"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

At the head of the acropolis in Daning, accompanied by the order of the commander who stayed behind, hundreds of ten-pound and five-pound artillery pieces on the head of the city rang out one after another.

Hundreds of large stone projectiles flew out, repulsing the Jin army that attempted to attack the moat fortifications outside the city.

The heavy jack shield cart, when facing ten catties of stone bullets, looks so fragile, often hit head-on, it will be pierced in an instant.

However, after penetrating, the power of the stone projectile also decreases, and it often hits one person, and it has already lost its strength.

"It's okay, retreat!"

"Bell, bell, bell—"

As Mang Gultai's voice sounded, the sound of gold appeared, and the army in front began to push back the shield cart.

Overlooking from the sky, the besieged water outside the northern city of Daning Zhongwei is impassable, and the more than 30,000 troops and thousands of captured Mongols are like a black tide, which makes people's hearts depressed.

Mang Gurtai rode on horseback, and behind him the horse hung a head that had dried up of blood.

Looking closely, this first class is a hideous-looking Zai Sai.

I never thought that at this time last year, Zai Sai, who was still in the vanguard with Mangui's expedition to Qingheguan, was now in a different place.

His death also means that the five major barbarian departments have become the four major departments, and the Ming army has also lost a pawn.

"Driving...... Phew~~~"

Amintzai immediately stepped forward and said to Mang Gultai, who had collected his troops:

"Thirty miles to the south, the cavalry of the Ming army was found, the scale is not small, it is estimated that Man Gui has already led people out of the fortress and rushed to this side."

"Well, in that case, let's retreat, the intelligence gathered this time is enough." Mang Gurtai responded, his eyes looked at the shield carts on the battlefield that were pierced by ten-pound cannons, and his brows were furrowed.

The Ming army not only improved the firearms, but also the artillery, so that the gap between Dajin and the Ming court was even greater......

Mang Gurtai thought in his heart, and then commanded an army of 30,000 to evacuate Daning Zhongwei with the thousands of Mongol prisoners, as well as tens of thousands of captured cattle and sheep.

The head of the city of Daning Zhongwei watched Jianyu's soldiers and horses retreat, and the left-behind commander also breathed a sigh of relief, until Jianyu's soldiers and horses disappeared into the distant skyline, and then ordered everyone to rest.

Half an hour later, when Man Gui rushed back to Daning Zhongwei with more than 20,000 horsemen of Daning Sanwei and Sancaiwei, all he saw was the appearance of being shelled outside the city, and the scattered shield carts.

Although there were some blood stains, the corpse was taken away, which means that the Ming army did not get any heads.

However, Daning's central defender did not suffer too many losses, which made Man Gui a little lucky.

After counting the dead and wounded, Man Gui led more than 20,000 horsemen to pursue twenty miles along the route of Houjin's retreat.

Afterwards, he dismissed Liaodong Town, and the news that the Zai Sai Department was completely annihilated was played to the emperor and the king of Qi.

When Song Shu returned to the capital, it was already June 22.

Zhu Youzhen, who returned to the capital, was summoned by Zhu Youxiao, and then took out Mangui's recital.

Sitting in the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu Youzhen quietly looked at the performance, and on the main seat was Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of the Great Tomorrow, who was sitting and waiting for him to speak.

Next to Zhu Youxiao is his new favorite Concubine Wang Liang, who looks very handsome and is beating Zhu Youxiao's legs.

"Some losses, but not a lot ......"

After a long time, Zhu Youzhen closed the song, looked up and said to his brother:

"Zai Sai, this person, he deceived and killed my Ming general at the beginning, and he was used because there was no one to use, and now he was cut off by the army of Jianyu and wiped out the tribe, so there is no way to do it."

"When I saw my nephew being treated like this by Jianyu, I am afraid that I will be more afraid of Jianyu, and I will be closer to my Daming."

Zhu Youzhen was not sad that there were two thousand horse pawns missing, after all, Zai Sai's attitude towards Daming in his early years was not very good.

However, compared to him, Zhu Youxiao frowned and said:

"Having said that, the loss of 2,000 northern captives who can be pioneers, plus tens of thousands of cattle and sheep being taken captive, I am afraid that Jianyu can recover a lot of vitality."

"After all, Liao Town was to be abolished at that time, and Qin Bangping couldn't move, so he could only let Man Gui and Qi Jin cooperate, which was also a helpless move." Zhu Youzhen responded:

"At present, the removal of Liao Town is going very smoothly, except for a few stone forts that have rebels, and after being quickly suppressed, other Liao generals have handed over their soldiers and horses."

"After that, it is enough to transfer the third battalion of the 28th battalion of Liaodong, and add the original 6th battalion to Liaoxi."

"Although they have a lot of careful thinking in their hearts, they can still use it after all, and there are not many generals who can lead a battalion of troops in my Ming Dynasty at the moment, so use it first, and it's not too late to replace it later."

"In addition, now that Liaozhen has been abolished, it is only natural to set Liaodong as a province and open the government of Liaodong."

Zhu Youzhen finally mentioned the establishment of a province for Liaodong, and after Zhu Youxiao heard this, he first grabbed the hand of Concubine Wang Liang next to him and put it on his shoulder, and motioned to Concubine Wang Liang to pinch her shoulder, and then said:

"How is my brother going to set up Liaodong Province?"

Regarding his brother's series of actions and questions, Zhu Youzhen was not shocked:

"For the time being, the provincial administration of Liaodong will be set up as Shenyang Mansion, and Shenyang Mansion will govern five counties including Shenyang, Tieling, Kaiyuan, Fushun and Fengji, and Liaoyang Mansion will govern four counties of Liaoyang, Haizhou, Gaizhou and Anshan."

"Guangning Prefecture has jurisdiction over four counties of Guangning, Yizhou, Linghe and Ningyuan, Jinzhou is set as the government, and Lushun is the prefecture and county, and Fuzhou and Guifu are under the jurisdiction of three counties."

"Then Daning Mansion, Daning Zhongwei was changed to Daning County, Daning Qianwei was changed to Liaozhong County, and Daning Guard was changed to Liaohe County."

"The last is Zhenjiang Prefecture, which has three counties under its jurisdiction, Zhenjiang, Kuandian, and Fenghuang, totaling six prefectures and 22 counties."

Zhu Youzhen had already thought about the administrative area of Liaodong, and promoted many resource types of stone forts and post forts to counties.

For example, stone forts such as Anshan, Fengji, Fushun, Linghe, Ningyuan, Lushun, Guifu, and Kuandian have all been upgraded.

Needless to say, Anshan and Fengji are iron ore resources, while Fushun is the gateway to Shenyang, Linghe and Ningyuan are two important cities in the western Liaoning corridor, Guifu is the cultivated land resources, and Kuandian is the east gate of Liaodong, and Lushun is an important port.

Therefore, these are very important places, in the huge Liaodong, only six prefectures and 22 counties are relatively small, mainly because the local population can not support too many prefectures and counties.

As for Zhu Youxiao, he did not doubt the possibility of his younger brother, and the scale of these six prefectures and twenty-two counties was not large, so he said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Does my brother have any fancy people who can be transferred to Liaodong?"

"There really is." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile:

"In this year's imperial examination, my younger brother fell in love with Lu Xiangsheng, a jinshi from Changzhou Mansion, so he wanted to transfer him to Liaoyang Mansion as the prefect."

"In addition, Mao Yuanyi, who served as Yang Hao's staff before, is also good, and can be transferred to Shenyang County, Shenyang Prefecture, as the magistrate."

"There is a person named Shen Tingyang in the Guozi Prison who is also good, I heard that he is proficient in shipping, and his younger brother is ready to transfer him to Jinzhou Mansion to serve as the county governor of Lushun."

"In addition, there is Shao Zhan Shi Sun Chengzong, if his brother is willing to cut his love, he can be transferred to Shenyang and appointed as the prefect of Shenyang."

"Are there any of these people's papers?" Zhu Youxiao asked curiously, and Zhu Youzhen had already prepared for Cao Huachun to bring it.

Cao Huachun took out four documents from his sleeve and carefully handed them to Zhu Youxiao.

After Zhu Youxiao took it, he didn't answer immediately, but looked at the life and experience of this group of people, and finally said:

"Lecturer Sun's ability is acceptable, but serving as the prefect is a bit condescending."

"Since he has been promoted to the political envoy of Liaodong, then let Sun Chengzong serve as the political envoy of Liaodong right, Yuan Yingtai will be the political envoy of Liaodong, and Xiong Tingbi will continue to pass through Liaodong."

"I have an impression of Lu Xiangsheng's performance, I remember that the Ministry of Officials transferred him to the head of the household department, and I don't know if he would like to go to Liaoyang Mansion to serve as the prefect."

"If he wants to, it doesn't hurt to be transferred."

Speaking of which, Zhu Youzhen picked up the last two documents and said:

"It's this Shen Tingyang and Mao Yuanyi, although they have some talents, but they are the first officials to be the magistrates of the two places, which is somewhat out of line, let's temporarily replace the magistrates of the two counties, if there is merit, it is not too late to be promoted."

"Brother courtier, thank you Brother Huang......" Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Zhu Youzhen knew that the matter was done, so he immediately sang loudly, looking very exaggerated.

Seeing his unobtrusive appearance, Zhu Youxiao shook his head helplessly, and then said:

"If this holy decree of establishing a province in Liaodong is issued, I am afraid that I will be troubled a lot by those ministers."

"Brother is tired...... Zhu Youzhen continued to sing loudly, raising his hand.

"Okay......" Looking at Zhu Youzhen's appearance, Zhu Youxiao put down the document and said:

"Shen Yourong in the south has not yet arrived at Haojing, Hongmaoyi has withdrawn, the Yellow Dragon you appointed has already landed on the Great Ryukyu and fought a battle with the natives, you know this, right?"

"The younger brother naturally knows." Zhu Youzhen responded honestly.

Huanglong had landed in Ryukyu ten days earlier, and had landed at Beigang (Keelung) under Zhu You's inspection, where he fought a battle with the local natives.

However, under the firearms of the Ming army, the so-called natives were often defeated in an instant.

Huang Long also followed Zhu Youzhen's words and asked the interpreter of the Siyi Pavilion to tell these local people that the Ming Dynasty was not Hongmaoyi, and that they came here to bring civilization and culture.

If they are willing to live in the prefecture and county built by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming can help them build houses, provide them with ploughing cattle, and teach them how to farm.

If they don't want to live in the prefecture and county, but want to go back to live in the mountains, there is no problem, Daming will issue them a sign representing their identity, with which they can come to Daming's prefecture to sell things and buy supplies.

And the translation also explained that if the Ming Dynasty did not stay here, Hongmaoyi would make a comeback and continue to plunder in the Ryukyu Province.

Not only that, but they also took out some of the albums of killings that Huanglong had prepared for a long time, about the killings made by the Europeans in the South Seas.

However, even so, some tribes among the natives still attacked the Ming soldiers.

Regarding these phenomena, Huang Long also did what Zhu Youzhen said before departure, ordering the whole army to counterattack, and at the same time announcing other tribes that were more obedient, telling them why the exterminated tribes were exterminated.

The current time is still very short, but in ten days, it is estimated that Huang Long will all be used to fight relationships.

As for the grain of the Imperial Horse Guard, it will be transported to the temporary port of Beigang before the onset of winter, and then the forced relocation of the lazy men and orphans in the three coastal provinces will begin.

The difference is that the lazy people move to reclaim the fields, while the orphans go to school in the new school in North Harbour.

In the case of Ryukyu, Huang Long also wrote back to tell Zhu Youzhen, in short, it was much better than Daning.

As long as there is enough animal power and manpower, the same cultivated land as Liaodong can be reclaimed in three years, and the yield per mu will also increase through repeated cultivation and composting.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen also said to his royal brother:

"There shouldn't be any problems with the Ryukyu matter, and now it's time to ask the imperial brother to transfer the qualifications for opening the sea from Moon Port to South Port and North Port."

Nangang and Beigang, these are the two large ports in the north and south of Ryukyu Province, and the location is Keelung and Kaohsiung in later generations.

If the qualifications for opening sea trade were given to these two ports, then Zhu Youzhen would also have a nominal ban on private sea trade, and the Imperial Horse Supervisor would monopolize the offshore trade.

Zhu Youxiao didn't pay attention to this, and when he heard his younger brother's words, he turned his head to Wei Zhongxian, who was standing at the door, and said:

"It is decreed that Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces and cities will be dismissed, and the North and South Port City Shipping Divisions will be opened in Ryukyu Prefecture."

"Slave and maid obey the order...... Wei Zhongxian didn't dare to talk nonsense at the moment, and he was honest about the emperor's orders.

Zhu Youzhen saw that the momentum of his imperial brother's decree was so huge, and he specially opened a city shipping department for the north and south ports, and when he said:

"If you want to open the Nanbeigang City Shipping Division, then the younger brother should please transfer Shen Tingyang from Lushun to the Ryukyu Mansion, and order Huang Long to serve as the promotion of the City Shipping Division, and Shen Tingyang to serve as the deputy promotion."

"Huh? Okay, too. Zhu Youxiao heard that his younger brother was actually going to transfer Shen Tingyang to the Ryukyu Mansion, although he didn't understand, he still nodded in agreement.

However, after nodding, he still reminded: "Let him temporarily take the deputy to promote." ”

"Thank you brother, please rest assured, in less than three years, the Ryukyu City Boji will definitely be able to give my brother enough money to build the three major halls." Zhu Youzhen also knows how to please his brother.

It can be said that if it weren't for his own insistence, I'm afraid that my brother would have allocated money to build the three major halls a long time ago.

Thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen also got up and said: "This time, the younger brother will stay in the capital for three days, and then he will continue to return to the Yanshan camp." ”

"Huh? Is there anything you need to do to get back? Zhu Youxiao didn't open his mouth, but Zhu Youzhen said with a smile:

"The main thing is to get some gadgets."

"Gadgets?" Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up, and then he smiled at Zhu Youzhen:

"Why don't you leave it to me, brother, and let me develop it?"

"Brother to develop?" Zhu Youzhen was stunned for a second, a little embarrassed.

"Brother, let's get the bicycle, the loom, and the loom first."

"Those gadgets, I'll be able to get them out in a little bit." Zhu Youxiao was dissatisfied:

"Brother doesn't believe I can figure it out?"

"It's not ......," Zhu replied hesitantly.

"Then let's say okay, my brother will give me the drawings, and I'll get them." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and then did not give Zhu Youzhen a chance to refute, so he said to Zhu Youzhen:

"It's not too early, I still have to talk to Concubine Yu about something today, my brother will go down first."

"Isn't it early?" Zhu Youzhen glanced out of the bright window, then at Concubine Wang Liang, who had a blushing face, and immediately took a sip in his heart, then got up to salute in return, and left with Cao Huachun.

It's just that before he walked out of the palace gate, he heard the voice of Concubine Wang Liang begging for mercy, and asked him to say to Liu Ruoyu and Wang Ti at the door when he went out:

"If my brother says what medicine to use, remember not to agree, just say I said it."

"Uh...... It's ......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen say this, the two of them looked embarrassed, but they still responded hard.

Zhu Youzhen asked again: "The people in the Tai Hospital have all been replaced, right?" ”

"Back to Your Highness." Liu Ruoyu said:

"The few people invited by Commander Lu have all been admitted to the hospital."

"That'll do." When Zhu Youzhen heard that the matter was right, he no longer worried.

After the reorganization of Jinyiwei, in addition to the intelligence intelligence, perhaps it was the search for famous doctors in the world that satisfied Zhu Youzhen the most.

Li Zhongzi, Wu Youxing, Zhao Xianke, Zhang Jiebin, Chen Shigong, Wang Kentang, Wu Wangzhi, Miao Xiyong and other more than ten names of internal and surgical departments were all collected by him.

Zhu Youzhen brought them to the capital on the pretext of teaching medicine, and then opened a Yanshan medicine school not far from the Yanshan Institute, placed more than ten famous doctors in it, and asked them to go to the two Yanshan Institutes to select suitable disciples.

In the end, more than 300 people were selected and followed by them to study medicine.

Among them, Zhu Youzhen and the surgeon Chen Shigong talked the most, after all, surgery is what Zhu Youzhen needs the most at present.

How many soldiers died from inflammation under the battlefield? And how many people are left with lifelong disabilities because of broken bones that cannot be cured?

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen talked carefully about his understanding of surgery with Chen Shigong, and the most basic thing was the issue of blood type and blood transfusion.

Although Zhu Youzhen didn't know how to take a blood test, he could put forward this opinion, and he also promised to get some corpses of death row prisoners for Chen Shigong and many students to learn to dissect.

The treatment of these more than ten famous doctors, Zhu Youzhen also gave it high enough, with an annual salary of 500 taels, which is enough to buy ten yards in the capital.

However, they also need to work in shifts in the palace, usually once a month, and three people change shifts at a time, serving as envoys and judges respectively, and are responsible for the emperor's health.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen is not afraid that someone will do anything in the medicine, because everyone's family members are protected by the Jinyi Health Supervision Department.

After explaining, Zhu Youzhen took Cao Huachun back to his Qingong Palace.

When he returned to the Qingong Palace, he was ready to start improving some of the teaching materials of Yanshan.

He sat on a chair, next to Yang Yuanai, who was grinding for him, and Yang Ai, who was holding tea.

Looking at the appearance of His Royal Highness writing and painting in the booklet, Yang Ai seemed to be very interested.

Taking advantage of Yang Yuanai's time to make new tea, Yang Ai deliberately cushioned her toes, and Zhu Youzhen looked sideways when she saw this, and Yang Ai immediately lowered her head cautiously.

"What? Interested? ”

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to ask, but Yang Ai lowered his head in fear, eager to bury his head in his clothes.

Because of the two cupola mustaches tied to the sky and the red cloth, it looks like Nezha in Zhu Youzhen's impression, which is very cute.

"Your Highness asks you something, and you just say it."

Seeing that Yang Ai was timid and didn't dare to speak, Cao Huachun, who was standing opposite, smiled and persuaded him, and Yang Ai raised his head and nodded with innocent eyes when he saw his own admiral speak.

Looking at this appearance, Zhu Youzhen took the tea from his hand, put it on the table, reached out and hugged her to his lap, and said to her:

"Is it literate?"

"Sister has a ...... teaching," Yang Ai whispered, and at this time, Yang Yuanai also walked back to the study with tea.

"Your Highness forgives me, my little sister is not sensible......" Yang Yuan loved to see her sister sitting on her Royal Highness's lap, and immediately knelt on the ground in fright.

"I won't do anything...... Zhu Youzhen couldn't hold back, and then said:

"Get up too."

After all, when Yang Yuan fell in love, Zhu Youzhen said to Yang Ai:

"I said, you write, I won't know the words and ask your sister, do you know?"

"Hmm......" Yang Ai nodded, and then Zhu Youzhen handed the pen to her and began to say what he wanted to say word by word, and Yang Ai also wrote word by word.

I have to say that although he is young, Yang Ai's handwriting is still relatively neat.

Although she didn't know some of the words, as soon as she looked up, Yang Yuanai cautiously stepped forward, took the pen, and wrote for her.

After writing, Zhu Youzhen also asked: "Do you remember?" ”

Yang Ai nodded, indicating that he remembered, and then took the pen and continued to write down Zhu Youzhen's word by word.

Halfway through writing, Zhu Youzhen raised his head and said to Cao Huachun:

"Ask someone to make some snacks to eat."

"Slave maid takes orders......" Cao Huachun walked out of the study, greeted the eunuch at the door, and then returned to the study.

After half an hour like this, Zhu Youzhen didn't wait for the dim sum and tea from the East Palace Kitchen, but waited for Cui Yingyuan.

"His Royal Highness, Nanzhen Fusi commanded Tongzhi, Cui Yingyuan asked to see."

The eunuch walked into the study and saluted, and Zhu Youjian did not raise his head and said, "Let him come in." ”

The eunuch in the hall retreated after hearing this, and then Cui Yingyuan walked in.

"His Highness Chitose!" Cui Yingyuan saluted when he entered the house, and Zhu Youzhen raised his head and said to him:

"Get up."

"Your Highness." Cui Yingyuan looked at his Royal Highness holding a little girl, and was a little puzzled about how this girl was wearing the clothes of a palace maid, but he didn't think much about it, so he said:

"Your Highness, the matter of the Smelling Fragrance Sect is a bit eyebrow-raising."

"Tell me about it." Zhu Youzhen frowned, and Cui Yingyuan also said:

"That Xu Hongru hid among the affected people in Yuncheng, and while secretly giving alms, he was ready to start ......"

"Wait." Zhu Youzhen stopped Cui Yingyuan, then hugged Yang Ai off his lap and said to Yang Yuanai: "Take your sister to make tea." ”

"The slave takes the command." Yang Yuanai knew that the next words were not for her to hear, so she decisively led her sister away.

After they left, Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Cui Yingyuan and said, "Go on." ”

"Yes!" Cui Yingyuan lowered his head and continued:

"Xu Hongru and others gathered some victims and workers, after finding out the news that Xiaoqi and other guards went north, Xu Hongru and the deputy sect leader Wang Haoxian, Yu Hongzhi and others made an appointment on the third day of the first month of October to rebel at the same time in Guide, Kaifeng, Shandong and other places, with more than 100,000 followers."

Cui Yingyuan lowered his head and said that he was probing, and there were a lot of waves in his heart.

To be honest, if it weren't for King Qi reminding him, I'm afraid he wouldn't have paid attention to this smelling incense sect in Shandong at all.

Now I don't want to investigate casually, but this cult has actually grown to the level of more than 100,000 members.

Cui Yingyuan was shocked in his heart, not only him, but even Cao Huachun next to him had goosebumps.

In this case, Zhu Youzhen's cash was very calm.

If he remembered correctly, Xu Hongru's rebellion should have been an imitation of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, preparing to rebel in Jizhou and Hejian in Northern Zhili, Yuncheng and Tengxian in Shandong, as well as Shanxi, Henan and other places.

However, like the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they were betrayed by traitors, so they had to rebel in advance.

It was only because he had rectified Beizhili and Shanxi, so most of the people in Beizhili and Shanxi were given land, so the contradiction of land annexation was greatly alleviated.

Therefore, the rebellion had no soil for rebellion in Beizhili and Shanxi, and Xu Hongru increased his penetration into Henan.

From the current point of view, if Xu Hongru really revolted in Shandong and Henan, it would undoubtedly seriously threaten the fortune of the imperial court, causing Beizhili to fall into a food shortage.

But at present, there are a lot of soldiers and horses in Beizhili and Shanxi, and there is enough food in the imperial horse supervisor, so it is easy for Zhu Youzhen to encircle and suppress Xu Hongru, but ......

Zhu Youzhen remembered the vassal kings in Shandong and Henan, as well as the group of high-ranking Jiangnan gentry, so he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

"It's a good opportunity......"