Dominate the Country

In the Qing Dynasty's examinations, the number of candidates who took the examination ranged from four to five thousand to as many as five or six thousand. For example, this year, despite the war, war and man-made disasters, it could not stop them from wanting to go to Beijing. In the Qing Dynasty's Ji Chou Science Examination this year, there were still 5,000 people taking the exam.

So how many people are there in the Fuhan Army's Ji Chou Science Examination?

Chen Hui learned the imperial examination system like a Manchu, and could take three exams, each lasting three days. Students taking the examination must bring their own dry food and water materials, which will be provided by the examination center. There were a thousand examination booths prepared in the examination hall, but only half of them were actually put to use. And among these 500 people, thirteen have the real status of being elected! There are eighty-six people with scholar status; the remaining four hundred or so are all 'scholars' who are not scholars. There are more than 150 people inside who were born in accounting offices, and there are also those who were born as children, and even ghostwriters of family letters at the gate of the temple. Thirty-five people are over fifty years old, and the oldest is fifty-five years old. In the era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in this era when the average life expectancy could not exceed forty, fifty-five years old was already the age when the loess was buried up to the neck. [Before the founding of the People’s Republic of my country, the average life expectancy of our country’s population was 39 years for men and 42 years for women, but it was definitely affected by the war. During the Qianlong period, before the Fuhan Army launched its troops, the average life expectancy should have been over forty years, right? No one can tell. This thing... is too uncertain]

Although the official positions of those who passed the Fuhan Military Science Examination were promoted, some basic systems remained unchanged, such as the division of subjects.

Among the more than 500 candidates, nearly 60% were majoring in politics, one-third were majoring in law and arithmetic, and only less than one-twentieth were majoring in engineering.

After Chen Ming finished his patrol and returned to Lushan, the second session of the trial was not over yet. However, when Chen Ming came back from a visit to his father, Wang Huizu and others had prepared a list for him to review.

Drawn on the list are tree-shaped relationship tables. It is clear at a glance who those students are related to.

Then there is the second list, which is the list of students who have attached themselves to Chen Ming himself. Among them are some who are related to Chen Ming's military and political officials, and some who have arrived in Lushan and went to Lu Gong's mansion to submit their posts. Chen Ming saw many familiar names on this list, as well as some unfamiliar names.

"What does this Zhou Tiancai do?" Liu Dezhao's name was given to him, and he was Qiu Jiashan's brother-in-law from the Wuchang Police Department.

"Your Highness, Zhou Tiancai, courtesy name Shiying, was a scholar in Wuchang Prefecture in the 29th year of Qianlong's reign."

"Reply to him. Let him take the next exam with peace of mind." Chen Ming dropped the list. In the near future, all the people on the list will be on the list. He counted about thirty people. . As far as he knew, the number of people his father planned to admit this time would be as high as 300. Even those who had lost their names would receive one or two of them. As long as these people were willing, he would send them all to the cadre school.

Chen Ming couldn't care about this matter. It was all for sale anyway, so he would sell it too. Chen Ming didn't care at all about how many of the admitted people were really capable. When he decided to give in on the scientific examination issue, he realized what this scientific examination would be like.

Not to mention how excited Zhou Tiancai was when he returned to his residence after the second execution when he saw the reply from Lu Gongfu. He said that after Chen Ming returned to Lushan, a large number of troops were already there after issuing orders one after another. They gathered on the edge of Mount Lu.

There is a teaching division led by Chen Qiti, a section of the First Division led by Chen Yongsheng, a Guards Brigade led by Shi Meng, as well as artillery, cavalry, logistics troops, etc., with a total strength of 30,000. This force will also gather part of Xiangyang's Fourth Division as it moves south. In Xiangyang, the troops were divided into two groups. One group was led by Chen Qi, which was limited to teaching division troops. They marched west from Xiangyang to Yunyang, and then attacked southern Shaanxi. Chen Ming led a large force and continued southward, waiting to enter Anlu Mansion. It was further divided into two, and Chen Yongsheng led the first division south to Wuchang, and then followed the river to station in Yueyang. It can be regarded as a front line for the Fuhan Army's next Hunan strategy. Chen Ming led the remaining troops directly south into Jingzhou, and then moved westward along the Yangtze River. After joining Gaoqiao's troops in Zhijiang, he launched an attack on Yichang and Shinan.

Originally, Chen Ming's plan was to solve the problem in western Hubei before autumn, but the work in the military field took too long, and it was almost August now. All he could do was change autumn to winter. Solve Western Hubei and Hanzhong together!

After experiencing the defeat in the Hubei battlefield, Qianlong was not in a hurry to transfer all Sichuan troops to Yichang. Sichuan soldiers and Sichuan civilians gathered in Kuizhou Prefecture, but they refused to take a step towards Hubei. Instead, they set up wooden rafts in the Three Gorges waterway, set up hidden stakes, and set up camps and stone barriers on the rugged and difficult mountain roads, as if they could not escape.

Chen Ming was not worried at all about seizing Yichang and Shinan. The Qing army was so hesitant to move forward, it was obvious that it had given up on western Hubei. What Qianlong wanted to ensure now was the safety of Sichuan. He gathered the Sichuan soldiers and Sichuan civilian warriors who had suffered heavy losses to Kuizhou, but did not add a single soldier to the empty two prefectures in western Hubei.

According to reports from the secret camp, in the past two or three months, the militia groups that have been formed in western Hubei, especially the militia groups formed by the wealthy Yichang Prefecture, have exceeded the 4,000 mark. Yichang had sent a group of brave people to Jingzhou before. Later, the government and the gentry and rural officials who stepped forward were able to organize a group of 4,000 people, which shows the prosperity of Yichang. The government took the opportunity to scrape an absolutely astronomical amount of money and food from the hands of large local merchants. However, after the Sichuan soldiers and soldiers stopped in Kuizhou Prefecture, and after it became clear that Sichuan soldiers and soldiers wanted to cut off the water and land routes from Hubei, the morale of Yichang was greatly reduced, the soldiers and soldiers were scattered, and the local big families also fled to Sichuan or Hunan. , even the local soldiers and Xiangyong from Shi Nan Mansion also threw away their swords and guns and went back to their respective homes.

——Shinan Mansion is a gathering place of Tujia people. During the Yongzheng period, the Tujia people were converted to Tujia.

Now in Yichang and Shinan Prefectures, the overripe fruit is just waiting for Chen Ming to pick it.

Gao Qiao from Zhijiang has offered advice to Chen Ming more than once, especially that time in June. Gao Qiao said that he did not need soldiers, but only needed three to five thousand logistics troops to frighten the people with swords and guns. If he can level the town, he can level the western Hubei.

In this attack on western Hubei, Chen Ming only had 10,000 troops with him. A Guards Brigade and several hundred cavalry troops were veterans of the Fuhan Army. The rest were the 15th Brigade and the logistics troops led by Zhao Yongji. . This 15th Brigade was originally formed with the Qing soldiers and civilians who surrendered in Xiangyang City as the main force. The total strength was just over 5,000. The organization was adjusted a while ago. According to the reports from the hidden lines buried in it, the internal control of the 15th Brigade There are opinions on this adjustment, and they are worried about being 'eaten'. Chen Ming understands their worries, but he is still determined to eat. The entire Fuhan Army can have big and small hills, but a sensitive team like the 15th Brigade can only seek its own hills after integrating into the Fuhan Army. Instead of maintaining the hilltop pattern, they merged into the Fuhan army.

Zhao Yongji still had a brain, resolutely executed the order, and completed the reorganization of the Fuhan Army under the pressure of his officers.

Chen Ming gathered troops in Lushan, and military orders were also sent to Xiangyang.

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Luanshipan Village, 013 Military Village.

The shabby village scene two years ago has disappeared. Those yellow adobe thatched houses seem to have never appeared on this land. At the foot of the mountain, they have been replaced by tall and sturdy brick houses.

That's what happened in two years.

For these military-affiliated villages, two years is enough for dozens of military families to rise from poverty to well-off society. After all, Lushan has not suffered any disasters or disasters in the past two years. Dozens of acres of land belong to one's own family. With the hard work of people in this era, it is unusual for them to still go hungry.

Besides, bricks were cheap, and there were special discounts for military families, so within two years, new houses were built one after another in the village. The Construction Bureau has a team dedicated to just this. What was once a dilapidated small village and people with no money at home are now living and working in peace and contentment.

Jiang Wei is from this military village. It was dusk when he was led to the 013 military village.

The setting sun, like a big fireball, finally rolled down behind the mountain, and the sunset took away its last afterglow. The color of the sunset in the sky is changing from crimson to pink, curls of smoke rise from the military village, and there are several dogs barking and chickens crowing. Jiang Wei fell in love with this place at just one glance.

It is true that he is from Lushan, but he has never heard of Luanshipan Village. His relatives were the third group to move into the 013 military village after Jiang Wei followed the troops south, so this time Jiang Wei returned to his hometown to visit relatives. It was his first time to visit the 013 military village.

Ten days have passed in the blink of an eye. Jiang Wei's guards have arrived this afternoon and will accompany Jiang Wei back to the army tomorrow.

Jiang Wei has a younger brother and two sisters, all three of whom are married. He is away at war, so his father and his brothers farm the land that belongs to him. Anyway, the Jiang family is not divided.

After Jiang Wei became the battalion officer, the military land allocated to his family had accumulated to 60 acres, which was considered the largest in the entire military-affiliated village. This time in exchange for military merit, Jiang Wei brought back another 350 acres of land to his family. Although in which direction Macheng was located and how far it was from Lushan, Father Jiang had no idea. After two years of fighting, Jiang Wei brought a heavy datewood box with him when he returned home. As for what was hidden inside, only the Jiang family knew.

His son's career as a soldier is very valuable, and several hundred acres of land is a good thing that Father Jiang could not have even imagined two years ago. But when Father Jiang and Jiang Weiniang looked at the scars on their eldest son's body and legs, their tears kept falling.

"Dad, you don't want to be a soldier anymore. Our family has hundreds of acres of land, which is enough for us to eat. Can you please stop being a soldier?" Jiang Wei's eight-year-old son hugged his father's arms and said with tears in his eyes. son.

Hearing the voice of the child who had not seen his father for two years made Jiang Wei uncomfortable. He hugged his son tightly to his arms, and Jiang Wei's eyes turned red: "Tieniu, dad doesn't want to leave home either. But dad can't do this. ”

"Our land was acquired by my father during the war. If my father did not fight, and if hundreds of people like him did not fight, the Manchu Tatars would come back and take away all our land. Take our food away again. Kill dad, your grandparents, your uncle, your mother, your aunt, your brothers and sisters. Do you think dad can stop fighting?"

"Dad is fighting for our family, for our land, so that you will not be bullied in the future. In order to let your grandparents, your brothers and sisters, your uncles, aunts and your mothers have good food, clothing, and safety. Live a happy life..."