The Ming army, which achieved the victory of Hongzui Fort, quickly put a large number of superior forces into the Jinzhou battlefield, and the huge force instantly scared the Jiannu defenders in Jinzhou City, and the Jiannu in the city was so frightened that they abandoned the city overnight and fled frantically all the way north before the Fifth Infantry Division had time to surround Jinzhou.

In the process of breaking through, hundreds of people were killed.

On the tenth day of November in the first year of the Apocalypse, the Ming army officially recovered Jinzhou and the areas south of it.

Jinzhou is located in the Dalian area of the later generations, in the north of Dalian Port, there is a small horizontal mountain range, Jinzhou City is located in the gap passage of the mountain range, about ten kilometers south of Jinzhou City, and by virtue of the mountain topography to establish a 'Nanguan'. At the same time, there are some gaps in the west of Jinzhou City, but the roads are rugged and narrow, and only a small number of troops need to be stationed to build a fortress.

The terrain of the Golden Axis City is very conducive to defensive battles, and although the Jiannu will destroy the city walls in the process of attacking the city and plundering the land, they will be able to return to loot it later. However, because the Liaodong Peninsula fell into the control of Jiannu, the city wall was not destroyed, and the same was true for Nanguan.

After recovering Jinzhou, the superintendent Zhang Yan quickly reported, and Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered Sun Chuanting to come up with a plan, Sun Chuanting said to Zhu Youxiaojian: "Your Majesty, since Jinzhou has been recovered, it is better to establish another Jinzhou Town." First, Dongjiang Town, which is under the jurisdiction of Mao Wenlong, is also some distance from Jinzhou, and it is not convenient to contact and transfer. In addition, Jinzhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can become a bridgehead for the imperial court to counterattack Liaodong. ”

Of course, there is another reason that has not been said, that is, to curb the excessive expansion of Mao Wenlong's military power. Mao Wenlong is still relatively reliable in fighting, and his loyalty seems to be pretty good at present. But power is likely to swell people's ambitions, and since Mao Wenlong opened the town of Dongjiang, there is no reason for Mao Wenlong to concurrently serve as the chief officer and soldier of Jinzhou Town.

"If you open the town of Jinzhou, who will you send to guard Jinzhou?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

According to the detailed battle report that Chen Gang received, the Beijing camp had an advantage in fighting with Jiannu on the open terrain in the field. The terrain north of Jinzhou is relatively open, and the 5th Infantry Division can defend Jinzhou and can also break north at any time. If Jiannu invaded Jinzhou on a large scale, it would be easier for firearms troops like Jingying to defend. In addition, the minister thought that at present, artillery and various garrison materials should be immediately transported to Jinzhou, and a defensive line should be quickly built to prevent the overall situation of Jiannu from counterattacking. Sun Chuanting built yì said.

"What Aiqing said is reasonable, you can come up with a detailed plan! In addition, this time the military department also came up with a commendation plan. Zhu Youxiao agreed to these constructions, how to do it, the military department is responsible, and finally the emperor nodded and agreed, it's that simple.

Soon, the "Daming Daily" made a big report on the victory of the Dongjiang Army, so in addition to the victory of Hongzuibao, there was also a great victory in Jinzhou.

In the process of recovering Jinzhou, although not many Jiannu living forces were annihilated, it was true that the lost territory was recovered, and it was okay to publicize it as a great victory.

After commending the front-line soldiers, the conversation changed again, that is, under the strong support and guidance of the Son of Heaven, Dongjiang Town achieved a great victory of nearly 4,000 enemies, sweeping away the decline since the Battle of Salhu.

With the publication of the report, there was an immediate huge boost in the morale of the military and civilians. Many groups concerned about national affairs are also greatly inspired.

Later, the imperial court rewarded the Dongjiang army, and Mao Wenlong rewarded him with five hundred taels of gold because of his meritorious command, and a number of colored coins have been awarded. And the officers who participated in the war were also rewarded, and they were extremely generous in terms of money, and Zhu Youxiao paid 200,000 silver dollars for this.

However, in other official positions and other aspects, there are not many promotions, let alone knighthoods or anything.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, the results of this victory were not too great. If you reward indiscriminately now, won't you have nothing to reward in the future?

The biggest promotion of the official position is the commander of the Fifth Infantry Division, Zhang Kuantu, because of the victory of Hongzui Fort, Zhang Kuantu was soon appointed by the Ministry of War as the chief soldier of Jinzhou Town, and ordered him to open the town of Jinzhou.

At the same time, the military department quickly distributed the materials needed for Jinzhou Town, and at the same time took thirty Hongyi cannons from the warehouse of the Royal Military Factory and transferred them to Jinzhou Town. These Hongyi cannons are iron cast cannons, and the technology is conquered by the Royal Military Factory itself, not from Macao to invite gunsmiths to come to cast, so it is not very appropriate to call Hongyi cannons, so they are named heavy anti-aircraft guns.

The term flat-fire cannon is used to replace the cannon.

Zhu Youxiao naturally can't make up the term cannon, what the hell is cannon? In the Ming Dynasty, there was no such noun translated from the Western title, and the title still had to be localized, and the cannon was flat-fired, so it was named the flat-firing gun.

The one-pound guns and three-pound guns developed by the Royal Military Factory today are all flat-fire guns.

These heavy flat-fire guns were all cast in iron, so only thirty units were produced before they were temporarily discontinued. Because the Royal Military Factory is developing the production of heavy artillery from mild steel to improve performance. The cost of these heavy anti-aircraft guns is also relatively high, and the cost of one is about thousands of silver dollars, mainly because the failure rate is relatively high. Tossing and turning, labor costs are more talking. And the wages of those cannon casting craftsmen are not low, after all, this is a skilled job.

This batch of heavy artillery happened to be transported to Jinzhou to build the Jinzhou defensive line.

In order to build the Jinzhou defense line, Zhu Youxiao transferred another 500,000 silver dollars from the internal treasury, and the establishment of Jinzhou Town was also determined to be 30,000 people.

Zhang will then be responsible for assembling a defensive force to defend the Golden State. Soldiers will be recruited from the Han people of Liaodong. The establishment of the Fifth Infantry Division remains unchanged, it is still the establishment of the Beijing battalion, and its main function is to take the initiative to attack.

At the same time as the partial military victory, the raiding activities of Dongchang and Jinyiwei were already in full swing.

The family properties of Ye Xianggao, Liu Yixian, Han Yi and others were confiscated, and the rest of the Donglin Party officials who fell because of corruption were also confiscated by the factory guards.

Sitting in a row of three clans, the scope of such involvement can be said to be relatively large.

Soon the RTL Bureau became overcrowded, with more than 3,000 people imprisoned. But the factory guards have begun to conduct a review, and those of the three tribes who have no interest in the corrupt officials have been released and their property returned.

The determination of whether there is a benefit transfer relationship is also relatively simple and crude, that is, to see whether there is enough family property. If there is enough family property and is in business, it must be a relationship of interest transmission, and it must be more or less involved.

As a result, only more than 70 corrupt officials were arrested, and nearly 200 households were seated, and these 200 households were either landlords, merchants, or even officials, because some officials were from the noble family.

What is a nobleman?

It is an intertwined class group formed by the marriage of officials. This group is not monopolistic, but is constantly attracting new members.

For example, if a literati is a jinshi, he will be 'caught as a son-in-law' by some officials in the officialdom, and these officials will marry their daughters to these jinshi with the title of the gold list, forming this kind of relationship network of scholars.

These officials who were co-ordinated soon confessed to corruption under interrogation. It's just that he didn't dare to sit down again, and it would be too much to implicate him if he sat down again, and Zhu Youxiao was easy to provoke public anger and become the public enemy of the entire bureaucratic class.

In fact, after the more than 70 Donglin Party officials who were dismissed were sat down by three clans, the entire bureaucratic class began to appear agitated.

Zhu Youxiao, who found out that the situation was not good, immediately called Shen Yu in a hurry and ordered Shen Yu to immediately carry out cabinet legislation to calm the restlessness of these bureaucrats.

If he could, Zhu Youxiao wouldn't mind arresting those messy bureaucrats and cutting them down. But these bureaucrats wield a lot of local power and resources. Once they collude with the civil forces to create an opposition against him, the emperor, the country will have to be in turmoil.

Zhu Youxiao can only stabilize these officials first.

In this context, the cabinet officially promulgated the "Ming Anti-Corruption Act", which was approved and put into effect by Zhu Youxiao.

The Anti-Corruption Act formally stipulates the punishment standards for corrupt officials, which are roughly divided into three types of punishments: one is that officials who have not received a pension will be dismissed if they are found to be corrupt. In fact, the subtext expressed is that the past is not investigated, but this kind of subtext naturally cannot be said explicitly, because some officials still have to pursue it.

The second type is that officials who get a pension and are still corrupt will not only be dismissed from their posts, but will also have their family property confiscated, and will also be arrested and sent to the labor camp to be imprisoned, and the specific length of labor reform depends on the amount of corruption, with a maximum of five qi and a minimum of two years. But there is no joint sitting of the three tribes.

The third type is the officials who have received a double pension, that is, those who have received the money. If they take a double pension and also embezzle**, they will be three clans in a row, and the amount of corruption exceeding 5,000 taels will be life imprisonment.

The promulgation and promulgation of the Anti-Corruption Act had an immediate effect. The apprehensions of the restless bureaucratic class were finally dispelled.

These bureaucrats are also human spirits, so they naturally know that the emperor's involvement of these three clans of the fallen Donglin Party officials this time is mainly to crack down on hostile political forces and to get money.

Now the man has been caught, and the money has been obtained. The Donglin Party has already lost ground in the court, so naturally there is no need to continue to expand the scope of such a strike.

In the process of cracking down on the Donglin Party, the emperor obviously did not pay much attention to the rules, and this was where these bureaucrats were worried. In the face of an unruly emperor, they all have zài potential risks.

However, the "Anti-Corruption Act" immediately became a new rule, and since the emperor began to explain the rules and made the rules clear, those bureaucrats were naturally much more relieved.

The maintenance of incorruptible money is still accepted by the bureaucrats. Although the emperor wanted to fight corruption, the distribution of the pension allowed them to have a considerable income, although it was not as fast as corruption, but it was a light of money.

These same bureaucrats have also read the subtext, and the previous corruption is almost gone, so let's continue to live with peace of mind! In the future, there will be no three clans in a row, only those officials who have received a double pension.

The double pension is actually the 'interest dividend' privately distributed by the emperor, and the specific amount has not been announced, and how to get the double pension has not been publicized. But this thing is the first time it's been put on the surface.

What satisfies the bureaucrats the most is that there is no death penalty in the "Repeated Act", and the strictest thing is that you sit together.

This time, the factory guards raided more than 200 households at one time, so that there were so many assets that they didn't have time to count. (To be continued.) )