New Ming Empire mixed in America

In fact, according to the idea of ​​the company commander of the National Defense Force, that is to set up a rotating machine gun to directly load a few bullet chains in the factory area, or to set up a mortar to fire a few rounds of salvos.

However, Liu Youcai, who was worried about Li Mingqi, gave him a severe scolding over the intercom.

"If the factory is destroyed, will you build it? You bastard, I don't know if Long Live Master has spent all his talent to kill you guys?"

"Let the Ming Xie Army deal with those people, you just have to fight."

"Of course, if you encounter someone who doesn't want to open your eyes, fight them back. If you break them, grab some free labor and build them up!"

When the company commander received such contradictory advice from the chief minister of the empire, his head was a little swollen.

However, he also understood what Liu Youcai meant, which was to bypass the factory area and hand it over to the Ming Xie Army to deal with it. Anyone who dared to resist would be severely beaten.

After smoothing out his thoughts, the company commander stopped paying attention to the armed workers who were hiding in the factory to guard them, and advanced directly towards the center of the city.

Of course, factories classified as being on the forward route will not receive as good treatment as factories in other locations.

In order to ensure logistical security, all factories along the offensive route must be taken over by the Wehrmacht.

If anyone dared to say no, there would be a burst of artillery fire and a charge on the spot.

These unlucky factories are usually small wood processing plants, candy factories and other unimportant targets.

Important targets such as steel factories, textile factories, and weapons factories were classified as takeover areas due to their remote locations.

After Li Mingqi learned about Liu Youcai's suggestions to the frontline soldiers, he glared at Liu Youcai for the first time.

"You are a civil servant chief...ahem, what does it mean for you, a civil servant chief assistant, to point fingers at the army?"

"You have to know that you are a role model for civil servants. What if civil servants follow suit and intervene in military affairs in the future?"

"If there is anything you can discuss with the commander, what do you want to do by overriding the commander and issuing orders to the soldiers?"

Li Mingqi's words caused cold sweat to appear on Liu Youcai's face, and he immediately knelt on the ground to apologize to Li Mingqi.

"I was confused for a moment, please ask Lord Long Live to punish me..."

Liu Youcai really didn't think too much before, he just thought about saving Li Mingqi some money.

Those factories can be 'taken' and packaged through the Imperial Bank to those imperial subjects who are willing to set up factories.

Banzai Ye's Royal Bank is used to accumulate wealth for the royal family, but the operation of a country cannot rely entirely on the money provided by Banzai Ye.

The treasury must at least have its own source of revenue. Now that the empire has just been established, it is estimated that relying on tax revenue is not enough to pay the salaries of the imperial guards in the tax bureau.

So I can only rely on the Imperial Bank to make some quick money.

An empty treasury is not a good sign. If it were not for the continuous supply of crown coins from Li Mingqi's Royal Bank, the Xinming Empire would have gone bankrupt long ago.

And having said that, the treasury of the Xinming Empire cannot always borrow money from the Royal Bank.

"Old minister... I just wanted to share my worries with Lord Long Live. I did something stupid when my head got hot. I hope Lord Long Live will punish me."

There were only three people in the inflatable tent: Li Mingqi, Liu Youcai, and Liang Youwen.

And Liang Youwen was temporarily pulled over to make up the numbers. This kind of boundary issue between civil and military affairs definitely requires the presence of officers.

Sun Laifu was staying in San Francisco to sort out the reorganization of the army. He had a lot of things to do, so he couldn't come, so he had to let Liang Youwen, the commander of the regiment, observe.

Because his official position is too small, Liang Youwen is just standing at the door of the tent with his head lowered and listening.

In fact, he was a little worried about Liu Youcai's decision to directly give the order without him, but Li Mingqi's words made him finally feel relieved.

He had often heard of the model of using civility to control military affairs in the former Ming Dynasty and the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty.

If the Xinming Empire is like this, then their officers will have a hard time.

"With the separation of military and political affairs, from now on civilian officials will be in charge of civilian affairs, and the military will be responsible for fighting."

"In the future, an imperial army headquarters will be established, with me, the emperor of the empire, as the commander."

"Military matters are directly reported to me. In the future, we will also divide the staff department, the Army Department, the Navy Department, the Logistics Department, etc."

"Sun Laifu serves as the minister of the Imperial Staff and will be directly responsible to the royal family in the future."

After Zhao Zhen finished taking notes, Li Mingqi rubbed his temples.

The Caotai team is the Caotai team. The current Xinming Empire cannot even recruit officials at all levels, let alone internal affairs.

The military is a little better, as they are promoted bit by bit based on their military exploits, but the civil service is more difficult.

Just the creation of a tax bureau from the Jin Yi Guards made Liu Erhe clamor all day long to come back and serve as the head guard for Li Mingqi.

In the end, Barton was able to 'get' a few tax police officers and tax officials from Sacramento to serve as consultants.

However, the problem of government agents used to maintain the security of the empire was another problem. In the end, it was solved by recruiting some young people from the militia to establish the Six Gates.

Of course, the consultants of Six Doors are all former San Francisco police officers with good performance selected from the free "white workers" in the underground country.

These are nothing, what makes Li Mingqi scratch his head the most is the issue of selecting the heads of various organizations.

The architecture can still be borrowed from previous generations, but personnel issues always need to be faced.

"I also know that you are here for the Xinming Empire, but this kind of hole cannot be opened. Once it is opened, it will be difficult to close it."

Li Mingqi helped Liu Youcai up, and then said seriously:

"I'm afraid that there will be a few idiots in the future civil servants who talk about the ancestral system. Times are progressing, and the system cannot remain unchanged."

"But no matter how things change in the future, we won't allow laymen to guide insiders."

Liu Youcai stood up and quickly claimed yes.

Of course, this little episode could not delay the offensive of the National Defense Forces. With the continuous bombardment of artillery, a safe route to the city center was successfully opened.

However, Li Mingqi's order was not to stop until all the artillery shells were fired, so he waited until the National Defense Forces set up positions outside the center of San Jose's city center.

The rest of the city, except for the factory area, was devastated by bombing.

It's not that Li Mingqi is venting his anger, it's because those guerrilla rebels are very annoying.

When they pick up their guns, they act like rebels; when they put down their guns, they pretend to be good citizens and look pitiful.

But if the Wehrmacht doesn't pay attention, they will shoot the Wehrmacht from behind.

Therefore, the purpose of the bombing was to break down their resistance and drive those people into the center of San Jose.

As for those who don’t want to leave…

"I told you, hurry up and get to the city center. This is the territory of the Xinming Empire now!"

Several Ming Xie soldiers began to search the ruins repeatedly for the residents of San Jose who had gone into hiding after the war started.

After finding it, they drove towards the city center without saying a word. Anyway, Li Mingqi's order was that no white people without a temporary residence permit from the Xinming Empire could appear on the land of the Xinming Empire.

As for black people…

Ming Xiejun said it was too dark and he couldn't see anything.

Anyway, as long as there are no bodies on the street, no one will say anything, and even Davis will just carry out Li Mingqi's orders.

He doesn't care about the activities of his subordinates to make extra money, as long as they give them a share of their filial piety.

Of course, the taxes that should be paid must be paid, and the Xin Ming Empire's "extra income tax" system for the Ming Xiejun must be abided by.