Shen Tingyang's house on Haisha Island is not magnificent, but it covers a large area and has a large quadrangle-style architectural pattern of one house and three courtyards. The walls are full of black tiles and white water, and when you look at it from afar, it is a black and dreary piece. The front door is wide, and the doorway is paved with bluestone, which extends to the pier. There are also rows of bolted horse piles outside the door, and horse pens and warehouses are also built on the side.

There are many houses in the courtyard, some of which are very old, apparently built many years ago. Some are brand new and look like they've only been built for a long time.

However, all the houses are very plainly decorated, the furniture used is ordinary, and the inside of the house is very damp, and it is obviously not too comfortable to live in it.

Emperor Chongzhen, Empress Zhou, Empress Zhang and Li Xuanzhi were arranged to live in the middle courtyard of the house, the middle courtyard is the courtyard of the inner and outer entrances, the outer courtyard is used as a temporary court, and the inner courtyard is the residence of Chongzhen and others. Zhu Cihong and his generalissimo's mansion were merged into the east courtyard, and the ministerial-level ministers who followed were crowded into the west courtyard of the mansion.

There are some attached courtyards outside the mansion, and some shops have been built near the wharf, all of which are front shops and backyards, and now they are all arranged to live in the civil and military officials who came with Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong.

As for the soldiers of the new army, they can only live in tents in the open air. With several rounds of expansion, the number of the new army is now quite considerable, with a large establishment of three divisions and twelve associations. The strength is close to 20,000! There were also many Tianjin righteous people (including residents of Wang Qingtuo) who followed Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong, about 20,000 or 30,000 people. If we include Shen Tingyang's sailors, the officers and men of the Tianjin Guard, the original merchants and people at Dagukou, and the officials and nobles who left Beijing on March 16 and 17, and their families.

At 9 o'clock in the first month of April, the total number of officers and militiamen who gathered at Dagukou was as high as 50,000 or 60,000! So many people, of course, can't all live on Haisha Island, they can only live in Haisha Island and Dagukou City, Dagukou City has long been full, so there are still many people who can only live in tents outside the city.

And so many people, with a large amount of luggage, horses, vehicles, and 500,000 stone of grain stored in the warehouse at Dagukou, has far exceeded the capacity of the Shachuan Gang and the Tianjin Weishui Division, and can only be transported away in phases and batches.

It's not an easy job to move so many people and materials away! In addition, Zhu Cihong also had to arrange for the right division of the New Army and Su Guansheng to go to Dengzhou, and he also had to worry about Wu Sangui, the second uncle who had gone astray. Therefore, after settling down for a while, Zhu Cihong and his generalissimo's mansion of the Fu Army were busy again.

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"Master Chitose, although Haisha Island is safe and sound, it is too simple after all, and it is not suitable for the imperial court to live for a long time......"

The person who was talking to Zhu Cihong in a simple study with almost no decoration was Wei Zaode, the head of the court.

He came to Zhu Cihong today for one thing - how to maintain the operation of the government during the period when the dynasty temporarily lived in Dagukou?

In his view, the dynasty is just about maintaining the situation. Whether it is a reform or a new policy, it is not too late to discuss it slowly after arriving in Nanjing.

"A month!" Zhu Cihong smiled, "Xingchao always has to stay here for a month...... Shousuke, do you know why Hongu stayed here for a month? ”

"Chitose is for the army at Shanhaiguan, right?"

Zhu Cihong smiled and shook his head: "How far can you go to Dengzhou?" The floating sea came and went, and it was only a day or two. This palace lives in Dagukou, not for Shanhaiguan! ”

"Is it for the city of Beijing?"

Zhu Cihong shook his head with a smile, and did not continue, but changed the topic: "It's not a secret, this palace wants to sort out the court in Dagukou." ”

"Sort out the imperial court?" Wei Zaode frowned, "Master Chitose wants to remove the elder and the six ......"

"The old man will not change!" Zhu Cihong said, "The current four pavilion elders, one will not be withdrawn, and one more person will be added...... It's all a small thing. ”

"Chitose's big thing is ......"

"There are only two major events," Zhu Cihong stretched out a finger, "First, the rules of the imperial court's deliberation and administration must be greatly changed!" Anyone who can't gossip can speak, but no one is responsible, so it's not okay. ”

Wei Zaode didn't quite understand Zhu Cihong's words, because he had never seen what a more efficient government than the Ming court looked like.

However, Zhu Cihong knows very well that the current Ming court is a central government with very low decision-making and administrative efficiency. It will not work without reform!

In order to carry out such a drastic reform, we must not go to Dengzhou, let alone Nanjing, and we must put all the people in crisis so that the resistance to reform will be minimized.

If you don't reform now, when you get to Nanjing, hehe...... Zhu Cihong has to face an unusually large bureaucracy that has not achieved enough things and has more than enough failures!

"I don't understand......," Wei Zaode asked.

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Let's put it simply...... There are too many officials in this dynasty who can participate in the discussion of military affairs, and most of the people who speak can be irresponsible and do not participate in the actual administration. It's just talking about it on the sidelines, discussing it in the air, and it doesn't help, just trying to make a name! This rule ends at Dagukou! ”

Wei Zaode was silent.

Zhu Cihong then said: "The second major thing is that the procuratorate must be overhauled!" ”

"Procuratorate? Metropolitan Procuratorate? Wei Zaode frowned, "Chitose Lord, the Taiwanese admonition system of this dynasty is a ...... passed down from the ancestors."

"It's also the end of Dagukou!" Zhu Cihong paused, "When the ancestors passed down this system, the world was already decided...... And now it's troubled times! Troubled times don't need a group of clear streams who hear about things, and troubled times need a Metropolitan Procuratorate that can really do things!

As long as these two things can be done! I will be saved, and the palace will be able to clean up the mountains and rivers of Daming. ”

He looked at Wei Zaode and said with a smile: "If it can't be done, this palace won't leave Dagukou...... Shousuke can get it? ”

What? Can't you do it and won't let it go? Wei Zaode was shocked, how dangerous it is here! I don't know when Li Zicheng called...... This thief is going to torture and plunder with a stick, and this will not let people live?

"Got it!" Wei Zaode said.

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Shoufu, then tell everyone the meaning of this palace!" As long as the reform can be completed, everyone will be able to get on the boat and go to Dengzhou soon. ”

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Haisha Island Palace, Imperial Study.

Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty seemed a little irritable, just walking around in the simple and narrow study. He put on a bright yellow half-old regular clothes again, and after running to Tianjin Wei, he turned out this Tianzi regular clothes and put them on. seems to remind everyone that he is the father of the Ming Dynasty!

However, most of the courtiers who ran out of Beijing with Zhu Cihong, or who spent money to buy orders from Zhu Cihong and ran away, most of them classified themselves as the prince's party.

There's no way around it! Everyone knows that this Emperor Chongzhen is the most intolerant of traitorous ministers, and the ministers who have been killed by him over the years, or the ministers who have been imprisoned by his order, are really too many to count.

And those ministers who were killed and imprisoned, none of them opposed Chongzhen's ruling of the world! But the prince's party that followed Zhu Cihong to mingle really wanted to talk about sins, and everyone was worthy of being killed!

Everyone doesn't like to kill heads, so there are really few henchmen of Emperor Chongzhen here in Dagukou.

However, it is not completely nothing, the original Tianjin Governor Feng Yuanyang, Shuntian Governor Song Quan, Zhou Kui's old imperial family, Gong Yonggu, the commander of the horses, Wan Wei, the commander of the horses, Liu Wenbing, the Marquis of Xinle, and Cao Huachun, these people are now crowded in this study, standing there one by one, looking at the nose and nose, looking at the heart, not squinting, expressionless, all of them are virtuous ministers.

But he didn't say a word......

Emperor Chongzhen looked at these loyal ministers who had no ideas, and he was really a little annoyed, and snorted heavily: "I am not the king of the dead country, but the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are all the ministers of the dead country, and even now, I can't offer a plan or two for the monarch's father!" ”

The courtiers who were reprimanded by Chongzhen said in their hearts: Your Majesty, don't worry, the Ming Dynasty can't die now, because there is a murderous and cunning prince of Fujun who is supporting it......

Tianjin Governor Feng Yuanyang was old and not in good health, so he pondered Zhishi, and when he heard Chongzhen say that, he wanted to tell the old, so he went out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is old, and it is indeed difficult to take on a heavy responsibility......