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Facing Emperor Longwu's inquiries, Zhu Shuren answered honestly, without any falsehood:
"The Central Plains are broken, and the six northern provinces have only been restored within a year or two. It will take at least three years to completely recover and let the people work with peace of mind.

Therefore, within three years, it is impossible to go deep into the grasslands, white mountains and black waters on a large scale to pursue them.However, it is possible to divide and disintegrate a part of the enemy's army by using harassment and empathy together, or to consume along the coast of Liaodong.

Hauge's withdrawal from the customs this time also left a major hidden danger for the Tartars.First, in order to assert power, he finally planned to kill Jierharang and beat him into the party of Bumbutai, the traitorous empress.

At the same time, with the death of Bumbutai, the Manchu-Mongolian solidarity system left by Huang Taiji was also completely destroyed, and the power of Mongolian concubines in the Manchu harem had been devastated.

When Hauge retreated, he also sold a lot of Mongol interests and military strength to delay my Ming Dynasty. In the previous decisive battle in Neihuang, the Mongols were also sold out.

All of these lead me to hope to solve the grassland problem left over from the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop. I must not miss this unfinished business of the Taizu and Chengzu in this life.

After all, until the reign of Huang Taiji, when Lin Dan Khan's son Ezhe surrendered to Huang Taiji, Meng Yuan had always maintained the title and appeal of "Successor of Genghis Khan" and maintained the position of Great Khan.

Huang Taiji suppressed Mongolia as a vassal and Ezhe as a vassal, which is equivalent to helping us Daming by knocking off the proud heads of the Mongols.

Now that the Mongols are used to submitting to others, the legal system since Genghis Khan has been completely cut off. When the Manchus are strong, they can submit to the Manchus. When the Han people are strong, submitting to the Han is also submitting. Is there any difference?

Therefore, in the next few years, Mongolia should be supplemented by warnings and warnings, and soft deterrence should be the main focus.For Jiannu, it is necessary to harass and weaken its vitality along the Liaodong coast.When the north is rebuilt and the time is ripe, it is time to consider the final blow to Jiannu. "

Rao Zhu Changhao has already been shocked by the great joy of victory, and now hearing the big pie painted by his son-in-law, he can't help but feel excited again.

Originally, in Zhu Changhao's view, being able to recover the homeland in Guannei had already given an account to the first emperor and the ancestors.After all, Chongzhen died in the fall of Beijing, and he took it back.

As for completely solving the threat of grasslands and white mountains and black waters, Zhu Changhao didn't even dare to think about it at first. It's been a threat for nearly half a century since Wanli and Apocalypse. God knows how much money, life, and time it will take to pile it up.

But after being told by his son-in-law, he suddenly found that it seems that now is really an excellent opportunity to completely solve the Mongolian problem-Mongolia has been destroyed by the Manchus, and it is used to being attached to others, and there is no such thing as being unable to be a vassal to others. proud.

But at this juncture, in order to preserve the core interests of the Manchus, Haug betrayed and offended the Mongols many times, and they had a rift again.

If Mongolia can be completely eliminated, even if it is not completely eliminated physically, but let them surrender to Ming Dynasty, this is definitely enough to surpass Taizu Chengzu!After all, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di also failed to accomplish the feat of making Bei Yuan a minister!

With such a big fruit in front of us, it seems completely reasonable to recover Liaodong in the next few years, and then go north to Baishan Heishui.The hearts of the people in the world and the morale of the great army can be maintained by this temporary goal inserted.

Zhu Changhao couldn't help rubbing his hands together for a while, and then asked anxiously: "If we want to implement such a plan, do we need to continue hoarding heavy troops in northern Xinjiang? Will the six northern provinces be able to save money and food for their recuperation in the next few years? Will it be possible?" Consumed by the army that used troops against Mongolia? If the money and food are not enough, it doesn't matter to wait a few more years."

Zhu Shuren had already made plans on his way back to Nanjing, and immediately explained: "I have already calculated that the 50 troops who recovered Hebei before brought back 20 to the south, reducing the pressure on the army in northern Xinjiang.

Of the remaining 30 people, half will be deployed on the nine sides of the inland coast, and the remaining half will be deployed on the northern coast.The transformation of the water transportation of our Daming to the sea has now been fully realized.

In the past few years, water transportation was cut off because the north was not restored.However, the ships and capacity scale of sea transportation are absolutely sufficient. This year, the military rations needed by the northern coast can be transported by sea at any time this year.

The minister has already asked the Ministry of Households to calculate that this kind of deployment is enough to lighten the tax, and the garrison can farm on the spot when there is no war. From next year, it will not need to rely on the land tax of the six northern provinces to supply the army. can be saved. "

Zhu Changhao saw that his son-in-law was so confident, so he was happy to let go again, saying that everything could be decided by Zhu Shuren himself.

Zhu Changhao has completely seen through it. His son-in-law's ability is not limited to turning the world around and solving the mess when the late emperor died for the country.

If such prestige and ability were to be restricted, it would be making yourself uncomfortable. It is better to let go completely, enjoy the glory and wealth, and wait for the future emperor grandson to take over.

Zhu Changhao is cowardly by nature, and has gradually become more cautious in life in the past few years.

For example, he usually pampers the concubines in the harem (he has not favored the original queen for many years, because she is an old woman in her forties, about the same age as him), and when the maids serving next to him ask him to hint whether to clean up, he will tell him Ask the maid to take the concubine who has just accepted grace to wash——

In the ancient court, eunuchs or palace maids could assist in the operation whether the emperor wanted to let the concubine keep the possibility of the dragon species. Although the contraceptive rate was not [-]%, it still had a certain effect.

Zhu Changhao had never allowed his wives and concubines to conceive for 20 years, and it is said that if he did not take measures, the rate of success was almost zero.But seeing how strong his daughter and son-in-law are, for his own safety, he didn't want to cause more trouble. He would rather step on the already one-in-a-thousandth probability with an insurance policy.

As long as he doesn't have his own son, he is absolutely safe!You can be a wealthy emperor for a lifetime!Zhu Changhao has already figured out this truth in his heart, and he doesn't need anyone to teach him.

This can be regarded as the invisible benefit of Zhu Shuren choosing a cowardly vassal king to support him.If anyone who had chosen Fu Wang, Tang Wang, and Lu Wang was a little bit assertive, he might not be able to ensure that he could control it for the rest of his life.

For a puppet, of course, the more cowardly the better, the more the monarch and his ministers can have a good death in the end.As long as Zhu Changxiao is cowardly for the rest of his life, Zhu Shuren will definitely take care of his father-in-law sincerely.

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After entrusting the full authority to the son-in-law to expel the Tartars for the next few years, this family banquet is naturally a joy for both guests and host.In the end, Zhu Changhao had the time to ask a little about family arrangements—these questions were not for state affairs, but purely for the personal happiness of his daughter.

"Since Qing thinks that it will take years of preparation to complete the task of continuing to expel the Tartars, then during these years of preparation, do you still need Qing to sit in Beijing in person? Or entrust the full authority to Zhang Huangyan first? After another full-scale war, Qing will go north again in person?"

Of course Zhu Shuren knew that Zhu Changhao was not worried about his dictatorship, because he already had dictatorship, so this question was for Zhu Yuchan's sake.

Zhu Shuren also said confidently: "The Northern Territory has been initially decided, and the military affairs have not stopped. It is not appropriate for the governor to be in charge of the overall situation for a long time. This year, I will return to the south to report on my duties. It is no harm to hang around for a few months.

Next year, I still hope to go north in person and take charge of the overall situation in northern Xinjiang. If there are major changes in the military situation, it will also be convenient for timely adaptation.So as not to delay the fighter plane.However, I beg you to take your family members to the north, please allow your majesty. "

What he said made it clear that he was going to Beijing, but he would take Zhu Yuchan with him. He would no longer be in a state of pure wartime, where he could not bring his wife by his side, and could only bring a few female officials with him at most.

Zhu Changhao doesn't have to worry about his daughter being neglected for a long time, as long as he is willing to not see his daughter for a few years, or his daughter can only come back to Nanjing once a year to visit relatives at most.

Zhu Changhao thought for a while, nodded, and said, "So what about Yu'er's upbringing? Wouldn't it be wrong to not have a biological mother around?"

Zhu Yuchan is just a princess, so it’s okay to marry her husband and go to Beijing with her husband, but her son has been adopted legally and has been formally canonized as the grandson of the emperor. There is no reason to go north with his biological mother, so he can only live in the Palace of Spring Harmony in the Forbidden City in Nanjing, and he can’t move at all. .

Zhu Shuren said in a negotiating tone: "The grandson of the emperor is already four years old, and he has reached the age of literacy. I plan to let him get used to it gradually this year. If he thinks he is too young to formally enter school, he can choose his adoptive mother." , raised together with his original concubine brother. It takes half a year to get used to it, and then you can formally enter school."

Zhu Changhao saw that his son-in-law had thought of everything, so he stopped talking.

Zhu Yuchan, who was on the side, saw her husband's actions, and she roughly understood what her husband was thinking. As long as she could go to Beijing with her, Zhu Yuchan would be able to accept her son not taking her with her for the time being.

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After the banquet was over and he returned to his mansion, Zhu Shuren brought Fang Ziling, the side concubine of King E, and entrusted him with the work of raising his children in the next few years after he went to the north for a permanent residence in the next year.

The education of the emperor's grandson is of course the most important thing, which involves the stable handover and long-term stability of the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Shuren would not be polite to his concubine, and directly held Fang Ziling's hands, as if talking about business:
"Zi Ling, in the next few years, you may have to suffer a little bit. Anyway, if you bring one son, you are also taking care of two. Gu has asked for a decree for you. In the future, you can enter and leave the Spring Harmony Palace without a call.

You can even take Yu'er with you. Yu'er is four years old and can read and write. Next year, you will formally find Hanlin to study for him.Those Hanlin must teach the study of literature and ink, you can help teach some skills. "

Fang Ziling's own son is only two years old now, and he is far from being able to read. He has only learned to speak, and he is helped by a maid to play with him every day.But in the future, it will be no problem to be a playmate with my half-brother and raise them together.

Fang Ziling gave birth to Zhu Shu's child, whose surname was Hui Shen, and the plan was to inherit the Shen family's own family business in the future.

If Zhu Yuchan could not give birth to a second son in the future, but Fang Ziling could still give birth, then it is also possible to change Fang Ziling's eldest son back to the surname Zhu, and inherit the prince of E Palace.

And if Zhu Yuchan is still alive, there is no need to change Fang Ziling's son's surname to Zhu, and Zhu Yuchan's second son can directly inherit the title of King E.

Calculated, Zhu Shuren needs at least three sons, one to inherit the throne, one to inherit the title of Prince E's Mansion, one to inherit the family business of the Shen family, and at the same time to inherit the Marquis of Shen Tingyang——

Shen Tingyang has been the cabinet secretary and household secretary for many years, and he has also gained a lot of credit for the logistics and governance of the country in the process of unification. Who will let him have a good life? Shi Kefa is fine, but no one cares about him.

In the future, if the Mongolian subjects are completely recovered and the Manchus are wiped out, then maybe the titles of important ministers in the court will still be promoted. When Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, a civil official like Li Shanchang could also be named a duke (Korean Duke), not just personally lead the army The generals who fight are the Duke.

From this point of view, Zhu Shuren is not an emperor himself, and he is very restrained in the treatment of his children.Because if he himself becomes the emperor, then as many sons as he has will be princes.

But he himself is not the emperor, and the eldest son adoptively becomes the emperor's grandson and inherits the throne, so Zhu Shuren's other sons cannot directly own the prince in legal terms.The only prince was earned by Zhu Shuren himself.

However, there are gains and losses in everything. Zhu Shuren did this, so he could set a good example - with Zhu Shuren's great achievements, his descendants will only have an emperor, a prince and a duke at most.Then the future emperor of Ming Dynasty, how dare you confer a lot of lords and all his sons as hereditary princes?
Even if the emperor wants to confer all his sons as princes, Zhu Shuren can also impose an additional prohibition, as a lesson for future ancestors, imitating the Qing Dynasty's method of "decreasing the world by one class", the prince's eldest son will be reduced to the county king, and the county king's son The eldest son was reduced to duke.

Except for very few "iron hat kings" who are relatives and nobles and have made great achievements in special periods, they can be hereditary. In the future, other people who only have relatives and nobles without merit will become the lowest-ranking Hou and Bo after five or six generations, and then go down. No royal titles.

In this way, the biggest threat to the long-term existence of the Ming Dynasty, the exponential expansion of the number of clan and vassal kings, can be easily resolved.No matter how bad the system of the Qing Dynasty was in history, in terms of controlling the number and expenditure of the royal family, there is one thing to say that it is indeed better than the Ming Dynasty, or it has learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty.

For such a good place, Zhu Shuren must of course think cleverly and learn from it.

Fang Ziling also understood Zhu Shuren's painstaking efforts. She was a woman with a pure heart and asceticism, and she was with Zhu Shuren more for the purpose of learning from each other, not for the pleasure of sleeping on the bed.So she quickly accepted this task, and starting next year, she will help formally bring up the emperor's grandson as a de facto concubine, so she can get acquainted first this year.

Now she is also working as a female official of the Academy of Sciences, and there are no prescribed tasks every day. She just looks at the scientific observation data sent back by the observatory, meteorological station, and museum every day, which makes her intoxicated, and has the pleasure of summarizing the laws of nature.

In the future, if we want to educate our sons, we can also give them a little more literacy on the level of natural philosophy, which cannot be taught by the traditional Imperial Academy.

Zhu Yuchan saw that sister Ziling helped her take over the task of raising her son, and that she would be separated from her husband in the next two years, one living in Nanjing and the other living in Beijing, Zhu Yuchan was also very grateful.
So for the remaining half of this year, when everyone was in Nanjing, Zhu Yuchan didn't compete with her for favor, and asked her husband to spend more time with Sister Ziling while he was still in Nanjing to make up for her.After going north next year, we won't see each other for at least two or three years.

Zhu Shuren's other concubines are also very obedient, they don't have the task of raising children, and they can go to Beijing with Zhu Shuren in the future, so they won't compete with the side concubine for their days in Nanjing.

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Zhu Shuren had left Nanjing for nine months for the Northern Expedition. When he came back this time, he naturally had a lot of rear affairs to deal with. The sporadic wars in the north in the second half of the sixth year of Longwu were all due to the adaptability of the frontline generals and governors.

For some fleeting fighters, there is no need to ask Nanjing for instructions. Zhang Huangyan, who is staying in Beijing, will directly make a decision.

At the beginning, Zhang Huangyan did not make any major moves because the north had just been recovered, the situation was relatively dilapidated, and there was a shortage of food in the spring famine. Even Shanhaiguan was not in a hurry to recover.

However, as the time came to July and August of the sixth year of Longwu, four or five months had passed since the recovery of other areas in the pass.

Seeing that this year’s summer grain in the north has been put into storage, and the autumn grain is about to be harvested, Zhang Huangyan has accumulated savings, and he has noticed that the Qing army is also moving a bit. It seems that he wants to try to return to his old business and play some "grab and run after entering the customs" trick.

The Qing army gave up the Central Plains, but it just gave up the ruling mode of "whatever is attacked by the Ming army must be saved", and changed back to a flexible way of life of looting and looting.Robbery still has to be done every year, and it has to wait for the Han people to produce and harvest. If they don't rob, the Manchus can't maintain the cost of their own rule.

Zhang Huangyan made a prompt decision and decided to strike preemptively. Taking advantage of the time before the autumn harvest, he took the initiative to attack Shanhaiguan, blocking the best way for the Qing army to enter and rob. Wake up, and let them know that "Tartars are not only unable to stand firm in the Central Plains, they are also unable to do so occasionally to snatch one."

For military cooperation in the sea route and North Korea, Zhang Huangyan secretly asked Zhu Shuren for instructions in advance and dispatched resources. As for the army operations in Hebei, Zhang Huangyan made the decision himself.

Zhu Shuren received Zhang Huangyan's invitation to play at the end of June, and he was unequivocal. He immediately asked Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong from Hailu, and Li Yu from North Korea to secretly prepare according to Zhang Huangyan's request.

The Tartars still want to enter the customs, even if they just want to get back together and grab a hand, and restore the ruling prestige to the defeated Hauge, Zhu Shuren wants to let these people come and go.

Both sides thought that they were preparing their horses and fighting hard without anyone noticing. At the end of July of this year, the Battle of Kouguan finally rekindled a new round of war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties.