"The armies of Shandong and Huaibei are not sure to win when they advance along the river, but it should be certain that they will attack Ningyuan from Juehua Island! I don't believe that Dolgon will die for Ning Yuanjian...... By the way, Zu Kefa's recital also said that Dolgon was ready to send eighty oxen from the various banners in the pass to reclaim the land of Liaodi! Can he ignore Ning Yuan? ”

In the Xinuan Pavilion of Fengtian Palace, Zhu Cihong was standing in front of a huge map hanging on the wall with his hands behind his back, talking to Li Yan, Wu Xiang, Wu Guoyong, Huang Binqing and other four people behind him.

The newly completed Fengtian Hall has two attached pavilions, the East Warm Pavilion and the West Warm Pavilion, and the Middle East Warm Pavilion is the place where Zhu Cihong works, approves the chapters and holds the small court meeting of the two prefectures. The Xinuan Pavilion is where Zhu Cihong deals with military affairs, and there are soldiers from the Generalissimo's Office of the Generalissimo on duty there for twelve hours a day - a government office under the Generalissimo's Office of the General Staff Department, after Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, the Generalissimo of the Fujun Army has undergone a reorganization, and the position of Generalissimo once held by Zhu Cihong will be vacant for a long time, and at the same time, the two positions of the Generalissimo's Office and the left and right military divisions have been set up to preside over the daily work of the Generalissimo's Office.

Under the left and right military divisions, there are five divisions, including the General Staff Division, the Military Science Division, the Navy Division, the Right General Political Division, and the Military Health Division, as well as two guards, such as the Jinyi Guard and the Shangzhi Guard.

Among them, the General Staff Department is similar to the General Staff Department of later generations, and the chief officer is called the General Staff Envoy, which is concurrently served by one of the left and right military divisions, and the current staff envoy is Wu Guoyong, the right army division.

As the name suggests, the Military Science Department is in charge of military education, and the commander is called the Military Education Envoy, which is also concurrently served by one of the left and right military divisions, and the current Military Science Secretary is Li Yan, the left military division.

The Navy Department is in charge of the Navy (Navy), and the Navy Commander is Huang Binqing, and only the Yangtze River Navy Division is currently under its jurisdiction...... A real navy is not something that can be built, there must be a process of accumulating sailors and developing shipbuilding - and sailors and shipbuilding are often linked to the central ports of maritime trade, and only in the central ports will sailors and shipyards gather in large numbers.

At present, the only cities that can be called "central ports" in Nanming are Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Shanghai, which is booming.

Among them, although Shanghai is developing rapidly, it is not enough after all, and it is difficult to replace Guangzhou and Quanzhou as the first port in the world without ten or twenty years.

Guangzhou and Quanzhou were on the verge of the control of the Southern Ming Dynasty...... It's not that you can control it!

Quanzhou's surname is Zheng, so there is no need to say more. Although Cao Youyi had already taken two or three hundred thousand "begging balls" to settle down in Guangzhou, and was still building and cultivating cities in the sparsely populated "Hong Kong and Shenzhen" areas, their arrival was at most to deter the local Hakka tycoons in Guangfu, Zhaoqing, and Huizhou, and even the Chaoshan side did not buy it, and the maritime merchants and pirates who were active in the coastal areas of Guangdong were even more uncontrollable......

The Right Political Secretary is in charge of military mail, that is, the transmission of information and orders. The current envoy is Wu Ruzheng, Marquis of Gongshun.

The Department of Armed Guards is in charge of personnel, but does not manage all personnel, but only manages the appointment and dispatch of officers, regardless of the promotion, demotion, and merit evaluation of officers -- that is, where officers go to serve is under the control of the Generalissimo's Office Armed Guards. The promotion and dismissal of officers is in the hands of the Ministry of War's meritorious service department.

At present, the person in charge of Wu Weisi is Li Ruolian, who has returned from Shandong.

Jinyiwei is still the same as before, it is a spy organization, controlled by Zhu Chunjie.

And Shang Zhiwei is a yamen in charge of protons - Zhu Cihong still partially adopted the suggestions in the "Advice on Sealing and Politics", and implemented the policy of "the official government is the official government, and the feudal is feudal", and for the territory that is temporarily unable to implement the management of the flow of officials, the method of dividing the feudal lords (inner domains, and the vassal states subject to the Ming Dynasty are called outer domains) to control them. The feudal lord who was entitled, he had to hand over the hostages, usually the protons, and after arriving in Nanjing and Wuhan, he was given the official position of a senior guard to raise (control).

And the title of the feudal lord is currently temporarily divided into the Jiedu Envoy, the Xuanzhi Envoy, the Town Guardian Envoy, the Vassal King, the Vassal Prince, the Vassal Marquis, and the Municipal Council - this council is a "collective feudal lord", not a natural person, but a collective jointly serving as the feudal lord!

Don't think that this kind of system that looks like parliamentary democracy was copied by Zhu Cihong from the back market, Zhu Cihong is now the emperor, so he won't like the parliament or anything!

This "council" appeared in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty! It was the "original" system of the Ming Dynasty, which appeared in Huizhou and was established by a group of scholars who made trouble and resisted taxes. The reason is that Shexian County, the first county of Huizhou Prefecture, alone undertook a sum of 9,000 horses of "Ding Silk Silk" (to be paid every year), and it was okay to pay for 200 years, but it was a disturbance in the Wanli years, and the six counties threw each other off, and no one refused to pay taxes.

For the sake of thousands of taels of taxes a year, the six counties of Huizhou were in chaos, and the government was paralyzed. In this case, there was a gentry organization bureau to maintain the situation in Huizhou and bargain with the imperial court on behalf of the people of Huizhou...... However, this Huizhou Council did not continue to open, and after reaching an agreement with the household department of the imperial court, it dissolved itself.

However, Ji Kun, Huang Zongxi, Gu Jiang, and Wang Fuzhi all knew about the Huizhou Council, so they took it as a "precedent" and stuffed it into the "Re-admonishment and Recommendation of Political Sparseness" - this letter was asked by Zhu Cihong to make them go up, so that a few "thoughtful" guys could put forward a draft of the "feudal" law. Zhu Cihong can take it and revise it, and then promulgate it for implementation.

And this "feudalism of the council" was not eliminated by Zhu Cihong, because Zhu Cihong needed to use it to solve the Macao problem...... It's also a headache!

However, compared with the Northern Expedition that Emperor Hongxing wants to discuss with several of his subordinates today, it is not worth mentioning.

"Your Majesty, the battle of Ningyuan will be won, but Dolgon may not send troops to the rescue." Wu Xiang said to Zhu Cihong, "And the armies of Huaishang and Shandong will be defeated if they go west!" ”

Zhu Cihong didn't believe in Wu Xiang's military level, and he looked at Li Yan again.

Li Yan said: "Your Majesty, if I win, I will be defeated!" With the power of Dorgon and Dord, will they fight the battle that must be defeated? ”

"But ......," Zhu Cihong thought for a while, "Guanwai is Dongyu's hometown!" How can it be ignored? ”

Wu Guoyong interjected: "Your Majesty, do you think that our army will be able to seize the land outside the pass of Dongyu by taking Ningyuan City?" ”

"This ...... It can always block the corridor of western Liaoning, making it inconvenient to travel inside and outside the customs, right? ”

Wu Guoyong said: "Donglu is not a merchant citizen, so what can I do if the transportation is inconvenient? ”

Zhu Cihong's brows furrowed: "It's not feasible to fight Ningyuan like this?" ”

"No," Wu Xiang shook his head and said, "Isn't it just to run Juehua Island to take Ning Yuan?" Now that the foundation of Kyaw Hwa Island has been solidified, it is time to go further.

However, the capture of Ning Yuan is only the beginning of Pingliao, and it cannot be expected to be completed in one battle...... If you want to recover the whole of Liao, you must fight and advance along the west coast of Liao, the east coast of Liao, and the banks of the Liao River, build a fortress, step by step, and spend one or two decades of work before it can be completed. ”

"How much does that cost? How many soldiers are used? Zhu Cihong asked.

"This ......" Wu Xiang looked at Li Yan, "The minister is the secretary of the military department, and he doesn't care about the military strategy and scheduling." ”

Li Yan said: "Your Majesty, it's not a question of how much money or soldiers, it's a matter of horses!" The coastline from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhouwei is only a thousand miles. Fifty miles to build a fort is twenty fortresses, how much does it cost to build a sandbag base? One fort garrison or 1,000, or 500, twenty forts with 20,000 soldiers is enough. Supplemented by the first and second divisions of elite soldiers, and several cavalry regiments, we can make all the coastal areas in eastern and western Liaodong belong to me. And the key to this is several regiments of cavalry...... Can the two cavalry regiments we have at hand leave the infantry and artillery of the brigade and fight the cavalry of the Eastern Captives in the field?

If our cavalry cannot fight alone with the eastern captives on the thousand-mile front in western and eastern Liaoning, we will have to rely on infantry phalanxes and artillery to fight the enemy everywhere...... I'm afraid that the elite of the first and second divisions will not be enough! And it is also difficult to fight a large number of battles to annihilate the enemy. ”