Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 105 Lingnan Huanxin
Bai Ming ordered Zheng Sen to recuperate in Guangzhou Mansion. At the same time, he also issued an imperial edict to the world and announced that Zheng Chenggong would be promoted to a prince, with the title Ying.Bai Mingxiu's current small court is dominated by Australian Ming and the talents he recruited from the system. Most of the officials who were later put into his government were studying in cadre schools and had not yet held important positions. No one came out to oppose the change of the prince's supervision. His father Yongli granted the Zheng family the title of Chao Wang and became the King of Ying.

Only Zheng Chenggong himself got the instruction of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in private, telling him that this Ying is the Ying of Dongying. Although it is impossible for the Zheng family to manage the three provinces in the southeast, if the Ming Dynasty opens the Japanese Propaganda Department in the future, then the Zheng family will benefit from Japanese trade. .

Zheng Chenggong talked with Bai Mingxiu for a whole day that day, and Bai Mingxiu finally had the opportunity to talk to the great figures of this era about his ambitions.Bai Mingxiu put forward the "productivity theory" completely for the first time, which is the "destiny theory" in Zheng Chenggong's ears.It also puts forward many detailed reasons, such as sea power theory, industrial revolution, free trade and mercantilism, and even colonies.

For Zheng Chenggong, the maritime overlord who used to control the East China Sea and the South China Sea, there were actually many things that he had vague concepts before. After Bai Mingxiu brought them up, he suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment.

Bai Mingxiu also smiled and said to Zheng Chenggong: "King Ying, take good care of your wounds. My teacher, Mr. Ma En, is teaching in Guangzhou Mansion. You might as well go and listen to it when you have time."

Zheng Chenggong was in awe. He didn't think that Bai Mingxiu, a 15-year-old boy, could think of so many things, so there was naturally a famous teacher or great sage behind him.

Zheng Chenggong didn't know that he would usher in the biggest ideological turning point in his life. Not only would he change from being a hero, but he would also establish a new ideal.

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Outsiders don't know that the Zheng family was defeated by the inexplicable intrusion fleet in the South China Sea. They only know that His Highness the Crown Prince successfully picked up Yanping County King, who is now King Ying Zheng Chenggong.Bai Mingxiu also properly let his newly obtained two 120-gun first-class battleships dangle in Guangzhou. Even because they couldn't find a good berth, the two ships had to be pulled elsewhere, and they were pulled in by the way to clean up the barnacles and algae. the shore.

The soldiers of the Zheng family were also repeatedly ordered not to talk about the Qiongzhou naval battle, as if it never happened.

Bai Mingxiu went out to sea, and in less than a week, several counties in Guangdong Province presented surrender forms to Prince Jianguo.The Ming army was very powerful, especially when the prince was angry, he led the heavenly soldiers and generals, sent down thunder and fire to punish Xinhui, and razed Xinhui to the ground.The folks have already regarded the prince as the emperor Ziwei who came down to earth, the god who ended the troubled times, and anyone who angered the prince will never end well.

Xinhui originally rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, but this time they rejected His Highness the Crown Prince's power of heaven, and were destroyed.His Royal Highness was merciful and spared the lives of the Xinhui people, but destroyed their home.Counties in Guangdong Province were also scared. At this time, they did not dare to sway between the Ming and Qing Dynasties anymore, and hurriedly offered surrender to the Nanming. Many counties were also very creative, sending Zaolii everywhere to arrest the people, and they would click their pigtails when they were caught. After being hanged, hundreds or even thousands of money rat tails were collected and presented to His Highness the Crown Prince as a sign of rebellion against the Qing Dynasty.

Bai Mingxiu received the piles of money rat tails and smiled helplessly.

However, the surrender of most of Guangdong Province also made Bai Mingxiu's reputation skyrocket, which increased his money and grain income, and allowed him to get in touch with more talents.

From the second day after Bai Mingxiu entered the Guangzhou mansion, the small imperial court of the Nanming Dynasty posted notices to recruit talents.Bai Mingxiu directly opened the Daming Central Cadre School, declaring to the outside world that Tong Guozijian would recruit talents who would receive training again and fill in the vacancies.

As for the local states and counties, Bai Mingxiu relied on his National Restoration Army to manage them.The administrative officials are still the shortcomings of his small Nanming court, but his military system can disperse spare power to help him complete a lot of work.Since the founding of the Great Ming Fuguo Army, it has had a very complete organizational structure for the army. In addition to the combat command system, there is also a political work system.Compared with the old-style army, the soldiers of the Restoration Army who have received new ideas and new education can basically follow orders from the top and implement them at all costs. Things like the three major disciplines and eight points of attention are even more iron laws in the army.

Bai Mingxiu, who advocated the integration of the army and the people, also regards good troops as being able to do a good job in mass work as an important goal of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army.Therefore, when Bai Mingxiu sent the Daming Restoration Army into the states and counties, not only did it not disturb the people and disrupt the government, it even played a very good role.

On the one hand, the grassroots organizations of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army entered the villages and towns, organized citizens and peasants to self-govern, and on the other hand distributed land and other production materials to restore production, and liquidated traitors, bullies and evil gentry by the way.

But even so, Bai Mingxiu's National Restoration Army is limited, and he can send out at most one company in a county.There are still some places that he can't take care of.But also because he dared to play this trick, when the people of Shoutian and the grassroots self-government organizations were established, his Fuguo Army and the Nanming regime naturally won the support of the local people.

Here is Bai Mingxiu's two-pronged approach. On the one hand, he recruits talents and conducts training and reform through the cadre school system;

This is why many scholars wrote when commenting on the current situation: "The prince has only entered Guangdong for more than a month, and Lingnan has taken on a new look. The weather is very different, and there are signs of great governance."

Although this is not the same as what many scholars and upper-class people think, the Crown Prince Jianguo did not reuse those guys who had surrendered and recovered, nor was he particularly enthusiastic about the upper class. .A group of mud-legged people who were considered unworthy by the old men unexpectedly entered the "Imperial Academy" together with their family stars and became classmates.

It's just that the swordsmen and pen officials of the prince's supervisory country are also very powerful. Officials or families who took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and persecuted the people were all liquidated by him. Worried about being affected, the family even moved north and fled Guangdong.

Yang Yuming, the admiral of Guangdong, still pretended not to see the situation in Guangzhou. Even many Hakka families in Huizhou had already gone to contact the prince Jianguo, but he turned a blind eye.

He could not see Bai Mingxiu, but it was impossible for Bai Mingxiu to pretend not to see him.Huizhou is near the Guangzhou Mansion, and there are [-] Qing soldiers staying here. Although Bai Mingxiu is not restless, he is still uncomfortable.

Ever since, Bai Mingxiu led his 103nd Cavalry Division and the [-]rd Army Regiment to Huizhou.It just didn't occur to Yang Yuming that he had no intention of fighting with Bai Mingxiu at all. When he heard that Bai Mingxiu's army was coming, he simply abandoned the city and fled.

(End of this chapter)