There is a space for passenger planes in the late Ming Dynasty

Capturing Kaifeng Mansion means that Lin Feng has occupied the entire Henan Province except Beisan Mansion. Beisan Mansion does not have many troops and should be able to spread the word soon.

After Lin Feng entered the city, he quickly issued three orders. The first is to order Lu Jun to lead the Henan Combat Division to the north, and carry the surrender order jointly signed by the former Henan Governor Gao Mingheng and the Commander-in-Chief Chen Yongfu to surrender the three prefectures of Huaiqing, Weihui and Zhangde north of Kaifeng Prefecture, thus achieving complete control of Henan. Complete occupation of the province.

The second is to order Zhou Yuji to lead the Kaifeng Combat Division to comprehensively eliminate the remaining enemies in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Kaifu Prefecture and eliminate various hidden dangers.

The third is to order Hong Tu to lead the Third Mobile Combat Division back to Guide Mansion in southern Henan. On the one hand, he will eliminate the remaining enemies of the Ming army, and on the other hand, he will build a defense line against the Ming army in Shandong and South Zhili.

At the same time, Lin Feng ordered Song Jilie to be responsible for reorganizing the Kaifeng Mansion and the Ming Army's surrendered troops, and continued to hold training courses for surrendered officers and officials to train available people as soon as possible.

This time they occupied the entire Henan Province, and there were nine directly affiliated state capitals alone. There was a severe shortage of officials of all types.

Before the generals set out, under the leadership of Song Jilie, they launched the first campaign of the Zhenming Army system to persuade Lin Feng to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor to rectify his name.

They have almost conquered the entire Henan Province, and the Zhenming Army is invincible. Everyone knows that Lin Feng's fight for world supremacy is unstoppable. How long will it take him not to persuade him to advance now?
Even the Zhou king of Lao Zhu's family also participated. He shamelessly criticized Emperor Chongzhen for not being good at governing the country and losing the support of the people. The Han people were about to perish. He implored Lin Feng to help the generals collapse and inherit the rule of the Han people.

Lin Feng asked everyone to complete the assigned tasks first, and he would seriously consider proclaiming himself emperor.

After arranging these important matters, Lin Feng thanked the guests behind closed doors at the Kaifeng government office, entered the space of the passenger plane, lay down in his exclusive business seat, and began to seriously consider the next step.

The first is the matter of proclaiming emperor.

At present, the Zhenming Army has occupied nearly three provinces and has an elite force of 160,000 to 70,000. It is obviously inappropriate to continue to use the name Zhenminghou, who was conferred by the Ming court.

But if he becomes emperor immediately, his strength is almost there. In history, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others established the Dashun and Daxi Dynasties and proclaimed themselves emperors, but their strength was not as strong as the current Zhenming Army.

However, Lin Feng was not very willing to proclaim himself emperor prematurely. As a soul from later generations, once you are called a loner, it means you are a loner.

Moreover, Lin Feng has not yet thought about the political system he will adopt in the future. Whether he will monopolize power like Zhu Yuanzhang or adopt the more mature cabinet system of the mid-Ming Dynasty, he has to think carefully about it.

Absolute power can naturally ensure that the imperial power is in hand, but dealing with government affairs is exhausting, and he does not want to be a workaholic like Zhu Yuanzhang.

Adopting a cabinet system can effectively share government affairs, but it must prevent the cabinet from expanding its power and overriding the imperial power.

Before considering these issues clearly, Lin Feng decided to postpone proclaiming himself emperor. He could first change his name to King Zhenming and try out the subsequent political system.

With such a large territory and countless generals under his command, it would be too cheap to call him a marquis.

But Lin Feng liked the name Zhenming very much. Historically, the Ming Dynasty was considered the most upright Han Dynasty, and it was always known for the integrity of the emperor who guarded the country and the emperor who died for the country. If possible, it is better to stick to Zhenming.

The second issue that needs to be considered is the establishment of local government agencies.

In the past, the territory occupied by the Zhenming Army was not large, and the Governor-General's Office could directly govern each government. Now that we have occupied areas close to the 17th and 18th prefectures of three provinces, the direct management of the governor's office will definitely not be able to manage them. We must consider the establishment of a provincial-level administrative structure.

Now the Ming Dynasty has set up a system for provincial-level officials to separate the three powers of the Department of Acknowledgment and Proclamation, the Department of Punishment and Prosecution, and the Department of Command and Envoy, which checks and balances each other. However, this has led to mutual disputes and low efficiency, and it has had to establish governors, The Governor will coordinate.

But the strange thing is that the governor and governor were established without reducing the establishment of the three departments, which resulted in overlapping agencies, confusing official positions, and unclear responsibilities.

So Lin Feng considered directly setting up a governor in a province to take charge of general and specific civil affairs affairs, and set up a department of criminal prosecution and inspection and a department of command and envoys to be responsible for criminal matters and military affairs. However, these two departments implement dual leadership and must accept the leadership of the governor. , and must accept the leadership of the Justice Department and Staff Department of the Governor's Mansion. Moreover, the Command and Envoy Department is only responsible for commanding military affairs such as the strength of the people, recruitment, and logistics. In this way, there is no need to worry about the governor having too much power and wanting to rebel.

At the same time, 1-2 geographically famous divisions are stationed in each province to take charge of regional defense and suppress possible insurgents and bandits. Numbered divisions are stationed on a mobile basis according to offensive needs and are not fixed in any province.

These regular troops only obey the dispatch and command of the staff and are not subject to local jurisdiction and do not interfere in local affairs. This can effectively prevent military-political collusion and the emergence of a powerful force that cannot be eliminated.

Therefore, even if the governor can control civil affairs and criminal names, he cannot control the army, and it is impossible to form a vassal town that the central government cannot control.

Taking into account the special needs of wartime, a directional corps can be formed as appropriate, and the staff department will send senior officers to serve as supervisors to implement unified command of the troops in one direction.

At present, the Zhenming Army has established two corps in northern Shanxi and Luoyang, with Lu Xiangsheng and Song Jilie serving as commanders respectively.

Next, Lin Feng considered setting up directional corps according to the needs of attacking Zhang Xianzhong and Manta to improve the efficiency of command.

There is another question, that is, whether to establish a system of princes, princes, princes, etc. The ancients had a strong obsession with conferring titles and becoming prime ministers, and many senior officials of the Zhenming Army probably had this idea.

If this reward system were not adopted, it would be difficult to account for Conglong's meritorious officials, and it would also be difficult to place some senior officials of the Ming court who surrendered.

But if we want to establish a royal title system, should we follow the Ming Dynasty's four levels of king, duke, marquis and uncle, or should we set up additional levels, what kind of treatment will be given, whether the finance can afford it, etc. These issues all need to be well understood. consider.

Lin Feng thought for a while and felt that this reward mechanism had existed in all dynasties in the past. He should respect the tradition, but with some restrictions.

For example, the inheritance of kings must be reduced from generation to generation. Great achievements and blessings can only last three generations, and a group of descendants cannot be raised. This can also prevent the number of royal titles from increasing but not decreasing, and increasing the number of titles, which will one day bring down the country's finances.

For another example, the honorary nature of the title must be set, and more political treatment should be given, such as respect for etiquette and participation in major events, while the substantive salary should be reduced to reduce the financial burden.

As for the specific regulations and benefits, they still need to be discussed with everyone. Lin Feng can only set broad principles. If he doesn't have the energy, he shouldn't make all the decisions by himself.

Finally, there is the issue of selecting the governors of the three provinces. Lin Feng is also very troubled by this. There are too few civilian officials available in the Zhenming Army system.

It turns out that those with higher ranks were all demoted from the Ming court, and they would not be safe to use unless they were properly reformed. Most of the officials promoted by the Zhenming Army had a very low starting point. They were promoted from a clerk to the position of chief official of the state capital within two years.

After repeatedly calling the available people at hand, Lin Feng felt that his father-in-law Feng Ziming was considered a person. After all, he was a relative. It turned out that he had a high starting point as he had been an official in Taiyuan Prefecture.

Yang Tinglin, the current prefect of Taiyuan in Shanxi, can also be considered. He was originally a Hanlin, worked in the central government of the Ming Dynasty, and has relatively strong abilities.

There are no suitable ones left, and we can only look for them from among the high-ranking officials who surrendered to the imperial court. The current governors who have been demoted include Song Xian, the former governor of Shanxi, and Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan.

Gao Mingheng had just surrendered, so it was definitely inappropriate. Song Xian had already attended an official training class and served as the prefect of Yan'an Prefecture, which was pretty good.

In this way, among the candidates for governor of the three provinces, one was a relative, one was a low-level official who took the initiative to join the Zhenming Army, and one was a senior official of the Ming court who surrendered. There were representatives from all walks of life.

After considering these major issues, Lin Feng rested in the space for a while and opened a blind box with great interest, but unfortunately there was no useful harvest. But there are too few things that can make him feel very useful.

(End of this chapter)