Since you don't leave for the time being, you still have to hit the clock for a day when you are a monk for a day. Early the next morning, Tianqi asked Yang Gongchun to lead people to put the box into an iron cabinet and lock it, and then carry it into the Fire Temple next to the Xuanwu Gate and put it away. Apocalypse told the guards that it was a monster that was ready to be suppressed by the god of fire, and told everyone not to move, and it was an unforgivable sin to alarm the monster. At this time, Yang Gongchun also told Tianqi that after checking for a long time, there was no person named Dongjifu, only the previous Dongchang was called Dongjishi Factory, which should be written by someone in Dongchang, Tianqi was upset and waved his hand and left.

Back in the palace, the apocalypse asked the queen to fulfill her obligations as the president of the women's federation and gather the older palace ladies in the palace to study. First of all, we must let them slowly understand that men and women are actually equal, and then let them become female messengers who can go to the whole country to preach equality between men and women.

Government affairs are being carried out in an orderly manner, whether it is the sale of titles or immigration affairs, they are being actively carried out according to the requirements of the apocalypse, and there is some progress. The major shareholders of the Road Merchants Bureau and the Central Money Bank are more anxious than the Apocalypse, and it seems that it will start operating in May, which is different between someone helping to worry about it and no one helping to worry about it, the matter of the Road Merchants Bureau and the Central Money Bank is the least worried, but it is also the fastest and most stable progress.

Tianqi's own business is also in full swing, restaurants, jewelry shops, ready-to-wear shops, Tai Hospital branches and other houses have been almost repaired, and are being decorated, and at the request of Tianqi, all places are specially divided into male and female guest departments. The procurement and processing of raw materials are being carried out intensively, and although the expenditure of silver taels is relatively tight, the eunuchs in the palace still work hard to make more money. It is no wonder that ordinary people pursue money and beautiful women, and eunuchs cannot marry a daughter-in-law, so they concentrate on the same pursuit of both passions, so their desire for silver is more fervent than that of ordinary people.

The only thing that makes Apocalypse feel unstable is military affairs, and the intelligence from the MI a while ago said that Nurhachi was about to attack the Mongols, which may be true, but it may also be a trap. If you hesitate to gain or lose, you may lose your fighter, but if you rush in, if you fall into the trap of the Jurchens, you will be in big trouble. For the sake of safety, the apocalypse suggested that in southern Liaoning, the Bohai Naval Region should use three armies of men and horses to attack and harass Liaodong in three directions, each with no more than 3,000 people, and they were flexible in advance and retreat, even if they were unlucky and could not escape, they would be able to accept death.

After careful study, the Military Affairs Yuan considered it feasible and issued an order to the Bohai Overseer Wang Zaijin to take the opportunity to attack and harass Liaodong, and the order said that the principle of this raid was to rob only the Jurchens and not the Han Chinese; only kill Jurchen soldiers, not civilians in Liaodong; Only attack enemies within 1,000 and do not fight with the enemy. Wang Zaijin knew that it was not suitable for him to criticize Mao Wenlong in the specific arrangement of troops, so he transferred the order of the Military Affairs Yuan to Mao Wenlong as it was, just saying that Mao Wenlong should understand the spirit and use the troops independently.

In Jizhou in the north, the governor Wang Huazhen because he is now relatively close to the Khan Department, in this month he discussed with Lin Dan Khan about building a castle along the Daling River, Lin Dan Khan sent people to help, the Ming Dynasty court provided food for food, and after repair, he had to give some rewards appropriately. Because now the Liaodong Military Region and the Jizhou Military Region have been separated, after Wang Huazhen negotiated the results, he submitted it to the Military Affairs Yuan and asked Yuan Keli, the overseer of Liaodong, to send someone to go.

Yuan Keli was a person with a very military vision, and he had long found that the northern Khan and Duoyan tribes seemed to be guarding the northern gateway for the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, these two Mongols were the uncertain and unstable factors for the security of the Ming Dynasty. Song Taizu once said that "on the side of the couch, how can you allow others to sleep soundly", it means that such uncertain and unstable factors cannot be allowed in their sphere of influence, and now the Ming Dynasty is indeed inconsiderate of relying on foreign people for their own safety.

Now that you can build a castle along the Daling River, you can approach Yiju and Quang Ninh along the river, and you can block the ancient road of the Daling River at the pass, and you can monitor the mountains and grasslands north of the Daling River. Yuan Keli did not hesitate to immediately send Ningyuan's deputy general Zhu Mei to lead 6,000 troops to build a city at the mouth of the two rivers at the confluence of the two sources of the Daling River.

Originally, Liaodong originally had 40,000 special forces who specialized in repairing cities and not fighting, and 20,000 were assigned to the canal chief soldier Zhao Shujiao after attacking Lushun at the beginning of the year, and turned into a river defense soldier patrolling the canal, which was also a disguised reward for the imperial court to cooperate with Mao Wenlong and Zu Dashou to annihilate more than 20,000 Jurchens in the Nanguan area. When 20,000 people heard that they could be transferred from the more dangerous western Liaoning territory to Shandong and Zhili to specialize in construction, and that they could also bring their wives and children with them if they had money, they were all overjoyed and readily agreed, so there were only 20,000 special forces in western Liaoning who built the city full-time.

Some time ago, Cao Wenzhao and Zuo Liangyu's cavalry and artillery battalions were to be expanded, and a few thousand undetermined people were fooled out of the 20,000 people, and later Zhang Jing'an's mountain infantry battalion was expanded and continued to fool among the remaining people, and in the end, there were less than 6,000 left of the 40,000 people. However, after several screenings, the people left behind are all people who have an unusual persistent belief in the construction profession, and it can also be said that they are all leaders in building cities and forts.

Ning Yuan's deputy general Zhu Mei was a veteran, and seeing that he had such an errand and such a group of people under his subordinates, after thinking for a while, he divided the 6,000 people into two parts, and took turns to go to the two estuaries to build for half a month. On the Ming side, because all of them were masters of repairing cities, they naturally did it quickly, and the Mongols who came to help were a little unbearable, and they all complained bitterly.

To be honest, there were only two kinds of Mongols at this time, one was lazy and the other was very lazy. All these people think about all day long is how to do easy things and get paid well, and when they earn a little money, they feel that they are very rich, and they drink wine, eat meat, sing and dance, and celebrate the New Year right now. Every time I get drunk and remember the glory of the past, I beat my wife, and when I finished the fight, I went to bed, and the next day I ran out of money and began to complain about God and blame God for being unfair to them.

Zhu Mei did not discriminate against these descendants of Genghis Khan, he just said that letting the Mongols do the same thing and eat the same meals as the Ming army would cost the Mongols their lives. The Mongols were very romantic people, and they had no strength to leave the song and dance every day, and now they were not allowed to sing and dance if they were asked to make efforts to repair the city for a long time, and the Mongols would stop doing it in three days. Zhu Mei didn't get angry at all when she saw it, she just said that if she didn't want to do it, she would go back, and the principle of not working and eating was not negotiable. The Mongols consulted with each other for a long time and finally agreed to stay, and because of this, they hated Zhu Mei in their hearts.

In order to expand the number to 30,000 people as soon as possible and train them into an army, Zhang Jing'an recruited more than 20,000 people from the original city repair troops, local people and immigrants. In order to let the more than 20,000 people form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Zhang Jing'an mixed the more than 20,000 people with the original 5,000 people, and divided them into 10 teams to take turns to go into the mountains to practice the survival ability of the troops in the mountains.

Zuo Liangyu's artillery battalion was rather boring to train, and every day it was to see how long it took for the artillery to move the artillery into place and then to fire, and the speed of adding people was faster than the speed of adding artillery, so there were more and more people waiting at the gate of the battalion every day to send them artillery from the military headquarters.

Cao Wenzhao's cavalry slashed and killed each other with wooden knives and guns every day, trying to make the training as close as possible to actual combat, so that the training effect was greater. At the same time as they were training, the Military Affairs Department of the Military Affairs Yuan successively sent some civilian officials to the supervising army, and the desperate soldiers with knives and guns looked down on these people who could only play tricks from their hearts, but when a supervising army saw their training and put forward a little opinion, this made Cao Wenzhao very surprised, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was very reasonable, and decided to do it according to this person's opinion.

What this overseer is saying is that the soldiers should pay attention to the cooperation between a few people while practicing alone, such as how two people can quickly kill each other; how to attack in a two-on-two situation or how to retreat with all his body; How to cooperate in the case of three-on-three and four-on-four, in short, is to let the soldiers fix the best cooperation in various situations against the enemy into a certain easy-to-remember offensive and defensive mode, and they will not lie when they really reach that time on the battlefield.

After a period of training, Cao Wenzhao was very satisfied with the training from the soldiers, so he changed his original view of civilian officials and supervising the army from the bottom of his heart.

Just when the Ming army was constantly honing itself, news came that Nurhachi was attacking north. April was not supposed to be the month of soldiers, but Nurhachi, for the sake of his own face and to get some food and livestock, launched a war against the Khalkha tribe in mid-April.