Tianjing.

In the darkness of the night, a large army of high spirits entered the city with a large number of prisoners and supplies.

This was the main force of the national defense army led by Hong Tiangui, and after ten days of marching, they finally returned to Tianjing City.

Because he received the battle report that the British reinforcements had arrived ahead of schedule on the way, Hong Tiangui did not play the banner of the Wehrmacht along the way, but always hung the banner of the Taiping Army and came all the way from Sufu Province.

Sufu Province was single-handedly conquered by Li Xiucheng, the loyal king in the past two years, including 6 prefectures and 58 counties. All the officials of the prefecture and county were under the command of King Zhong, and only obeyed the orders of King Zhong, and Hong Tiangui traveled all the way, but did not take any action, but stayed in Zhenjiang for half a day. And left a sum of silver in Zhenjiang and handed it over to Li Xiucheng's younger brother Li Mingcheng to buy materials to support Li Xiucheng to defend Sufu Province.

Li Mingcheng was extremely shocked by the appearance of Hong Tiangui's army. As early as Tianjing City, he knew that Hong Tiangui had an army of 30,000 people called the National Defense Army, but it was just a patchwork army, and no matter how you looked at it, it was completely different from the one in front of him. With neat military uniforms, high momentum, and advanced weapon preparations, it doesn't look like the Taiping Army of this period. The most important thing is that this army escorted dozens of boxes of goods, as well as tens of thousands of prisoners, some of whom were still wearing Qing military uniforms, and should have been captured Manchu soldiers.

Where did the Wehrmacht go? I don't even know when I went. Li Mingcheng, who left Tianjing City, did not arrive at the front line in Shanghai, but was left by Li Xiucheng to sit in Zhenjiang to collect grain and grass materials for the frontline army.

"Li Mingcheng, the enemy's reinforcements have arrived, and the war is likely to break out again, this king will leave you these finances, I hope you will convert them all into supplies to the loyal king!" Hong Tiangui didn't say much to Li Mingcheng, so he left with someone. For him, the battle of Shanghai was clear, and the purpose of Zhongwang's existence was to resist the enemy's attack and buy time for his defense army to grow stronger.

In Tianjing City, the National Defense Army was stationed, and Hong Tiangui also returned to the Tianwang Mansion. At this time, the godlord Hong Renxuan had been waiting for a long time.

This time he left Tianjing City, which lasted a month, and Hong Tiangui left, naturally the godwang Hong Renxuan was in charge of the government.

To tell the truth, Hong Tiangui is no longer better, and Hong Renxuan's cabinet and the forces led by the six Shangshu are engaged in a confrontation around the new chapter of senior administration. Hong Tiangui said that although the court was very dissatisfied with his illness, compared to Hong Renxuan's aggressiveness, Hong Tiangui's appearance or not had little effect.

"Uncle Wang, can there be any big things happening in Tianjing City during the time I am no longer here?" Hong Tiangui asked with a smile. Although he entered the city at night, the city changed a lot, the roads were clean, and there were patrols from time to time, even the fireworks were turned off early.

Before Hong Tiangui left, he set a strict schedule and rest time, not only did he leave half of his personal guards to garrison the Tianwang Mansion, but also left Ye Tianlong, the commander of the Third Division of the First Army, in Tianjing City. And Ye Tianlong's only task in Tianjing City is to implement the schedule set by Hong Tiangui. Regardless of whether it was a nobleman or a commoner, all those who violated Hong Tiangui's set schedule and wandered outside the specified time were arrested and sent to the prison of Tianjing Mansion. After arresting hundreds of people, the atmosphere of drunkenness in the entire Tianjing City was fundamentally reversed.

"The schedule set by His Majesty is strictly implemented, and the law and order situation in Tianjing City has been greatly improved. However, the implementation of the work schedule in the court was not smooth, and the officials above the fifth rank violated it many times, which is the working time table of the officials of the heavenly kingdom compiled by the minister during this time. Hong Renxuan sent a large stack of materials, including both cabinet members and senior members of the six ministries. Hong Renxuan did not hide any secrets, and all of them were sent to Hong Tiangui's hands.

"Excellent! This king has not established himself since he succeeded to the throne, and now is a good time! Hong Tiangui sneered.

The King couldn't help but shudder.

"Heavenly King, the officials who exceeded the rules this time accounted for eighty percent of all officials, if it is really dealt with, I am afraid that the court will shake and shake the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven." Hong Renxuan said in a deep voice.

Hong Tiangui shook his head, and did not mean to let go. He looked at the Ganwang and asked in a deep voice, "How is the implementation of your new chapter of senior administration?" How much can be mastered among the officials? ”

"Of the 5 prefectures and 60 counties under our control, there are 3 prefectures and 28 prefectures that have been brought under the control of the cabinet, and other counties have also infiltrated the cabinet, but no decisive results have been achieved." Hong Renxuan sent the work of the cabinet during this period to Hong Tiangui's desk. In just one month, he snatched nearly half of the territory from the six departments, and Hong Renxuan's administrative ability satisfied Hong Tiangui.

"Do the six ministries have an army in their hands now?" Is there any military power is Hong Tiangui's most concerned question.

"I can't say no, but the officials of the six departments are very hidden, and most of the 28 counties are let out by them on their own initiative, and I am afraid that the more difficult it will be." Hong Renxuan sighed, although the Kingdom of Heaven has not been established for a long time, it is intertwined internally, forming a strict chain of interests, and this chain involves a wide range Even Hong Renxuan feels tricky.

"It turns out that although the previous centralized policy of the Kingdom of Heaven could quickly control the locality, the hidden dangers were too great. This king doesn't want to get entangled with those heavenly moths, you have to find out the situation as soon as possible and control as many counties as possible. Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.

Hong Renxuan should be.

"By the way, this king decided to set up a security army to maintain local law and order, and Ye Tianlong was transferred to be the commander of the security army. In the future, the security forces will no longer belong to the national defense forces, but will be under the direct jurisdiction of the cabinet and will be directly responsible to the cabinet and the king. "Hong Tiangui is not a person who blocks power, but he will not arbitrarily delegate power. Cabinet expansion was developed with his connivance. Once the Son of Heaven was a courtier, now that he is in charge of the Kingdom of Heaven, he naturally has to appoint his people, and at present, Hong Renxuan is a more credible person than the six officials who are like mice in the rice barn.

The reason for the establishment of the security army was to further strengthen the power of the cabinet and accelerate its expansion. Now take over the land of the five mansions first, and in the future, Hong Tiangui will successively return the territory in the hands of the kings to the central government, if the cabinet can't even eat the five mansions, let alone sweep the world.

"Thank you!" Hong Renxuan was overjoyed. The cabinet has already attracted many young officials, and has also increased a lot of manpower through recommendation and recruitment, but the cabinet has always been worried that the officials of the six ministries will no longer play with them according to the rules of officialdom, because most of the officials of the six ministries are from the Taiping army, and no one can guarantee that these people who started by rebellion will not play tricks on him. Now that there is a security army, it can be regarded as making up for the shortcomings of the cabinet, which is enough for them to expand within the kingdom of heaven with more confidence.

When the king left, Hong Tiangui looked at the things that the king scavenged one by one, and this look came to dawn, and Hong Tiangui held an early dynasty without resting. I can't help it, I said I was sick for a month, and it was time to show up.