As soon as this statement was spoken, not only Shunzhi, but also Zhu Zhixi was shocked. However, as Liu Cheng explained it later, they quickly understood what Liu Cheng intended.|2

"It is ridiculous to gather people's hearts and motivate morale with religion. Cults such as white lotus and smelling fragrance are extremely ridiculous. But as far as I know, all the nations of Taisi all believe in God and have organized the Crusades to compete with religions east of Taisi many times. The three major knights of Teutonic, Hospital and Temple have achieved outstanding results."

But when he said this, Liu Cheng turned to the point: "However, the religion and methods of Taixi are contrary to Chinese traditions, and it is not easy to spread. However, Taixi's machinery and weapons are the heroes of the times. Zhejiang bandits started their careers with the Mandarin Duck Formation, and most of them were Chen Ni's magical strokes, but like weapons, machinery and machinery rely on Taixi's power. If the court can obtain the support of the Taixi countries, no matter Zhejiang bandits or Western thieves, they can easily be wiped out."

Religion is not the key, it is the mechanical manufacturing and weapons and equipment in Europe, which is Liu Cheng's core point. Of course, there is another thing that Liu Cheng did not mention - it is not appropriate to propose it now, and more importantly, he is unwilling to propose it now.

When he came alone, Liu Cheng not only needed the protection of imperial power, but also needed the support of the Jesuits to achieve great things. He used the vigorous spread of Catholicism in exchange for the full support of the Jesuits. This was the same thing as Yongli used the Portuguese soldiers of Macau, and this was the reason why he went to the observatory to seek support from Johnson Chan.

Shunzhi certainly understood what Liu Cheng said. He had a good personal relationship with John Tang. He only had a much better understanding of Catholicism than Liu Cheng. The spread of the Jesus in China also improved his teachings to a certain extent in order to adapt to the tradition in China. In the late Ming Dynasty, he did make some progress in the scholar-official class. A few years ago, he even received a report that Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty converted to Catholicism in order to obtain support from Taixi.

However, in terms of religion, the Qing Dynasty was not as popular as the Southern Ming Dynasty. Manchus had a sparse population and needed to connect Mongolia and achieve the combination of the Northern Barbarians and Eastern Yi to have the possibility of confronting the Han area directly, so it was necessary to respect the Huang Cult. Just as Kangxi said, "promoting the Huang Cult and releasing Mongolian and Tibetan areas", the Qing Dynasty's own attitude towards the Huang Cult was actually not to believe in it, but to use it. They needed the Huang Cult to maintain their relationship with Mongolia and Tibet, just as it was a truth to promote Confucianism in the Han area to establish orthodoxy, so it was impossible to convert to Catholicism at this stage.

However, Shunzhi knew very well that the machinery and weapons mentioned by Liu Cheng were exactly what the Qing Dynasty needed urgently now, and the human resources of Mongolia were also the foundation of the Qing Dynasty. This invisibly a contradiction arose. After all, the Eight Banners Army could not believe in Catholicism during the day, but the Yellow Cult at night, so the personality was split.

In just a very short time, Shunzhi understood the pros and cons of this. There are many ways to obtain support from the Jesuits, and it is not necessary to learn from Yongli.

As for the blessing of religious beliefs on combat effectiveness, Shunzhi neither wanted to teach the Pope or Cardinals, and he did not have much confidence in the power of religious brainwashing. The Qing Dynasty was able to accomplish things, ensure the interests of the core group, deter and win over more people, and thus realize the miracle of tens of thousands of barbarian tribes conquering the ancient civilization of 70 million. Even Chen Wen, Shunzhi could hear from Liu Cheng's previous tone that he also admired the system of giving military merits and field teaching. The so-called defense of the barbarians is much worse.

If you think about it carefully, it is actually normal. The Qing Dynasty had done a good job in using the "rights of the monarch and ministers" to fight against the "defense of the monarch and the ministers". If it weren't for a Chen Wen, as long as Sun and Li were still in an internal strife, it would be a matter of time to take over the entire China. If the defense of the monarch and the monarchs were really useful, then why would the gentry willing to drive for the Qing Dynasty have more military men than for the Ming army? After all, the overwhelming advantage of force is the key, and the people's hearts and morality are all embellishments.

Liu Cheng's suggestion is problematic, but this is precisely because he did not know enough about the Qing Dynasty and could not cover up his talent, especially because Liu Cheng's understanding of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is definitely the only candidate in the Qing Dynasty today.

"I am a great man, and I am a great man. I am a man of the word. I am a short period of time and I still don't understand my tradition of the Qing Dynasty, Manchu and Mongolia. In short, I am a great man who is very useful when I come to join the country. I am very pleased that when I raise the flag, the Han army is in the red flag. What do you think?"

"I thank the Lord for your kindness."

"Although I call myself a humble minister?"

When Liu Zhike heard Shunzhi ask this with a smile, he reacted.

"Slave thanks Lord Long's kindness."

In this prayer, Shunzhi gained talents and hope for the future, while Liu Cheng obtained a shortcut to climb up quickly. However, at the moment of bowing down, there was always an unusual meaning in Liu Cheng's smile, which was fleeting in a flash.

"Where should we start from the perspective of my dear friends?"

Liu Cheng has already explained the theory, but the key is still the specific operation. He is very clear that this point must touch Shunzhi's heart. Only in this way can he have a real shortcut, not a good statement.

"I think that the Eight Banners, the old tactics of the Eight Banners still have overwhelming advantages in the face of ordinary bandits, but they are no longer able to adapt to the Zhejiang bandits. What's more, after the wars of each Niulu, especially the two battles this year, they suffered a lot of losses. Niulu was not satisfied with the compilation, and its combat effectiveness has plummeted. If you want to improve your combat effectiveness, you must carry out reforms and draw soldiers who can still fight from each Niulu to form a new army."

As soon as this statement was spoken, Zhu Zhixi was confused, but Shunzhi understood the intention, and the excitement that surged in his heart immediately showed it.

"Your beloved is really a genius. I think you can only be worthy of your beloved's talent by entering the Han army's main yellow flag."

The status gap between the upper three flags and the lower five flags is very large, and the same is true for the Han army flag. Originally, Shunzhi general Liu Cheng raised the flag to win over. After all, a Han man who came alone would not be opposed to the position of the Han army's lower five flags. But now it seems that the strength of this pull is obviously not enough, far from enough.

Liu Cheng touched Shunzhi's heart, and from this moment on, the surrendered ministers and Yijun finally stood together. In the next few days, Shunzhi and Liu Cheng discussed repeatedly, and the latter naturally recommended many capable ministers and generals who could not be valued. Former Nanchang shogunate members such as Hu Quancai, Li Benshen, Liu Fangming, Zou Zhuoming, Zhang Daocheng, Hao Zongfu, etc., were re-activated, and officials like Zhu Zhixi and Cai Yurong also embarked on the track of promotion.

In this apocalyptic atmosphere of the incumbent officials who were worried and sent to the world and left with seals, the group of lucky followers who were called the Restoration Party by later historians, who were called the Reform Party by later generations, staged a picture of promotion, filling the gaps in officials of various departments. It really makes people feel a little confused about the current situation. Even Ning Wan, who had previously been sitting firmly on Diaoyutai, was surprised by this.

However, in the Qing Dynasty, the Han ministers were originally dependent on the imperial power. Although Ning Wan, although I am already a Han minister, I dare not make him disobey Shunzhi's intentions. I had to extend an olive branch to Liu Cheng and Hu Quancai, preparing to gain more points in front of Shunzhi in the subsequent reforms.

However, everything is still in the plan, and it will take some preparation time before the official operation is officially started. The changes in the Qing Dynasty were first interrupted by an accelerated military situation. The actual content of this military situation is only one, that is, a local tyrant named Yu Qi raised an army against the Qing Dynasty in the name of the Shandong General of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army in the name of the Shandong General, the Ming Army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and had captured Ninghaizhou City!

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Yu Qi's anti-Qing uprisings had twice in history. The first time was that the Qing army entered the pass not long after it entered the pass. Yu Qi's uprising in the Jagged Yashan Mountain was revenged and was pacified after failure. The second time was inspired by Zheng Chenggong's battle in Nanjing. Because he did not receive the expected treatment after being pacified, he raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty again on Jagged Yashan Mountain.

Zheng Chenggong's battle in Nanjing was four years ahead of schedule. Although it still failed, Nanjing was captured by Chen Wen. Two princes of Heshuo were killed by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The deterrence of the Eight Banners Army plummeted, so Yu Qi raised his troops again. As for the name of the Ming army under the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it was a tiger skin brought by the tiger skin, Chen Wen knew nothing about it. However, the effect was not bad. As soon as the banner of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was released, tens of thousands of people responded in an instant, and even Ninghaizhou City almost went down without fighting. At first glance, the fate of breaking through and becoming a monk after the failure of the uprising was getting farther and farther away from Yu Qi.

Shandong was in chaos, but the Huai land south of Shandong was divided into two. Taking advantage of the great momentum of two famous kings to restore Nanjing, the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang sent less than 30,000 troops, but in just over a month, it recovered the entire territory of Yangzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, Anqing Prefecture, Hezhou, Chuzhou, as well as the southern counties including Huai'an Prefecture and Fengyang Prefecture, including the city of the city, formed a situation of confrontation with the Qing army across the Huai River.

The Qinling and Huaihe River are the dividing line between the north and the south of China. Chen Wen has many troops, but he has stationed in various places and has also many potential opponents and other forces. The division of troops is too scattered, which makes him lose the ** to continue to go north and conquer cities and territory to the west. Of course, even if he has troops in his hands, there is no need to rush to the northern expedition now. There are still many things to do before this, otherwise even if the Qing Dynasty is eliminated, his life will not be much better in the future.

A new batch of military expansion has begun, and new combat barracks and division-level organization, newly occupied areas and the next plan also requires a large number of local garrisons. At the same time, in order to better control the newly recovered areas, Chen Wen also adjusted the garrisons of various prefectures and counties in the original occupied areas. He reduced the garrisons of some stable prefectures and counties and transferred the extra garrisons to the newly recovered prefectures and counties.

As the front line, Jiangbei naturally needs a large army to take charge. Yin Yue is responsible for the southern part of Yangzhou Prefecture and Huai'an Prefecture, and the main force of the Jinhua Division is stationed in the prefecture of Huai'an Prefecture.

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During history, Tuntai was appointed as the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, he submitted a memorial to the Qing court, demanding that the sea ban be imposed on the coast, and that "no sails enter the sea". Now, even if he wanted to do this, he would have no chance. When the guard camp that left the Jinhua Division approached Huai'an Prefecture, Tuntai crossed the Huai River without hesitation and ran to Pizhou northwest of Huai'an Prefecture to continue to be his governor of the grain transport. Anyway, he did not leave Huai'an Prefecture.

In Huainan, the Yongjia Army was under great pressure on the ground of Anhui in later generations, and they had to take into account the three sides of the northern part of Fengxiang Prefecture, southeastern Henan and northeastern Hubei. However, the restoration of Fengxiang Prefecture in Zhongdu was also an encouragement to the Ming army. After all, it was Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown and had special significance.

Before the new recruits left the camp, the Ming army in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas needed to enter the defensive temporarily. Even in Huaibei, some prefectures and counties in Henan secretly expressed their intentions to Chen Wen anyway, but Chen Wen had no plans to expand in both directions, so he asked them to continue to endure humiliation and lurk for a while, waiting for the arrival of dawn.

Now for Chen Wen, the general trend is in hand, expand the basic foundation step by step, explore greater potential, regain more lost ground, and roll the snowball up step by step. Whether it is the current goal or the future career, it is the most stable rhythm. Blindly expanding the occupied areas, especially areas such as the north that are more beneficial to the cavalry, the result of rushing to achieve success will only be to suffer the consequences.

The disadvantage can withstand pressure, and the victory will not be too strong. In the first half, Chen Wen asked himself that he had done a good job. Now he has entered the second half. Even when Jiangxi made the move, he had already entered the second half of the race. He also needs to be more cautious and do not take a hundred steps and stop ninety-nine steps.

This is the case in the military. After more than a month of investigation, the people involved in the Jirgalang and Ma Guozhu Daxingtonghai case have basically been investigated.

When Jiangnan was in danger, Jiergalang and Ma Guozhu chose to use the attack on the anti-Qing forces to provide food and salary for the Qing army, and provided a large amount of money and food to the Qing court in case of emergency. At the same time, they also achieved the military purpose of forcing Chen Wen to enter the battlefield pre-selected by Jiergalang to fight him. It can be said that it was a kill of three birds with one stone.

However, military failure caused Chen Wen and the gentry of Jiangnan to enter the honeymoon period. Although it was only temporary and both sides knew this, Chen Wen believed that he had the obligation to avenge the righteous men who died in the Qing Dynasty, just like he had previously revenge for the martyrs who massacred the city!

Many of the people involved in the Tonghai case escaped the Yangtze River, but Chen Wen's army was not slow, and he recovered a large area of ​​lost land and arrested many people involved.

As per the rules, many of them were punished to be executed. Chen Wen chose to be in front of the newly completed Tonghai case Martyrdom Temple. However, this place was nominally established for the Tonghai case, but in fact, among the righteous men executed by Jirgalang and Ma Guozhu, many of the charges were on the Tongzhe case, that is, they were in communication with Chen Wen. Chen Wen was not stingy with most of the people he had never even heard of, and they were all in the temple for worship.

The newly established and started "Nanzhili Dibao" serialized the ins and outs of the Qing Dynasty's case of Tonghai and Tongzhe cases, and vigorously promoted the feat of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to avenge the righteous, attracting universal praise from gentry and people from all over the country. This is true for the "Nanzhili Dibao", and the same is true for the "Zhejiang Dibao" and "Jiangxi Dibao". For a time, the entire occupied area of ​​the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was filled with praise to the Ming army and Chen Wen everywhere.

Compared with these praises, Chen Wen also paid attention to another mass case. Zheng Chenggong defeated Nanjing and came to assist the Qing army to plunder women from the Ming army's revival area to sell them to Suzhou.

What he did in history was Liang Huafeng, whose corpse is now sank to the estuary of the Yangtze River. However, this time due to Chen Wen's interference, Liang Huafeng not only failed to catch up with the Battle of Nanjing, but was also denounced as a mediocre general by Jierhalang. In the end, he had to fight the Ming army's giant ships and cannons at the estuary of the Yangtze River. In response, Chen Wen said that this was also avenging some revenge for the martyrs who died in Nanjing in history.

Liang Huafeng had no chance to serve as a reinforcement, but Ma Jinbao had already died in Jinhua. Zhang Tianlu took advantage of the situation to take on this burden and did not accidently the sin that Liang Huafeng had done before.

Suzhou was restored, and reinforcements from the Battle of Nanjing were locked in prison by the Ming army in batches. The identification work began. However, most of the women sold were in the process. While suicides arose, Chen Wen had to vent his anger on the perpetrators, whether it was the green camp of the sellers or the people who were buyers.

Trading people is inevitable in this era, but it is no longer as simple as abducting and selling women like our Qing government army. They do not abduct and directly robb. Similar things are basically the case after every war. The Qing army robbed everything they thought they could get money and sold them in another place. Women are the biggest victims.

Severe punishment is inevitable, but there are quite a few mass cases this time, and it takes a lot of time to investigate and collect evidence and rescue the victims. Di Bao will also follow up and report on this. With his current status, Chen Wen only needs to wait for the investigation results of the Criminal Office.

In Nanjing, the demolition work of Jiangning Mancheng is still continuing. It takes time for Liu Da and his working group to go north. However, they wanted Chen Wen to guarantee that the construction period could be calculated from the Ming army's restoration of Nanjing and that the task would be completed. Chen Wen knew very well what this meant, but he was not interested in stopping it. Just like the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, and the Eight Banners in Jiangning Mancheng are like being a mighty man in Nanjing. This is just a debt that owes. Since it is supposed to be, it is a waste of spit.
Chapter completed!