Although he defeated the Jiangxi rebels and controlled the entire Nanjing, there were still many wars to fight. He wanted to send troops to capture Jiangxi, seize Zhu Yousong, who dared to establish himself as a ruling country, and also sent troops to Huguang to eliminate Huguang's rebellion, which dared to rebel, and eliminate Huguang's rebellion that dared to rebel. .Even gentry gathered to rebel in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, and all had to send large troops to pacify them one by one.

In short, it will take at least several years to completely pacify the entire south of the Yangtze River.

Sending troops to fight naturally requires an army. Zhu Youjian did not trust the local army at all. Moreover, after defeating the rebels and occupying various places, he had to equalize the fields and establish towns, and even more powerful troops were needed to support him.

Therefore, it is imperative to recruit new soldiers and establish a powerful Jiangnan Imperial Guard. The existing more than 100,000 Imperial Guards are mainly arranged on the nine sides, and to deal with the remnants of Jiannu, and to monitor the Mongols in the south of the desert. Can't be easily mobilized.

As for the 20,000 imperial guards in Nanjing, nearly half of them are Li Yanzhi's Fujian Navy. The main task is to control the Ming Dynasty's sea border and protect the maritime trade. This time, it was a forced one. It was precisely because of their transfer, This made Fujian gentry more courageous and dared to gather crowds in Fujian to rebel.

In this war, the Fujian Imperial Guards suffered a lot of losses, with more than 10,000 people going to the expedition, and now there are only more than 7,000 left, with nearly 30% of the losses. Now that the Battle of Nanjing is over, whether it is to destroy the rebellion of Fujian gentry or to regain control of the seas, They must be transferred back to Fujian quickly.

The interests of maritime trade are huge, and Zhu Youjian cannot give up at all. If the Fujian navy fails to return for a long time, the hostile forces at sea will inevitably be ready to move. They may attack the fleet of maritime trade. The maritime trade that is finally controlled may cause chaos. Zhu Yujian didn't want to see this happen.

Three thousand elite troops left were the Yansui soldiers of Zhang Shize's troops, and the rest were the imperial guards of the capital who were guarding Zhu Youjian's southern tour. Zhang Shize would lead his troops back to Yansui sooner or later, and Zhu Youjian would not be able to take long. After leaving Beijing, these troops have to be transferred back. Therefore, new troops must be trained to control the entire Jiangnan.

As for the new army of the Jiangnan Imperial Guards, there are three main aspects. One is the 80,000 Jiangdong peasants, the other is the more than 100,000 prisoners, and the third is the tens of thousands of Nanjing Township Warriors recruited by Hong Chengchou.

The Jiangdong peasant soldiers have only been more than a month since the recruitment. The training time is too short, and they don’t even have a unified military uniform. They are not considered an army at all. At least they are still far from the standards of the Imperial Guards.

If we talk about the source of troops, it is actually the most suitable for Jiangdong farmers. Because the land division that has been carried out has been divided into land and land, these farmers have no problem with their loyalty. Moreover, they are all farmers, who are down-to-earth and willing to work hard, honest and obedient, are the most important. A good candidate for soldiers. The most important thing is that these peasants and soldiers have been trained for a period of time and have a certain foundation.

However, an army cannot be all people from the same place, otherwise there will definitely be a group of local officers in the army in the future. Moreover, if all the 80,000 are added, there will be too many, and the Jiangdong prefectures have lost these 80,000 strong laborers. Development will also have an impact. Many peasant soldiers are the pillars of their families, and many are only children, which are not suitable for being a soldier for a long time.

After discussing with Hong Chengchou, Yuan Keli and others, after careful consideration, Zhu Youjian decided to give Jiangdong 40,000 peasant soldiers, which means that 40,000 people would be drawn from these 80,000 people to be assigned to the New Army of the Imperial Guard.

The treatment of the Imperial Guards is well known that the average salary is more than twice that of other troops, and the salary is never deducted on time. The salary received by one person as a soldier is enough to support the family. The most important thing is the status of the Imperial Guards, which is the annual status of the local township officials.

The candidates will be selected from retired officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guards. After ordinary soldiers of the Imperial Guards retire and return home, they will be village chiefs or officials in township governments.

This is a great attraction for ordinary people. For ordinary people, there was only one way to become an official in the past, which was to study, but not everyone has talent for studying, but more of ordinary people who cannot study.

Now, these ordinary people have one more choice, and they can choose to join the army and go to the government to do things after retirement.

Once the news of the establishment of a new army of the Imperial Guards broke out, it immediately caused a sensation among the peasant soldiers. All peasant soldiers were eager to try and hoped to choose themselves. By the time the formal selection was formal, it was conceivable how fierce the competition would be.

As for Nanjing Township Warriors, not everyone wants to join the army. After all, the concept of a good man not joining the army has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Moreover, these Township Warriors are all from Nanjing and are upright Beijingers. As long as they are down-to-earth and willing to work hard on weekdays, they will make money more than others.

The place is much easier, and many people are not interested in joining the army. The reason why these rural brave men are enlisted as rural brave men is because the war is imminent. One is that they are afraid that their families will suffer after the city is broken, and the other is that they can earn a share of the rural brave men.

Money and food are used to support the family.

Now that the war is over, they can return to their old careers. There is no problem in making money to support their families, so they are naturally unwilling to leave their hometowns and join the army to fight.

Of course, not everyone is unwilling to join the army, and a considerable number of rural heroes are willing to join the Imperial Guard. After all, even if they are from the capital, there are still very poor people. The Imperial Guard's salary is quite attractive. In addition, they value the Imperial Guard.

As for the military status, it is a good way to join the Imperial Guards in the future.

In fact, there is also a debate on whether to recruit the Imperial Guards from the locals in Nanjing, Li Yanzhi, Zhang Shize, Hong Chengchou and other ministers. According to Li Yanzhi's view, there is no need to recruit soldiers from the city people at all. The city people are too slippery and are not a good candidate for military service.

However, Hong Chengchou insisted that the township heroes should be given a certain quota, because after all, these township heroes have made considerable efforts in defending the city. Without these township heroes, it would be impossible to stick to the inner city of Nanjing for a month.

After careful consideration, Zhu Youjian decided to give Nanjing Township Warriors 20,000 quotas to reward their contributions.

As for the remaining 40,000 places, more than 100,000 prisoners were given.

The reason why we recruit soldiers among prisoners is due to multiple considerations.

First, to stabilize the captives' hearts and prepare for the future counterattack of Jiangxi and even to carry out the equal-field reform in Jiangxi. These captives came from all over Jiangxi, most of them were rebellious Jiangxi poor people, and the rest were the soldiers of the former Jiangxi garrison, all living in

The bottom of society. Insert part of them into the Imperial Guards and promote the policies that the emperor will soon implement, so that the entire Jiangxi can be quickly stabilized through them in the future.

Furthermore, these prisoners are of good quality. Whether they were the previous garrison soldiers or the rebels who had rebelled, they all came from the bottom of society. They were all hard-working people, and they all had certain military qualities and were recruited into the ban.

The Guards will at least save a lot of training time.

After allocating the troops, the next step is to select generals for training. After careful consideration, Zhu Youjian decided that Zhang Shize, the general of Yansui, the Hou of Pingbei, would be the prime minister for training, and he was fully responsible for the training of the imperial guards. Zhang Shize's troops were Yan

There were 3,000 Sui soldiers, plus more than 1,000 troops under the Li Dingguo army, based on these 4,000 people, a hundred thousand imperial guards were trained.

These Yansui soldiers followed Nanjing for thousands of miles, suppressed bandits in Shandong, pacified the Red Turban Army in Henan, and made great contributions in the Battle of Nanjing, so they naturally deserved the reward. After the establishment of the New Imperial Guard Army, they

They will be promoted regardless of their officers and soldiers, and even ordinary soldiers will be appointed as chief or even chief banner officers.

As for Zhang Shize, he only has the power to train troops. When the new guard army is trained, he will be transferred back to Yansui. In the future, he will have nothing to do with this Jiangnan Imperial Guard.

There are 100,000 people, divided into ten divisions, two of which are sailor divisions, equipped with a large number of river ships. There are many water towns in the south of the Yangtze River and many marchs along the river. The navy is still very important.

Another one is the cavalry division, which is prepared to be equipped with a large number of war horses. Although there are many mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, there are also quite a few plains. If the cavalry is used well, it can play a big role. The rest are infantry divisions equipped with muskets and cannons.

, mainly engaged in infantry battles.

The new army of 100,000 imperial guards requires too many weapons and armor, as well as various types of muskets and cannons. To complete the equipment, it will cost at least millions of taels of silver. Even though there were originally a lot of weapons, armor and supplies, Nanjing

The war also seized a large number of weapons from the rebels, but they were still not enough. It was because the weapons of the peasants and soldiers and thieves were too complicated and not enough to be used.

Fortunately, a large-scale house search operation has just been carried out. The nobles, officials and gentry in Nanjing were almost circulated. The silver wealth collected has not been clearly counted, but it is definitely an astronomical figure. It is roughly estimated that it exceeds tens of millions of taels.

There is absolutely no problem with silver.

Almost all the upper class in Nanjing were confiscated, which was to gather the wealth of the entire Nanjing city to support the army. Not to mention the 100,000 imperial guards, there was no problem even if they were trained 200,000.

Zhang Shize is the Prime Minister of the Army Training and is responsible for the selection and training of new recruits.

Yuan Keli was appointed as the military training assistant, responsible for weapons, armor, food, supplies, etc. These things were originally the affairs of the Ministry of War, but now the Beijing Ministry of War cannot count on it, and all the officials of the Nanjing Ministry of War were cleaned up again. After consideration, Zhu Youjian decided to re-examine

The Nanjing officialdom was rectified, Yuan Keli was appointed as the Secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of War, and the military training assistant, and cooperated with Zhang Shize to train the new imperial guards. As for other officials in the Nanjing Ministry of War, they were transferred from the officials who were attending the south.

Logically speaking, after destroying 200,000 rebels, we should quickly launch an attack on the rebels in Jiangxi and completely quell the Jiangxi rebellion. However, there are too many things that Nanjing needs to recover aftermath, so we can't spend any energy to attack Jiangxi.

Regarding the issue of continuing to advance, Zhu Youjian summoned his subordinates to discuss it. Hong Chengchou suggested that the attack on Jiangxi be suspended and the prefectures and counties around Nanjing should be taken down first.

After the rebels attacked the outer city of Nanjing, the counties under Yingtian Prefecture and Jiangnan Prefectures under Nanzhili chose to surrender to the rebels. These prefectures and counties were too close to Nanjing, and many were still on the way to Jiangxi. They had to be first

Let's talk about recovery.

Fortunately, although these prefectures and counties occupy a large area, they do not have any army. At most, they are local troops summoned by gentry. The combat effectiveness is not even as good as thieves, so it is not difficult to recover.

"In my opinion, it is not appropriate to promote troops in the warehouse, but to fight steadily. If you capture a territory, you will immediately reorganize the equal land. After one place is stabilized, you will attack the next rebel." Hong Chengchou suggested.

"If this is the case, I'm afraid it will take at least half a year to capture the Jiangnan prefectures, and it will take at least autumn to attack Jiangxi. But if we don't quickly capture Huguang, Jiangxi, we will not be able to transfer grain from Huguang, Jiangxi. How to solve the problem of grain shortage in the four prefectures in Jiangxi?" Zhu

Yu Jian frowned.

"Don't worry, your Majesty, 200,000 rebels were completely wiped out, and the case of Yuan Chonghuan being captured by Lingchi will soon spread to Huguang, Jiangxi. Those rebel gentry must be terrified. The 200,000 rebels were finished, and the remaining troops in Jiangxi were left.

There are not many soldiers in Huguang at all, and the Huguang gentry is not worth mentioning. Now, both Jiangxi and Huguang gentry must be in panic, fearing that the Imperial Guards will kill them.

I guess it won't take long to cause chaos within the Jiangxi traitors and even Huguang traitors. Those gentry will inevitably rush to contact us, trying to avoid their death penalty. Therefore, there is no need to send troops to attack. The grain chambers in Jiangxi and even Huguang will be transported by themselves.

When the grain reaches Jiangdong, the problem of food shortage will be solved by itself." Hong Chengchou explained.

In the Battle of Nanjing, 200,000 rebels were wiped out, which would inevitably scare the gentry and officials from all over the country, making these people dare not resist. If they continue to rebel, they will definitely die. If they cannot escape, they will also implicate their family. If they do not rebel,

After the Imperial Guards attacked, at most, the fields were released by the slaves, and their lives could still be saved. Compared with their lives, fields and other external things were nothing.

"Is this really going to happen?" Zhu Youjian was skeptical. After all, there are five or six million people in the four prefectures of Jiangdong. Once a food shortage occurs, it will inevitably affect the people who have just gathered. Zhu Youjian is unwilling to see this situation happen.

"I hope to conquer Jiangxi and Huguang before summer, and it is best not to affect the collection of summer grain. After all, the north is still counting on the grain from Jiangnan." Zhu Youjian said.

"What Your Majesty said is that I am not considering it thoroughly." Hong Chengchou thought for a while, "Let's do this, now send troops to attack the various prefectures of Nanzhi. After the capture, the equal-field reform will be carried out, and the troops will be continued to attack Jiangxi and at the same time, the troops will be divided into attacks on Huguang.

The equalization of land in Huguang, Jiangxi, will not be carried out for the time being this year, and will be done until winter."

"So good." Zhu Youjian nodded and agreed to Hong Chengchou's proposal.

So Zhu Youjian issued an order to confer the title of Li Dingguo as the general who fought against rebellion, leading three thousand elite troops to attack the various prefectures of Nanzhi. Along with Li Dingguo, there were a large number of officials recruited in the Zhenjiang exam. Every time he captured a prefecture and county, these officials would be in

The local area will conduct equalization of fields. At the same time, a second-level town and village organization will be established, and farmers and soldiers will be recruited immediately as local armed forces.

At the same time, the city of Nanjing also needs to be rectified. The people in the two cities inside and outside Nanjing are under the jurisdiction of Yingtian Prefecture and are divided into two counties in Shangyuan and Jiangning. After discussion, Zhu Youjian decided to set up a yard under the county, and the entire city of Nanjing was established together.

There were thirty-six yards, each with one rank, one rank, and several officials, responsible for the management of the entire yard. The status of the yard is the same as that of the town.

As the number of newly recovered territories increases, a large number of officials are needed. The number of officials Zhu Youjian is far from enough, and next, he will conduct an official examination in Nanjing City to select grassroots officials.
Chapter completed!