Chapter 683: Forming a Cabinet

At dawn, this tragic battle finally ended.

Of the 300,000 Daliang troops, more than 100,000 were killed in battle, nearly 150,000 were captured, and the rest fled in scattered pieces.

Of the nearly 80,000 Chongshan troops, nearly 10,000 were killed in battle, more than 3,000 were seriously injured, and more than 30,000 were slightly injured.

Although the Chongshan army fought very smoothly in this battle and had the advantage of weapons and armor, the elite of the Daliang army was not without resistance, and still caused a lot of casualties to the Chongshan army.

There is no doubt that the Chongshan army won a great victory, and the Daliang army was equivalent to being annihilated.

Daliang, which had been founded for less than half a year, was destroyed.

When the news of this battle spread, all forces in the world of Darong immediately fell into shock and panic.

The first to fall into panic was naturally the Daliang court in Hanzhong Prefecture.

When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter!

How the people's hearts collapsed in the Darong court at the beginning, and how the people's hearts collapsed in the current Daliang court.

As soon as the news reached Hanzhong Prefecture, many officials in Daliang fled, and even the sworn brothers of Emperor Tianwu fled with their belongings.

Even the officials in the court, not to mention the local officials.

Many prefectures and counties in Longnan and Longxi provinces were almost conquered by proclamation, and even before the Beiyuan Army and Chongshan Army arrived in those prefectures and counties, the officials of those prefectures and counties sent letters of surrender.

On the other hand, Chen Hengchang, who was in Jiangnan, originally wanted to dispatch a large army to Shanhe Province, but before he could complete the mobilization of the army, the Daliang army had been annihilated.

In desperation, Chen Hengchang could only focus on attacking and defending, and deployed a large army in the north of Jiangnan to prevent the Chongshan Army from going south.

On June 28, the sixth year of Jianxing, Yang Chengye led 60,000 Chongshan troops to occupy Kyoto. Since then, Kyoto City has fallen into the hands of the Yang family.

On the second day of July, Yang Chengye ordered Zhou Lan to lead the Beiyuan Army to recapture Longxi, and ordered Yang Qinteng and Luo Feiyu to lead the West Route Army and the South Route Army to recapture Longnan.

On the 22nd of July, the Taiping Army of Bashu defeated the Nine Heavenly Kings and unified the entire Bashu territory.

Three days later, the leader of the Taiping Army, Yang Zhao, announced his surrender to the Chongshan Army and asked the Chongshan Army to send officials to take over Bashu.

All forces found the surrender of the Taiping Army to the Chongshan Army a bit funny.

Last year, the Taiping Army surrendered to Daliang. As a result, this year, the Taiping Army took advantage of the opportunity of Daliang's attack on Kyoto to attack the Black Tiger King and the Nine Heavenly Kings who also surrendered to Daliang in Bashu.

In the minds of many people, the leader of the Taiping Army is an erratic villain.

But the Yang family knows that the Taiping Army is the real one.

In mid-September, the entire Longnan was recovered by the Chongshan Army, including Hanzhong Prefecture, and the Daliang court was completely destroyed.

In early October, Zhou Lan led 30,000 Beiyuan troops to recapture the entire Longxi territory.

It was called a recapture, but in fact, it was just a stroll. Except for some diehards, there was almost no resistance.

Zhou Lan did not stop after recaptured the entire Longxi territory, but went to Longbei Town instead. At the same time, Yang Chengze, the lieutenant general of Beiyuan Town West Road, also led 8,000 reinforcements to Longbei Town.

For Longbei Town and Suzhou Town, Yang Chengye's attitude was to take down the middle and high-level military officers, and then reorganize the town standard camp and the reinforcement camp.

There was no way, Longbei Town and Suzhou Town had been abolished, and now the soldiers of the two towns were a group of bandits.

Yang Chengye had to rebuild these two border towns.

But there was no rush at this time, and it could be left to Zhou Lan to deal with slowly.

As time entered November, Yang Chengye fell into a busy state.

He did not claim to be an emperor or a king, but he was already exercising the power of an emperor.

With the recovery of Longnan and Longxi, Yang Chengye has occupied two-thirds of the territory of Darong.

Liaoyuan, Pingyuan, Liaoxi, Shanhe, Longyuan, Longxi, Longyuan and Bashu, eight provinces all fell into Yang Chengye's hands.

The territory expanded too much, and many things were not sorted out. Yang Chengye had no intention of paying attention to other things at this time, and put all his energy into the appointment of officials.

Yang Chengye's first step was to form a cabinet.

Lu Wenyuan was the chief minister of the cabinet.

Lin Zhan was the second minister of the cabinet and concurrently served as the Minister of Personnel.

Li Wenchun was the assistant minister of the cabinet and concurrently served as the Minister of Revenue.

Zheng Yulin was the assistant minister of the cabinet and concurrently served as the Minister of Rites.

Qin Jing was the assistant minister of the cabinet and concurrently served as the Minister of Works.

The reason for letting Li Wenchun join the cabinet was to appease the civil and military officials of the Taiping Army.

Although Yang Mingzhao was one of them, the officials of the Taiping Army were inevitably worried. Letting Li Wenchun join the cabinet represented Yang Chengye's attitude that he would not exclude the officials of the Taiping Army.

Not only Li Wenchun, Yang Chengye also transferred many officials of the Taiping Army to the court, and of course more officials were transferred to Longnan and Longxi.

Although the Taiping Army seemed to be a makeshift team, Yang Mingzhao had trained many capable officials in recent years.

These capable officials had rich experience in land distribution and local management.

They were only in lower positions before, but now Yang Chengye promoted them, and it was time for them to show their abilities.

Yang Chengye's attitude was very clear. He appointed a large number of officials from Chongshan Town, Liaodong and the Taiping Army, and transferred all the surrendered officials back to the capital, without arranging official positions for them, and let them idle first.

Yang Chengye also wanted to divide the land like the Taiping Army did. At the same time, he also wanted to screen the former officials, using those who were useful and not using those who were not useful. As for those who committed many evil deeds, they would naturally be punished.

It was just that there were so many things going on now that Yang Chengye needed to sort them out bit by bit.

As Yang Chengye gradually straightened out the government, the current situation of Darong became more and more obvious.

In the seventh year of Jianxing, no, Emperor Jianxing was dead and Darong had collapsed.

In the twentieth year of Shenmu, early February.

The Qu family of Nanjiang Town and the Guo family of Yunling Town surrendered to the new dynasty and asked the new dynasty to confer titles and send officials such as governors, provincial governors, and censors.

The surrender of the Qu family and the Guo family represented not only Nanjiang Town and Yunling Town, but also the entire Nanyun Province and half of Zangyuan Province.

So far, the situation of Darong has entered a new situation, with Yang Chengye's family dominating.

In the southeast, Chen Hengchang occupied Jiangnan Province, Fuhai Province and half of Yungui.

In the southwest, the Sun family of Anxi Town occupied Anxi Town and Wusi Town, as well as half of Zangyuan.

In the northwest, Longbei Town, Suzhou Town and Tingzhou Town, these three towns are still a mess.

Judging from the current situation, the Yang family seems to have a big trend.

However, this is not the case. If the Yang family wants to maintain their rule, they still have to face many challenges.

Before Dayong has settled down internally, many dynasties around Dayong have already begun to stir.

In the imperial study in Kyoto.

Yang Chengye frowned and looked at the memorial in his hand.

Although he has not yet become emperor, he has now entered the imperial city. The court institutions such as the cabinet and the six ministries have been improved, and the six military governors' offices are also being established. The framework of the new court has almost been built, and the rest only needs to be filled slowly.

The memorial in front of him was sent by Zhou Lan, and its content is about some recent military actions of the Dayue Dynasty in the west of Dayong.

No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar, take a look!

In recent years, the Dayue Dynasty has been expanding crazily, annexing several small dynasties in a row, and now the Dayue Dynasty has a faint posture of being the overlord of the Western Regions.

Just two months ago, the Dayue Dynasty suddenly began to dispatch troops to the border of Dayong. In just one month, the Dayue Dynasty mobilized 100,000 troops and stationed them outside the border of Dayong.

Its intention is self-evident. It is obvious that it wants to take advantage of the civil strife in Dayong to launch an invasion.

At present, Anxi Town, Tingzhou Town and Suzhou Town are still in a mess. Once Dayue launches an invasion, it will be difficult for the three border towns to stop it.

Just as Yang Chengye was thinking about how to deal with the problem of the Dayue Dynasty, Yang Zhengshan walked slowly into the imperial study.

"Master~~"

Seeing Yang Zhengshan coming, Yang Chengye hurriedly stood up and shouted.

"Well!" Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, and then sat on a tea table.

He looked up and looked around the layout of the imperial study. It was still the same as before. Although many decorations were changed, the overall layout had not changed.

Wang Lei brought tea, and Yang Chengye took it and poured it for Yang Zhengshan personally.

At this time, there were no eunuchs or maids in the imperial city. Besides Wang Lei and a few others, Yang Chengye was surrounded by a group of soldiers.

As for the harem.

Forget it. The harem was still in ashes and could not be inhabited at all. Therefore, Yang Chengye's wife and children lived in Jing'an Marquis Mansion. Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi also lived in Jing'an Marquis Mansion temporarily.

Since the Chongshan Army entered the capital, Yang Zhengshan once again entered a state of not leaving the main gate and not stepping out of the second gate, and completely retreated behind the scenes.

And An Yuxing, Jian Chengfeng and others lived in Sanshan Valley.

The Sanhuangli in Sanshan Valley was still there. Although the owner of Kyoto changed several times, no one moved the Sanhuangli.

As for the spiritual fruit, everyone wanted to take it for themselves. No one would be willing to destroy a spiritual fruit tree unless it was absolutely necessary.

Even when Daliang looted the property of Kyoto City, he deliberately avoided the Sanhuangli.

Of course, the Xingyuan fruit tree far away in Cuixia Valley is still there. At present, Yu Tonghai is leading the soldiers of Tenglong Guard to guard near Cuixia Valley.

"Have the officials of the Six-Army Commandery been appointed?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Yang Chengye took a memorial from the desk, handed it to Yang Zhengshan and said, "This is my grandson's idea after careful consideration!"

Yang Zhengshan opened the memorial and glanced at it, frowned, and said, "Why are they all from Chongshan Town?"

The Six-Army Commandery is the addition of the Navy Commandery on the basis of the Five-Army Commandery.

"There is no way, now we have no one to use!" Yang Chengye was also very distressed.

The Yang family has a deep foundation, with many elite soldiers and capable officials under their command, but that was in Liaodong, in Chongshan Town. If the Yang family is placed in the entire Darong world, these people seem a little too few and not enough.

Yang Zhengshan thought for a moment and said, "The Six-Army Military Governor's Office must be changed in the future. We cannot let the Military Governor's Office become a mere decoration, but we must make use of it."

"Although the Six-Army Military Governor's Office does not have the power to mobilize troops, it must have the power to command troops!"

"Well, strengthen the power of the Military Governor's Office and clearly divide the responsibilities of officials at all levels. For example, the Left Military Governor is responsible for commanding troops, the Right Military Governor is responsible for training troops, and many Military Governors and Military Governors are responsible for various logistics!"

"The Guard System has been corrupted beyond recognition. We should simply abolish the Guard System and all nine border towns will be The army will be changed to a recruitment system, and garrison troops and city defense troops will be set up in each province. The number does not need to be too large. Twenty thousand garrison troops and twenty thousand city defense troops are enough in each province!"

"Of course, the people in the border towns still need military training, but it will be changed to militia training. The young and strong will be organized and trained by the local government offices during the slack season."

"Forget it, I can't explain it clearly at the moment. I will give you a set of rules in two days!"

Yang Zhengshan felt that many of Darong's systems were problematic, especially the Weisuo system, which was too demanding on the military households.

Therefore, he planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the establishment of the new dynasty to completely abolish the Weisuo system and reorganize all military organizations.

However, this matter needs to be pondered slowly, and Yang Zhengshan plans to spend a few days to make an outline for Yang Chengye.

Yang Zhengshan continued to look at the list of official positions in the Governor's Office and said, "It's okay for Yu Tonghai to be promoted to the left governor of the Navy Governor's Office. You'll have changed the others!"

"Zhou Lan is the left governor of the Central Army Governor's Office, Qu Changkong is the left governor of the Front Army Governor's Office, and Guo Ying is the left governor of the Later Army Governor's Office."

"Liang Shengze is the left governor of the Left Army Governor's Office, and Yang Mingwu is the left governor of the Right Army Governor's Office!"

"Zhang Luan is the Minister of Shangwu Temple. Well, Shangwu Temple has been promoted to a level one, and is the Martial Arts Department, which is at the same level as the six ministries. It governs the Shangwu Department and the Yanwu Pavilion in various places, and then sets up a sacrificial court, a sect department, etc., which are responsible for managing the innate warriors and the Jianghu Lake respectively. power!"

Yang Chengye pondered for a moment and said, "But in this way, will all innate warriors be able to become officials?"

Although there were innate warriors in Darong before, when Emperor Chengping was in power, innate warriors were temporarily appointed to serve as officials. During the reign of Emperor Yanping, the restrictions on the appointment of innate warriors were gradually relaxed.

This is mainly because many places are no longer controlled by the court, such as Chongshan Town and Beiyuan Town.

It is precisely because the restrictions on the position of innate warriors to serve as official positions have been relaxed that many border towns have become separatist regimes, such as Yunling Town, Anxi Town, Nanjiang Town and Chongshan Town.