Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen has always followed the route of the Second Corps of the First Army of the Guards Army in the north.

Today, the forward troops of the First Army and the Second Corps of the Guards have recaptured Qingxian along the Grand Canal.

And Zhu Youzhen has also arrived in Cangzhou, not far from Qingxian.

Although it is now the spring of March, the season of red flowers and willows green, but because the luck has been broken, the current Hejian Mansion has become a little sluggish, and there is no busy scene in the past.

Fortunately, because of the Northern Expedition of the Guards, these places are calm although desolate.

Zhu Youzhen walked out of the chariot and could still see some people haunted.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but ask Xu Zhaohua, the eunuch who was attached to the hall of the celebrant and eunuch: "Zhaohua, what did you see?" ”

Xu Zhaohua pondered for a moment, she knew that Zhu Youzhen liked to hear the truth, so she replied: "Back to my father, what my sons saw was that there was no sound of reading in the village, and there were no brocade clothes in the streets. ”

Zhu Youzhen knew what Xu Zhaohua meant: after the Guards crossed the border, the entire grassroots society controlled by the squire clan seemed to have no upward vitality.

Xu Zhaohua was born in a scholarly family, and his attention was habitually focused on the gentry, and Zhu Youzhen could understand this.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen just smiled slightly and didn't say anything.

However, at this time, Zhu Youzhen saw Liu Xiyao, deputy chief officer of the Second Corps of the First Army of the Guards, and asked Liu Xiyao again: "Liu Xiyao, what did you see?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, what Weichen saw was a smile, the smile on the faces of the people, the smile of a three-year-old child pulling weeds in the field, Weichen also had such a smile in his own field when he was young, and he could only have that smile when he worked in his own field."

Liu Xiyao said with a smile on his face.

Zhu Youzhen still only smiled slightly and did not make any comments.

What Xu Zhaohua saw was that with the eradication of the entire northern gentry, there would be a fault in the grassroots social services of the entire north.

For example, in the past, the local gentry were responsible for building water conservancy, mediating disputes, providing relief to the poor and weak, supporting education and other grassroots services that needed to be undertaken by the imperial court.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen is very happy that the management of these grassroots societies is directly controlled by the imperial court, rather than through the squire, so that the people of the empire will not have the consequences of only knowing their own clan patriarch and not knowing the Ming king.

What Liu Xiyao saw was that with the eradication of the entire northern gentry class, the common people got their own land, and the interests and needs of the common people were satisfied.

This is the result that Zhu Youzhen wants to see, the Ming Dynasty has treated the gentry too favorably for hundreds of years, and it is time to let these gentry bleed, so that the common people can enjoy some benefits and no longer become outcasts.

In order to completely change the social form of the North Naoli region, the Northern Expedition of the First Army of the entire Guards Army was particularly slow, but it was precisely because of this that the reform movement of several provinces in the North Naoli region was carried out particularly thoroughly.

After all, Beizhili will be the core ruling area of the Ming Empire in the future, and the more thoroughly the reform movement is carried out, the more conducive it will be for Zhu Youzhen to transform the Ming Empire.

Zhu Youzhen has now received news of the victories of the Northern Expeditionary Army from all walks of life, and after knowing that there are only a few prefectures left in the Northern Zhili region in the entire Manchu Dynasty, his mood has also become very good.

The current Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen has never had such a sense of accomplishment as now, although he is now a traverser, but when he now knows that he is about to reunify the whole of China, he feels very excited.

It's one thing he can look forward to.

After all, being able to turn the tide when the alien race rises, and even be able to re-unify the rivers and mountains is not something that a random emperor can do.

Now Zhou Yuji, the Duke of Ningguo, who is now with Hu, is very respectful to Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Chongzhen, in his eyes, his Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty is the greatest saint in history, and no one in later generations will be able to reach His Majesty Emperor Chongzhen.

The first thing that made Zhou Yuji convince was that he didn't know why his Ming Emperor knew how to summon himself to Beijing and choose himself when Li Zicheng was about to break through Beijing.

He felt that His Majesty the Emperor was very knowledgeable.

Li Mingrui now has to admit that his Emperor Majesty is actually the wisest emperor in the world, and he is invincible in both his mind and the city.

"If it is said that ten years ago, there were only a few people who could believe that the Ming army could recapture Liaoyang, Shenyang and other cities outside the Guan, but His Majesty the Emperor has done this."

Li Mingrui wrote in his notes.

The 2nd Corps of the 1st Guards Army soon recaptured Ayutthaya, a transportation hub between Hejian and Baoding.

The recovery of Dacheng is equivalent to cutting off the connection between Baoding and Hejian Mansion, and the Qing Governor of Baoding Mansion, that is, Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingshu, will naturally have no time to take care of the defense of Hejian Mansion.

The Second Corps of the First Army of the Guards Army soon split into two routes, attacking Tianjin Wei from the two directions of Dacheng and Qingxian.

Due to the blockage of water transportation, it is difficult to get to Tianjin Wei by water.

But once it occupies Tianjin, Wei can reach Beijing directly by land or water.

Because of this, Tianjin Wei is very important for the defense of Beijing.

Dolgon even directly sent Wang Mingle of Doro County to lead the elite of 3,000 Manchurian iron cavalry and 50,000 Han army banners with white and yellow banners, as well as eighteen additional cannons to defend here.

Together with the 20,000 Han soldiers and 30,000 green battalions in the entire Tianjin Weiyuan, the total strength of the Qing army defending the entire Tianjin Wei was more than 100,000.

The total number of the First Army and the Second Corps of the Guards Army was only more than 70,000 people.

This can be regarded as a rare way of fighting more in the entire Northern Expedition.

Wang Mingle of Duoluo County of the Manchu Qing Dynasty knew that the defense of Tianjin had to defend the Ming army in two directions, one was the Ming army in the direction of Jinghai by land, and the other was the Ming army in the direction of Dagukou by water.

Therefore, Mingle, the king of Doluo County, deployed heavy troops in Jinghai and Dagukou.

In the Guards Army, the person in charge of commanding the battle to recover Tianjin Wei was Liu Xiyao, the deputy chief officer of the Second Corps of the First Army of the Guards.

Zhu Youzhen did not interfere with Liu Xiyao's command of the battle to recover Tianjin Wei, and he did not even let Zhou Yuji interfere.

How to arrange the troops is still only Liu Xiyao's responsibility.

However, Liu Xiyao also knew that he had to fight the battle of Tianjin Wei beautifully, after all, His Majesty the Emperor was in front of him, and he couldn't be too embarrassed.

Therefore, Liu Xiyao has been observing the enemy situation in the direction of Jinghai and Dagukou almost day and night these days.

The Manchus did not want to lose Tianjinwei, and the Ming Dynasty had to occupy Tianjinwei if they wanted the Northern Expedition to succeed, and neither side wanted to give up easily.

Dolgon also kept an eye on the movements in the direction of Tianjin Wei, and he even came to Tongzhou in person to get more information about the situation in Tianjinwei.

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