The former Wei Palace Mansion has now been transformed into the Chongming County Palace. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In the palace chamber, Ren Siqi, the king of Chongming County, sat in the center, the privy envoy Li Yanzhi, the governor of the palace, Shi Shen Tingyang, the chief of the secretarial section Yan Ermei, the head of the Chengzhi Lang Zhang Huangyan, and the director of the Department of Enemy Intelligence, Anthony, sat on both sides, discussing the current situation.

After being crowned king, Ren Siqi took the opportunity to adjust the official positions of the subordinate civil and military forces, and set up a privy envoy and the chief of the royal palace to divide the affairs of civil and military.

The privy envoy was served by Li Yanzhi, who was responsible for managing the staff, logistics, pacification, and equipment under the former shogunate, as well as the various departments of the enemy situation, and was in charge of military affairs, but the privy envoy did not have the right to transfer troops. The appointment of generals and the deployment of troops must be personally ordered by the king of Chongming.

Shen Tingyang, the governor of the palace, was in charge of officials, households, rituals, criminals, industry, and commerce, and governed civil affairs.

There is also a secretary section, the head of the section is Yan Ermei, whose responsibility is to prepare advisers to assist King Chongming in handling government affairs, and the secretary department has Cheng Zhilang, who is responsible for uploading and issuing records with King Chongming.

The people in the hall are the core of the palace, and they decide the military affairs of more than a dozen prefectures and counties under Ren Siqi's rule. The main topic of today's deliberations was how to deal with the aggressive offensive of the Manchus and the request for help from the Longwu court.

The current Nanjing can be described as stormy, with enemies on three sides. In the north, Duoduo took Yangzhou as its base camp and was vigorously building ships and training sailors, and there was always a tendency to attack across the river. Although the Azig army in the west was blocked in the west of Wuhu, it did not stop, but sent the generals of the green battalion under its command into Jiangxi, successively Raozhou, Nankang, Guangxin, Linjiang, Fuzhou, Jianchang prefectures, on June 7, the green battalion commander Gao Jinku, deputy general Feng Junrui, Liu Bolu, Xu Qiren and other tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers besieged Ganzhou, first took advantage of the night on the Zhangjiang River to sneak attack the Ming army's naval division, burned more than 80 Ming army giant ships, the Ming army outside the city tens of thousands of people belonged to more than ten teams, saw the Qing army's fierce offensive, even did not dare to resist, have retreated to hide, there were only 6,000 Ming troops left in the city of Ganzhou, and they could not withstand the fierce attack of tens of thousands of Qing troops, and they soon fell. Yang Tinglin, a scholar of the Longwu Dynasty, Wan Wanji, a supervisor of the army, and Guo Weijing, a secretary of the military department, were killed one after another.

The fall of Ganzhou left the whole of Jiangxi occupied by the Qing army, and the Longwu court faced an attack from the west at any time. In order to resist the aggressive offensive of the Qing army, the Longwu court put down the festival and sent people to Nanjing for help, asking Ren Siqi to send troops to Jiangxi in order to relieve the siege of Fujian.

As for Nanjing, the fall of Jiangxi made Nanjing surrounded from the north, west and east, and the situation was also very critical. Now Nanjing nominally has hundreds of thousands of troops, but most of them are changed from local rebels, as well as the newly surrendered green battalion soldiers. The main force that can really fight is still the original Chongming Army infantry of more than 40,000 people and Mao Shiba's main force of 20,000 sailors.

The main army was divided into three parts, one part of which was deployed in Zhenjiang to defend against the attack of the Duoduo army on the Yangzhou side. All the way was in Wuhu to guard against the attack of the Qing army from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the remaining main force of 20,000 infantry troops was concentrated in Nanjing.

"There are enemies on three sides, there is endless turmoil in the locality, there have been many gentry riots, and the people's hearts are not stable, so it is not appropriate to rush out troops at this moment!" Shen Tingyang summed up all the difficulties that Nanjing is facing now and put forward his own suggestions.

"Yes, the newly recruited rebels and green battalions still need at least half a year of training before they can be used on the battlefield, and now we have too few troops." Li Yanzhi frowned and said, he who was directly in charge of military affairs knew best the difficulties he was facing.

"Emperor Longwu has an army of more than 100,000 Zheng family brothers, and there is a huge income brought by sea trade, so there should be no problem in holding Fujian!" Yama Erme Dao.

Everyone discussed for a long time, and came to a surprisingly unified conclusion, that is, it is not appropriate for Nanjing to send troops now!

Since Chen Zilong and others left, they took away a large number of people who were dissatisfied with Ren Siqi and went to the Longwu court, and now the civil and military who stay are all people who follow Ren Siqi wholeheartedly, and they are all his hardcore descendants, so they are naturally dedicated to their own interests. As for whether the Longwu Imperial Court can really support it, everyone is not unconcerned.

"As long as they can support it for half a year, when our recruits are trained, they will be fearless again!" Li Yanzhi concluded.

Now the Chongming Army has implemented a new military service system, stipulating that all the people under its subordinates are obliged to join the army, and each family with three men must send one to join the army. Such a measure would have caused civil unrest. However, since the plundering of most of the gentry, the government has a large amount of land in its hands, you must know that the gentry of the Ming Dynasty have almost more than seventy percent of the land, and more than half of these gentry have been uprooted by the Chongming army, and now the land in the hands of the government can be seen how huge it is. The government decreed that the land should be distributed to the landless or landless people, and that taxes should be exempted for three years.

As soon as this measure came out, it immediately won the infinite gratitude of the people, and countless people regarded Ren Siqi as a Buddha of all families, and obeyed all his orders. Therefore, the new military service system was easily implemented, in fact, the people knew in their hearts that the reason why they could get their own land was because of the Chongming army, if the Chongming army was defeated, everything they had would cease to exist, so obeying the call of conscription was to defend their own fields.

A battalion was built in each county, two towns were built in each prefecture, and a total of about 150,000 recruits were recruited, plus the green battalion surrendered by the originally reorganized rebel army, and the original 780,000 troops of the Chongming army, the Chongming army now has a total of more than 300,000 troops. Of course, these recruits were formed in a hurry, and they were not trained to go into battle. So Li Yanzhi said that it would take another half a year.

As for the military expenses for raising the army, the value of the gentry in Nanjing and other places confiscated, and the huge wealth calculated in tens of millions of taels of silver seized, the current Chongming County Mansion lacks everything, but there is no shortage of money!

Ren Siqi looked around with his eyes, and his eyes fell on Zhang Huangyan, who was immersed in the record, and everyone present expressed their attitudes one after another, but he never spoke.

"What is Brother Xuan's opinion?" Ren Siqi asked.

"Back to the prince," Zhang Huangyan put down the pen in his hand, stood up, first saluted Ren Siqi with a fist, and then nodded to everyone present, and then said his opinion, "In Huangyan's humble opinion, this soldier has to come out, and it has to be out!" One stone stirred up a thousand waves, causing everyone present to be shocked.

But everyone knew that Zhang Huangyan was Ren Siqi's brother-in-law, and the relationship was extremely close, and no one reprimanded him, but frowned and waited for his next step.