Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 698
?As the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, the restoration of Nanjing brought great political significance. It can be said that whoever restores the southern capital will stand on the political commanding heights.

In particular, the blood of Longwu and Lu Fan was inherently insufficient. No matter who made the country, he felt a bit like a distant cousin who stole the family inheritance while the son was away.

For Longwu and Lu Fan, the recovery of Nanjing was an excellent opportunity to offset their lack of blood. Whoever advanced Nanjing would have an unshakable legal status.

If Longwu entered first, it would be due to the unfilial conduct of the main clan's descendants, which caused the world to be in turmoil and the country to be lost. However, as a side branch of Shufan, he tried his best to turn the tide and restore the ancestral temple.

The lineage of the Tang Dynasty is tantamount to rebuilding the rivers and mountains, reopening the ancestral foundation, and the legal system of the world will return to the Tang Dynasty.

If the king of Lu enters Nanjing first, the emperors will take turns to sit at my house tomorrow, and when Longwu and Shouyuan are exhausted, it must be Lu Fan who will inherit the rule.

In addition to Longwu and King Lu, Wang Yan also wanted the credit and prestige of recovering Nanjing. If he could enter Nanjing first, the court and the emperor would be gradually taken over by him, and he would control the future direction of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, he would In the best case, it will only be reduced to a local separatist regime, and in the worst case, it is possible to lose the army and die.

The three parties must strive for the credit for recovering Nanjing, which determines the political situation after the Ming Dynasty. Whoever makes concessions will have to stand aside in the future.

Now the three families are competing to fight for the rule of law.

In the third year of Longwu, generally speaking, Huguang, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places were in good weather, and no major disasters occurred. The harvested grain, plus the rice grain purchased from Nanyang, was enough for the people and the government.

But in war, food alone is not enough, there must be money, fodder, equipment and equipment, and various preparations must be made.

After He Tengjiao accepted Wang Yan's entrustment, he set off for Guizhou within a few days. Wang Jincai led 1 people from the Shence Right Army to accompany him. Twenty thousand soldiers have been released.

With the backing of [-] soldiers, I believe that He Tengjiao can integrate Guizhou, and then ensure that many companies can mine Guizhou's minerals, and guard against Sun Kewang who lives in Yunnan.

After He Tengjiao left Wuchang, the Governor's Mansion was taken over by Wang Yan. Before the construction of the Hanyang New City planned by Jiangbei was completed, Wang Yan temporarily took care of many things here.

Recently, news came from Jiangxi that after Longwu arrived in Ganzhou in early March, he did not stop and arrived at the front line in Anqing in mid-March.

At the same time, the Jiangxi Ming army was frequently mobilized. Li Yuanyin, Yan Keyi, Luo Chengyao, Xu Qiming and many other generals under Jin Shenghuan's Wuwei Zuojun, as well as Wuwei Youjun, Wuwei Zhongjun's Sun Shoufa, Wang Deren and others brought their own troops. The troops gathered in Anqing area.

Longwu paraded the troops, and in addition to leaving [-] new soldiers to guard the various places, a total of [-] troops were assembled.

The emperor's personal conquest, coupled with Jiangxi's great victory last year, made the soldiers no longer afraid of the Qing soldiers, and their morale was very high for a while. They only waited for the emperor to offer sacrifices and read out the call to barbarians before rushing towards Nanjing from top to bottom.

In order to cooperate with the emperor, Zheng Chenggong also left [-] housekeepers, and personally led an army of [-] to go north on a warship, attacking from the sea, and wanted to join forces with Longwu under the city of Nanjing.

A moment ago, the land in the south of the Yangtze River was turbulent, with white clouds and gray dogs, and the momentum of a battle was like rolling clouds.

On the vast land of the lake, the food, fodder, ordnance, and salary that Wang Yan needed were also transported to Wuchang by whole boats.

It passes through the Pearl River from Guangzhou, then Lingqu, then enters the Xiangshui River, and finally enters Dongting Lake to connect the Yangtze River to Wuchang.

In this section of the waterway, ships are densely covered, and the waterway is like a flowing blood vessel, sending various materials to Wuchang.

Wang Yan issued an order to mobilize hundreds of thousands of civilian laborers, and there were shirtless trackers on both sides of the waterway.

On the various official roads, mule carts, donkey carts, and wheelbarrows flocked endlessly from morning to night. People from all over the country and soldiers from the slack fields all participated in the transport team, and everyone pushed their carts on their shoulders to cover the road. And go.

In addition to the civilian workers who transported supplies, the army was also mobilized on a large scale. New recruits trained near Wuchang were sent to Guangdong and Guangxi, while Zhongwu and Zhongzhi from Guangdong and Guangxi were transferred to Wuchang.

Wang Yan did not expect that Jiangnan would be attacked so soon. He originally wanted to wait for the new recruits to form combat power before launching the Jiangnan campaign. Transfer the elite to Wuchang.

Many soldiers of the Five Loyalty Army who had been retired were also recruited again.

All of a sudden, in every village and village, cavalry galloped in and posted posters.

The veterans of the Five Loyalty Army went home one after another to pack their armor and weapons. When asked by their family members, they only replied, "Your Majesty ordered soldiers, and the military post has my name on it."

The old soldier bid farewell to his family without hesitation and rushed to Wuchang.

The whole of South China became hot all at once, but enthusiasm alone is not enough. When farming people fight wars, the test is still logistics.

When the soldiers and horses moved, the money flowed like water, and it couldn't be stopped.

Wang Yan had just established a feudal domain, and the confusion and loss of officials caused by the previous battle with the court had affected his preparations for war.

The most notable of these is that in such frequent and large-scale transfers, a lot of confusion has been formed. The entire shogunate does not know how much money has been spent, how much money is needed, how much money can be collected in a year, and so on.

Today, when preparations for the war were in full swing, Wang Yan summoned many officials from the vassal state to the governor's mansion to discuss matters, take care of the current finances, and make a budget, how much money will be needed to win this battle.

After He Tengjiao left, Huguang Governor's Mansion was slightly remodeled by Wang Yan, and the original lobby of the Governor's Mansion was changed into a meeting hall.

Now Wang Yan is just like Lu Fan, the officials are basically appointed by himself, and he has made some changes. He has set up seven ministers in the shogunate, and the assembly hall, which is actually the cabinet.

The ministers of the seven provinces are appointed by his staff or ministers, and each province is dedicated to helping Wang Yan deal with the affairs of a department, but they cannot be arbitrary when dealing with it. It needs to be discussed in the chamber, and only the ministers of the seven provinces can participate in the chamber. There are also various ministers, ministers, and Jiantai Yushi, as well as six subjects for Shizhong.

If these people feel that the topic is unreasonable, they can send it back for the seven ministers to deal with it again, and then discuss it again.

Of course, this system is just beginning to be explored, and there are still many problems, and there are not enough officials now, so it needs to be supplemented slowly.

At this time, most of the staff and officials who came to participate in the discussion had already arrived, a total of more than [-] people.

Everyone was sitting in the hall talking in twos and threes, talking about many problems in the recent preparations for the war, and the strangeness of this meeting hall.

At this time, Wang Yan arrived outside the meeting hall, and the guard at the door shouted immediately: "Your Highness is here!"

The meeting hall immediately fell silent, and when everyone saw Wang Yan stepping in under Lu Shikui's guard, they stood up to greet him.

The layout of the entire meeting hall is a bit weird. There are three steps in the lobby. On the highest step, there is a table and a chair. Sitting on it, you can overlook the entire lobby, and the second step is placed down. Seven desks and seven chairs, three steps to the ground, turned into a chapter desk, but no chairs.

On the opposite side of these three steps, there are more than 30 tables and chairs facing the steps, forming a group, which seems to be opposite to the group on the steps.

This is completely different from the traditional decoration. Fortunately, the staff of the shogunate have explained it before, and the corresponding official position is placed on each table, so many officials will not be unaware of their position.

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