After taking Changsha, Zhu Youlang finally felt more relaxed.

Before, he always felt that a huge rock was hanging above his head and could be smashed down at any time.

Now at least the Ming army has obtained the space and time they need urgently.

Recruiting troops within the Huguang area is imperative.

Although the Ming army won the Battle of Changsha, it was a tragic victory and suffered extremely heavy losses.

If there is no medical soldier joining, the number of casualties will be even higher.

This pattern of killing one thousand enemies and losing 800 will collapse one day without a new soldier.

Huguang has a large population, and withdrawing meals within a reasonable range will not arouse strong opposition from the people.

Besides, the treatment of the Ming army was there, Zhu Youlang estimated that many children from poor families would rush to apply for the recruitment.

Next, Zhu Youlang prepared to take a break and attack Jiangxi when the army's pretentious state was almost restored.

The reason why I chose Jiangxi instead of Fujian is because I seek stability.

Jiangxi is still in the hands of the Qing court, while Guangdong and Fujian were conferred on Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao.

If the Ming army rashly attacked Guangdong under this situation, Fujian would likely arouse strong resistance from the two.

If the Ming army attacked Jiangxi, the two would probably stand by and watch.

It’s not that Zhu Youlang is afraid of Shang Kexi, but Geng Jimao.

But the Ming army should not make too many enemies at present.

If Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao could remain neutral, the Ming army would have more opportunities to recover lost territory.

When the Ming army recovered a large area of ​​land in Jiangnan, it would be much easier to go south to deal with Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao.

Zhu Youlang also sent Qin envoy to Nanjing to tell Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong about this and ordered them to cooperate.

Overall, the current situation is still good for the Ming army.

Compared with the Ming army now a year ago, they are more proactive, and can attack and retreat or defend.

During the Battle of Changsha, the Ming army annihilated tens of thousands of main forces of the Qing army.

Although Hong Chengchou led his troops to escape, he also suffered heavy losses.

The Qing army should not be able to take the initiative to attack in a short period of time.

The Ming army could formulate combat plans calmly.

At Wang Henian's suggestion, Zhu Youlang sent many secret guards of Jinyiwei to Jiangxi for preliminary surveys and intelligence collection.

This move proved necessary.

It was Wang Henian’s important information that allowed the Ming army to know themselves and their enemies. Although there was a small episode of encountering a disaster, it also adjusted.

If you don’t know that Hong Chengchou has arrived in Changsha, it will be a completely different situation.

In addition, Zhu Youlang also decided to draw some generals from Thirteen Honors.

In this battle, Li Ding Guo's troops suffered the most losses, and many generals were killed or injured in battle.

It takes a long time to recover your vitality.

It is unrealistic to rely solely on the Hu Ben Army.

The strength of the Thirteen Kuidong families has been relatively well preserved, and it is a good choice to draw middle-level generals from it.

But Zhu Youlang didn’t know if Kuidong Zhuxun would have any feelings about this.

After all, this is a bit suspicious of poaching.

Zhu Youlang will explain in the imperial edict that this is a borrowing and will return these generals and troops in a while.

This way they should be more accepting.

Several months have passed since Sichuan started expedition, and Zhu Youlang really misses Chengdu a little.

Not only missing the Queen and the Crown Prince, but also loyal ministers such as Wen Anzhi.

I don't know how they are now.

When the south was more stable, Zhu Youlang decided to move the capital to Nanjing.

The royal family and the cabinet will definitely move here.

Compared with military generals, Zhu Youlang urgently needed civil servants of the big boss level like Wen Anzhi at that time.

There are still many more talents in Jiangnan than in Shuzhong. At that time, when the imperial examinations are held to recruit talents and enter the court, there must be a big boss to support the formation.

Wen Anzhi is the best choice.

It takes time to train officials.

Maybe five years or ten years they can reach a relatively easy state.

Zhu Youlang always believed that the chaos in the Tianqi Dynasty and Chongzhen Dynasty had a lot to do with Emperor Wanli's inaction in the later period and did not select talented talents for his descendants.

Emperors of all dynasties will leave a group of useful talents for their descendants, so that the transfer of power will be smooth.

For example, Jiajing left Gaogong and Gaoxinzheng to Longqing, and Longqing left Zhang Juzheng to Wanli to Zhang Jiangling.

But what did Wanli leave behind to Guangzong and Tianqi?

There seems to be no name that can be called.

So much so that Emperor Aoki's eyes turned dark and had no idea what to do or how to do it.

In the end, he felt the stones and crossed the river. He trained a Wei Zhongxian to come out and take the blame for him.

Unfortunately, Chongzhen caught Wei Zhongxian as soon as he came to the stage.

Zhu Youlang really admires the ability to break his arms and poke his eyes.

Zhu Youlang naturally cannot repeat the same mistakes.

Although he is in his prime, he still needs to pay attention to talent training.

From now on, it will take at least ten years for these people to grow up and take on heavy burdens after twenty years.

Zhu Youlang wanted to leave some useful talents for his son, so that he would not have another chaos in the Ming Dynasty a hundred years later.

The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty determined that as long as the emperor was not too stupid, even if he was a hand-off manager, the country could operate normally.

So what Zhu Youlang needs to do is to repair the rusty system and train a group of talents to run the machine.

As for the training of the prince, Zhu Youlang insisted on doing it himself.

Some emperors were afraid of their son's robbery of power, so they kept silent.

But Zhu Youlang doesn't.

First of all, he held military power and had a high position in the hearts of the soldiers and had absolute authority.

Secondly, the prince is too young, and even if he has the intention, he does not have the courage or ability.

Therefore, Zhu Youlang can teach the prince his mind with confidence and boldness how to control his ministers and generals.

Zhu Youlang does not want his son to become a king full of benevolence, righteousness and morality in the future.

It is likely that he has been taught by corrupt scholars to be like this.

Therefore, Zhu Youlang had to personally ask about the prince's education issue.

Zhu Youlang didn't know how long it would take to recover the lost territory and restore the world.

Maybe five years, maybe ten years.

Even if the world is restored, such severe trauma will take time to heal.

Maybe one generation is enough, maybe two generations and three generations are needed.

The problem with feudal dynasties is that after one generation and two generations of wise monarchs, some foolish kings are likely to appear.

They will destroy the good situation and destroy the family accumulated by their ancestors.

Then a talented and wise king appeared to clean up the mess and realize his rejuvenation.

Then some foolish kings came to make a fortune.

This cycle goes on and on.

Zhu Youlang hopes that the Ming Dynasty will break out of this model in the future.

This requires systematic training of the crown prince, try to make it develop in a hexagonal shape, and not to have any shortcomings.

In this way, with the assistance of outstanding cabinet ministers, not to mention the creation of a prosperous era, at least it can continue the reign of the Ming Dynasty.

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