Wang Chengen said happily: "Your Majesty is so gracious, the two concubines of the general should come to thank them, they happen to be in Cining Palace at this time." The slave and maid went to send them to thank the emperor. ”

After a while, Queen Zhou brought Chu Chu and Xu Miaoyan to thank her, and presented a pair of exquisite pocket watches, and said: "Your Majesty, Chu Chu and Xu Miaoyan have a strange gift, and they know that they can't face the saint, so they sent it to the concubine." ”

The technology of the watch factory was constantly upgraded, and the pocket watch was finalized and produced, and then it was mass-produced, and the pocket watch given to the emperor was of course decorated with gold and precious stones.

Giving a big gift to the emperor will not suffer, and you will earn it without the emperor's reward, because after the emperor accepts the pocket watch, he will be deliberately hyped by Chu Chu.

Next, high-end pocket watches will become the most sought-after goods for gifts from the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty, and the profits will come naturally.

Chongzhen didn't care much about these things, and looked at it without comment, his eyes couldn't help but sweep Chu Chu and Xu Miaoyan's eyes, and finally stayed on Xu Miaoyan's face for a moment when they met for the first time.

There are so many beautiful women in the palace, but Xu Miaoyan is not inferior, and the lascivious Chongzhen feels eye-catching when she sees it.

He thought about it, it turned out that the general had weaknesses! Yes, young man, and a young man with a strong body, there are few bad people!

After thanking them, the emperor did not let them retire, and seemed to be ready to chat with them in front of the queen.

Chu Chu observed the words and found that the emperor had a good complexion, and he seemed to be in a good mood, so he said:

"Your Majesty, Weichen has something I want to ask for, and Weichen will go to Nanzhili Nanjing City in the near future to decorate a commercial street like Jingshi Sleepless City.

The Huang family also wants to ask His Majesty to open an inscription to participate in the dividends, and Weichen estimates that once the Nanjing Sleepless City is operated, the annual profit will not be less than that of the Jingshi Sleepless City, and it will definitely be able to ensure that the queen can pay an extra 40,000 taels of silver every year to supplement the degree. ”

Splendid Jiangnan is the richest place in the Ming Dynasty, the high-ranking and powerful Huang Han of course has to get involved there, Nanjing City is not smaller than Jingshi, the population is close to one million, should be one of the world's top two metropolises.

Last winter, when Huang Han had just been appointed as the general of the conquest and obtained the title of Duke of Liao, he refused to waste the great opportunity of leaning towards the government and the opposition, and immediately decided to expand the scope of business, and the operation of Jinxiu Jiangnan became the top priority.

Huang Han instructed Zheng Xiu'e and Chu Chu to operate this matter, and within a few days, they sent Cai Lian to lead more than a dozen henchmen and maids to the Qinhuai River to buy land.

On the sixth day of the first month of this year, the construction began in Nanjing, and now it has reached the renovation period.

Liao's salary is far from enough, at least three or four hundred thousand taels of silver is missing for a month, Chongzhen knows it.

For this reason, Huang Han, who promised to "level Liao in five years," must spare no effort to raise money and food when stepping up military training.

It is also reasonable for the Huang family to go to Nanjing to invest in a city that never sleeps to make a lot of money, and seeing that the Huang family is also preparing to bring the heavenly family to dividends, Chongzhen feels a little embarrassed.

Empress Zhou knew that the emperor had a good face, how could she agree to receive dividends with an inscription in front of the courtiers' concubines? Laughed:

"The concubine wants to ask for a favor, please ask Your Majesty to inscribe, and the concubine will use this inscription to invest in Nanjing Sleepless City to get some dividends, and a lot of silver to reward the palace maids and eunuchs who are serious about their work."

With the queen playing the round, the embarrassment was really avoided, and Chongzhen waved his pen with a big stroke, and the five big characters of "Jinling Never Sleeps City" jumped on the paper.

Chu Chu was promoted, Xu Miaoyan also got an official body, the two of them were very happy, and now they are even happier with the emperor's imperial pen, they will rush to Nanjing to participate in the operation, and strive to make the "Jinling Sleepless City" also flow gold and silver.

The next day, the Ming Dynasty officials and generals all learned the good news of the "Ningwuguan victory", everyone was in good spirits, and it was at this time that the remaining brave people chased the poor.

The elder of the cabinet, who acted as the secretary of the military department, was right, and he could give an order to let Liu Zhilun, Fang Zhenghua, Lu Xiangsheng, Chen Biqian, Hong Chengchou, Yang Sichang, etc. lead the people to counterattack on all fronts.

He said: "The general of the conquest has won successive battles, and the heart of my Ming army has been greatly boosted, and the slave chief has been defeated under Ningwu Pass and still does not know whether he is alive or dead.

The old minister asserted that the Dongnu cavalry at this time had no fighting spirit, and the old minister suggested that the Ming defenders began to pursue Jiannu to regain the lost territory, so that the enemy army was like a rat crossing the street.

This will definitely be a better way to deal with the "Red Banner Army", so that the general can annihilate more Dongnu rebels. ”

The "Red Banner Army" has won successive battles, boosted morale, boosted the hearts of the people, and increased the self-confidence of civilian and military generals.

"The old minister seconded the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, at this time, the whole army no longer needs to worry about which one of the men and horses will be counterattacked, and the defeat of Dongnu cannot be reversed! Please decree the emperor! ”

Zheng Guochang said: "The fact that we have entered Shanxi and won many battles is enough to prove that the 'Red Flag Army' is a strong army and a strong army.

The Dongnu who have learned a lesson should be in a panic at this time, they must be afraid of being blocked by our Ming army in the pass to gather and annihilate, and they will definitely not dare to delay time, and it is the first choice to rush out of the pass in a hurry.

The old minister suggested that the trilateral commander Hong and the Xuanda governor Yang should be ordered to strictly guard the Great Wall Pass, and the responsibility should be handed down. ”

As soon as this remark came out, there was a real material, and there was a lot of discussion in the court, how could he think about it before and after, and went out of the class:

"Your Majesty, the old minister seconded the proposal, the Tartars and Jiannu have repeatedly entered the customs to burn, kill and loot, my Ming Dynasty has been ruined, and there are more than a million families who have been destroyed?

At this time, Dongnu has essentially fallen into the interior of the Ming Dynasty, if we can take advantage of the time when Dongnu is afraid of war, our army will boost morale and rely on the heavy passes to give it greater damage.

The Dongnu who has suffered heavy losses will be scared, and if he wants to break through and rob my Ming in the future, I am afraid that he will no longer have the guts! ”

Liu Zongzhou, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, who had just been reactivated, couldn't help but be enthusiastic when he listened to the performance of the two ministers, and he thought that seeing that Dongnu was about to become a climate, he should persuade the emperor to be far away from the villain, and go out of class:

"Your Majesty is too anxious to seek treatment, the usage is too strict, the order is too annoying, and the corporal is too light to advance and retreat. The ministers are afraid of sin and disguise wrongdoing, and refuse to do their job, so there are people but no one to use, there is a salary but no pay, there are generals who cannot govern the army, and there are soldiers who cannot kill thieves.

And the villain is more important than the villain every week, and the gentleman is different. Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a gentleman of villains, and there is no party compared to the gentleman of villains.

His Majesty sincerely wants to advance the gentleman and retreat the villain, and decide the opportunity to grow and disappear, and still use the Zhongguan to participate in the system, which is clearly indicated to favor the left and right. ……”

Liu Zongzhou has a great reputation, and he is called Erzhou along with Huang Daozhou, but in fact, these two people can only do learning, and in later generations, they are only suitable scholars who study party history and engage in theory.