Hong Chengchou had never looked at these lower-level clerks and servants in the past. Hong Chengchou was also a Jinshi. As a second-rank minister, he was definitely superior. In his eyes, these clerks were just untouchables.

Although he chose to betray the gentry class and followed the emperor to reform, and even shouted the slogan of everyone's pacification, Hong Chengchou did not agree with everyone's pacification. All things are born with noble and humbleness, how can those who live in the temple be harmonious?

Ignorance and equality of untouchables? It is impossible.

In Hong Chengchou's view, everyone's pacification is just a slogan promoted by the emperor, in order to win the hearts of the common people and to compete with the gentry class.

When the existing gentry class is overthrown and the system is rebuilt, new people will inevitably replace the original gentry, and the common people will still be common people, and they will always be common people! How can it be if you want equality?

He thought that he understood the emperor's thoughts, Hong Chengchou was not opposed to using the lower-level common people, and he also tried to win over the common people's hearts.

After coming to Nanjing City, Hong Chengchou and the nobles and gentry were vainly ruthless, hoping to use them to resist the rebels in Jiangxi and defend Nanjing City first.

However, now, Hong Chengchou has realized that it is impossible to rely on the upper class to resist the rebels. Because the emperor's series of actions have forced these upper class to be disinterested. Whether it is nobles, civil servants, or gentry, they all hope that Zhu Youjian will step down.

, a new emperor continued to rule the Ming Dynasty, such as Zhu Yousong, who served as the governor of Jiangxi.

The successive visits of Xu Hongji, Fu Zhenshang and others made Hong Chengchou realize the arrival of danger. If he did not take measures, he would probably not be able to save Nanjing City.

Although it is not very important to Zhu Youjian if Nanjing City is defended, it doesn’t have much impact on him. Even if Nanjing City is captured by rebels, it doesn’t matter much. At worst, it can be recaptured. As long as Sun Chuanting can pull out his hands from Henan, it will not matter.

, leading 30,000 imperial guards across the Yangtze River, and cooperating with the rural soldiers of the four prefectures of Jiangdong, was enough to defeat the rebels and recover Nanjing. Therefore, Zhu Youjian did not have much expectations for Hong Chengchou, but he just hoped that he could defend Nanjing for a while and give Sun Chuanting

The winning time to wipe out the Henan rebels.

But it is different for Hong Chengchou. Whether or not he can defend Nanjing City is related to his future position in the court. If Nanjing is really captured by thieves at his hands, even if Emperor Zhu Youjian doesn't care, it will be the same for him.

Dirt that is difficult to wash.

Wen Tiren, Sun Chuanting and others made rapid progress in Henan and pacified hundreds of thousands of Henan rebels, but he could not even defend Nanjing City. How could he compete with Wen Tiren for the position of prime minister in the future?

Therefore, Nanjing City must be defended. While defending, it is best to defeat 200,000 rebels. If it is really possible to defeat Yuan Chonghuan with 200,000 rebels with Nanjing City, this achievement will be enough to establish its position in the new Chongzhen Dynasty.

Even Wen Tiren can pacify Henan and cannot compare with himself.

After all, Henan is just a group of rebel farmers, while the ones attacking Nanjing are real thieves who want to compete for the country with the emperor!

In order to defend Nanjing City, Hong Chengchou had to take all measures. Since the nobles and gentry were unreliable, he would follow the mass line and mobilize the lower classes to help him defend Nanjing. That is why he summoned clerks from the military and horse departments of one government, two counties and five cities.

The soldiers mobilized them to help them defend the city. Since he suspected that the civil servants had a conspiracy, he simply did not use any of them.

On the high platform, Hong Chengchou announced on the spot that from today on, the clerks and soldiers of the military commanders of one government, two counties and five cities will directly obey the command of the Governor's Office and ignore the original Shangguan's orders.

Although the clerks and officers were puzzled, they had to listen, and were happy to obey Hong Chengchou's command, because they also knew that the governor in front of them was the largest in the entire Nanjing city, and listening to the governor in front of them would have many benefits.

Hong Chengchou next announced that more than 20 people were drawn from the clerks present to the Governor's shogunate to coordinate and direct the entire city defense.

Everyone who was beaten was very happy. They all knew that if they could gain the trust of the Governor, they would surely make a fortune in the future. Maybe they could really turn from a clerk to a rank official.

Next, Hong Chengchou made arrangements for the city defense matter. First, he sent clerks and servants to recruit young and strong men, and asked each household to produce a male, but it was not in vain. During the period when each male was involved in the city defense, the government would issue it.

Money and grain, five kilograms of grain or forty or fifty copper coins a day. The money and grain given are not small, and it is a little higher than the income of many coolies in their work.

"Governor General, are there too many people who give the people strong? Just conscript the civil servants directly when defending the city. Who dares not listen to the government? At most, just take care of the food." A clerk said to Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou suddenly frowned: "Nonsense, these people defended the city to fight against thieves, and risked their lives. How could they treat them unfairly? You don't need to consider the matter of money and food, but remember one thing,

No one is allowed to deduct the money and grain given. Those who dare to embezzle even if they embezzle a penny and a pound of food, they will definitely be killed!"

"We dare not wait." Hong Chengchou's murderous words shocked these clerks.

"You must remember that now is the greatest opportunity in your life. As long as you can defend Nanjing City, all of you can go from clerks to formal officials. Don't lose your life and ruin your future because of a little money.

When money and grain are distributed, there will be a dedicated person to supervise it. Afterwards, someone will ask the people and don’t be lucky. "Hong Chengchou said earnestly.

"Don't worry, if you embezzle a penny, you will kill me!"

"Yes, we dare not."

All the clerks promised.

Hong Chengchou nodded, without saying much. He knew that the greedy officials were the ones who were the ones who sucked bones and marrow from ordinary people. But that was the past, and now that there was the possibility of becoming an official, I believe most people knew about it.

What should be done is obviously more important than greeting for a little money and food.

Hong Chengchou naturally knew how to drive these clerks, which was nothing more than to give them kindness and power. These clerks and servants all came from prefectures and counties, and they were most familiar with the people in Nanjing. In fact, the actual affairs of the prefectures and counties were mostly responsible for these clerks, and the prefectures and counties were responsible for the prefectures and counties.

Officials actually do not do specific matters. As long as they can control these clerks and servants, it is only a trivial matter to recruit civil servants to help defend the city.

"Governor General, there are too many powerful people in the city, what should I do to them?" asked a clerk.

There are too many powerful people in Nanjing. Whether it is the nobles or the families of nobles, or those gentlemen, or those clerks, they cannot afford to offend them. They recruited strong men from the nobles to guard the city, so these clerks and servants dare not go.

"Ordinary people go out to participate in defending the city, and the powerful families pay for the food. You don't need to pay attention to these powerful families. You just need to list such a list of powerful families, as well as the details of their families, shops, land, etc., and then follow them

The family situation determines the amount of money and grain to be paid, and I will send someone to his family to collect money and grain." Hong Chengchou said. As for whom to send, it is naturally the Jinyiwei led by Chang Wu.

There are the most powerful people in Nanjing, second only to Beijing. Dozens of gentry, all of which are deep roots and branches. In addition, the hereditary officials of the Wei Institute, a large number of gentlemen, and businessmen with deep backgrounds.

It is not something that the clerks can afford, and then the Jinyiwei will need to visit him.

The more powerful people, it means that there is a lot of money and grain collected. Ordinary people contribute to help defend the city, so the more powerful people should naturally pay for the food. This is very fair.

The rebels were about to arrive, and Hong Chengchou was also decisive in his work. Various orders were issued one after another. Two or three thousand clerks and soldiers immediately started to take the documents from the Governor's Office and came to the door from the door, starting to recruit the people and the soldiers, but not a group of them were recruited.

It was organized according to the Lifang, and officials and servants served as leaders.

"Mr. Muzhai, what did Fu Zhenshang do?" Late at night, Zhang Pu hurried to Qian Qianyi's mansion, knocked on the door and entered the study room, and asked Qian Qianyi.

Hong Chengchou would rather use clerks than hand over the organization of civil servants in Nanjing. This incident was really beyond Zhang Pu's expectations.

"Fu Zhenshang said that Hong Chengchou was only willing to let him enter the Governor's Office to counsel the military aircraft, and did not mention the organization of the people and the people." Qian Qianyi smiled bitterly.

"The servants used by Hong Chengchou are all affiliated with Yingtian Prefecture and Jiangning and Shangyuan counties. If not, they will control these servants through Yingtian Prefecture and Jiangning Shangyuan County Magistrate!" Zhang Pu gritted his teeth.

Qian Qianyi shook his head: "I have contacted the prefect and the two county magistrates. According to them, their yamen is empty, and all the clerks and servants were brought to the Governor's office to do things. Now they are

He could not command his former subordinates."

"So cruel!" Zhang Pu murmured, "The vigilance of surname Hong is too high. This is to prevent the civil servants in the city from causing trouble!"

With more than one million people in Nanjing, it is not difficult to recruit 50,000 or 60,000 young and 60,000 young and gangs to defend the city. With so many young and gangs to help defend the city, it is much more difficult for Yuan Chonghuan to conquer Nanjing.

"But fortunately, at least there are nobles who will help us!" Zhang Pu murmured.

Can't control the young and strong, but it's better to control the Nanjing defenders. The Nanjing army has always been the private land of the nobles. The nobles have been in the army for more than two hundred years, and their tribesmen are all over the army, and their influence is not Hong Chengchou

Can be eliminated.

Hong Chengchou can control the powerful people through clerks and servants, but it is basically impossible to control the Nanjing army in the same way unless Hong Chengchou is not prepared to use Nanjing army.

Nanjing City has more than 100,000 troops, and the actual army has 20,000 to 30,000 troops. If Hong Chengchou didn't use it, he could only rely on the 4,000 standard camps he brought and the newly recruited civilians to defend the city. It would be impossible to think about it.

"Well, as long as Duke Wei and Yicheng Bo stand by our side, things can be done." Qian Qianyi also nodded and said

At noon the next day, news came from outside the city that 200,000 rebels in Jiangxi finally arrived and were setting up camp twenty miles away from Nanjing.

Hong Chengchou immediately ordered martial law in the city as the governor of Jiangnan. All the people who had nothing to do were not allowed to go out to wander around, and sent cavalrymen to patrol the city. The atmosphere in the entire Nanjing city suddenly became tense.

Zhang Pu and Huang Li hurried in a house in the outer city, paying close attention to the news in the city. However, due to martial law, they did not dare to go out casually anymore, and it was difficult to control the situation in the city for a while.

In the afternoon, the news finally came in. They learned that Hong Chengchou had all the original Nanjing troops in the outer city of Nanjing, and then led the 4,000-Battle Battalion to guard the capital.

Nanjing City has four walls of palace city, imperial city, capital city and outer city. The outer city wall is 120 miles long. If you want to defend such a long city wall, you will need at least more than 100,000 troops. If you follow the military list,

The garrison troops in Nanjing are still sufficient, but the problem is that over the years, the phenomenon of military households fleeing and eating empty wages and drinking blood has become increasingly serious, so the actual number of troops is less than 30,000. More than 20,000 soldiers is

Even the battlements in the city wall were not fully laid.

"Hong Chengchou also led his troops and won victory over the Mongols. Unexpectedly, seeing him today is really unworthy of his reputation!" Zhang Pu said with a smile.

The area between the inner and outer walls of Nanjing City is large, but most of them are farmland, mountains, rivers, and lakes. Most of the people in Nanjing City live in the capital, that is, the inner city. With the current military strength of Nanjing City, it is still difficult to defend the inner city. Hong Chengchou

But he had to defend the outer city, which was really a bit mentally retarded in Zhang Pu's opinion.

Especially now, with the Duke of Wei Xu Hongji and the Bo Yicheng Zhao Zhilong as their inner support, it is even easier for Yuan Chonghuan's army to invade Nanjing!

"Don't underestimate Hong Chengchou, maybe he didn't think about defending the outer city?" Qian Qianyi said.

"Mr. Muzhai said," Zhang Pu was stunned for a moment.

"Hong Chengchou refused to let Fu Zhenshang and other civil servants be responsible for organizing the people's bravery because he was alert to the new civil servants and gentry in Nanjing. How could Hong Chengchou feel at ease with the nobles such as Xu Hongji and Zhao Zhilong? Hong Chengchou must know that the original army in Nanjing was all

The infiltration of the nobles is simply not enough. He will definitely be afraid that the army in the city will cooperate with the outside world and let the enemy into the city, so he drove all the original defenders to the outer city." Qian Qianyi analyzed.

"But this is to hand over the entire outer city and 20,000 to 30,000 defenders to Yuan Chonghuan. Could it be that Hong Chengchou plans to rely on his thousands of standard camps to defend Nanjing?" Zhang Pu said suspiciously.

The inner city wall of Nanjing is also 70 miles long. How could it be possible to defend such a long city wall with just thousands of troops?

Qian Qianyi shook his head: "Don't forget that there are newly recruited civilians. Four thousand elite soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians are enough to defend the inner city."

"It's so poisonous. I didn't worry about the original defenders, so I drove them to the outer city to fend for themselves, leaving only a trusted army in the inner city!" Zhang Pu took a deep breath.

"Don't forget that Hong Chengchou has more than 4,000 battalions in his hands. There is also a navy in the Yangtze River north of the city. Even the total number of naval soldiers exceeded 10,000." Qian Qianyi sighed, "Hong Chengchou is still very
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