The person who came claimed to be the butler of Kou Huiyin, the chief soldier of Changsha, and the purpose of this trip was to send a letter to Chen Wen, the king of Daming Huiji County, on behalf of the master of his family. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The envelope was torn open, and the contents of the envelope were revealed.

"Huiji County Wang Junjian ......"

The Manchu commanders in Changsha were first the commanders, and later changed to deputy generals, and with the outbreak of the southwest Ming army that made the Manchus unimaginable strength, especially after the two famous kings and the fork in the road, the Manchus began to change their military strategy, from relying on the Manchurian Eight Banners to Han to control Han. Catching up with this wave, the original Changsha deputy general was once again restored to the Changsha General Army.

Changsha Town Standard Battalion, with three battalions of 1,000 soldiers each, exists as the local green battalion of Changsha Prefecture. This general military officer, originally a general in Henan, was promoted to deputy general in Changsha, and then promoted to the general army, and it took a few years to complete the second jump.

"Changsha Mansion City, 3,000 soldiers, the southwest Jingbiao is now stationed in Yuezhou, Changsha and Baoqing, Changsha Mansion only has 5,000 troops in the town commander Nan Yikui and 2,000 troops in Changsha Vice General Sun Sike......

Nan Yikui was the governor of the town in the southwest of the Southwest Economic Standard in history, but now he has already been intercepted by Fan Wencheng and served as the Governor of the Central Town of Fan's Southwest Economic Standard. And Sun Sike was one of the four generals of Hexi who later quelled the rebellion of the three feudatories, and now he is also the only one left.

Next, in the letter, Kou Huiyin explained the general deployment of the Manchu Qing in Huguang and the strength of each department. And the purpose of sending the letter was to sell the Changsha Mansion and Fan Wencheng's Changsha Shogunate to Chen Wen at a price!

"Sin will know the depth of his sin, and now he will repent, but he will beg the king for forgiveness, and sin will be willing to serve the king for the sake of dogs and horses......"

In the letter, Kou Huiyin expressed his remorse for serving the Manchus for a long time and his admiration for Chen Wen, the commander of the Ming army. Next, it is naturally easy to understand, those troop deployments are nothing more than to win his trust, after all, this letter was also sent at a great risk of death, which shows sincerity. And Kou Huiyin also expressed his willingness to belong to Chen Wen, and his name was Fan Wencheng's Changsha Shogunate and Changsha Mansion.

These are all very understandable and reasonable, after all, the current situation, the Manchu Qing can be said to be suffering from the enemy in Huguang. The current stalemate is nothing more than the suddenness of Liu Wenxiu's dispatch of troops disappeared with Lu Mingchen's defeat, and Chen Wen was still in the stage of digesting the fruits of victory. If the Ming army in the southwest increases its investment in the Huguang battlefield or Chen Wen finishes digesting it, the balance is likely to be broken because of this, and no matter how you look at it, it will be the case of the Manchu Qing rule in the southern part of Huguang.

The enemy is strong and we are weak, and it is inevitable that some wavers will appear within the enemy. In some countries in later generations, no matter how powerful the brainwashing machine is, traitors will inevitably appear in an unfavorable situation, not to mention the green battalion soldiers, who are already traitors. When the Manchus were powerful, they could not even have their ancestors, and now that Manchu rule in the south was falling apart, it was normal for them to surrender.

Putting down the letter, Chen Wen didn't let the housekeeper raise his head, so he said: "This mansion in Changsha is very interesting, a general soldier, a deputy general, plus Jingbiaozhong Town, tens of thousands of troops gathered. How do I feel that this Mr. Fan is like a little lady in the boudoir who is alone outside, very insecure. ”

Chen Wen's ridicule caught his ears, and the housekeeper hurriedly replied: "The king doesn't know, Fan Wei learned the news that Hong Rui was killed by the king, and he was in a panic, lest the king would send troops to attack." During this time, the strength of the army was even reduced, and the head of the villain's family heard that the national security and the whole section of the marshal line were very dissatisfied with this. ”

How Fan Wencheng contracted to shrink his forces had already been explained in the letter, and the Guilin Mansion, where the line Guoan and Quanjie were stationed, bordered the Yongzhou Mansion of the Qing army in the southernmost part of Huguang. If Fan Wencheng shrinks his forces and withdraws the green battalion of Yongzhou Mansion, he will become a lone army when he goes to the line of Guoan and Quanjiedeng. They are Kong Youde's generals, and it is strange that they can be satisfied under fear.

The military pressure of the Manchus in the southern part of Huguang was very high, which is clear at a glance. Seeing this, Chen Wen asked: "Fan Wencheng intends to send troops, can your master be sure?" ”

"Sure!" Seeing Chen Wen's question, the housekeeper immediately replied as if it was a conditioned reflex. "The army on the side of King Funan is still in Changde Mansion, once Yuezhou loses, Fan Wei can't afford this situation."

The butler's answer Chen Wen was very satisfied, then nodded, and continued to ask him: "Fan Wencheng plans to dispatch the Eight Banners Army in Huguang, the Three Towns of Jingbiao and some other green battalion soldiers, and then your master and Sun Sike are left in the city, your master and Sun Sike, a Changsha general soldier, a Changsha deputy general, each have their own battalion heads, what is the relationship on weekdays?" ”

"This ......"

This question seems to be a bit difficult for the housekeeper, but Chen Wen is still difficult for the strongman.

"What, what can't you say?"

"No, no." The butler shook his head like a rattle. "Sun Sike is a flag man, and he oppresses my handsome family on weekdays......"

"An adjutant general dares to ride on the head of the general soldier?" Chen Wen laughed, and then said to the housekeeper: "Go back and tell your master, when this king leads the army to recover Changsha, the one surnamed Sun will be handed over to your master to deal with." ”

The housekeeper was sent away by the soldiers of the Huiji County Palace, and Chen Wen asked Li Ruixin, who was sitting but had not spoken, "How is it?" ”

"Five-five."

Hearing this answer, Chen Wen smiled slightly. "At least ninety percent of the time."

"And what about the last one?"

"It doesn't matter." After that, Chen Wen summoned a battalion officer. "Record, order the Jing'an Battalion and the Fengcheng Battalion to set off tomorrow and walk to Yuanzhou Prefecture Fenyi County for run-in training."

Jing'an County in Nanchang Prefecture, Fengcheng is the same as Jing'an, which is the head of the battalion composed of newly trained recruits from the Nanchang Recruit Training Camp, among which there are many local garrisons who participated in the previous two wars, as well as cavalry, artillery and engineers trained in Zhejiang, and the proportion of veterans is higher than that of the subsequent battalions. The formation has just been completed in the past two days, and relevant run-in training is still needed. The Fenyi County of Yuanzhou Mansion is located to the east of Yuanzhou Prefecture, and these two battalions can also serve as the backing of Yuanzhou Prefecture after they arrive.

After receiving the order, the officer made a flat-chested salute and turned his head out, and Li Ruixin immediately understood his intentions after hearing Chen Wen's order. Next, Chen Wen issued another order to a pro-soldier, which further confirmed his idea.

"Send this information to Changde Mansion and hand it over to King Funan."

The matter came to an end, and Chen Wen did not go to the boot training camp to inspect, but handled some official business, and did not hold a new round of meetings until the afternoon.

This was predetermined, and the officials under the camp and the yamen of the governor of Jiangxi had already been informed, and they were only squeezed out some time by some things that changed their schedules, but they were far from the point of rushing to the meeting in advance. After all, this era is not like the later generations, a mass internal email is enough, and the officials attending the meeting have their own itineraries, and many people are not in the official hall at that time, and when the people are gathered, they have to invite them to have a working meal before they can start work, so why bother.

The content of the afternoon meeting was important, and as a result of the large number of return of the investigation teams and the reports submitted by the prefectures and counties, some administrative orders could be put into practice.

"According to the reports of the yamen and the investigation team of various prefectures and counties, Jiangxi Province, aside from the Nanjiang region, has abandoned no less than 100,000 hectares of land!"

What does 100,000 hectares mean, the hectares of the Hereafter, every 10 hectares of land is only three hectares at this time. According to the records of the "Daming Huidian", the land of Jiangxi Province is 41,151 acres and 27 acres, which means that a quarter of the land in Jiangxi has become wasteland.

This figure of 100,000 hectares is only a conservative estimate based on rough calculations, and the actual situation is bound to be worse. There is no way around this, Jiangxi has been slaughtered repeatedly, the population has declined too much, and land abandonment is inevitable. With such a quantity, Fujian is almost the total amount of land in a province, and it is the sum of the two provinces of Guangxi and Guizhou!

"Now, the prefectures and counties have appeased a group of displaced people to settle the fields, and according to the practice in Zhejiang, they will cultivate the land for five years, and the land will belong to them. However, it is a principle that the number of households needs to be limited, and the governor must give orders to the governor to prevent officials from receiving them privately. ”

The restriction of private households on the land is for the sake of the stability of the military merit grant land and the source of soldiers, and Zhejiang has been routine for many years, and it is not without collusion between officials and gentry. Jiangxi is a newly occupied area, and the amount of wasteland is much larger than that of the eight prefectures in eastern Zhejiang, but the amount of land this time is also extremely huge, and it is always necessary to be careful in calculating.

"The subordinate obeys."

Motioning for Wang Jiang to sit down, Chen Wen then said: "The system of awarding military merits is the foundation for my Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Wang Divisions to run rampant in the southeast......"

Master Confucius once said that if you are in a warehouse, you know etiquette. Chen Wen firmly believes that with the improvement and implementation of the system of awarding military merits, soldiers can settle down, sweat on the training ground for military merits, and move forward bravely on the battlefield!

Of the eight prefectures in Zhejiang, the fields are mainly concentrated in Jinhua and Quzhou, which have the longest time to recover and have more land. And now, Chen Wen needs to strengthen the rule of Jiangxi, and it is also necessary to divide the land, especially in the several prefectures near Poyang Lake, where the land is fertile and is just used for tuntian.

"The first batch of tuntian in Jiangxi was awarded for the great victory of Siming Lake, the great victory of Yushan, the great victory of Guangxin Mansion and the recovery of Ningbo and Shaoxing in Zhejiang, and the meritorious soldiers of Jiangxi Province and Guangdong and Fujian."

"Siming Lake victory, my Jiangsu, Zhejiang Wang Division broke through the Hangzhou garrison eight banners, of which Manchuria, Mongolia and Han army eight banners each have two thousand, the reward is preferential. The great victory in Yushan, the two battles before and after, our army fought a bloody battle with the Ganshan Green Battalion of the Spanish phalanx, and the military merits should be better than that of the Eight Banners Army. Guangxin Mansion victory, the captive master has been the end of the strong crossbow, but the rebel Hong Chengchou awarded the head, and it should also be preferred, but it is lower than the Siming Lake victory. As for the reconquest of lost territory, it is carried out according to normal standards. ”

The compilation of military merits has long since ended, and even the calculations according to the standards have long been completed, and it is only for the purpose of announcing the order to begin execution.

The officers and men in the army have waited for a long time for the division of land, but fortunately the division of land is inevitable, and they are not in a hurry. The order here was to set out from Nanchang, and although the division of land was limited to Jiangxi, there were also great victories at Siming Lake and the recovery of Ningshao in some battalions in eastern Zhejiang, and the news soon spread throughout the occupied areas of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and everywhere they went, there was a chorus of joy.

Although the recruits here are not yet qualified to be assigned to the military merits, they are the first batch of soldiers to get the news.

As in the previous land divisions, some meritorious soldiers will officially announce their combat exploits and the number of land divisions in front of those recruits in the recruit training camp, so as to further enhance their enthusiasm for training and their thirst for military merits.

Huang Chengming stood in the queue, looking at the point platform in the distance, and the large iron horn made him clearly hear that the tall Ming army on the stage who was receiving the award was a grenadier named Lu Yihao.

Although Huang Chengming has never had the opportunity to see it with his own eyes, he can always hear people ask officers such as training officers and prison officers questions such as "how to become a grenadier". After a few times, he also developed a great curiosity about this class of troops that he had never heard of. Especially when the answers to those questions were often "You're still early" or "Grenadier is only for veterans", he was fascinated by the smile of disdain or encouragement.

On the pole in the distance was a grenadier, standing straight in front of the legendary commander of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army, who he had seen from afar during training, and received the certificate of commendation for military merits and the proof of military merits.

"Two hundred and five acres!"

The audience was very clear to hear the sound of swallowing saliva, which was inevitable. In Jiangxi in this era, one acre of land is also the production of three or four stones, and a strong laborer eats about 600 catties a year, that is, the output of one and a half to two acres, but five acres of land can be served. Two hundred acres of land, which means that in this battle alone, the grenadier will become a landlord in the countryside!

The grenadier in the battle of Yushan is a special honor, the land reward is naturally more, Lu Yihao was injured in that battle, and was not able to participate in the next Ming army's offensive against Guangxin Mansion and the northern fortress of Guangxin Mansion, and he killed the guerrilla general Zhao Liangdong's military exploits were originally to offset the merits, and later it was the prison officer who spoke for him, boosting morale, so he reluctantly counted five acres of land.

I only pity Zhao Liangdong, one of the four generals of Hexi in the Qing Dynasty, a good head is only worth five acres of barren land in the eyes of the generals who calculate military merits, and there is no place to reason.

Shocked by this reward, Huang Chengming swallowed his saliva, and for a while all that was shown in his mind was the math problem that if this reward was his, how many tenants would have to be hired to take care of it. And this shock made his brain much duller than usual.

Soon, the grenadiers came down to the platform, and with another roll call, a pikeman named Liao Yiran strode up.

is not as good as Lu Yihao, Liao Yiran is a recruit, he had seen this scene offstage, but it was the first time he was on stage, and he didn't know how to place his already nervous hands here.

Huang Chengming in the audience couldn't see this, but the fact that recruits could also be rewarded on stage immediately attracted his attention. And when the military reward was announced, he was even more shocked.

"One hundred and five acres!"

A recruit can become a landlord, Huang Chengming's eyes widened and he couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, and it wasn't until a moment later that the brain that was down returned to normal operation He figured out the reason for this - although Liao Yiran was the local garrison that was added to the Nantang camp after the victory of Siming Lake, but the victory in Yushan, the opponent was the most prestigious Hong Chengchou today, according to the training officer of their team, the Ganshan Green Battalion is also the strongest green battalion soldier in the Tartars, and this combination can defeat it, and the reward is naturally indispensable.

At the end of the commendation meeting, Lu Yihao and Liao Yiran, the commended soldiers, will also return to Zhejiang for vacation. In fact, the situation everywhere is still very urgent, and it is precisely because they need to go back to vacation and pass by Nanchang that they are allowed to come to power to assist in brainwashing. After all, this is a practical benefit, not a dry slogan, and the effect of brainwashing is as good as ever, especially when it comes to finding a new recruit as an example, which seems to be more effective than before.

While recruits like Huang Chengming were secretly making up their minds, Chen Wen also returned to Xingyuan.

In addition to rewarding military merits and strengthening actual control over Jiangxi Province, Chen Wen even wanted to make it clear that he wanted to further expand the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies, a group of landlords with military merits.

This was the inevitable need of the War of Resistance against the Qing Dynasty, and it was also the capital he used to fight against the Confucian scholar class. And with his reform of the old system of the Ming Dynasty in recent years, Zhang Juzheng's fate has always reminded him that this is what Sun Yu once said to him, and it is also the worry that he will inevitably have after he gets married as his communication with Zhou Yueying becomes more and more profound.

After nearly three hundred years, the old system of the Ming Dynasty has long been decayed, even if he does not mention this, he has been in the cracks in the past few years, and he has relied on a more advanced military system and some supporting changes to stand out.

However, once the road of reform is embarked, vested interests will inevitably become mortal enemies. Zhejiang's gentry and the officers of the old guard, many of them have become stepping stones for the rise of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and naturally they will not give up. And here in Jiangxi, the gentry and the officers of the guard are naturally indispensable, and even the three palaces Chen Wen made up his mind to swallow them in one gulp. Not only for those industries, but also because only in this way can the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies be more closely tied to him.

"If you have a lawsuit, you can hire a lawyer from the war battalion to accompany you, and even if you don't argue, the spitting stars will drown you; If he sues the emperor, even if he has the support of the Son of Yongli or his trusted ministers, and hundreds of thousands of iron armor on the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang express a solemn protest against this, no one will be able to help me ......"

Silently groaning in his heart, Chen Wenyao looked at the east, and the belief in his heart became more and more firm. Because there, not only his wife and children are about to be born, but also the future of this era!