Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 1127: Hao Yaoqi Goes North

“This… absolutely cannot be forgiven!”

Xu Yingyuan coughed lightly, feeling apprehensive about his gaffe.

Unlike Zhou Shi’s deep hatred of the Qing Dynasty, Xu Yingyuan actually did not have much hatred for the Qing Dynasty. On the contrary, because the Qing Dynasty occupied Guangdong, he was able to serve as the magistrate of Zengcheng. If it weren’t for the massacre of the Qing army in Guangdong, I am afraid that the seat of the county magistrate would not have fallen to him, who has no background.

In the Ming Dynasty, most of the people who were elected to official positions could only serve as a county governor, county magistrate, or academic officer, and few directly served as county magistrates. Xu Yingyuan’s hometown, Yuan Chonghuan, who was a former superintendent of the Ming Dynasty, was only able to serve as the magistrate of Shaowu County in Fujian after he was admitted to the Jinshi examination. There are very few people who can be appointed as county magistrates, and most of them are in low-level counties in barren land. After the famous Hai Rui Township Examination during the Jiajing period, he also served as an oracle in Nanping, Fujian, and then served as magistrate in Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

Because of the limitation of fame and fame, before the Qing army entered Guangdong, Xu Yingyuan never dreamed that he would one day be the “Marquis of Baili”. Therefore, compared with Zhou Shixiang, who had a direct family feud with the Manchu Qing, Xu’s attitude towards the Manchu Qing Naturally, it is necessary to “accommodate” a lot.

In other words, Xu Yingyuan was tied to the Taiping Army boat at the beginning. If there was no Zhou Shixiang, he should still be his magistrate in Zengcheng now, where would he be the current military counselor of the Grand Governor’s Office.

For example, Xu Yingyuan, Zhou Shixiang had a lot of subordinate officials, such as Guo Shao, who is now the ambassador of the General Administration of Salt Affairs, and was originally the salt inspector of Xiangshan. The governor-general of Fujian and the prefect of Fuzhou, Gui Yongzhi, has been serving under the leadership of Li Suotai, the governor of Qing, Guangdong and Guangxi. Counting over and over again, Dong Changqing, who “doesn’t wear the sky on his head and his feet on the ground” can be described as “rooted and seedling red”, from beginning to end, he is incompatible with Manqing’s oath.

Cheng Hanbin, who served as the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau, was also born in Juren, but he was once shaken, otherwise he would not have gone to Beijing to take the test. Without the rise of the Taiping Army in Guangdong, Cheng Hanbin and his friend Xiong Cilu would have taken the general examination of the Qing court and became a Qing Dynasty scholar.

These people have a common feature, that is, they are not from the jinshi background, they are all talented and talented. To this day, there is not a single jinshi who can voluntarily join Zhou Shixiang and use it for him. Ye Fangai, who passed the examination in the Qing court, had the intention to help his Royal Highness King Qi of the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately now he has ended up in a different place.

Last year, the first champion of Dingwu’s first Enke examination, Chen Zhuangyuan, who later changed his surname to Xu because of the story of the white snake, took the initiative to join the Qi Wangfu after he passed the examination. I don’t want to, but Zhou Shixiang looked down on this champion, thinking that this man’s talent was outstanding, but apart from his literary talent, there seemed to be nothing outstanding. He didn’t have the political ability and experience of Xu Yingyuan and Gui Yongzhi. He was summoned to his side, but was placed in the Hanlin Academy according to the Ming system.

A few days ago, after hearing that the champion had changed his surname to Xu, Zhou Shixiang became interested, and instructed Ding Zhixiang and Yuan Kuoyu to take care of him and hone them in the Hanlin Academy for a few years to see if they could be of great use.

Zhou Shixiang still knew the principle of “returning a peach and a plum”. After all, being the top scholar in the examination was the highest honor of the literati imperial examination, and it was also the place to look up. It is rare for this champion Xu to “long for” himself, so give him a chance. If he performs well, Zhou Shixiang will not be stingy to give the other party a chance to make a name for himself and become famous.

The enemy should not be lenient. Zhou Shixiang’s meaning was obvious, and Xu Yingyuan also heard it. The commander’s meaning was obviously that the wavering of Wu Jun’s large number of generals had nothing to do with Wu Sangui’s kindness to the Manchus.

Since the 17th year of Chongzhen’s surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the main force of the Wu army, the Guan Ning Army, has been the vanguard of the Qing army’s southward pacification and destruction of Nanming. For 16 years, the Guan Ning Army has always appeared in front of the world as a “traitor army”. Sixteen years was enough for Guan Ning’s army to smear the fear of their master Manchus in their bones. If you want to get rid of this fear, there are only two ways to do it. One is to cut them off, and the other is to let them know that the Manchurians are actually not better than them.

Wu Sangui did not do these two points, but Zhou Shixiang did.

After taking down Luo Ding, in order to make those Jiangxi Green Camps follow him, Zhou Shixiang branded their backs with the brand that they should not fight back. After that, no matter which battle, Zhou Shixiang took the lead, only to lead these former Qing troops to defeat their feared objects on the battlefield. After **** battles, tough battles, and slaughtering the city again and again, the old men of the Taiping Army fought less and less, but the team grew stronger and stronger. There are as many as thousands of Manchu and Mongolian soldiers in the Japanese army. All of this is only because Zhou Shixiang let his subordinates “death and then live” from the very beginning.

Reverse also die, not reverse also die, it is better to reverse.

If there is no retreat, then stop thinking about a retreat, and bravely fight a way forward.

In order to survive, no matter how timid and cowardly people are, they will explode with amazing power. Facts have proved that Zhou Shixiang was right. The Taiping Army he built with the Manchu “Eight Banners” method is already the nemesis of the Eight Banners in Manzhou. The fear of the Manchurians in the past is now always amused by many generals who were from the Qing army.

“Up and down the Wu army, since the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, they have never fought a hard battle with the Manchus. It can be said that the army has come to the Central Plains smoothly. As a result, they met the main force of the Eight Banners led by Ao Bai, and the original shape was revealed. After all, the lackey has been doing it for a long time, and suddenly turned over to be the master, and his mentality has not changed.”

In fact, the combat effectiveness of Guan Ningjun and the Eight Banners is not much different. In Zhou Shixiang’s view, Wu Jun’s defeat was entirely a man-made disaster, not a war. If at the very beginning, Wu Sangui had cut off the idea of “backward paths” for his subordinates and the generals, and at the very beginning had used blood to arouse the **** and murderous aura of his subordinates who had been the minions of the Manchus for more than ten years, the Battle of Kaifeng would not have been won. It was so difficult that it suffered heavy setbacks even when the troops had the advantage.

“Aobai is a character, the foreign priest Nan Huairen told me that the four auxiliary ministers left by Fulin, the really capable one is Aobai. Zhang Changgeng also told me that Aobai is Manzhou Among the rich and powerful, Sinicization is the most respected, and the most important thing is to win over my Han gentry. Fulin also has great faith in Aobai. If it is not defeated by me, I am afraid that the head of the so-called auxiliary minister will not fall on Sony’s head. On. But thinking about it, Fulin chose to let Aobai lead the army against Wu Sangui before his death, rather than let Sony or Suksaha, or others, obviously, in Fulin’s eyes, he can really carry half the sky in his Qing Dynasty. It’s still the slave Obai.”

Although Ao Bai was a Tartar and the target he wanted to kill, Zhou Shixiang did not hesitate to praise Ao Bai. Not only because Aobai’s attitude towards Han people is different from other Manchurians, but more importantly, Aobai is good at learning. The “unconscionable cannon” is a proof. It is not difficult to imagine that in the future, there may be pure firearms troops in the Qing army like the Taiping army, just like the army of King Sanshun.

The leak of the “unconscionable gun” gave Zhou Shixiang a wake-up call, that is, the confidentiality level of the new weapons developed now must be raised again~www.readwn.com~ He does not hope that in the future, when he is on the northern expedition, the Qing army will also open the same Squads of flintlocks and a blossoming cannon came out.

Although the Wu army was defeated, the battle in Henan is still unclear, and the camel was bigger than a horse. The weak camel of the Qing court was still able to gather tens of thousands of elites to fight against Wu Sangui in the Central Plains, and even with more than 200,000 troops, Wu Sangui in the northwest could do it all.

After Guo Zhuangtu’s defeat, he led the remnants of the army and the Xia State united troops who had come to support him, and had already retreated from the Kaifeng area to the border of Henan Prefecture.

After Aobai won the victory of Xuanwu, he wanted to annihilate Hu Guozhu, another Wu army, and completely cut off Wu Sangui’s big hand extending to Kaifeng, but he was blocked by Ma Bao, a general under Hu Guozhu. The two sides fought fiercely in the Chenliu area, causing casualties to each other. On the third day of the battle, Hao Yaoqi’s army, which was active in Nanyang and Ruzhou, suddenly went north and attacked the Qing army from behind, causing the two flanks of Aobai to be attacked by the enemy. In addition to the repeated battles, the Qing army could not be rested and replenished, and it was difficult to continue. Support, had to withdraw from the battlefield.

The time Hao Yaoqi chose to go north was just when the Wu army had just been defeated, and it helped the Wu army stabilize the front. Therefore, Wu Sangui, who got the news, was very happy and sent people to send a large amount of money and food to Hao Yaoqi’s department, and invited Hao Yaoqi and Hao Yaoqi. Zhu Jingli, the king of Han who was in his camp, went to Luoyang. However, Hao Yaoqi accepted the money and grain given by Wu Sangui, but did not go to Luoyang. Zhu Jingli, the king of Han, also refused to go to Luoyang on the grounds that he could not travel far.

When Wu Sangui learned that King Han was ill, he immediately sent his advisor Fang Xianting to the Hao Yaoqi camp with Lang Zhong beside him. Fang Xianting clearly wanted to cure King Han, but in fact he was still trying to persuade King Han to go to Luoyang.

Although Wu Sangui had the idea of proclaiming himself emperor after “asking the sky” in Luoyang, he was even ready to become the throne in Kaifeng. However, the disadvantage of the war made Wu Sangui have to give up this idea.