Luo Rucai, who called himself Cao Cao, and his subordinate Ji Jue, of course, thought about it very carefully before surrendering, and thought about it before and after.

They calculated very well, thinking that they had wolves in front of them and tigers in front of them at this time, not to mention that the army had run out of food, and the situation was very dangerous, so they could choose to surrender the officers and troops first, and then survive this harsh winter, and one day find an opportunity to rebel again.

He could even take advantage of this opportunity to smoothly escape from the tight blockade of the officials and troops in the east and south, and escape to Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and even to the vast land of the lake.

As long as the generals and backbones under his command are still there, aren't minions and cannon fodder everywhere?

At that time, the rich places in the rear of the official army, such as the Central Plains, such as Jianghuai, such as Huguang, are not the sky high for birds to fly, and the sea is wide for fish to leap!?

However, Luo Rucai and Ji Jue never thought that their names had long been known to Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing is that including their temperament, as well as their "wonderful" performance in history, this Chongzhen Emperor is now clear.

In such a situation, all the plans they thought they had planned for the future were nothing more than a joke in the end.

Among the thieves in the northwest, the most resourceful and strategic figure is Luo Rucai, nicknamed Cao Cao.

For such a character, now that he has to agree to surrender by mistake, the current Emperor Chongzhen will definitely not let him continue to stay in the northwest, and he will definitely not give him the slightest chance to return to the mountains.

Therefore, it is also an appropriate arrangement to get him to the Beijing Division and put him in the Jinyi Guard Command and Envoy Department to take up a position that is neither high nor low.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to bother to transform him, and then reuse him, there was no need for this.

If he knows each other, he will honestly stay in the capital Sijiu City, willing to eat, drink and have fun, willing to have a group of wives and concubines, no problem.

But if he doesn't know each other, after he arrives in Jingshi, especially after he enters the Jinyi Guard, he can casually find a benefit to execute him.

And the reason why Emperor Chongzhen recognized the promise of King Wu Anbo's courtiers to Luo Rucai was just to keep this popular figure in the thief circle for future use.

For the northwest region, of course, the current Emperor Chongzhen will not be satisfied with just purging the land of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and will not be satisfied with just including Hexi into the territory.

He has his long-term thinking, he has his long-term plan.

When one day in the future, a large number of thieves from the northwest will go all the way west along the Hexi Corridor and turn the Western Regions upside down, this Luo Rucai may still be able to play a little role.

Because at that time, that is, when the thieves are no longer in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, why can't the Ming Dynasty cooperate with characters like Gao Yingxiang or Li Zicheng to hollow out the Western Regions?

It's just that these thoughts are still hidden in Emperor Chongzhen's heart, and they have never really confided in the close courtiers around him and the important ministers in the court.

Including Emperor Chongzhen's arrangement of Luo Rucai and others, it is also different from the consideration of Li Banghua, the Minister of Military Aircraft in the northwest, Sun Chengzong, the Minister of Military Aircraft, and Nan Juyi, the Minister of Military Aircraft in Beijing.

Figures like Li Banghua, Sun Chengzong, and Nan Juyi are already the top political elites of this era.

However, the thoughts of these people are almost the same as those court ministers who were in power in the Chongzhen Dynasty in history.

That is to use these surrendered thieves to exterminate other thieves, and use their strength to control thieves with thieves, so that they can eat each other dog-eat-dog and consume each other.

It's a pity that they didn't think that since someone like Luo Rucai dared to surrender to the government, they had calculated this routine of the ministers in the court.

As a result, after Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and others surrendered Xiong Wencan in history, the imperial court gave money and food, and also gave weapons, and they held back their strength, waiting for these thieves who were attached to fight those who did not belong to them.

But waiting and waiting, they didn't wait for the results they wanted.

When people like Luo Rucai have reaped the benefits, the team is almost rested, and they are about to be fooled, and then they continue to pull the flag and rebel.

Such things are real events in history.

Governors like Xiong Wencan and Yang Sichang were killed by pit and played to death in this way.

But this time, Luo Ru, who is the best at playing this kind of trick, played with fire and set himself on fire, and he took it off the first time and planted it on this.

Let's say that Sun Chengzong and Nan Juyi received the holy decree, although they were puzzled in their hearts, but they also saw Emperor Chongzhen's caution from this arrangement.

For them, the emperor was more cautious than they were, and this was certainly a good thing.

As the saying goes, it is not wrong for the emperor to be cautious and cautious.

On the morning of February 18 in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen carefully handled all matters concerning the report in the northwest.

Except for the disposition of Luo Rucai and his Cao Ying generals, Emperor Chongzhen did not fully adopt the suggestions of Li Banghua and others, and he listened to the request of Li Banghua and other ministers in the northwest on all other matters, accepted the opinions of Sun Chengzong and Nan Juyi, and basically set Chongzhen's four-year strategy for suppressing bandits in the northwest:

First, the Armament Institute was ordered to raise and mobilize gunpowder and projectiles in accordance with Li Banghua's request to transfer and supply the officers and troops in the northwest as soon as possible;

Second, after the ammunition supply of the officers and troops in the northwest was completed, Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft, launched a full-scale offensive against the thieves in the northwest as soon as possible, waiting for the opportunity to recapture Hezhou and Lanzhou;

Third, if the northwest thieves can be annihilated on the spot, they will be annihilated on the spot, and if they cannot be completely annihilated, then all the northwest thieves will be forced to continue to cross the river into the Hexi region, so that no one of the thieves will slip through the net and flee eastward.

In mid-February, Emperor Chongzhen led Sun Chengzong, Nan Juyi and other important ministers of the court, and roughly arranged the northwest affairs of Chongzhen for four years, and what remained was the deployment of combat materials by the military headquarters under the command of the Armament Institute, and the specific deployment of combat tasks by Li Banghua, Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengchou and others.

As for the specific operational arrangements on the front line, such as the Guards Army and the officers and armies of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and other routes, how they should be uniformly arranged and dispatched, Emperor Chongzhen could not control it, and he did not want to manage it.

At the same time, he did not allow the ministers and officials of the Military Aircraft Department and the Ministry of War to arbitrarily interfere in command.

Now that the situation in the northwest is steadily improving, he doesn't want to let the rogues who have been driven and oppressed to the northwest frontier with great difficulty break through the encirclement, pursuit, interception, and blockade line of the official army and return to the interior because of the carelessness of any one person.

Seeing that the last kick is coming, if Gao Yingxiang or Zhang Xianzhong really runs back, then all the previous efforts will be wasted.

It is said that after Emperor Chongzhen received the good news that the fourth town of the Guards had taken Lintao, he quickly dealt with all the urgent and difficult matters reported by Li Banghua and others, and saw that the situation in the northwest was evolving according to the strategy he had set at the beginning, and he felt very relieved in his heart.

However, what made him feel extremely relieved and even more pleased was that just after he had finished dealing with the good news in the northwest, when the envoy sent by the imperial court to the northwest to deliver the edict had just left Beijing, the naval governor's mansion in the city of Tianjin also sent a good news.

This good news was signed by Zhang Keda, the Governor of the Left Governor of the Navy Governor's Office, and was jointly signed by Liang Tingdong, the left protector of the Zhili Governor's Office and the Navy Governor's Office, and Shen Tingyang, the Tianjin Governor and Tianjin Bingbei Dao.

In addition to all kinds of ceremonial and regulated eulogies, the core content of the recital jointly presented by these people is very concise and clear:

"The Dutch plywood warship, which was ordered to be built by the Navy Governor's Office and copied by the Tianjin Dagu Shipyard, returned from sea trials on 20 February, lasted 100 days, and returned to Hong Kong smoothly. The ministers judged it to be sturdy and of good performance, and compared to the Gallion purchased from the Netherlands, and they thought it could be approved for service. Dare to ask His Majesty to give it a name and a clear belonging! ”

It took more than a year for the Tianjin Shipyard to finally complete the new type of plywood warship that was copied from the Dutch East India Company in Batavia at a high cost according to the ratio of one to one.