After the prisoner sacrifice ceremony, Zhu Cihong did not live in the Forbidden City again, but returned to the old house of the Clarification Fang.

It's just that Zhu Cihong just glanced at the old house full of Jinyi secret agents, and couldn't help but shake his head.

Fortunately, with Si En here, Zhu Cihong is not afraid that this place will become a deep palace that others cannot enter.

"Companion, I haven't seen you in a year." Zhu Cihong looked at Si En, who had a few more gray hairs, and said with emotion.

Si En looked at Zhu Cihong with joy, and kept saying, "Your Highness is much healthier than in the past, and you have grown taller. It's good, it's good. ”

After a few nostalgic words, Zhu Cihong beckoned, pulled Si Qi over on the side, and said to Si En: "Big companion, your father and son haven't seen each other for a long time, let's see if this kid has grown." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Cihong glanced at Si Qi, who was a little afraid, and walked into the old mansion with a smile.

As soon as he entered the old mansion, Zhu Cihong saw Zhang Zhen come to Zhu Cihong's side and said, "Your Highness, someone is asking to see you." The military department is in the middle of the matter, Lu Yingxuan. ”

"In the middle of the war?" When Zhu Cihong heard this, he was a little stunned: "Hey, knock on the door?" ”

However, Zhu Cihong glanced at Zhang Zhen's expression and motioned for him to continue.

Sure enough, Zhang Zhen said: "The demeanor is quite humble, the Tao is to make suggestions, Mr. Gu Jiang also recognized this person, and strongly recommended it." ”

It's no wonder that Zhu Cihong has a lot of affairs now, and there are countless important people around him every day, how could a figure with unknown intentions emerge just after returning home.

"Recruiting people is also a priority today. After a while, let Gu Jiang come over and convey my words. After speaking, Zhu Cihong patted Zhang Zhen on the shoulder and said, "Go and invite this Qingliu of the military department, and then I will give you a big vacation." I guess you still have a lot of old friends you haven't seen. Wealth does not return to the hometown, such as brocade clothes at night. I don't want my generals to have a bad time, so go ahead. ”

After speaking, Zhu Cihong went to the side hall, made a pot of tea, and saw the person after pouring two cups.

"But Lu Bingke? Have a seat. After speaking, Zhu Cihong stood up and waved. Putting the teacup away, he smiled at the man in front of him.

"Your Majesty greets Your Highness." Lu Yingxuan gave Zhu Cihong a salute with a glance.

Zhu Cihong smiled and didn't speak, just waited for Lu Yingxuan to speak: "Your Highness, Weichen is not here to reprimand His Highness in person. It was said that the invasion of Jiannu Abatai was deeply emotional. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong's face moved.

Lu Yingxuan continued to speak: "In November last year, the army on the right side of the minister heard that Abatai broke through the Great Wall and broke through the Bai Guangen Department of Ji Town. invaded Shenzhou, and was deeply indignant, so he wrote a book on the strategy of sailing to attack the heart. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong suddenly thought about it: "It turns out that this strategy was played by Lu Bingke, but Xiao Wang was disrespectful." ”

As the crown prince, Zhu Cihong of course has to have a good understanding of the national government affairs, but he was busy dealing with the Qing army at that time, so he naturally would not be able to cover everything. The current strategy of navigating the heart also made the court hot for a while. Therefore, Zhu Cihong only heard about it, but he didn't expect it to come from the military department in front of him.

Come to think of it. Zhu Cihong really looked at the person in front of him.

Lu Yingxuan is a man of twenty-seven or eighteen, with a rough complexion and thick joints, it is rare that he has a pair of eyes as bright as a torch, strong muscles and bones, but he has some appetite for Zhu Cihong. He is now in the beginning of his business. It is this kind of practical and enlightened young officials who are needed.

And this Lu Yingxuan was the first person to make suggestions after the invasion of Jiannu. Suggestion said: "Sailing to attack the heart, it is said to build 3,000 ships, send 60,000 troops, in Denglai Donghui, sail to Liao, in the enemy knows it, it will be rescued quickly, and it will go by itself without attacking." ”

At that time, the cabinet was at a loss in the face of the invasion of Jiannu, but it really submitted the plan very seriously and forwarded it to the Ministry of Industry, asking the Ministry of Industry to find a way to build a ship.

The Ministry of Industry took a look. Immediately complained bitterly. It is understandable that young people have ideas and want to act. But the Ministry of Industry had to work, of course, and understood how difficult it was to build 3,000 ships. Of course, the enemy can't directly refuse at the moment. So the Ministry of Industry replied: "Shipbuilding is the responsibility of the minister's yamen, but it will follow the old practice, and those who build because of the military affairs will be treated with the soldiers." The ministers did not admit that they had made fifteen hundred. ”

After such a discount, the ball was half-kicked back to the military department. Emperor Chongzhen expressed his satisfaction and asked the Ministry of Industry to hurry up and find a way together.

Although the strategy of navigating the heart is a strategic operation, the real work has to fall to the Ministry of Industry. As soon as the cadres saw the holy order, they were ready to immediately complain: "Three thousand ships were shipbuilt, and the value of each ship was two thousand taels of silver, and a total of six million dollars and grain should be sold." The minister's treasury is now such as washing, the ship fare, also need three million, at a loss, and things must be done, day and night, there are Henan Kaifeng and other prefectures, the debt to the minister is 7 million hundreds of thousands, together with this item, listen to the minister's cuo, the same day immediately send people, and then limit the moment to solve, thinking that the cost of shipbuilding can also. ”

The Ministry of Industry saw that it was okay, and the ball was kicked to Kaifeng Mansion again.

In the original history, Kaifeng at this moment had already been flooded, who knows if there was any silver owed?

Fortunately, at this time, Kaifeng was saved by Zhu Cihong, and as soon as the Ministry of Industry asked, the court immediately asked. When Kaifeng heard it, where was there such a thing, he immediately refused.

However, this back and forth has given the Ministry of Industry time to throw the ball on the Ministry of War.

The Ministry of War said: "If you need to use the troops, the ministers dare to push the commission, but if you build three million, you can't do it." In addition, when this treasury is like washing, and the external solution is blocked, the skillful woman can cook without rice. The ministers checked Fengyang and other mansions, owed more than 800,000 silver to the ministers to make horses, and urged them to solve them one after another, so as to respond to the shipbuilding expenses of the Ministry of Industry. ”

At this moment, the ball was kicked to Fengyang Mansion again.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, he was also fine, so he had to reply to Fengyang Mansion. However, Chongzhen also knew in his heart that Fengyang Mansion was so poor, where could he have money. Eighty percent of this matter is also in the wrong place, so I have to whip my subordinates, hoping to surprise him.

As for the Ministry of Industry, at the beginning, I planned to borrow tens of thousands of taels from the Ministry of War as the start-up capital of the shipyard, and also kicked the ball over by the way. Unexpectedly, the Ministry of War passed with a dead letter, and it actually played the Ministry of Industry. Helpless, the Ministry of Industry can only find a way to kick to the household department and say: "Now Shandong Road Terrier, engraved with the risk of Geng, self-help is not timely, turn to knock fellow villagers, and to Qin Wang four sets, the collection and stables are empty, is embarrassed in the east and west river rice lane fine cloth two merchants, so that the ticket in the capital of Suzhou and Hangzhou official treasury to exchange silver, should and a hundred, there are more than a thousand people, not half a thousand also, but also to sporadic stops. ”

In the end, the Ministry of Industry could only make up its mind to go to the merchants.

When Fu Shuxun heard this, he felt too embarrassed, and finally took the ball that had been kicked around many times, and allocated 30,000 taels of shipbuilding start-up capital.

Unexpectedly, Fu Shuxun's kind move suddenly made the Ministry of Industry scream. (To be continued.) )