Now Syrian state is becoming more and more important, salt merchants have begun to develop there, and a large number of Ming army ships have been moored. It is becoming increasingly difficult for Chengdu to remotely control Syrian state. As the population of Syrian state continues to increase, if all grain and various materials are transferred from Chengdu, it will also lead to excessive costs. Therefore, Chengdu unanimously believes that we should immigrate to Syrian state. Syrian state will implement the same policies as Chengdu, such as the same scholar, low tax and cargo monopoly system, etc. These are undoubtedly the question of who should be sent to be responsible.

Deng Ming had a shortage of talents, and he did not intend to let the officers serve as the chief executive of the local government, so it seemed that only Yuan Xiang was more suitable. Due to Yuan Xiang's life-saving grace, Liu Jinge was always very polite to him, and the Chengdu Ting Zheng Department also had a certain prestige. Its verdict was never contradicted by the Chengdu prefect's ruling. If Yuan Xiang was sent to Xuzhou, Deng Ming was worried that Liu Jinge would fight with Ting Zheng Department again.

However, Deng Ming thought about it over and over again, and finally decided to let Yuan Xiang go to Xuzhou. This was based on two considerations: first, we cannot always expect the Criminal Department to rely on human feelings to maintain it. The prefect's yamen needs to learn to respect the judicial department rather than respect the leaders of the judicial department. Now that the authority of the Criminal Department has been established, the prefect's yamen is used to not interfering in the judiciary; second, the development of the Criminal State must rely on the support of Chengdu, and it will also divide the tax sources, population and income of Chengdu. If someone is sent, Deng Ming is worried that Liu Jinge will not care about the matter in Xuzhou.

As Deng Ming expected, after announcing Yuan Xiang's appointment, Liu Jinge was the person who was most active in approving, and praised Deng Ming's wiseness and was happy from the bottom of his heart that Yuan Xiang could control the administrative power of a government; Liu Jinge also assured Deng Ming and Yuan Xiang that he would do his best to support the development work in Xuzhou and would never have a regional view.

After Yuan Xiang left, the position of the Chengdu Tizheng Department was vacant. Deng Ming gave this position to He Daoning without thinking. The latter was a newcomer and asked him to take charge of other tasks. Not to mention that Deng Ming was worried, others might be dissatisfied - even if promoting the second generation of officials was a natural thing in this era. The Tizheng Department had fewer affairs, so He Daoning could exercise in this position first. And although He Daoning was not very brave, he was at least the heir trained by He Zhen. It is said that He Daoning's fist skills were

Yes, Deng Ming privately thought about the ability to fight Liu Jinge, at least Liu Jinge needs to carefully consider the consequences of the duel. As for He Daoning himself was also very satisfied with this arrangement. He obtained the right to take charge of the judiciary as soon as he arrived in Chengdu. Not only could he be familiar with Admiral Deng's laws and regulations in this position, but also through Yuan Xiang's example, this was also a springboard to senior government officials. He Daoning secretly decided to do a good job and ensure that the admiral's will can be realized so as to pave the way for his future future.

Yuan Xiang carefully introduced He Daoning to He Daoning during the handover. Deng Ming also told He Daoning that the task of Titan's Criminal Department is to ensure that there is a dispute with the scholars and to ensure judicial justice is He Daoning's most important task. Deng Ming did not want Titan's Criminal Department to become an affiliated department of the prefect's yamen. Deng Ming had nothing to guide the work in Xuzhou. He stayed in Sichuan as much as he left Sichuan, and everything could only be considered by Yuan Xiang.

In order to ensure the safety of Xuzhou, Deng Ming ordered Ren Tang to move to Xuzhou with a standing army of an infantry battalion and a cavalry company (600 infantry and 100 cavalry). Ren Tang always praised Zhuge himself because he had studied and had certain government affairs capabilities. Although Deng Ming felt that it was not necessarily a good thing for an officer to intervene in government affairs, there was no good idea now. He could only let Ren Tang be an assistant and staff officer for Yuan Xiang. Of course, Deng Ming had the first words, Ren Tang was just a staff officer, and Yuan Xiang had unique decision-making power. As for the Xuzhou Tingzheng Department, Deng Ming took some thought and finally decided to transfer a group of people from the Chengdu Tingzheng Department. The original Chengdu Tingzheng Department was upgraded to the Provincial Tingzheng Department, and the Xuzhou Tingzheng Department was also led by He Daoning. There was no one available, otherwise Deng Ming would not have let Yuan Xiang's old troops go down to check and balance the prefect of Xuzhou.

After arranging the personnel, Deng Ming planned to set off for Jianchang. Almost all his subordinates disagreed. After Zhao Tianba learned about Deng Ming's decision, he hesitated for a long time.

"There are so many things in the capital's palace now, and Xuzhou has just begun to build a government. Is the admiral going to Kunming again and again?" After a psychological struggle, Zhao Tianba said carefully: "If the admiral has any news to send to the King of Jin, I will just go on a tour on behalf of the admiral."

"Are you worried that King Jin will be unfavorable to me?" There was no one else around, and Deng Ming Dan asked straight into the knife.

"Where is this?" Zhao Tianba beat him up, but he immediately said: "But the imperial court... well, the admiral and the imperial court... well, the identity of the King of Jin and the imperial court... "

Zhao Tianba stammered for a long time, but he didn't say any reason, but the meaning in his words was obviously unwilling to Deng Ming to go to Yunnan at this critical moment.

"I am the Admiral of the Yangtze River appointed by General Wen. Is there any problem with this identity?" Deng Ming interrupted Zhao Tianba's vague remarks: "The King of Jin is the prince of Huang Yue, so I am naturally the subordinate of King of Jin. It would be fine if I didn't have time before. Now I have spare time. I should go to see King of Jin, report on the military situation in the Yangtze River Basin, and ask King of Jin for instructions."

Zhao Tianba had nothing to say. From his original heart, of course he hoped that Deng Ming and Li Dingguo would work together and have a harmonious relationship. However, Deng Ming, both the third prince and the young Tang King, would be Yongli's competitors. Li Dingguo, as Yongli's most determined supporter, obviously had a huge conflict of interest with Deng Ming.

"Brother Zhao, look around us," Deng Ming sighed: "We only have one third of Hubei, and Sichuan also has a common enemy and our enemies. Only Yunnan is basically in the hands of the King of Jin. The world is so big, we only have two provinces."

"The Admiral said," Zhao Tianba stopped hesitating and nodded heavily: "I will accompany the Admiral to Kunming."

Zhao Tianba originally wanted to say: "I must protect the admiral even if I die." But this statement ultimately contained distrust of his benefactor Li Dingguo, so he did not say it but hid it in his heart.

"Okay, this is the way to delay Brother Zhao's future again." Deng Ming smiled slightly.

Zhao Tianba has a high prestige among the regular army in Chengdu. When he fought with Zhao Liangdong last time, Zhao Tianba rushed into the enemy's encirclement and rescue his subordinates regardless of his safety. Needless to say, the other soldiers also admired Zhao Tianba's courage. Many soldiers hoped to fight under Zhao Tianba's command in the future. When Deng Ming left Sichuan, Zhao Tianba's reputation in the army was even a little higher than Li Xinghan. At that time, the regular army was mainly Zhao Tianba and Li Xinghan was deputy.

"The Admiral made fun of him." Zhao Tianba laughed. Now Chengdu is going to form an infantry regiment of the standing army, and a large number of officers and soldiers are privately discussing that if Deng Ming does not personally serve as the regiment commander, it would be reasonable to let Zhao Tianba, who lives and dies with the soldiers, take office.

Although Deng Ming planned to form a regiment of cavalry standing army in the future, there are only three companies now, and they will probably be expanded into three battalions based on these three companies in the future. Ren Tang took one away, Zhou Kaihuang and Mu Tan were busy robbing the other two. After Zhao Tianba followed Deng Ming to Yunnan, the Chengdu standing infantry regiment would definitely be handed over to Li Xinghan for construction.

"Didn't the admiral give me a horse? I have gained and gained." Zhao Tianba replied freely. Since Li Xinghan is responsible for building the infantry regiment, he will definitely be the first to be promoted to lieutenant colonel in the future, and Zhao Tianba will no longer have the chance to compete with him for the command of the first standing regiment. A few days ago, Deng Ming gave his horse-buying quota to Zhao Tianba, allowing him to get a good horse as he wished.

"Well, then, get ready, we'll set off soon."

This time, Deng Ming would not take the three walls of guards to set out, but would take 200 infantry to Jianchang, so that he could save some food and grass on the way. At the same time, he would also bring 100 horses and some silver, which were all gifts to Feng Shuangli and Li Dingguo.

When leaving Chengdu, Deng Ming asked the envoy to report to Fengjie: "Reporting to the Supervisor, I brought three thousand armored soldiers and seven thousand auxiliary soldiers, and set off with 500,000 stones of grain. I will return to Chengdu within a few months, so that the Supervisor will not have to worry."

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When Deng Ming set out on the way to Jianchang, Chongqing welcomed Beijing's envoy. Li Guoying learned that his memorial did not play any role, and Li Guoying proposed a strategy to retreat from Chongqing to the Qing court, but several ministers of the regent agreed.

"The Empress Dowager's meaning is that the Governor is a loyal minister, but Chengdu still needs to be beaten." The envoy brought not documents, but oral messages.

"Test?" Li Guoying asked in confusion.

"Yes, didn't the thieves start to operate Wanxian and Xuzhou? Even if you can't attack Chengdu, it's good to attack Wanxian or Xuzhou, preferably Xuzhou." Now Beijing also knows that it's difficult to attack Chengdu, so it's second best: "Since the thieves manage Xuzhou and Wanxian, there will always be trespasses around these two places, right? As long as you get close to these two cities, can the army get enough supplies?"

Li Guoying smiled bitterly: "Tei Deng mainly cultivated farms in Chengdu. If he could approach Chengdu, then the army would have 100,000 people, and the food and grass should be solved. However, there were not many cultivated farms in Xuzhou and Wanxian, and I am afraid that it would not be able to support the army's long-term siege."

"In other words, there are not many thieves in these two places?" After hearing that Xuzhou and Wanxian had few military farms, the envoy asked keenly: "So can we launch a large army to quickly fight? For example, 10,000 armored clothes, plus 20,000 armorless."
Chapter completed!