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Lu Xiangsheng was dismissed, but he didn't follow through.

He was stripped of his title of Governor-General of Tianxia Qinwang Bingma, and his Shangfang sword was taken back. Then he was relegated to the honorary position of Minister of the Ministry of War, and was demoted to the left servant of the Ministry of War. He could still lead troops, but he could only bring his own 5,000 pacesetters.

Gao Qiqian's two impeachment memorials are nothing but catalysts.

The real reason is that Chongzhen was extremely disappointed with Lu Xiangsheng. The Manchus entered the customs several times, but none of them could fight from Beijing to Jinan like this!

Yang Sichang, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting were urgently recalled to Beijing.

Before the three of them arrive in Beijing, there must be a commander in chief. Therefore, Liu Yuliang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, was thrown to the front line by Chongzhen, and took full charge of the battle situation as the chief assistant.

Liu Yuliang, from Sichuan.

Just looking at his hometown, he knew that Yang Sichang promoted him. Xiong Wencan is from Sichuan, and Xie Wenjin is from Sichuan, both of whom are confidantes of Yang Sichang.

Anyway, as long as he is not an official from Nanzhili or Zhejiang, Yang Sichang is very willing to be promoted.

In other words, Chongzhen was very willing to be promoted!

The Donglin Party really failed, it was suppressed by the emperor too badly.

In "Donglin Dianjianglu", Xie Wenjin is "the mighty star of the world". As for Sun Bixian, it is "the earth's comet is as bright as one zhangqing". Both of them betrayed the Donglin Party and were promoted by Yang Sichang to be the left and right servants of the Ministry of War.

Minister of the Ministry of War, Yang Sichang, can promote the chief assistant!

Liu Yuliang joined the cabinet in August last year and became the chief assistant in June this year.

Chongzhen was in a hurry, and dismissed the two chief assistants one after another, and at the same time dismissed the cabinet ministers. As a result, Liu Yuliang had just entered the cabinet and became the chief assistant within ten months.

Being sent by Chongzhen to command the overall situation, Liu Yuliang was terrified to death, but he didn't dare not to go.

This guy had just arrived in Anping, and when he heard that the Qing soldiers were coming, he didn't check the truth, so he was so frightened that he fled to Jinzhou.

Chen Hongxu, the governor of Jinzhou, closed the city gate and angrily reprimanded the chief assistant: "The supervisor is here to defend against the enemy, and the bandits are coming, why are you so busy evading? You said you came to collect food, and you went to the household department yourself. If you want to enter the city, you dare not obey orders!" "

Liu Yuliang was furious, and sent a fast horse to impeach him, and arrested Chen Hongxu and sent him to prison.

The people stopped him from leaving, saying they were willing to go to prison instead of Zhizhou, and some threatened to go to Beijing to seek justice. There is no way, you can't arrest people, you can only let the Ministry of officials demote officials and call them.

Faced with such an ending, Chen Hongxu was so angry that he went home and took refuge in Zhao Han!

He was originally from Jiangxi.

Liu Yuliang went to Tianjin again, but he didn't dare to go south. I didn't dare to face the Tartars, but impeached the generals for being afraid of the enemy, and offended a bunch of generals.

Finally, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting led troops to King Qin and joined Liu Yuliang with more than 100,000 troops.

More than 100,000 people froze in place, not daring to move, because Liu Yuliang forbade the enemy to underestimate the enemy.

When Yang Sichang returned to Beijing, he was very dissatisfied with Liu Yuliang.

Xue Guoguan wanted to be the chief assistant, so he asked Yang Sichang for help, and Liu Yuliang was arrested and imprisoned. Another chief assistant in the Chongzhen Dynasty was finished.

Dorgon saw that the Ming army did not divide troops, and more than 100,000 people shrank into a ball, and there was no way to eat them. Therefore, Dorgon ordered the withdrawal of troops, and swaggered back to Liaodong with countless people, livestock, and goods.

Next, start the infighting.

Yang Sichang wanted to keep the troops of Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting to guard Jiliao and prevent the Tartars from entering the pass again.

Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting resolutely opposed it, and Yang Sichang threw him into prison after some maneuvers.

The changes brought about by Zhao Han seem to only make Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting inmates...

Of course more than that!

The finances of the Ming Dynasty were even more difficult. The soldiers who died in battle were unable to provide compensation, and the soldiers who made meritorious deeds had no money to reward them.

Only three months after the Tartars left, a mutiny broke out in Baoding, followed by a mutiny in Henan.

The mutiny in Henan was very big. Facing the conquest by officers and soldiers, he became a bandit and went to Shaanxi to vote for Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng, who was beaten and disabled, regained his strength, led the officers and soldiers around, and returned to Henan to recruit hungry people. In an instant, there were more than 100,000 people (mostly weak and hungry people).

There is no need to coerce bandits to cross the border, and the people will come to join them.

Because of the imperial court's active attack, Zhang Xianzhong fled ahead of time, which is not counted as surrender and rebellion, and Xiong Wencan was not convicted for this.

Taking advantage of the officers and soldiers encircling and suppressing Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong jumped out of the encirclement and ran to Nanzhili again, almost picking up the ancestral grave of the old Zhu family in Fengyang again.

Northwest rogues are growing faster than in history!

Faced with such a situation, the imperial court could only increase the training salary. Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong occupied by Zhao Han naturally cannot be apportioned, but the total salary has not been reduced much, and it is even more unbearable for the common people.

Not to mention the war-torn provinces in the north, even Sichuan has several peasant armies!

Two years in advance, the Shandong uprising blocked water transportation, and the price of grain in the north skyrocketed. Some officers and soldiers who besieged Li Zicheng, as well as Jiliao officers and soldiers who guarded against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, were transferred to Shandong to suppress the uprising army.

Due to the additional dispatch, civil unrest in Guangxi and Fujian resurfaced.

Before the rebellion chieftain in Guizhou, because Zhu Xieyuan was transferred to Jiangxi to conquer Zhao Han, some remnants hid in the mountains and had not been wiped out. Now he has come out of the mountains again and captured many counties in Shuixi.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, only Zhejiang and Yunnan were free from military disasters, and all other provinces were experiencing wars.

The butterfly effect brought about by Zhao Han completely detonated in the twelfth year of Chongzhen!

Even if experts in Ming history were allowed to travel here, they would definitely not be able to understand the situation. It was already a fucking mess.

The current Daming is a mess.

No matter how big Zhao Han was in the south, Chongzhen couldn't control it, because all the north was at war.

...

Jiangxi was very stable, and Zhao Han had a good life as a child.

Back to the winter of the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still raging, and Zhao Han ordered the reform of the system.

Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong formally established as provinces, adding government departments such as industrial and commercial departments. Merchants in the three provinces must apply for a business license, which is scheduled to take effect on the first day of the first month. After the first day of the first lunar month, those who have not applied for a license are not allowed to operate various businesses.

Brothels must also be licensed.

Moreover, pornographic business is not allowed, and the business attribute is "singing house and dancing pavilion". Regular inspection twice a month, surprise inspection to see the situation, heavy fines if caught. Commonly known as anti-pornography.

It must be impossible to ban it. No country can do it. Even if it is banned for a while, it will come back again.

Whether it can be banned is one thing, and whether it can't be banned is another.

Even in later generations of Japan, it is illegal to sell that kind of stuff, and pornography will be suppressed every now and then.

Once it is legalized, it will inevitably lead to a large number of crimes, such as trafficking, imprisonment, and abuse of women.

At the same time as the political reform, the military is also reforming.

The Datong Army expanded from 16,000 to 23,000.

There are 5,000 troops in the South Academy, temporarily stationed in Guangdong.

There are 5,000 soldiers from the North Academy, temporarily stationed in Hunan.

The 5,000 members of the Central Academy Army are temporarily stationed in Jiangxi.

Zhao Han's 1,000 soldiers were stationed in Ji'an Mansion.

The Jiangxi Navy expanded its troops to 4,000 and stationed at Poyang Lake.

Guangdong Navy, expanded to 2000 people (including crew), stationed in Guangzhou.

The Guangzhou Coast Guard was added, with 1,000 troops (including the Guangzhou Inspection Department and the Xiangshan Inspection Department), temporarily under the charge of Fei Ruhe, who was dismissed from his post.

Zhao Han's 1,000 soldiers were separated from the army of the Central Academy. For the shortage of soldiers in the Central Academy, we will choose supplements from Jiangxi farmers and soldiers.

For the rest of the troops, recruit soldiers nearby.

For example, the Guangdong Navy recruited from coastal fishermen. The Nanyuan Army stationed in Guangdong recruited Guangdong mountain people to join the army when replenishing its troops. Huguang's Beiyuan Army recruited rebel miners to join the army.

These measures are also for balance.

Otherwise, not only would there be a lot of officials from Jiangxi, but even the army would be all Jiangxi soldiers.

In addition, there are internal reforms in the military.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty has been changing, and the military system at the end of the Ming Dynasty was different from the south and the north.

The grassroots units of the army before Zhao Han were divided into five, even, team, sentry, general, and battalion.

If you compare it with the People's Liberation Army, what is a squad, a team is a platoon, a post is a company, and even the number of people is exactly the same.

These are not intended to be changed, but to cancel the general, add regiments and brigades, namely Wu (5 people), Shi (10 people), team (30 people), sentry (90 people), battalion (450 people), regiment (1350 people) people), brigade (4050 people).

Including other personnel, the strength of a battalion is about 500, that of a regiment is about 1,500, and that of a brigade is about 5,000 (including military medical teams and cooking soldiers).

Zhao Han used it for brigade battalion and so on, and it was easy to be accepted by soldiers.

Volunteer, powerful force, these are the words used by the army.

The reform of the three provinces is thriving, which is in stark contrast to the decline of Ming Dynasty.

...

"Meet the general town!"

After several scholars from Guangdong and Hunan arrived one after another, they came to meet Zhao Han collectively.

Wang Zhiliang, the governor of southern Hunan, has been reluctant to surrender because he is worried about his five sons. This person has profound attainments in academics and practical studies, and was thrown into Bailuzhou Academy as a teacher.

Wang Qisheng, the prefect of Changsha, and Yang Guanji, the magistrate of Changsha County, were cast as mayors in Changsha because of their meritorious service in assisting in the governance of Changsha.

The four Tao brothers all made great contributions to the city.

For the time being, write down their credit. Because they were too young, the second, third, and fourth children were arranged to study in Ji'an Mansion.

The boss, Tao Aizhi, was recruited as the secretary of the General Military Mansion.

Wang Dai, who was in Xiancheng in Xiangtan, was also recruited to Zhao Han's side.

In addition, there are Zhang Jiayu, Chen Zisheng, and Kuang Lu from Guangdong, who are now Zhao Han's secretary.

Hu Mengtai was released and sent to Hunan to be the county director.

Zhao Han's former secretary directly released half of them. Anyway, there is a shortage of officials everywhere now.

"Have you all seen it everywhere in Ji'an?" Zhao Han asked with a smile.

Wang Dai clasped his hands and said, "Wansheng first went to Bailuzhou, then went to Luling County Middle School, and then visited the city, outside the city, and the countryside in the suburbs. What he said and heard was amazing. Although it can't be called Datong, it is It’s not far away either. The general town is the hero of the ages!”

"Why can't it be called Datong? I think Ji'an Mansion is already Datong!" Tao Aizhi retorted immediately.

Zhang Jiayu said with a smile: "In the countryside of Luling, everyone respects martial arts, and only farmers and soldiers in villages and towns can sweep the south."

Chen Zisheng sighed: "Everything is fine, brothels... don't worry about it."

Because the brothel was forced to apply for an industrial and commercial license, it was declared to be a singing house and dancing pavilion. So when I was in business, I also focused on singing and dancing, and I had to pay more if I wanted to go to bed.

Zhao Han smiled and asked Kuang Lu, "Why doesn't Mr. Kuang talk?"

Kuang Lu sighed and said, "I've been wasted so far, I just want to do things, but the chief town just let me be the secretary."

"Isn't it good to be a secretary? This is equivalent to the cabinet's Zhongshu Sheren, and the daily official documents are all important affairs in the world," Zhao Han asked, "If it is released, what do you want to do?"

Instead, Kuang Lu was distressed: "I don't know, I know everything."

This old man is both civil and military. He has been avoiding disasters abroad for several years and traveled half of China. His dissolute personality has subsided a lot.

Zhao Han asked: "You traveled all over the provinces, what did you see?"

Kuang Lu replied: "The people are in dire straits, and the dynasty is at the end of the world."

"Follow me and do things well, and I will make the last days of this dynasty as stable and prosperous as Ji'an Mansion." Zhao Han said.

"It would be great if that's the case." Kuang Lu said with a smile.

Zhao Han suddenly thought of someone: "Why didn't Zheng Sen come today?"

Zhang Jiayu replied: "He has gone to the mathematics society."