After arranging the affairs of Guangdong, Mo Qian led the firearms battalion and the people to return north, and the 30,000 troops except for the old battalion returned north with Mo Qian, and the remaining 20,000 horses were stationed in various provinces in Guangdong.

Mo Qian then set up a new military department in Guangdong, the Guangdong Military Division, with Pingxi General Qian Dayou as the commander of the Military Division's Yamen.

Before leaving, Mo Qian said meaningfully to Qian Dayou: "Dayou, do you know what the commander means?" ”

"Please give me advice!"

"The commander, the master, the commander, the commander, your commander, is the supreme commander of the army of Guangdong Province, and the officers and soldiers of the whole province will be controlled by you, as the commander, you must govern the army impartially, meritorious service will be rewarded, and mistakes must be punished, you must not shield relatives and friends, nor be narrow-minded and tolerate people, do you know?"

Qian Dayou bowed respectfully to Mo Qian and said: "The words of the marshal, the last general will keep it in mind, and the last general will definitely live up to the trust of the marshal, and will definitely sit in Guangdong for the marshal." ”

"No, you not only want to give me a good look at Guangdong, but you also have to send troops to me to expand the territory, after I leave, your next task is to march into Guangxi, in addition, you have to keep an eye on Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, the navy under him can't be underestimated, understand?"

Hearing this, Qian Dayou instantly felt that the burden on his shoulders suddenly became much heavier.

"The marshal can rest assured that as long as the last general reigns for one day, not a single soldier from Fujian will be allowed to enter the territory of Guangdong."

"Okay, this governor can rest assured, I will hand over this Guangdong to you, you have to work hard!"

After some entrustment, Mo Qian led his troops back to the north, on the way back to Wuchang, passing through Ganzhou, Mo Qian called Yi Shidi, the prefect of Ganzhou, whom he appointed, and asked him how the situation in Ganzhou was.

The prefect Yi Shidi is a native of Hongtang, Yuanzhou Prefecture, after Mo Qian attacked Yuanzhou, Yi Shidi joined Mo Qian's righteous military government, he started from the town mayor, was promoted by Mo Qian all the way, and now lives in the Ganzhou prefect.

The prefect of Ganzhou has great powers, and the southern Ganzhou region is the largest and has the widest area under his jurisdiction.

Ganzhou is the main road of transportation between Guangdong and Jiangxi, and it is also an important place in the military, and those who can occupy this city can hold the throat of Jiangxi and Guangdong going south and north, and the geographical location is very important.

Mo Qian handed over this dangerous place to his old subordinates.

To be honest, Yi Shidi has been promoted to Luling County since Li Banghua was transferred to Changsha.

This time, Mo Qian went south, and when he passed by Luling, he saw this old subordinate, and when he saw that Luling was being governed in an orderly manner, he knew that Yi Shidi was a capable official.

He immediately took Yi Shidi with him and prepared to let him take office as the prefect of Ganzhou.

When he came to the Ganzhou Mansion, he saw that the gate of the Yamen was full of people, and Mo Qian couldn't help but be curious when he saw so many people queuing up at the gate of the Yamen.

After he asked someone to inquire, he learned that Yi Shidi would open his office at the government office every 258th of every month to meet the people.

The people could ask him, the prefect, for help for anything.

Mo Qian felt very relieved after hearing the answer, and he boldly used those unambitious talents, although they all came out of reading the Four Books and the Five Classics, but after grassroots training, most of these officials could become qualified officials.

Although a small number of people still rely on their official status to make a fortune, since the establishment of the Integrity Division, the problem of official corruption has been quickly curbed, and many officials with a history of corruption have been quickly brought to justice under the inspection of the Division.

Although Mo Qian was born as a scholar, he was also a time-traveler who had received education in a modern society, and his views on officials were completely different from those of the Ming Dynasty.

China's thousands of years of official-based culture can be said to be the biggest obstacle to the country's development, everyone wants to be an official, everyone loves to be an official, everyone wants to use the power of being an official to accumulate wealth, and everyone likes the pleasure of power brought by being an official.

In the future, even if he is not an official, even if he is just a temporary worker in the law enforcement department, he can ride on the neck of the common people as a prestige.

In the eyes of the officials, the people were like slaves, they had to obey all kinds of rules and regulations, and they had to pay taxes.

However, they who enjoy privileges can use the power in their hands to expropriate and extort with impunity.

Mo Qian hated this corrupt official very much, he not only wanted to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, but also overthrew the inherent traditions formed for thousands of years, and he wanted to let the people know that officials were not terrible.

The official is just a profession, and the soap official is only a profession, a profession that serves the people, not a profession that makes the people serve them.

Looking at the long queue at the entrance of the Ganzhou Mansion, Mo Qian nodded with satisfaction, and said to the people around him: "If the officials in the whole world can be like Yi Shidi, then the world is not peaceful." ”

Mo Qian did not disturb Yi Shidi's office, but led his men and horses directly through the Ganzhou Mansion, and when the large army left from the Ganjiang River outside Ganzhou City, Yi Shidi received the news that the marshal had left.

Yi Shidi's subordinates advised Yi Shidi to take a clipper to see the lord quickly, but Yi Shidi refused.

Yi Shidi said to his subordinates leisurely: "The lord started at the end of the micro, the most annoying thing in his life is to waste the people's power to usher in, the lord has passed through Ganzhou and not entered, must not want to disturb the people of Ganzhou, I am the prefect of Ganzhou, knowing the lord's temperament, at this time, if I go to catch up with him again, it must be thankless, you must remember in the future, this kind of bad habit of ushering in, will not be allowed to have it in the future, everything must be based on the people, not extravagant and wasteful!" ”

Several officials of the government and county government lowered their heads in shame by Yi Shidi's words.

"Yes, take it to heart!"

.......

On the second day of the second month of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the day when the dragon raised its head.

Gongs and drums were noisy outside the riverside wharf in Wuchang City, and the common people spontaneously organized themselves to stand on the wharf and look eastward.

When the people heard that King Mo would return to Wuchang City today, they came to the dock to greet him.

Also at the helm of Wuchang, an emerging political center in the south, was greeted by Shi Zhanglie, the prefect of Wuchang.

and a number of officials from the three divisions and yamen under the command of the governor of Jiangnan also came to the dock to greet them.

Li Banghua, Wang Zhongyi, and Cao Guoqi, as the three most powerful people in the current righteous military government, also came to the dock today to greet their lord.

From a distance, Mo Qian saw the crowd of people on the Wuchang Wharf at the bow of the boat, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of displeasure in his heart.

He turned around and asked Yuan Xingdi beside him, "Who leaked the news?" ”

Yuan Xing saw Mo Qian's anger for the first time, and hurriedly replied: "The last general doesn't know, the last general didn't tell others the date of the handsome's return!" ”

"Humph!"

Mo Qian looked at Lu Zhao on the side again.

"You leaked it?"

When Lu Zhao heard this, he quickly explained: "Dashuai, it wasn't leaked by the last general, the last general doesn't know when you will come back, if it wasn't for the last general to train in the Yangtze River waterway, I don't know if you are back." ”

"Damn, could it be that the news of Lao Tzu's return was told to them by God?"

Mo Qian flicked his sleeves angrily to express his dissatisfaction in his heart.

When the boat docked, Mo Qian saw the crowded people on the dock, he could only hold back the anger in his heart and talk to the people in person with a smiling face.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you are back!"

"The king is back!"

"Long live the king, long live the king!" ”

I don't know who shouted Banzai, and suddenly the entire dock was filled with the sound of shouting Banzai.

The people knelt on the ground one after another, kowtowed to Mo Qian, and shouted long live the king.

Seeing that the people were so enthusiastic, the anger in Mo Qian's heart gradually dissipated, and he personally helped up dozens of old people among the people, and muttered in his mouth: "Old man, what are you doing here, you are going to break my life!" ”

"The king said this, we really love you, the king gave us the people of Wuchang the land, and exempted the field for three years, the life of the big guy is much better now, all this is your gift to the king!"

"What is the old man saying, old man, please get up, this is not my gift, but your own hard work in earning, I just did what I should do, I deserve to be so praised by you."

"Deserved, deserved, the king's prestige resounded throughout China, and now people everywhere know that we have a great king in Wuchang, the king comes and doesn't pay for food, the king, you are our benefactor!"

"Long live the King!"

"Long live the King!"

"Long live the king, long live, long live!"

The dock fell to its knees, and even the officials and soldiers who had come to pick it up also knelt down.

Although Mo Qian had already abolished the bad habit of kneeling, on this occasion, everyone couldn't help but kneel down.

Smart people know that if you don't kneel at this time, you are a real fool.

Everyone is kneeling, and you are alone with the stake and a pestle there, and the king must not remember you in his heart!

Even old ministers like Li Banghua and Mei Zhizhao knelt, and others had no reason not to kneel.

Mo Qian saw that Li Banghua, Mei Zhizhao and the others who came to greet him were kneeling, and quickly got up and came to the two, personally helped them up, and said, "Two, you two are tormenting me. ”

"Everyone, please get up, please get up, it's cold on the ground!"

"King, although the ground is cold, the hearts of the people are hot!" A gentleman said in a loud voice.

"Well said!" Li Banghua praised it.

Li Banghua was old and had bad knees, so he was pulled up by Mo Qian after kneeling.

Li Banghua got up and came to Mo Qian, and said in a low voice: "Lord, the day of becoming king is in this dynasty!" ”

"What?"

Hearing this, Mo Qian was stunned for a moment.

"Lord, the people's hearts are available, now the king has most of the world in the south of the Yangtze River, the king may not know, Huguang all over the country have asked to surrender, De'an, Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Yuezhou, Changde, Baoqing, Hengzhou Seven prefectures have been included in the territory of our righteous army."

When Mo Qian heard this, he was shocked.

"When did this happen, and why didn't anyone inform me?"

Li Banghua explained: "What happened at the end of December last year! ”

"How could it be so sudden?"

"The lord doesn't know that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have risen in the north again, the Tartars outside the pass were founded by the Qing Dynasty, the Qing soldiers entered the customs frequently, the imperial court was unable to fight on both sides, and Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou were not skilled."

After speaking, Li Banghua whispered in Mo Qian's ear: "The emperor has made a decree to win affection, and invited your father-in-law to Beijing to serve as the secretary of the military department. ”

"When?"

"Just last month!"

The amount of information was a bit large, and Mo Qian couldn't digest it all at once.

I didn't expect the situation in the world to change again, but it seems that the speed of the demise of the Ming Dynasty is accelerating.

If it is really as Li Banghua said, Chongzhen is likely to not last for seventeen years, and he will not be able to hold on for three years.

The south is in his pocket, the north is full of rogues, and there are Manchu Tartars outside the pass to break through the south, and the space for Chongzhen to move around will become extremely small, I am afraid that it will not be long before Beijing will not be able to collect taxes from the south of the Yangtze River.

Jiangnan is the foundation of China, if he immediately sends troops to Anqing now, and then captures Nanjing, I am afraid that Daming will have to perish next year.

After Mei Zhi finished looking at his old friend, he also said to Mo Qian: "King, the people of Huguang and Jiangxi now hope that the king can change the dynasty, because only you can bring the people a peaceful and happy life, and now the people's hearts are available, this time if you don't call the king, I'm afraid there will be no such a good opportunity next time!" ”

"You two, you're not kidding, are you?" Mo Qian stared at his two old ministers.

"Lord, although Ming Taizu has a large accumulation of grain, a high wall, and a strategy of slowly becoming the king to seize the world, the lord should be the same, but now the situation is different from the past.

Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty did this because there were still several big warlords in the world at that time, and there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Yuanting, but now, the strength of the Ming court has long been stretched, although Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the north have great ambitions, but the eloquence of the lord is just a flash in the pan.

If the lord has been using the name of the governor of Jiangnan canonized by the imperial court, wouldn't it be limited to one place in Jiangnan, if he is called the king, it will be very different.

After the founding of the country, we can customize the law, set up a yamen, and conquer the world. ”

"There are advantages, but there are naturally disadvantages, Mei Gong, what about the disadvantages?"

"Of course, there are disadvantages, but those disadvantages are nothing compared to the advantages."

The three of them talked on the side for a long time, and they saw that several jackpots not far away were dying.

The most urgent are the two brothers Lu Zhao and Peng Jinhong.

The two of them wish that Mo Qian would ascend the throne and become emperor immediately, so that the two of them would at least have the position of a prince.

Seeing that the three of them had been talking for a long time and still had no result, Lu Zhao couldn't help but bring a group of generals to the three of them.

Lu Zhao took the lead in kneeling on the ground and shouted loudly: "The last general asks the marshal to ascend the throne as soon as possible to save the people of the world!" ”

"Please ascend the throne as soon as possible!"

When the generals shouted, how could the soldiers not shout, and after a while, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on the entire dock fell to the ground one after another.

"Long live the king, long live, long live!"

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