The defense of Yushan County has been taken over by Li Ruixin, with three battalions and a cavalry battalion, even if Hong Chengchou really attacks in a big way, he can protect himself if he wants to come, and support him until he leads the reinforcements to arrive. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, the number of cavalry of the Qing army is too much, just the three towns of Jingbiao, 15,000 troops, is 4,500 cavalry, Hong Chengchou's left and right shrimp battalions are also cavalry, Jiangxi and Jiujiang Zhenbiao have returned to the station, but it is not difficult to transfer one or two. Compared with such a large number of cavalry, the cavalry battalion of 1,000 cavalry and the cavalry of 3 war battalions of 200 people each of the Ming army were really pitiful. Therefore, Li Ruixin planned to rely on Yulangxi to organize a defensive line, move the people west of it to the east of Yulangxi, and garrison troops in several towns near Yushan County, and use beacon fire and wolf smoke and Chuancai as a liaison to prepare for the Qing army's attack.

Hong Chengchou had recovered from the fiasco and began to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses, using cavalry to contain the strength of the Ming army in Zhejiang, so that it had no time to take care of anything else. In his eyes, Chen Wen knew the ability of this veteran traitor, the defeat of the Qing army in the four provincial capitals was just a chance for him to breathe, and he had to roll the snowball as quickly as possible, otherwise Hong Chengchou's next attack would be a thunderous momentum, but I was afraid that his situation would be even more dangerous than this time.

Returning to Jinhua, Chen Wen conducted a new round of secret consultations with Sun Yu, Zhou Jingting and others. Chen Wen no longer plans to chase the matter of summer tax, and killed a group of gentry who "have their hearts towards me in the Qing Dynasty", and the confiscated family property alone has already plugged the hole that is enough for the summer tax, and there is a large surplus. He didn't plan to calculate the small money this time, because the autumn tax was about to begin, and he really didn't have time to calculate it again, but the surplus part could just be used for the next plan.

In this regard, Chen Wenmei said: "Investment! ”

Returning to Jinhua Mansion, Chen Wen only stayed for two days before preparing to leave for Taizhou, and the matter of the guard office was urgent, but there was still an unexpected and reasonable thing before he left.

"Xiaguan is old, and now he is sick, Lang Zhong said that he wants Xiaguan to recuperate so that his condition will not deteriorate, and he hopes that the Hou Ye can approve Xiaguan's resignation."

Old fox!

He had just killed a group of gentry, but Han Qizheng resigned due to old illness, and it seemed that he had seen Chen Wen's plan and was ready to retreat bravely, not to be involved in the struggle between the Zhejiang military meritorious landlord group and the Confucian scholar class.

Mingzhe protects oneself, these four words come from the "Book of Poetry * Daya * Haomin", which is interpreted as a wise person who is good at protecting himself. It now refers to the attitude of dealing with the world that avoids the struggle of principles for fear of endangering oneself. Han Qizheng's current plan is clearly to protect himself, how could Chen Wen not understand, but the civil official in front of him, who has always been in charge of the Yamen of the Criminal Department as a fellow governor of Jinhua Mansion, is indeed not young, and more importantly, he is not bold enough, and he may not be able to use it well in the future struggle.

"Okay, Han Tixing, since you are not feeling well, then go home and recuperate." Seeing that even though Han Qizheng tried his best to cover it up, he still showed a look of relief, the corners of Chen Wen's mouth twitched, and then asked: "Han Ti has been tortured, will Ling Lang also go home to fulfill his filial piety?" ”

Hearing this question, Han Qizheng was suddenly startled, and hurriedly bowed down and replied: "Xiaguan is just going home to recuperate, the dog is still in the prime of life, when he works for the Hou Ye, the word loyalty and filial piety can still be distinguished." ”

"Very good, then you can go home and recuperate, and I will inform Governor Sun of this."

"Xiaguan Xie Hou Ye is compassionate."

Han Qizheng's departure with a thousand thanks, on the surface, he died, but his son still did not leave the officialdom, but in fact, it was Chen Wen who was testing Han Qizheng's bottom line - whether to completely sever relations with the Zhejiang Ming Army, or to avoid continuing to be on the cusp at the cost of giving up his official future.

Han Qizheng is shrewd, but also stupid. He knew what it would mean to break with Chen Wen, so he made it clear that his son would continue to work for Chen Wen, not for anyone else or force. But he was stupid and stupid at this point, if the struggle had been won by the Confucian class, it would have been too late for him to retreat bravely, and the scholars would not have let him go, even if he had died by then.

After the old pre-judicial officer left, Chen Wen and Sun Yu discussed, and Qi Xiufeng, the director of the General Justice Department, called him and decided that he would take over the post of criminal officer, and his head of the Military Justice Department would be transferred from Gu Shouli, and then Guo Zhigang, the Tongzhi of Jinhua Mansion, would take over the official position of the head of the Quartermaster Department, and a new wave of personnel would be transferred to ensure that the power was not solidified.

The pattern here has been finalized, and it only needs to be fine-tuned, but on the other hand, on the Taiwen side, due to the existence of the coastal guard station, he must immediately determine the policy in order to digest the fruits of these victories as soon as possible.

A few days later, Chen Wen arrived in the capital city of Taizhou, and after reading the reports of civilians, military officers, and staff, he realized that the situation here was far more complicated than he had imagined.

At the prefectural and county level, it has been filled by civil official training classes and officials who have been promoted and transferred, but the newly built Taizhou Wei and the thousands of households and hundreds of households below are now only Tiantai, Xianju and Linhai have gradually taken office, and the other three counties have been involved in the problem of the old health office nearby, so it is impossible to determine the team for a while.

There are many things involved in these guards, such as the Acropolis and the stations of the Thousand and Hundred Households, the tuntian and salt fields to which they belong, the hereditary officers and military households of the guards, and more complicated, the local gentry and the officers of the guards to encroach on the military tuns and salt fields, and the military households of the guards to keep slaves.

For more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the system of the guard house has long been difficult to return, and what he is doing now is to replace the old guard with a new one, the name remains the same, but the inside is a new stove. The old guards had to be abolished, but the annexation to the prefectures was a matter of detail, especially the ownership of the military tuns, salt pans, and military households.

"Master Hou, the guard is the ancestral system of Emperor Gao, and it must not be abolished."

According to the results of Chen Wen's consultation with Sun Yu and others, the first step in abolishing the old guard post was to hand over all military buildings such as military barracks, yamen, outposts, fortresses, and water villages to the garrison. It's just that as soon as the order was issued, the hereditary officers of the guard station ran to the big camp in Fucheng one after another, holding Zhu Yuanzhang's god card and kneeling to ask Chen Wen to take back his life, crying bitterly, which also attracted a group of people to watch.

After leaving the camp and looking at these hereditary officers of the guard, Chen Wenden was angry. In the past few years, the ancestral system that has long been decayed for more than 200 years has been filled in by the emperor and Ming - to control the military with literature, to exempt the gentry, and to control the big and small, and now even the hereditary officers of these guards have come to protect their vested interests, but they dare to do anything when the Manchus control this area, it seems that they have done too many reasonable things, and they think they are easy to bully.

"Disrespectful to Emperor Gao, this is worth it. Go, get the god card away, and one by one, these bastards will whip twenty lashes before they talk. ”

"Obedience!"

The military judge of the large battalion rushed out with a group of calming soldiers, took away the god cards held by those old and young, and pulled them into the camp with a word of disrespect, twenty lashes per person, no more, no less. When they were done, they were dragged into the tent.

After being beaten, these hereditary officers didn't even dare to let go of a fart, not only a matter of courage, from an official point of view, Chen Wen had the position of the governor of the left army and the left capital of the left army that was successively sealed by the king of the state Lu and the son of Yongli Tianzi, and he originally felt that this was a useless title, which sounded good, but now it seems that it is not useless.

"Let's talk about it, when did each of your hereditary military positions start to be hereditary?"

A group of hereditary officers are tall, short, fat and thin, old and young, I thought that by lifting Zhu Yuanzhang out, I would be able to scare Chen Wen, and the rest of the things were easy to discuss. Hearing Chen Wen's question at this moment, a group of people looked at each other, and an old man who seemed to be the oldest was the first to answer.

"The ancestor of the lower official was a general under the account of the king of Dongou City, and Hongwu set up a sea gate guard in the twentieth year, and he was a hereditary thousand households for the sea gate guard."

Dongou King refers to the Hongwu Dynasty's rare title of Tanghe, the prince of Xinguo, who received a good death, and the title of this county king was posthumously sealed after his death. Most of the coastal guards of the Ming court were set up for their investigations, and the sea guards were no exception.

This white-bearded old man is a hereditary Qianhu, judging from his age, he should have been a senior guard officer such as the commander of the Wei Zhangyin Dynasty when he was in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he was holding the god card just outside the camp, so he should be the leader of this group of people.

"Back to the words of the marquis, the ancestors of the lower officials participated in the battle of Jingjing, and after Emperor Chengzu ascended the throne, he inherited the Songmen guard hundred households."

In the Ming Dynasty, most of the hereditary officers of the guard were from the founding of Taizu and the martyrdom of Chengzu, and the hereditary hundred households of the Songmen guard were the latter. Next, one after another, these hereditary officers reported to their families, and most of them were from the founding of the country and the Jingjing, and a few were the ancestors who had the hereditary military position of the guard because of their achievements in resisting the Japanese.

Glancing at the young hereditary pine guard Baihu, Chen Wen seemed to remember something, sneered, and then asked him, "You came up with the idea of raising the god card." ”

The god card is not in his hand, it doesn't matter whether it is or not, the hereditary Baihu fell to the ground and kowtowed vigorously to beg for mercy, probably thinking that Chen Wen planned to execute him for this crime.

"Any idea what I'm laughing at? Tie Xuan also did it when he was in trouble, but it was hung at the head of Jinan City at that time, and I laughed at you guys who didn't learn anything, and they couldn't even learn it. ”

In fact, Chen Wen still glanced at them, these people probably didn't remember such a thing at all, and they came over to cry with the god card, which was completely the way they did when they learned from those scholars and bitter temples. It's just that unlike the scholars, they are hereditary officers of the guard, and they happen to be within the jurisdiction of Chen Wen's governor's office, but they are not anti-dogs.

In the Ming Dynasty, the system of the guard office has begun to decay since the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties, and there are many people who do not learn and do not know how to do it, so that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, father and son, have issued many edicts to try to restore the atmosphere, but the result is not satisfactory.

By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the officers of the guard were no different from the local officials of the prefectures and counties, and even the degree of feudalism was higher, because the local officials were rogue officials, and they were hereditary for one or two hundred years. Professionally speaking, the Ming system was originally based on the existence of guards as officers who served on the battlefield when the country had something to do, but by that time they had already become a group of landlords, proficient in farming, collecting rent, and doing business, and the art of war, battle array, and martial arts were not even sparse, and they didn't understand anything at all.

After the Qing army entered the customs, the guard system was not immediately banned, but was implemented in the Qing Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and it was not completely digested until the Yongzheng Dynasty. During this period, the military tun of the guard always paid grain to the Manchu court, and the tax pressure in the early Manchu Qing Dynasty was relieved for a long time by relying on the support of the military tun whose tax ratio exceeded that of the people's land and the amount of land was only slightly inferior to the people's land.

Good shoes don't break ****.

After seeing this group of guys who don't learn and don't know how to do it, Chen Wen didn't even have the interest in ridiculing, he originally planned to find some useful talents from them, but now his desire is gone, and he feels even more unhappy when he looks at them.

After copying two account books from the Weisho and the Yamen of the prefecture and county, Chen Wen said to him: "As a hereditary officer of the guard, you do not want to serve the country when the country is in trouble, but you give food to the Tartars as an officer of the guard. Ben Hou ordered in the capacity of the Zuo Governor of the Left Army Governor's Mansion that all the old dispatches were cancelled, and all the subordinate military households in the guard were changed to the people, and the military tun and salt fields were confiscated. Come and lock up all this waste, so that they don't interfere with the administration. ”

At the sound of the order, the military judge took the pacification soldiers to take all the hereditary officers of the guard station, and they knew very well that Chen Wen would not send them to continue to enslave the military households, and without the land sent and embezzled, their hereditary official positions were nothing.

Cutting off people's money like murdering their parents, cursing and begging for mercy, Chen Wen pushed the account books aside, continued to look at the reports sent by the civilians, military officers, and staff, read them carefully, and invited those who were in charge of the investigation to learn more about them, and did not send people back to Jinhua Mansion until the next day to send these reports and his plan back to Jinhua Mansion.

The Ming army and the civilian-official clique in Zhejiang, which implemented the system of awarding fields for military merits and new guards, took the opportunity of recovering Taiwen to annex all these coastal guards, and their methods were far more brutal than planned.

After the detention of these guardsmen, all the military buildings and facilities were transferred to the garrison, and the military households of the guards were transferred to the people, and the tuntianzhong was owned by the military households and the military households were converted to the people, and the guards who had encroached on the land were turned into the new guards along with the abandoned land, and the local gentry who had encroached on the military tun were ordered to be returned.

After a series of policies were issued, the two prefectures of Taiwan and Wenzhou immediately jumped like chickens and dogs, bustling and noisy, and there were many people who asked for orders and disobeyed orders, but under the strong pressure of some of the newly transferred garrisons of the Ming army in Zhejiang and the Nantang battalion, these local snakes were also forced to shrink their tails. The difference in strength between the two sides is too big, and now Yushan County is still fighting with the Qing army, Chen Wen let out his words, anyone who disobeys the military orders of the Marquis of Anyuan will be regarded as a rebellion to help the Tartars to make trouble in the rear of the Ming army, and most of the gentry who smelled this murderous spirit chose to retreat, but many of them simply went to sea to continue to resist for the pirates.

"Recruit sailors, draw officers from the Zhejiang Inland River Naval Division and the Zhejiang Martial Arts Academy, and expand the establishment on the basis of the original Tatar Taizhou Naval Division, and form the Zhejiang Coastal Patrol Naval Division."

In addition to sailors and officers, the formation of a naval division is more important than the ships. Taizhou Sailors, most of the ships and personnel fell into the hands of Chen Wen, and Taizhou and Wenzhou also had a lot of wood to dry, which could be used to build ships after drying. In addition, Chen Wen had an appointment with Zheng Tai before and bought some ships of the Fujian Ming Army, and it was not clear whether it was enough or not, but he didn't care, so he continued to buy from Zheng Chenggong or other European businessmen.

On October 24, Zheng Chenggong's cousin Zheng Tai arrived in Wenzhou, and the fleet was stationed on the Sanpan Island where Zhou Rui and Zhou Hezhi brothers had guarded, and only he entered Wenzhou with his attaché. After Chen Wen arrived, the two had just exchanged pleasantries, and Zheng Tai informed him of another news, and then a group of people came from a slightly smaller ship.

At the head was a white-faced and beardless civil official, and behind him was a team of brocade guards wearing flying fish suits and carrying embroidered spring knives.

The person who was the leader smiled before he saw Chen Wen at first, and after Zheng Tai's introduction, Chen Wen also knew the identity of this person. When the two sides met the courtesy, I saw that the man turned to a straight face, and shouted loudly in an official voice with a southwest accent: "Qin ordered the commander of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and water and land soldiers and horses to aid the general officer, give python jade, act cheaply, hang the seal of the general, the left army governor's mansion, the prince Taibao, Anyuan Marquis Chen Wen, listen to the order!" (To be continued.) )