Although the Mongols voluntarily withdrew their troops and returned to the desert with a large amount of loot, this did not mean that the war was over.

When the Mongols attacked the Acropolis of Ningxia, several wounded people were also captured, and the defenders learned from them that they were hired by Wu Sangui for their invasion of the south, and this news was also relayed to the Xia army higher-ups.

After learning of this, Zhang Mingzhen was furious, and he wanted to kill Wu Sangui, a disloyal, unfilial, and unrighteous villain, but he also knew that he couldn't be impulsive, so he could only order Zhou Hezhi to hand over the defense to Liu Fangming, the general soldier of Ningxia who arrived later, and then return to the west of the army.

At the same time, the good news of Shaanxi has already reached Jiangning, and the good news of Shaanxi happened to be delivered together with the performance of Yun Guilai, which can be described as a double happiness.

Yun Gui's recital was written by Fu Dingquan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, who reported that the Tusi of Yunnan and Guizhou were basically attached, and all the Tusi who opposed the reform and set off a rebellion were pacified, and he also checked the household registration, measured the land, collected taxes, built new cities, and set up schools in the areas where the land was changed and returned to the stream.

In addition to the establishment of prefectures and counties, he also suggested adding military institutions, such as Mengzhen, Zhaotong Xiongwei Town, Pu'er Yuanwei Town, and Guzhou Town and Taigong Town in Guizhou.

For Fu Dingquan's suggestions, Su Yan agreed them one by one, and ordered Ma Guozhu, the secretary of the household department, to allocate money and grain to Yungui for the construction of the new city.

In order to praise his merits, Su Yan named Fu Dingquan as Ping Guibo, the prince and young master, and the governor of Sichuan and Guangxi, and implemented the law of changing the land and returning to the river in Sichuan and Guangxi.

In addition to Sichuan and Guangxi, there are also a small number of Tusi left in Hunan, and Su Yan transferred Zhang Mingyang, the governor of Jiangxi, to be reappointed as the governor of Hunan, learning from Fu Dingquan, and promoting the return of land to the river in Hunan.

After rewarding Fu Dingquan, Su Yan also set his sights on the northwest.

Since Sichuan has been leveled and Hanzhong has been decided, there is no need for Su Dingyuan's position of governor of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces to continue to be maintained, Su Yan decided to abolish Su Dingyuan's position of governor of the three provinces and change it to Shaanxi Governor, and add the general of Peking University, Zhang Mingzhen's official position remains unchanged, and he is Su Dingyuan's deputy to attack Wu Zhou together.

Su Dingyuan went north to Shaanxi, and the soldiers and horses in Sichuan did not need to be maintained so much, and Liu Tichun, the governor of Sichuan, continued to stay in office, and all the soldiers and horses of the original Kuidong thirteen families were transferred to Su Dingyuan's command to conquer Wu Sangui together.

After discussing the change of official positions, several people led by Xu He began to persuade Su Yan to draft again, saying that not long after the emperor, Xu He and Zhang Kentang advised from time to time that Su Yan could conduct a draft and fill the harem.

Their reasons also made Su Yan unable to refute, Su Yan's harem only had Zheng Chagu, the queen of the middle palace and a prince, which founding emperor of all dynasties had a harem as simple as him? Even the harem of Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, who was notoriously afraid, had more than one Dugu queen.

The number of emperor's heirs has always directly affected whether the country is stable, whether it is to stabilize the country or appease the hearts of the courtiers, Su Yan must open the harem, work hard to be a stallion, and give birth to a bunch of princes.

Su Yan originally thought that it had only been long since he ascended the throne, and whether it was a bit inappropriate to rush the draft so soon, so he never agreed to the advice of Xu He and others, but after their persistent persuasion, Su Yan had no choice but to agree and ordered a draft from the people in the Jiangnan area to fill the harem.

Xia Chengming system, the dynasty also inherited the criteria for screening palace maids in previous dynasties, and only selected good family girls who were not doctors, non-witches, non-businessmen and hundreds of workers.

After Su Yan decided to draft the draft, the palace internal supervisor probed around the Jiangnan area, looking for 5,000 women between the ages of 13 and 16, and all the women who were favored by the internal supervisor would pay their families some silver taels as a dowry in advance, and then ordered their parents to send them to Beijing to participate in the draft.

Naturally, these 5,000 people could not all become harem concubines, and at most less than 50 of them could enter the emperor's eyes, and the rest could only become palace maids, fantasizing that one day they would be favored by the emperor and climb onto the dragon bed.

At the same time as the Jiangnan area was vigorously holding the draft

The temperature in the north also gradually dropped, and as the cold current produced during the Xiaoice River entered the pass from the desert and gradually moved south, the heavy snow symbolizing the cold also began to fall north of the Yellow River.

In Puzhou, Wu Sangui, who was wearing a mink robe, stretched out his hand to catch a snowflake falling from the sky, felt the slightest undetectable coldness of the snowflake falling into his palm, and slowly exhaled a breath to blow the snowflakes away.

"Your Majesty, the cold winter is coming, and once the Yellow River freezes, our army can cross the river and engage the Xia army." Hu Guozhu stood aside and said eagerly.

Wu Sangui nodded, he had been waiting for the Yellow River to freeze for a long time, and although the soldiers and horses he sent to search for ships upstream had brought back some ships, they could not transport the army across the river.

Moreover, the Xia army sent many additional troops and horses to garrison in the upper reaches, and the banners of the Xia army could be seen everywhere from Hancheng to Chaoyi, so that the Zhou army could not find a suitable place to force the Yellow River and gain a foothold in Hexi.

Wu Sangui had already learned the news that the Mongols had withdrawn to the north of the Great Wall, and the treachery of the Mongols made him hate and scold, and also made him fall into the whirlpool of public opinion, Zhang Mingzhen poked out the matter of his hiring of the Mongols to go south, so that Wu Sangui suddenly became the target of the public, and Shaanxi hated the same enemy, vowing to attack the Zhou army and avenge the tragic death of the people in Ningxia and Yulin.

After Su Yan's holy decree was sent to Shaanxi, Su Dingyuan led the army to the north, sat in Xi'an, and ordered to pacify Bo Linzhong, Linguo Gong Li Laiheng and other former Kuidong thirteen soldiers and horses in Hexi, although he and Zhang Mingzhen had no experience in cooperation before, but after some discussion, the two still came to the same opinion.

Among them, Su Dingyuan personally moved to Tongzhou, west of Chaoyi, and personally commanded the army on the front line, Zhang Mingzhen has been in charge of Shaanxi for a period of time, and Shaanxi government affairs will be handed over to him to preside, and coordinate the transportation of grain and salary at the front.

After Su Dingyuan moved to Tongzhou, he was not in a hurry to launch an attack immediately, not only was it difficult for the Zhou army to cross the river to attack, but his Xia army also had the same problem, and the ferry attack would definitely pay heavy casualties, so it was better to wait for the Yellow River to freeze and then fight to the death with the Zhou army.

The stalemate between the two armies lasted until mid-December, and as the temperature became colder and colder, the Yellow River separated from Shaanxi and Shanxi finally formed a thick ice.