Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 756 Life is endless, death is endless

Wen Tiren knew a little about Zhang Pu and others' conspiracy.The relationship between him and the Donglin Party has always been delicate. On the one hand, he suppressed the Donglin Party members, but on the other hand, he relied heavily on and cooperated with the Donglin Party. It can only be said that he and the Donglin Party are really on the same page. Good friends who love and kill each other.After learning about Jiyou's plot, Wen Tiren didn't even have the energy to get angry, and he smiled wryly while holding the secret report: "Dump the cabinet, dump the cabinet, and dump the cabinet again! These hypocrites really regard the cabinet as a cure for all diseases Almighty Golden Elixir, do you really think that if someone else sits in the old man's position, he will be able to deal with that Yang?"

———His current situation is quite bad, he is simply not human inside and out.On the surface, his current cabinet is the most successful one since Zhang Juzheng. First, he curbed the flood of bandits and stabilized the situation. Then he won the Lushun victory, killing and capturing as many as 50 enemies. The first achievement since; with the power of this great victory, the Ming army wiped out the 30 rogues who were blocked in the Yiluo River Valley and fled into Zhending Mansion with the force of the autumn wind. calmed down.This illustrious military achievement is not much inferior to that of the early Ming Dynasty. As the chief assistant, he should be famous in history.However, what made him extremely embarrassed was that these military exploits seemed to have nothing to do with him. The Battle of Lushun was fought by Yang Menglong with all his strength, and finally won by pressing the whole country's elite soldiers. The army took care of it all by himself, and he had nothing to do.Due to the rapid expansion of Yang Menglong's power, and the cabinet still can't come up with an effective way to contain it, the Wenchen Group is very dissatisfied with him as the chief assistant. If this continues, the generals will be turned upside down!What do you do, Shoufu! ?And the side effects of Wenchen Group's long-term unscrupulous suppression and bullying of generals are becoming more and more apparent. What else are you bastards doing besides making trouble for us?Wen Tiren, what about you, take care of your bastards, don't let them block us anymore, okay? ?Similarly, Chongzhen is becoming more and more dissatisfied with Wen Tiren, because it is always difficult for Wen Tiren to come up with effective countermeasures in the first place when encountering major events, and asking him for advice will only make him confused It's confusing, and if you look for Yang Menglong, Yang Menglong will always come up with an idea quickly, or help him find someone who has an idea... In this case, it is useless for me to spend so much money to support you, the chief assistant ?Now Chongzhen’s requirements for Wen Tiren have been lowered a lot, so don’t ask him to come up with any strategy for governing the country and the world—even if he could come up with it, Chongzhen would not dare to use it. ——Just ask him to take care of those mad dog-like officials, and stop them from biting around and making trouble for him.

The problem is, Wen Tiren can't even control these mad dogs... Don't forget, Yanguan never fights alone, they are also divided into several factions, and they will bite whoever the master tells them to bite, Wen Tiren is also them The object to bite.The Yanguan is very dissatisfied with Wen Tiren, you can't even deal with an outrageous warrior, and you still want to flaunt your prestige to us?go to hell!
All the powers in the court are actually becoming more and more dissatisfied with him. It is considered a complete failure for a chief assistant to reach this point.

Wen Tiren felt aggrieved.On the surface he didn't do anything, but secretly fought with Yang Menglong countless times.Without his support, Xiong Mingyu would not have dared to make things difficult for Yang Menglong on the eve of the military parade; without his support, those gentry who sang against Yang Menglong would have been hung on the treetops by Yang Menglong; It's strange that Liu Zeqing and Liu Zeqing dared to go to Xinyang to play wild!Although all these efforts have failed, I have done something, okay!Fortunately, Yang Menglong is in full swing, no one can control him, and those bastards of the Donglin Party don't think about how to work together to bring down Yang Menglong at this critical juncture, they are planning to overthrow the cabinet!
Your grandma's, besides Daoge, do you order anything else?

Wen Tiren gritted his teeth with a headache, and said to Wang Yingxiong: "Say hello to Zheng Zhilong, let him intensify the attack at sea, don't just confine yourself to attacking Guangdong maritime merchants, when you meet a merchant ship with the surname Yang, encounter a One ship sinks one, and if something goes wrong, the old man will take care of it for him!"

Wang Yingxiong was taken aback: "Isn't this forcing Bandit Yang to fight Zheng Zhilong?"

Wen Tiren sneered: "Just let them start a war! Zheng Zhilong, just a pirate, deceived the imperial navy into decline, took advantage of the situation to rise, and dominated the South China Sea; Yang Menglong, a warrior, happened to make some military exploits in the Battle of Daling River, and with The emperor is deceived by treacherous tricks, rising step by step, and getting out of control; these two are not good people, I just want them to fight to the death, no matter who loses or wins, their vitality will be severely damaged in the end, and I will deal with them when the time comes. It’s so much easier!”

Wu Zongda said: "What the chief assistant said is true! No matter how strong Yang Thief is, he is only a strong land fighter, and he becomes a worm when he reaches the sea; Zheng Zhilong is invincible in all seas, but he is far from being an opponent of Yang Thief when he comes to land! If it lasts for a long time, the strength of each other will be greatly damaged, and there are many places where the imperial court can operate from, and if it is operated well, it is not impossible to win both of them!"

Wen Tiren said: "I hope so..." But thinking of Yang Menglong's heaven-defying ability to turn even hailstorms into rain, he couldn't help shivering, showing a little lack of confidence.That bastard Yang Menglong is really evil, it seems that there is nothing difficult to stop him, hell, really hell!

After making up their minds, these guys went to play Chongzhen together, saying that the pirates are making a lot of trouble at the moment, and the navy must intensify their patrols at sea, so that no sails can go out to sea, so as to avoid the danger of pirates.Chongzhen felt that this was a good thing, so he agreed. Daming sea smuggling activities were indeed a little rampant, and it was absolutely impossible not to intensify the crackdown.

The policy is a good policy, but the problem is that the implementation of all governments in the late Ming Dynasty has nothing to do with the word "normal".As soon as the imperial edict was issued and the official document came out, Zheng Zhilong became even more aggressive. He singled out Guangdong merchants and the European fleets that were trading with Yang Menglong to rob them. Anyway, the European colonialists currently operating in the South China Sea were acting like pirates and attacking them. No one can find anything wrong with it.However, what makes Zheng Zhilong more depressed is that the goods transported by those European fleets are quite strange. Most of them are sulfur, wood, tin ingots, phosphate rock, guano, saltpeter and the like. They are not valuable things anyway.Saltpeter and sulfur can also be used to make gunpowder, and wood can also be used to build ships. However, phosphate rock, seaguano and other things are simply garbage to them. It takes up space to give them to them, so they simply fire cannons to destroy the ship. Hit him down and pull him down!
So, when Yang Menglong was busy with disaster relief, Zheng Zhilong sent two to three thousand tons of phosphate rock and guano into the seabed with shells.

With great difficulty, the situation in Henan and Shandong has finally stabilized. The commercial and land taxes owed for many years have been collected with interest. With this money, the people in the two provinces quickly resumed production, and replanted rice in places where conditions permit. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, flax and other crops with relatively short growth cycles are grown in places with poor conditions. Potatoes and sweet potatoes can support the stomach, and flax can be sold at a good price. Let's get through this year first.But the gang of Donglin Party members were slammed by the newspapers, and they successfully became the target of public criticism. Some guys who sang very loudly, but their moral integrity was below the level, were even splashed with feces by angry ordinary people, from hundreds of millions of civilians. The anger of the people made the Donglin party members who always thought that the sky was the boss and their second child a little bit nervous, and they restrained themselves a little, and they didn't dare to turn black and white in arrogance.Yang Menglong, who had settled many troubles, was finally free. He came to the military horse farm with great interest to see those war horses from Europe—hundreds of European war horses had been transported to Henan half a month ago. Don't have time to take a look.

In fact, the quality of European war horses has never been very good. During the Mongolian Western Expedition, European knights found that the quality of their war horses was far inferior to that of the Mongols.Fortunately, during the Crusades, a large number of excellent Arabian horse breeds were transported back to Europe, where they were crossbred with native European horse breeds. After hundreds of years of cultivation, they finally came out of blue and had the best war horses in the world.No, those European war horses in the racecourse were unusually tall and strong, with shiny manes, loud neighs, and quite hot tempers, which made Yang Menglong's eyes shine.He personally picked a gray war horse to ride on, galloped the horse, and got off the horse after being addicted to it. He patted the body of the war horse that seemed to be moving just now and called: "Good horse, good horse! This endurance, this explosive power, put Jian Nu It is more than enough for a cavalryman to break all six of his legs!"

Zhong Ning said with a smile: "According to Miss Catherine, these war horses come from Poland. The Poles used local horses and Tatar war horses to breed excellent horse breeds. These war horses can carry a load of two hundred kilograms and quickly maneuver thousands of miles. After a short rest, he can immediately launch a charge, which is really a rare good horse."

Yang Menglong curled his lips: "Don't listen to her nonsense, maneuvering a thousand miles with a load of two hundred catties? At least half of it will be wasted! But this horse is really good. With it, our Lancers' impact will become stronger, even The first wave of charges will deal a devastating blow to the enemy!" After looking at several horses, the more he looked, the more satisfied he was, and Zhong Ning asked Zhong Ning to pick out the best horses to be used as stallions.

Dozens of Share horses aroused Yang Menglong's strong interest.The Shire horse is probably the tallest horse breed in the world, with a shoulder height of nearly two meters and a general weight of [-] to [-] kilograms. Some overnourished ones can even grow to a ton, which can be called a camel among horses.Such a big guy is obviously not suitable for cavalry as a mount, but it is perfect for dragging cannons.He pointed to a black Shire horse and exclaimed, "My dear, it's so tall, it can even pull a mountain!"

Xue Siming said: "It's a pity that the speed is not enough to be used as a war horse. What a pity!"

Yang Menglong said: "Just be content with it, there are already so many excellent war horses available for riding, don't see four-hoofed ones and think about whether they can be used as war horses!"

Just as he was talking, a carriage rushed over. Before the carriage could stop, Catherine jumped out.I didn’t know if this foreign girl had taken gunpowder. She looked very angry. She said to Yang Menglong unceremoniously: "Yang, you must give me an explanation!"

Yang Menglong looked puzzled: "What's wrong? When did I owe you an explanation?"

Catherine said angrily: "I believe in you, so I emptied the wealth of the city-state, and traveled thousands of miles to China to trade with you. As the governor of the East, are you obliged to protect our personal safety and property safety? Now we A fleet transporting war horses and belongings was robbed in Hangzhou Bay, and a dozen sailors were killed, how should this account be settled?"

Yang Menglong was taken aback: "Your fleet was robbed? Who did it?"

Catherine gritted her teeth and said, "Zheng Zhilong! Who else is there besides him?"

Yang Menglong's expression suddenly became very ugly.

(End of this chapter)