The day after Chen Yue arrived in Nanjing, Chongzhen officially issued an order, Chen Yue, the prince of Gaqi, as the Shaobao, the prince Taibao, and the governor of Dadu, Huguang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces, holding the sword of Shangfang, and being fully responsible for the soldiers and civilians of the five provinces to suppress the thieves.

In the first year of Hongwu, the Dadu Governor's Mansion was set up, which was revoked in 13 years, and since then the Dadu Governor's Mansion has been replaced by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. Now Chongzhen named Chen Yue as the governor of the capital is not to reset the governor's mansion, but only an honorary title, to show that Chen Yue is now the first person in the Ming military.

And Shaobao, Prince Taibao, three dukes and three orphans, these two titles show the respect of Chen Yue's status, as for the Five Provinces Strategy, this position that was originally only done by civil officials means that Chongzhen completely handed over the power of the five provinces to Chen Yue. Although Sichuan is still in the hands of the Western thieves, Shaanxi is even more occupied by the Tartars, and the five provinces can actually govern only the dilapidated Huguang and western half of Henan, and the western and western Henan of Huguang are full of war.

Such a high official position means that Chongzhen and the imperial court regard Chen Yue as the only person who can solve the crisis, and the expectations given are not small.

For Chen Yue's invitation, Chongzhen agreed to all of them. Liu Neng was appointed as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and tens of thousands of Beijing battalions were selected by Chen Yue. The imperial court urgently sent an edict to Jin Shenghuan, Yu Feng, Lu Tai and other departments, ordering them to take their headquarters to Wuhu to listen to orders.

Chen Yue did not leave Nanjing, he had to wait for the 3,000 subordinates who came from the waterway of the Yangtze River, after all, there were only 300 guards around him now, and there were no descendants to follow, even if he set off with 100,000 Beijing camps, he had no bottom in his heart.

On the third day of the third month of the 19th year of Chongzhen, Chen Yue wrote to the imperial court, telling the significance of the Shandong righteous army to resist the Qing and contain the Manchus, and asked the imperial court to send the army of Huai'an Yangzhou to reinforce Shandong.

After discussion, the imperial court agreed with Chen Yue's analysis, and ordered Wu Ping to be appointed as the chief soldier of Shandong and ordered him to guard Dengzhou Laizhou, and Zhao Shiyuan was appointed as the general soldier of Qingzhou, and ordered him to guard Qingzhou. At the same time, he ordered the Huaiyang local government to transport weapons and food to Dengzhou and Qingzhou by sea, and the general army Bu Congshan led 30,000 troops into Shandong to assist the Shandong rebels to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Chen Yue also wrote a secret letter and ordered people to send it to Shandong, so that Wu Ping could organize the people of Shandong to immigrate to Dongfan, and at the same time, he should also cooperate with Wang Yongji, with the main task of holding Shandong and containing the Qing army. At the same time, the firearms produced in Dongfan Zhoushan will also be continuously transported to Dengzhou to help Wu Ping defend the city.

The army of the Beijing camp was under the command of Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, and it was no different from the other Ming troops.

"I said Lao Zhu, what the hell do you do every day, look at these soldiers under you, do you look like a soldier, can you fight if you pull them out?" Chen Yue scolded Zhu Guobi unceremoniously.

"Alas, Brother Chen, it's not that you don't know, these people are all his mother's military households, and they have always been like this, since I became the governor of Beijing, I have been exhausted, I can't eat and sleep, and I finally made up for the shortfall."

Zhu Guobi shouted aggrievedly, but looking at his brain full of fat belly and poop, Chen Yue didn't believe that he couldn't sleep at all.

In terms of the past friendship between the two, Zhu Guobi himself is on par with himself as a duke, and Chen Yue can't say much, so he can only pinch his nose and let his subordinates choose, in order to pick out enough soldiers.

Chongzhen allowed Chen Yue to transfer 50,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp, and now the total strength of the Beijing camp is as much as 150,000, but it is not easy to pick out 50,000 who can go to the battlefield and fight.

If it were possible, Chen Yue would rather re-recruit the peasants into the army than use these tired soldiers of the Beijing camp, but now there is no way, there is no time at all.

It is reported that the western thieves are storming Nanchang, and the Jiangxi soldiers will not last long. When the western thieves defeat Nanchang, the other provinces in Jiangxi will not be able to hold it, and I am afraid that they will soon go down the river. Until then, Jiujiang must be captured and the western thieves must be blocked in Jiangxi.

Therefore, although the armies of all parties have not yet gathered, Chen Yue has to send troops in a short time, Yu Feng is not far from Jiujiang in Anqing, and it will take some time for Jin Shenghuan to move to Jiujiang in Fengyang. The army that Chen Yue could rely on to attack Jiujiang was the 3,000 men who were about to arrive in Nanjing and the 50,000 Beijing battalions.

The selection of soldiers is very simple, Chen Yue asked Zhu Guobi to bring all the military books, and select them according to the military books, the first condition for selection is age, as long as it is between twenty and thirty-five years old, and then it is height, and those that are too low are not wanted. All soldiers' age, height, etc., are included in the military register.

It took half a day to select all the suitable conditions, about 70,000 people, and through Zhu Guobi to convey the order, ordering these soldiers to assemble at the university field at one hour on the second day, those who were one hour late were to be whipped, those who were two minutes late were beaten with 20 military sticks, and those who were three minutes late were removed from the military register!

Removal from the list means that there is no longer way to receive food and wages, and the punishment is unusually severe, but there is no way, Chen Yue must pinch these Beijing military households together in a short time.

At the foot of Zhongshan Mountain in Nanjing, there is a large school field covering an area of 1,000 acres, which is the site for the Beijing battalion soldiers to gather and train. Early the next morning, Chen Yue took Zhu Guobi to the school and sat upright on the high platform, with three hundred guards wearing helmets and armor, holding muskets, knives and guns, and fully armed with sanitation.

Looking at Chen Yueyan's subordinates who were armed to the teeth, they were full of energy and solemn and murderous, and then looked at the appearance of his own soldiers, Zhu Guobi was ashamed of himself and secretly frightened.

"I heard that Brother Chen sent troops overseas, defeated the Xiyi red-haired ghost, and captured Dongfan Island, a land of thousands of miles, but I don't know what the situation of Dongfan Island is? Can you help me as a brother? Zhu Guobi smiled and was close to Chen Yue.

"Dongfan Island is hot and humid, full of miasma, and most of the islands are cannibals, but there is plenty of rain and fertile land, if Brother Zhu is willing, he can send people there to open up wasteland, and it only takes a few years of operation to make ten thousand hectares of fertile land."

Chen Yue said with a smile, Dongfan Island is vast and sparsely populated, as long as Zhu Guobi is willing, Chen Yue doesn't mind letting him get a piece of the pie, after all, he only relies on his own immigration and doesn't know when he will be able to develop the entire Dongfan Island, it is a good thing to have a rich and powerful person like Zhu Guobi participate, and no matter who goes to Dongfan to operate, he must abide by the rules he has formulated, and he is not allowed to pay taxes according to the regulations, there is no discussion on this point!

"That's a good feeling, after defeating the thieves, I'll send someone to Dongfan to investigate." Zhu Guobi said happily, he didn't believe what Chen Yue said because he was not angry that the red-haired ghost robbed the Ming people and sent troops to attack, it must be that Dongfan has great interests.

Between the two talking, the time was already up, and soldiers entered the school field one after another.