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All the provinces and counties, all the administrative departments have been reorganized. For this, the Fujian Ministry of Government is already familiar with it, and there is no shortage of reserve talents in this area, among which not only the Mawei Army itself has cultivated, but also many scholars who have defected to Geng Jingzhong's banner these days and passed several rounds of examinations, and the other is the local officials who have outstanding talents and incorruptible soldiers in the past. In short, every time the Mawei army arrived, after a short period of panic, within a month, the local area would immediately change greatly.

Because of the wartime, the Mawei Army was often mobilized, and the scene of the marching procession that stretched for several kilometers in orderly steps shocked countless people along the way. The common people don't understand what kind of really powerful army is, but if these horsetail soldiers and soldiers they see compare with the green battalion soldiers or garrisons of the Qing army they have seen in the past, they are simply one in the sky and one in the ground. The important thing is that the Mawei Army will not disturb the people at all whenever they go to a place, even if they need supplies, vegetables and meat, etc., they are all purchased from towns or villages with enough silver dollars, and the cash transaction will never be in arrears and will never be bullied.

It has been a month since the Mawei Army came to Jiangnan, and the people on this side of Jiangnan have begun to have a preliminary recognition of the Mawei Army. Even the upper echelons of the family no longer rejected the Mawei Army, but joined the overseas development plan proposed by Geng Jingzhong, and most of the powerful ones have begun to prepare. The Mawei Army had their support, and the Jiangnan region was indeed firmly established. Jiangnan is also worthy of the peak of literary style, and there are many people who read like Jiang Zhiqing. Although many of them are dead readers. But there are also a lot of really talented people. At least. Among them, there are really many who have learned the six arts of gentlemen. Arithmetic and so on are not bad, and after passing the examination of the Ministry of Government and then after a short training, he immediately became an official. This did save Geng Jingzhong a lot of trouble.

Geng Jingzhong also stood firm on the Jiangnan side, and all families also strongly supported him, and Geng Jingzhong believed in ending the domestic civil war as soon as possible. Maybe, no, yes, I will definitely be after Zhu Yuanzhang. The second person to rule the world from the south to the north!

Throughout ancient Chinese history, those who could dominate the world basically fought from the north to the south, and very few unified the whole country from the south to the north. This is not to say that the Ming officials who surrendered to the Qing court in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties said that the southern people were weak, and the traitors among these people used this as a reason to support Dolgon's comprehensive shaving of his hair and change his clothes; However, now that the south is full of wolves, the Qing army quickly lost half of the south of the Yangtze River, which proves that these people's views are extremely stupid.

There are many reasons why it is difficult to unify the whole country from the south to the north, but there are two main ones. First, the cost of ancient warfare was huge, that is, the cost of war was very high, and the cost from south to north was higher than from north to south. This increases logistical pressure, and the farther south the soldiers from the north, the warmer the climate. No need to bring extra clothes; The second point is that in the agrarian society, the land in the south is suitable for cultivation, and the economy in the south is generally more developed, and the development of the south is enough to support itself, while the development of the north to obtain less benefits, and this benefit is much worse than the cost of war, so the driving force of interests is insufficient, and the north to the south is just the opposite.

In ancient Chinese history, there were several armies that fought from the south to the north, and it was possible for these armies to complete the domination of the world at that time. Geng Jingzhong remembers clearly the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the Song Dynasty is often belittled by many people, but careful analysis shows that the military strength of the Song Dynasty is not as unbearable as those history textbooks and experts say. The Southern Song Dynasty counterattacked the Song army in the Jin Dynasty, such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, and the army led by Yue Fei and Han Shizhong was quite strong, and it was one of the few armies in Chinese history that had the ability to complete the domination of the world from the south to the north.

Think about it carefully, after the Jin invaded Kaifeng and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, the main Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty was blocked at Tongguan, and King Qin was late, but after coming, he encountered the Jin soldiers dominated by the Jurchen cavalry, and the two sides fought many fierce battles; The Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty suffered heavy losses, and except for some of them, which were absorbed by later Southern Song generals, the others were basically annihilated. Obviously, the Jurchen cavalry also obviously suffered large losses, which made the Jurchen cavalry, which was already small in number, fall into a situation where the number of soldiers was insufficient, which also explains why Jin failed to take advantage of the weakness of the Southern Song Dynasty to destroy the other party, and also explains the reason why Jin Wushu led troops to the south many times was the Liao surrender army and the army composed of the Han people in the north, and the Jurchen cavalry that was relatively more capable of fighting was less and less, and the reason for the low combat effectiveness of the Jin soldiers.

At the same time as the combat effectiveness of the Jin soldiers declined rapidly, the combat effectiveness of the Southern Song army began to improve; During the period when the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty held back the Jin soldiers, Southern Song generals such as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, etc., incorporated some troops that had retreated from the north, and at the same time trained new soldiers, and these troops were not at all comparable to the garbage and "transport brigades" of the Northern Song Dynasty and Hebei Army that the Jin soldiers drove straight into the face at the beginning. After several fierce battles between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin, the Jin soldiers were severely damaged, so they began a counterattack and carried out the Northern Expedition in an attempt to recover the northern rivers and mountains; During the Northern Expedition, the Jin army was defeated many times, such as Yue Fei defeated the Jin army in Zhuxian Town, and Han Shizhong and others also gained something. After the defeat of the famous Jin Wushu, the nobles of the Jin State had palpitations, and they were all ready to withdraw from Yanyun and walk north to their hometown; If the civil officials and emperors of the Song Dynasty insisted on the Northern Expedition at this time and continued to increase the intensity of the Northern Expedition generals, then it was very likely that the Yellow Dragon and the Northern Expedition would be successful. Under the circumstance of this obviously favorable situation, the "thirteen gold medals" that later became known to him actually occurred, and the opportunity to dominate the world was lost.

For the Song Dynasty, it was too far away, although the Jin State could be said to be the predecessor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, at least the Qing court thought so, but Geng Jingzhong still felt that the Ming Dynasty's attack on the north was not as good as the Song Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang, a generation of heroes

It can be said that he is the only person who has achieved the unification of the world from the south to the north, and the reason for this is that in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang's vision and a series of policies and strong combat effectiveness of the army, more reasons should be that after the Northern Expedition of the Red Turban Army, the power of the Mongolian nobles has weakened. Geng Jingzhong personally felt that the Yuan soldiers were much worse than the Jin soldiers in the early Southern Song Dynasty.

Other than that. Geng Jingzhong greatly appreciated Zhu Yuanzhang's firm attitude towards the Northern Expedition, and the route he chose was quite appropriate. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang entered some backward mountainous areas in Shandong, where the people were fierce, and after preaching and publicizing how brutal the Mongolian nobles were, these ordinary people joined the army one after another, and they could immediately form a force; After that, in the capture of Henan to cut off the wings of the Mongolian army and capture Tongguan, the Inner Mongolian army was formed to beat the dogs; Finally, he invaded the Yanjing region, which was lonely and helpless, and after destroying this Mongolian army, he pursued westward and recovered Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places to obtain natural horse farms. In this way, a steady stream of cavalry was obtained in order to further attack the Mongol forces that had withdrawn from the Great Wall.

However, I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang and the Ming Dynasty he established did not attach importance to the northwest, and the northwest basically actually controlled zhì, that is, a little west than the Jiayuguan at the end of the Great Wall, and further west it was basically a bondage, but the level of the bondage was different in different periods; The result of not paying attention to the northwest and not building some defensive cities at key points was when the Ming court was weakened, and it was repeatedly attacked by the Tatars, a Mongolian tribe who withdrew from the Great Wall. These people are widely distributed, and at the most widespread time, there are many sub-tribes from the Volga River valley to the southwestern part of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. Their attacks left Ningxia and other cultivable lands in vain; Although in Yongle and other periods, the Ming court was able to restrain the Tatars.

Now, the Qing army is much worse than before. The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry no longer has a little combat power left, and most of it still relies on the Han army. Needless to say, Geng Jingzhong's most important thing is the construction of the army, in the past, the army was still a five-day or even ten-day drill, and Geng Jingzhong's side had to practice every day. Let's talk about the soldiers and horses under Wu Sangui's command, it is true that Wu Sangui himself is a big traitor, but it cannot be denied that he himself is a very outstanding soldier and general. In fact, many traitors are very capable, such as Hong Chengchou and Qin Hui, but some loyal ministers of the martyrs' shrine are obviously incompetent, such as Shi Kefa of the former Ming Dynasty. Wu Sangui is also very good at training and leading troops by himself, and now there are very few veterans like Ao Bai in the Qing court, as for the new generation of Zhou Peigong and Tu Hai and others, although they are good, their ability to lead the army is comparable to Yue Le.

At this time, the Wu army is considered to be an elite army that has been in battle for a long time, you must know that Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses were fighting with the Southern Ming army not long ago, and it is not at all comparable to the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty garrisoned in various parts of the Qing Dynasty, nor can it be compared with other green battalion soldiers, which is known from Wu Sangui's rapid defeat of the Qing army in various places Wu Sangui and his light capture of the three provinces. At this time, the green battalion soldiers were the main force of the Qing court army, but their sense of identity with the Qing court was far less strong than that when Kangxi went to Mongolia to conquer Geldan in history, such as now Wu Sangui or Geng Jingzhong's Mawei army has the upper hand and advantage, these green battalion soldiers are likely to surrender, and the Jiangxi Raozhou garrison is a good example. Think about it, just last year, Wu Sangui's army defeated the Qing army many times, and the battle was fought beautifully. Wu Sangui's general, Gao Dejie, was defeated last year, and his troops far exceeded his own Yue Le. Therefore, although the number of Wu Sangui's army was still less than that of the Qing court, the quality was obviously higher than that of the Qing army.

In the past, the Qing court still had a certain advantage over Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong, but now it is completely reversed. In addition, after entering the customs thirty years ago, the Qing Eight Banners killed the common people too much and a series of discriminatory and oppressive policies, the most typical of which was shaving their hair, changing clothes, enclosing land, etc., so that the Han people in the Central Plains did not have any sense of identity with the Qing court; For the battle between the Qing court and Wu Sangui, most of the common people watched the excitement on the side, and some joined the Wu army because of the lack of strict military discipline in the south.

Take this moment as a comparison, Wu Sangui's army has a great feature that the proportion of cavalry is relatively large, which is due to the fact that Wu Sangui has a very good relationship with several powerful lamas in Tibet, and the story of Wu Sangui's collusion with Tibetan lamas in the novel Lu Ding Ji that Geng Jingzhong read in his previous life is indeed true. It is precisely because of this that Wu Sangui can obtain a lot of horses, and the Yunnan-Guizhou region controlled by Wu Sangui himself also produces Yunnan horses, although the horses of these cavalry of Wu Sangui are relatively short, and the horses of these cavalry are not as good as those of the northern horses, but they are better than walking on two legs and are more mobile. In history, the most deficient part of Wu Sangui's army was the siege force, that is, the lack of artillery; At that time, the Qing army had a large number of relatively advanced artillery at that time, and the Wu army's many failures in attacking the city in history stemmed from this. But now it's different, Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong traded hundreds of cannons, and at this time they also made up for this shortcoming.

Wu Sangui called the emperor like a thunderclap, and it quickly resounded throughout the land of China. When people all over the world heard the news, their expressions were different. Of course, the soldiers under Wu Sangui's command were overjoyed, after all, Wu Sangui was called the emperor, and the generals under his command were upgraded, even the lowest-level soldiers, which could be regarded as a meal of wine and meat per person, which was regarded as a celebration of Wu Sangui's accession to the throne. And when this news reached the capital, it was very different when it reached Kangxi's ears.

Originally, the things in Jiangnan made Kangxi feel white, and his young temples already had gray hair, and as soon as Wu Sangui became emperor, he immediately scared him out of a cold sweat. Wu Sangui has always been entrenched on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the past and did not wantonly cross the Yangtze River to attack the north, but now it is different, the Wu army has 10,000 water divisions, although it can carry the Wu army across the river and then raid the land of Jiangbei. And the Qing army's Yangtze River Naval Division was completely annihilated, and it was completely impossible to stop the Wu army. Wu Sangui is the emperor, and the most important signal is that Wu Sangui is going to march into the army.

Geng Jingzhong's side, Geng Jingzhong himself was not surprised at all when he got the news, but Geng Jingzhong had other plans. Wu Sangui was proclaimed emperor, but he did not kill the puppet little emperor he had pulled over the year before and was said to be a descendant of Emperor Yongli. This also gave Geng Jingzhong a chance, and he immediately found Geng Hou to let him mobilize the shadows set up in Kunming and rescue the little emperor as quickly as possible. Wu Sangui abandoned the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, so he must stand up at this moment, so that he can quickly get the support of the people of the world! The order is conveyed, and the next thing depends on the strength of the shadows who have been lurking in Kunming for more than a year. (To be continued......)