Gao Hongtu's whistleblowing made Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen realize that the enemies he was facing were still not only Jiannu, Liukou and warlords from the outside world.

And what he has to admit is that there are still Donglin officials who are not willing to give up and are unwilling to lose control of politics.

The pursuit of interests has prompted this group of so-called elites to challenge Zhu Youzhen's bottom line again and again, and of course, it is not only Zhu Youzhen who has to be their enemy.

In fact, in the original history, after the Manchu Qing unified the Central Plains, these Donglin Party officials who surrendered to the Manchus and tried to continue to be second-class masters were not willing to be deprived of political power and began to rebel.

For example, Qian Qianyi and his ilk, if they really want to fight for the Ming Dynasty and fight for China, why should they wait until the overall situation has been decided to suddenly fight for the Ming Dynasty, obviously dissatisfied with the Manchu military aristocracy for not giving them the ideal political treatment.

Zhu Youzhen had a feeling like walking on thin ice, as if he was dancing on the tip of a knife, and he would be stabbed all over in blood inadvertently.

However, in any era, there are rational people who are not completely blinded by their own class interests, although Gao Hongtu is a Donglin boss, and his personality may be cowardly, but at least he is able to distinguish between right and wrong, and after being shocked by Zhu Youzhen's head with Liang Yungou, he finally chose to stand on the emperor's side.

Zhu Youzhen's original purpose was this, he wanted to disintegrate the Donglin Party through certain means.

The Donglin Party is only a collective representing the Jiangnan gentry group, without a clear political program and political leadership, and from a certain point of view, it is just a general loose sand, not a political party, and the kind of political party that can dominate the world and even the global situation in modern times is even worse.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen's goal is easy to achieve, once a person like Gao Hongtu realizes that the price of betraying the king is disproportionate to the gains and losses of consolidating his own class interests, he will not hesitate to betray the rest of the Donglin Party, after all, the current Donglin Party does not have any clear political beliefs, it is nothing more than a competition for how many of the six cabinet departments in the court are people who speak for businessmen and Jiangnan gentry.

Zhu Youzhen did not choose to execute Gao Hongtu because he needed this kind of person who betrayed his own class, once this kind of person betrayed his own class, he would become a lonely person, and he could only fight side by side with himself and become his confidant.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen will continue to reuse Gao Hongtu, and now he will let Gao Hongtu continue to play the role of a double spy between himself and the Donglin Party as the second assistant of the cabinet.

Or Zhang Shenyan and others thought that kidnapping Gao Hongtu, the second assistant of the cabinet, was equivalent to planting eyeliner next to Zhu Youzhen, and they could also create the leader of the Donglin Party on the surface, even if they launched an offensive, they would let Gao Hongtu's protégé do it, and he would be the boss behind the scenes, just like the trick played by Gu Xiancheng, the founder of Donglin Academy.

However, what Zhang Shenyan didn't know was that Gao Hongtu, the second assistant of the cabinet, was not Wang Jiaping of the Wanli Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen was not Zhu Yijun of Wanli, and the current Ming Dynasty was not the Wanli period when the prosperous era was still there.

Zhang Shenyan naturally would not have thought that Gao Hongtu had actually become the eyeliner that Emperor Zhu Youzhen had planted within the Donglin Party.

At the same time that Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Chongzhen asked Gao Hongtu to continue to perform the drama as the second assistant of the cabinet and the boss of Donglin, Zhu Youzhen immediately convened the generalissimo's office and the officials of the military department to discuss the general military strategy of Chongzhen for 18 years.

Gao Hongtu's whistleblower revealed a relatively important military intelligence, that is, the Donglin Party also had its own army near Nanjing City, and although this army was not large in number, it was actually cavalry, although it was not much of a threat, but it could not be ignored.

Li Banghua, Zhou Yuji, Ma Shiying, Liu Fangliang, Li Mingrui, Shi Kefa, Jin Xuan, Lu Zhenfei, and Liu Kongzhao were ordered to enter the palace one after another.

After all the important personnel involved in the military system arrived, Zhu Youzhen began to gather these ministers in the Generalissimo Mansion of the Qianqing Palace.

The so-called Generalissimo's Mansion is actually a military institution composed of a row of low wings in the Longzong Gate on the left side of the Qianqing Gate, which was called the Military Aircraft Department in the Yongzheng era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the original history, of course, it is now in Nanjing and in the Ming Dynasty, so it is called the Generalissimo's Mansion.

The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty is in Wenyuan Pavilion, and the Generalissimo's Mansion is in Qianqingmen, and the Generalissimo's Mansion is obviously the closest to Zhu Youzhen, the emperor, which is tantamount to indicating that the military power of the Generalissimo's Office is above the cabinet.

Since it was an era of war, Zhu Youzhen wanted to emphasize military rule, and naturally no one raised any objections.

However, it is worth mentioning that from then on, the Ministry of War was considered a relatively complex department, because it had to accept the dual leadership of the Generalissimo's Office and the Cabinet.

Fortunately, Ma Shiying, the secretary of the military department, is both a member of the cabinet and a member of the generalissimo's office, so it is convenient for him, the secretary of the military department, to manage the military department.

But in this way, his authority is not insignificant, as if he is equivalent to the first assistant of the cabinet, one person under ten thousand people.

At the moment when Zhu Youzhen intends to clarify the separation of military and political power, there are few senior officials like Ma Shiying who can grasp the military and government, and the reason why he is a eunuch makes him easily jealous of the Donglin Party.

"The spring breeze and the south bank of the Green River, when will the bright moon shine on me, although it is now spring, but you are the same as me, you are all shouldering the safety and danger of this splendid river and mountain, and you are all burdened with the ardent hope of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty and hundreds of millions of Li Shu to recover the northern capital, you must not have the slightest slack, I can have a hunch, I believe you can also realize it, the first half of Chongzhen's eighteenth year is definitely more dangerous than Chongzhen's seventeenth year, the Tartars have rested for more than half a year, the soldiers are full of food, and the thief Li Zicheng has a small half a year to recuperate, and the heart of the south is clearly revealed, Zuo Liangyu, a thief, wants to raise millions of soldiers to cross the river, and he doesn't keep it secret at all, even the children in Jiangnan know that he wants to raise troops, which shows how arrogant this person is! ”

"Ma Shiying, you are the chief of staff of the Generalissimo's Mansion, let you tell me, now the strength of my Ming army, the real strength of these enemies at the moment, and then we will discuss how to prepare!"

After Zhu Youzhen spoke, he asked all the officials present to sit down, although there is a difference between monarchs and ministers, but there is no need to ignore the physiological structure of people in order to emphasize hierarchical order, and it is indeed impossible to concentrate on thinking strategies when standing for a long time.

What's more, everyone is busy with arming up and fighting, and they have to deal with the political situation in the DPRK and China, and they are all very tired.

Ma Shiying made preparations all night according to the information provided by Wu Mengming, the Jinyi Guard, and replied with confidence when he stood up at this moment: "As you all know, the army controlled by my Ming Dynasty now mainly includes the Guards and the Guards, and according to the statistics of the Ministry of War, there are now more than 1.8 million troops in these two armies!" ”