaozhou countryside really doesn’t have much good wine.The golden rum blended by Zhu and Qi is of course the best quality here. If he didn't have this skill, how could he be able to do such a prosperous business of high imitation foreign wine?

Seeing that a group of Lin family members were interested, Zhu Heqi smiled and said to them: "You know what the Gu family does business. The Gu family doesn't like the business of selling sugar and wine... The reason why the North Factory in Jieyang City is now making wine and sugar is to pass on these two crafts and create two industries that can make a lot of money for the folks in Chaozhou.

So Beichang is now open to accept apprentices, and it has the ability to fax!Do you Lin family want to learn?Do you want to make big money and do great things with the lonely family? "

What Zhu Heqi said was half true and half false, he was indeed not interested in the sugar business... But he would not let go of all the business of the winery, although he would pass on the craft of brewing sugar cane wine.But he only passed on the craftsmanship of brewing original wine, and did not pass on the craftsmanship of flavoring and artificial aging.

In fact, it is not a big skill to mix golden rum and dark rum, because rum is not expensive!What Zhu Hechi really likes are those original wines with high alcohol content... With these original wines, he can blend other more high-end foreign wines.

In addition, Zhu Heqi can also use these original wines to blend perfumes with higher economic value!

However, for Chaozhou clans like the Lin family, the Qiao family, and the Yu family, the business of making bagasse wine and super-grade white sugar is already very profitable.

And...Zhu and Qi have already said that Beichang is now open to accept disciples. If the Lin family does not send people to learn, other clans will also send people to learn.

At that time, their sugar will be whiter, and they will use bagasse to make wine, making a lot of money. What about the Lin family's brown sugar?Who to sell it to?

And if the Lin family wants to learn this skill...they must be the grandson of Emperor Chongzhen!

Shang Kexi is going to win the battle, so why not destroy the clan?

However, it's not that Lao Shang can't fight, but Zhu San has the god thunder!

Therefore, it is very interesting to follow the third prince Zhu's family to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!

The two brothers Lin Rujiang and Lin Ruhai are not stupid, after a quick brainstorm, they already understood the serious relationship.So they both stood up and bowed to Zhu and Yi: "Your Majesty, Qiao Lin is Lin Rujiang and Lin Ruhai. I would like to lead the Lin family with more than a thousand people to follow my son, fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, expel the Tartars, and rejuvenate China! "

Chapter 086 Third Prince Zhu, I Don’t Want to Lay Down!

While the third grandson of Zhu, Zhu Heqi, was busy serving the country and the people, his old bean, the third prince Zhu, the heavenly king Zhu, was a little unaccustomed to being leisurely and carefree.

It turned out that he was just a mountain king under the banner of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty, and he would start "business" every time the new year was approaching.All the work of blocking roads, extortion, robbery and kidnapping, and protecting smuggling is too busy.Often, I would take my brothers around the counties of Puning, Jieyang and Huilai at the foot of the mountain for several months, and sometimes even go to Haifeng County in Huizhou Prefecture to do business without capital.

Of course, officers and soldiers have to find compensation from a big thief like him if they want to have a good year, so the risk of working before the end of the year is also high.It's really like putting your head on your trouser belt and doing anti-Qing and Fuming!

At that time, although it was tiring, difficult, and frightening, every day was very fulfilling and full of hope.Of course, it is not the hope of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty, but the hope of saving a little more money, then washing his hands and finding a place where no one knows him to live the life of a rich man for a few years.

At that time, you don't have to worry about being arrested by officers and soldiers who are sleeping soundly...

But he didn't expect that this kind of happy life that should have appeared in his dream would be realized in a way that he couldn't even imagine now.

He is now living in the best house in Jieyang County - this was originally the official office of He Mingfeng, the deputy general of Chaozhou Town.

And there are three or four passable-looking women waiting around. These women were "find" when the filial son Zhu Heqi sent troops to seal down the brothel Chu Guan in Jieyang County!Why are you looking for them?Wasn't it because Zhu and Qi wanted to "restore the original Confucianism" and sealed up all the brothels and gambling halls in Jieyang County.The misguided women in the brothel were also forced to be good, and three or four of them were "old friends" with Tian Wang Zhu, so they were sent to Tian Wang Zhu to become concubines.

Lived in a big house, was served by a woman, ate and drank every day lying down, and now no one "knew" him... Everyone regarded him as Zhu Cijiong, the third prince of Zhu, except for a few people, no one I know he is Zhu Jushan.

The dream of many years has come true at once, and his "lying flat" career seems to have a good room for improvement. Maybe he will become the master of Ming Dynasty Restoration and ZTE by lying down.

But the old man was not satisfied after "lying" for a period of time. He always felt that he was still young, in good health, with great strength, and had studied the art of war well, so he could always do something good.

People with arms and legs can't just lie down all the time!

But what made him feel helpless was that everyone obviously mistook him for the third prince Zhu, and even praised him as the supervisor of the country.But the real power of the Jieyang court is all in the hands of his son Zhu Heqi!

Even if Zhu Heqi went out of the city to pull people's heads, he, the official prison country, still can't supervise anything... The people below will still follow Zhu Heqi's instructions before leaving.

What disappointed Zhu Tianwang the most was that he, as a father, didn't understand what Zhu Heqi commanded his subordinates to do!

Even the "three equals" proposed by himself was "taken" by Zhu Heqi, and it was realized very easily with a method that King Zhu couldn't imagine. Even", but he has no ability to achieve it, because he can't produce a bomb that can blow up a century-old wall, and he doesn't have super-grade sugar and sugar cane wine that can win over the big clans in Chaozhou. , Even Chaozhou dialect can't speak Zhu Heqi.

As for the five factories that have been established one after another, and the Tianwang Academy named after his nickname "Tianwang", he is completely out of control... I don't understand at all, let him take care of it I can't control it!

He knew a little about military affairs before, but now the military affairs of the Jieyang court have been made more and more strange by Zhu Heqi, Zhuge San and the two of them, and the king of heaven Zhu doesn't quite understand.

If this continues, will he really be the emperor all the time?

But what's the point of a lying emperor?Don't you just care about eating, drinking and having fun, and don't ask about anything else?

This is too boring, right?

Just because he was not willing to lie flat until he won, Zhu Tianwang confessed to his old buddy Zhao Zhongyi, who is now in charge of the defense of Jieyang's four gates, when he was patrolling the city yesterday. Come to the Jianguofu to report...Jianguo Ding Wang Zhu Tianwang plans to hold another high-level meeting within the Jianguofu system before the end of the year, and talk about how the powers in the Jianguofu should be divided?

He is a majestic supervisor of the country, he can't just lie still, he has to contribute to the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty!

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"What? Dad, do you really want to lead troops to fight? Isn't it good now? You are ruling from the top down, just sit in the palace, and foreign affairs are handled by your own ministers, military advisers, and civil and military officials. What's wrong?"

"That's right, Heavenly King Zhu, with you, Azi, working hard with us, you can comfortably wait to be the emperor!"

"That's right! Your Majesty, Pindao has told your fortune a long time ago, and you will enjoy the blessings of your children and grandchildren in the future... You just need to enjoy the blessings in peace and security, and you can be the emperor for eight years and eight months!"

"My lord, isn't it good to be like this now? Just wait to be the emperor, such a blessing, that is, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan can compare with you."

"Your Majesty, don't you think it's justified? Isn't the Shizi doing a good job in fighting the world?"

"Your Majesty, you have to learn from the lesson of Nuna's ex-husband, Dadusu. He led the way forward, but was shot and killed by Shang Kexi!"

Contrary to Prince Zhu's expectation, those who were summoned by him to Jian Guo Mansion today almost unanimously asked him to lie down!

Among them, the words of Taoist Zhuge and Daboling are the most annoying... What does it mean to have eight years and eight months of the world?Could it be that eight years and nine months after he ascended the throne, he was about to die?

What is the lesson of Dadusu?Zhu Tianwang glanced at Da Boling, and said in his heart: "Dadusu's lesson is to marry you! You Kefu... this is calculated for you by the old Taoist Zhuge! But why didn't the old Taoist remind Shanzi?"

Although most of the backbone of the group of Zhu San and his son have now become Zhu Heqi's staunch followers, Zhu Tianwang still has a few good brothers, his old brother Zhao Zhongyi who ran out of Henan with him.So Zhu Tianwang gave Zhao Zhongyi a wink, wanting him to speak for him.

Seeing the big brother's Danfeng eyes narrowing and squeezing towards him, he had no choice but to say: "Your Majesty... I feel that it is too early to discuss sending troops."

"Too early?" Zhu Tianwang was taken aback, "Why?"

"Because we don't have many soldiers yet," Zhao Zhongyi frowned, seeming to be very worried, "and we don't have a formal military system yet... How should the soldiers be recruited, how should the officers be, how should the soldiers be paid and rationed?" There is not even a formal military law, let alone the set of formations."

"Here, don't you have any of these?" Zhu Tianwang turned his head and looked at his son, "Sai Zi, can you use some dim sum? We have already been roasted on the fire. If this soldier can't train well, you can wait and see them." If you call, it's all over!"

Hearing Zhu Tianwang's words, Zhu and Qi were also a little speechless. Although their group has been playing the banner of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty, they are still bandits at bottom, without any system or rules.I thought I could "build high walls, become king slowly, and take my time", but "Zheng Jing" was pushed to the front desk to be the boss... How could this stall of the Ming Dynasty be set up so easily?Can't you come one by one?

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqian had no choice but to patiently report to his father: "Father, the military system, military law, and food and payment issues, the child and the military adviser, as well as General Su and General Lin have been discussing for a long time, and there are already some issues. Eyebrow... I planned to report it to you, Dad, after the New Year's Eve, but now that you have asked, I might as well tell you in advance! Next step, we plan to organize my Daming's brocade army!"

Chapter 087 How could the Ming Dynasty have no royal guards?

"What? Jinyi is in the army?" Third Prince Zhu was taken aback, "Jinyiwei? This Jinyiwei doesn't have a good reputation..."

"Father," Zhu Heqi said with a smile, "what if you have a bad reputation? As long as the reputation of Jinyi's pro-military is big enough! We are running the Ming Dynasty now. How can this Ming Dynasty have no Jinyiwei? "

The eunuch Pang on the side echoed: "That's right, you now have the East Factory, the West Factory, and the Inner Factory. How can there be no Jinyiwei?"

Military Master Zhuge also waved his lion head and goose feather fan, smiled and said to Zhu Tianwang: "Your Majesty, Jinyi's army is well-known, and everyone in the world knew it back then. Even now, there are many people here in Chaozhou who know that Jinyi's army is famous." It's the personal soldiers of the Son of Heaven...who wouldn't want the power of the Emperor's personal soldiers under the imperial edict?

Therefore, there are still many clan leaders in Chaozhou who want to be officials of one hundred households and one thousand households of Jinyiwei.If we want to turn all the capitals and townships under our rule into places where we can gather our troops, we will have to send out a lot of official positions in Jinyiwei.How could there be officials of the Jinyi Guards without the yamen of the Jinyi Guards? "

Zhuge Sanhe said this, and the king of heaven, Zhu, also felt that it made sense-whether the reputation of Dongchang and Jinyiwei was stinky or fragrant were all said by the scholar-bureaucrats. It is really a beautiful and luscious thing to become a hawk dog of the imperial court.

"Then what kind of military system will this brocade army use?" Heavenly King Zhu asked again.

Zhu Heqi replied: "Jinyi's military system can only be based on putting soldiers in the hands of the people...Master Guo, plus the children of Lin and Qiao, who both came from Qiao Lin, how many people do we have now?"

"If you come back to my son," Guo Shiye said, "the population of Lin and Qiao has not been counted yet, but they must both exceed 1000. Including them, the population of the households under the Jianguo Mansion has exceeded 3 taels." Among them, there are about 6000 to [-] young men who can serve as soldiers, but these people have to guard their own family business, and they have to be busy with various livelihoods, so it is not easy to concentrate."

Zhu Heqi's busy work during this period was not in vain. Twenty or thirty townships around Jieyang County, with fifty or sixty common surnames, had all cut their braids and changed their clothes, and accepted the leadership of the Jianguo Mansion.

Every surname that recognizes Zhu San and his son as the lord sent a group of children to follow Zhu Hechi back to Jieyang City-these children will take a "life-defining" exam, and those who pass the exam will become Heavenly Kings. Students of the Youth Hall.Those who fail the exam will be apprenticed in the fifth factory.

In addition, those surnames who lived outside Jieyang Island were also relocated or fortified according to Zhu Heqi's arrangement.Among them, the hometown is close to Nanxi and Beixi, which is convenient for Jieyang City to send troops to support, and there are strong surrounding buildings to rely on. They are all divided into two. Some people followed Zhu Heqi to Jieyang Island, and some people lived in the original persevere.The rest of the families all went to the island.

As for the common people who live on Jieyang Island but not in Jieyang City, they are also strengthening their enclosures these days, preparing to fight the invading Qing army.

So Zhu San and his son now have more than one castle, and a large city plus dozens of small cities, the ability to fight against encirclement and suppression is much stronger than just guarding an isolated city of Jieyang.

However, there are also disadvantages of having too many strongholds, that is, it is difficult to concentrate power.Those thousands of strong men are both productive forces and combat power, and they are usually scattered in various enclosures, and they can only be called together when absolutely necessary.

"Then how many elite soldiers do we have?" Heavenly King Zhu asked again.

"Yongmeng Su, how many standing soldiers do we have?" Zhu Heqi himself didn't know the exact number, so he asked the question to Yongmeng Su Yong, who was in charge of this matter.

Of course, Heavenly King Zhu doesn’t know how many soldiers are because he is lying flat, and Zhu Heqi doesn’t know how many soldiers are because the number is changing every day—now the name of Zhu’s third prince has been established, and Da Boling is also known as Mrs. In the name of convening Su Li's old department, so during this period of time, heroes came to join the group every day.

And because Su Yong is the younger brother of Dadu Su and once the leader of Dadu Su's personal army, he has naturally become the second person in the old Su family. The family has grown, so Zhu Heqi asked him to be responsible for the income.

"Report to my son," Su Yong said, "As of last night, the standing soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Jian Guo Mansion have reached [-]."

Zhu Heqi nodded with a smile, and then asked Zhuge Military Advisor, "Military Advisor, how many half-children are available in the Youth Hall of Tianwang Palace?"

"There are 320 six people," Zhuge Sanhe said, "including the three-collar young apprentices who follow the son."

Zhu Hechi then asked: "Where are the apprentices? How many apprentices are there in the Fifth Factory?"

"There are no less than 1000 people, including more than 800 people on Jieyang Island."

The one who answered this question was Eunuch Pang. Although he was only the governor of the East Factory, he could also manage the affairs of the other four factories.

Zhu Hechi nodded and said with a smile, "That's more than 2000 people! Adding five or six thousand township soldiers, we're almost ten thousand!"

He turned his head to Zhu Tianwang and said, "Abba, are you satisfied?"

"Full, I'm satisfied!" Zhu Tianwang nodded, thinking to himself: "I haven't done anything, and the number of soldiers under my hand is almost full... Could it be that I really want to conquer the world? But with so many soldiers, Can I afford it?"

Thinking of this, Zhu Tianwang asked again: "Shanzi, we have so many soldiers and support a court stall, is there enough money?"

"Save some money!" Zhu Hechi laughed, "Abba, we are now the ancient Confucianism, with high morals, can preserve the principles of heaven and eliminate human desires, so the cost is relatively low."

He paused, glanced at the lobby, and saw that all the "former Confucian scholars" present looked very virtuous, so he smiled and said: "After the Chinese New Year, when Chen Junshi returns from Taiwan, our The imperial court will be officially opened, and at that time, everyone will be given salaries and military pay. We can save money, but the military pay for the people below should not be too small. The starting price is set at two taels of silver a month, and five buckets of rice in addition!

Both the standing soldiers and the juvenile cadets had to pay their salaries and food, which cost three to four thousand taels of silver every month. In addition, they had to spend money to buy armor, clothing, gunpowder and other utensils.So those of us can only take less for the time being, and share the joys and sorrows with the people below. Do you have any opinions? "

"Three 4000 taels a month, and we have to buy equipment and gunpowder... Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, there will always be a lot of expenses. How can this money be enough?" Zhu Tianwang's face collapsed while counting the expenses, " Bad guy! We don’t have a lot of money on hand, so we can’t help spending money like this, you have to think of a way. By the way, the last time the boss Hui seemed to say that Huang Wu in Zhangzhou is rich, why don’t we send troops to grab one? "

After listening to Zhu Tianwang's suggestion, Zhu Heqi really couldn't laugh or cry, and the boss Hui said casually, he took it seriously!

Where is Zhangzhou?The residence of the Governor of Fujian!There are not only the soldiers of the Haicheng family, but also the pacesetters of the governor of Fujian, and Zhao Desheng, the general soldier of Zhangzhou... This guy is Wu Sangui's old army, the foundation of the Guanning army, and he can fight better than Liu Jinzhong.Moreover, the number of people in these companies has exceeded [-]!

If Zhu Heqi could take Zhangzhou easily, why not send troops to pull out Mianhu Village and take down Haiyang City, wouldn't it be nice to "control Chaozhou" first?

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi shook his head and said, "Father, we can't spare Zhangzhou for the time being... But don't worry about the money, everything is done by me and the military adviser, Mr. Qi, Mr. Pang, Mr. Guo and Mrs. Guo." Sister Ling is the host. And soon someone will send us money!"

"Give us money?" Zhu Tianwang was taken aback, "Who are you talking about?"

"Of course it's the British East India Company!" Zhu Heqi smiled, "Their people have been in Dahao Island for a long time, and after the New Year's Eve, it's time for them to send money!"

Chapter 088 Is This Magic, or Science?

"Consul, Dao Scarrong asked us to go to Jieyang City next month with his delivery fleet to meet the Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson Zhu, and he also asked us to bring a batch of good guns, cannons and silver along the way, saying that there is something Good business can be done."

Ji Dabao, the second class of the British East India Company's commercial house in Anping, was standing respectfully in front of the first class, Charlie Gough.

These two people came to Dahao with Chen Yonghua and Liu Guoxuan. They thought they had many "hundred-year-old guns" and "50-[-]-year-old middle-aged muskets" in their hands, as well as a lot of black powder made in India, so He will definitely be regarded as the guest of honor by Qiu Hui and the third grandson of Zhu, and they will have whatever they want.

But contrary to their expectations, Qiu Hui and the third grandson of Zhu didn't have the time to talk to them at all, and they didn't ask them to buy old guns and gunpowder, so they swaggered and sent troops to fight the powerful Qing army.

It's just killing me!

And what they didn't expect was that it was the Qing army who did the killing!

The army of Qiu Hui and the third grandson of Zhu scored an epic victory - according to the reliable information they heard in Dahao, the hapless grandson of Emperor Chongzhen turned out to be a great knight who actually wore the enemy's yellow Ma Gua, leading 5000 cavalry dressed as Eight Banners soldiers, suddenly attacked a fortress guarded by [-] people, and even killed and injured thousands of Qing soldiers with a "magic bombing thunder" inherited from the later Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era... …

When they first got the news, Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao didn't believe it.What era was the Three Kingdoms in the Later Han Dynasty?During the crisis period of the third century of the Roman Empire, if the Shu Han had magical gunpowder that was several times more powerful than black powder at that time, then Liu Adou would not be able to conquer the world and become the king of kings, the great Emperor Adou!

But then there were more and more news about this, and it became more and more true... Later, there was news that Liu Guoxuan and Qiu Rong used magic to explode thunder to destroy the two counties of Huilai and Chaoyang!

As far as Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao knew, the so-called Ming army who came from pirates under the Yanping palace were not good at fighting land battles, let alone attacking cities.Although Zheng Chenggong had laid down the Dutch bastion back then, it was the result of a long siege.

And Zheng Chenggong's castles on the mainland where he fought against the Qing soldiers were not very successful, because he didn't have enough troops to besiege... so he rarely succeeded, and he often lost uglyly.

But this time the coalition forces of Zheng Ming and the Third Prince Zhu were so powerful that they broke through the three county towns of Jieyang, Chaoyang, and Huilai in a row, and all three siege battles were fought cleanly. The time did not exceed one day.

Moreover, the three cities of Jieyang, Chaoyang, and Huilai were all first-line fortresses of the Qing army. At least there was a city guard battalion garrisoned, and the city defenses were relatively strong.

Now let the third prince Zhu, Zheng Jing, and Qiu Hui's army easily take it... This "magic gunpowder" is probably real!

So both Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao felt that they had to take it seriously!

If this magical gunpowder is indeed several times more powerful than black gunpowder as in the legend, it must not be monopolized by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it will greatly threaten the existing international order and rules based on strength.

So Charlie Gough and Ji Dabao decided to figure out the secret of magic gunpowder for the British East India Company no matter the cost.

If the secret is science, then they must have the recipe for the magic gunpowder!