Dominate the Country

The General's Mansion in western Henan is not short of food at all. Chen Ming swept half of Henan, plus Xiangyang and Yunyang in Hubei. Whether it is Chenzhou Runing, Xiangyang or Yunyang, the grain and rice looted in any direction is over one million dan.

Therefore, the General's Mansion's summer harvest this year is more about the reserve of civilian food, and the food needed by the army is definitely not lacking. It may be hard to say next year, but this year the General's Mansion can still relax. In this regard, I have to shed a few bitter tears for the Qing Dynasty. They are too miserable. The disaster in Xuzhou has made the food gap of the Qing Dynasty even larger. Aligun, who is in charge of Zhengzhou, has also been deprived of the title of the first-class duke - he is the great-grandson of Eyidu, one of the five founding ministers of the Qing Dynasty, the grandson of Tai Shi Ebilun, the fourth son of the Minister of the Interior Yin De, and the younger brother of the Grand Secretary Neqin. Of course, due to the special constitution of the Qing Dynasty, although Aligun's title of the first-class duke was taken away, it was not completely erased, but was transferred by Qianlong to Aligun's third brother Aibida. Just like when Aligun's elder brother Celeng was imprisoned and killed by Junggar cavalry on the way to Beijing, and his second brother Neqin fell after the first Jinchuan Rebellion, the hat of Guoyi fell on Aligun's head. Now Aligun has committed a crime, and the hat has been transferred from Aligun to the third son of the Niuhuru clan, Aibida.

This is the system of the Qing Dynasty. Although the Qing Dynasty has reached the peak of China's centralized system since Yongzheng, the internal structure of the Eight Banners is like a joint-stock system. Aligun's branch comes from Niuhuru Eyidu, who are small shareholders of the Qing Dynasty. If shareholders make mistakes, they can be killed or demoted, but you can't directly deprive people of their shares.

The prosperity of the early and middle periods of the Qing Dynasty was inseparable from the efforts of these shareholders. That is, in the middle and late periods, all shareholders, big and small, were gradually cultivated into parasites who only eat and wait for death. The Aisin-Gioro clan dominated the world, but the Qing Dynasty also declined. The strength and number of Han officials in the court and the country increased greatly.

Chen Mingyuan was far away in Nanjing, and he knew that there was enough food in the base area. He did not divert his attention because of the coming wheat harvest season. The navy camp had already moved eastward from Jiujiang. If it was fast, it would reach Wuhu in three days. Anqing would send a team to cooperate with the navy camp to sweep southern Anhui for the second time. It would take only one day to go downstream from Wuhu to Nanjing. When the news of the Fu Han Army's fight in southern Anhui spread to Jiangnan and Jiangyin, the Fu Han Army in Nanjing could be launched.

Now Chen Ming was like a harmless rabbit, quietly staying in Nanjing, but this was just the calm before the storm.

Chen Ming was going to fight to Songjiang this time. With his current military strength, it would be very difficult to occupy Songjiang, or even unrealistic. But it would not be a big problem to fight to Puxi and make a fortune, and this would also spread the impact of the war to the last piece of pure land in southern Jiangsu - Songjiang Prefecture.

Chen Ming now didn't know how long he would stay in Nanjing. The Qing army in Huai'an was too weak, and it has not been able to capture Gaoyou Prefecture and attack Yangzhou City. In this case, the Qing army in the north cannot put pressure on Nanjing at all. Chen Ming sat in Nanjing City and was safe and sound. When he captured Nanjing, he thought he could not stay in Nanjing City for a month.

The Green Camp of Guangdong land and water did land at Haimen Hall, but they did not intend to attack Nantong Prefecture.

Now, the Qing army's strength is very large, but the quality is not good at all. Just like the Ming army against the Eight Banners soldiers, no matter how many people there are, the combat effectiveness is poor and there is no advantage. In the 18th century, when transportation was backward, when the Qing army could not use the relatively fast waterway to travel, their assembly was particularly slow. Not to mention, Jiangnan was in the plum rain season.

For various reasons, the Qing Dynasty has assembled 100,000 troops from north to south of the Yangtze River, but Chen Ming has no pressure at all. Their more capable teams, such as the Green Camp in Guangxi, are still struggling on the way.

Nanjing is now under no direct threat or pressure. Whether it is the Green Camp of Fujian and Zhejiang in Jiangyin or the remnants of the two rivers in Suzhou, the most direct direction of attack is Zhenjiang rather than Nanjing. Chen Ming has lived a rare peaceful life in Nanjing City.

"Jigong should be quiet for the time being." Chen Jigong has arrived in Songjiang, and Chen Ming wants him to keep a low profile for the time being and get familiar with the environment as soon as possible. He Huazhang, who has already arrived in Suzhou, cannot stop. "He Huazhang cannot stop. Not only can he not stop, but he must be more high-profile. If he can make Surde lively and let the Qing soldiers hold him in jail, it would be even better.

Go and tell him that as long as this vote is completed beautifully, I will let him take his family to Guangzhou." The important thing about this reward is not to leave the war-torn Jiangnan and go to the peaceful Guangdong, but to let He Huazhang take his family to do things.

The dark camp, as an indispensable arm of the Fu Han Army, all the families of He Huazhang and other important chess pieces are supported in Lushan. He Huazhang should not have seen his parents, wife and children for nearly a year. Chen Ming felt that his promise would move him. Although the danger of constantly provoking the nerves of Jiangsu Governor Suerde in Suzhou City is unpredictable and huge.

Chen Ming admitted that he had selfish motives in this matter. If the person in He Huazhang's position was Chen Jigong, he would never give such a decisive order, but the fact is that He Huazhang is in that position. His life is far less important than Chen Jigong in Chen Ming's eyes. He is a type that can be sacrificed as long as the benefits in return are large enough.

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"Your current task is very clear, which is to constantly criticize Suerde and put all the causes and reasons for the conflict between the Liangjiang government and the Fujian and Zhejiang water and land reinforcements on Suerde..."

"...It's best to let Suerde send troops to arrest you out of anger..."

By then, the Fu Han Army will capture Jiangyin, and when the news of the Fujian and Zhejiang Water and Land Green Camps in Jiangyin City's 'retreat at the first touch' reaches Suzhou, haha, the rift between Fujian, Zhejiang and the two Jiangs will no longer be covered up. This is not just a rift in the officialdom, it can also stir up a wave of public opinion among the people that officials abandon public service for personal grudges, which is not comparable to getting rid of one or two officials like Suerde. Even Wu Bi Da and Duan Xiulin will move their positions. Not to mention the former, if Qianlong replaces the latter with a bannerman, haha, the Zhejiang Green Camp is also a person. As mentioned before, Duan Xiulin is more popular in Zhejiang.

"The Grand Commander said that if this mission is done well..."

In a small courtyard that He Huazhang had just bought in Suzhou City, in a dim room, a man whose face could not be seen clearly was talking to He Huazhang. He was the only liaison when He Huazhang wanted to contact his superiors.

There was only one candle burning in the dim room, and the flickering flame illuminated He Huazhang's face.

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Southwest Henan, Nanyang.

All the work of the General's Mansion gave way to the summer harvest. In addition to the necessary garrison, all the new soldiers and scouts from all over the country were deployed to the front line, and officials at all levels were also deployed to the front line. The heavy rain in Xuzhou scared the Yellow River and made it uncontrollable. The rain came so suddenly that the General's Mansion felt that it would be best to harvest wheat early this year.

This summer harvest was the first harvest of the fields under the rule of the General's Mansion, and it was a test of the "politics" of the General's Mansion in the past six months.

The General's Mansion welcomed the summer harvest so grandly that the people of Nanyang and Ruzhou were somewhat unexpected. You know, in the past, the Qing government would only "grandly" welcome the summer tax and grain tax. Farmers in this era are very accepting of disasters and poor harvests. Everyone will curse the arrival of disasters, just like people in the 21st century curse the weather forecast for nonsense. But no matter how much people curse, as long as people are still alive, weather forecasts are still a must-see. People at that time had to accept various "inaccuracies", just like farmers now have to accept the sudden arrival of poor harvests due to various reasons.

So the summer harvest requires only one word "fast"!

There are unexpected changes in the weather. If a heavy rain comes down and the wheat sprouts, everything will be ruined.

Race against time to harvest and thresh and store the grain. Even in the 21st century, before the summer harvest every year, it is a peak period for migrant workers to return home.

The same is true here in the Fu Han Army. As the summer harvest time approaches, the number of workers at several construction sites has dropped sharply. In addition to the manpower directly controlled by the General's Mansion, all the strong women workers from towns and villages have returned home to harvest wheat.

Bending over to harvest wheat is a very hard job, and it is a great burden on the body.

In previous years, in order to save iron materials, how to sharpen rusty sickles more sharply while consuming less iron has become a technical job in rural areas. But now it is different. The steel production of the Fu Han Army has exploded one after another. With the hydraulic forging hammer, the sickles, shovels, iron forks, iron rakes and other farm tools sold outside are all half-price and of better quality.

At this moment, in the land of southwest Henan, in addition to the hardworking farmers who seize the time to harvest every grain of wheat, there are also the families of military and disabled soldiers, as well as the families of martyrs, especially the latter two. A large number of recruits, child soldiers and even garrison troops drove to them, bringing sickles and shovels, and working hard as soon as they were greeted. This is an act of the general's mansion to win people's hearts, but when the matter falls on ordinary martyrs' families and disabled soldiers, it will definitely make them cry with emotion.

Besides, in the fields, such things spread the fastest. For the general's mansion, this summer harvest harvests people's hearts.

Nanyang has been captured by the Fu Han Army for half a year. In the past six months, the biggest change in Nanyang Prefecture, apart from the bunkers built one after another, is the roads and small roads that the Fu Han Army has spent a lot of effort to repair, as well as waterways and river transportation. Of course, there are also the rural officials that made thousands of farmers very uncomfortable at the beginning.

The imperial power has not been in the countryside since the Ming Dynasty. It has been hundreds of years since then. The working people and gentry have become accustomed to this kind of "politics". Now that it has been abolished by the Fu Han Army, the most direct "effect" is the continuous collision between the township officials of the Fu Han Army and the local gentry and landlords. Under the laws and regulations of the Fu Han Army, the local clan power is greatly restricted, which will of course be greatly dissatisfied by the party whose interests are damaged. That is, the Fu Han Army has strong combat effectiveness and is extremely strong. It uses a coercive mode to implement its own set of rules in the base area.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Fu Han Army now controls a small area. As soon as there is a slight disturbance or something is wrong, the General's Office can directly order to interfere with the development of things.

Since the end of last year, propaganda plays derived from pigtail plays have gradually become popular in southwestern Henan. This form of "propaganda" that is popular among the people is easier for the people to remember and understand than official notices from the government or newspapers with a relatively narrow propaganda surface.

Just like the most basic institutional structure under the General's Office, those official names that are completely different from those in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, if they are promoted to the people without words, they will not remember them even after ten times. But with the plot of the drama, with the characters and pictures, after two or three big plays, the people will be able to talk about the Grain Bureau, the Transportation Bureau, the Court, the Armed Forces Department, and the Finance Bureau.

From the initial propaganda system structure, to further interpretation of the role of each institution and some policies that are good for the people. After all, it is just "talking", not to make it 100% implemented. Such interpretation is only to reduce the resistance of the enemy people. The practices of the General's Mansion in the past few months are very good and effective.

Even though the remaining landlords and gentry in the local area still resist the Fu Han Military Government, the people gradually accept the Fu Han Army, which is completely different from the "court" of the past. The rabbits of later generations always say: The eyes of the people are sharp, and this is somewhat correct. The people don't have much knowledge, many people can't write or recognize their own names, but they have their own hearts and can see whether the policies are good or bad.

"Give them everything we promised to Hunyuan Sect." After the summer harvest, although Chen Hui had not received the preliminary grain statistics, he was still very happy, so when Liu Zhixie came to ask for it again, he generously fulfilled his original promise.

Hunyuan Sect really helped the General's Mansion a lot. If they had not firmly attracted the attention of the Qing soldiers, how could the battlefield be so easy these days? Therefore, no matter how bad the reputation of Hunyuan Sect is, no matter how much it is slandered, Chen Hui is unwilling to go against his will and turn his face and deny it.

The latter has crossed the Yellow River, walked out of the northern border of Xuzhou Prefecture, and entered Shandong. The Hunyuan Sect's army has been in a mess. Not to mention how much the coming summer harvest can alleviate the local food shortage, Liu Song and his men have created more than 100,000 refugees for the Qing government after being attacked by the Hunyuan Sect's army. In addition to the counties on the south bank of the Yellow River that have already lost their harvest, not to mention the Shandong territory, the entire Xuzhou has been ruined by the Hunyuan Sect and only a mouth is left. Xuzhou Prefecture has a population of one million...

And the current location of the Hunyuan Sect directly affects the safety of the Grand Canal. If the cannons made in Beijing are to be transported to the battlefields in northern Jiangsu and Henan as soon as possible, the Grand Canal is still their lifeline that they must rely on. But now tens of thousands of Hunyuan Sect soldiers are entrenched on the edge of the canal. How can you ask Beijing to transport them? How dare Qianlong transport them?