After Yang Lian and the others' recital arrived in Beijing, Xinwang and the others read it and immediately forwarded it to Tianqi for reading, because it included many suggestions and summaries that needed to be decided by Tianqi. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here. For example, whether the Weisuo army can be pulled up at a critical moment to grab seeds and harvest for the people, whether women can be organized to work together in various places to engage in textiles and vacate the male labor force, and how to produce representatives representing ordinary people in county-level auxiliary political institutions. Of course, the matter of the division of labor between the prefecture and the county was also reported to the court, and Yang Lian also said that a place does not have representatives, and if the court agrees, they can go to Jiangxi, Huguang and other places.

After reading Yang Lian's recital, Tianqi flipped through Liu Qiao and Qian Qianyi's recital, it seemed that several people were very satisfied with Tianqi, he thought about it after reading it, and wanted to let people bring a message to a few people in the Supervision Yuan, saying that they should come up with an idea first, and by the way, if there is nothing urgent, let Yang Lian and them go to other provinces to investigate. Only the matter of the Weisuo army has to be considered, anyway, it should not be an urgent matter to play an insurance role, and it is just right to find two more people to discuss it for the sake of everything, because the change of the army should be cautious.

Yang Lian brought a lot of things and they were very important, but although they were very important, they were not very urgent, so Tianqi asked the people of the Supervision Yuan to figure out their own way first, and they could rest for a while and wait for them to come up with a solution. In particular, the matter used by the guards to help the people grab seeds and harvest can only give a clear answer after deliberation in the Military Affairs Yuan. In the matter of counterinsurgency in Guizhou, Zhu Xieyuan went home to mourn Cai Fuyi because of Gao Di's illness a while ago, and the front was almost in a temporary state of pain, which gave An Bangyan and Hao Chongming a chance to breathe.

The Jurchens and Mongols in the north did not make any major military moves, only at the beginning of the year, two of the eight divisions of Lin Dan Khan's Han headquarters suddenly defected and submitted to Huang Taiji, which surprised Lin Dan Khan and was also making preparations. However, both sides did not fight hard with open knives and guns, and they were still secretly co-opting and counter-selling in the fight for internal strength, the Ming Dynasty knew the predicament of the Mongols but did not care, anyway, Lin Dan Khan wanted to lose face and knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, which is also a good man's behavior, and if others want to pretend to be a good Han Dynasty, there is no need to expose the scars, otherwise it is not beautiful to provoke Lin Dan Khan to be angry, and the Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty are still nominally in the period of peace negotiations.

The negotiation of the Jurchens is a cover, everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty has analyzed for a long time and found that there is no need to waste energy to fall out with the Jurchens, even if the Jurchens really defeat the Mongols in the end, they will be scarred, and they will not have time to think about how to enter the Shanhaiguan for a while. There were also suggestions to unite the Mongols to defeat the Jurchens, but they were fiercely opposed by many generals, who cited examples from years or even more than a decade ago to show that the Mongols were unreliable from all angles. If you can't rely on it in the past, you will still be able to speak in the future, and it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on heaven and earth, and relying on yourself on national security issues is the best choice.

Since Zhang Jing'an and Zhao Shujiao, who were training soldiers on the front line in Guizhou and preparing for war, were made public, the troops in the northwest and southeast knew that the imperial court would take action in the whole country, and they also took the initiative to follow the example of Guizhou, but the Military Affairs Yuan was still considering how to gather the many scattered guards for training. In order to concentrate the army, it is necessary to have a name first, and secondly, it is necessary to guard against chaos, and when I was thinking about how to concentrate the army, some people immediately proposed to separate, which was different from the original idea.

Yang Lian brought back Nanzhi and the suggestion of the Lu prefect of the prefecture was to let the Weisuo army act as a reserve, but this reserve was not for war but for farming, so that the matter of concentrating the Weisuo army for training had to be readjusted, and tens of thousands of people gathered together were not suitable for planting crops at all. If you really want to pull the guards to farm, you have to disperse them to the counties, so it is equivalent to the same as before, except that the original guards are the military fields, and now they are planted official or private fields, and at most the local government will give some compensation.

After reading Yang Lian's report, Tianqi also had a headache at first, but then he didn't have a headache, because he handed over the matter to the Prison Yuan, so that King Xin and Liu Zongzhou had a headache, and now it was entering the winter moon, and everyone was dressed thickly and didn't want to stay outside longer, and they all burned the stove at home to keep warm. The palace is no exception in their own houses, those who want to accompany the children are even more tightly blocked the house, for fear of accidentally getting sick, now if you have a small cold is nothing, two pills to sweat a little will be good, but if you have a cold and fever serious disease, no one dares to guarantee that the absolute cure is good, only to sleep in bed to listen to the fate.

Tianqi felt that he had nothing to do and came to Kunning Palace on this day, firstly, he wanted to talk to the queen, and secondly, he also wanted to ask Feng Siqin's opinion. Although there are not many things now and they are all handed over to the Supervisory Yuan, they still have to have a certain amount of consideration, and if the Supervisory Yuan comes up with the only feasible plan, it is nothing, I am afraid that they will not be able to come up with a few sets of plans in the end, and they will be embarrassed if they do not have a little preparation at that time. Tianqi wanted to ask Feng Siqin, firstly, because Feng Siqin was really smart, secondly, because she did not belong to the ministers of the DPRK and China, and there was no selfishness in her speech, and thirdly, because of Yang Lian, they went to Nanzhili this time, and Nanjing was Feng Siqin's hometown.

After Tianqi entered the house, he saw that the queen and Feng Siqin were already waiting in the house, and after he entered the house and sat down, he beckoned the two of them to sit down and asked, "Why are the others not here?" ”

The queen said: "The emperor asked people to spread the word that the concubine and Feng Cairen were waiting for you, and the concubine thought that the emperor might have something important to ask, so she asked others not to come over The ♀ weather is getting colder and colder, except for Liu Guiren and Wei Guiren, everyone is not very strong, and several of them have children who are afraid of colding the children." ”

Seeing that the queen was not wearing much, and the carbon fire in the house was not very strong, he reached out and took the queen's hand and said: "The queen is not dressed much, and her hands are not very cold and a little hot, it seems that the sad effect of this house is not bad, but if you want to go out, you should wear two more pieces first." ”

The queen smiled: "The concubine's hands are naturally not cold in the house, but they are not hot, it is not good to be really hot, and they are afraid of cold in winter, so how can it be good in two months?" The emperor came in from the outside and received the air conditioning, and his hands were naturally colder, so he felt hot when he held the hands of his concubines. In the past, the emperor did not greet him in advance, but today the emperor told him in advance that he would come to Kunning Palace, but what important things do you want to ask? ”

Apocalypse said: "There is something about it, I want to ask about the training of palace maids in the palace, since the end of the year before last, I have discussed with the queen to take turns to release the palace maids out of the palace, at the end of last year or the beginning of this year, I don't remember it seems that hundreds of people were released, does the queen remember?" ”

The queen said: "There is such a thing, the concubines remember that they will recruit a batch immediately after releasing a batch, and this will soon be the end of the year, and the second batch will be released immediately. ”

Tianqi shook his head and said: "A few people have gone to Nanzhili to find out, saying that the palace maids are not very good at learning their skills, but after they returned to their hometowns, they were all given an eight-rank official position according to the original arrangement. Later, some people said that they were very good at gathering people, so they thought about whether they could gather some women to do things like weaving and embroidery, saying that if women work in the weaving and embroidery workshop, they can vacate many men, so that there will be no shortage of labor. ”

The queen smiled: "It's not realistic to think about how high the skills are after a year and a half of training, but their organizational skills are really not to be underestimated, and they are usually learning how to organize and coordinate people." Originally, if the emperor couldn't do it, they might stay in the palace for a lifetime, because they were old, so many people were ready to train them to be female officials, and usually the young palace maids would call them aunts when they saw them. The emperor said that he wanted them to gather people to work instead of men, and the concubines were not very clear about this matter, since it was Nan Zhili's matter, I don't know if Feng Cairen knew the specific situation. ”

Seeing the queen say this, Feng Siqin said: "Women are indeed more suitable than men in weaving and embroidery, because women are not easy to be irritable when they are careful, and weaving and embroidery does not require any physical strength, and it is indeed a good way to replace men with women, which shows that the person who made this suggestion is attentive." However, there are also some difficulties, that is, many women nowadays are inconvenient to walk with their feet entangled, and as a woman, whether they are married or unmarried, they don't like to show their heads outside, even if they don't think that they will be unhappy if they still have their husbands at home. ”

Tianqi frowned and said, "Didn't I order that it was not allowed to bind a woman's feet without my consent?" How can you still say that you have a foot wrapped and have difficulty moving? ”

Feng Siqin immediately laughed when she heard this, and even the queen smiled: "The emperor's order is only a little more than a year and no more than two years, a year or two ago, there were still many people who were wrapping their feet, and the bones that were wrapped around the instep of the feet were broken, and even if I let go, I don't know if I can walk well." ”

Apocalypse thought for a moment and said, "In this way, it is definitely not possible to concentrate women to work together?" ”

Feng Siqin said: "It's not impossible, in the past, our family asked women to help us weave, but instead of gathering together, we let her family take the task back to her home to do it, and then send it over together when she is done, but this is more troublesome, and everyone's skills are different." ”