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The rogues and the Manchus would definitely be able to rush forward, they only need to rob all the way.

Historically, the Manchu Qing went southward at an extremely fast speed, and they only attacked the big cities along the way, and almost ignored the small towns and villages. It can be said that uprisings were everywhere in the occupied areas.Therefore, the Han people were appointed as the governor, who specially recruited the rebels and bandits, and recognized the land occupied by the leaders of these troops.A large number of rebels and bandits became the accomplices of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and followed the Manchu Qing army all the way to the south to snatch it.

The process of the Manchus going south is a history of a group of big bandits leading countless small bandits to harm the common people everywhere.

Mao Yuanyi also said: "All armies in Jiangbei should add scout troops, otherwise it will be very dangerous to encounter strong enemies."

"The officers of the various ministries also have this suggestion," Zhao Han said, "I have already decided that Hu Dinggui's 2000 cavalry will be divided into several hundred people, and each division will temporarily add 100 sentry cavalry."

Of course the Datong Army had scouts, but when fighting in the south, they generally marched along rivers and valleys, using sentry ships and mountain search teams.

The north is different, must use scout cavalry.

If there is a large-scale battle with the Manchu Qing, the scouts from all walks of life will have to ride thousands of horses, otherwise they will become blind and the battlefield will be completely covered by local scouts.

Every time Zhu Di sent troops to the grassland, he was even more powerful, and the number of scouts was thousands of times!

Mao Yuanyi said: "Our army currently has five divisions, and it will be expanded to six divisions next year. Except for the two divisions in Hunan and Guangdong, which will continue to maintain a size of 7500 people, the remaining four divisions should be expanded to 8000 people. Each division will increase by 500 people. People, all belong to the cavalry, specially used for scouting and pursuit."

Zhao Han said: "The number of horses in Jeju Island is about [-], and [-] have already been drawn away, and another [-] will be drawn... Let's draw, these ponies are useless anyway."

All the male horses in Jeju Island were taken away, and the mares were reserved for the Mawari horses to breed and give birth to cubs.

As for the islanders, let them raise more cattle. In the future, immigrants will need a lot of cattle.

At the same time, Zhao Han will not treat the islanders harshly. If too many horses are taken away in a short period of time, he will transport more grain and cloth to compensate.

In the future, there will only be two types of horses left in Jeju Island.

One is a hybrid offspring of Jeju and Mawari horses, and the other is a purebred Mawari horse offspring.

Didn't that one-armed Wu Huapu want to fight?

Asking him to assist in training scouts on Jeju Island, Zhao Han sent [-] farmers and soldiers there, and they should be barely available for training next year.Even if they are still relatively unfamiliar, they have to be recruited into the army, and they can be trained in actual combat when fighting.

In the future, the northern division will have 8000 soldiers, 500 of whom will be scouts and light cavalry.

Those pony horses in Jeju Island are also transitional war horses.From now on, the thoroughbred horses will train the heavy cavalry, and the mixed-blood horses will train the light cavalry.

As for Mao Yuanyi and Xu Nianzu, they are now equivalent to Zhao Han's combat staff.

They are very familiar with the geography of mountains and rivers and have a broad perspective of war.The disadvantage is that the actual command ability is not enough, you can just stay with Zhao Han to give ideas, and it is absolutely impossible to throw it out to fight.

There is also Gu Yanwu, who also has a national perspective, but his main task is to compile books.

"Captain, there are a large number of scholars petitioning outside the gate!"

"Don't bother!"

Feng Zhou sent by the imperial court had already arrived in Nanjing, so the news naturally leaked out.

The prince and princess actually went south, and the emperor wanted to canonize Zhao Han as the King of Wu and marry Princess Kunxing?

The scholars in Nanjing City were overjoyed, and then felt inexplicably angry because Zhao Han didn't accept the canonized personnel!

These scholars, led by Chen Danzhong and Li Yiyuan, are kneeling outside the Governor's Mansion at this moment.

Moreover, they also sent a boat to inform Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai, hoping that these two Fushe leaders could come to Nanjing to preside over the overall situation.

Zhang Pu was ill for more than half a year and almost died, so he didn't have much time to jump up and down.

Zhang Cai was a state magistrate in Fujian, good at governing and caring for the people. After ideological training, he was able to become a county magistrate. Now he has gone to Anhui to take up an official position.

"The Governor of Zhao, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty married the princess, and secretly sent the prince to Nanjing, and also made the Governor the King of Wu. Why did the Governor refuse to accept this transmission? The governor can allow His Majesty to take the Zen throne, and thus continue the Great Ming Dynasty!"

At the gate of the Governor's Mansion, Chen Danzhong shouted with all his might.

Li Yiyuan raised his arms and shouted: "Emperor Chongzhen's Zen throne will continue the Ming Dynasty!"

"Emperor Chongzhen's Zen throne continues the Ming Dynasty!"

About 200 scholars shouted together, and finally they knelt down and shouted in unison.

In the nearly 300 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, both the government and the people have feelings.

Many scholars, especially scholars, were willing to die for Ming Dynasty.Now there is the best choice, that is, Zhao Han marries the princess, becomes the king of Wu, accepts the throne of Zen as emperor, and mobilizes troops to sweep the world.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty can continue, Zhao Han can also ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, and he can also wipe out the Tartars and rogue bandits.

Isn't it beautiful to cover every aspect?

The slogan of the Zen position was shouted, not to mention idle scholars, even many officials were moved.

It's just that due to Zhao Han's prestige, those officials under Zhao Han's rule are afraid to jump out for the time being.

The crowd of onlookers became more and more numerous, and scholars continued to join in, and the gate of the Governor's Mansion was completely blocked.

Suddenly, a group of officials rushed over and persuaded them: "You should leave, you should leave. If you disturb the public order and block the streets again, you can be punished according to the law."

Chen Danzhong immediately yelled: "We are waiting for the world, how can it be regarded as disturbing the law and order?"

The official was also angry. If he didn’t handle this matter well, he would definitely die. He reprimanded sharply: “You people are so ignorant that you don’t want to drink a toast. Now I give you three choices; first, disperse immediately ;Secondly, spend half a month in jail, pay for food and pay a fine; thirdly, take turns cleaning the street for half a year!"

Li Yiyuan stood up: "A gentleman seeks for the country, why should he be afraid of prison? Come and arrest me!"

"How can brother Siwen be imprisoned alone? I am the only one in prison!" Chen Danzhong also stood up, glaring at the official with his head high and chest out.

"Count me in!"

"Catch me catch me!"

More than 30 people stood up one after another.

The official said angrily: "Take me as dare not? Take them all away!"

When the officials were arresting people, a large number of scholars scattered like birds and beasts, and in the end only 26 people were left waiting to be arrested.

Two days later.

Zhao Han asked, "Are you all on a hunger strike?"

Zheng Sen replied: "According to the county government, they are all on hunger strike. They don't eat a sip of food or drink a sip of water."

"Then let them starve." Zhao Han sneered.

Li Banghua sighed: "It's because I didn't think carefully, the governor really shouldn't accept the title of King Wu."

It was already like this if he didn't accept it. If he accepted the canonization, I don't know how many scholars came out and suggested that Zhao Han should succeed the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

County jail.

On the third day of starvation, a scholar finally couldn't bear it, and shouted weakly: "I want to eat, I want to eat!"

Soon the jailer brought the food.

Anyway, during the detention period, I had to pay for the food myself. The meal was very sumptuous, and it turned out to be authentic Jinling Roast Duck.

For a moment, the prison was filled with aromas, and the rest of the scholars couldn't help swallowing.

"I want to eat too!" Several scholars compromised.

Li Yiyuan's stomach growled, and he said, "That Zhao man won't really starve us to death, will he? We are juren!"

Chen Danzhong was rather frustrated: "He was born as a traitor, he probably really dared to starve to death."

The sound of chewing roast duck can be heard next to it, which is mouth-watering with the aroma.Li Yiyuan swallowed his saliva and said: "Why don't you save your life first, and take the big plan of the country, and slowly figure it out, and wait for Mr. Ximing (Zhang Pu) to come?"

"It should be like this," Chen Danzhong was so hungry that he almost had no energy to speak, and he really didn't have the willpower to go on a hunger strike, so he shouted dizzily, "I want to eat roast duck!"

Chapter 352 [The leader of the rehabilitated society defected]

Zhang Pu came to Nanjing by boat, quickly learned the details, and quickly ran to Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi picked up the monocle in front of his chest, and said with great interest: "Heavenly, this thing is called glasses, which came from the western countries. I asked craftsmen to polish more than ten pairs, and only three pairs are suitable for use. Let's give it away today." Look at you, you can wear it to read someday when your old eyes are dizzy."

"Shepherd," Zhang Pu cupped his hands and said, "Today I will meet you later today, and it is a matter of canonization as king of Wu."

Qian Qianyi not only has presbyopia, but also seems to be deaf. Pointing to the glasses, he continued: "Although these things belong to the small way, they also benefit scholars a lot. Come and see, the small lenses can make the handwriting Get bigger."

Zhang Pu said more and more anxiously: "Master, glasses are a small matter, but society is a big one!"

Qian Qianyi said: "Glasses are indeed small, but they are very useful. I plan to hire a few craftsmen to make them specialize in grinding lenses, and maybe open a glasses shop in Nanjing. The glass is also easy to find. Jingdezhen not only produces porcelain, Glass has also started to be produced in recent years. Not only Jingdezhen, but Yuanzhou also produces glass. I heard that Luling County..."

"Shepherd!"

Zhang Pu couldn't help shouting: "It's about King Wu!"

Qian Qianyi said with a smile: "In addition to glasses, I also bought a pair of binoculars..."

"Farewell!" Zhang Pu was so angry that he wanted to hit someone, he held back his anger and walked away.

Qian Qianyi put down his glasses, walked to the yard to bask in the sun, and asked the maid to bring peanuts and rice wine.

What a pleasant day, why do you want to make yourself unhappy?

In the Imperial Academy of Ming Dynasty, doctors belong to the weak, while bachelors belong to the big guys.

Zhao Han's Imperial Academy is just the opposite, from low to high: bachelor, master, doctor, academician.

When "Datong Zhengyin" is compiled, people like Liu Rushi will be awarded bachelor's titles.

As for Qian Qianyi, he was awarded a master's degree directly by Zhao Han, and there will be doctors and academicians who can be promoted in the future.Although an academician has no rank, his salary is equivalent to that of a second-rank official, which is definitely a noble position in Qian Qianyi's view.

Although you can't directly become a government official, if you really want to be an official, you can lower your salary and release it to others.

Qian Qianyi doesn't plan to let it out, he wants to be an academician of the Imperial Academy, he will have a great face wherever he goes, and he can leave his name in history.

Facing the founding monarch like Zhao Han, Qian Qianyi did not dare to take power, and was satisfied with his face.

"There is nothing in the world, and the mediocre people are disturbing themselves. Zhang Ximing still can't see clearly." Qian Qianyi sipped the wine with peanuts, tapped his fingers on the stone table, and began to hum a little tune happily.

Zhang Pu left Qian Qianyi's house angrily, waved for a taxi, and went to Chen Danzhong's house in a sedan chair.

The people of Fushe lost their minds, and Zhang Pu had nothing to do about it.

Competent Fushe scholars were either directly recruited by Zhao Han, or went to work as officials, or simply concentrated on business.

Among the three leaders of Fushe, Zhang Cai was an official in Anhui, and Wu Yingji was promoted by Zhao Hanchao.

Zhang Pu is the only one left!

Although Zhang Cai is Zhang Pu's elder brother and is known as the "two Zhangs of Fushe" by the world, Zhang Cai did not participate in the establishment of Fushe, and hardly participated in the activities of Fushe.

It was purely at the beginning of Fushe's establishment, using Zhang Cai's reputation for publicity.

In recent years, Zhang Cai has been working as a hard-working official, imitating Wang Yangming's establishment of township covenants and Baojia, and recruiting refugees to farm land, and setting up Changping warehouses to relieve victims.

However, the cooperative founded by Zhang Cai is still regarded as a branch of Fushe, and he has always held a tacit attitude towards this.

The ideas of the two are different. Fushe absorbs a large number of rich and noble scholars, but the cooperative mainly focuses on poor scholars.

Zhang Cai didn't even distinguish between high and low, and accepted a house slave (shutong) as his disciple, and he was also a house slave of another family.

This made orthodox scholars uncomfortable, and Wang Shimin came forward to obstruct it.Zhang Cai first helped the house slave escape, and then paid for it himself to remove the humble status for his disciple.

Nowadays, all the scholars of the co-operative have gone to serve as officials, and some members are even serving as officials.

This is a great force, even Zhao Han doesn't know it.

More than 300 members of the cooperative, all of whom are disciples of Zhang Cai, are now all Datong officials.These guys are very capable of doing things, and they are naturally promoted quickly. Including Zhang Cai, there are already three people at the magistrate level.

However, many of Zhang Pu's rehabilitated scholars were officials, but they had long since become a mess.

"Sir, what does the shepherd say?" Chen Danzhong asked hastily.

Zhang Pu sighed: "Pretending to be deaf and dumb, Qian Muweng has always been like this, how can I expect him to help?"

Li Yiyuan said: "Emperor Chongzhen married the princess and canonized the king of Wu. This is an act of inheriting the country. As long as we do abdication, the world will be peaceful and the Ming Dynasty will continue. If we do it, we will be famous in history. It is the fashion of scholars all over the world. However, the governor of Zhao is so stubborn that he refuses such a good thing. What does this person think? Doesn’t he know that once he accepts the canonization, the spread of the land in several provinces can be determined!"

"Daming Guozuo will definitely not be able to keep it," Zhang Pu said. "Wang Mang also accepted the abdication back then, and changed the country name from the Han Dynasty to the new one in a blink of an eye. Even if Zhao Han accepted the abdication, the Ming Dynasty's title would be gone."

"It's all the same," Chen Danzhong said, "Although the name of the country has been changed, the son of the princess can be made the prince, and the blood of the Ming royal family can still be passed on."

Li Yiyuan said in horror: "The prince's matter is a dispute over the foundation of the country, so don't think about it, otherwise it will be another party struggle, and it will inevitably lead to bloody storms!"

Chen Danzhong said: "The matter of the crown prince will be discussed later. Xu Zhiyuan and Xu Nianzu are both in Nanjing at the moment. The former is Zhao Dudu's brother-in-law, and the latter is involved in military affairs for Zhao Dudu. Maybe you can ask them two for help."

"Have you found it?" Zhang Pu asked.

Chen Danzhong sighed and said: "I found it, but neither of them has seen any guests. Maybe you can try it, after all, the few members of the society are all supported and taught by you."

The next day, Zhang Pu went to Xu Zhiyuan first, and asked Zhao Zhenlan to help him speak.

Xu Zhiyuan warmly entertained him, and while drinking, he said with a smile: "Sir, my disciple has long since given up on political affairs, and has opened two shops in Nanjing. One sells fabrics, and the other sells tobacco. This tobacco is very profitable, and you must have a franchise license." , thanks to my wife for helping me get it."

Zhang Pu said: "Have you ever heard about the King Wu and his son-in-law?"