Zhu Youzhen tried his best to use the way of borrowing ancient metaphors for the present to let the central ministers around him see the current situation of the Ming Empire clearly.

Although people have class attributes, they also have the ideal of realizing social harmony and happiness in life.

Therefore, in Zhu Youzhen's view, since he and the important ministers of the empire present want to revive the Ming Dynasty and restore the stable and rich social order of the past, they must understand these truths and have a situation in which they are willing to sacrifice the interests of their own class in exchange for a balanced distribution of social production interests.

Moving south is not just as simple as him, the emperor, going to Nanjing to be the emperor, and the Ming Dynasty continuing to continue the national throne in the south.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen's southward migration was to implant real governing concepts and political ideals into the imperial officials he relied on in the process of moving south.

If it was just that the simple Emperor Chongzhen moved south to Nanjing, and did not change the governing model of the entire empire, then he would still not be able to save the Ming Dynasty, which was about to perish, and the Chinese civilization would still not be able to avoid the doom of being ruled by foreign races.

And most of these officials, who only read the Four Books and the Five Classics, have always been accustomed to the Confucian method of governing the country.

For His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen's sudden proposal of this meticulous class analysis, in addition to surprise, there is also a little bit of understanding.

As officials who are willing to flee with Zhu Youzhen, the lonely emperor, at least they are idealists, and they are naturally worried about the country and the people.

Li Banghua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, felt that His Majesty seemed to be very different from before, and in his opinion, since Li Zicheng's army pressed the realm, His Majesty seemed to be a different person.

Before that, His Majesty was not assertive today, and was almost easily misled by the ministers, and many times it was the ministers who taught him how to be an emperor, and even used him as an emperor to accomplish his own goals.

And the current situation is that His Majesty will teach himself how to be a good high-ranking official in the center of the empire, how to work for the well-being of the people, how to rule the Ming Dynasty, and even use himself to accomplish his own goals.

Unconsciously, the style of the entire court has changed, in the past, it was the hundred officials who told the emperor what to do to be a good emperor, but now it is Zhu Youzhen who teaches them how to be a good courtier.

In his opinion, moving south is not only as simple as retreating from the north to the south, but also allowing His Majesty the Emperor to directly eradicate the forces that hinder him by taking advantage of Li Zicheng's external contradictions, and then smoothly regain financial and military power.

Now the money and food are controlled by Zhu Youzhen's henchman Wang Zhixin, and Zhu Youzhen and Zhou Yuji's wife became brother and sister, controlling the military power, plus the Second Guards Army is also controlled by his henchman He Xin.

Therefore, so that His Majesty Zhu Youzhen, the emperor, can have the power to give orders in the southern retreat team, and the officials can only obey and try their best to understand the will of His Majesty today.

Otherwise. Li Jiantai's fate is the best example.

Zhu Youzhen's temporary court meeting in Baoding City at this time made the officials begin to clearly understand the biggest contradictions and problems that they were about to face when moving south, and they also began to realize the real reason why the Ming Dynasty came to this point.

In order to fully follow the meaning of His Majesty Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Emperor, the civil officials who retreated south have begun to take the initiative to greet the military attachés, and the ministers are less arrogant, but no one would have thought that in the future, even if officials at all levels are affectionate, they will have to face the situation of parting ways and turning against each other because of different policy opinions.

After the temporary court meeting in Baoding City, Zhu Youzhen also had to start preparing to leave and continue south.

The next stop is Cangzhou City in Hejian Province.

Cangzhou City is also the last stop for Zhu Youzhen to stay in Beizhili.

After resting in Cangzhou, he could directly enter the territory of Dezhou Mansion in Shandong, and then he would enter the territory of Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong.

Zhu Youzhen asked Zuo Zhongyun Li Mingrui and He Xin, who was the imperial horse supervisor, to go to Cangzhou City first to prepare for his departure from Baoding.

And he himself and Li Banghua, Zhou Yuji and other important ministers continued to stay in Baoding City.

Next, he had to face not only the invasion army in the north but also the army of the warlord Liu Zeqing, so Zhu Youzhen asked Zhou Yuji to quickly reorganize and train the 80,000 officers and soldiers under his command in a short period of time.

Although it is not necessary to be able to transform 80,000 officers and men into the elite of a hundred battles, at least it is necessary to immediately clarify the command level and have the quality to basically carry out orders and prohibitions.

In this way, he can make his 80,000 troops have a certain combat power, and fight against various armies on the next way to the south.

Zhu Youzhen personally participated in this short-term intensive training, and he wanted to use his imperial status to enhance the enthusiasm of officers and men in training.

At the same time, he also wanted to use this to make these 80,000 officers and soldiers always realize whose soldiers they were, and always remember that the emperor was their master.

Zhou Yuji has always been good at military training, and has worked in Qi Jiajun and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, and has a complete set of experience in training soldiers.

In addition, now that the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen gave him a set of materials derived from the modern infantry training codex, Zhou Yuji did not dare to ask how Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, had this set of materials, but as a veteran with troops, he saw the advantages of this set of infantry drills at a glance.

In order to complete the basic training of his 80,000 officers and soldiers as soon as possible, he personally worked out the latest two sets of training programs overnight, "Daming Infantry Cavalry Simple Training Drill" and "Firearms Training Drill".

Among them, the infantry training in the "Daming Infantry Simple Training Manual" was mostly formulated by Zhu Youzhen based on military training experience and Zhou Yuji's many years of experience in leading troops, while cavalry training was mostly completed by Zhou Yuji.

The Firearms Training Code was developed on the advice of craftsmen and officials of the Ministry of Industries of the Ordnance Bureau, and basically taught soldiers how to operate firearms and how to practice three rounds of shooting.

Zhu Youzhen planned to stay in Baoding for 10 days, and he only stayed for 10 days, so it was impossible to expect much effect from the training, and it was enough to deal with the bandit-like officers and soldiers under Liu Zeqing's command.

Ni Yuanlu, Zhu Zhaoming, and Wang Chengen, who were responsible for guarding Baoding City, were all stepping up preparations for the war.

Zhu Youzhen and Zhou Yuji led 80,000 officers and soldiers to intensify training on the school grounds in the city.

The whole city of Baoding seems to be very lively, but it is also very orderly and very calm.

However, this calm was very short-lived, and on the eighth day of Zhu Youzhen's stay in Baoding City, a sentry came to report.

The army Liu Fangliang has captured the entire territory of Zhending Mansion, and has now occupied the three counties of Dingxing, Rongcheng and Xincheng, and the magistrate of Xiongxian County has fled, and will arrive in Baoding in a few days!