The Later Jin Dynasty was established and the Eight Banners of Manchuria were formed. In terms of military strength, such as Sarhu, not to mention the bannerman, even the old men and half-boys inside the Eight Banners were conquered into the army to fight to the death with the Ming army. But even so, the general force still did not have much advantage against the Ming army. If it weren't for Yang Hao's four-way advance, it would have caused the possibility of defeating each one, Nurhaci raised his army with seven hatreds and rebelled against the Ming army, but it would have become a joke immediately.

Later, when it came to the Huang Taiji period, North Korea was raided by the Later Jin army and no longer supported the Dongjiang army; Lin Dankhan was expelled, Chahar's restraint of the Later Jin was reduced, and the Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert began to lean towards the Later Jin; Mao Wenlong was killed by Yuan Chonghuan's order, and the Dongjiang army collapsed, and the restraint ability was greatly reduced.

When all things happened, the Later Jin Dynasty had a relatively relaxed strategic environment. Then, relying on the wealth and goods plundered by the previous robberies, they recruited a large number of Mongolians, formed the Eight Banners of Mongolia on the basis of the left and right wings of Mongolia. Then, starting from Wuzhen Chaoha, the Eight Banners of the Han Army were gradually established, and the Qing Dynasty truly had the ability to mobilize more than 100,000 troops.

Otherwise, during the Jiashen period, the Qing Dynasty did not have enough chips to participate in the gambling game, and could only be limited to the corner of Liaodong. Who in the world may have some twists and turns, but it is impossible for it to fall into the hands of the Qing Dynasty.

Military, the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of Han Army were powerful supplements to the Eight Banners of Manchuria. In terms of imperial power, the establishment of Mongolia and Han Army further weakened the strength of the relatives of the Eight Banners, and the imperial power could be further consolidated.

Shunzhi naturally understood the truth, but the current dilemma is that the core population of Manchuria has dropped sharply, and its control over the Mongolian and Han army will decline, especially the invincible reputation has been broken by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so they will also be worried about the resumption of the Eight Banners of Mongolian and Han army.

However, even if you think about it with your toenails, you can imagine that the decisive battle with the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will inevitably be a national war in which the two sides will have to dispatch more than 100,000 troops or even more than 200,000 troops.

Preparation is now there is this time, but there are only more than 30,000 Manchu men, and less than 30,000 can go into battle. Even if you fish in the lake and pull all your white hair and yellow mouths into the army, it is a big disadvantage. Moreover, this is still the case without considering the defense issues in Beijing during the decisive battle south.

It is not easy to restore the Mongolian and Han army, and it is not easy to expand the Mongolian Eight Banners alone. It is dangerous to be too strong to strengthen the Han army flag. However, with Liu Cheng's words saying that the Eight Banners of Korea were solved, the problem was solved. Shunzhi was stunned and the ecstasy in his heart was no longer suppressed.

"The Eight Banners of Korea, the Eight Banners of Korea, I am really a genius in the world. I have to be true, it is true..."

Shunzhi was incoherent for a long time but could not explain what "true is" clearly, but his excitement was obvious.

From the beginning of ascension to the throne, facing Dorgon and the relatives of the Eight Banners, he was always walking on thin ice. Now that he has a life-saving recipe for forming the Eight Banners of Korea, he can not only replenish the core force of the Qing Dynasty, but also prevent the Han military flag from becoming too large, but also strengthen the Qing Dynasty's rule over North Korea, and even further strengthen the imperial power. It can be said that he can win four goals in one fell swoop, so how can he not be excited?

However, the combat effectiveness of the Koreans was there, which was considered two invasions during the Huang Taiji period. North Korea had been invaded three times by the Qing army, and each time it was effortlessly defeated to the brink of destruction. Survival was because the Ming Dynasty was on the side. Such a waste, even if the Eight Banners Army was formed, it would be a drag on the Manchuria, Mongolia and Han army Eight Banners if they were not done well.

"I agree with my words. But the combat power of this Korean is too weak. If you join the new army, you will probably become the weakness of the new army."

Liu Cheng had thought of this issue before. Chen Wen had said at the foot of Dalan Mountain that if Emperor Wanli had not sent troops, North Korea would have been destroyed by Japanese pirates, and it would not have been like this today. However, he had already decided to do so, so he specially invited Zhu Zhixi to check North Korea's archives. He had already prepared for the issue of Shunzhi.

"What the emperor said is very much, and I once thought of this. Later, Imperial Censor Zhu told Vulture that it was the North Korean musketeers who were very elite. In the 11th year of Shunzhi, he followed the army to conquer Sahalianwula and defeated the Rakshasa ghosts. The Koreans could not fight in the wild, but the musketeers could serve as a supplement to the Han army flag."

As soon as Liu Cheng said this, he immediately scratched the itch of Shunzhi. The Qing Dynasty was wary of the Han people and the Han army flag was the same. In the Qing Dynasty, he had to rely on the Han army flag in the early days. Later, the population of the Han army flag expanded, and the Qing Dynasty immediately began to order the Han army to release the flag to prevent it from becoming bigger within the Eight Banners. Now, since those Korean musketeers can be used as supplements to the Han army flag, the firearms troops will no longer rely on the Han army flags all over the Han army flag.

"I heard from the Censor Zhu that in Korea, there is a kind of person in the country called a bachelor, who is a pariah in the country. The court will form an army with its status and improve its status, and will be grateful to the court."

"I am really my son's house."

The expansion of the Eight Banners Army is the basis of the new army. With the addition of the Eight Banners of Korea, the strength of the Qing Dynasty has been essentially improved. This can be said to be the best news Shunzhi has heard in the past month. Even Doni and Fushou swept North Korea far from the point of view.

However, how to deploy it still requires multiple operations. Even because the Koreans need to supplement the Eight Banners Army, the Qing Dynasty's rule in North Korea must be adjusted. Of course, there is another extremely important thing, but it is also the best thing to do, that is, the word Eight Banners of Korea cannot be used - North Korea was given by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It is not bad for the Koreans to have the Ming Dynasty, so they should change their name to the top.

"Then call it the Eight Banners of Goryeo."

"The Emperor's Holy Spirit."

The dilemma faced by the Qing Dynasty before was that the old tactics were defeated by the huge deficits of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming army, the army, food, and fiscal revenue. Now, relying on the two strategies proposed by Liu Cheng to form a new army and attack North Korea, it cannot be said to be solved, but the Qing Dynasty at least gained hope. And more importantly, after a series of actions, Shunzhi's imperial power was further consolidated, which made Shunzhi's more and more pleasing to Liu Cheng.

"Love, are there any difficulties in the new army?"

"If you go back to the emperor, the new army, under the supervision of Prince Zheng and the co-organizer, officers at all levels are trying their best to train their soldiers. The only thing that slaves are worried about is the huge gap in weapons."

Shunzhi had previously received a report that the weapons of the New Army were very different from those of the Qing army before. The spear was 15 feet long, which was the same length as the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The fire guns completely eliminated the bird guns because the bird guns were very pitiful to the iron armored soldiers of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Even artillery only requires small cannons, which can keep up with the speed of infantry advancement. The giant cannon has completely become a weapon for siege and defending the city. In such a large new army, only the cavalry weapons are still the same.

When the new army was formed, Liu Cheng and Hu Quancai emptied the arsenal of the capital to collect all the training equipment of the infantry, and the musketeers continued to use bird guns. There were some in the turtledove-legged gun warehouse, and the maintenance was not very good. The consultant brought by Johnson Chan did not agree with the use of such heavy coercion guns, saying that the new army's musketeers had to be reloaded at a fast speed so that the formation could be played.

Bird guns can be used for training, but the combat is different. Moreover, in terms of iron armor, the heavy armor of the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was also very rare in the Qing Dynasty's arsenal. This is just a new army with more than 17,000 combat soldiers. If the new army is indeed effective, and more new troops are trained, the gap will only become larger and larger, so that when the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang heads north, the new army of the Qing Dynasty may not even be able to gather weapons and armor.

"The craftsmen in the Ministry of Works have been working overtime. I have also asked Tomafa. Tomafa said that he had sent a letter to the Governor of Macau to buy weapons and machinery from Macau." Speaking of this, Shunzhi couldn't help but frown: "It's just that the Zhejiang bandit army is now attacking Fujian and Guangdong, and it's still hard to say what the specific aspects of Macau are."

"Your Majesty, I think our Qing Dynasty still has to make machinery by itself. There are many craftsmen in the capital, and the books of Western and French machinery are not inexpressible. As long as you are willing to spend time, even if the scale of the Zhejiang bandits cannot be surpassed, it is enough for the imperial court to use it."

"What I said is very good."

Liu Cheng's advice can always be mentioned at the critical point. Shunzhi can be said to be very satisfied. He even subconsciously regarded Liu Cheng as a trusted slave given to him by God. However, Liu Cheng was a surrendered minister, and his contribution now is nothing more than to submit and advise. He has reached the position of Meile Zhangjing, the chief Huangqi of the Han army. It is really difficult to continue to be promoted, otherwise it will cause dissatisfaction among other generals of the Han army.

However, those people recommended by Liu Cheng are all very capable, and Shunzhi thinks they can be promoted. Among these people, the highest among them is Hu Quancai, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War.

"My dear, is Mr. Hu's body healed now?"

"If you go back to the emperor, the servant Hu will visit him whenever he has time. However, he was worried about national affairs and later became ill after overwork. I am afraid that it will not be good now."

Hu Quancai's illness was already told to Shunzhi that the imperial physician sent to him had never been able to survive this year. This minister was favored by Hong Chengchou before, and Shunzhi also checked his resume. He was also a capable minister in the northwest. Originally, Liu Cheng recommended him, and Shunzhi had planned to train him vigorously, but he was quickly terminally ill before he could wait long, which really made him feel a little regretful.

They were mentally prepared for Hu Quancai's condition. After a few words, Shunzhi said that he would send imperial physicians to visit and treat them with precious medicinal materials. Liu Cheng also thanked Hu Quancai on behalf of Hu Quancai, and the king and his ministers led the topic elsewhere.

Unexpectedly, after the king and his ministers had been talking for a while, Wu Liangfu, the eunuch serving outside, walked in tremblingly. When he saw Shunzhi's face full of displeasure, he quickly fucked the duck's voice and told the news he had just obtained.

"Emperor, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, Lord Hu, just sent a message from his mansion, saying that Lord Hu was seriously ill and died."

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The Qing court gave Hu Quancai's funeral a very high standard. The official position of the Right Minister of the Ministry of War was also given to the Minister of War. The specifications were even followed by the first-rank senior officials. Shunzhi even sent eunuchs to express their condolences, which was very close to the condolences.

On the day of the burial, everyone from Liu Cheng, Hu Quancai and his party came here. After the step-by-step funeral, everyone got together to chat.

Hu Quancai died of illness, and their party lost the highest-ranking official in the court. Liu Cheng added the title of Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War to continue to serve as the minister of the Council to be responsible for the training of the new army. In fact, the Ministry of War still lost the biggest foot. Other officials, Zhu Zhixi was promoted to the left deputy chief envoy of the Censorate, and others also had news of promotion. This was all due to Liu Cheng's suggestions, but those achievements were also the result of everyone's division of labor, which also made their party more stable.

Zhu Zhixi is now the highest-level official in the court, but Zhu Zhixi is surrounded by a white body dressed as a Confucian scholar.

This person is named Li Zhifang, and is Zhu Zhixi's good friend. He was once aide to the Jinhua Prefecture Promotion Office and the Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. Later, Chen Jin died in Quzhou. He was framed and imprisoned. He was rescued by Zhu Zhixi until recently. The Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian during the Three Feudal Rebellion in history is now in vain. The prison disaster in recent years has also caused him too much vicissitudes, but it has also sublimated his temperament from the inside out.

"When God is about to give a great responsibility to this man, he must first suffer his mind and mind, exhaust his muscles and bones, starve his body, and disturb his actions. Therefore, he will be moved and endure his nature and increase his ability. Yeyuan, the prison disaster in the past few years, now seems to be of no benefit to you."

"Meng Jiu said so much. In the past few years, he has figured out too many things. Therefore, he came out to compete with the Zhejiang bandits again. Therefore, he will repay the emperor and the people, and repay Chen Jianjun's kindness for his understanding and Meng Jiu's rescue."

"In addition to the words of Yeyuan are serious, I will repay the emperor and the people, and repay Chen Jianjun's kindness for his understanding is also justified. You and I have been friends for many years. If I had not been taken in by you, I would have been probably the leader of Zhejiang bandits. Don't mention anything about repaying it. Let's work together to do things for the court and the emperor."

The two talked happily, but unexpectedly, when they said this, Zhu Zhixi sighed and shook his head, and then said to Li Zhifang: "We are full of the righteousness of the ruler and the subject, but we are just cautious about others and politeness. One is obsessed with medical principles and the other is devoted to collecting books. They do not care about the world. This is a great loss for the court."

The two people Zhu Zhixi referred to were both Li Zhifang in the same year. One was Zhu Fengtai, the former magistrate of Kaihua County, Quzhou Prefecture, and the other was Ji Zhenyi, the former magistrate of Lanxi County, Jinhua Prefecture. When they were in Zhejiang, they had many singing and relationships, and they had a good relationship. Of course, there were two familiar friends who sang in Jinhua Prefecture, and Zhu Zhixi did not even mention it - now one is Chen Wen's brother-in-law, and the other is the Hangzhou prefect of the Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to waste any quarrels.

Zhu Fengtai and Ji Zhenyi had good careers, but Chen Wen rose to the east of Zhejiang. The former was abandoned in Kaihua County and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion, while the latter was a major case involving Chen Jin's death like Li Zhifang. However, his family was a wealthy family, known as the "Northern Ji" in the early Qing Dynasty. He spent a lot of money to buy a house and think about his mistakes at home, but he did not go to prison like Li Zhifang.

Both of them are from Yangzhou Prefecture, one is Jingjiang County and the other is Taixing County. Now both places have been recovered by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Zhu Zhixi had sent someone to invite him before, and even if he couldn't invite him, he hoped that they could provide some information to the Qing court in Jiangnan, but they were both politely rejected, which really made Zhu Zhixi quite dissatisfied.

"Meng Jiu, everyone has their own ambitions and there is no need to force them. Let's work hard to serve the court."

"Yeyuan is such a great word." Zhu Zhixi smiled and then said to Li Zhifang: "This is just right. I will introduce the Liu Hui Office of the New Army with Yeyuan, so we can work together in the future."

As he said that, Zhu Zhixi looked around. When he saw Hu Quancai’s tombstone, he sighed quietly, and then said to Li Zhifang: “In a while, Xixin and Mr. Hu have a close relationship. Now Mr. Hu takes one step first, and Mr. Xixin will have to mourn for a while.”

The so-called "cleaning of heart" is the word "cleaning of heart" written by Liu Cheng, who was in front of Hu Quancai's tombstone at this moment, after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, and it is a "cleaning of heart" to change the face.

From the time when he met Hu Quancai through Zou Zhuoming's relationship, Hu Quancai was very helpful to him. Later, when Liu Cheng went to Beijing, Hu Quancai was working hard to get the current situation. Otherwise, he would have been alone, in this huge city of Beijing, he would not even know who the door of the house was knocking on.

Now that career has begun to become regular, Liu Cheng personally trained the new army and had been practicing troops in Jinhua for many years. It was still expected whether he could fight much. But at this moment, Hu Quancai died of illness, which was a big blow to him.

"Brother Hu, do you know? When I was in Dalan Mountain, I heard Chen Wen say that the biggest hidden danger of the court was that the core population was too small. It was far from enough to rely on Mongolia alone. At that time, there were only hundreds of Zhejiang bandits. It was obvious that the court had a million troops, but he didn't take it seriously. At that time, I didn't understand it very much, thinking that this was just his use of this to boost morale. But now, I really understood what he was referring to."

"At this stage of the war, the number of core people on both sides is the key. Chen Wen used the defense of the barbarians and Xia, under the banner of the Ming court, and relied on a series of means such as dividing land to form a warrior of more than 100,000 soldiers and no less than one million military households, and indirectly controlled millions of tenants, craftsmen, merchants, and gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Therefore, he was able to occupy Jiangsu and Zhejiang and sweep the world."

"On the court, the emperor said he could not trust the Green Camp, but they could not really trust the Mongolian, Han army, and even the Eight Banners of Korea we proposed. But with their small population, in order to deal with Chen Wen's threat, they had to rely on the Mongolian, Han army and even the Eight Banners of Korea to form a new army."

"How many Manchus are there, how many Mongolians are there, and how many Koreans are there, and in the end, they still have to rely on the Han army flag. What's more, North Korea also believes in the way of Confucius and Mencius, which is different from barbarians like Manchus and Mongolia. This is an opportunity for heroes to rise up. After Chen Wen was defeated, he hatched the monster of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army with the chickens from Dalan Mountain. Why can't I not? It's just to pay more."

"It's ridiculous that the child of Shunzhi thought I was sincerely a slave for him, which was really ridiculous."

Rights, just like A Furong, will get deeper and deeper as long as you get addicted. Liu Cheng never puts such ambition into words and is always buried in the deepest part of his heart. Even when Hu Quancai has entered the loess, he only silently said to Hu Quancai's spirit in heaven in his heart, so that everyone else present thought that he was still mourning his old friend.

It was Chen Wen who decided to improve the fate of the prisoners in the camp after saying something under Xinchang City, it was the temptation Cao Conglong had relied on famous titles in Jinhua Mansion, it was the rebound of bloody battle against the Eight Banners of the Han army in Jinhua Mansion City, but still could not change the situation, or the glorious and magnificent buildings in the Forbidden City and all the sweetness represented by the imperial power.

Even Liu Yongren no longer knew what he was doing, or both, but now he knew very well what he wanted and how to get it, and was always doing his best to do it.

"Brother Hu, the day when Chen Wen is destroyed is the time when I, Liu Cheng, soars into the sky. Bless me, and the great achievements are completed. I will protect you from the successor. "

This is because Chen Wen rewrites the history of the complete annihilation of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain. Otherwise, he would have been a dead body as early as the fourth year of Yongli. However, the ambition was able to ferment to this point because the Qing Dynasty's own population disadvantage was exposed to the eyes of those who were interested.

After Hu Quancai's funeral, Zhu Zhixi introduced Li Zhifang to Liu Cheng. However, just as the two were talking at night, the voice of another ambitious man who also saw this sounded in a farther place.

"Take a message to Zhang Tianfu and tell him that the court was pressured by Prince Zheng and the Lanqin to get rid of him and ask him to prepare early."
Chapter completed!