The general's mansion in western Henan is now not short of food at all, and Chen Ming swept half of Henan at the beginning, plus Xiangyang and Yunyang in Hubei. Whether it is Chenzhou Runing or Xiangyang Yunyang, the grain and rice plundered in any direction are more than one million stones.

Therefore, this year's summer harvest in the General's Mansion is more about the reserve of civilian grain, and there is absolutely no shortage of grain needed by the army. It may be difficult to say next year, but this year the General's Mansion can still relax. At this point, it is necessary to detain a handful of bitter tears for the Manchu Qing Dynasty. They were so hard that the disaster in Xuzhou made the Manchu food shortage even greater, and Aligon, who was sitting in Zhengzhou, was also deprived of the title of first-class duke, who was the great-grandson of Yidu, one of the five founding ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, the grandson of Taishi Kubilong, the fourth son of Yin De, the minister of the interior, and the brother of the scholar of the university. Of course, the special physique of the Manchu Qing Dynasty made Aligon the title of first-class duke taken away, but it was not completely erased, but was transferred by Qianlong to Arigon and his third brother Aibida. Just as when Aligon and his eldest brother Celen were imprisoned, and the Junggar cavalry was killed on the way to Beijing, his second brother was planted after the first Jinchuan Rebellion, and the hat of this kind of Guoyi Gong fell on his head Aligon, and now that Aligon has committed an accident, this hat has been transferred from Aligon's head to the head of the third brother of the Niu Colu clan.

This was the system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Although the Manchu Dynasty reached the peak of China's centralized system at the beginning of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the interior of the Eight Banners was like a joint-stock system, and the expenditure of Ali Gon came from Niu Colu and Yidu, who were the minority shareholders of the Manchu Dynasty. If a shareholder makes a mistake, he can kill or depreciate, but you can't directly deprive people of his shares.

The prosperity of the early and middle Manchu Dynasty is inseparable from the power of these shareholders, that is, in the middle and late periods, large and small shareholders gradually developed rice worms that eat and wait for death. The strength and number of Han soldiers in the government and the opposition have greatly increased.

Chen Mingyuan was in Nanjing, and he also knew that the grain in the base area was enough, and he did not divert his attention because of the approaching wheat harvest season. The sailor battalion has already hit Jiujiang to the east, and if it is fast, it will be able to reach the Wuhu area in three days, and Anqing will send a team to cooperate with the sailor battalion to sweep southern Anhui for the second time, from Wuhu to Nanjing, and it will be enough to go down the river for one day. When the news of the Fu Han army's big fight in southern Anhui reached Jiangnan and Jiangyin, the Fu Han army in Nanjing could be launched.

Now Chen Ming is like a harmless rabbit, quietly staying in Nanjing, but this is just the calm before the storm.

Chen Ming was going to fight to Songjiang this time, and with his current strength, it was very difficult to occupy Songjiang, or it was unrealistic. However, it is still not a big problem to fight Puxi to make a big profit, and in this way, the impact of the war can also spread to the last pure land in southern Jiangsu - Songjiang Mansion.

Chen Ming didn't know how long he would stay in Nanjing. The Qing army on the Huai'an side was too weak, and it has not been able to capture Gaoyou Prefecture and attack Yangzhou City, so that the Qing army on the northern road will not be able to put pressure on Nanjing at all. Chen Ming sat quietly in the city of Nanjing. It's a shame that when he captured Nanjing, he thought that he couldn't stay in Nanjing for a month.

Guangdong's water and land green battalions landed in Haimen Hall, but they had no intention of attacking Nantong Prefecture.

Looking at it now, the strength of the Qing army is very large, but the quality is not good at all. Just like the Ming army against the Eight Banners back then, no matter how many people there are, the combat effectiveness is poor, and it cannot form an advantage. In the 18th century, when the Manchu armies were unable to travel relatively quickly by water, their build-up was particularly slow. Not to mention, Jiangnan is catching up with the rainy season.

For various reasons, the Manchus now gathered 100,000 troops in the north and south of the river, but they had no pressure on Chen Ming, and their more capable teams, such as the Green Battalion in Guangxi, were still trekking the way to come.

There was no direct threat or pressure from Nanjing at all, whether it was the Fujian-Zhejiang water and land green battalion in Jiangyin, or the remnants of the Liangjiang in Suzhou, the most direct direction of attack was Zhenjiang rather than Nanjing. During the days that Chen Ming stayed in Nanjing City, he lived a rare peaceful life.

"Jigong will stop there for the time being." Chen Jigong had already arrived in Songjiang, and Chen Ming asked him to keep a low profile for the time being and familiarize himself with the environment as soon as possible. And He Huazhang, who has already arrived in Suzhou, can't stop, "He Huazhang can't stop, not only can't stop, but also be more high-profile." It would be even better if he could make Soulde lively and let the Qing soldiers put him in prison.

You go and tell him that as long as this ticket is completed beautifully, I will let him take his family to Guangzhou. "The important thing in this reward is not to leave the war-torn Jiangnan to go to the peaceful Guangdong, but to let He Huazhang take his family to do things.

The dark camp, as an indispensable arm of the Fu Han Army, He Huazhang, these important chess pieces, their families are all supported in Lushan. He Huazhang should not have seen his father, mother, wife and children for a year, and Chen Ming felt that his promise would make him tempted. Although the city of Suzhou kept stirring the nerves of Jiangsu's political envoy Sürde, the danger was unpredictable and enormous.

Chen Ming admitted that he had selfish intentions in this matter, if the person in He Huazhang's position was Chen Jigong, he would never give such an absolute order, but the fact is that He Huazhang was in that position. In Chen Ming's eyes, his life is far less important than Chen Jigong, and he belongs to the type that can be sacrificed, as long as the benefits in exchange are big enough.

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"Your task now is very clear, that is, to keep attacking Sürd, and to blame all the causes and reasons for the contradictions between the Liangjiang government and the Fujian and Zhejiang water and land reinforcements......

“…… It's better for Sould to send troops to arrest you in a fit of rage......"

At that time, the Fu Han army seized Jiangyin, and when the news of the Fujian and Zhejiang water and land green battalions in Jiangyin City 'retreated with one touch' reached Suzhou, hehe, the rift on the official faces of Fujian and Zhejiang and Liangjiang could no longer be covered. This is not only a rift in the official face, but also a wave of public opinion among the people who are officials who abolish the public with personal grievances, which is not comparable to getting rid of one or two officials like Soul. Even Wu Bida and Duan Xiulin will move their positions, not to mention the former, if Qianlong changes the banner, hehe, Zhejiang Green Camp is also a person. As I said before, Duan Xiulin is more popular in Zhejiang.

"The Metropolitan Governor has a saying, if this errand is done well......"

In a small courtyard that He Huazhang had just bought in Suzhou City, in a dim room, a person who couldn't see his face clearly was saying to He Huazhang. He is the only liaison between He Huazhang and his superiors.

There was only one candle burning in the dimly lit room, and the beating flame lit He Huazhang's face flickering.

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Southwest Henan, Nanyang.

All the work of the General's Mansion made way for Xia Harvest. In addition to the necessary garrisons, all the recruits and scouts in various localities were enriched to the front line, and officials and officials at all levels were also added to the front line. The heavy rain in Xuzhou scared the Yellow River out of control, and the rain came so suddenly, so that the general's mansion felt that this year's wheat harvest was better to hurry up.

This summer harvest is the first harvest on the acres under the rule of the General's Mansion, and it is the 'political' test of the General's Mansion in the past six months.

The general's mansion ushered in the summer harvest so ceremoniously, so that the people of Nanyang and Ruzhou were a little unexpected, you must know that in the past, the Manchu government would only 'grandly' usher in the summer tax and grain tax. Farmers in this era were very receptive to poor harvests in disaster years. People will curse the disaster that comes, just as people in the 21st century will curse the weather forecast. As long as people are alive, the weather forecast is still a must-see. At that time, people had to accept all kinds of 'inaccuracies', just as farmers today have to accept the sudden arrival of a poor harvest for various reasons.

So what Xia Harvest wants is the word 'fast'!

If a heavy rain comes down and the wheat sprouts, everything will be finished.

Race against time to harvest, race against time to dry and store the grain. Even in the 21st century, the annual summer harvest is a peak period for migrant workers to return to their hometowns.

The same is true here for the Fu Han Army. As the summer harvest approached, the number of laborers at several construction sites dropped in an uproar. In addition to the manpower directly controlled by the general's government, the laborers and healthy women who came out of the towns and villages all went home to harvest wheat one by one.

Harvesting wheat hunched over is very hard work, and the burden on the body is great.

In previous years, in order to save iron, how to sharpen the rusty sickle more sharply and consume less iron has become a technical task in the countryside. But now it's different, the steel output of the Fuhan Army has exploded again and again, plus the hydraulic forging hammer, the sickle, shovel, iron fork, iron rake and other farm tools for takeaway are all in the past, and the quality is better.

At this moment, in the land of southwest Henan, in addition to the industrious peasants who hurried to harvest every wheat, there were also those military families and disabled soldiers' families, as well as the bereaved families of martyrs. This is the general's mansion's move to buy people's hearts, but when it falls on the bereaved families of ordinary martyrs and disabled soldiers, it can definitely move them to tears.

Besides, in the fields, this kind of thing spreads the fastest, and for the General's Mansion, this summer harvest is people's hearts.

Nanyang has been captured by the Fu Han army for half a year, and the biggest change in Nanyang Mansion in this half a year is not only the bunkers built one after another, but also the big roads and small roads that have been repaired by the Fu Han army, as well as waterways and rivers. And, of course, there were the country officials who were very unaccustomed to the peasants in the beginning.

The imperial power did not go to the countryside since the Ming Dynasty, and it has been hundreds of years since then, and the common people and gentry of heavy industry have become accustomed to this kind of 'politics'. Now that the Han Army has been abolished, the most direct 'effect' is the repeated collision between the township officials and officials of the Han Army and the local squires and landlords, and under the laws and regulations of the Han Army, the local clan rights have been greatly restricted, which will of course be greatly dissatisfied by the party whose interests have been damaged. That is to say, the combat effectiveness of the Fu Han Army is strong, and it is extremely strong, and it uses a strong mode of pressure to implement its own set in the base area.

Of course, the most important thing is that the territory controlled by the Fu Han Army now is not large. As soon as there is a stir and there are signs of something wrong, the General's Mansion can directly order to interfere in the development of the matter.

Since the end of last year, the propaganda drama born from the braided drama has gradually been sung in the southwest of Henan. This form of 'propaganda', which the people like to see, is easier for the people to remember and understand than the official notices of the government or the newspapers with relatively narrow propaganda coverage.

Just like the most basic institutional structure under the rule of the General's Office, those official names that are completely different from those in the Ming and Qing dynasties, if they are publicized to the common people with empty mouths and white teeth, they will not be able to remember it ten times. But with the plot of the drama, with the characters, two or three big scenes, the people talk about the Food Bureau, the Transportation Bureau, the courts, the Ministry of Armed Forces, and the Finance Bureau.

From the initial propaganda of the institutional structure, to the further interpretation of the role of each institution, and some policies that are good for the people. Anyway, it's 'talking', and it's not about putting it into practice 100%, so the interpretation is only to reduce the resistance of the enemy people. The General's Mansion has done a very good job in the past few months, and it has been very effective.

Even though the remaining landlords and gentry in the area still resisted the Fu Han military government, the common people gradually accepted the Fu Han army, which was completely different from the previous 'imperial court'. The rabbits of later generations always said: The eyes of the common people are bright, and this is somewhat true. The common people do not have much knowledge, and many people do not know how to write their own names or recognize them, but they have a heart of their own and can see whether those policies are good or bad.

"Give them everything we promised the Mixed Yuan Sect." After the end of the summer harvest, although he had not received the preliminary grain statistics, Chen Hui was still quite happy, so in the face of Liu Zhixie's visit to the door again, he generously fulfilled his original promise.

The Mixed Yuan Sect has really helped the General's Mansion a lot. If it weren't for them firmly attracting the attention of the Qing soldiers, where would the battlefield be so easy these days. Therefore, no matter how bad the reputation of the Mixed Yuan Sect is, and no matter how bad it is, Chen Hui is not willing to be reckless, so he turns his face and denies it.

The latter has crossed the Yellow River, out of the northern border of Xuzhou Prefecture, and into the territory of Shandong. These mixed elemental sect armies passed all the way, and the smoke was in shambles. Not to mention how much the summer harvest can alleviate the local food urgency, after being passed by the mixed Yuan Sect Army, Liu Song and they created more than 100,000 refugees for the Manchu government. Coupled with the counties on the south bank of the Yellow River that have been cut off, not to mention the boundaries of Shandong, the entire Xuzhou alone is ruined by the Mixed Yuan Sect, and there is only one mouth left. Xuzhou has a population of one million......

Moreover, the current position of the Mixed Yuan Sect directly affects the safety of the Grand Canal, and the cannons made in Beijing want to be transported to the battlefields of northern Jiangsu and Henan as soon as possible, and the Grand Canal is still a lifeline that they must rely on, but now tens of thousands of mixed Yuan Sect troops are entrenched on the side of the canal, how do you let Beijing transport them? How dare Qianlong? (To be continued.) )