Then, because the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate impeached Fan Jingwen for failing to detect the flaws in advance in the previous tax stamp cheating case, resulting in damage to the country, Fan Jingwen took the blame and resigned.

However, Zhu Youzhen issued a central decree to retain the post of first assistant to Fan Jingwen's cabinet, and he was still in charge of the cabinet, and allowed him to resign from the post of secretary of the household department.

On the recommendation of Fan Jingwen, the post of the head of the household department was promoted by Qi Biaojia, the right attendant of the household department.

Fan Jingwen's reason is that Liu Wanchun, the left waiter of the household department, is still young, and although he is a left waiter, he will not be promoted for the time being.

Fan Jingwen suggested that the new right attendant of the household department should be promoted by Qu Shiyun, the governor of Yingtian.

At the same time, Ying Tian Governor Cheng De was promoted to Ying Tian Governor, and Changzhou Governor Guo Jiayin was appointed as Ying Tian Governor because of the high tax amount.

Although Chen Yi is a quiet and sensitive person, he is too cowardly, and he still retains his original position, and does not investigate his crimes or pursue his merits.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen also made up for the position of Qi Biaojia Wenyuan Pavilion Scholar and entered the cabinet for pre-machine affairs, ranking below Ma Shiying and above Liu Zongzhou.

That is to say, there are a total of six cabinet scholars in the current Ming Cabinet, namely Fan Jingwen, a scholar of Jianji Temple, Gao Hongtu, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, Ma Shiying of Wuyingdian University, Qi Biaojia, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University, Liu Zongzhou, a scholar of Dongge University, and Song Yingxing, a scholar of Dongge University.

Except for Fan Jingwen, who is the first assistant of the cabinet and does not concurrently hold the position of the six ministers, the rest are all the officials in the six ministries, the rites, households, the workers, and the military departments.

Next, only the tasks of the Ministry of War for next year have not been put forward by Zhu Youzhen, but the Ministry of War is involved in military affairs, so it is natural that it must be decided together with the Generalissimo's Office.

Therefore, discussing next year's affairs of the Ministry of War is equivalent to discussing next year's military affairs.

Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen simply summoned the officials of the Generalissimo's Mansion and the officials of the military department together in the Generalissimo's Mansion on the west side of the Qianqing Palace.

Li Yan, Qu Shiyun, Cheng De, Qi Biaojia, Guo Jiayin, Liu Wanchun, and others have been personally trained by Zhu Youzhen, cabinet ministers, and six Shangshu at the Daming School of Administration for a period of time.

Now, after Qu Shiyun and other officials were promoted, he has also been promoted by Zhu Youzhen to the deputy chief of staff of the Generalissimo's Office and the left squire of the Military Department, assisting Ma Shiying in handling the affairs of the Military Department and the strategic layout of the Generalissimo's Mansion.

Ma Shiying knew that Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen intended to train Li Yan, so he had already focused on the affairs of the military department and the formation of the navy, and handed over the task of military strategic research to Li Yan.

Li Yan now received military intelligence from various parts of the Ming Dynasty in the Generalissimo's Mansion, coupled with the domestic economic intelligence of the Ming Dynasty from the Dongchang Central Survey and Statistics Bureau, and has quite a lot of experience in the study of the entire imperial military strategy of the Ming Dynasty.

In the main hall of the Generalissimo's Mansion, which was ordinarily decorated and somewhat crowded, Zhu Youzhen sat in the center, Ma Shiying, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Zhou Yuji, the minister of the army and the chief officer of the First Army of the Guards, stood on both sides of Zhu Youzhen, Huang Degong sat opposite Zhu Youzhen, and Yuan Jixian and others on the side.

Liu Fangliang stood at the door, looking at Li Yan who was standing in front of the military map.

Li Yan was indeed a little nervous at this time, and he never thought that one day he would talk about the war in the world in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, in front of His Majesty the Ming Emperor and many famous generals in the world.

"From the beginning of this year to July, the Ming Dynasty was troubled internally and externally, first Zuo Liangyu raised troops in Huguang, Yasukuni Gong and Yuan Shaobao led the headquarters to curb Zuo Liangyu in the Huaixi area of the right side of the river, and then Liu Dudu, the deputy commander-in-chief, led the troops westward to annihilate Zuo Liangyu's troops in Suzhou;

At this point, there is no strong domain on the side of my Daming couch;

Later, the prince of Jiannuying, Azig and the prince of Yu, Duoduo, led the Qing army to the south, Keshanxi, Shaanxi and other places, and finally the Duoduo Department entered Henan, and the Azig Department entered Huguang, but fortunately, His Majesty the Emperor made a wise decision and strategized to destroy the Duoduo Department before Huaiyang, and then ordered the Guards to rush to the aid of the Azig Army, so that the southern Ming Dynasty was protected. ”

Li Yan first roughly told the entire Ming Dynasty's military history this year, and the ministers all laughed when they heard it.

After all, there are many battles here, and a lot of people present have participated, and now when Li Yan mentions it, he naturally has an immersive feeling.

Next, Li Yan mentioned the forecast of next year's military situation:

"Jiannu suffered two defeats and lost nearly 20,000 Manchurian iron cavalry, which is not a heavy blow to Jiannu, and the north has withered because of years of war, and the Qing court issued a shaving order and a land enclosure order, and the people are full of grievances, so Weichen thinks that the Qing court will not go south again next year; Even if the Qing court wants to go south again next year, it will be after the autumn harvest and when the grain and grass are abundant;

And if that is the case, the army of the Qing court going south must be dominated by Han soldiers, and the proportion of Manchurian iron cavalry will definitely be reduced, and the Qing court will also realize that the conquest of Jiangnan is not enough to rely on iron hooves, and will be equipped with more firearms and artillery.

Of course, with the current combat strength and national strength of our Ming Dynasty, it will be difficult for the Qing court to win even if the Qing court once again mobilizes the country's strength to conquer the south, but the Qing court has to march south, the reason is that without the grain of the south, the Qing court in Beijing will be difficult to continue, and the longer it drags on, the more difficult it will be for the Qing court to conquer the south, just like the Jin and the Southern Song Dynasty, the strength of the Jin southern expedition is declining year by year.

That is to say, as long as the Ming Dynasty defeats the Qing army's southern expedition again, the Qing army will no longer be able to go south, and in order to seize the grain production land, it can only take the land of Hanzhong or Sichuan, and Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi will be the enemy;

As long as my Ming Dynasty defeats the Qing army's southern expedition again, he can accumulate enough combat power to expedition the Central Plains in the north within two or three years, and then he can also advance by land and water, recapture the north, and revitalize the Ming Dynasty! ”

As soon as Li Yan said this, Zhu Youzhen stood up and patted Li Yan on the shoulder:

"Li Aiqing is right, I also think so, the Qing court suffered two defeats this year, it is inevitable to recuperate, and it will not go south easily in a short time, but I still have to guard against it, so next year the troops in each station area still need to actively prepare for war and train soldiers and horses, if the Qing court goes south, it is still more likely to go south from Huguang, Shandong, and Henan, and the first and third armies of the Guards are still defending Henan and Shandong, and Huguang still needs to be defended by the Fourth Army of the Guards Army, as long as the Qing court dares to send a large army again, We're going to make sure he doesn't come back! ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Liu Fangliang shouted first: "Yes, let him have no return!" ”

The other generals chimed in.

"Now the heaviest task should be Jinyiwei, Wu Mengming, your Jinyiwei should continue to closely reconnoiter the enemy's situation, find out the internal information of the Qing court, especially some Manchu generals and Han officials who are good at fighting in the Qing court, find out their current bottom, including the current degree of improvement of the Qing court's firearms skills and artillery skills, the treatment of Jinyiwei needs to be improved again, the silver is tripled, and all the expenses of the Jinyiwei who are spying on the enemy's situation outside will be borne by the Generalissimo's Mansion, and the Jinyiwei will command Wu Mengming to remember to ask Han Shoujing of the Generalissimo's Mansion Finance Office to ask for money."

It is precisely because of Zhu Youzhen's words that in the future, the personnel of Jinyiwei actively hope to go behind enemy lines to do things, so that they can get a good income.

(End of chapter)