Despite his own complaints, Hong Chengchou knew that since he became a traitor who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, he would not be able to turn back.

Only by making the Qing Dynasty the orthodox world and at least having a division between the north and the south with the Ming Dynasty, can he change from a traitor to a founding hero of the Qing Dynasty.

So I carefully thought about the issues Dorgon said.

Soon, he replied: "I think that people should send people to reprimand the Korean monarch and ministers first, and ask them to complete half of the recruitment and grain. Otherwise, send large troops to conquer."

When Dorgon heard this, he knew that the so-called military conquest was just a threatening word.

The Qing Dynasty now has only more than 30,000 Eight Banners of Manchuria, and the real elites are still about 10,000.

Wu Sangui in western Liaoning and Geng Zhongming in southern Liaoning all became vassal states with the support of the Han generals. The Qing Dynasty also needed some precautions. How could it send large troops to conquer North Korea?

Therefore, Hong Chengchou's words were actually a tactful advice to him to lower his military recruitment and grain collection requirements for North Korea?

Dorgon thought he had not high requirements, and now he had cut it by half. What does that look like?

But thinking about the current strength of the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon finally sighed and said, "Then let's deal with this matter as Grand Secretary Hong said. I just hope that the monarch and ministers of the North Koreans can be more sensible, otherwise I really want to send troops to conquer.

They're here."

Dorgon felt that it would be impossible to fight North Korea.

With the current strength of the Qing Dynasty, it can barely bully North Korea.

He had just succeeded to the throne. Before the regent, the Qing Dynasty returned from a great defeat within the pass. It was urgently needed a victory to stabilize the hearts of the people, stabilize his throne, and boost the morale of the Qing Dynasty.

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Nanjing.

Forbidden City, Wuying Hall.

Huang Daozhou said: "Your Majesty, the North Korean envoy has been in Nanjing for more than five days. I hope to see Your Majesty."

"Yeah."

Zhu Ma was not excited when he heard that a foreign envoy came to pay his respects, because North Korea belonged to the thousand-year-old brother of the Shenzhou Dynasty, and coming to pay his respects to the new emperor was a very normal political act.

What Zhu Ni cares about is another thing.

"As far as I know, the Korean monarch and ministers surrendered to the Qing Dynasty ten years ago as their vassals, and sent troops and grain to invade our Ming Dynasty. Even among the Qing Dynasty who entered the pass, there were some Korean soldiers.

, Can the Korean monarch and ministers explain this matter?”

"this···"

Huang Daozhou didn't expect that Zhu Mai mentioned this matter directly. He wanted to explain it to North Korea, but found that it could not be explained at all.

North Korea can be said to have to rebel against the Ming and surrender to the Qing Dynasty when the Qing army was invading the border. But just like those local officials of the Ming Dynasty - is it reasonable to say that the Qing army is invading the border, and you will surrender to the Qing Dynasty?

If you are really loyal to the Ming Dynasty, you should resist to the end during the Qing army's invasion. Instead of surrendering to the Qing army directly, you will also send troops and food to help the Qing army fight the Ming army.

Seeing that Huang Daozhou had nothing to say, Zhu Ma said, "Let the North Korean envoys be left first. Only when they know what the mistake was and have substantial atonement will I consider accepting their court."

Huang Daozhou was also disgusted with North Korea's behavior of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. He didn't say much after hearing this and responded directly: "I understand."

After Huang Daozhou left, Zhu Mei stood up and walked around the main hall for two times before coming to the back hall.

Now this place is still the office of the Secretariat and Telecommunications Office, but there have been two partitions inside, which have divided them into three rooms.

The size of the back hall of Wuying Hall is second only to the main hall. Even if it is divided into three rooms, each room is still quite large.

In the middle is where Zhu Mai and his close ministers who work in the back hall sit and rest. Zhu Mai occasionally "offlines" here and head to the old bamboo forest house in later generations.

On the left is the Telecommunications Office, and on the right is the Secretariat.

When you enter the telecommunications office, you can see that there are six "office desks" placed inside, which are divided into six office groups.

It is simply referred to as: the Imperial Power Group, Military Information Group, Military Order Group, Military Political Group, Governor Group, and Training Group.

Among them, the Yudian Group is a telecommunications team dedicated to Zhu Mi, who is also responsible for managing and coordinating the affairs of various teams of the Telecommunications Department.

The Military Intelligence Group connects with the two major intelligence agencies of the Beizhen Fu Office and the Military Intelligence Department.

The military order group is mainly used to issue military orders and assist the Military Council in issuing various military orders.

The military and political team is connected with the Military and Political Department, and the other is used by Zhu Mei to adjust and control the army.

As the name suggests, the governor group is mainly responsible for connecting with the telecommunications group controlled by the local governor.

The training group is mainly used to train telegraphers. Now, as long as Hao Guangming buys telegraph parts, Zhu Mei will bring them over and assemble them. They will either send them to local army, governors contact the court, or keep them as

spare.

Zhu Nishi's short-term goal is the Imperial Guards. Each town of the Border Defense Force can be equipped with a telecommunications team, and each provincial governor's yamen can be equipped with a telecommunications team.

As for equipting each Governor, the admiral with a telecommunications team has long been realized.

Because Hao Guangming was worried that it would attract the attention of people, he was not fast to purchase telecommunications parts through various channels. Therefore, Zhu Xixi just used a training group to slowly train telecommunications staff.

Among the six groups of the Telecommunications Department, each group has at least three people rotated, and they were all selected from the palace maids of the Forbidden City in Nanjing or the Shu Palace.

Of course, now they are no longer palace maids, but are collectively called telecommunications.

She also did not dress up as a palace maid, but instead wore a single female bun, narrow sleeves and slanted collar, and quite slim-fitting Ming Dynasty Hanfu. She looked very capable, giving the feeling of a female staff member in a special department in later generations.

After looking at the telecommunications office, Zhu Ma turned to the Secretariat on the right.

Compared with the Telecommunications Office, there have not been much change in the staff of the Secretariat, and there are still only two official secretaries, Liu Shuying and Zheng Sen.

Then there were more than a dozen secretariat clerks including Wei Yao.

It is worth mentioning that most of them are women, but there is a little eunuch named Ma Cheng.

It was recommended by Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of Sili.

After the interview, Zhu Mai found that although this person was a eunuch, he had strong learning ability, smart people, and had good literary skills, so he entered the Secretariat as a clerk.

Although Zhu Ma was not prepared to recruit new eunuchs, she was not prepared to discriminate. If the existing eunuchs were indeed capable, she would not mind being appointed.

After inspecting the work of the Secretariat, Zhu Ma asked Zheng Sen to answer in the middle.

"Can your Zheng family operate a sugar industry on Dongfan Island?" Zhu Ma asked straight to the point.

"Sugar Industry?" Zheng Sen was stunned when he heard this, and then asked: "What Your Majesty said is a sugar-making workshop?"

"Not bad." Zhu Meishi nodded.

Zheng Sen pondered: "I don't know much about this, but I should have run several sugar-making workshops, because whether it is going to Southeast Asia, Japan, or China, sugar is hard currency, supply exceeds demand and profits are also

Very high."

In Zheng Sen's words, not only did many new terms learned from Zhu Mai, but also leaked all the information related to the sugar industry he knew.

But he didn't care.
Chapter completed!