Outside Fujing City, more than 300,000 Yangzhou soldiers and civilians set up camp along the bank of the Minjiang River, stretching for several miles.

After Wang Yan's return, the soldiers and civilians barely regained their morale, and a group of soldiers patrolled the camp, making the 300,000 people stationed in an orderly place, while on the banks of the Minjiang River, children were playing by the water, while adults washed the clothes of each family, removed dust, and rested.

After the Yangzhou military and civilians went out of Hangzhou, they ran all the way, never stopped, and now Longwu ascended the throne in Fujing, Wang Yan was busy with the affairs of the court and China, giving advice to the emperor, and they were also stationed outside Fujing, occupying the time.

Wang Yan rode a horse, escorted by several cavalrymen, rushed back to the barracks, and saw that on the bank of the river, the people were freed from the fatigue of running for days, a smile appeared on their faces, some playful words appeared in their mouths, and their expressions couldn't help but ease slightly, as if they had forgotten the unsatisfactory situation in the court and their worries about the situation.

"The Northern Expedition is blocked, since we can't recover the rivers and mountains and save the remnants, then let's make 300,000 people follow them first and settle down!" Wang Yan stood by the Ma River, sighed in his heart, and then waved his horsewhip, surrounded by cavalry, and entered the camp.

Now Wang Yanjue is the Marquis of Zhongyong, and his official residence is the governor of Guangdong, and his subordinates should need a group of staff to help him deal with affairs, but since Yangzhou, he has been adrift all the way, but he has no opportunity to subdue a group of reliable and capable talents.

Because there was no one to help deal with it, and Wang Yan's energy was limited, the backlog of affairs became more and more, making him a little tired and exhausted.

When Wang Yan returned to the barracks from the city, he sat in the tent to deal with many affairs, and he had to approve and check the clothes, food, grass, equipment, and silver money of the soldiers and civilians.

Unconsciously, it was completely dark, but since Wang Yan returned to the camp, he had not been able to leave the table, and the documents and accounts that had been approved and processed were already more than a foot high.

When the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou left Hangzhou, Ma Shiying allocated 100,000 stone of rice and grain, but now there is very little, and it will be exhausted in four or five days, and the cotton armor on the soldiers' bodies is also completely useless in the land of Tiannan, and the cloth armor and armor needed are not available, and everything makes him have a headache.

For a while, Wang Yan couldn't help but press his head acupoints with his hands to relieve fatigue, but at this time, Xu Yanyan suddenly lifted the curtain and walked in with an urn of hot soup.

"Brother Wang." Xu Yanyan put the soup in front of Wang Yan and said: "You have been worried about state affairs these days, and you haven't even eaten dinner when you return to the camp today, just when the people caught a fresh fish from the Minjiang River, and wanted to present it to Brother Wang, Yan Yan cooked it herself and brought it to you, you should rest and rest, try it, don't get tired of your body!" ”

Xu Yanyan said while serving soup for Wang Yan, and Wang Yan found out that the food sent by the soldiers before had already been cold, and he was busy for a whole afternoon.

"That's good!" Wang Yan took the fish soup and said with a smile: "Let's try Yan Yan's craftsmanship today." ”

Wang Yan took a sip and found that the soup was very delicious and sweet, so he drank it in a big gulp.

Seeing this, Xu Yanyan said distressedly: "Brother Wang should take care of his body, if he is exhausted, the court will lose important ministers, and 300,000 soldiers and civilians will lose their support, but it will not benefit the country or the people in the slightest!" ”

"Yan Yan is a good craft, I haven't drunk such a delicious fish soup for a long time." After Wang Yan drank a bowl of fish soup, he first praised it, then put down the soup bowl and sighed: "Yan Yan doesn't know, it's not that I don't want to rest, it's that the affairs are complicated, and I have to deal with them." Your Majesty needs my advice to consolidate the situation of the court, and the daily consumption of the 30 soldiers and civilians, the way out in the future, also needs me to worry about it, and there is really no time to spare! ”

While listening, Xu Yanyan picked up the soup bowl again, filled it for Wang Yan again, and handed it to him: "There are many trivial things, but Brother Wang doesn't have to do it himself, just leave it to his subordinates!" ”

Wang Yan took the soup bowl, took another sip, and then said: "I also know about this, but there is a shortage of talents in the battalion, and many vacancies have not been filled. I want to recruit a group of staff, but money, food, and military intelligence are important matters, and people who are not confidants can't trust each other, but they can't just recruit people to deal with things, and loyal and reliable people can't find them for a while, so they can only deal with them personally! ”

"In this way, won't Brother Wang have to work hard for a long time? If you work hard like this, your body will be overwhelmed! When Xu Yanyan heard this, her brows furrowed slightly, and then she said, "Brother Wang, can Yanyan take a look at these accounts?" ”

"In fact, it won't take much time, and when the situation between the DPRK and China stabilizes a little, I will personally recruit some talents to help deal with some camp affairs, so it won't be as hard as it is at this time!" Wang Yan nodded and said, "Yan Yan can watch it if she wants to!" ”

At that moment, Xu Yanyan picked up an account and looked at it, and when Wang Yan finished drinking the fish soup in her hand again, Xu Yanyan also looked away from the account and said to Wang Yan: "Brother Wang, if these affairs are as many as this account, maybe Yanyan can help a little!" ”

Xu Yanyan came from a scholarly family, an official family, received some education since she was a child, and was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but Wang Yan didn't know that she was also proficient in accounts, and she was surprised at the moment, and hurriedly put down the soup bowl in her hand, took the account book in Xu Yanyan's hand, and said in surprise after looking through a few times: "Yanyan still understands these?" ”

"Before my father was transferred to the Ministry of Officials, he worked in the household department, and often handled some affairs at home. Xu Yanyan recalled: "In order to share her father's worries, Yanyan also taught herself "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", and even the "Geometric Original" translated by Xu Gelao and Western Ruli Ricci has been looking for a long time. ”

When Wang Yan heard Xu Yanyan's words, he recalled Beizhili, the corpse swaying in the wind outside the dilapidated small village, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of kinship in his heart, but he saw that Xu Yanyan could calmly tell these past events, and mentioned his father Xu Zhi, and put his heart at ease, it seems that after nearly two years, Xu Yanyan finally came out of that tragedy.

Wang Yan didn't want to mention Xu Zhi too much, so he stood up, asked Xu Yanyan to sit in front of his handsome case, took out an account and put it away, and said, "Yanyan, look at how much money these things cost, can I make a mistake in my calculation?" ”

At that moment, Xu Yanyan looked through and calculated, Wang Yan stood aside and watched, but found that the things that were difficult for him to calculate were quickly solved in Xu Yanyan's hands, and the method she used, Wang Yan couldn't understand it.

"There is a specialization in the art industry!" For a while, Wang Yan sighed in his heart, most of his education was Confucian classics, and he rarely dabbled in arithmetic and other miscellaneous studies. If you don't know arithmetic, you won't even be able to read accounts, you won't be able to manage rivers, you won't be able to govern agriculture, and you'll not be able to make the people under your rule rich.

In this way, the Taizhou school, which advocates the study of mind, is more suitable than the traditional science, and the current situation can train more officials who are proficient in various political affairs.

"Brother Wang!" Just when Wang Yan was moved, Xu Yanyan had already finished reading the accounts and said to him: "There is basically no mistake in the above calculation, only 350,000 taels of silver, Yu Fujing can not buy much rice grain, if it is more cost-effective, Brother Wang can let the fleet sail to Quanzhou to buy enough." ”

Wang Yan heard his words, retracted his senses, thought about it slightly, and already understood what Xu Yanyan meant, Fuzhou is now changed to Fujing, becoming the temporary capital of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of soldiers and civilians poured into Fujing, Wang Yan alone brought 300,000 people, the daily consumption is immeasurable, which will inevitably make the price of Fujing soar, and Quanzhou is a large port in the southeast, with abundant materials, so it is naturally relatively cheaper.

"I can't imagine that Yan Yan is more familiar with these matters than me, so I will have to let you work a lot in the future!" Wang Yan smiled slightly.

Hearing this, Xu Yanyan was overjoyed, and said softly: "Yanyan can share the worries of Brother Wang, it's too late to be happy, where will you feel tired." ””

Wang Yan is now in a high position and has become a pivotal figure in the court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but Xu Yanyan is just a first-class little woman, she stayed by Wang Yan's side, seeing Wang Yan running around every day, she felt distressed, but she couldn't help anything, she was once very ashamed of herself, and felt that she was useless, but today she found that she could do something for Wang Yan, and her heart was naturally happy.

At the moment, with the help of Xu Yanyan, Wang Yan quickly completed the backlog of affairs in recent days, and some small matters were basically handed over to Xu Yanyan to deal with, and he concentrated on thinking about major matters in the DPRK and China.

Before dawn the next day, Wang Yan used the breakfast sent by Xu Yanyan, so he left her in the tent to continue to deal with some trivial matters in the camp, while he stepped on the war horse again, surrounded by guards, and entered the city to participate in the early dynasty.

In the main hall of the palace, Emperor Longwu sits on the big treasure, and on both sides of the hall, there are forty or fifty civil and military ministers.

Emperor Longwu issued an order yesterday to crown Zheng Zhilong as the Duke of Pingguo, and today in the early dynasty, Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Cai were again crowned as marquises, and ordered the two to lead troops to garrison abroad.

Zheng Zhilong saw that the emperor had rewarded the Zheng family one after another, and he was arrogant, thinking that this was because the imperial court was afraid of the Zheng family's power in Fujian and had to rely on the Zheng family, so he made a compromise, so he did not doubt him.

After the early dynasty, Emperor Longwu ordered the inner servant to recruit Zheng Sen to see him, gave the country the surname Zhu, changed his name to success, made the earl, and added him as the left governor of the Imperial Forest Army to protect the palace.

Zheng Sen was born from a prison supervisor of a country, and became an important minister of the imperial court in one fell swoop, and was immediately grateful for the reward of Emperor Longwu, and then swore an oath, "Loyal to the monarch and serve the country, you will return to the Ming Dynasty rivers and mountains!" ”

Zheng Zhilong saw that the emperor handed over all the palace guards to Zheng Sen, which was equivalent to the emperor handing over his life to the Zheng family, and his heart was immediately overjoyed, and he let Zheng Sen select 5,000 elites from Zheng's private soldiers, and allocated countless money, food and equipment to help him form an army, so as to control the palace city and control the emperor.

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