There is a saying: "There is no feudal official, but the official official has feudal"

Since ancient times, officials have always been the most grassroots part of the dynasty administrative system. It can even be said that the intricate family of officials has controlled the grassroots administration. They can join forces with aristocratic families or gentry members who master grassroots politics to completely undermine the officials from the dynasty. After all, strong dragons cannot defeat local snakes. Moreover, most of those strong dragons are just a group of sour scholars who "turn a blind eye to the outside world and only read the books of sages". How can they compare with the family of officials who treat official affairs as a skill passed down from generation to generation?

The struggle between officials and officials has never stopped, and even in corruption, there are many struggles. However, Chen Wen was not interested in wasting his limited energy on these matters, including Sun Yu and Han Qizheng's charge of the Execution Office. Generally speaking, they are responsible.

However, this time, the officials below dared to continue to collude with the rich and gentry in the autumn tax that was crucial to the army, and ignored administrative orders. Since they loved money so much, they might as well stop asking for both.

"Fu Ren, this matter is of great importance, but there should be a priority."

Chen Wen understood very well what Sun Yu was referring to, not just using various reasons to add taxes. In the case of collusion between inside and outside, the levy of major banks is not just a problem for local officials.

However, since Chen Wen won the victory in the Battle of Shentangyuan, a large number of gentry from Zhejiang and Nanzhili came, and a total of more than 300,000 taels of silver were paid in the name of Xiangzan military supplies and purchasing loans. Even if the 200,000 taels of silver were left by Qian Qianyi and 6 Yuding, there were more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Sun Yu was born in a poor family and was dissatisfied with the gentry who relied on his fame to be a hero in the countryside. But he had just seen that Chen Wen had a murderous intention. If he had started a massacre in the occupied areas at this time, he would be afraid that he would not only not receive external rewards again. Even if the Ming army restored all over the country, it would not only be difficult to get the support of local literati and officials. I am afraid that those literati would turn around to help the Qing Dynasty, just because Chen Wen damaged their interests.

"I understand, just let Han Qizheng do this, he should know the right way."

With the issuance of the order, the issue of the officials in various counties on the autumn tax was immediately launched by the Excuseum Office, and the administrative system under Sun Yu cooperated vigorously and quickly revealed a large number of officials with problems.

With an understanding of his own strength, Chen Wen knew very well that even if he did not like those Confucian scholars and officials, he did not have enough grassroots officials and did not have strong control over the grassroots level, he would only lead to erosion in the occupied areas. Therefore, while continuing to carry out and expanding the scale of civil servant training, Chen Wen had only one order to Han Qizheng - kill the chicken to warn the monkey!

While investigating and punishing civil officials and officials in various counties was launched, Chen Wen was waiting for the news of Sun and Li's internal conflict and Li Dingguo's march into Jiangxi throughout February. Because the historical records in Chen Wen's memory of this incident were quite chaotic, some said it was the first month, some said it was February, and he even remembered that some said it was March, so Chen Wen was always waiting for news of Li Dingguo's army in order to achieve the next strategic goal more easily.

However, before the news of Li Dingguo came, Chen Wen waited for something that shocked him in late February.

In late February of the seventh year of Yongli, Chen Wen welcomed the envoy of Zhang Zisheng, a man from Pingjiang, Jiangxi. In addition to expressing his congratulations to Chen Wen for the enthronement of the Marquis, he also sent news that Hong Chengchou arrived in Nanchang as the governor of the four southeastern provinces.

Hong Chengchou had previously secretly moved south and used Ma Guozhu to plan military operations, which directly led to Chen Wen's mistaken belief that the rumors brought by Qian Qianyi were rumored. Now it seems that he had been plotted by this guy.

Hong Chengchou, a dog traitor, began to suppress bandits since the Chongzhen Dynasty. His methods were bloody and cruel, and he was known as the "Hong Butcher". After that, the Qing army threatened Jinzhou. His early plans were not as ignorant as other Ming Dynasty civil officials. It can be said that he was very knowledgeable about the army. However, Chongzhen's Caoqi and the selfishness of military generals under Wang Pu, Wu Sangui and others were eventually captured by the Qing army.

After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou not only completed many systems of the Qing court, but also suppressed the anti-Qing movement in Jiangnan when the Qing army advanced south. So much so that once he thought that the new opponent he welcomed after killing Chen Jin would be Hong Chengchou, Chen Wen was immediately like falling into an ice cellar.

This person is very dangerous. Although Zhang Zisheng's envoy did not receive news of Hong Chengchou's secret planning, Chen Wen still suspected that the previous joint defense of the three counties of Quzhou and Taizhou, the Qing army in Wenzhou and Chuzhou defended Qingtian County was probably the work of this person. In addition, a few days ago, the intelligence personnel lurking south to northern Fujian sent the news of the Jingnan King Geng Jimao moving to Fujian and the battle between Tong'an through secret channels, Chen Wen even determined that all of these actions were taken by him.

In Chen Wen's opinion, Hong Chengchou would never let him continue to show off. In history, this dog traitor was still running around for the Qing Dynasty at the age of 60 or 70. He curbed the Ming army's offensive on the southwest battlefield and finally completely eliminated the southwest Ming army's battle was planned by him personally. Since he did not serve as the Southwest General Manager as he used to serve as the Southeast General Manager, the war was likely to be reignited.

Hong Chengchou's target is either him or Zheng Chenggong, there is no doubt about this. As for the small roles such as Zhang Zisheng or the Jiuxian Mountain Rebel Army that Zhang Zisheng had just formed an alliance with him, or the Yunxiao Mountain Rebel Army in western Ganzhou, I think it is not qualified to be taken by him, the great Buddha, to take action personally.

As he thought, unlike Chen Wen, Zhang Zisheng had been fighting against the Qing Dynasty in Jiangxi for many years, and his relationship was mixed and the most local figure. According to the messenger he sent, a group of green camps with Henan accents suddenly appeared in Nanchang Prefecture not long ago. It was the reinforcements of the northern green camps that Hong Chengchou was going to come. At the same time, the construction of civil engineering projects had begun in Shangrao, the prefecture of Guangxin Prefecture, which looked like a fortress.

Hong Chengchou was clearly preparing for both actions. In fact, as soon as he confirmed that this guy was appointed as the Southeast Manager, Chen Wen had already confirmed that this matter would not be that simple. But he didn't expect that this guy would be so experienced.

Originally, he thought that the strategic initiative was in hand, but during this period, Chen Wen was always preparing everything step by step, trying to expose greater power this year to completely overturn the Qing Dynasty's rule in the southeast. But now it seems that it was obvious that last year's victory made him a little unfair, so he neglected that the Qing Dynasty still had an absolute advantage in overall strength. Whether in terms of resources, troops, or talents, it is difficult for him to compare with the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty is no longer the original large tribe of barbarians that ravaged Liaodong, but has become a feudal dynasty established by barbarians. Naturally, it can no longer be regarded as the former view.

Putting aside these things, since Hong Chengchou has already drawn some of the northern green camps to go south, the target will naturally not be Zheng Chenggong, because most northern green camps are not good at fighting. This is common sense, and Chen Wen naturally would not not understand it. However, until this time, Hong Chengchou was not in a hurry to take action. He just strictly checked the roads leading to the Ming army occupied areas, intending to block the news, so he obviously had not made sufficient preparations.
Chapter completed!