Gao Junshan asked: "After Zhu Youzhen's death, Zhu Youxiang established the Southern Ming Dynasty in Jinling, what do you think about this?" ”

Cai Zhishan said: "King Qin, Zhu Youxiang is not afraid. Although he established the Southern Ming Dynasty in Jinling, he was a mediocre and decadent monarch, nominally an emperor, but he never paid attention to the government and politics, only indulged in wine, entrusted the power to Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng and other eunuchs, and also excluded the Donglin Party led by Shi Kefa. If they continue to make trouble like this, they will surely make trouble for themselves. ”

Gao Junshan asked: "Do you advocate the use of troops to the south?" ”

Cai Zhishan said: "Now that we are marching into the army, we will definitely make the scattered government of the Southern Ming Dynasty converge and jointly deal with us, and will encourage the people of Jiangnan to be our enemies." Although Jiangnan is rich, it cannot withstand the devastation of war. Our north has been in war for many years, the people have been displaced, and there are many homeless people, if Jiangnan is not spared, it will be a great misfortune for our nation. ”

Gao Junshan agreed: "What Bolan said is extremely true. If we relax our military action against Nanming, they will relax their vigilance, and Zhu Youxiang will be incompetent and incompetent, allowing the traitorous ministers to deceive me and fight for power and profit, and in the end this court will definitely break itself. ”

Cai Zhishan said: "The current situation is very favorable to us, because the King of Qin implemented a relaxed policy on Jiangnan merchants, there are merchant ships from Jiangnan along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and some bold merchants have also developed their business to the capital. Through the exchanges of merchants, the people of Jiangnan can understand us more and win the support of the people for us, so that the Southern Ming Dynasty has no meaning of existence. ”

Gao Junshan was very happy, he didn't expect that this Cai Zhishan's idea was secretly in line with himself, and he was worthy of being a talent he had cultivated for many years, and he was relieved to hand over the Military and Political Yuan to him to manage Gao Junshan.

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Since Han Yuyan returned to her mother's house, Su Yena is the only one in charge of the harem, and she has to worry about the affairs of the harem, although there are no eunuchs in the palace, but there are still a lot of maids and slaves, plus the cooks in the imperial dining room, as well as miscellaneous servants, the entire harem is also in charge of hundreds of people.

Qibao and Eighth Sister are already one year old and nine months old, and now their mothers are gone, living with their wet nurses and living in the Qianqing Palace, Su Yena and Gao Guiying will tease them every day for a while.

Qibao is the second son of Jiya, who was assigned by Gao Junshan to go to Mongolia to assist the High Oasis, the Great Khan of Pozhit, to restore the former majesty of the Mongol emperor, and put Qibao in the palace for the nurse to bring. With so many people in the palace teasing him, he didn't feel lonely at all.

Sometimes Gao Junshan went to see him, he saw his father's kind face, always shouted excitedly, and immediately threw himself into Gao Junshan's arms to be coquettish, when Gao Junshan was about to leave, he was reluctant to part, so that Gao Junshan burst into tears every time he saw Qibao.

The eighth sister grew up to be a little princess at a young age, and when she played with Qibao, she didn't give in everywhere, and every time she made Qibao cry, it ended up.

She is Han Yuyan's fourth child, and she has three older brothers: Erbao, Sanbao, and Liubao.

Han Yuyan left the Qianqing Palace and went back to her parents' house, she didn't care at all, she ate, slept, and played, in short, everything was as usual, Gao Junshan came to see her, she was not as excited as Qibao, and often told Qibao in front of Gao Junshan, saying that Qibao always cried. Gao Guiying likes the eighth sister very much, and especially admires her domineering appearance, Gao Junshan said that the image of the domineering princess is for Gao Guiying to appreciate, of course, this is a joke.

Su Ye Na was busy in the Qianqing Palace during the day, and returned to her palace in the evening, Jiaotai Palace.

Since the harem moved to the capital, Gao Junshan returned to sleep with the ladies of the harem, and only during the day did he review the recitals in the Wenhua Palace, so he slept in Su Yena's Jiaotai Palace these days.

The next day, Gao Junshan got up late, Su Ye Na asked the maid to bring breakfast to Gao Jun Mountain, Su Ye Na personally watched Gao Jun Shan finish breakfast, and then sent him to the Chinese Palace.

When he arrived at the Huawen Palace, Gao Junshan came to the Chuanxin Hall to summon Liu Lishun.

As soon as he saw Liu Lishun, Gao Junshan asked: "You once mentioned in your letter to Gu that Ni Yuanlu, the right attendant of the Ming Court's military department, has been in Kyoto for two months, why don't you mention this person to Gu?" ”

Liu Lishun said: "Back to King Qin, during the time you entered Beijing, Ni Yuanlu fell ill in bed, and now his condition is getting worse and worse, and he is not getting better, so the subordinates have not mentioned his affairs to you." ”

Gao Junshan said sympathetically: "You go and greet him for Gu, I hope his illness will improve soon, and come out to do something for Gu." ”

"Your Majesty obeys!"

Gao Junshan asked: "In the area controlled by our army, what is the situation of the scholars, bureaucrats, local tyrants, merchants, and civil and military surrenders there?" ”

Liu Lishun said: "Back to the King of Qin, after our army completely defeated the Donglu (Jurchen Tartars), scholars, bureaucrats, local tyrants, merchants, and civil and military generals from all over the country have asked to participate in the affairs of our dynasty, and we are registering and screening them. The enthusiasm of these people is very high. ”

"Are there any different voices?" Gao Junshan raised his concerns.

"It's that everyone has a certain opinion about Jin Shang."

"What do you think?"

Liu Lishun replied: "Especially the eight Jin merchants, they say that they are traitors and specialize in serving the Dongyu. ”

Gao Junshan said: "It is said that there are traitors in the eight Jin merchants who agree, and even that most of them are traitors and orphans, but it is debatable to say that they are all traitors." Huang Yunfa is one of the eight Jin merchants, he is not a traitor, he has made great contributions to us. ”

Liu Lishun said: "Yes, I am also very clear about this. ”

Gao Junshan suggested: "That's it, who is a traitor, who is not a traitor, you look for Jinfu to discuss, he is now the left servant of the Ministry of Commerce, you can discuss it and then show the list to Lone, these business traitors must not be spared, they must be confiscated all over the house, it just so happens that we are also in urgent need of silver, kill a few more of them, and let them make some contributions to the treasury." ”

Liu Li said: "Obey the order!" ”

Gao Junshan asked again: "What is the situation of the champions of the imperial examination in the past few years?" ”

Liu Lishun replied: "Back to the King of Qin, the champions after me are Liu Tongsheng for ten years, Wei Zaode for thirteen years, and Yang Tingjian for sixteen years. Liu Tongsheng is a native of Jishui County, Ji'an Prefecture, and resisted because Yang Sichang 'seized love' into the cabinet, lashed Yang Sichang, angered Zhu Youzhen, was demoted, and had returned to his hometown due to illness. ”

Gao Junshan said: "You send someone to find out, and if you find Liu Tongsheng, immediately invite him to come to the capital." ”

"Yes!"

"What else?" Gao Junshan then asked.

"Wei Zaode is a native of Shuntian Tongzhou, good at rhetoric, eloquent, and deeply familiar with Zhu Youzhen's strategy, so he can always cater to his thoughts. In the end, Zhu Youzhen was worshiped as the first assistant of the cabinet. ”

"Where is he now?" Gao Junshan hurriedly asked.