Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 230 The crisis in the south of the Yangtze River has been resolved
At this time, the outer hall of the River Governor's Office was already full of voices.

Because Zhu Youjian suddenly fainted and fell asleep last night, the officials involved in the Yangzhou battle no longer knew where everything should start after the war.

Some officials and generals began to talk about the war in Huguang and how to help Huguang. Should they just sit back and watch the Azig troops completely destroy the main force of the extermination army, and borrow the Qing army's hands of the trespassers who had a great impact on the Ming Dynasty's fortunes in the past? be eliminated.

Some officials also began to talk about whether they should take advantage of this great victory to negotiate a peace with the Qing army immediately to achieve the current status of dividing the north and the south, and then plan for a future northern expedition to recover the northern capital.

Some officials even suggested taking advantage of the opportunity of the great victory to make an immediate Northern Expedition to destroy the Qing army in one fell swoop and restore the unification of the Ming Dynasty.

The victory of the Daming Guards in annihilating the Duoduo tribe left the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty in a state of confusion, not knowing what to do next.

As soon as Zhu Youjian appeared, all the civil and military officials present immediately looked at Zhu Youjian, bowed to Zhu Youjian, and shouted in unison: "I have seen Your Majesty!"

"You don't need to be too polite. Before I came, I heard the lively discussions among you. Why have you been silent again since I came here?" Zhu Youjian is in a good mood now, and the crisis of national survival has been temporarily lifted. Just having fun with the beauty, she became more and more radiant. Although her face was as heavy as water, her eyes were benevolent.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, all the ministers and workers are discussing the next strategy of Ming Dynasty. Although the Duduo Department of the Qing Army has been surrounded and wiped out, the Azig Department is still attacking Huguang, and the Northern Capital is still in the hands of Jiannu. Now everything is complicated. I don't know how to start," Gao Hongtu, the second cabinet assistant, replied.

The officials present all nodded to each other and discussed in low voices. Since last year, Zhu Youjian has been purging the Donglin Party of empty talk and emphasizing the practical officials. Whenever there is a major event, he will personally guide the civil and military officials how to focus on the overall situation. Acting on the ground has now made Manchu officials learn to plan ahead.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian is very gratified. The political system of Ming Dynasty is quite mature. From the sixth department of the cabinet to the third department of the governor, the process of every matter has become a law, and there are good countermeasures. In addition, the imperial examination The maturity of the system and civil service system has made the empire completely free from the normal operation of the emperor's good or bad.

That is to say, the rise and fall of the Ming Empire has a lot to do with the civil and military officials present, especially the civil officials present. If they only know that the party is the same and fight against differences, then the Ming Dynasty will only be numb and stagnant. If they are determined to innovate , with practice as the key, Daming will be able to continue to operate and even improve.

Now the officials are not focusing on whether the crown prince should study, whether His Majesty should keep a famous Qinhuai prostitute like Li Xiangjun by his side for a day and a night, but only focus on how Daming should go next, How should the imperial court carry out the next strategy for recovering the northern capital and revitalizing the great cause of Ming Dynasty.

This is the imperial court without the Donglin Party, no longer empty talk, no longer entangled in some private affairs of the emperor's family, and does not deliberately challenge the imperial power for the benefit of its own party and class, but blurs the contradiction between civil servants and imperial power, and will pay attention Power is transferred from the good or bad of the emperor to the safety of the world.

The so-called monarch is the most important, the people are the most important, and the community is second. In fact, more relationship should be placed on the people and the country, not on the emperor. This is what officials in the court should do.

It is undoubtedly the fantasy of nerdy officials to be entangled in the emperor's family affairs, only to cultivate the emperor into a model of etiquette and morality, and then hope that the top-down etiquette hierarchy will maintain the long-term stability of the entire empire.

"Very well, all my loves are concerned about the country, worrying about the people and the country. I am very relieved. Just like what Gao Aiqing said, although the crisis in the south of the Yangtze River has been temporarily relieved, the Azig Department of the Qing army is still plundering our Huguang. There is a great tendency to march into the south of the Yangtze River, and the days of peace in the world have not yet come, but food needs to be eaten bite by bite, and things need to be done one by one. The battle of the Azig Department of the Qing army is now afraid that it will only burn in Huguang The northern Jiangxi area is still far away from Jiangnan, and we have to wait for news from Jinyiwei before we can make any further plans. We must give full trust to Li Yan, Du Yinxi, Huang Degong, Yuan Jixian, etc. The first thing to do now is to get close The guards rested in time. Henan, the north of Nanzhili, and the north of Shandong urgently need to recover and resume production and statistics of war damage. Go down and prepare, and Gao Aiqing stays! Li Ruolian immediately sent a decree to the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing, and Liu Zongzhou, the Minister of Rites, came to Yangzhou as soon as possible , This time you will enter the capital with a victory, you can't do it casually, you should show my majesty and the spirit of the guards!"

When Zhu Youjian said this, the officials temporarily hid their thoughts in their hearts, followed Zhu Youjian's words, and began to do the practical work in front of them.

Although Shi Kefa was the eunuch of the Rites and Bingbi, he was also the director of the General Armament Department of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, so he began to collect statistics on the consumption of ordnance, horses, money and food and the seizure of various kinds of ordnance, horses and money since the Qing army's Duoduo troops went south.

Wang Chengen, as the admiral of the East Factory, naturally began to interrogate the young people who took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble when the Qing army went south, and was responsible for escorting Duoduo and other important criminals to Beijing to await trial.

As Minister of the Ministry of War and Chief of Staff of the Generalissimo's Office, Ma Shiying began to mobilize guards from all over the country to recover the lost ground in Henan and the northern part of Nanzhili. Recover the lost land in the north of Shandong together, and control the Shandong Peninsula is in the hands of Daming.

Zhou Yuji, as the head of the Army Department of the Grand Marshal’s Mansion, began to count the casualties of the guards and the enemy’s casualties in this battle. He paid compensation to the dead officers and soldiers and carried out collective burials. Employment and provide corresponding subsidies.

Liu Fangliang, as the director of the General Training Department of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, is responsible for gathering the remaining healthy guards for rest training, preparing to recruit recruits, and working with Li Banghua to revise the training program for recruits.

Li Mingrui, as the governor of Huaiyang, is naturally responsible for restoring the production order in the Huaiyang area, re-stating the unowned land and dividing the land to the people.

Chen Zizhuang, the governor of Fengyang, is responsible for the recovery of production in Fengyang.

Due to the death of Lu Daqi, governor of Henan, Zhu Youjian directly transferred the scholar Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Henan and the commander-in-chief, to ask the refugees from Henan to return to their hometowns and re-divide the land in Henan. All the lands of Henan vassal kings were re-divided among the people to compensate for the poverty of the people and to thank the people of Henan for supporting the two kings.

And after the battlefield outside the city was dealt with, and all the governors and officials of the Generalissimo's Mansion were dispatched, Yangzhou reopened the city, the checkpoints in various places officially resumed, and a great war officially came to an end.

However, at this time, the battle damage data was also calculated. The Guards infantry casualties were more than 3000, the cavalry casualties were more than [-], and the artillery casualties were about [-]. Among them, the casualties of grassroots officers were about [-]. The nearly [-] cavalry of the Qing army were wiped out, except Duoduo and other leaders who were captured pending trial.

In this battle, the casualty ratio between the Guards and the Qing Army was greater than 1:5. Of course, this is not counting the fact that many cavalry in the Qing Army were actually executed by the Guards as a national enmity after giving up resistance. The proportion of casualties of the Qing army should be greater.

It can be said that even though the guards had flintlock guns, field cannons, and thunderbolts in their hands, they also lost a lot, especially the [-] grassroots officers, many of whom were scholars or even Jinshi or veterans of the frontier army. Officers and soldiers are the backbone of the empire.

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