Since I have come to Huai'an.

Zhu Youzhen had to sacrifice to the mausoleum of his Zhu ancestor.

But Zhu Youzhen didn't make it very grand, he just asked Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and Ma Shiying, the secretary of the military department, to accompany him.

However, because of this, he found out that there was so much saline-alkali land outside Huai'an Mansion.

Zhu Youzhen picked up a piece of dry and hard soil: "What is the temperature in various places, there can be a catastrophe, although it is a troubled time, the military and politics are the first priority, but the people's livelihood cannot be ignored." ”

Since Wu Mengming, the commander of Jinyiwei, was in charge of intelligence gathering, Zhu Youzhen also asked him to arrange intelligence collection points for collecting climate change and weather conditions in various places.

Wu Mengming's memory is not bad, and he didn't take out his notebook, so he directly and concisely reported the situation in various places.

"The temperature in October this year is colder than last year's December, Your Majesty, you see, Huai'an Mansion has now begun to have snow, and in Shanxi, North Zhili and other places have already been snowed three feet, several places have occurred snow disasters, now the war in the north, naturally there is no government relief, frozen to death and starved to death countless people, even in Hanzhong area also began to have a big freeze, just yesterday, Weichen just got the report, Shaanxi has a big freeze, starvation everywhere."

After Wu Mengming said, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but sigh a sigh of relief, rubbing his hands and jumping on the stiff ground a few times to drive away the cold.

Ma Shiying couldn't help but shrink his neck: "Now the weather is indeed getting more and more weird, Rao is that we can't stand this bitter cold in the south, not to mention the people who are single-clothed and thinly clothed, Your Majesty, it seems that Weichen is more and more sure that Jiannu will not be satisfied with sitting on half of the north of the country, and now there is no food to fight in the north, no people to rob, they don't go south, how can they maintain their foundation." ”

"Now that it is about to enter the cold winter, the Tartars are also afraid of the cold, before the spring of next year, they should not have large-scale military operations, Li Zicheng estimates that they will have to fight for the winter, as long as Li Zicheng does not move, Zuo Liangyu will not move, that is to say, this winter is at least safe, but starting next spring, I am afraid that there will be more than one fierce battle."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Ma Shiying and Wu Mengming couldn't help but nodded.

Ma Shiying still didn't forget the Heidonglin Party: "It's just that the gentry in Jiangnan are still singing and dancing, busy bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, I heard that Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places have begun to hold flower parties, completely put the current crisis in their minds, and satirize the current politics, which is really dampening!" ”

"Send a message to Gao Jie and Sun Shilun and Yin Chengde of Ying Tianfu, at present, the war in the north is becoming more severe, and there must be a large number of displaced people rushing in, be sure to maintain law and order, let Dongchang pay attention to reviewing the enemy's meticulous work, and don't be careless! Beware of people fanning the flames and preventing us from having a good year. ”

Saying that, Zhu Youzhen said to Wu Mengming, the commander of Jinyiwei: "At present, the main strategy is to unite with Kou and capture it, but once Li Zicheng becomes the emperor, he will definitely not be attached to me, even if he is willing, the hundred officials are only afraid and unwilling, now Li Zicheng has offended the gentry of the whole world, he must not die, this person will not die, the thief will still be a monolith, you send a few reliable people, it is best to assassinate Li Zicheng when he goes south to Huguang!" ”

Saying that, Zhu Youzhen instructed Ma Shiying again: "Now the Ministry of War can send envoys to contact the various departments of the Chuang Army, express their goodwill, it is now a cold winter, send some food and silver or something, if there are subordinates who belong to the Chuang Army, tell them that as long as they pull up a Chuang Army to join the Ming Dynasty, I will give him credit, and no longer leave his reputation in the history of his defection to the enemy, and let the princes in the court contact their colleagues who have surrendered to the enemy, and this Jinyi Wei can help." ”

"In addition, Li Yan is a person with great strategy, Li Zicheng can once become the strongest person in the world from a liukou, it has nothing to do with him, since he and Li Zicheng have a disagreement at the moment, Jinyiwei might as well secretly add fire, don't let Li Zicheng kill Li Yan, find the opportunity to win him over, and tell him that I can give him the staff headquarters of the Generalissimo's Mansion as the chief of staff, and at the same time I can worship the official of Lang Shangshu."

After Zhu Youzhen said, Ma Shiying couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, the thieves are just thieves, Your Majesty, if you can abandon your previous suspicions, appease them, and forgive their crimes, it is already a grace of heaven, why bother to treat Li Yan so politely, even if he has some strategies, he is just a grassy coward." ”

"Ma Shiying, you have the wisdom of a prime minister but you don't have the vision of a prime minister, remember, as a cabinet minister, the important minister in charge of the military department must have a mind that tolerates all rivers, Jiannu Dolgon accepts Wu Sangui and others, and uses the prince as bait; If you focus on infighting and sowing discord, I can say ugly things in front, and then I don't mind asking for your head, so as to set an example! ”

Ma Shiying couldn't help but tremble when she heard Zhu Youzhen say this, and hurriedly said: "Weichen is guilty!" ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't know if Wu Mengming could succeed in assassinating Li Zicheng.

However, he hoped that Li Zicheng would die sooner rather than wait until May next year to be killed by a local landlord in Jiugong Mountain.

At least, if Li Zicheng is allowed to die now, the essence of Li Zicheng's invasion army is still there, and taking advantage of the slowdown in Jiannu's current offensive, it can prompt more invasion troops to join the Ming Dynasty instead of surrendering to the Tartars.

Moreover, in this way, it is conducive to the Ming official army and the attached Chuang army to have more time to integrate, so that they can better exert their combat effectiveness in the future war against the Tartars.

Originally, the reason why the Southern Ming Dynasty was defeated many times in history was related to the discord between the Ming official army and the peasant army attached to each other.

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Zhou Yuji, Liu Fangliang, He Xin, Li Banghua, Li Mingrui, and Lu Zhenfei were summoned to the front of the palace by Zhu Youzhen.

These six people are now Zhu Youzhen's core descendants.

Except for Lu Zhenfei, they were all officials who moved south with Zhu Youzhen.

And Zhu Youzhen is now summoning them to the front of the palace, naturally for the current Huai'an military training.

According to Li Mingrui's report, the number of conscripts has now reached 600,000, and Zhu Youzhen resolutely ordered to stop recruiting troops when he heard this.

"The whole 600,000 people, naturally they can't all stay, call all the scribes and people who can read and hyphenate in Huai'an Mansion, and then go to Yangzhou to find it, first count the 600,000 people who have the fame of being a child, and then count the subordinates who have a certain martial arts or were the main soldiers of the official army before, such as Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Yuanhua, Yuan Keli, Sun Chuanting and other subordinates; The rest of the people will then take a physical fitness test, according to a set of screening and assessment procedures established by the Ministry of War. ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen's order was given, the people below began to implement it intensively.

Naturally, the tally of 600,000 people is not an easy task.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen asked the people from Dongchang to help coordinate, and the readers of the entire Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion were arrested and began to assist in the copywriting work.

In addition, before this, Li Mingrui had already registered as a candidate, so the speed was relatively fast.