Chapter 346: The New Cabinet

Another task in Shandong is to collect the displaced people, the starting point city plans to build a wharf warehouse along the Huangpu River in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, and the main goods hoarded are all kinds of cloth in another time and space, which can be sold along the Yangtze River to inland provinces, so textile factories will be built in Shanghai County in the future.

The weaving industry in the south of the Yangtze River such as Songjiang and Suzhou is very developed, and the cultivation of cotton is very extensive, which is the origin of textile raw materials in this time and space.

In Shanghai County, it is planned to settle 20,000 or 30,000 Shandong immigrants for infrastructure construction, and Songjiang Prefecture, to which Shanghai County belongs, is one of the richest areas in the Ming Dynasty.

If there are more victims, they can also migrate to Tianjin, Jidiancheng, Incheon and other places. According to Wang Yue's vision, the immigration work will be long-term, and Taiwan and Liaodong will need a large number of immigrants in the future.

Shandong's work is basically these, Wang Zhuo is the commander of Shandong, and Wang Yue has no interest in participating in the subordinate guards. According to the regulations of the imperial court, the envoys were commanded to have all the management rights of the guards, but did not have the right to transfer troops, not to mention that these guards had been reduced to farms.

Zhang Jicheng will return from North Korea, and North Korea will leave a battalion to cooperate with Shen Shikui's immigration work in Dongjiang Town. He and Zhou Yan's second battalion went to Shandong with Wang Zhuo, Wang Zhuo went to Shandong mainly to handle the transfer of rights, and then returned to the starting point city to sit down.

Wang Yue said: "This time, the Anqing bandits were fought by Wang Hongwu of the Fourth Regiment and Feng Yuanshan of the Fifth Regiment, and the Public Security Army dispatched four regiments to assist. Since there are many mountain roads in the area where the bandits are suppressed this time, the logistics department must step up the production of horse-drawn wagons for logistical support. ”

One regiment of the Security Forces is 1,500 men, and these four regiments have been reloaded with foreign trade versions of muskets and equipped with handle grenades. The musket was a flintlock fixed rifle and equipped with a bayonet, with a rate of fire five times that of the local arquebus, firing eight to ten projectiles per minute, and an effective range of nearly 400 meters. In addition, a regiment of the security forces also has eight foreign trade steel cannons, with a caliber of 80 millimeters, which fire solid and scattered bullets, and the effective range of solid bullets is 1,200 meters.

The production of Type 56 submachine guns has not yet risen, especially the production of bullets has not yet been completely overcome.

The security army will obey the leadership of the Tiance Army, so there are two regiments of the security army under each regiment of the Tiance Army, and Wang Hongwu and Feng Yuanshan each led more than 4,500 troops on this expedition, which is already considered two brigades.

The security forces have not yet been fully re-equipped, and will undergo a major reorganization after the re-outfit.

The number of troops on this expedition is not less than that of the expedition to North Korea, which is a bit aggressive, so Feng Yuanshan said with a smile: "Commander, this is to wipe out all the rogues there!" ”

Wang Yue shook his head and said: "No, no, no, the focus of our work to suppress bandits this time is to publicize ourselves, and suppressing bandits is only secondary." ”

With the whole army of Tiance Army pressing, can you extinguish the rogue of the Ming Dynasty? Wang Yue thought that this was impossible, and it was impossible to completely exterminate the Liukou without an army of more than 100,000 to encircle it.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are actually no better than the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The reason why these people are called rogues is because they have no base area and no strategic purpose in mobile warfare. It is very easy for the Tiance army to defeat them, but this group of people is hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, once defeated, it will be scattered all over the mountains and wilderness, and the number of troops is small, and it is really a problem to catch them.

Even if Li Zicheng is eliminated, Zhang Zicheng will come out to fool the rebellion, because the soil for the rebellion has not undergone fundamental changes, and the symptoms are not cured, and there are too many people in the world who cannot survive.

Wang Yue believed that the greatest merit of the peasant war carried out by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the late Ming Dynasty was to wash the grassroots gentry of the Ming Dynasty, especially in Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, Jiangbei, Sichuan and other places, repeatedly fighting tug-of-war, destroying the traditional forces.

On June 15, Xue Guoguan was given death, which was four years earlier than he was given death in history, and Gao Wencai and other Jinyi guards were also given death, which was regarded as an explanation to Wang Yue. These people didn't do things thoroughly, and Chongzhen also felt that they deserved to die, but they still gave a decent way to die, instead of abandoning the city.

Yang Sichang was dismissed and demoted, which was a decision made by Chongzhen later, and Cao Huachun was also sent to inform Wang Yue. The strategy of suppressing bandits proposed by Yang Sichang is very much in line with Chongzhen's mind, and he is deeply valued by Chongzhen, so Chongzhen intercedes for him. Wang Yue is also very face-saving, and he did not delve into this matter, Yang Sichang has mixed achievements in history, and he is a very contradictory person.

After Chongzhen's nomination and the courtiers' recommendation, the cabinet added new cabinet members, and Zhou Yanru re-entered the cabinet, because he was old and served as his second assistant.

Re-enabling Zhou Yanru, Chongzhen has many considerations, he knows that Zhou Yanru has a holiday with Wen Tiren, and the activation of Zhou Yanru is also to put pressure on him to hurry up. However, Chongzhen does value his talents, otherwise he would not have appointed him as the first assistant twice.

In addition, Huang Shijun, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, also entered the cabinet to participate in the preparatory service. Chen Yan, the head of the Hanlin Academy, also entered the cabinet at the same time.

Xie Baoqing was at the bottom of the list, and he took over as the counselor of the Ministry of War.

Regarding the package proposed by Wang Yue for the guards of Jingying and Shuntianfu, Chongzhen agreed without hesitation. Although he had guessed Wang Yue's intentions, for him, who was extremely short of silver, even if it was poison, he had to swallow it.

But Chongzhen is not stupid, he knows that with silver, he can do a lot of things. The Royal Cement Factory continues to fulfill the cooperation contract, and now it receives more than 30,000 taels per month, the Royal Toy Store earns more than 10,000 taels per month, and the starting point city autonomy exchange conditions have an annual income of 100,000 taels, and the soldiers of the Beijing Camp Guard go out to work, and they earn more than 500,000 taels a year.

Seventy-seven-eighty-eight add up, Chongzhen's internal money will enter more than one million taels of silver a year, and if the starting point city covers all the military tuntian, it will be an income of two million taels a year. This is the silver that he can use at any time, and he is not afraid of being constrained by the courtiers.

Although Daming is short of money everywhere, the problem that Chongzhen wants to solve most at the moment is the problem of the starting point city. The military solution is the most thorough, and now that he has more sources of silver, he has a different kind of thought, but he has to wait for someone, this person is called Lu Xiangsheng, so he sent Xie Baoqing to the starting point city.

Xie Baoqing came to the starting point city for another purpose, that is, to urge Wang Yue to set off as soon as possible and rush to the front line of suppressing bandits.

"Lord Benbing, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations on your ascension!" Wang Yue bowed to Xie Baoqing. This soldier is another name for the Ming Dynasty's military department Shangshu.

Xie Baoqing shook his head helplessly with a bitter face and said, "Sihua, you are roasting me on the fire!" ”