Zhu Yaojiang's departure from Daming can no longer have much impact, although Zhu Yaojiang is the eldest princess of Daming, but after all, she is just a woman, if she is gone, she will be gone, even Zhu Yijun unconsciously forgot about Zhu Yaojiang, or Zhu Yijun did not want to think about this shameful thing anymore.

Now Zhu Yijun is focusing more on defeating the People's Army, followed by finding a way to stabilize the Zhu family.

The order to "allow the gentry and merchants from all over the country to form escort teams" has been in full swing in the Ming ruling area, but the situation has not been carried out as Zhu Yijun and the ministers imagined.

Originally, Zhu Yijun and the ministers wanted to use the grain and silver of the gentry and merchants to expand the army of the Ming Dynasty by millions in order to resist or even defeat the people's army.

It is true that the gentry and merchants have formed an escort of millions of people, but it is unknown whose orders these guards are under now.

There must be escorts loyal to the Ming court and obey the Ming court's dispatch, but there are still many escorts who obey the orders of those Ming court generals who support their own troops, and there are even wealthy gentry and businessmen who unite to support tens of thousands of troops, and even weak local governments have to obey orders.

If it weren't for the great enemy of the People's Army, Daming would have fallen apart long ago.

Zhu Yijun no longer knows whether to be happy or distressed, the People's Army has kept the Ming Dynasty "stable", once the People's Army is destroyed, the Ming Dynasty will fall apart, and now what Zhu Yijun can do is to determine who is loyal to the Ming court and loyal to him as an emperor, and has organized an elite Ming army loyal to him.

Zhu Yijun is working hard for the Zhu family, the generals who support the army and respect themselves in the Ming ruling area, and the wealthy gentry and businessmen with other intentions are also working hard, of course, the People's Army is indispensable, and the agents of the Military Intelligence Department are active in the Ming ruling area.

Drawing maps, finding out the deployment of military troops, persuading the Ming troops of various departments, and winning over and persuading the gentry and businessmen who had formed an escort team, the task of the agents was very heavy.

In fact, in the war between the People's Army and the Ming Court at the beginning of last year, the People's Army won the victory, on the one hand, because the People's Army itself was very strong, and on the other hand, because of the contributions made by the agents.

Hundreds of agents infiltrated the Ming army, and after a long period of hard work, tens of thousands of Ming soldiers were recruited, and after the outbreak of the war, these Ming soldiers directly led to the faster collapse of the Ming army in battle.

At present, the Ming Naval Division, the Tang Qi Division of the Ming Army in Yunnan, the Li Zhengmao Division of the Ming Army in the northern region of Huguang and the Yangtze River, and the Zheng Yuewen Department of the Ming Army in Zhejiang are the main targets of the Military Intelligence Department.

Compared with the past, MI has made it easier to persuade surrender to the military.

Before the outbreak of the war last year, the People's Army had only one province with more than 300,000 troops, and the Ming Court also had 14 provinces with a total strength of more than 1.5 million.

However, it was such a war that was very confident that it could be won, the Ming court was defeated, and it was defeated very easily by the people's army, that was a million Ming army, 300,000 people's army defeated, after the first war, the people's army already had five provinces, and the Ming court only had ten provinces left.

"The Ming Court couldn't defeat the People's Army before, can the Ming Court still defeat the People's Army now?" Many people in the Ming ruling area have such questions.

In this situation, the agents of the People's Army approached Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, Zheng Yuewen and other Ming army generals to persuade them to surrender.

The KPA's request was simple, that is, to have these Ming generals surrender to the KPA with their Ming troops, and to assist the KPA in taking over part of the territory when the next war broke out.

The conditions given by the People's Army for surrender are also very simple, only the "exoneration" clause, that is, these Ming generals and officers under their command will be exonerated no matter what they have done before, and will not confiscate the wealth they have (and then maliciously loot the wealth is not allowed), but under the rule of the People's Army, they will be punished in the same way as everyone else.

The People's Army has already set conditions, and Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, Zheng Yuewen and other Ming generals cannot make a decision in a short time.

Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen all led their troops to fight with the People's Army, and deeply understood the strength of the People's Army, and the three of them were not even willing to fight the People's Army again, and they would retreat when they saw the People's Army, and all three of them believed that the People's Army could destroy the Ming Dynasty.

Since they can't defeat the People's Army, the three of them naturally have the idea of surrendering to the People's Army, but the conditions offered by the People's Army are too simple, they are now generals who command tens of thousands of troops, and they have the power of life and death, but they will be an "ordinary person" in the future, even if this ordinary person has a lot of wealth and can live a rich life all the time, it is difficult for them to accept it for a while.

They are hesitating, they are waiting, maybe time will turn around, and within the armistice period, the Ming court has the strength to defeat the people's army.

In the face of the persuasion of the People's Army, Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen have been delaying, intending to delay until the outbreak of the next war.

The military intelligence department has also made some progress in persuading the Ming court sailors to surrender, and the sailors carrying the garrisons in Guangdong and Fujian have already gone north and are unwilling to surrender to the people's army, but many people's families are under the rule of the people's army, and the people's army will not use their families as bargaining chips, but can use the words to reunite the "family" to persuade them to surrender.

Coupled with the many major battles between the People's Army and the Ming Court before, there are already many people in the Ming Court Navy who think that the Ming Court has no hope of victory, as long as they can save the lives of the whole family, they are willing to surrender.

Compared with the persuasion of the Ming court sailors and Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen, the military intelligence department's persuasion of the gentry and businessmen who formed the escort team progressed faster.

There are many people in the Ming army who are still loyal to the Ming court, but the number of people loyal to the Ming court among the gentry and merchants is greatly reduced, and the gentry and businessmen pay more attention to the family, they care more about the family being able to prosper, and pay their own family for the Ming court, and almost no gentry and businessmen are willing to do this.

Thanks to the efforts of the agents of the People's Army, the gentry and merchants in the Ming ruling area learned that the People's Army was powerful and could get an opportunity to save the lives and wealth of their entire family, and they naturally would not let it go.

Of course, the vast majority of the gentry and businessmen are verbally saying that they are waiting for the situation to change, anyway, the People's Army is still far from here, maybe the Ming court will turn defeat into victory.

Loyal to the Ming Court on the surface, secretly defecting to the People's Army, the Ming Court defeated the People's Army, they took out their secret identity, the Ming Court won, then they will always be loyal to the Ming Court.

It can be regarded as a way to save lives, the military intelligence department understands this situation and does not care too much, under the strong strength of the people's army, they will make the right choice, and the military intelligence department is now persuading us to surrender just to let the enemy and us have fewer casualties in the next war.