Judging from the performance of the Long Wei Army, the combat effectiveness of professional soldiers who graduated from military academies under the leadership of professional officers trained by the Military Academy was at least ten times that of the traditional army in the 17th century.

The third is the manufacture and research and development of advanced weapons and equipment. Although this has the technical support of later generations brought by Zhu Linmiao, it also depends on craftsmen and technicians of this era. Therefore, immediately after the military reform, the second one to be reformed is the Ministry of Industry.

Zhu Linmiao believes that if these reforms can be implemented smoothly, Daming will have an extremely strong elite army. At the same time, this army will not incur much overhead, at least not like the Guanning cavalry in the late Ming Dynasty, which will cost millions of taels of military salaries every year.

After having dinner, Zhu Linmiao locked himself in his study, sorted out the previous ideas of military reform, and wrote out specific implementation terms.

The next day, he showed the written military reform plan to several cabinet scholars. said that he wanted them to give their opinions, but in fact, he didn't expect these old masters to have any profound thoughts on the military system, and to show them this, the main thing was to blow the wind first, so that the government and the opposition could have a psychological preparation.

At the same time, he had instructed Zhang Jiayu to start quietly implementing some specific work.

For example, many literate and experienced officers from the Dragon Guard Army have been transferred to the military department, but at the moment they are only temporarily in charge.

The inventory of the guards in Jiangxi and Fujing and the measurement of the tuntian fields have also begun.

Zhu Linmiao also specially instructed Zheng Guangying to transfer a lot of Jinyi guards to various places to secretly investigate the illegal occupation of Tuntian by the officers of the guards.

As for the private soldiers of the warlords, Zhu Linmiao didn't even mean to count them. If you didn't contribute to the war before, then don't expect the court to allocate you a penny. Since it's your own family, I'm sorry, please keep it yourself.

Zhu Linmiao didn't forget the fact that these warlords were all mercenaries when Jianyu invaded, and the suspension of salaries was just the beginning, and it was indispensable to clean up these guys one by one in the future.

That night, Zhu Linmiao was instructing Zhang Jiayu about the reform of the military system at the Ministry of War, when he saw a subordinate officer of the Ministry of War rushing over, saying that there was a war report sent from Quzhou.

Zhu Linmiao's heart tightened when she heard this, it couldn't be that Liu Guoxuan's side couldn't stand it, right?

He opened the seal on the newspaper and unfolded it, but saw that the report said that Dai Xiuyuan of Jiangxi Province had led his troops to reinforce Quzhou, and now there were nearly 3,000 defenders in the city. At present, Liu Guoxuan is gathering strong and strong reinforcements of the city wall, and more than 10,000 Zhejiang soldiers are besieging the city, and it is not a problem for Quzhou to hold on for three or five months.

Now that the Quzhou crisis has been resolved, Zhu Linmiao also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Keeping Quzhou in hand, you can use this place as the starting point during the Northern Expedition to Nanjing in the future, and it is much more convenient to transfer troops or store grain.

He handed the newspaper to Zhang Jiayu and said with a smile: "Fortunately, this Dai Xiuyuan is here." But I don't know how he learned that there was a change in Quzhou, and he actually led the army to reinforce in advance. ”

Zhang Jiayu read the battle report, but also shook his head and said: "My subordinates will write to Quzhou to inquire." Now that there is this support army, the camp can be slowed down, and Lord Gu has been marching in a hurry recently. ”

Zhu Linmiao suddenly remembered something, and said to Zhang Jiayu: "I remember that during the battle of Guangxin, this Dai Xiuyuan was quite strategic, and Quzhou relied on him to solve the dilemma, this is a talent." When Quzhou is settled, he can be recruited to return to Tianxing Mansion to report on his work, and I have other important tasks to hand over to him. ”

"Yes!"

……

Dorgon looked around at the crowd in front of him, "Let's talk about it." ”

Since the Shunzhi Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing, Dolgon has monopolized power and has not held a meeting of ministers for a long time.

The reopening of the Council of Ministers was all because Bolo lost 50,000 troops in Fujian, of which the Eight Banners lost more than 10,000, and he himself died in Jiangnan, and Imbel Azig is still unknown.

Seeing that no one was silent for a long time, Ying Erdai stood up first and said loudly: "Your Royal Highness the Regent, in the first battle of Fujian, I was strong and wounded, and more than half of them were killed and wounded. This revenge must be avenged! ”

"That's right! I must take revenge for this! Tan Bai gritted his teeth and continued, "Zhenghuangqi also suffered heavy casualties, we should immediately mobilize troops and horses to march south again!" ”

"That's right! Expedition to the South! The rest of the people echoed angrily.

Dorgon frowned, and said to himself that you guys are useless. Troop transfer? At present, our Qing Dynasty is fighting in Mobei, Sichuan, Shanxi, and Huguang at the same time, where is there still a source of troops? It's a pity that Dodor is fighting in the steppes, otherwise he would have been able to help me figure it out.

He raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said, "The matter of the southern expedition needs to be considered in the long run. But we now have no heavy troops in the southeast, and if the southerners take advantage of the victory to attack the north, how will we respond? ”

"This ......," the man who had been shouting for revenge just now immediately fell silent.

Zilharang broke the silence with a cough, "Ahem, that, the southerners are only a small victory." Their puppet emperor died at the beginning of the year, and the young child ascended the throne, or it would not be long before civil strife would arise. As long as it takes time, we can send troops to attack again, and we will be able to break through it. ”

In time? Dolgon gave him a blank look and said secretly, nonsense! Wait a few months, Nanjing may be gone!

Fan Wencheng pondered for a moment, then arched his hand and said: "Regent, not long ago, Zhu Yihai of Zhejiang Province was reinstated as the prison of the country and separated from the Nanren Taizheng Imperial Court. It is Fujian that intends to go north, but it cannot pass through Zhejiang.

"And Zhu Yihai only governs half of Zhejiang, and he was defeated by our army before, so he should have no intention of attacking me. The minister thought that it would be no big problem to only order Lord Hong to strengthen the defense line in northern Zhejiang, and then transfer Shun Chengbei's headquarters to garrison Nanjing.

"When the battle in Mobei is won, Prince Yu's army can return.

The Southern Ming Dynasty was actually only in Jiangxi and Fujian, so how could it be my opponent of the Qing Dynasty? Its last victory was really a fluke, and if His Royal Highness Prince Yu led his troops to the south again, he would definitely be able to avenge Fujian. ”

The Shun Cheng Baylor he said was Luckdhun, who was fighting in Huguang, and Prince Yu was Dorgon's younger brother Duoduo.

Dorgon sighed softly, but that's what he was going to do.

Although Lekedehun's department is elite, there are only more than 20,000 people, and he has been entangled with Li Zicheng's department in Huguang for a long time, and has not achieved too many results, so it is better to transfer him to guard Nanjing. The losses were nothing more than the Huguang battlefield that had just been opened up.

It's just that Duoduo went on an expedition to Tengjisi, and he didn't know how long he would have to fight to win.

He nodded and said, "Let's go to Nanjing." But Prince Yu's army has been dragging in Mobei, but it has given the southerners a chance to breathe. ”

On the side, Ning Wan bowed down and said: "Your Royal Highness the Regent, that Teng Jisi said that he wanted to attach to the Khalkha Ministry, but in fact, he just wanted to pay some less taxes and tribute to my Qing Dynasty.

"Or you can send an envoy to Mobei to announce the edict, just to satisfy his wish to Teng Jisi, and he will no longer mention the matter of the northern annex. In this way, Prince Yu can return to Beijing immediately. ”