Because the Zhou Liu clan is now the official governor of the right capital, and now he is responsible for guarding Baoding.

In order to express his importance to himself, Zhu Youzhen specially recognized Liu as his sister and gave Liu his national surname, with Zhaoming as the name and women as the character.

After all, now that he has made his family Zhou Yuji's family lose a son.

Now the hostess of his family is facing the pursuit of two bandits.

Zhu Youzhen must have this expression in order to appease the hearts of loyal ministers and good generals a little.

"From now on, you are not only the wife of Ning Wubo Zhou Yuji, but also the sister of me, and I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

So, please rest assured Aiqing, my brother will not abandon you and other officers and soldiers defending the city, after he goes south to settle down, I will let Zhou Yuji lead a large army to respond, I hope that the emperor's sister must insist! ”

Zhu Youzhen took the initiative to hand over to Mrs. Liu to show his trust.

As a daughter and child, Mrs. Liu never thought that she would be so valued by His Majesty the Emperor today, and even gave the country the surname and name of the country and became the sister of the Ming Emperor!

Although he is actually older than Zhu Youzhen, this kind of honor of becoming an imperial prince is unattainable.

From this moment on, she suddenly had a sense of mission to protect her family, and she was even more moved by Zhu Youzhen's behavior, so she hurriedly swore that even if she died in battle, she would defend Baoding City for her brother Zhu Youzhen for a month.

Zhou Yuji also had mixed feelings in his heart at this time, even if he knew that his wife was likely to die because of this, but because of this, he was so honored by His Majesty, and he had no regrets about death, and even this was already regarded as the emperor's grace, even he Zhou Yuji had to be more loyal to His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

Since Zhu Zhaoming, that is, Mrs. Liu, is already the imperial family, Queen Zhou took Zhu Zhaoming over to greet and give gifts, which is not only the closeness of the sister-in-law to the sister-in-law, but also the gratitude of Zhu Zhaoming for the protection of the Ming royal family.

In addition to Zhu Zhaoming, the right governor of Baoding, Ni Yuanlu, the head of the household department, was also retained.

In the days of guarding Baoding City in the future, the most difficult thing is the collection of grain and grass and the recruitment and mobilization of the brave defenders of the city, calling on the people to do their best to defend the city, and in this regard, Ni Yuanlu, as a civil minister, is naturally more suitable than the military general Zhu Zhaoming.

What's more, Baoding City is an important canal town, although the wealth of the common people was almost looted by Li Jiantai at the beginning, but most of the money and grain in Baoding City are still concentrated in the hands of the local gentry.

And Ni Yuanlu, as a Qingliu official, was born in the Donglin Party in Jiangnan, so it was naturally easier to call on these gentry to donate money and food to assist the Ming army in defending the city.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen wanted to leave Ni Yuanlu in Baoding City and not take him south, and he also had his own selfish intentions.

Because Ni Yuanlu is from the Donglin Party.

Zhu Youzhen predicted that in the future, once he rebuilt his foundation in Nanjing, he would inevitably be constrained by the Donglin Party in the south.

Therefore, now if you can take one less Donglin bigwig, you can bring as little as possible when you go south.

Even if Ni Yuanlu is a relatively virtuous Donglin Party official, he can do the whole family martyrdom for himself in the original history, but as an emperor, arranging officials is like playing chess, and it cannot be arranged only based on his moral character.

Ni Yuanlu naturally happily agreed, and Zhu Zhaoming, a female streamer in the past, dared to agree to defend Baoding for one month for Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and he naturally couldn't retreat as a dignified household secretary.

In addition, he now also wants to do something for the Ming Dynasty and His Majesty the Emperor, and he wants to show Zhu Youzhen that he is not only loyal and courageous, but also capable of ministers in troubled times.

Although Zhu Youzhen was selfish, he was not stingy with the courtesy he should give to these civil officials on the surface, and immediately added Ni Yuanlu to the post of Dongge University Scholar, and was crowned as the crown prince, so that he could change from a second-class official to a first-class official, and become a cabinet minister, which can be regarded as a show of respect.

Staying with Ni Yuanlu was Wang Chengen, the commander of Dongchang.

Wang Chengen, as a minister, can be regarded as Zhu Youzhen's slave and a real confidant.

Zhu Youzhen asked him to stay in Baoding City, but he did not let him take the post of supervising the army of the Dongchang Factory, but was ready to sing a white face at any time.

Zhu Youzhen knows the virtue of these bureaucrats and gentry in the Ming Dynasty, but few of them take out money to help the displaced people, and now the defense of the city needs the support of soldiers, horses, money and food, and Zhu Youzhen can't leave all the material base for his southward revitalization in Baoding, so once these gentry refuse to take the initiative to donate grain, he can only let the people of Dongchang fabricate charges and force them to collect money and grain from the gentry.

The Ming Dynasty can get to this point, and the gentry who embezzle the people's fat and ointment but do not pay the national tax have to bear a lot of responsibility.

But they were the basis of the rule of the entire empire.

Especially at the grassroots level of society, the clan rule of these gentry is more effective than that of their own emperor.

Therefore, in the future, if Daming wants to revive the foundation, Zhu Youzhen will have to deal with the relationship with the gentry group.

It is necessary to divide part of the gentry into the interests of the common people, but not to offend all these gentry, so that the entire gentry group completely deviates from the Ming Dynasty, in that case, it will be difficult for the emperor to make the Ming rise again.

After Li Zicheng became the master of Beijing, the biggest failure was that he did not realize that he was already the emperor of the whole world and not just the emperor of the peasants, so he chose the city of Beijing to torture hundreds of officials and extort money, so that the bureaucrats and gentry completely turned away from him as the new emperor, and chose to cooperate with Jiannu.

Mr. Gu Cheng mentioned in his book "History of the Southern Ming Dynasty" that the reason why Jiannu was able to enter the Central Plains and Li Zicheng failed was because of the cooperation between the Manchu military aristocracy and the Han bureaucratic aristocracy.

Li Zicheng's failure was because he only united the lower-class Li Shu, such as the slogan that King Chuang came and did not pay for food, but did not unite the upper-class gentry group.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen naturally could not completely abandon these bureaucrats and gentry who were attached to him, but he could not continue to allow the bureaucratic gentry group to exploit the people of Lishu.

As an emperor, he wanted to re-divide the relationship of social interests, so that all classes of people would rekindle their confidence in him as an emperor, and believe that they would be able to gain more benefits by following him.

Most of the current gentry groups still have feelings for the Ming Dynasty, one is the influence of traditional Confucian etiquette, and the other is that many policies of the Ming Dynasty under the manipulation of the civil official group are beneficial and lenient to the gentry, even excessively favorable and lenient.

In the south, all production relations, including population and land, were controlled by these gentry, so Zhu Youzhen did not have to worry about not being supported by the southern gentry after moving south.

But Zhu Youzhen now has to consider whether he will also be controlled by the southern gentry after moving south in the future, especially the Donglin Party, the representative of the southern gentry.

"Back then, after Song Gaozong moved south to Lin'an, when the world was a little quiet, Qin Hui went into slander Song Gaozong to kill the general Yue Fei, causing the Northern Expedition to fall short, the most fundamental reason for this is that the Jiangnan gentry were unwilling to lose their own interests due to the Northern Expedition, and now the Ming Dynasty is going to repeat the old road of the Southern Song Dynasty, but I don't want to be Song Gaozong, Ning Wubo can't be the second Yue Fei, and I don't want the civil officials present to be the second Qin Hui, understand?"

After Zhu Youzhen identified the officials who stayed in Baoding, he held a court meeting on what to do after moving south, and at the court meeting, he bluntly told his thoughts to the hundred officials.