Su Chengyu knew that although this old man was pedantic, he was absolutely loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and even his wife brought his daughter to the battlefield in history.

After being captured, the old man refused to surrender, and scolded Hong Chengchou, leaving behind "The history is beautiful, although it is unsuccessful, it can be lawful." Hong En is mighty, and he can't repay the country and become an enemy. The famous scolding through the ages, and finally resolutely died for the Ming Dynasty.

He looked at the figure of Huang Daozhou leaving angrily, and had to shake his head helplessly, this kind of loyal minister should have a suitable position for him, but it should never be a battlefield.

After Su Chengyu left from the imperial study, Zhu Yujian was still recalling what his nephew had said, and his brows gradually furrowed.

"The strategy of going north must not be rushed, but at the same time, it is even more important to move westward."

Thinking of Su Chengyu's words, he was shocked in his heart. He said in his enthronement edict that he would send the Fifth Route Army to attack Nanjing in the north, which is well known to everyone. But he wanted to use the north to confuse the Qing army, and then take the opportunity to move the capital to Huguang, but he never mentioned it to anyone, could it be that his nephew really had the ability to calculate?

Su Chengyu's words rang in his ears.

"He Tengjiao is good at using private individuals, disobeying the yang and yin of the imperial court, and wants to run Huguang into his own private land. Huguang, must not go.

Although Ding Kuichu has no obvious intention of separation, his ability is mediocre and cannot be relied on. In addition, Liangguang is not rich, there is no danger to defend, and it cannot be used as a foundation.

"King Lu seems to have 200,000 troops, but the person who commands the army does not know the soldiers. As long as the Qing army moves south, Zhejiang will not last long. Therefore, King Lu is by no means a big trouble.

"At present, the focus is to stabilize Fujian and beware of Zheng Zhilong's surrender. Second, we must take the whole territory of Jiangxi as soon as possible, the rich land of Jiangxi, if Fujian is in turmoil, you can move to Ganzhou and then map Zhongxing. ”

Zhu Yujian thought about it carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Wang Shizi Chen was reasonable, and vaguely, he had regarded this imperial nephew as an important factor in the prosperity of Longwu.

The will of the military training will not be issued until after the Longwu sacrifice to the heavens. Su Chengyu has not been idle in the past few days, Zhu Linmi, an ancient otaku, has some four books and five classics in his head, and there is too little useful information.

It took him a whole day to go around Tianxing Mansion and find out the prices of various materials.

There are many pedestrians on the streets, many shops, and even many foreigners. At that time, Fujian was the window of the Ming Dynasty's foreign trade, and its economy was quite developed.

The next day, he went to Yu Xin's military camp to take a look, and only said that he was Yu Jiang's old friend, and he did not reveal his identity as the son of the world.

Although he was mentally prepared, this army still disappointed him quite a lot - the soldiers only regarded him as an ordinary person, and he was undisguised, all of them were skinny, in a very poor mental state, and demoralized.

Not to mention weapons and equipment, even the clothes are patches and patches, and the broken straw sandals worn on the feet. When Su Chengyu asked, he learned that these soldiers only had four yuan of silver per month, not to mention that they had not been paid for a long time due to Zheng Zhilong's exclusion, even if this money arrived on time, it was not enough to feed the family.

In fact, even the soldiers fighting on the front line have extremely difficult living conditions, and lack of food and clothing often occurs.

Su Chengyu felt a sour feeling in his heart, how could such an army defeat the Qing army? It is no wonder that when the generals of the Ming army wanted to surrender to the Qing court, the soldiers and soldiers were all in agreement.

Su Chengyu can't do anything about all this for the time being, and the road can only be taken step by step, and the formation and training of the new army is his first step.

The Ordnance Bureau also has to go to see the situation, and there is only one day left before the expiration of the shed rented by Su Chengyu.

When he entered the shed, he was almost stunned - these craftsmen and masters were real, Su Chengyu asked him to make more guns, and they kept making this thing, and now they have made nearly twenty pairs.

The flintlock pistol is a high-tech product of this era, and the craftsmen who can make the flintlock pistol are definitely high-level talents, and they are so diligent and able to endure hardships, of course Su Chengyu will not let them go.

He beckoned all the craftsmen to come closer, said that he wanted to recruit a few, and then threw out a very tempting condition: according to the level of skill, four to six taels of silver per month, and food and lodging. If you bring an apprentice, the apprentice can also receive one or two taels of silver.

When several craftsmen heard of such a high salary, their faces turned red with excitement. Only one person was a little hesitant, but after learning that it was to work for Chen Wangfu, he immediately agreed.

Just kidding, craftsmen of the Prince's Palace! There is absolutely no saying that there is no drought and flood to ensure income, so he does not mention wages, and just says the words "doing things in the palace", ordinary people have to respect him for three points.

Su Chengyu simply asked a few people to pack up their things, and then went to the palace with him.

Coming out of the gun-making workshop, Su Chengyu suddenly heard a heavy shouting halfway, turned his head to look, and saw that in the tall workshop not far away, more than a dozen people were struggling to lift a thick iron pipe out of the mud fragments. It turned out that the newly cast artillery had completed the cooling and was ready to be transported away for test firing.

Artillery will definitely be the top priority in the future, relying on the upgrade of muskets, only partial suppression can be achieved, but with powerful artillery can turn things around! In his previous life, there was a buddy named Napoleon, which illustrates this very well.

It's just that there are too many artillery manufacturing involved, and there is no time to take care of it at the moment. Su Chengyu sighed in his heart, he could only take his time in the future.

Looking at the back of Su Chengyu's carriage in the distance, Xu Tong hummed a little song happily, this money has come too easily recently, I hope this gentleman will come a few more times in the future. Self-generated firebolts? Hmph, I've never heard of this thing working, who knows what these boys think in their heads.

In the afternoon, a eunuch from the palace came to King Chen's mansion and announced that he wanted King Chen's son to participate in the morning dynasty the day after tomorrow.

That night, a little eunuch sneaked to the palace gate and quickly slipped a note through the crack in the door. Outside the door, a sergeant guarding the door tacitly accepted the note.

After a while, a fast horse left the dust and took the post road. Three hours later, the fast horse caught up with the car of Zheng Zhilong, the Marquis of Pingyu, who was heading to Xiamen.

Zheng Zhilong yawned and took the note from the young man beside him, "It's late at night, what's the emergency?" ”

The young man was his second son Zheng Du, who was still a little sleepy-eyed, "It was sent from the palace, and according to the convention, I can only wake up my father." ”

Zheng Zhilong looked at the note, his brows furrowed slightly, the content on it was the holy decree prepared by Zhu Yujian, one was to order the prince of Chen Wang to train a battalion of soldiers in the outskirts of Tianxing Mansion to aid Jiangxi, so that all departments could do a good job of logistical support. The other is to ask the Ordnance Bureau to build a large number of new flintlock guns, and Chen Wang Shizi will participate in the Ministry of Science and Engineering and be responsible for ordnance matters.

In addition, a note was also attached, mentioning that at noon, the prince of Chen Wang offered a bird to the emperor, and the monarch and ministers talked for an hour.

He handed the note to Zheng Du, "What do you think?" ”

The latter took a quick look and said with a smile: "If you want to say that the emperor has a lot of money, he doesn't even care about the ancestral system that the clan is not allowed to participate in politics." The big hole in Jiangxi, it is best for him to find someone to plug it himself. But he has a lot of money and food, so he doesn't want to get a penny from us. ”

Zheng Zhilong squinted and thought, nodded slightly, and then shook his head after a moment, "I'm afraid it's not that simple." ”