Chapter 448: Prelude to Calm

The leaders of the Zheng family are the three brothers of the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu, and Zheng Zhibao. Although Zheng Zhilong was founded by Zheng Zhilong, it could grow and grow, but it also contributed to Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao. This contribution was quite considerable, such as receiving the imperial court's amnesty, from contact to confirmation, refusing to surrender several times, and finally winning the greatest benefit for the Zheng family.

In recent years, Zheng Zhibao is the one who is leading the battles at sea and land. He is the number one general of the Zheng family. The third son of the Zheng family can't do anything without anyone.

However, the Zheng family has come to Jinan too many times. It seems that Zheng Zhihu has not been away for too long. The third brother of the Zheng family has come here again.

In this room, everyone should be polite. When he heard Zheng Zhibao say so humble, Li Meng also said with a smile:

"The scenery in Jinan is just right, and there is also a temple. The three Zheng brothers came to Shandong to rest."

When everyone heard Li Meng's words, the people in the room laughed loudly again, laughing no matter how much they laughed, everyone knew that the Zheng family sent ships to transport a large number of Shandong soldiers and horses, and the ships were on the sea, and life and death were unpredictable. If they did not send an important hostage over, Shandong would probably not be relieved. The weight of this matter was only for the Zheng family's Dragon, Tiger and Leopard.

Everyone talks about kindness. If something happens, it is hard to say, but the scene at this time needs to be harmonious and get along well with each other.

Although he was very solemn when he left the Duke of Qi in Jinan City, everyone was still very kind in this room. It seemed that Wang Hai was just traveling a long trip and relatives and friends came to see him off.

After Li Meng finished exposing the matter, he took out an iron plate and handed it to Wang Hai. This was Shandong's iron talisman for military transfer. Of course, the corresponding military transfer document had already arrived at the destination. The iron talisman was just a symbol. Wang Haizhen took it seriously, bowed and bowed and was about to go out to prepare.

According to the plan, Wang Hai was going to lead his subordinates tonight. As soon as he walked out the door, he heard Li Meng reminding him in a deep voice behind him:

"This trip is dangerous. If there is an urgent matter, protect yourself first."

With Li Meng's personality, he rarely says such words. This must be because he thinks of brotherhood. Wang Hai is different from other confidant generals. Since he started his career, Wang Hai has been with Li Meng, saying that he is a boss and a subordinate. The real relationship seems to be a brother, a younger brother, or a teacher-student relationship. Li Meng imparts his military knowledge and command experience in the past and this era to his little brother without reservation.

Wang Hai suffered in Wei since he was a child, and he had no brothers. He subconsciously regarded Li Meng as his own brother and respected him extremely.

This mission is indeed of great significance. Wang Hai was a little nervous. Hearing Li Meng said such caring words, he was extremely moved for a moment. Now everyone is a general with a high position and a powerful position. He is usually reserved and does not care about laughing, and pays attention to the majesty of a superior.

At this time, some people in their thirties were moved and they were a little embarrassed. Wang Hai didn't even dare to look back, and he didn't care whether he was polite or polite. He said in a stern voice:

"Please rest assured by the Grandmaster. Wang Hai will definitely succeed in his journey!!"

Li Meng glanced at Zheng Zhibao, who was respectful beside him, and did not continue to say anything. Not long after Wang Hai left, the entire schoolyard began to be noisy, with the sound of cars and horses, and the sound of the whole team was noisy. There were also various equipment jingling, and the schoolyard was so quiet that there were so many soldiers stationed.

However, the noise lasted for a while and soon became quiet. Wang Hai could hear his loud speech there. After a few words, he heard neat footsteps again.

The sounds outside gradually faded away, and soon, the entire schoolyard became silent as soon as it first came, and the people in the room were listening quietly there. Since Li Meng didn't say he left, the others naturally had to accompany him here, but there was nothing boring.

You can hear various noises outside in this room. A group of people guessed what was happening outside from these noises, which was quite interesting.

The solemnity of that kind of man-horse action can be felt even when the sounds outside are heard. When the silence is restored, several people can't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Zheng Zhibao's face became cautious. After hesitating a little, he spoke:

"My Duke, the soldiers and horses under his command are so majestic. The villain is really respectful. If it weren't for the mighty and powerful Duke, how could there be such a tiger and wolf army."

It is often considered to be the best for the use of troops to gather and disperse. This is an old saying in military books, but there are very few troops who want to do this. The movements and quiet moments outside are just now, and the short intervals for regaining the quiet state can all show that the troops stationed on this school are well-trained.

The Zheng family can bring out more than 40,000 soldiers to fight, but naval battles are possible, but land battles have always been a weakness. When they were in a row with Liu Laoxiang, they had to take the Japanese dirones with them. The reason was that the direct troops of the Zheng family were not good at fighting on land.

In the final analysis, they did not become an army, but just a gang of robbers. The ships at sea jumped to fight, and they were more of a person who was brave and fierce. This was the director of the Zheng family.

In fact, the Zheng family had to have a land warrior army that was used by Zheng Chenggong. At this time, Zheng Zhibao was stationed at home and racked his brains to create a brave and tenacious army that was gathered and dispersed properly, but he still couldn't do it. When he heard the Shandong soldiers and horses performing like this, he felt more and more awesome. However, he could know what these phenomena meant. Moreover, this was the entire marching at night, which was too powerful.

Now it seems that it may not be a bad thing to completely lose the sincerity with the Duke of Qi in Shandong. With such strength and situation, the current Duke of this country is only the place between the two provinces.

Li Meng smiled indifferently at Zheng Zhibao's praise and said:

"San Master Zheng, Shandong is usually the only one who trains troops, so there is no need to be too surprised."

This is not a pretending gesture, but a normal and natural meaning. Zheng Zhibao came to Shandong several times, but he did not see Shandong's soldiers for a long time, and he didn't believe Li Meng's words very much. But on the surface, he was still respectful and convinced.

As for the matter here, the cars and horses outside were prepared long ago. When Zheng Zhibao went to Jinan City, he would allocate a house for him to live in. He would be monitored by others when he was in action. Zheng Zhibao also accepted it calmly and regarded it as his own rest vacation.

After Zheng Zhibao left, Li Meng sat down in the room. He pondered for a while and greeted him. Huang Ping, the new commander of the private barracks who had been waiting outside the door, came in. Since Wang Hai confirmed to release him, Huang Ping had handed over the post of the Shandong Salt Gang to serve as the commander of the personal barracks. He was also a general who led the troops, and he was familiar with this.

"The experimental brigade's military personnel should be recruited now. This time, we should prefer more troops outside Shandong. We should build them back as soon as possible."

Hearing Li Meng's order, Huang Ping respectfully agreed. The troops and horses set off with Wang Hai on this school are the experimental brigade. The tasks that Wang Hai wants to perform are indeed difficult and dangerous. Moreover, in the future, the founding party will be independent and will also need their own backbone soldiers.

This experimental brigade was originally under Wang Hai's jurisdiction and was also an elite soldier of the entire army. It is appropriate to bring it there this time. In the future, the experimental brigade will be the seed of an officer.

This experimental brigade is the way for ordinary soldiers to become backbones of the army, and is considered the right way for the Jiaozhou camp military system. In the past, they always paid priority to selecting in the old troops. This time, they tilted towards Henan, Jiangbei and Northern Zhili, and were also for future considerations. If there are backbones of the army who are familiar with the local situation, everything will be more convenient.

Huang Ping was born in a thousand families in the Ming Dynasty. He was familiar with such personal officers, and he even did some etiquette jobs, even better than Wang Hai.

After Li Meng gave an order, he passed the whole day in his mind. He took out a note to take a look and confirmed that there were no missing work or incidents today. He was about to order to return to the city, but he saw that the new commander Huang Ping seemed to have something to say.

The new commander of the personal military camp was doing things well. He knew the way of doing things very well. However, because the relationship was not as friendly as Wang Hai, sometimes this hesitant behavior made Li Meng quite impatient. He spoke immediately:

"Commander Huang, since you have done your current position, you cannot be as careful as you were the leader of the Salt Gang. If you have any words, you will directly tell me. This is a loyal act."

Huang Ping lowered his head and chuckled a few times, and said with a smile:

"The leader of the Salt Gang, Cheng Hai, who died in Hejian Mansion, has two sons, one is five years old and the other is three years old. Since he died in the leader, the two children have always been depressed."

"Oh? Could it be that the common relief and pension rules have not been distributed to the hands?"

This is indeed a trivial matter, but Li Meng's tone suddenly became stern. If anyone still deducts the pensions of the victims of Jiaozhou Camp, it would be lawless. He was about to use a knife to kill people. Li Meng's sudden stern tone shocked Huang Ping.

Huang Ping and Li Meng are about the same age, but Li Meng is becoming more and more powerful and over the years, and his aura is overwhelming. This anger is really a thunderous person, and the people who are overwhelmed by the ground can't breathe. Huang Ping explained repeatedly:

"The Grand Marshal misunderstood. Although Cheng's family is an orphan and widowed mother, under the pension and assistance of our Jiaozhou Camp, their lives are still quite rich. A few days ago, I saw that the two children in Chengshan and Chengqiu did not look like children, and they were depressed all day long... In this Jinan City, our military public school is the prince of the Duke's Mansion and the princes. Bei's prodigal words, can we let the two children in Chengshan be supplemented...'

Having said that, Li Meng also understood that in all the battles, Shandong soldiers and horses were all victorious, but many were killed or injured. However, most of them were young and strong children everywhere, and they had no family. Even if they had children, there were local public schools and private schools to manage and teach. However, many departments outside the military, such as the Shandong Salt Gang, were mostly people who started their families and were older.

The Shandong Salt Gang is outside and is alone and is often killed or injured, but dies outside. Sometimes, due to confidentiality and other situations, the children do not receive various preferential treatments from their families, and there are also many unfair phenomena.

In a sense, these people from the Shandong Salt Gang are the most loyal to Shandong. Their descendants are really heartbreaking. On the other hand, Li Hong was surrounded by noble children in the public school. Although everyone was young, growing up in such an environment may not be of any benefit.

There are always some differences in coming in. Needless to say, the children of these salt gang members are loyal to Shandong, and their quality is guaranteed. Staying by Li Hong's side can be regarded as training for Li Hong's future team, and this treatment is passed outside. Jiaozhou Camp is also a good reputation for treating martyrs.

Li Meng nodded and said:

"I'll tell me about this tomorrow. You can arrange to enter the public school as soon as possible when you have two children in your family, so don't delay it."

Hearing Li Meng's reply, Huang Ping, who was nervous, couldn't help but be overjoyed and bowed to thank him, but Li Meng said again:

"Huang Ping, you are no longer the commander of the Shandong Salt Gang. Focus more on the personal military camp and learn more to read more so that you can be a qualified personal military commander. Do you understand?"

Huang Ping shivered and quickly bowed to agree. No ruler could tolerate his subordinates holding his own defense and military academy, and wanting to get involved in intelligence agencies. This was too dangerous, although Huang Ping had good intentions, Li Meng still called him.

In fact, even when Wang Hai was the commander of his personal soldiers, his actual position was only a affairs deputy general, and Li Meng was the general in charge of the garrison brigade.

The garrison brigade is not only Li Meng's personal guard, but also the entire Jiaozhou camp's officer school, and it is impossible for others to hand it over to others. However, Wang Hai is a confidant and brother from the beginning of his family. Li Meng can still let him do some things with confidence. When Huang Ping comes here, Li Meng will definitely intervene in this personal guard camp.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the entire Jinan City knew that the original personal commander Wang Hai was sent to the Denglai Land to practice troops, which was expected by everyone.

Wang Hai has served as a confidant for so long and has long been considered a candidate for generals in the field. At the beginning, everyone estimated that Wang Hai would serve as the commander of the Yanzhou military and local governments, but they did not expect that they would be sent to the Denglai Land for training troops this time, and then there was another new speculation.

It is said that General Denglai Zhao Neng exposed many problems in the battle of Hejian Prefecture. Duke Qi was not satisfied with him. This time, he sent Wang Hai over to take over General Denglai and his subordinates after training. Zhao Neng served as the commander of the personal guards, and these gossips were flying all over the sky.

Wang Hai went to the Denglai area to train troops, and everyone could not see any signs, because the military camps in Shandong were strictly regulated and irrelevant personnel were ordered to stay away. What was the situation in the military camp except for the army itself, others really had no way to know. Although they didn’t know where Wang Hai was, maybe this personal commander was training troops in that valley!

Since North Korea was conquered by the Qing Dynasty, North Korea has been a reliable provider of rear bases and musket soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, and is also a middleman for most maritime merchants and Jurchen trades.

Many commodities were transferred to Liaodong by land after being transferred at Incheon Port. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty's foreign wars had to recruit North Korean musket soldiers. Whether they were going to fight against Mongolian troops on the grassland, entering the pass or fighting against the Ming army outside the pass, they had to be transferred.

The grain and iron tools produced by North Korea were also transferred on a large scale. At this time, North Korea seemed to have become the granary, craftsman shops and brothels of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.

Because of the existence of North Korea, the Qing Dynasty could draw out more troops to fight outside, and it could add more firearm power.

In such an important vassal state, the Qing Tartars only placed a governor's control. The governor's troops led by the governor had only about 1,200 soldiers, and for the 1,200 people, there were only more than 400 soldiers from the Eight Banners of the Jurchens.

North Korea is a small country that is not worth mentioning, either than the Ming Dynasty or the current Qing Dynasty. However, after all, it has a land area of ​​thousands of miles and a population of millions. It would be a bit too ruthless to place only one thousand two hundred soldiers to control it. This is not a big deal. If you look at the area of ​​Yizhou and Phoenix City, the huge Liao Town and the adjacent area of ​​North Korea, the Qing Dynasty only released 3,000 people, which is still the remnants of the Zhenglan Banner and the weakest combat power of the Eight Banners.

It is said that it is a big deal, but it may not be necessary. North Korea has developed this kind of temper like insoles since it started. No matter who comes, it can step on it for a few times.

No matter what regime China is, all North Korea can do is surrender. After surrendering, there will be no idea of ​​resistance and honestly fulfill its obligation to be a minister.

The relatively large-scale resistance can be traced back to the war against Goguryeo at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, but it was considered by the Koreans to be the ancestor of Goguryeo. Strictly speaking, it should be the ancestors of the Jurchens and Soren today, and it has nothing to do with today's North Korea.

It is ridiculous to say that in the early Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens suffered a lot of losses from the Koreans, and their residents were killed and their land was occupied. When the Jurchens became a climate, North Korea was completely unfair. When the old Nu Nurhaci raised an army to fight and unify the various Jurchen tribes, the Jianzhou Jurchens and Ula Jurchens fought directly by the Yalu River. The residents and troops in the North Koreans were so trembling that they did not dare to move, so they could only clean up the bodies afterwards.

Before Huang Taiji led his troops to conquer North Korea, the reason why the Qing Tartars had maintained a large army in the neighboring areas of North Korea was not because of North Korea, but because of Dongjiang Town led by General Ping Liao and General Mao Wenlong. This partial army harassment of Liaodong by this side troops was always a major threat to the Qing Tartars. After Mao Wenlong's death, Dongjiang Town collapsed, and the Qing Tartars immediately turned their main force to Liao Town of Daming.

Although North Korea, although it is claimed to be a loyal vassal state in the Ming Dynasty, it never dared to do anything. After Huang Taiji led the army into North Korea, the Korean army could not even say anything to resist. After the collapse of the whole way, all the Korean royal family could do was to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, the call for help was not successful. The Korean royal family surrendered to the Qing Dynasty respectfully and meekly. North Korea was accustomed to being slaves to the strong and loyal slaves.

When they felt that the Ming Dynasty was powerful, they could be a vassal state for more than two hundred years, but when they realized that the Qing Tartars were more powerful than the Ming Dynasty, they immediately went to worship the Qing Dynasty as the sect leader with a downward look. In the history of normal development, this was another two hundred years until they became a colony of Japan.

Since he had already expressed his surrender, what he did next was really a standard minister and slave. Huang Taiji was not at ease with this newly occupied vassal state. At the beginning, he ordered Ajige and Dorgon to lead the two white flag soldiers and armor Ding to defend this direction.

But after a while, I realized that I didn’t have to worry so much. The so-called Ming vassal state, the Koreans in the Han Dynasty had no will to resist.

Since they were a group of soft boys, there was no need to waste so much power on them. The Qing Dynasty's enemies were always the Ming and Mongolian tribes. The banners and tribes used to guard against North Korea were constantly drawn out. They were transferred to western Liaoning and grasslands, and used the current forces to defend against them. There was no chaos.

Even after the news of the great failure of Hejian Prefecture reached North Korea, the Regent Dorgon specially arranged for the troops of King Xu Shun of Sanshun to mobilize the troops of King Xu Shun of North Korea.

But North Korea still sent food respectfully and dispatched musket soldiers to defend Mongolian troops and arrived on time, which made people feel relieved. Therefore, the garrison troops in this area have been maintained and there is no change. After the Hejian Prefecture was defeated, it required more power to the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia.

At this time, Seoul was at least the size of a medium-sized prefecture in the Ming Dynasty. It also had a population of tens of thousands and a North Korean army. The more than 400 Eight Jurchen Banners were stationed in the city and there was no fear at all.

Wen Lihan, the leader of the team, was trembling when he first entered Seoul. He couldn't sleep well at night. But after a long time, he also figured out what kind of Korean soldiers in the city were. These soldiers were even worse than farmers, and those musket soldiers could only rely on fortifications to fire. In field battles, they were all worse than the Ming army's firearms.

Wen Lihan once patted his master's chest and said that something was going to happen in the city of Seoul. He and the soldiers of these four hundred nations would definitely be able to pacify him.

"More than 10,000 Korean soldiers and more than 100 national warriors can be subdued in one fell swoop"

This sentence was solemnly written into the official document by Ning Wan of the Neiwen Academy. In fact, this sentence is not very different from the real situation.

From the king to the ordinary soldiers below, North Korea was afraid of these four hundred and eight banner soldiers. They were afraid of wolf and tiger, and they did not dare to have any will to resist. Even in the comparison of real strength, North Korea was much more thorough in implementing the so-called civil and noble martial arts than the Ming Dynasty. The soldiers were almost as cheap as slaves, and they had no combat power at all. The musket soldiers who could fight were almost all transferred to the Qing Tartars to serve.

Compared to the Qing soldiers who went to Lao Linzi to capture the birth of Jurchens and Soren, to fight against the soldiers in Liao Town, and to defend against Mongolia on the grassland, the 415 Qing soldiers and horses in Seoul were extremely comfortable. Not to mention that North Korea treats them like the emperor, the food and drink cost is comparable to that of the noble family, and the North Korean women are not short of them, but they are not good enough.
To be continued...