Because of the Battle of Jingjing, the Xungui group of the Ming Dynasty was divided into two factions: the north and the south. The core of the Northern faction was the heroes of Jingnan, and after Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, they were mainly concentrated in Beijing. Of course, the core of the southern faction is the remnants of Jianwen's old ministers, who stayed in Nanjing after Zhu Di moved north, and this group of people, led by the Xu family, the Duke of Wei, guarded the territory in the southeast to live their own small lives, and they have been settled for more than 200 years.

Of course, the so-called Honorable Group is a very large group, not just a group of nobles with titles.

It was more difficult to be knighted in the Ming Dynasty, and it was basically impossible to be crowned a king with a different surname, and even if it was sealed, it was posthumously sealed. The title is the prince, the marquis, the three ranks, and there are also hereditary and rogue within the third class - hereditary is hereditary recklessness, and rogue is to be downgraded. The former is awarded to meritorious heroes, and the latter is awarded to relatives and nobles.

However, the difficulty of knighthood does not mean that Zhu Yuanzhang treats the heroes badly, and later generations often have such an impression, thinking that Zhu Yuanzhang is too small, treats the heroes badly, kills the heroes, and has legends such as shelling the heroes' buildings.

And such an impression is the opposite of the actual situation! In fact, the Ming Dynasty was probably the most generous dynasty in China's history. The preferential treatment of meritorious heroes in the Ming Dynasty was not reflected in a small number of high-level meritorious heroes, such as the founding of the Six Princes and Twenty-eight Marquis, but in the preferential treatment of the majority of middle and low-level meritorious heroes.

Zhu Yuanzhang's army is hundreds of thousands! Six dukes, twenty-eight marquis, and together together, there are only thirty-four people. No one can use the experience of the 34 families to deny Zhu Yuanzhang's preferential treatment of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of meritorious soldiers, right?

And Zhu Yuanzhang's method of preferential treatment of meritorious soldiers is actually the military household system!

Is the military household system a preferential treatment? Isn't the military household system serfdom in disguise? In fact, the military household system is not only preferential treatment, but also serfdom in disguise!

Because the meritorious soldiers who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world were not the lowest serf soldiers, but the officers of the guards!

There were more than 300 guards in the Ming Dynasty! How many commanders, acquaintances, servants, pacification, thousands of households, hundreds of households, general flags, and small flags must be there? These official positions are hereditary from generation to generation!

That is to say, most of the descendants of the meritorious soldiers who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to open the country still had a guard official at the end of the Ming Dynasty, at least among the many descendants, some of them could also be officials.

can be compared with Zhu Yuanzhang's military household system, which is about the Eight Banners system of the Qing Dynasty.

Like the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, the officers of the Ming Dynasty also tended to decay after more than 200 years of inheritance, not only losing their combat effectiveness, but also carving up the land of the guard.

At the same time as losing their combat effectiveness, the children of military families read well and were quite proud in the Ming Dynasty's scientific field, and the number of military jinshi could reach 30 percent of the total number of jinshi on average, and their influence in the officialdom was also very large.

For example, Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying, who are now discussing how to deal with Zhu Cihong, are both from the military.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong's action of rectifying the guard in Denglai is equivalent to abolishing hardcore crops in the Qing Dynasty! This is the bottom line of the southern nobles and hereditary military attachés!

"Of course we can't let them out!" Ma Shiying frowned and said, "The nobles who stayed in the capital would not have been too involved in the affairs of the imperial court, but since the crown prince wants to move the guard, they will not turn a blind eye." There are more than 100 guards in the southeast, isn't it their meal? The prince is going to dig their roots! Without these guards, how can they still be nobles? You have to let them contribute, and you have to let them play a joint game for the court! ”

The military and the people of the guard are united, controlling a large amount of land and population, and it is also the foundation of the nobles! Once he loses his guard, Liudu Xungui will become a rootless wanderer, and he will be left to Zhu Cihong.

"Will they be on our side?" Shi Kefa turned his head to look at Zhu Guobi and asked.

Zhu Guobi himself was not a nobleman in the capital, but he had already participated in King Qin, and brought a small number of troops (the elite of the grain transportation army), and he put the 200,000 taels of silver that should have been transported to Dengzhou in the name of King Qin's military expenses, so he couldn't get off the thief ship.

"Shi Butang, Benjue will go and stay in the capital!" Funing Hou Governor Caoyun Zhu Guobi said, "I will personally say that they will definitely do it with us, at least they can have a joint concert to invite the prince to return to the emperor." ”

Shi Kefa asked: "Uncle Xin Cheng will also be with us?" ””

Now managing the Nanjing garrison, Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong is also not a nobleman in the capital. They are all nobles of Beijing, and now they have lost most of their family property and the population and land they control, and have become nobles without roots...... His roots are gone, of course, he has to hug Zhu Cihong's thighs. And digging up the roots of the southeast nobles is also beneficial and harmless to them. Because in the process of digging other people's roots, you must be able to catch a lot! Otherwise, how will you live in the future? Begging for food with the Southeast Honorable Doctor?

So Shi Kefa was a little worried about the position of Zhu Guobi and Zhao Zhilong.

"Don't worry," Zhu Guobi assured, "Xin Chengbo is the saint's henchman, and he is also in charge of the Nanjing garrison and the affairs of the Nanjing Governor's Office. Now, if he can't support the Holy Lord to regain power, when the prince takes control of Nanjing, he will have nothing! Besides, many of the rebels under the command of the cabinet were the Nanjing Beijing battalion soldiers he transferred. ”

Zhao Zhilong's current official position is equivalent to Nanjing's Admiral Jingying Commander, once Zhu Cihong arrives in Nanjing, one of the three must be Zhu Chunchen, Zhang Shize, and Li Guozhen to serve as Commander-in-Chief. It is absolutely impossible to let Zhao Zhilong, a person who has never done a revolution with him and is also a confidant of Chongzhen, be the general commander. Besides, Zhao Zhilong was still implicated by Shi Kefa!

When the time comes, he will have nothing.....

And Zhu Guobi's own situation is similar, and he doesn't have to wait for Zhu Cihong to arrive in Nanjing, as long as he waits for Zhu Cihong to arrive in Huai'an, he has to step down!

The important positions of admiral Caoyun and guarding Huai'an, of course, have to be played by Zhu Cihong's henchmen!

At that time, Zhu Guobi also had to live in Jinling, relying on the savings of corruption in Huai'an. If Zhu Cihong still wants to investigate his corruption and participation in the "King Qin", then he will be even worse. So although he is a noble in Beijing, he is now resolutely on the opposite side of Zhu Cihong!

"Good!" Shi Kefa nodded, "Then there is Lao Fu Ninghou...... As long as Liudu Xungui is the landlord of the southeast, as long as they can be with the saint, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can only return to power. ”

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Every move of the Yanzhou side is, of course, under the control of Zhu Chunjie, the commander of the Jinyi Guard. Compared with the current Dengzhou Xingzai, the Marshal Shi Kefa Mansion in Yanzhou is a leaky sieve, and detailed reports are sent to Zhu Daweishuai's desk every day.

And the news that Zhu Chunjie got today is a bit shocking - after learning the news of the prince's rectification of the Denglai Guard, Shi Kefa finally made up his mind to fight against the prince!

So after getting the news, Zhu Chunjie didn't dare to slack off, and immediately rode out of the city and went straight to Penglai Pavilion.

Penglai Pavilion is now Zhu Cihong's palace!

In mid-June, Wu Sanmei was finally confirmed to be pregnant with a child! In order to let Wu Sanmei have a comfortable living environment, Zhu Cihong moved his residence from the noisy Dengzhou City to Penglai Pavilion located on Danya Mountain.

When Zhu Chunjie arrived, Zhu Cihong had just returned from the inspection of the barracks, and was watching the sea with Wu Sanmei and Fei Zhen'e in the Guanlan Pavilion of Penglai Pavilion.

After listening to Zhu Chunjie's report, Zhu Cihong did not mean to be angry at all, but laughed on his back: "People say that Xiucai rebels, and it will not be successful in three years...... Shi Kefa's Jinshi is similar! After a few days, I still couldn't make up my mind to send troops to war. It's great to want to pull the garbage nobles in Nanjing! ”

When he said this, the smile on his face became even stronger, as if what Shi Kefa and Zhu Guobi did was in his arms.

"Master Chitose, then let's ......" Zhu Chunjie frowned slightly, as if he was worried about Zhu Cihong.

Now Zhu Cihong has a lot of elites in his hands. The New Army has expanded into five divisions on the left, right, middle, and front, each with more than 7,000 people, plus 10,000 people from Denglai Zhuwei, plus the troops directly under the New Army Command Division and the Generalissimo's Office, the total strength can be claimed to be 60,000!

But the problem is that there are a lot of people on Shi Kefa's side, and the Ming Dynasty is now eventful, and there are still Donglu and Liukou on the side, once it is chaotic, I am afraid that it will be out of control!

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Our team is going to expand again!" Li Yan just sent someone to report that the thief's Chen Yingyuan Department promised to surrender, and he also got a demotion! ”

Li Yan and the Red Lady recently went on a business trip to win over the remnants of the rogues and heroes from all walks of life on the ground in Shandong.

After Li Zicheng took Beijing, he once sent the general Guo Sheng to lead thousands of men and horses to seize Shandong, Guo Sheng's people were few, and he could not control the entire territory of Shandong, so he could only focus on occupying Jinan and Jining, and later sent troops to take Qingzhou, and this Chen Yingyuan was sent by Guo Sheng to fight Qingzhou. He was also unlucky, with 2,000 people to Yidu (the first county of Qingzhou), the news of Li Zicheng's loss of Beijing reached Jinan, Guo Sheng had to evacuate in a hurry, not caring about Chen Yingyuan and another thief general named Yao Fengying, the two of them had to join forces and go up to the Taiyi Mountains. However, because the terrain was unfamiliar, he was ambushed by the Qingzhou guerrilla Li Shiyuan of the Ming Dynasty, and Yao Fengying was killed in battle!

Of course, Zhu Cihong would not give up this opportunity, so he asked Li Yan and the red lady to come forward to win over the desperate Chen Yingyuan.