Chapter 65: The Rabble
Wang Kefan had no wrong thoughts about Shoufu, and Emperor Longwu was very satisfied—he knew that compromise and concession were very important.
Wang Kefan proposed to let Fu Guan serve as the second assistant, but Emperor Longwu could not accept it - the second assistant was the second eldest in the cabinet, and this position should be reserved for the Donglin Party.
Wang Kefan proposed to let Fu Guan serve as the imperial history of the left capital, but Emperor Longwu was unwilling - obviously, this is another concession by Wang Kefan, and it is okay not to be a second assistant, and the specific position should be arranged for the imperial history of the left capital.
However, Emperor Longwu felt that the imperial history of Zuodu was more important than the second assistant.
The second assistant is a matter of identity and treatment, and the Donglin Party must attach great importance to it, and it is much more beautiful than the imperial history of Zuodu.
However, in the next step of Emperor Longwu and Wang Kefan, it is necessary to vigorously rebuild the Metropolitan Procuratorate and control the officialdom by cleaning up the officials.
If you really accept this condition and get He Tengjiao down, Huguang may fall into the hands of Wang Kefan, and if Zhai Shiyun goes down, Guangxi may also fall into the hands of Wang Kefan.
"Wang Qing, how about Fu Guan in charge of the military department?" Emperor Longwu tried to make a counteroffer.
Wang Kefan is a military general, and Fu Guan is the secretary of the military department, which happens to cooperate together, which sounds quite appropriate, but he himself knows that the imperial court is now an empty shelf, and the military department has no real name and no power, and Wang Kefan will not agree to this condition.
"Fu Guan doesn't know about military affairs, I'm afraid that he will be disappointed, if Bixia thinks that he is not suitable to serve as the imperial history of Zuodu, it is better to let him be the governor of Liangguang." Wang Kefan vaguely brought bones in his words, the price you offered is too insincere, Fu Guan doesn't need to enter the cabinet, just take Ding Kuichu's position.
However, this has reached Wang Kefan's bottom line.
"Okay. Let me think about it again......" Emperor Longwu did not reply directly.
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Nanxiong Mansion is located in the northeast of Guangdong, adjacent to Jiangxi, about 250 miles away from Ganzhou.
After Emperor Longwu and the Gongyi battalion arrived at Nanxiong Mansion, they met Fu Guan and Lü Daqi.
After Lu Daqi escaped from Fujian, he came to Guangdong and heard that Emperor Longwu had escaped, so he rushed to Nanxiong to face the saint.
By this time, Emperor Longwu finally had the appearance of an emperor.
He has four important ministers, He Wusu, Lu Daqi, Fu Guan, and Guo Weijing, as well as generals such as Wang Kefan. There are also some middle- and low-level ordinary officials, as well as the 40,000 troops gathered in Nanxiong, who can put the imperial court back on the shelf.
Emperor Longwu and the civil officials were busy arranging seats, dividing the fruits, and redividing power. Wang Kefan had already confessed to Emperor Longwu, so he didn't care much about this matter...... Liangguang is the most haode territory in Nanming. If Fu Guan is allowed to be the governor of Liangguang. It is also an acceptable result.
How to deal with King Gui and King Tang is Emperor Longwu's own problem, let him be busy, Wang Kefan took this time to go to all the departments of the Ming army to have a look, understand the situation of the enemy and our army, and prepare for the battle of Ganzhou.
Because of the cold lips and teeth. Guangdong was the most active in rescuing Ganzhou, Ding Kuichu sent 4,000 generals Tong Yizhen, Liang Zhiren 4,000, and Su Guansheng, a scholar, to recruit another 3,000 people. There was also a recruited Chaozhou pirate, with more than 400 large and small ships, to act as a sailor of the Ming army.
Jin Shenghuan's sailors were all Jiangxi sailors of the original Ming Dynasty, and later surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty.
If it is a skirmish of several ships, compared with the fierce pirates, Jin Shenghuan's sailors do not have much advantage, but the pirates are not regular troops, they have not fought such large-scale battles, and they have no experience in cooperating with infantry, if there is no general in command, this group of pirates may not be the opponent of the Qing army.
It would be much better for Shi Lang to command this group of pirates.
Wang Kefan specially went to the sailor to take a look, Shi Lang's management of pirates these days is very strict, although it is not a strict military discipline, but at least there are not too many loopholes, which is very rare for pirates who are used to being lazy.
Counting this group of pirates, there are more than 10,000 Guangdong soldiers in total, among which Tong Yizhen and Liang Zhiren's troops have relatively strong combat effectiveness, and they are considered to be above the average level in the troops of the Southern Ming Dynasty in terms of military appearance and weapons and equipment.
Ganzhou is the barrier of Guangdong, Ding Kuichu's capital is not small, in addition to his own standard supervision battalion, Tong Yizhen and Liang Zhiren are the most capable troops in Guangdong.
The 3,000 people recruited by Su Guansheng were much worse, he had just arrived in Guangdong, and he had not yet gained a firm foothold, and was squeezed out by Ding Kuichu, although he was a scholar, he only recruited 3,000 volunteers.
The volunteers are all newly recruited people, with a passion to kill the Tartars, morale is very high, but the battle is far inferior to the regular army, but just like the Fuzhou volunteers and Ji'an volunteers, if they can pass the cruel test of the battlefield, they will also grow slowly.
With the efforts of all sides, He Tengjiao also sent a troop, the 3,000 men of Cao Zhijian, the general soldier of Hengzhou, Cao Zhijian is one of the warlords in Hunan, and the combat effectiveness of the troops is stronger than Zhang Xianbi, but it is worse than Hao Shaoqi, Wang Jincai and others.
There is also a credit to Wang Kefan, He Tengjiao awarded him the position of deputy general of Nanchang, but he knocked on the mountain and shook the tiger, hinting that he was going to meet Emperor Longwu, He Tengjiao did not want to be too stiff with Emperor Longwu, so he reluctantly sent Cao Zhijian to Ganzhou to fill the number.
Huguang doesn't have much to fight now, He Tengjiao has an army of more than 100,000 people, and only sent 3,000 people to support Ganzhou, which is completely to deal with errands, but Hao Shaoqi is still in Yuanzhou Mansion, which is more or less a constraint on Jin Shenghuan.
Among the reinforcements, the Yunnan soldiers selected by the Yunnan general Zhao Yin were the most elite, and their subordinates had many fierce Tusi soldiers, which were much more powerful than the Ming official army, and Jin Shenghuan's troops were basically the same grade.
Being able to transfer this unit to Nanxiong is the credit of Fu Guan.
When the Duoduo army went south, the Hongguang court sent troops and horses from Yunnan to rescue, Zhao Yinxuan left Yunnan with 3,000 men and horses, and just walked to the Guangxi Hongguang court was finished, this army was taken in by Zhai Shiyun and stayed in Guangxi, but Zhao Yinxuan was Fu Guan's old subordinate, and he had the grace of carrying and rebuilding, and after receiving Fu Guan's handwritten letter, he took this Yunnan soldier to Nanxiong.
In addition to these troops, Nanxiong also had several Jiangxi troops, they were originally the garrisons of Ji'an, Fuzhou, and even Nanchang, as Jin Shenghuan's army moved south, they could not resist and retreated to Guangdong, and were also called to Nanxiong, whose quality was uneven, and in general the combat effectiveness was not strong.
Counting further down, there are some rebels or bandits who were recruited, represented by President Yan Luo of Fuzhou. Yan Luo was originally born as a bandit, when the Qing army went south, he erected a flag to resist the Qing Dynasty, and was controlled by the governor of Jiangxi, Jie Chongxi, and later Jie Chongxi was defeated by the Qing army, and the rebel army of Yan Luo was relatively complete and withdrew to the south of Jiangxi.
With the Gongyi battalion, Nanxiong has a total of 40,000 Ming troops, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like a rabble. (To be continued......)