After inquiring about Zhang Guoxun, Chen Wen had a certain understanding of some inside stories about the Qing Dynasty officialdom that had happened outside his sight. As for what had previously puzzled him, the reward for the decline in combat effectiveness of the Supervisory Balance Battalion also got the answer from it.

The Dubiao Battalion initially practiced the old military formation tactics. In the middle of last year's truce, it began to practice the Mandarin Duck Formation. This was the case later. But when the Qing court rebuked it, the generals of the Dubiao Battalion were afraid of the Qing Dynasty and had to restore the original old military formation tactics. As a result, the Ming army was in a hurry, and their fear of the Ming army forced them to send the weapons used by the Mandarin Duck Formation that had been sealed in the warehouse for more than a month to the soldiers. After so many times, they changed the tactics before the war, and even did not even sharpen the guns in the face of the battle. The reactions of the lower-level officers and soldiers were chaotic, so how could the combat effectiveness not decrease?

It is said that the King of Chu is so thin that he starved to death in the city. The Qing Dynasty hindered military reform, and the first victim was the Biaoying, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. This is understandable. However, in the report of Yang Jie and Wu Dengke, he once approached the Ming army in the south, and then chose to turn around and run away. Are they just sitting on the verge of the enemy and watching the destruction of friendly forces just to preserve their strength?

Zhang Guoxun could not answer this question, but Chen Wen had a vague idea in his mind, but he could not confirm it, so he would not continue to think about it for the time being.

As for Zhang Guoxun, Chen Wen originally planned to take him back to Quzhou and behead him for public display, but since he cooperated so much, he would be kept in prison for a while and let his family use the money or information needed by Chen Wen to redeem him, and it would be a matter of consideration for the future. In addition to Zhang Guoxun, the entire Supervisor Camp only ran away from Li Xun, the officers of the Left Camp, and these officers had to interrogate them again, and severely punish them for doing too much evil. Others were also handled according to Zhang Guoxun's example.

After staying in Jiangshan County for two days, Chen Wen received the news that Wang Zhigang had fled back to Xianxia Pass to defend, and left Wu Dengke and half of Lishui Battalion to stay for the time being, waiting for the newly trained garrison troops to arrive. He originally planned to bypass Changshan County to attack Yushan County in Guangxin Prefecture, but the explorer who was sent to follow Yang Jie came back to report that Yang Jie had already led the army and the Jiangxi Admiral Biao Battalion, which had just recovered its establishment, but was still mostly new recruits, and the Huizhou Green Camp, which was responsible for the defense of Kaihua County, seemed to be preparing to evacuate. Seeing this, he had to lead the main force back to Quzhou and make plans.

After returning to Quzhou, Chen Wen received a report from Jinhua. The anti-corruption investigation that had been conducted for nearly a month was finally coming to an end. In this investigation, with the purpose of cracking down on the lower-level officials and intimidating the wealthy gentry in various counties, the administrative system in charge of Sun Yu closely cooperated with the official corps of Han Qizheng, who was responsible for Han Qizheng. A large number of officials in the lower-level officials colluded with the rich corpses of the rich corpses of the rich corpses of the ordinary people, and the evidence of the crime of exploiting ordinary people was controlled by the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the official corps of the

According to Chen Wen's previous instructions, the rich and gentry were only criticized for the time being. If the family had served the Ming army, they would also issue a document to scold them. However, the punishment for the lower-level civil servants and officials was severe and severe.

It's not bad for the time being that civil officials at the bottom were mostly re-appointed by Cao Conglong's rebellion. Because they were not familiar with the local situation, they were inevitably blinded by minor officials. Their own corruption was slightly less. After all, after the rebellion was quelled, the Ming army's massacre of civil servants with the affiliation was far from dissipating them, so they naturally did not dare to do too much.

In contrast, as local officials in various counties, as local officials, their control capabilities have declined and their garrisons have continued to expand, have become even more serious.

With the expansion of the garrison, the land was largely under the jurisdiction of the garrison officials, and the vast majority of the land was the tax-free land that did not even have to pay taxes. This undoubtedly led to a decline in the gray income of local officials in terms of land taxes. Recently, due to the quelling of chaos and the rapid expansion of occupied areas, the two large-scale replacement of grassroots civil servants has led to a decline in the civil servant's ability to control the local area, which just gave officials from all counties the opportunity to profit from it.

He used fire consumption, scattered husks and other items to collect taxes, colluded with local gentry and wealthy households to allocate taxes to ordinary people, and used methods such as destroying old grain, falsely claiming, and modifying account books to store in corruption. He bribed the superiors, coerced, concealed the subordinates, and used all kinds of actions. It is no wonder that Gu Yanwu once denounced, "raising millions of tigers and wolves among the people." How can the people not suffer?

Administration is crucial to national economy and people's livelihood. As stated in "Rizhilu? Lixu": "All officials have false reputations, while those who have the country have the right officials have the right people." They are the tentacles that are closest to the lower class of the people. It can even be said that the quality of administration is related to the rise and fall of the dynasty, which is not an exaggeration.

This time, the case of the autumn tax in the sixth year of Yongli was determined to kill a group of local officials who were evil. However, killing people is just a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. It may be possible to deter them for a period of time, but this is profitable, and I am afraid that the old man will become more accustomed to the past soon.

However, when Hong Chengchou became the Southeast Manager and tried to force him and Zheng Chenggong into a dead corner step by step, Chen Wen was far from the time and energy, so naturally he could only let Sun Yu sort it out slowly.

However, compared with Zheng Chenggong, the greater reason why Chen Wen's offensive stagnated last year was because of himself. He had too few troops and had been fighting for several months. The soldiers' desire to use war to obtain military merit rewards has faded. As the Spring Festival is approaching, the soldiers under his command have already flown back home, hoping to harvest the rewards of the land on the day of family reunion, rather than dying in battle before the seventh year of Yongli.

Because of this, after the expansion of the army, Chen Wen's first attack could easily recover Jiangshan County and wipe out the Superbiao Camp. Chen Wen believed that the defeat of the Superbiao Camp would be a huge loss for Hong Chengchou. After all, only this one of the green camp soldiers in Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi Provinces can still have the power to fight against the Ming army. Without this elite force, Hong Chengchou would have less chips.

However, Chen Wen was still a little confused about Wang Zhigang and Yang Jie's reaction in that battle. It was not uncommon to say that the two were willing to preserve their strength. Chen Wen even suspected that this was Hong Chengchou set a way to deal with them.

The key to the joint defense of the three counties in Quzhou is Changshan and Jiangshan. Kaihua is located in the mountainous area and it is quite difficult for the army to attack Huizhou, so it is not important.

According to the plan obtained from Zhang Guoxun, Jiangshan County had support from Wang Zhigang's troops in Xianxia Pass, while Changshan County was supported by Huizhou Green Camp, and behind them was Yang Jie's Jiujiang Green Camp as reinforcements.

At present, Jiangshan County was captured by the Ming army, and Wang Zhigang retreated to Xianxia Pass was a military rule. After all, if Xianxia Pass was in a mistake, the Ming army's military front could sweep across northern Fujian, and join forces with Zheng Chenggong in southern Fujian, and the overall situation in Fujian would be completely corrupt. In fact, in Changshan County, the Ming army seized Jiangshan County in geographically. As long as they bypassed the mountainous area between them, they could separate their connection with Yushan County, making Liu Guangbi become a turtle in the jar.

But the question is why Liu Guangbi and Yang Jie just retreated to Yushan County, and why it was not the capital of Guangxin Prefecture. It was obviously stronger and easier to block the Ming army's road to the west. Even because Guangxin Prefecture was still building a large amount of construction, Liu and Yang would turn to Yushan, but Hong Chengchou, behind them, had a very passive reaction, which was quite different from his records in history books. What was this guy waiting for?

Located in the headquarters of the former Zhejiang-Fu Governor's Office on the former Zhejiang-Fujian Governor's Office, Chen Wen turned around and combined the information in his hands to examine the sand table in front of him and thought for a long time.

From Jinhua to Quzhou, the Dongyang River and Qujiang River flow in Lanxi County. Anhua Town and Hulu Town both have bastions, and Lanxi also adds defenders. Yanzhou Green Camp is not afraid of it. Following the Qujiang River, one is Changshan Port and the other is Jiangshan Port. What separates it is the mountainous area that Yang Jie once used. This mountain area, from the sand table, looks like a fork in the road, to the west is Changshan County, and to the southwest is Jiangshan County, which is clearly very distinct.
Chapter completed!