"Your Majesty, rest assured, there are ministers in Ganshan to supervise the army, and they will not let the Liukou succeed."

Wu Sangui breathed a sigh of relief, he really didn't feel any malice from Zhu Cihong's words and expressions...... It is estimated that the emperor was busy with all kinds of opportunities and had no time to read the official history, so he mistakenly took Sima Yi's resistance to Zhuge Liang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" seriously.

Zhu Cihong smiled and nodded: "I will transfer three divisions to you, one of which is already in Shaanxi, and two are in the process of entering the customs...... If it is not enough, you are allowed to transfer troops from Anxi, Hexi, and Shuofang. ”

Wu Sangui hurriedly saluted and said: "Saving soldiers is like fighting fire, the minister does not want to delay, and wants to return to Ganshan immediately to preside over military affairs." ”

Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, don't worry...... Stay two more days, I would like to take you to see Tianjin New Town. Did the third sister tell you? ”

When Wu Sangui arrived at Tianjin Fortress, Zhu Cihong was not in the castle, but went with Shi Kefa and Shen Tingyang to the newly circled Tianjin New Town on the north bank of the Wei River, which was the location of Tianjin, the future ruling center of the Ming Dynasty in the north.

Zhu's idea of ruling the country was not to take root in the countryside and then surround the cities. Instead, the central city controls the transportation hub, the economic lifeline, and thus the countryside.

So he paid special attention to the construction of the central city!

In the south, Nanjing, Shanghai and Wuhan in the Yangtze River basin, Guangzhou in the Pearl River basin and Quanzhou in southern Fujian have received special attention.

In the north, at present, Zhu Cihong is interested in vigorously developing the area of Tianjin and Tianhe (Yingkou), two areas of Haikou and the mouth of the river, and it is expected that two metropolises will also be built.

In the direction of Nanyang, Zhu Cihong is also building Jin'ou City and Jincheng, two Haikou (estuary) cities that control the Jiulong River and Chao Phraya River.

In North America, the focus is on the development of the provinces of the Americas.

That is to say, in the future, the ruling center of the Ming Empire will be Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Tianhe, Jinou, Jincheng, and other nine metropolises, and if possible, of course, Malacca must be added. A total of ten metropolises along the river and along the coast, located on the transportation hub, can radiate a large area, and can allow the Ming court to firmly control the entire Celestial Empire with affordable administrative costs...... As for the rest of the empire, it can be appropriately relaxed, relaxed, or laissez-faire according to the economic development!

Great empire! Where can there be no focus? They all have to be firmly controlled, they all have to go to the countryside with imperial power, the administrative costs cannot be controlled, and there are too many bad things for the court to deal with!

"Your Majesty, the queen mother said......" Wu Sangui thought for a moment, "you don't want the Chen family to buy land in Liaodong, and you want the Chen family to make two streets here in Tianjin?" ”

"Yes, yes," Zhu Cihong smiled, "Liaodong can't make money buying land...... You and your father are not trading materials, and they don't know how to run a farm, so where can you make such a careful living? Don't invest hundreds of thousands, and you won't be able to collect a few rents in the end. So I left two streets for your home in Tianjin New Town, one for you and one for three auxiliaries. All stay near the Wei River, and it will be a good place near the pier in the future, and it will definitely appreciate in value. But don't make it yourself, just cut it into pieces and rent it out. Remember, you must only rent and not sell, and when Tianjin develops in the future, your family can make money while lying down. ”

Wu Sangui's family can also make some money lying down...... If you really let them run it themselves, they are guaranteed to lose money.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace," Wu Sangui stood up and saluted, "but the minister still wants to get up as soon as possible...... The two streets of Tianjin New Town, Your Majesty, you can look at it, anywhere. Ministers don't do business, they all listen to His Majesty, and they will not be wrong. However, in the war in Ganshan, Your Majesty must listen to the ministers, and you must not ignore it! ”

This is very good, and Zhu Cihong is regarded as the manager of the Wu family......

Wu Sangui then said: "Your Majesty, today's rogues are not the rogues of the Battle of Jingchu!" After the Liukou occupied Bashu Yungui, they were also making great efforts to govern the country, and they also imitated the Sui and Tang dynasties, and made a hole to build a country by ploughing and fighting. Now there are two or three hundred thousand people in the country who dare to fight, and everyone is happy when they hear about the war! If the ministers can't block them south of Qishan, Sanguan, and Baoxie Valley Road, the consequences may be unimaginable, and the entire northwest will fall to the enemy! ”

Zhu Cihong really didn't take Dashun too seriously, in his opinion, although Dashun's strength is not weak, it is also very difficult to perish - two or three hundred thousand households and Dashun are the same as the soldiers of the Retirement Mansion, how can it be so easy to perish? Two or three hundred thousand households can be mobilized, and five or six hundred thousand soldiers can also be pulled out! If it was on the plain, Emperor Zhu could still rely on the powerful cavalry cluster of the Ming army to crush it. However, the territory occupied by Dashun is densely covered with mountains, and some of them are mountain battles to be fought!

If you want to storm it, the casualties must be not small......

However, he didn't think that Bashu would be able to counterattack Guanlong, and it seemed that such a thing had never happened in history.

"Since Sangui is in a hurry to return to Ganshan, then I won't keep you." Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "I have ordered someone to prepare two Arabian horses for you, good horses for the general, you can ride them back to the Ganshan Overseer!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the horses!"

Wu Sangui thanked the reward, received the holy decree of the governor of Ganshan, and hurriedly embarked on the road to the west.

As soon as he walked on the front foot, Zhu Chunchen, another famous general of the Ming Dynasty, rode a fast horse from Dagukou all the way to Tianjin Fortress.

At the time of the Jiashen Rebellion, Zhu Chunchen was already forty years old, and now after another fourteen years, he is already an "old man" in his fifties. But if you really want to compare the current Zhu Chunchen with Zhu Chunchen fourteen years ago, as long as you don't look at your face, you definitely look young.

Fourteen years ago, Zhu Chunchen was a fat man, looking majestic, but when he stripped off his clothes, he would find that it was all fat, and it was not of much use at all.

But now Zhu Chunchen has lost more than one lap, and he has become stronger more than a little, although he is not the kind of muscular man who is trained in the gym, but this body knows at a glance that he is exercising every day - maybe when he first went down to Jiangnan, Emperor Zhu was really short of generals, so he threw him into the barracks. And the new army of the Ming army is "997" every day under the supervision of Zhu Cihong, although Zhu Chunchen is a general, he can't be too lazy. And he has also experienced the change of Jiashen, so he naturally has to work harder, so he practiced together. After practicing, he found that his body was better, his food was fragrant, and he even had the strength to hold hands with the concubines.

That's why it's addictive......

The people below saw that Cheng Guogong had worked hard, and naturally they were embarrassed to be lazy, so they had to work together, and gradually this Cheng Guogong had a reputation for being good at governing the army.

In addition to being good at governing the army, Zhu Chunchen was also found to be good at fighting!

Since moving south, he has been supervising the army on the front line, and has fought with the Qing army many times in Henan, Fengyang and other places, and he has actually won!

Later, when Emperor Zhu launched a large-scale northern expedition, he and Wu Sanfu and Yan Yingyuan were responsible for the Henan side, and they all won.

Later, he sent troops into Shanxi to sweep the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, and he was also invincible, extinguishing many rebel forces and successfully recovering most of Shanxi (excluding Datong).

Therefore, after the end of the Northern Expedition, the Generalissimo's Office and the Ministry of War both thought that Zhu Chunchen was handsome and unanimously recommended him to be the governor of Liaodong.

Now he has rushed from the Lushun Mansion, where the Yamen of the Governor of Liaodong is located, to Tianjin Fortress to face the saint.

"Governor General Liaodong Military Affairs, Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Chengguo, respectfully invites Sheng'an!"

In the Tianjin Palace, Zhu Chunchen's loud voice startled Emperor Zhu, who was looking down at the planning map of Tianjin New Town, he looked up at Cheng Guogong, whose hair and beard were still black and shiny, that is, his face was a lot darker, and there were many wrinkles, and he suddenly remembered the scene when he used Shang Fang's sword to scare him. sighed and said with a smile: "If the Duke of Chengguo fifteen years ago had the skills he has today, I'm afraid there would be no difficulty in Jiashen, right?" ”

Zhu Chunchen smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Without His Majesty's supervision, how could the minister have today?" Without His Majesty's single-handedly creation of a new army to overcome difficulties, even if the ancestors of Cheng were resurrected, would they still be able to lead the officers and soldiers who lacked food and clothing to defeat a strong enemy like a wolf and a tiger? ”