HBWnovel Chapter 352 6 Town
Chapter 352 6 Town
After Du Yinxi returned to the camp, he summoned all the generals of the Loyal Camp and conveyed King Zhou's intention.
After a long discussion, the list of commanders and deputy generals of the six towns was announced, and the positions of chief and deputy were allocated according to the military strength of each unit.
Chief/Deputy
Liu Tichun, his younger brother Liu Titong.
Yuan Zongde, Dang Shousu.
Hao Yongzhong, Wang Jincai.
He Zhen, Ta Tianbao.
Li Laiheng, Ma Tengyun.
Tan Wen, Tan Hong.
When the list was submitted to Zhou's camp, Meng Jun looked as if he understood everything. These generals had fought on the battlefield for so many years, and they attached great importance to the army and military power from the bottom of their hearts.
When Meng Jun saw the list, he readily agreed without changing a single word.
When the news was passed back to the Loyalty Camp, all the generals showed joy on their faces. Then a group of generals left the camp, took off their armor, swords and guns, and walked to the gate of the Zhou army camp.
Du Yinxi stood outside the loyal camp, watching the backs of his generals leaving, and his eyes were filled with tears. His personal guards beside him asked anxiously, "Lord, are you okay?"
Du Yinxi shook his head, sighed, turned around and went back to his tent without saying a word. He personally comforted the Loyalty Camp for the Ming Dynasty, and personally pushed the Loyalty Camp, which belonged to the Ming Dynasty, to Meng Jun. Du Yinxi didn't know how history books would write about him in the future.
When Meng Jun received the news that the generals of the Loyal Camp were walking to the camp gate, he also took off his armor, put on a green robe, and went to the camp gate in person to greet the generals.
At the camp gate, Meng Jun was wearing a green robe, looking solemn and humble.
When the generals saw Meng Jun coming to greet them personally, they hurried forward, knelt on the ground one by one, and said in unison: "Greetings, Your Majesty."
"Please stand up quickly." Meng Jun said with a friendly look on his face. He personally stepped forward and helped each general up one by one.
Liu Tichun said excitedly: "Today I learned about the scene in the storybook where the wise and virtuous were treated with condescension. Your Majesty..."
"General Liu is too modest. General Liu has been on the battlefield for twenty years. How can he consider himself a junior officer?" Meng Jun said, patting his shoulder.
Liu Tichun bowed again and said, "I dare not call myself a general in front of the king. If the king does not mind, I can call myself Erhu."
Meng Jun laughed and said, "Okay, General Erhu."
"Your Majesty, I also have a nickname. You can call me Hao Yaoqi. When your Majesty goes to war in person in the future, I can hold the flag for you and charge into battle!"
The scene was harmonious and there was no sign of unpleasantness. After accepting the worship of all the generals, Meng Jun gave each of them a precious sword and a set of fine armor, and personally named the town on the spot.
Liu Tichun, Zhongwu Town.
Yuan Zongdi, a loyal and brave man.
Hao Yongzhong, Yingyang Town.
He Zhen, Eagle Strike Town.
Lee Lai-heng, Tiger Guard Town
Tan Wen, Tiger Town
(In the later period of military reform, I want to use numbers to compile towns, friends can give me some suggestions)
He also ordered all the generals to reorganize the troops, leaving behind three commanderies led by He Zhen, Yuan Zongde, and the Tan brothers, who were to be under the command of Lin Shiqi of the Huguang camp. The remaining three commanderies, led by Liu Tichun, Li Laiheng, and Hao Yongzhong, were to follow Meng Jun back to Nanjing.
Afterwards, Meng Jun gathered his generals and held a banquet in the city. After three rounds of drinking, the scene became gradually lively. The generals toasted Meng Jun from time to time, and Meng Jun accepted all the toasts. After drinking several rounds, Meng Jun began to feel exhausted, and then signaled his generals to continue while he left the banquet.
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It was late at night again, with the night breeze blowing. Meng Jun's mood was like the free and fragmented moonlight in the Yangtze River. After accepting the worship of the generals of the Loyal Camp, Meng Jun had mixed feelings in the night. Suddenly, he thought of the former emperor of the Ming Empire, Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian.
Chongzhen seemed to want to do something, but his methods were either wrong, or even if they were right, he could not wait. The most glorious years of Chongzhen's life were when he first ascended the throne, when he exercised his decisiveness and eliminated Wei Zhongxian and Keshi.
But in the blink of an eye, he became dependent on eunuchs again. When it came to handling military and national affairs and the promotion and demotion of key figures, he was often fickle and made rash decisions.
During the seventeen years, he replaced nineteen prime ministers, fifty-six cabinet ministers, and executed seventeen governors. During his seventeen years in office, he was seen demoting ministers today and executing border officials tomorrow. He was impatient and bloodthirsty.
The higher Meng Jun's position, the more he seemed to be able to imagine the panic of Emperor Chongzhen. Chongzhen could not see the real situation. The news he received every day was about military mutinies and civil unrest, Li Chuang breaking into the city, the Jian Nu invading, or severe droughts and floods somewhere. The bad news that kept coming day after day for ten years seemed unbearable for anyone.
Even the manifesto issued by Li Zicheng reads: "The emperor is not very dark, but he is isolated and has many corrupt officials. His ministers are all selfish and form cliques, but few are loyal to the country." (This means that Chongzhen was not a tyrant, but was mainly deceived by the people around him. His ministers were all selfish and few were loyal to the country.)
It seems that they felt that Chongzhen did a good job, so they even wanted to justify his reputation. However, after this manifesto, there are a few more paragraphs, "Giveaways to government offices, the power and wealth of the court is declining day by day, the benefits go to relatives and gentry, the fat of the people is exhausted, the dukes and marquises all eat meat and wear trousers, and rely on the emperor as their confidant, the eunuchs all eat bran and pigs, and use the emperor as their eyes and ears. There are countless prisoners in prison, and the scholars have no intention of repaying the kindness. The taxes are heavy, and the people have the hatred of dying together."
There are many reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty. The princes only cared about enjoying themselves and having children, and all expenses were borne by the state. The princes occupied all local resources and land and did not engage in production. Their extravagance was appalling. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, some local officials even wrote to the court saying that the annual income of one area was not enough to cover the annual salary of the local prince!
As for "the heavy levies and the people's hatred of dying together", in the late Ming Dynasty, in addition to the "regular amount" of taxes, there were "various additional levies", such as "Liao pay, suppression pay, training pay, and the call for the purchase of rice and beans", etc. The heavy taxes caused people to flee, and millions of rebel armies rose up.
The country is corrupt internally and border troubles have already developed in the northeast. What is even more fatal is that every year there are droughts, locust plagues and floods everywhere, and the food relief provided by the court is insufficient. Moreover, from the moment they left the capital, they have been exploited layer by layer and the officials are corrupt. The victims followed the rebel army in order to save their lives. What was wrong with that!
In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Lü Weiqi, the retired former Minister of War who lived in Henan, wrote to the court: "For several years, my hometown has suffered from famine every year, war every month, and tax collection every day. There is no green grass in the fields, nine out of ten houses are empty, and there are no barking dogs in the villages. But people still knock on the doors to urge the troops to join the army. There are cuckoos crying in the trees, and the blood of whipping is everywhere. The ground is yellow and red, and there is almost no human habitation in every village. Bones are white and phosphorus is green. Every night it seems that ghosts cry. It is impossible to prevent the poor people from turning into bandits."
The drought caused a locust plague. Henan suffered from locust plagues for four consecutive years starting from the tenth year of Chongzhen. People ate each other, all the grass and trees were destroyed, and local bandits emerged. In the thirteenth and fourteenth years of Chongzhen, there was a severe famine in both the north and the south, with dead people and abandoned children, and the rivers were filled with locusts and the roads were blocked.
The people of the world had long since abandoned the Ming. If the Qing court had not killed too many people, they would have shaved their heads and changed their clothes, and a change of dynasty would have been imminent.
(I saw someone say that if you were not a member of the Ming royal family at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it would be impossible for you to establish yourself. I was really speechless, so I was a bit long-winded. Please forgive me, my friends⊙﹏⊙)