The news of the great victory in the Northeast reached Beijing in September of the 13th year of Shenwu, and Zhu Hongsan was relieved after receiving the news of the victory in the Northeast. He knew that the Northeast would definitely win, and that he was much stronger than Russia in terms of numbers, weapons, logistics, and training, and that victory was inevitable.

But Zhu Hongsan knew that the Northeast could win, but the cabinet elders in the DPRK and China did not. The war in the Northeast dragged on for two years, and although the scale was not large, and there were only 5,000 people on the front line at the time of the largest number, the war in the Northeast cost no less than in other places.

Fujian has gathered tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of warships, but because Fujian is located in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, it is very convenient to supply, so the money spent is really not as much as in the northeast. On the other hand, looking at the Northeast, although the number of people is small, every bullet and shell needed at the front, a grain of rice eaten by the soldiers, and the cotton clothes they wear need to be transported from Nanjing, transported by sea to Terling at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and then turned into inland river ships before they can be transported to the hands of the soldiers.

This is still a developed water system in the northeast, which saves a lot of transportation capacity, if the northeast and the northwest are deserts, those elders in the court and the central government will definitely not agree to Zhu Hongsan's use of troops.

Thinking of the problem of money, Zhu Hongsan also has a headache, now that the Northeast problem is solved, Fujian is almost the same, Kinmen and Penghu have been captured, and the Zheng family is left with a mansion in Tainan to survive, if Zhu Hongsan doesn't want to kill too much, he would have already captured Tainan in one go, after all, the sailors of the Zheng family are what they need most.

Now that the northeast issue has been preliminarily resolved, Zhu Hongsan heard that Russia has also encountered problems in Europe, and Sweden, a Nordic powerhouse, and Russia are fighting hard, and it is estimated that Russia will not have time to look east at this time, and he can rest assured for a while.

The next step is to solve the Dzungar Mongolia in the northwest, after all, these guys are too powerful, and now they have occupied the entire Qinghai and Ningxia, and the east has passed the Hangai Mountain, and is about to hit Genghis Khan's hometown of the Difficult River, this place is a little south is the Mongolian Chahar Department, that is, the Inner Mongolia of the later generations, which is only less than 2,000 miles away from Beijing, and has actually threatened the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Hongsan resolutely cannot let the Dzungar Department develop.

However, Zhu Hongsan also knows his own problem, now that the Ming Dynasty has just ended the war, half of the population in the Central Plains has died, and the war has not stopped in the past two years. In the two years of the war in the Northeast, more than 2 million silver dollars were shared, and you must know that the Ming Dynasty only earned 40 or 50 million silver dollars a year, and 5 percent of the total annual income was spent in the Northeast.

The northwest and the northeast are not the same, the northeast is just a few thousand Russian old Maozi, and at the same time, Lao Maozi does not talk about any ethnic policies, and makes people angry and resentful in the northeast, so the ethnic minorities in the northeast do not have a good impression of Lao Maozi, and the public foundation is not solid. However, the Dzungars in the northwest are different, the Dzungars were originally a branch of the Mongols, but the Ming Dynasty became a foreigner, so the Ming army went to the northwest to quell the rebellion, which could easily arouse the disgust of the local Mongols.

Although the war in the northwest is complicated, Zhu Hongsan has already thought of a countermeasure, that is, to make full use of his lower body, oh no! Make full use of your personality charm and conquer your concubine Meng Guqing, this is the daughter of the Horqin Mongol Khan, if you make good use of it, you can let the Mongols fight the Mongols, you must know that Zhu Hongsan was a township cadre in his previous life, and what he is best at is to incite the masses to fight the masses.

Zhu Hongsan's idea had already taken shape in the twelfth year of Shenwu, but at that time the Northeast was playing lively, Zhu Hongsan knew that he said that he was going to Mongolia, and the ministers of the court would not allow it, but now the opportunity has come, and the Northeast has won. Zhu Hongsan could take advantage of the opportunity to go to the Northeast to reward meritorious soldiers and take a trip to the Horqin Grassland.

Therefore, Zhu Hongsan was very happy to receive the good news from the Northeast, and hurriedly asked the little eunuch to go to the cabinet to find the first assistant Feng for his own use, and discuss with him how to reward him.

After receiving the call of His Majesty, Feng Ziyong hurried over, and after seeing the emperor, he saluted like a ceremony, and then asked, "Your Majesty, may I ask what is the matter with the minister?" ”

Zhu Hongsan handed over the good news in his hand to the little eunuch, and then passed it to Feng Ziyong, and then said: "Mr. Feng, you see, this is the good news just sent by the Northeast, Duan Fei, this kid is very good, he won a big battle and captured more than 3,000 Russians!" ”

Feng Ziyong was relieved to hear the emperor say this, he has been mentally ill by the war in the Northeast in the past two years, as long as the emperor summons him, there must be no good thing, it must be that the Northeast is short of money. Now that Feng Ziyong heard that the war in the Northeast was finally over, a big stone naturally fell to the ground in his heart.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty on opening up the territory, Your Majesty's martial arts are comparable to the Qin Emperor and Han Wu!" This is not Feng Ziyong's sycophancy, Zhu Hongsan's military exploits are indeed comparable to the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, from Guangdong to the present more than 20 years, he has not lost a battle.

Zhu Hongsan laughed and said: "There, there, I can compare to Emperor Qin and Han Wu, and I am just a little stronger than Li Shimin!" ”

Feng Ziyong listened to Zhu Hongsan bragging about himself here, and he couldn't help but pout in his heart, he was a little better than Li Shimin? You are a faint gentleman who is stronger than Li Shimin except for his combat function, and he is not worthy of Li Shimin's shoes in the means of governing the country!

Zhu Hongsan didn't know that Feng Ziyong was belittling himself in his heart, and said with a smile: "Mr. Feng, you see that now that the Northeast has won the war, should the cabinet issue an order to reward meritorious soldiers?" The soldiers must not be allowed to shed blood and tears! ”

Feng Ziyong's face turned green when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, Duan Fei's subordinates were more than 5,000 people, plus the ethnic minority armed forces who helped, as well as the meritorious officials in charge of logistics and transportation in Jilin and Shenyang, there were tens of thousands of people, and it would take millions of silver dollars to be rewarded truthfully.

Feng Ziyong thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, you will naturally be rewarded for your meritorious service, but now that the treasury is empty, can you use land to compensate?" ”

Feng's self-use abacus is very good, and he doesn't have any money, but there is a lot of land in Northeast China and North China, and if he can't go to Henan and Shandong in the south, he is not ready to pay for it anyway.

Feng Ziyong thought that the emperor could be angry, but when he thought of the emperor, he thought about it and said: "Also, there have been frequent wars in the past few years, and the treasury is empty, so how about giving three times the land to the meritorious soldiers?" ”

Feng Ziyong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the emperor's agreement, as long as the emperor promised to give land, anyway, there was so much wasteland, and if he didn't reward people, he would have to abandon it.

"Since Your Majesty agrees, the minister will go down and arrange for the Ministry of Rites to prepare a reward!"

Feng Ziyong was about to bow down and retreat after speaking, he originally thought that the matter was over, but he didn't expect the emperor to stop him.

"Mr. Feng go slowly, you see that the soldiers in the Northeast have made great contributions, they are all my children, I want to go to the Northeast to see these meritorious soldiers, what do you say?"

Feng can also think about it, anyway, the emperor has already said that he will use the land to compensate for the silver dollar, and there is nothing wrong with the emperor going to see it. But Feng Ziyong kept an eye on it, the emperor you want to go out to play, but the treasury has no money.

"Your Majesty, now the country is in ruins, the war between Fujian and Nanyang is unresolved, and the treasury really has no money. But if His Majesty uses his internal funds, the minister will agree to His Majesty's going! ”

Zhu Hongsan hated Feng Ziyong when he heard this, these stinky old nine were just worried about their private money. However, Zhu Hongsan thought that this time he went to the Northeast to have a big matter, so he had no choice but to grit his teeth and say, "Okay, I will use my internal money this time!" ”

The emperor wants to spend his own money to travel, Feng Ziyong naturally has no opinion, and this matter is settled.

It is now September of the thirteenth year of Shenwu, Beijing has frozen, and the northeast is snowing heavily, so naturally you can't go to the northeast at this time. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan set off in March of the fourteenth year of Shenwu, which was the season of spring flowers.

The emperor is the head of a country, and the trip is naturally grand, although Zhu Hongsan is the founding monarch, which is different from Zhu Qizhen, who was arrested in the civil fort, but how can the emperor's prestige be missing.

Naturally, all the 30,000 Praetorian Guards were brought with them on this trip, and at the same time, two divisions were removed from the former military governor's mansion to escort them, so that the new army reached 60,000 in size, as well as the accompanying 10,000 Jinwei guards, plus the entourage of 7788, a total of 780,000 people, which was really vast.

Zhu Hongsan is going to the Northeast this time, but in fact, he is going to Horqin Mongolia, so the concubine Meng Guqing naturally wants to bring it, as for the big Yuer Bumu Butai, he is already in his fifties at this time, Zhu Hongsan is really not in the mood to play with an old lady who has been menopausal, so naturally he didn't bring it.

However, Meng Guqing is young, and now he is only twenty-four years old, which is the best period for a woman, so he is deeply loved by Zhu Hongsan. Meng Guqing accompanied her, and the child she gave birth to for Zhu Hongsan naturally had to follow, Meng Guqing gave birth to a son and a daughter for Zhu Hongsan in recent years, the eldest daughter is eight years old this year, and the son is six years old. Originally, Zhu Hongsan didn't want to bring it because the child was young, but Meng Guqing had to bring it, saying that he wanted the child to see his grandfather. Zhu Hongsan was entangled by Meng Guqing's two mouths, so he had no choice but to agree.

In addition to Meng Guqing's son and daughter, Zhu Hongsan also brought his eldest grandson Zhu Shengduo and the fourth eldest Zhu Yuan. As for Zhu Yuan, he completely wanted to find a reason to restore this unlucky son to the king, after all, Zhu Yuan has been very honest in the past two years, and he has studied in the mansion every day without going out.

The emperor wants to travel to Beijing and the government cannot be stopped, and the prince Zhu Hai is naturally the guardian of the country, the prince is thirty years old this year, he is in the prime of life, and the government is also handled in a timely manner, Zhu Hongsan is very relieved. So Zhu Hongsan made a holy decree before leaving, the prince of Beijing was in charge of the country, but everything was decided by the cabinet, and if the cabinet could not decide, it would be reported to God, and at the same time, Zhu Hongsan, the defense of the entire Beijing Division, was handed over to his brother-in-law Ma Rufeng.

After all the arrangements were made, Zhu Hongsan took his wife and young son and left Zhengyangmen at noon on March 15 to officially set off.

Zhu Hai knelt on the ground and saw his father's ceremonial drive slowly moving away, got up and said to the ministers behind him: "When my father goes out, the government will depend on the ministers in the future!" ”

Zhu Jiang, the king of Qin beside Zhu Hai, saw his brother's villainous appearance, and scolded in his heart: Boss, my father is gone this time, which is the beginning of your bad luck!