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The Storm in the Late Ming Dynasty Volume 11 Chapter 650: The plank road was built in the Ming Dynasty and the warehouse was built in the dark (2)

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    Niu Jinxing holds a beautiful woman in his arms with his left hand, and twists a string of Buddhist beads carved from jasper in his right hand. There are delicacies from the mountains and seas on the table in front of him, and the brocade couch under him is covered with silk and satin.

    If you look at it in the eyes of others, this is the virtue of a nouveau riche. Niu Jinxing himself understands this, but he just likes this virtue.  When he was down and out, what he was thinking about was that one day he could have a good meal with good wine and good meat, but now, a good meal with good wine and good food could no longer satisfy his appetite.

    After Li Zicheng's death, he relied on various means to stabilize the invading army from Kaifeng to Luoyang, supported his cronies, bribed executions, and controlled the situation in a very short time.  This made him from a dispensable military advisor to a powerful man in one fell swoop. Although Li Zicheng's wife was still nominally his wife, in fact, within the territory he controlled, he was the emperor.

    Compared with Liu Zongmin, he is still more politically savvy, especially after purging the generals who followed Li Zicheng around. He repeatedly warned his subordinates that they could make a living by looting in the past, but they can no longer do so.  It was easy to fight, so he had to guide the people to grow food. Fortunately, at this time, crops such as corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes from the south were also introduced to his rule. Niu Jinxing had also been paying attention to Yu Guozhen and learned about these crops from Li Yan.  The yield is better than that of wheat and rice, so it is promoted almost sparingly.  In this way, he survived the most difficult seventeenth year of Chongzhen, half-starved and half-fed. By the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, he was barely self-sufficient in food, and this year he got a good harvest.

    This situation allows Oxen Venus to start pursuing some enjoyment of life - of course.  It would be better if there was no Yu Guozhen.

    In the five-year reunification plan, what others saw was the request made against the small imperial court of Jinling, but what Niu Jinxing saw was a sharp steel knife placed on his head.  It was he who proposed the strategy of digging the north embankment of the Yellow River to flood the officers and soldiers with Li Zicheng. This matter could no longer be concealed. According to Yu Guozhen's usual style, he must be held accountable.

    Even if he gives away everything he owns.  It was useless, Yu Guozhen still had to settle the score with him.

    Therefore, he must protect himself.  One day at a time.  So he sent Dong Xianting to Jinling and organized this "Southern Capital Weekend" in order to focus Yu Guozhen's attention on the group of guys in Jinling.  Reduce stress on yourself.

    "You did a good job, Mr. Xinkui. If we can succeed, a minister will be indispensable for you." After hearing Dong Xianting's experience in Jinling, Niu Jinxing nodded slowly and praised.

    "It's not the Lord's praise. Those hypocrites in Donglin are really difficult to deal with, so the matter was not handled smoothly."

    "It's very neat, better than I expected. Sure enough, these rotten scholars in Donglin are at odds with Yu Guozhen." Niu Jinxing smiled.

    In order to deal with Yu Guozhen, Niu Jinxing put a lot of effort into thinking about Yu Guozhen's policies, and really found an aspect for him.  That is, Yu Guozhen did not attach great importance to Confucian scholars.  Don't look at the fact that the governors of Guangdong, Guangxi and Shandong in his hands are all Confucian scholars. I heard that the high-level governors were also from Juren, but in fact, under these governors, almost all officials at the county magistrate level have only one background.

    Yu Guozhen¡¯s Xinxiang Elementary School.

    This situation.  This alerted Niu Jinxing, who was also a scholar but failed many times: Yu Guozhen did not reuse Confucian scholars!

    This means that one of Yu Guozhen¡¯s enemies is truly powerful enough to confront him, and that is the Confucian scholars in the world.  These people don't have muskets, but they have pens. They don't have battleships, but they have stone inkstones.  What's more important is that in the past, Yu Guozhen's enemies were all visible and tangible, but now, what Yu Guozhen is fighting against is an entire class, a class that is both invisible, intangible, and unavoidable.

    There is also a whole system that cultivates this class.

    Despite the ferocity of the Mongols, they continued to conduct imperial examinations not long after they took over the Central Plains. However, Yu Guozhen wanted to use his Xinxiang Primary School to replace this imperial examination system. This was a rare opportunity for Niu Jinxing  .

    "My lord, can people like Donglin suppress Yu Guozhen?"

    When Niu Jinxing was deep in thought, Dong Xianting glanced at him and then asked timidly.

    "It's hard to say, it's hard to say. This is not just a matter of Donglin. What is the Chu Party, Zhejiang Party, and Kun Party? Scholars all over the world are afraid that they will attack in groups. If it were someone else, I'm afraid they would compromise. However, Yu Guozhen Yu Guozhen has something in his hands.  Gun, besides, Yu Guozhen¡¯s methods"

    Speaking of this, Niu Jinxing fell into deep thought again.

    Yu Guozhen¡¯s methods are often different from those of this era, and he often makes unexpected moves. Therefore, it is difficult for Niu Jinxing to judge how Yu Guozhen will respond next.  In his place, the best way is to imitate Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, build a large prison and kill special people.? Could it be that when Zhu Yuanzhang killed Hu Weiyong, it was really because Hu Weiyong wanted to rebel?

    "My lord, there is one more thing. I don't know whether it is true or not." Dong Xianting glanced at Niu Jinxing and said cautiously: "When my subordinates returned to Luoyang, they heard that Liu Zongmin's people went to Qingdaokou to pay a visit.  Yu Guozhen was shocked."

    "I also know about this. His people still passed through my territory, and I detained them for several days before releasing them Huh?" Niu Jinxing didn't care at first, but gradually his expression became solemn: "You mean, Yu Guozhen is still here?"  Have other plans?"

    "Exactly, now the whole world is attracted by Yu Guozhen's five-year unification plan, or is focused on the words of "Southern Weekend". They all want to see how Yu Guozhen responds to the criticism from the scholars, but no one pays attention.  What will Yu Guozhen do this winter"

    Yes, no one has thought about what Yu Guozhen will do this winter.

    It only took three months to recapture the capital, wipe out the main force of the Jianlu forces, and turn the traitor Wu Sangui into a historical noun.  After that, Yu Guozhen launched the so-called five-year reunification plan, and his own people even went south and returned to Xinxiang.  Coupled with the uproar caused by "Nandu Weekend", it seems that he will spend this winter in this endless wrangling.  However, has anyone noticed that the troops that Yu Guozhen transferred to the north to participate in the war were not withdrawn. More importantly, Yu Guozhen initially prepared 100,000 Chinese troops to go to the north to participate in the war, but in fact only 60,000 were used.  Forty thousand arrived after the war.

    The 60,000 Chinese troops who participated in the fierce battle are now taking a rest, but what about the 40,000 who did not participate in the battle?

    To deal with the 400,000 troops Jianjian and Wu Sangui coalition forces, 60,000 won, so what about the Niu Jinxing forces with less than 200,000 troops?

    Niu Jinxing suddenly jumped up.

    "The order goes down, all armies in all places are on alert, beware of a surprise attack by the Chinese army"

    As he spoke, he hit his head hard. How could he be confused by this appearance? In the past, Yu Guozhen rarely took the initiative to attack, so he really thought that Yu Guozhen would not take the initiative to attack him?

    Building plank roads in the dark was originally Yu Guozhen's best strategy. There was no time when he was not smiling on the surface but doing it secretly. In his five-year plan, he only said that he would unify with the Jinling court within five years, but he did not take any responsibility for peace.  It also took five years for Henan and Hubei to be unified under his rule!

    His order was given too late.

    Thirty miles northwest of Kaifeng, at a strategic point on the north bank of the Yellow River called Yujiadian, Tian Boguang held a knife with arrogance on his face.  Behind him, countless Chinese soldiers waved their flags, and the soldiers were all solemn, waiting for his orders.

    "Stop posing, those girls are already far away, it's useless for you to pose like this again."

    "You're the only one who doesn't understand the style." Tian Boguang scolded Gu Jiaming, and then waved his hand: "Forget chatting, just go ahead and leave the north bank of the Yellow River to you and the south bank to me. Let's see who of us gets to Luoyang first.  "

    "It goes without saying that it must be me." Gu Jiaming laughed, then turned his horse to follow the official road and headed towards the west bank of the Yellow River.

    Tian Boguang looked at Li Qingshan in front of him: "Old Li, what did your brothers just say?"

    ¡°It¡¯s just like what Junzheng said, it¡¯s about who makes the first move.¡± Li Qingshan smiled and looked at Tian Boguang with a bit of affection and reverence.

    At this time, Li Qingshan was no longer the eldest brother who roared in the green forest, but a regiment commander of the Chinese Army. Just a month ago, because of his contribution in the Tianjin War, he was promoted to regiment commander and assigned to Tian Boguang's subordinate.  His younger brother Li Mingshan became the regiment leader earlier than him. This time he will enter the high-level general training class when he returns, and will be separated from the army for a period of training, and then he will start to act on his own.

    "Other people think that we are satisfied with just destroying the Jianlu. That is a big mistake. Now that we have enough manpower, it is imperative to unify the world. Although our commander is kind-hearted and wants to achieve unification with as few casualties as possible,  But it is impossible not to kill at all. We can talk about the small imperial court in Jinling, but we have to kill the chicken and show it to the monkey." Tian Boguang seemed to be talking to himself, and then he waved his hand: "Engineers, build the bridge!"

    It is winter at this time, and the Yellow River has frozen. It is obviously unrealistic to transport tens of thousands of soldiers by ship.  The ice on the river can be thick or thin. In some places, a person can walk on it without any problem, but in other places, the ice will crack as soon as he steps on it.

    In the past few years, Yu Guozhen sent people to survey the Yellow River waterway to understand the conditions along the coast, and knew where the water was not too deep.  Therefore, following Tian Boguang's order, from Chenqiao where Song Taizu launched a mutiny to Yujiadian where Tian Boguang is now, thousands of engineering soldiers and tens of thousands of temporarily recruited civilians began to build pontoon bridges on the 40-mile-long Yellow River.  ??.

    The construction of the pontoon bridge of the Chinese Army Engineer Corps is quite simple. First, they use wooden rafts to stand on the ice in the shallower water on the shore. They lay steel bars into the ice as bridge head pillars, then lay the wooden rafts one by one, and then  Lay planks on the raft.  In this way, the stress points on the ice surface are dispersed as much as possible. Even if the ice surface breaks, the raft can still float on the water and prevent people passing on it from falling into the water.  Professional engineers worked with civilian laborers, and their efficiency was relatively fast. In just four hours, an ice pontoon bridge large enough for carriages to cross the river was built.

    After the pontoon bridge was built, 20,000 Chinese soldiers split their routes southward and crossed the Yellow River. Like tigers, they pounced on Kaifeng, a major military town under the rule of Niu Jinxing!

    (Monthly tickets, monthly tickets, do I have to sing with a tone-deaf voice to get monthly tickets?)

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