Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to make Yansheng Gong Kong Zhenning express his loyalty to the court shortly after Kong Wenxi and others were executed in the Tianjin area of ​​the capital.

The moment before the imperial edict of Zhu Youxiao arrived in Shandong, Yansheng Gong, learned through private channels that Kong Wenxiu was executed by the Dongchang, and then received Zhu Youxiao's imperial edict.

Therefore, even if Kong Zhenning immediately wrote the memorial according to the imperial edict, it would still take some time before it could be delivered to Beijing.

Therefore, the emperor's confidants, such as Emperor Zhu Youxiao and Fang Congzhe, did not know Kong Zhenning's arrogant attitude at this time.

Zhu Youxiao now has to focus on military affairs.

After all, the Ming Dynasty now has to face two military events at the same time.

Not only the Liaodong war that has not been completely resolved, but also the just-appeared Southwest war.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao specially called all the civil and military officials around him who were good at military planning to the Political Affairs Hall to participate in military aircraft.

"Although the rebellion of She Chongming forced the Ming Dynasty to fall into a situation of fighting on both sides in the future, there is no need to be too anxious. This only shows that the old chieftain system was out of place and it is necessary to change the land in the future. Otherwise, these chieftains with real local power will still provoke the barbarians to rebel whenever they have the chance."

"And these chieftains with real power will not cause much power after the rebellion, because first of all, their education level is not as good as the Han people. Their performance in war is that they are poor in discipline. They mainly burn, kill, plunder the people at the bottom. Secondly, they do not have strong food and grass guarantee capabilities. As long as the war is setback, they will easily fall into trouble. Therefore, I believe that Yuan Keli can completely quell this rebellion, and these chieftains in the southwest cannot become a big climate."

Zhu Youxiao first put forward his own views on the She Chongming rebellion.

Then, Zhu Youxiao continued: "However, although we know in the general trend, these southwestern chieftains cannot become a big climate, we must not ignore it, because this is related to how much people, financial and material resources the court needs to spend to quell this rebellion. The court needs to have a general plan and know how to take advantage of the opportunity of suppressing the rebellion in the southwest to make the court more beneficial and make the southwest more peaceful in the future."

"What Your Majesty said is that, looking at the chaos in the southwest, there has been no uneasy. However, the disadvantage is that it consumes countless money and food, because there are three difficulties in using troops in the southwest:

1. The ethnic composition is complex. In the southwest, the Han and the Barbarians live in mixed habits. Due to different customs, conflicts often occur. Even among the barbarians, there are also traditional Chinese and mature Chinese. The familiar Chinese are easily governed by the imperial court. However, the traditional Chinese are easily provoked by local officials and conflicts with each other;

2. The terrain is complex, and it is easy to defend but difficult to attack the land. It is difficult for large troops to attack quickly. Small groups of soldiers and horses are prone to being trapped and inconvenient to transport traffic. Therefore, it is difficult to transport food and grass. Many roads cannot even use mules and horses, and can only be transported by people;

3. The climate is uncertain, frequent rainfall, and there are many miasma epidemics. Usually, the southwest uses troops, few people die on the battlefield and most people die from epidemics;

In the view of the ministers, if the court wants to make peace in the southwest once and for all, it must first calm the people, be cruel to the evil officials, and do not distinguish between the Han and the Yi people, and do the main focus on recruiting and pacifying the people, and divide the power, and then separate the rebels;

Secondly, if you want to save money and food, you have to spend enough money and food at the beginning, so that the soldiers can use their lives to wipe out the rebels in one go, so as to avoid the rebels from becoming bigger and wandering around. In the end, you should not urge the soldiers to lead the army to the governor, because the southwest military service needs to be decisive when the weather is appropriate. If the court seeks quick progress and ignores the actual situation, a urge to lead the army to advance will easily backfire."

Wang Xianggan, who was the governor of Sichuan, Guizhou and Huguang, and participated in the quelling of chaos, put forward his own opinions.

Zhu Youqiao expressed his affirmation of this.

Next, Zhu Youxiao asked veterans such as Chen Ce who had participated in the Bozhou Rebellion to express their opinions.

Chen Ce originally thought that these veterans were just teaching younger generations to lead troops in the capital, but he did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would let them participate in military aircraft, which made him very excited. After all, as a veteran who had fought all his life, who would not want to say anything about military affairs?

Therefore, veterans such as Chen Ce actively expressed their opinions.

Chen Ce spoke first and directly pointed out the reasons why the southwest chieftains have been frequent in recent years. He said that the southwest dared to cause chaos now is mainly because of the internal ills of the imperial court. First, the military households of the garrison escaped in large numbers and finally became serfs of the chieftains of the southwest, from Han people to barbarians. These military households are not short of those who are good at smelting iron and making firearms, which has led to a significant increase in military strength and ambitions in the southwest chieftains. Therefore, Chen Ce believed that the court should remind the government army not to underestimate the combat effectiveness of these southwest chieftains, and there may be many firearms.

Based on his experience in the Sichuan Metropolitan Division for many years and having participated in the entire Bozhou Rebellion, Tong Zhongkui pointed out which chieftains in Sichuan are highly loyal and which chieftains are less loyal, and also came up with a research in advance on the defense importance of Sichuan cities.

Zhu Youxiao was very glad that he did not replace Xiong Tingbi in the position of Liaodong General Secretary like his original history, and did not ruin the Liao incident. This made Chen Ce and Tong Zhongkui, who were familiar with the war in the southwest, not die on the battlefield like the original history, but became his military adviser, so that his emperor could have a more comprehensive understanding of the situation in the southwest region.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not agree to Chen Ce and Tong Zhongkui's request to go to the southwest to lead troops to fight.

Because Zhu Youxiao still hopes to use this Southwest War to train a group of young generals who can lead troops out, and veterans are still suitable to stay in the capital, provide military service for themselves, and cultivate military talents for themselves. After all, talents cannot be cut off, and they cannot only rely on veterans to solve the problem when encountering wars, and do not give young people the opportunity to show their own opportunities.

What's more, there will be many wars in the future, and there will be many generals who need a lot of command to be outstanding.

Then, Zhu Youxiao asked Wang Xianggan, Chen Ce and others to analyze military threats from other places, such as Donglu, Mongolia, etc., to determine how to control the overall situation.

After deciding the overall military strategy of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao asked Wang Xianggan to send all the views on the Southwest War and the overall military strategy of the imperial government agreed in this time to Yuan Keli in the form of an imperial edict, and let Yuan Keli use it as a reference.

The imperial edict only provides overall guidance on the war in the southwest and does not make clear orders. Therefore, Yuan Keli still needs to think about how to command the war in the entire southwest by himself, and meets the requirements of the Ming Dynasty's overall military strategy.

Therefore, next, a series of military imperial edicts were issued from the Political Affairs Hall.

The Political Affairs Hall suddenly seemed to have become the highest military institution of the Ming Empire.

The decision-making participants in the Ming army's confidential matters also quietly changed.

In the past, the nine ministers and clerks from all over the country decided on military aircraft through court discussions. They were all civil servants, but now they have suddenly become only a few officials involved, which is obviously not as good as before. However, they are no longer just civil servants. They have begun to participate in military officers and veterans with rich combat experience.

These veterans showed great enthusiasm. Tong Zhongkui even thought that the map of the Ministry of War was not good. Based on his experience, he personally drew a terrain map of Sichuan overnight. When he was summoned to the Political Affairs Hall to discuss military aircraft, he took it out directly and suggested to the emperor and other ministers to use his pictures as reference.

In addition, the military decision-making efficiency of the central government of the empire was significantly faster.

In the past, the court had not yet determined the strategy for a month.

Now, it took almost a few days to decide on overall military guidance and replaced a wave of reliable officials in Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places in advance to make strategic preparations to prevent the war from being out of control after it expanded.

Yuan Keli has not received the instructive imperial edict from Emperor Tianqi yet.

At this time, he had just received Hou Xun's head.

"Your Majesty is wise!"
Chapter completed!