The commander of the Zhangzhou Army, is the second son of the local big landlord, surnamed Huang, the name of the return, which means to ask for the return of the horse leather shroud, since childhood to practice martial arts, obviously the family is to train him as a martial artist, and he was admitted to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's Wu Xiucai, only eighteen years old.

He also has an elder brother, who is a little older, not only passed the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but also won the first place in the imperial examination of the Generalissimo Mansion handled by Wang Fuqian, named Huang Qiuwei, the "worry" of the world's worries and worries, which was cultivated by his family as a civil official, and now he has been appointed to the prefect of Fuzhou.

Obviously, this family is pressing the treasure on Zhou Lang, betting that Zhou Lang will be able to win the world in the future, and then this family will rise with the clouds and become a powerful family with the country, and their family has two excellent children, which makes this possibility extremely high.

After Zhou Lang summoned Huang to return it, he asked him what reward he wanted, Zhou Lang thought that he didn't dare to speak, but the other party asked for it.

The request was unexpected, not for themselves, but for the entire army.

"You want to be soldiers? Is this your idea, or is it the idea of all of you? ”

Zhou Lang asked the officers.

Huang Qiu also immediately said: "This is what our big guy has discussed. Why should they fight like this, they will be paid by the soldiers, and we can only be paid by the auxiliaries. We are not afraid of war, we are not afraid of death, we must be soldiers! ”

Other officers also expressed their support.

Zhou Lang's head is big, and it is not a big deal to take advantage of the situation to change the Zhangzhou Army into a soldier army, and it is even more trivial to have a little more military salary, and it is Huang Qiu who has a big head to return this kid.

He was only eighteen years old, and he was very brave, and according to the archives, this person would charge ahead in battle, and he was paid military salaries, all of which were used to buy meat for the soldiers, and he also had a criminal record of being punished for buying wine.

This kind of character who can unite his subordinates and dare to take the lead is often loved and hated. Love is love that they can unite their subordinates, have a strong ability to lead a team, and the team they bring out can fight tough battles; What I hate is that this kind of person's personality charm is too great, and the team they bring out is often their team. This kind of thing is not uncommon in the mall, but it can be a headache in politics.

But when it came to this, Zhou Lang actually had no choice but to laugh and immediately order, the Zhangzhou Army as a whole was upgraded to a combat establishment, and officers at all levels automatically obtained corresponding official positions according to the combat military system. Let them rest and recuperate on the spot, replenish their limited strength from the reserve soldiers, and allocate them with artillery, cavalry, and other arms according to the establishment of combat troops.

The reserve soldiers are actually those auxiliary soldiers, in addition to maintaining law and order, their biggest role is to supplement the soldiers, which is why Zhou Lang also trains the auxiliary soldiers according to the standard. The auxiliaries trained in this way can immediately enter the combat state when they enter the combat unit, and there is no need to relearn combat skills in the unit.

Hear Zhou Lang's promise. Huang Qiu is also happy.

Zhou Lang remembered this character, although Huang Qiu is still just a small person, and he is still a seedling that has not opened up, but once he develops it, it is very terrifying. Zhou Lang must take precautions and not let him go astray.

After Huang Qiu's return of this little episode, the other troops are also promoted that should be promoted, punished by punishment, and supplemented by additional troops. But the whole has gone on the defensive, because Zhou Lang annexed Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and southern Anhui in three months, expanding its territory nearly threefold and increasing its population fivefold.

At this time, the Jiangnan region is China's economy, culture and population center, not counting Zhejiang, Zhou Lang occupies most of the two rivers area, two rivers and three provinces, the least population is Jiangxi, but the population of Jiangxi is also as high as 20 million, and Anhui in the last inventory of Qianlong 56 years, the registered population is as high as 29,564,000 people, close to 30 million, the population of Jiangsu has exceeded 30 million people, Zhejiang has a population of 20 million a little more, although the war disaster, but there are also about 20 million people.

Zhou Lang now occupies the entire Jiangxi and Zhejiang, half of Jiangsu and Anhui, and the new population in the territory is 670 million, plus the population of Fujian and Liangguang, it has exceeded 100 million, and the entire Chinese population is only a little more than 300 million at this time, and it can be said that Zhou Lang controls one-third of China's population.

In just a few years, Zhou Lang expanded from Fengshan County to Fujian Province, and then to the entire Jiangnan, and the population under management increased from hundreds of thousands to 100 million, this level of social management experience, Zhou Lang did not, plus this wave of expansion, the army damage is also very serious, mainly plagued by disease, and needs to be repaired, otherwise the disease rate will turn into a casualty rate.

But after less than a month of rest, suddenly a news shook the world, Jiaqing announced the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, arrested and imprisoned Heshen, and then purged a large number of Heshen's henchmen in Beijing.

The news kept coming, and the raw material Jiaqing took advantage of the opportunity to give Qianlong a funeral, and asked He Shen and Fu Kangan's brother Fu Chang'an to keep a vigil for Qianlong, cut off their contact with the party, and then acted quickly, quickly arrested He Shen and Fu Chang'an, and then intensively arrested a group of people, so that Liu Yong and other decent officials could quickly interrogate and behead.

This is undoubtedly a coup d'état, but is it appropriate to launch it at this time?

Zhou Lang couldn't help but be a little skeptical of Jiaqing's political wisdom, but after thinking about it carefully, as long as Jiaqing wanted to be truly pro-government after Qianlong's death, he was afraid that he could only get rid of Heshen. He Shen has been in power for too long, and there are very few governors in the world who do not follow the road of He Shen, in this case, Jiaqing either compromises and seeks perfection, and in order to stabilize the general situation, he chooses to continue to entrust He Shen with important tasks, or he can only quickly purge the He Shen faction.

If Jiaqing chooses to compromise and let He Shen continue to be in charge of the court, there are two results, one is that He Shen quelled the rebellion in the world, including exterminating Zhou Lang, so can he still suppress He Shen's power? I'm afraid he has to pretend to be a grandson until he dies. Another result was that He Shen failed, and Zhou Lang and other traitors in the eyes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty took over the world, and Jiaqing and He Shen couldn't escape.

In these two results, Jiaqing focuses on the overall situation, regardless of the overall situation, he will not be comfortable. So he chose the third way, quickly cleaned up Heshen's henchmen, took charge of the dynasty himself, and then put down the rebellion in a big way, and became a Kangxi-style emperor.

Thinking of this, it is not surprising that Jiaqing will make a move at this time, because Jiaqing will not have a better time, and if he does not take advantage of Qianlong's funeral to get rid of He Shen, it will be difficult to wait for a more suitable opportunity. You only have one chance, and you have to take it. Waiting for this opportunity, Jiaqing has been waiting for four years since he became the emperor. Every time before the emperor, there are still decades of waiting. For decades, he had to be courted by Heshen, a powerful minister, and as an emperor, he could not tolerate it.

Therefore, after Qianlong's death, He Shen must be quickly cleared.

It's just that Zhou Lang has a doubt, why didn't He Shen resist? If He Shen wants to resist, he has the ability, at least theoretically, because in Beijing City, He Shen's henchmen are all over various departments, and the emperor has great righteousness in hand, but He Shen can force the emperor back by uniting other magnates. For example, Huang Taisui Mianen, who has served in various armies in Beijing all the year round, has a large group of powerful people in the Eight Banners who like this person, and he has the advantage of the eldest son and second grandson, and Qianlong also favors him. Mian'en's own influence in the army is also huge, and Heshen's henchmen in the Eight Banners army staged a coup d'état and forced Jiaqing to retreat, which has this strength.

On the other hand, Jiaqing, when he was the prince, he had been studying in the palace, and he had no deep connection with officialdom or the army.

But He Shen entered the palace to treat Qianlong's funeral, and when he was arrested, he didn't even have any precautions.

Jiaqing's decisive and ruthless means are not at all like the means that a young emperor who only reads and lacks experience should have, thinking that Jiaqing quickly transferred his teacher Zhu Qi from the governor of Anhui back to Beijing after Qianlong's death, Zhou Lang couldn't help but guess whether these actions were from Zhu Qi's handwriting.

However, Jiaqing's scheming should not be underestimated, although director Zhu Jue is good, but without Jiaqing's cooperation, it is impossible to paralyze and Shen to this point. Jean Heshen was defenseless at all, and thought that the emperor would continue to reuse him.

After arresting He Shen, he quickly announced He Shen's crimes, the twenty major crimes, corruption is of course one of them, but there are other items with many names, such as the construction of the mansion is analogous to the palace, such as selling the official mantle and the like, in fact, He Shen's biggest crime is because he is too powerful and threatens the emperor.

On the contrary, the money that was greedy was only a secondary reason. Of course, this money can allow Jiaqing to live a good life for a few years.

He Shen fell, and Jiaqing was full, and it was not a lie.

Jiaqing is full of food, Zhou Lang doesn't care, Zhou Lang suddenly found that this is an excellent opportunity, it is a godsend for him to expand his territory, miss this opportunity, and then to face the difficulties, it will take a lot of strength.

The people who got official positions through their relationship with Shen, even if it was only a small part, couldn't help but be worried at this time, worried that Jiaqing would implicate them if he cleaned up Heshen.

Then these people only have a few choices, either they think that Jiaqing will spare their lives, or they have a fluke mentality, feeling that their relationship with He Shen is more secret, or more distant, and may not be implicated, or they choose to find a new way out for themselves, such as taking refuge in Zhou Lang.

How to choose, it depends on those people's predictions of their own ending, in short, there will definitely be people who feel that they must die and do not want to die, so Zhou Lang got a chance to surrender and rebel.

This does not need to be solved by political means, so Zhou Lang immediately launched an active action to win over these magistrates who may surrender.

And this time, the task was not given to Wang Fuqian, and for the purpose of balancing Wang Fuqian's power, and because Zhou Lang had a better candidate, that is, Chen Huai, the governor who surrendered in Jiangxi!