Chapter Seventy-Four: The Clouds and the Sunny Days Are Missing
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After a detour to Shaoxing, Chen Wen returned to Jinhua Mansion a few days later. It was only half a month before and after the expedition, and it seemed to be a little more lively here, probably because of the batch of recruits recruited by the Zheng family after the payment for the goods was delivered in April.
After entering the mansion, Chen Wen first arranged for someone to accompany Wang Jiang to meet his mother and wife, and then held a meeting in the conference hall of the Xiuguo Mansion without even having time to go back to the inner courtyard.
"Tell the marshal, the newly recruited 6,000 recruits have entered the camp and are seizing all the time to train."
Chen Wen had already vaguely seen this on the way back, and when he heard a practical answer, he nodded and said: "The training work must be of high standards and strict requirements, even if they have not seen blood, these recruits must be able to do the order and prohibit them when they arrive in various garrisons." ā
"The last will obey."
The director of the Military Training Department, who was in charge of training recruits, sat down again, and another military general stood up and saluted: "Marshal, can the recruitment of recruits in Ningshao and Shao Prefectures be launched?" ā
The recruitment of a new batch of recruits has just ended, and the assessment of the reserve soldiers has also been announced, and those who have passed the test have already entered the camp, and those who fail to meet the requirements will be strictly trained to wait for the re-assessment in half a year. In terms of soldiers, there are no more reserve soldiers, and all that remains is to recruit and select from the Qing army anyway.
Chen Wen's staff has also made a report just now, after this battle, Ning Shao was restored, the four Qing armies that participated in the war were defeated, and among the remaining three green battalions in these two prefectures, the Ningbo green battalion was attached, but the Shaoxing green battalion still resisted in various counties, and the Zhoushan green battalion was abducted by the Fujian Ming army, so only the green battalion soldiers under Zhang Hongde, the general soldier of Ningbo, barely had the qualifications to accept the selection.
"It's time to start, Ningbo Green Camp will participate in the selection this time."
Hearing this, the officer in charge of recruitment was not doing anything, but the officer in charge of training had a headache when he saw it. The vast majority of those recruits are farmers, miners, and other men who have been engaged in manual labor all year round, and their experience in the army is a blank slate. And those green battalions anyway are the last thing that the boot camp wants, not to mention anything else, it takes a lot of energy just to correct their old habits.
However, after having a certain scale of iron core, it is also a good way to expand by appropriately recruiting and rebelling. Zhejiang's rebel army was basically cleaned up by the Qing army in the fourth and fifth years of Yongli, and the people who went up to the mountains and formed villages were at most the people who evaded harsh taxes and the Manchu officials exploited the school, and Zhang Zisheng's horse bone effect had not yet been reflected. But Ma Xin and Hu came to the pilgrimage anyway, and became a battalion officer, and participated in the battle of Siming Lake, which will inevitably touch other green battalion generals, although Zhang Hongde's submission is already the case in history, but who can say that there is no such relationship.
Chen Wen's will is like this, and the generals in charge below can only do their best to carry it out. After the general direction of recruitment and training was completed, Chen Wen looked at the inventory sent by the Quartermaster Department and the summary of the shortages of each unit, and turned the question to Xu Yi. ćć
"Recruits will be able to leave the camp in the fall, and weapons and equipment must keep up."
"Returning to Guogong, our military industry department, now has manufactured a large number of hydraulic machinery, and the order has been completed, so it can be built with all its might. It's the raw material......"
"Don't worry about raw materials, there is iron ore in Shaoxing, and other raw materials can also be purchased, you just need to make it with all your might."
"The subordinate obeys."
"In addition, helmets and visors, how to build; whether it is necessary to equip the heavy armor purchased by the friendly forces in Fujian; the problem of the production speed of the flintlock machine; the production of turtledove; design and manufacture of sapper shovels; And what I explained last time, how much has been produced now, and tomorrow I need a comprehensive report. ā
"The subordinate obeys."
Next, several other departments also inquired about it, and had a general understanding, and the detailed report was also arranged for tomorrow, and he turned to the governor's yamen to make inquiries.
"Governor Sun, Ningbo and Shaoxing, have the officials of these two prefectures been decided?"
"It has been determined, all are experienced officials."
"The ...... of the two guards"
When Chen Wen said this, the officials of the relevant departments present were all looking forward to it.
The establishment of new guards and the dismantling of old ones involve a lot of distribution of rights. The Wei Stations in Taizhou and Wenzhou and the Changguo Wei in Ningbo eventually ended with Haimen being established as an independent county, and the other Wei districts were assigned to the neighboring Wei Institute. The military facilities, tuntian and part of the yamen under the guard station were assigned to the military town and the new guard station; The salt fields and old military households were handed over to the prefecture and county, and many of the old military households became the salt of the Yamen of the Salt Division.
In this partition, if there is anyone who is a victim, it is the hereditary officers of the old guard and the gentry who invaded the military camp and Yantian. And they are facing the "dictatorship" of Zhejiang's civil and military forces!
Shaoxing and Ningbo, these two prefectures have Shaoxingwei, Ningbowei, Linshanwei, Guanhaiwei, Dinghaiwei and Changguowei and other six guards and their subordinate guards, Changguowei has been incorporated into Xiangshan County as early as last year, and the distribution of the other five guards has become the key to the next divide.
"It's still in accordance with the practice of last year, first send someone to investigate and verify, and then make distribution."
"So, are the staff of the Guogong Mansion, the officers of the guard station, and the officials of the governor's yamen investigating together?"
"Exactly."
"Then the official will choose the right person when he goes back."
"The same is true of the last general."
Sun Yu and the officers in charge of the guard office were seated again, and Chen Wen asked about the measurement of land, maritime trade, and commercial taxes, and then he announced that Wang Jiang, Shen Tiaolun, Zou Xiaonan, and others would become officials subordinate to the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang after their training.
However, for these civil officials who had to rebuild the Ming Army in Dalanshan not long ago, they were not very cold, and even Xu Yi, Guo Zhigang and other civilian officials from Dalanshan only showed some joy at Wang Jiang's return, and others were completely indifferent. ćć
At the beginning, Huang Zongxi and others rebuilt Dalan Mountain, what was their purpose, all the people present were clear-eyed, and they knew it at a glance. Wang Jiang's financial ability is known to everyone in Zhejiang, but Shen Tiaolun and others, especially Shen Tiaolun, the civil officials of Ning Shao's hometown sent people to invite them back then, but they didn't invite them, but now they are coming, and it is strange that they can catch a cold.
Chen Wen didn't pay attention to the catty here, and what he was concerned about here was no longer this small place, but the entire four southeastern provinces.
"The civil service training class should be expanded, and if it doesn't work, night schools will be opened, and don't be afraid of boiling lights and consuming fuel, as long as there is no one when you need it."
In this regard, Sun Yu deeply agreed. As a high-ranking official who has presided over internal affairs all year round, his vision is no longer as good as it was back then. This year, the Zhejiang Ming army had an almost perfect start in Ningshao, and the military pressure on the northern front disappeared, so that more troops could be concentrated to fight Hong Chengchou to the death, and completely break the encirclement of the Qing army's heavy army group.
The hundreds of scholars from Jiangxi who followed Zhang Zisheng last year, as well as a large number of spare civil servants trained in the civil official training class, many of them have now graduated, but most of them can only be temporarily handed over to some scattered jobs to do, and there are not so many places where there are enough vacancies. But even so, the training work must be expanded, because according to Chen Wen's analysis, the area to be recovered this year is likely to be close to the sum of the past few years, and it is not good to have such an embarrassment that no one can use.
It was almost time for the next duty, and the meeting was completed, and the officials attending the meeting had to rush back to their respective yamen to give instructions and deal with unresolved official business, and overtime was inevitable. Chen Wen, on the other hand, was also immersed in official duties, and it was not until the report from the Zhejiang coastal cruiser arrived that it was over.
"Dingxi Hou? Zhang Mingzhen wants to enter Zhoushan City? ā
The Zhoushan Green Camp already had two battalions of sailors, plus the Zheng family's fleet, Ba Chenggong and his subordinates quickly evacuated Zhoushan and embarked on the road to Fujian. Of course, he finally escaped Chen Wen's clutches.
Zheng Tai left with his front foot, and Zhang Mingzhen came over with his back foot, and made only one request, to go to Zhoushan City to find his mother's body.
Chen Wen had some impressions of this matter, and next year in history, after Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan converged with the chief Chen Liuyu to regain Zhoushan, the first thing Zhang Mingzhen did when he entered the city was to find his mother's body. But it seems that in the end, it seems that he was not found, and even he became depressed and fell ill and died of illness in Zhoushan. And Zhang Mingzhen's death was later chiseled and said that it was possible that Zheng Chenggong was poisoned, because Zhang Mingzhen originally planned to hand over his subordinates to Zhang Huangyan before his death, so as to continue to serve as the Ming army under the banner of Lu Jian, and Zheng Chenggong handed over the army to Chen Liuyu, the top general of the Ming army in Zhoushan at that time......
What the facts are, it is no longer clear. From the perspective of personal senses, Chen Wen came from the Ming Army of Dalanshan, and naturally inherited the opposition between Wang Yi and Zhang Mingzhen at the beginning. Through history, Chen Wen knows very well that Zhang Mingzhen is both a loyal minister and a filial son. But as the leader of a Ming army, the deaths of Huang Binqing and Wang Chaoxian will inevitably make him feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, so he will always avoid intersecting with Zhang Mingzhen. What's more, it is now when the rift between the Zhejiang Mingjun Group and the Fujian Mingjun Group is formed.
"Zhoushan has recently been recovered, and all the defenses have not yet been completed. Zhang Mingzhen wants to land on the island, yes, the time limit is half a month, and he is only allowed to bring no more than 20 people with him, otherwise, I will send someone to look for it on his behalf. ā
replied, but Chen Wen also knew that even if there was only one person, Zhang Mingzhen would inevitably land on the island to find his mother's body. This is due to his personality, and he can't change it, but following Zhang Mingzhen, he remembered the country surnamed Ye again.
Since the two sides already had a mechanism for exchanging information, Chen Wen got the news at the beginning of the peace talks between Zheng Chenggong and the Manchus. And this time, Zheng Tai came to deliver the money, and told him that Li Dingguo had written several letters, inviting Zheng Chenggong to join forces to attack Guangdong's plan.
Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Tai obviously didn't know that Chen Wen had invited Li Dingguo to march into Jiangxi, otherwise, with Zheng Tai's businessman style, this matter would not have been explained so clearly. However, listening to Zheng Tai's tone, Zheng Chenggong doesn't seem to be very interested in working together to attack Guangdong, especially when Geng Jimao is still in Fujian.
It seems that this matter is still developing as in history, but there is an additional Chaozhou general soldier Hao Jiushang between the two, and one of the conditions for the Manchu peace negotiation is to divide Chaozhou to Zheng Chenggong, and Hao Jiushang actually planned to raise the anti-Qing banner again after learning the general news, and win over Zheng Chenggong as a back-to-back ally in the direction of Fujian.
The situation in Fujian is now very delicate, and the situation in Guangdong is becoming more and more unfavorable to the Manchus, but Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo still seem to be moving forward according to the original trajectory, and have not changed much because of his appearance. Sun Kewang didn't mention that if Li Dingguo was really like in history, the battle of Xinhui would be inevitable, and now it was even more impossible for him to help Li Dingguo through Geng Jimao, Zheng Chenggong and Hao Jiushang.
After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Wen was also a little hungry, so he returned to the inner courtyard to dine with Zhou Yueying. People say that Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and when she saw Chen Wen coming back, Zhou Yueying was really happy, and she was even more glamorous and moving under the candlelight.
"The concubine has good news to tell her husband."
"Oh? What's the good news? ā
"Eat first, then talk after eating."
The meal was already ready, Chen Wen washed his hands and sat down to eat. The dishes are still as exquisite, and the taste is the same as half a month ago. After being full of wine and food, Chen Wen knew that Zhou Yueying was already eager to try, so he made an inquiry.
"Concubine, there is."
The woman lowered her head, but her tone showed the shyness and joy to the fullest.
"What's up?"
As he spoke, Chen Wen, whose reflex arc was still a little too long, picked up the tea cup and swallowed the water in his mouth, and repeatedly rinsed his teeth with the agitation of the air and water in his mouth. But in the next second, when he reacted, he swallowed the mouthwash in one gulp.
"Got it?"
"Well, two days after the husband went on the expedition, the concubine felt a little disgusting, so he looked for Lang Zhong, and Lang Zhong said that the concubine was pregnant."
In fact, before Chen Wen set out on the expedition, Zhou Yueying already had such symptoms, tiredness, nausea, and some signs of pregnancy. But she was also pregnant for the first time, so she didn't know anything about it, just because she was sick. Moreover, at that time, Chen Wen had to closely monitor the situation around Siming Mountain, mobilize troops on the one hand, and watch out for Hong Chengchou on the other, and all her energy was spent on the war that was about to break out, so she naturally would not divide Chen Wen's heart because of such a trivial matter.
"Why didn't you send someone to inform me earlier?"
"The soldiers are dangerous, and the concubine doesn't dare to share her husband's mind because of this matter."
Getting up and walking closer, stroking his smooth face, Chen Wen squatted down on one knee and said softly to Zhou Yueying: "This is also a big deal. ā
"Well, the concubine also wants to surprise her husband."
Of course, it was a surprise, he got married at the beginning of August last year, and now it is almost June, he has not used any contraceptive measures, and he has not moved for almost ten months, and he even suspected that the crossing had affected the quality of his sperm in his free time. Especially Wu Dengke, who got married in February last year, already had his eldest son in February this year, which made him even more troubled, but also tried his best at night......
Now, Zhou Yueying is finally pregnant with a child, and for Chen Wen, who is about to have his own offspring, the excitement and joy are likely to be even more emotional than those who believe in unfilial piety in this era, because this child will be the proof that he is completely rooted in this era.
Gently put his ear to Zhou Yueying's abdomen, even if he knew that the two-month-old fetus weighed only a few grams, and he couldn't hear any heartbeat or fetal movement at all, but it was difficult to stop him and Zhou Yueying from enjoying this joy together.
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At this hour the next day, where Ling Chi Ma Jinbao was, and now the last piece of ruins in the city that has not been restored, although Ni Liangxu was puzzled, he still came here as promised. It's just that when he heard the first words of the person who asked him to come here, it still made his hairs stand on end.
"Brother Ni, I want to leave this place and go to the invitation of Hong Lao Jinglu, are you willing to go with us?" (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.