Sending Wang Chengen to the next place of temporary resettlement, Zhu Cihong was surrounded by the guards and rode out to inspect. Despite his preoccupations, this is a daily lesson that he will never delay.

In recent years, there have been more businessmen in Qingjiang.

Along both sides of the river, there are shops and inns under construction everywhere, and you can't see the edge at a glance.

The street is no longer the original pattern of ten miles from east to west along the river, but has a depth.

Row upon row, green bricks and blue tiles, although it is winter, it still has the unique elegance and warmth of the south.

Although it is in the north of the river, the Qingjiang River is crisscrossed by the river, and there are canal tributaries on the side of the houses in the streets, and many people's houses are built on both sides of the river, together with the shops on the streets, forming a beautiful new town.

Although it is located at a high place, Qingjiang City is already a large city with no edge in sight.

Originally, Qingjiang was a very important transit point for north-south freight, the Ming Dynasty set up the Caoyun General Army here, and the Qing Dynasty's Caoyun Governor's Mansion and Nanhe Governor's Mansion were located here, but now it has developed into such a state, or thanks to Zhu Cihong here.

In the past six months, the Zhongguang Quartermaster Division, the division of his camp, has built dozens of warehouses with more than 1,000 houses and employed more than 3,000 locals.

And the rest of the ministers hired men, and recruited chiefs, and built wharves, and storehouses, and houses.

In the entire market, there are 100 times more inns and restaurants than half a year ago.

There are even more businessmen who have heard the news, and although they have to pay money and the cost has increased, there is more movement of people, and there are more business opportunities than in other places.

Merchants pursue profits, so no matter what the overall situation is now, as long as the Qing army does not kill for a day, and the thieves do not invade the border for a day, the number of merchants and shops here in Qingjiang will increase day by day.

Of course, it is still not as good as a city like Quanzhou, which is dominated by maritime trade.

The port of Quanzhou is full of trees, and a large number of merchant ships from various countries enter the port every day, and there are even more merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty.

To this route, to the South Seas route, and to India.

The whole city is clean and tidy, there are hundreds of thousands of merchants, and the wealth is unimaginable.

Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Fujian, Zhejiang, South Zhijiangxi, the essence of the entire Jiangnan is these provinces, each city has a port, China's silk products and porcelain are exported in large quantities, although the price of goods and the destruction of the agricultural economy have been destroyed, but after all, many years of overseas trade have made the people rich, especially the massive influx of silver.

As long as the drawbacks of the silver standard are solved, and the seed value and purchase of grain crops are regulated by the political axe, the whole of South China will still develop rapidly, and it will be able to completely leave Europe behind its contemporaries.

At that time, it was only the beginning of industrial civilization, and industrial output was far from getting rid of handicraft workshops, and at this time, the Chinese were fully worthy of hard-working, hard-working and intelligent evaluation, as long as the ruling class was not replaced by a more barbaric and backward Manchu Qing, the future sea belonged to China.

Many things can be judged accordingly from the small changes around us.

At this moment, how could Zhu Cihong give up everything in front of him?

Chongzhen is not suspicious of him, but the emperor is the emperor after all, and the current Chongzhen may be the time to ask the prince to return to the East Palace, study with peace of mind, and sit and watch the world.

After all, it is not a good strategy to use the prince as an army and stay outside for a long time.

At the beginning of entering Nanjing, the prestige of the royal family was lost, and there was the threat of thieves following closely, Shi Kefa and other towns were not effective, Liu Zeqing never obeyed orders, and he was like a feudal town, which Chongzhen knew very well.

At that time, Chongzhen could support Zhu Cihong to seize the army, guard the Qingjiang River, and organize the army, which was also a matter of no way.

Now seeing that the towns are formed, the military strength is strong, and after the adjustment, Sun Chuanting can suppress the towns of Qingjiang Xingying, Wei Yue and others can directly obey the command, and the defense of Jiangbei can be safe.

Huang Degong and Zuo Liangyu and other towns can also start sorting out and rectifying now, and Zhu Cihong will never be allowed to interfere anymore.

In addition, the donation of gold and silver dollars to reform the system, the Qing official system to eliminate fire and increase the consumption of officials, these things are the origin of Zhu Cihong, and it is inconvenient to stay in Qingjiang now, it is better to return to Nanjing and praise the government affairs.

Of course, there must be a lot of credit for the officials of the foreign courts, as well as the response of the eunuchs of the inner court.................. Not far away, a group of civil officials from the camps also rarely rode out and followed.

Chen Mingxia, who had just worshiped the third division of the military department and the prince, and had officially entered the ranks of the first product of the Ming Dynasty, did not have the slightest smile on his face.

In addition to him, Fang Yizhi except for the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Chen Zilong has no news for the time being, but I heard that the Department of Agriculture and Industry is going to be promoted directly to the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry, which is strongly advocated by the prince, and there are many opponents in the government and the opposition.

In fact, there is a future to be pursued, and the interests of opponents are divided, and the backlash is not strong.

The silver dollar fire consumption would have caused an uproar, but then it was followed by an increase in officials, and the details were done very well, so not only did not there be too fierce opposition, but added a lot of points to the prince.

However, in various localities, the government powers have been reduced, the provincial and county powers have been increased, the separate guards and patrols have been abolished, and the departments of criminal justice and finance and taxation have been added, but the interests of many people have been touched.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Industry has been set up, and various localities have dispatched branch divisions to take charge of many major matters involving oil and water, such as farmland water conservancy, storage, and transshipment.

As far as Chen Mingxia and others are concerned, the prince is still a little anxious, and if he acts calmly, I am afraid it will be much easier.

Now the emperor's meaning is obviously to look forward to the crown prince inviting him back to Nanjing, and the relationship between father and son will not lose the affection since the southern crossing, and the promotion of Sun Chuanting and many military generals has also strengthened the divisions of the camp, which is obviously to reassure the prince.

After the crown prince returned to Beijing, the military and political affairs in the Qingjiang area of Huai'an were still the same as the old system, and no one would go to politics.

Chongzhen is like this, he is already extremely patient and tolerant, and judging from these details, he does not lose his father-son affection for the crown prince.

The royal family has no family affection, and it is really rare to be able to do this.

"Princesses." Following the crown prince for a long time, seeing that the last red in the sky was gradually dimming, and there was only an obscure iron gray color in the eyes of everyone, Chen Mingxia finally made up his mind and said to his colleagues: "What do you think Your Highness should do?" ”

"Your Highness is strong-willed, I'm afraid I'm ......" Gong Dingyu was also promoted this time, but his expression was still so uninhibited. In this rush from north to south, he is already only willing to do things, and being an official is put behind.

At this time, he was naturally very worried, but when the words reached his lips, he shrank back again.

The matter involves the royal family, and it is related to the relationship between the emperor and the crown prince's father and son, how can it be careless? Such words are not easy to export.

Originally, according to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the crown prince did not ask about foreign affairs for a long time, and only lectured and studied in the East Palace, and after he ascended the throne, he would really intervene in the country's major affairs.

At that time, the first step, of course, is to change the dynasty. In fact, it is to appoint his own cronies of the East Palace.

For example, Mu Zong's lecturers in the East Palace, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, are the most obvious examples.

The current situation is different from that year, even at the beginning of the country, Zhu Zhanji, the grandson of Emperor Chengzu, who was later Emperor Xuanzong, took Taisun with him when he conquered Mongolia in the north, and set up a young army for Taisun, and asked Taisun to master the army early.

But for the generalissimo, out of the town side, in the hands of heavy troops, this is too much for many people.

All kinds of opposition are the turbulent undercurrent, which finally brought the crown prince to a crossroads.

Now retreating, it still does not lose the strong East Palace that has a significant impact on the situation of the DPRK.

Disobeying the emperor's wishes and continuing to insist on Qingjiang, not to mention the future, it is very difficult to find a reason now.

What will the crown prince do?

"Well, what if it were me?"

Chen Mingxia, who is ambitious and capable, originally wanted to say something, but he was very alert, and in the camp, the crown prince has always been controlled by the art of balance.

The public theories are mixed with each other and the size is controlled, and the prince does not do it deliberately.

Even the generals got along very well, and the crown prince did not see it as a threat.

But in the system, there is restraint and balance everywhere, and there are also eyes of surveillance and vigilance everywhere.

The Internal Security Bureau is not a vegetarian, at this time he said a wrong sentence and wrote it down, no matter how broad-minded the prince is in the future, it may be difficult for him to make an inch.

Although there was a raging fire hidden in his body, he even wished that someone would say: "Chen Sizheng can take charge of the Qingjiang camp, Zhu Si Zengzhi, General Wei and others will act according to orders, military and political affairs, His Royal Highness will instruct from Nanjing, it is very appropriate, and there will be no mistakes......

But when I looked around, I also knew that no one would ever come out like this.

In the shallow twilight, there was a sudden thunderous sound.

Everyone was startled, turned their heads to look, but saw that more than 100 horsemen were galloping from the direction of the camp.

Closer, you can see that all of them are military generals with bright helmets and mountain texts and red cloaks.

The military generals already have military ranks, and Wei Yue's military rank is a silver medal decorated with two gold stars, but the cloak is also a unique decoration of the military general, and only the third rank or above can be equipped with a red cloak.

This group of cavalry was all wearing red cloaks, and almost all the generals above the third rank in the battalion came.

"Your Highness!"

The crown prince was not far in front of everyone, and he also saw the generals rushing to the horse, and after Zhu Cihong rode over, Wei Yue and the others had already flown down from the horse.

"The minister knocks to see His Highness."

"Why are you here?" Zhu Cihong's eyes showed a strange color, looking at everyone, he took a step forward first, but soon stopped reservedly.

"The minister heard that the envoy and the lieutenant official have the words of the queen summoning Her Royal Highness to return to the southern capital." Wei Yue said in a deep voice: "The strong enemy in front of the territory, His Royal Highness is the backbone of the army, at this moment, you must not leave the camp and return to Beijing." ”

"Yes, the courtier's intention is the same as General Wei." Li Gong touched his head and said, "Your Highness, you can't leave the camp." ”

"The military situation ahead is changing rapidly, His Royal Highness is not in Qingjiang, and I am afraid that the war ahead will be unfavorable."

"The minister asks His Highness not to return to the southern capital."

Nearly 100 generals bowed together, and the momentum was so great that it was enough to move people.

At this time, Chen Mingxia realized who was the person who could really control this strong army. Shicai's own confused mind is simply dreaming.

Don't say that a general like Wei Yue is an ordinary commander of a battalion, how can a powerless civilian official like him be able to obey the command?

(To be continued)