There is a saying: "Officials are not feudal, but officials are feudal"

Since ancient times, officials have always been the most basic part of the dynasty's administrative system, and it can even be said that the intertwined officials control the grassroots administration, and they join forces with the family or gentry who control the grassroots politics to completely empty the officials sent by the dynasty, after all, it is difficult for a strong dragon to suppress the head snake. Besides www.biquge.info most of those strong dragons are just a group of sour talents who "don't listen to things outside the window and only read the books of sages and sages", which can not be compared with the family of officials who regard handling official affairs as a skill passed down from generation to generation.

The struggle between the officials and the officials has never stopped, and there are many battles even over corruption. It's just that Chen Wen is not interested in wasting his limited energy on these pickled matters, there is Sun Yu here, and there is also the punishment yamen that Han Qizheng is in charge of, generally speaking, it is enough for them to be in charge.

However, this time, the officials below dared to continue to collude with the gentry and wealthy households on the autumn tax, which was vital to the army, and ignored the administrative order.

"Furen, this matter is very important, but there should still be a priority."

Chen Wen understood very well what Sun Yu was referring to, not only by using various reasons to levy taxes, but also by colluding with internal and external parties, and the apportionment of large banks was not just a matter of local officials.

It's just that since Chen Wen won the great victory in the Battle of Shentangyuan, a large number of gentry from Zhejiang and Nanzhili came to repay a total of more than 300,000 taels of silver in the name of Xiangzan military supplies and purchase loans, even if you put aside the 200,000 taels of silver sent by Qian Qianyi and Lu Yuding, there are more than 100,000 taels.

Sun Yu was born in poverty, and he was dissatisfied with the gentry who relied on their fame to make a fortune in the township. But just now he saw that Chen Wen had already started to kill, if he started killing in the occupied area at this time, he was afraid that not only would he not be able to get any foreign rewards in the future, but even if the Ming army recovered all over the country, it would not only be difficult to get the support of local scholars, I am afraid that those scholars would turn around and help the Manchus, just because Chen Wen had harmed their interests.

"I understand, it's good for Han Qizheng to do it, he should know how to do it."

With the issuance of the order, the problem of the county officials in the autumn tax was immediately launched by the Yamen, and the administrative system in charge of Sun Yu vigorously cooperated, and soon a large number of problematic officials were picked up.

In the understanding of his own strength, Chen Wen knew very well that even if he didn't like those Confucian scholars and doctors, he didn't have enough grassroots officials in his hands, and if his control over the grassroots was not strong enough, once he turned his face with those guys, it would only lead to erosion in the occupied area, so while continuing to expand and expand the scale of civilian training, Chen Wen had only one order for Han Qizheng - to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys!

At the same time as the investigation and punishment of civil officials and officials in various counties were launched, Chen Wen was waiting for the news of Sun Li's internal strife and Li Dingguo's march into Jiangxi throughout February, because the historical records in Chen Wen's memory of this event were relatively confusing, some said it was the first month, some said it was February, and he even remembered that someone said that it was March, so Chen Wen was always waiting for the news of Li Dingguo's army in order to achieve the next strategic goal more easily.

However, before the news of Li Dingguo came, in late February, Chen Wen waited for a news that made him jaw-dropping.

In the second month of February of the seventh year of Yongli, Chen Wen ushered in the envoy of Zhang Zisheng, the Pingjiang Bo of Jiangxi, and in addition to expressing his congratulations on Chen Wen being canonized as a marquis, he also sent the news that Hong Chengchou had arrived in Nanchang to serve as the economic strategy of the four southeastern provinces.

Hong Chengchou had secretly gone south and planned military operations with the help of Ma Guozhu, which directly led Chen Wen to mistakenly think that the rumors brought by Qian Qianyi were rumors. Now it seems that he has obviously been calculated by this guy.

Hong Chengchou, a dog traitor, began to suppress the Liukou from the Chongzhen Dynasty, and his methods were bloody and ruthless, and he was known as the "Hong Butcher". After that, the Qing army threatened Jinzhou, and the early planning of this guy was not as ignorant as other Ming Dynasty civil officials, it can be said that he knew the soldiers, but Chongzhen's manipulation and the selfishness of Wang Pu, Wu Sangui and other generals under his command were finally captured by the Qing army.

After the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou not only completed many systems of the Manchu court, but also suppressed the anti-Qing movement in Jiangnan at the beginning of the Qing army's southward movement. So much so that as long as he thought that after killing Chen Jin, the new opponent he ushered in would be Hong Chengchou, Chen Wendeng was like falling into an ice cellar.

This person is very dangerous, although Zhang Zisheng's envoy did not get the news of Hong Chengchou's secret plan, but Chen Wen, out of the comparison of the reputation and ability between Hong Chengchou and Ma Guozhu, still suspected that the previous joint defense of the three counties of Quzhou and the Qing army in Taizhou, Wenzhou and Chuzhou to defend Qingtian County were probably the handiwork of this person. In addition, the intelligence officers who went south to northern Fujian a few days ago sent the news of Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, moving to Fujian and the battle of Tong'an, through secret channels, Chen Wen even believed that all this series of actions came from him.

In Chen Wen's view, Hong Chengchou will definitely not let it continue to develop, this dog traitor is still running around for the Manchu Qing Dynasty at the age of sixty or seventy in history, curbing the offensive of the Ming army on the southwest battlefield, and finally completely eliminating the southwest Ming army The operation was personally planned by him, since he did not serve as the southwest strategy as he once did, but ran to Jiangxi in advance to serve as the southeast strategy, then the war is likely to be rekindled.

Hong Chengchou's target is either him or Zheng Chenggong, there is no doubt about it. As for Zhang Zisheng or the Jiuxian Mountain Rebel Army that has just formed an alliance with Zhang Zisheng, or the Yunxiao Mountain Rebel Army in western Jiangxi, this kind of small role is not qualified to be personally shot by him, the Buddha.

As he thinks, unlike Chen Wen, Zhang Zisheng has resisted the Qing Dynasty in Jiangxi for many years, and his relationship is intertwined, and he is the most snake-like figure. According to the messenger he sent, not long ago, there was a group of green battalions with a Henan accent in Nanchang Prefecture, and it was the reinforcements from the northern green battalion that Hong Chengchou was coming. At the same time, civil engineering has begun to be built on the Shangrao side of the capital city of Guangxin Prefecture, which looks like a fortress or other building.

Thinking about defeat before winning, Hong Chengchou is clearly making preparations with both hands, in fact, as soon as it was confirmed that Chen Wen was the news of this guy serving as the Southeast Economic Strategy, he had already determined that this matter would not be so simple. I just didn't expect this guy to be so old and spicy.

Originally thinking that the strategic initiative was in hand, Chen Wen was always preparing everything step by step during this time, trying to burst out with greater power this year to completely overthrow the Manchu rule in the southeast. But now it seems that it is obviously last year's victory that made him a little smoky and ignorant of what to say, so that he neglected that the Manchu Qing still had an absolute advantage in overall strength, whether it was in terms of resources, troops, or talents, it was difficult for him to compare with the Manchus for the time being.

The current Manchu Qing Dynasty is no longer the barbarian tribe that ravaged Liaodong at the beginning, but has become a feudal dynasty established by barbarians, and naturally it can no longer be regarded as it once was.

Putting these aside, since Hong Chengchou has already transferred some of the northern green battalions to the south, the target will naturally not be Zheng Chenggong, because the northern green battalions are not good at water warfare. This is common sense, and Chen Wen naturally will not understand, but until this time, Hong Chengchou has not been in a hurry to make a move, but has only strictly checked the roads leading to the areas occupied by the Ming army, intending to block the news, so it is obvious that he has not made sufficient preparations.

Since this is the case, Chen Wen decided to strike first, make a move in advance, and give Hong Chengchou, a traitor, a knife first! (To be continued.) )