That night, Su Yan held a banquet in the governor's palace and entertained Zhu Chenggong and a group of civil and military generals led by Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, as the host.

Xu is Qing court threat was pushed to Jiangbei, King Lu and the military generals of King Lu and the military generals of the King of Lu were a little indulgent in it, they pushed the cup to change the lamp, staggered, from time to time to laugh heartily, Danghu Bo Ruan Jin and several military generals stepped on the bench, playing the wine order, drunk all over the face red, almost drunk.

Although Su Yan did not join them, he also drank a lot with Zhu Chenggong and Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu.

At the banquet, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, grabbed Su Yan's hand tightly and said drunkly: "Anguo, since this king is in the name of going to the prison country, the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty in the southeast will be entrusted to you, and this king can rest assured, after the wedding, this king will go to Hangzhou to recuperate."

"Your Highness, just rest assured, there are officials in Nanjing, don't worry." Su Yan said with a smile, without the slightest intention of retaining, Zhu Yihai saw that he didn't mean to keep himself, he was depressed, and he didn't speak again, but picked up the wine glass and drank it all again.

Although he said that he wanted to give up the struggle for supreme authority, he still fantasized in his heart that Su Yan could change his mind and support himself instead, in his opinion, he had always struggled on the front line of resistance against the Qing Dynasty and never thought of surrendering, which was not better than that cousin who could only escape? As long as he is not blind, he should be chosen instead of Zhu Youlang.

It's a pity that although Su Yan is respectful to him on the surface, he actually wants to completely squeeze him out of Nanjing, the center of power, and absorb and annex the subordinates brought by Zhu Yihai.

Zhu Chenggong sat on the side and watched the exchange between Su Yan and Zhu Yihai throughout the whole process, he had no intention of interjecting, his good impression of Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, was not high, the latter was once hostile to Emperor Longwu whom he supported, although Emperor Longwu had died, but the prejudice against Zhu Yihai in his heart still did not completely dissipate.

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The next day, on the second day of the seventh month, under the auspices of Su Yan, tens of thousands of soldiers of Lu Wangjun gathered on the school field again to accept the assessment of their next fate.

Those who are eliminated will be sent home with travel expenses; Those who pass the test continue to serve in the army and rely on military pay for food.

Before the assessment, Su Yan also asked the soldiers to choose to give up or participate in the assessment, and those who gave up voluntarily could also receive the travel expenses and be sent home, so before the assessment, more than 500 of the tens of thousands of soldiers chose to take the money and leave.

Most of these people are soldiers who showed signs of pulling their hips in yesterday's review, and they also know that they have a few pounds and taels, and instead of being eliminated at that time, it is better to take the initiative to quit themselves, so as not to lose face.

The assessment will last for three days, one assessment a day, but at the end of the day, thousands of people will be eliminated just for their physical strength - this exaggerated ratio makes the expressions on the faces of the generals of the Lu Wang family ugly, although they expected that many soldiers and horses under their command would be eliminated, but they did not expect that so many people would be brushed down in the first item alone.

Su Yan did not personally supervise on the platform, he handed over the task to Zhang Mingzhen, and left some system soldiers to supervise, and then returned to the governor's palace to personally meet with Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu, who were brought from the countryside.

These two people had a bright heart and wanted to serve the court with their own talents, but unfortunately they encountered Hu Lu going south, and the court was quickly defeated, so they could only hide their names in the countryside of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, waiting for the opportunity to gather the righteous army.

After being invited by Su Yan to come to Nanjing as officials, both of them happily went, and after a detailed discussion with Su Yan in the governor's palace, Su Yan changed his attention, and did not appoint Huang Zongxi as the head of the household department on the spot, but told him the idea of establishing Yingtian University, and invited Huang Zongxi to serve as a lecturer after the completion of the university to educate students.

Su Yan's idea of establishing a university reached a consensus with Huang Zongxi's thoughts, so Huang Zongxi readily agreed.

The reason why he changed his mind and did not appoint Huang Zongxi as the head of the household department was because Su Yan found that Huang Zongxi was more just talking on paper in his communication with the other party, and many of the ideas he put forward were just utopian ideas and could not be really implemented.

In other words, if you let him make suggestions, let him have real power and implement his ideas, the results will only be mixed

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Unlike Huang Zongxi, although Gu Yanwu was not appointed as the head of the Ministry of Industry as originally planned, in the face-to-face communication with him, Su Yan found that Gu Yanwu could talk eloquently in terms of military strategy, source of troops, and financial rectification, and put forward suggestions that were conducive to changing the shortcomings, so Su Yan decided to appoint Gu Yanwu as the head of the Ministry of War - fortunately, he had not officially appointed Wang Yi, otherwise it would be embarrassing.

After finishing the conversation with Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu, Su Yan led the team to leave the Governor's Mansion and came to Bailuzhou, which is not too far from the Qinhuai River, where there is a large-scale mansion that divides the entire Bailuzhou.

It is said that this was once the residence of Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, but after the Qing army entered the customs, the owner became a family of officials who tried their best to kneel and lick the Qing court, and the officials were also beheaded under Su Yan's purge, and the family property was confiscated, and even this large-scale mansion also fell into the hands of Su Yan.

And now, after becoming the queen of Nan'an County, according to the specifications, Su Yan should have a county palace, which he originally did not plan to build, after all, his idea is that he will be able to enter the imperial city in a few years, and there is no need to waste money to build a new county palace.

However, under the persuasion of Guan Heiqiu and Zhang Huangyan, although Su Yan still did not build a new county palace, he directly chose a ready-made mansion and transformed this mansion into a county palace, and the plaque was also replaced with "Nan'an County Palace" written in gilded characters.

When Su Yan arrived, a group of slaves and servants in the county king's mansion came out to greet him, and the middle-aged housekeeper led by him, dressed in a gray robe, took the lead in kneeling and saluting Su Yan, and said, "The villain brought thirty-five people from the whole mansion to meet the county king Chitose."

"Get up." Su Yan raised his hand and said.

The butler immediately responded, he looked at Su Yan respectfully, and without waiting for the latter to speak, he took the initiative to introduce himself: "Junwang Chitose, the villain's name is Su Qian, he is a newly recruited housekeeper from your mansion, and he used to be a member of the Chinese military camp."

"Oh?" Su Yan was a little puzzled after hearing this, he looked at Su Qian, recalling that the latter seemed to be a little inconvenient when he had just acted, he didn't care at first, it seemed that he should have been injured on the battlefield and retired.

And this is indeed the case, seeing Su Yan's doubts, Su Qian explained: "The king of the county, Chitose, the villain was injured in the battle of Nanjing, his legs and feet were inconvenient and could not be demobilized, the villain was also the son of a housekeeper of a landlord in his hometown before he joined the army, he was familiar with it since he was a child, and he knew a lot about the housekeeper, and he volunteered to apply for the job after learning that the county king's mansion recruited a housekeeper."

After listening to his explanation, Su Yan also showed a clear look, but he quickly realized a problem, he didn't ask on the spot, but was ready to call Su Qian to the study later and ask alone.

Subsequently, Su Yan asked Su Qian to lead the way, to visit all parts of the house, Su Qian is worthy of being the son of the housekeeper, under his management, although the county king's mansion has not yet been moved in, but it is also arranged in an orderly manner, every day there are maids to clean all parts of the house, so the house looks very tidy.

After visiting the entire mansion, nearly an hour had passed, and Su Yan asked Su Qian to follow him into the study and ask him about the soldiers who could not be demobilized because of their injuries like him.

Su Qian didn't expect Su Yan to care about this issue, so he was stunned for a while after hearing this, but he quickly reacted and replied: "Back to the county king Chitose, the brothers who retired from the army with the villain all received a pension and travel expenses, and most of them chose to return to their hometowns to buy a few acres of land with the pension, and hired a few tenants to cultivate the land, and a small number of people stayed in Nanjing and wanted to settle in Nanjing."

"What will be the difficulty of them when they are discharged?" Su Yan asked again.

What he was most worried about was that the soldiers encountered difficulties after leaving the army and had nowhere to ask for help, and finally ended up in poverty and miserable life, and the soldiers gave up their lives to fight with him to kill the enemy, and he could not let the soldiers not end well.

"Chitose, the king of the county, the villain has not heard of it for the time being." Su Qian thought for a moment, shook his head and replied.

"It's good if you don't have it." Su Yan nodded and instructed, "You go and inquire more, don't report good news or bad news."

"Yes." Su Qian subconsciously wanted to give a military salute, but he reacted halfway through, and hurriedly changed it to a subordinate salute.

After letting Su Qian leave, Su Yan fell into thinking, after the Battle of Nanjing

There are more than 1,000 soldiers who could not be demobilized because of their injuries and had to be discharged and returned to their hometowns, and these soldiers received generous pensions and travel expenses, but Su Yan felt that this was far from enough.

The martial tradition of the Han people was castrated by the Zhao family during the Song and Song dynasties, and even in the Ming Dynasty, it was also heavy on literature and light on martial arts, so that the entire empire admired scholars and despised martial artists.

For example, improving the social status of soldiers, just like the priority rights of soldiers in later generations, stipulating that the post of chief between townships can only be held by retired soldiers, and the children of soldiers can be sent to universities at public expense, etc., through policy propaganda and subtle changes in the people's resistance to joining the army, and increases the attractiveness of joining the army.

Although it is said that one generation does the work of one generation, Su Yan wants to restore the martial tradition and the blood of the people from his generation, so that even if the dynasty he established collapses in the future, the restored martial tradition can also make the Han people stand proudly among the nations of the world.

Well, Su Yan never thought that the dynasty he established could last forever, if the idea of democracy in this world line is still spread in modern times, unless his descendants follow the trend and transform into a constitutional monarchy, otherwise the dynasty he established is likely to become the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history.

Far from it.

Improving the status of military personnel should indeed be implemented, so it was first popularized in the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian occupied by Su Yan, and after Su Yan made a decision, he ordered someone to come in and grind it, and wrote down the points he had just thought of.

First, the Department of Disarmament and Disarmament will be set up to be responsible for the resettlement of retired soldiers, and they will verify the pension and the number of acres of land according to the situation of the retired soldiers, and report them to the household department, which will issue the pension, and the local government will distribute the acres of land and exempt them from paying taxes for the first five years.

Second, following the example of the Han Dynasty, the Yulin Cavalry was established, and the orphans of the fallen soldiers of the three armies would be taken into the Yulin Cavalry to receive cultural education and military training.

Thirdly, retired servicemen will be given priority to serve as lieutenant chiefs after returning to their hometowns, their children can go to university for free, and retired servicemen who are injured can receive a pension every year.

Su Yan has thought about these three points at present, Yulin riding this is actually not much different from the hundreds of righteous sons collected by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang is to accept the orphans of fallen soldiers as righteous sons, thus winning the hearts of the people, and those righteous sons will also be loyal to him in the future and charge into battle.

Su Yan didn't have that much bad taste and wanted to be someone else's stepfather, so he restarted the Han Dynasty's Yulin Ride and replaced his righteous son with the "Yulin Orphan".

After writing these three articles, Su Yan blew the ink on it, checked it again, and made sure that there were no mistakes before putting it away.

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Because the wedding date is gradually approaching, Su Yan has no new actions in the next few days, and the Ming army in Jiangbei is still constantly besieging Luzhou, while the rest of the cities that have been taken, the Ming army is strengthening the city defense and hoarding materials to defend the city.

It was soon the sixth day of the seventh month, the night before the wedding.

In the small hall of the inner courtyard of the Yamen of the Governor of Jiangning, Nanjing, Zhang Huangyan and his wife Dong and son Zhang Wanqi, who he picked up from Ningbo, were having dinner.

"Husband, you're all ready." Dong replied softly, "The concubine has prepared a total of three hundred taels of silver, ten horses of silk silk, a pair of jade bracelets, and a pair of jade ruyi, but is these three hundred taels of silver a little less?"

"If you compare it to others, it's a bit less." Zhang Huangyan looked helpless, "Don't look at me as the governor of Jiangning now, nominally an official of the imperial court, but in fact I received it from His Royal Highness the King of the County, if it wasn't for His Royal Highness the King of the County, our family wouldn't even be able to take out this."

Dong nodded sympathetically, their family's money was basically used by Zhang Huangyan to recruit Xiangyong a few years ago, and then they were blackmailed by the Qing army, and now it can almost be said that they are destitute, and they all rely on Su Yan to live on Zhang Huangyan's money.

Over the years, she has not blamed Zhang Huangyan in her heart, blaming him for ignoring his small family and only caring about the country, but when she saw a few wrinkles and weathered in the corners of his eyes

Behind her cheeks, only distress remained in her heart.

At this moment, Zhang Huangyan suddenly changed his words, he looked at Zhang Wanqi, who was still pulling the rice, and said, "Wanqi is already eight years old, and when he reaches the age of enlightenment and study, I have no time to teach, so I am ready to send him to Mr. Lizhou to study, madam, please prepare a gift for your visit."

Dong glanced at Zhang Wanqi, nodded, and said, "It's okay, the concubine heard that His Royal Highness the King of the County is going to build a university, and then send him to that university after Wanqi leaves the school."

The young Zhang Wanqi listened to the conversation of his parents, his eyes flashed, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

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It was originally decided to *** this month, but it seems that it will be postponed......