Fang Yuan stayed in Yangzhou Mansion for ten days, and after the military and political affairs were properly handled, he led the army back to Suzhou Mansion.

For Yongwang Zhu Cizhi, Fang Yuan still had a love for licking calves, forgave him for his crimes, and did not report it to the court, but also strictly ordered all the officials involved in the case not to publicize the matter to the outside world.

When Fang Yuan returned to Suzhou Mansion, he brought Zhu Cizhi and Qiu'er back to Suzhou Mansion together.

After he returned to Suzhou Mansion, he continued to expand the Canglang Pavilion, and requisitioned ten acres of private houses outside the Canglang Pavilion, rebuilt a new Yongwang Mansion, and housed Yongwang and Qiu'er.

There is another important reason why Fang Yuan treated Zhu Cizhi lightly, and even stayed by his side to teach him personally. The so-called game of chess, one breath of death and two breaths of life, only Zhu Cihuan has a son in hand, if there is a slight mistake, there will be no bargaining chips against Queen Zhou and the prince. If there is one more Zhu Cizhi, you can be more comfortable and have one more way to retreat.

As for whether Qiu'er would continue to fornicate with Queen Zhou, Fang Yuan was actually a hundred reassuring.

The legendary beauty trick is simply to make up politics as nonsense to win attention. Because there is no restraint of powerful relationships, any beauty with a normal IQ will adjust her position at any time according to her own interests.

lent Gou Jian a guts, and didn't dare to tell Xi Shi and Zheng Dan to go to Wu and then secretly communicate with Yueguo. Because Xi Shi and Zheng Dan became the concubines of King Wu, and even after becoming pregnant with King Wu's flesh and blood, they may sell the Gou Jian plan at any time.

lent Wang Yun a gut, and didn't dare to tell Diao Chan to seduce Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu and make them kill each other. Because Diao Chan followed Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, he might betray Wang Yun's plan at any time.

It's still the same old saying, only the sage book talks about loyalty and treachery, and the reality is about profit. It is impossible for any mature politician to pin his own interests and even the safety of the entire group on whether a woman is loyal or not.

Qiu'er is also a truth, following King Yong to enjoy endless glory and wealth, how could she go to fornicate with Queen Zhou and find a way to die. Empress Zhou sent Qiu'er to Jiangnan, not to arrange an undercover agent next to Zhu Cizhi, but to give Zhu Cizhi the notoriety of fornicating with a palace maid, which can encourage Zhu Cizhi to have greater ambitions, which is the best.

After Fang Yuan returned to Suzhou Prefecture, he went to inspect the Changshu Military Factory, where a new type of breech-loading rifled gun had been successfully developed.

Fang Yuan tried the gun in the military factory, and the effective killing range could reach 50 zhang meters, both the accuracy and the firing range far exceeded the previous Thunderbolt Firebolt.

This breech-loading rifled gun is already the most powerful musket in the world in this era, and it is also a cutting-edge weapon before the Xinhai Revolution.

Fang Yuan gave this kind of rear-loading gun a unique name for the Xuanjia Army, Xuanjia Divine Gun.

Although the shape of the bullet used for the Xuanjia Divine Gun is not as fine as the bullet before the crossing, and the shell is slightly rough, it is an epoch-making progress.

The production cost of each Xuanjia Shengong is 15 taels of silver/branch, and the output is 500 pieces/month; The production cost of bullets is 3 rounds / two silver, and the output can reach 3000 rounds / month. There are 1,000 Xuanjia Divine Guns that have been produced, and 6,000 bullets are produced, and the cost alone is close to 20,000 taels of silver.

No matter before or after the crossing, as soon as the cannon sounds, there are 10,000 taels of gold, and fighting is money, which is not false at all.

Such a precious Xuanjia Divine Weapon, as well as bullets, is of course equipped with the most powerful Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and it is also a thousand elite Iron Cavalry that has been on the battlefield for a long time.

The metallurgical and casting technology of the military factory has also made a certain breakthrough, and it has been able to produce stainless steel pipes suitable for artillery, whether it is Hongyi cannon or medium-sized artillery, it has achieved self-production, and the output of artillery has reached 2 Hongyi cannons / month and 15 medium guns / month.

A month later, Cohen of the Dutch East India Company also brought a hundred shipbuilders from the Rotterdam shipyard in Europe to fulfill the contract.

A hundred shipbuilders will have to pay 100,000 taels of silver according to the agreement. In order to prevent the Dutch from being shoddy, Fang Yuan paid the first payment of 20,000 taels of silver in advance, and the rest of the silver was paid in three installments according to the ability level of these craftsmen.

These 100 shipbuilders in the Netherlands were experts that Fang Yuan had bought with a lot of money, and they were immediately brought to the naval base, and Jing Jie was instructed to arrange accommodation for these craftsmen in a dormitory for two people, and each of them enjoyed the salary of the general flag.

Fang Yuan recruited Shi Lang, the commander of the sailors, and even adopted Shi Lang's suggestion, and divided these Dutch craftsmen into 10 groups according to different shipbuilding techniques, and the staffing of each group was mainly 10 Dutch craftsmen, 50 Ming shipbuilding craftsmen requisitioned from Nanjing Shipyard, and 100 carpentry craftsmen who were proficient in carpentry.

The purpose of this arrangement is to let the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty learn from these Dutch shipbuilders and train a large number of local shipbuilders of the Ming Dynasty, which can not only realize the localization of shipbuilding, but also avoid being subject to foreigners.

After these shipbuilders were properly settled, it was late October of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and the newly planted hybrid rice in August, the harvest season would also begin. Because this is the first time that hybrid rice has been promoted in Suzhou Prefecture, whether it is Fang Yuan, Suzhou government officials, and even county magistrates, all eyes are on the yield per mu harvested this winter.

At this critical juncture, Fang Yuan suddenly received an urgent report of eight hundred miles from the capital, which was an urgent military information sent by Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, at least 50,000 troops invaded again, and had surrounded the only stronghold of the Ming Dynasty outside the pass - Ningyuan City.

According to Wu Sangui, who was guarding Ningyuan City, he immediately sent a police message to Gyeonggi that after Chongzhen was invaded by Huang Taiji, he immediately summoned Fang Yuan to Beijing to discuss the matter of resisting the Qing Dynasty.

Fang Yuan immediately summoned Jing Jie and other generals of the Xuanjia Army to discuss how to resist Huang Taiji's invasion this time.

Jing Jie was the first to speak, "The Manchu Qing Dynasty just lost more than 10,000 elites in Shandong this year, and sent 50,000 troops to besiege Ningyuan City. ”

Chigutai obviously tasted the sweetness from the last time he fought against the Manchu Tartars in Shandong, and was full of confidence in facing the Manchu iron cavalry, "The cavalry battalion has been trained to have 8,000 cavalry capable of field battles, 20,000 war horses, 1,000 newly developed firearms, and the elite of the Xuanjia iron cavalry has been able to use it skillfully, and we can go north to give the Manchus a head-on blow." ”

Chigutai started with military merits, and if there is a war, his prestige will be higher, and his interests will be more stable, and he hopes to go north to fight against the Manchu Tartars.

Fang Yuan had his own thoughts, according to history, at this time, Huang Taiji should have died. Since Huang Taiji is still alive, it proves that Fang Yuan's previous victory in Shandong has affected the course of history.

In other words, the historical Huang Taiji should not have died normally, otherwise he would not have continued his life because of the victory in Shandong. It seems that Huang Taiji is indeed like the rumor of the Manchu secret history, and he died in the murder of Dorgon. After the victory in Shandong, it aroused Huang Taiji's suspicion of Dolgon, but it extended Huang Taiji's life.

According to common sense, even if Huang Taiji does not die, he should also rectify the internal affairs of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and bring the army to Ningyuan City to do something?

Seeing that he was noncommittal about Chigutai's suggestion to go on an expedition, Jing Jie asked, "Boss, what strategy should we adopt this time?" ”

Fang Yuan looked around and asked, "Before deciding on our strategy, we must first figure out what is the strategic purpose of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's siege of Ningyuan City this time?" ”

Jing Jie said, "Besieging Ningyuan City is still the old way of the Battle of Songjin, let's encircle and send reinforcements!" ”

Fang Yuan shook his head and said, "Since the defeat of Songjin in the Ming Dynasty, when they saw the Manchu Iron Cavalry, they were as afraid as tigers, where did they dare to go out of the customs to fight in the field?" If the purpose of Huang Taiji's mobilization is to encircle the point and send reinforcements, he will definitely be disappointed. ”

Jing Jie said again, "Could it be that Huang Taiji really wants to capture Ningyuan Jiancheng, clear the last stronghold of the Ming Dynasty outside the pass, and prepare to attack Shanhaiguan to enter the customs?" ”

The Manchu Qing Dynasty wanted to enter the customs, and Shanhaiguan was not the only way. The Jimen defense line of the Ming Dynasty has been beaten into a sieve, and every time the Manchu Qing Dynasty enters the customs, it is the Jimen defense line. In history, Dolgon's battle in the Central Plains was originally intended to enter the gate from Jimen. If Li Zicheng's army hadn't gone to attack Shanhaiguan, and Wu Sangui sent people to rescue troops to Dolgon, Dolgon would not have entered Shanhaiguan.

The entire Guanning defense line is actually a decoration built at a great cost, not so much to resist the invasion of the Manchus from Shanhaiguan, but to be a cash cow for the Guanning warlord group to embezzle the Ming Dynasty's finances. The Guanning warlord clique brags about the importance of the Guanning defense line to the Ming Dynasty, which is to confuse the public, and the real purpose is to cheat the silver from Chongzhen.

With this so-called defense line against the Manchus, the Guanning warlord group can naturally support their own troops, and as a matter of course, they will retreat in the city and not go out to fight in the field, and they will naturally squeeze out four or five million taels of silver from the Ming Dynasty every year, and finally when all lies are exposed, they will surrender to the Manchus as a matter of course.

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice, "In order to break through the Guanning defense line, first gnaw the hard bones Ningyuan City, and then attack the first Guanshan Pass in the world, it is simply a strategic failure, where can Huang Taiji be so stupid?!" ”

At this time, Jing Jie really didn't know Fang Yuan's thoughts, and asked in amazement, "Boss, what do you think?" ”

Fang Yuan stared at the map outside Shanhaiguan and said word by word, "I estimate that the siege of Ningyuan is fake, and seeking peace by war is true!" Huang Taiji, I want to talk about peace! ”