A memorial has been sent to Zhu Cihong, who was not yet five years old. It was written "carefully" by Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao.

In this memorial, Governor Yuan's handwriting is particularly correct, and he also tried his best to choose relatively simple and easy-to-recognize Chinese characters. The article is also in vernacular that is easy to understand.

Zhu Cixi held the memorial and read it carefully word by word. After reading it for a while, he put the memorial together and handed it back to Xu Yingyuan, the director of etiquette, Bingbi.

"How do you like it?" Queen Zhou asked, "How many words do you recognize?"

"After review, my nephew recognized seventy-two characters." Zhu Cihong said, "I can understand some of them now...it seems to say that one hundred thousand slave soldiers are coming to attack Ningyuan!"

Empress Zhang looked at this smart and cheap son, and said with a smile: "You can recognize so many words, you are so smart!"

Empress Zhou smiled and said: "Yuan Chonghuan deliberately chose some simple and easy-to-understand words to write a memorial in vernacular."

Queen Zhang nodded, "A minister should have this kind of thinking. It's a pity that there are not many people like Yuan Chonghuan!"

Queen Zhou shook her head, "But Long Live Lord doesn't really believe in this Yuan Chonghuan. He took special care of him when he left Beijing. He should be more cautious about his memorial!"

Empress Zhang said: "You should be suspicious of people and use them, and people who are suspicious of you should not be used... But Long live the Lord, you should use people who are suspicious of you, and you should be suspicious of people you employ."

Empress Zhou smiled and said: "Isn't that right! He is tired of using people like this to make people suspicious, and we two women who are in charge of the country are even more tired...Brother Chun, are you tired?"

"My son and I are not tired," Zhu Cihong replied.

Empress Zhang nodded and said with a smile: "Don't say you are not tired anymore. You are so young and have so much homework. If your father worked half as hard as you, the country would not be like this...Brother Chun, don't stand still."

Come on, sit down. Erbao, you can sit down too."

When the two little boys heard this, they bowed to Queen Zhang and Queen Zhou, and then sat in their respective seats.

Empress Zhang said to Xu Yingyuan: "Go to the Xuanbu Pavilion and wait for the important ministers to come to Ziguang Pavilion!"

Key officials such as Ke Dao of Xuanbu Pavilion came to Ziguang Pavilion to hold a small court meeting to discuss strategies to deal with Donglu's sudden movements.

The court meeting of the Ming Dynasty was to decide on important military and political matters that were of "great concern". It was originally a mechanism that could make decisions on behalf of a foolish emperor. The method discussed by a group of treacherous ministers was better than the random decision-making of a foolish emperor.

But Zhu Youjian doesn't like court discussions, and likes to be arbitrary or approve the cabinet's suggestions without making any changes. Of course, Zhu Youjian will not take everything on his own shoulders, but only pick up the important ones.

He should seize the matters that he can control. Those that he cannot control, or the matters that he thinks are not important, can just be left to the cabinet, and there is no need to hold a court meeting.

After the Battle of Datong, he rarely summoned dozens or hundreds of people to discuss national affairs.

After he "went south to beg for food," Zhu Cixiang, who was in charge of the country, was still a child after all and could not arbitrate government affairs. Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang were also concubines, and of course they could not govern.

Therefore, the court meeting system was restored, but it was not possible to hold a large court meeting with more than a hundred people participating. So Xu Yingyuan sent people to summon the cabinet ministers plus six ministers (Zhu Youjian's cabinet ministers were also ministers)

), minister of affairs, censors on the left and right, and among the six departments, there are a few big officials from the Li Supervisor and the Royal Horse Supervisor, a total of more than twenty people.

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"The Empress, the Empress Yi'an, Your Highness the Great Nephew, and others have already read the memorial from Governor Yuan of Ji Liao. I agree that the Eastern Captives are very likely to take advantage of the disasters in our country, and the Emperor went south to...

...Come out of Yanshan again during the inspection!

However, the cabinet cannot determine whether Huang Taiji's four-departure expedition from Yanshan will go through western Liaoning, or whether he will march out of Qianli Pine Forest into Monan Mongolia."

The person who spoke was the memorial of Yuan Chonghuan, the chief minister of the cabinet, Wang Zaijin. Wang Zaijin and several other ministers in the cabinet had already read it, and had held a small meeting to study and discuss it.

The result of their discussion was that they reached an agreement on the issue of Huang Taiji coming out of Yanshan - this is almost inevitable!

On the one hand, the Ming Dynasty suffered from disasters for many years, and the disasters became more and more severe. The emperor Zhu Youjian, who was capable of fighting, had to go south to beg for food - food is the most important thing for the people! When the floods in Shaanxi and the Central Plains flooded, how many people had no food to eat? No

If you feed them, the peasants will revolt and the world will be in chaos!

To fight against the outside world, you must first secure the inside! If Zhu Youjian doesn't take care of the inside, how will he have the energy to fight against the outside?

Huang Taiji's side was lucky, and the autumn harvest was good (if it wasn't for the floods in Shaanxi and Henan, it would have been a good year for the Ming Dynasty), and they also made a fortune from North Korea. According to Yang Hao, Li Xin

After receiving the "good news", the Jin army plundered three to four hundred thousand people and retreated from Gyeonggi Province and Hwanghae Province in North Korea, and also took away all the property they could.

In addition, Jin Yiwei also reported a while ago that the Later Jin Dynasty has been busy reorganizing various ethnic groups and tribes since the second half of the fourth year of Chongzhen, establishing the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the Eight Banners of the Han Army, the Eight Banners of Korea and the Thirty-two Zasak Banners of the Extra Mongolia.

By the autumn of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Later Jin Kingdom had a total of sixty-four banners, with a total of more than 1,400 subordinate Niulu!

Although there are suspicions of bluffing and bluffing, it is certain that the Hou Jin Kingdom now rarely has soldiers and food, and there are still opportunities for the Ming Dynasty. How can Huang Taiji not make a big move?

If Huang Taiji doesn't do it now, he won't be able to kill the Jin Kingdom next year when the weather is good and the grain harvest is bumper in the Ming Dynasty?

"So how is the cabinet prepared to deal with it?" Queen Zhang asked.

"There are two opinions in the cabinet now," Wang Zaijin said. "The first opinion is that because we should remain unchanged in response to all changes, we order Jiliao, Yanning, Xuanda, Xinzhou and all households in Orduo to be on guard and be ready to hold on at any time.

The city is built to meet the enemy.

At the same time, the Zhangqian Army, Dianqian Army, and North Zhili Eight Prefecture Regiment Training Army in Gyeonggi Province must be ready to go to the front line!

The second opinion is that we should mobilize the elite troops from the Zhangqian Army, Dianqian Army, and the Northern Zhili Eight Prefecture Regiment training troops to the front line, so that when the slave bandits invade, they will be defeated immediately before their foothold is stable and the army has not gathered.

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"Shilang Sun, what do you think?" Queen Zhou called Sun Chuanting's name and wanted to hear his opinion.

Sun Chuanting was not the elder of the palace, but he was the right minister of the Ministry of War and the commander-in-chief of the army in front of the palace. He was the admiral of the Nine Gates and was the general left by Zhu Youjian to look after the family.

"Empress," Sun Chuanting immediately took over the question and announced to the class, "I think that if the slave bandits attack Daning in western Liaoning, the court does not need to care. Just order Jiliao and Yanning to hold on. Both armies have the same strength.

They are not weak, each city is very strong, and there are sufficient reserves. The sweet potatoes alone are enough to last for a year, so we are not afraid of siege at all. We can wait until His Majesty... returns from disaster relief, and then gather the army for a decisive battle!

If the slave thieves cross thousands of miles of pine forests and head west, I think they should fight the enemy decisively on the Monan grassland to prevent the people on the grassland from becoming unstable and being used by slaves!"

Sun Chuanting's answer was still a multiple-choice question, and it was also a multiple-choice question given to Huang Taiji.

Empress Zhang and Empress Zhou couldn't help but frown. They only wanted a simple answer, not two nerve-wracking multiple-choice questions.

Thinking of this, the two women sighed at the same time. Their sighs were very quiet, but Zhu Cihong heard them.

"Mother, aunt, why are you sighing?" Zhu Cihong asked.

Empress Zhang said: "I and your aunt are both women, how can we understand military and political affairs? How can this country supervise them?"

"Mother," the little kid Zhu Cixi said to Empress Zhang seriously, "it is the sons and ministers who supervise the country, and the sons and ministers are men, and they are not afraid of slaves and thieves!"

Empress Zhang laughed and said, "Aren't you afraid? Then how do you plan to deal with Huang Taiji? Tell me, should we send troops or should we not send troops?"

"Sister-in-law," Queen Zhou shook her head, "my nephew is still young!"

"I'm not young anymore," Zhu Cixiang said seriously, "I'm already five years old (virtual age), and I'll be six soon!"

Queen Zhou looked at the little adult-like son she had given birth to and asked angrily: "Are you no longer young? Then how do you choose?"
Chapter completed!