I want to be emperor

Chapter 543 Luo Zhixue's Ambition: A Strong Country and a Rich People (Two in One)

In the transmission of the five-hundred-mile urgent military report this time, the sea transmission showed more advantages.

When the military newspapers transmitted by land are continuously relayed by the postal staff at the post stations along the way, the speed of more than 200 kilometers per day is delivered.

The postal company's first-generation maritime express express ship "Suyou No. 24" sailing on the sea is sailing southward at a high speed of more than ten knots every hour for [-] hours a day!
The Suyou No. [-] communication ship was born entirely for speed, for which it sacrificed seaworthiness, anti-sinkability, cargo capacity, not to mention any protection capabilities and firepower.

This thing has only one mission, and that is to fly across the sea at the fastest speed, and transmit the news from afar to the other side of the sea.

This good news from Zuo Yingzhe was sent to the port of Wusong River by the postal department's Express Post No. [-], and then sent to Jinling City by fast horses galloping day and night. On a long way.

Luo Zhixue, the emperor of the Great Chu Empire, was in a great mood after receiving the good news!
Although the victory in the Northeast Campaign seemed to him to be smooth sailing, even a certainty, the national strength of the Great Chu Empire was not comparable to that of the Dongyao people. This war did not even require any conspiracy and tricks, as long as the frontline generals were not foolish. , Steady and steady progress, then you will be able to win.

But, in the final analysis, we still need to fight steadily... If some more risky strategies and tactics are adopted, the possibility of capsized gutters is not out of the question.

Looking at it now, he was not wrong to send Zuo Yingzhe to the northeast to preside over the battle.

In the past few years, Zuo Yingzhe was not very famous among the top generals of the army of the Great Chu Empire.

His predecessor, that is, the last commander of the Northeast Campaign, General Li Chengtong, had greater fame and prestige than Zuo Yingzhe.

Compared with Li Chengtong and other high-ranking generals in the unification war, Zuo Yingzhe seemed a little plain.

This gentleman was not born as an old bandit, but as a scholar, and he has been working in the staff department for a long time since the Dragon Queen. It is not an exaggeration to say that this person was born as a staff officer.

Later, he served in field troops many times, served as chief of staff several times, and also served as division commander and deputy army commander.

Throughout his military career, he had never experienced any thrilling battles, but he had never made any mistakes either.

Its overall combat style is very stable.

And this is why Luo Zhixue asked Zuo Yingzhe to replace Li Chengtong as the new commander of the Northeast Campaign, and to continue to serve as the commander of the Third Army that was reformed from the Northeast Campaign Command.

Luo Zhixue doesn't need him to be able to fight well, and he doesn't need any genius-like tactics... Luo Zhixue only needs Zuo Yingzhe to fight steadily and rely on the powerful national power of the Great Chu Empire to push him over!

No risk, this is what Luo Zhixue personally told Zuo Yingzhe.

And Zuo Yingzhe also fully implemented Luo Zhixue's strategy. Throughout the early stage of the Northeast Campaign, he focused on stability.

After the 10,000+ army marched eastward, they moved forward step by step. There were no such words as rush or surprise attack during the whole process.

Even Zuo Yingzhe, the commander in chief, didn't seem to have any sense of presence in the several battles on the front line, and he didn't even get as much limelight as the cavalry general Zhu Xingfa.

There is no taking the lead, let alone directing a specific battle in person!

But Luo Zhixue was very satisfied with Zuo Yingzhe's performance.

"it is good!"

"It is not in vain that I hand over the 10,000+ army to him!"

Zuo Yingzhe's performance is exactly what Luo Zhixue expects to see as a commander-in-chief!

A commander of an army group bears the lives of 10,000+ soldiers. To win or lose the national war between the two countries, what needs to be done is not other messy things, but to coordinate the overall situation.

As for the specific execution of tactics and the details on the battlefield, those are the affairs of those army commanders and division commanders.

After Luo Zhixue read the victory report several times, he said to the imperial secretary of the secretariat at the side: "Remember, send a message to Zuo Aiqing. I will wait for him to return from captivity. When he returns, it will be the day of enfeoffment !"

There are only four dukes in the Great Chu Empire, and Zuo Yingzhe doesn't say that he completely wiped out the Eastern captives, but as long as most of the Liaodong area is recovered, his credit is enough to make him a duke.

And he, if nothing else happens, will also become the fifth Duke in the Great Chu Empire!

The five dukes are all senior military generals with great military exploits, which fully embodies the nobility system of the Great Chu Empire that no dukes can be conferred without military merit.

In addition to the commander in chief Zuo Yingzhe, the meritorious soldiers of the Third Army, the Guards and the Navy who participated in the battle also need to be rewarded one by one as appropriate.

Those who should be promoted, those who should be paid, can always be treated badly by anyone, but the meritorious soldiers on the front line cannot be treated badly.

The rewards for middle and low-level officers and ordinary soldiers are naturally handled by the military and political departments of the three armed forces, and Luo Zhixue doesn't need to worry about it. He just set a tone: he will reward heavily for his achievements in regaining the Northeast.

The awards for senior generals often involve titles, promotions to general ranks, and changes in senior positions. These are not in the hands of the military and political departments of the armed forces. They do not have this authority and can only be handled by Luo Zhixue himself.

In the early series of battles in the Northeast, from the landing operations on the Liaodong Peninsula, the raids on Monan Mongolia, to the start of the Liaoxi Campaign.

During this series of processes, many senior generals made military achievements.

Luo Zhixue also gradually rewarded each according to the size and importance of their military industry.

Among the generals who have made great achievements in battle, the one with the greatest credit is Major General Sheng Yushu, the Director of the Cavalry Division of the Guards Army!
Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa, the commander of the First Cavalry Army, called him the first person in the cavalry battle in the northern suburbs of Zhongqian; Lieutenant General Qian Taijinwei, the deputy chief of operations of the Guards Army, also tried his best to ask for credit for Sheng Yushu!

General Zuo Yingzhe, the commander of the Third Army, also listed Major General Sheng Yushu Jinwei as the first meritorious person in the roster of military exploits attached to the report.

General Zhao Zhongshu, the military and political officer of the Third Army and the Hebei Garrison Command, also said in the secret book that Major General Sheng Yushu was loyal to the emperor.

Loyalty to the monarch is basically an official level, and it is the highest level of evaluation given to an official.

What talent is extraordinary, outstanding military exploits and so on are not as good as the four words of loyalty to the monarch.

The top-secret file of Major General Sheng Yushu of the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy shows that Major General Sheng Yushu has some minor problems, such as illegally adopting a number of concubines in the name of adopted daughters, and his family members secretly use his name to engage in acts of bullying the market. But no big problem.

Luo Zhixue is not a pedantic person, he knows very well that when the water is clear, there will be no fish. Many civil servants and military generals in the Great Chu Empire had put their heads on their belts and followed him to fight the world a few years ago, but few of them were for the common people of the world. Most of the happy lives of people come for prosperity and wealth.

Sheng Yushu will not be an exception!

As long as there is no major problem that violates the principle, and he has good ability to do things, Luo Zhixue can basically use it, and the best among them will reuse it.

And Sheng Yushu's military training and combat command capabilities are quite outstanding.

The reason why the Liaoxi campaign progressed so smoothly is inseparable from the successful defeat and almost complete annihilation of the cavalry of the cavalry troops by the cavalry.

If they didn't defeat Hauge's cavalry, let alone continue to attack, they might have to consider retreating to protect themselves.

And in this large-scale cavalry battle, the performance of the cavalry detachment of the Guards is the key!
It was the cavalry detachment of the Guards that successfully defeated the [-] fine cavalry on the left wing of the enemy, and then defeated the [-] reinforcements of the enemy, which eventually led to the collapse of the enemy and laid a solid foundation for the overall victory of the cavalry battle.

The three cavalry regiments in the cavalry detachment of the Guards Army were led by Sheng Yushu himself, and he presided over the previous training.

Because Sheng Yushu is the director of the Cavalry Division of the Guards Army, roughly similar to the Director of the Army Cavalry, he is an important role in coordinating the development and combat of the Guards Cavalry.

Sheng Yushu led the guard cavalry he personally trained to win this big victory, and a heavy reward is inevitable.

Luo Zhixue personally gave instructions, and Jin Sheng Yushu was appointed Lieutenant General of the Guards.

In terms of position, because he was still in the front-line combat period, it was inconvenient to transfer easily, so he continued to lead the cavalry detachment of the Guards to fight on the front line as the director of the Cavalry Division of the Guards.

At the same time, the title was promoted from viscount to earl.

There are also mansions, money and other material rewards.

Apart from Sheng Yushu, other meritorious generals were also rewarded one by one, but not many were promoted directly. For example, Zhu Xingfa, the commander of the First Cavalry Army, his military rank and title did not change.

Because Zhu Xingfa was already a lieutenant general in the army, and if he went up, he could only be the commander of the group army or the head of the central department. This kind of transfer had too much influence, and Dong Dan would not be easy.

After the complete recovery of Liaodong, giving him the rank of a general in the army is almost the same. Now, it's not so interesting.

However, there were adjustments in his position. Luo Zhixue appointed him as the deputy commander of the Third Army, and as the deputy commander, he also served as the commander of the First Cavalry Army.

In terms of title, he is an earl himself, and he will not move for the time being. He will wait until the Liaodong campaign is over before rewarding him for his merits.

In addition, there are also many material rewards.

Luo Zhixue quickly finalized the rewards for the senior generals on the front line, and at the same time ordered the Ministry of Ethics and Education to make extensive and focused reports on the victory of the Liaoxi Campaign.

We must let everyone in the world know that their Great Chu Empire just won a big victory in the west of Liaoxi, and the Dongyao people who frequently invaded the pass and harmed the common people in the past have been laid down by their brave and fearless soldiers of the Great Chu Empire.

In short, it is all kinds of blowing!
And don't be afraid of being too embarrassing... This kind of bragging, you will get used to it if you brag a lot.

So, just three days after the victory report arrived in Jinling City, the news of the great victory in western Liaoning was published in the latest issue of Da Chu Mansion News!

This is an easy-to-understand and philosophical report written by more than a dozen former Ming scholars and writers from the Ministry of Ethics and Education. Every word has been carefully considered.

He made Luo Zhixue the greatest emperor in the past thousands of years, his talents and achievements were directly comparable to those of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and he made the soldiers of the Chu army on the front line more brave and good at fighting than the heavenly soldiers and generals. It's as easy as chopping vegetables.

More than [-] enemies were killed in this battle. When the remnants of the Eastern captives saw our king's army marching eastward, they all fled in fear. When fleeing in fear, they trampled and killed countless people. They even killed each other in order to seize the escape route.

And this is just the main report. In order to increase the credibility, let the people feel the greatness of the Great Chu Empire, the bravery of the soldiers, and the writers of the Dibao Division, who directly created something out of nothing, relying on their own strong imagination, through five or six This article describes in detail a number of small-scale battles in which the few win the many, and the weak win the strong. Through these small battles, the images of several fighting heroes have been erected!

Later, the army general in charge of the internal military newspaper, who was barely in charge of external propaganda, read it... and fell silent!
As far as bragging skills are concerned, these civil servants are still very good. This article is much better than the military newspapers inside our army!
But...

Before you brag, can you talk to us first... In this way, at least we can barely find you a few battles that fit the example, and then introduce a few veritable battle heroes along the way...

In the end, you guys just created something out of nothing, and made up the whole story...

You said that there were several battle heroes, and several battles were fought, which fully reflected our army's victory over the strong with the weak...

But...whether our army or the guards have never done this before!

Our Chu army won't be foolish enough to defeat the strong with the weak, and the many with the few... We all pushed through all the way, and most of the soldiers didn't even meet the Dongyao people...

Looking back, if outsiders ask, where these battles took place, and who exactly participated in the battle, wouldn't it be embarrassing for us to ask three times and don't know!

So, the Military News Section of the Military and Political Department of the Army, which is in charge of propaganda, found the Di News Department, and then spit wildly, telling them not to blow randomly when writing articles, but to talk to us before blowing, we A number of battle examples and typical characters will be prepared for you.

You talk nonsense like this, which makes us very passive!
As a result... the people at the Di Baosi just said hehe... they don't bother to talk to these warriors!

When we write articles for the newspaper department, when we need facts, we just need a brilliant pen!
Besides, Di Baodi is in the civil service system, and has a fart relationship with your military... We can brag as much as we like, you don't care!

Later, Luo Zhixue found out about this matter... He was silent for a long time in front of the article written by Di Baosi.

They can be regarded as respecting their own ideas and doing things, and the effect is quite good. When these reports came out, the world was in an uproar, and the people's sense of identity with the Great Chu Empire, even the gentry class, rose sharply.

However, Luo Zhixue still ordered Di Baosi to stop doing such things out of nothing in the future. Although art comes from life, it must also follow the basic facts.

This small episode did not affect the Great Chu Empire's extensive publicity of the Great Victory in Western Liaoning. According to Luo Zhixue's request, Di Baosi wanted the whole world to know that their Great Chu Empire had won a big victory and regained the victory. Northeast is just around the corner.

This is to strengthen the people's sense of identity with the new Great Chu Empire, enhance their sense of honor, and win more popular support.

Now that the Great Chu Empire has just been established, the process of unifying the provinces in the customs is not peaceful. Even in the regions after the unification, there will often be a bloody storm that can last for a few months or more than a year, in order to break the past. Benefit distribution system, redistribute benefits.

For example, land policy, industrial and commercial policy, etc., are all redistribution of interests.

The process of redistribution of benefits is always accompanied by killing!

I don’t know how many so-called gentry and landlords lost their interests or even lost their families during the rise of the Great Chu Empire!

There are also many ignorant ordinary people who were coaxed and coerced by the local wealthy families, and eventually became cannon fodder on the battlefield and even harmed their families.

The Great Chu Empire used a strong and bloody iron fist to forcefully promote a series of new policies, which have now been initially completed in various regions within the pass, and have begun to see results.

By this time, in fact, the implementation of policies in various places has basically been completed, and everything that should be cleaned up has also been cleaned up. Although there are still some people who may be hiding deeper, it is impossible to truly clear all the people in such a huge empire. The risk factors are all eliminated, as long as they can't make any waves, then the next stage can start.

Luo Zhixue has already prepared to gradually loosen local military control, and the military has begun to reduce its participation in local ordinary security affairs, and is only responsible for suppressing riots and other incidents.

Previously, armed patrols were established in some areas to deal with emergencies, emergency rescue, and handling serious violent crimes. This is based on the fact that the army has gradually separated from local security affairs and focused on military tasks.

Although the second-class divisions in the army also assumed the task of maintaining local law and order in the early stage, this was only the early-stage task. In fact, the second-class divisions in the army still belonged to the combat order of the regular army.

Suppressing unrest, defending operations, and protecting important facilities are their main tasks. Excessive participation in local security affairs will affect the combat capabilities of the second-class division and allow military and political chaos.

In addition, the second-class divisions in the army will also rotate their stations regularly. In order to avoid a certain unit stationed in a certain place for a long time, which will cause various problems, the second-class divisions in the army's garrison places are regularly rotated.

The establishment of armed patrol police, coupled with the gradual reduction of the number of armed tax police, can basically be regarded as the measures of the Great Chu Empire to gradually reduce the direct military control of the controlled area.

Of course, this does not mean that the military control will be completely abolished directly, but gradually, and the presence of the military in the civilian population will be gradually reduced in the early stage of local stability.

How should I put it, it is not a good thing for the public to see soldiers patrolling and guarding the streets every three days.

However, if it is a patrolman wearing a black uniform, even if it is an armed patrolman with a flintlock gun and a waist knife, then it seems much more normal.

It is normal for the police to patrol the streets and guard the entrances and exits of some important areas.

The empire is gradually withdrawing military control in various regions, gradually restoring normal life and rule in some regions, and liberalizing the movement of people in some regions. Negative effects gradually normalized.

And in this process, in addition to the gradual weakening of the military presence, the propaganda must also keep up!
The war with the Dongbang people is a good starting point for propaganda.

Foreign wars can divert some internal contradictions, arouse people's sense of happiness and even superiority, and eventually evolve their sense of identity.

Over time, when ordinary people say "I am proud of being from Great Chu", it means that the rule of the Great Chu Empire has a real foundation.

And at that time, maybe it will be the so-called prosperous age in the traditional feudal dynasty!

As for now, it's still early!
Regardless of the fact that the Great Chu Empire was on the battlefield in the Northeast, many important industrial areas were developing rapidly, many factories were established one after another, and the defense industry had made great progress.

But in fact... a strong army does not necessarily mean that people's lives are good.

In the Victorian era, Britain was the most powerful country in the world, and the Royal Navy beat the world's invincibles, but there were still countless child laborers in its homeland... There were countless poor kilns in the city.

When the Royal Navy was attacking the world, there were still countless people in their country who were hungry every day and endured the severe cold in winter. Countless child laborers died in factories and died in winter.

The little match girl is the epitome of the lower class people in Victorian England.

In the era of Tsarist Russia, the Tsar brand road roller has been a powerful power in Europe for 200 years.

Its armies were known as gray cattle, the nightmare of modern Europe.But the word gray livestock itself means that their middle and lower class people are not living well...

When praising the great work of 'War and Peace', please don't forget that when Napoleon invaded Russia, Russia was in serfdom.

In fact, Russian serfdom was not abolished until the 60s, but even during the First World War, some residual systems of the serf era still existed in Russia.

It is conceivable how hard the people at the bottom of Russia in the Tsarist Russia era were!
Tolstoy, who wrote war and peace at the same time, was born in the aristocracy... In his early works, you can see the love and hatred of the aristocrats, the hatred of the country, the hatred of the country, and the magnificent war scenes, as well as various great sex scenes things... But I can't see the wailing of the serfs at the bottom!
In his later years, he gradually changed his mind, saying that his past works were "grandfather games", but later, countless people praised his early works.

Maybe they are nobles...

Japan, one of the modern powers, is basically inseparable from such a routine.

After the Meiji Restoration and World War II, Japan gradually became stronger, and finally became one of the great powers. At that time, they had a powerful navy, and their naval strength was once the third in the world, and even the second in the world for a certain period of time. The country also has a relatively complete variety of defense industries, capable of manufacturing [-]-inch naval guns, and capable of producing [-] to [-] tons of battleships, aircraft carriers and other warships.

However, during the same period, it was normal for the lower class people in Japan to be hungry, and it was extremely common for a large number of poor young women to be forced to engage in some kind of harmonious transaction, and even to go abroad to make money.

At that time, the poor young people in Japan regarded joining the army as the only way to have enough food and even change their lives!

Many great powers are actually similar, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, Italy and Germany are all the same, the only exception is the United States.

The reason why the United States is special is purely because they have natural geographical advantages that other countries cannot match... The natural barrier of the two oceans, the incomparably rich natural resources and a large amount of arable land, plus some chances and coincidences, history Opportunity has finally become a rare example of a strong country and a rich people.

It is difficult for other countries to have their natural advantages, so most of the great powers are strong and the people are poor...or simply the country is poor and the people are poor.

The current Great Chu Empire has only been established for a few years, so it naturally belongs to a very typical stage of a strong country and a poor people!

On the one hand, the Great Chu Empire has various primitive factories evolved from the most powerful handicraft industry in the contemporary era, and the large-scale application of water power; at the same time, it also has an extremely efficient administrative system, especially the tax system, and has a large-scale and advanced army.

However, there are still a large number of people in the empire who do not have enough to eat!
Especially the provinces north of the Yangtze River that suffered from natural and man-made disasters before, such as Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Jiangbei, Hebei and other provinces are all hardest hit areas!
The Great Chu Empire has been tossing around in these places for some time. Although it has successfully avoided large-scale famines in these places and there has been no more starvation for thousands of miles, it still has not completely solved the local food and clothing problem.

Naturally, Luo Zhixue would not let the empire he worked so hard to build become a deformed country. After unifying the provinces in the pass, Luo Zhixue already had new goals or ambitions!

He wants to build a powerful country unprecedented in the history of China, and even in the history of mankind!

He wants the empire to be so powerful that the sun never sets!
He wants the people of the empire to live a prosperous life!

Well, it's not the kind of country that is strong and the people are rich as boasted in the Da Chu Mansion newspaper, but the real sense of the country is strong and the people are rich!

Luo Zhixue also knows that it is difficult, even more difficult than directly dominating the world, and it is much more difficult, but the emperor has become an emperor, and the customs are also unified. Seeing that the captives in the East are about to end, you have to set a goal for yourself, right? , I can't stay in the harem every day and play hide-and-seek games with a group of concubines... It will be annoying if there are too many times!

As a human, you have to find something to do for yourself, something challenging to do, otherwise you will easily get bored or even confused!
So when the war in the northeast was raging, the first five-year development plan within the Great Chu Empire also entered its second year.

Among them, the five-year agricultural development plan, which is the most important, has entered the critical stage!
And Luo Zhixue's attention to the agricultural development plan was no less than his attention to the Northeast Campaign!

(End of this chapter)