This purge of officialdom lasted quite long. Batch after batch of officials were dismissed and resigned, and at the same time, batch after batch of officials took office.

All of these officials who took office had been trained in the Han Huang Party's party school and understood what the core interests of the Han Huang Party were and what the major administrative principles were.

When these officials arrived at the place where they took office, the effect was immediately apparent.

First of all, there has been a huge improvement in administrative efficiency, and these newly appointed officials are basically able to do things, and the improvement of administrative efficiency is inevitable. The second is that the degree of integrity of local officialdom has been greatly improved, and after being pressed down layer by layer, the atmosphere of corruption has been dealt a serious blow.

In addition, many of the officials who were promoted in this purge were promoted from the grassroots level, and they understand the corruption at the grassroots level very well. It is not so easy for the executives below to want to deceive Shangguan.

The other is the improvement of the armed forces of the government, each prefecture and county has set up an armed police force, and at the same time, the provincial senior officers can also request the assistance of the garrison brigade, and it is supported by the armed forces of the armed police corps, and the government's ability to implement mandatory policies has been greatly enhanced.

At the same time, police and public security systems have been set up in various localities, and local townships and towns have gradually put an end to the highly autonomous model that has lasted for more than 200 years. The imperial court's control over local governments has been strengthened, and the ability of local governments to control local governments has also been greatly enhanced.

The administrative efficiency and integrity of the local administrative system have improved in an all-round way.

At the same time, various departments have increased, effective management has been implemented in various fields, and guaranteed benefits for the people have also been introduced and implemented.

The official image of the New Deal provinces has been reshaped, and it has won the approval of the people, and it is no longer the same as before. He has a hostile attitude towards the government.

At the same time, the provinces of the New Deal were in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse. The work of grain reserves has been thoroughly completed. Every state and county has stockpiled food reserves that can last for three months.

These grain reserves are mainly the responsibility of the Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Company, and they are commercial organizations responsible for local grain reserves.

The model is basically that the Zhendaming Grain and Oil Reserve Company provides commercial grain to the market, and at the same time carries out grain reserves in various places, and then uses the reserve warehouse as a grain transit. The new grain that has been transferred in is stored in the warehouse, and the grain that is two or three months old is freed up for sale on the market.

Putting in as much as you want, so as to ensure that local grain reserves are sufficient.

The grain stock in each warehouse is counted every quarter, and whoever is responsible for the lack of grain in the warehouse will be held responsible. Under the usual inventory and punishment, it is impossible for the grain in the reserve warehouse to be devoured by private individuals.

The local strategic reserve warehouses have sufficient food, which means that even if the provinces of the Ming New Deal encounter any natural disasters, it is impossible for people to starve to death.

At the same time, it also means that the Ming Dynasty has a large-scale war with other countries, and there is no need to worry about the problem of insufficient food in the short term.

The fact that so much grain has been stored has a huge relationship with the commercial grain base in Northeast China, as well as the commercial grain input from the South China Sea and the Indochina Peninsula.

At the same time, due to the construction of water conservancy facilities in the northern provinces, most of the important water conservancy projects had been completed by the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and agricultural production had begun to revitalize.

These grain reserves provided a very solid foundation for the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty. So that the Ming began to be able to successfully survive the decline in the scale of agricultural production caused by the enclosure movement.

In the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, because of the large-scale enclosure movement. Agricultural production is indeed shrinking. A lot of peasants left the land and went into the towns and became workers. Originally, food could be produced by itself. It turned into buying commercial grain. In the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the demand for commercial grain rose rapidly, and agricultural output began to decline in the Kannai. More and more peasants have become workers, and the decline in the total amount of agricultural production is a normal phenomenon.

The increase in grain reserves in various prefectures and counties gave the imperial court a buffer time to adjust the intensity of agricultural production and industrial construction. This still involves the issue of national macroeconomic regulation and control, and the Ming Dynasty would not care about this thing in the past, but after Zhu Youxiao established a new department, a large number of problems that were ignored in the past have become daily needs to be considered and managed.

Soon autumn arrived, and the main railway line has been repaired to Heilongjiang, and it is still double-tracked. Soybeans and corn in the Northeast region were bumper in the autumn of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and the construction of the railway was even more joyful. Large quantities of commercial grain began to be transported into the provinces of Guannai by rail.

The reduction in transportation costs has provided the basic conditions for migrants to regions such as the Outer Northeast further north. This means that the agricultural products and various raw materials produced can be transported to Kannai or coastal ports at a lower cost, and some production operations are successfully connected to commodity markets because of the railway.

Soybeans grown by farmers and agricultural companies have also been sold at higher prices due to the advent of the railway, which has really brought profits.

The construction of the railway connecting the coastal ports in the northeast region will also start in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, and a railway network extending in all directions will gradually be formed.

At this time, the degree of development in the Northeast was still relatively low, and in addition to the relatively good development of Liaodong, Jilin and Heilongjiang were poor, and there was basically no development in the Outer Northeast.

The population of the entire Northeast has only just exceeded 10 million at this time, but the territory is larger than that of Northeast China in later generations, and the resources are very rich. However, under the commoditized economic model, there is no development value in many places before there is no railway.

Nowadays, with the railway, the area of commodity economic connection has expanded, and there is also the value of immigration development. The scale of production of commercial grains can be rapidly expanded in the Northeast in the future, and at the same time, the migration of people to the Northeast can continue.

At the same time, the railway has been repaired to Gansu, and it will be repaired to the Western Regions next year. The railway to the Ming region of Mongolia has also been successfully opened to traffic, and preparations for the war against Mongolia have basically been completed.

Zhu Youxiao has completely confirmed the decision of the pro-conscription, so he now needs to stabilize the internal before the pro-conscription. The complete centralization of power in the New Deal region became an important means of stabilization.

Military centralization has been completed in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and the rest is political centralization, and turning the Han Emperor Party into the only ruling party is a process that must be completed before the pro-conquest.

Meanwhile. The infantry divisions of the Central Military District have also begun to reequip for some time. This year, after a smooth autumn harvest. Zhu Youxiao asked about the change of clothes. Mao Yuanyi, a staff officer of the General Headquarters, reported on the change of clothes:

"Your Majesty. Five infantry divisions have already completed the refitting of new equipment, and 10 infantry divisions will complete the refitting by the beginning of spring next year. In addition, the three cavalry divisions that are planned to be equipped with new rifles have also completed their rearmament. ”

"Let the units that have changed their equipment get a good grasp of training, adapt themselves to the new equipment, and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible." Zhu Youxiao explained, Mao Yuanyi said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, all troops are currently stepping up training. ”

The training is to pay close attention, but the training is mainly about marksmanship. The new rifle is different from the flintlock pistol. The longer the range and the greater the power, the distance requirements for marksmanship also increase. The requirement for the soldiers of the army is to shoot accurately from a distance of 300 meters.

The key target of the training was the machine gunner, because the combat mode of the second generation of the new army of the Ming army was based on machine gun firepower.

However, fighting with nomads on the steppe, the mode of battle is different. The cavalry has a strong ability to maneuver and fight, and it is too late to arrange barbed wire and trenches, so the machine-gun fire network will face a possibility of being breached. Therefore, infantry firepower is more important, and it is still necessary to fight at close range.

So fight on the steppe. Not positional warfare, but movement warfare.

"I thought. If Your Majesty's personal expedition to Mongolia can be postponed to the next year, then my Ming Dynasty will be more able to form a crushing situation against Mongolia, if it is next year's personal expedition to Mongolia, although it is still nine out of ten, but in general it is more laborious. Mao Yuanyi suggested euphemistically.

The Ming Emperor personally conquered Mongolia, and victory was inevitable. It's just that the degree of smoothness is very different between the earlier year and the later year.

At that time, the Ming army will change its outfit on a larger scale, and it will be foolproof to defeat the Mongols at that time.

"Aiqing doesn't need to worry too much, the war against Mongolia is not a year's work. I will weigh the priorities. Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, he didn't listen to Mao Yuanyi's words, but he didn't get angry either. Because Zhu Youxiao has already played a big game of chess in his heart, it takes a certain amount of time to complete.

After the end of the autumn harvest, the imperial court's preparations for war against Mongolia have begun to accelerate, various production corps have begun large-scale training, and various combat materials have begun to be hoarded in large quantities. In the autumn of this year, the contradictions between the two sides of the bilateral trade between China and Mongolia also broke out.

The Ming suddenly stopped thinking about the export of weapons and equipment from Mongolia, which made Lin Dan Khan very angry, but saw a sternly worded diplomatic note sent by the Ming embassy, which pushed the relationship between the Ming and Mongolia to the brink of war.

In this diplomatic note, he severely condemned Mongolia for colluding with the remnants of the Jiannu forces again, and demanded that Lin Dan Khan eliminate the remnants of the Jiannu forces before the end of next spring, and send Huang Taiji's head to the Ming Jingshi, otherwise Mongolia will definitely bear the wrath of the Great Emperor.

The harsh wording of this diplomatic note was as if it was teaching Sun Tzu a lesson, and it did not put Lin Dan Khan and tomorrow's son Zhu Youxiao on an equal footing at all.

Lin Dan Khan was furious after reading the contents of the note, "How can this be reasonable, Apocalypse Child, you still bully me Mongolia is weak, you want to fight, Ben Khan will fight with you to the end." ”

At this time, Lin Dan Khan had already armed 60,000 elite cavalry, and there were also 400,000 young and strong men, and his strength at this time had already made Lin Dan Khan feel inflated.

Compared with the past, the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian army has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes. If the Ming army fought before, it may not be able to easily defeat the Mongols.

After all, Mongolia has made a huge improvement in military organization and discipline, as well as combat experience, as for the improvement of equipment does play a certain role, but what really gives the Mongols is courage and reinvigorated confidence. In the course of constant military operations, this gang of bandits became more professional.

After being furious, Lin Dan Khan suddenly felt very conflicted when he thought of the strong combat effectiveness of the Ming army. If you want to defeat the Ming army, it is still a little difficult for Mongolia at present.

However, if you want to play peek-a-boo with the Ming army on the grassland, you are very sure.

If Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty go to war again this time, it will be different from the last time. Last time, Lin Dan Khan fought against the Ming army in the Mongol royal city, and he didn't play a game of hide and hide with the Ming army at all.

This time, you can have a good game of hide and seek with the Ming army in Mobei, as long as you don't face the Ming army, find the loopholes exposed by the Ming army and give a fatal blow.

When the Ming army couldn't hold on, they naturally retreated to the pass.

Lin Dan Khan figured this out and immediately laughed. That hairy boy in Mingguo, if he dares to come to Mongolia this time, he will let him work hard and lose money, and in the end he will get nothing.

So Lin Dan Khan suddenly became very tough, and also sent a diplomatic letter to the Ming Embassy, directly rejecting Daming's request.

This diplomatic letter was quickly sent back to Jingshi by the embassy, and Zhu Youxiao saw this Mongolian letter, and immediately smiled, "Lin Dan Khan, this time let you also be a difficult brother with Huang Taiji." ”

Subsequently, Zhu Youxiao immediately convened a pre-imperial meeting, at which he officially announced the declaration of war against Mongolia.

"It's almost winter now, and the declaration of war is only a pre-brewing process, and the start of war will inevitably have to wait for after the beginning of spring. Neither side had enough time to launch a military operation. Ladies and gentlemen, this battle is about whether the Ming Dynasty can eliminate the danger of the nomads, and there is still a winter preparation time, so all departments will actively prepare for the war according to the plan! Zhu You said to the ministers.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The ministers promised.

The members of the Han Emperor Party immediately began to prepare for war according to the plan. Large quantities of supplies began to accumulate along the border.

However, among these war materials, there were many sleepers and steel rails, which were directly transported by train to the area of Ulanqab city east of the ******** in later generations.

In addition to rails and sleepers, there are large quantities of rebar, cement, bricks, and gravel.

It was not so much a military campaign against Mongolia as a way to lay railways and build cities on the Mongolian steppe. When he decided to conquer Mongolia in person, Zhu Youxiao realized that the Mongols would inevitably play a game of hide and seek with the Ming on the grassland, and then waited for the Ming to be unable to support it, and finally had no choice but to withdraw the army.

But with the advent of the railway, Mongolia is going to be unlucky. As long as the Ming army built the railway into the grassland, there was no problem that it could not hold on.

Logistics, the biggest shortcoming, has been eliminated.

As long as the railway is built to the grassland, and then cities and forts are built along the way, it can protect the smooth transportation of the railway line, and at the same time, the Mongolian territory can be cut in half with the railway, and the Mongols do not want to be driven out of the Mongolian steppe, either they can only turn their backs on Lin Dan Khan and surrender to the Ming Dynasty, or they can only come up and fight with the Ming army to destroy the railway line of the Ming army.

But once the railway line was repaired, how much could the Mongols destroy?

Along the way, there were cities, fortresses, and a large number of Ming troops, and even if the Mongols could destroy a little, the Ming army could quickly repair the railway.

Under the Ming army step by step, sooner or later Lin Dan Khan's army will be expelled from the area east of Tangnu Ulianghai, and then the Ming Dynasty only needs to establish some border defenses along the mountains of Tangnu Ulianghai and the geographical environment of these areas of Lake Baikal, and send a small number of Ming troops to completely block the opportunity for Lin Dan Khan's counterattack.

The entire Mongolian steppe will fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )