Lord of Ming Dynasty

Zhu Dadian said: "It's better to change it to the prince's mansion, which will show your status more. In addition, the minister thinks that the cabinet should move out first, go to the original government office to handle affairs, and change the government office into the cabinet prime minister's office. It works in the current Governor's Mansion, and later it will build a special administrative office, the House of Internal Affairs."

Chapter 572 Separation of Office Locations

The cabinet meeting has been going on for ten days. Not only have all the important candidates for the cabinet ministers been established, but also all the ministers and mid-level positions have been filled. Although there are still some vacancies and multiple positions, it is not a big problem. This is the first time that the Huaxia Army has supplemented and supplemented the various ministries and officials of the cabinet.

The effect is to make the Huaxia Army more efficient.

Afterwards, the officials who transferred their positions went to their posts. Zhu Dadian went out to pick up Nanming's surrendered generals and demoted officials. Because a lot of positions were vacated, most of the demoted officials accepted new positions, and they did not become idle because they surrendered. This greatly calmed the minds of these demoted officials and generals, especially Zhu Yujian was very moved.

Although it seemed aggrieved to them to condescend to be a deputy prime minister with the honor of the emperor, Zhu Yujian took up the position after getting used to it for a period of time. For him to live, the conditions of the county government are of course better than ordinary residences, and it is more suitable for Zhu Yujian to live in.

At this time, many Chinese army people, officials, soldiers, and generals have actually moved out of the city, bought new houses built by the Huaxia Army outside, and where they went to live, and let out many former rich mansions in Jinhua Mansion. Officials and military generals from Nanming lived here.

Of course, this was not done for nothing. Officials had to spend real money to buy it, including Huaxia Yuan. These officials corrupted a lot in Nanming, and a large part of the money embezzled this time went into the pockets of the Huaxia Army.

However, it is not that the Huaxia Army is greedy for the gold and silver of the Southern Ming Kingdom, but that now the Huaxia Army, both the people and officials, have accepted the new thinking. Coupled with the population growth, many people have moved to the suburbs to buy houses.

Some people don’t want to go to the suburbs, so they buy a house in the city. The houses built by the Huaxia Army are usually three-story houses with ancient glazed tiles and cornices. It’s okay to live in one house, but there are no such rich people nowadays. They all live in three families, one on the third floor, one on the second floor, and one on the ground floor. They bought that floor and lived in that floor. Many houses were built by the government to relieve the pressure of the increasing population pouring into the center.

Of course, these people are from rich and noble families, who originally had family backgrounds, and later turned from small businessmen to medium-sized businessmen, or held some official positions in the Huaxia Army. Officials in the Huaxia Army are not allowed to embezzle, but they are still given a lot of salary. Ordinary people can't earn salary in their whole life, and small businessmen have to weigh it. It takes ten to twenty years of operation to earn it.

The officials of the Huaxia Army are very precious.

Zhu Yujian's family, who lives in the county government, is considered a noble family. This is the treatment given to him by the Huaxia Army. He was once the king of a country, but his development will depend on his hard work in the future. Otherwise, whether he can maintain this noble family is still a question. The problem is that the Huaxia Army relies on ability to be an official, not fame, and the officials of the Huaxia Army are frequently transferred. Even if you are the elder of the Central Pavilion today, you may be a county magistrate tomorrow. Always let him return to the center after a period of time and continue to serve as the elder of the pavilion, but it is not the original position.

In fact, the ministers of the cabinet are divided into high and low ranks. The heavenly rank is the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of National Defense. The Ministry of Education and Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, these departments that are actually related to people's livelihood, as well as the special punishment battalion, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Military Intelligence, the Garrison Department, and the Governor's Office.

With Emperor Zhu Yujian's reputation, he can't fall into the position of deputy prime minister, so he has to work harder. Of course, it is a vain job now. He doesn't care about anything, but after a long time, I'm afraid he won't be indifferent. He must be responsible some things.

In fact, the deputy prime minister is responsible for several aspects of work coordination. For example, Mi Chun was originally responsible for the people's livelihood of the central Jinhua Prefecture, the garrison headquarters, the distribution of the generals and guards of the guard battalion, the official department, the household department, At the same time coordinate the Ministry of National Defense, it can be said that the power is in the hands. Later, Zhu Dadian joined in and Du Ge withdrew. Zhu Dadian was in charge of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the coordination of the Ministry of Defense. Mi Chun was in charge of the coordination and management of the other ministries. After that, Mi Chun went to Jiangxi In fact, Zhou Zhou and Zhu Dadian have adjusted each other. Zhou Zhou is in charge of the work that Mi Chun was in charge of earlier, and Zhu Dian is in charge of the work that Mi Chun is in charge of later.

Now Mi Chun has not been removed, but he is only in charge of work occasionally, mainly in the work of the governor of Jiangxi Prefecture, so all the work is handled by Zhou Porridge and Zhu Dadian.

In the future, there will be Zhu Yujian, Zhu Dadian, and Mi Chun, three deputy prime ministers, to assist Zhou Porridge in handling the work, and this work will be divided.

After meeting Zhu Yujian, Zhang Qiang and Zhou Porridge had a discussion, and Zhu Yujian would not be assigned a job for the time being. He could walk around and study in various departments. The emperors of all dynasties in the department have attached great importance to it, and he has also been in contact with it a lot. Although the Huaxia Army has changed a lot of things, it cannot surpass this era in essence, so Zhu Yujian must be familiar with these emperors. You can get started.

Zhou Porridge is directly in charge of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Officials, Mi Chun is in charge of the Ministry of War and the two departments of the Punishment Battalion. After all, he can assign less work when he is still outside. Zhu Dadian is in charge of all the remaining departments. Zhou Porridge assists him and takes over the overall situation , As for Zhang Qiang, he is still in charge of the five ministries of foreign affairs, national defense, supervision, public affairs, and military affairs that are under his management.

The next thing is to build a new cabinet office.

It was proposed at the last cabinet meeting, and Zhang Qiang also thought it was not good. The Governor’s Mansion will be changed to the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, which is one level higher than the Governor’s Mansion. In the governor's mansion, there are five offices managed by Zhang Qiang, plus some departments of the governor's mansion itself, such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which manages Zhang Qiang's assets, manages the guards' office, and other small departments.

In this case, the cabinet will be separated from Zhang Qiang, the governor.

After this conversation, the various ministries started to take action. After a few days, everyone separated and found a temporary place when they did not have their own dedicated office.

The Ministry of War moved directly to Dongyang Town outside the city to garrison the camp, which was where the central garrison was stationed, and it also met the definition of the Ministry of War's responsibilities.

The cabinet moved to the original government office and shared a house with the magistrate of the central prefecture and the magistrate of Jinhua Prefecture.

The Huaxia Army is becoming more and more formal and perfect, from the office location to the degree of organizational perfection, to the rules and regulations, to the construction of various departments. After countless battles, more than ten years later, the Huaxia Army finally looks like a regular government.

Now that there is a group of people from the Nanming Kingdom who are good at government construction, this kind of construction and improvement is very fast. After retaining some of the original systems of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time appointing officials from the Nanming Kingdom to fill the vacancies of the officials of the Huaxia Army, the Huaxia Army has become one. The improved Huaxia Army of the Nanming Kingdom.

The Nanming Kingdom, which had learned from each other and improved with the Huaxia Army, supplemented the lack of civil servants of the Huaxia Army, greatly increasing the efficiency of the Huaxia Army's political system. Because of Zhang Qiang's experience and systematic help, The Huaxia Army is more advanced and more dynamic than the original Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the addition of the Nanming Kingdom made the Huaxia Army's orthodox legitimacy officially recognized by the people.

Chapter 573 Li Chengdong's Burma Battle

There are dangers hidden in the dense bushes, and the humid subtropical rainforest makes people feel very gloomy and uncomfortable. A few banana leaves and a few kapok leaves cover the bodies of the indigenous residents hiding in the woods, looking at the clearing in the woods with vigilant eyes The Ming army passing by raised the throwing spear in their hands, bent over, turned sideways, exerted force on their wrists, shouted suddenly, and threw the throwing spears in their hands.

In the distance, wearing the red-tasseled helmets of the Ming army, wearing silver armor, and marching with spears in their hands, the Ming army let out a scream, threw away the spears in their hands, and screamed with both hands holding the spear that penetrated into the chest. , rolled sideways to the ground, rolled twice on the ground, spit out a mouthful of blood, and remained still.

This was an elite soldier wearing armor and holding a cast iron spear. Other auxiliary soldiers wearing leather armor were thrown to the ground by spears, screaming continuously.

The screams were mixed with the neighing of war horses, the roaring of knights, the clamoring of bowstrings, and the clattering of shields. There was chaos in the woods. Behind the swaying leaves in all directions, countless short, stocky figures with monkey-like faces sprang out. , a Burmese native who looks like Sister Feng.

In all directions, in this densely forested forest, you have no idea how many people there are on the other side.

At the time of the attack, this 600-man infantry battalion, together with [-] cavalrymen, and [-] auxiliary civilian men were marching. Their purpose was to transport the seven carts of weapons and armor to another camp a hundred miles away. .

A knight in a red cloak, bright armor from the Ming Dynasty, but wearing a Wusha hat pulled out a goose feather knife from his waist and shouted loudly: "Form formation, infantry formation, swords and shields out of hand, spearmen in Finally, the archers are in the middle, each team is thirty steps ahead, the cavalry, the cavalry return to the main formation, everyone surrounds the luggage and the civilians in the middle, the cavalry protects the luggage, don't mess up, don't mess up..."

"Oh, oh, woo-woo, woo-woo-," the battlefield was in chaos, and his shouts were almost drowned out by the shouts and charges of the Burmese natives.

The first wave of gun throwing by the Burmese natives caused the Ming army in the marching state to lose more than 100 people. It can be said that the loss was heavy and it dealt a great blow to morale.

But the Ming army is obviously well-trained. After the panic, before the Burmese natives approached, they changed from marching columns to horizontal columns, and automatically moved closer together, forming small square formations, which would attack Burma from both sides. The natives kept out.

After the sword and shield hand formed a shield wall, the spearman thrust his spear into the ground from behind, and then pulled out javelins from behind and threw them one after another. The Burmese natives were charging, and they also fell to the ground after being hit by javelins. At that time, the archers also saw the stitches in the back, unfolded the formation, bent their bows and set arrows, and shot a round of direct arrows when the Burmese natives were still about ten steps away from the formation.

Burmese natives gathered together to charge, piles upon piles. At this time, after a round of javelins, there was nothing in front of them. Only a dozen scattered people rushed to the front. This round of arrow rain completely solved this side of Burma. The natives, but the marching team stretched more than 200 meters. After the team gathered, there were inevitably some gaps. Intermittently, the Ming army moved closer to the generals of the Chinese army while fighting.

The formation was a bit scattered, approached by Burmese natives who had not been killed, and many people fell into a bitter battle. Those who were left alone were killed by the Burmese natives who were superior in numbers, and those in twos and threes were surrounded by more than a dozen people, fighting desperately. While fighting and retreating, they were surrounded by other natives rushing out from behind. Soon after, soldiers in twos and threes were either killed or captured, or fell to the ground with serious injuries, screaming again and again.

The generals of the Ming army gathered more than 50 people out of a thousand troops, and the rest were besieged in groups of [-] people, unable to escape, and fell into a bitter battle.

The cavalry is easy to say, they can still struggle and run around, the natives can't surround them, the folk husbands are pitiful, their combat power can't compare with the natives who fight full-time, they suffer heavy casualties, and most of them fall outside the formation .

After gathering more than 100 cavalry, [-] sword shieldmen, [-] spearmen, [-] archers, and [-] civilian men, the generals of the Ming army began to move their formations, and slowly rescued those who were surrounded by them. team.

At this time, more natives appeared, as if there were endless enemies in the depths of the forest that could not be seen at a glance. When one wave died, another wave appeared.

Kill endlessly.

Dao Dun waved the simple knife and held the shield. Amid the shouts of the officers, he took neat steps and waved the simple knife neatly. The head, the chest, and finally the enemy will be disembowelled, screaming and falling to the ground, or dying silently.

The spearman followed closely, stabbing out the three-meter-long spear neatly, and no one who was wounded or escaped from the enemy who was not taken care of before could escape their stabbing.

The archers in the back bent their bows and set their arrows, shooting freely towards the distance, looking for targets they could hit.

The cavalry in the middle of the formation were unable to gallop due to the dense forest, so they suffered a great loss and could not show their mobility. However, they had a better way. They untied the matchlock gun from the saddle, loaded the ammunition, and fired round after round. , so that the Burmese natives who emerged from behind fell to the ground one after another.

Although the humid environment made the gunpowder stiff and misfired, the muskets fired by the cavalry only had a fire rate of [-]% to [-]%, and the hit rate of hitting the enemy was only [-]% to [-]%, but it still helped the infantry brothers.

However, there are too many enemies, and the number of troops on several sides is small. There are still many enemies who break through the obstacles, sneak in from the side, from any possible place, and attack the infantry, archers, and cavalry from behind. Go straight up, swing your saber, and cut off the enemy's head.

As the battle progressed, all the Ming troops on the outskirts died, and those who needed to be rescued were rescued. Finally, a situation was formed relying on a sloping field, a piece of ancient trees in the sky, and being surrounded by the enemy on three sides.

There are only about 150 civilians left, only 180 archers, [-] cavalry, [-] spearmen, and [-] sword and shield hands. People, the total force is no more than [-] people.

And the natives were killed more, surrounded by the corpses of the natives, but the natives still charged forward relentlessly, brandishing the sticks in their hands, kitchen knives, stone sickles, maces, wooden chasing, bamboo Guns, throwing guns, stones, short bows, horn bows, ancient carrying guns, matchlock guns, and even a few small tiger squatting guns weighing only a few kilograms shot at them and charged.

Most of them don't have a complete piece of clothing on them, or they are shirtless on purpose, with oil paint on their faces, wreaths on their heads, and plantain leaves. on foot.

If Zhang Qiang is here, if a player who has played this Total War series of games in the Roman Middle Ages must shout, wow, the barbarians have invaded, and our Ming army is now playing the role of a Roman soldier.

Although the equipment of the aborigines is inferior and simple, they have a strong will to fight and there are too many people.