"His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister got the exact news before leaving Runing Mansion, Li Zicheng did not give up Xi'an Mansion. Instead, he left 20,000 or 30,000 people from Gao Yigong and Luo Hu to defend the city, and also brought the irrelevant people in Xi'an Mansion and the families of the Dashun Army to Xiangyang Mansion. It seems that it is ready to stick to it for a long time!

However, the Tartars did not invade Xi'an on a large scale at present, and Duoduo on the East Road did not move after capturing Tongguan, Huayin, Tongzhou, Chaoyi and other places, and did not continue to advance westward, while the North Road of the Tartars is still in Yulin Town and Yan'an Mansion.

In addition, Wu Sangui has currently occupied the two towns of Ningxia and Gansu, Pingliang and Lintao, Gongchang Banfu, Qingyang Banfu and Jingyu Yiwei.

Li Zicheng occupied most of Xi'an, Qingyang Banfu, Gongchang Banfu, Taozhou and Minzhou Liangwei, Fengxiang and Hanzhong.

The situation in Shaanxi is likely to have a three-legged trend of Li Zicheng, Wu Sangui and Tatar. ”

It was Li Yan, a military advisor who had just returned from Runing, who was analyzing the battlefield situation in Shaanxi to Zhu Cihong, Wei Zaode, Chen Rui, Lin Zengzhi, Qian Qianyi, Hou Sui, Ma Shiying, Wu Xiang, Wu Sanfu, Cao Youyi, Huang Binqing, and others in front of a map of Shaanxi Province in the Wenhua Palace.

Li Yan's previous official position was the governor of the Tang Dynasty's Mansion and the governor of Runing Mansion, and he actually held the power of Runing Mansion. With his efforts, the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in Runing Mansion has been consolidated. The land and population of five Wei and 11 counties in Runing, one prefecture, two prefectures, and five Wei have all been inventoried. Juntun and Guantian were all under the control of the four guards of the palace, the Dabie Wei (these five guards were newly established) and the Runing Juntun, and the Mintian part was also checked and checked, basically making the fields clear and under control.

I think that when Zhang Juzheng was in power, he couldn't find it as clear as it is now - after all, Zhang Juzheng was also a member of the corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Yan, Fengsan, and the Red Lady were rogues, and Runing Mansion had been washed by Li Zicheng before, and the gentry's strength had lost a lot!

After a complete inventory and rectification, Runing Wuwei alone can pull out 8,000 fully armed soldiers! There are also more than 13,000 people in the eleven counties of Runing Prefecture. Moreover, the cities of the eleven counties of the two states have been repaired, and a considerable amount of grain and grass has been stored, and the Tang Wangbao has been established in the Dabie Mountains as a refuge for the Tang King and his two brothers in wartime.

After the situation in Runing stabilized, Zhu Cihong naturally wanted to invite his army division back to participate in the wartime cabinet - now the situation in the north is sinister, a north-south war is about to break out, and there are three threats in the west: Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Zuo Liangyu. The situation is quite serious!

Therefore, Zhu Cihong needed a powerful "chief of staff" and a wartime cabinet that could cope with all kinds of difficult situations.

The recall of Li Yan is to let him replace Cao Youyi, who is incompetent, as the commander of the Generalissimo's Mansion.

Cao Youyi, on the other hand, will be transferred to the newly established Generalissimo Office as the commander of the military guards. This ordnance guard was upgraded on the basis of the military industry and arsenal departments that originally belonged to the military, political and health departments, and consisted of four divisions: the artillery manufacturing department, the armament construction department, the shipbuilding department, the arsenal department, and the procurement department.

The first three are in charge of government-run arsenals and shipyards, which are actually in charge of some government-run state-run handicraft workshops. However, these workshops are not used for mass production, but for the training of craftsmen and the trial production of weapons. Experienced masters were invited from Haoao, Foshan, Shijing, and Anping at a high price, and they were asked to build artillery, guns, and ships with Zhu Cihong's "righteous craftsmen" and young apprentices. The products are mainly imitation foreign guns, foreign cannons and foreign ships. Zhu Cihong sometimes comes up with some "whimsical" designs for them to create.

In addition, Zhu Cihong also asked the ten imperial merchants to appoint stewards to participate in the operation and management of these government-run factories - the purpose was to familiarize them with the operation of arsenals and shipyards. In order to support the imperial merchants to set up commercial arsenals and shipyards in the future!

That's right, Zhu Cihong's military-industrial line is to maintain the official camp, develop the commercial camp, and encourage competition. To put it simply, it is to take the capitalist line of all evils!

Of course the route is bad, but it can't be helped. In those years, the steam engine was not even invented, and there was no big industry. Even the military industry of Western England is a handicraft workshop. Because there is no machine industry, it is all manual work, and it is necessary for serious and responsible factory owners to personally check the quality control. Therefore, a large number of private factories compete with each other as one of the ways to maintain efficiency and quality.

It's just one of them, and there is another way to maintain quality, and that is to punish harshly and harshly! Use Helian Bobo to build the Tongwan City and the Great Xia Dragon Bird Knife to rectify the craftsmen...... But the question is, where did Zhu Cihong find so many good craftsmen who were stabbed?

The government-run handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty had long since collapsed, and the artisan household system had also existed in name only, and Zhu Cihong was also preparing to completely abolish this household registration system that prescribed occupations for the common people. The craftsmen who are now in the hands of Zhu Cihong are just the "righteous craftsmen" who followed from Tianjin, and their craftsmanship is quite bad, and they can't create high-quality guns even if they are killed.

And the skilled blacksmiths are now not in Guangdong but in Fujian, and they are all private craftsmen, and there are no official craftsmen. Therefore, Zhu Cihong could only set up a procurement department under the ordnance guard, which was responsible for the procurement and acceptance of weapons......

At the same time that the functions of military production, procurement, and arsenal management were transferred to the military guard, Zhu Cihong also merged all the remaining departments of the military and political guards into the military department under the cabinet.

This is not to expand the functions and powers of civilian officials, but to reform the cabinet again, with the aim of opening up the links between the military and the government, and to clarify the functions and powers of the military and the government, so that the cabinet can participate in military affairs to a certain extent, and at the same time open up the channel for military officers to enter the cabinet to engage in politics.

Because at the same time that some institutions of the military, political and health were merged into the Ministry of War, Wu Xiang, the former commander of the military and political guards, also entered the Ministry of War and served as the secretary of the Ministry of War! At the same time, the four divisions of military selection, staff, chariot driving, and arsenal, which were originally under the Ministry of War, were disbanded, and the military cantonment department (responsible for tuntian, grain and conscription), the military expenditure department, the military officer department (officer personnel), and the four divisions of the Ma Administration Department were reorganized, which were managed by the military attaché.

In other words, the military and political guards of the Generalissimo's Office actually became the military department. The original civilian military department has been abolished......

In addition, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household under the Cabinet have also been adjusted accordingly.

Among them, the number of departments under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry has been reduced from the original four to two, namely, the Metropolitan Water Division in charge of water conservancy and the Operational Renovation Department in government construction. Because the battalion division was responsible for the defense of the city, it also became a half-literate and half-military yamen. The departments that originally belonged to the Ministry of Industry in charge of the manufacture of utensils, the mining of mountains and the reclamation of tuntian fields were all abolished.

As for the household department, the changes are even greater! The original 13 divisions of the household department were all abolished, and six divisions were established, including the Taxation Department (responsible for customs duties and commercial taxes), the Household Registration Division, the Qingtian Division, the Trade Division (management ports), the Degree Branch Division (management expenditure), and the Money Minting Division.

In short, the pace of this cabinet reform is not small (Zhu Cihong's reforms are all gradual, not in one step), and if it were not for the wartime atmosphere of the great enemy's pressure, it would not be so easy to carry out.

"It's really a lot of fun, but it's not time for me!" Zhu Cihong crossed his arms and looked at the situation of the Qing, Shun, and Wu families in Shaanxi marked on the map, "Military advisor, can Li Zicheng withstand it?" Should we do it? ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince," Li Yan sighed, "as long as Xi'an Mansion is willing to hold on, there is nothing the Tartars can do...... Datong has been trapped for a few months, don't they have no tricks? ”

"Datong is also hanging!" Wu Xiang interjected on the side, "The Tartars don't necessarily have to besiege the city, how hard does it take to besiege the city?" They can loot grain and plunder people outside the city, so that the people will not be allowed to cultivate the land properly...... Once Datong and Xi'an become white ground, how long can the two lonely cities last? ”

Li Yan nodded, "Shangshu is right...... Didn't Li Zicheng use this method to harm Zhongzhou that day? Now it's his turn! The two fortified cities of Xi'an and Xiangyang could not be defeated, and Nanyang Fucheng could also hold on. But the flat land north of Guanzhong and Hanshui is afraid that it will be severely harmed.

This is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, in order to make Li Zicheng unable to gain a foothold in Xi'an and Xiangyang, and then come to take away our foundation! ”

Zhu Cihong frowned: "Then we have to do it...... Hundreds of thousands of rogues with no way out can be a headache! ”