Chapter 1271: Rebuilding Kaifeng

readx; Under the personal auspices of Zhu Youzhen, the reconstruction of Kaifeng Mansion began quickly and vigorously. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info+◆書+◆Desert+◆La,.shuhuang.Zhu Youzhen is determined to rebuild the glory of Bianjing in the past and build Kaifeng into a national and even a world metropolis.

The reason why he attaches special importance to Kaifeng is that Zhu Youzhen has also gone through some careful consideration. First of all, Kaifeng Mansion is the provincial capital of Henan Province, and Henan is "in the middle of the world", and the geographical location is very superior. Moreover, Kaifeng Province is very densely populated, with more than 300,000 residents in the city according to household registration records, and it was already prosperous before the war, and had the conditions to become a metropolis.

Second, the city of Kaifeng was destroyed by the war, and the "contributions" of the officers and soldiers were comparable to those of the rebels. After recovering Kaifeng, Zhu Youzhen of course wanted to compensate the local residents as much as possible, which could be regarded as making up for the trauma caused by the war.

Third, taking this opportunity, Zhu Youzhen is ready to start the reform of the local administrative system. If we go elsewhere, after more than 200 years of precipitation, the interests of the local gentry, big families, and wealthy businessmen have been intricately intertwined, and the reform is extremely difficult, and it is far from being possible to send one or two officials and promulgate a few new policies to carry it out.

And Henan has been destroyed, the jade was burned in the war, and a lot of big families in the past have also died, and the original officials are even more dead, fleeing, and rebelling. When Hong Chengchou was stubbornly defending Kaifeng, the whole city was under military control, and no puppet officials were appointed at all.

Moreover, there is a king of Zhou in Kaifeng Mansion, which is the same as the king of Yan and Qin, and he was also the king of the vassal during the Hongwu period, and it has been passed down for 12 generations. Originally, the king of Zhou was deeply rooted in Kaifeng, but he didn't expect the rebellion to break out suddenly, Zhu Changxun of course wanted to get the recognition and response of other vassal kings, and Kaifeng was the closest to Luoyang, of course, it was difficult to escape.

The current king of Zhou is named Zhu Suqin, who is over 60 years old this year, older than Zhu Changxun. The family of King Zhou has enjoyed glory and wealth for more than 200 years, and Zhu Suqin himself has been a vassal king for decades, and he is more at ease than the emperor, of course, there is no reason to rebel. Zhu Suqin is not stupid, knowing that in the Ming Dynasty, except for Zhu Di, the king of Yan, none of the vassal kings succeeded in rebellion, so when Zhu Changxun came to the door to "pass the decree", he came behind closed doors. As a result, Zhu Changxun was angered, and Hong Chengchou arrested hundreds of members of King Zhou's family and escorted them to Xiangyang.

In this way, it has objectively created the current situation that Kaifeng Mansion has no vassal kings, no official gentry, and no big households, how can Zhu Youzhen miss such a good opportunity.

Of course, before carrying out reforms, we must first make military arrangements, after all, the rebels have just retreated, and Pengcheng, which is surrounded by hundreds of thousands of bandits, is only more than 500 miles away from Kaifeng.

First of all, the 5,000 Shenji Battalion led by Liu Quanzhong, a fierce general under Xie Sheng, the former commander of the first battalion of the first regiment of the Qin soldiers, and now promoted to deputy commander-in-chief, had just arrived in Henan, and Zhu Youzhen asked them to temporarily garrison Kaifeng. In addition to carrying less artillery, these 5,000 people were not inferior to Meng Gong's troops in any way in terms of weaponry, and they were more than enough to guard Kaifeng.

Liu Quanzhong has participated in many major battles since the formation of the Qin army, and he also has a lot of combat experience. These 5,000 people are still internally in accordance with the establishment of the Qin soldiers, and it is a reinforced regiment with ten battalions, including seven standard infantry battalions, one artillery battalion, one reconnaissance battalion, and one engineer battalion. Liu Quanzhong deployed the artillery battalion, the engineer battalion, and three infantry battalions in Kaifeng City, and the remaining three infantry battalions were stationed in three villages and towns 20 miles away from Kaifeng. The reconnaissance battalion was divided into four reconnaissance companies and stood guard in four directions fifty miles from the city. In this way, no matter which direction the rebels are attacking, the officers and soldiers can quickly detect and respond in time.

In fact, Liu Quanzhong very much hoped to go to the battlefield immediately. Zhu Youzhen likes Li Laiheng and Liu Quanzhong's eccentricity the most on weekdays, Liu Quanzhong also dared to speak in front of Zhu Youzhen, and said half-jokingly and half-complainingly: "Holy Lord, why do you always prevent the last general from fighting?" In the defense of the capital division, you let the last general lead the recruits, and you didn't even fire a shot, and you didn't even see the face of the Tartars; This time, the rebellion made Meng Gong come out on top. Now the soldiers under the last general are privately laughing at the last general, saying that the first battalion of the last general is not worthy of the name, and it is about to become the last battalion! ”

Zhu Youzhen sank his face and said: "If you want you to defend the city, you will defend the city, what is so much nonsense?" Just thinking about meritorious service, don't you even want military discipline? ”

Frightened, Liu Quanzhong quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty, Zhu Youzhen said earnestly: "It's a good thing to want to fight and make meritorious contributions, but don't you want to think about it, the Beijing division is still hanging on for a thousand miles from here, and it only took you nine days to march here in a hurry after receiving the order, and the soldiers walked more than 100 miles a day, so they couldn't take a good rest?" In addition, Kaifeng is now in ruins, and I am here, and I also need the protection of a warlike army. Wait for the situation to calm down a little, let the first division of the Ming Army take over your defense, and there will be more battles for you to fight at that time, I'm afraid you won't be able to fight! ”

Only then did Liu Quanzhong turn his fear into joy and inspect the city defense. Zhu Youzhen summoned Wu Ming and Li Shouyi again, and clearly told them: The First Division of the Ming Army has just been formed, and now it has no combat mission, but only assists Liu Quanzhong's troops to defend the city, and the main task is to participate in the reconstruction of Kaifeng.

But Gou is obviously very angry with Li Shouyi. Today, the 1st Division is fully staffed, reaching 6,200 men. In addition to reorganizing the soldiers of the old guard station, some young and strong young people who were willing to serve as soldiers were recruited from the peasant households. After setting out from Luoyang, they also rushed to Kaifeng according to the standards of the Qin soldiers. However, their speed is incomparable with Liu Quanzhong, more than 300 miles away, and it took six and a half days to arrive, and they were so angry that they obviously jumped to their feet and scolded. In fact, the speed of fifty miles a day is already a very big improvement for these "old soldiers" in the past.

After arriving in Kaifeng, Gou obviously ordered the whole division to camp outside the city, without orders and the leadership of officers, those who entered the city without permission were beheaded, so the army was cleaned up, and no one dared to take advantage of the fire to rob.

Then, according to Zhu Youzhen's order, the 1st Division was quickly put into training and post-war reconstruction. Every day, the three regiments of the whole division take one regiment to conduct military training outside the city, and the main content is physical training and queue training. As for actual combat training in squads, platoons, and companies, it is limited to the quality of new recruits and cannot be carried out at present.

Li Shouyi led two other regiments, which were responsible for repairing the city walls and cleaning up the ruins in the city. He was young and old, and he was extremely serious about doing things, so Zhu Youzhen let Li Shouyi do it.

This is more or less the case in the military and political fields. Next, it is necessary to deal with the more tricky "civil affairs". The first issue is the appointment of local officials and the establishment of local government offices. An unprecedented reform began in this seeming peace...

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