Everyone was talking and laughing and walking towards the workshop together. When they were closer, they felt that the temperature was much hotter than the side.

It is already May, and the fifth month of the lunar calendar is already quite hot. In another month, you will be able to harvest wheat and then plant rice.

In the south of the Yangtze River, the first season of early rice is harvested by July, and then the second season of late rice is planted. The two ripe fields are high in a year. After dredging Taihu Lake and several important rivers during the Jiajing period, there was no flood. Life was much better than in the north of the Yangtze River.

Jiangbei is also a good place before the Yellow River seized the Huai River and entered the sea. There are acres of land and there are no mountains after passing Xuzhou. There are large plains with water networks. If there is no flooding every few years, it may not be much worse than Jiangnan.

At least Yangzhou was an important town during the Han and Tang dynasties, and its territory was much larger than that now. At that time, Yangzhou in Jiangbei was the richest place in the world. The so-called "One and Two" was not only economic, but also military and politically important. In comparison, Huaiyang is also important now, but in terms of financial resources, it is indeed far worse than that in Jiangnan.

Min Yuanqi and others walked along the Jiadi by the river. Along the way, the wheat in the fields was almost mature and grew into a green and yellow color.

The water plants and reeds in the ditch rise high, and a green scene is full of green.

At this time, a large crowd by the river greeted Min Yuanqi one after another. Many people knelt down and touched their heads to the ground. This was a big gift to Min Yuanqi...

"The elders are exempted from the gifts." Min Yuanqi felt relieved, and he remembered the depressed mentality of Hongguang ascending the throne and the Qing army entering the pass, and was also wiped out at this time.

No matter what, you have to be right about this place of water and soil.

This is the foundation of Min Yuanqi, the foundation of his founding, and the place where the Min family has protected each other for generations.

Of course, you cannot give up easily unless you have to. Even if you really want to leave in the future, you have to lay a foundation for prosperity and self-protection here.

Min Yuanqi knew that even though the Qing army went south a year later, the Eight Banners of Manchuria lost a lot of troops in the Battle of Yipianshi, the Battle of Tongguan, the Battle of Henan, and the Battle of Huguang and Jingzhou.

When the Eight Banners of Manchuria entered the pass, there were about 70,000 people. Around the fifth year of Shunzhi, Cheng Ding suddenly dropped to 50,000 people.

A total of 20,000 yuan was missing!

What is this concept?

Of course, so many people died when they fought with the main force of the Dashun Army and the remnants of the remnants of the army.

Shunjun's performance after entering Beijing was indeed shocking.

In Zhuxian Town, it exceeded 140,000 main force of the Ming army. Although the main force of the Ming army at that time was mainly the second-line troops and could not be compared with the main force of the Ming army in the battle of Songjin, the main force would win if he won. Li Zicheng's old camp soldiers were really fighting after the fourteenth year of Chongzhen.

Later, he repeatedly destroyed the famous city and obtained funds to support soldiers. The main old camp of Shun Army also reached a scale of about 200,000.

Among them, more than 60,000 people around Li Zicheng were truly elite soldiers in a hundred battles. They defeated Sun Chuanting and broke the city and headed north to the capital, relying on the combat power of this old camp soldiers.

Next came the troops from Henan to Beizhi led by Liu Fangliang, with 50,000 or 60,000 troops.

Then Bai Wang and others led the troops in Huguang, with the largest number of troops, and although they were the fewest number of soldiers.

The troops led by Hao Yaoqi, Yuan Zongdi, Li Guo and others were also relatively elite.

From the capital to Guanzhong, and then to Huguang, the rebel army faced the main force of the Eight Banners and the Sanshun Kings. Although they were defeated repeatedly, Li Zicheng did not lose his ambitions and was still determined to defeat many times and fought with the Qing army many times.

In this regard, Zhang Xianzhong is far from being in battle with Haoge's troops. He hit the nail on the head with one arrow. The Daxi Army broke away from the battlefield without a hard battle and fled directly to Yunnan and Guizhou for development.

After Li Zicheng was killed, there were more than 100,000 remnants of the Shun Army. At that time, the Hongguang Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty was destroyed. The remnants of the Shun Army cooperated with the Nanming forces to fight with the Qing army many times in Huguang, and many of them were won. Even though there were several opportunities to restore the entire territory of Huguang and control the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

All the gentlemen of the Southern Ming Dynasty would rather believe in officers, soldiers and generals who were not good at using them than let go of the soldiers of the Shun Army in Zhongzhen Camp. They waited for Sun Kewang to surrender. The Daxi Army could not support them. The soldiers of Zhongzhen Camp were still in Hunan for many years. It was not until the Kangxi period that Li Laixiang and others were killed, and the embers of the Shun Army were completely annihilated.

Min Yuanqi had already felt that the main force of the Shun Army actually lost most of the damage in a piece of stone, and later on, relying on the rest of the troops could still reduce the number of Qing army so much.

Five years after Shunzhi, in addition to the more than 4,000 Manchurian Eight Banners stationed in Nanjing, there were also key places such as Hangzhou. The Eight Banners stationed in the entire Southern China were only more than 10,000 people, and the remaining more than 30,000 people stationed in Beijing.

These "Dings" just refer to men who are born from fifteen to sixty. The true elite main force, the Eight Banners of Manchuria, never exceeds 30,000.

In the vast China, as long as there are more heroes and patriots, will you really bear to see China fall into Hu Chen again?

When Duoduo led his troops south, he only followed more than 10,000 troops. There were more than 100,000 troops from Gao Jie in Xuzhou and Liu Zeqing in Huainan. In addition, more than 200,000 Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong 70,000 to 80,000, Caojiang elite troops in Nanjing and more than 100,000 Beijing camps. There were so many troops, but they were all bad guys. They either made friends for tigers, or had civil wars and were useless in foreign wars, and they were useless in the name of tiger generals.

As long as these foreign vassals had a decent appearance, Nanjing would not fall so quickly, and the Nanming would fight for decades later, but it would still be a little short of being able to get it back.

If it weren't for the taxes from Nanjing and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the war was imposed every year, the Qing court would have been unable to hold on.

While walking on the river bank, Min Yuanqi was also extremely complicated and even excited in his heart as he looked at his kneeling figures and faces with sincere faces and thanked him.

If you have soldiers, food, people, and territorial areas, can you really only build ships and flee abroad?

Maybe Min Yuanqi himself didn't realize that as his strength increased, even after a year, his strength was not inferior to that of Jiangbei Towns, his mind had already changed subtly. Even though he had not made up his mind, it was no longer Min Yuanqi who was determined to accumulate his family's fortune and escape a few months ago...

"Sir, Sir..."

On the way to the workshop, someone blocked the way.

The person who came was Min Yuanqi. The 300th household and the nearby Hekou Xuntang Security Department were also directly led by the Central Army. Min Yuanqi, the head of the Central Army, was busy with his feet on the back of his head every day. Except for daily meetings, he would not run to Min Yuanqi's side at any time.

Some chief officials, because of their strange thoughts, were afraid that there would be too many daily military and political affairs, and would have a good time with Min Yuanqi. No matter how busy they were, they would have to go to Min Yuanqi to fight before leaving, because they were afraid that they would be squeezed out of the circle after a long time.

However, Min Yuanzhong is rare. He is busy with his own affairs every day. He does not mix with other things, and he will not come over to ask for a meeting without any important matters.

"I've seen an adult." Min Yuanzhong was wearing a green round-necked arrow robe, a harness around his waist, a knife hanging on his head, a Fan Yang hat, a short robe, narrow sleeves, boots, and looked like a capable military officer.

As the war report was sent to Nanjing, the news was also sent back twice, and everyone knew Min Yuanqi’s plan.

Everyone will be recommended as military officers at the garrison. The higher Min Yuan Qisheng, the higher his position, the higher his position, and for a few days, many people began to tailor their clothes and prepare to make black hats and military officers' uniforms.

But Min Yuanzhong, as a central officer, was still wearing his round-necked arrow suit. Only then did everyone feel that it was Min Yuanqi's meaning. Looking at Min Yuanqi himself was also the same. Those guys who were blinded in a short period of time calmed down one after another.

Min Yuanzhong bowed his fists and bowed, and there was also an unstoppable joy between his eyebrows. He calmed down and said in a deep voice: "Sir, the kindness from the other end of Nanjing has been rewarded. Huaiyangdao sent Zhou Zanhua to the Ministry of War to be transferred to the Ministry of War according to the will of His Highness the Superintendent of the State... Sir, he was appointed to the guerrilla general, Yundiguan Guard, the deputy governor of the Central Army Governor's Office, and the commander of the Dahewei!"

Listening to Min Yuanzhong reporting a large number of official titles, Min Yuanqi felt funny at first, and then a solemn feeling.

In any case, even if the Ming Dynasty had lost its country, this official position still represents his own decency and a perfect explanation to Min Yuanzhong and other subordinates.

After struggling to this point, the original intention of starting was to defend the village, but who can still not go further after the development and growth?

If we can go further, who would be willing to be calm?

"Yuan Zhong, you, Yuan Jin, Zhi Jin, Cuncheng and others have their own official positions, right?"

When the military achievements were reported, they were handed over to Min Qiande to Nanjing. In addition to the head level, there were also thousands of taels of silver. This time, the matter was done smoothly. Min Yuanqi knew that it was not only because of the money spent, but also because Zhou Lianggong, the Huaiyangdao, was working hard behind the scenes.

The energy of a civil servant’s real position is by no means comparable to that of a thousand households.

Min Yuanzhong replied: "I am awarded the title of Deputy Qianjia, and I am a 100 household, Yuan Zhi, Yuan Jin, Yang Zhijin, Gao Cuncheng and others. In addition, Guo Shangyi, Shen Liang and others are all awarded the title of 100 households. The camp position has not been given. I guess you have to print the post and submit it after you take office. According to convention, it is just a formality."

The imperial court camp has a convention, and as Min Yuanzhong said, the head of the camp was confirmed, and the court below would send a group of people to take care of the interests of each general and family. The chief officials would recommend more than half of them to facilitate the chief to control the camp.

The Ming Dynasty system was very interesting, such as using civil servants to control military officers, eunuchs guarding warehouses to monitor civil servants, and Beijing Jingying and Nanjing Jingying had to add nobles to preside over the military preparations. In this way, all parties restrained them, and no one could mobilize a soldier without an order.

In addition to the surveillance of the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang Jishizi, there were eunuchs guarding the local area. In the past three hundred years, in addition to the incident of the siege capture and the incident of Cao Jixiang's nephew leading private troops to attack the imperial city, not only did there be no rebellion in the capital during the past two hundred years, but also, before the capital was conquered, even if the military and political orders were not smooth, no civil and military officials who rebelled on the surface could be found.

Even if Min Yuanqi completely controlled the two battalions, it was a great event decades ago. The Li family in Liaodong controlled more camps, and there was no abnormal action from the court.

At this time, several generals in the four towns in Jiangbei were in charge of the army, and there were always more than a dozen or twenty generals under their command. Min Yuanqi's small official position is really not the same.

In fact, it is probably because Zhou Lianggong, Huai Yangdao, did not want to promote Min Yuanqi too high at once. Otherwise, it would be unlikely that the general would be the general, but the deputy general or the participating general led a battalion of troops to defend the Yantai area, and Nanjing would not refuse.

"It's always a good thing." Min Yuanqi patted Min Yuanzhong's shoulder and smiled, "You must be proud now."
Chapter completed!