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Through what he said just now, they knew that Liu Sheng not only wanted to establish a new dynasty, but also wanted to make the new dynasty prosperous beyond the previous dynasties, and even solve some problems that the previous dynasties could not solve.

After coming back to his senses, Li Changwen recalled his belief when he first joined the Wei tribe, and was the first to express his position: "I agree with this matter - neither destruction nor establishment. Only by boldly breaking the previous stereotypes and establishing a better new system can Longjiang be prosperous. The production efficiency of shipyards and other government factories is far higher than before."

He Yingrui and other officials from the Ministry of Industry were also impressed by Liu Sheng's words, and they immediately raised their hands and said, "I second my opinion!"

"I second the proposal"

"···"

Seeing that the thoughts of officials from the Ministry of Industry had been unified, Liu Sheng said: "Then set up a special agency to be responsible for guiding and supervising official factories including Longjiang Shipyard to carry out organizational, production and other reforms.

Let's call it the Official Factory Reform Promotion Bureau. Liu Lin has the title of Assistant Minister of the Processing Department and concurrently serves as the Director of the Promotion Bureau. "

At present, the position of Right Minister of the Ministry of Industry in Da'ei is still vacant. Liu Sheng gave Liu Lin the title of Minister of the Processing Department and entrusted him with important tasks. He obviously intended to promote him to the position of Right Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Although Liu Linchang was in his late forties, and he was a Jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, he had been in officialdom for more than twenty years. At this time, he couldn't help but feel a little excited. He immediately stood in the center of the hall and bowed deeply to Liu Sheng, "I accept the order to thank you! "

After the meeting, Liu Sheng left Li Changwen alone again.

He said: "It seems that if we want to build a reliable fleet in Da'ei, it will take at least several years. In this case, whether we can truly win over the Zheng family is even more important."

"What your Majesty said is true." Li Changwen agreed, "Although the Zheng family fleet is not as good as the Xiyi fleet, it is skilled in warfare and has many naval elites who can guard the East China Sea.

As long as the Zheng family sincerely surrenders to Dawei, the peace of the southeastern seaboard can be guaranteed for at least several years. "

"Then what do you think, sir, how to bring the Zheng family back home?"

Li Changwen said: "The first is to be ennobled; the second is to get married."

When talking about the latter method, Li Changwen obviously hesitated.

He had some guesses about Liu Sheng's origin, and he also knew Liu Sheng's temperament, and was worried that Liu Sheng would resent the marriage.

But he was wrong.

Liu Sheng neither likes nor dislikes marriage - if a major political goal can be achieved through marriage, he will never mind.

So he nodded and said, "When the uncles and nephews of the Zheng family arrive in Nanjing, sir, let's find out what they think."

"Yes."

···

In the second year of Qianyuan, August 19th.

Important news came from Guangxi Xunfengwei, which stated that Fang Zhenru, the governor of Guangxi, was determined to surrender.

Liu Sheng then summoned Li Changwen and other military ministers to discuss the matter in Tianxin Palace.

Before everyone arrived, Liu Sheng first looked at Fang Zhenru's relevant information - in fact, he had read it before, and now he was looking at it again to prevent misremembering the information.

Fang Zhenru, courtesy name Haiwei, was born in Tongcheng and later moved to Shouzhou.

That is, today's people from Dawei and Huainan Province.

He was a Jinshi in the 41st year of Wanli, and he is fifty-nine this year.

He served as county magistrate for a time in the early days, and later he basically did the censor's duties, such as admonishing, supervising the army, and pacifying the army. He was quite active during the Tianqi period, but because he repeatedly offended Wei Zhongxian, he was eventually framed and imprisoned and sentenced to hanging. But Fang Zhenru was lucky. He did not wait until the day of execution. Emperor Tianqi was gone. Chongzhen ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world. Fang Zhenru was released and returned home.

Later, when bandits invaded Fengyang Mansion in the eighth year of Chongzhen Emperor's reign, due to the absence of the chief official of Shouzhou, Fang Zhenru stepped forward and led the army and people to guard the city. He was recommended as a counselor of Guangxi and was soon promoted to governor of Guangxi.

But in actual terms, Fang Zhenru only served as governor of Guangxi for two or three years.

Moreover, according to Xunfengwei, Fang Zhenru's health has not been very good since arriving in Guangxi. In addition, the situation in Guangxi was quite complicated at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so Fang Zhenru did not really control the military and political power of the entire Guangxi.

In fact, in the environment of the late Ming Dynasty, even Shen Youlong, who served as governor of Guangdong and Guangdong and also served as governor of Guangdong, had very limited control over Guangdong.

Not to mention the one after another peasant uprisings and bandits everywhere, there are also conflicts between locals and Hakkas, and conflicts between Han and ethnic minorities. Of course, the most important thing is that the local gentry and clans are too powerful and have taken away a lot of power from the government. .

The situation in Guangxi in the late Ming Dynasty was roughly the same.

Before the Yi army sent troops to Guangdong last year, Guangxi received news that Beijing had been defeated by the Shun army and that Chongzhen had died for his country, and things suddenly became more chaotic.

First, Jingjiang King Zhu Hengjia, whose fiefdom was in Guilin, claimed to be the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty. Then Gui King Zhu Youlang, who fled to Guangxi (his father Zhu Changhui died early due to his escape), was supported by some civil servants and military generals as emperor.

Fang Zhenru was initially controlled by Zhu Hengjia's troops and was forced to side with King Jingjiang; later he escaped during the war and joined the small court of King Gui.

It turns out that this small court has long been controlled by people with ulterior motives. It can be said that the temple demon is powerful. He, the governor of Guangxi in the Chongzhen Dynasty, did not have much say and could not play much role.

Coupled with Xunfengwei's secret contact and persuasion, Fang Zhenru decided to surrender.

But now Guangxi is actually fragmented - King Gui and King Jingjiang each control a large part of the area, and some chaotic local forces also control a lot of places.

Therefore, although Fang Zhenru decided to surrender to the Wei army, it would be impossible for the Wei army to rely on this to make Guangxi, like Fujian and Guangdong, surrender without a major war.

After Li Changwen, Li Banghua and other military ministers arrived, Liu Sheng first explained the situation, and then said: "Not only is the situation in Guangxi complicated, but there are also chieftain rebellions in Yunnan and Guizhou, and even state and county officials often have independent regimes.

Now that Fang Zhenru is determined to surrender to Wei and provide internal support for our army, I want to send troops this autumn to capture Guangxi and advance to Yunnan and Guizhou. What do you think? "

Li Banghua, who participated in the political affairs of the Military Affairs Council and was the left minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, said: "Since Yongxinghou (Li Dingguo) was stationed in Guangdong, he has been ordered to train troops for the southwest war. One year has passed, and he has already achieved some success.

Moreover, all the former Ming forces in Guangxi were not strong, and they were constantly fighting with each other, making it difficult to unite. I believe that Guangxi can be pacified by using the Fifth Division as the main force and sending 30,000 to 50,000 troops to assist. "

Zhu Dadian, Ma Shimin and others nodded after hearing this.

In fact, what Li Banghua said is quite conservative - based on what the Military Affairs Council knows about the military combat capabilities of Guangxi King Gui, Jingjiang King and other pre-Ming and local forces, even if they only send one or two brigades of standing troops, they are very sure to defeat them. , but because there are fewer soldiers, the fight may be slower.

But in the past year, not only did the Fifth Division of the Standing Army conduct extensive training to adapt to the southwest climate and environment, but it also trained tens of thousands of Guangdong garrison troops and tens of thousands of civilian soldiers.

Therefore, if Dawei takes Guangxi, there will be no shortage of soldiers and horses, but the pressure on food and fodder will be slightly greater.

In this case, it is time to send out large numbers of troops to quickly pacify Guangxi to avoid prolonging the war and save food and grass.

Li Changwen considered the civil affairs aspect and said: "In the melee between all parties in Guangxi, it is the people who suffer, and local production will inevitably be delayed. If our army can pacify Guangxi as soon as possible, the people of Guangxi can enjoy peace and resume production earlier."

Liu Sheng nodded slightly when he heard this.

Later, he discussed other important aspects of capturing Guangxi with several military and aircraft ministers. In the afternoon, they convened an enlarged meeting on the matter with the ministers of the Military Council and the Minister of Military Aircraft in Wuying Hall.

The next day, a relevant imperial edict was sent to Guangdong—Pingnan General Yongxing Marquis Li Dingguo was ordered to lead the Fifth Division of the Standing Army as the main force, and to recruit more than 50,000 Guangdong and Hunan garrison troops and civilian soldiers to pacify Guangxi!

On the day when this imperial edict was issued, Zheng's delegation also arrived in Nanjing... (End of this chapter)