When Emperor Chongzhen saw Tian Xiuying's coquettish tone, he took her hand lovingly and felt better. Then they came to the garden hand in hand and talked about some personal matters. When Emperor Chongzhen inadvertently mentioned Tang Tong and his brave generals and soldiers, Tian Xiuying finally understood why Chongzhen was in a bad mood.
Thinking about her childhood, that little brother Tang had always been good to her, and Tian Xiuying also knew that that little brother Tang loved her. Although she did not love this little brother Tang after she grew up, she regarded him as a relative in her heart. Now that this little brother Tang had achieved some success, she was happy for him. It was just that Emperor Chongzhen became suspicious of him, which was not a good thing for little brother Tang.
"Your Majesty, this Tang Jing was just a small general before. Is it worth your worrying about him? The Ming Dynasty has tens of thousands of strong troops, and this Tang Jing has only tens of thousands of soldiers. What's so scary? As for the powerful musket you mentioned, you can also form more musket battalions." Although Tian Xiuying could not speak for Tang Tong openly, she could deliberately belittle Tang Tong's strength in front of Chongzhen, which was considered to be helping Tang Tong in a roundabout way.
"Ah, my beloved, you know that the Ming treasury has long been empty. How can we afford to organize a musket battalion? That's a very expensive thing. It's a pity that all these officials under me are parasites. They have eaten away the Ming Dynasty.
"Emperor Chongzhen sighed. He was well aware of the situation in the Ming Dynasty, but he had no idea how to deal with the corrupt officials under him.
It does not mean that the emperor can do whatever he wants. The emperor can enjoy himself, can be decadent, and can ruin the country. If the emperor wants to concentrate power into his own hands, the resistance is extremely great. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, except for the previous Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, it was not easy for the later emperors to concentrate power into their own hands.
Tian Xiuying was also aware of the current situation in the court. Whenever Emperor Chongzhen made any move, those censors would jump out and say this and that. If Chongzhen beat them with a stick in anger, then that would be exactly what these people wanted. The person who was beaten would surely become a lofty example for the upright officials, and speeches praising him would spread everywhere. Emperor Chongzhen would then become a negative example, and he would seem to be on par with King Zhou. In short, Chongzhen's life as Emperor was really a bit aggrieved. In the entire Ming Dynasty, there were almost no officials who were not corrupt.
In the late Ming Dynasty, there was another strange phenomenon, that is, treacherous officials were not necessarily corrupt officials, and the so-called good officials and loyal officials were definitely corrupt officials. This shows to what extent the atmosphere and government were corrupt in the late Ming Dynasty. The so-called clean streams and the so-called local party members were all for the interests of their own small groups and completely ignored the interests of the country. The reason why Emperor Chongzhen became stubborn and self-righteous was because of these people.
Among the royal relatives, the Tian family, the Zhou family, and the former queen's Zhang family have all been wealthy families in history. Now that they have hooked up with Tang Tong, they are even richer. It is not a problem for each family to bring in 100,000 or 200,000 taels of cash. Tian Xiuying also knows that her family is currently wealthy, but she doesn't know where the money came from. She also wants to help Emperor Chongzhen, but she knows in her heart that the Tian family will not be willing to spend the money.
In a later conversation with Emperor Chongzhen, Tian Xiuying was stunned when she heard that Brother Tang had a fortune of tens of millions of silver. She suddenly realized that what Emperor Chongzhen hated was not Brother Tang's having tens of thousands of soldiers, but his jealousy of Brother Tang for having so much silver.
In this regard, the Zhu family has a tradition. Back then, Shen Wansan was rich because of money.
The one who caused the murder was Tang Tong, who was in trouble because he had too much money. However, Tang Tong had tens of thousands of soldiers at his disposal, which made Emperor Chongzhen dare not act rashly. Thinking of this, Tian Xiuying sighed in her heart. Emperor Chongzhen was also forced by the empty treasury and was desperate.
Emperor Chongzhen rested here with Tian Xiuying for a day. Since he became the emperor, he had very few days of rest like this. Since ancient times, there was probably no other emperor who was as miserable as him.
Not long after Tang Tong wrote back to Chen Zilong, he received another gift from Zhang Niujiao. It turned out that after Chen Zilong and his men won the battle, although they did not attack again, they still entangled the Jiannu army and made it unable to move. The King of Korea, Zong, saw that Chen Zilong and his men did not attack again after the victory, and thought that these people wanted benefits, so he gave Zhang Niujiao and his men some gold, silver, jewelry and beautiful women. Zhang Niujiao was also a smart man, and he did not dare to take these benefits privately, so he gave them all to Tang Tong.
With Tang Tong's current status and financial resources, he is surrounded by beauties. For example, the maids in his house are all beauties carefully selected from Japan. Some of the maids in his house are Han beauties snatched from Huang Taiji's palace, and some are skinny horses from Yangzhou sent by others. So Tang Tong naturally would not take the beauties sent by the King of Korea seriously, and distributed them to his capable confidants. This made those confidants happy for a while.
Tang Tong had an easy and happy time as the prefect of Suzhou, but Huang Taiji had a very difficult life. Those Japanese auxiliary troops fought guerrilla warfare in the form of small teams of eight people. Since that battle, the number of Huang Taiji's remaining eight troops was reduced every day. In two months, more than 10,000 people were killed by these Japanese auxiliary troops. Moreover, the number of Japanese auxiliary troops continued to increase. So Tang Tong asked his men to recruit a group of new soldiers from Japan, trained them a little, and sent these Japanese into the battlefield in the form of veterans leading new recruits.
On the other side, Tang Tong's regular army also recruited a group of new soldiers, who were in training at this time. Huang Taiji saw that the enemy's troops were constantly increasing, but his own side was constantly losing men. However, Huang Taiji did not dare to pull out the army from Shengjing, and the party was once again attacked by Tang Tong or the Ming army.
Huang Taiji also captured a lot of Koreans during this expedition. In order to fight against the Japanese auxiliaries, Huang Taiji incorporated these Koreans into the army and mixed them with the Han Banner Army. Then he sent the Mongolian Army and the Jiannu Army to suppress these people and search for the Japanese auxiliaries who were fighting guerrilla warfare. However, those Koreans were cowardly and could not be used on the battlefield. In addition, they had a hatred for Huang Taiji that could destroy their family. Every time they encountered the guerrillas of the Japanese auxiliaries, these Koreans would not only rush forward bravely, but would take advantage of the exchange of fire between the Jiannu and the Japanese auxiliaries to escape.
There are so many mountains in Korea, and if these people run away, the Jiannu will have no way to find them. There are also a very small number of Koreans who will join the Japanese auxiliary army. These people may not be good at fighting, but they are great as guides. With these local people as guides, the Japanese auxiliary army will become more and more adept at guerrilla warfare.
The Japanese allied forces' guerrilla warfare was tactical and flexible, and the weapons they wielded were considered advanced for the era, so they inflicted little damage. As more and more Japanese recruits joined, the guerrilla force grew larger and more agile. Later, when Chen Zilong told Tang Tong about it, he was terrified. If these Japanese rebelled against him, it would be a huge problem.
Fortunately, Tang Tong's strength has always been strong. These Japanese people, out of obedience to the strong, never had the intention of rebellion. Later, Tang Tong transferred this Japanese auxiliary army to Southeast Asia, then to India, and later to the American continent. While they made great contributions to Tang Tong, this team was almost exhausted in the end because of the lack of personnel reinforcements. These are all later stories, so let's not talk about them for now.
As time went by, Huang Taiji finally understood Tang Tong's strategic goal, which was to drag his army to Korea and slowly consume his strength. The Mongols who followed Huang Taiji to Korea faced the elusive Japanese auxiliary army every day. Because of the continuous deaths every day, their will gradually collapsed, and they gradually became dissatisfied with Huang Taiji in their hearts.
There is no such thing as a war without casualties. Facing death every day like this, but unable to find an opponent to have a formal fight with, the suffocation and fear in the heart naturally grew day by day. Huang Taiji also noticed this situation. He wanted to withdraw his troops but was reluctant to do so. He wanted to negotiate with Tang Tong's men, but now it was Tang Tong's turn to refuse to negotiate.
Huang Taiji also sent people to negotiate with the King of Korea, Zong, but they were robbed and killed by the Japanese guerrillas. If Huang Taiji had negotiated with the King of Korea, he would definitely get the result he wanted, because the King of Korea, Zong, had always hoped to stop the war as soon as possible so that he could be the King of Peace.
Because Tang Tong had already instructed Chen Zilong to use the Korean territory to consume as much of Huang Taiji's strength as possible, he had long noticed that Huang Taiji wanted to negotiate with Korea. Not only did he let the Japanese allies keep an eye on the Jiannu negotiation delegation, he also sent some of his men to monitor those who went to the Korean capital Seoul (also known as Wangjingcheng).
The road to negotiation was blocked by Chen Zilong and others. No matter how talented and strategic Huang Taiji was, he was hesitant at this moment. The cost of attacking was too high, and he was unwilling to retreat. Moreover, if he retreated, it would be tantamount to telling the Mongols who were affiliated with him that he had failed. For the Mongols, who only obeyed the strong by nature, failure meant that they would no longer be a strong force, and that these Mongols would once again turn against them.
The Jiannu were wolves, and the Mongols were also wolves. Once he lost his position as the wolf king, the consequences that awaited him could be imagined. Huang Taiji's indecision gave Chen Zilong more time to infiltrate the army through the mountains to the rear of the Jiannu. As the training of those new recruits was completed, Chen Zilong boldly combined these new recruits with the Japanese auxiliary army to fight guerrilla warfare, and pulled out most of the veterans in the Japanese auxiliary army and replaced them with breech-loading rifles.
The 5,000 Japanese veterans were divided into two parts. One part consisted of 2,000 people, who together with 2,000 veterans of the regular army defended the checkpoints attacked by the Jiannu people, and were equipped with more than 2,000 small copper cannons. The other 3,000 Japanese veterans and 2,000 veterans of the regular army penetrated into the rear of the Jiannu people and ambushed at an important checkpoint.
A decisive battle came quietly without Huang Taiji noticing.
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