"I have never underestimated the world, but my husband underestimated me." Zhu Cilang turned around and walked and smiled, "A smart person knows what to say and what not to say. If you say something without evidence, it will not be beneficial to him. However, the two gentlemen were perfunctory to me as a mediocre person. Obviously, they had grudges and were unwilling to advance and retreat with me."

Before Sun Chuanting and Wu Yan talked, Zhu Cilang continued: "Now it is an extraordinary time, and I can only do extraordinary things. I sincerely refer to the two as good teachers and confidants, so I never whitewash them. If the two gentlemen regard me as ancient tyrants, I can only do nothing."

"Your Highness..."

"In today's world, even Yan Shenggong can surrender thieves, but my family cannot surrender!" Zhu Cilang emphasized his tone and said, "If our ancestors are left aside, the articles and clothes that have been around for thousands of years in China are the foundation! I am not optimistic about the thief who brings troops eastward. It's okay if Wu Sangui takes over Beijing. If the Eastern Captains take advantage of the situation, you and I will be stabbed by future generations!"

Wu Yan glanced at Sun Chuanting and knew that it was useless to show loyalty. He gritted his teeth and said, "Your Highness, in today's world, the saints must not be lighted! The saints are still available. If the saints are lighter, it will be removed from the 'defense of Chinese and foreigners'. This sacred defense of Chinese and foreigners is tantamount to a mountain pass. Therefore, my words are irrevocable."

No performance of loyalty is better than actual action. Seeing that Wu Qi was speaking out loud, Zhu Cixuan returned to his own thinking and asked again: "How can the saints be used?"

"If the court announces the world about Yansheng's referendum, wouldn't it be like a quarrel with a shrew?" Wu Yan said without hesitation: "It's nothing more than Zhu Bufu Kong and Kong You Bufu Zhu. He has already swept the floor with a gentle manner. Do you want to drag the court into the water?"

Zhu Cilang nodded slightly. This is the overlapping concepts between the country, the imperial family and the court. If you are not careful, you will be replaced by concepts. If the country can establish the majesty of the law and use the law to punish these treasons, the imperial family will not have to go bare-handedly.

"Let him take this lawsuit by himself." Wu Yan said: "If other rooms in the Confucius Party want to win titles, they must attack Kong Yinzhi in a large way. Kong Yinzhi must also defend himself and reflect on himself. They must look at the color of the court. Even if the court lets them slap themselves, they will have to sing praises in a crackling manner."

——As a matter of fact, Wu Yan’s idea was co-produced with me.

Zhu Cilang secretly praised in his heart and nodded slightly to express his agreement. He could not stand some superiors pretending to be profound and do not express their opinions for their own majesty. This will not only dampen the enthusiasm of their subordinates, but also give people a hint of lack of execution. It will also establish a communication barrier between the two and create misunderstandings.

Human hearts are not constant. Only saints can be impartial and unchanging. Just like Wu Yan and Sun Chuanting, who followed him along the way, they are definitely loyal and important ministers around him, but they will still touch the string called "suspect" in their hearts because of some things. If the barriers cannot be broken at this time, they will probably only have their own ways in the future.

On the contrary, if you can pull it hard when you are about to retreat and disperse, this heart will be closer.

At least it will be closer in a while.

Sometimes, Zhu Cilang really envies those who carry the halo of loyalty with him, as if no matter who meets them, he will abandon the negatives in human nature and become saints in one fell swoop.

"Let's do this for Kong Yinzhi." Zhu Cixuan said: "Now that Liu Fangliang and his gang have been captured, there are no brigades in the entire Shandong area. If we go out further, Ren Jirong, who is stationed in Zhending, is not our opponent. In the counties in Henan, they are their true nature. Gao Jie guards Xuzhou in the south of Nanzhi. He is an old acquaintance. It seems that he can restore the country for thousands of miles in his hands, which makes me hesitate."

"Your Highness, you can't be anxious." Wu Qing felt much more relaxed when he saw Zhu Cixuan crossing the page just now: "When he talked about the world with Your Highness that day, he was based in Shandong. If he acted rashly, he would repeat the mistakes of Li Zhe."

Zhu Cilang chuckled and said, "Mr.'s statement about Li Zhe is incisive. You can only know the fate of Li Zhe when the news from Shanhaiguan comes."

"The most urgent task is to stand firm in Shandong." Wu Xuan said: "Your Highness has withdrawn the guards and established a county, measure the land and the households and the people. After these orders are implemented, I am shocked in my heart. If it were ten years earlier in the Ming Dynasty, no matter where, as long as there is a governor who can accomplish this, why would there be today's situation? Therefore, I think that as long as the new policy can spread throughout Lu, 5.6 million people here are enough to resist the whole country."

During the fourth year of Hongzhi, there were 770,000 households and 6.76 million households in Shandong. In the sixth year of Wanli, the number of households increased to 1.37 million, but the number of households decreased to 5.66 million. From the fourth year of Hongzhi to the sixth year of Wanli, there were a total of 95 years. After the three dynasties of Hongzhi, Zhengde and Jiajing, it was a period of prosperity and prosperity in the Ming Dynasty. There were no disasters or difficulties. Where did this one million people go?

If you calculate the average population of each household again, there were only four or five people per household during Wanli, and the answer was naturally about to come out: concealment.

Moreover, the Ministry of Revenue not only escaped a large amount of data based on the number of household registrations, but also did not count the number of military and civilians under the garrison.

Zhu Cixuan came to Shandong this time, and the first thing he did was to register households and make the more real population emerge.

The East Palace abolished the cap tax and provided material assistance based on household registration. The purpose is to allow the people to voluntarily apply for household registration.

Judging from the current statistics of Denglai Prefectures, Shandong should have a permanent population of 60 to 8 million. According to the land measurement in the Wanli period, Shandong has 61 million mu of arable land. After the complete withdrawal of the guards and county, the arable land area can be more than 80 million mu. In addition, the newly reclaimed wasteland will eliminate the handicraft population that does not occupy the land, and even achieve the theoretical value of "the person gives 15 mu of land and 2 mu of vegetable land".

Zhu Cilang believed that Wu Qi's personality would not be rude, and he also calculated in his mind: if calculated based on the population of 6 million, the qualified soldiers would be conservatively estimated to be one million, and ten percent would be 100,000. According to the combat effectiveness of the Guards, 100,000 elite soldiers would be enough to rampant the world.

Sun Chuanting was also doing the same arithmetic problem, so he naturally came to the same conclusion: "It is indeed enough to use the land of Lu Province to support the people of Lu Province." He immediately added: "However, Lu Province has suffered many disasters, and it is impossible to recover without three to five years."

Zhu Cilang said: "As Sun said, it's just for Shandong Province. Now Jiangnan is still in the hands of the court, and Zuo Liangyu also occupied the grain silo of Huguang. No matter what Zuo Zhen wants, at least he has not broken up. It's okay to buy his food with real money. In my opinion, this year, Shandong will not be able to starve a large number of people to death, and the days of the next year will be much easier."

"Your Highness, you still have to plan for sea defense." Sun Chuanting said: "It takes only two days to travel from Lushun to Denglai. After Kong Youde defected, the East Lu also had sea ships, so we must guard against it."

Zhu Cixuan returned to the desk and sat down and tapped the table gently: "To be honest, the sea boat in Donglu is not as good as the sand boat gang of Chen Tingyang. If you really want to come from the sea, just landing can make them exhausted." The landing war is a very difficult topic even after five hundred years. Dorgon would never abandon the long and short, and would not use the iron cavalry and use the sea boat instead.

"But Duke Sun also reminded me." Zhu Ciyang said: "Shen Tingyang a few days ago, there was a Tang newspaper saying that a Liao people fled back to Shandong. It can be seen that life on the Donglu side was not easy. I wondered whether I could take down Lushun Port in one fell swoop and set up a defense line on the Jinzhou line."

"Your Highness, if we want to recover Jinzhou, our army will probably have to fight on both sides." Sun Chuanting frowned and said, "The military strength is still weak, and it is the busy farming season, so it is difficult to replenish a lot."

Now Zhu Cixuan is used to not counting the combat effectiveness outside the Eastern Palace. Now the two guard battalions have been reorganized, with a total of 8,800 people. Luo Yukun's independent guerrilla battalion has undergone preliminary reorganization before returning to the system. After the officers have completed the centralized training, this battalion with a quota of 4,000 people can be used.

The next combat power that can be used will be Tanning's reserve battalion, with the third guard battalion set in the number. However, it will take less than two months to wait for the recruit training to be fully completed.

In two months, I'm afraid the Qing soldiers will also arrive at the gate of Shandong.

Whether to nail down a nail in Jinzhou or strengthen Shandong's peripheral defense line, this is really a difficult choice... (To be continued...)
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