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Chapter 305: Message ([-])

After the great victory at Maoshan, the Wei tribe gathered more than [-] Ming army prisoners in Nanjing.

Those who are selected and settle down as civilians will be paid a severance pay and be given land (according to the rules of the Ministry of Agriculture, it is equivalent to a tenant farm, but the rent is much lower than that of the landlord). Farmers only have the right to use and sublease once. Second subletting is not allowed.), and rations, seeds, and agricultural tools must be loaned.

Because only in this way can the eliminated soldiers be able to farm with peace of mind.

Of course, for those who really don't want to be farmers, Weibu also arranges another place to go, that is, to become an engineering soldier of Weibu.

You need to follow the orders from above to carry out various projects, such as water conservancy projects, roads and bridges, city construction, etc.

Although it seems to be the work of hard labor, the daily workload is definitely less than that of hard labor. The most important thing is that there is a salary and there is a certain promotion path.

As for those prisoners who have passed the selection and been incorporated into the civilian corps, the garrison or even the standing army, the Ministry of Health will provide one to two months of additional military pay depending on the situation.

In the past few days, the selection of these Ming army prisoners has been completed. Among the more than 11 people, there are more than 4 who need to settle down as civilians, and more than [-] are willing to continue to join the army and meet the recruitment conditions of the Kuei tribe.

To reorganize and settle these Ming army prisoners, and in addition to the fact that the Yi tribe already had 10,000+ troops in southern Zhili, the money and food consumed every month was a huge amount.

Although Weibu had confiscated the properties of three vassal palaces and many evil gentry and bullies before, and the family was quite strong, it would not be able to sustain it if there was no significant income for a long time.

Liu Sheng knew that the noble family of Nanjing Ming Dynasty must have a lot of wealth, but he did not expect so much.

He gained so much from just one Xinchengbo, which made Liu Sheng look forward to the properties of other Nanjing dignitaries of the Ming Dynasty even more.

Of course, Weibu is not a bandit and will not directly send troops to raid these people's homes for no reason.

But as nobles of the Ming Dynasty, they themselves stood on the opposite side of the Yi army.Not to mention, these nobles are somewhat unclean, and have even done many things that are not in compliance with the laws of the Kueibei.

It's too easy to find a reason to raid their homes.

Liu Sheng asked the newly formed embroidered clothing guards to cooperate with the personal guards to handle this matter. The first was to train the embroidered clothing guards, and the second was to convince the gentry and common people of Nanjing, at least so that they could not find any serious fault with the behavior of the Yibu.

After Li Weiqi finished reporting on the seizure of Zhao Zhilong's property and left, Liu Sheng asked people to recruit Li Niu, Huang Jie, and Li Rongguang.

"Zhao Zhilong's house being ransacked is likely to cause dissatisfaction among the nobles in the city, so you need to keep a close eye on these people during the next period of time.

These people may not be able to do big things, but if they do some small things, they will cause some trouble. "

The three men marched and said in military salute: "As ordered!"

The three of them did not retreat immediately, Huang Jie hesitated slightly and said: "Your Majesty, the personal guards are now responsible for the defense of the imperial city and the inner city, and their strength is no longer sufficient.

In addition, the Yangtze River Navy cannot always be responsible for the defense of the outer city - is it time for our Guards to expand its army? "

Liu Sheng smiled after hearing this, "I think you want to be promoted?"

The three of them laughed sheepishly, but did not deny it.

During this trip east, the Guards also made a lot of contributions, and the soldiers should be rewarded.

Liu Sheng said: "Don't worry, the expansion of the Guards is being planned - this time the Tiger Guards and Shengjie Guards will be expanded to one division; the Xiaoqi Guards are restricted by war horses and can only add one regiment first and become a reinforced brigade.

But at least you have to wait until these Ming army prisoners in Nanjing have completed their preliminary training. Then you will send people to the divisions and brigades of the standing army to select officers. You will have to supplement the missing troops of the standing army, right? "

Hearing the accurate news of army expansion from Liu Sheng's mouth, Huang Jie and the other two were very happy. They said goodbye and exited the Fengtian Palace.

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After the general officer training class was over, Jin Shenghuan led a group of guards on horseback to the garrison camp at the main campus.

Accompanying him were three other generals who were also studying in the training class, Lu Guangzu, Hao Xiaozhong, and Meichun.

Like him, Lu Guangzu and Hao Xiaozhong were once Zuo Liangyu's generals, but now the three of them don't deal with each other, and they don't talk to each other all the way.

Among the three, Lu Guangzu was the most hostile to Hao Xiaozhong - he was considered one of the Yuan Cong generals who followed Zuo Liangyu in Liaodong in his early years. Although he gradually broke away from the direct relationship and preferred to be a subordinate general, he was Zuo Liangyu's old subordinate for many years.

A few years ago, Hao Xiaozhong was the guard commander of Prince Hui's Mansion in Jingzhou. Later, he made a big mistake and escaped overnight to join Zuo Liangyu.

It was Zuo Liangyu who withstood the pressure from Prince Hui's Palace and saved Hao Zhongzhong's life. Later, he made him a servant general, and was promoted many times, and finally became the commander of the servants.

Unexpectedly, Hao Xiaozhong stabbed Zuo and his son in the back.

Lu Guangzu hated Hao Zhongzhong because of this, thinking that this person was ungrateful and not a good person.

Jin Shenghuan didn't like Hao Zhongzhong either, but he also didn't deal with Lu Guangzu - after all, he was a peasant soldier and the first to rebel against the Ming Dynasty during the Battle of Nanjing.

He looked at Mei Chun again.

This guy can't deal with any of the three of them.

Mei Chun was the hereditary commander of the Xiaoling Guard after Mei Yin, a noble nobleman of the Ming Dynasty (Zhu Yuanzhang's son-in-law).

However, the Xiaoling Guard declined rapidly after Yongle. By the Chongzhen Dynasty, there were only more than a thousand people left. Moreover, with insufficient food and pay and old equipment, it could hardly be regarded as an army.

However, when the Yi army entered the city, the Xiaoling Guards were the only ones who gathered troops to resist.

Fortunately, Liu Sheng issued an order in advance and surrounded the Xiaoling guards but did not kill them, thus allowing Mei Chun and others to survive.

Afterwards, they sent Zhang Kuang and Wu Yuan Sheng (a military and political officer of the Huben Guard Brigade) to persuade them to surrender many times, and promised to settle the Xiaoling Guards and not destroy Xiaoling. Only then did Meichun lead his troops to surrender.

After Jin Shenghuan heard about Mei Chun's surrender, he immediately realized that Liu Sheng was quite fond of this person.

This can be seen from the fact that Meichun only led more than a thousand people to surrender, but there were only a few guards behind him.

The treatment of these demoted generals in Weibu is divided into four levels, corresponding to brigades, regiments, battalions and sentries respectively.

That is to say, the Ministry of Education promised that as long as they passed the general officer training class examination, they would be assigned at least a certain level of official position.

In order to ensure their safety (or surveillance), the Ministry of Health assigned guards to all reduced generals with treatment above the battalion level.

For example, because he led more than 1 people to surrender and helped capture the Moling Pass, he was regarded as having made a great contribution, so he received brigade-level treatment and was equipped with a team of guards.

Meichun was only one level below him, receiving regimental-level treatment.

Although Hao Xiaozhong's backstabbing of the general was shameful, he still helped the Yibu to eliminate [-] to [-] Ming troops in one fell swoop, and thus received brigade-level treatment.As for Lu Guangzu, he used to be the most powerful under Zuo Liangyu, but now he is the worst, with only battalion-level treatment.

Although Jin Shenghuan didn't know why Liu Sheng fell in love with Mei Chun, it didn't prevent him from getting married to Mei Chun.

Seeing that he was about to leave the inner city, Jin Shenghuan rode close to Meichun and asked with a smile: "It's rare to have a half-day holiday today. I finished my homework in a while. Brother Mei, would you be interested in going to Tianxiang Tower for a meal and a drink?"

Mei Chun shook his head, "Not interested."

"Then what are Brother Mei's plans?"

"Go back to camp and read a book."

Jin Shenghuan was slightly annoyed. He didn't expect this Mei Chun to be so unkind and even pretending - we are all generals who surrendered to the enemy, so what are we pretending to do?

But he still had a warm smile on his face, and he changed the topic and said: "I heard that most of the surrendered troops will be organized into the garrison, and they will probably take over the Yangtze River Navy and be responsible for the defense of Nanjing's outer city.

If those of us pass the exam, we will most likely end up in the garrison as generals.What do you think about this, Mei? "

Mei Chun said calmly: "If you surrender, it will naturally be a matter of eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor."

Jin Shenghuan's lips twitched slightly when he heard this, and then he pretended to nod, "That's what Brother Mei said."

Then I couldn’t talk anymore that day.

After leaving the inner city, the four of them increased their horse speed slightly and soon arrived at the garrison barracks - they were ordered to complete their homework.

Studying in the general officer training class not only includes various theoretical courses, but also many practical courses.

For example, formation drills, trench drills, infantry and artillery coordination, etc.

Today, the prisoners of the original Ming army in Nanjing are divided into two places for training. One is the original Jingying garrison in the northwest of the city, and the other is the former military camp in the south of the city, which is now the garrison camp.

After Jin Shenghuan arrived at the garrison camp, he first met with the garrison brigade commander He Jin who was staying at the camp.

He Jin had only been in office for a few days - he studied in the general officer training class for a month and passed the first exam with good results.

Because he was the first initiator of the surrender of the five tribes in Hefei and made great contributions, he was assigned the position of brigade commander of the garrison.

As for Liu Xiyao and Lin Chengcheng, they only got a brigade deputy.

Currently, there are three security brigades stationed here at the Grand Campus, and most of the soldiers come from the original Fifth Division of Gezuo or the surrendered soldiers of Zhang Xianzhong's tribe.

But most of the officers were selected from the standing army of the Ministry of Commerce.

As for the other two garrison brigade commanders, one is Sun Kewang, who passed the general officer training class examination at the same time as He Jin.

The other one came from the Second Division of the Kueibu Standing Army, named He Yiming. It is said that he was originally the deputy of the Second Division.

Because He Jin and Sun Kewang have only taken office not long ago, these three brigades are currently dominated by He Yiming, commander of the First Brigade.

However, the First Brigade and the Third Brigade were both responsible for the defense of the outer city at this time, so He Jin would naturally handle matters in the camp.

He had received the military order and immediately dispatched four battalions of soldiers from the second brigade and gave them to Jin Shenghuan and four people to practice. He also supervised the four people to complete their homework and gave them grades.

Because the brigade political officer and brigade deputy were also there and were also responsible for scoring, He Jin did not dare to let loose, so he gave the four people a slightly higher score based on their actual level...
Fengtian Temple.

Liu Sheng was staring at the names of generals on the imperial examination papers and thinking, and occasionally he would write and draw.

He is building a defense system in Nanjing - this matter involves another old problem, which is where to set the capital.

After so long, he finally figured it out, that is to imitate Ming Dynasty.

The two capitals of the north and the south stand side by side. Nanjing will be the capital at the moment. After Beijing is conquered, Beijing will be the capital.In addition, the future Damei Zhongdu will be built near Tianmu Mountain to facilitate control of North America.

Railways will be built in the future, and there will also be ships, so I don't have to worry about traveling back and forth to several places.

For this reason, Nanjing's defense system must be well established.

The defense of the palace is in charge of the guards, the defense of the Forbidden City (Imperial City) and the inner city is in charge of the guards, and the defense of the outer city is handed over to the garrison.

Therefore, Liu Sheng prepared to form a security division in Nanjing.

However, there are currently three security brigades in Nanjing, but there are still more than [-] soldiers being trained.

After much thought, Liu Sheng decided to form two garrison divisions - in the future Northern Expedition, he would just take away the two garrison divisions.

"Your Majesty, Qian Qianyi, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, would like to see you!"

The guards came into the palace and announced that Liu Sheng came back to his senses.

'Most of the time the message has been written. '

Considering that tomorrow morning is the deadline of three days, Liu Sheng guessed this.

When Qian Qianyi was ushered in by the guards and after saluting, he handed over the finished message.

When Qian Qianyi saw Liu Sheng reading the memorandum, his heart was lifted again, and he kept saying in his heart: Confucius bless you, the king will be satisfied this time.

At the same time, he secretly observed Liu Sheng's expression, and when he saw Liu Sheng showing a slightly satisfied smile, he finally felt relieved.

Sure enough, after reading it, Liu Sheng said with a smile: "Mr. Mu Zhai's "Essay on Discussing the Ming Dynasty" was well written! In the afternoon, I sent people to spread it all over the world to tell the world!"

　First more.

　　Historically, when the Qing army entered Nanjing, only the Xiaoling Guards resisted.The Xiaoling Guards were originally special guards, but because there was no support from above, they actually became peasants in the late Ming Dynasty.At that time, it was said that there were still more than a thousand soldiers, but in fact only a few hundred people could be gathered.

　　They competed with the Qing army for the city gate, but were outnumbered and defeated. In the end, only 18 people retreated to Xiaoling, relying on the geographical advantage to defend.

　　The Qing army underestimated them and sent only 50 people to encircle and suppress them at first, but they were completely wiped out by these 18 people. Repeated several times, these 18 people wiped out more than [-] Qing troops successively, and finally all died in the battle!
　　It is said that many Nanjing people went to watch the Xiaoling Mausoleum on Zhongshan Mountain at that time. In the last battle, the Xiaoling Guards fought three of them and one of them fought to death.
　　
　
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