At this time, the outer hall of the River Governor's Office was already full of people.

Because Zhu Youzhen suddenly fainted and fell asleep last night, the officials involved in the Battle of Yangzhou no longer knew where everything should start after the war.

Some officials and generals began to talk about the war in Huguang and how to help Huguang, should they sit back and watch the Azig Department completely destroy the main force of the extermination army, and use the hands of the Qing army to eliminate this group of thieves who had a great impact on the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty in the past.

Some officials also began to talk about whether they should immediately take advantage of this great victory to make peace with the Qing army, first reach the current status quo of partition between the north and the south, and then plan for the northern expedition to recover the northern capital.

Some officials suggested immediately taking advantage of the opportunity of the great victory to immediately go on a northern expedition to destroy the Qing army in one fell swoop and restore the unity of the Ming Dynasty.

The victory of the Ming Guards in annihilating the Duoduo Department made the Ming civil and military officials at this moment fall into confusion, not knowing what to do next.

As soon as Zhu Youzhen appeared, the civil and military officials present immediately looked at Zhu Youzhen, bowed to Zhu Youzhen, and shouted in unison: "I've seen Your Majesty!" ”

"All Aiqing don't have to be polite, I heard the lively discussion of Aiqing before I came, why did I come here, and they were all silent again", Zhu Youzhen is in a very good mood now, the national survival crisis has been temporarily lifted, and he has just rejoiced with the beauty, and he is more and more radiant, although his face is sinking like water, but his eyes are kind.

"Back to Your Majesty, all the ministers are discussing the next strategy of the Ming Dynasty, although the Qing army has been surrounded and annihilated, but the Azig Department is still attacking Huguang, and the northern capital is still in the hands of Jiannu, and now everything is complicated, and I don't know how to start for a while", Gao Hongtu, the second assistant of the cabinet, replied.

The officials present all nodded to each other and discussed in a low voice, since last year, Zhu Youzhen has been eliminating the Donglin Party of empty talk, reusing the followers who do practical things, and personally guiding the civil and military officials how to focus on the overall situation and act on the ground whenever they encounter major events.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen is very pleased, the political system of the Ming Dynasty has been quite mature, from the six ministries of the cabinet to the three departments of the superintendent, the process of each matter has become a law, and there are good coping strategies, coupled with the maturity of the imperial examination system and the Quanxu system, so that the empire has completely escaped the point of normal operation with the good or bad of the emperor.

That is to say, the rise and fall of the Ming Empire has a lot to do with the civil and military officials present, especially the civil officials present, if they only know that the party is the same and different, empty talk and reasoning, then the Ming will only be numb and stagnant, if they are determined to innovate, to practice, the Ming will continue to operate, and even there will be improvement.

Now the current officials are not focusing on whether the prince should study, whether His Majesty should not keep a famous Qin Huai prostitute like Li Xiangjun by his side for a day and a night, but only pay attention to how the Ming Dynasty should go next, and how the imperial court should carry out the next strategy to recover the northern capital and revitalize the great cause of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the imperial court without the Donglin Party, no longer empty talk, no longer entangled in the private affairs of some imperial families, not deliberately challenging the imperial power for the interests of their own party and class, but blurring the contradictions between civil officials and imperial power, and shifting attention from the good or bad of the emperor to the safety of the world.

The so-called monarch is light, the people are important, and the society is secondary, in fact, more relationship should be placed on the people and the country, rather than on the emperor, so that officials in the court should do.

It is undoubtedly the utopian dream of nerdy officials to be entangled in the family affairs of the emperor, only to train the emperor into a model of etiquette and morality, and then hope that the top-down etiquette hierarchy will maintain the long-term peace and stability of the entire empire.

"Very good, you Aiqing have a social heart, worry about the people, worry about the country, I am very relieved, as Gao Aiqing said, although the crisis in the south of the Yangtze River is temporarily resolved, but the Qing army Azig Department is still plundering my Huguang, there is a great tendency to march into the south of the Yangtze River, the day of peace in the world has not really come, but the meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, things have to be done one by one, the war of the Qing army Azig Department, now I am afraid that it will only burn in the northern part of Huguang and Jiangxi, and it is still far from the south of the Yangtze River, and we have to wait for the news of Jinyiwei to make the next step, we have to give Li Yan, plug Yinxi, Huang Degong, Yuan Jixian and others have full trust, the first thing to do at the moment is to rest and recuperate in time, Henan, the northern part of Nanzhili, and the northern part of Shandong urgently need to recover and resume production and battle damage statistics, etc., all go down and prepare, Gao Aiqing stays! Li Ruolian immediately sent an edict to the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and Liu Zongzhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, hurriedly came to Yangzhou. ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, the ministers hid their thoughts in their hearts for the time being, listened to Zhu Youzhen's words, and began to do the practice in front of them.

Although Shi Kefa was the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor and the eunuch of Bingbi, he was also the director of the General Armament Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion, so he began to count the consumption of ordnance, horses, money and food and the seized data of various types of ordnance, horses, money and food since the Qing Army's Duoduo Department went south.

Wang Chengen, as the commander of Dongchang, naturally began to interrogate the small criminals who took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble when the Qing army went south, and was responsible for escorting Duoduo and other important criminals into Beijing to await trial.

Ma Shiying, as the secretary of the military department and the chief of staff of the Generalissimo's Office, began to mobilize guards from all over the country to recover the lost territories in Henan, Nanzhili and the north, and in the northern part of Shandong, he ordered the First Corps of the Guards Army to rush to the aid of Jinan, and together with Zhu Zhaoming and Ni Yuanlu, he recovered the lost territory in northern Shandong and controlled the Shandong Peninsula in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Yuji, as the head of the War Department of the Generalissimo's Office, began to count the casualties of the Guards in this battle and the casualties of the enemy, and gave bereavement to the dead officers and soldiers and carried out collective burials.

Liu Fangliang, as the director of the General Training Office of the Generalissimo's Office, was responsible for gathering the remaining healthy guards for rest and training, preparing to recruit recruits, and cooperating with Li Banghua to revise the recruit training program.

As the governor of Huaiyang, Li Mingrui was naturally responsible for restoring the production order in the Huaiyang area, recounting the acres of unowned land and dividing the land among the people.

Chen Zizhuang, the governor of Fengyang, was responsible for the resumption of production in the Fengyang area.

Due to the death of the governor of Henan, Lu Daqi, Zhu Youzhen directly transferred the scholar Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Henan and the chief military officer, to prepare to appease the Henan refugees to return to their hometowns and redivide the land of Henan.

After the battlefield outside the city was dealt with, after all the governors and officials of the Generalissimo's Office were dispatched, Yangzhou also reopened the city, and the checkpoints in various places officially resumed traffic, and a major war was officially declared over.

However, at this time, the battle damage data was also counted, the Guards infantry casualties were more than 15,000, the cavalry casualties were more than 6,000, and the artillery casualties were more than 30 people, of which the casualties of the grassroots officers were about 3,000, and the Qing army's nearly 100,000 iron cavalry were all annihilated except for Duoduo and other leaders who were captured and awaiting trial.

In this battle, the ratio of casualties between the Guards and the Qing Army was greater than 1:5, of course, this is not counting the fact that many of the Qing Army's iron cavalry were finally executed directly by the Guards with national enmity after giving up resistance, in that case, the casualties ratio of the Guards and the Qing Army should be greater.

It can be said that even if the Guards had flintlock pistols and field artillery and earth-shaking thunder in hand, they also suffered a lot of losses, especially the 3,000 grassroots officers, many of whom were talented and even jinshi or veteran officers and soldiers of the border army, all of whom were the backbone of the empire.

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