Everyone laughed and walked to the workshop together, and the closer they were, they felt that the temperature was much hotter than the next place.

It's already May, and it's already quite hot in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and in another month you will almost be able to harvest wheat, and then you will be planting rice.

In the case of the Jiangnan region, the first season of early rice is harvested in July, and then another season of late rice is planted, and the acres of land are twice cropped in a year and the yield is high, and there are no floods after dredging Taihu Lake and several important rivers in the Jiajing period, and the life is much better than that in Jiangbei.

Here in the north of the Yangtze River, before the Yellow River seizes the Huai into the sea, the acres of fields are vertical and horizontal, there is no mountain after Xuzhou, and the water network of the large plain area is vertical and horizontal, if it is not a flood every few years, it may not be much worse than the south of the Yangtze River.

At least the Han and Tang dynasties of Yangzhou is an important town, the territory is much larger than now, at that time Yangzhou in the north of the Yangtze River is the richest place in the world, the so-called Yang Yi Yi two, not only economic, but also military and political are quite important, in contrast, the current Huaiyang place is also important, but on the power of wealth, it is indeed far worse than Jiangnan.

Min Yuanqi and others walked along the embankment by the river, and along the way, the wheat in the fields was close to maturity and had grown into a green and yellow color.

The water weeds and reeds in the ditch are rising high, and a green scene is proud.

At this time, a large crowd of people by the river greeted Min Yuanqi one after another, and many people knelt down in a hurry, and touched their heads to the ground, which was a big salute to Min Yuanqi......

"Fathers and elders are excused." Min Yuanqi's heart was happy for a while, and he remembered the depressed psychology of Hongguang's accession to the throne and the entry of the Qing army, which was also swept away at this time.

In any case, we must start with the right side of the water and soil.

This is the foundation of Min Yuanqi, the foundation of his family, and the place where the Min family has been guarded for generations.

Of course, you can't give up easily until you have to, and even if you really want to leave in the future, you have to lay a foundation for prosperity and self-preservation here.

Min Yuanqi knew that even though the Qing army moved south a year later, the Manchurian Eight Banners lost a lot of troops in the Battle of Yishi and Tongguan, the Battle of Henan, and the Battle of Huguang and Jingzhou.

When the Eight Banners of Manchuria entered the customs, it was about 70,000 people, and by about five years of Shunzhi, Chengding suddenly dropped to 50,000.

That's 20,000 dings less!

What is this concept?

Of course, so many people died in the battle with the main force and remnants of the Great Shun Army.

The performance of the Shun army after entering Beijing was indeed a big surprise.

In Zhuxian Town, the main force of the 140,000 Ming army was broken, although the main force of the Ming army at that time was mainly the second-line troops, and could not be compared with the main force of the Ming army in the battle of Songjin, but the main force would fight, and if it was won, it would be won, and Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers would really fight after 14 years in Chongzhen.

Later, he repeatedly broke the famous city of Dayi, obtained funds to raise soldiers, and the main force of the Shun army also reached a scale of about 200,000 people.

Among them, more than 60,000 people around Li Zicheng are the real elite of a hundred battles, defeating Sun Chuanting, breaking through the city all the way north to the Beijing Division, relying on the combat power of this old battalion soldier.

Then down is the army from Henan to Beizhi led by Liu Fangliang, which also has 50,000 or 60,000 people.

Then there was the troops led by Bai Wang and others in Huguang, the largest number of soldiers, although the number of soldiers was the least.

The troops led by Hao Shaoqi, Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo and others are also relatively elite.

From Jingshi to Guanzhong, and then to Huguang, the army faced the main force of the Eight Banners and the King of Sanshun, although he was defeated repeatedly, Li Zicheng did not lose his ambition, and he was still determined to defeat many times, and fought many battles with the Qing army.

At this point, Zhang Xianzhong was far behind, just after fighting with the Haoge Department, he hit the key point with an arrow, and the Great Western Army left the battlefield without a hard fight and fled directly to Yungui for development.

After Li Zicheng was killed, there were more than 100,000 remnants of the Shun army, when the Hongguang Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty had died, the remnants of the Shun army cooperated with the forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and fought with the Qing army many times in Huguang, and there were many gains, even more than several opportunities to recover the entire territory of Huguang, and could control the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

are all those gentlemen of the Southern Ming Dynasty, who would rather believe in the officers and soldiers who are useless, and dare not let go of the soldiers of the Shun army of the loyal battalion, and wait for Sun Kewang to surrender, the Great Western Army is difficult to support alone, and the soldiers of the loyal battalion have persisted in Hunan for many years, until Li Laixiang and others were killed during the Kangxi period, and the embers of the Shun army were completely annihilated.

Min Yuanqi already felt that the main force of the Shun army was actually lost in a stone, and later relied on the rest of the soldiers and horses to still reduce the Qing army so much.

Five years after arriving in Shunzhi, in addition to the more than 4,000 Manchurian Eight Banners stationed in Nanjing, in addition to Hangzhou and other key places where the Manchurian Eight Banners were garrisoned, there were only more than 10,000 Manchurian Eight Banners in the whole of South China, and the remaining more than 30,000 Ding were stationed in Beijing.

These "dings" only refer to the male chengding, ranging from fifteen to sixty, and the real elite main force, the Manchurian Eight Banners, has never exceeded 30,000 people.

Nuoda China, as long as there are more heroes, can we really bear to see China fall back into Hu Chen?

When Duoduo led the troops south, there were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and there were more than 100,000 people in Xuzhou Gaojie and Huainan Liu Zeqing alone, plus more than 200,000 Liu Liangzuo, 780,000 Huang Degong, more than 10,000 Caojiang elites in Nanjing, and more than 100,000 in Beijing.

As long as there is a little bit of a decent one of these foreign domains, Nanjing will not fall so quickly, and the Southern Ming Dynasty will also fight for decades later, and it will never be able to get it back.

If it weren't for the taxes in Nanjing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the annual war, the Qing court would have been unable to hold on.

When walking on the bank of the river, looking at the figures kneeling down one by one, looking at the faces with sincerity and thanking him, Min Yuanqi's heart was also extremely complicated, and even his heart was agitated.

There are soldiers, food, people, and geographical advantages, can they really only build ships and flee to the sea?

Maybe Min Yuanqi himself didn't realize that with the increase of his strength, and even after a year, his strength was not inferior to that of Jiangbei Zhuzhen, his mind had already undergone subtle changes, even if he had not made up his mind, but it was no longer Min Yuanqi who wanted to accumulate his family and flee a few months ago......

"Your Excellency, Your Majesty......"

On the way to the workshop, someone blocked the way.

It was Min Yuanqi who came, and the 300th household and the garrison department of the nearby Hekou Xuntang were also under the direct leadership of the Chinese army, and Min Yuanqi, the person in charge of the Chinese army, was also busy with his feet hitting the back of his head every day.

Some chief officers, because they have different thoughts, are afraid that there are too many daily military and political matters, and they will have a part with Min Yuanqi, no matter how busy they are, they have to go to Min Yuanqi to take a turn and leave, because they are afraid that they will be excluded from the circle after a long time.

It's rare for Min Yuanzhong to be like this, he is busy with his own affairs every day, he doesn't mix with other things, and he won't come over to ask for a meeting if he doesn't have important things.

"I've seen adults." Min Yuanzhong was wearing a cyan round-necked arrow robe, a sash around his waist, a waist knife hanging, a Fan Yang hat on his head, a short robe, narrow sleeves, and boots, looking like a capable military attaché.

As the war report arrived in Nanjing, the news also came back twice, and everyone knew Min Yuanqi's plan.

Everyone will be promoted as the military attache of the guard, the higher Min Yuanqi rises, the higher the official position of each person, and many people begin to tailor their clothes for a few days, preparing to make black gauze hats and military attaché uniforms.

But Min Yuanzhong, who was a Chinese officer, did not move, still wearing his round-necked arrow suit, and everyone faintly felt that it was Min Yuanqi's meaning, and then looked at Min Yuanqi himself, who was carried away in a short period of time, and then calmed down one after another.

Min Yuanzhong hugged his fists and saluted, and there was also unconcealable joy between his eyebrows, he made up his mind, and said in a deep voice: "My lord, the favor from the other side of Nanjing has come down, and Huaiyang Dao sent Zhou Zan to draw it over to inherit the will of His Royal Highness the Prison State of the Ministry of War...... My lord, grant it to the guerrilla general, the garrison of Yunti Pass, the governor of the Chinese army, and the commander of the Great River Guard! ”

Listening to Min Yuanzhong report down a large list of official titles, Min Yuanqi first felt funny, and then he was also solemn.

In any case, even if the Ming Dynasty has died in the country, this official position still represents a decent part of himself, and it is also a satisfactory explanation to Min Yuanzhong and other subordinates.

Tossed to this point, the original intention at the beginning was to defend the township, but after the development and growth to this point, who can not have the mind to go further?

If you can go further, who wants to be bland?

"Yuan Zhong, you and Yuan Jin, Zhijin, and Cuncheng also have their own official positions, right?"

When the battle exploits were reported, it was handed over to Min Qiande to take to Nanjing, in addition to the head, there were thousands of taels of silver, this time things went smoothly, Min Yuanqi knew that it was not only the reason why the silver was spent, but also the Huaiyang Dao Zhou Lianggong behind the force.

The energy of a civil official is by no means comparable to that of a thousand households.

Min Yuanzhong replied: "I awarded the deputy thousand households, the actual job of the hundred households, Yuan Zhi, Yuan Jin and Yang Zhijin, and the same is true of Gao Cuncheng." In addition, Guo Shangyi and Shen Liang and others were awarded 100 households. The camp position has not been granted, and it is estimated that after you take office, you will open a list and submit it, according to the usual practice, it is a formality. ”

There are conventions in the imperial court camp and the revolution, and it is indeed as Min Yuanzhong said, the head of the battalion has been determined, and the court will send a group of people to take care of the interests of each Jiangmen family, and the chief officer will protect more than half of it, so as to facilitate the control of the camp by the main general.

The system of the Ming Dynasty is very interesting, such as using civil officials to control military attachés, eunuchs guarding warehouses to monitor civil and military forces along the way, and Beijing Jingying and Nanjing Jingying have to add honors and nobles to preside over military equipment, so that all parties are contained, and no one can mobilize a soldier without a will.

Coupled with the monitoring of Jinyiwei and Dongchang Jishifanzi, there are also eunuchs guarding the town in the local area, in the past three hundred years, in addition to the change of seizing the door for a reason and Cao Jixiangzi's nephew led private troops to attack the imperial city, these more than 200 years are not only the Beijing division has no rebellion, that is, before the Beijing division was conquered, even if the military and political orders were not smooth, the civil and military officials who rebelled on the surface could not be found.

Even if Min Yuanqi completely mastered the two battalions, it would not be a great deal a few decades ago, and the Li family in Liaodong had more battalions, and he did not see any unusual measures from the imperial court.

At this time like this, several general soldiers in the four towns of Jiangbei are in charge of their own armies, and there are always more than ten or twenty general soldiers under their command, and Min Yuanqi's small official position is really not the same thing.

In fact, it is estimated that Zhou Lianggong, the Huaiyang Dao, does not want to raise Min Yuanqi too high all of a sudden, otherwise it is impossible for him to protect the general army, but the deputy general or staff general will lead a battalion of soldiers to garrison the Yantai area, and Nanjing is estimated to be resolutely disallowed.

"It's always a good thing." Min Yuanqi patted Min Yuanzhong on the shoulder and said with a smile: "This time, you have to raise your eyebrows." ”