Shanxi, Datong Prefecture.

Sun Chuanting highly praised the local generals who participated in the battle in Qingjian County, but had no good expression on Ding Wenchao who was visiting Datong. Sun Chuanting was loyal and straightforward, so he naturally had no good feelings for a spy leader like Ding Wenchao. He dealt with it lukewarmly, so he went there in person.

The front line has gone to supervise the war. Now, nearly 30,000 Lat soldiers are scattered between several rivers in northern Shaanxi. There is no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground, and it is impossible to escape the situation of annihilation of the entire army.

Since Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols, who were freely traveling on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, were trapped in Shaanxi for the first time and surrounded and suppressed from all sides. It was really thirty years since Hedong and thirty years after Hexi. It was the Mongolians' turn to taste the lonely army going deeper.

The consequence is that it is completely wiped out.

The three-sided general system head advanced to the front line, and Datong Mansion became deserted.

Ding Wenchao did not care. The Military Information Department entered Datong and began to recruit soldiers and horses to guide the northwest. The Military Information Department had no choice but to do so.

Fushun, Liao Prince's Mansion.

As the end of the year approaches, Macheng returns to Liaodong from the front line of the northern Seychelles. Washing away the dust, it brews the reform of the Military Intelligence Department. After the revival of the Ming Dynasty was essentially a centralized country. Macheng knew this very clearly. It is not a bad thing to be centralized.

A 17th century imperial empire must be a centralized country with a strong court.

If this is not the case, the Great Ming Dynasty will inevitably be divided into pieces in the future.

Macheng did not expect that the territory he had worked hard to rebel one or two hundred years later. As a result, the Military Information Department would inevitably be reorganized and expanded, becoming a powerful tool for the imperial court to control the local area. After a long time of gaining power, Macheng's political skills became more mature and more ruthless.

It was so majestic. Before the reform, Ma Cheng first merged the Military Intelligence Department with the Jinyiwei and the East Factory, and then cut it after the troops were combined.

The Jinyiwei Town Fu Office, local wards and the East Factory were all incorporated into the Military Information Office.

In this way, the Military Information Department became a giant, which was very inappropriate. So Ma Cheng divided the Military Information Department into two departments, and established a new Internal Affairs Department. To put it bluntly, the newly established Internal Affairs Department specializes in local affairs, and the Military Information Department is in charge of the local affairs department.

He is responsible for foreign wars, intelligence investigation, and has the right to dispatch troops in emergency situations. Naturally, the Military and Justice Department will investigate whether the officer exceeds his authority and whether it is necessary to dispatch troops.

The organizational form with the Military Information Department, the Internal Affairs Department and the Military Law Department as the framework has gradually taken shape.

The three departments are established together and they are mutually restrained with the three judicial departments, which are in charge of justice. In this way, the court can firmly control the place through these powerful administrative institutions. Macheng is almost certain that he will be written as a tyrant in later generations, similar to the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck.

For such characters, his skills are far more intense than Taizu when the Ming Dynasty was founded, and the imperial court's control over the local area has reached an exaggeration.

This is not a good thing, but it is not a bad thing. It is nothing more than two evils to take the minority of power. Instead of letting the Emperor Ming fall into division one or two hundred years later and in war, Ma Cheng would rather bear a bad reputation and implement centralized power more vigorously

, if this is not the case, you will not be able to maintain long-term stability.

So Ma Cheng instructed Ding Wenchao to go to the northwest in person to recruit soldiers.

With these experiences in the battles of Macheng and their keen sense of smell, the situation in the Northwest War has undergone subtle changes. This subtle change has been clearly understood by Macheng. In the Northwest War, with the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Weila tribe destroyed in northern Shaanxi, the Northwest War has already occurred.

It turned into a low-intensity war. He had been the one who looked up to the Mongols before. After all, the Mongols were a group of herders and vulnerable.

However, the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia fought for more than 200 years, but they had not realized the rise and fall of one another. They instinctively thought that the Mongols were very powerful. With insight into the situation of the war, Macheng made adjustments in time. Such low-intensity wars were military situations.

When Si Da showed his skills, the expanded Military Information Department would be mainly responsible for the war in the Northwest and cooperated with Sun Chuanting to solve the problems in the Northwest once and for all.

Late at night, Ma Cheng escaped from the piles of documents and yawned.

When you leave the hall, you will see a burst of fragrance. After the completion of the Liao Palace imitates the Forbidden City, it occupies half of Fushun City. This is the rule of the prince. The official hall of Macheng is in a forest of plum blossoms, deep in the palace and inner courtyard.

The Peach Blossom Land, which is isolated from the world, always seems a little cold, which reminds Ma Cheng of a word, as deep as the sea when he enters the Marquis's Gate.

The fragrance of flowers is pleasant. When Ma Cheng looked up, he saw Chen Yuanyuan standing beneath the tree in the yard, holding plum petals, waiting for a long time.

Seeing Ma Cheng looking over, Chen Yuanyuan threw away the plum petals, walked over with her skirt, and Yingying bowed down.

Ma Cheng reached out to help her up and smiled and said, "Is it necessary for my family to be so polite?"

Chen Yuanyuan was finally young and frivolous, and smiled charmingly. Ma Cheng liked her youthfulness, so he stretched out his finger and pointed it on her pretty nose. Chen Yuanyuan was not happy, and a graceful and cold beauty brought her over and laughed for a moment.

A servant came to report that the dinner was ready, and the two of them entered the hall and used dinner. They ordered the servants to avoid it from afar and do not have to follow.

The two of them walked hand in hand with candles, holding lanterns, stepping on the moonlight, smelling the fragrance of plum blossoms in the yard, and walked slowly for a while. Before they knew it, they came to the backyard. There were special gardens, rockery bamboo forests, plum garden pools, and scenery.

Very beautiful.

Chen Yuanyuan was wearing thin clothes, not cold-resistant, and shivered.

Ma Cheng took off his cloak, put it on her, and said, "If it's cold, why don't we go back to the room?"

Chen Yuanyuan was not willing to miss this opportunity to be alone with him, so she smiled charmingly: "Nu Nu is not afraid of the cold."

Seeing her pretty wrapped in a cloak, her charming look was natural, and she couldn't help but secretly praise her. Beauty was so bad that she was so hot in her heart that she picked her up and walked into the warm chalet on one side, crying all her life,

The deep plum forest is filled with spring.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, during the twelfth lunar month.

Datong Prefecture, Jinyiwei Office.

Ding Wenchao ordered people to repair the abandoned Jinyiwei Station and use it as an official hall. The Military Information Department stationed in the northwest was always low-key and mysterious. A charcoal basin was lit in the hall, which was as warm as spring. More than ten officers sat around and chatted, talking.

Wuji, the topic cannot be separated from women, secret, rude but very real.

"Sir, here!"

A low shout sounded outside, and the officers in the hall stood up one after another.

Ding Wen walked into the official hall, shook the snowflakes on the cloak, and cursed with a smile: "Damn it, it's even colder than outside the pass, sit down."

More than ten generals and officials sat back, and their words were restrained and they changed to discuss official duties.

At the next head, a young officer was quite resentful and complained in a low voice: "Sir, Sun Chuanting is too domineering and does not give us face."

Before he finished speaking, Ding Wen flashed in his eyes and looked over. The officer was frightened and stood up in a hurry. The officer was so nervous that he stood up and stood there. More than a dozen military officers in the Military Information Department were immediately silent.

After a long time, Ding Wenchao whispered: "Have you drunk?"

The young officer was so scared that he was sweating profusely and said hurriedly: "If you say sir, I'll drink two drinks in the afternoon to warm up my body. It's too cold."

Ding Wenchao took his gaze back and whispered: "You are a soldier, not a shrew with a broken mouth, be more self-disciplined."
Chapter completed!