The so-called No. 3 person, whose identity is special, has always been the focus of the Supervision Section, and he was forced to put him under house arrest in order to prevent him from causing greater harm. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is precisely because of the special identity of the No. 3 person that Chen Wen does not know whether he will need to use this person's identity in the future, so although the house arrest is house arrest, the supervision department in charge of Zhang Jun never uses force, but only restricts his actions by means of intimidation and pacification, so as to prevent the spread of his identity and cause unnecessary harm.

Maybe it's really been a little too long, the No. 3 person can't bear it, repeatedly asks to see Chen Wen, and expresses his willingness to unconditionally obey all of Chen Wen's arrangements, and recently began to threaten suicide, and the people who supervise the Stroke are a little helpless, so they choose to report. However, Chen Wen believes that with his words, the big man should consciously and automatically calm down. Because compared to the Eternal Son of Heaven, Chen Wen has no reason to get rid of him.

This matter did not delay for any time, and Chen Wen returned to the inner courtyard. At this moment, the meal had been prepared, everyone had already attended, and even Chen Wen's two sons and daughters had come out to meet with these high-ranking people before returning to their mother to eat.

Chen Wen hurried back, and everyone tacitly agreed not to mention the matter of the Supervision Division. This is not only a tacit understanding between the monarch and the minister, but also a tacit understanding in terms of authority, and the work of the Supervision Department is to supervise and investigate whether internal officials and generals are involved in illegal acts, ranging from treason to misconduct, which are the targets of their attention. In the words of some officials, in addition to not having the right to interrogate on its own, the Supervision Department is Chen Wen's Jinyiwei.

After Chen Wen sat down, the food was also served continuously. Although it is in Nanjing, for a military and political group that has risen in Zhejiang, most of the high-level officials are Zhejiang people, and the difference is nothing more than the upper eight prefectures and the lower three prefectures, but when it comes to the next level of officials, there are officials from other provinces. However, since most of them are from Zhejiang, the dishes are all Zhejiang dishes, which is also a relief for them who have mostly worked in other provinces before.

"Will there be pressure on Guangdong's grain this year?"

At the end of last year, Chen Wen mobilized a large amount of materials to crack down on the Jiangnan gentry. Huguang was originally an important grain producing area, and with the recovery of Guangdong earlier, Shunde and other places in Guangdong also began to devote themselves to restoring the production and processing of cash crops, plus the Ming army in Guangxi and the Zheng family in Fujian also had varying degrees of grain demand, and the amount of grain in Guangdong was generally smaller than that of provinces outside Fujian. There is no doubt about the importance of grain, but in the case of a large number of eastward shipments from Huguang storage, once a natural disaster occurs in Guangdong and grain production is reduced, the life of the people of Guangdong will be sad.

Chen Wen asked this, and Guo Zhigang, the former governor of Guangdong, hurriedly put down his chopsticks and replied: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, there is no need to worry about Guangdong, grain can be transported from Annan, in fact, many Guangdong maritime merchants now buy grain from Annan, Guangdong is close to there, and the price is cheaper, but it is more appropriate than Chaohui to deal with Fujian." ”

Guo Zhigang mentioned this matter, and Chen Wen was also relieved. Guangdong is the core of southern Xinjiang, whether it is to support Guangxi, or to open up the South Seas in the future, is the best base, Chen Wen has been committed to resuming production since the recovery of Guangdong, in recent years, Guangdong has also recovered a little bit of meteorology, but the loss of population is difficult to recover in a short period of time, this wound can only be left to time to smooth out.

"By the way, when it comes to Annan, I remember that the Military Intelligence Department mentioned that Annan is now the North Mo Nanli, and the two dynasties are opposed, and the Mo Dynasty seems to be still a vassal of the imperial court?"

"That's right, in Annan, Li is strong and not weak, and the reason why the Mo Dynasty has been able to survive so far is because of the power of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Wen knew that both the Li Dynasty and the Mo Dynasty had sent people to Guangdong to order weapons, and that the military industry workshop of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies was moving to Ma'anshan at that time, and was still trying its best to restore and increase production capacity.

Li Dynasty and Mo Dynasty, Chen Wen remembered that the latter seemed to be almost wiped out by the former several times, and each time the king of the Mo Dynasty went straight to Zhennan Pass, the Ming Dynasty would put pressure on the Li Dynasty, and the Mo Dynasty was able to restore the country. The reason for this is that the envoy of the capital of Annam, Chen Wen read these records, and vaguely remembered that it seemed to be the same in the Qing Dynasty, or it was not until the rebellion of the three feudatories that the Mo Dynasty stood on the wrong side and supported Wu Sangui against the Qing Dynasty, and the Li Dynasty had the opportunity to end the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

"When the tartars are destroyed, sooner or later there will be a chance to get mixed in. Annan, hehe, is just a group of separatists, and sooner or later he will be asked to return to the bosom of China. ”

Those present here are all core officials of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming Army groups, and they know very well that if nothing happens, Chen Wen will launch a northern expedition this year. According to the past achievements, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are nothing, but the combat effectiveness of the new army in Shaanxi still makes many people worry to a certain extent.

"Annan's business hasn't been completed, it doesn't matter, Japan is waiting for our goods."

Chen Wen said with a smile, most of the people present were puzzled, but with Chen Wen's eloquent words, they quickly figured it out.

In fact, as early as receiving the news of the Qing army's annihilation of Korea, Chen Wen exported some ideas about the "Manchu threat theory" to Japan through Zheng Qi and Ono Ichiro. In this regard, the Satsuma and Choshu feudal domains in southwestern Japan expressed great support, believing that the existence of the Manchu Qing was a great threat to the entire "East Asian" civilized world, and demanded that troops be sent to attack Korea to weaken the Manchu Qing and cooperate with the Ming Dynasty from the flank.

However, the Tokugawa shogunate still maintained the same attitude as when the Lu Jian Dynasty and the Zheng clan went to Japan to beg for soldiers, strictly prohibiting the use of troops by the feudal domains, and if they were responsible, they would be punished. Even in the face of the fact that the Qing army and Japan were only separated by the Tsushima Strait, they repeatedly said that they would bless Japan with feudal superstitions, and their ostrich nature was exposed.

For Japan, Chen Wenwen is just an idle move, if Japan sends troops to Korea and cooperates with the weakening of the Manchu Qing, then it is naturally the best, if it is still closed to the country, he does not care.

However, I don't know if it was the occupation of the Goto archipelago by the detachment led by Zhao Qian last year that frightened the Japanese people of insight, or whether these people of insight believed that Chen Wen had the strength to support them, and expressed great dissatisfaction with the actions of the Tokugawa shogunate. One of the representatives, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the feudal lord of the Satsuma Domain of Japan, expressed his willingness to use the income from the Nagano Gold Mine and Ryukyu Cane Sugar to purchase the Ming Army's weapons and armor from the Military Industry Division Workshop of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Ming Army, and was willing to pay for the hiring of instructors of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Ming Army to train the army in the Satsuma Domain.

Chen Wen expressed great appreciation for such a person of insight who was worried about the country and the people, and gave an affirmative answer to the issue of trading in weapons and armor. Of course, in order to save the face of the Tokugawa shogunate, the two sides would make a deal in the Ryukyus. As for the training of the Satsuma Clan's army, it will be pressed for the time being, because Chen Wen is still not sure whether the Shimazu family is a true friend of the "Chinese people".

Chen Wen mentioned this, and Xu Yi, the chief director of the Military Industry Department, also hurriedly put down his chopsticks and assured Chen Wen that the Military Industry Department would definitely be able to complete the task as scheduled.

For Xu Yi's assurance, Chen Wen is still very confident. The industrialization process of the Ming Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang started with the military industry, and it was only now possible to establish a large number of state-owned and private workshops in Zhejiang by relying on the conversion of military to civilian use. Before the attack on the Jiangnan gentry, a large number of goods arrived in Suzhou, many of which were produced by workshops in Zhejiang, and such a large purchase volume once again stimulated the factory owners in Zhejiang, so there was a scene of Zhejiang factory owners, including Wanjia, landing in Susongchang Town.

Occupying half of the south of the Yangtze River, there are now a large number of mechanical workshops, and the productivity has been greatly improved.

Annan is like this, Japan is like this, in fact, he is also paying attention to Taiwan all the time. Of course, there were not only the Dutch who were blocked from trade, but also the presence of the Fujian Ming army.

"Over there in Fujian, I heard that the king of Yanping seems to have a very unpleasant quarrel with the local natives, and those natives also have the support of the Dutch, and it seems that he is going to attack the big-bellied kingdom from Dongning north a few days ago."

"Yes, the king, that potbelly kingdom is not so much a country as a federation of indigenous tribes. However, relying on their geographical advantages, they had defeated the Dutch several times in those years, and had also thwarted the offensive of the Yanping Domain not long ago. It's just that this time it can be regarded as provoking the king of Yanping County, and it is said that he will personally lead the troops to conscript. ”

Zheng Chenggong took Taiwan, at first in Tuntian, Tainan Region, and had several unpleasant quarrels with the potbelly kingdom. This pot-bellied kingdom has also surrendered to the Dutch before, and it is extremely normal to pull the Dutch to help this time, but Zheng Chenggong's army in Taiwan is much stronger than in history, and Chen Wen is not too worried about who wins and who loses.

Historically, after Zheng Chenggong expelled the Dutch from Tainan, he began to operate in Taiwan. However, Zheng Chenggong died of illness not long after arriving in Taiwan, and the business in Taiwan was mainly carried out when Zheng Jing was alive, and even Liu Guoxuan, the last general of the Zheng Group, rose from the withering Zheng army by suppressing the war of the big belly kingdom. Now the Zheng Group has not experienced that disintegration, Zheng Chenggong's generals are like clouds, and this time they probably know that the Dutch will not give up and will personally lead their troops to the expedition.

Zheng Chenggong sent troops to the Potbelly Kingdom, in fact, this is exactly what Chen Wen wants to see. After many years of preparation, it is nothing more than the need for a stable south to start the Northern Expedition. For the layout of the southwest, now the generals of Kuidong have separated from the two kings of the Xiying system, and the Yongli court is also sliding in the direction he expected, and now Zheng Chenggong is stuck in the quagmire of Taiwan, and the Fujian Ming army does not need to worry, and this year is also the best time for the Northern Expedition.

After the adjustment of the bureaucratic system was completed, the new departments and the old departments that had adjusted their functions also began to run in one after another. In this regard, Chen Wen completely handed over these things to his cronies and officials to take care of, while he focused more on Science magazine, Nanjing University Hall and the workshop of the Military Industry Department.

"Science and technology are the primary productive forces."

Chen Wen looked at the front page of the new issue of Di Bao and showed a satisfied smile. More importantly, the application of science and technology in the late Ming Dynasty made the scientific and technological level of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army control areas surpass the periphery, and open a greater gap with the major forces in all directions.

Nowadays, the production capacity of the Yongli court has only inherited a part of Sun Kewang's inheritance, Zheng Chenggong has to rely more on trade with Chen Wen, and although the Manchu Qing Dynasty has established a large hydraulic workshop in Tianjin, using the hydraulic resources of the Haihe River to speed up the production of weapons and equipment, it is only a pediatric compared to the steel and military-industrial combination of the Military Industry Department in Ma'anshan. Not to mention anything else, it didn't take long for Chen Wen to change the clothes of the more than 300,000 troops under his command, but it took a long time for the Manchus to change the clothes of the new army with a total of less than 100,000.

"Now it's all ready."

The Northern Expedition began, and a large number of goods that had been swept through Susongchang Town had been transported to the camp in Huainan, especially grain, cured meats and mushrooms, which were mostly used as military supplies. In terms of weapons and armor, they are used to change and replenish the equipment of the troops participating in the Northern Expedition, and the workshop of the Military Industry Department has also been prepared, and the difference is nothing more than the equipment of the local garrisons that are about to be formed in the newly occupied areas after the Northern Expedition, but now they are not in a hurry.

The training of the army is always carried out in an orderly manner, and according to the training plan, it can be completely completed by the summer. As long as there are no unexpected circumstances, it is not impossible to launch the Northern Expedition in the second half of the year and strive to completely eliminate the Manchus within half a year.

Of course, the Northern Expedition was not achieved overnight, and the established plan needed to wait until the army was thoroughly trained in the summer, and Chen Wen never thought of sending troops in advance because the surrounding environment was improving now. This might have been a better opportunity to fight the Manchu new army before it became more elite trained, but it would disrupt its own rhythm, which was not necessary for Chen Wen, who was now in an advantageous state.

A few days later, due to the marriage of Wang Yi's only daughter and Huang Zongxi's son, Chen Wen needed to go to Yuyao. Wang Yi's daughter's dowry, Wang Jiang's mother, Sun Yu's wife and Zhou Yueying have been prepared, and a beautiful wedding for the orphans of the martyrs is also a kind of remembrance of the martyrs.

On the eve of the upcoming departure, the ladies of these "mother's families" also got together, and you taught Wang Yi's daughter some knowledge that needs to be known as a wife.

Chen Wen was inconvenient to listen to this kind of scene, so he simply handled the rest of the official business in the study while replacing Zhou Yueying to teach his daughter's studies. But just when he was extremely bored and his mind flew to such an inexplicable thing as the burden of schoolwork, a personal soldier rushed over and sent a delicate greeting post.

"The people from the lower body fort came to visit, don't come to ask me to mediate the war of the generals, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with them."