"What do you think?"

In the study room of the Divine Emperor Palace, Yang Feng asked Zuo Zongtang who was standing in front of him.

It's not just Zuo Zongtang.

Including Shen Baozhen and Lin Puqing, who were thrown to Zuo Zongtang by him before, also came to see him, of course, these two people are small characters, and they have been pardoned by Yang Feng and gone home, what do they like, even if he wants to use Shen Baozhen, it has to come step by step, Daming already has his own official appointment procedures.

In fact, it is a civil service exam.

As long as you are literate, you can sign up, and then the Ministry of Officials will arrange for the examination, after passing the examination, you will enter the probationary period, and after passing the probationary period, you will be regularized, and then start with ordinary civil servants after becoming regular, and then promote step by step according to the work performance. In addition, there is also the resettlement of retired officers, ordinary soldiers are discharged from the army and given retirement money to go home, but the officers must be arranged to be civil servants or even directly officials, especially to enrich the police system in various places.

And there are monitoring mechanisms.

One is the holy shrines in various places, and in a sense, the Ming Dynasty is also a combination of politics and government.

The God Emperor is not just an emperor but also a god.

He not only has the control arm of the state administration, but also the system of shrines.

And ordinary people have dissatisfaction, they can go to the shrine to confide in the priests, including the report of the officials can also go to the shrine, of course, the shrine is not a procuratorial body, in fact, the Ming Dynasty also has the Metropolitan Procuratorate to exercise the function of the procuratorate. However, the reports received by the shrine were directly summarized to the Emperor's attendants, because these priests were the Emperor's agents and were responsible for caring for the people on his behalf, and in addition to presiding over the worship of God Haotian at some festivals, they also acted as charities, and the reports of the common people to the priests were actually directly reported to the Emperor.

In addition, there is a brocade guard.

Jinyiwei exercised the function of the Eight Governors.

Of course, it's the modern Hachifu Patrol.

To put it simply, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is a legal procedure, the Holy Shrine is an internal discipline, and the Jinyiwei is the minions of the internal discipline system, and even the Jinyiwei has its own edict.

The right to take officials away for tea at any time.

But the sentence has to be handed over to Dali Temple, but they can also never pay it.

In addition, the people also have the right to supervise, that is, those honors, the honors of the Ming Dynasty are not limited to their status, whether they are meritorious on the battlefield, or model workers in production, and even those who provided important information for the emperor in Tongzhou last time, they may all be awarded medals, and these honors have no political privileges, but according to the different levels of the medals, they receive different amounts of Yulu on a monthly basis, but ......

As meritorious officials who have made special contributions to the country, they can communicate directly with the Divine Emperor or, to put it simply, they can go to the secret fold, or even simply meet the Divine Emperor directly.

This is the triple oversight.

As for the corruption of officials, this kind of thing cannot be completely avoided, and Yang Feng has not succeeded in playing for hundreds of years! Even if Ming's corruption is gone, there will still be another form, he can guarantee that officials are not greedy, but he cannot guarantee that his officials will not have hidden interest exchanges.

And all Yang Feng can do is to ensure that his officials are clear and clear to the greatest extent......

In fact, the Ming Dynasty is indeed called a ruler.

Compared with our Qing Dynasty, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are as pure as white lotuses, at least in the eyes of the common people, from a boundless dark dungeon suddenly to the sun-drenched world, even if there are a little clouds in the sky, or even a little fog, they will also cheer for this light, after a few decades they may think that the sun is not bright enough, but at least this sunshine has made them fascinated.

In short, this is the current Ming Dynasty.

If Shen Baozhen wants to be reused by him, he must first return to Fuzhou, participate in the new imperial examination, and become an official civil servant of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the holy court officials rule Qingming, the people have enough food and clothing, the city does not hear the cry of hunger and cold, the four fields do not see the scourge of thieves, although the widow and orphan are also supported, even the disabled people also have food and clothing, it can be said that the governance of Longyao Shun is far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the grass people have seen the prosperity of the year, and there are no regrets in this life!"

Zuo Zongtang hurriedly said.

"Ha, ha, you're very honest, since you've finished reading, go back! Xiangyin has recovered at this time, you go back and build your hometown well! ”

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Well, he'll have to go back to the civil service exam first.

Zuo Zongtang didn't talk nonsense, he is a smart person who knows very well that he has now entered the sight of the God Emperor, even if he goes back to take the civil service exam, he will definitely be looked at differently, and the rest is nothing more than promotion according to the procedure, and it is inevitable to become a Ming minister with his own talents, and he also wants to go back to see what the situation is in his hometown where the land reform began, and then he retired, and at the same time as he turned around, he passed by Chen Liu, the chief of the general staff who hurriedly walked in.

"God Emperor, the Wuchang Tartars are defeated without a fight."

Chen Liu saluted Yang Feng and said.

"Collapse without a fight?"

Yang Feng was surprised.

"Yes, the advance of our army has not yet reached Wuchang, and the 100,000 Tartars of Wuchang have collapsed, and it is said that it began with Seng Lingqin, who led the Mongolian cavalry and the Eight Banners to flee to Jiangbei through the pontoon bridge without informing the other armies, and kept going north. After he left, Cheng Zhicai's green battalion completely collapsed, and Cheng Zhicai also crossed the river with less than 2,000 men and fled to Anhui, only the green battalion led by Zeng Guofan, the governor of Hunan, and Hu Linyi, the prefect of Wuchang, remained organized, but they had also withdrawn to Jiangbei, but they were still stationed in Hanyang. ”

Chen Liu said.

Zuo Zongtang, who slowed down his pace, shook his head with embarrassment when he heard the two familiar names behind him, and then sped up and went out.

"It's Daoguang's backyard on fire!"

Yang Feng immediately guessed the reason.

He guessed correctly, Daoguang's backyard did catch fire.

The army of the Bukhara Khanate invaded Kokand, killed the original Great Khan of Kokand and raised up a puppet of his own, Yusufu and others, who were originally courteous to Kokand Khan, were no longer courteous, and they took advantage of the civil strife in Kokand to simply gather a group of defeated troops and capture Kashgar under the combination of inside and outside.

It must be explained here.

In order to prevent the Kokand people from continuing to do things, Daoguang agreed ten years ago in the peace between the two sides after the Zhanger Rebellion, agreed that Kokand would set up similar consul-like elders in the six cities of southern Xinjiang, and then collect taxes from the Kokand merchants in the six cities of southern Xinjiang, and protect their interests, one of the important items is to punish the offenders by themselves similar to the consular jurisdiction.

Therefore, not only Kashgar, but also the entire six cities of southern Xinjiang have a large number of Kokand people.

The Qing army was extremely weak in this area.

Originally, they didn't have many garrisons in this area, just a Kashgar minister, and a garrison in Seoul, which fell in a blink of an eye under the attack of the Kokand people, the garrison abandoned the city and fled, the minister's family was killed, and the residents changed their gods, and then the Kokand people destroyed and conquered one city after another in the welcome, and in less than a month, almost all of the southern Xinjiang fell, and Yusufu also called himself the Sultan in a dignified manner.

Daoguang didn't care too much about the loss of southern Xinjiang, but the invasion of the Kokand people caused what he feared the most.

There was a fire in his backyard.

This is actually inevitable, no matter how hard he tries to appease during this time, it is useless, no matter how much he appeases, he can't change the principled contradiction that the two sides are fundamentally different, and Daoguang, who is training the new army, is also very clear that the new army he has just formed and has not even gathered a flintlock pistol will definitely not be able to go to the battlefield, and the only way is to transfer Seng Lingqin back to put out the fire for him.

Although Seng Lingqin failed to resist the attack of the Ming army, but his 10,000 elite Qimeng cavalry has always been the core of the battlefield, this is dominated by the Horqin cavalry, plus some of the cavalry of the Eight Banners can already be said to be tempered, although they are all hammered, but they have indeed been hammered into the elite, that is, the Ming army has to be careful with them at this time, and the flintlock carbine pistol equipped with a water is also equipped with a spear. If the monk took this cavalry to Bali Bridge in history, it is really hard to say whether the Anglo-French alliance can hold it, after all, the growth of an army is largely determined by their opponents, and the Taiping Army is comparable to the elite of the American Army in the late Civil War, it is not a level at all.

Daoguang wants this elite to extinguish the fire of rebellion behind him as quickly as possible.

As for the Ming army......

That's the thing!

Yang Feng got Wuchang to completely open up the Yangtze River, the rest must be to go straight to Nanjing, he is to remove the monk Greenqin, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will also do their best for the Qing Dynasty, at this time Jiangsu and Zhejiang have no practical use for him, although the Ming army landed in Haizhou did not take Xuzhou, but has occupied Suqian to cut off the canal, and the Ming army occupied the upper reaches of the Yangtze River also cut off the shipping of the Yangtze River, and the money and grain of Jiangsu and Zhejiang can no longer be transported to him.

He couldn't collect money or food, so why did he let Monk Lingqin stay in the south to protect these guys who would definitely not betray him?

Do they dare to let the Ming army fight over?

They didn't dare.

Even if they don't care, they have to do their best to fight with the bandits, at this point, the Hunan gentry have set an example, Zeng Guofan has not abandoned the Qing Dynasty, and the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will not behave worse than him, Daoguang still sees it very clearly on this issue, so he can withdraw Monk Greenqin, not only evacuate Monk Greenqin to Guanzhong, in fact, the Jingzhou general and the Jingzhou garrison Eight Banners have also been transferred to Guanzhong, anyway, the Sichuan gentry will work hard to hold the Three Gorges, and there is also the Chengdu general town!

So in this way, Monk Greenqin floated away with 10,000 elite cavalry under the resentful eyes of the gentry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Hubei, and when Yang Feng got the news, he was actually almost in Suizhou.

"This light is not kind!"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Daoguang is equivalent to selling the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang directly, and then pushing Nanjing to him, in order to gain time to stabilize Guanzhong, which ......

This is indeed unkind.