Dominate the Country

Jinpenling outside Changsha became the final burial place of the Qing army in Changsha. The superior terrain surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the water on one side did not allow the Qing army to defend Changsha, but the mountains in the south became the last life and death gate that blocked the escape of the Qing army in Changsha!

Ben Jinzhong of Changde heard the news of the fall of Changsha, like a frightened rabbit, leaving Changde and retreating to Chenzhou Prefecture. The Jiangxi Qing army that attacked Liuyang also quickly retreated to Liling.

Chen Ming ordered Zhao Yongji to lead the 15th Brigade to Hengyang in the south, and Zhou Zhilin's Xiangdong Independent Regiment received the second batch of armaments. At the same time, Zhou Zhilin also became the brigade commander of the Hunan Army's First Brigade. In addition to his headquarters, the three regiments under his command were Zhu Hongfei and Hu Mantian, two small soldiers.

Zhou Zhilin, with the sign of brigade commander, led his troops south to Chenzhou and sent the Guangdong Qing army back to Guangdong. The troops in Guangxi also pushed to Xiangxi.

In Hunan now, eight layers of land have been seized by Chen Ming, leaving only a few prefectures on the west side near Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi. Other places, such as Baoqing, Hengyang, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, etc., were swept by the Fu Han Army before, and the local government was defeated. Although some local scum has resurfaced after Chen Ming withdrew his army, when the Fu Han Army stretched out its fists to beat people again, all the monsters and demons before were completely eliminated.

Cheng Hao, a Hunan scholar who had joined the Fu Han Army in Yueyang, became the newly-minted prefect of Chen Han Chenzhou. Like Cheng Hao, Xu Yongmin, Lin Anhong and others also stepped into the "peak of life" in one step. They were appointed as prefects of Baoqing, Changde and Lizhou respectively. These people, like Cheng Hao, were the only few Hunan students who joined the Fu Han Army at the beginning. Chen Ming knew very well that Chen Han could not effectively rule most of Hunan now, so he generously appointed these people as prefects, and he circled the territory that the Fu Han Army could effectively control in Hunan in Yueyang, Changsha and Hengyang. With the Xiangjiang River running through the north and south, it was very convenient to mobilize troops.

As for Chen Hao, Xu Yongmin, Lin Anhong and others, whether they can be prefects with the limited support of the Fu Han Army depends on their real ability.

"Chenzhou is located at the junction of Hunan and Guangdong, with the Nanling and Luoxiao Mountains intersecting. It has been the "throat" from the Central Plains to the southeast coast since ancient times. It is a place that must be fought for by military strategists, and the location is critical." Chen Ming looked at Cheng Hao in front of him with a flushed face, and felt that what he was doing now was really evil. "However, our army is limited in strength, with only one regiment stationed in Chenzhou. Facing the Qing army in Guangdong to the south, we are at a disadvantage in terms of strength."

"At the same time, my Chen Han is just beginning to rise, and students from all over the country regard me as an enemy, and are loyal to the barbarian leader. It's hateful and pitiful. This governor can't even match the officials of the counties under Chenzhou. Mingrui [Cheng Hao's name] If you have classmates and talented people, please report to me as soon as possible.

This governor will definitely agree to it."

Chen Ming said the same thing to Chen Hao alone, and Xu Yongmin, Lin Anhong and others were all the same.

People are in groups. Chen Hao and his group are few in number. If they fight internally, how can they stand up in Chen Han. Several people returned to their residence with great excitement, uneasiness and anxiety. The first thought was to share with others, and then they soon realized that their fates were the same.

"The Grand Commander is using us as the outer wall to separate the Qing Dynasty, and is focusing on the three places of Yue, Chang and Heng." The map was displayed, and it was unusually clear. From Lizhou and Changde in the west of Dongting Lake to Baofeng in the west of Hengyang, and then to Chenzhou in the south, it was a complete isolation zone. Looking at the Fu Han Army stationed in these territories, there is a regiment in Baoqing, a regiment in Changde, a regiment in Lizhou, a regiment in Chenzhou, and the 15th Brigade is in Hengyang. The Second Brigade of the Hunan Army is being formed, and the brigade commander He Erhu is in Changde. The three regiments under his command are the troops from Lizhou to Baoqing.

The Fu Han Army has deployed three brigades in Hunan. The strength is certainly not strong compared to Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, but less than 20,000 people are not weak.

"There should be two more colleagues among my generation." Chen Hao pointed at the positions of Yongzhou and Guiyang. It is obvious that these two places are reserved for Zhu Hongfei and Hu Mantian, and the corresponding Fu Han Army should also have two prefects nailed there. But Chen Ming did not select from the group of Hunan students who joined the Fu Han Army at the beginning. Was it because the remaining few people were not talented enough? Or did he want to keep the positions of these two prefects to fish?

In addition, Chen Ming was still holding Zhu Hongfei and Hu Mantian, so he should have taught them a lesson.

Looking at what Chen Ming said to them, he also meant to let them use the hats of the county magistrates under their command to win over people.

This is very interesting.

In the eyes of Cheng Hao and others, with the current momentum of the Fu Han Army, it is not difficult to stabilize Huguang. Take Hunan as an example. As long as they enter Hunan and shout that they will give the Hunan "hat" to the Hunan people, how many people will flock to them? With the status and knowledge of Cheng Hao, Xu Yongmin and others, they must be lost in the crowd. But Chen Ming did not do so at that time. He implemented military control in Changsha and Hengyang, confiscated local weapons and bird guns, disbanded the militia, strictly prohibited local people from gathering and gathering, and suppressed the local area with an iron fist.

The small units of the Fu Han Army attacked everywhere, not caring about the gains and losses of the city. In some places, there was even a commotion: as soon as the Fu Han Army entered the city, the county magistrate slipped out of the county government office and hid among the people; when the Fu Han Army left the city, the county magistrate stepped into the government office.

The bandit army was so fierce and broke into the city, but the county magistrate still led the people to defend the city and fought hard with the people in the alley. Although the bandit army was fierce, the county magistrate was helpless and finally abandoned the city.

But with the fall of Changsha, the death of Fang Shijun, Changqing and other civil and military officials, and the annihilation of more than 20,000 Changsha defenders, those county magistrates who had always stayed in and outside the city to fight guerrilla warfare with the Fu Han Army disappeared one after another, and a large number of county magistrates disappeared on their own initiative. Now in the land of Hunan and Xiang, some counties only have a team of Fu Han soldiers in the county government, or a row, or a squad, with a red flag on the top of the city to show the "sovereignty" of the county!

"Your Highness may be showing off his power..." Cheng Hao said so. In his heart, he felt that Chen Ming was not only "showing off his power", but also setting rules, and there was also a kind of arrogance that you must surrender to me before you can be an official.

Everything is based on "me", and "I" has the final say!

Therefore, the Fu Han Army, which does not care about the gains and losses of the county, attaches great importance to the local militias and local militias in various counties. Once they are discovered, they will attack quickly and "kill them all"!

All weapons will be confiscated, and those who dare to hide weapons or resist will be severely punished. In some places, there will really be bloodshed. This scene has appeared in Hunan and Xiang for more than ten times. Now think about it, isn't it the Fu Han Army that is eliminating threats?

The previous militias were all dispersed and pacified. Even if the remaining gentry and landlords are still able to raise militias again, militias are not enough with just people, but also with swords, guns and artillery. Without these, do you really think that cutting wood into soldiers can defeat the Fu Han Army soldiers in iron armor?

In addition, the Fu Han Army prohibits the people from illegal gatherings and gatherings, and the villagers have no opportunity to practice. Even if they find an opportunity to raise the flag, how much combat effectiveness can they have?

When the Fu Han Army had no major external threats, to put it bluntly, when the Qing soldiers did not come in large numbers, there were still a few gentry and landlords who were determined to use their necks to chop the knives when they had survived?

Those gentry and landlords who organized militias before, with good reputations, were collectively immigrated to Yueyang; those with bad reputations were directly punished by the person in charge. Without the leader, the whole family was scattered. And this is the treatment only for those who did not encourage militias to resist the Fu Han Army. Those who commanded the militias and the Fu Han Army to be enemies have long ceased to exist in most of Hunan.

The whole of Hunan has seen the strategy of the Fu Han Army very clearly. The Fu Han Army’s severe crackdown targets are only those local tyrants who organized militias. As for other "law-abiding" gentry and landlords, compared with the killing standards when they occupied Hubei, the Fu Han Army was more lenient when they entered Hunan. Although there were still people who killed people who confiscated their homes in each county, the greater significance was to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, rather than such a common thing.

Now most of Hunan is within the radiation range of the Fu Han Army. Chen Ming can no longer tolerate the continued development of this local anarchy. Even if it is just a pretense, it is still the "government"!

Chen Ming's method is to use a regiment of troops to back up the officials of various prefectures and counties. If there are local gentry and local tyrants who dare to jump, this regiment is the direct force to eliminate them, and it is the most direct backer of their officials. The strength of a regiment of one or two thousand people is enough to subdue the local area.

Let Cheng Hao and his men disperse the hats of the county magistrates under the jurisdiction of the prefecture. If they can really attract people, it will be considered their ability; if they can't attract people, even if you write the name of your brother-in-law, Chen Ming will recognize it. Of course, Chen Ming thinks they will not be so stupid. There must be several local people in the list of these county magistrates.

Anyway, set up the frame first. As for whether he can really manage the countryside, Chen Ming has no hope. He just wants a symbol to exist. He is just expressing a very vulgar and straightforward attitude. Those who come here will have "good rewards". The earlier they come, the "thicker" the rewards will be!

As Chen Hao and his men considered, Chen Ming left the hats and territories of the two prefects, which is "fishing". As for the garrisons in Guiyang and Yongzhou, Zhu and Hu are indispensable. The so-called First Brigade of the Hunan Army must be placed in the three prefectures of southern Hunan. Although Zhu Hongfei and Hu Mantian had their own little thoughts before, Chen Ming would not really politicalize them because they had actually fought two battles with the Qing army in Yongzhou.

"Your Highness, Cheng Hao took people to Xiangyin."

"Xu Yongmin went to Chengnan Academy..."

"Lin Anhong took a boat to Yueyang..."

Chen Ming was counting on Cheng Hao and others to recruit people for him, so of course he would not restrict their activities, but only assigned a team of guards to each of them.

"Bah, Confucian scum!"

Xu Yongmin, who had just entered Chengnan Academy, was spit on his face.

"President Li..." Xu Yongmin let the spit hang on his face, with a sneer on his mouth and disdain on his face. The person who spit on his face was Li Zhuo, the president of the student association of Chengnan Academy, whose courtesy name was Yuequn.

The president is a student who is selected from among all the students with excellent academic performance and is responsible for assisting the headmaster in reviewing the examination papers. Naturally, he is also the leader among the students of the entire Chengnan Academy. Xu Yongmin was just one of the ordinary people in Chengnan Academy before.

Li Zhuo is from Changsha. Xu Yongmin was not surprised to see Li Zhuo in Chengnan Academy at this time. He was not angry about being spit on by Li Zhuo. "For the sake of two years of being classmates, I will not argue with you today. But please don't let it happen again, otherwise you, Li Yuequn, will be the only one who will be unlucky."

More than a dozen students gathered in front of the steps of Chengnan Academy. Xu Yongmin saw that they were all from Changsha. These people should have heard that he was coming and deliberately came to the gate to block him. Unfortunately, they were wrong.

Xu Yongmin glanced at the guard captain who was holding his hand, but when he saw the captain wave his hand, there was a clang of armor, and eight guards with guns and knives dispersed the more than ten students in front of the door, forming two rows. about. Xu Yongmin took out his handkerchief and wiped the foam from his face, threw it at Li Zhuo's feet, and stepped up the steps, closely followed by the two guards who were still following behind him.

"Xu Yongmin, aren't you afraid of the slander from scholars? Aren't you afraid of being scolded as a villain who will be arrogant when he succeeds?" Liu Jijiang, the person Xu Yongmin came to Chengnan Academy today, the most amiable teacher in his heart, said sadly. He felt that his students I no longer recognize myself.

"Teacher, is the slander of scholars really that serious? Did Sun Zhixian, Hong Chengchou, and Qian Qianyi care about the slander of scholars when they betrayed the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty? Hong Chengchou and Qian Qianyi were famous all over the world. , the former was relied upon as the Great Wall by the imperial court, and the latter was a great evildoer of scholars. Chief, were they not treated harshly by the Lieutenant? Were they still greedy for life and afraid of death, and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty? At that time, there was still Huayi Defense, and the other senior officials followed the same rules and enjoyed the wealth and wealth? After taking off his clothes, he was raped all over his body, the mayor was beheaded, and his body was exposed in the thoroughfare. [I originally wanted to add Hou Fangyu and Mao Bijiang]

There is a portrait of Confucius in Liu Jijiang's room. As the Old Master's p-pictures spread all over the world, many scholars became angry. The three giants of the Hunyuan Sect were scolded to the point of leaving their bodies bruised. If Qian Fuzhi can really die without illness, People like Liu Song and Fan Mingde would have died a hundred times a thousand times. Many scholars also began to hang images of saints in their homes.

Xu Yongmin, who was wearing Ming Dynasty Hanfu and a fourth-grade beam crown, straightened his clothes, walked up to the statue of Confucius, bowed respectfully, then turned around and stood up straight, opened his sleeves and said, "Teacher, saint." Above, look at my clothes and the robes and coats of the Tartars. Which one looks like a disciple of the saint? If you abandon the Qing Dynasty and join the Han Dynasty, there will be no loss in the defense of Huayi."

"What's more, my mentor is full of knowledge. He went to Beijing four times, but his reputation failed all the time. He can only work in this academy to support his family." Liu Jijiang is a rare person who is poor. Four trips to Beijing drained the last bit of the Liu family's fortune, and Liu Jijiang completely gave up on the scientific examination.

"I am now nearly fifty years old, my family has no success, I have no heirs to rely on, my ambitions have not been developed, and my hair is white."

"Is my mentor really willing to spend the rest of his life like this?"

"The student is such a shallow person, but Lu Gong does not think he is humble, and appointed him to be the prefect of Changde." Xu Yongmin showed his seal of Changde prefect to Liu Jijiang, "As a mentor of the country, if you serve Chen Han, Lu Gong will be generously compensated... ..." As for whether Chen Han will perish, and what will happen to him and others if Chen Han perishes, Xu Yongmin doesn't think about it at all. Didn't some of the officials who were caught beg to surrender on the spot? They were not afraid, so what did they have to fear for their own lives?

Of course Xu Yongmin will recruit a few county magistrates. There are many depressed people in Changsha City, but aren't there still two magistrates in southern Hunan?