Chapter 82: The Strategist

Sending people to appease Yijun Thief King Zuo Hang, Li Hongji and others was not Zhu Youzhen's whim, but the result of overall consideration, because Zhu Youzhen didn't want to delay it for too long.

As an emperor, it is okay to leave the capital for a while, and it is not suitable to leave the center of power for a long time.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty is worried about internal and external troubles, the reform of the clan system is still in progress, the rebellion in Jiangxi has not been quelled, and the Jiannu is eyeing the outside of the Guan, and has repeatedly sent troops to Liaoxi to try it, it is difficult to say that there will be no large-scale attack this winter.

So in any case, in winter, you must leave northern Shaanxi and return to Beijing.

Before returning to Beijing, northern Shaanxi must be pacified, and the sixteen counties of Yan'an Prefecture must establish two-level government offices in the countryside.

Northern Shaanxi, the most barren and backward place, will be Zhu Youzhen's basic plate in the future, and it will be an important source of troops for the Praetorian Guard under his command.

Northern Shaanxi is poor, and close to Yulin on the nine sides, the people here are barbaric and brave, the Qin soldiers have always been the elite of the world, if there is no chaos in northern Shaanxi, the world will not be chaotic, and even if there is a civil uprising in other places, it can be easily pacified.

The pacification of northern Shaanxi was not to kill all the rebellious displaced people, but to win the hearts of the displaced people, lead them to punish corrupt officials and corrupt officials, divide the land and establish rural organizations. Therefore, appeasement is naturally the first choice for pacification.

At present, the situation in Qingjian County must have spread to all places, and the policy of Qingjian County will inevitably make the displaced people everywhere yearn for it, and it will be very easy to appease it. And now that the civil unrest in Shaanxi is in the ascendant, it is the easiest time to calm down.

Zhao Sheng, who lit the lamp, was originally a homeless handsome, and it was most appropriate for him to persuade him to surrender and show up to say.

As for whether Zhao Sheng would take the opportunity to flee to Yijun to continue the rebellion, Zhu Youzhen was not worried. Zhao Sheng is a smart person, when he knows how big the gap is between the combat effectiveness of the exile army and the official army, nearly 20,000 Janissary Guards, plus the Guanzhong Qin army and the Yulin border army, only with Wang Zuohang's tens of thousands of exiles, there is no possibility of success at all.

If you surrender, you will have a good life, and if you continue to fight, you can only die and be annihilated, and it is not difficult to choose.

pacified the Wangzuo hanging department, took advantage of the situation to deal with the inferior gentry and evil officials in Yijun County, and established a rural system. And Lu Xiangsheng's 10,000 people can also be liberated, and the soldiers' commissioners will be selected to serve as the township leaders, and then local soldiers will be recruited to reorganize the Praetorian Guard.

Zhu Youzhen decided to recruit at least 30,000 soldiers in northern Shaanxi, absorb those strong and brave people into the army, and turn the original exile army into a Praetorian Guard, eliminating the war and strengthening his own strength. The monthly salaries received by the soldiers in northern Shaanxi can feed back to their hometowns and improve the lives of their relatives, which can be said to complement each other.

And also......

Zhu Youzhen suddenly felt as if he had to think about everything by himself, and there was no one to help him share and help him plan.

Now, Zhu Youzhen knows that he lacks a strategist, or a military advisor, and a person who can guide him in planning the world. But all the heroes of a generation have such strategists around them, such as Li Shanchang, Song Lian, and Liu Bowen during the time of Taizu, such as Wolong and Phoenix Chick around Liu Bei. And now, there is a lack of such strategists around him.

Lu Xiangsheng is loyal and brave, and can be used to command the army in a decisive battle. Sun Chuanting is decisive and ruthless, and can be used to deter Xiaoxiao. As for Cao Bianjiao, Zhou Yuji, and Huang Degong, they are just generals who charge into battle. Zhang Shize is just the second ancestor of some ability. Xu Xianchun is just a man-eating vicious dog.

The people I can trust right now don't have the kind of talent who can plan the overall situation for themselves.

Hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty can be said to be full of talents, and among the officials of the Manchu Dynasty, there are also many people who plot to change power. But the problem is that Zhu Youzhen is not at ease with those people.

Because he knew that what he wanted to do was to shake the foundation of the gentry, to change the reality of the gentry's control of the government and the opposition, to regain his own power from the gentry, and to abolish the gentry's privileges.

Therefore, in a sense, the relationship between himself and the civil officials and gentry is antagonistic or hostile, and sooner or later there will be a decisive battle. Therefore, how can Zhu Youzhen rest assured that he uses gentry and civil officials as advisers?

Of course, Lu Xiangsheng is different from Sun Chuanting, in the previous life, they have already proved their loyalty and will not betray themselves as emperors. But others are different, such as that Hong Chengchou, in the last life, he had high hopes for him and handed over all the border troops to him, hoping that he would be able to turn the tide, but he lost 130,000 troops in the first battle of Songshan and the last elite of the Ming Dynasty, and since then the Ming Dynasty has no power to fight back against Jiannu.

But even so, while he was saddened, after learning that he was martyred, he still gave a very high posthumous mourning, but he didn't expect that this guy would betray the country and join the enemy, become a traitor and a traitor to the Ming Dynasty, and then do his best to plan for Jiannu, suppressed Li Dingguo of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and lured Sun Kewang to surrender, so that the late Ming Dynasty completely lost the hope of restoring the world.

The most ridiculous thing is that this guy has made a great contribution to the puppet Qing Dynasty, but the puppet Qing court is not even willing to give him the lowest baronial title, and he is listed in the second rank of the second minister, becoming a traitor who has been infamous for thousands of years like Qin Hui!

For people with such conduct, Zhu Youzhen shook his head, how can such a person who has no integrity use it with confidence?

"For the king, you must know how to use people well, loyal ministers can use it, traitorous ministers can also use it, and the most important thing is that you can use it and use it in the right place." Suddenly, a sentence appeared in Zhu Youzhen's mind, I don't know which person said it in the picture he had seen, Zhu Youzhen frowned.

If it is only about ability, Hong Chengchou is definitely a masterpiece of the moment. Although the previous life faced the defeat of the battle of Jiannu Songshan, it was not because of its command error, but because the strength of the Ming army was far inferior to that of Jiannu.

Subsequently, when the anti-Qing Dynasty in Jiangnan intensified, and the Eight Banners suffered successive setbacks in Jiangnan, they were appointed by the Manchu Qing court as the Jiangnan Economic Strategy, which single-handedly suppressed the anti-Qing movement of the people in Jiangnan, and made the first contribution to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's stabilization of Jiangnan, a place where money and grain were taxed.

Later, the Great Western Army and the Southern Ming Dynasty merged, Sun Kewang ran Guizhou Yunnan, Li Dingguo pouted the two famous kings, the situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty was very good, and the Manchu Qing court had the idea of dividing the river and even retreating outside the Guan. It was at this time that Hong Chengchou was ordered to build a thousand-mile wall in Hunan and Jiangxi, inducing Nanming to fight infighting, persuading Sun Kewang to surrender, forcing Li Dingguo to retreat to Yunnan, and the good situation of Nanming was ruined.

In terms of overall planning and strategizing, Hong Chengchou is definitely better than Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting.

In that case, why should I be disgusted with Hong Chengchou because of something that has not happened in this life? As long as it can be used by me, plan for me, and fulfill the ideal of rejuvenating the Ming Dynasty, it is morally flawed, so why not?

However, how can Hong Chengchou put aside his status as a gentry and use it wholeheartedly for his own use? By the way, a soft-boned person like Hong Chengchou values fame and fortune the most, as long as I allow him enough benefits, and then grab the handle of his pigtails, if he doesn't obey, he will be ruined, so it must not be difficult for him to sincerely plan and do things for me!