Whether it is Huang Zongxi or other gentry, it is understandable that they have such a move. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Yongli Imperial Court, which is located in the southwest corner, is not to mention that it has withdrawn its authority, just looking at the Kuidong generals in Sichuan, it is only a matter of time before they fall apart, and the Qing court in the north is even more defeated by Chen Wen's subordinates, and the living Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies have driven out of the south half of the Yangtze River.

In the current situation, the strength of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang is thriving, and since the recovery of Jiangnan, in the past few years, the distance between the army and other forces has become larger and larger, and there has been a relatively obvious trend in the world.

Of course, the most important thing is that although Chen Wen was a little harsh with the gentry, he still recognized the preferential exemption policy. The preferential exemption policy established by the Ming court has also been recognized by the Qing court since it entered the customs. As long as Chen Wen admits the preferential exemption policy and is willing to reopen the imperial examination, even if the scholars are their own relics, they must always let their sons and nephews get a name for themselves in order to ensure the continuation of the family's interests. As for what defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Yongli Imperial Court, and sought death at home, it was better not to implicate others.

At the wedding banquet of Huang Baijia and Wang Yi's daughter, Chen Wen made a statement, which soon spread among the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The resumption of the imperial examination is a great thing for the scholars, one by one, they are waiting for the day of the Northern Expedition to come, and even many gentry plan to go to the Qi Palace, and strongly ask Chen Wen to raise troops for the Northern Expedition as soon as possible, in order to "save the northern Han people from the dire situation".

After the wedding banquet, Chen Wen spent two days in Ningbo, visiting the workshops of the families of the Lu family, Wanjia and several other supporters who had received his support back then, and even stayed at the Lu family for a day before returning to Nanjing.

Chen Wen's trip was to send Wang Yi's daughter to get married, but when it comes to intimacy, it is obviously even worse on the Lu family's side. Before Chen Wen recovered Ning Shao, Lu Yuding spared no effort to donate money and food for the anti-Qing cause, and Chen Wen did not stop after recovering Ning Shao, so when Chen Wen decided to support the "national capital", the support received by the Lu family was second to none in Ning Shao. Today, the scale of the Lu family's workshop is also among the best in the eight provinces of eastern Zhejiang, and the goods produced every year are exported to Japan, Ryukyu and even Europe.

In Chen Wen's view, such a gentry can be regarded as his own people, and with the example of a family like the Lu family, Chen Wen believes that as long as the policy is in place, after a few decades, these remnants of the Donglin Party will not be able to escape the menstrual cycle, and the morale of Jiangnan will also be greatly improved, even if it cannot be completely extinguished, it can be weakened little by little to the extent that it will no longer be the mainstream voice.

It was a long road and required a lot of patience, but it was something that Chen Wen never lacked, because he believed that it was a better path than the slaughter of the Manchus and the laissez-faire results of the Ming court.

The car of Qi Wangfu left Ningbo and returned to Ningbo the same way. According to Chen Wen's plan, the training camp in Niushoushan is to go through it, see the training progress with your own eyes, and make corresponding adjustments.

Chen Wen was still on the way, and at the same time, far away in Beijing, the right army of Wuwei had also moved out of the training camp in the capital and went to the camp of the small station in Tianjin in full gear to provide cover and support for the Tianjin Acropolis and Dagukou.

The army set off, first of all, to arrive at the Tianjin Acropolis, the Manchu officials of the Tianjin Acropolis as they did when they built the Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, drove away all the people in the area occupied by the Acropolis, the Acropolis also completely became a full city after two enclosures, most of the city is the new home of the families of the Wuwei Right Army, and the other half is the station of the workshop personnel, and there is no other original Acropolis people.

The right army of Wuwei entered the city in an orderly manner, but with his family, he became a mess when he landed. Fortunately, the Qing court built the city is not a matter of one or two times, there is still experience, the original officials of the Tianjin Acropolis assisted in arranging, and the family began to station, Liu Cheng determined that there would be nothing for the time being, so he handed over the resettlement work to the co-commander Mu Lima and Li Zhifang, the chief of staff who had just been promoted by him, and he went straight to the Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau.

Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau is located on the bank of the Haihe River near the Tianjin Acropolis, in order to make better use of the hydraulic resources of Tianjin Wei, to provide enough power for those hydraulic machinery that was imitated by John Tang or smuggled from Taixi, Macao, Batavia, and even from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Liu Cheng came in a hurry and entered the tall wall, thinking that there would be a sense of déjà vu, but after seeing the world inside the wall clearly, he always felt that it was completely different from the Jinhua Hydraulic Workshop he had seen back then.

From the outside, there is not much difference between the two, nothing more than two factories located on the riverside, but when you enter it, there are potholes and sewage under your feet, and the mud is so muddy that Liu Chengdu is reluctant to get off the horse, lest it will stain his new official uniform. Riding through it, there were artisans everywhere dressed in tatters, who looked like walking corpses, and there was no anger at all.

Liu Cheng entered with Goshhatsei horses, and the overseers in the workshop immediately cleared the way for his noble forehead with leather whips and angry shouts. Liu Cheng looked sideways, and the leather whip made whip marks on the craftsman's body, and blood oozed out, but the injured craftsman didn't dare to show even half of his complaint, or even half of his dissatisfied or resentful eyes, and was driven to the side of the road like a pig and sheep. When his team passed, the area of the workshop returned to the same chaos as before, as if Liu Cheng's arrival had disrupted their "order".

"Wash your heart, don't come unharmed."

Zhang Daocheng was specially recommended to Liu Cheng by Hu Quancai before his death, and he can be regarded as the most proficient in practice in their party, and his practical ability is stronger than that of Zhu Zhixi, the highest-ranking military secretary of the military department.

This person is a cadre recruited by Hong Chengchou when he established the Nanchang Shogunate, and Liu Cheng also relies on it very much, and even Zhang Daocheng's current co-director of the Tianjin Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, and the official position of the right attendant of the processing department is also specially asked by Liu Cheng from Shunzhi.

The two have a good relationship on weekdays, and the last time Zhang Daocheng returned to Beijing, he specially informed Liu Cheng of the inside situation, so that Liu Cheng was mentally prepared not to affect the established training plan and Liu Cheng's prestige in the Wuwei Right Army because of the lack of weapons supply. Arriving in Tianjin this time, Liu Cheng rushed here as soon as possible to contact Zhang Daocheng. As for the minister of the general office, not to mention that he is unwilling to be in the company of these dirty and lowly craftsmen on weekdays, and he happened to rush back to the capital to report to Shunzhi recently, Liu Cheng didn't bother to look at the face in front of him and behind the scenes.

"Hey, it's okay, it's just that the weapons and armor are always not in place, which really affects the progress of training. I also had no choice, so I came here, hoping that my brother would be able to squeeze some out. ”

Hearing this, looking at Liu Cheng's tired and helpless face, how could he still be high-spirited when he joined forces with Hu Quancai in the capital.

That's what it sounds like. As soon as Hu Quancai died, Zhu Zhixi, the highest-ranking civil official, could not take over his role, and Liu Cheng's burden was heavier.

"Hey."

Liu Cheng looks like this, and Zhang Daocheng can't help it. Although Ning Wan and I don't work in the workshop, but there are many of his eyes and ears in it, he is silent on weekdays, but he is the most closely watched in terms of output, he and Hao Zongfu said that they are co-organizers and associations, but in fact, they are just senior technocrats in the General Bureau, and on the big side, Ning Wan and I, an old minister in Liaodong, are at the helm.

The production capacity of the Tianjin plant should give priority to supporting the new army of the Janissaries, Gongwei, Wuwei Zhongjun and Wuwei Right Army, which are Manchurian nobles in charge, but although the production capacity cannot be squeezed out, Zhang Daocheng is not without other methods.

"Wash your heart, I won't tell you, Ning Ge Lao keeps an eye on weekdays, I really have no choice. However, you have come this time, and there is still some good news, which should be to quench your thirst. ”

The wariness of the Manchurian nobles against him, the Han people, or the wariness of all the Han people, Liu Cheng had already felt it very clearly in the capital.

Mulima is one thing, and it is difficult to say that the difficulties in the arsenal of the capital are only due to the dissatisfaction of the Ministry of Industry Man Shangshu with his advice to establish the Tianjin factory. In addition, in terms of the personnel arrangements of the various departments of the New Army, not to mention that Li Benshen, Ma Degong, Cai Yurong, and others, who were familiar with him, were all assigned to other new armies, and it can be easily seen just by mentioning the source of the soldiers.

The new army was expanded, and the Janissaries were also adjusted at the same time due to the casualties during the suppression of the rebellion in Shaanxi. According to the new principle of troop distribution, the five divisions of the new army were divided into the upper second army and the lower third army, the upper second army, as the name suggests, was the Praetorian Guard and the Gong Guard, of which 3,600 Manchurian spearmen, 7,200 Han gunners, 2,000 Manchurian cavalry and 3,000 Mongolian cavalry, most of them were Niulu, which had been organized for a long time, and their combat effectiveness was obviously the strongest among them.

In contrast, among the lower three armies of the new army, the Wuwei Central Army, the Left Army and the Right Army, 4,000 Manchurian cavalry with 1,000 Mongolian cavalry, the infantry are all composed of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of the Goryeo Army, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army in four towns are equipped with the Eight Banners of Goryeo in one town, and the New Han Army occupies the vast majority. In particular, the Wuwei Right Army led by him was the most unbearable in terms of personnel distribution, which really made him feel heavy pressure.

At this moment, he hurried over, and he didn't have much hope, with Zhang Daocheng's words, he had to sigh secretly, and he couldn't raise much spirit for any good news.

"First, the firearms craftsmen captured by North Korea were previously detained in the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry, and the emperor just issued an order to hand them over to the Tianjin factory, and with these people, the output can be increased."

Liu Cheng knew more or less about this matter, he had arrested the Korean craftsmen before, and they were basically all the magnates, especially the Doni and Fushou who carried out the war of annihilation of the country, and they were incorporated into their own clothed slaves, and the weapons and armor craftsmen were in the slave register, and they were also lent to the Ministry of Industry Yamen, but Shunzhi and other relatives and nobles had a grudge against them for mastering these "technical talents", so they were assigned to the Tianjin factory because of the low output of the Ministry of Industry Yamen. said that it was a good thing, but in fact, it was just like what Zhang Daocheng said before, just wishing to quench his thirst.

"What else?"

"Don't worry, second, a few days ago, on the Korean side, a Japanese businessman came to contact and sell Japanese iron cannons. The first batch has already arrived in South Goryeo and is being transshipped to the capital. ”

Zhang Daocheng's eyebrows fluttered when he talked about this, but Liu Cheng frowned, and then asked, "Iron cannon?" You mean the birds. ”

"It's a bird gun, but the caliber of the bird gun in the Japanese country is also divided into sizes, the small one is not as small as the bird gun made by the Ministry of Industry, and the big one is not much smaller than the turtledove's foot gun."

"That's a good thing."

After seeing the internal environment of the Tianjin factory with his own eyes, Liu Cheng has already expressed too much confidence in its production capacity to reach the level of the Military Industry Department of the Ming Army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang. Fortunately, what he urgently needs now is arquebus, and he has not seen Japanese iron guns in Zhejiang before, and the shape is almost the same, as long as the charge and projectile weight of this batch of arquebuses can be close to the standard Lumi guns, they can always pay attention to one or two, at least they are stronger than the bird guns that can't even break armor.

"How many firearms are there, when will they arrive, and which way will they go?"

Nowadays, the sea control of the Bohai Sea is in the hands of the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, and the sailors of the Qing army have also gathered many warships to counterattack, but they are just to send them to death. It is indeed fast to go to sea, but it is never very safe, even if there are multiple warships to escort it.

Liu Cheng's series of questions, it can be seen that he is anxious, Zhang Daocheng smiled slightly, and hurriedly said: "There are about a thousand iron cannons, and they are going to Liaodong, and this matter is still confidential. ”

"Liaodong, it's okay."

It's a short road and it takes time, but it's better than drifting away. Liu Cheng knew very well that the Wuwei Right Army was no longer welcomed, and it was also a member of the New Army, and the Qing court was still counting on being able to rely on the New Army to defeat Chen Wen in the future.

1,000 firearms, for the Wuwei Right Army, which needs to be equipped with more than 7,200 firearms, is just better than nothing. However, if the output of the Tianjin plant can keep up, supplemented by smuggling, there is always the possibility that the armament will be completed as soon as possible.

"I did the math before you came. Up to now, the inventory of the Ministry of Industry, the new manufacturing, and the manufacturing and smuggling since the establishment of the Tianjin Factory, the weapons and armor of the Praetorian Guard and the Gong Guard have long been in place, and now the difference is only the three armies of the armed guards. Among them, only the Wuwei Right Army is the worst, and the other two armies will not be long away from being fully equipped. Wash your heart, don't be in a hurry. ”

Zhang Daocheng said this, Liu Cheng also couldn't stop smiling bitterly, it is one thing to complete the assembly, and the more important thing is the live-ammunition training, which is even more related to the production and inventory of gunpowder and lead bullets. The Qing court formed a new army in order to fight to the death with the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and always ensure the amount of inventory. After his Wuwei Right Army completed the installation, he was afraid that he would be subjected to another round of targeted live ammunition training.

Fortunately, overall, this is already good news, at least better than the day when you can't see the load, and keep doing it like this.

After getting the good news, Liu Cheng left in a hurry and rushed back to the Tianjin Acropolis, which is now full of Tianjin to supervise the resettlement of the army and their families.

Looking at Liu Cheng's distant back, Zhang Daocheng sighed, there was one thing, he didn't dare to mention it to Liu Cheng, that is, the number of smuggling from the south has dropped sharply recently, whether it is grain, or steel, strategic materials have dropped significantly, and in the meantime, he also got some news, it is said that Chen Wen has intensified his efforts to crack down on smuggling in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and strictly investigated Taixi merchant ships.

This news is tantamount to a bolt from the blue, the amount of steel smuggling has decreased, and the production of weapons and armor will inevitably be affected. At this moment, he is nothing more than following Ning Wan's order to appease Liu Chengyi and Er, but if he wants to solve the practical problem and completely plug the equipment gap of the new army, I am afraid it will take a few months, especially the Wuwei Right Army, and it is not possible to initially complete the installation until June or July.

"I'm afraid that if the assembly is completed, even if there is enough ammunition, there won't be much time."