I want to be emperor

Chapter 214 Whale swallowing Chubei
In the afternoon of the same day, the rural protection army that entered the city wiped out the last group of organized and recalcitrant enemies in the city, thus announcing the complete capture of the city.

Interestingly, when the military operations in the city had just ended, the troops entering the city to protect the countryside were still busy cleaning up scattered Ming army routs, and a small number of them were stubbornly resisting the gentry and officials.

The original Yamen of the prefect of Chengtian Mansion has been replaced with the signboard of the Yamen of Anlu Mansion.

The reason why the name was changed was because the name Chengtianfu originated from Zhu Houcong, Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty. Before Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he was King Xing, who was in Anlu Prefecture.

After this person succeeded to the throne, he directly changed the fief to Chengtian Mansion.

In ancient traditional dynasties, names such as Chengtian, Shuntian, Yingtian, and Chengtian generally had special meanings, either referring to the location of the capital, or the location of the accompanying capital, or the fiefdom of the emperor.

And the Township Protection Army came to rebel, so naturally they would not continue to call the Anlu area Chengtianfu, and directly changed it back to the original name Anlu.

The magistrate's yamen of Anlu Prefecture had been established a month ago, but it had been setting up temporary yamen in the suburbs of Beicheng.

Now that Zhongxiang City has been conquered, the Yamen of Anlu Mansion will naturally move into the city, and the reason why they are so anxious to enter the city is because they think that someone is more anxious than them.

That is the Anlu Prefecture Taxation Bureau.

The Taxation Bureau under the Rural Protection Army has always been a vanguard. Often when the army captures a certain place first, the officials of the Taxation Bureau come later.

Zhongxiang is no exception.

Before the Rural Protection Army entered the city, the Anlu Prefecture Taxation Bureau had been established for a long time, and there were [-] tax officers and tax patrols formally organized in it, and tax collection began in the surrounding areas. .

As soon as the army broke through the city in the morning, tax officials from the Anlu Mansion Taxation Bureau had already entered the city with the army.

And the tax officials of the Township Protection Army will not act alone, they also have hundreds of tax patrols with them...

Among the hundreds of tax police officers, half were all kinds of green-skinned hooligans and other scum recruited on the spot, and the other half were some tax investigation officials and some backbone of armed tax police officers drawn from the Xiangyang Prefecture Taxation Bureau.

The reason why these scumbags are so impatient to enter the city is because they are eager to make contributions. They want to confiscate the assets of the official and recalcitrant gentry in the city as soon as possible, so as to ensure that the confiscated assets will not be lost...

In private, it's too early to make money before those gentry transfer their assets!
If you wait for a few days, what if the gentry transfer the money away?
People dig a hole in any place, bury the money, and then you don't recruit if they run away!

If there is not much copy here, how can those tax scumbags take advantage of it, how can they support their families without money...

The Taxation Bureau of Anlu Prefecture was so active and impatient, the prefect's yamen of Anlu Prefecture was forced to follow up.

It can't be said that the tax bureau has already registered in the city and started to work. Those prefects, Zhongxiang county magistrate and other civil officials are still waiting behind.

Therefore, a group of civil servants such as the Anlu Mansion also entered the city.

Regarding this, Dong Xinxin, the prefect of Anlu Prefecture, was still dissatisfied. He had to go to the city so early because he had done a good job outside.

Now the city is full of chaos, and there is no way to work properly.

They can wait for the army to wipe out the remaining soldiers in the city and completely control the situation in the city before entering the city to work.

But those bastards from the tax bureau are too impatient.

However, since they have all entered the city, Dong Xin has also started to work. The first thing to do is to arrange the patrol station under his command to maintain law and order, and cooperate with the military to carry out the purge operation.

In addition, the livelihood of ordinary people in the city must be protected.

The Township Protection Army surrounded Zhongxiang for a long time, even if they did not completely siege the city, there was not much food in the city, and other living supplies were also extremely scarce, so Dong Xin had to find a way to transport supplies to supply the people's livelihood in the city.

And he can be considered handy in doing these things, and there will be no troubles.

He had already done it for a while when he was in Dengzhou before, and he knew what to do.

In addition, he also thought that if he did a good job as the magistrate of Anlu Prefecture this time, he might be able to be promoted again after a while.

Sure enough, there was nothing wrong with directly choosing to join the Chengbao Township Army.

Just a few months ago, he, Dong Xin, was just a mere state judge from the seventh rank, but after he surrendered to the rural protection army, he was directly promoted to five ranks and became the magistrate of Dengzhou, the fifth rank.

It's only been two months since he was the magistrate of Dengzhou. The superiors saw that he handled affairs well, especially in the restoration of people's livelihood in Dengzhou after the war, so he was quickly transferred to Xiangyang to assist the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Officials such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry formulated a series of strategies to restore people's livelihood after the war.

Then the army went south to Zhongxiang, and Luo Zhixue officially established the Anlu Mansion, and Dong Xinxin was among the candidates for the magistrate.

Although this person is a demoted official, he has done pretty well in the past few months, and his daily remarks are also very positive. He doesn't look like a person who is an official in the rural protection army but has the Ming Dynasty in his heart.

So after Luo Zhixue talked with him a few times, it was finally decided that this person should be the prefect of Anlu Prefecture.

As a result, Dong Xin's demoted official became the fourth magistrate under the rural protection army system.

Before him, Luo Zhixue had successively set up three prefect offices in Nanyang, Xiangyang, and Yunyang, and Anlu was the fourth.

In fact, not long after, Luo Zhixue also established two mansions, De'an Mansion and Jingzhou Mansion, but these two mansions are only empty for the time being.

Because the Township Protection Army hadn't had time to capture Jingzhou Mansion and De'an Mansion yet.

The establishment of these two mansions now is nothing more than preparation in advance.

The Rural Protection Army often sets up an administrative agency in advance, so that it can take over the administration of the place as soon as the army conquers the place.

For example, in the Rural Protection Army, Jinzhou, Pingli and other counties have been set up in the west of Hanzhong Prefecture, but in fact, the strength of the Rural Protection Army has not yet reached this place. The county government offices in these places are often Take underground operations, mainly to collect intelligence, infiltrate and control local forces, and pave the way for the follow-up army attack.

Dong Xinxin was able to be promoted to the magistrate of Anlu Prefecture so quickly because the rural protection army has established a large number of government, prefecture, and county government offices in recent months, which has led to the lack of a large number of middle and high-level civil servants.

As far as the current rural protection army system is concerned, there is no shortage of middle and low-level officials such as ordinary officers. Still a lot.

And 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 let most of them be clerks, it’s okay to write paperwork and do some ordinary things, but if you let them directly take charge of the government, then you will be caught blind...

Even if the Civil Affairs Department of the Township Protection Army has directly compiled a ready-made policy outline based on its governance experience, so that new officials can learn to do it, it is still very troublesome.

After all, among the officials in power, the smallest magistrate is in charge of the livelihood affairs of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, and 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 administration, it will directly affect the lives of tens of thousands of people, and they must not be sloppy.

In order to select many qualified high-level administrative talents, Luo Zhixue also had his heart broken. While cultivating himself, he was also trying to find talents from the ranks of demoted officials.

Dong Xinxin is considered to be a talented person who emerged from a large number of demoted officials.

There is no problem in thinking, and there is no problem in doing things. Although I can't see any outstanding advantages, it is better than not having too obvious defects...

It can be regarded as a moderate evaluation.

However, such an evaluation is already very rare in the rural protection army system.

Otherwise, Luo Zhixue wouldn't let him be the magistrate of Anlu Mansion.

Dong Quanxin was his magistrate in Zhongxiang City, and when he began to maintain law and order and restore the 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 the troops to speed up the pace of capturing the counties.

The First Infantry Brigade and other troops of the First Division continued to move southward along the Han River. Their follow-up goal was to rely on the Han River as the main transportation channel, sweep across the cities along the Han River, and finally head to Hanyang.

The second infantry brigade of the division strengthened two field artillery posts, one mortar post, two cavalry posts, two supply posts, etc., and formed a temporary mixed brigade. He led the east into Jingshan.

After taking Jingshan, the mixed brigade will continue to go to Yingcheng, Yunmeng, Xiaogan and other De'an prefectures to threaten Hanyang from the north.

The first division will divide its troops into two groups, one for the northern line and the other for Hanshui, but the goal is the same, that is to go to Hanyang.

In addition to the first division, the fifth garrison brigade will stay in Zhongxiang City, guarding and reorganizing more than 5000 surrendered troops!

This time the Township Protection 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 5000 surrendered soldiers.

Naturally, so many surrendered soldiers cannot be left alone, but will be selected according to the usual rules of the Rural Protection Army. Some of them will be selected and reorganized into the garrison, and some will be first organized into the reclamation camp, construction camp, transportation camp, etc. Battalions and other auxiliary battalions under military management will be released one after another later.

Of course, it is inevitable that some diehards will be sent to prisoner-of-war camps!
Judging from the quality of this batch of surrendered soldiers, it is estimated that a garrison army of about 6000 people can be selected. This does not seem to be many, but this is already the case when the rural protection army has relaxed its requirements.

You know, in fact, among the more than 2 Zhongxiang defenders, there are only two to three thousand soldiers in total, and the rest are ordinary guards or young and strong soldiers.
Direct selection of 6000 people will actually transfer some of the ordinary guard soldiers and young adults who have not received any military training.

These 6000 people will be mixed with the existing strength of the fifth garrison brigade, and finally formed into another garrison regiment of the third garrison brigade.

One of the garrison regiments stayed behind in Zhongxiang, and the newly formed third garrison division was tasked with launching an offensive to the southwest to capture Jingzhou Mansion.

Counting the third garrison division, the second stage of the Xiangbao Army's southward march can be regarded as a three-way division, and the main strategic goal is not to engage in a large-scale decisive battle with the Ming army, but to divide as many troops as possible to capture as many troops as possible. places to completely control all parts of northern Chu.

The Township Protection Army wants to devour the entire Chubei!

The reason why the Xiangbao Army dared to divide its troops with confidence and boldly was also because of the Battle of Xiangyang and the Battle of Sanyuanzhuang in the early stage, and the Battle of Yicheng and the Battle of Zhongxiang going south.

The mobile forces of Chubei and even the entire Huguang officers and soldiers have been completely lost!

Looking at the whole of Chubei now, it is hard for the Township Protection Army to find an opponent!

(End of this chapter)