Su Maozhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, stood up at this time, and the audience was silent, His Majesty just intended to improve the status of these high-ranking civil officials, so that Su Maozhen was very useful in his heart, you must know that although he is the secretary of the Criminal Department, the Criminal Department has relatively little weight among the six departments, so he has not been able to enjoy the dignity that senior civil officials should have in front of middle and lower-level officials. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Now, as soon as Zhu Youxiao said this, his voice couldn't help but be louder: "Your Majesty, the Criminal Department currently has a total of 1,454 felons, of which more than 50 people are executed, one is Ling Chi, and more than 40 people are appointed officials of the imperial court, and the heavy punishment is heavier than the six years of the Apocalypse, but now it is an eventful season, and only by re-enforcing the code can the world be governed, Your Majesty should continue to rule the world strictly!" ”

"What Su Shangshu said is very true, I should encourage it."

Due to the fall of most of the officials of the Donglin Party, there was a result that the court officials accounted for the vast majority of the more than 50 felons who were severely punished and executed, but what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that Su Maozhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, was a person who was very good at understanding his heart, although he mentioned that his punishment was severe, he also defended himself, which is what Lao Cheng said.

At this time, the court was a rare scene of the monarch and the minister, and in a trance returned to the court of the Hongzhi Dynasty, the ministers were loyal to the country, as the emperor, Zhu Youxiao also gave them the face they deserved.

Huo Weihua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was out on patrol, so the Ministry of Industry was represented by Xu Guangqi, the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry.

Xu Guangqi, as a technical official, would not say anything to beat around the bush, and reported to Zhu Youxiao how many firearms and artillery had been produced by the Ordnance Department, how much production had been increased now, and how much money the Ministry of Industry had spent on repairing river embankments and bridges, as well as this year's budget, and then retreated.

The Ministry of Industry is in charge of the national project, so it is very easy to make money, so Zhu Youxiao reminded the officials of the Ministry of Industry to clean themselves and did not say anything more.

The next thing is that Cao Sicheng, the imperial historian of Zuodu, reported how many people were impeached in the provincial imperial history this year, and how many were removed because of this, and then Liu Zongzhou, the priest of the country, also reported on the academic situation of the students of the Guozijian.

Zhu Youxiao did not embarrass these two people, and also praised these two people, especially Cao Sicheng, Zhu Youxiao didn't expect this Zuodu Yushi to see the wind and rudder like this, and when he saw that he was unhappy, he immediately attacked Huang Daozhou, Zhu Youxiao, who originally wanted to change someone to take charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, now wants Cao Sicheng to work in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for a few more years.

A grand court meeting ended smoothly like this, Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied, and the court without the Donglin Party was indeed much more comfortable.

After the court meeting, Zhu Youxiao was going to select important ministers to be responsible for the peace of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because the two Song Dynasty were weak, there were many peace talks, and now in the Ming Dynasty, there is a preference for the emperor to be captured alive to defend the Beijing division, and then set up the emperor and the Tartars to fight.

Peace talks seem to be an unspeakable thing for the strong Ming Dynasty.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't want to be so paranoid, peace negotiation is just a kind of power trick, using it does not mean cowardice, and not using it does not mean being rigid, although Song lost gold and silk in Liaojin, it is still the richest country in the world, even if it is a foreign war, it can always win and rarely lose, and its defeat is not caused by peace negotiation.

Now the Ming Dynasty is full of internal contradictions, the line is about to die, the finances have been unable to make ends meet, the army is rotten, although there has not been a Chongzhen period of wandering everywhere, the Tartars enter the customs like a tourist to plunder everywhere, but I have to admit that the crisis is still there, what Zhu Youxiao has to do is to negotiate peace with the Tartars to get a longer period of peace, so that the Ming Dynasty, which is difficult to return, can ease this momentum.

Zhu Youxiao told Li Mingrui his thoughts, and asked Li Mingrui to ghostwrite to convey such views in newspapers and periodicals, and at the same time asked Lu Xiangsheng and Qian Qianyi to write articles for their own aid, comprehensively expounding why they should make peace with the Tartars and what benefits peace negotiations can bring.

What no one expected was that once this point of view was published in the newspapers and periodicals, it would stir up a thousand waves with one stone, and the ministers and scholars of the central government could cut themselves off and become the ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty without pressure when they lived in the Central Plains of the Manchu Dynasty, but the Ming court could not make peace with the barbarians outside the Saiwai for any rights and interests.

After learning that Zhu Youxiao had a secret conversation with Huang Taiji in Cuiping Mountain, he was not good at reprimanding Zhu Youxiao clearly, but only euphemistically proposed that there were still hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the imperial court, so why should he be afraid of a Tartar and negotiate with him, His Majesty could lead the Janissary Army to repel the Tartars and send a large army to suppress Dongnu.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but laugh dumbly after seeing Liu Zongzhou's excerpts, he wanted to send hundreds of thousands of troops out of the pass to fight Pingdongnu, but he was afraid that before he left Gyeonggi, the reinforcements from all over the country would retreat, or even if he went, the entire northern people of the Ming Dynasty might be poisoned by the soldiers and bandits again, and he was afraid that before the Tartars were encircled and suppressed, the backyard would be on fire.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are still missing, the huge gentry group and parasitic clans are still dragging the Ming Dynasty into the abyss, the small peasant economy is still going bankrupt, the number of displaced people is still increasing, and the Ming army is still rotten......

All these domestic problems made it impossible for Zhu Youxiao to immediately attack Houjin or take military measures against other external forces.

Zhu Youxiao didn't plan to express his position immediately, he was also thinking about how to negotiate peace with Houjin, or how much hope he should have for this peace talks, and now the situation in Liaodong has been made more complicated by himself, in addition to Houjin and Mao Wenlong, Wu Xiang and Yuan Chonghuan have also been added, as well as the Zuda Music Club near Shanhaiguan.

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The Praetorian Guards have entered a period of recuperation since their return to Beijing, and there will be no other military missions during this period until they recruit new soldiers.

Although the Tartars were successfully repelled near Gyeonggi this time, the Janissaries themselves also suffered certain losses, and the casualties were naturally given generous pensions, and Zhu Youxiao also ordered the Military Department to register the families of these casualties and soldiers, and in the future, the children and grandchildren of these casualties and military dependents could be given priority in admission, and their families would be exempted from conscription and taxes for three years, and the disabled officers and soldiers could also directly receive the monthly subsidies and food issued by the Military Department.

The officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guard did not expect His Majesty to give such generous benefits, and they couldn't help but secretly congratulate themselves that they had persevered, otherwise they could only live by eating overlord meals in the capital at the moment, and they had to go to the general's house to work part-time during the New Year.

However, the Praetorian Guard said that they were resting, but not everyone could go home for vacation, and they had to apply to the higher authorities for approval, and most of them had to stay in the barracks to study and summarize. The officers of each battalion should write reports and carry out further education and reinforcement, while the soldiers should continue to popularize culture.

No one understands why His Majesty did this, so that everyone has to take the examination to show off their talents, and the most uncomfortable thing during the recuperation period is the criticism meeting, where some officers and soldiers or collectives who have made mistakes during the march and battle will be invited to the stage to accept everyone's criticism and self-criticism.

This is what many officers and soldiers are most afraid of, and admitting in front of all their comrades-in-arms that they have done immoral deeds is more uncomfortable than killing themselves.

The most interesting thing is, of course, the interrogation of Amin, the Tartar.

Amin belonged to the felons arrested during the military operation, so Zhu Youxiao did not hand him over to the Three Law Divisions and did not let him go to Dongchang or Jinyiwei, but interrogated him in front of all the Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers in the Praetorian Guard camp, presided over by the law enforcement officer Tang Fusheng, and the surviving representatives of Fengrun and Yutian complained, which further aroused the hatred of the officers and soldiers for the Tartars, and also made them understand what their duties as soldiers were.

The military needs to sum up the lessons and lessons of actual combat, and the engineers of military production must also sum up the actual combat effects of various types of weapons in actual combat.

The commanders of the artillery battalion, Fu Dahai and Tang Ruowang, now almost live in the artillery bureau of the Ordnance Division, and talk with Sun Yuanhua and others day and night about how to make artillery better used in attacks.

Chang Yanling has now become a frequent visitor to the Gunpowder Bureau, and there are often quarrels from the Gunpowder Bureau.

Zhu Youxiao would also come to the Ordnance Department and the Royal Academy of Engineering to participate in the discussion of ordnance improvement in his spare time, and sometimes Zhu Youxiao became the protagonist of the entire seminar.