In the second year of Chongzhen, the beginning of autumn, Yanjing, the Forbidden City!

Early in the morning, the sky of Yanjing was pressed with dark and heavy clouds, obscuring the early morning sun, making the sky and the earth unclear. A young man with a thick blanket on his body propped up his upper body on the table in the imperial study, stretched his hands and feet, and came to his senses. He was the sixteenth emperor of the Ming Empire and will also be the last emperor, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

He is only nineteen years old this year, he is in the prime of his youth, and he should be a good boy, but at this time he looks a little old, especially the sideburns on both sides of his cheeks, which are actually a little gray. These gray haired ...... It's tired!

Last night, he spent all night in the imperial study reviewing the chapters, and unconsciously fell asleep on the imperial case, and he didn't know which eunuch draped a thick blanket on his body, otherwise he should have suffered from the wind chill at this time......

Zhu Youzhen blinked, shook his head, sobered himself up a little, and then stood up and said in a slightly low and hoarse voice: "Who gave me the blanket last night?" ”

Before he said this, the imperial study was quiet, and it seemed that he was the only one there, but after he said this, a cautious male voice suddenly said in the corner of the room: "The slave put it on you." ”

It turned out that there was a young eunuch standing in the corner of the house, because he was completely motionless just now, and he didn't even seem to take a breath, so he stood in the corner of the house as if he didn't exist at all, even if you saw him, you would think it was a doll.

Zhu Youzhen turned his head sharply and stared at the eunuch.

This is the little eunuch of his cronies, who was promoted, and definitely does not belong to the dead Wei Zhongxian's party, who is innocent and has no backstage. When the little eunuch saw the emperor staring at him, he didn't know what he was thinking, and his legs flashed in fright.

Zhu Youzhen snorted, and said a little angrily: "Since you see that I am asleep, you should wake me up, there are still many twists and turns that have not been approved!" How much precious time did you waste by letting me sleep until dawn? ”

"Slave...... Minion...... The minions are wrong. The little eunuch was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a puff: "Please forgive the emperor!" ”

Zhu Youzhen let the little eunuch kneel on the ground, and after a while, seeing that the little eunuch's whole body was trembling, he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you are also kind, I won't punish you this time." ”

"Thank you...... Thank you, Your Majesty! The little eunuch breathed a sigh of relief, got up and stood back where he was. He knew very well that although the emperor he was facing was diligent in government affairs and would bow down to everything, his surname was very suspicious, self-serving, moody, and very difficult to serve.

Zhu Youzhen sat back in front of the imperial case, picked up a piece of music that he didn't have time to read last night, looked at it twice, and rushed up angrily.

It turned out to be a fold sent by Hu Yanyan, the governor of Shaanxi, although the words on it were secretive and tried to cover it up, but after reading the whole twist and turn, you can see that Shaanxi is in chaos! It's very chaotic!

"Bastard!" Zhu Youzhen slapped the royal case with a slap, and the music on the table jumped up: "This damn Hu Yanyan, the Jiannu over there in Liaodong has caused me a headache, and it is when I need stability in the rear, which one is this to make trouble for me?" I'm going to kill his head! Come on, pass on the foundation. ”

Cheng Ji Ming, a big celebrity, the word Jingzhi, Wanli thirty-five years of Jinshi, through Shu Jishi, successively served as the Department of Economic Affairs and Economic Affairs of the Horse Wash, the Department of Guozi Jian Division, Shao Zhan Shi, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and the prince's guest, Nanjing Hanlin Academy, just entered the cabinet this autumn, is the most trusted cabinet minister of Emperor Chongzhen.

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's call, Cheng Jiming hurriedly ran over, entered the imperial study, pushed the gold mountain, poured the jade pillar, and gave Zhu Youzhen a big gift first, and then asked: "The emperor has something to summon?" ”

"Look at this ......" Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, and Hu Tingyan's twist flew down from the imperial case and landed in front of Cheng Jiming. He hurriedly picked it up, swept it with his eyes, and suddenly knew that every piece of music on the Chongzhen Imperial Case was actually sent by the cabinet after reading it first, and what was written in this chapter was known by Cheng Jiming earlier than Zhu Youzhen.

"I'm going to kill Hu Yanyan!" Zhu Youzhen said hatefully: "As the governor of a province, I want to kill him if I make Shaanxi *xi that I handed over to him look like this!" ”

He sighed and said, "Your Majesty...... This matter may not all be Hu Yanyan's fault, don't you think it says in the middle of this recital? The Liukou originally did not have a strong momentum, mainly because the border army of Guyuan judged to join, which made the Liukou sit on the ...... And Guyuan, Hu Yanyan can't control this place, that place is under the jurisdiction of Yue Hesheng, the governor of Yansui. ”

"Humph!" Zhu Youzhen snorted coldly, and threw down another piece of music, it turned out that the latter part was written by Yue Hesheng, the governor of Yansui, which said that the main force of the Shaanxi * West Liukou was not the Guyuan rebels, but the Shaanxi * West Refugees under the jurisdiction of Hu Yanyan.

Zhu Yuanzhen slapped again on the table indignantly: "These two bastards, you push me, I push you, they both want to wipe out the responsibility, in fact, both have problems, you can come and see a twist and turn." ”

With a wave of his hand, another piece of the fold was thrown over, which turned out to be a fold written by Wu Huan, the imperial historian of the patrol security, which said: "If the theft is issued in the seventh month of Baishui, there are few border thieves and many soil thieves." This year, the thieves are all riding sharply, moving to seven or eight thousand. The prevarication of the two strokes is concealed, and the brewing is also. ”

Cheng Mingji saw that these three parts had been read by Chongzhen, and he knew that he had understood the truth, so he sighed helplessly and said: "Indeed, these two governors are responsible, but ...... It doesn't seem to be good to easily kill the governor of a province, since they have already written a memora, it seems that they don't want to blindly hide this matter to the end, and they still have the emperor in their hearts...... Please also ask the emperor to think deeply. ”

Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath, he really wanted to kill these two bastards, but he had only been on the throne for a short time, and his authority had not yet been established.

He forcibly suppressed the boredom in his heart and hummed, "Then you say, what should I do?" ”

"Dismissal!" Cheng Ji ordered to say in a low voice: "Change to Liu Guangsheng to patrol Shaanxi*xi, and Zhang Mengjing to governor Yansui, and order these two newly appointed governors to encircle and suppress the Liukou with all their might." ”

Zhu Youzhen frowned deeply and said, "What if these two newly appointed guys pass the buck to each other again?" ”

"Well...... this" Cheng Jiming pondered for a while, and then said: "It's better to add a trilateral governor on top of the two of them, and let this governor be in charge of the three provinces of Shaanxi*xi, Gansu*su, and Yansui, and encircle and suppress the affairs of the Liukou. ”

In fact, the trilateral governors have existed since the tenth year of Hongzhi, and there are many celebrities in this position, such as Yang Yiqing, Qin Hong, Wang Qiong and Zeng Miao. It's just that in February of the second year of Chongzhen, Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides, died of illness, and this position has been vacant. Now Cheng Jiming just picked up this position again.

"Okay!" After all, he has only been in office for two years, and there are many things that he is still studying and exploring, so in terms of personnel appointments, he has to refer to the opinions of cabinet ministers.

"Appoint Yang He, the left deputy capital, to replace the governor of the three sides, and ask him to give me whatever means I use to quell the rebellion in western Shaanxi as soon as possible." Zhu Youzhen took a picture of this matter.

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In the second year of Chongzhen, autumn, Huanglong Mountain.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the training ground at the top of the mountain, watching a large group of recruits and eggs, practicing in the queue under the guidance of veterans. The last time I went down the mountain to collect grain, I not only brought back grain and brought back a large number of people, but also improved the status of the profession of soldiers in the minds of the villagers by rewarding meritorious deeds.

Since the villagers in the cottage knew that they could get common necessities by joining the army, there was a rush to join the army. In fact, this is also human nature, outside the mountain, you can farm the land, exchange food for money, and then exchange money for daily necessities, but in this big mountain, the land does not need to be planted, anyway, Zhu Bugling will grab food to distribute to everyone, but all the ordinary supplies and materials are given priority to the soldiers, and being a soldier has naturally become a more rewarding profession than farming.

In the future, Zhu Baba will snatch back more and more things, if these good things are distributed to the soldiers first, then what are you hesitating about? Go as a soldier!

A large number of villagers joined the army, and the new ninth team and the new tenth team can no longer be called recruits, and after them, there is the new eleventh team, the new tenth team, and the new fourteenth team.

The total number of troops in the cottage reached 1,040, while the total population was less than 4,000.

No one notices that such a ratio of population to soldiers is abnormal! Only Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the cottage did not rely on self-sufficient production to feed the soldiers, but maintained the army by robbing the squires, otherwise such a comparison of strength and population would not have been possible at all.

It's just a matter of equity!

Salt merchants and iron merchants came not long ago, sent a large amount of salt and pig iron, Zhu Yuanzhang mobilized the craftsmen in the villagers, especially the blacksmiths, to create a large number of iron spear tips, now the 1,400 soldiers in the cottage, all equipped with spears with iron spear tips, the army no longer uses sharpened sticks, which will undoubtedly make the cottage's combat effectiveness more powerful.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt very satisfied after inspecting the training ground, he looked up at the side of the training ground, there was a big tree whose leaves were already yellow, and when the wind blew, the dead leaves floated down, so he sighed lightly: "It's time to harvest the autumn fu again......"