Chapter 52: Heavenly Gate
In the past year and a half, as long as Liu Yongxi personally goes out, he has always been invincible, so Empress Zhang has absolute confidence in Liu Yongxi militarily, and Princess Kunxing on the side also feels that there are military problems that cannot be solved without Liu Yongxi: "Brother Yongxi only needs to be responsible for leading the troops, and the affairs of the rear can be handed over to us!" ”
Liu Yongxi himself does not have the absolute confidence of Empress Zhang and Princess Kunxing, history has completely departed from the original trajectory, and he can no longer see the killing opportunities and God-given opportunities hidden in the great waves of the times.
Although Liu Yongxi used all means to seize almost all the fighters, if it weren't for Princess Kunxing's unruly surrender of the Fang Guo'an Department and crossing the river in time to completely reverse the tide of the battle, I am afraid that the situation would have developed in an unpredictable direction.
Although it is now a big victory to recover the whole of Zhejiang, Liu Yongxi reminded himself that he must not be careless, so he said very seriously: "Thank you Sister Yan and Jin'er, the top priority at the moment ......"
At present, the affairs of the small imperial court of the prison country can be said to be complicated, and there are countless urgent tasks, but Liu Yongxi still gave an unexpected answer: "The top priority at the moment is to seize the time to reorganize the army, and those troops who have more than enough people and are not able to use must be vigorously rectified, this matter is the top priority, more important than anything else!" ”
Although Liu Yongxi only said "reorganizing the army," everyone knows that the whole army is another way of saying "disarmament," so they all feel a little surprised, especially the more civilian officials look at Liu Yongxi now, the more pleasing they are.
Liu Yongxi, now officially known as the Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses, holds the supreme military command of the small imperial court in charge of the country, and everyone thinks that he will represent the military to make proposals for a large-scale expansion of the army at the imperial council, and help the military get more power from civilian officials.
However, no one expected that Liu Yongxi would replace the "expansion of the army" with the "reorganization of the army"; although in the process of "reorganizing the army," Liu Yongxi and the descendants of the imperial court would not be disarmed, but would further expand their establishment, many units that were old, weak, sick, and disabled, and who lacked combat strength but had more than enough harm to the people would certainly be compressed and organized in this round of army reorganization.
Now there may be 100,000 troops under the command of the small imperial court of the prison country, but when it comes to this army with great achievements, everyone thinks that it is completely mixed, and the source of the army is too complicated, and all cats and dogs are mixed in.
Except for the old Jingkou Town led by Liu Yongxi, the rest of the troops, even the headquarters of Wang Zhiren and Zhang Mingzhen, need a certain period of time to rectify, not to mention that many of the newly built troops are simply here to drag their feet, although the establishment is huge, but the combat strength is weak and disturbs the people, and the "army rectification" mentioned by Liu Yongxi is indeed the first major event of the country.
Therefore, the civilian officials all felt that Liu Yongxi said it too well, although it was now during the war, everyone agreed to make an exception and expand the power of the military, but the military could not completely override the civilian officials or even form a situation of feudal towns like the Hongguang Dynasty, and Liu Yongxi gave a satisfactory answer.
Zhang Guowei accepted Liu Yongxi's suggestion on behalf of the cabinet: "King Yue said very much, although he will fight the world immediately, he cannot rule the world immediately, what does General Xing think? ”
As the number two person in the military, Xing Shengping's idea is relatively simple: "It's a good thing to organize the army, but I don't know how to start!" ”
Liu Yongxi immediately said: "Others don't know how to organize the army, but you can't win and draw, as the commander of the army, you are fully responsible for the affairs of the whole army of tens of thousands of troops, and the troops that complete the whole army are also under your command!" ”
This is Xing Shengping's favorite answer, he can't help but think of the good old days, when the 30,000 troops on the battlefield in Hangzhou were under his full command, and Zhang Guowei, a university scholar, was very cooperative, Xing Shengping actually held the military and political power, and now Liu Yongxi once again let him take charge alone.
Liu Yongxi's old department is most lacking in a character who can take charge of himself, although Xing Shengping is also lacking, but at least he has been tested in the Battle of Hangzhou and has not been in a big mess, so Liu Yongxi will choose Xing Shengping.
Mrs. Xing, who had been silent, couldn't help laughing: "That Shengping is double happiness, both to be able to seal the uncle and to be alone, Shengping, try to put as much thought as possible about the whole army, after all, the soldiers are not more but the fine." ”
Empress Zhang has already reached a consensus with Liu Yongxi on this matter: "It's just that Sanxi is coming, I have discussed it with Xiaoxi, General Xing Shengping is ready to be the governor of Anqing!" ”
The governor of Anqing, also known as the governor of Anlu, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, is "the governor of Anlu Taichi place", the jurisdiction includes Anqing Mansion, Luzhou, Taiping Mansion, Chizhou Mansion, the establishment of this governor is actually the precursor of the establishment of Anhui Province, and the first governor of Anqing is the famous Shi Kefa.
And Liu Yongxi opened his mouth and said: "There is an Azig army upstream, everything is entrusted to Shengping, I think the governor of Anqing is not as good as the governor of Anhui, Zhang Xiangguo, what do you think!" ”
Zhang Guowei served as the governor of Yingtian who governed the entire Nanzhili in the seventh year of Chongzhen, and he can be said to know the situation of Nanzhili well, and even the establishment of the governor of Anqing is the result of Zhang Guowei's repeated calls, so as soon as Liu Yongxi said "Anhui Governor", he understood: "King Yue means to prepare to divide the provinces, including Huizhou Mansion and Ningguo Mansion?" I think this idea is feasible, that is, Jin Sheng is also in Huizhou, and he must be given a suitable name!"
Liu Yongxi nodded and said: "For the time being, let's give the name of a military department scholar, if he has the idea to add another scholar, this is not a big problem, Shengping, since you are the governor of Anhui, then Anqing Mansion and Huizhou Mansion cannot be missing!"
Since ancient times, the Jinling regime has fought against the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and will definitely strive for Anqing, but Liu Yongxi felt that the name of the governor of Anqing alone was not enough to fight the upstream, so Liu Yongxi decided to add the governor of Anhui with reference to the historical development of another time and space, so that Xing Shengping could concentrate on fighting against the Azig army advancing eastward along the river.
Although the establishment of Anhui Province is a very long process, it is an unstoppable trend, the Ming Dynasty's "Nanzhili" area is too large, it must be divided into provinces, and Xing Shengping finally understood the meaning of Liu Yongxi's words.
Although he didn't understand the difference between the governor of Anqing and the governor of Anhui, it was obvious that the position of governor of Anhui was more important and the responsibility was greater, and Liu Yongxi said very clearly: "There is Jianghan and no Huaisi, the country will be weak, there is Huaisi and no upstream of Jianghan, the country will be in danger, victory and peace, I will recover the southern capital, but Anqing and Huizhou I will hand over to you, the Tianmen Uncle!"
Xing Shengping had heard the news that he was going to be named an uncle before, but now Liu Yongxi clarified his title "Tianmen Bo" for the first time, but he didn't know the meaning of this "Tianmen Bo".
And Zhang Guowei knew that Xing Shengping was once a poor scholar and had read a lot of books, so he immediately smiled and said: "Uncle Tianmen, have you ever read Li Taibai's Wangtianmen Mountain!"
As soon as Zhang Guowei said this, Xing Shengping understood: "Naturally, after reading it, is this Tianmen Mountain Liangshan?" ”
This Liangshan is not the historical Shuibo Liangshan, but the earlier famous Dongliang Mountain, and the West Liangshan across the river, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and Jinling will be around the East Liangshan fierce contention, in a sense, the East Liangshan is the last barrier to protect Jiankang to deter the upstream enemy, known as "control the country, dense Jiyi, from the upstream, then Liangshan as its key point", is the real sense of the soldier to rush.
Liu Yongxi also read out Li Taibai's poem looking at Tianmen Mountain: "The gate of heaven is interrupted and the Chu River is opened, and the blue water flows eastward to this time." The green mountains on both sides of the strait are opposite each other, and the lonely sail comes from the side of the sun, winning and flattening, the Southern Dynasty has always been the clan to take on the heavy responsibility of fighting against Jingxiang, and you and I are also a family!"
Mrs. Xing heard this and added: "Shengping, don't live up to your brother-in-law's hard work!"
Although Liu Yongxi and Mrs. Xing said more implicitly, everyone present understood that Xing Shengping, the Tianmen Bo who sat in Anhui, not only got this position because of his ability, qualifications, and strength, but also because Liu Yongxi let him go through Jianghuai because he could be regarded as half of the clan in this dynasty, and he was Liu Yongxi's own family that he could absolutely trust.
Therefore, Xing Shengping was also very excited: "Please rest assured that my sister and brother-in-law will ensure that the upstream is foolproof, and my brother-in-law can let go of Nanjing!"
Liu Yongxi smiled happily: "Shengping, first do the first step to reorganize the army beautifully!"
And Zhu Dadian, a scholar who came from Jinhua, took advantage of Liu Yongxi's good mood and asked: "King Yue, Niangniang and the princess of Jianguo, since there are now governors of Anhui and Jiangxi, the candidates for the governors of Yingtian and Zhejiang should be decided as soon as possible, and it is best to use both civil and military!"
Although there are a bunch of scholars and six scholars in the small imperial court of the prison country, but now the governor is the real power in the real sense, and now the two governors are not from the right path in a sense, Xing Shengping is a military general out of Anhui, there is no such precedent in this dynasty, and Jiangxi governor Wang Sun Fan is only a person, in a sense is also a real outlier, Zhu Dadian suspects that the Jinshi is no longer as dominant as in the past.
And Liu Yongxi shook his head and said: "Now the country only has one province, Zhejiang, so there is no need to set up a governor of Zhejiang, but a governor of the sky......"
Speaking of Yingtian, Liu Yongxi, the governor of Yingtian, said very solemnly: "Let's wait for the recovery of the southern capital and then think about it, although there is Tianmen Bo in charge of passing through Jianghuai in Jinling, but this matter is really not so easy!"
This is the second time that Liu Yongxi has complained about the matter of entering Jinling, but Queen Zhang has increased her confidence in him because of Liu Yongxi's plan just now: "Xiaoxi doesn't have to complain, you have to fight Jinling, no matter how difficult it is, you must take Jinling back, and then we will worship Xiaoling together!"
The princess of the prison country also has infinite confidence in Liu Yongxi: "Yes, this matter can only be done by Brother Yongxi, Brother Yongxi really doesn't have to complain!" No matter what difficulties there are, it's up to us to figure out a way, and when the southern capital is recovered, I can marry Brother Yongxi!"