Chapter 184: The Rise of a New Dynasty (I)

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's April again

Xiao Bing, as the county lord of Yunmeng, began to take charge of the royal family industries such as Wangzhuang and Wangtian

Although some people are very unimpressed with this, since it is business, not politics, many ministers forget it.

Although he has only been in power for four months, after all, most of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce who have infiltrated this world are Xiao Bing's disciples, and of course they are handy in control.

Not long ago, the foreign chamber of commerce also smuggled more grain, but now with the five provinces, the food problem has been alleviated.

The most important thing now is ordnance and money.

In the land of the five provinces, the army has expanded to 400,000, and the ordnance required to intensify training is of course huge.

Fortunately, after several years of operation, the current production scale is 30,000 per month, and it is currently in full swing, and it is not a problem to arm all the soldiers before the war.

But the problem of ordnance and money is a big headache - this is actually a problem of iron and copper, and it is not enough to arm 400,000 troops in the land of five provinces!

For the future development of mines, I basically plan to learn from the policies of the Northern Song Dynasty on the earth - the Northern Song Dynasty is a private mine, and now the mines and the like still belong to the imperial court, but the imperial court itself does not operate, and the government establishes a set of management institutions to only collect taxes - and the mines and the like are handed over to the private sector to operate.

But the problem is that these things can't be built in a year or two, even if the Ministry of Industry has established a mineral department and sent people to vigorously explore new mines in Anchang, Jinsha and other provinces, but there must be at least ten years to discover, build roads, mine, and produce until the real profit......

After thinking about it, Fang Xin issued an order to auction the original five provincial coinage bureaus, a total of thirteen.

The Chamber of Commerce controlled by the Adventists, of course, knew the benefits, so they flocked here, and the original old Chamber of Commerce in this world was generally wait-and-see, and there were some involved.

On this auction, eleven coinage bureaus were auctioned, and the right to mint money for five years was auctioned to 550,000 taels of silver, which greatly supplemented the financial revenue, and at least one year's military spending was already available, and even Xiao Bing himself bought two and became the owner of the industrial and mining industry.

Some provisions on dimensional technology and civilization have been notified, although these adventists cannot directly send the technology down, but by organizing personnel to study and let "naturally improve" some technology, this kind of edge ball can still be played.

Since the seizure of Xijiang Province, the newly recruited 100,000 troops have naturally been recruited to train as a second-line unit since October last year.

The whole world was paying close attention to Fang Xin's actions and seeing his next move.

In May, the generals Zhou Bingbin, Wu Xing, and Jiang Wenxuan sent troops, all three of whom were generals of a town, with 50,000 regular soldiers, 30,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 10,000 cavalry, leading a total of 90,000 troops, numbering 150,000 troops, with Zhou Bingbin as the vanguard, and directly attacking Songtai Province.

After Fang Xin, he personally led 20,000 cavalry, 150,000 regular soldiers, known as 300,000, and slowly followed, claiming to have mobilized an army of 400,000.

Songtai Province has nine counties and eighty counties, the name belongs to the Dacheng founded by Gao Mingtong, since the death of Gao Mingtong, it is really the power of private separation.

Faced with such a huge military force, Lu Qiuhui, the governor of Songtai Province, hurriedly asked for help from the imperial capital on the one hand, and desperately tried to organize resistance on the other.

But the massacre was not long in coming, and everyone was afraid.

Together with the army, Zhou Nanbo, the Taishou of Dongyang County, immediately led the eight counties of the county to surrender, and said to Zhou Bingbin: "Now that Gao Ming is united and dead, he was usurped and obtained, and the foundation is empty, although his son Gao Zhenying is the emperor, he is trapped in the imperial capital, and all provinces and counties have their own people, in this situation, if someone rises up and advocates that it is easy to obtain the Central Plains, the general army is pressed, in addition to Lu Qiuhui and the heart to resist, other officials and heroes will be attached to the front, and the minister is willing to drive the general forward and persuade the counties along the way to take refuge in the righteous division. ”

Zhou Bingbin listened, although he was not very satisfied, after all, there is no war without war, but seeing that the cronies in the camp are all there, he had to say: "Good! ”

Zhou Nanbo then stepped forward one by one to persuade the counties: "Gao Mingtong usurped the imperial power, and he made the world chaotic with no way, can it last long?" Now King Fan has raised 400,000 troops, and the soldiers are coming to the city, if he does not surrender, I am afraid that he will not only be killed, but also the nine tribes. It is better to conform to the will of heaven and the people, take refuge in King Fan, and not lose his official position! ”

Suddenly, the nearby counties surrendered one after another, and in less than a month, the whole province except for Lu Qiuhui and 30,000 soldiers guarded the provincial capital Lede City, and all the others surrendered.

The generals Zhou Bingbin, Wu Xing, and Jiang Wenxuan led troops to surround Lede City, and at this time, with the surrendered soldiers and horses, it was really as high as 150,000 people, and the army began to attack the city.

After six days of fighting, the city lost 8,000, seeing that the general trend has gone, Wang Zhuo, the defender of Lede City, and Chen Shuzi, the defender of Lede City, feared that they would go bankrupt and wipe out their families in the future, so they secretly united, led a thousand troops with the night, killed Lu Qiuhui, and surrendered the city.

When Fang Xin heard the letter, he was very happy, and first ordered Lu Qiuhui not to be buried, his body was hung in the city, and his whole family was beheaded, leaving no one behind.

He immediately rewarded the whole army with wine and food, and Zhou Bingbin, Wu Xing, and Jiang Wenxuan were all promoted to the first level to show their meritorious rewards, and issued an order to promote Zhou Nanbo to the political envoy of Songtai Province, and suddenly promoted from the fifth rank to the high position of the third grade, and the other counties and counties were not held accountable, and they kept their original positions, but all the private soldiers should be reorganized and handed over.

Zhou Nanbo wept and thanked him, he opened a warehouse to relieve hunger, assigned counties and counties, and within a month, the whole province was well organized, and the hearts of the army and the people were stabilized.

In July, Fang Xin rushed to Songtai Province and ordered Zhou Bingbin, Wu Xing, and Jiang Wenxuan to send troops and enter Hetu Province.

Due to the considerable examples, the counties along the way even went out of the city to surrender without persuasion, and Feng Huayi, the governor of Hetu Province, feared that Pei Xutian and Lu Qiuhui would fall to him, and personally led 40,000 people to surrender to him.

Wei Hangang County guarded Ruizhe, who was the descendant of Gao Mingtong, refused to surrender, Jiang Wenxuan led 30,000 encirclements and suppressions, the initial battle was unfavorable, and Zhu Bingming, the general of the Taishou Department, rushed straight to the main formation, and lost 5,000 people.

Zhou Bingbin hurriedly raised troops to support, besieging this county, the battle was very fierce, until twenty-six days later, the city was broken, according to the order, the whole clan of the resisters, the people were killed.

Zhou Bingbin admires Zhu Bingming's military talent very much, after all, it is not easy to lead less than 10,000 people, face an army of 100,000, and still attack and win, and defend the city tenaciously.

But Fang Xin still ordered to be executed, whether it was a famous general or not, those who resolutely resisted could not stay.

As soon as Hetu Province fell, the imperial capital and Zhili Province were exposed to the edge, and at this time, Fang Jinzhi of Mengzhou Province sent 60,000 troops to respond to the call of the imperial capital.

In the face of such a situation, there were differences of opinion within Fang Xin, on the one hand, he believed that this was already a lonely army, and the veterans were tired, so they should try to do it slowly, and on the other hand, they believed that the soldiers were noble and fast, and they should go straight to the imperial capital, so that the overall situation of the Central Plains had been decided, and the provinces of the Central Plains must not be given enough time to unite vertically and horizontally.

Fang Xin categorically decreed that Wu Xing stayed in Hetu Province and left 50,000 troops, while Jiang Wenxuan sent 40,000 troops, backed by Hetu Province, and arrived at Fang Jinzhi's army, while Fang Xin personally led the army, together with Zhou Bingbin's army, and went straight to the imperial capital.

Li Jiajun rushed straight to Zhili, and first sent his henchmen to guard the checkpoint to form a barrier, at this time, the counties and counties of Zhili surrendered to Fang Xin, and the situation was clear.

In November, Fang Xin led an army of 200,000 to the imperial capital, and eleven days later, Kyoto was conquered.

The army marched north, but in May, even Fang Xin himself was surprised by this speed, which was actually because of the condensed army to attack the disintegrating enemy - although Dacheng had hundreds of thousands of troops, there was almost nothing to resist.

When Li Rui arrived in the imperial capital, he killed Gao Zhenying's entire clan to dedicate the temple, and ordered that the temple of Dachu should not be violated, which won the support and support of public opinion.

At this time, 400,000 troops were guarding everywhere, and the newly descended 300,000 troops had not yet been digested, Fang Xin's order was slow, even so, Fang Xin, who had seized the imperial capital, had already mastered the general trend that no one could compare, and the nearby counties took refuge one after another.

With 30,000 cavalry in the provinces, any budding rebellion was wiped out with a thunderbolt, and time flew by, and by April of the following year, the private army of the entire occupied county had been reorganized, and the official adjustment was completed.

In May, Jiang Wenxuan received additional troops, breaking Fang Jinzhi in one fell swoop, and pacifying two of the three provinces near the imperial capital.

In May of the same year, Prime Minister Shen Xuan wrote

"Now the Central Plains is flat, at this time the king has nine provinces, half of the world, 800,000 troops, and the army is crusading, and it will be invincible and invincible...... The matter of the southern expedition is also imperative, to mix the world, but to unify the world, how can it only be the king's name? The minister thought that the king's millions of troops were to save the people from fire and water, but the name of righteousness was undecided, if it went south, there were also former Chu vassal kings in the south who called the emperor, and those who crusaded against the emperor with the name of the king must be suspected of rebellion and forced the palace...... At this time, if you don't claim the emperor to ascend the throne, in order to determine the righteousness, when will you wait? I hope that the king will be called the emperor, and he should be ordered by the heavens to comfort the people......"

As soon as this book was written, Fang Xin was persuaded by him, indeed, he used to be a courtier of Great Chu after all, and now if he directly uses the title of king to crusade against the emperor of Great Chu, it will inevitably be suspected of usurpation, and it doesn't matter after being called emperor, it is a move of innovation in the Mandate of Heaven.

And the ministers are the same, asking Li Rui to board the foundation of the dynasty, flying like heavy snow, and in the central court, Shen Xuan led the cabinet, as well as the civil and military officials, to officially persuade him.

At the beginning of the table, Fang Xin was not virtuous and retreated humbly.

The ministers refused, and the second one, and then humble, issued an edict and said: "The prestige of the lonely is insufficient, and the sage who is hanging in the sea of Hou Ming, and the vacant position is waiting for him!" ”

The ministers said: "There is no sage in the world who has ever been a king." ”

So the three went to the table, and Li Rui sighed and said: "God gave him his order, I dare not disobey it, I reluctantly accept it!" ”

So the enthronement ceremony was held a week later!