Seeing that Zhu Youjian had made up his mind, Queen Zhou was really anxious.
Because in her opinion, the so-called nephew supervising the country is just a name. How can a three-year-old kid, who doesn't know a word, supervise the country? Isn't it her biological mother and Queen Zhang's adoptive mother who are in charge of things? But both of them are women in the harem who abide by women's ethics. How can they understand the affairs of the court? This country wants them to imprison, but the prison must not be broken.
Seeing Zhou Hou looking like he was about to cry, Zhu Youjian sighed: "It's better to be Yuying..."
Who is Yuying?
Queen Zhou was confused and said to herself: There is no one named Yuying in the harem...could it be that Long Live Lord has a woman outside? Is she also a widow?
Thinking of this, Queen Zhou had tears in her eyes.
Seeing that his wife was about to cry, Zhu Youjian quickly comforted her: "Queen, don't worry, don't cry... Sit down and talk. Listen to me explain to you slowly, I am a mountain man with my own clever plan, everything is settled." It will be arranged properly.”
As he spoke, he took Queen Zhou's hand and the two sat on the large dragon chair together. The little kid Zhu Cixi also wanted to sit with him, but when he got closer, he realized that there was no place to put his butt, so he had to hum and pouted and ran to Wei Qinghui, who had followed Zhou Hou, and stretched out his two little hands. Passed the order: "Hug!"
Wei Shanggong hurriedly leaned down and held Zhu Cixiang in his arms.
Zhu Youjian had already begun to tell Zhou Hou about his plans at this time.
"Queen, only I can properly handle matters in Shaanxi, so I have to go south... This trip will take six months at the earliest, and it may take a year to return at the slower time. Therefore, among the capital's , there must be a supervisory state.”
"Going for so long?" Queen Zhou certainly didn't want her husband to stay away, and looked unhappy.
Zhu Youjian said: "I can't help it... Queen, do you know who is the biggest enemy of our court now?"
"Then you still have to ask? Of course it's Huang Taiji from Liaodong!"
"No," Zhu Youjian shook his head, "Huang Taiji, the foreign trouble, has been controlled by me... But what I can't control are the natural disasters in the northwest and the Central Plains! Since I came to the throne, Shaanxi has suffered many disasters in recent years. There is a severe drought, thousands of miles of bare land, and the people are in dire straits! Henan and Shanxi are also suffering from drought this year... This drought is the fate of our Ming Dynasty!"
Empress Zhou frowned deeply: "Long live my Lord, if you go to Shaanxi, there will be no drought?"
Zhu Youjian smiled bitterly and said: "How can there be no drought? It will still be dry for many years! But if the trees are moved to death, the people will live... I can take the Shaanxi people out of Shaanxi to eat!"
"Eat out of Shaanxi?" Queen Zhou didn't understand at first, "How to eat?"
Zhu Youjian said seriously: "It's just asking for food! Have you never seen someone begging for food?"
"Begging for food..." Queen Zhou's eyes widened. What kind of thing is this? The emperor took the hungry people of Shaanxi out of the province to beg for food... Why?
"Then do you want me to give it to you?" Queen Zhou asked in a low voice, "Long live my lord, it's not easy to beg for food. What should I do if I don't have it?"
What? Isn’t it easy to get a meal? Zhu Youjian was stunned. He never thought that he would not be able to get food if he asked for it... No way, wasn't the traitor in his previous life about to arrive as soon as he asked for it? I don’t know how he wants it? Oops, why didn't you ask me back then?
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian turned his head and looked at Nizi who was being held in Wei Shanggong's arms, "Boss, do you know how to beg for food?"
Queen Zhou was speechless. How could her son beg for food? The emperor’s great nephew! How could he beg for food?
This treacherous boy was not good at all, he actually nodded, "Yes!"
Of course I do. When Nizi is hungry, he always asks the people around him to "want" and gives an order: "I want to eat!"
Who dares not to give it? Otherwise? Nothing! Disobedience will result in beheading!
"What if others don't give it?" Zhu Youjian asked hurriedly.
Nizi snorted, waved his little hand, and said domineeringly: "Hit him!"
"Yes, yes!" Zhu Youjian nodded and said sternly: "This is the way... I will take people to beg for food. If anyone dares not to give it, I will beat him to death!"
Queen Zhou looked at the two men and sighed: "Long live my lord, you are not begging for food, you are robbing..."
"Robbing?" Zhu Youjian laughed, "Robbing for food and begging for food are the same thing! It's easier to handle this way. I am thin-skinned and embarrassed to beg for food... I can't steal this thing. The best!"
They are all ancestral craftsmanship... Zhou Houxin said: Your ancestor first went to beg for food, but later because he was too thin-skinned to get food, he simply joined the gang and became a red scarf thief!
"You went to grab food, what will happen to Kenu and Brother Chun?" Zhou Hou said with tears in his eyes, "I heard that Huang Taiji is leaving Yanshan for the third time!"
"Brother Chun," Zhu Youjian asked his son with a smile, "there is a very powerful bad guy named Huang Taiji who wants to steal my Dayan Mountain. What do you think we should do?"
Do you also ask your son?
Zhou Hou thought to herself: The Ming Dynasty is going to be ruined by you two father and son!
Nizi rolled his eyelids and snorted: "Don't feed him! Starve him to death!"
An old trick!
If we occupy the dangerous strategic point of Yanshan Mountain, of course we can build deep ditches and high fortifications, build defenses at every level, and build up defenses step by step to block the Jin army and then starve them of food!
Moreover, many valleys have been reclaimed in the three towns of Yanshan, Daning, and Liaoxi. The harvest in the four years of Chongzhen is not bad, which is conducive to the persistence of the army in the mountainous areas - the soil and water conservation in the Yanshan Mountains is very good, and there are many rivers and lakes in the territory. The forest is densely covered, evaporation is not large, and snow melts in spring to nourish the water and soil, making it more resistant to drought. Moreover, many valleys have been abandoned for a hundred or two hundred years, and the fertility of the land has been restored. It is very tiring to cultivate such land (it is raw land), but once it is cultivated, it can be productive for many years.
In addition, at the beginning of the year, Zhu Youjian also ordered Fujian to pay tribute to sweet potatoes. After receiving them, he asked military households in Yanshan and Daning towns to sow seeds on the hillsides. He also placed an order for 10 million kilograms at the same time - today The nephew of the emperor likes to eat sweet potatoes! I need to buy more to prepare...
Therefore, Zhu Youjian is not afraid of fighting for military rations in Yanshan!
Zhu Youjian nodded and said: "I think so too... I plan to make Hong Chengchou the governor of Yanning's military affairs. He is a commander who is good at delaying military affairs. He will definitely be able to force Huang Taiji to retreat."
When fighting the Battle of Songjin in his previous life, Hong Chengchou delayed for several months. He was released in March, and then stayed in Ningyuan for three or four months. It was not until July 26 that he was forced by Emperor Chongzhen and Minister of War Chen Xinjia. Send troops. If Chongzhen and Chen Xinjia did not force, Hong Chengchou could delay at least until March of the following year (the Eighth Patriarch did not surrender until his birthday in early March of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and six or seven months had passed since the Battle of Songjin).
If the Qing army had not won the Battle of Songjin and seized the grain reserves piled up by the Ming army on Bijia Mountain, it is hard to say whether the besieging Dorgon army could have persisted under Jinzhou City until March of the 15th year of Chongzhen... Even if Dorgon besieged Zu Dashou, the situation on the western Liaoning front line remained the same. To the west of Jinzhou there are three fortresses such as Songshan, Xingshan and Tashan that can be defended, and then Ningyuan. During the Battle of Songjin, Hong Chengchou's defeated army retreated into the Songshan Fortress and struggled for six months before they ran out of food and were captured.
If there had been no defeat at Songjin, would Dorgon be able to lead the exhausted troops who had besieged Jinzhou for an early year to besiege Songshan, Xingshan, and Tashan again? Totally impossible.
And Zhu Youjian, who had captured most of Yanshan this time, would definitely not rush Hong Chengchou. He could delay it as long as he liked!
However, Huang Taiji can still go around thousands of miles of pine forest to fight Zhu Youjian's five noble concubines, Orduo.
So Zhu Youjian then asked: "If Huang Taiji goes around Dayan Mountain to bully Brother Xin's mother, what will you do?"
Zhu Cixiang snorted: "Then send Brother Xin to protect his mother! Brother Xin is so brave!"
"Okay!" Zhu Youjian nodded, "It would be a good idea to let Brother Xin go out of Xinzhou... Brother Xin is the king of Sai, and his Xinfan and the noble concubine's Orduo are one and the same. 10,000 Mongolian cavalry are enough for a battle!"
Zhou Hou was really speechless. The three-year-old nephew of the emperor is supervising the country, and the two-year-old King Xin is out of town on the grassland... The two children together are five years old. If Huang Taiji knew this news, wouldn't he laugh out loud?
