Chapter 46 The Guardian
The defense in Yushan County has been completely taken over by Li Ruixin. Three battle barracks and one cavalry barracks. Even if Hong Chengchou really attacks on a large scale, he can protect himself and support him until he leads reinforcements.
However, the Qing army had too many cavalry. Just the three towns of Jingbiao, 15,000 troops were 4,500 cavalry. Hong Chengchou's left and right shrimp camps were also cavalrymen. Jiangxi Tibiao and Jiujiang Town Biao had returned to their garrisons, but it was not difficult to draw one or two. Compared with such a large number of cavalry, the Ming army's cavalry battalion with a thousand cavalry and the three combat barracks of two hundred people were pitifully few. Therefore, Li Ruixin planned to rely on Yulangxi to organize a defense line and move the people west to the east of Yulangxi, and garrison troops in several towns near Yushan County, and contact the Qing army through beacon fire and wolf smoke and cavalry as a means to prepare for the Qing army to attack.
Hong Chengchou had recovered from a crushing defeat, began to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and used cavalry to restrain the power of the Ming army in Zhejiang, making him have no time to take care of him. In his eyes, Chen Wen knew the ability of this old traitor. The defeat of the Qing army in the four provinces only gave him a chance to breathe. He had to roll the snowball as quickly as possible, otherwise Hong Chengchou's next attack would be thunderous, and he was afraid that he would be even more dangerous than his situation this time.
Back in Jinhua, Chen Wen had a new round of secret consultations with Sun Yu, Zhou Jingting and others. Chen Wen no longer planned to chase the Xia Taxation matters, and killed a group of gentry who "loved to me the Qing Dynasty". The confiscated property alone had already blocked the holes that were enough for the Xia Taxation, and there was a lot of surplus. He didn't plan to go to Xiao Qian this time, because the autumn tax was about to be launched, and he really didn't have time to make up for it. However, the surplus part could be used for the next plan.
In response to this, Chen Wenmei called: "Investment!"
When returning to Jinhua Mansion, Chen Wen was only staying for two days before setting off for Taizhou. The matter of the garrison was urgent, but before he left, something unexpected and reasonable happened.
"I am old at the age of the government and I am now suffering from illness. The doctor said that I should at the age of the government to recuperate and not worsen. I hope the marquis can approve the emperor's resignation."
Old fox!
Having just killed a group of gentry, Han Qizheng resigned because of his old age and illness. It seems that he had seen Chen Wen's plan and was ready to retreat bravely without getting involved in the struggle between the Zhejiang military merit landlord group and the Confucian scholar class.
Mingzhe protects oneself. These four words come from "The Book of Songs Da Yapin", which is explained by the fact that wise people are good at protecting themselves. Now they refer to the attitude of avoiding the principle struggle because they are afraid of implicating themselves. Han Qizheng's plan is clearly to protect oneself. How could Chen Wen not understand? It is just that the civil servant in front of him who always manages the yamen of the Jinhua Mansion, who is indeed a great age. More importantly, he lacks courage and may not be able to use future struggles easily.
"Okay, Han Tixing, since you are uncomfortable, then go home to recuperate." Seeing that even Han Qizheng tried his best to cover up, he still showed a hint of relief. Chen Wen glanced at the corner of his mouth and asked, "Han Tixing has been the emperor. Will the son go home to fulfill his filial piety?"
Hearing this question, Han Qizheng was suddenly shocked and bowed and replied: "The officials are just going home to rest. The dog son is still in his prime and should serve the marquis. The word "loyalty and filial piety" can still be distinguished."
"Very good, then you go home to recuperate. I will inform Magistrate Sun about this."
"The Lord Xie Hou is kind."
Han Qizheng's departure was thankful for his gratitude. On the surface, he was the one who had given birth to the world, but his son still did not leave the officialdom. In fact, it was Chen Wen who was testing Han Qizheng's bottom line - whether to completely sever the relationship with the Ming army in Zhejiang, or to avoid continuing to be at the forefront of this storm at the cost of giving up his own official position.
Han Qizheng was smart, but also stupid. He knew what it would mean to break with Chen Wen, so he made it clear that his son would continue to serve Chen Wen, not for someone else or other people. But he was stupid and stupid at this point. If this struggle was ultimately won by the Confucian scholar class, it would have been too late for him to retreat now. The scholars and officials would not let him go, even if he had passed away at that time, he would not have ended up with a good end.
After the old prerequisite criminal officer left, Chen Wen and Sun Yu discussed it, Qi Xiufeng, the general head of the judicial department, called him and decided to take over the position of criminal chief, while his head of the military department was transferred from Gu Shouli, and then Guo Zhigang, the co-minister of Jinhua Prefecture, took over the position of head of the military department, and a new wave of personnel exchange was carried out to ensure that the power was not solidified.
The pattern here has been established and only needs to be fine-tuned. On the contrary, due to the existence of the coastal Japanese garrison, he must immediately determine the policy so that these victories can be digested as soon as possible.
A few days later, Chen Wen, who was rushing to the city of Taizhou, arrived at Taizhou Prefecture. After reading the reports from civil servants, officers and staff, he realized that the situation here was much more complicated than he had imagined.
At the prefecture and county level, civil servant training classes and officials who have been promoted and mobilized were filled. However, the newly built Taizhou Guard and the Thousand Houses below have only Tiantai, and Xianju and Linhai have gradually taken office. Since the other three counties are all involved in the problem of the abandonment of old guards, they cannot be determined for a while.
These garrisons involve a lot of things, including the acropolis, the garrisons, the garrisons and salt fields, the hereditary officers and military households of the garrisons. What is more complicated is that they involve a series of problems such as local gentry and military officers occupying military camps, salt fields, and the garrisons' military households and slaves.
For more than two hundred years in the Ming Dynasty, the system of garrisons had long been difficult to return. What he is doing now is to replace the old garrisons with the new garrisons. The name remains unchanged, but it is a new source of fireworks. The old garrisons must be abolished, but merged into prefectures is a detailed problem, especially the ownership of military camps, salt fields and military households.
"Marty, the guard is the ancestral system of the High Emperor, and it must not be abolished."
According to the results of Chen Wen's consultation with Sun Yu and others, the first step to abolish the old garrison was to hand over all military buildings such as military camps, yamen, outposts, forts, water villages and other military buildings to the garrisons. In the future, whether the garrisons should be used by themselves or transferred to prefectures and counties, the internal affairs of the Ming army in Zhejiang were all involved. It had nothing to do with the old garrisons. Once the order was issued, the hereditary officers of the garrisons ran to the camp in the prefecture, holding Zhu Yuanzhang's god-lord card and kneeling to ask Chen Wen to take back Cheng's life. They cried bitterly, which attracted a lot of people to watch.
After leaving the camp, Chen Wen was furious when he saw these hereditary officers in the garrison. In the past few years, the ancestral system that had been in power for more than two hundred years had been destroyed for him. He had filled in many blocks with civil servants, and was exempted from gentry and generals. Now even the hereditary officers of these garrisons came to protect their vested interests. They did not see what they dared to do when the Qing Dynasty controlled this area. It seemed that they had done too much reasoning and thought it was easy to bully.
"It's so great that you don't respect the Emperor Gao. Go and ask the Lord of God to leave. These bastards will whip twenty whips first and then bring them to speak."
"As for the order!"
The military judge of the camp led a group of tutors to rush out, snatched away the god lord cards held by the old and young people, and pulled them into the camp with disrespect. Each person had twenty whips, no more or less. After finishing the thrust, they dragged them into the tent.
After being beaten, these hereditary officers didn't even dare to give up. It was not just a matter of courage. From the official perspective, Chen Wen had the position of the Left Governor's Office as the Left Governor's Office, which was successively granted by the Supervisor's Office of the Left Governor's Office, which was successively granted by the Emperor Lu of the State and the Emperor Yongli. He originally thought that this was a useless title, and it sounded good to use it, but now it seems that it is not useless.
"Tell me, when did your hereditary military posts start to be hereditary?"
A group of hereditary officers were tall, short, fat and thin, old, young and young. They thought they could scare Chen Wen by lifting Zhu Yuanzhang out, and the rest would be discussed. Unexpectedly, they were beaten first as soon as they met, and it was a waste of time, and the momentum suddenly dropped a lot. At this moment, when Chen Wen asked this, a group of people looked at each other, and the old man who seemed to be the oldest answered first.
"The ancestors of Xiaguan were generals under the tent of King Dong'ou. In the 20th year of Hongwu, they set up Haimen Guards and were the ones who were hereditary to the thousands of families of Haimen Guards."
The King of Dong'ou refers to the few Duke of Xinguo who was awarded the title of Hongwu Dynasty, Tang He, who had a good death. The title of this prince was the posthumous title after his death. Most of the coastal Japanese guards in the Ming court were established for him for investigation, and the Haimen Guards were no exception.
This gray-bearded old man is a hereditary Qianhu. Judging from his age, he should have been a senior military officer such as the commander of the guards and seals during the Chongzhen Dynasty. He was just outside the camp holding the God-Master Card. I think he should be the leader of this group of people.
"If you come back to the Marquis, your ancestors of the lower officials participated in the Jingnan Campaign. After Emperor Chengzu ascended the throne, he inherited the hundred households of Songmenwei."
During the Ming Dynasty, most of the hereditary officers of the garrison were from the founding of Taizu and the Jingzhao of Chengzu. The hereditary hundred families of Songmen Guard were the latter. Next, one after another, the hereditary officers reported to each family, and most of them were from the founding of the garrison and the Jingzhao. A few of them were given hereditary officers because of their contributions to the anti-Japanese war.
After looking at the young hereditary pine guard Baihu, Chen Wen seemed to remember something, laughed, and then asked him: "You have the idea of holding the God Lord Card."
The God Lord Card is not in your hand, and whether it is no longer important. The hereditary Baihu immediately fell to the ground and kept kowtowing to beg for mercy, probably thinking that Chen Wen planned to execute him on this charge.
"Do you know what I laugh at? Tiexuan also did the matter of raising the God Lord Card during the Jingnan period, but it was hanging on the top of Jinan City at that time. I laughed at you guys who are ignorant and cannot even learn well."
In fact, Chen Wen looked at them with a high look. These people probably didn't remember anything like this. They came over to cry with the God Lord Card, which was completely like the style of those scholars when they were suffering from the temple. But unlike the scholars, they were hereditary officers of the ward and were just within the jurisdiction of Chen Wen's Governor's Office. Instead, they were not as good as dogs.
In the Ming Dynasty, the system of the garrison began to be corrupt since Hongwu and Yongle dynasties. There were many officers who were uneducated and ignorant, so that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di and his son issued several edicts to try to regain the atmosphere, but the result was not satisfactory.
By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the officers of the garrison were no different from those of the prefectures and counties, and even had a higher degree of feudalization, because local officials were vacancies, while they were hereditary for one or two hundred years. From a professional point of view, the Ming system originally used the officers of the garrison as officers who served on the battlefield when the country was in trouble, but by then they had already become a group of landlords, who were proficient in farming, collecting rent, and doing business. They were not even known for their military tactics, battle formations, and martial arts. They had no idea about anything. In the middle, they also had powerful generals like Qi Jiguang. In the late period, they were considered to be a very rare strange thing like Yu Shizhong.
After the Qing army entered the pass, the garrison system was not immediately banned. Instead, it was implemented in the Qing Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and it was not completely digested until the Yongzheng Dynasty. During this period, the garrison army stations always paid food to the Qing court. The tax pressure in the early Qing Dynasty for a long time was only alleviated by the support of the military stations, which had a tax ratio of more than the civilian land and the amount of land was only slightly inferior to that of the civilian land.
Good shoes don't get rid of them.
After seeing these ignorant guys, Chen Wen lost his interest in making fun of him. He originally planned to find some useful talents from them, but now he has lost his **s, and he feels even more unhappy when he sees them.
After collecting two books from the garrison and prefectures and counties, Chen Wen said to him: "As the hereditary officers of the garrison, you do not want to serve the country in trouble. Instead, you use the garrison officers to pay grain to the Tatars. As the Left Governor of the Left Army, you ordered that all the old dispatches will be abolished, and all the subordinate garrisons will be changed to the people, embezzled the military garrisons and confiscated the salt fields. Those who come will lock up all these wastes to prevent them from interfering in their administration."
With the order, the military judge took the politicians and took all the hereditary officers of the garrison. They knew very well that Chen Wen would not send them to continue to enslave military households, and the hereditary official positions of Tian Tu were nothing.
Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents. While cursing and begging for mercy, Chen Wen pushed the books aside and continued to look at the reports sent by civil servants, officers and staff, and carefully read them. He also attracted the personnel responsible for the investigation to learn more about them. It was not until the next day that the reports and his plans were sent back to Jinhua Mansion.
The Ming army and civil servants, which implemented the system of giving military merits to the field and the new garrison stations, took advantage of the opportunity of regaining Taiwen and Wenzhou to annex all these coastal Japanese garrison stations, and their methods were far more arrogant than planned.
After detaining these military officers in the garrison, all military buildings and facilities were transferred to the garrison. The military households in the garrison were transferred to the people. The military households in the military fields were their owned ones and the military households were changed to the people. The military officers in the garrison occupied them together with the abandoned land and land were transferred to the new garrison. Local gentry invaded the military camp and ordered them to return them.
With the issuance of a series of policies, the Taiwan and Wen governments immediately became bustling and bustling. They asked for orders, and there were many people who disobeyed, but under the pressure of some of the newly dispatched garrisons from the Ming army in Zhejiang and Nantang camp, these local snakes were forced to shrink their tails. The gap between the two sides was too big. Now Yushan County is still fighting with the Qing army. Chen Wen spoke out. Anyone who violated the orders of the Anyuan Marquis' Mansion looked at them with rebellion to help the Tartars in rebellion behind the Ming army. Most of the gentry and wealthy families who smelled this murderous aura chose to retreat, but many of them simply went out to sea to continue to resist for the pirates.
"Recruiting sailors, and selecting naval officers from Zhejiang Inland River Navy and Zhejiang Martial Arts School. Based on the former Taizhou Navy of the Tatars, the establishment was expanded and the Zhejiang Coastal Cruise Navy was formed."
In addition to sailors and officers, the more important thing is ships. Taizhou Navy, most of the ships and personnel fell into Chen Wen's hands. Taizhou and Wenzhou also had a lot of drying wood that could be used to build ships after the drying was completed. In addition, Chen Wen had an appointment with Zheng Tai and purchased some ships from the Ming army of Fujian. He was not sure whether it was enough or not, but he didn't care. He would not be able to buy it from Zheng Chenggong or other European merchants.
Just as he was about to doze off, someone brought a pillow. On October 24th, Zheng Chenggong's cousin Zheng Tai arrived in Wenzhou, and the fleet was stationed in Zhou Rui and Zhou Hezhi's brothers had guarded. Only he brought his entourage to Wenzhou Prefecture City. After Chen Wen arrived, the two had just exchanged greetings, Zheng Tai told him another news, and then the smaller ship carried a group of people.
The leader was a civil servant with white face and no beard, and behind him was a team of Jinyiwei wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring swords, like a guard.
Chapter completed!