As for whether Li Banghua can successfully eliminate Liu Liangzuo's department, Zhu Youzhen is not worried.

First of all, he, the emperor, directly gave him all the millions of furniture accumulated by Liu Zeqing over the years, and Li Banghua did it as the military salary for the elimination of Liu Liangzuo.

There must be brave men under the so-called heavy reward, even if Li Banghua no longer knows how to command, he can use money to smash the morale of Liu Fangliang and Gao Jie.

What's more, most of the people of Liu Fangliang and Gao Jie are from homeless backgrounds, and they have always been poor, as long as the money is enough, they are not afraid that they will not sell their lives.

Secondly, Liu Fangliang and Gao Jie are also old thieves who have been fighting with the official army for many years, and their combat effectiveness is relatively strong, at least they can completely abuse the soldiers and bandits under Liu Liangzuo who will only harm the people and only know how to run.

Moreover, Liu Liangzuo's department, which occupies Fengyang Shouzhou, and Gao Jie's department, which occupies Xuzhou, have always been in constant friction and deep contradictions.

Zhu Youzhen asked Gao Jie's subordinates to attack Liu Liangzuo's subordinates, which was undoubtedly in Gao Jie's arms, and it was impossible for Gao Jie not to do his best.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen also specially added a will, the Ming Dynasty has never been awarded a knighthood, and Zhou Yuji was named Ning Wubo because of his meritorious service in saving the driver.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen has promised that as long as Gao Jie and Liu Fangliang exterminate Liu Liangzuo, Zhu Youzhen will crown the two as earls.

Therefore, just by virtue of being knighted, Liu Fangliang and Gao Jie can also try their best to exterminate Liu Liangzuo's department.

"The money and food have been given to you, and the two most warlike armies of my Ming Dynasty have been handed over to you, if Aiqing can't get rid of this Liu Liangzuo for me in the shortest possible time, you don't have to come to Nanjing to see me, just commit suicide to thank the countrymen."

Zhu Youzhen said this to Li Banghua, the secretary of the Soldier Department of Wuyingdian University.

Li Banghua nodded solemnly: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty will not get rid of the thief, please send troops to liquidate my Li family's property, and Weichen is willing to use it all for the country!" Also includes Weichen's head! ”

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The Third Guards Army led by Li Banghua and Liu Fangliang, the secretary of the Soldier Department of Wuyingdian University, left.

Li Mingrui also made meritorious contributions for successfully luring Liu Zeqing into Jinan City and was executed, and was promoted by Zhu Youzhen to Huaiyang, the governor of the imperial history of Zuo Yandu.

Although this position was only a governor before, it now plays a pivotal role in the Ming Dynasty, where the political center has moved south.

Zhu Youzhen preemptively let Li Mingrui, a confidant official who withdrew south with him, to governor Huaiyang, in fact, seize power from Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department.

Logically speaking, Shi Kefa is the military and political power of the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu to control Nanjing and its surroundings, that is, the entire Nanzhili.

Now, Zhu Youzhen has asked Li Mingrui to patrol Huaiyang, which is to control the military control of Huai'an and Yangzhou, which are important barriers to Nanjing.

In this way, he, the emperor, can sit firmly in the position of emperor after arriving in Nanjing, and there is no need to worry about someone taking the opportunity to mess up Huaiyang and thus threaten Nanjing.

However, before Zhu Youzhen entered the Huaiyang territory and had not yet arrived in Nanjing, Li Mingrui, as the governor of Huaiyang, replaced Li Banghua as the temporary adviser minister to Zhu Youzhen, giving advice for Zhu Youzhen and taking charge of all matters on the way to the south.

Li Mingrui also knew that his position as the governor of Huaiyang was similar to that of Kaifeng Mansion Yin in the Northern Song Dynasty, he was an important minister at the feet of the Son of Heaven, with a low position and power, and now His Majesty Zhu Youzhen asked him to temporarily coordinate the matter of retreating south, which was completely with the intention of cultivating him into a future minister, so Li Mingrui had to do his best.

It is naturally not difficult to find reasons for the elimination of Liu Liangzuo, and there have always been many imperial histories to impeach Liu Liangzuo, especially the officials of the Donglin Party who impeached Liu Liangzuo the most.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen now has no choice but to borrow the knife of the Donglin Party to kill Liu Liangzuo, a warlord.

Among the four towns in Jiangbei, Liu Zeqing, who is entrenched in Huaiyang, Shandong, has been eliminated by Zhu Youzhen.

The Gaojie department that occupied Xuzhou was bought by Zhu Youzhen, and was about to attack Liu Liangzuo for Zhu Youzhen.

Liu Liangzuo, who occupied Fengyang Shouzhou, was about to face the fate of being exterminated.

Huang Degong of Luzhou was the only trustworthy official in the four towns of Jiangbei, and Zhu Youzhen naturally would not touch him, and had already issued a decree to him, ordering him to beware of Zuo Liangyu's department in Huguang and to ensure the safety of the west side of Nanjing.

In other words, the problem of the warlords in the four towns of Jiangbei has basically been clearly solved.

After Zhu Youzhen, Nanjing will not worry about internal troubles.

As for defending against foreign enemies, Zhu Youzhen has already left Zhu Zhaoming and Ni Yuanlu in Beizhili, Zhou Yuji and Sun Shilun in Shandong, and Zhou Yuji, the governor of Huaiyang.

It can be said that from the entire Central Plains to Jianghuai, Zhu Youzhen had already taken precautions before the arrival of the Tartars.

This is naturally much better than wasting a year of preparation time in the Hongguang period in the original history, when he was busy dealing with the three major internal cases.

Of course, this does not mean that after Zhu Youzhen retreats south, it will be smooth sailing, and he will be able to easily divide the river with Jiannu and smoothly accumulate strength to prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Even internally, there will still be the problem of the north-south party struggle that the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party have never diminished, and even because of the addition of Nandu officials, the struggle between the landlord class in the north and the south will be intensified.

In addition, there is also the threat of Zuo Liangyu's 800,000 troops.

and Zheng Zhilong's pirate group, which is nominally attached but actually controls most of the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade wealth, is a threat to the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the tax reform, which is necessary to increase the revenue of the national treasury and ease class contradictions, will certainly be met with great opposition.

These Zhu Youzhen need to be solved one by one.

The former Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen was just a master of power who had never been out of the capital, although he knew how to use people's hearts but did not know how to govern the world, but now Zhu Youzhen knows how difficult it is to control a corrupt political system and bring it back to life.

The difficulty of the operation is far more difficult than doing a complex surgical operation, and the risk is extremely high.

Therefore, even if Zhu Youzhen was the emperor, he had to take every step with all his might.

After leaving Jinan, Zhu Youzhen's next stop was Yanzhou Mansion.

Because Zhou Yuji led the First Guards Army to stay in Shandong, Liu Fangliang led the Second Guards Army to Xuzhou to meet Gao Jie by Li Banghua.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen is now only protected by He Xin's Second Guards Army.

Although the scale of the southern retreat has been greatly reduced, it is safer than before.

After all, there is no need to worry about chasing soldiers in the back, and there are no worries about soldiers and bandits in front.

"Your Majesty, after arriving in Yanzhou, as long as you pass through Huai'an and Yangzhou, you can reach Nanjing, so that the trip to the south can finally be completely over!"

Li Mingrui happily reported to Zhu Youzhen about the process of retreating south, and then couldn't help but bow his head:

"It's just that we have little money and food left, and the recent payment of military salaries and too much left for the governor of Shandong, Zhou Yujituntian, is too much, and the silver deposit is now less than two million taels."

Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything, just smiled and said: "Yanzhou is not far from Qufu, go to Qufu to see Confucius after arriving in Yanzhou." ”