Chapter 783 The Battle of Crossing the River (1)
"Union of the enemy and pacify the enemy? Dao Neighbor, what do you think of this?" After reading the information sent by the Jinyiwei, Li Guodong turned to ask Shi Kefa. Seeing that Li Guodong's face was not very good, his lips squirmed for a few times, hesitated for a while before answering: "Wuweibo, this method is still useful, and hesitated. You can quell the rebellion when you fight with me."
"Striving time to quell the civil strife? The bandits in the north blocked the Jiannu for us for a period of time, but they couldn't stop it for long. Once the bandits were defeated, the target of Jiannu was us! This time, Jiannu sent an envoy to the Hongguang pseudo-church, and actually respected the Hongguang pseudo-Emperor as orthodox, and called us rebels! His heart was punishable!" Li Guodong sneered.
Shi Kefa broke out in a cold sweat and replied hesitantly: "Wuweibo, Your Majesty is traveling south to Jiangnan, but he has complained about the disasters of the gentry along the way. Wuweibo, as an important official in the protection of the commander, you have to persuade Your Majesty more to keep him away from the treacherous party and close to the gentleman."
"The eunuch party treacherous? Your Majesty almost died for his country when he was in the capital. In the court, except for the Duke Meng An (Li Banghua) who had already died for his country and the Duke Wang and the Duke Wang who were preparing to die for his country with His Majesty, the other Dukes, namely the gentlemen who were the ones in your mouth, how many of them died for their country? Chen Yan, Guang Shiheng and other thieves said nicely, and they actually persuaded the thieves to ascend the throne! It's a pity that they abandoned their old master and turned to the thief. The thieves still didn't appreciate it and squeezed out their brains! Hahaha!"
Shi Ke Pharaoh blushed. The actions of the nobles in the court in the capital really made him a scholar very embarrassed. Before the thieves came, they were all righteous gentlemen with iron sternness. As a result, as soon as the thieves entered the capital, not only were some who surrendered to the thieves, but also those who took the initiative to open the city gate to welcome the thieves, and those who persuaded the thieves to ascend the throne. They were simply a gentle and shameful person. It was embarrassing, it was really embarrassing!
"That's all a slander! If I, Shi, are in Beijing, I will definitely resist the thief. If the city is broken, I will sacrifice my life for my country!" Shi Kefa suddenly shouted loudly.
"I believe in Master Shi's integrity," Li Guodong admitted that Shi Kefa in real history was to sacrifice his life for his country. "So Your Majesty has investigated all the families of criminals who surrendered thieves and captured. What's wrong with this?" Li Guodong said with a smile.
Shi Kefa was speechless and could make the most pale and powerless quibbling: "And there have been many people involved in the case, and how many innocent people are there? I hope Wu Weibo can persuade Your Majesty to be innocent."
"Your Majesty will naturally not be wronged by the innocent person; but as long as the guilty person, Your Majesty will not let anyone go!" Li Guodong said, bowing to Chongzhen's big dragon boat, "Li believes that Your Majesty is a wise ruler for all ages and will not be wronged by a good person."
"Then Yangzhou salt merchant?" Shi Kefa asked.
Except for Zheng Yuanxun who lost money and eliminated the disaster, had been released from the family's wealth, and Jiang Guomao lost one million taels of silver to redeem himself and was released from prison, the other innocent Huai merchants and Hui merchants were still staying in the Jinyiwei Zhao Prison. Although they were not tortured, they were detained in a dark, humid and stinky basement. Every day, they listened to the screams of Shanxi merchants being tortured, which was not pleasant.
"Oh, Hui merchants and Huai merchants, that's the matter of the Jinyiwei. Li has no right to interfere with the Jinyiwei's case."
"Wuweibo, you can persuade Your Majesty to release the innocent salt merchants as soon as possible." Shi Kefa said. The Jinyiwei detained not only salt merchants, but also some relatives of salt merchants, many of whom had fame and honor were among them.
"Okay, Mr. Li will give it a try, but Mr. Shi, the matter of Hongguang's pseudo-emperor needs to be resolved as soon as possible. Mr. Li will arrange a large army to cross the river. Mr. Shi must prepare and prepare to return to Nanjing to take office." Li Guodong said.
The film garden that served as the temporary Zhao Prison was crowded with suspects. This matter was easy to resolve. Originally, Zhang Shuheng was to collect bail. As long as he talked to Wang Chengen, Zhang Shuheng collected the bail as soon as possible and let the person go.
After this, Jiang Guomao's purse was bleeding heavily and he lost more than one million taels of silver. He paid one million taels of bail, and the extra fraction was tens of thousands of taels of silver he gave to Zhang Shuheng and Wang Chengen. The sensible Jiang Guomao knew in his heart that one million taels of bail was handed over to His Majesty the Emperor, so Eunuch Wang and Zhang Dusi had to get some benefits, so he took out fifty thousand taels of silver and gave Wang Chengen 20,000 taels of taels of silver and Zhang Shuheng 10,000 taels of silver. The remaining 20,000 taels were used as rewards to Jinyiwei and Dongchang.
Zheng Yuanxun gave more blood. He almost lost all his money. All his property was confiscated by the factory guards, and even the cinema garden was confiscated. In the case of assassination of the emperor, it was already thankful that he could come out alive. What is it to take off a layer of skin?
In fact, for Jiang Guomao and Zheng Yuanxun, this matter cannot be said to be a bad thing, because the Shanxi merchants were completely destroyed, and they will have the final say in the salt industry in the Huai merchants in the future. The Shanxi merchants were destroyed, and since then the salt industry market was all contracted by Huai merchants and Hui merchants. In the business world, what else is more happy than the collapse of competitors?
Li Guodong found Wang Chengen and briefly mentioned the matter of Shi Kefa's plea. Wang Chengen said angrily: "What are Shi Daolin doing? There are so many prisoners in detention, so we don't just settle the amount of bail. Zhang Dusi said that we should first examine how much family wealth they have, and then set the bail based on the family wealth. How could it be possible to release people so quickly? Let Shi Daolin wait for a few more days!"
After Wang Chengen finished speaking, he suddenly thought of an important thing: "Wuweibo, when can the army cross the river? Your Majesty is going to Nanjing to regain the throne, it depends on you, Wuweibo."
"Eunuch Wang, if you want to cross the river, there will be a big battle. Zhao Zhilong gathered all the warships of the Yangtze River Navy, and also collected civilian ships to build a large number of fire attack ships. He was determined to fight against His Majesty! Li is also preparing, please rest assured, Eunuch Wang, it takes less than half a month. Once the Zheng Zhilong navy arrives, you will be able to cross the river safely!" Li Guodong replied.
Emperor Chongzhen has lived in Yangzhou for too long and has lived for half a month. Why hasn't crossed the river to Nanjing? It's because Zhao Zhilong was prepared. Li Guodong was waiting for Zheng Zhilong's navy.
Although Li Guodong's own Huai Army's Yangtze River Navy issued a scale, and fighting Zuo Liangyu's Navy was like slaughtering vegetables, Zuo Liangyu's Navy was not a regular navy after all. At best, it was a group of civilian ships and small sampans. The Huai Army had the advantage of going downstream. Isn't it like an adult bullying children?
However, Zhao Zhilong's Yangtze River Navy was a regular navy of the Ming Dynasty. It had more than 3,000 large and small warships (including small sampans), including forty Dafu ships, twenty whistle ships, forty bird ships, one hundred east ships, two hundred bluff ships, three hundred fire attack ships, two hundred centipede fast ships, and countless small boats of various kinds.
If Zheng Zhilong did not receive support from Zheng Zhilong, Shi Lang commanded his Huai Army Navy to forcibly cross the river, which would be the navy that could defeat Zhao Zhilong, but the losses would not be small. Li Guodong did not want his brother who had been through life and death to lose in the civil war in vain, so the safest way was to wait for Zheng Zhilong to arrive.
Zhao Zhilong's navy was worth mentioning in front of Zheng Zhilong. In the battle of Lun, Zheng Zhilong promised to beat Zhao Zhilong so that even his parents could not recognize him.
Zheng Zhilong has received a letter from Li Guodong and Qian Qianyi, and the person who sent the letter was his son Zheng Sen.
"My father, this is a good opportunity to be a dragon. King Fu is not just a legitimate name, but he was promoted to the throne by a group of rebel ministers and nobles. But he was just a pseudo-emperor, and Emperor Chongzhen was the orthodox. Master Father, let alone anything else, Wu Wei Bo is also your friend, and Mr. Muzhai is also a teacher of the child. For this reason, we should also go north to serve the king." Zheng Sen urged his father to send troops.
Chapter completed!