In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 314: 50 garrison

After Nanjing surrendered without a fight, the news spread, and in just a few days, all the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River submitted their submission, including Shi Kefa, who stayed in Yangzhou City.

Obviously, compared with the historical history after the Manchus entered the customs and captured Nanjing, resistance continued to rise one after another in various places and lasted for decades, China was much simpler.

Less than half a month later, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces also surrendered. By the end of December, two other armies also captured Chengdu and Wuchang respectively, and the kings of Shu and Chu were also escorted directly to the capital.

After the beginning of the new year, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guizhou also surrendered, including chieftains from various places and the tribe of the Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong who fled to Guizhou and other places in southern Hunan.

Obviously, any Han Chinese with a little knowledge will understand the general trend, and those who follow it will prosper and those who go against it will perish.

So by March, only one province in the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan, was still holding on.

Of course, Duke Mu, who had been guarding Yunnan for generations, also knew that the situation was over. He did not really want to fight to the end. He just wanted to negotiate with China and continue to seek to guard Yunnan as a duke because the sky was high and the emperor was far away.

When the news reached the capital, Lin Rui also sneered again and again. Although Yunnan was high in the sky and far away from the emperor, and the situation and terrain were very complicated, it was absolutely impossible to become a local emperor. It would only be a little troublesome at best.

At this time, Lin Rui was not thinking about Yunnan at all, but was thinking about how to rectify the country's military, the government affairs of the southern provinces, and all parties' forces.

Although the idea of ​​great unity and the supremacy of imperial power are deeply rooted in China, it is not difficult to conquer the world. What is difficult is how to govern the world.

After all, China is too big, and with the transportation and communication conditions of this era, if it is not handled well, it is very likely to continue to cause turmoil.

Although Lin Rui really wanted to go to Nanjing in person and reorganize the hundreds of thousands of surrendered troops and generals in the south, the city of Beijing could not do without him as the emperor. Although Zhang Xiuying, Lu Waner, Habeier, and Xiaocui gave birth to three sons and one son one after another last year. Women, but they are still young and unable to supervise the country.

At this time, Lin Rui finally felt the tremendous pressure that the huge territory brought to the emperor, and finally understood why emperors of all dynasties liked to use Confucianism to govern the country.

Because under such conditions in ancient times, apart from the Confucian ideas of governing the country, the imperial examination, and the gentry-based approach to governing the country, it was really difficult to directly rule such a huge territory. Other ideas and methods of governing the country were really difficult to achieve. Rule China.

Confucianism has been prevalent in China for more than two thousand years. It is definitely the survival of the fittest and the best choice.

In the end, Lin Rui planned to let Na Muzhong stay in Nanjing for a while and be responsible for presiding over the reorganization of the southern army. The government affairs would be left to the Government Affairs Council, and they would remain as they were for the time being, without making major changes.

It just divided Huguang and Guangxi into two, and divided them into four provinces: Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and Guangxi according to the administrative division of the previous life.

South Zhili is also too huge and must be split for better governance in the future.

Fengyang Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, Anqing Prefecture, Huizhou Prefecture, Ningguo Prefecture, and Chizhou Prefecture were divided to form a Huaixi Province, with Luzhou as the capital, which was equivalent to the approximate territory of Anhui Province in the previous life.

The remaining Huai'an Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture, Taiping Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Xuzhou, Hezhou Prefecture, Chuzhou Prefecture, and Guangzhou Prefecture were changed to Jiangsu Province.

The capital of Nanjing was also changed to Jinling, and all the central government offices in Nanjing before the Ming Dynasty were abolished.

Obviously Lin Rui does not intend to implement the two-capital system anymore, and even changed the name of Nanjing in order to reduce Nanjing's political status.

It can be said that the reason why the scholar-bureaucrats in Jiangnan expanded to the point where they directly affected the rise and fall of the entire empire in the Ming Dynasty is absolutely inseparable from the two-capital system of the Ming Dynasty.

Except for Yunnan, which is still surrendered, Dahua has jurisdiction over Liaodong, Tongliao, Hetao, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Huaixi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong. Nineteen provinces including Guangxi, Sichuan, and Guizhou, plus the two Zhili prefectures of Yunzhou and Jingzhou.

The three legions going south are still stationed in Chengdu, Wuchang, and Jinling for the time being. All temporary legions have been banned and nineteen garrison towns have been reorganized.

Each town has about [-] troops.

Yang Guozhu, the chief military officer of the first town, is based in Shandong.

Bai Guangen, the commander-in-chief of the Second Town, is based in Shanxi.

Zu Dashou, the chief military officer of the third town, was stationed in Hebei Province.Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Town, is based in Shaanxi Province.

Wang Tingchen, chief military officer of the Fifth Town, is stationed in Henan Province.

Hong Niangzi, the chief military officer of the Sixth Town, is stationed in Jiangsu Province.

Ma Ke, the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Town, is based in Huaixi Province.

Li Mingfu, the chief military officer of the Eighth Town, is based in Zhejiang Province.

Liu Zongmin, the chief military officer of the Ninth Town, is based in Jiangxi Province.

Liu Fangliang, the chief military officer of the Tenth Town, is stationed in Fujian Province.

No. 11 Town Chief Military Officer Li Guo, stationed in Guangdong Province.

No. 12 Town Chief Military Officer Gao Jie is based in Yunzhou.

No. 13, the chief military officer of the town, is as fierce as a tiger and is stationed in Guangxi Province.

No. 14 Town Chief Military Officer Liu Liangzuo, stationed in Hubei.

No. 15 Town Chief Military Officer He Renlong, stationed in Hunan.

No. 16 Town Chief Military Officer Huang Degong is based in Guizhou.

No. 17 Town Chief Military Officer Zhang Xianzhong, stationed in Sichuan.

A total of 17 garrison towns, with a total of 50 troops, will be responsible for the security of each province in the future. As for Liaodong Province, it will still be garrisoned by the Second Army. Tongliao Province and Hetao Province do not need to station garrison troops yet.

Although the chief military officers of the Seventeenth Town were almost all surrendered generals of the Ming Dynasty or former rebels, Lin Rui was not worried that these people would support themselves.

Because the [-] soldiers and horses in each town are stationed in the prefectures and counties of each province, they are scattered throughout the provinces. Under normal circumstances, random transfers are not allowed.

Next, Lin Rui plans to spend two years for the Metropolitan Governor's Office to slowly take over all the logistics, personnel, and military administration of each town, and gradually transfer the chief military officers of each town to the General Staff Department of the Metropolitan Governor's Office. stand up.

All the middle and senior generals were replaced by old men from the Lin family army.

Even the 50 garrison must gradually retire within five years to farm and recruit young men again.

There is nothing that can be done about it. So many surrendered soldiers and generals have become accustomed to the days of licking blood from the edge of a knife. If they are all eliminated at once, they will definitely not be able to adapt. In the end, [-]% of them will either become bandits or bandits, which is not possible anyway. He went to farm honestly.

For example, if you ask the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong and other old thieves to go back to Shaanxi to farm, isn't that a joke?
Therefore, for the sake of stability, Lin Rui could only settle in this way and take his time. The elders of the Lin family army are still young anyway.

Lin Rui, the field army, does not plan to expand for the time being. Together with the two newly expanded legions, it remains at seven.

The First Army and the newly formed Sixth and Seventh Army were stationed in Beijing, the Second Army was stationed in Liaodong, the Third Army was stationed in Wuchang, and the Fourth Army was stationed in Jinling.

The Fifth Army Corps is responsible for attacking Yunnan and is still led by Wu Sangui.

For a long time to come, in terms of military affairs, the main focus was on unifying the military uniforms and equipment of each town, etc., as well as strengthening the control of the metropolitan government over each town and establishing a navy.

(End of this chapter)