It's only the weather in early April, just after Qingming, the weather in Huai'an is already very hot, whether it is the fields and villages or the county of Fuzhou, there are very good-looking rape flowers everywhere, although they are not as beautiful as the serious flowers and trees, but they are not far behind in the visual enjoyment.

It has been three days since the resistance of Liu Zeqing's troops was eliminated, and the generals of several important barracks from Qingjiang to Huai'an have been strictly checked, and with the help of Liu Konghe, a large number of generals loyal to Liu Zeqing have been transferred out, and they have been replaced by generals who were loyal to the crown prince at the first time.

Of course, except for a few people who have their own hills and valleys in their chests, most of these people are inactive people, and even very good at demolishing filth, drinking and mistaking things, not being able to train, or not being familiar with military affairs at all. Although Liu Zeqing is brutal, he also has to lead troops to fight, and he will still promote really useful generals, and if they are useless, unless they are clan relatives, they will definitely not be reused.

It's just that at this time, I can't have too many scruples, arrest a batch and use a batch, and those who are arrested are very unlucky, and of course those who are promoted are smiling, and they praise the holiness of the crown prince.

At the same time, it is also a lot of soldiers in the barracks who started to make trouble without mercy, two or three days, several large battalion fences on the head of the head hanging are almost uncountable, Liu Konghe with his own headquarters more than 2,000 soldiers, high diving 2,000 cavalry, plus Fu Biao, the prince is inside, nearly 6,000 soldiers and horses live in the shape of the victory, half of them are stationed in the city, half of them are in the east gate outside the camp, and there are several east army barracks in the place of the shape of the victory to suppress the bullets, and there are means of differentiation and control, there are many people who pee their pants when they hear the sound of drums...... The generals were also a little nervous, and their faces were blue, and they didn't speak well.

Fortunately, seeing that the morale of the army was gradually subdued, no one dared to make trouble or instigate a mutiny, so by the third day, the number of killings gradually decreased.

It is doubtful how many people really wanted to mutiny, or were randomly identified as unlucky ghosts who were pulled out and beheaded, and lost their lives just to deter people, but this matter is not clear in any way.

Of course, if you blindly use force to govern the army, you must mutiny.

The crown prince has silver, and when he rushes with silver, he uses silver to raise the morale of the standard, and he doesn't stumble at all afterwards, and he will issue silver on the spot, although the ability to do the battle is very low, and the warriors who cut off the head of the person are very rare, but everyone has a share, and the silver is sent down, plus there are a few lords who carry the head for silver, when the silver is issued, not to mention that the soldiers of the Eastern Army look red, and even many middle and lower-level generals are looking at the 100,000 points of hot eyes.

"With those bad goods, we actually exchanged our heads for silver...... What a grandma's. ”

There may be many officers and men of the town standard who are dissatisfied from the bottom of their hearts, after all, in terms of equipment and training, as well as combat experience, Huai'an Fubiao is too far behind the Shandong soldiers and horses.

However, this mood was subdued the next evening.

In the battalion soldiers, each person received five taels of silver, of course, it was only limited to the real soldiers, and those auxiliaries and the strong men of Gangla had no share.

The military attachés were rewarded from dozens to hundreds, and many silver medals were issued, and I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also sent people to Nanjing to transfer silver taels, ready to be used to integrate all the eastern army.

In the rumors, the prince will do a big job next, and those who pass the training and stay in the camp to enlist in the army will each have a considerable amount of money and another settling-in allowance, as for the amount, it is very terrifying in the rumors.

The silver bullet and the ghost head knife are sandwiched down, it is simply a super magic weapon, at least, when Zhu Cihong patrolled the barracks outside the east gate, it was quiet everywhere as usual, in the evening, but when I saw the smoke curling, there was the aroma of food everywhere...... In recent days, because it is too powerful, so not only did it send money, Lu Zhenfei also mobilized the gentry of Huai'an Mansion to buy hundreds of pigs in the Qingjiang area, and each battalion could divide a few heads.

............ "Your Royal Highness, Xuzhou and Huaisi are fierce, the Han and Tang Dynasties are the place where the elite soldiers are produced, and now the emperor allows His Royal Highness to build six rates of self-construction for the prince's personal guard, His Royal Highness and Liu Zeqing, and his army...... Jinchen dared to ask His Highness, what is his proposition? ”

After wandering around for most of the day, Zhu Cihong and his entourage returned to the vicinity of the East Gate Tower, seeing that the city gate was in sight, but everyone followed for a long time, but rarely heard what Zhu Cihong said, just observed around, walked around, circled the entire three cities of Huai'an, looked at five or six barracks, passed by more than 20 villages, and dismounted and chewed a few mouthfuls of rape flowers...... In short, it seems to be a quick look, what kind of idea this young master has in his heart, I really don't understand it for a while.

At this time, the overall situation was roughly decided, and there was also news from Nanjing, the holy car had arrived, and he was staying in the palace, and he thought that there would be news in a day or two, and the prince would inevitably be summoned back to Beijing. And here in Huai'an, the movement is so big, although it is successful, but the aftermath has to be well planned.

With such a myriad of things in front of him, Zhu Cihong seems to be a son-in-law or a talented student, who is idle when he comes out to write poems, so he almost brings two scholars and a poetry box with poetry rhymes.

"We'll talk about that later, let's go around the city first and then walk around."

Chen Mingxia asked eagerly, but Zhu Cihong answered easily, with a smile of incomprehensible meaning on the corner of his mouth.

It's really that the crown prince is not in a hurry, and he is in a hurry to die to the people around him, and what Chen Mingxia asked is what the people around Zhu Cihong are most eager to know, whether to follow the prince back to Nanjing, stay comfortably in Nandu, and leave the Huai'an soldiers and horses to others to collect...... At least everyone knows, with the idea of the prince, the important town of Xuzhou, all the way to Linqing in Shandong, and Guide in Henan, this large area is now very empty, with Zhu Cihong's idea, it is to ask Sun Chuanting to take charge of his affairs, integrate Gao Jie's troops and horses, and take three months or half a year for a period of three months to first eat and recover, and when the time comes, he will march north.

What day is this time, when asked about this, Zhu Cihong was vague and refused to say it explicitly.

In fact, there are no more than five people who know about this belly case, and even Sun Chuanting himself may not know that he has to take on such an important responsibility...... Of course, it's still early, at least now Xuzhou is calm, and no news has reached Huai'an, which shows that Lao Sun Tou is not as powerful as he himself boasted, and has raised his hand to subdue or take down Gao Jie, and master his troops.

Now is not the time for Sun Chuanting to kill the dragon and his soldiers, only a few years apart, the situation has changed greatly, and it is very embarrassing to think about it.

As for the withering of talents, it makes people want to cry without tears.

Chen Mingxia now regards himself as the mastermind around Zhu Cihong, anyway, he is famous enough, and his ability is still early among the so-called talents of the Fushe at that time, there is no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is a pioneer, since there is no more suitable candidate, Zhu Cihong will acquiesce.

In fact, in terms of closeness and official position, although Chen Mingxia has a very good status in the Restoration Society, his official position is far worse than Wang Duo.

However, Wang Duo is only a poet and a talented person, and when it comes to ability, he is far worse than Chen Mingxia, who is much younger than himself. As for Wu Weiye, it is even more needless to mention.

It's also sad to think about it, although Chen Mingxia is neat and has no low opinions, but his morale is very heavy, and he is arrogant and arrogant, and his personal morality is not very good.

As for Shi Kefa, although he was Hong Chengchou's subordinate when he was a magistrate in Xi'an Mansion, he also admired Lao Hong very much, but his ability to do things was 108,000 miles away from Hong Chengchou.

For a while, Zhu Cihong was also cranky, and he couldn't wait to fly to Shengjing to bring Hong Chengchou over. is really compared to his ability, Sun Chuanting is also far worse than Hong.

The lack of talent is the saddest place for Zhu Cihong!

………… The prince didn't want to talk deeply, but just took everyone to go around between the old and new cities in Huai'an, and the journey was hurried, and everyone didn't squeak for a while, just followed Zhu Cihong's ride and galloped.

Huai'an is the most peculiar city in the Ming Dynasty at that time, the Ming Dynasty repaired the city, in the dangerous pass, Wei has its own acropolis, all the military households in the city, there is no civil official, all governed by the guard. This kind of acropolis is generally not large.

Then there is the county-level city, generally the circumference of three to five miles, with rammed earth for the city, rarely wrapped with bricks and stones, and then on the state capital, and then the capital city, such as Yangzhou, Xi'an a kind of government city, the circumference of twenty to forty miles, only the north and south of the two capitals, the circumference of more than 100 miles, all with bricks and stones to wrap the city, majestic and precipitous, all kinds of auxiliary facilities are very complete, by no means the descendants imagine that it is the bare city wall.

And Huai'an is the outlier in the city of the first level of the government, in the early Ming Dynasty, it was the old city built during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the regulation is a normal city, and later Zhang Shicheng's department will repair the city in Huai'an, the regulation is greater, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because the Jianghuai is one, Huai'an is the canal distribution center, it is very important, so the new city was built, the circumference is eleven miles, and the five gates are divided, and then because of the protection of the canal transport, so between the old and new cities to repair the city with water, set up four city towers, and protect the boat warehouse in the city.

In this way, the three cities are one, the circumference has exceeded the Yangzhou city defense, the east gate here, there is an underground hidden soldier hole more than 30 miles long, when it was built, I don't know how much effort it took!

The east gate of Fucheng is also known as Zhandai Gate, there are city towers, sub-cities, corner towers, nest shops, when Liu Zeqing is in charge, the city defense is wasted, and there is nothing to see, at this time the city is dominated by the military attache of the East Palace, the streets are cleared, the strict investigation and annihilation are fine, the banner of the city head is displayed, the fighting is strict, between the pheasants, but the swords and guns are dazzling, the face of the soldier holding the armor is solemn, a few days of hard work, the city defense is cleaned up, and it looks very comfortable.

"Shicai Chen Mingxia asked me, what are your plans," Walking around, the look on Zhu Cihong's face was also solemn, looking at everyone, he said with a very solemn look: "Huai'an City is high and steep, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Since my father allowed me to build a leading defense, then, with Huai'an as the foundation, through Xu, Huai, Si, Yang and other areas, consolidate the foundation, and the whole army will be armed to strengthen the enemy...... Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think? ”

(To be continued)