Nanjing's reform is not a matter of one or two days, and after the six ministries are abolished, there are two benefits that can be seen at present.

First, the leather cuts of various ministries and institutes in Nanjing can save Zhu Youxiao a large amount of silver every year and use it in useful places.

Second, in addition to the location of the yamen, all ministries and courtyards in Nanjing should also have a large number of houses and courtyards.

For example, in Nanjing's Ministry of Industry, there are more than 1,200 houses in the suburbs of Nanjing alone.

It is said that it is used to store the work tools and tools used by the imperial court, but everyone knows that there are work tools there, but they are just a bunch of useless empty houses.

These houses, each in the name of the imperial court, had in fact long been leased by officials of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing to merchants in Nanzhili to store goods for private money.

The dirty affairs of the Ministry of Industry, this is only the tip of the iceberg, and it is even less worth mentioning compared to the entire rotten and corrupt Nanjing officialdom.

Some people of insight can see that the Ming Dynasty is currently at war in both the north and the south.

Zhu Xieyuan was ordered by the emperor to supervise the army to go out and fight for his life with the Jiannu and the Mongols, while Zhu Youxiao sat in Nanjing and personally presided over this reform war without gunpowder.

This kind of reform, without the emperor himself in charge, any chaos may be possible.

It was Zhu Youxiao himself who stayed here, ready to send troops to deal with the turmoil at any time, and all kinds of conspiracies and tricks followed.

There are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, which is an eternal truth.

On the bright side, the houses and courtyards of the six ministries, including the Ministry of Engineering, must be re-cleaned up and obey the arrangements of Zhu Youxiao and the Beijing Sixth Ministry.

Whether it will be renovated, returned to the people, or used as a granary to store and resettle the displaced people, these are all open to debate.

Anyway, as far as the whole country is concerned, this reduction of the Nanjing Ministry and Yuan will ease the tense situation in various places by a great extent.

Of course, the local government is relaxed, and Zhu Youxiao is in Nanjing, so he has to see the six roads and listen to all directions, and he must not only guard against the petty tricks of those officials and gentry and chaebols, but also always pay attention to his own safety.

Huang Degong took the Yongwei battalion to guard, but he didn't dare to stay away from an inch, for fear that if one of them didn't pay attention, the emperor would be assassinated.

Zhu Youxiao himself still attaches great importance to his own life.

Since leaving the palace, the three meals a day are coarse tea and light rice, and occasionally I will go to the people to rub a meal in a private visit, as for the three things that I loved to eat before, I didn't dare to touch it at all.

There's no way, I'm afraid someone will poison me...

The most difficult thing to do is not to move the interests of the Ministry of Industry and the chaebols in private, but it is difficult to deal with a large number of court officials who have spare time.

Open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are hard to prevent!

If these people were dizzy, they really dared to show their disobedience and act against themselves, the emperor, Zhu Youxiao would dare to directly issue an order to raid their homes and destroy them.

No matter how much power is compared to the emperor who holds military power, it is weak.

But the problem is that these people are not stupid, they won't leave you any truth, they are all playing yin, and the officials are also colluding with them in private, which is really unguardable.

Most of these Nanjing officials who have been laid off are such people, and Zhu Youxiao can't cut down all the officials in one go, and then raid the chaebols one by one, so he will only play with fire and burn himself.

You must know that such a killing is groundless, there are more innocent people than damned people, and they can't be washed clean no matter what, and the "Beijing Daily" and the factory guard also have propaganda limits.

No matter how much you publicize it, the people will think that you are tyrannical, and when you get to that point, you will be completely alone.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong jumped out again, launched passive skills, and attacked inside and outside with one hand, and the game was over.

You can only take it step by step, and if you reform yourself here, you should not know, wait for them to do it first, collect ironclad evidence, and subdue the opposition with one move.

These officials who have been laid off are not monolithic, but they are actually very easy to handle.

They were originally in the idle yamen in Nanjing, and they sat there all day long, except for party struggles, they were only thinking about how to make money.

This time, as soon as the revolution was cut, they didn't even need to use the "class", and stayed at home all day, thinking about how the imperial court would arrange for them, the officials who had been "degraded" here, to take up their posts in other places.

But although the world is big, where are there so many vacancies?

Zhu Youxiao has been discussing with civilian officials in the past few days that he should select talented people from this large number of officials to be appointed, and the remaining ones, needless to say, should be abolished and dismissed.

Zhu Youxiao decided to hold a large-scale official examination in Nanjing, and he and his accompanying cabinet and military ministers came up with questions, and used rankings to decide who to stay.

As soon as the news of the exam came out, everyone's attention was directly diverted.

Nanjing has calmed down temporarily, but on the Liaodong side, it is becoming more and more blazing, shouting and killing everywhere.

......

At the end of March of the third year of the Apocalypse, the important town was Shenyang.

The scene in the city is unforgettable, full of displaced people, whose homes were breached by the Later Jin soldiers, and who fled into the city.

The strategy of the Later Jin army was still the same, first attacking many border forts and villages outside Shenyang, slaughtering all the young and strong, and driving the elderly, women and children into Shenyang.

The intention is obvious, they want to consume the military rations in Shenyang City!

Crowds of people hid under the eaves of the streets, many more huddled on street corners, children dying of hunger, and adults starving and lifeless.

On the orders of Xiong Tingbi, Liaodong General Man Gui, who was guarding Shenyang, walked on the street with his own soldiers, and the sound of the iron pieces on their boots intersecting with the gravel land attracted the attention of the refugees.

Everyone looked up and looked at the tall general, with little hope left in their eyes.

"General... Slave Chief's trick is amazing..."

The soldiers squatted down and looked at a little girl who was mixed up with hunger, and was about to take out her own rice crackers, but was stopped by Man Gui.

"General, give them something to eat, the brothers have all said that they will use their own military rations!"

Man Gui looked at the scene in front of him, his pity gradually turned into anger, and he reprimanded loudly: "Have you forgotten the general's military order? ”

"Those who give food to refugees without permission will be killed!"

After saying that, he relented and walked quickly away from the streets where the refugees gathered.

The pro-soldier sighed and had to follow.

......

At the same time, Liaoyang.

Xiong Tingbi stood at the highest place in armor, pressed his sword in his hand, and looked in the direction of Shenyang.

Xue Laiyin sighed and said: "Taitai, this is an urgent report from Man Guifa, do you want the last general to lead his troops out of the city to support Shenyang?" ”

Xiong Tingbi took a look, but shook his head, and then sneered:

"The slave chieftain is running out of skills."

"Driving the people into the city and consuming the military rations of the defenders of Shenyang, this kind of trick, if this scripture is not wrong, it should be that Fan Wencheng."

"Then do you want to send troops to help?" Xue Laiyin asked again.

This time, Xiong Tingbi, who was not going to answer, glanced at him and said:

"There are 70,000 defenders in Liaoyang, and only 110,000 in Yizhou, and the slave soldiers outside Shenyang are estimated to be no less than 120,000."

"Go out in the field, do you want to get out of the nest? Are you sure you will win? ”

"Once the reinforcements are surrounded, the Mangui defenders in Shenyang City, will they be saved?"

"At that time, if Mangui goes out of the city, resulting in the fall of Shenyang, Liaoyang and Yizhou, do you have to send troops to rescue again, what consequences this will cause, have you thought about these!?"

Xue Laiyin bowed his head silently, he really didn't think about these carefully.

"But, 30,000 versus 120,000, can Man Gui bear it..."

Xiong Tingbi patted him on the shoulder and said, "Now in Shenyang, I can only rely on Man Gui to carry it himself, I believe him, so I let him guard this position." ”

"Fortunately, Your Majesty Shengming was decisive and adopted my suggestion, and the Ministry of War decided to take Fuyuwei as the main battlefield, and the offensive of the slave army in Shenyang would not be too strong."

"Daming has a holy monarch, the military department has a good minister, and Zhu Xieyuan, who supervised the master, is not Yang Hao and the like, this time, it is the second chance given to Daming by God."

When he said this, he looked at the dim sky and sneered:

"If this scripture is good, the slave chief should have received the news that my army has left the customs."