"Can we really delay their offensive?" The eyes of Princess Changping lit up slightly. She was a very filial girl. Among the princesses of the royal family, women like her were very rare. In the late Qing Dynasty, the family of Emperor Chongzhen could be said to be a rare family with five good qualities in the royal family. Unfortunately, the world is unkind and treats all things as straw dogs. Good people will not get good rewards after all.
Wang Cheng'en knew what Chang Ping Gongzi meant by asking this question. She was trying to sacrifice herself to buy a little time for her father. Wang Cheng'en's face twitched a few times. He lowered his head, not wanting Chang Ping Gongzi to see the tears welling in his eyes. He said in a low voice, "Perhaps, perhaps, but... so what?"
"Then, Eunuch Wang... agree to this." The Duke of Changping smiled slightly, but that smile did not show any happiness. Wang Chengen, who had his head lowered, did not see it. This was the first time he did not pay attention to other people's expressions. At this moment, Wang Chengen's heart was the purest. Facing the Duke of Changping, Wang Chengen's heart was free of any selfish utilitarianism.
The wind outside blew through the hall, blowing the clothes of several people standing in the hall and making slight noises, some low, some dim. Among the low sobs, Wang Chengen didn't know how he left the hall where Duke Changping lived. His mind was a little dazed. He was a eunuch, without children, and should not have had any worries. But this time, Wang Chengen found that he had concerns in his heart, for the little girl he watched grow up.
Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu were overjoyed when they received Wang Chengen's reply, thinking that it was the money they had used that had played a role. Under the insinuation of those around him, Emperor Chongzhen also had some thoughts about letting Tang Tong become the son-in-law of Princess Changping. However, Emperor Chongzhen still asked Princess Changping's opinion, and the reply he got was that Princess Changping herself agreed to the marriage. Although he got Princess Changping's affirmative answer, Emperor Chongzhen felt uneasy. He knew that this was exchanging his daughter's lifelong happiness for a lot of remaining time, which made Emperor Chongzhen feel even more uncomfortable.
Emperor Chongzhen was a man of strong character. When he came to this point, his grief and indignation were imaginable. He thought about it over and over in his mind, but the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became. He wanted to mobilize all the troops around the capital to fight a decisive battle with Prince Tang, but he also knew in his heart that doing so would only lead to the demise of the country faster. The imperial edict to recruit Tang Tong as a son-in-law hesitated for a long time in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, and he did not stamp the jade seal on it. Emperor Chongzhen was not a good father, but he was not a ruthless bad father. He still loved his children very much.
At this time, Tang Tong did not know the pain and struggle in Emperor Chongzhen's heart. After leaving Cangzhou, he originally planned to return to the city of Da'an in Southeast Asia. Later, he felt that it was too far away from the Central Plains, and most of his troops were on the land of Da'an. It was too far away to control, so he returned to the occupied area of Shandong. Seeing that most of the areas of Da'an were eaten up by his army, the day of unifying Da'an was not far away. At this time, some other problems arose.
One of the main problems is the colonial armies of the big merchants. These armies are not under Tang Tong's control, and their numbers are very terrifying. In the past, when Tang Tong was not in a good situation, he needed to rely on the power of these big merchants, but now that he is about to unify the territory of Dali, these merchants' colonial armies have become a dangerous and unstable factor. Another unstable factor is the local armed forces in various parts of Dali.
In this era, the distinction between merchants and landlords is difficult to distinguish. Generally speaking, big merchants are also big landlords. It is rare for big merchants and landlords to exist alone. In fact, it is difficult to completely distinguish between merchant armed forces and local armed forces. Moreover, if a country wants to be stable, it cannot allow the existence of armed forces outside the government. Therefore, Tang Tong did not need Dayuer and others to remind him. No matter how ignorant he was about politics, he knew that those merchant colonial armies could no longer exist.
In order to weaken the colonial armies of these merchants, Tang Tong made several regulations. First, weapons that were eliminated from the army could no longer be sold to those merchants. Second, after the construction of the Suez Canal, those merchants were strictly prohibited from smuggling weapons from the West. This regulation has not been effective at present. Therefore, in order to weaken the power of these merchants as soon as possible, Tang Tong recruited a large number of mercenaries from the colonial teams of those merchants, and at the same time planned a military operation to eliminate the Mughal Empire in India.
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