Whether the squires sincerely miss Zhu Youzhen's forgiveness or are still dissatisfied, at least they dare not make any more disturbances, and the situation in northern Shaanxi can be regarded as stable.

Of course, there are also some discordant factors, such as some ruffians who like to work hard and take advantage of the opportunity to squeeze into the ranks, and some even become village chiefs. These ruffians were very active when the villagers divided the fields, and the villagers were all outsiders, so it was impossible to understand them too clearly, and the need for such a group of activists to help them carry out their work made these ruffians get involved.

These ruffians were fine at the beginning, but soon revealed their faces, using the division of land to oppress and humiliate the squires and their people, and using their power to embezzle and occupy the squire's property.

Fortunately, the township officials and their subordinate soldiers sent to various counties had a large number of soldiers, and the situation was quickly fed back to Yan'an Mansion and to Zhu Youzhen. Zhu Youzhen immediately issued an order, transferred some Jinyi guards and Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers, and set up the Yansui Town Supervision Department, with Zhang Shize as the inspector, specifically responsible for picketing county and township officials, and all village officials who violated discipline were severely punished once verified.

The recruitment work is also progressing smoothly, and each county has recruited enough recruits according to the allocated quota, and is conducting military training under the leadership of the county lieutenants, mainly training the military appearance and military discipline of the military queue, and after the three-month recruit period, it will be concentrated in Yan'an Prefecture to formally form an army, and then systematically train according to the artillery and so on.

There are more than 1,000 recruits in each county, and more than 2,000 or 3,000 recruits, and a total of 30,000 recruits are recruited in the entire Yansui Town. This group of recruits was temporarily stationed in various counties, and under deterrence, the security in the county was much better.

On this day, Zhu Youzhen was inspecting and teaching in martial arts, and the Liaodong report arrived, along with Tian Ergeng's secret report.

Zhu Youzhen first read the report documents, and when he saw Sun Chuanting completely annihilating the 1,000 cavalry of Jiannu outside Ningyuan City, he couldn't help laughing.

"Why is Your Majesty laughing?" Hong Chengchou, who had already returned from Anding County, asked playfully.

"Aiqing, take a look." Zhu Youzhen smiled and handed the report document to Hong Chengchou.

After Hong Chengchou looked at it carefully, a smile also appeared on his face: "Governor Sun annihilated thousands of slave horsemen in a battle, and he lost only more than 100 people, which can be described as an unprecedented victory, and the minister congratulates His Majesty!" ”

Cao Wenzhao forced the slaves to ride into the sorghum field with the tactic of riding the wall, and Sun Chuanting took the opportunity to attack, and the ingenuity of the tactics was breathtaking.

"Cao Wenzhao is the uncle of Cao Bianjiao, the general of the loyal and brave battalion, and sure enough, his uncle and nephew are all heroes." Zhu Youzhen praised, "Proposed decree, promote Cao Wenzhao to deputy commander-in-chief." As for Sun Chuanting, he will be rewarded after the end of this battle, and as for the meritorious soldiers, the military department will reward them according to the reported list! ”

As long as you can hold Jinzhou Ningyuan in this battle, even if you lose one or two castles, with this battle, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Liaodong, can be regarded as sitting firmly, and maybe he can be promoted from governor to governor. Thinking about it not long ago, this Sun Chuanting was just a minister, and he became a feudal official, and he was a feudal official who commanded an important town in Liaodong, and Hong Chengchou was very envious.

After processing the report, Zhu Youzhen looked at the secret report sent by Tian Ergeng, and when he saw Sun Chuanting carrying cavalry on a sea ship to attack the Jiannu grain team, he secretly sighed at Sun Chuanting's audacity.

"Hong Aiqing, do you see if Governor Sun's strategy is feasible?" In the end, he didn't know much about military strategy, and he couldn't judge whether he could succeed, so Zhu Youzhen handed the secret report to Hong Chengchou.

After reading it, Hong Chengchou pondered for a moment: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of the ministers, whether this strategy can succeed should be in the number of five or five. Carrying cavalry by sea ships to the rear of the Jiannu army, this move Jiannu could not predict at all to take the lead, if it was possible to find out the date of the route of the grain convoy, it was very likely to succeed.

But after all, under the rule of Jiannu, once Jiannu is aware of it, it will definitely be a failure, and it will be difficult for 1,500 horsemen to return to Ningyuan. It's a bit risky.

However, if it succeeds, Jiannu will not have enough food and grass, and he will not be able to defeat Ningyuan Jinzhou, so he can only return in vain, and the battle will be won. If the attack on the grain convoy fails, it will only lose 1,500 cavalry, so it is worth a try. ”

There is no right or wrong in this kind of thing, just look at the choice of the main general, and Hong Chengchou can't judge Sun Chuanting's actions.

"Okay." Zhu Youzhen shook his head, put the matter aside, and looked at Tian Ergeng's other secret report.

"Jin merchants, the Fan family caravan, what a bold man, he actually violated the law to smuggle Jiannu fine iron!" After reading it, Zhu Youzhen was furious, "It is rumored that Xu Xianchun is driving!" ”

"Aiqing, take a look, look at what these Jin merchants can do for the silver!" Zhu Youzhen handed the secret report to Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou was also secretly shocked after seeing it, shocked by the courage of these Jin merchants. The imperial court strictly forbade any trade with the Eastern Captives, especially grain, iron and gunpowder, and they were not allowed to go out of the border walls. I didn't expect this Jiexiu Fan family to be so bold, and they transported 50,000 catties of fine iron to Jiannu at once.

50,000 catties of fine iron is enough to build hundreds of thousands of arrows, how many Ming troops can be shot on the battlefield!

"It's just audacious and lawless!" Hong Chengchou said angrily, "We must be severely punished!" ”

"Severe punishment?" Zhu Youzhen sneered, and there was a slight chill in his words, "I want to uproot these traitor businessmen this time!" ”

Xu Xianchun soon came to martial arts.

"Look at it, 50,000 catties of refined iron, you Jinyi Wei didn't even notice it, what are you eating?" Zhu Youzhen threw the secret report on Xu Xianchun's face and said angrily.

As early as a few months ago, Zhu Youzhen instructed Xu Xianchun to secretly investigate the smuggling of Jin merchants, but he didn't expect that under the nose of Jin Yiwei, he asked Jin merchants to transport 50,000 catties of fine iron to Jiannu.

Xu Xianchun picked up the secret report tremblingly, and after reading it, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, knelt down with a "poof", and pleaded: "Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent, please punish Your Majesty!" ”

"Punishment, what's the use of punishing you now? Go back, give you a day, sort out all the smuggling merchants, and send them to me! Zhu Youzhen reprimanded angrily.

"Obey." Xu Xianchun crawled out and retreated.

Hong Chengchou listened silently, but there were turbulent waves in his heart, he never expected that the emperor had already set up chess pieces for participating in the smuggling of Jin merchants a few months ago, and he had already been aware of the behavior of Jin merchants, or? The depth of the young emperor's city in front of him made Hong Chengchou a little shocked.

Zhu Youzhen's anger calmed down, from assassinating Li Zicheng to dealing with Jin Shang, Xu Xiancun's shortcomings became more and more obvious, and he was not qualified for the position of commander of Jinyi Guard. It seems that Tian Ergeng should still be transferred back.