Chapter 601: Under the Liaoyang City
The three exams have been completed, but it still takes time to mark the papers.≤,
Huang Zongxi and other students have now become the pride of the emperor in Beijing. The sponsors of various imperial examinations have taken all the fees throughout the journey. They wear free clothes and robes, and have special carriages to enter and exit. After the exam, everyone relaxed and went to and from the shops of various sponsor suppliers every day to stop and stop for the advertising activities they held. Not only did they pick up cars and take good banquets, but they also had a lot of red envelopes each time.
This kind of life made the students very satisfied.
Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Chen Mingxia and other leaders of the Fushe Society have become even more popular. Every time they are invited to the station, they have to make a lot of noise. The red envelopes they get afterwards are much thicker than those of others.
Now many new nobles and ministers in the capital are looking at these popular scholars. It is said that each family has invited matchmakers and is ready to wait for the list to appear, and then they will come out to catch the son-in-law below the list.
The daughter of the new noble and noble Qi in the court, and the new Jinshi talented man, is simply a pair made of heaven and earth.
"This Da Shengchang is really generous, and it is thicker than the red envelopes given by others."
Chen Mingxia and others returned to Diaoyutai Hotel and opened the bulging red envelope, which contained both red tickets of 100 yuan, green tickets of 10 yuan, and blue tickets of 168 yuan.
Compared with the red envelopes given by other sponsors, the others are basically 100 yuan, but this one actually gives 168 yuan. Most of the suppliers give 50 or 60 yuan.
These are the leaders of the reunification society, and ordinary candidates are not so lucky. Not every exam meeting will be invited to the station, and the ones who can go are usually only two or five yuan, and the ones who are generous are only six or eight yuan. Only those who are famous among scholars like Huang Zongxi and others who are likely to be extremely famous among Jinshi will become the favorites of merchants who are all rushing to invite them.
Huang Zongxi and others are now the most popular undergraduate students. Each casino bets Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu who won the top scorer. Especially Huang Zongxi, who was the president of Fushe and Jie Yuan in the Jiangnan Provincial Examination, everyone bet that he could win the top scorer and even the top scorer.
Because he is the top scorer in this year's imperial examination, Huang Zongxi has attended the most events these days. Not only are the sponsors invited them to stand on the platform, but many other smart businessmen in Beijing have also discovered their advertising effect. They have come to invite them to stand and advertise.
Huang Zongxi earned over 1,000 yuan in just a few days.
It's really much higher than the family's annual income.
The most important thing is that the money is clean and there will be no problem with it. Unlike the money collected by the officials, they are now invited to the Jinyiwei for tea.
But this is the opportunity. After nominations on the list, I won the Jinshi and entered the Capital University, I will be the preparatory officials of the court. I will never have the opportunity to make money like this.
"This sponsorship plan is really good." Gu Yanwudao. Many candidates have average family conditions. For the sake of the imperial examination, they really borrow money or even sell land. Now this sponsorship plan not only saves the candidates a lot of expenses, but also has a better environment during their stay in Beijing.
There is even a chance to make a small profit. The court also gained profits and merchants also gained benefits. It is really mutual benefit.
If you take advantage of the court, you will naturally have to speak for the court.
These days, the students in Beijing have written articles to newspapers, stood on the side of the court, criticizing the officials for accepting bribes, and even deliberately using their power as their capital for embezzlement to solicit bribes from local officials in their work.
Anyway, they are just candidates now and have not become officials. Therefore, they stand and speak without any pain in their backs. They blame the officials one by one, which is a fear.
The more fierce they scold, the more they like the newspapers.
The students can write a random article about current affairs. They are famous and can also get a royalty fee. Such good things will make them more and more fun.
In the early years, I also liked to comment on current affairs, but at that time I was mostly standing opposite to the court, scolding this today and that tomorrow.
Now they are still commenting on current affairs, but they no longer curse. Instead, they follow the trend of the court. They will fight wherever the court pointed. The court just invited a large number of officials to go to the Jinyiwei for tea. If they had been in the past, they would definitely have cursed the Jinyiwei. Regardless of right or wrong, they would curse first. But now they are standing by the court and waving flags and shouting for the court.
He even had a verbal battle with scholars who dared to question the court's policies and dared to attack the Jinyiwei in the newspaper.
After the reorganization of the Fushe Society, there are many people and the scale is even better than before.
In particular, the organization is more sound, including the headquarters, the president, the vice president, the board of directors, the board of supervisors, and the branch of provincial governments, which responded to the call.
They used newspapers to fight verbal battles, but they never fought against them. They were all scattered soldiers, but they were organized groups. They dared to fight with them, and responded to them with one call.
"Brother, the people from the Propaganda Department have just arrived. He asked us to mobilize the Restoration Scholars to write some articles on the anti-corruption storm that just happened."
Huang Zonghui told his elder brother Huang Zongxi.
"They also gave some money to pay." Huang Zonghui took out another stack of silver dollar coupons.
"The people from the Propaganda Department are so polite. Even if we don't give money, we have no choice." Chen Mingxia said with a loud laugh.
The north wind is howling, and the year is approaching, but there are still wars in Liaodong outside the pass.
The Mongolian tribes are now robbing each other and are unwilling to quit the war.
Mongolian cavalry sped across Liaodong.
Now, Jurgend's forces retreated to Yuanhui on the Heilongjiang River, and blocked the Mongolian cavalry with a long distance and extremely cold ice and snow. However, they had no choice but to the Liaoshen land south of Harwen.
The Mongolian cavalry could only be allowed to sweep across.
Under the city of Liaoyang, a group of Mongolian princes set up camp and surrounded Liaoyang City.
"Damn it, this Liaoyang City is quite difficult to fight. It has been attacked for many days, but it has not moved at all." The person who spoke was Chechen Khan Shuolei, one of the six county magistrates in Mongolia.
Over the past few days, they have swept the periphery and captured all the forts, including population, livestock, money and food.
If it weren't for the valuable population of Jurchens now, they could have swept the outside world earlier. In order to capture more Jurchens alive, they had to do more trouble.
Now all the people who can be swept on the outside have been swept, and all the people who can be grabbed have been grabbed. The remaining Jurchens in Liaodong have fled to several big cities such as Liaoshen.
There is still no less than 200,000 people in Liaoyang City, which is a very beautiful piece of fat in the eyes of the Mongolian princes. Each family has even agreed not to eat alone. Each family has joined forces to attack. After the battle, it will be divided according to the number of troops sent.
According to everyone's prior agreement, after the Liaoyang was captured, the city and territory belonged to the Han Dynasty. In addition, 20% of the livestock, people, people, money, food, etc. were first taken out, and 80% of the remaining families were divided. Among them, because the Han Dynasty dispatched artillery and provided intelligence support, 10% had to be taken out for the Han Dynasty.
But after a few days of fighting, they found that Liaoyang, which had become an isolated city, was not easy to fight.
Liaoyang is a big city. When Liu Jun went north to siege Chenyang, he seized Liaoyang and sent troops to garrison here for more than half a year and built a lot of fortifications. Although it was destroyed when he left, the Jurchens have long been restored. Liaoyang is in a big city, and the Jurchens fight to fight for trapped beasts and refuse to surrender. Men, women, young and old all come to the city to defend.
It was cold and the Mongols attacked several times but failed to get any advantage.
They are good at riding and shooting. They really have no strengths in fighting in cities. Moreover, today's Mongolia is not the Mongolian in the early years. In the past, their battles with the Jurchens also won fewer wins and more defeats.
"Or it would be better to ask the artillery to dispatch it."
Shuolei felt a little painful. The artillery of the Han Dynasty was at the city, but it was not easy to ask them. Although they had already given the Han Dynasty a share, those artillerymen didn't care about these things, as long as they were dispatched, they would have money.
They are all clearly marked with the price, how much caliber cannons cost, and how much money they cost for one shot. It is clear. But the price is too high. The cheapest cannon cannon cannon cannons can also get a Jurchen prisoner of war. If it is a siege shrapnel, the small one can get three at a time and the big one can get ten at a time.
When he thought of a gun battle, he would have to hit at least one hundred shells. It would probably take at least one thousand or eight hundred prisoners of war to send him over, and Shuolei would have toothache.
Nowadays, the Jurchen prisoners are so precious, much more expensive than cattle and horses.
But the artillery of the Han Dynasty only had Jurchen prisoners, and they didn’t have cattle, sheep, gold and silver.
"Why would you like to ask Jianzhou Town for help?"
Jianzhou Town is all Jurchen people. The general was Haoge, the eldest son of Emperor Taizong of Qing Dynasty Huang Taiji. He is now a surrendered general of the Han Dynasty. He was just promoted from the count to the marquis not long ago. He led 20,000 Jurchen troops and was also the representative of the Han army who attacked Liaodong this time.
"I guess Haug is not very willing."
"Then please ask the Royal Knights or the Warriors!"
The Royal Knights and the Warrior Order each have 5,000 people, and these two soldiers are also representatives of the Han army this time. However, although they are the two words "Royal", they are both Mongols. They are the most brave warriors who performed the most brave in the Middle East Expedition of various Mongolian tribes. Later, they were granted the title of knight and warrior flag by the Emperor of Han, and were granted fiefs in the territory directly under the Han Dynasty in Xing'an Province, becoming Mongolian warriors directly under the Han Dynasty.
Each knight and warrior has his own entourage and subordinate militia. On this basis, these Mongolian warriors have formed the Great Han Royal Knights and the Great Han Royal Warrior Order, each with 5,000 people.
These brave Mongolian warriors are not currently affiliated with any of the Mongolian princes. It is not easy to invite them to fight.
Zasaktu Khan Subadi, one of the six county magistrates in Mongolia, thought for a while, "Since we can't fight, it may not be useful whether it is the Jurchen cavalry in Jianzhou Town, the Royal Knights or the Samurai Order. I think it's better to ask the artillery to come out."
The artillery sent by the Han Dynasty to cooperate in combat was of the same scale, and the artillery standard commander was invited to come.
"Sir, we plead for the artillery to fight together and blow up Liaoyang City for us."
The artillery chief smiled, "No problem, do you want cannons or siege cannons? Do you need shrapnel? How many rounds are you going to shoot?"
Shuolei waved his hand very proudly, "We are willing to take out ten thousand young and strong Jurchen prisoners to ask for artillery support."
The artillery leader lit up and saw ten thousand young and strong prisoners, this deal was good.
"Hahaha, okay, since the county magistrate is so generous, then we Han artillery soldiers can't be stingy. This is how I will not talk about artillery with you. There are ten thousand young and strong Jurchen prisoners of war. We promise to break a gap in the Liaoyang city wall for you!"
"Okay, one word is certain!"
"One word is certain!"
The two big hands were clasped together, and everyone laughed happily together.
The Mongolian princes such as Shuolei and Subadi felt that there were at least 200,000 Jurchens in the city, so they took out 10,000 to ask artillery soldiers to open the city wall. Although the price was not small, as long as a gap could be opened, Liaoyang City could be taken down, and the Mongolian tribes could also save many casualties.
The artillery chief laughed even happier. Although the city of Liaoyang City is high and the walls are strong, there are few cannons on the city. Only a small number of catapults can threaten the artillery. The artillery can easily push the cannons to the city, and then a hundred cannons can open a gap.
You can earn ten thousand young and powerful prisoners by shooting a hundred cannons. This deal is worth it!
Both sides had their own plans and an agreement was quickly reached.
The artillery leader came out of the tent with satisfaction and went to his artillery camp to give orders and ordered them. The Han artillerymen who had been resting and watching the show in the camp were all energetic, leading the horses and pushing the cannons.
"Damn it, it's finally our artillery turn to take action!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!