Zhou Yanru is the protégé of Ye Xianggao, the former leader of the Donglin Party, and from this point of view, he has an unclear relationship with the Donglin Party.

But in fact, Zhou Yanru is not the backbone of the Donglin Party, and Zhou Yanru is from a champion background, arrogant, and he is not too interested in the empty talk style of many people in the Donglin Party.

And he is not the speaker of the Donglin Party in the court, he has a successful foundation in the court, and he is rich and humble in Nanjing. And now the Donglin Party officials in Beijing hope most that Qian Qianyi can be operated into the court, and then into the cabinet.

Zhou Yanru was born as a champion, and now he is the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, of course, he also has the conditions to enter the cabinet.

Of course, Zhou Yanru also has the ambition to be the first assistant to rule the world, and he doesn't want to be a queen, even if he is Qian Qianyi, who is also Donglin.

To put it bluntly, the Donglin Party is just a group of interests formed by the southeastern gentry as the basis and the relationship between the teachers in the same year, among which there are pretentious Qingliu and the people of the fly camp and the dog camp, everyone has their own demands, and it is unlikely that they want to be completely united.

For Zhou Yanru, it is inevitable to admit that he will join the cabinet, but if he wants to make a difference, he must have a group of his own people, and someone must wave the flag for him.

Most of the people in Donglin are more optimistic about Qian Qianyi, so it is unlikely that they can realize their ambitions completely with the help of Donglin, and they must expand their power. Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru have always been good friends, and now they take the initiative to take refuge, how can Zhou Yanru not be moved?

Although Wen Tiren is the imperial envoy of the right capital, he is also considered a high authority, but it is almost meaningless to want to enter the cabinet. I tried to help him nominate him to the cabinet list, help him enter the cabinet, and in the future, he will naturally focus on himself in the cabinet!

"Brother Changqing, if our brothers can enter the cabinet, we should watch and help each other!" Zhou Yanru said with a smile.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and reached a verbal agreement.

"Brother Jade Rope, the fall of Shousuke is inevitable now, and we don't have to follow the trend to pay attention to him at all. What we have to do is to collect other cabinet elders and impeach them secretly, so as to make room for our brothers. Wen Tiren said coldly, since he had formed an alliance, he would no longer hide it in front of Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru nodded silently, he understood Wen Tiren's thoughts, it was best to sweep the cabinet away, so that Wen Tiren could enter the cabinet!

There was an undercurrent surging in the court, and the civil officials each started a dispute again for their own interests.

This time, Zhu Youzhen was not angry, but on the contrary, he was a little excited. At a time when all the officials' eyes were on the matter of impeaching the cabinet elders, he took the opportunity to do what he wanted to do.

Hong Chengchou, the secretary of the military department, said that the Beijing battalion soldiers were taken away by Wang Zaijin 30,000, and the Beijing battalion chief Hou Shilu also went out with Wang Zaijin.

Zhu Youzhen agreed on the spot, and moved Cao Bianjiao, the chief soldier of Yansui, to the chief soldier of the Beijing camp, and returned to Beijing with 30,000 Janissaries to garrison.

Originally, such a big matter would inevitably cause controversy in the DPRK and China. Now, the first assistant Huang Liji is waiting to be investigated at home, and the other cabinet ministers are also overwhelmed by impeachment, so they can't take care of this matter at all, and the matter of transferring the guards back to Beijing is easily passed.

Li Banghua did speak, but instead of preventing the Praetorian Guards from returning to Beijing, he asked the soldiers in the Beijing camp to be equipped with more guns and artillery, and selected firearms instructors from the Praetorian Guards.

Zhu Youzhen perfunctorily said that he would equip the Beijing camp after the Royal Arsenal produced enough firearms.

At present, a considerable part of the newly recruited Praetorian Guards in Yan'an are not equipped with firearms, and they still have to train Li Yanzhi with a batch of firearms in Fujian, and the production capacity of the Royal Arsenal is very insufficient.

"Your Majesty, I heard that Guangdong Foshan has superb iron-making skills, Guangdong is much closer to Fujian than Beijing, why don't you hand over the artillery guns needed by the Fujian General Army to Foshan to build?" Hong Chengchou suggested.

"The artillery guns needed by the army should be handed over to the civilian sector to build?" Zhu Youzhen said suspiciously.

Hong Chengchou smiled and said: "Your Majesty's words are that if you don't hand it over to them, won't they build it privately?" There are so many maritime merchants and pirates on the sea, where do their weapons come from, and they didn't buy them from these folk blacksmith workshops?

If we hand over the army's firearms to them to build, we can justifiably send people to supervise and monitor them. And then control all the workshops in Foshan. Of course, in order to prevent resistance from the craftsmen there, and for the quality of the firearms, the silver must be sufficient for them.

However, Li Yanzhi had just raided the homes of many gentry, and some of them were silver, which was nothing to him. ”

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "That's it." Since it was to make firearms for the Fujian Janissaries, the Royal Maritime Trade Company sent someone to Foshan to supervise it. ”

Firearms and equipment This is a trivial matter, and Zhu Youzhen summoned Hong Chengchou today for a really big matter.

"A few months ago, the Nanu chief Huang Taiji led his troops to annex the Duoyan Wuliang Habu, and recently the Jinyi Wei of Liaodong came to report that Jiannu had moved against other Mongolian tribes in western Liaoning, and now the left-wing Mongolia basically submitted to Huang Taiji, and although Chahar Lindan Khan occupied the area of the Naturalized City Hetao, he was still not the opponent of Jiannu.

This winter, Jiannu will inevitably move troops against the Ming Dynasty again, last year when Huang Taiji hit a nail in Liaoxi, in my opinion, this year he is likely to choose to bypass Liaoxi, from Jibei over the border wall to invade. ”

Now that it is almost June, and there are only four months before the invasion of Jiannu, Zhu Youzhen must take precautions and prepare early. The transfer of 30,000 Janissaries from Yan'an to Beijing was one of the preparations.

Not to attack Liaoxi, which is close at hand, but to attack Jibei by a detour of thousands of miles, in the eyes of many people, how could Jiannu make such a stupid choice? Going deep alone, what should I do about the grain road? If you are not careful, you will fall in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

If it was before, Hong Chengchou would have thought like this, but after Zhangjiakou lured and annihilated Jiannu Belle Dolgon, Hong Chengchou no longer thought like this.

Huang Taiji only had 3,000 horsemen, and he dared to go deep into the grassland north of Xuanfu, and Dolgon, with the respect of Jiannu Belle, ventured into Zhangjiakou to spy on the military situation, which shows how bold Huang Taiji they are?

The Eight Banners soldiers rode horses in general, and integrated many tribes in the left-wing Mongolia, and there was no shortage of Jiannu horses, and a detour of thousands of miles was nothing to them.

What grain route was cut off, the invasion of Jiannu was for robbery, where would grain be transported from the rear? It must be where to hit and where to grab!

As long as you can break through the northern border wall of Jizhou and enter the territory of Daming, what kind of food are you afraid of shortage?

"Your Majesty, Inspector Sun has been operating in Jibei for a period of time, can the border wall of Jizhou block Jiannu?" Hong Chengchou asked softly.

Zhu Youzhen asked rhetorically: "What do you think?" ”

Hong Chengchou shook his head gloomily, I'm afraid he can't stop it.

Unlike the Liaoxi Corridor, which is only a few tens of miles wide, the northern wall of the thistle stretches for thousands of miles, and there are at least dozens of places that can be broken through. Although Sun Chengzong took office and focused on repairing the side walls and repaired several passes, how easy is it to repair the thousands of miles of side walls?

Although there are as many as 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers in Jizhen, to defend such a long border wall, the troops are really stretched, and they can't stop the slaves at all.

"If you can't stop it, why bother to stop it? And let Jiannu invade Gyeonggi! Zhu Youzhen sneered.