The first year of the Apocalypse, early summer.

The temperature began to warm up completely, but Zhu Youxiao was no longer in the court, but he was still reviewing the recitals sent by the cabinet. Ye Xianggao, who belongs to the moderate faction of the Donglin Party, is relatively stable in handling government affairs.

Zhu Youxiao can't even look at the ordinary recitals, Ye Xianggao can deal with it as he wants, and the recitals that can be sent to Zhu Youxiao are related to military and natural disasters.

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to be a desperate San Lang like Chongzhen, he just needed to grasp the most important thing. A military defeat would cause a sharp rise in the country's finances, and a natural disaster could cause civil unrest.

As long as the military and the situation in the north are stabilized, the Ming Dynasty will not perish.

Sun Chengzong has already sent several notes one after another, and reported the situation in Liaodong to Zhu Youxiao. The eastern Liaodong region had basically fallen, and now the Ming army retreated to Quang Ninh, and built the first line of defense on the west bank of the Liao River east of Quang Ninh, and another line of defense in the middle, and Quang Ninh formed the third line of defense.

Sun Chengzong, the governor of Liaodong, decided to first remove the defense line of the Liaohe River after taking office, and asked Zhu Youxiao to play. The reason is very simple, the morale of the Ming army was low at this time, the army was scattered, and the Liaohe defense line could not stop the Houjin army. Zhu Youxiao immediately agreed to Sun Chengzong's decision to let the Ming army retreat to Quang Ninh and strengthen the defense line in Guangning.

Sun Chengzong immediately began to rectify the Ming army, and after some investigation, he arranged personnel appointments and carried out a division of labor. At the same time, he ordered the military general Mangui to conquer the Mongol tribes in the suburbs of Ningyuan in the rear, so as to arrange for the people to reclaim the land.

Liaodong was rich, but there was wasteland everywhere, and the Mongols were grazing horses on the outskirts of the city in the rear of the Ming army, which was simply intolerable. After receiving the order, Man Gui led a 5,000-strong Ming army to quickly sweep away the surrounding Mongol tribes, defeating these loosely structured small Mongol tribes very easily, and then recruiting Mongols and arranging them to produce and graze.

Subsequently, Sun Chengzong, in accordance with the strategy agreed upon by the monarch and the minister, began to transfer all the people on the front line to the rear, and arranged for these people in western Liaoxi and the people who fled from Liaodong to reclaim the land. In all areas that were easy to be plundered by the Later Jin army, the people were all transferred to the front line outside Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, and Jinzhou.

At the same time, the soldiers and horses were reorganized, the defense line was strengthened, the army rations were hoarded, the materials for defending the city were hoarded, and the military cantonment was expanded to strengthen the self-sufficiency of the Ming army.

Zhu Youxiao gave Sun Chengzong absolute trust and commanding power. This allowed Sun to dismiss officials who were uncooperative and incompetent.

Under the command of Sun Chengzong, the Ming army began to regain its strength in an orderly manner in the western Liaoning region, and the situation began to develop in a favorable direction.

Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, has also arrived in the Denglai area. With the military funds given to him by Zhu Youxiao, he began to train sailors in Denglai to contain the situation in Liaodong at sea.

It is said that Luo Sigong was ordered to take Jinyiwei to Liaodong to investigate thoroughly, Luo Sigong took a turn in Liaodong, and it can be said that he gained a lot, and the officials and generals who were caught by him with pigtails paid bribes to him. Luo Sigong ate with a round belly, symbolically grabbed a few small minions, and then took people back to the capital to report to the emperor.

Luo Sigong has just returned to the capital with a group of dog legs down, and his butt is not hot at home! Suddenly, Tian Ergeng, the left governor of Jinyi Wei, rushed in with a group of Jinyi guards and directly arrested Luo Sigong into the prison.

A purge is brewing.

The news of Luo Sigong's arrest and imprisonment soon reached the ears of the Donglin Party, but the Donglin Party was very helpless to the emperor at this time and could not rescue Luo Sigong at all.

The emperor didn't see them at all at this time, and soon Jin Yiwei searched Luo Sigong's house for a large amount of property, including 180,000 taels in cash alone.

Luo Sigong has been the commander of the Jinyi Guard for so many years, and this kind of tiger skin is the most suitable for looting money.

In addition to cash, the value of assets such as farms and utensils is also around 100,000 taels after some estimation, which is simply a huge greed.

With the disclosure of the confiscated assets, a group of Donglin parties were speechless.

For Zhu Youxiao, he slaughtered another fat pig.

With the fall of Luo Sigong, Tian Ergeng, the governor of Zuodu, was soon promoted by Zhu Youxiao to the commander of Jinyiwei, and Xu Xianchun, the thrifty minister of Jinyiwei, was promoted to deputy commander of Jinyiwei.

Soon a purge was quickly launched.

Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun basically changed all the senior personnel in Jinyiwei, some were arrested and examined, and some were idle at home.

The East Factory also launched a major purge, and when Li Jinzhong took over the East Factory before, the cleaning was not complete. This time, Li Jinzhong also changed almost all the senior personnel of the East Factory.

After the purge, there was a major blood change, and the vacated positions were first optimized in structure. Vacancies are all promoted from the grassroots level, and then systematic ideological indoctrination is carried out.

The erosion of Jinyiwei and Dongchang is precisely because the senior personnel have their own thoughts, so they will deceive the emperor and deceive them. The thinking of grassroots personnel is relatively simple, and they are easy to brainwash. At the same time, because they have been promoted, their loyalty is much higher than that of the original personnel.

The reform is still continuing, and the biggest change is that Zhu Youxiao has improved the personnel treatment of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and Yu Lu has increased a lot.

Ordinary Jinyi Wei and Dongchang spies have reached three taels of silver and one stone of rice per month, and they basically have no worries about food and clothing. Senior spies, generally have dozens of taels or hundreds of taels per month.

In terms of funds, in addition to the emperor's appropriation, Jinyiwei and Dongchang can leave 10% of the funds needed for the distribution of Yulu and the improvement of treatment in the future raid activities.

After all, Dongchang and Jinyiwei are secret service departments, and they need professional skills. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao set up another training class to study and summarize and train in intelligence gathering, infiltration, interrogation, arrest, and so on. Each Dongchang and Jinyiwei agents will be trained and assessed.

After a major change and reform, the atmosphere of Jinyiwei and Dongchang has changed greatly.

Such a purge also quickly spread to the army, and Zhu Youxiao soon launched a blood-swapping operation in the Tengxiang Cavalry Division, the Wuxiang Cavalry Division, and the Beijing Battalion, and began to carry out large-scale brainwashing and education.

It's just that the purge in the army is much milder, after all, the ideological problems of the army are not so strict. Therefore, some unsuitable officers were only sent to the military cantonment.

The Ministry of Political and Educational Affairs has trained a batch of seeds, and these seeds have rapidly germinated and grown, and the brainwashing education has been fully spread to Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and the barracks.

Ideas began to be rapidly unified, and cohesion was greatly enhanced.

In particular, in the military, a large number of ordinary soldiers with high ideological consciousness have been promoted, constituting a grassroots officer system, and the military quality naturally needs to be improved, but the original batch of grassroots officers may not be much more sophisticated.

Jingying is basically an army with no combat experience, and no matter how it is cleaned, it will not cause a decrease in combat effectiveness, because it is already very bad.

The top priority at the moment is to train the Beijing camp.

"Your Majesty, the military factory reported that the craftsmen have developed more than a dozen flintlock pistols, Your Majesty, do you want to go over and take a look?" Yang Guang reported to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao was stunned and slightly confused: "More than a dozen? ”

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