Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but laugh when he learned the exact time of the Manchu Qing army's march from Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

Now, he wants to fight this battle more than the Manchus.

In fact, it was more of a helpless move for Dolgon to organize troops to go south again, if he wanted to divert the Manchu and Han disputes under the Manchu Qing power, and if he wanted to solve the food crisis in the north, he had to destroy the Ming Dynasty!

Let the Manchu aristocracy and the Han gentry have to have a common goal.

And the goal is to dominate the world.

However, whether it is the comparison of the comprehensive national strength of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, or the comparison of the people's will and the foundation of grassroots rule.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty no longer had the military advantage of the first southern expedition.

Although the number of troops has expanded a lot, most of them are newly recruited and put together Han soldiers, and many of them are Ming officers and soldiers who were previously undisciplined.

On the other hand, after the Ming Dynasty successfully resisted the Qing army's southward movement for the first time, although many upper-class political figures in China were pessimistic about the war because of Zhu Youzhen's series of tough policies, the low-level common people and the Shu landlord class had a certain confidence in the Ming Dynasty's ability to occupy the south.

At least not as pessimistic as Chongzhen's seventeenth year.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty has reorganized the army, and it is different from the old-style army formed by the avant-garde military system, and even the army that has experienced actual combat and has a high cultural quality and even has a military soul.

Not to mention the equipment manufacturing capacity and combat thinking, although there are many generals in the Manchu Qing Dynasty who are famous generals of this era, the generals of the Ming Guards are not straw bales.

Therefore, a wise man as Dolgon must have known that the difficulty of this southern expedition was much more difficult than the first time, after all, the principle of declining again in one fell swoop was also applicable at this time.

But in terms of political interests and economic interests, he had to choose to go south again.

Zhu Youzhen is the same now, he also needs to fight this battle to prove the correctness of his iron-blooded rule, increase his prestige, and make the gentry in the Ming Dynasty completely respect him, knowing that his majesty the emperor can lead them to resist foreign aggression.

Especially when he saw and heard the discussion that many gentry and even ministers like Shi Kefa and Fan Jingwen still strongly believed that doing so would make the Ming lose their chances of winning in the decisive battle with the Manchus, Zhu Youzhen's determination to win the Manchus again became stronger.

Not only Zhu Youzhen, but also the officials of the Generalissimo's Office and the officials of the civilian clique who supported Zhu Youzhen's suppression of the cabinet by Ruan Dayue, the secretary of the military department, also desperately hoped that the Ming Guards could defeat the Manchus again, so as to prove the usefulness of their allegiance to His Majesty.

The common people and the common people also hoped that the Ming Dynasty would win the Manchu Qing again and continue to provide them with a peaceful environment.

In short, in the second half of the twentieth year of Chongzhen, people from all walks of life in the entire Ming Dynasty focused their attention on the upcoming war, and they all put down their political views for the time being.

Both those who oppose Zhu Youzhen and those who support Zhu Youzhen are waiting for the results of this war to prove whether what they insist on is right or wrong.

Not only the Ming Dynasty, but also the Qing Dynasty at this time.

The Manchurian aristocracy Zilharang's party still endured Dolgon's party to control the government and wanted to see the results of this war, and Dolgon's party also waited for the victory of this war to re-establish its dominance in the Qing Dynasty.

After all, only this war can defeat the Ming Dynasty and unify the whole world, and they don't have to worry about bearing the name of a Han 0 traitor, and use this result to prove their correctness, proving that the Ming Dynasty is indeed difficult to return, and when it is time to perish, they surrender to the Qing Dynasty is just a move to conform to the will of the people.

Zhu Youzhen was like a boxer at this time, staring at the wind and clouds rolling under the northern sky with eagle-like eyes, he knew that he urgently needed a big victory to maintain his new policy reform to consolidate his rule, so he did not dare to take it lightly now.

"Tomorrow is called Daqi, since Da Ming is at the time of life and death again, I must have a general arrangement for the overall situation."

Zhu Youzhen conveyed his edict to Lu Jiude.

At that time, Wu Mengming had already retreated, leaving him alone and still standing in the sunset watching the red sun slowly fall under the Purple Mountain:

"This time, we must eat the living force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that it will no longer have the strength to march south!"

The general arrangements for national events will be made tomorrow, and today while it is not too late, Zhu Youzhen decided to meet the queen Zhou, and his harem also has to explain some things, after all, the audition stage of the concubine selection is almost over, and the next thing will have to be presided over by the queen.

Zhu Youzhen's selection of concubines is naturally not just for the stallion to expand the harem, he has the desire to like beautiful women or even the more the better, this is a man's nature, but more importantly, he wants to let himself have more heirs, so that the Ming royal family can have stronger competitors, well, this is actually a stallion, and even a stallion activity supported by the entire imperial political group.

But as Zhu Youzhen said to Chen Yuanyuan that day, he didn't expect to equate himself with an ordinary person with seven emotions and six desires by accepting more women, he had to always maintain the greatest sanity and show the most ruthless side.

Zhu Youzhen now treats his queen more like a very trusted official, although they have skin to skin with each other, but there is no emotional communication.

"I have been preparing to leave the palace for a few months, and the affairs in the palace still have to rely on the queen to handle more, especially the selection of concubines;

This time, I agreed to the invitation of the hundred officials, not only to expand the harem, but also to cultivate the idea of cultivating candidates for the management of the inner court of the twenty-four yamen of the Ming Dynasty;

If there are literate people, there is no need to test their appearance, and those who are still of good character and outstanding talents can be retained as female officials at that time;

I will also make a decision not to allow future emperors and royal descendants to marry or even have relations with these female officials, and these female officials can only marry commoners in the future, pay attention to marry;

There is no way to do this, there are many key departments here, and now I deliberately stop the castration from appearing, in order to prevent this inhumane act of destroying humanity from appearing again, even if the politics need the royal need, to prevent the eunuch from being produced again.

In order to avoid the emergence of a large number of perverted psychology and promote population growth, the same behavior of drowning female babies and foot binding, I also asked the Criminal Department to amend the Daming Law to strictly prohibit the law of infantile drowning, the crime of infant drowning is the same as murder, regardless of whether the murderer is a relative or not, and the female foot binding person will be sentenced to three years in prison for her parents!

Since I want to reproduce the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties, and even if I want to go far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties, I have to abandon some dross, and in order to prevent the occurrence of troubles in the palace, there is no eunuch, and it can only be replaced by women.

This world is composed of men and women, people have parents, flowers have oysters, beasts have male and female, yin and yang, the principles of nature, the way of all things, although the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, but non-women are not allowed to be officials;

Therefore, this time the selection of concubines, called the selection of concubines, is actually selected by the inner court, and my concubines are enough, and the nobles below the concubines are always waiting and do not need to be selected, and the rest are all used as candidates for female officials and palace ladies;

Be sure to keep more people, and when the time comes, I will select the best ones to be elected to the inner study hall, but I, the prince, and the courtiers are forbidden to have feelings for female officials, and if there is, they must be removed from their positions and deposed from the palace! ”

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