Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 189

"The admiral of the Yangtze River Navy leads the Fifth Battalion, and has jurisdiction over Yuezhou Township Commander, Hanyang Township Commander, Guazhou Township Commander, Hukou Township Commander, and Langshui Township Commander." The commander-in-chief and the other five commander-in-chiefs each govern the four battalions of the town mark."

On the Chongming Wharf, Zhu Yihai came up with a long-planned plan for the division of the Zhoushan Navy. Zhou Hezhi was awarded the title of Ping Lubo and the admiral of the Yangtze River Navy, and organized 25 battalions with five commanders.There are 500 people in the first battalion, and the actual number of the whole army is 1. If you add 500 auxiliary soldiers, the total quota is 7000.

But this time Huang Binqing led his troops to the north, except for those who stayed in Zhoushan and moved to Ningbo, they brought less than 2 people.

If Zhou Hezhi was given [-] yuan, then he would become a polished admiral.

Without waiting for Huang Binqing to express his opposition, Zhu Yihai announced the establishment plan for the admirals of the Zhezhi Navy. The admiral also set up five commanders, promoted five battalions, and each of the five commanders controlled four battalions.Jurisdiction over Fushan, Wusong, Jinshan, Haining, Hangzhou, five township naval forces.

The defense zone settings of the Yangtze River Navy and the Zhezhi Navy can be seen that the Yangtze River Navy is actually responsible for the front line of the Yangtze River, from Huguang to Jiangxi, from Anhui to Chongming, and Changli River Defense.

As for the Zhezhi Navy, in fact, its jurisdiction is only the Susong and western Zhejiang area from the Yangtze River Estuary to Hangzhou Bay.

But now the front line of the Yangtze River is basically still occupied by the Qing army, so the towns of Zhu Yihai, in fact, just got a staff position first, and can't actually garrison. For the time being, they can only garrison Langshan, so the 25th Battalion is only preset. It is only in the status of compilation, but in fact it is currently half of the temporary compilation, the admiral has three standard battalions, the other five general soldiers have two standard battalions each, and there are no other cooperative guerrilla battalions.

The same is true for Huang Binqing's Zhezhi Navy, which has temporarily organized 500 battalions with [-] people.

However, in the name of integrating the navy and improving combat effectiveness, Zhu Yihai reorganized the Imperial Navy and the Yangtze River and Zhejiang-Zhejiang Navy to eliminate some of the old and weak Zhoushan Navy.

The Zhoushan Navy and the Imperial Navy were reorganized to form four naval units: the Yangtze River Navy, the Zhezhi Navy, the Inland River Navy of the Imperial Navy, and the Overseas Navy of the Imperial Navy.

Four naval fleets, each with six thousand five soldiers, a total of 72 battalions, three admirals, and twenty commanders.

After the integration of the first pass, the Zhoushan Navy has nearly 2 troops, one-third of which will be eliminated first, and the rest will be scattered among the four navy divisions. Zhu Yihai had to send two general soldiers there, and even sent three deputy admirals, counselors to join the army, and superintendents. The three general soldiers under him also had to send deputies there.

More than half of the soldiers are no longer the old ones.

This is no longer mixed with sand, but a direct blood change.

Huang Binqing was trembling with anger, but Zhu Yihai said that this was an integrated combat force, adding new warships, increasing equipment, and supplementing elite soldiers to the Zhezhi Navy.

He also said that in the future, the salaries and food for the thirteen battalion heads of the Zhezhi Navy will be distributed according to the standards of the Royal Navy, and will be distributed by the Imperial Food Platform, so Huang Binqing does not need to worry about it.

He has a total of 840 soldiers in the Zhezhi Navy and the auxiliary soldiers. A battalion costs 3000 taels a month, and the entire army costs 4 taels a month. 2 taels, not counting the purchase and maintenance of warships, armor equipment, artillery ammunition consumption, etc.

Zhu Yihai took care of everything, which was a good thing, but Huang Binqing was not happy at all.

As long as he is reorganized, he will completely lose control of the navy. Even if Zhu Yihai doesn't move his three bidding battalions, there will be less than 2000 people in the bidding battalion by then. What can such a small number of people do?

What's more, Zhu Yihai will definitely move to bid for the third battalion.

Huang Binqing regretted this method of cutting flesh with one knife after another.

But Zhou Hezhi, the deputy general, is now completely in favor of Zhu Yihai. When Zhu Yihai said to set up a separate Yangtze River Navy, he immediately took the order and said that he would reorganize with the Imperial Navy Navy, and he had no objection.

Half of my own people went first, and the remaining soldiers, it's too late to regret it now.

At this moment, he finally understood that when he accepted the edict and led his troops to leave Zhoushan, he had actually completely fallen into Zhu Yihai's trap, and he had no power to fight back.

Unwillingness, anger and other emotions flashed in my heart, and in the end I could only accept the reality and let Zhu Yihai manipulate me.

At the beginning, he loved to ignore Zhu Yihai's superiority, but now he can't reach him.

Do you regret it, sure.

Who would have thought that King Yiyang, who was supported by all his ministers, would fall so quickly, while King Lu, who was only raising the flag alone in Taizhou, could become powerful so quickly.

He could only say that he had lost his sight, just like when he was optimistic about King Fu and ran to support him.

The only thing he feels comforted about now is that he had sent his daughter into the harem of the prison country before, and finally there is still a little foothold.

Immediately after receiving the order, Zhou Hezhi requested that the headquarters be stationed in Hong Kong, and immediately began to accept reorganization.

Seeing his impatient look, Huang Binqing finally began to regret that he shouldn't have recruited these pirates everywhere, they are all thieves after all.

But the general situation was over, and when Zhu Yihai saw it, he had no choice but to call the troops into Hong Kong and accept the reorganization.

The atmosphere at the pier was harmonious for a while.

Zhu Yihai held Huang Binqing in his left hand and Zhou Hezhi in his right hand, and they returned to Chongming City together.

The banquet welcomes the wind.

Nearly 2 horses from Zhoushan also arrived in Hong Kong one after another, and Yu Dafu also brought money, food, wine and meat to reward them.

Each person rewarded two taels of silver, rewarded meat and wine.

At the same time, it was announced that after the reorganization, all the soldiers from Zhoushan would be paid five taels of An Jiayin, and three months of salary. When the edict was issued, there were cheers from the pier.

Immediately afterwards, Yu Dafu announced a number of appointments, such as the promotion of the Zhoushan soldiers, in short, they were well paid.Especially in the reorganization of the navy, there are now four admirals alone, four deputy admirals, four counselors and four supervisors each, and then [-] commanders, [-] deputy commanders, guerrillas, and capital commanders. , Defense, etc. are also added a lot.

This means that many officers can be promoted this time, even more than one level.

For many soldiers from Zhoushan, what is the war for?
Some are strong men who have been forced to do nothing, some are desperate and starving people in troubled times, and some are desperate to join the army for a living, and some are pirates recruiting peace. Only a few of them really have the ideal of saving the world and serving the country.

Getting promoted and getting rich is a very simple idea, and it is also the idea of ​​most people.

Now there are rewards and promotions, who would not like that.

Everyone immediately thought about Jian Guo's goodness and shouted "Long Live Jian Guo".

Even though some people might be eliminated, it was announced that there would be severance pay and two months' salary. These severance workers were originally old and weak. Now they can go home or resettle in Chongming and other places, and they are very satisfied.

Only Yu Dafu was a little bit pained, throwing out a lot of money.

A soldier is about ten taels of silver, and 20 soldiers is 20 taels. Adding the rewards to the officers, it is more than [-] taels of silver.

He muttered to himself, "One Tu Guobao and Li Yuchun are not enough, I have to remind Jian Guo to save some money."

On the other side, Xu Shiqi and Shen Chenquan are admonishing Zhu Yihai, thinking that Huang Binqing's department is not credible, and now that the imperial navy and the Huang department are co-organized, this is a hidden danger, and it will damage the navy's combat power.

However, Zhu Yihai had long wanted to annex Huang Binqing. If Huang Binqing was acting like a warlord with him, then he would treat him like a warlord and directly annex his troops.

Now Zhu Yihai's navy has indeed a relatively complex membership, including Zhang Mingzhen's Shipu naval battalion brought from Zhejiang, Wang Zhiren's Zheding seawater battalion, Wu Kai's Haimen battalion, and some additional volunteers and sailors in western Zhejiang. , as well as volunteers from Taihu Lake, and even water thieves. Since then, they have taken over many sailors from Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui, and then from Shen Tingyang, Jing Benche, and Fujian Zheng.

It is simply a hodgepodge. After reorganization again and again, there are already a lot of sailors.

If the reorganization is completed this time, there will be 6000 troops divided into four fleets, but Zhu Yihai still believes that the navy can be regarded as a rare and useful weapon against the Qing army at the moment, so it must be strengthened.

Fortunately, every expansion is to break up the soldiers and use them, rather than simply retaining the entire unit as an organization. The continuous integration and elimination, especially the careful use of officers, makes the navy still relatively reliable. of.

This time Huang Binqing will swallow 2 people, but after layers of integration, only about [-] people will be left in the navy, and one-third of them will be converted into auxiliary soldiers of the water battalion.

In the future, some of the soldiers of the Yellow Department may be transferred to the land camp slowly. After continuous replacement, the proportion of the Huang Binqing Department in the navy will become smaller and smaller.

And Zhu Yihai deliberately set up a Yangtze River Navy in addition to the Zhezhi Navy, which is to further disintegrate Huang Binqing's right to speak.

"In the future, we will rely more on the strength of the navy in the south of the Yangtze River to compete with the Tartars. The four naval forces will only have about [-] people, which is not many. Most of the other land battalions and horse teams in the Northern Expedition will go south to eastern Zhejiang. Or go west to Anhui, Jiangxi or even Huguang and other places, and those left behind must be transferred to the mountains, Taihu Lake and other places for development.”

The navy has great advantages in the south of the Yangtze River, especially against the Qing army that currently lacks navy.

"If Huang Binqing is not willing to cooperate with the reorganization? Zhou Hezhi was born as a pirate, is it reliable?" They raised doubts.

"Let's take it step by step. Isn't it going well now? If Huang Binqing really insists on toasting instead of fine wine, we are not afraid. Even if the Tartars are not afraid, are you afraid of Huang Binqing who has already been placed on the chopping board? As for Zhou Hezhi was born as a pirate, so that's nothing."

He even has to reuse it for breaking into thieves, so he's still afraid of pirates?
At the reception banquet, Huang Binqing drank his sorrows with wine and got himself very drunk.

In the end, his daughter Huang Ji came to pick him up for a rest. After drinking a few cups of hangover tea, Huang Binqing fell asleep, and when he woke up, his daughter was still watching over him.

A rare heart-to-heart talk between father and daughter.

The conversation with her daughter gave Huang Binqing a better understanding of Lu Jianguo.

"His Royal Highness is really the Lord of ZTE?"

"Your Highness will be able to rejuvenate."

Huang Binqing was silent. In troubled times, the generals only thought about how to preserve their strength, and only with soldiers can they have status.But now, Lu Jianguo actually has a stronger authority than Chongzhen, which was unbelievable before, but this meeting made him have to admit it.

Facing a strong and powerful Jianguo like Lu Jianguo, he has only two choices, submit or rebel.

The daughter has already reminded the father, inside and outside the words, that he no longer has the capital to resist. Now that he has attached himself, he might as well serve his life with peace of mind. In the future, ZTE will be restored and he will not lose his position as a hero.

"Tell father the good news, the daughter is already pregnant, and the imperial doctor said it might be a son."

Huang Binqing was stunned, and then immediately realized that Lu Jianguo had no son, so wouldn't this be the eldest son of Jianguo?Is it possible for my grandson to become the eldest son, the crown prince, or even become the emperor of Ming Dynasty in the future?

"My daughter implores my father to protect us and my mother."

Huang Binqing was silent for a while, feeling complicated.

(End of this chapter)