After taking Changsha, Zhu Youlang's mood was finally relaxed.

Before, he always felt that there was a boulder hanging above his head and could fall down at any time.

Now at least the Ming army has been given much-needed space and time.

It is imperative to recruit troops in the vast area of Huguang.

Although the Ming army won the Battle of Changsha, it was a crushing victory, and the losses were extremely heavy.

Without the addition of Medics, the casualty toll would have been even higher.

This pattern of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 will collapse one day without new reinforcements.

Huguang has a large population, and drawing a lot within a reasonable range will not arouse strong opposition from the people.

What's more, the treatment of the Ming army is there, and Zhu Youlang estimates that many children from poor families will rush to apply.

Next, Zhu Youlang prepared to take a short rest, and when the army's pretense was almost restored, he would attack Jiangxi.

The reason why Jiangxi was chosen instead of two and Fujian was because of stability.

Jiangxi is now still in the hands of the Qing court, while Guangdong and Fujian were given to Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao.

Under such circumstances, if the Ming army rashly attacked Guangdong and Fujian, it was likely to provoke strong resistance from the two.

And if the Ming army attacks Jiangxi, the two are likely to stand by and watch.

It's not that Zhu Youlang is afraid of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao.

But the current Ming army should not make too many enemies.

If Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao can maintain neutrality, the Ming army will have more chances to regain lost territory.

When the Ming army recovers a large area of land south of the Yangtze River, it will be much easier to go south to deal with Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao.

At this point, Zhu Youlang also sent an envoy to Nanjing to tell Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong and ordered them to cooperate.

Overall, the current situation is still good for the Ming army.

Compared with a year ago, the current Ming army is more active, attacking and retreating.

In the Battle of Changsha, the Ming army annihilated tens of thousands of the main forces of the Qing army.

Although Hong Chengchou led his troops to escape, he also suffered heavy losses.

In a short period of time, the Qing army should not be able to take the initiative to attack.

The Ming army could calmly formulate a battle plan.

At Wang Henian's suggestion, Zhu Youlang sent a lot of Jinyi guards to Jiangxi to conduct preliminary investigation and intelligence collection.

This move proved to be necessary.

It was Wang Henian's important information that enabled the Ming army to know themselves and their opponents, although there was a small episode of an ambush, but it was also adjusted.

If you don't know that Hong Chengchou has arrived in Changsha, it will be a completely different situation.

In addition, Zhu Youlang also decided to transfer some generals from the Thirteen Honors.

In this battle, Li Dingguo's troops suffered the greatest losses, and many of their generals were killed or wounded.

It takes a long time to recover.

It is unrealistic to rely on the Tiger Ben Army alone.

The strength of the Thirteen Kuidong Families is relatively well preserved, and it is a good choice to draw middle-level generals from them.

It's just that Zhu Youlang doesn't know if Kui Dong Zhuxun will have any emotions about this.

After all, this is a bit of a suspicion of digging into the wall.

Zhu Youlang explained in the holy decree that this was borrowed, and that these generals and troops would be returned after a while.

They should be more receptive to it.

Several months have passed since the expedition from Sichuan, and Zhu Youlang really misses Chengdu a little.

is not only missing the queen and the crown prince, but also loyal courtiers such as Wen Anzhi.

I don't know how they're doing now.

When the south was more stable, Zhu Youlang decided to move the capital to Nanjing.

At that time, the royal family and the cabinet will definitely move over.

Compared with military generals, Zhu Youlang urgently needs a bigwig-level civil official like Wen Anzhi at that time.

There are still many more talents in Jiangnan than in Shuzhong, and at that time, there must be a big man to suppress the formation.

Wen Anzhi is the best choice.

It takes time to train officials.

Maybe five years, maybe ten years, they will be able to reach a relatively comfortable state.

Zhu Youlang has always believed that the chaos of the Tianqi Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty has a lot to do with the inaction of the Wanli Emperor in the later period and the selection of talented talents for his descendants.

The emperors of all dynasties will leave a group of usable talents to their descendants, so that the transfer of power will be smooth.

For example, Jiajing left Longqing with a high arch and high Xinzheng, and Longqing left Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Jiangling to Wanli.

But what did Wanli leave to Guangzong and Tianqi?

There doesn't seem to be a name for the exit.

So much so that the Emperor of the Apocalypse had a black eye, and he didn't know what to do or how to do it.

In the end, he crossed the river by feeling the stones, and trained a Wei Zhongxian to come out and block the gun and arrow for him.

It's a pity that Chongzhen clicked Wei Zhongxian as soon as he came to power.

The ability to cut off his arms and poke his eyes is really admired by Zhu Youlang.

Zhu Youlang naturally cannot repeat the mistakes of the past.

Although he is now in his prime, he still has to pay attention to talent training.

From now on, it will take at least ten years for these people to grow up, and twenty years for them to pick up the burden.

Zhu Youlang wants to leave some talents that can be of great use to his son, so that he will not be in a mess in the Ming Dynasty after a hundred years.

The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty determined that as long as the emperor was not too mediocre, even if he was the shopkeeper, the country could operate normally.

Therefore, what Zhu Youlang has to do is to patch up this rusty system, and then train a group of talents to run this machine.

As for the cultivation of the crown prince, Zhu Youlang insisted on doing it himself.

Some emperors were afraid that their sons would seize power, so they kept silent.

But Zhu Youlang won't.

First, he holds the power of the army, and has a high status and absolute authority in the hearts of the soldiers.

Second, the prince is too young, and even if he has this mind, he doesn't have the courage and ability.

Therefore, Zhu Youlang can rest assured and boldly teach the prince the emperor's mental skills and how to control the ministers and generals.

Zhu Youlang didn't want his son to become a king full of benevolence and morality in the future.

It's likely that he has been taught like this by a rotten professor.

Therefore, Zhu Youlang has to personally inquire about the education of the prince.

Zhu Youlang didn't know how long it would take to recover the lost land and recover the world.

Maybe five years, maybe ten years.

Even if the world is restored, it will take time to heal such a serious wound.

Maybe one generation is enough, maybe two generations, three generations.

The problem with feudal dynasties is that after two generations of wise monarchs, there are likely to be some mediocre kings.

They will ruin the good situation and ruin the wealth accumulated by their ancestors.

Then there was a brilliant king who cleaned up the mess and achieved Zhongxing.

And then there were some mediocre kings who came to lose.

And so on and so forth.

Zhu Youlang hopes that Daming will be able to jump out of this mode in the future.

This requires the systematic cultivation of the crown prince, try to make it develop in a hexagonal shape, and there are no shortcomings.

In this way, with the assistance of excellent ministers, not to mention creating any prosperous era, at least the Ming Dynasty can be continued.

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