Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 9 Tongzhou Wharf, the road to the south

After dealing with the Tongzhou Defense Envoy, Zhu Cihong led the team to the intended target location, Tongzhou Wharf, which is a very important wharf and town on the Grand Canal, with countless tank boats, and almost countless Exhaustive variety of materials.

Originally, there should be a lot of people here, and there are convoys busy loading and unloading goods from the ship everywhere. Unfortunately, due to the war, the canal was paralyzed, and these towns were no longer as prosperous as they used to be.

Zhu Cihong first commanded the team to board the ship in an orderly manner, and then ordered Zhang Yong to take the Mongolian cavalry to search for supplies in the town.

After all, it would be a very long journey southward from the canal, and he had so many people to support. If he didn't get some supplies on the shore, it would be very difficult to live, let alone live.

Not long after, Zhang Yong rode his horse and galloped to the pier, and soon reached the bow of Zhu Cihong's boat, another beautiful somersault, and fell off the horse's back.

Although holding something with both hands, he still saluted Zhu Cihong according to the etiquette on the grassland, put his right hand on his chest, and leaned forward slightly.

At the same time, he said, "Zhang Yong pays his respects to Your Highness."

Zhu Cixiang was very happy to see him like this, and said with a smile, "Did you rob a braised meat shop?"

"Your Highness's guess is really accurate. As soon as I smelled meat on the horse's back, before I could control the rein, the beast under the crotch looked for it by itself." Zhang Yong explained.

"You won't just have these two things in your hands when you rob a lo-mei shop, will you?" Zhu Cihong's stomach writhed as he looked at the roast chicken in Zhang Yong's hand, and saliva secreted from his mouth. This was the reason he longed for chicken. signal.

Hearing what Zhu Cihong said, Zhang Yong hurried to the back, weighed a sack hanging from the side of his saddle, and said to Zhu Cihong, "Your Majesty, it's all here, look, it's well wrapped in oiled paper. "

Seeing that it was indeed the case, Zhu Cihong thought to himself, I can have a good meal today, although I stayed at Wangjiazhuang yesterday and ate a local rich man, but the countryside is poor, and the rich man's house doesn't have any fresh meat products, let alone Don't say it's lo mei.

Thinking that there were two younger brothers and one younger sister in the team, Zhu Cihong called Liu Bao over, and said to him, "Go get some lo mei and send it to the prince and the princess. If the imperial doctor Chen says you can't eat it, take the princess's meat." A reward for the maids and eunuchs."

Dr. Chen is the doctor who has been treating and taking care of Princess Changping in the palace. He is not a doctor from a private medical clinic, but an imperial physician from the imperial hospital, named Chen Mingren.

After hearing this, Liu Bao had some doubts, so he boldly said to Zhu Cihong, "Does Doctor Chen want to eat it?"

After hearing this, Zhu Cihong thought carefully that Liu Bao was quite obedient, he knew how to ask himself about all matters big and small, and he didn't dare to make decisions without authorization. No wonder the emperors of all dynasties liked to use eunuchs.

"Bring one to Imperial Physician Chen too." Zhu Cihong added.

After speaking, Zhu Cihong continued to say to Zhang Yong, "Hurry up and load the grain and cloth on board, and then get on board."

"Yes, Your Highness." Zhang Yong bowed slightly, and then ordered the Mongolian cavalry to board the boat according to Zhu Cixiang's order. The horses were placed on one canal, and they were placed on another.

When Zhu Cihong finished speaking and was about to turn around and go back to his cabin, Li Jin, the prince's guest, suddenly came to look for him.

As soon as Li Jin came over, he looked at Zhu Cihong without bowing, and stared at Zhu Cihong with his big eyes like copper bells, and said, "Isn't your Highness's move too bad? You are the prince of Ming Dynasty, the future emperor, why don't you?" Can you do something that allows the bandits to plunder the property of the people?"

Zhu Cilang knew that this guy had committed the old problem of a literati, but after all, thinking that Li Jin was one of the few veteran officials who came out of the capital with him, he felt that he still had hope and value for reform.

So Zhu Cilang taught him, "Li Jin, sometimes you shouldn't be too pedantic, you have to learn to think from the overall perspective."

"Look, I'm the prince, right? The future son of heaven, is it the king's land in the whole world? Is it the king's subjects on the shore of the land? Everything in this world belongs to the royal family. What's wrong with me taking some cloth and food?"

"Besides, who knows that I robbed it? The people I sent out just now are all Mongols. No one can recognize them. How can you say that it was robbed by Prince Ming?"

Zhu Cihong's words sounded like a rascal's slapstick, but after listening carefully, he felt that there was some truth to it. In short, after Li Jin heard it, he couldn't think of how to refute it.

He faltered, saying "this, this, oops." But he just couldn't express what he meant.

Out of desperation, he had no choice but to say, "In short, Your Highness, please remember to love the people like sons; gone.

When Li Jin was far away, Liu Bao went to Da Zhu Cilang's side again and asked for instructions, "Your Highness, Zhang Yong said that everything was loaded on the ship, and the people and horses were also on board. Look, can we set off now?" .”

Zhu Cihong replied, "Okay, then pass on the order and set sail to the south immediately. If I arrive at Jinling as soon as possible, I will be able to ascend the throne as soon as possible."

After hearing this, Liu Bao flattered Zhu Cihong and said, "His Royal Highness is unrivaled in martial arts and extremely intelligent. After ascending the throne, he will surely clear up the universe, restore the foundation of the ancestors, rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty, and establish peace for all generations."

Although Liu Bao is said to be an eunuch, he is a cultured eunuch. Most of the eunuchs in the Ming Palace have received cultural education and martial arts training, especially for Liu Bao who chose to be the prince's personal eunuch.

If he hadn't entered the imperial palace and was born in an ordinary family, his luck would have been a little bit better, maybe he would have been admitted as a scholar.

Everyone loves to listen to flattery, and Zhu Cihong is no exception, but now he is in a hurry to go south and has no time to listen to Liu Bao's flattery, so he said, "Stop flattering. When we arrive in Jinling, there is plenty of time for you to flatter."

"Yes, Your Highness." Liu Bao stepped back tactfully.

Soon, the fleet started, and Zhu Cihong's journey to the south with his younger brother, younger sister, and the remains of Emperor Chongzhen began.

With armed forces, food, and means of transportation, Zhu Cihong still forgot one thing, and that was ice.

The emperor's body was packed in a coffin and placed on a ship, but because the weather was getting hot, Liu Bao was afraid that the body would stink, so he came to look for Zhu Cihong.

"Your Highness, the weather is getting hotter now. I'm afraid that Emperor Daxing's ship will stink. Why don't we find some ice cubes and put them on the ship, so as to prevent the corpse from decaying." Liu Bao made a suggestion.

Zhu Cihong thought about it, and thought it made sense. After all, this is Emperor Daxing, and his biological father, no matter from the perspective of feelings or interests, he should treat Emperor Daxing well enough.

But it's easy to say, the ice is not the water in the canal, the weeds on the embankment, where there is, there is.

So Zhu Cixiang asked, "Where can I get this ice? Besides, Emperor Daxing's ship needs ice all the time. Where will the manpower come from to transport the ice?"

Liu Bao turned his head and came up with a solution. He said to Zhu Cihong, "We can ask the states and counties along the canal to provide it, and we can also ask them to provide manpower."

Zhu Cihong thought it was funny. After all, Liu Bao was an eunuch, and he didn't understand the situation in the world, so he began to teach him a lesson, "Do you think that if you let the chiefs of those states and counties bring ice cubes over, they will be obedient?"

(End of this chapter)