Early December, the city of Beijing.

Now that the new policy, military reform and other policies have been fully rolled out, and the inspection work of the inspection teams in various places has also been on the right track, Liu Yan's side will receive reports from all over the country every ten days or so, compared with the information provided by the Ministry of Military Intelligence, Liu Yan can more accurately control the new policy, military reform, and the real implementation of the "Huangming Tianmu System".

So far, the Northwest Inspection Group is busy in Shaanxi, and the new policy, military reform, and land reform are being rolled out in all parts of Shaanxi. It is only because Shaanxi is the "starting point" of Li Zicheng's army of thieves that the degree of destruction is even more serious than that of Shanxi and Henan, so the implementation of various government decrees has been hit to varying degrees.

At present, the main energy of the Northwest Inspection Group is still on rebuilding the bureaucracy in various parts of Shaanxi, otherwise the various government decrees will not be able to be carried out smoothly.

The Southwest Inspection Team has now arrived in Huguang and is implementing various government decrees in various parts of Huguang.

There has always been a saying in the Ming Dynasty, that is, "the lake is ripe, the world is full", because of the appearance of Liu Yan, Li Zicheng's army of thieves did not go south to Huguang to wreak havoc, so all parts of Huguang were not affected by much war, and the integrity of the people's livelihood and bureaucracy was very good.

At the same time, the Southwest Inspection Team also recommended a talent for Liu Yan, who was Qu Shiyun who was idle at home.

When Liu Yan heard this name, he was immediately pleasantly surprised.

In history, Qu Shiyun worshiped Qian Qianyi as a teacher in his early years, and later became a jinshi in the Tianqi Dynasty and awarded Yongfeng Zhi County, Jiangxi, which has quite a political achievement. In 1623, Ding's father returned to Li, and returned to the Western priest Julius, and was baptized into the Church, named Thomer, and once wrote the preface to Ai's book on sexuality.

After the end of Qu Shi's worries, he was promoted by the imperial court to the household department, and repeatedly impeached and reprimanded the ministers in power, and the emperor adopted his words. Later, he was squeezed out and framed by Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru and others, and was belittled with his teacher Qian Qianyi, and then returned to Changshu.

In 1644, Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, King Fu established power in Nanjing, Qu Shiyun served as Ying Tianfu Cheng, and was promoted to the right capital of the imperial history, governor of Guangxi. In the summer of 1645, Qu Shiyun arrived in Wuzhou, when Nanjing had been broken, the king of Lu supervised the country in Shaoxing, the king of Tang was also titled in Fujian, and the king of Jingjiang was also in Guilin later.

In the second year, the king of Tang was martyred, Zhu Youlang stood in Zhaoqing, and Qu Shiyun entered the right servant of the Ministry of Officials. Later, the Qing army broke through Ganzhou, and Qu stayed in Zhaoqing. Next year, the Yuan Yongli was changed, and the Qing soldiers fell into Zhaoqing, but they went to Wuzhou, rotated the emperor to Guilin, and was promoted to the secretary of the military department. Qu Shiyun once borrowed 300 Portuguese soldiers and several heavy artillery pieces from Macao, so he recovered a lot of lost territory for a while, and Guilin also defended it for a long time, and then sealed Guibo.

In 1650, the ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty slandered each other, the food and salary were scarce, the Qing soldiers entered from Quanzhou, Guilin was in chaos, there was no soldier in the city, Qu Shiyun did not go alone, and the governor Zhang Tongchang drank alcohol oppositely, and the poems were sung and sung in the day, and more than 100 songs were obtained. After calmly arresting, Kong Youde persuaded him to surrender unyieldingly. He also made an expression of distress in prison, and bravely served with Zhang Tongchang at the foot of the Xianhe Ridge in Guilin's Wind Cave Mountain.

Although Qu Shiyun is not as famous as Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu and others, he is also a ruthless man in the late Ming Dynasty, and the most rare thing is that Qu Shiyun has the ability to lead troops, and has achieved great results on the battlefield of resisting the Qing Dynasty.

Now because of Liu Yan, Li Zicheng has been defeated, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been disabled again, and he is recuperating in Liaodong, and Qu Shiyun did not go to Changshu to live as in history, but lived in seclusion in Anlu County, Dao'an Prefecture, Huguang.

This time, it was because a detachment of the inspection team went to Anlu County to implement the new policy and had an intersection with Qu Shiyun, who had a long conversation with a director of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the inspection team, and many of them had very good views on the military reform policy, so they were recommended as a talent.

Liu Yan thought about it for a while, and then ordered Qu Shiqian to be recruited as a member of the Ministry of National Defense, and first go to the Huangming Military Academy in Qingzhou Mansion for further study, and then make arrangements after graduation.

After about a month of busyness, the work of the Southern Inspection Team in Nanzhili has been completed, and it has begun to be stationed in Zhejiang Province one after another.

After reading the report of the Southern Inspection Group, Liu Yan picked up the information sent by the Military Intelligence Department, and was suddenly attracted by one of the pieces of information.

Zheng Zhilong, the governor of Fujian, has a strong army, especially the naval division, and his troops and forces are entrenched in various parts of Fujian, and it has become a trend of separation. This time, the southern inspection team went south, and Zheng Zhilong sent a large number of meticulous workers to the north to spy on them, which seemed to have a plan."

"Zheng Zhilong!"

Since Zheng Zhilong defeated the fleet of the Dutch East India Company in one fell swoop in the Battle of Kinmen off the coast of Fujian, he has since controlled the sea routes and began to collect shipping fees for merchant ships from various countries.

Now Zheng Zhilong issued the Zheng family's order flags to the merchant ships that had paid the protection fee (a large ship needed to pay 3,000 taels of silver); If you don't pay and want to pass through the sea area under Zheng Zhilong's control, I am afraid that you will not escape the fate of being robbed.

In fact, Zheng Zhilong was so strong that the Dutch East India Company was unstable, and the Dutch united with other forces to take Zheng Zhilong, but Zheng Zhilong continued to expand his power and defeated the Dutch twice.

Shi Zai: "Those who are not allowed to order the flag of the Zheng family cannot come and go." Each ship earns 3,000 gold, and the annual income is 10 million, so as to enrich the enemy country and build the city of Anping Town";

"Since then, the sea atmosphere is quite resting, selling foreign goods, domestic and foreign merchants, all use the Zheng banner, no precaution, businessmen have 20 times the benefits, Zhilong to Haili traffic court, to show the great", "Fujian to Zheng for the Great Wall".

So far, Zheng Zhilong's trade has been extensive in the East and Nanyang: Da Ni, Hun Ni, Champang, Luzon, Yonggang, Beigang, Dayuan, Hirado, Nagasaki, Mumbai, Banten, Old Port, Batavia, Malacca, Cambodia, and Siam.

In addition, Liu Yan seems to remember that it has been recorded in history that Zheng Zhilong's army is huge, and he has a military strength of up to 200,000 people, including Han Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Austronesian, and African blacks, and has a fleet of more than 3,000 large and small ships.

Moreover, not long ago, the Ministry of Military Intelligence reported to Liu Yanzuo that when a drought occurred in Fujian Province, Zheng Zhilong took the opportunity to emigrate a large number of hungry people from Fujian to Taiwan and gave the immigrants very preferential financial conditions.

At this time, the Dutch East India Company ruled southern Taiwan, and built two cities in Dayuan (now Tainan City) to build two cities, Geranza City and Pumin Sha City, garrisoning nearly 2,000 people, but Zheng Zhilong emigrated from the mainland as many as tens of thousands of people, which greatly oppressed the Dutch sphere of influence.

Liu Yan frowned slightly after reading it, now Lingshanwei's new Fu ship is still under development, and now it is the time of winter, the two newly built new Fu ships have not yet been launched and seaworthy, and the new sailors built by themselves will not be able to form an army in a short time, and at this time, facing Zheng Zhilong, Liu Yan is a little bottomless for the first time.

"If Zheng Zhilong really fights against the imperial court, that big battle is inevitable, and I am naturally not afraid of land battles, even if Zheng Zhilong has the so-called black musketeers in his hands, he is by no means the opponent of the Wehrmacht. It's just that once Zheng Zhilong is defeated, he will definitely flee to Taiwan. ”

"You must know that the current island of Taiwan has been developed by Zheng Zhilong for many years, and it is its rear base, and when the time comes, with Zheng Zhilong's maritime superiority, it will inevitably cause Taiwan to be isolated overseas, which is intolerable!"

So Liu Yan immediately gave an order to the Ministry of Military Intelligence to pay close attention to Zheng Zhilong's movements, and at the same time eliminate the details sent by Zheng Zhilong as much as possible.

In addition, Liu Yan also wrote a secret letter to Jiang Dejing, the leader of the southern inspection team, ordering him to temporarily focus on the affairs of Zhejiang Province, and all matters involving Fujian must be reported to the imperial court before taking action.

After taking care of these, Liu Yan took into account the huge military strength in Zheng Zhilong's hands, and in his own planning, he would never allow such a huge army to exist, so many things had to be laid out in advance.

Thinking of this, Liu Yan secretly said in his heart: "It seems that the shipyard is going to speed up the progress!" In addition, is it necessary to mobilize a national defense force to go south and garrison in the area of Nanzhili to put some pressure on Zheng Zhilong? ”

So Liu Yan ordered Song Wanli, the director of the shipyard, that the progress of the new-style Fuchuan project should be accelerated, and if conditions permit, the test of the new-style warship could be carried out at sea in winter.

As for the matter of mobilizing the national defense forces to the south of Zhili, after careful consideration, Liu Yan still decided not to startle the snake for the time being, at least before the new deal, military reform, land reform and other affairs have achieved initial results, and before the new warship is officially finalized, not to provoke Zheng Zhilong too much.

"First of all, use the strategy of military reform to prepare for the establishment of garrison troops in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and use the garrison army to suppress Zheng Zhilong's headquarters in Fujian Province, and then take action according to the situation."

Thinking of this, Liu Yan decided that after the southern inspection team dealt with the affairs of Zhejiang, he would not enter Fujian for the time being, and he did not want the inspection team to be the fuse for the imperial court and Zheng Zhilong to lift the table.

"After the matter in Zhejiang is over, let Jiang Dejing lead the team to Jiangxi first."

Thinking of this, Liu Yan couldn't help but sigh, and then picked up another report, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "This is."

Later, Liu Yan saw a report submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture, and now Du Feng, a consultant of the Ministry of Agriculture's Reclamation Department, has perfected the planting technology of sweet potatoes and accumulated a considerable number of seedlings and breeding.

Therefore, Zhang Lei, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, proposed to promote sweet potatoes in the four provinces of Beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, and Liu Yan was happy and immediately approved the implementation.

At the same time, Song Yingxing, who had already taken office in the Education Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was busy with the gradual implementation of the new policy in the provinces and the abundant financial resources of the imperial court, so that new schools have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

Correspondingly, the various types of teaching materials, as well as the huge number of teachers in the new schools, have become a huge problem.

To this end, Song Yingxing and the Department of Education were busy almost every day, constantly transferring people from new-style schools in Shandong and Beizhili, and even recruiting students who had just graduated and sending them to various places to serve as teachers.

"My lord, Shanxi, Henan, Nanzhili and other places have reported again, and they still want people."

Song Yingxing sighed and said, "How did Shandong and Beizhili reply?" ”

"It's still the same, I can't mix it."

Song Yingxing thought for a long time and said, "I have a way, I just need to report it to Lord Shangshu, you wait for my news." ”

"Yes."