Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Could it be that if you don't move them, they won't lean against the Qing army?"

"They joined the Qing army several times, supported the Qing army's artillery and muskets, and even sent people to attack us. Isn't this considered an act of hostility?"

Zheng Chenggong also knows these things, but he still feels that it is better not to conflict with the Portuguese or the Dutch on land. Of course, facing the Qing army's superiority on the mainland, he feels that it is not safe. He wants to compete with the Dutch. Baodao, he will not compromise on this matter, but the Portuguese on the mainland side is a middleman he chose, and he doesn't want to offend them too much, but he can't stop Zhang Qiang from being strong against the Portuguese.

Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Rebel Army is the strong backer of the Longwu court. He still understands that the Qing Dynasty has repeatedly suffered defeats and suffered heavy losses in front of Zhang Qiang's Jinhua Rebel Army. In addition to participating in Zhang Qiang's fight against the Portuguese, he also stated that he would support Zhang Qiang in other ways.

For example, in the trade between the two sides, Zheng Chenggong promised to trade with Zhang Qiang’s Jinhua Rebel Army to trade in tea, raw silk, Qingtian jade, engraved seals, pens, ink, paper and inkstones and other products. Zheng Chenggong also promised Zhang Qiang to import rice and other grains from Vietnam and sell them to Jinhua Rebels to make up for Jinhua The food shortage of the rebel army.

The land occupied by the Jinhua Rebels had very little cultivated land, and it was mountainous and watery, so there was not much cultivated land. Many people made a living by fishing, so the food production was limited. Over the past year, as the Jinhua Rebel Army has been occupied for a longer period of time, the local area has begun to resume operations, farmers have begun to farm, fishermen have fished, and businessmen have also passed through. More and more people have returned, but the limited arable land , so that food production cannot keep up with the population growth, so a lot of food needs to be captured by the enemy or imported.

After the meeting with Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Qiang sent Zheng Chenggong and his party away.

As for the Portuguese, Zhang Qiang just instilled some national concepts, territorial concepts, and sovereignty concepts in Zheng Chenggong. He wanted to clean up the Portuguese on land, and it would be a matter of minutes, but it was still unrealistic to completely drive the Portuguese out. The Nanming Longwu court Now it is necessary to rely on sea trade for blood transfusions, to fight against the Portuguese, and to take on the Dutch, so it is possible that the territory occupied by the Longwu court and the Jinhua rebel army will become an isolated island, without any external supplies. The great cause of the Qing army was not good.

Zhang Qiang didn't want to touch them until his navy was formed.

It is just to instill this concept in the hearts of every ally, so as not to make the Portuguese proud.

"My lord, the Dutch have sent envoys. They want to negotiate with us about the captured Dutch." Zhu Dayou came to Zhang Qiang while Zhang Qiang was resting.

"No, wait for those people to be drained of their value by me, see them again, and send them away." Zhang Qiang waved to Zhu Dayou.

"This?" Zhu Dayou seemed to have something to say.

"Is there anything else to say?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Zhu Dayou hurriedly said: "My lord, and the Portuguese, they also hope to redeem their soldiers."

"It's not that cheap, and they didn't fight me. If the people they sent to the Qing army dare to help the Qing army in fighting, then we will regard them as spies, or the Qing army, and the Qing army and spies have only one fate, that is, being killed Hanged, you tell them, you want someone, you have come to the wrong place, go to the Qing army Tartars, I have no obligation to help them, I caught spies and Qing army, not Portuguese and Dutch."

Zhang Qiang said very unhappy.

Zhu Da had no choice but to go down and answer.

Mi Chun walked in, "My lord, when we seized this time, when will we distribute it?"

"Isn't it going to be divided?" Zhang Qiang replied.

Mi Chun said: "My lord, the prisoners and the ships are divided among the wood, but the gold, silver and food are not divided."

Zhang Qiang patted his head, "Yes. I'm to blame for being confused."

"Let You Haibo, Zhou Porridge, come together, let's discuss how to use this wealth." Zhang Qiang said to Mi Chun.

"Wait, let Admiral He Jin of Chuzhou Prefecture, Chief Soldier of Chuzhou Prefecture Hu Kui, Admiral of Jianning Prefecture Tang Dianfeng, Deputy Chief of Jianning Prefecture Lin Chenggong, Admiral of Quzhou Prefecture Liu Liangzuo, Admiral of Taizhou Prefecture and Prefect Zhou Porridge, Chief Bing Duge, Navy Admiral Zhang Ying, Jinhua Mansion Admiral Wei Wuji, Jinhua Mansion Commander Milin, come to the Governor's Mansion, we have a meeting."

Chapter 149 Civil and Military Joint Conference

After two days.

The first plenary meeting of the top leaders of the Jinhua Rebel Army was held to discuss the distribution of the spoils captured after the crusade against Zheng Cai.

Zhang Qiang sat at the head of the large conference room on the second floor of the Governor's Mansion.

The first row below is Mi Chun, the prefect of Jinhua Prefecture, Zhou Porridge, the prefect of Taizhou Prefecture, and You Haibo, the prefect of Chuzhou Prefecture.

The second row is Wei Wuji, Admiral of Jinhua Mansion, Zhang Ying, Admiral of Naval Division of Taizhou Mansion, He Jin, Admiral of Chuzhou Mansion, and Tang Dianfeng, Admiral of Jianning Mansion.

The third row is Milin, the general soldier of Jinhua Prefecture, Du Ge, the general soldier of Taizhou Prefecture, Hu Kui, the general soldier of Chuzhou Prefecture, Xuanyuan Longfei, the general soldier of Wenzhou Prefecture, and Liu Liangzuo, the general soldier of Quzhou Prefecture.

The fourth row is Lin Chengcheng, the deputy commander-in-chief of Jianning Prefecture, Zhao Siyang, the artillery general, and Chen Hanhui, the deputy commander-in-chief of Taizhou Prefecture.

The reason why there is a fourth row is that Zhang Qiang has something to do with these people. In the high-level meeting he held today, it is obvious that the rank of deputy commander entered this conference room.

The prefect, the chief soldier, and the admiral are three. If you say that the admiral is one level higher than the prefect, but in the Ming Dynasty, where civil servants are higher than military commanders, even Zhang Qiang has to abide by these rules. He does not want to impose his later generations on the present. people.

So the admiral actually has to rank lower than the prefect.

On one side of the meeting room, there was a row of tables, all of which were recruited talents of the Ming Dynasty. Their task was to record everyone's speeches at the meeting, and Zhu Dayou would summarize each time.

Zhu Dayou sat at the head of the rostrum, in front of these people.

At the beginning of the meeting, Zhu Dayou briefly explained the theme of the meeting, then sat down and waited for Zhang Qiang to speak.

Zhang Qiang cleared his throat and looked at Lin Chengcheng, who immediately lowered his head.

Although he was a powerful force in the Peasant Rebel Army and caused countless injuries to Daming during the Ming Dynasty, he didn't have any great achievements, and he was really not very qualified in combat.

The last time he won first and then lost outside the capital city of Chuzhou, this time in Tiantai County, he could hardly bear the pressure and gave up on Tiantai County, almost causing the entire army to collapse. Therefore, he also knew the result of being called this time, so he could only He bowed his head and said nothing.

"During the battle against Zheng Cai, Deputy Commander Lin Chengcheng failed to fulfill his duties as a commander, so I decided to transfer Lin Chengcheng to be responsible for the management of the prison camps and labor camps on the territory of the Jinhua Rebel Army. He was in charge of it before. This one, therefore, from now on he will still serve as the person in charge of these two battalions, as for the official position, it is the same as the deputy commander in chief, and it is under the direct management of the Governor's Mansion."

Zhang Qiang watched Lin Chengcheng and announced his punishment for Lin Chengcheng.

No one had any objections, Zhang Qiang scanned the crowd, and said again:

"Afterwards, the Administrative Joint Conference was established. I personally acted as the chairman of the Administrative Joint Conference, in charge of civil affairs, approval, judiciary, defense, finance, personnel and other work. , Zhou Porridge, the prefect of Taizhou, and later the prefects of Quzhou, Wenzhou and even the prefects on the territory we laid down in the future, and they will jointly handle the administrative affairs of the territory."

Zhu Day was taken aback for a moment, and immediately raised his hand and asked, "My lord, what are you doing?"

Zhang Qiang cast a glance at Zhu Dayou, "I'm not the chairman, I will make the final decisions, and these people will coordinate and resolve other trivial matters."

Zhou Congee raised his hand and asked, "Sir, do all matters need to be dealt with by this joint meeting?"

Zhang Qiang shook his head, "No, each prefect manages the affairs of the territories under their jurisdiction, but when they encounter problems that need to be coordinated, they will hold a joint meeting. Several prefects will coordinate and solve them. If they cannot be resolved, report them to me, and I will solve them."

Xuanyuan Longfei smiled and said: "My lord, you are being lazy. Everything is settled by the prefect joint meeting. Don't you have a lot of time to pick up girls?"

Zhang Qiang stared at Xuanyuan Longfei. To be honest, Xuanyuan Longfei said what was on his mind, but not all of it. , Others still have a lot of deficiencies in solving civil affairs issues. They are not scholars, nor are they Juren, and they have not received training and learning in civil affairs and administrative affairs. They have very little experience. There are Ming Juren like You Haibo Zhang Qiang was relieved to help them in the joint meeting.

The old man leads the new man, this is his original intention of setting up the joint meeting.

In fact, he has no more experience, so he set up this joint meeting to learn from it. In the future, he may join more experienced officials from Nanming or the original Ming Dynasty to help his confidantes learn to handle things.

Xuanyuan Longfei couldn't bear the pressure of Zhang Qiang's murderous gaze, so he sat down with his head bowed.

Zhang Qiang said again: "Another military joint conference will be established, composed of admirals from each prefecture, Jinhua Mansion, Taizhou Mansion, Quzhou Mansion, Chuzhou Mansion, and Wenzhou Mansion,"

Liu Liangzuo's heart beat faster, he is only a general soldier, but also a subdued soldier, can he have a place in it?

Zhang Qiang continued: "I will be the chairman of this joint meeting, and Wei Wuji will be the vice chairman to fully manage the joint meeting. Admiral Zhang Ying also joined in. Since there are no admirals in many places, for the time being, this joint meeting will be run by Wei Wuji and He Jin. , Tang Dianfeng is the main three, and the general soldiers are members of this meeting. You have the right to make suggestions, but the final decision is made jointly by the three admirals.

Comprehensively manage the recruit training of several provinces, captive management, militia management, troop garrison, and handling border conflicts. As for the right to deploy troops and start a war, decisions need to be made when I am present. If I am not present, the three admirals will jointly make decisions, and They are responsible and report to me. If something goes wrong, these three people will take full responsibility. "

Zhang Ying was stunned, he became the only member, but he had no decision-making power.

But he knew that he was not an old man in the Jinhua Rebel Army at all, but a person who took refuge in it. Too much power was not good for him, but being a committee member had great power. This was also an honor, at least he entered Zhang Qiang's Jinhua The top of the rebel army.