Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 1163: Tianjin Shi Lang

?Tianjinmen was an important military town and grain transshipment center in the Yuan Dynasty. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a guard station was set up here, called Tianjin Sanwei. In its heyday, there were 16,800 soldiers in the Sanwei.

Since then, with the increase of population, commercial development, many affairs and litigation disputes, the Ming Dynasty successively established officials, yamen, and schools in Tianjin, or moved officials and yamen from other places to Tianjin. In addition, Tianjin is also the seat of the commanding yamen of Jinyiweidu.

During the Chongzhen years, Luo Yangxing, who was the commander of Jinyiweidu, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was appointed as the governor of Tianjin by the Qing court. Later, he was awarded Zhangyin Dusi of Zhejiang Province and died soon after.

As the Manchus successively occupied China and the northern seas, Tianjin’s status as an important military town gradually declined. In recent years, Tianjin has only served as a general, and its troops were adapted from the Ming army who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Liu Zeqing.

The Tianjin Water Battalion was hastily formed a few months before Shunzhi’s death. It was originally planned to merge with the Laizhou Water Battalion into the Great Qingshui Division, and purchased ships from the Dutch to train sailors to deal with the threat of the Taiping Army Navy Division.

Without a strong navy, the Jiangbei camp was unable to cross the river while the Taiping army was not stable in Jiangnan, giving the Taiping army time to operate Jiangnan, which eventually led to the disastrous defeat of Shunzhi’s personal expedition.

After returning to Beijing, Shunzhi resolutely restructured the system, enriched the strength of the Eight Banners in Manzhou, and at the same time attached great importance to the formation of the navy. For this reason, he even signed funds and borrowed troops with the Dutch to realize “the Han rule the Han” and “the barbarians rule the Han”. ” strategy.

It can be said that building a naval force that is not weaker than thieves and scholars was one of Shunzhi’s wishes during his lifetime, but this plan was stopped after Shunzhi’s death.

On the one hand, Hongyi from Dongfan signed a contract with the Qing Dynasty, but did not fulfill the contract, helped the Fujian Qing army to withdraw from the sea, and the four warships promised to be sold to the Qing Dynasty were not delivered.

Fan Chengmo, the son of Fan Wencheng who was in charge of negotiating with Hongyi, after returning to Beijing from Dongfan, cryptically stated to the auxiliary ministers that if the people of Dongfan were to fulfill the treaty, the Qing Dynasty must first be able to solve the imminent danger, otherwise, don’t count on Dongfan. What can people do to help Daqing.

After Fan Chengmo’s words reached the ears of the Empress Dowager, the old man just sighed and said to Gu Su Mala: “The boss of the Fan family is reasonable, our own waist is not hard, how can we expect outsiders to come Help us. In this world, it is not uncommon to add icing on the cake, but it is rare to give charcoal in the snow.”

In addition to Dongfan Hongyi continuing to wait and see, on the other hand, after Shunzhi’s death, the Qing court was busy with funerals and at the same time dealing with Wu Sangui’s army of 200,000 people. Form up.

Therefore, after consultation with several auxiliary ministers, they unanimously agreed to suspend the formation of the Great Qingshui Division, which has caused the Tianjin Water Camp to be half-dead from the date of its formation to the present.

In Laizhou Shuiying, they were still fishing for three days and drying nets for two days. Although the Taiping Army in the south could fight, they were far away after all. With Xuzhou in front of them, Laizhou Shuiying did not think that one day they would become the key targets of the Taiping Army. Until they find out that some things will not happen if they are not wishful thinking.

After the news of Taiping Army navy attacking the banks and occupying the Laizhou water camp from Shandong came to Beijing, it caused a huge sensation among the Eight Banners. It can be said that this news shocked the Qing court more than when I heard that Zheng’s navy had hit the city of Nanjing.

After all, Shandong is close at hand, but Nanjing is thousands of miles away.

Laizhou is too close to Gyeonggi, and if the Taiping army’s navy can attack Laizhou, they can attack Tianjin, and they can even land from Tianjin to Beijing!

Beijing is now an empty city!

In the Qing Dynasty, two-thirds of the elites of the Eight Banners of Manzhou were brought to Henan by Aobai, and the remaining one-third had to be led by Dunbai to Shanxi to defend against the enemy because Wu Sangui divided his troops into Shanxi. Therefore, in the current Beijing city, in addition to the guards in the palace, that is, the clothed Goshiha of the palace, there are also the patrolling guards of the Shuntian Palace. If the Taiping Army hits Tianjin by sea again, and kills it towards Beijing, how can it be achieved!

Is it relying on the guards in the palace to kill the enemy, or the servants in the palace guarding the city, or the patrolmen who only know how to collect money to work for the Qing Dynasty?

The news couldn’t be worse.

Many Manchu officials thought of the lessons of Jidu’s fiasco in Guangdong. It was because of the thief show that the soldiers and horses were transported to the rear of Jidu through the navy, blocking the official road, which made Jidu and his more than 30,000 men. Man Meng Han Erlang was trapped in a place the size of Chao Hui’s palm, and eventually the entire army was wiped out.

One is two, who can guarantee that the thief showcai will not take advantage of the emptiness of Beijing and make another landing operation at sea?

Some Manchu princes and ministers scolded the thieves Xiucai for lack of faith, breaking their promises, and tearing up the armistice agreement. However, they can only scold and curse, what else can they do? Is it possible to order Qi’s army to cross the river and pacify his thief, or can he fly a sword over a thousand miles and take his head?

Going out, all the old and young go out, this Beijing city can’t stay any longer!

Dozens of the princes and ministers of the Eight Banners entered the palace and begged the Empress Dowager to abandon Beijing and leave the customs, because it was really impossible to do so in this pass.

“What are you panicking about, the sky hasn’t stepped down yet, and he hasn’t even gotten to Aijia’s eyes yet!”

However, the Empress Dowager kept her composure, scolded the princes and ministers fiercely, and then told them the good news that her mother’s family, Horqin, was about to enter the customs again.

This is indeed good news. In addition, Aobai defeated Wu Sangui in Henan one after another, and there was Admiral Kuenbu in Kaifeng who severely damaged the Zhongzhen Camp. Belletuntai is leading troops to encircle and suppress the chaotic people in Shandong. As long as these links do not collapse, The danger faced by the Qing Dynasty was not as serious as imagined, and it was not enough to flee back to the border in such a hurry.

However, Horqin and other troops will not be able to fly to Beijing for a while, so the Qing Dynasty still has to find a way to minimize the danger to Gyeonggi.

Prince Kang Jieshu pointed out that the main force of the Taiping army did not go north, and it was only their navy who attacked Laizhou, so the court must send an excellent navy general to Tianjin to sit in town. As long as Tianjin is not lost, Beijing will not be in danger.

The Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia did not have any outstanding navy generals, but the Han officials did. Shi Lang, who had been sitting on the bench in Beijing for almost ten years, was so poor that he could only rely on his wife and daughter to sew clothes for others to make a living.

It had been a whole year since Shi Lang was last taken seriously by the Qing Dynasty.

A year ago, Shi Lang received an order from the imperial court, ordering him to serve as the chief officer of the navy in the Jiangbei Camp, but before the others arrived in Yangzhou, the Jiangbei Camp was defeated. Helpless, he had no choice but to return to Beijing, continue to be his idle official, and be looked down upon by others.

It was true that the gods paid off, Shi Lang finally waited for his chance again. After receiving the order from the imperial court, he immediately asked his wife to pack his clothes for him, and then went to Tianjin with several officials sent by the Ministry of War.

After arriving in Tianjin, Shi Lang didn’t even go to the Admiral’s Yamen, but went directly to the water camp. He is very clear that the key to defending Tianjin lies in the water camp. If the water camp cannot repel the Taiping navy, then it is useless to have more troops on land, because you don’t know where the enemy at sea will land.

The Qing army in Tianjin was not enough to deploy defenses everywhere, so the best way is to take the initiative to lead the water battalion to find opportunities to annihilate the enemy and keep the enemy outside the “national gate”.

However, when Shi Lang saw the so-called warships parked on the pier and the sailors who were hastily called by Shangguan, his heart froze completely.

Shi Lang couldn’t believe what he saw was the Tianjin Water Camp, an important component of the imperial court’s plan to merge the Laizhou Water Camp and the Great Qingshui Division.

There are a total of 136 ships, but among them, there are only 35 ships that can be called warships, but only 35 ships can go out to sea.

Although Shi Lang has been idle in Beijing, he has been paying close attention to the war situation in the south, especially the Zheng’s navy who has been recruited by the thief showcai has always been a big worry for him. He knew very well that according to the current combat strength and scale of the ships of the Tianjin Water Camp, there was no need for Zheng Mingjun’s uncle and nephew to dispatch the main force. This point, the experience of Laizhou Shuiying has been written clearly.

If it is someone else, if you know you can’t do it, you will give up and just let it go. But Shi Lang couldn’t, he had to rectify the navy and prepare for battle. This is not because Shi Lang is really loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but a sensible person can see that the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who has lost the wealth of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and is facing blows from both the Taiping Army and the Guan Ning Army, cannot survive any longer. . Smart people, what should be done now is to choose which side to surrender, not to be buried with the Qing Dynasty.

However, Shi Lang had no choice, so the thief Xiucai incorporated Zheng’s navy, the generals of Zheng’s navy have now become members of the Taiping Army, Zheng Chenggong’s younger brother has also become the prince of the Dingwu court, Zheng Mingjun and the others have even been sealed Hou, but he is the enemy that everyone in the Zheng family wants to catch and kill. Therefore, it is impossible to join the Taiping Army, because it is self-defeating.

Huang Wu sent someone to find Shi Lang and wanted to take him to the Dingwu court. Shi Lang rejected Huang Wu at that time. end.

The trapped beast was still fighting, and the rabbit was biting in a hurry. Shi Lang would not wait to die. He would struggle to find a way to survive.

Defending Tianjin was Shi Lang’s only way to survive. If the Qing Dynasty does not fall, he can live. If the Qing Dynasty falls, he can also live, because he can surrender to Wu Sangui.

In any case, the Taiping army could not be allowed to occupy Tianjin, so Shi Lang worked hard and began to rectify the Tianjin water camp and garrison training.

It must be said that Shi Lang was indeed an outstanding naval commander. Under his leadership, the Tianjin Water Camp was completely transformed in just three months.

Shi Lang personally participated in the reconstruction of the warships, increasing the number of warships in the Tianjin water camp to 69, eliminating the old and the weak, the elite and the young, and building a sailor team of 3,000. In view of the serious shortage of artillery in the water labor, Shi Lang reported to the Qing court that the artillery that remained outside the customs was dismantled and shipped to Tianjin. Even with rust spots, it can solve Shi Lang’s urgent needs.

The Qing court could only give Shi Lang so much, and he had to figure out what to do for the rest. Apart from weapons and equipment, what Tianjin lacked most was money and food.

Shi Lang, who has been cautious in Beijing for ten years~www.readwn.com~, is very courageous this time. Without making a report to the Qing court, he aggressively distributed and even raided the gentry merchants in Tianjin. When everyone in Tianjin scolded Shi Lang for being skinny, Tianjin’s defense finally looked like this.

The Qing court naturally received numerous letters of complaint from Tianjin gentry, and there were also officials with relatives and friends in Tianjin. They jointly filed a petition, asking the court to dismiss Shi Lang. In the end, it was only Sony who reprimanded Shi Langyi in the name of Empress Dowager Tai. pause.

The thunder was loud and the rain was small. It was all at this juncture. How could the Qing court remove Shi Lang for the sake of some businessmen and gentry.

With the endorsement of the imperial court, Shi Lang was more courageous. At the same time that Shi Lang sent countless secret works to Laizhou, Shi Lang wanted to hunt down the spies of the Taiping Army in Tianjin, but not many spies were caught, but he found many copies of “The Song of Manchu” and some related to the massacre in the customs since the Qing army entered the customs. Books, brochures. Shi Lang doesn’t care about these things. What he cares about is that there is a book written by someone who doesn’t know who it is. It says that the Manchu Qing is not China. Therefore, all Chinese people should expel the Manchu Qing and restore Chinese orthodoxy.

“If the Qing Dynasty is not China, what am I, Shi Lang? A traitor? A national thief?”

Shi Lang was very dissatisfied with what the book said, and ordered the people below to find out who wrote it.

The rectification of the Tianjin water camp has been very effective. What Shi Lang is waiting for now is a fighter plane. The first attack is stronger, and the second attack suffers. Although his strength is not as good as the Taiping Navy navy, he believes that lack of strength is not the only condition that determines the victory or defeat. , the timing is right, he can win more with less, and catch the opponent by surprise.

Shi Lang was sharpening his knives, and the East Sea Division in Laizhou was also looking for fighter planes.

The Zheng family’s uncle and nephew hated Shi Lang deeply.

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