In the inner palace, Chongzhen was sitting upright behind the dragon book case, as always, reviewing the folds, and the great eunuch Han Zan Zhou respectfully served beside him, or handed over the folds, or grinded.

Chongzhen worked intently, his brows sometimes furrowed and sometimes stretched. Han Zanzhou carefully observed his expression, secretly guessing Chongzhen's thoughts.

If the former eunuch Wang Chengen was here, he would know that Chongzhen's mood is much better now than in Beijing. And Han Zanzhou has been following Chongzhen for a short time, and he can't quite figure out Chongzhen's thoughts.

"Emperor, it's time to rest." Seeing that Chongzhen was already extremely tired, Han Zanzhou persuaded softly.

Chongzhen insisted on reviewing a notebook again, and then he threw down the red pen in his hand and stretched his waist for a long time.

"Emperor, do you want to pass the meal?" Han Zanzhou asked softly.

Chongzhen felt a little hungry in his belly, so he nodded.

So Han Zanzhou waved his hand, and soon a little eunuch brought a golden basin. In Chongzhen, he cleaned his hands in the golden basin, and several little eunuchs served the imperial meal.

I have to say that with the improvement of the imperial court's finances, Chongzhen's inner treasury has been filled a lot, which can be experienced by his daily imperial meals. A total of sixteen dishes, with meat and vegetarian combinations, can be regarded as echoing the identity of Emperor Chongzhen.

"Tell me, what's the situation in Yangzhou?" Chongzhen took a bite of the dish and asked casually.

At this time, it was the time for Han Zanzhou to report to Chongzhen on the movements of various places. At present, Chongzhen is most concerned about three points, one is the movement of the thieves in the north and the Manchu Tartars, then the war between the Sichuan official army and the thieves, and finally Yangzhou.

Although Yangzhou is peaceful at the moment, it has been in turmoil since Chen Yue took office, which has always affected Chongzhen's nerves, because Yangzhou is too close to Nanjing and too important.

Naturally, the Jinyi Guard is responsible for investigating the enemy situation in the north, and the local government and army will report the situation of bandits in Sichuan to the imperial court on time. It stands to reason that the situation in Yangzhou should be supervised by Jinyiwei, but Chongzhen knew the relationship between Jinyiwei and Chen Yue, and was not at ease with the information from Jinyiwei, so he specially ordered Han Zanzhou's East Factory to pay more attention.

"Back to the emperor, everything is stable in Yangzhou now, and the riots in the salt area have been quelled under the suppression of the Pingnan Army."

Han Zanzhou told the general situation of Yangzhou, and when he saw Chongzhen looking at him without blinking, he knew that Chongzhen wanted to know more.

"The Jiangbei Governor's Mansion War Training Department has recruited more than 20,000 recruits and is training in the new barracks in the north of Yangzhou, and Pingnan Marquis Chen Yue travels back and forth between the military training division workshop and the Governor's Mansion outside the city every day, and is extremely concerned about the production of ordnance armor and firearms.

Han Zanzhou told Chongzhen about Chen Yue's movements one by one, and most of Chen Yue's actions were under the surveillance of Dongchang!

"Hey, the War Training Department is in charge of recruit recruitment and training, the Ordnance Department is in charge of weapons and armor production, and what is the Staff Department and the Suppression Division, Chen Yue, this kid is doing a good job in Yangzhou, if other governors are also like this, how much heart should I save!"

Chongzhen sighed, but his tone was very calm, so that Han Zanzhou couldn't figure out whether it was praise or depreciation.

"Yes, Pingnanhou is young and promising, and he can be called the pillar of my Ming Dynasty." Han Zanzhou followed and said, although under Fang Mingxia's lobbying, he and Shi Kefa also formed an alliance to jointly deal with the forces surrounding Chen Yue, but on the premise of not knowing Chongzhen's attitude towards Chen Yue, he did not dare to slander easily.

"Yes, young and promising." Chongzhen followed, thinking that Chen Yue had his current status at the age of twenty, even Chongzhen was a little jealous.

It is true that he is young and promising, and it is true that he is bold and reckless, Chongzhen said secretly. However, in the end, Chen Yue's position in his heart is extremely heavy, and he is reluctant to say some things even to the eunuchs around him.

After all, although Chen Yue is bold and reckless, although he is domineering, he is loyal to himself and Daming, and he is much stronger than Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong and others. With Chen Yue guarding Jiangbei, Chongzhen can sleep peacefully in Nanjing.

"What else?" Chongzhen asked casually, but Han Zanzhou's face showed a moment of danger.

"Emperor, there is something I don't know whether to say or not." Han Zanzhou said hesitantly.

"Speak up if you have something to say!" Chongzhen glared at Han Zanzhou and said displeasedly.

"That is, it is very close between Jinyiwei and Pingnanhou." Han Zan gritted his teeth on Monday and said the words hidden in his heart, "Jinyi Wei Zhenfu envoy Liu Neng often travels back and forth between Nanjing and Yangzhou, and informs Pingnanhou of Nanjing's movements. ”

Han Zanzhou added fuel and vinegar to Chongzhen and Pan the results of Dongchang's surveillance of Jinyiwei, and told Chongzhen and Pan that according to the strategy offered by Fang Mingxia, Chen Yue is now too powerful to deal with it directly, so he can only cut his wings first and slowly try to figure it out. And Jin Yiwei and Chen Yue are too close, and no movement in the imperial court can escape Chen Yue's ears and eyes, so they have to think of removing Jin Yiwei from Chen Yue's side.

Jinyiwei was originally the minions of the Son of Heaven and the eyes and ears of the emperor, but now the main officials of Jinyiwei are all requisitioned from the Pingnan army, and they are very close to Chen Yue, and Chen Yue, as a local governor, can actually control Jinyiwei to do things for him, which is intolerable to Chongzhen, the emperor.

Han Zanzhou, as the great eunuch beside Chongzhen, naturally knew Chongzhen's thoughts, otherwise he would not have established the East Factory to balance Jinyiwei.

Sure enough, after listening to Han Zanzhou's words, Chongzhen's face was obviously gloomy.

He trusts Chen Yue, but he doesn't want to see Chen Yue's power too great, and even Jinyiwei can control it remotely.

"After passing the decree, Jinyiwei suppressed Liu Neng, behaved at a loss, and was extremely incompetent, dismissed his pacification envoy, reappointed Qianhu, and ordered him to go to Wuchang to urge the general of the thief Zuo Liangyu to conquer the thieves in Xiangyang."

After thinking carefully for a long time, Chongzhen spoke. After all, the Chen family father and son are loyal to themselves, and Chongzhen does not want to make Chen Yue's father and son cold because of trivial matters. Therefore, punish Liu Neng and drive him out of Nanjing, so as to achieve the goal of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger.

Han Zan Zhou was overjoyed when he heard this, Liu Neng was Chen Yue's absolute ironcore, and he was also the heavy general of Jinyiwei, if he was driven out of Nanjing, it would be very important for Dongchang to overwhelm Jinyiwei. And with Chongzhen's statement, Jin Yiwei did not dare to collude with the Jiangbei Governor's Mansion in the open. Without the manpower and material support of the Jiangbei Governor's Palace, Dongchang is sure to break his wrist with Jinyiwei.

"Your East Factory should be done quickly, there are so many things in Nanjing, the situation is so complicated, you can't let Jinyiwei do everything!" Chongzhen was dissatisfied with Han Zan's thoughtfulness.

Dongchang Jinyiwei is his two eyes and ears, and only by supervising and balancing each other can Chongzhen feel at ease. At present, the development of the East Factory is too slow, which makes Chongzhen a little dissatisfied.