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At the same time that Wufeng is vigorously adjusting the defense of Western Xinjiang, the General Administration of Military Affairs is also actively adjusting the defense of the entire central control area, including Jinzhong, the City Guard Corps is still stationed in the area south of Qinghe Fu, and the 14th Army Corps is adjusted to the east of Zhongzhou to strengthen the defense of the Luyang line, and the Third Army Corps is also deployed to the area adjacent to Longquan, which obviously poses a defensive posture against Western Xinjiang, while the Fourth Army Corps is deployed to Jinzhong, three divisions are stationed in Jinzhong Fucheng, and the other two divisions are placed in the junction of Jinzhong and Longquan。 Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe Eighth and Ninth Army Corps were placed on the southern front, and more than 200,000 people were placed on the front line of Huanggang and Jiujiang.

A series of defense adjustments came a little suddenly, but the order from the General Military Affairs Administration clearly expressed the undoubted intention, that is, in the meeting of kings, the safety of Yanjing must be fully guaranteed, and the Praetorian Guard Legion, which has been in a leaderless state, seems to have begun to recover, and Ma Yuanxiang, the commander of the Praetorian Guard Legion, who has not appeared for a long time, has also begun to appear frequently, which has also attracted the attention of all forces. After all, when several major armies were stationed in the suburbs around Yanjing, only the most powerful armed force of the empire was left in the entire Yanjing City. The kings entered the capital, although each with its own armed forces, but the strong dragon did not suppress the head snake, the kings were unlikely to lead too many escort forces, if the Praetorian Guard could really be pinched together, or join forces with the other side, it would be a great threat to the other parties.

Although it is said that all parties have expressed their desire to enter Beijing, it is still difficult to say whether they will enter Beijing after finally arriving in the city. Yanjing is like a cage that threatens the safety of all parties, and at this time, the owner of this cage may not be able to grasp the power of opening this cage, which makes everything full of uncertainties.

With a trace of fatigue and excitement after the completion of the task, Ying Jianming stood alone at the head of the city and looked west, tomorrow His Royal Highness the King of Qin will pass through the east of the Jin Dynasty into Zhongzhou, and the city of Jinzhong in his own hands has become the only checkpoint for His Royal Highness the King of Qin to contact his territory after entering Zhongzhou, it is conceivable that the West Xinjiang attaches great importance to this level, fortunately, his first division finally won the opportunity to be stationed in the city, but the second division is still an unsafe factor stationed on the outskirts of the city, fortunately, the fifth division controlled by his henchmen is also stationed on the outskirts of the city, and the whole situation is still in his own hands, and there have really been unpredictable changes, he can also firmly control this level and connect with the Western Xinjiang Army.

Obviously, the twentieth regiment is also deployed on the outskirts of the city, this is a need for balance, Ying Jianming is difficult to say whether this is whether the other party does not believe in himself, after all, the first division is his own lineage, and the fifth division on the surface, although he can't see anything, but when he was deployed, he made a suggestion or caused the other party's vigilance, which is also reasonable, although the other party has no military ability, but when it comes to playing with power, he is an expert, but he probably never dreamed that he had an extraordinary relationship with Western Xinjiang, that is, a kind of subconscious vigilance。

Looking into the distance, there are some faint mountain shadows on the horizon, the topography of Jinzhong is somewhat special, in addition to the line along the western trade road is still a complete flat land, the south piece that is divided into north and south by this trade road is almost all hills and flat land between or mixed broken terrain and the situation in the north is roughly the same, except for a large flat land in the adjacent area with Longquan as if there is a gap, the other parts are also shallow hills and dams mixed terrain.

But this seems to be broken and scattered land, although it is not fertile, but it contains the richest coal resources in the empire, the entire fourteen towns of Jinzhongfu, almost all towns and towns produce coal, not only good coal quality, but also easy to mine, plus the Fan River flows from outside the city of Jinzhongfu and meanders into Zhongzhou, which has become the largest coal producing area in the empire and the largest fuel supply in Yanjing.

The wealth and luxury of the coal merchants in Jinzhong, the salt merchants in Yangzhou and the financial merchants in Yanjing are called the three wealthy merchant groups in the empire, which shows the wealth of the coal mine owners in Jinzhong. Most of these coal mine owners chose Yanjing as the place to buy property and prosper their families after making a fortune, and the dignitaries and nobles of Yanjing are also jealous of the rich resources of Jinzhong, and have infiltrated Jinzhong by various means of power, for hundreds of years, many of the aristocratic family forces originally born in Yanjing have also slowly immersed themselves in Jinzhong, plus the local coal merchant forces in Jinzhong have infiltrated Yanjing, the combination of the two, the relationship between Jinzhong and Yanjing is even closer than the connection between Jinzhong and other provinces in Heshuo County, including the capital Hejian Mansion, and the position of Jinzhong City Keeper is a nerve of many people in YanjingEvery time the adjustment of the main officials in Jinzhong always causes a small storm in the imperial officialdom, it has also become a barometer of the changes in the imperial officialdom.

But all this is already a thing of the past, after experiencing the Taiping turmoil, the coal merchants in Jinzhong were hit hard, almost all the coal merchants had to flee and hide in Yanjing to avoid trouble, and as soon as the Taiping army grasped the control of Jinzhong, these coal mines were taken over by the Taiping Sect, but due to the flight of a large number of skilled workers and joined the Taiping Army, coupled with the coal mine owners to avoid disasters and go away, most of the coal mines were in fact at a standstill, and the sales of coal mines were also interrupted, and Jinzhong suddenly became a chicken rib. Without a market, the coal mine was almost worthless, and coal was not much different from mud and stone, and the economically minded Taiping people did not realize this, and they would not use any other means than fighting and barbaric plundering to make up for the economic strain, and the huge Jinzhong Mansion was not able to get much financial support from it.

The collapse of the Taiping Sect seemed to offer a glimmer of hope for the resurgence of the coal merchants in Jinzhong, and the regaining control of the Jinzhong army by the imperial army seemed to foreshadow this, and a large number of coal merchants who had absconded to Yanjing returned to their hometowns, and the coal mines began to resume work one after another. But the reality is often not as good as imagined, with the large-scale expansion of the army controlled by the central government of the empire, and the central finance of the empire is obviously unable to support such a huge army, especially after the East China Sea and Jiangnan have cut off the payment of finance and taxes to the central government of the empire, this problem has become particularly serious, although the central finance of the empire is still a little old, but the army of as many as seven legions is not at all tightly controlled by the central government of a central state plus a Jinzhong can afford, but in the face of pressure from several other parties, the central government of the empire does not dare to dismantle a few legions, if you want to maintain, you have to transfer these problems to the industrial and commercial class。

As a result, coal merchants are now the main donors. According to the idea of the central government of the empire, Jinzhong not only has to afford the military expenses of a legion stationed in Jinzhong, but also has to bear the expenses of another legion, which is equivalent to letting a Jinzhong government bear the expenses of two legions, even if Jinzhong is rich, no matter how rich the coal merchants are, it is unlikely to accept this result, the result is that the coal merchants refuse to pay, and the army stationed here will implement military management, instead of the political axe to forcibly collect various taxes and gold for military expenses, and this has also led to the continuous tension between the local coal merchants and the army, and the backstage of the coal merchants has also continued to make trouble in the DPRK, attacking the military department for poor management of the army, and the army harassing the locality, resulting in boiling public resentment, on the other hand, the military department put state affairs first, and the finances were unable to feed the army, so they had to drink water to quench their thirst, and adopted this method to raise funds to maintain the existence of the army. Fortunately, His Majesty is no longer in charge of the government, and many major matters are dealt with and resolved by several important ministers of the DPRK and China, and the final solution is only to make peace with the mud, so that the military can apply for the garrison on the one hand and reduce the burden on the people of Jinzhong, on the other hand, I also hope that the gentry and the people will understand the current plight of the political axe and endure it for a while.

However, this kind of thing is difficult for the coal merchants to accept, especially the coal merchants with strong background forces in Yanjing, so some coal merchants began to turn to Hejian, Longquan and Montenegro in the west to invest, while others began to openly refuse to pay donations, which directly caused a conflict between the two sides, and the situation in Jinzhong was also unstable. The reason for the sudden adjustment of the deployment of the army this time is, on the one hand, to strengthen the defense of the periphery of Yanjing, and on the other hand, it is also to alleviate the already quite bad military-civilian relations, at least after the adjustment of the deployment, the new Fourth Army Corps can also re-establish a relatively relaxed relationship, of course, this is just the wishful thinking of the General Military Affairs Administration.

The coal merchants wanted to return to the old situation, but the empire's army of as many as seven legions had to be borne by people, and in view of the continuous drought in the past year or two, it was difficult for the peasants to feed themselves, and it was feared that the peasants would immediately trigger a peasant revolt.

Ying Jianming and his boss Xu Xiangyang, the commander of the Fourth Army Corps, are well aware of the joints, the reason why Xu Xiangyang would rather be in Yanjing remote command than directly stationed in Jinzhong, one of the big reasons is that he is unwilling to directly face the difficulties of those coal mine owners, you must know that these coal mine owners have a great backer behind them, Xu Xiangyang just wants to make a safe and steady transition, and does not want to have too much relationship with these high-ranking officials in Yanjing on this issue, and these tightrope-like problems are pushed to the head of Ying Jianming, who is fully responsible for the defense of Jinzhong Fucheng。

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