Zhu Yijun and his courtiers believed that "authorizing the gentry and businessmen from all over the country to form an escort team" was a better strategy at present, but there were still many problems with this strategy, and in the next few days, Zhu Yijun and a group of ministers perfected this strategy.

In the perfect strategy, the gentry and merchants obtained the power to form an escort team, but it could only be limited to the place where it was located, that is to say, the Ming court drew a circle on the map for all the gentry and merchants who wanted to form an escort team, and the gentry merchants could only recruit troops to form an escort team in this circle, and the escort team was not allowed to go out of this circle without the order of the imperial court on weekdays.

The number of guards is a minimum of 100 and a maximum of 1,000, and the captain of the guard is sent by the wealthy gentry and merchants who funded the formation of the guard, and the imperial court will send one or more officers to serve as deputy captains in the guard, on the one hand, to help train the troops, and on the other hand, to supervise the guard.

The convoy cannot do evil in its own circle, only the right to suppress thieves and maintain law and order.

Once the People's Army attacked, the various escort units would be dispatched by the imperial court to leave the circle and assemble, and the officials or generals appointed by the imperial court would lead the various escort units to engage the People's Army.

Basically, the gentry and businessmen can only form an escort team if they accept the harsh conditions of the imperial court, but Zhu Yijun and a group of ministers believe that the gentry and businessmen from all over the country will not refuse to form an escort team.

At present, Zhu Yijun and a group of ministers know very well the situation in the Ming ruling area, with the failure of the million army to suppress the thieves, there is chaos in various places, bandits, bandits, and rebels emerge in an endless stream, fortunately, the Ming court still has some troops in various places, but it will not make the thieves bigger, there is a people's army is enough to give the Ming court a headache, and then let other thieves become bigger, the Ming Dynasty is really going to die.

The influence of small groups of thieves on the Ming court is not great, but the impact on the gentry and merchants in various places is definitely not small, and the thieves cannot attack the city, but the gentry and merchants who live outside the city and the caravans that pass everywhere are the targets that the thieves can attack.

It is impossible for the Ming court to send the Ming army to disperse and protect the gentry and merchants, and the gentry and merchants are all guarding and guarding, but the number will not be too much, basically not more than 100 people, and the number of guards is too large to be framed for rebellion.

The weapons of the guards are also not good, and the strength is not comparable to the same number of ordinary Ming troops, they can resist bandits and bandits of dozens or hundreds of people, but they can't face hundreds of thieves.

Now the Ming court has given the gentry and businessmen a chance to form an escort team of one hundred to one thousand people approved by the Ming court, even if there are harsh conditions for the formation of this escort team, but for the sake of the family's life, it is a very good choice to form an escort team, at least the whole family will not be wiped out by a small group of thieves.

The most important thing is to deal with the People's Army, the news of the People's Army's defeat of the million-strong Ming Army may have spread all over the country, and the common people at the bottom do not know that it is relatively easy for them, well-informed gentry and businessmen, to get accurate news.

Although the specific reason is not clear, the gentry and businessmen will never want their place to be occupied by the people's army, as can be seen from the fact that a large number of gentry and businessmen fled when the people's army attacked the city in Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces.

Millions of Ming troops have been defeated by the People's Army, if the Ming Dynasty is destroyed by the People's Army, where can the gentry and businessmen flee?

It is better to spend money to eliminate disasters and form a guard team, which can not only protect the family, but also contribute their own strength in the fight against the People's Army.

These are the thoughts of Zhu Yijun and the ministers, and the specific situation depends on the next implementation.

Authorizing the gentry and merchants to form an escort force was a good way to expand the strength of the Ming court, but now in addition to increasing their own strength, it is more important to hope for a truce with the People's Army as soon as possible.

A few years ago, the Ming court and the People's Army ceased war, and after several years of peace, the Ming court made every effort to prepare for war, and finally mobilized a million Ming troops to attack the People's Army, but unfortunately failed.

Now, if there is another truce, maybe a few more years of peace, the Ming court once again goes all out to prepare for war, with the efforts of the gentry and merchants all over the world, to form a convoy of millions of troops, and the Ming court personally organizes another elite Ming army, and the two together may defeat the people's army.

But the most important thing is time, only enough time can the Ming court form a large army with enough troops.

In the court, Zhu Yijun and all the ministers were thinking about how to get the People's Army to agree to an armistice, what price the Ming court would pay for the People's Army to cease fighting, and how to delay the next war as much as possible.

A minister said: "I am the Ming Dynasty in the world, and the emperor can crown the leaders of the thieves as kings, one can delay time, and the other can make the thieves cause chaos inside." ”

The People's Army has not yet been founded, and in the Ming Dynasty, the People's Army is still regarded as a thief.

Zhu Yijun feels that this suggestion is good, only the Zhu family can be crowned king in the Ming Dynasty, and he has not given a different surname to the king (not counting in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China), let alone giving the anti-thief the king, but now is the time of life and death of the Ming Dynasty, and it is better to give the anti-thief a king than the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that Daming has lost the land of the five provinces, Zhu Yijun has already lost the face of his ancestors and ancestors, and it is not bad to give the anti-thief the king, as long as he succeeds in exterminating the anti-thief in the future.

Giving the anti-thief the king, it can make the anti-thief civil strife the best, the anti-thief high-level is the teacher-student relationship has been known to the Ming court, but in order to be crowned the king, there may also be discord between teachers and students.

Even if you can't make the anti-thief king, you can delay it for a little longer.

Some ministers saw Zhu Yijun's thinking appearance, and felt that Zhu Yijun had some ideas about giving the anti-thief king, and some ideas were some approvals, and at this time, the courtiers needed to serve, and several ministers stood up and expressed their agreement to give the anti-thief the king, anyway, it was just a name.

Soon, most of the ministers in the court were in favor of giving the anti-thief a king, and only a few stinky and hard ministers firmly disagreed, but it was irrelevant.

Since the ministers agreed, Zhu Yijun took advantage of the situation and said that for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, he could give the leader of the thieves the title of king.

"The emperor is wise!" The ministers said in unison.

Since it is possible to delay the time for the leader of the anti-thieves to be crowned king, some ministers have thought of new ideas.

"Your Majesty, you can marry a princess of the royal family to the leader of the thieves as a gift, and the Beijing master is far away from the thieves' nest, or it can be delayed for half a year or even a year."

Just heard the courtier say, "Marry the princess to the leader of the thief", Zhu Yijun's eyes were about to burst into anger, but the next moment he was suppressed by Zhu Yijun.