Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 705
Nanzhao, Yexian, Yuzhou, the three cities in the north of Nanyang, and the three cities of Biyang, Tongbai, and Wuyang in the east, were quickly occupied as the Ming army advanced from the north and east.

The Tartars left without fighting, and fled from the city when they heard the news from afar. Fortresses and township groups in various places were also appeased one after another, and they all dispersed and returned to farming.

In the north, the Ming army only sent the No. 18 Association of the No. [-] Town to go out, and in the east, it only sent the No. [-] Town's Association to advance, and took six cities.

Quickly dispatch officials on both sides to select officials, compile and train Baojia, clear fields, register household registration, relieve victims, and resume production.

It's hot.

The Li Baoquan sentry stationed in Cuizhuang Township, Nanzhao, also caused a sensation in the whole army because of the fact that all the unmarried Zhan auxiliary soldiers of the whole sentry got married locally. The tide of marrying a wife.

While suppressing bandits and recruiting security, everyone is busy with military-civilian marriages, which is very lively.

The Imperial Battalion only sent two guilds into the outskirts of Nanyang to seize the six cities, but they put great pressure on Nanyang Bathha and Wuguan Nikan.

The suicide of Yunyang Wang Guang'en and the surrender of Xu Qiyuan and others aggravated the panic among the Tartars.

Xu Qiyuan and others were killed after surrendering, which was unexpected, but it seemed reasonable.

end of July.

Zhu Pengfei and Zhu Dingguo's righteous brothers stopped in the Gucheng area, and began to turn around and reorganize their troops, wipe out the thieves, recruit the fortress, etc., and they were also very busy.

And Zhu Shengli from Hunan and Li Chixin from Yiling had already flowed down the river and entered the evacuated Jingzhou.

This important Jingjiang town changed hands again.

A few years ago, Li Chixin waited for his first attack to fail and retreated. Later, after he surrendered to the Shaotian Dynasty, he succeeded in another attack, but quickly withdrew on his own initiative. Now he finally came back again.

The sun and moon flag was planted on the top of Jingzhou City, fluttering in the wind, and this empty city seemed to be refreshed.

A few days later, Zhu Shengli and Li Chixin's army and Shun army successively captured Gong'an, Shishou, Jianli, Mianyang, Qianjiang, Tianmen, Hanjiang and other cities, and finally arrived in Hanyang and Wuchang all the way.

At this time, the Qing troops in the three towns of Wuhan, Hanyang, Hankou, and Jiangxia had all withdrawn. The Ming troops who came from the Jiangbei side of Jiangxi also went up the river and recovered Huanggang City and Wuchang City, the empty cities of Huangzhou Prefecture.
On the first day of August, the two armies successfully joined forces at the mouth of the Han River.

Mid-Autumn Festival.

During this festival, Zhu Yihai entered Nanyang City on horseback, Zhu Pengfei, Zhu Dingguo Gao Bizheng's army in the Yunxiang camp on the upper reaches of the Han River, the emperor's imperial camp in the Shanluo camp, Zheng Zunqian, Zhu Zhongyi, Liu Mu's army in the east of Henan, and the Jingjiang camp. The army of Zhu Shengli, Li Chixin, and Yuan Zongdi, and the army of Zhang Mingyang, Jin Shenghuan, Zhang An, and Wang Deren from the Jiangnan camp also rushed to Nanyang to join forces.

The whole of Hubei and Henan have declared their recovery.

This time there was hardly any cost, the court just drove the Tartars behind, the Tartars withdrew from a city, and the Ming army recovered a city.

Regarding the emperor's deployment this time, many generals believed that they had missed an excellent opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Qing army, but the emperor insisted that it is strictly forbidden for any general to send troops against the order to intercept and encircle the Qing army.

Just like driving sheep, they were all driven from Huguang to Xiangyang, to Nanyang, and finally into Wuguan Shangluo.

Huguang and Henan fell without a fight.

Soldiers from all walks of life gathered in Nanyang.

But the emperor did not rush to pursue and enter Guanzhong, and did not propose a plan to attack Wuguan.

Instead, the decree on the reorganization of various soldiers and horses was promulgated again, and the reorganization of each town should be accelerated.

The first town of Jin Gongyu was stationed in Shandong, and the second town of Zhang Quan was stationed in Hebei.
The seventh town of Zheng Zunqian was in Jiangbei, the eighth town of Liu Mu was in Jiangxi, the ninth town of Zhu Shengli was in Hunan, and the tenth town of Zhang Shipeng was in Sichuan.

Yuan Zongdi's No.11 town is stationed in Guizhou.

Zhu Zhongyi's No.18 town is in Henan, Zhu Pengfei's No.19 town is in Shaanxi, and Zhu Dingguo's No.20 town is in Hubei.

Meng Xian led the third town in Zhejiang, Zhang Pengyi led the fourth town in Jiangdong, Lu Xiangguan led the fifth town in Fujian, Zhang Mingyang led the sixth town in Guangdong,

Yang Boxing led the No.12 town in Guangxi, and Liu Shixun led the No.13 town in Yunnan.

Zheng Jiwu led the No.14 town in Gansu, and Li Chixin led the No.15 town in Liaodong.

Zhang Mingbin's No.16 town, Qin Yiming's No.17 town guarded the capital and escorted them.

The three Jingying towns are No. 20 to 23 towns, respectively stationed in Nanjing Yingtianfu, Tokyo Fengtianfu and Xingjing Shaotianfu.

The four towns of the navy are No. 20 to 27 towns, which are located in Lushun in Liaodong, Qingdao in Shandong, Zhenjiang in Jiangdong, and Guangzhou in Lingnan.

Seeing that the Qing army in Huguang retreated into Wuguan, Zhu Yihai was not in a hurry to send troops to attack.

But he gave an unexpected order.

Except No. 16 Town, No. 17 Town Yuying, and Jingying 21, 22, and 23 Towns, the rest of the towns returned to their respective divisions after the Mid-Autumn Festival in Nanyang to complete the reorganization with the local troops.

In the eleven provinces of Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Liaodong, in addition to stationing [-] troops in each of the imperial battalions and new towns, there is also a town of [-]. Tun guarding remote mountainous areas, and plowing and guarding.

The remaining provinces no longer set up village towns.

The provinces set up one or two regiments to practice towns, which are used for farming in peacetime, training in winter and spring, and assisting defense in wartime.In general, there is one town in each province, one association in each province, one standard in each government, and one battalion in each county. Usually, they only train in the area where they are stationed, and do not leave the defense area for non-important wars.

It turned out that all the outer towns were organized and cooperated with the imperial camps.

Those who are cut from the outer towns of the imperial camp will be given priority to go to the town, those who are cut from the town will be given priority to training in the regiment, and those who will be cut from the regiment will be given priority to be selected as post soldiers and local government officials.

"Now that the army is gathering, why doesn't Your Majesty attack Guanzhong in one fell swoop, wipe out Nikan and Wu Sangui together, and then send troops straight to Beijing?"

"The Tatars have moved their capital to Yanbei," Zhu Yihai said calmly, eating a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus mooncake, to the generals and accompanying ministers who arrived in Nanyang, "now the army is gathering in Nanyang, but Nanyang can't supply so many troops at all. Grain and equipment, the more soldiers, the heavier the burden,

And Nikan is now heavily concentrated in Wuguan. If we attack by force, he will definitely resist. "

Zhu Yihai is unwilling to attack Wuguan by force. Wuguan is more dangerous and the casualties will be high, and Wu Sangui will definitely sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. It is better to withdraw all the soldiers and horses first, return to the designated garrison area, and let them reorganize and merge with the local troops. Removal of local armed forces such as outer towns and tun towns, and further recruiting and surrendering fortresses, exterminating bandits, etc., can not only solve the problem of food and grass supply, but also stabilize the local area, especially in the newly recovered Shandong, Henan, and Hubei provinces, as well as many chieftains. The less stable southwest Yunnan, Guizhou, Guizhou, Bashu and other places.

Now Henan, Hubei and other places need a lot of food and grass to rescue the people, and they can't supply too many troops gathered here.

Moreover, the imperial court is so urgent that Nikan is likely to join forces with Wu Sangui, so it is better to leave a few towns here to block it, and Nikan will not be able to afford it.

He either had to go out to fight the Ming army, or he had to continue to Guanzhong to borrow a way from Wu Sangui.

He even went to destroy Wu Sangui, a rebellious boy, and seized Guanzhong.

If the pressure on Zhu Yihai's side is a little looser, the chances of a merger between Nikan and Wu Sangui will increase a lot.

For Zhu Yihai, he was very satisfied with successfully regaining the three provinces of Shandong, Henan and Hubei this time, and won them without bloodshed.

Next, instead of rushing to fight Nikan and Wu Sangui to compete for Guanzhong, it is better to take a step back, wait a while, and let the land in hand be stable first.

In particular, Jin Shenghuan, Li Chixin, and other towns and towns such as Jin Shenghuan and Li Chixin, who have been shelved for a long time, should be rectified.

With the lessons learned from Wang Guangen and others, Zhu Yihai will never really rest assured of a military leader like Jin Shenghuan. He used to consider the overall situation, so he could only bear with him and appease them, allowing them to become warlords on the separatist side. You can only endure the misbehavior.

But now that we have this condition, we have to take back the military power first.

Only by confiscating the military power of these military leaders and reorganizing the armed forces in these places can we talk about local governance and local financial power, so as to stabilize the rear.

Zhu Yihai was pretty good to Jin Shenghuan and others.

After all, when they chose to join, they also contributed to his ZTE, so as long as he is willing to hand over his military power now, he will not do the thing of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.

"Shen Qing!"

Zhu Yihai handed over the imperial decree that had been drafted earlier to Shen Wenzhong, the envoy in charge of the administration.

Shen Wenzhong held the decree and read it out.

"Jin Shenghuan listens to the order!"

Jin Shenghuan was granted the title of Duke of Chang, hereditary, Jin Hussar General rank, [-] households, crown prince Taibao, governor of the fifth army of Jin Dynasty, governor of the left army and governor of the right, the first armor given by Tokyo, and hundreds of servants, Give Yongye [-] mu of land and [-] mu of land in Taiwan.

Posthumously bestow three generations of ancestors as the Dukes of the state, and grant the mother and wife a first-class imperial order.

One of Yin's sons was a Xunwei, one entered the Imperial Academy, and the other entered the lecture hall.

Give python robes and jade belts, silver seals and gold medals.

A reward of 1 silver dollars! "

Since Jin Shenghuan entered this hall today, he has been restless.

After the emperor ordered the imperial battalion to garrison the provinces, and Liu Mu's eighth town was stationed in Jiangxi, he was very disturbed.Liu Mu's eighth town was originally the merger of the two towns' imperial battalions, and the soldiers and horses were basically full, and Yingzhou did not lose much after the war.

Now they want to be stationed in Jiangxi, and they have to merge with his foreign town in Jiangxi and Zhang An, Wang Deren and other troops, so there is no place for them.

Sure enough, now the emperor directly wants to transfer him to the court.

The official title given is very high.

According to the current new military system, the imperial court’s Dudufu of the Five Armies has roughly resumed the responsibilities of the Dudufu of the Fifth Army in the early Ming Dynasty. The Dudufu of the Five Armies is now assigned to the military command .

The Ministry of War is in charge of the right to deploy troops.

The commanding power under the administration of the Dudufu is also divided into five parts, which belong to the five Dudufu.

Both the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies are directly responsible to the emperor, and the Ministry of War is also under the leadership of the cabinet.

The Ministry of War is responsible for formulating strategic decisions, handling national defense affairs, recruiting, reviewing, and dispatching troops.

The Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies is the highest commanding body of the national army, in charge of the command and training of the Ming army, guards, relocation, rewards and punishments.

The Dudufu of the Five Armies does not belong to each other, but directly belongs to the emperor.

And when going out, the emperor selected generals and set up another battalion.

In this way, the power to deploy troops, the power to command troops, and the power to hold troops are divided into three parts.The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has the importance of commanding troops, but has no right to send troops, and the two check each other.

After the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, the Commander's Mansion of the Five Armies of the Ming Dynasty actually abolished its duties and returned to the Ministry of War.

Now the emperor has gradually restored the five-army governor's mansion, which actually restored the emperor's military power, especially now that the five-army governor's mansion is not under the cabinet and is directly responsible to the emperor. , aggravating the emperor's military power.

Each of the five military governors controlled several provincial armies, but they did not divide the whole country into five major war zones, but cross-commanded them like the twelve guards in the Sui Dynasty governed the soldiers.

For example, Jiangdong Province belongs to the former military governor's mansion, while the adjacent Jiangxi province belongs to the right army's governor's mansion, Zhejiang province belongs to the left army's governor's mansion, Fujian province belongs to the Chinese army's governor's mansion, and Guangdong province belongs to the rear army's governor's mansion. Guangxi is under the former military governor's office.

Through such a cross-command, try to weaken the military command of the five-army governor's mansion and avoid threats.Instead of assigning all the southwestern and southwestern provinces to the Rear Military Commander's Mansion, and all Jiangnan and Fujian provinces to the Right Army Commander's Mansion.

The five armies' governor's mansions, each of the governor's mansions does not have a major governor, but only the left and right governors, the left and right governors and the same prefects.

The rank of the left and right governors is very high. After all, they nominally command one-fifth of the country's army, but they only have the command power but not the power to deploy troops. The real military power is in the hands of the emperor. The prime minister's office assists in handling military affairs, and the cabinet has no real military power.

The left and right governors are all officials stationed in Beijing, but in fact they are not as good as the admirals of the towns, the generals of the associations, etc. After all, they cannot directly command the army.

This is a typical ups and downs.

Especially the complete deprivation of the command of the army. The town he recruited and trained so hard, he has been operating in Nanchang for several years, but now he has no military power at all.

But in this situation, he no longer has the power and strength to refuse.

He understands that no matter whether he agrees or not, he will not be able to go back to Nanchang, and even the Jiangxi soldiers and horses he brought to Nanyang will soon be reorganized with the towns.

In the past few years, the emperor has gone step by step to the present. He had expected that today would happen, but there was nothing he could do.

Now that it has finally come to this point, there is absolutely no room left.

"Duke Chang, are you dissatisfied with the reward?"

After Shen Wenzhong finished reading the imperial edict, he saw that Jin Shenghuan could not come forward to thank him for accepting the edict, so he reminded him directly.

"I don't dare, it's just that I was too happy for a while, and I got carried away with complacency, and I'm rude!"

Jin Shenghuan trembled, he thought of Wang Guangen, Liu Chengyin, Huang Chaoxuan, Zhang Xianbi and other generals who rebelled against Emperor Shaotian and ended up with their heads.

"Chen Jin Shenghuan thanked His Majesty Hong En, long live long live long live long live!"

Knowing that he had no room to resist at all, Jin Shenghuan was full of frustration, thinking that when he was under Zuo Liangyu's command, he was used to seeing the domineering warriors and generals, as long as he had soldiers in his hand, the emperor would be helpless.

So he followed Zuo Liangyu to the south to the Qing Dynasty, and then followed Zuo Menggeng to the Qing Dynasty, and then rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and returned to the Ming Dynasty. All he did was for the power in his hands.

But now, the emperor's authority is as high as the sky, so he can't afford to resist at all.

Although he has been occupying northern Jiangxi for several years, the imperial court has distributed his power bit by bit through Zhang An, Wang Deren and other generals, and has gradually taken away local administration, finance and taxation powers. He has long been facing the court, and even his soldiers are paid by the court. If he really wants to rebel, few people will follow him.

It doesn't seem too bad to change this ending now.

At any rate, there is still a hereditary prince, even if he descends to the first class, he can pass it on for seven or eight generations.

Wang Deren granted Yuzhang the Duke of Yuzhang, sealed 5000 households, added Prince Shaobao, rewarded [-] yuan in silver, and served as the governor of the Jin Youjun Governor's Office.

Zhang An was granted the title of Duke of Jianchang County, sealed 5000 households, added the crown prince Shaobao, and rewarded him with [-] yuan in silver.

Other leaders of the regiments in Jiangxi, such as General Yan Luo, Jie Chongxi, Cao Dahao, Zhang Zisheng, Hong Guoyu, Wang Laiba, Fu Dingquan, Yang Qilong, Wei Ruqing, Wang Sanyan, Ning Wenlong, Chen Derong, Luo Yafu and other former rebel generals, are all recruits Ma uprising against the Qing Dynasty, and later reorganized into regiment training.

This time, they were also promoted to rank by Zhu Yihai, and each was granted the title of Baron Hou Bozi according to his level of meritorious service.

Some were transferred to the imperial camp, some were transferred to the central government, and some were transferred to other provinces in exchange for further comprehensive reorganization of local regiment training and control.

Facing the emperor's decree, the generals in Jiangxi all stepped forward to thank them for accepting the decree.

Zhang An is from a barbarian family. He led the barbarian army known as the Longwu New Army. He once reported 5 horses. Later, he counted and reorganized, and kept [-] troops stationed in northern Jiangxi. Set up a town, but instead of using Zhang An as the commander-in-chief of the regiment, he was also transferred to the court.

He was very dissatisfied and protested in court, but the emperor comforted him, saying that he would be transferred to the imperial court and the officers of his Longwu Army would also be rewarded and reused.

The elite Dongman of the Longwu Army will also be promoted to the imperial battalions of various towns for reuse, and the rest will be the main force of Gannan Tun Town. The imperial court will allocate land to them, and even if they are eliminated, they will give them priority in buying land Eligibility to sell official land at a lower price.

No matter how much he objected, Zhu Yihai comforted him with a smile all over his face, but he didn't compromise at all.

In the end, he could only retreat with resentment.

Everyone looked at this barbarian, and they were all sweating for him. If it weren't for the emperor Shengming, he would almost lose his head because of his behavior, so disobedient and contradicting the emperor.

But even if he is not killed now, after entering the court, he will probably only sit on the bench until he dies for the rest of his life. What a barbarian, does his head lack any tendons?
These military leaders in Jiangxi and Jiangxi were dealt with at once.

The army leaders in Hubei, Hunan, Hanzhong, Guizhou and other places are easier to deal with. These places have been rectified several times before. This time the emperor also transferred some army leaders to the central government for promotion, and some were transferred to other provinces for appointment.

Some outer towns and original provincial battalion soldiers were transferred from Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang, Sichuan and Shaanxi, and went south to Yunnan, Guangxi nobles and Hainan to form new towns.

And transferred many of the outer towns and towns that were eliminated during this reorganization to train troops as post soldiers, restored the post roads leading to Sichuan-Shanxi, Sichuan-Yunnan, Hunan-Guizhou, etc., and established post stations in various places.

There are also quite a few military officers from other towns, towns and regiments who have been transferred to civilian positions this time.

The emperor's intentions are very obvious. He only trusts the imperial camp and the Beijing camp, and is replacing the provincial camps and outer towns with the imperial camp. Although everyone feels a little unfairly disappointed by this, they take it for granted, and it would be the same for anyone else.

The emperor's current handling is already taking care of everyone.

"I will give you one year to complete the reorganization. In one year, you will have to clean up the thieves and bandits in your respective defense areas. Reorganization, training, suppression of bandits, and security of the people will be your main tasks in the next year. Food, Salary, ordnance, the imperial court will fully supply and guarantee you, but you must also show results.

Another point is that the food and salaries I give are already generous enough. Anyone who dares to withhold military salaries, or even eat them empty, will have very serious consequences. My eyes and ears are in every corner of the entire army. Don't blame me for being rude. "

(End of this chapter)