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On December 28, the 14th year of Chongzhen, the Chuang army captured Licheng, Jinan Prefecture.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng changed the name of Yanzhou Prefecture to Ziyang as "Tokyo" and called him "King Xinshun".

Immediately, a government was established in "Tokyo" and a large number of civil and military officials were appointed.

With Li Yan as the left military advisor and Gu Junen as the right military advisor, they assisted in military affairs.

He also worshiped Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi as the prime minister, Niu Jinxing as the left prime minister, and Lai Yi as the right prime minister to assist in government affairs.

It consists of six governments: officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers. It appoints Yu Shangyou, an official who was demoted in the Ming Dynasty, as ministers of each government to be in charge of government affairs.

In the four occupied prefectures of Luoyang, Kaifeng, Yanzhou, and Jinan, defense envoys were set up to control the military, and magistrates, prefectures, and county magistrates were set up to govern the local areas.

Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu were also named generals of power, commanding the front and rear camps of the invading army respectively. Feng Gao became a general and helped lead the army into the middle camp.

Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, and Liu Fangliang were appointed as generals, and each took charge of the defense envoys of Henan, Kaifeng, Yanzhou, and Jinan.

After that, Li Zicheng sent tens of thousands of troops to the west, and in ten days they defeated Dongchang Prefecture and Daming Prefecture. The world was shocked!

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The eighteenth day of the first lunar month.

Ruyang.

Chongwangfu.

Liu Sheng also became king and was named "King Xingmei".

Because many civil servants and generals held important positions and could not come, Liu Sheng simply kept the ceremony simple.

Chengyun Hall.

The civil officials, headed by Li Changwen, and the military generals, led by Peng Youyi, totaled about dozens of people, and together they bowed to Liu Sheng (a ninety-degree bow).

"See my king!"

Then there were two more bows to the sky, and they shouted in unison——

"Chitose!"

"A thousand thousand years old!"

A former eunuch from Prince Chong's Mansion was called over to serve as the eunuch who was responsible for the ceremony. When the process was completed, he waved his whisk and shouted: "The ceremony is over! Return to the civil and military positions!"

As a result, dozens of civil and military officials lined up on both sides, standing neatly.

This process has been extremely simplified, but Liu Sheng still feels very empty.

Therefore, after the ceremony, he said a few words according to the "lines" Li Changwen asked someone to write, and then ended the ceremony in a hurry.

After changing out of his "King Xingmei" attire and putting on regular clothes, Liu Sheng called Li Changwen, Peng Youyi and others over to discuss matters.

Zhang Kuang, who left North America only fifteen years ago, also attended the meeting as military counselor.

Because Liu Sheng had already established a government office when he was promoted to generalissimo last year, and now that he has been promoted to "King Xingmei", he does not need to worry about the construction of various agencies under the palace's jurisdiction - only the names of the departments have to be slightly changed.

For example, the original Government Affairs Hall and Military Affairs Hall have long been renamed the Government Affairs Council and the Military Affairs Council, and now they don’t even need to change their names.

The central agencies under the jurisdiction of the Royal Palace are the "Three Courts and Four Offices".

Namely: the Government Affairs Council, the Military Affairs Council, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Secretariat, the Telecommunications Division, the Intelligence Division, and the General Administration Division.

Not to mention other agencies, the General Affairs Office is equivalent to the "General Affairs Department" of the Ming Dynasty. It is responsible for communicating with the upper and lower levels internally and externally, and is indispensable.

As for the subordinate departments of these "three academies and four offices", most of them don't even need to change their names.

Because Liu Sheng predicts that he will proclaim himself emperor in one or two years, and he will have to change it then, it is better to wait until then to change it together.

For example, in the Government Affairs Council, three of the "Three Offices and Twelve Departments" are still: General Affairs Office, Communications Office, and Service Office.

The twelve departments became: personnel, finance, taxation, civil affairs, courtesy, sentencing, fortification, education, transportation, health, commerce, and patrol.

Matters related to agriculture, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry, and immigration are all included in the Department of Civil Affairs. As for the Military Service Department, it was transferred to the Military Affairs Council...

Because it was not an informal meeting, Liu Sheng spoke more casually, "Let's talk about it. Based on the current situation, what should our department do next?"

Li Changwen said: "Now the invading army occupies half of Shandong. If the army moves south, it will occupy the north of the Yangtze River. By then, it will be easy for the intruding army to compete with us in the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, my subordinates believed that the next step for our army should be to capture Jiangbei as soon as possible and then capture Nanjing.

If Nanjing is in hand, even if Li Chuang occupies Beijing, we will not be far behind in terms of justice. "

Peng Youyi said: "I have long wanted to fight eastward."

Liu Sheng looked at Zhang Kuang and asked, "What do you think, Mr. Zhang?"

Zhang Kuang said: "Today, the food and wages in the north depend entirely on Jiangnan, Huguang, and Sichuan. Now that our tribe has occupied Huguang, if we take Jiangnan again and isolate Sichuan, neither the Ming Dynasty nor Li Chuang in the north can last long.

Therefore, my subordinates feel that after the spring begins, our troops can march eastward and capture Jiangbei and Jiangnan in one fell swoop! "

Zhang Kuang had no reason not to support Wei's attack on Jiangnan.

He is from Songjiang Prefecture.

If the Wei tribe captured Jiangnan, he would not have to leave his hometown.

There is no need to worry about the clan being threatened by the Ming court and local officials.

Liu Sheng looked at the map of the Ming Dynasty hanging in the palace.

In the broad sense of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan refers to the vast area south of the Yangtze River.

But there is also Jiangnan in a narrow sense, that is, the Jiangnan area in southern Zhili.

The so-called Jiangbei generally refers to the Jiangbei area of ​​South Zhili, namely: Xuzhou, Fengyang, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Luzhou, Anqing, Chuzhou, and Hezhou.

According to Xunfengwei's information, although Jiangbei is a large place, it does not have many soldiers, and they are all relatively small.

Now Liu Liangzuo is considered the most capable among them.

With the current strength of the Wei tribe, if one division is divided, it can push across the Jiangbei area.

He then nodded, "In that case, let's discuss the general steps for sending troops..."

After the high-level meeting, Liu Sheng took Li Changwen and Zhang Kuang to inspect the arsenal in Ruyang.

"Today, we have three main arsenals in Kuaibu, one in Queshan, one in Ruyang, and one in Wuyang.

Queshan was limited by hydraulic conditions and geographical location. Although the arsenal was built first, its scale was relatively small.

Wuyang is close to many iron mines, but the arsenal was only built last autumn, and its scale is also small.

Therefore, most of the armor, guns and artillery of our army are now produced by Ruyang Arsenal. "

Not only was Li Changwen not jealous of Zhang Kuang's arrival, but he welcomed him very much. He enthusiastically introduced the situation of the Weibu Arsenal on the way.

Zhang Kuang led the Ming army to fight against the Yi army. He knew that the power of the Yi army lay not only in its strict discipline and high morale, but also in its sophisticated soldiers and armor and sharp guns.

He had long been curious about how the army produced so many sophisticated soldiers, armor, guns, and artillery. Today, he was finally able to get what he wanted, and he was quite excited.

After entering the arsenal, Zhang Kuang found that each factory was driven by huge waterwheels to drive various machine tools. Soldiers, armor, guns and guns were all split into different parts for assembly line production, which was fast but methodical.

After the visit, he couldn't help but sigh, "The production in this arsenal is so efficient. No wonder the Ministry of Defense managed to produce more than 200,000 well-equipped troops in less than two years."

Liu Sheng smiled and said, "Nowadays, these machine tools are driven by water power, and the efficiency is still relatively low; when they are driven by steam in the future, the production efficiency will be high."

"Steam driven?" Li Changwen and Zhang Kuang both looked curious after hearing this.

Liu Sheng plans to have someone build a steam engine within the next two years, so he might as well tell Li Changwen and Zhang Kuang in advance.

Second update.

Good night~