Zhu Cihong ran from Nanjing, a "furnace", to Wuhan, another metropolis known as "furnace", when it was the hottest time in the 12th year of Hongxing. However, he did not live in Wuchang or Hankou, but in the slightly cooler Donghu Palace outside Wuchang.

The current East Lake is a miniature version of the old mountain, with a very similar layout, with a garden-style East Lake Palace and a supporting East Lake Town. There are also yamen for the Cabinet Office and the Generalissimo's Mansion in Donghu Town, as well as a large number of officials' residences, as well as a large camp in Donghu.

Because it was not the permanent residence of the imperial court, the area around East Lake has always been relatively depressed, and it was only after Emperor Zhu was fortunate that the merchants of Hankou City would open their trade. However, it is still not comparable with Laoshan-Pukou.

Even if the imperial court came to the west, the population of the entire East Lake would not exceed 50,000, and the population of Laoshan-Pukou would have already increased to 200,000.

Because of the hot weather, Emperor Zhu lived in the Qingliang Pavilion which was relatively cool and surrounded by water on three sides. This is a combination of Chinese and Western buildings, brick and wood structure, four-storey high, with a large roof on the top of the hill on the head, which can be well isolated from the high temperature caused by the sun. The walls of the pavilion are thick, full of creepers, and they are also very insulating.

This time, Emperor Zhu left Wu Sanmei to sit in Laoshan, and he took Zheng Chagu, Xu Erlin, Ajige, Tokugawa Gao, and Little Yanma Mary. Mancini came to East Lake together. A large family lives in a tall and spacious cool pavilion.

Among them, because the bottom floor of Qingliang Pavilion is relatively damp, it has become a place for Zhu Cihong and the ministers to hold meetings. The second floor is where Zhu Cihong and Zheng Chagu lived, the third floor was where Emperor Zhu's two new favorites, Mancini and Tokugawa Taka, lived together, and Ajige and Xu Erlin lived on the fourth floor.

On April 15, the twelfth year of Hongxing, close to noon, the routine meeting between the two governments had ended, and Zhu Cihong was in a map room on the ground floor of Qingliang Pavilion, discussing with the high-level officials of the Generalissimo's Mansion around the map table how to deal with the unfinished battle in front of him......

The room of the map room is very high, there is a little more than a zhang, and it is very spacious, it occupies a large piece of the east end of the bottom floor of Qingliang Pavilion, there are doors and windows on the three sides of the southeast, north and south, the lighting is good, and it is very cool after opening the doors and windows when there is wind in summer.

However, it was a bit hot today, so I opened the window and took ice cubes from the ice cellar and placed them around the map room to cool the house.

"Your Majesty, Jingzhou Military News, the rogue puppet emperor Li Guo has been stationed in Yong'an a few days ago, and sent Saiyong to the people of Yong'an Mansion, causing the people's resentment to boil."

"What is Cyon?" Zhu Cihong interrupted Li Yan, a military advisor who was reporting on the military situation.

After serving as the governor of Henan for a few years, Li Yan, who was familiar with the situation of Liukou, returned to the dynasty and served as a military advisor again, while Wu Sanfu served as the secretary of the military department, replacing Li Ruolian, who was transferred to the governor of Jiangbei.

"Your Majesty," Li Yan said, "the system of the Liukou is copied from the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the military is used to recruit government soldiers, and the state is used to rent and mediocre tunes. The meanness is labor, and the Saiyong is to add a city construction labor on the basis of the original labor. ”

"Extra Pai? It sounds familiar! Zhu Cihong smiled, "This is what you learned from us, right?" If they continue like this, someone will soon rebel, right? ”

Li Yan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this plus faction and expedition have all been in the past dynasties, but in fact, there is nothing to ...... As long as it makes sense and the people can bear it. And although the Zhumi, Saiyong, and Burmese dispatches that the Liukou are now sending are not a light burden on the people, they are not unbearable. Because Sun Kewang, Niu Jinxing, Gu Junen and others are still very attentive to their work, and they also know the suffering of the people, and they can reasonably apportion, so that although the people are suffering, they will not be unable to live.

In addition, half of the land on the Liukou side is owned by the small people, although the small people are bitter, but they can still make a living, compared to the Apocalypse and Chongzhen years of our dynasty, it is better. ”

"Really?" Zhu Cihong could hear Li Yan's words, this guy himself had been a "big rogue", because he couldn't get used to Li Zicheng's escape route and rogue doctrine, so he turned against the water and took refuge in the Ming Dynasty. However, after Li Guo entered Sichuan, Li Yan actually agreed very much with the route of enclosing land and granting military fields and Ji dictating people's fields. On the contrary, I don't understand Zhu Cihong's "industry-commerce-oriented" after sitting firmly in the country.

Of course, Emperor Zhu's industrial and commercial orientation was not that he did not want agriculture, but that he regarded agriculture as a kind of commercial activity. Therefore, there is no such thing as the end of agriculture and commerce, and there is no inhibition of annexation, and of course the peasants are no longer tied to the land.

Emperor Zhu smiled and said, "How much more can the military advisor think about the great shun of the Liukou?" ”

"Ten years at the least, twenty or thirty years at most." Li Yan said, "Today's Liukou governs the people of Sichuan with government soldiers, suppresses the Quartet, strictly controls mergers, emphasizes agriculture and suppresses business, prohibits the people from two industries, and makes a profit. Thirty or forty million Sichuan people are all controlled by it, and they are all used, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers who can fight in our dynasty, how can we get peace? Only by taking defense as an attack, curbing its way out, making it tired, and waiting for its internal changes, can there be a momentum of breaking the bamboo. ”

"What the military advisor sees is the same as me," Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "The national policy of the Liukou is to imitate the Sui and Tang dynasties, but how much land was there in the early Tang Dynasty?" What is the population? What is the geometry of land per capita? How much land is there in Sichuan today? What is the population? Can there be two acres of land per capita? How can two acres of land last? If the peasants can't sustain themselves, how can the government soldiers' homes balance their income and expenditure? If there is a deficit in the house of soldiers, what will they use to serve? Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business does not mean that profits and losses can be ignored! Farming is a business, a business. The agriculture-oriented government soldiers are also a deal. You can't lose money if you buy and sell...... As long as the rogue keeps losing money, sooner or later it will be settled by me. And Sichuan, where the rogues are based, is difficult to get in and out, and it is slowly consumed after the siege. Didn't Li Guo expand his army by 150,000? Yes, yes! There are more wolves and fewer sheep, expand a little more, and the faster they will be exhausted!

So I'm not worried about the rogues...... If the most troublesome thing for me is, it must be Dzungaria! ”

At the mention of Dzungaria, the people in the map room couldn't help but frown.

The Mongols are hard to get! If you don't break them, they'll mess with you endlessly. You break them, and they move everywhere. On the vast prairie, the four major alliances are scattered into hundreds of small tribes, where do you catch them? Emperor Zhu gathered more than 80,000 cavalry, and he couldn't catch them even if he was pulled to the grassland! Can you really break it up into hundreds of teams? Even if you can tear out a few hundred copies of the cavalry, it will not work. Of course, Emperor Zhu's cavalry can fight, but they can't herd sheep!

After years of fighting on the prairie, without the skill of herding, what do you eat? Logistical delivery? It's simply impossible.

Therefore, it is easy to win the battle of the Mobei grassland, but it is difficult to completely pacify.

Otherwise, there were so many times when the feudal dynasties of China were so awesome, why couldn't they always deal with people?

And Emperor Zhu can't handle it now, as soon as the four major alliances fall, the population of Dzungaria will exceed one million! Fortunately, now is the era of guns and cannons, otherwise with this million nomadic population, support 200,000 people to kill the strings, the Mobei grassland will soon be controlled by the Dzungars, and Mongolia will also be unified by the monk Khan.

"Your Majesty," Wu Sanfu, the secretary of the military department, said to Zhu Cihong at this time, "The minister has a proposal, maybe it can make Dzungar stop for a while." ”

"What proposal?" Emperor Zhu asked.

"Didn't the emir of Tianzhu say a while ago that he would join forces with us to fight Bukhara?" Wu Sanfu said, "It's better to push the boat down the river and order Dzungar to conquer Bukhara." This Bukhara state is also a remnant of the Mongols, a descendant of the Golden Horde, but it believes in the Heavenly Sect and becomes enemies with the Mongols who believe in the Yellow Sect. The Yarkand Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate, which were destroyed by the Dzungaria, were allies of the Bukhalin Khanate. It is better to let the evil monks make their homes and destroy the Bukhara Khanate. ”

"But in this way, won't Dzungaria dominate the west of the Tianshan Mountains?" Shoufu Wei Zaode said, "I'm afraid that it will be another Timurid Empire at that time, right?" ”

Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said, "Let's look at the present...... Go back and ask that Galdan before making a decision. ”

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