In October of the twelfth year of Yongli, the Qing court postponed the opening of the spring of the 15th year of Shunzhi, which was suspended due to the rebellion of Wu Sangui, perhaps because the new army showed strong combat effectiveness, and the number of participants was higher than that of the spring of the 12th year of Shunzhi and the 14th year of Shunzhi. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"There are three and a half provinces in the hands of the imperial court, and they also want to open a branch to take scholars, where will they place those new science and technology scholars?"

The Qing court suffered several defeats, but it still controlled the territory of seven and a half provinces: Shaanxi, Shanxi, Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Southern Goryeo, Northern Goryeo, and Huainan. At present, the most powerful feudal towns in the Southern Ming Dynasty -- Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and the Ming Army -- also have control areas of no less than six and a half provinces, namely, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, most of Fujian, Nanzhili, and Guangxi.

Compared with the existence of these two giants, the Yongli Imperial Court only has Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and half of Guangxi in its hands, and most of them are warlords, toast everywhere and the output is extremely limited, which is completely incomparable.

The Qing court has a tradition of opening the department to take scholars for many years, from the Manchu and Han branches, to the current Eight Banners, Han and Koreans in the same imperial examination, the system has been formed, and with the posture of the Northern Dynasty, the number of scholars is enough to support. On the side of the Ming Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, the number of scholars is the highest in the world, although there is no imperial examination, but the system of civil official training classes has been running for many years, and it is also a way out for scholars to serve in various prefectures and counties after professional training and assessment. On the contrary, it was the Yongli Imperial Court, the control area was too small, the scholars were too few, and there was even the problem of nowhere to place after the imperial examination, and the system that had been in operation for more than 200 years had nowhere to be used, but it was the most unlikely.

"This can't be done. The number of participants was not mentioned, and there were many officials from non-imperial examinations in the court, and it was impossible for the local feudal towns to tolerate the loss of administrative and financial power. ”

"The king, the king of Jin is still here, I'm afraid it's not easy to say."

The Department of Propaganda and Education is not only the mouthpiece of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army, but also takes into account the management of the Boy Scout School and the Nanjing University Hall. The Yongli Imperial Court opened a branch to take scholars, and the appeal to scholars must be greater than that of civil official training classes, which is a tradition that has fallen for thousands of years, and it is a convention that has become a convention, since Zhou Jingting controls the mouthpiece, he naturally has to consider more in this matter, so as to minimize the loss.

However, after hearing Li Dingguo's name, Chen Wen shook his head, and then said to Zhou Jingting: "It is precisely because of the King of Jin that those feudal towns will not let the officials sent by the imperial court get involved in local interests. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Jingting suddenly realized, so much so that Chen Wen wondered if he was pretending to be stupid just now.

After Sun Kewang's death, Li Dingguo took his place as the head of the military generals and nobles of the Yongli court and the leader of the Ming army in the Xiying system. However, Li Dingguo's control of Xiying is far from that of Sun Kewang.

In the past, the officials in various places were appointed by Sun Kewang, and the Qin domain system had an army of more than 100,000 with the front army as the core, and the military power, financial power, administrative power, and judicial power were all in Sun Kewang's hands.

But now, officials at all levels are still the ones appointed by Sun Kewang, and they are separated from Li Dingguo. In the feudal town, Sichuan's Lao Sichuan army and the former Chuang army were able to force Liu Wenxiu, a prince of Onishi, to almost become Bell Wenxiu Liu, and naturally it was impossible to obey the orders of another prince of Onishi.

The outside is like this, but the inside of Xiying is not much better. The first two, Li Dingguo is the prince, Liu Wenxiu is also the prince, the former is one of the four princes, and the latter is the same, he will not obey his orders, it is nothing more than a court of resistance.

In other Xiying Domain, He Jiuyi, Wang Shangli and Wang Ziqi were all Sun Kewang's cronies, and as soon as they died, they fled from Kunming, and it is conceivable whether they obeyed orders or not; Ma Jinzhong and Ma Weixing originally had a chance to do it anyway, but after being defeated and released by Chen Wen, they also had to worry about whether they would be discriminated against by Li Dingguo; Even Feng Shuangli, who succeeded anyway, is also Sun Kewang's cronies, and Li and Liu have a better relationship with the latter. Carefully calculated, there are really very few people who can obey Li Dingguo's orders, except for the old troops he brought from Guangxi, at most they are Bai Wenxuan and those die-hard small army leaders of the Yongli Imperial Court.

"However, in the newspaper, it is also necessary to publicize the role and contribution of the civil official training class, our civil officials in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are based on the civil officials from the training class as the absolute main body, so that everyone can feel that even if the imperial court holds the imperial examination, it is impossible for us to give up local rights to those wastes who have no practical experience."

"Xia Guan understands."

Whether it is Chen Wen or Zhou Jingting, they all know very well that the Yongli Imperial Court will open a branch to take scholars, and if it is not successful, it will not be done, and if it is done, as long as the territory of the Ming Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang does not accept these officials, their stay in Yungui will only cause the phenomenon of excessive officials.

It is said that the Yongli court has also had such a phenomenon before, or the Great Western Army went out of Yunnan to resist the Qing Dynasty, and Sun Kewang began to preside over government affairs after Yongli was placed under house arrest to eliminate this problem, and the disappearance of this phenomenon, the mobilization power has been greatly increased and the administrative costs have been greatly reduced, and Sun Kewang can indeed afford the reputation of good government affairs.

"It's just that the imperial court has a righteous reputation, so I'm afraid that those small army leaders can't bear it."

"Uncle, last year, my army entered Guizhou, but Sun Kewang's defeated generals did not take any of them away, and now the imperial court still has more than 100,000 troops on paper in the Xiying system alone, and this is not counting the number of troops in the former army and those veteran kings. But after I hollowed out the military cantonment in Guizhou, now the imperial court is afraid that it can't even afford to raise an army of 100,000, plus Wang Shangli and they robbed the warehouse in Kunming, and the financial difficulties alone are enough for them to bear, even if they pass the imperial examination, when they finish their work, we will have ended the Northern Expedition. ”

Handling official business, whether it is in the official room, in the conference hall, or somewhere else, as long as it is not in the inner house, Chen Wen will not call it so, and Zhou Jingting will call Chen Wen the title in a proper manner even in the inner house.

At this moment, Chen Wenpo is like this, and Zhou Jingting is also angry. He knew very well that what Chen Wen said to him this time was all heart-wrenching words, and naturally it was also the will of the Ming Army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Zhejiang.

"The Northern Expedition, starting from the victory in Liyang, is the most important event of my Jiangsu and Zhejiang royal divisions. For this, I have been preparing for more than two years and almost three years. During this time, Huguang, Fujian, and Guangdong were incorporated into the system of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the layout of the great southwest had also been completed, and new field troops were also being organized, and now all that remained was to subdue the gentry in Jiangnan and weaken the strength of the Tartars, nothing more. ”

"For the imperial court, I could have gone south with a large army when I was in Guizhou and swept away Yungui, which was nothing more than a year or two in the southwest. However, so far, those who have died under my knife are either evil Tartars or traitors who fight for tigers, and I don't want to kill them, and it is enough to be a rich man or integrate into our system. ”

"Because of this, I will take such pains to layout, now the layout has begun to bear fruit, more than a year, less than half a year, the finances of the imperial court will completely collapse, and we can use this time to try to subdue the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and then raise troops to the north. The future is already in front of us, within reach, but the closer we get, the more we must be cautious, and a mistake will be wasted. ”

"Furen, I understand, don't worry."

The change of dynasty, in fact, the high-level of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming military groups are looking forward to the arrival of this day, when they will no longer be subordinates of a feudal town, but the famous ministers of the founding of the country. For Zhou Jingting, its significance is even more important. However, Chen Wen was unwilling to stain the blood of those heroes in history, and was unwilling to let the Manchus survive in the world for a few more years, so they could only do their best to complete Chen Wen's layout and do everything as best as possible.

After the separate summons, Chen Wen went to the regular meeting with Zhou Jingting. There are not many topics to discuss today, first of all, the summer tax collection of the twelfth year of Yongli has been completed.

Compared with last year, Hubei and Hunan provinces have ushered in a bumper harvest of several million mu of newly added military-leased land and even more extensive civilian and military fields, and the grain output can not only greatly expand grain reserves, but also lower the grain prices in Guangdong and several provinces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which are increasingly moving toward cash cropping.

"Huguang is ripe, the world is full, and now the complete recovery of Huguang is still far away, but the government at all levels strictly prohibits the private division of land, and those who dare to violate it must be dealt with seriously!"

In the control area of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies, according to the system formulated by Chen Wen, each division of the war army is a field force, the local garrison is a stability maintenance force, and those reserve soldiers who are assigned to the army to rent land are reserve forces and can be replenished to the army at any time, so that the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies can have enough strength to deal with the enemy in all aspects.

However, in the past few years, the number of reserve troops has always been much lower than that of the active army, and once he thinks that the reserve force is not as large as the active service, a sense of crisis has always hung over Chen Wen's heart.

Now, Chen Wen has abolished the right of the local government to organize the people's tuns in different places, and the number of local refugees has increased, but the reserve has also increased substantially, not to mention the old things that the Song Dynasty would recruit soldiers from the refugees, and these landless people who came out of the mountains and forests are obviously more easily absorbed into the workshops that are constantly being built in various places, and become more organized industrial workers.

All of them are high-ranking officials from the Qi Palace, although the highest-level civil officials such as Sun Yu, Wang Jiang, Qi Xiufeng, and Gu Shouli are all in charge of government affairs in various places, but this group is also the second level of officials after them, and there are many administrative officials from military officers, who are responsible for affairs such as training, guards, and military camps.

With such a status, how can they not be unclear about Chen Wen's direction and basic intentions, especially when the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies are thriving day by day, and it is not far from going further, then they will do their best.

"The second topic of the day, the letter that was just delivered yesterday, is that the king of Yanping has captured the southern part of Dayuan and expelled the Dutch there. By the previous year, the Dutch had landed in the northern part of Dayuan, and stationed a fleet of no less than twenty large warships, and the fortress and the troops composed of the Dutch, the natives of the northern part of Dayuan, and the black slaves. ”

"This Dutch fleet has been to Wenzhou last year and this year to trade, buying large quantities of sugar, salt, silk, porcelain, grain, poultry and other foodstuffs. However, due to the existence of this fleet, the king of Yanping is uneasy and wants us to join forces to blockade the trade of these Dutch. What do you think? ”

Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, but in fact controlled the southern part of Taiwan, and the port of Keelung in the north was occupied by the Dutch during Zheng Jing's reign.

Chen Wen knew that after Zheng Chenggong took over southern Taiwan, he used his son Zheng Jing as the commander-in-chief of Zhangquan to lead Zheng Chenggong's troops in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou to support the government affairs there, while he led the troops to operate in southern Taiwan.

However, Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan was a few years earlier than in history, and there were many sugarcane plantations in southern Taiwan, and the output was not banditry, and the Dutch were unwilling to give up due to this loss, but they were unable to break Zheng Chenggong's fleet that dominated the Fujian Sea for a while, so they simply started a new project in northern Taiwan. On Zheng Chenggong's side, the troops were divided into two places, and Zheng Jing also strongly advocated maintaining superior troops in Zhangquan and Quanfu to prevent Chen Wen from attacking, so the Fujian Ming army did not have the grasp of annihilating this Dutch colonist in one fell swoop, so he had this proposition.

"Director Qiu, did these Taixi people have any forced buying and selling when they traded with our merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in Wenzhou?"

Hearing the question from his colleague over there, the chief officer of the Tiju City Shipping Division thought about it, and then replied: "As far as this official knows, these Dutch are quite honest with us in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and it cannot be said that the taxes of the Municipal Shipping Division have never been missed, but judging from the historical trade volume and the size of their fleet, the scale of participation in smuggling should not be particularly large, obviously for fear of making enemies on both sides." ”

With this answer, the officials present turned their heads one after another. The Dutch did not follow the law, on the contrary, these colonists pursued huge profits. Nowadays, they dare to be enemies of Zheng Chenggong, but they dare not default on taxes in the land of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, the reason is that Zheng Chenggong has seized their colony in southern Taiwan, and secondly, compared to Zheng Chenggong, Chen Wen is now really a giant existence, and it is an unwise choice to provoke two forces at the same time, and they naturally want to pick up soft bullies.

With this understanding, the opinions of the officials present are also inclined to ignore the request of the Fujian Ming army, and at most send people to mediate the contradictions between the two sides, after all, one more trade object is beneficial to the economic development of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as well as the collection of taxes, and the Dutch are on the side, and the Fujian Ming army will not dare to move lightly, no matter how you look at it, it will be more beneficial to the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

But at this moment, Zhang Huangyan, who was in charge of the Military Judge Advocate General's Department, stood up, bowed to Chen Wen, and said: "Your Highness, this matter does not involve the Military Judge Advocate General's Department, and the lower official should not intervene, but since His Royal Highness took it to the joint meeting to discuss, the lower official is also a little foolish. ”

"Zhang Shangshu, but please speak up."

Chen Wen nodded, and Zhang Huangyan said angrily: "Xia Guan knows that in the past two years, there have been a lot of discussions between the imperial court and the Qi Palace. However, the lower officials still have to say that no matter when, the court belongs to the people of the Han family, and the palace of the King of Qi is also the people of the Han family. There is a way to be right and wrong, and the hearts of our race will be different, and today the monarchs use the power of Taixi to contain the Fujian Wangshi, so will they also use the power of Yidi to eradicate other competitors in the future? ”

As soon as Zhang Huangyan said this, the officials present showed displeasure. In contrast, they are either from the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army, or from Dalanshan or the civilian training class, and Zhang Huangyan, who was admitted to the examination, was appointed as a squire of the military department by Lu Jianguo, and was appointed as the secretary of the military department by the Yongli Imperial Court, and was not in the same pot, and those discussions about further development on weekdays will deliberately avoid him, but at this moment, he is exposed in person, and there is no reason to speculate, it is strange if he can still maintain normalcy.

"Zhang Shangshu, whether you resign from the seal is your personal matter, and we are discussing the pros and cons of this move on my Jiangsu and Zhejiang princes. What is the use of the power of Taixi to contain the Fujian Wangshi, what is the use of the power of Yidi to eradicate other competitors, since our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Wangshi formed an army on the Dalan Mountain, have they borrowed the strength of any family, and it is not a good situation under the leadership of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, but some friendly troops and officials are secretly calculating these heroes who have restored half of the world. ”

The history of the Ming Army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, everyone present did not know the details, Chen Wen relied on his own strength, led the rest of the Ming Army in eastern Zhejiang to recover the current provinces step by step, and the officials present here have experienced the hardships themselves. Especially the Cao Conglong Rebellion, since then, the officials, generals, and even ordinary soldiers in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies have been suspicious of those friendly troops, so it is inevitable to take precautions.

Zhang Huangyan went online like this, and the officials present were all filled with righteous indignation, and a few of them who had been able to talk to Zhang Huangyan on weekdays were also a little dissatisfied with this, but they still whispered to persuade that peace is precious.

Seeing this, Chen Wen sighed, and then slapped the table, which can be regarded as stopping the chaos.

"Zhang Shangshu, this king asked you, but for Wu Sangui's business?"