After Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan were committed to him, Cao Yue had no scruples and directly entrusted them with their duties.

Liu Ru followed him directly, serving as a military staff officer, responsible for daily military documents, order drafting, and strategic response consultation, simply put, the relationship between the military secretary and the life secretary plus the lover. For such an appointment, Liu Ru was of course happy, and he didn't have any resentment about witnessing Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan serving Cao Yue together that day and making a ridiculous play.

Chen Yuanyuan is responsible for the preparation of the establishment of the Ming Guards Literature and Art Bureau, and is ready to rehearse some performances that show the heroic deeds of the Ming Guards after the planning is completed, and publicize the singing and crying of the Ming Guards to the Ming soldiers and civilians.

Cao Yue handed over the responsibility of organizing, planning and recruiting personnel to Chen Yuanyuan, and asked her to choose her own capable assistants.

Dong Xiaowan continued to be responsible for the publication, editing, and distribution of the Ming Guards Newspaper, and Cao Yue also planned to set up a military publishing bureau to be in charge of military publishing affairs, and Dong Xiaowan was in charge of it.

Cao Yue felt that if he handed over important affairs to his women and gave them the greatest trust, they would definitely be able to give him a good return. These women are all talented people, they have a high IQ and ability, and they will definitely get things done.

Cao Yue gave them the right to freely choose talents, in fact, it also gave the other women in Qin Huai Bayan a convenient opportunity to come out of the Qinglou Courtyard to do things. As for what to do, then choose according to their talents and abilities. Controlling women, Cao Yue felt that he could do it easily, which was much simpler than controlling men.

These women are all coming for him, wanting to be his woman, wanting to be with him for a lifetime, wanting to gain more fame and earn a bigger future by following him, as long as he gives them these and shares some feelings with them. And possess their bodies, believing that these women, will willingly do things for him and always be loyal to him. As long as he doesn't break their hearts and doesn't snub them, they will definitely cherish the opportunity, show their abilities, strive for more through their own efforts, and completely change their destiny and future.

Sun Chuanting and other officials in the DPRK and China did not fully understand Cao Yue's arrangement of some Qinglou women to manage important affairs. It's just that Chen Yuanyuan, Dong Xiaowan and others are in charge of the affairs, they don't attach much importance to them, and Liu Ru just follows Cao Yue and serves his daily life, which doesn't affect a lot, so although they are a little unaccustomed to it, they don't blame Cao Yue in these matters.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was very common for literati and warriors to have trouble with Qinglou women, and officials and people in the court and China talked about it. Cao Yue accepted several outstanding women in Qin Huai's Bayan. It has already caused a sensation in the community, and too many rhymes have circulated on the banks of the Qinhuai River and in the mouths of scholars and literati. While Cao Yue frequently made military exploits, he also played amorous with the Qinglou women, which was harmless.

It's just that there are many people who hope that Cao Yue will not affect state affairs because of these women. Don't take them too seriously, women, it's just for fun, there are many beautiful women in the world. When you get tired of playing, change them to fresh ones, don't worship them like treasures, and give them important things to do.

These people naturally didn't understand Cao Yue's thoughts. I didn't understand the real reason behind Cao Yue's doing, he wanted to further control power and let women enter the political arena.

However, Cao Yue really didn't have much time to play with women, and when he returned to Nanjing, in addition to going back to his home to accompany his wife and children, he spent more time in the Yanziji military camp or the Nanjing Arsenal. The reform of armaments, the expansion and improvement of weapons production, the introduction of new technologies and talents in Europe, and the improvement of people's livelihood and military technology were the things he was most concerned about during this period.

Because he has a completely different world view from the people of this era, and his understanding and respect for science and technology are not comparable to other Ming officials, he is not at ease to hand over many things to others, and most of them are personally responsible. It is really thanks to his personal responsibility that these matters that determine the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty and are directly related to the strength of the country have been able to develop benignly and improve rapidly.

The investment in the military industry is naturally the largest, and Cao Yue pays the highest attention to it, those talents introduced from the West, as well as efforts to discover local talents, Cao Yue in addition to giving them reuse, giving them high treatment, but also personally grasping their research results and progress, and giving them technical guidance, instilling more high-tech concepts in them.

It is precisely because of Cao Yue's instructions and new ideas that the military industry of the Ming Dynasty has been able to develop rapidly, and the technological improvement and product output rate have reached an astonishing degree. Of course, Cao Yue was not satisfied with these, he personally handled it, handed over the money shipped back from Beijing to the military industry department, and prepared to exchange for greater investment in exchange for further improvement of military products and higher production efficiency.

The manufacture of new muskets and artillery guns is proceeding at a higher speed, and the development and testing of new firearms are also being carried out at the highest speed.

It is also the first time that those local scientific and technological talents, as well as those scientific and technological workers imported from Europe, feel that the government departments have given them enough attention and such huge support. The generous salary and extraordinary treatment in all aspects made them have more passion to devote themselves to their work, and they wanted to repay Cao Yue and the Ming court for the favor given to them by their own achievements.

For the Ming court, Cao Yue is most lacking in money and grain, Cao Yue looted tens of millions of taels of silver and gold and other valuables from Beijing, and basically solved the problem of money and silver within a year or two, but the problem of food is not so easy to solve, after all, the current five northern provinces, because of the war almost no output, all need to be provided by the south.

Increasing grain output and thoroughly solving the problem of grain supply have also become the most urgent problems to be solved in the Ming ******. In this regard, Cao Yue only gave a few suggestions, that is, to popularize the planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes on a large scale, as well as the technology of double cropping of rice and wheat, and intensive cultivation, and wanted to completely solve the grain problem with high-yield sweet potatoes, potatoes, rice, and advanced cultivation technology.

Naturally, these proposals were carried out without any obstacles, and in the past autumn harvest, there was good news, and the officials of the DPRK and China also made adjustments again in accordance with Cao Yue's proposal, planting more sweet potatoes and potatoes, and popularizing the techniques of rice and wheat multi-planting, intensive cultivation, and seedling throwing.

The war has temporarily subsided, all aspects of the military and people's livelihood have developed in a good direction, the officials of the DPRK and China and the people in the community have seen the hope of the revival of the Ming Dynasty, and Cao Yue's reputation has also further risen with the help of various channels.

And just when the people in the south were preparing for spring ploughing, Zheng Zhilong of Fujian arrived in Nanjing with his eldest son Zheng Sen. (To be continued.) )