"Without the Eight Banners supervising the battle, the combat effectiveness of the Green Battalion cannot be guaranteed, and there is even a possibility that someone will defect and surrender to the traitor Wu Sangui!"
Oboi also knew that the Manchus were unpopular.
He understood very well that without the Eight Banners to suppress the formation, it would not be impossible for the Green Camp soldiers to defect to the battlefield, let alone display their combat effectiveness.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty could not use the Eight Banners as the main force, but the Eight Banners soldiers could not avoid going to the battlefield to supervise the battle.
The other people looked at each other, and Jieshu asked.
"If the Eight Banners only undertakes the task of supervising the war, how many people will need to be dispatched to the battlefield?"
Oboi pondered for a while, and then spoke.
"With ten thousand people, at least ten thousand Eight Banners need to be dispatched to the battlefield to supervise the battle!"
"Even at a critical moment, these ten thousand people of the Eight Banners are needed to attack the main force and deal with Wu Sangui's Yiding cavalry."
Fei Yanggu's eyes narrowed when he heard this, and he spoke.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
The current total strength of the Eight Banners is only 30,000 to 40,000 people.
This is the result of including the Eight Banners of Mongolia.
Now, if Obai opens his mouth, he will send tens of thousands of people to the battlefield. How can the banner owners of the Eight Banners accept this?
When Ao Bai saw this, he sneered and said.
"Although Wu Sangui is despicable and has a low character, his strength is not weak!"
"The Guan Ning army at hand can also be said to be elite and good at fighting, and its bodyguards, the Yi Ding Tuqi, are even more elite among the elite."
"If we, the Qing Dynasty, cannot face up to Wu Sangui's strength, I am afraid that we will still be defeated in this expedition to Guanzhong!"
"When a lion fights a rabbit, he must use all his strength!"
Obai said earnestly.
In his opinion, if the Qing Dynasty wanted to conquer Guanzhong, it would have to attack with all its strength and try to defeat Wu Sangui with one blow.
Lest it become a fueling tactic!
If the fight ends in a stalemate, it will still be the Qing Dynasty that is troubled.
After all, if the Qing Dynasty adopted a fueling tactic in Guanzhong and allowed Ming Dynasty to see an opportunity, you can imagine what would happen next.
Zhu Hongyu really had no intention of launching an active attack on the Qing court within two or three years.
However, if the Qing Dynasty behaved badly in the Battle of Guanzhong and Wu Sangui made a huge improvement in their performance, Zhu Hongyu would not mind meddling in it.
Obai's statement convinced everyone, everyone's eyes gathered together, and finally the matter was finalized.
The Qing court center began to issue orders to mobilize troops.
Armies in Shanxi, Henan and other places received orders one after another and began to mobilize.
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At the same time, in Nanjing city!
Zhu Hongyu received the news that Wu Sangui had ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an.
Looking at the report in his hand, Zhu Hongyu had a strange face.
The Qing Dynasty is divided!
The emperor of the Eastern Qing Dynasty Aixinjueluo Xuanye, the emperor of the Western Qing Dynasty Aixinjueluo Sangui...
All I can say is that he is a good guy, he is really good at playing!
However, after marveling, Zhu Hongyu put the matter behind him.
Wu Sangui just ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, what does it have to do with him?
For Zhu Hongyu now, the most important thing is to deal with internal affairs.
And the matter of him ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor!
After receiving the order, the people in Guangzhou Xingyuan immediately set off north. Counting the time, it is estimated that they will soon arrive in Nanjing.
Once the official team at Guangzhou Xingyuan is in place, Zhu Hongyu can start preparing to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.
Apart from that, it’s all about the imperial examination!
The selection of officials through the imperial examination is a grand ceremony for the country to recruit talents, and it is also a means for the ruling class to attract new blood.
Zhu Hongyu needs to pay attention to this!
Zhu Hongyu asked casually.
"How are the preparations for the imperial examination going?"
"Can we ensure that relevant work is carried out in an orderly manner?"
Wang Ruxian cupped his fists and said.
"Reporting to Your Highness, the Gongyuan examination room has been repaired and expanded, but it should still not be able to accommodate enough candidates for the examination."
"After consultation with the military, the cabinet decided to simply repair the campus in Nanjing and use it as an examination room."
"..."
The original Nanjing Gongyuan was actually quite large.
But the scale is only relative!
The original Gongyuan only held imperial examinations that could accommodate hundreds of people, but the official recruitment examination that Zhu Hongyu wanted to hold could only admit more than a few hundred people.
With such a large scale, Gongyuan will definitely not be able to accommodate it.
Even Zhu Hongyu felt that it was doubtful whether the university campus could accommodate so many people!
"Can the campus accommodate it?"
"Do you need to think of another way?"
Wang Ruxian pondered for a while, and then spoke.
"It should be okay to report back to Your Highness!"
"Currently, there are about 50,000 people who have registered for this imperial examination."
"The exams in each state capital can be screened in batches, and eventually they will arrive in Nanjing. There should be no more than 10,000 people taking the big exam."
"The main campus is large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of generals for military exercises, and less than 10,000 reference personnel. It will definitely not be a problem."
After explaining this, Wang Ruxian seemed to have remembered something again and asked.
"Your Highness, how will the quotas for local candidates be allocated for this imperial examination?"
Zhu Hongyu fell into deep thought after hearing this.
A bowl of water is flat, it is impossible for a bowl of water to be flat!
It's not that Zhu Hongyu doesn't want to, but that he can't do it.
The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were divided into northern and southern rankings. Even in the college entrance examination in later generations, the admission score lines for each region were still different.
Because of many factors such as educational resources, local prosperity, and economic development, complete fairness is nonsense.
Therefore, Zhu Hongyu has to consider how many places should be given to local governments in the Ming Dynasty imperial examination.
After pondering for a while, Zhu Hongyu's eyes flashed brightly, as if he had a good idea, and he suggested it.
“Let’s determine the number of candidates for the local government based on the proportion of tax revenue the local government pays to the court!”
“The more you pay in taxes, the more places you will be eligible for; the less you pay, the fewer places you will be eligible for!”
"If a local government defaults on tax payments, the quota will also be reduced to a certain extent!"
Zhu Hongyu's idea was very simple. He wanted the local government to get involved in the issue of imperial examination quotas.
Look who the hell dares to owe the imperial court taxes!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If you dare to owe taxes, I will cut off your imperial examination quota.
In fact, there is an underlying logic behind what Zhu Hongyu did.
The purpose of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was to recruit officials, and to recruit officials, officials needed to be paid salaries.
Where does the salary come from?
Of course it’s taxes!
In this way, isn't the matter very clear?
If that place pays more taxes and can support more officials, it will give more official quotas.
The taxes paid by that place were low, and there were few officials it could afford to support. It even had to be subsidized by taxes from other places.
What else is there to say? Taxes are owed, right?
Just reduce the number of places in the imperial examination!
If Chongzhen had played such a trick like Zhu Hongyu back then, he really wouldn't have died of poverty.
As for whether doing so will lead to uneven local development and a small number of local officials monopolizing the court.
Then he would use a large amount of resources to feed his hometown, causing his hometown to develop faster and faster, pay more and more taxes, and obtain more and more imperial examination places...
The result is a snowball effect!
So much so that officials in a certain place completely controlled the government.
An alternative Donglin Party was born!
For example, Jiangnan, such as Jiangnan, and then Jiangnan...
Zhu Hongyu didn't care about this.
What does that say? Concentrate your efforts to do big things, get rich first and drive wealth later.
There is no such thing as fairness in this world!
Today's Ming Dynasty is quite dilapidated after experiencing the wars between the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The population loss was serious, the land was abandoned, and the city turned into ruins...
Even Southeast, which has always been prosperous, has been damaged.
Under such circumstances, the Ming Dynasty simply did not have enough manpower and material resources to promote the overall development of industrialization.
If Zhu Hongyu wanted to develop industry and commerce, he could only do it by concentrating his efforts on big things.
Focus on the development of several large cities, such as Nanjing, Guangzhou, etc., or provincial capital cities, and use industry and commerce to drive the industrial transformation of these large cities.
In the remaining areas, it is necessary to follow the traditional governance methods of the feudal dynasty in the past to calm the conflicts between people and land and stabilize the place.
As for how to calm the conflict between people and land, dividing land is the simplest, crudest and most effective method, if not one.
But Zhu Hongyu will not do this.
He will first clarify the location, ask for land parcels, and clarify the ownership and property rights of the local land.
After all this is done, the landless farmers in the local area will become the best industrial population.
When these landless peasants become an industrial population, the local landlords and gentry will definitely reduce land rents in order to retain tenants and give them valuable land.
In this way, local social conflicts will definitely be alleviated!
As for whether there will be too much landless land flowing into the city at once, which will cause industrial development to be unable to absorb it.
So much so that it creates a refugee problem!
Zhu Hongyu is not worried!
Because there is a shortage of people under his administration now!
Now he controls the entire southeast, but the combined population of the southeast is only 30 to 40 million.
Too many people died in the war!
The contradiction between man and land has been greatly alleviated.
No matter how hard Zhu Hongyu tries, the number of refugees he will create will not be too large.
It should be almost enough to meet the industrial development needs of those big cities!
Even if there are more, there are still plenty of places to put them.
When these big cities develop, we will use these big cities as the core to drive the development of the surrounding areas.
Finally, points are connected with lines, from lines to surfaces, to complete the industrial transformation of the entire Ming Dynasty.
Many of Zhu Hongyu's ideas are interlocked into a system.
If you want to achieve a goal, directly issuing decrees and hitting the target is the stupidest method.
Although Zhu Hongyu's current political methods are not clever enough, he has also begun to learn to use euphemistic political methods to achieve his goals.
For example, he wanted to urge local governments to pay all taxes, but he did not directly issue an order to ask local governments to pay all taxes.
Instead, they used euphemistic means and used the quota in the imperial examination to get the local landlords and gentry to take the initiative to pay all their taxes.
For another example, he wants to alleviate the contradiction between man and earth.
However, they did not directly order land distribution, but developed industry and commerce and used emerging industry and commerce to absorb the extra population.
If the goal can be achieved without causing serious conflicts, why do you need to make it a life-and-death struggle?
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ps: The last chapter has 3,000 words, and I updated it to 7,000 words today, so that’s all.