At the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of Chongzhen, Keelung County, Dayuan Island, ushered in a great news.

"It's not easy, this Jingshi finally fell into our hands after Wu Jie and their battle for more than three months."

Hong Chengchou, as the director of the left-behind staff department, was in a complicated mood at this time.

Anyway, he has been an official in Daming for many years, and he has been favored by the emperor, although he has been disappointed in the royal family before, but when he sees that Hongtang's army has taken the Ming Jingshi, he will still feel a little sad for Daming, and the taste is also something that others can't understand.

"The Ming Dynasty has not completely lost the hearts of the people, a Beijing division has stopped my Hongtang's footsteps for several months, and if you really want to attack the Central Plains, the time required is still immeasurable!"

Li Tianyang was quite emotional, she was full of confidence in the strength of the Hongtang army, but now that the Jingshi battle, it seems that their army is not really invincible.

"After all, the capital division is an important place in the Ming Dynasty, although now the Ming royal family has moved the capital to the south, but according to the military generals who guard the Beijing division, they are all the elites in the Ming court."

"Coupled with the fact that the Jingshi has been operated by many dynasties, and the fortifications are perfect and solid, it is already an incredible thing that our Hongtang army can take the Jingshi at the cost of losing 30,000 people."

Although his mood was complicated, when he heard Li Tianyang's somewhat meaningful tone, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but praise the Hongtang soldiers who were fighting on the front line.

"One Beijing division has lost nearly 30,000 manpower, and I'm afraid that if we go through a few more tough battles, the army of the Liaodong Military Region will be defeated!"

Li Tianyang shook his head and expressed his worries with some pessimism.

"Although we have suffered a lot of losses, but in the same way, we have captured a lot of captured Ming soldiers and civilians!"

Hong Chengchou pointed out the maze for Li Tianyang and said: "In the first battle of Tianjin Wei, in addition to the local people, we captured nearly 20,000 Ming Dynasty troops. ”

"And after the Jingshi was taken, the number of Ming Dynasty troops we captured and voluntarily surrendered also exceeded 30,000."

"These captured soldiers, after a little integration and training, can add to our army, although it will inevitably weaken the strength of our army, but exchanging quantity for quality may not be able to play a huge role."

Hong Chengchou talked eloquently, putting aside his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, his words were also extremely pertinent, and it was an important means for Hongmen to gain a foothold in the northern continent and peek into the Central Plains.

It's just that Li Tianyang, who is accustomed to the elite soldier system, actually doesn't look down on those military households in the Ming Dynasty army, and he doesn't want these guys to mix into the Hongtang army, but will make the Hongtang army with a good style get a lot of bad habits.

However, Li Tianyang is also a good woman at this time, although he is unwilling, but after thinking about it in every way, he can only follow Hong Chengchou's advice: "Regardless of the rest, in terms of military discipline, you have to send a document to Wu Jie, let him step up the handling of this group of surrendered soldiers, and don't let them break the system of our Hongtang army!" ”

This is also a helpless thing, after Li Tianyang told all this, he suddenly remembered something: "Those Ming Dynasty officials who were Fu, how are they going to use Wu Jie?" ”

"Except for the Ming Army's Zuo Shilang Blocking Yinxi and the Jingshi Commander behind his hand so that these two people still insist on being loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the rest of the Ming Dynasty generals have already persuaded us and have some ideas, and they can be used by me with more strength."

The information sent by Wu Jie was no matter how detailed, but it reported everything they were facing.

For these Ming generals who were able to hold on to the Beijing division for three or four months, Li Tianyang did not look down on the Ming military households as much as he did, but admired them a little more, but in addition to admiration, he paid more attention to the command ability of these people.

"It's better to let Wu Jie and them send these high-level generals and civil officials of the Ming Dynasty back to Dayuan Island to further their studies."

Li Tianyang thought about it and said what he thought.

"But if we do this, will it have a certain impact on our cleaning up and integration of troops?"

Hong Chengchou was a little disapproving, the ancient military system was actually not perfect, and as long as the middle and high-level generals were willing to use for their own use, they would be given a comparable status when they surrendered, which was derogatory and not too much.

But Hongmen is different, as early as when the Hongtang army has not yet been dispatched and set foot on the Chinese mainland, they have already taken precautions, and the Bengang School established by Hongmen has cultivated all kinds of outstanding graduates one after another, more than 100,000 people.

In the civil service, there are countless people who have acquired knowledge through night schools, military academies, self-study, and so on, and there are tens of thousands of applicants for the civil service examination held by Hongmen every two or three years, and these are all talents accumulated by Hongmen in the people.

Therefore, when peasant rebel armies like Dashun and Daxi captured a piece of territory and needed to worry about the lack of management talents, Hongtang only needed to pass a public examination to recruit good talents with professional ability and hard-working.

Just as in the Liaodong Theater before, Hongmen has already set up a set of effective administrative teams in two or three years, and the vast majority of the staff members are talents from the Hongmen public examination, and only a very small number of people of insight in the local area are insightful.

Therefore, the Hongmen government has never been worried about the lack of local civil affairs talents, and it is not like other historical dynasties when the dynasty was changed, relying more on recruiting talents, at least now Hongmen is not worried.

"There's nothing wrong with it, at least the local government officials we accept must correct their views on the common people, so that we can use them with confidence."

Li Tianyang decided the fate of dozens of local officials and generals captured in the first battle of the Beijing Division, Hong Chengchou wanted to say a few more words, but looking at Li Tianyang's expression, he gave up.

However, Hong Chengchou soon figured out the truth himself, Hongmen's requirements for the functions and powers of middle and low-level government agencies are indeed too different from those of previous dynasties, which is also a point that he Hong Chengchou admires Li Tianyang very much.

The functions of the Ming government are more in maintaining local stability and responding to major disasters.

The county magistrate trial and so on in the TV series of later generations seem to enrich the image of the local parent official, but it is really in ancient times that you will find that there are actually so many cases for you to interrogate.

The common people are accustomed to dealing with civil disputes through village elders and family means, and even if they suffer a big loss, they can only bear it silently.

However, after arriving in Hongmen, for the various rights and wrongs that the people at the bottom will encounter, Hongmen will directly participate in the disputes of the people from the most basic neighborhood committee, to the town government at the back, to the county government and other institutions, and they will not feel troublesome at all, but it is really convenient for the people, and at the same time, they can quickly gain their hearts.