Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Okay, there are still some places in Australia that have not been developed. You can go to the south. Oh, there is an island a few hundred nautical miles east of Australia, called New Zealand. Where can you develop it?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I still have some savings. The ships and population are in place. I will send someone to deliver them to Your Majesty, within three months."

Chapter 884 Provocation and Excuse 2

"What are you talking about?" Xuanyuan Longfei was at a loss, he could understand the front, but he didn't understand the back.

Zhou Porridge smiled and said, "Just go back and manage the garrison well. You don't need to worry about these things."

Xuanyuan Longfei wanted to say something more, but Zhang Qiang nodded at him, and said to him: "Reorganize the garrison as soon as possible. The quality of the national garrison has declined. Those elite militia troops should be reorganized into the garrison as soon as possible. They have all experienced life and death. Speed ​​up the preparation of the garrison on the three islands. I hope to see the garrison in place in every part of the country by the end of the year.

The fighting in the country is basically over, and it is time for the garrison to perform its duties.The militia and garrison brigades in Southeast Asia have not yet been reorganized.Reorganize as soon as possible. Your garrison is the reserve of the field army and an important pillar for maintaining domestic stability. The tasks in the future will be even more arduous. "

Xuanyuan Longfei said: "Then Your Majesty, the garrison corps and garrison divisions we discussed just now, I think they should be established, otherwise there will be too many and it will be difficult to manage."

Zhou Porridge waved his hand, "Don't think about it, the division-level organization of the garrison will not exist, and the corps is even more whimsical. In case that general turns his back on him, and the strength of a garrison division can corrupt a state, we have to send several It is not safe for the field division to destroy it, wasting money and troops. Didn’t I tell you just now? Corps, what do you want to do? Do you want to be the second in Duge? Let one person control the strength of a Corps, then Huaxia The kingdom hasn't been turned upside down by him yet."

Zhang Qiang followed Zhou Porridge's words and said: "The garrison will serve for three years. After three years, some people will retire, and then recruit troops from the new barracks. The field army will serve for five years. After five years, the field army will retire. The guards will serve for eight years, but they will be divided into ranks. Soldiers retire in four years, and some soldiers are no longer recruited from the garrison and field armies, but recruited directly from the common people. The new recruits are trained for two years. Officers are given eight years, and those who want to serve for up to two years after eight years will be transferred to the field army to serve. After promotion, it will be decided according to the rank and importance of the position whether to stay or not, and the rest will remain the same.”

"This," Xuanyuan Longfei was really depressed. He wanted to expand the establishment of his garrison army. He felt that the garrison brigade was too small. Although the number of the garrison brigade has reached 500, it is the same as the previous field brigade. But he still felt small, so he wanted to command a larger team.

"Okay, go on, come up with a plan as soon as possible, don't prepare so many troops, the situation in each state will not allow you to act recklessly, those governors will kill you, if there are too many people, they will not allocate military expenses, you It’s not in vain, and two-thirds of your garrison’s military expenditure needs to be allocated by the cabinet. If there are too many people, I will not approve it.”

Zhou Congee said to Xuanyuan Longfei.

Xuanyuan Longfei retreated helplessly.

The garrison is under the control of the Ministry of War, the new barracks is under the control of the Ministry of War, the field army is under the control of the Ministry of National Defense, and the Guards are under the control of the Personal Guard Regiment, all of which belong to the troops directly under His Majesty.

Because of the heavy casualties in the previous war, the Fourth Division of the Guards Division was dismantled, part of it belonged to the Bagyalu Corps, and part of it belonged to the Merlin Fish Corps.

Today, the Huaxia Army has 21 field divisions. What they discussed just now is that eighteen divisions are stationed in various places. Each region is divided into Southeast, Southwest, Southeast Asia, Northwest, Northeast, and several central theaters. The maritime theater is divided into one in the South China Sea. The war zone is under the jurisdiction of Governor Milin. The jurisdiction is Luzon Island, Palawan Island, and Qiong Island. Others such as the Ryukyu Islands and Japan Island are under the jurisdiction of the nearby Northeast Theater, and his garrison is nominally in charge of the whole country, but The garrison on the island is under the direct control of the governor, which means that it is under his control in name, but in fact he has nothing to do.

After Xuanyuan Longfei left in disappointment, Zhang Qiang and Zhou Porridge began to discuss the purpose of Hong Hongxiu's visit. Now that Wei Wuji is in Southeast Asia, the three-person regime cannot pass, so only two people can discuss it.

As for other people, Li Dingguo can discuss it, Xiao Fei should come, but there are some conspiracies and tricks involved here, the dark side, Zhang Qiang didn't want too many people to know, so he didn't call Xiao Fei, Xiao Fei was a bit upright, Moreover, the fewer people who know about these dark sides at the national level, the better. Zhang Qiang doesn't want the army to get involved.

"Hong Hongxiu's ambition is not dead, he still wants to recover." Zhang Qiang said.

Zhou Conge touched his chin, "So you sent him to Australia to fight Zheng Jing?"

"Yes, there is Zheng Zhi in Luzon Island, and Zheng Keshuang in Gegong Island. Australia is too far away, and I have been unable to do anything. Now a Hong Hongxiu has come, and I just use him to contain Zheng Jing, preventing Zheng Jing from being with the Dutch and the British. , The Spaniards are too close, that is not good for us, and there are many Japanese in Zheng Jing, so let them fight each other, and the more Japanese are used to fight and die, the better."

"Hong Hongxiu is not a good idiot. He is a ghost. After several hardships, his character has become more and more stable. The city is as deep as his father. It is difficult to deal with. If he can't control it, he will cooperate with Zheng Jing and The Thai and Western people are fighting against us. Zheng Keshuang is too upright to help us. We still have to face them. As their weapons become more and more advanced, our weapons become less and less dominant, and our advantage becomes smaller and smaller. , although our warships seem to be insurmountable, we can't take them lightly." Zhou Porridge said.

"Well, we have to find a way to make the two of them discord. It is best to unite, but there is a grudge in their hearts and they cannot really unite."

"It's a long-term plan. Hong Hongxiu hasn't set up a banner now, so we have no way to provoke them." Zhou Porridge asked worriedly.

"Well, I asked the Military Intelligence Department to forge some Hong Hongxiu's letterheads and let Zheng Zhi intercept them, saying that Hong Hongxiu of the Ryukyu Kingdom wanted to help the Spaniards deal with them. First, I started to provoke Hong Hongxiu and Zheng Zhi, so that there was a distance between him and the Zheng family. Zheng Zhi is not easy to deal with now, Zheng Jing has never troubled him, it is because Zheng Zhi is strong now, the two have contacts in private, and they are called brothers."

"We can only do this first. When we finish the Qing Dynasty, we turn around and clean up the Hong family and the Zheng family. But I think we have to deal with the Zheng family first. Although they are farther away, they are easier to deal with than the Hong family. They are the weakest. "

"Who should do it?" Zhang Qiang's eyes rolled around, "Let Zheng Keshuang go, let him send someone to sell some Japanese to Zheng Jing, so that we can solve the problem of too many Japanese here, and also strengthen the Some of Zheng Jing's strength, in this case, can we still sell some Japanese to Zheng Zhi, these are good soldiers. When they come, they can fight and let them fight the Spaniards." Zhou Congee said with a smile.

Zhang Qiang smiled with satisfaction, "Well, this way we can deal with hundreds of thousands of Manchus, Han Bannermen, and Japanese civilians in the territory. Now we don't need them, so let's sell them to these three next families. The vacated land can be sold to young people and businessmen in the country, and let them farm, don’t they like farming?”

Zhou Porridge clapped his hands and said, "Multiple actions with one stroke, wonderful. Hahaha."

Chapter 885 The Ancients Are Too Smart

A month later, it was already November 1669.

The cold wind is howling in the north, and there are even a few light snowfalls. There is a light snowfall in Shanxi, Gansu and Shanxi. The weather is gloomy, just like the cold spring, and the cold in late autumn is the coldest. In this kind of weather, The cavalry of the [-]st Guards Division and the [-]rd Guards Division continued to practice on the Loess Plateau in the Gobi beach and steppe desert, accompanied by soldiers from the Garrison Cavalry Brigade.

The two sides fought inextricably on various terrains, sometimes separated, and sometimes collided with each other. From time to time, the wounded were lifted off the "battlefield", most of them had broken bones, scratched their skin, or fell into a brain disorder, or were killed. The horse trampled on and injured his ribs.

Wang Yuqun, Qin Mo, and Shu Yousi just watched coldly. They sometimes exercise, but they are not as miserable as the soldiers. The cavalry assigned to the Guards Division appears at the cavalry brigade level, that is to say, plus the garrison They have at least eight cavalry brigades here.

The cavalry brigade of the garrison is a 3000-man brigade, the cavalry brigade of the corps is a 5000-man cavalry brigade, and the cavalry brigade of the Guards Division is a 500-man cavalry brigade plus the troops directly under the brigade headquarters.

The garrison can draw four cavalry brigades to participate in the exercise, two cavalry brigades from the Corps, and two cavalry brigades from the Guards Division, with a total strength of [-] troops.

Of course, they are not going to fight anyone, but to guard against the harassment of the Yarkand Khanate from Helan Mountain and Tianshan Mountain. As for the Mongols, they are basically disabled now and have retreated to the grassland thousands of miles away from their territory. Walking hundreds of miles to the grassland, you can't even see a horse bandit, and the merchants have disappeared, because the Huaxia Army has solemnly warned which merchants that whoever transports a grain of rice to the grassland will be executed if caught, and the Mongols retreat north. There are no people for thousands of miles, and merchants cannot do business.

"Where does the Merlin Fish Corps still have a cavalry brigade, and where the garrison can gather two garrison cavalry brigades, in Shaanxi-Gansu and Shanxi prefectures, if there is nothing else, if you say to gather a brigade of cavalry, it is absolutely impossible. It's very easy, especially the servants of those merchants in Shanxi Prefecture. Anyone can ride a horse and fight horse bandits on the horse. They are also brave people, but unfortunately most of them are restless."

A cavalry officer of the garrison brigade said so.

He is a native of Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture. After Bagyalu swept Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture and recovered Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, he changed from a militiaman to a cavalry company commander of an elite militia brigade. After several months of fighting against the Qing Dynasty, he grew into a A garrison general, after the garrison was reorganized, he became the brigade commander of the garrison brigade.

The guard division is ready to go to the Yarkand Khanate at any time, while the Merlin Fish Corps is on the defensive. The garrison is reorganized. The fight was gone, and the other field brigades also lost a lot in the battle to pursue Suo'etu after being repaired. After entering Shanxi Prefecture, due to the prevalence of trenches, it was very difficult for them to attack in the early stage.

Even the garrison brigade that assisted them was disabled, and the elite militia brigade suffered heavy losses. Later, after reorganization, each area of ​​the garrison army had only one garrison brigade, which was divided into upper, middle, lower, and three garrison brigades. There was a cavalry brigade, they had to replenish the soldiers from the disciplinary brigade to enter the garrison, the garrison reorganized the limited surviving troops into the near-field army, and then transferred a lot of recruits trained from the new barracks, and the whole brigade was transferred into the garrison. A garrison brigade in Yunnan Province in Shanxi Prefecture.

The field army temporary division formed by Wan Dou Ni was split into the entire field army as a whole. Among these divisions, the eighth field division in the rear of Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture is still relatively complete.

It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the Merlin Fish Corps is declining rapidly, because they have recruited too many garrison troops. Wan Douni's temporary field division is a mixture of the garrison brigade, the elite militia brigade, and the ordinary militia brigade. Incorporated into the field army, the combat effectiveness of the field army must have declined sharply. In view of this, Zhang Qiang had to split part of the fourth division of the Guards Division into the Merlin Fish Corps, and at the same time sent a group of students who had not graduated from the military academy to the Merlin Fish Corps. It was only when they came down that the Merlin Fish Corps regained some combat effectiveness.

The Bagyalu Corps, which obtained most of the troops of the Guards Division, moved to Henan Prefecture and Shandong Prefecture, and stood by behind the Hu Kui Corps, which strengthened the strength of the Hu Kui Corps.

After several months of recuperation and rest, whether it is the Merlin Fish Corps that has regained its combat effectiveness, the Hukui Corps that is still slowly encroaching on Hebei Province, and the Bagyalu Corps in the rear, they are all ready to attack the Qing Dynasty. Prepare.

A large number of Japanese servants and Southeast Asian servants were organized. This time, there were more Southeast Asian servants. Wei Wuji drove all the tribes of Siam to the front lines of Shanxi and Hebei.

The strength of the Southeast Asian slave army reached a terrifying 80, the Japanese servant army reached 20, and the Goguryeo servant army captured was about 6 people, the Mongolian servant army was about 3, and the Shaanxi army The Huihui captives who made trouble on the border of Ganzhou, the Semu people, and the captured cavalry from Yarkand, about [-] troops, were sent to the border of these two states.

Of course, the green battalion soldiers captured by these two states, the Han army flag, and the Manchu soldiers, these captive soldiers, transported 40 troops at a time, and the others were either split up and sold to the Ryukyu Kingdom, or sold to Zheng Zhi. It's not Zheng Keshuang, Zheng Keshuang will sell them to Australia.

Where did the second prince buy 100 million young Han Chinese who surrendered in Shanxi-Gansu Prefecture, 100 million common people, 30 common people in Shanxi Prefecture, 10 merchants, landlords, gentry, officials, and 30 Japanese immigrants from Sishan Prefecture There are 10 Japanese immigrants in Yunnan and Guizhou, the remaining 100 immigrants in Southeast Asia, and the [-] million Japanese people in Hokkaido, as well as other hard labor in the Chinese Army hard labor camp. There are all kinds of people. They were arrested in the Netherlands earlier British, Portuguese, mainly Portuguese, Spaniards, etc., and a series of all the southern penal camps who did not die after several years.

I also bought 300 old coast guard ships, bought [-] old ships from Huaxia merchants, a total of more than [-] old ships, and bought [-] warships from the Huaxia Army Navy. They are busy secretly transferring these purchased populations.

And the Huaxia Army has earned a lot of gold and silver treasures, which is equivalent to 8000 million yuan for the Huaxia Army. Sometimes Zhang Qiang really admires the ability of the Chinese people to hide treasures, and they are beaten like that. He still has savings in his hand.

In addition, the frigates of the Huaxia Navy tracked them and found that the second prince still has some loyal subordinates hiding on various small islands in Nanyang. The second prince summoned them, and the initial number was more than [-]. It seems that his ambition has never been extinguished. , Even the pampered and pampered king of the Ryukyu Kingdom is secretly accumulating strength.

Zhang Qiang couldn't help sighing that he was on the right track in this life, if he walked steadily, otherwise, the ancients would teach you how to be a human being every minute, and the traveler is really not omnipotent.

Chapter 886 The Precarious Qing Dynasty

The army suppressed the border, and the entire Qing Dynasty was in chaos. Many people and people began to flee, and they had no choice but to flee outside the pass.

In a month, at least 1000 million people left, hundreds of thousands of green battalion soldiers dispersed, Manchu and Qing cavalry arrested people everywhere, 10,000+ Han army flags also dispersed, and the Eight Banners also fled a lot. The entire Yanjing within a month Depressed a lot.

On the official road, even the palanquins for the patriarchs and lords of the Qing Dynasty were reduced a lot. The sloppy porters carried the sedan chairs in a crooked way, which made those clansmen and lords even grumpy. Quite a few, swearing, and from time to time, a leather whip was whipped on the body and made a crisp sound of "slap," and the muffled sound seemed to bring pain and bloodstains torn apart.

The most painful ones are those who don’t care about Han Chinese and Manchus. The rumors of disturbance make them feel that the sky is falling. They are second-class citizens who pay too much rent. Do some chores, dirty work, hard work, all the people on the territory originally occupied by the Qing Dynasty, no matter which ethnicity you are, are all second-class citizens.