Chapter 281 Jinglue slashes the green camp with a knife
"The prosperity of a generation must be governed by a generation. How can we, the Qing Dynasty, make full use of the system of the old Ming Dynasty?"
In Jiangning, the governor Yan Wogong discussed matters with Governor Ma Guozhu and others. Governor Liu Yingbin of Anhui, Governor Chen Zhilong of Huaiyang, Admiral Chen Jin of Caojiang, Admiral Zhang Tianlu of Anhui and other Han Chinese civil and military officials were present, as well as Bashan and other Manchurian Maile Zhangjing.
At this time, General Tan Tai and his deputy He Luohui were still on the way.
Today, Yan Wogong summoned these people, and what he wanted to talk about was simple, which was why Duduo, Boluo and others went south, traveling thousands of miles with each passing day, and were invincible. At that time, the troops who had returned to the Ming Dynasty were also very brave, attacking cities and counties, and Duduo, Boluo and others
After leaving, these battalion soldiers who held the green flag quickly became incompetent?
"Chen Fuyuan, what do you think is the reason?"
The governor of Huaiyang is also called the governor of Fengyang, and he is the governor of Fengyang, Huai'an, Xuzhou, Yangzhou and other places. Chen Zhilong's title is Youqiandu Yushi, a second-rank official with very heavy powers. However, Chen Zhilong feels a little embarrassed and uneasy sitting here.
He was from Jiangxi. He passed the imperial examination in the Tianqi Dynasty and worked his way from Changde to Xi'an as Tongzhi. In the 16th year of Chongzhen, he surrendered to Li Zicheng and was appointed as Ningxia Jiedushi. When Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, he was appointed as Shaanxi Jiedushi and stayed in Xijing. But this is
The timing of surrendering to Li Zicheng was not right. Less than a year after his surrender, Li Zicheng defeated Shanhaiguan and was routed thousands of miles away.
Seeing that the situation was not good, he simply surrendered to the Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the year. The Qing government transferred him from Guanzhong, where he had held an official position for a long time, to Huaiyang, and succeeded Zhao Fuxing as governor of Huaiyang.
He was new, had no foundation at all, and was obviously distrusted by the Qing court.
"The official believes that most of the Green Camps are soldiers who will join the Ming Dynasty. Most of them just changed their flags and nothing else has changed. Therefore, many problems of the Ming Dynasty still exist today, such as all kinds of empty titles and empty names, and the deduction of soldiers' pay.
Wait, the Green Camp's combat effectiveness is not high." He didn't say much, so he only asked some very common questions.
"Liu Futai, what do you think?"
Liu Yingbin was gray-haired and in his sixties. He became an official at the end of Chongzhen's career and became a doctor in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. When Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, there were rumors that Chongzhen had gone south in secret. Liu Yingbin said that the emperor's empire could not be saved. How could a minister only care about his own family?
So he gave up his family and chased southward across the Yangtze River all night long.
However, his son Liu Gong gathered a crowd to vote for Liu Zeqing. He participated in supporting Prince Fu and proclaimed himself emperor, and was awarded the title of Shaoqing of Taichang Temple. He was then promoted to the general envoy. When the Qing army marched to Nanjing, he, Qian Qianyi and others opened the city to welcome the surrender.
, he was appointed governor of Chitai, Huining and other places with his original title.
After he took office, he only drank and recited poems and composed poems all day long, which led to Huizhou and other prefectures and counties being attacked by Jin Sheng and others one after another. Hong Chengchou once impeached him and asked him to be removed from office. However, when Yan Wogong came, he said that the situation in Anhui has improved.
Things are getting better, and it is not appropriate to change the coach at this time, so let him continue to stay in office.
"There are not too many elite soldiers, so they should be well-paid. Instead of setting up tens of thousands of green battalions in one province, it is better to retain more than 10,000 elite soldiers and support these more than 10,000 soldiers with the original tens of thousands of soldiers. If the soldiers and generals are well-paid, naturally
If military discipline can be established, there will be no rebellions in the local area, and if the generals are treated favorably, there will be no deprivation of soldiers' blood. In the final analysis, it is all about money and food."
"For example, in the Anhui provinces, if Anqing and Huizhou each have a general town with troops and horses stationed across the river, and then there is Taiping, and Chizhou each has a xie town, with 5,000 people in the main town and 3,000 in the auxiliary town, the total will only be 16,000
If the soldiers pay these sixty thousand with the original salary of tens of thousands of people, the soldiers can get one more tael of silver from their monthly salary, which makes it four or five taels."
"Not to mention that it can save tens of thousands of people on equipment, food, horses, mules and other expenses."
Yan Woggong nodded frequently, appreciating his opinion very much.
"Admiral Chen, you are the Admiral Cao Jiang and are responsible for river defense. Now Chongming and Jingjiang are both occupied by the Ming Navy and have repeatedly invaded the coast. What do you think?"
Chen Jin was originally the Ming Dynasty's Daling River Commander in Liaodong. He surrendered to the Qing Dynasty during the Huangtaiji period and joined the banner very early. Now he has earned half a career as a world official, Niulu Zhangjing. He was appointed governor of Denglai last year, so he knows a little about the navy.
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He was newly arrived in Jiangning as Admiral Cao Jiang and was responsible for Jiang defense. However, after arriving, he now has many ships, but they are all ordinary cargo ships, even fishing boats, or some very old-fashioned warships, similar to those in Chongming.
Compared with the battleships of the Ming Navy, they are basically unmatched.
Previously, he sent a ship to conduct reconnaissance, but he encountered a Ming army bird ship and a gunboat. He fired a row of cannons at the side and smashed the ship into pieces, killing all the soldiers on board.
As a result, the navy commander Cao Jiang does not dare to cross Zhenjiang at all.
"According to the strategy, the Jiang Navy is in name only. Now the soldiers are dissatisfied and the generals are not professional. Especially they are short of ships and artillery. They say they are naval forces, but most of them are infantry camps. Many people get dizzy when they get on board, let alone
It is said that we have been fighting in the storm. If we want the navy to have combat effectiveness, it must be reorganized. The current soldiers cannot be used, and we must recruit new soldiers who are accustomed to water. In the end, fishermen and boatmen will be the main ones."
"Then we need to build new warships, which should at least not be inferior to the warships of the Ming Navy. They also have to be equipped with artillery, which must be red-coated general cannons or Weiyuan general cannons. There are many more.
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After the Qing Dynasty occupied Nanjing, there was no such thing as the Admiral Caojiang. Now there is a new one, which is modeled on the original Caojiang of the Ming Dynasty. It has twelve battalions, leading the defense of the upper and lower rivers, starting from Jiujiang, Anqing, to Chizhou, Taiping, Jiangning, and then on.
As far as Zhenjiang and other places, water camps, water divisions and fleets are stationed in these important river defense places.
But now that Chen Jin came to take office, he discovered that the so-called Twelve Battalions of Caojiang had no name. The Twelve Battalions did exist, but only on the books. In fact, did each battalion have so many soldiers on the books? Can they be repaid?
Two things to say, not to mention that most of these soldiers are from the land camp and are not naval forces at all.
When the navy of the Ming Dynasty was defeated, most of them fled along the river, and not many surrendered.
If the navy has neither ships nor sailors, what is it called a navy?
Compared with the three naval divisions of the Ming Army at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the difference between heaven and earth is huge. It can't even compare with the water mark of Wu Yi, the Ming Water Transport Governor in Taihu Lake.
In order for the navy to stand up, he asked Duke Yanwo to grant him more authority, so that he could recruit water-loving people to form a new twelfth battalion, build new warships, install artillery, bows and arrows, etc., and even needed sufficient
Food and wages.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Anyway, at the end of the day, just don’t expect me to fight the Chongming Ming Army, we can’t fight in Taihu Lake, and you can’t blame me for the incompetence of the Navy, because when I come they will
It's like this, it can't be used at all, I have to reorganize it, and you have to support me.
He did not forget to add, "General Cao Jiang's 12th Battalion made many reports, saying that since he returned to the imperial court in May and June, he has not received food and salary for three or four months. If no salary is paid, everyone will live."
If we don’t go down, there may be a mutiny at any time.”
"The soldiers who went up to the river had a strong opinion of the governor of Anhui, and the soldiers who went down to the river had an even bigger opinion of the governor of Jiangning. They thought that now they can only huddle in Zhenjiang and dare not leave the camp at all."
When there was no Admiral Caojiang before, the governors of Huiningchi, Tai'anqing and other places were actually in charge of military affairs and food pay. Chen Jin's words were a complaint against Liu Yingbin. When he was in charge of the 12th Battalion of the Navy, he failed to provide
Even though they didn't have enough money, they couldn't reorganize and train these water camps.
As Liu Yingbin got older, he had already calmed down. Especially after his son died in the battle under Liu Zeqing, he had no time to care about such nonsense.
"Basically, the Shangjiang section is not peaceful. On the south bank of Ningtaichi there are Ming Governor Huang Daozhou, Admiral Zheng Zunqian and others, and local gentry such as Jin Sheng are causing trouble. However, on the north bank of Anqing and other places, there are people from Ming Dynasty, Shanxi, Henan and Hebei.
Governor Zhang Jinyan led Qihuang Forty-Eight Village and others into rebellion. After the two kings of Ying and Henan returned north with their troops, Admiral Zhang Tianlu and I relied on the little green camp under his men. We were short of food, pay, and equipment. Hong Fu spent time urging us to wait.
We are carrying out a campaign of suppression without giving any support, so what can we do, we can only try to maintain it."
"Now that Mr. Yan is planning a strategy for the south of the Yangtze River, please give him money and food first, otherwise there is a real danger of mutiny."
Duke Yan stroked his beard and sighed in front of Bashan and other Manchu generals, "Oh, it's really not easy for you, Liu Futai and Admiral Zhang."
"They haven't received food and salary for several months, but they can still work hard for the imperial court. They are really loyal. How can it be that Hong Fudu has been here for several months and not even raised any food and salary?"
"Jiangnan is so prosperous, where has all the money and food gone?"
Naturally, the money and food were stolen by the Qing princes such as Duduo, Azige, and Bolo. Tens of thousands of Manchu soldiers went south. Who didn't make a windfall?
You ask knowingly.
"Let's not talk about the past, but now the problem still needs to be solved. Although the regent has sent elite troops south, our local green camp must also play its role. The imperial court raises troops for a thousand days, doesn't it just use troops for a short time?
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"Liu Futai, Zhao Futai, you are responsible for raising money and food for the army. You must not only pay out the salary arrears of the Green Camp, but also immediately raise a batch to supply the troops of General Tan Tai who is coming soon."
Liu Yingbin was also a bachelor. "Based on our experience, now the treasury in various places is empty, there is nothing left over, and the officials have not been paid their salaries in months."
"Of course what you said is true, but there are problems that need to be solved. If the treasury doesn't have money and food, then it will be collected. I heard that the land in the east of Zhejiang Province can still support the imperial army and the ten armies. Where can they get the money and food?
?I heard that they are clearing their accumulated debts. They can do it, but we can’t?"
"If that doesn't work, then we can levy next year's taxes in advance. If next year's taxes aren't enough, we'll levy the next year's taxes."
"Now that military supplies are in short supply, arrears must be recovered. Anyone who fails to collect taxes will be dismissed from office on the spot and severely punished."
Liu Yingbin said that the inability to collect taxes at the local level was an old problem that started during the previous dynasty.
"I don't care, it's the Qing Dynasty now. Don't use the same old methods of the Ming Dynasty to deal with the court. Those local gentry are powerful. If anyone dares to find excuses to default, they will send troops to ransack their homes. Do they think it's still Zhu Ming now?"
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"Jing Lue, doing this will definitely provoke a popular uprising."
"A civil uprising? Aren't civil uprisings scary? Aren't those who gather in various places to protest and rebel mostly the powerful gentry in various places? So don't be too indulgent to them. Anyone who dares to rebel will have their homes confiscated and their fields confiscated."
“All localities must collect money and grain within a time limit, and if they fail to do so, they will be responsible for the consequences.”
"Admiral Chen, Admiral Zhang, your task is to inspect the camps, inspect the troops and horses, and train the troops. You must ensure that the rosters are consistent, and there must be no vacancies. Those who are old and weak will be laid off when necessary, and the vacancies will be filled when necessary.
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"As soon as General Tan Tai arrives, the green battalions from all over the country must follow him south and attack the enemy's nest in Shaoxing. The battle will be successful!"
Bashan and other generals were sitting on the side. They felt that Yan Jinglue was quite courageous and his words were very oppressive. He was worthy of being a capable official valued by the regent. Those minions were too good at perfunctory matters.
When you go back to report to the Prince Regent, you must tell these things properly. This kind of servant should raise the flag, and a worldly position is not an exaggerated reward.
With such a loyal slave, why worry about the remaining light being immortal!