"No, no, no......"

Coal Mountain, Beijing.

After eleven years, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty once again climbed the Beijing Coal Mountain, which haunted him, but he saw the scenery beyond recognition, which was really disappointing to him.

However, Zhu Cihong likes the golden coal mountain fortress and Beijing City.

Beijing in the Ming Dynasty should have been a fortress!

Even if you really want the Son of Heaven to guard the country, then you should build a fortress that can hold on for a long time. That Ming Chengzu built a metropolis comparable to Nanjing, how can this work? Nanjing is located in the land of fish and rice, and there is the Yangtze River water transport to rely on, it is easy to obtain rice from the upstream and between the Jianghuai, naturally many people can feed.

But how can Beijing do this? Not to mention the grain production around Beijing, there are four military towns of Jizhou, Liaodong, Xuanfu and Datong! Although the Ming Dynasty practiced the military household tuntian system, the land of these four major military towns, that is, Liaodong Town, was more fertile, and the other three towns would hardly have any good harvest even if they did not encounter the Xiaoice River period.

In the long run, it is unrealistic to rely on them to farm for self-sufficiency, and there are not such good agricultural conditions.

Therefore, the three towns of Jizhou, Xuanfu and Datong must rely on the food and financial support of the south to maintain it for a long time.

And before the advent of trains and ships, the consumption of long-distance grain transportation was quite staggering!

Therefore, if the Son of Heaven really wants to defend the country in Beijing, he must control the population of Beijing, and a hundred and eighty thousand is about the same, and he must not build a metropolis with a population of one million - isn't this fighting for rations with the three towns of Jizhou, Xuanfu, and Datong?

Moreover, the metropolis at the foot of the Son of Heaven must be easy to make money, what will the soldiers on the front line take to grab rice and noodles with the Beijingers who live in the second and third rings?

As a place where the Son of Heaven guards the country, Beijing must not be made bigger, and it is impossible to make a medium-sized city with a population of 100,000. Beijing, which has now been shrunk by Dolgon and Fulin, is still big in Zhu Cihong's opinion.

The city of 14 gates and 18 forts was still too large to defend without 40,000 or 50,000 men—this was still the number of defenders needed to save troops after changing the fortress.

Therefore, after Emperor Zhu re-entered Beijing, he pondered about demolishing the old city wall of Beijing - because after recovering Beijing, including Emperor Chongzhen, a large number of people were persuading Zhu Cihong not to turn Beijing into Beiping, and the Ming Dynasty still wanted to maintain the north and south capitals, and at most add Xijing Wuhan.

And Beijing should become the key place for the Son of Heaven to defend the country!

Everyone says so, Zhu Cihong also plans to be good, so most of Beijing's old city walls can't be saved!

After the demolition of the city wall, Zhu Cihong also planned to demolish all the buildings between the Beijing city wall and the imperial fortress, and then use the materials obtained from the demolition of the Beijing city wall to strengthen the imperial city fortress.

The Imperial City Fort is actually not small, the circumference of the inner circle of the Fort (not counting the outer fort) is also more than 20 li, and the internal area is more than ten square kilometers.

Without tens of thousands of elite soldiers (a one-meter city wall station is also tens of thousands), it is difficult to defend well.

Today, when Zhu Cihong accompanied Emperor Chongzhen to climb the coal mountain to watch the scenery, he drew geometric figures in his heart - repairing the fort and attacking the fort is a geometric problem!

Now that he suddenly heard Emperor Chongzhen speak, Zhu Cihong came out of his thoughts and responded: "Ah, what's gone?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen looked back at his son, what is missing? Of course, his imperial power is gone!

"The old locust tree is gone!" Chongzhen said angrily, "There used to be a lot of coal on the mountain, but now there are no ones!" ”

"This ......" Zhu Cihong smiled, "It is said that the trees on the coal mountain have been ordered to be cut down!" ”

"Hmph, this thief dares to cut down my old locust tree, it's really innocent!"

Zhu Cihong thought to himself: Is Fulin really dead? Not necessarily! But it doesn't matter, even if he lives, he won't be able to turn the sky upside down!

At this time, Pan Shuchen, the great eunuch who followed Zhu Cihong, walked quickly behind Emperor Zhu, handed over a recital, and whispered: "Long live the lord, this is the joint recital of His Royal Highness the Acting King and His Royal Highness the King of Chongqing County, the two highnesses have arrived at the bottom of the Banzai Mountain (Coal Mountain) Castle, and ask to be summoned." ”

"What? The third brother and the fifth brother are here? Let's meet together! ”

As soon as he heard that Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cihuan were coming, Emperor Chongzhen's interest immediately came.

Zhu Cihong didn't speak, but opened the chapter - there was a chapter before the meeting, of course, it was not to talk about family affairs, but to talk about official business.

What is reported on the cantata has to do with the Mongols! Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cihuan jointly reported the eastward direction of the five alliances of Monan Mongolia - there are a total of six alliances in Monan Mongolia, of which the six banners of Ordos are below the Yikezhao League, and now they are all subordinated to the Ming Dynasty. The Jerimu League, with the Korqin Department as the core, has a total of ten banners, and is still on the side of Duoduo. The remaining four alliances are the goals of the Horqin Mongols, the Tumut Mongols, the Chahar Mongols, and the Khalkha Mongols, all of whom want to win over and strive for annexation!

Now there is a fierce competition around these small and medium-sized Mongolian tribes!

The Great Qing Kingdom is completely gone, but the Mengman problem is still very painful, and it is impossible to completely settle it!

"Father, let's go and meet the third and fifth together!" Zhu Cihong handed the recital to Pan Shuchen, and then picked up Chongzhen in a fake look and walked towards the main hall in the fortress of Wansui Mountain.

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"Father, brother, today's Mongolia is roughly divided into Eastern Mongolia and Western Mongolia, Western Mongolia is the Warat Alliance, and now it is the two brothers of the Dzungar Department and the Heshute Department. In Eastern Mongolia, there are six major tribes, including the Chahar Division, the Tumut Division, the Horqin Division, the Tushetu Khan Division, the Chechen Khan Division, and the Zasaktu Khan Division, as well as a number of small tribes.

Among the six major departments of Eastern Mongolia, the strongest is the Horqin Division, which has six flags, plus the Zarat Banner, the Dulbert Banner, the Gollus Front Banner, and the Golros Rear Banner, a total of ten flags, also known as the Nenjiang Ten Banners, which occupy the territory of the original Daning Dusi......"

Zhu Cijiong, who was introducing the situation in Mongolia to Zhu Cihong, was a Mongolian expert because he had been dealing with the Ordos Ministry for a long time, and he knew the situation in Eastern Mongolia very well.

"Brother Huang, my brother thinks that the key to pacifying Eastern Mongolia is in Horqin, in the hometown of Daning Dusi!" Zhu Cijiong said, "I think that when Grandpa Chengmiao withdrew Daning Dusi and Wuliang Ha Sanwei, he planted the root cause of the situation in Eastern Mongolia getting out of control. If Daning Dusi and Wuliangha Sanwei do not withdraw, not only will Eastern Mongolia be in trouble, but even the Jianzhou Jurchens will not be able to rise. If we want to stabilize the northern country, we must rebuild the Daning military town! The younger brother suggested that while the Northern Expeditionary Army had not yet withdrawn, he would set up a Daning Jiedu envoy and order the general to leave the town of Daning! ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, and then glanced at Zhu Cihuan, Zhu Cihuan was excited for a while, and heard Emperor Zhu say: "Huang Degong is enough to guard Daning!" Now that the Tumut Department has surrendered and is obedient, it will soon move to the town of Har and Lin, and Yulin and Yan'an are no longer everywhere, and should be assigned to Shaanxi Province. Huang Degong can be reappointed as Daning! ”

The "Celestial Empire System" designed by Zhu Cihong for the Ming Dynasty was a circle of "feudal rule", and the innermost layer was the "direct province", that is, the province directly under it, which was the core of the Celestial Empire.

Outside the province is the internal domain, also known as the internal subordinate, that is, all kinds of festival envoys, most of the protectors, and consolation envoys, these internal subordinates govern either the "border land" or the "wild land", the former needs to be granted the border ministers heavy power (the border ministers are theoretically liuguan, but in fact there is the possibility of hereditary and long-term office), and the latter is difficult to implement the governance of liuguan.

Outside the inner genus is the outer domain. The five feudal states of Korea, Annam, Siam, Laos, and Chenla were all foreign vassals. And the two departments of Tumut and Chahar will also become foreign vassals in Emperor Zhu's plan.

In addition, there is also a Jungar department, and when the time is ripe, Zhu Cihong will also separate it from Beiting Town and turn it into a foreign domain.

"Third child," Zhu Cihong finished talking about Daning, and suddenly asked Zhu Cijiong a question again, "How do you think the Heshuo Special Department should solve it?" ”