581.The Battle of the Qing Dynasty (20)
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On August 24, the 14th year of Wucheng in Huaxia, the news that the Shence Army and the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army had captured Beijing and Tianjin respectively reached the Imperial Palace, which once again caused the ecstasy of the besieging Xia Army, but as far as Zheng Kezhang himself was concerned, he did not believe that Kangxi had not yet fled Beijing, and the so-called encirclement of Kangxi within the imperial city was just wishful thinking on the part of the commander at the front.
Of course, even if Kangxi was not caught, the Qing court was already completely finished, not only did its rule in Guannai collapse, but even Kwantung and Datong did not have enough troops.
Therefore, Zheng Kezhang issued an order again to adjust the previous subordinates, except for the five divisions that had been arranged to return to the defense and the 130,000 people who surrounded Anyang, the rest of the Xia army would be divided into four routes: the first five divisions were led by Chen Baoquan to enter the Jin, and together with the Yin Long troops in the Jin, they would attack Lu'an, Taiyuan and other cities, completely eliminate the Qing army in Shanxi, and then attack Yanmen Pass to the north; The eight divisions of the second road were led by Tang Baoyi to enter the Qing Yanmen Province through Puyin and recover Datongdi; The five divisions of the Third Route and the fourteen regiments of the Shence Army Division, led by Yang Bokang, went out of Yuguan and took the Daning Corridor to attack outside the pass, striving to work with Huang Tao, the general army of Liaodong, to recover Fengtian and other places, and push the battle line to the area south of the Nenjiang and Songhua rivers before the arrival of winter; The two cavalry divisions of the Fourth Route were sent out of Xuanhua by Kuching to deter the Mongols by force, forcing their troops to either abandon their existing pastures and flee to other lands or surrender to China.
In addition to the above-mentioned four-way army, Zheng Kezhang also left six divisions to maintain law and order in Hebei, Shandong, Zhili and other places, clear and disperse Qing soldiers and local bandits, and maintain the grain transfer routes along the way; The remaining seven divisions were commanded by He Shuzhi and stationed in Beijing, continuing to besiege the imperial city and take control of the military in Beijing, and at the same time began to screen and dispose of the bannermen and Han officials in Beijing.
The Korean army, which was also a waste of food to stay, set up in Tianjin, and then transported back to China, and during the waiting period, a silver and bronze Northern Expedition Medal and a number of silver were given according to the size of the official position; The armies of Annam and Vietnam also sailed to Tianjin, and then transported back to their respective countries, and were also given a silver and bronze medal for the Northern Expedition and a number of silver runs; The Japanese mercenaries in the Shence Army, who were still continuing the war, were told that they would be divided among the fields in Nanyang according to their final merits, and the Xia military attachés would be unified after the war??????
On 25 August, Zheng Kezhang made a final decision on the disposition of the 110,000 captured Qing troops, in addition to the more than 10,000 Qing soldiers and the 50,000 Qing prisoners who had escorted the southern mines in advance. On the same day, Zheng Kezhang made a ruling against the bannermen and Han officials in Beijing that they should all be sold as slaves to plantation owners in various parts of Nanyang, and the proceeds should be used as military expenses; Except for a small number of proprietors who took the initiative to help Xia in the early stage, and the shopkeepers were only sentenced to confiscate their property, the rest of the proprietors and shopkeepers in various localities were all sent to the provincial governments to be publicly executed in order to set an example??????
On August 26, Zheng Kezhang issued a decree to change Hebei Province to southern Hebei and other places in the Qing court, Zhili Province to northern Hebei and other places, and Beijing to Youzhou Left-behind Mansion; On the same day, Zheng Kezhang issued an edict to adjust the administrative divisions of various provinces, of which Jiaozhou Zhili Prefecture was changed to Xuhai Province, and Kaifeng Prefecture was changed to Zhongzhou Province; Xuhai and other places were renamed Haixi and other places, and Haizhou Zhili Prefecture was promoted to Haizhou Prefecture and Haixi Province; Promoted Tongzhou Zhili Prefecture to Tongzhou Prefecture and changed to Jiangnan Province; Bozhou Zhili Prefecture, together with Huai'an Prefecture is assigned to Jianghuai; The land of Huai'an and Xuzhou is located in Suqian Zhili Prefecture, which belongs to Haixi Province; The Daimyo Mansion was reassigned to Shandong Province; Compound Huguang Jingmen Zhili Prefecture, Hunan Jingzhou Zhili Prefecture, Guangdong Luoding Zhili Prefecture; The land of Zhangzhou is located in Xiamen Zhili Prefecture; Moved Jizhou Zhili Prefecture to Nangong, renamed Nangong Zhili Prefecture, and reduced Jizhou to Ji County??????
On 27 August, Zheng Kezhang also ordered an inventory of the Huangzhuang under the name of the Qing Imperial Internal Affairs Office, the Wangzhuang under the name of each royal palace, and all Manchu assets, and wanted to arrest Baoyi, Zhuang Tou, and the shopkeeper of the firm who served the Manchu people??????
After doing this, Zheng Kezhang left the front line in Zhangde and drove to Jinan to inspect. The reason why Zheng Kezhang did not go to Beijing immediately was because he had just issued an order for the final disposal of the residents in the city, according to this order, there was a population of nearly one million in the ancient capital of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and at least sixty percent of the people were missing.
However, when he walked to Dongchang, bad news came from Wuchang, and Xie Ziling, the mother of the emperor's eldest son Zheng Andi, died of illness.
When the news came, Zheng Kezhang suddenly had a lot of suspicion, but at this time, the Northern Expedition was victorious, of course he couldn't mess with himself, so he sent a group of Praetorian Guards to escort Zheng Andi back to Wuchang for the funeral, and at the same time announced that Lin Heng, the cabinet counselor, presided over the ceremony and secretly took care of Zheng Andi's personal safety.
After doing this, Zheng Kezhang continued to Jinan. However, the spring city that appeared in front of Zheng Kezhang was no longer recognizable. The fire that Yinzhi set before his departure reduced two-thirds of the city's buildings to rubble, displacing tens of thousands of people.
However, in order to divide the Manchus so that the Xia army's military operations to the north of the Kwantung region could be carried out smoothly, he also announced that all the Xibe, Oroqen, Dagan, Soren, Evenki, Hezhe, Chiler, Feiyak, and Qiyakala (Chakara) tribes that were not opposed by the Xia army could not be regarded as members of the Eight Banners, even if the tribe had been organized into the Eight Banners of Buteha.
On September 3, Xuanhua and Zhangjiakou were recovered for Kuching; On the same day, Yang Bokang entered Yongping and captured more than 10 Manchus who had no time to flee and about 10,000 people, and then these Manchus were organized into the vanguard of the new annex army and drove to the front line of Shanhaiguan under the drive of the Xia army.
On September 4, Zheng Kezhang went north into Texas; On the same day, Tang Baoyi's troops captured Guangling and Kuching's troops and entered Zhangbei.
On September 5, the first part of the Shence Army entered Zunhua, and around the afternoon of the same day, the advance of Yang Bokang's army drove the new annex army, which had been further expanded to 25,000 men, and arrived at Yuguan. The Qing army guarding Shanhaiguan was less than 500, and when they saw the Xia army coming, they immediately abandoned the pass and fled.
On September 7, Zheng Kezhang and his entourage arrived in Cangzhou. On this day, there was good news from Shanxi, the Lu'an defenders learned that the Qing court was in turmoil, and some of the ordinary green battalion generals who were unwilling to die rebelled, killing the Shanxi general Jueluo Baosu who insisted on stubborn resistance and more than 20 Manchu and Han generals below the Manchurian Zhenghong Banner guarding the road Qilu and surrendered Kaicheng, so that the southeast of Shanxi was pacified, and only Taiyuan was left in Shanxi to resist stubbornly.
On September 8, the advance of the 3rd Division of the Yulin Army of the Xia Army arrived in Chengde, and the Huangjiao lamas who were praying for the blessing of the Qing Emperor in the temples outside Chengde had to temporarily change their courtyards and compete to show their allegiance to the commander of the Xia Army.
On 9 September, after some repeated deliberations, Zheng Kezhang issued an edict to formally establish the posts of military capital commander and deputy capital commander on top of the division command system, and the rank of the capital commander was set as the general of the second rank and the rank of the deputy commander of the capital was set as the deputy general of the second rank, but the two posts were only honorary titles, not actual posts, and were used to place high-ranking military attachés who could not serve as commanders and deputy commanders-in-chief.
Subsequently, Zheng Kezhang further announced that he would formally set up the posts of subordinates of the battalion capital and the deputy subordinate of the battalion above the general army and deputy general army, so as to facilitate the command of the garrisons of one or several provinces in remote provinces outside the center. Although the subordinates of the capital and the subordinates of the deputy capital are the commanders of the permanent military regions, they do not manage civil affairs, and they do not have the power to supervise and command the governors of each province, let alone financial power, so as to prevent the emergence of feudal towns similar to those in the Tang Dynasty??????
On September 10, Zheng Kezang's frame arrived in Tianjin. At the beginning of his stay in the Yamen of the Tianjin General Army, he announced the appointment of subordinates and subordinates of the capital, namely Jin Yanzhi, who served as the deputy subordinate of Xuyongdu in Yunnan, Su Boping, who served as the deputy subordinate of Guizhou and Guangxi, and Gu Kai, who served as the subordinate of the deputy capital of Liaoning, Guangzhou, and Nanliao.
After arriving in Tianjin, Zheng Kezhang unexpectedly ignored the strange situation in Beijing, but instead took the time to inspect the river workers of the Haihe River, and said something shocking and unusual next to the river embankment: "If I say that I regard Tianjin as the Beijing of China, what do I think? ”
"The Holy One means to move the capital?" After looking at each other, Zheng Yingping, the founder of Deyang, the young prince of the crown prince, the doctor of Guanglu, Tejin, the former prime minister of the cabinet, the minister of the Bideyuan and the marquis of Yuzhang County, said. "The Northland has just been pacified, and such a big work may cause turmoil."
Zheng Kezhang said with a smile: "I am not ready to recruit people, how can I cause turmoil in the north." ”
The Marquis of the Founding County, the Doctor of Zide, the Minister of Tejin, the Minister of the Bide Academy, and the Marquis of Jianyang County, Chen Shenwu, nodded knowingly: "What the Holy Lord said is extremely true, hundreds of thousands of Jianyu will not be transported to the south for a while and a half to sell, it is better to use it on the Tianjin construction site first, that is, not to waste food and to sharpen the temperament, it can be described as killing two birds with one stone." ”
The people present were all fighting with the Qing army for decades, and who did not have relatives and friends who died at the hands of the Qing army, so the hatred of the Manchus was unforgettable, and naturally no one had any objections to the labor bannermen and traitors, but applauded one by one: "It makes sense, the saint has a far-reaching vision, and the ministers are not as good as ??????."
"Okay, there's no need to shoot the sycophants." Zheng Kezhang asked again. "Let's discuss the pros and cons of moving the capital to Tianjin."
Since he knew that there was no need to levy people's power, Zheng Yingping made an evaluation from the perspective of a member of the Zheng family, the opposing capital Tianjin: "This dynasty is based on the sea, and although Wuchang controls the surrounding nine provinces, it is really a bit inward.6 It is not as convenient as Tianjin by the sea. Moreover, Tianjin is adjacent to Youzhou Mansion, which is also convenient for the control of Mongolia and Liaodong, and the Shengshang chose this place as the capital, which can be described as a great good. ”
Feng Hui objected: "Jianyu is about to be defeated, Mongolia can only lose sincerity under the defeat, at this time Jungger is my henchman, is it too remote to build the capital Tianjin, but it is better to Wuchang??????"