In the afternoon of the same day, the rural protection army that entered the city eliminated the last group of organized and stubborn enemies in the city, thus declaring that the city had been completely captured.
What's interesting is that when the military operations in the city had just ended, the soldiers who entered the city to protect the countryside were still busy cleaning up the scattered Ming army's defeated troops, and a small number of them resisted the gentry and officials.
The original Chengtian Prefecture Magistrate's Yamen has been replaced by the signboard of Anlu Prefecture Yamen.
The reason why the name was changed is because the name Chengtian Mansion comes from Zhu Houcong, Shizong of the Ming Dynasty. Before Shizong of the Ming Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he was King Xing and was vassal of Anlu Prefecture.
After this person succeeded to the throne, he directly changed the fiefdom to Chengtian Mansion.
In ancient traditional dynasties, names such as Chengtian, Shuntian, Yingtian, and Chengtian generally have special meanings, either the location of the capital, the capital, or the emperor's fiefdom.
Since the Baoxiang Army came here to rebel, they naturally would not continue to call the Anlu area Chengtianfu and directly change it back to its original name of Anlu.
The Anlu Prefecture Magistrate's Office was established a month ago, but it had been setting up temporary offices in the suburbs of Beicheng before.
Now that Zhongxiang City has been conquered, the Anlu Mansion Yamen will naturally move into the city. The reason why they are so anxious to enter the city is because they think someone is more anxious than them.
That is the Anlu Prefecture Taxation Bureau.
The tax bureau under the rule of the Baoxiang Army has always been the vanguard. Often when the army attacks a certain place with the front foot, the tax bureau officials follow suit.
Zhongxiang is no exception.
Before the Baoxiang Army conquered the city, the Anlu Prefecture Taxation Bureau had been established for a long time, and the number of formally established tax officers and tax patrols in it had reached 500, and they had begun to collect taxes in the surrounding areas. .
The army had just broken through the city in the morning, and tax officials from the Anlu Prefecture Taxation Bureau had already entered the city with the army.
And the tax officials of the Baoxiang Army will not act alone. They also have hundreds of tax patrol officers...
Among these hundreds of tax patrol policemen, half were local gangsters and other scum, while the other half were tax investigation officers and some of the backbone of armed tax policemen drawn from the Xiangyang Prefecture Taxation Bureau.
The reason why these scumbags are so impatient to enter the city is that they are eager to perform meritorious deeds. They want to confiscate the assets of the officials and recalcitrant gentry in the city as soon as possible, and ensure that the confiscated assets are not lost...
To put it privately, it's too early to go and make money before those gentry transfer their assets!
If we wait for a few days, what if the gentry all transfer the money?
You can dig a hole anywhere, bury the money, and then you can't do anything when the person runs away!
If this copy is not much, how can those tax scumbags take advantage of it? How can they support their families with no money...
The Anlu Prefecture Taxation Bureau was so proactive and impatient that the Anlu Prefecture Magistrate's Yamen was forced to follow up.
It can't be said that the tax bureau has already opened its doors in the city and started working. The prefects, Magistrate Zhongxiang and other civil officials are still waiting behind.
Therefore, a group of civil servants including Anlu Mansion also entered the city.
In this regard, Dong Xinxin, the prefect of Anlu Prefecture, was still dissatisfied. He had to go to the city so early despite working well outside.
There is so much chaos everywhere in the city now that it is impossible to work properly.
They can wait until the army has cleared away the remaining soldiers in the city and completely controlled the situation in the city before entering the city for work.
But those bastards at the tax bureau are too impatient.
However, now that everyone has entered the city, Dong Qinxin has also started to do things. The first thing he needs to do is to arrange the patrol bureau under his command to maintain law and order and cooperate with the military to carry out cleanup operations.
In addition, the livelihood of ordinary people in the city must be protected.
The rural protection army surrounded Zhongxiang for a long time. Even if it was not a complete siege, there was not much food in the city, and other daily necessities were also in extremely short supply. Dong Qinxin had to find a way to transport materials to supply the people's livelihood in the city.
And he is very good at doing these things, and he won't cause any trouble.
He had already done it for a while when he was in Dengzhou, and he knew what to do.
In addition, he also thought that if he did well as the governor of Anlu Prefecture this time, he might be promoted again in a while.
Sure enough, it was not wrong to directly choose to surrender to the Chengbaoxiang Army.
Just a few months ago, he, Dong Quanxin, was just a seventh-rank state magistrate. After surrendering to the Chengbao Xiangjun, he was directly promoted to the fifth rank and became the governor of Dengzhou, a full fifth rank.
He had only been the magistrate of Dengzhou for two months. The superiors saw that he handled affairs quite well, especially in Dengzhou's post-war restoration of people's livelihood affairs, so they quickly transferred him to Xiangyang to assist the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Officials such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry formulated a series of strategies to restore people's livelihood affairs after the war.
Then the army marched south to Zhongxiang, and Luo Zhixue formally established the Anlu Prefecture. Among the candidates for the prefecture was Dong Qinxin.
Although this person was demoted, he has done quite well in the past few months, and his daily remarks are also very positive. He does not look like an official in the Baoxiang Army, but he has the Ming Dynasty in his heart.
So after Luo Zhixue talked with him several times, they finally decided to make this person the prefect of Anlu Prefecture.
As a result, Dong Quanxin, who was demoted, became the fourth prefect under the Baoxiang Army system.
Before him, Luo Zhixue had successively established three prefectural offices, Nanyang Prefecture, Xiangyang Prefecture, and Yunyang Prefecture, and Anlu Prefecture was the fourth.
In fact, not long after, Luo Zhixue also established two prefectures, De'an Prefecture and Jingzhou Prefecture, but these two prefectures were only empty for the time being.
Because the Baoxiang Army had not yet had time to capture Jingzhou Prefecture and De'an Prefecture.
Setting up these two offices now is just preparation in advance.
The Baoxiang Army often sets up administrative agencies in a certain place in advance so that they can take over the administration of the place as soon as possible after the army conquers the place.
For example, the current Baoxiang Army has also established Jinzhou, Pingli and other counties in Hanzhong Prefecture in the west, but in fact, the troops of the Baoxiang Army have not yet reached this place. County offices in similar places are often Underground actions are taken to collect intelligence, infiltrate and control local forces, and pave the way for subsequent army attacks.
The reason Dong Xinxin was able to be promoted to the prefecture of Anlu Prefecture so quickly was because the Baoxiang Army had established a large number of prefecture, state, and county offices in recent months, which in turn resulted in a lack of a large number of middle- and senior-level civil servants.
For today's Baoxiang Army system, there is no shortage of middle- and low-level officials such as ordinary clerks. After all, although there are not many people in the Baoxiang Army system with academic titles or above, there are many scholars who are Tongsheng or even Tongsheng. Still a lot.
There are even more people who are not proficient in scriptures but are still literate and only have the most basic level of education.
However, if you ask most of them to be clerks, writing documents and doing some ordinary things is fine, but if you ask them to directly take charge of a party, you will be blind...
Even though the Baoxiang Military and Personnel Affairs Department has directly compiled ready-made policy essentials based on its governance experience so that newly arrived officials can learn to do it, it is still very troublesome.
After all, the officials in charge of the government, even the smallest magistrate, are in charge of the livelihood affairs of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, while the county magistrate is in charge of the livelihood affairs of tens of thousands or even more people.
Once these people make any mistakes in their governance, it will directly affect the lives of thousands of people. We must not be careless.
In order to select many qualified senior administrative talents, Luo Zhixue also worried about it. On the one hand, he trained himself, and on the other hand, he also tried to recruit talents through demotion.
Dong Xinxin is a talented person who has emerged among a large number of demoted officials.
There's nothing wrong with my thinking, and there's nothing wrong with my work. Although I can't see any outstanding advantages, the best thing is that there are no obvious flaws...
It can be regarded as a satisfactory evaluation.
However, such an evaluation is already rare in the Baoxiangjun system.
Otherwise, Luo Zhixue would not have let him become the prefect of Anlu Prefecture.
When Dong Xinxin became the prefect of Zhongxiang City and began to maintain law and order and restore people's livelihood in the city, the main force of the rural protection army in Zhongxiang City also left the city and rushed to various places.
Since there was no known large-scale Ming army in the surrounding area, Luo Zhixue also tried to divide his troops to speed up the capture of various counties.
The 1st Infantry Brigade of the 1st Division and other troops continued to move south along the Han River. Their subsequent goal was to rely on the Han River as the main transportation channel, sweep through the cities along the Han River, and finally kill Hanyang.
The division's 2nd Infantry Brigade has strengthened its strength with two field artillery posts, one mortar post, two cavalry posts, two baggage sentries, etc., and formed a temporary mixed brigade. The commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade Xu Xu He led the troops eastward to Jingshan.
After capturing Jingshan, the mixed brigade will continue to Yingcheng, Yunmeng, Xiaogan and other areas of De'an Prefecture to threaten Hanyang from the north.
The First Division divided its troops into two groups, one taking the northern route and the other taking the Han River, but the goal was the same, which was to go to Hanyang.
In addition to the 1st Division, the 5th Garrison Brigade will stay in Zhongxiang City, guarding and reorganizing more than 15,000 surrendered troops!
This time the Baoxiang Army captured Zhongxiang. In addition to seizing a large amount of food, ordnance, gold and silver and other trophies, they also captured/accepted more than 15,000 surrendered soldiers.
Naturally, so many surrendered troops cannot be left alone. Instead, they will be selected according to the long-standing rules of the Baoxiang Army. Some of them will be selected and reorganized into the garrison, and some will be first organized into reclamation camps, construction camps, and transportation camps. Battalions and other auxiliary battalions under military management will be released one after another.
Of course, some die-hards will inevitably be sent to prisoner-of-war camps!
Judging from the quality of this batch of surrendered troops, it is estimated that a garrison of about 6,000 people can be selected. This may not seem like a lot, but this is a situation where the Baoxiang Army has relaxed its requirements.
You know, in fact, among the more than 20,000 Zhong Xiang's garrison, there are only two to three thousand soldiers in total, and the rest are ordinary guards or young and strong soldiers.
If you directly select 6,000 people, you will actually transfer some of the ordinary guard soldiers and young men who have not received much military training.
These 6,000 men will be mixed with the existing troops of the Fifth Guards Brigade and eventually formed into another garrison regiment of the Third Guards Brigade.
One of the garrison regiments stayed behind to guard Zhongxiang, while the newly formed Third Garrison Division's mission was to launch an attack toward the southwest to seize Jingzhou Mansion.
Counting this third garrison division, the second phase of the Baoxiang Army's march south can be seen as the division of troops into three groups. Moreover, the main strategic goal is not to engage in a large-scale decisive battle with the Ming Army, but to divide the troops as much as possible to capture as many troops as possible. place to completely control all parts of northern Chu.
The Home Guard Army wants to swallow up the entire Northern Chu!
The reason why the Baoxiang Army dared to divide its troops confidently and boldly was also because after the early Battle of Xiangyang, the Battle of Sanyuanzhuang, and the Battle of Yicheng and Zhongxiang in the south.
The mobile strength of Chubei and even the entire Huguang officers and soldiers has been lost!
Now looking at the whole of Chubei, it is difficult for the Hometown Protection Army to find an opponent!
