"Fourth elder brother, you are too worried. Li Shi's army is thousands of miles away from the east and west, and Yang Lin and Shi Shibiao are sitting on several times the army in front of them, even if they can't win, they can always suppress the thief army and dare not move. Even if he gave up both sides and returned to the teacher in a hurry, it would take ten days and a half months. Once the troops are mobilized, before they arrive in Chenzhou, the news will not only be sent to the Hunan general, but we will receive an urgent report in Yanjingjing. ”

In the west garden of Changchun Garden, Zhao Hongcan, the secretary of the military department, comforted Yinzhen, who was full of worries, and in front of them, Kangxi was holding a five or six-year-old child, admiring the spring scenery while walking. The child is clever and well-behaved, and it is Yinzhen's son Hongli.

"Li Xian is only 20,000 strong troops, and the thief army that appeared in Chenzhou is not his elite, even Minyong can confront him, if you want to say that he has the intention to lure me, I have never seen such a stupid strategy to lure the enemy, what after luring me? There must be a large army to go up, but if he can conjure up another army out of thin air, he will already capture Jingchu and point to Jiangnan. ”

"I look at this Li Shi, I got the news that the imperial army was about to go down from Hunan, so I had to enter Chenzhou as a last resort, wanting to muddy this pool of water. But the three-sided attack has been achieved, and now he is just dying, and he is only one step earlier and one step later from the realm of defeat. ”

Zhao Hongcan studied the affairs of Guangdong very deeply, and the new governor of Hunan, He Tenglin, was also the person he protected, and he was able to grasp the situation at the front. The arguments are clear, the arguments are strong, and Kangxi in front of him snorted.

There were too many things related to Yinzhen in these words, and he opened his mouth to remind him again, but found that the more he said, the more complicated things became.

Zhao Hongcan's evaluation of Hunan Minyong naturally came from He Tenglin, but Yinzhen learned from Yue Chaolong that the thief army in Chenzhou was not much weaker than the previous thief army, and it was still one to ten. Now Zhao Hongcan judged that the thief army is not elite with "the people can resist each other", and naturally feels that the people are far weaker than the officers and soldiers, which is not true!

But Yinzhen can't refute it, Minyong is after all he supported Nian Qianyao in Hunan, in order to block the exit of Hunan, and in order to give Yinzhen's army a front station, Kangxi didn't say anything even though he knew it. Now that the general is out of Beijing and the army is gathered, some people in the court have already written on this matter, saying that the great gathering of the people in the prefecture and county is to destroy the foundation of governance, and demand that all of them be included in the imperial court control system. Yin Zhen pondered that this was the rumor that Kangxi began to tighten the people's courage policy and first found his courtiers.

Now that Minyong can get this evaluation, even if Nian Qianyao and even Yue Chaolong can't talk about merit afterwards, they won't be hung up because of this matter, and the master behind them, that is, himself, will naturally be able to smooth out the matter.

If he complains about the truth and says that the people are more useful than the officers and soldiers, and the Chenzhou thief army is also elite, this will inevitably not be able to go up to the world. Forty or fifty thousand people are brave, but they only blocked four or five thousand thief troops, this is the credit, how will the imperial court give the officers and soldiers credit in the future? Where is the face of the imperial court?

In addition to the people's bravery, Zhao Hongcan said that Li Xi knew in advance that the imperial court was going to march from Hunan, and Yinzhen secretly panicked, where did Li Xi know about the secret discussion of the court? The answer is very clear, that is the missing Li Wei and Hu Qiheng. These two people are just missing, there is no exact whereabouts, and the little Taoist is not enough to enter Kangxi's ears, but Yinzhen knows very well that these two people, along with Garbi and Yue Chaolong, are the minions of him and Yinzhen's layout in Hunan.

Yinzhen and Yinxiang discussed in the mansion for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that Li Shi must have a conspiracy! It's just that I can't see it clearly now, Yinzhen's army is going south this time, and the good luck is uncertain.

But now all the things in Hunan are entangled in Yinzhen, so that he can only give a shallow warning, and then go on to be verbose, Kangxi doesn't know how to speculate on his intentions, Yinzhen is very depressed in his heart, and sighs vigorously, why can't he control the situation comprehensively...... "Fourteen people are cautious, if there is an accident, he can still deal with it." ”

Kangxi is not all sure, but thinking that Yinzhen is careful and has the assistance of veterans by his side, he can't count ten points, and now he has nine points, so he no longer worries about the uncertain doubts.

"Grandpa Huang, don't worry, even if Li Yan can escape this time, he won't be able to escape for the rest of his life, and when his grandson grows up, he will go and get his head!"

Xiao Hongli said crisply, but Kangxi laughed.

"What nonsense are you talking about!? Grandpa Huangwu is wise and wise, and he is ancient and modern, so how can Li Thief still leave it to you to take the head! ”

Yin Zhen hurriedly reprimanded his son.

"Huh...... Don't I just want to give you children and grandchildren a peaceful and prosperous world without thieves and bandits? Xiao Hongli, by your generation, this world should be a world of great rule that has not been seen for 3,000 years. ”

Kangxi is very fond of this grandson, and his kind words are also full of endless confidence.

"Your Majesty's words are wrong!"

Yinzhen knelt down with Zhao Hongcan, the emperor expressed his determination, how could the courtiers not follow?

"Isn't it the world of great rule now!? Back then, the three feudatories were like evil dragons, almost overturning the world, and they were not supported by the emperor? is just a thief, but a mayfly. The minister dared to say that within three months, the general's good news would fly. ”

Zhao Hongcan righteously "corrected" Kangxi's "misspeech".

"The Sacred Heart of Emperor Amma, the sons and ministers are grateful to Fuli, and they can only fight day and night, and work together with the courtiers to protect this peaceful and prosperous world for Emperor Amma!"

Yin Zhen suppressed the trace of fear in his heart, and said solemnly.

In Changsha, in the yamen of the Hunan governor, who has been changed to the general of Fuyuan, Yinzhen, who is dressed in military uniform, sits in the hall, with the tiredness of wearing stars and moon on his face, but his eyes are like electricity and his words are like iron.

"It's May 27th, and by mid-June at the latest, the armies of all walks of life, with their grain and baggage, must gather in Changsha! Wait for the next day, and this battle will be a sure victory! ”

A large number of civilian officials are kneeling on the ground, and this is officials from all walks of life in Shaanxi, Gansu, Huguang, Sichuan, and Jiangxi, and nearly 100 officials from several provinces have been temporarily dispatched to the front of the army to take charge of the affairs of receiving the army and transferring military supplies. The Qing court has always attached great importance to logistics, and there have long been regulations on this matter in the past, and it is enough to act according to the system. However, in order to ensure that Li Xian was nailed to Chenzhou, Yinzhen's time limit was extremely strict, and many officials' feathers were trembling. They have returned to the wartime system, if they fail to satisfy Yinzhen, let alone county officials, civil officials below the third grade, Yinzhen can cut off their heads with a "military law engagement".

Yinzhen's deep cry was like a crisp sound of a leather whip on the horse's buttocks, six provinces were mobilized, millions of people were running, and the war machine of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was crunching and running, sending 100,000 troops with all kinds of military supplies to Hunan in a steady stream.

"It's so slow......"

In the capital city of Chenzhou, Li Xi muttered while flipping through the test papers. He has been sitting on the front line of Chenzhou for more than ten days, and the Qing soldiers in front of him have gathered more and more, plus the people gathered by Yue Chaolong, and the number of people has recovered to thirty or forty thousand, but these are all the green battalions of the local town association in Hunan, and they were sent to Chenzhou by Yinzhen to be used as a roadblock. Yinzhen's 100,000 army has not yet taken shape, only Garbi, who has received the rank of general in Dingxi, went out to Hengzhou with 20,000 Hunan standard battalions.

According to the information obtained by the Military Intelligence Department, the deadline set by Yinzhen for the gathering of troops was June 20. The Battle of Chenzhou was fought in early May, and from the beginning of the preparations for the war in the northwest by the Qing court, 100,000 troops from the six surrounding provinces could be mobilized to Hunan in more than two months.

Strictly speaking, the convergence speed of Yinzhen's army has been very fast, compared with the later Opium War, the Qing court transferred troops from Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan to Zhejiang, and it took half a year to arrive, which is completely a matter of two planes.

Zheng Zhiben...... How do you feel familiar......"

opened a test paper, and the name made Li Xian frown, and then shook his head, what celebrities can there be in this era, it is estimated that it is his "thinking partition stack overflow", resulting in "substitution errors".

The first imperial examination of the new Yinghua Dynasty was "victoriously held", but it was a pity that he, the king of Yinghua, was still on the battlefield, and the so-called "palace examination" had to be postponed. In the papers of the Guangzhou Township Examination, Li Xi wants to take a look at it to see what kind of roles the scholars who are willing to serve the Yinghua New Dynasty are.

The resumption of the imperial examination was carried out together with the action of "sending the government to the countryside", and when Xuezheng went deep into the county level to prepare for the establishment of township and town schools, he began to promote this work, and the scholars who had obtained the position of Xuezheng themselves took a group of students to take the examination in the county, and when the imperial examination was rebuilt, the county school was restored to take shape.

Li Xi and the upper echelons of Yinghua did not have the energy to carefully manage the imperial examination system, so they still followed the previous imperial examination routine, and the Guangzhou Township Examination that started in May was Yinghua's first "Spring Festival".

Originally, the upper echelons of Yinghua, including Li Shi, did not have any confidence in the report, after all, most readers were still indifferent to this new dynasty. Unexpectedly, this Spring Festival attracted thousands of scholars, almost crowding the Guangzhou Gongyuan, and had to temporarily set up a new examination room in the Huangpu Academy to divert it.

Carefully analyzing the composition of these scholars, some of them were originally Cantonese scholars under the rule of Yinghua, and under the influence of Li Shi's series of measures to restore the Han Dynasty, plus the impact of the new society on the image of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, these people gradually changed their minds, and many of them came out to apply for jobs and take the exam. The other part of the people are from Jiangnan, but these people are also divided into two categories, Zhang Boxing wantonly suppressed the industry and commerce involved in Guangdong in Jiangnan, and also implicated many scholars, many of whom went to Guangdong, this is one category. The other type is the master of Shaoxing, these people have been the curtain for generations and are familiar with practice. Now the officials of the Yinghua New Dynasty are one, and they have also given these people a wide stage, so they are also eager to move and devote themselves to the imperial examination.

The third part of the people is the original Guangdong official class, the concept of "right way to origin" is deep-rooted, as soon as the imperial examination opens, they all believe that the future of the new dynasty will reuse the people born in the imperial examination, so in addition to work, they also began to pick up the book, trying to test a background.

"At the beginning of the trend, if you don't advance, you will retreat, if you fall behind these people, you will be forced by them to the palace, in this world, they also have the heart to share the pie."

Let's take a look at the information of Zheng Zhiben, from Jiangnan, fifty years old...... Let Li Xian suddenly sigh that the general trend against the sky that he set off has shown its strength after all, and the decisive battle in Hunan should send this general trend to a higher place, everyone is racing for the day, and he has to race against time.

(To be continued)