Although the journey between Chongming and Chengdu is long, there is no big difference between Zhang Huangyan's army and the Sichuan army now. Zhang Huangyan has always tried his best to promote the integration of the East Zhejiang Army and the Sichuan Army. Three years ago, under the promotion of Zhang Huangyan, the Imperial Parliament was unified to be responsible for the salary and pension of the East Zhejiang Army; and from the same moment, the newly recruited officers and soldiers of the East Zhejiang Army had to be recognized by the officials sent by Sichuan.

Whether it is Ma Fengzhi or Zheng Zanxu's troops, every new officer promoted now must be a military academy student in Sichuan. The status of Ma Fengzhi's older generation of generals will certainly not be questioned, but if their children want to join the army and inherit the careers of their father and brother, they still need to go to the military academy.

After ordinary soldiers made enough contributions to being promoted to officers, they would receive a ticket to Sichuan, and they could only return to the army to become officers after graduation. Moreover, the ranks of the Zhejiang East Army and the Sichuan Army are completely unified, because the highest ranks of the Sichuan Army were Major General Zhao Tianba, so Ma Fengzhi and Zheng Zanxu were embarrassed to set them too high for themselves, and they were both brigade generals - after all, they were generals. Although the ranks did not sound high, Ma Fengzhi and others were quite satisfied. In private, Zhejiang East Army felt that this was the new dynasty. If they were like Emperor Yongli, they would have been granted casually, and Li Laiheng, a Duke of Lin, had seven or eight generals under his command with general seals. No matter how you look at it, it seemed that they were not far from the destruction of the country.

Because of Zhang Huangyan's reforms, Deng Ming now treats the Sichuan Army and the East Zhejiang Army almost equally. This time, a large number of Zhejiang Army followed Deng Ming to sea. It was precisely because tens of thousands of soldiers participated in the expedition to Luzon that Zhang Huangyan did not react immediately after hearing that the war broke out in southern Zhejiang.

At the end of July, Zhao Tianba rushed to Chongming to meet with Zhang Huangyan, Minister of War. Zhang Huangyan was nominally the Minister of National Defense of the Ming Dynasty, but he had not commanded the army for many years and always delegated military power to senior officers during wartime.

"Now you are the highest rank of general in the southeast region." As a person who knows the inside story of the Sichuan Army, Zhang Huangyan was very confident in Zhao Tianba's ability, so he handed over the command to him: "What are you going to do?"

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In addition to the support from Chengdu, there is also support from Beijing. The Beijing court felt that the riot was caused by the emperor and the royal party.

Jieshu and Soetu were full of resentment for the emperor's instigation of the Three Feudalists to rebel. They felt that the Three Feudalists were not good people, and if they were bigger, they would not listen to the emperor and the court. In that case, even if the Dengming group suddenly became divided, the Three Feudalists might compete with the Qing Dynasty. If such a change occurred in Sichuan, then the Three Feudalists would not benefit the court from the court's control. Therefore, Beijing also asked Liang Huafeng and Dong Weiguo to aid Zhejiang and suppress Geng Jingzhong as soon as possible.

"But the Zhejiang East Army also needs to participate in the war," Zhao Tianba was worried that the Qing governor of the Qing Dynasty would fight Geng Jingzhong himself. He had to give them some benefits. However, the right to allocate the spoils was still in the hands of his own people: "Geng Jingzhong was the first person to lead a large army in more than ten years. Although we did not welcome him and did not ask him to do so, he could not completely avoid face. The last general's idea was to organize a "Fujian Aid Army". Since Geng Jingzhong was under the banner of the Ming army and fought hard with the Qing army in Liangjiang and Zhejiang, it was always appropriate for the Ming army in Zhejiang to help Fujian."

"Aiding the Fujian Army?" Zhang Huangyan thought for a moment and nodded: "General Zhao determined that the battlefield of this battle would be in Fujian?"

"Sooner or later." Zhao Tianba replied confidently.

Both Ma Fengzhi and Zheng Zanxu expressed their unconditional obedience to Zhao Tianba's orders. They were both like wrecked dogs at the beginning, but they had luck after climbing Zhang Huangyan's high branch. Over the years, Ma Fengzhi and Zheng Zanxu have lived a good life, and their territory in Zhejiang has become larger and larger, and they have become loyal to the empire due to their continuous victory.

There are many young military academy students who have graduated for a few years in the General Staff Department. He also recognizes two acquaintances from them. Gu Jin and Chen Dake are both relatives of Zhao Tianba. Their fathers are also old friends in Xiying, and like Zhao Tianba's father, they serve Li Dingguo for the rest of their lives. Since the Jin prince Li Siye took charge of Jianchang, a large number of children from the Yunnan Army have gone to Chengdu to go to school. Li Siye and Zhao Tianba both believe that this is a good way to unite Chengdu and Kunming; while some Jin Wang generals who have doubts about Chengdu think this is a good opportunity to infiltrate Sichuan.

For example, Gu Jin is the nephew of Ma Bao, the general of King Jin, and Chen Da is He Jiuyi's son-in-law. When they left Kunming and other children of the Yunnan Army, they also had the mission of the King of Jin's mansion, which was to help Kunming spy on intelligence. If they found that Chengdu was ill-telling about Kunming, they must try to warn King of Jin. When these children arrived in Chengdu, they were also prepared to be isolated or monitored. However, there was no discrimination policy in Chengdu. The classmates in the military academy not only included fellow scholars from Sichuan, but also self-funded students from Shandong and Zhejiang. When they graduated, officers came to ask about their service volunteers. Most of the children of the Yunnan Army stayed in the imperial army. Not long ago, Li Siye helped Bai Wenxuan's son become the leader of the Jianchang's standing regiment. Starting three years ago, these Yunnan people, like Sichuan people, began to serve in the eastern Zhejiang army.

Although his son did not directly inherit his father's official position as before, like the personnel in the imperial government, these children with status and backgrounds could always get more care. Ma Fengzhi also specially sent these two people to Zhao Tianba's general staff. As Ma Fengzhi expected, Zhao Tianba was indeed very happy after seeing the family friendship. After the meal, three people from the Western Camp came together to chat.

According to Gu Jin's description, the self-defense force in northern Zhejiang may be stronger than Zhao Guozuo's provincial green camp. Because Zhuang Tingyue was a graduate of the Sichuan Military Academy and was regarded as a potential person by the Academy. The military training and weapons and equipment they received were also imitated by the standards of allies. Although Zhao Guozuo's Zhejiang was a model province in the eyes of the Academy, it was still a province of the Qing court in the final analysis. Not only could he not obtain Sichuan's regular military training, but he could not directly purchase arms from Sichuan.

Although Zhou Peigong set up a number of arms factories in Anqing, it was only nominal. In fact, those arms factories themselves had never produced a rifle. Every time Sichuan's weapons were renewed or old guns used by the military and civilians were scrapped, the weapons would be collected and sold to Zhou Peigong's arms factory after the government reviewed and approved. Zhou Peigong then brushed the rifle with new paint and sold it to the Southeast Governor. Later, Zhou Peigong found that it was also troublesome to paint himself, and there were always people who embezzled the paint money, which made the renovation cost high, so he subcontracted the paint work to a private factory in Sichuan. Now Anqing's arms factory has a signboard, which has a group of bureaucrats and accounts. Many Zhou Peigong's relatives and fellow villagers can go there to get a salary, but there is no worker. Whether painting or transportation, they are outsourced to Sichuan's business.

Relying on monopolizing the arms deal of the Southeast Governor, Zhou Peigong's Anqing arms group has always had a huge profit. After the disastrous defeat in Beijing in the sixth year of Kangxi, the Empress Dowager, who learned from the pain, ordered the production of firearms. The arms plant headed by Prince Kang could not produce qualified products because it forced the launch, so Prince Kang sent someone to contact Zhou Peigong, handed over 70% of the funds given to him by the court to Zhou Peigong, and asked Anqing arms group to make rifles, and then put the stamp "produced by Prince Kang" and sent it to Beijing.

Zhou Peigong re-used his old tricks and bid in Sichuan. He bought old arms from Sichuan arms dealers at the lowest price, then painted them, grinded off the original logo, and stamped them. A series of work was outsourced to bid... In general, 30% of the military expenditure given by Beijing went into the pockets of Prince Kang and the cabinet ministers, 20% became the profits of Anqing arms dealers, and the rest were all in the pockets of Sichuan arms dealers.

In order to facilitate the delivery, Prince Kang also set up the factory in Tianjin, and the goods can be directly transported into the warehouse after they are shipped by sea. Lao Fu was overjoyed when he saw these completely "self-produced" rifles. Prince Kang and his ministers also boasted on the side, saying that this kind of rifle has reached the world's leading level, and many technological innovations are far more advanced than those of Sichuan's rifles, which makes the Empress Dowager smile.

Gu Jin and Chen Dake, the weapons sold by Zhou Peigong's arms group, were completely despised. If they were not designed, they would not be eliminated. Moreover, the guns were not just bought back. The fellow scholars in Sichuan knew that they had to buy oil pots to buy guns, and they usually needed to maintain the rifles. However, Zhou Peigong had never bought any skin care products, and Sichuan's arms dealers also tacitly did not mention this matter - if the rifles in the Qing army were not scrapped as quickly as possible, how could Zhou Peigong and Sichuan merchants continue to make money?

"Hangzhou's military preparations are absent because Zhao Guozuo and Songkui thought that no one would come to attack them. They didn't even buy a few Zhou Peigong's rifles." Gu Jin said disdainfully.

"If the army of Jiangnan can quickly enter Zhejiang to fight, then Geng Jingzhong should not be able to defeat Hangzhou." Chen Dake replied.

In recent years, Jiang Guozhu has been thinking about expanding his territory, unifying Liangjiang, and gaining wealth for himself, so the equipment and training level of the Jiangnan army is much better than Zhejiang. It is similar to the speculation from Taiwan. Chen Dake also believes that if there is no more external interference, Jiangnan and Zhejiang's army will have the opportunity to play a role with Geng Jingzhong. However, now Jiangnan has just ended from the chaos, and if Jiangxi will also participate in the war, it seems that there is no problem to block Geng Jingzhong.
Chapter completed!