Zhu Youzhen stretched out two fingers at Qiao Yunsheng: "I have two ways to deal with them, one is the garrison I just mentioned, the army not only protects them, but also supervises them, and the army is not just consuming food; Second, I confiscated all their war horses, and without them, the nomads were newborn lambs in front of the flintlock pistols of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister understands." Qiao Yunsheng felt that he had been a high-ranking official for decades in vain, how could this young emperor take everything into account?

"Of course, I still have the third measure, and it is also the third measure I will take outside the border, to establish a province."

"Provincial?"

"It depends on the military generals to open up the territory, but to truly turn these lands into the ownership of the Ming Dynasty, it is still up to the civil officials to defend the land, so I am ready to set up five new provinces outside the Guan-Austria, which is four and a half provinces."

"Four and a half provinces?" Everyone was confused by Zhu Youzhen, how could there be half a province?

"The eastern Liaodong region will no longer be part of Shandong, and I will establish a new province here, Liaoning Province; The Nuergan area is too vast, sparsely populated, and the transportation is inconvenient, so I am going to divide it into two, Heilongjiang Province to the south and Heilongjiang Province to the north, because it is on the coast of Beihai, it is called Beihai Province; In this northern expedition, I crossed the Troubled River, which is north of the Great Khing'an Mountains, which is called Lingbei Province; ”

"Your Majesty, these are only four provinces, and there are still half of them?" Qiao Yunsheng counted with his fingers for a long time, but he couldn't find half a province.

"I have signed a contract with the Great Khan of Oba and Saisantaiji of the Horqin Department of Mongolia, and they have agreed that after five years, the whole clan will be naturalized as Han Chinese, and this is the west of the Great Khing'an Mountains, which is called Lingxi Province." Zhu Youzhen knew the thoughts of the scholars, and he no longer left suspense, "But the Horqin Department has not been naturalized for the time being, and the Ming Dynasty can garrison troops in Horqin, but it cannot participate in the internal management of Horqin, so this Lingxi Province can only be regarded as half a province now." ”

"Ao ......" didn't know who it was, and let out a long sigh, as if he had been holding his breath when he heard Zhu Youzhen speak.

"Of course, the area outside the customs is too vast, I just said a rough idea, and there are still many things waiting for Aiqing to complete." Zhu Youzhen did not take the credit on himself, these scholars were also very hard in Beijing, so they simply let them do something and take credit together.

"Your Majesty, what do you want your ministers to do?" Huang Liji, the head of the six books, took the lead in expressing his stance to Zhu Youzhen.

"Yes, Your Majesty, is there anything we need to do?" Others chimed in.

"Originally, I was going to go back to Beijing and make arrangements, since you monkeys are in a hurry, then I will arrange a few important things first, and after returning to Beijing, I will give myself a few days off," Zhu Youzhen wiped his hair and coughed again, "Li Aiqing of the Ministry of Industry, first prepare a large number of seeds of spring wheat, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and various vegetables, and 10,000 sets of farm tools for plowing the fields." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"How's Second Avenue going?"

"Back to His Majesty, the second avenue starts from Jingshi, passes through Baoding and Zhending, crosses from Taihang Jing to the west, leads directly to Taiyuan, and then along Fenshui, just docking with Tongguan."

"So, the Second Avenue, from Jingshi to Fengxiang, is over?"

"Your Majesty, go west again, and there is the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, where there are sparsely populated, and there is no labor to build cement roads!"

"Li Aiqing, this is absolutely not good, Jiayuguan is the most important pass in the western part of the Ming Dynasty, the second avenue must be built to Jiayuguan at least," Zhu Youzhen took out the marching map he carried with him, "If the labor is really not enough, temporarily start from Fengxiang, through Tianshui, Dingxi, first build to Lanzhou, this road is vertical and horizontal, grain and grass transportation is particularly inconvenient, you must build a flat cement avenue, I will not give you a time limit, the Ministry of Industry must ensure the quality and flatness of the avenue." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will definitely recruit labor in time and strive to complete it as soon as possible."

"It's not finished," Zhu Youzhen corrected, "After this section is completed, it will be built along Suzhou, Ganzhou, and finally to Jiayuguan." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister understands."

"Wang Aiqing, the official department, immediately recall Li Hongji, the prefect of Jinzhou, and Shi Kefa, the prefect of Ningyuan, in addition, recommend two more magistrates around the age of 30 to me, the position is not limited, but the person must be honest and capable, in addition, it is necessary to prepare a hundred officials at all levels, the age is not too old, there is experience in being officials, and there is no need to recommend Guozijian for the time being."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will do it tomorrow."

"Qiao Aiqing of the Criminal Department, after returning to Beijing, check the prisoners in the five northern provinces, the focus is on the sentence of more than five years, if the sentence is definitely more than five years and there is no judgment, there is no need to try again, immediately contact the families of these people, and exile Lingbei, except for the Jiangyang thieves."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Bi Aiqing, the household department, quickly wrote all over the country, there is a large amount of land for sale in Liaodong, five taels of silver per mu, and if you buy more than one hectare at a time, it will be calculated as four taels of silver per mu."

"Your Majesty, this is another way of immigration, right?"

"I not only immigrated to Liaodong, but also saved money for the household department, haha," Zhu Youzhen didn't care about Bi Ziyan's eyes, "Li Aiqing of the military department, immediately recall Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jiliao." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty," Li Chunye didn't understand, Sun Chengzong, who was so old, would still be reused by Zhu Youzhen, "After Lord Sun leaves, who will be the governor of Jiliao?" ”

"I want to abolish the post of Governor of Jiliao, Lord Sun has another appointment, Hou Qian, you have a lot of things, how is the reorganization of the new army?"

"Your Majesty, the minister has reorganized the Ninth Army and the Tenth Army in Shandong, the Eleventh Army and the Twelfth Army in Shanxi, and the Thirteenth Army and Zuo Liangyu's Fourteenth Army in Shaanxi, in addition, there are three armies in Shaanxi that are being reorganized, but no firearms have been distributed."

"So much?" Zhu Youzhen raised his head and was silent for a while, "There is no need to reorganize the north for the time being, Shaanxi will let Zu Dashou figure out his own way, first reorganize the armies of Guangdong and Yunnan provinces, and then Fujian." ”

"Guangzhou and Kunming are too far away from the Beijing Division, and it takes too much time to transport artillery," Zhu Youzhen scratched his hair, "Li Aiqing of the Ministry of Works, do your best to set up a Guangzhou firearms manufacturing factory, and the firearms factory does not need to design firearms, as long as it can be produced according to the drawings." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the ministers will do their best to organize craftsmen near Guangzhou."

"Hou Qian, the matter of reorganizing the new army can now be handed over to the squires to do, you do your best to organize manpower and count the remaining military households in the five northern provinces, these military households may have lost their original cultivated land, and they will not be able to get the military salary of the imperial court."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Huang Aiqing, there is nothing special in the Ministry of Rites for the time being, but you inform Kong Aiqing, the priest of the country, that I want to spread the words and deeds of the saint to the outside of the customs, educate the people of different races, and let him recruit some scholars who have fallen off the list, as long as they are people above the level of Xiucai, I will send them outside the customs."

"Is it to open a school outside the customs to spread the knowledge of saints?"

"Yes, if you open a school, it's called ...... Confucius School, this name, Kong Aiqing should be satisfied. ”

As soon as the banquet was over, Zhu Youzhen immediately returned to the barracks and fell asleep.

But Li Chunye couldn't sleep, and he was destined to lose sleep this night.

Every time he sees Zhu Youzhen, his understanding of Zhu Youzhen is a little deeper, Zhu Youzhen's governance of the country and the army will bring him unimaginable surprises, Zhu Youzhen is like the soap bubble that can grow up by blowing, always let him see the dazzling brilliance, as long as the soap bubble never bursts.

The more he revered Zhu Youzhen, the more Li Chunye felt that Zhu Youzhen was becoming more and more unfamiliar, within the scope of his cognition, there could be no such all-round person in the world, there was no one in history, and there should not be one in reality.

And this all-round man is still a teenager.

Did Zhu Youzhen really grow up in the deep palace of the inner courtyard?

The Ming Dynasty poured the strength of the whole country to build the Great Wall and form the Guanning Army, in order to deal with the nomads in the north, first the Mongols, then the Jurchens, famous generals came out in large numbers, but there were countless casualties, always on the defensive, and even in Liaodong was defeated and retreated, Zhu Youzhen personally conquered, it only took half a year to completely eliminate the Jurchens, and also surrendered to part of the Mongolians, and the Ming Dynasty finally gained a firm foothold in the north of the Great Wall.

It is Chengzu, who has made outstanding achievements in war and has conquered Mongolia five times, but it is also inferior, Chengzu only let the Mongols temporarily annex, once they have eased up, it is still a tumor of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youzhen is to let the nomads outside the pass to attach, once successful, it will be once and for all; Chengzu's Northern Expedition cost a lot of money, and the treasury was empty, while Zhu Youzhen's Northern Expedition seized a lot of money, even more than the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty in a year.

"This young emperor!" Li Chunye could only shake his head and smile bitterly, "I hope the soap bubble will never burst!" ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't think about it so much, he didn't even have Bumu Butai, he was going to return to Jingshi tomorrow, and he had to nourish his spirit.

As soon as the sun came out of the mountain, Zhu Youzhen got up, he changed Bumu Butai into men's clothes and followed him, and the civil and military officials in the court, in order not to steal Zhu Youzhen's limelight, they had already returned to Beijing first.

Along the cement avenue, Zhu Youzhen slowed down the speed of the horse, and when the sun was close to the top of his head, he returned to Beijing, and the cement avenue passed through Dongzhi Gate, and the army entered the city from Dongzhi Gate.

Zhu Youzhen had already heard the noise in the Dongzhi Gate, and even used the gongs and drums.

As soon as the army arrived at the door of Dongzhimen, I don't know who lit a large number of firecrackers on the city, Zhu Youzhen had to stop, and waited for half a pillar of incense before the firecrackers were completely extinguished.

August 22 of the second year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1629 AD) is already the time of handover at noon, Zhu Youzhen rode without a single miscellaneous hair of the "snow fire", when the first step into the Dongzhi Gate, the noise in the city gate, suddenly reached the peak, applause, gongs and drums, firecrackers, plus the call of the people, constitute a group of triumphant symphony, the air is diffused with a strong smell of sulfur.

Zhu Youzhen clenched his hands into fists and agreed to the crowd on both sides.

The civil and military officials of the Beijing Division all came, and at the front of the crowd were the high-ranking officials of the six departments, and the low-ranking officials automatically stood in the back, and then the people in the city were behind.

Zhu Youzhen seemed to see a familiar figure in the crowd, but the figure flashed and disappeared in an instant, and when he looked again, there was no more familiar person in the crowd behind.