After Jiujiang reorganized Zuo Liangyu's remaining troops, Wang Fu did not stay much. The bloody smell of this city was too strong. Even after seven or eight days, the bloody smell still lingers in the city, so that Wang Fu would rather live in the military camps and move into the city. Now that he has dealt with the funeral, Wang Fu immediately ordered the entire army to set off.

The army went downstream and formed a fleet of more than ten miles. It took only one day to arrive in Anqing. After arriving in Anqing, Wang Fu ordered the army to stop and rest in Anqing.

In fact, the army had no battle at all this time. At best, it was just a long-distance marching. It was not necessary to have any rest. Wang Fu's purpose in staying in Anqing was not so much for rest and expansion.

Zuo Liangyu's army was destroyed in ashes, and in the end there were only 50,000 troops left. There were only two towns left in the four towns in Jiangbei, and the two towns with the smallest number of people. In just a few months, less than half of the army left. The army that could be truly controlled by the emperor was only about 200,000, including the 60,000 Jing camp, which basically had no combat power. The emperor established the direct Yulin Guards with only 10,000 people.

Although Wang Fu knew that without Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Zuo Liangyu, those who had no loyalty and righteousness, only knew how to poison the place and finally helped the evil, the Hongguang Dynasty should be able to last longer, but others may not think so. In the eyes of outsiders, the Ming Dynasty killed each other and its strength had been reduced by most of its destruction, which may accelerate the Qing army's southward movement.

In order to protect yourself, this army is definitely not enough, not to mention that there is a sudden increase of more than 6 million silver in my hand. If the Qing army did not try to expand its army before it went south, what's the use of keeping these silver? If Jiujiang was not too broken and young and strong, Wang Fu would have started to expand his army in Jiujiang.

There were too few Yulin Guards in 10,000. Wang Fu planned to expand Yulin Guards to 50,000 in one fell swoop. In the past, Yulin Guards were limited to only 10,000 because of insufficient financial resources. With Wang Fu's inner treasury, he could only raise this 10,000 people. Now, with more than 6 million taels of silver as the foundation, 40,000 more people were recruited, at least one year of military pay and material supplies would not be a problem. Moreover, after the two Liu and Zuo Liangyu were wiped out, the military pay they had originally sent to them could be saved.

The two Lius had a total military salary of 1.2 million taels, and Zuo Liangyu had 1.8 million taels. After the reorganization, the Jinshengheng army needed only 1 million taels a year, which could save 2 million taels from here. This did not include the tax they collected on their own in the local area. This part of the tax was several times more than the military salary given to them by the court. Now that these three people were destroyed, the taxes were naturally collected from the court. Although the court could not plunder the place like them, it would be possible to only increase the tax of 2 or 3 million taels. With these extra silver, Wang Fu would not have to worry about not being able to support the 50,000 Yulin Guards.

With 50,000 Yulin Guards, it only takes one year of training. Wang Fu believes that he will have the capital to fight against the Tartars. The real Eight Banners of Manchus is only about 40,000 to 50,000. However, the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of Han are more people. As long as the Eight Banners of the Yulin Guards have the capital to compete with the Eight Banners of Manchus, the other army has more Ming Dynasty than the Tartars.

Like Jiujiang, Anqing is very convenient because of the Yangtze River waterway, and the transportation is extremely convenient. Of course, 40,000 Yulin Guards cannot all recruit in Anqing. Taking Anqing as their foothold, they can send people to various places in Anhui, or along the waterway to Jiangxi and Huguang to recruit. This way, there is a lot of room for choice and can recruit more elite soldiers.

In order to appease Li Chengdong, Li Benshen and Bai Yongfu, Wang Fu all named all three of them as earls, among which Li Chengdong was named Dongping Bo, Li Benshen was named Xiping Bo, and Bai Yongfu was named Beiping Bo. After the three of them were awarded titles, they were indeed very happy and were not dissatisfied with not expanding their troops. Wang Fu actually had another intention to grant the titles of the three, which was to deliberately make the three of them on an equal footing with Gao Jie.

The day after Anqing stopped, the five thousand Yulin Guards scattered everywhere and started recruiting recruits. The high salary of five taels of silver per month attracted countless young people to Zhaomo. Every time the Yulin Guards arrived at a place, a craze for joining the army was announced in every place.

Even scholars who were not very famous among them would never join the army if they were peaceful, but now they are in troubled times. In addition, the emperor killed two domineering vassal states shortly after he ascended the throne, and personally led his troops to defeat another vassal state that was uprising and plotting against rebellion. This fully demonstrates the emperor's martial arts. Some scholars with vision keenly felt that the policy of civil and noble martial arts pursued by the Ming Dynasty might turn around with the emperor's attention to martial arts. Instead of studying hard year after year and walking on the road of imperial examinations like a single-plank bridge, it is better to go directly to the army to try your luck.

The selection of Yulin Guards is still mainly about running. Running can best measure a person's comprehensive physical quality. However, there are still preferential treatments for registered scholars. As long as there are no physical defects, you will basically be accepted after registration.

If you have time, you may be able to consider it from more aspects. After all, Wang Fu wants elite soldiers, but unfortunately time does not wait for anyone. To be precise, the Tartars will not leave Wang Fu too much time. The new recruits of the Yulin Guard will recruit troops one day earlier, so Wang Fu's sense of security will be more.

On the third day of Anqing, Wang Fu received the news that Huang Degong had pacified the rebels in Jiangbei. This was a huge surprise. Wang Fu immediately issued an order to promote Huang Degong to Jingnan Duke. Several generals under Huang Degong's tent were also given the title of earl. At the same time, he ordered Huang Degong and others not to let Zhang Tianfu, Zhang Tianlu and the two rebels were rebels, and it would be best to take the opportunity to take back Shandong when chasing them.

Ma Shiying was very dissatisfied with the emperor's title of Huang Degong as Duke. The Ming Dynasty had not been named Duke for a long time. Huang Degong had only been promoted to Marquis of Jingnan for several months and was granted the title of Duke. Wouldn't the title of Daming suddenly become worthless? What if Huang Degong made great contributions after he made great contributions? With a big stroke, he rejected the emperor's decree to Duke Huang Degong as Duke Jingnan.

Ma Shiying's behavior angered Wang Fu. He did extraordinary things at an extraordinary time. The Tartars could be the king of Kong Youde, Wu Sangui and others, so why was he stingy with a Duke? He issued an order to severely blame Ma Shiying. Ma Shiying had no choice but to agree to the imperial edict to confer Huang Degong as Duke.

Almost at the same time the emperor received the news of Huang Degong's victory, Huang Degong also received the news of the emperor's victory. Although he was surprised by the emperor's victory, everyone was still very happy.

After the reward was given, Huang Degong's army was even more cheerful. The emperor was so generous that he was surprised by Huang Degong and others, especially Huang Degong's titles of Duke Hotan Xiong, Ma Degong and others. After kneeling to thank the emperor for his kindness, Huang Degong immediately led his army from Huai'an and began to go north to pursue Zhang Tianfu and Zhang Tianlu.

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Chapter completed!