"The armies of Shandong and Huaibei advance along the river and there is no guarantee of victory, but they should be sure of attacking Ningyuan from Juehua Island! I don't believe that Dorgon will die without saving Ningyuan... By the way, Zu Kefa’s memorial also mentioned that Dorgon was planning to dispatch 80 Niulu from various banners in the pass to cultivate land in Liao! Can he leave Ningyuan alone?”
In the West Nuan Pavilion of Fengtian Hall, Zhu Cixiang was standing in front of a huge map hanging on the wall with his hands behind his back, talking to four people behind him, including Li Yan, Wu Xiang, Wu Guoyong, and Huang Binqing.
The newly completed Fengtian Hall has two attached pavilions, Dongnuan Pavilion and Xinuan Pavilion. Among them, Dongnuan Pavilion is where Zhu Cihong worked, reviewed memorials, and held small court meetings between the two palaces. Xinuang Pavilion is where Zhu Cihong handles military secrets. Members of the General Staff Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion are on duty there twelve hours a day - an office under the Generalissimo's Mansion. After Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, General Fujun The marshal carried out some reorganization. The post of generalissimo once held by Zhu Cixiang will be vacant for a long time. At the same time, two positions of left and right military advisors in the generalissimo's office were established to preside over the daily work of the generalissimo's office.
Under the left and right military advisors, there are five departments including the General Staff Department, the Military Science Department, the Naval Department, the Youtong Political Department, and the Wuwei Department, as well as two guards including the Jinyiwei and the Shangzhiwei.
The Staff Department is similar to the General Staff Department in later generations. The chief is called the Chief of Staff, and it is concurrently held by one of the left and right military advisors. The current Chief of Staff is Wu Guoyong, the right military advisor.
As the name suggests, the Military Education Department manages military education. The chief officer is called the Military Education Secretary, who is also held by one of the left and right military advisors. The current Military Education Envoy is Li Yan, the left military advisor.
The Navy Department is in charge of the navy (water force), and the naval commander is Huang Binqing. Currently, only the Yangtze River Navy is under its jurisdiction...A real navy cannot be built by just building it, it must have a accumulation Sailors and the process of developing the shipbuilding industry - and sailors and shipbuilding are often linked to the central ports of ocean trade. Only in central ports will sailors and shipyards gather in large numbers.
In Nanming right now, the only cities that can be called "central ports" are Guangzhou, Quanzhou and the booming Shanghai.
Although Shanghai is developing rapidly, its foundation is ultimately insufficient. If it does not last ten or twenty years, it will be difficult for it to replace Guangzhou and Quanzhou as the world's number one port.
And Guangzhou and Quanzhou are on the edge of the Nanming imperial power's ability to control... It doesn't mean that they can be controlled by controlling them!
Since Quanzhou’s surname is Zheng, there is no need to say more. The situation in Guangfu is not much better. Although Cao Youyi has brought two to three hundred thousand "begging groups" to Guangfu to settle down, and is still building cities and reclaiming land in the sparsely populated "Hong Kong-Shenzhen" area, their arrival is at best a shock. The local wealthy families in Guangfu, Zhaoqing, and Huizhou are not even big fans of Chaoshan, and the maritime merchants and pirates active in the coastal areas of Guangdong are even more out of control...
The Right General Affairs Department is in charge of military mail, which is the transmission of information and orders. The current envoy is Gongshun Hou Wu Ruzheng.
The Department of Armed Forces and Health is in charge of personnel, but it does not manage all personnel. It only manages the appointment and dispatch of officers, and does not care about the promotion, demotion and merit examination of officers - that is, where the officers go to serve, it is managed by the Department of Armed and Guard of the Generalissimo's Palace. The promotion and elimination of officers is managed by the Merit Examination Department of the Ministry of War.
The person currently in charge of the Wu Wei Department is Li Ruolian, who returned from Shandong.
Jinyiwei is still the same as before, a spy organization controlled by Zhu Chunjie.
On the other hand, Shangzhiwei is an yamen in charge of prostitution - Zhu Cihong still partially adopted the suggestions in the "Admonishment and Feng Suggestions" and implemented the policy of "officials are governed by officials, feudals are governed by feudalism". For those who are temporarily unable to implement official management, The territory was controlled by enfeoffing vassal lords (inner vassals, and vassal states that submitted to the Ming Dynasty were called outer vassals). The feudal lord who was granted the title had to hand over the hostage, usually a proton, and after arriving in Nanjing or Wuhan, he was given the official position of Kamizhiwei to raise (control) him.
The titles of feudal lords are currently temporary envoys, governors, governors, princes, princes, and municipal bureaus. This bureau is a "collective lord" and is not composed of natural persons, but A collective group serves as the feudal lord!
But don’t think that this system that looks like parliamentary democracy was copied from the market by Zhu Cixiang. Zhu Cixiang is now the emperor, so he doesn’t like parliament or anything like that!
This "discussing bureau" appeared during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty! It is a "native" system of the Ming Dynasty. It appeared in Huizhou and was established by a group of scholars who made trouble to resist taxes. The reason was that She County, the first county in Huizhou Prefecture, had to bear a sum of 9,000 pieces of "human silk silk" (which had to be handed over every year). It had been paid for 200 years, but nothing happened. As a result, there was a riot during the Wanli period, and the six counties were mutually responsible. Shifting the blame, no one is willing to pay taxes, and Wanli has issued an imperial edict to coordinate and do nothing.
For the sake of thousands of taels of tax revenue a year, six counties in Huizhou were in chaos, and the government was paralyzed. In this case, a discussion bureau organized by the gentry emerged to maintain the situation in Huizhou and bargain with the court on behalf of the people of Huizhou... However, this Huizhou discussion bureau did not continue to operate. After reaching an agreement with the Ministry of Household Affairs of the court, Later, it disbanded on its own.
However, Ji Kun, Huang Zongxi, Gu Jiang, and Wang Fuzhi all knew about the Huizhou Council, so they regarded it as a "precedent" and stuffed it into the "Recommendation and Recommendations for Political Essays" - this epistle was given by Zhu Cihang The purpose of their visit was to allow a few of their "thoughtful" guys to propose a draft of "feudal" laws. Zhu Cixiang can then modify it and then promulgate it for implementation.
And this "feudal" blockage was not eliminated by Zhu Cixiang, because Zhu Cixiang needed to use it to solve the Macau problem... This is also a headache!
But compared with the Northern Expedition issue that Emperor Hongxing was going to discuss with several of his subordinates today, it was not worth mentioning.
"Your Majesty, the battle of Ningyuan will be won, but Dorgon may not send troops to rescue him." Wu Xiang said to Zhu Cixiang, "And the armies of Huaishang and Shandong going west will be defeated!"
Zhu Cixiang didn't quite believe in Wu Xiang's military skills, so he looked at Li Yan again.
Li Yan said: "Your Majesty, I will win and the captives will be defeated! With the abilities of Dorgon and Duoduo, can they fight a battle that is bound to be defeated?"
"But..." Zhu Cixi thought for a while, "Beyond the pass is Donglu's hometown! How can he ignore it?"
Wu Guoyong interjected: "Your Majesty, do you think our army can seize the land outside the pass of Donglu by taking Ningyuan City?"
"This... can always block the Liaoxi Corridor, making it inconvenient to travel within and outside the customs, right?"
Wu Guoyong said: "The Donglu are not merchants, so what if transportation is inconvenient?"
Zhu Cixiang frowned: "So the battle of Ningyuan is not feasible?"
"No," Wu Xiang shook his head and said, "Isn't the purpose of running Juehua Island just to capture Ningyuan? Now that the foundation of Juehua Island is solid, it's time to take a step further.
However, the capture of Ningyuan is only the beginning of the Ping Liao, and we cannot expect to complete the victory in one battle... If we want to recover the entire Liao, we must fight and advance along the west coast of Liao, the east coast of Liao and both sides of the Liao River, build fortresses, and camp step by step, consuming a whole army. It will take twenty years of hard work to achieve great success. "
"How much will it cost? How many soldiers will be used?" Zhu Cixiang asked.
"Um..." Wu Xiang looked at Li Yan, "I am the Minister of the Ministry of War, and I have nothing to do with military strategy and planning."
Li Yan said: "Your Majesty, it's not about money or soldiers, it's about horses! The coastline from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhouwei is only a thousand miles. Building a fort fifty miles away means twenty forts. How much does it cost to build a fortress with sandbags? One fort can have 1,000 or 500 troops, and twenty forts can have 20,000 troops. Supplemented by one or two elite divisions and several regiments of cavalry, we can make all the coastal areas of Liaodong and western Liaoning our own. And the key to this is , just a few regiments of cavalry... Can the two cavalry regiments we have on hand leave the infantry and artillery of the brigade and fight in the field with Donglu's cavalry?
If our cavalry cannot fight the Donglu alone on the thousand-mile front in western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning, we will have to rely on infantry phalanxes and artillery to fight the enemy everywhere... The elites of the first and second divisions may not be enough! And it is also difficult to fight a large number of enemies. "
