The empty eyes stared into the void, and the body curled up in the rocking chair, motionless, and occasionally blinking eyelids, showing the characteristics of a living person.

When he saw Xu Fan, Wang Ce sighed in his heart, the teacher's appearance, Wang Ce had seen it for the first time. On a late summer evening, a chill hits the hot air for no apparent reason.

"Teacher. Wang Ce called softly.

"It's coming!" Xu Fan's head slowly turned, his eyes focused on Wang Ce, and there was a hint of vicissitudes in his voice.

"Teacher, is something wrong?" Wang Ce said worriedly when he saw the teacher's appearance.

The corners of Xu Fan's mouth moved, smiled, and said, "You can't help with the affairs of the court." ”

"I came to you today to ask you something else!"

"Teacher, please speak!" replied Wang Ce.

Xu Fan wanted to straighten up, but when Wang Ce saw it, he hurriedly stepped forward and shook his hand.

Looking at the obvious gray hair on Xu Fan's sideburns, Wang Ce said in a deep voice: "Teacher, are you old......"

Xu Fan smiled with relief: "It's not in the way, I'm too busy these days, I'll be fine after a while!"

After Xu Fan sat up, he spread out a few pieces of music on the desk, and motioned to Wang Ce: "These are military reports sent by the Ministry of War and Wang Shuai, take a look!"

Wang Ce nodded and quickly looked at it.

Wang Ce already knew most of the content in the military newspaper, and even what was not on it was clear to Wang Ce, but Wang Ce still paid more attention to the views in Wang Zhonghe's military newspaper.

"What does the teacher want to ask?" Wang Ce asked after reading it.

"Let's talk about it, what is the purpose of the rebels?" Xu Fan said as he looked at Wang Ce.

"This ...... The Ministry of War and Wang Shuai have their own judgments, I'm such a hairy boy, it's not good to talk nonsense......" Wang Ce looked embarrassed.

Xu Fan didn't wait for him to finish, then waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, there is no one else here, just say whatever you want, even if you don't know, the stinky boy must know, I don't believe he won't tell you." ”

Wang Ce tried to cover his chaotic eyes, but Xu Fan kept staring at him all the time, and said: "The rebels of all dynasties and dynasties have all aimed to capture the imperial capital, and the people of the Yang family have a stronger purpose, but after retreating from Yangzhou, they did not go north, but went south to Quanzhou, what is their purpose?"

"Besides, the military newspaper said that the rebels have a water division, and their strength is extraordinary, Wang Shuai also speculated in the previous report that the rebels will go north along the canal, enter the Yellow River and Weishui, and go straight to Chang'an, there is no decent water division on the Central Plains that can stop the rebels in the slightest, Chang'an is surrounded by eight rivers, and it is not difficult for the rebels to take Chang'an, right?"

Xu Fan's words have not been said to anyone, Xu Fan is not familiar with military affairs, and if he said these words rashly, it is difficult for anyone to believe them, and if they cause turmoil in people's hearts, the gains outweigh the losses. He just analyzed this speculation out of the simplest balance of power, and now that he said it, he also had the idea of verifying it with Wang Ce.

Facing the teacher's sharp eyes, Wang Ce sighed softly: "Build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become the king." This was said by the eldest brother, who said that there are masters in the rebels. ”

Xu Fan's eyes were already wide, his mouth was slightly open, and he couldn't speak for a moment.

Li Shanchang's short nine-character policy is a high-level summary of the thousand-year-old history of China's rebellion, and it has also been a perfect interpretation of several successful cases that followed, and can already be called the core program of the rebel world.

The rich cultural atmosphere and the accumulation of precipitated knowledge made Xu Fan, who had always been unable to change his face when Mount Tai collapsed, tremble, and he didn't know if it was for the rebels or his own apprentice who could say these nine words.

Stumbling a step, Xu Fan struggled to fight, stared at Wang Ce with cannibalistic eyes, and asked in a trembling voice, "Is this......?" Is that really a stinky boy saying that?"

After all, Wang Ce is still a teenager, he obviously doesn't know the power of these nine words, Xu Chen only used it casually in the letter, as if he used an idiom, after all, it is difficult to summarize it better than these nine words.

But Xu Fan is different, as soon as he heard these nine words, he instantly connected many rebellions in the history books in his mind, and after comparing them one by one, Xu Fan understood the value of these nine words almost instantly.

Knowledge is like this, like a layer of window paper, after piercing, it looks so simple, but only Xu Fan's kind of knowledge can understand that his seemingly thin paper, if you want to pierce it, how many hardships need to be experienced, and tens of millions of people don't even know where the window is.

Sensing the strangeness of the teacher, Wang Ce realized that he might have said the wrong thing.

"Old ...... Teacher...... What's wrong with you?"

Xu Fan saw the trace of panic on Wang Ce's face, and his frightened and inexplicable mood calmed down a little, even if there was a monstrous wave in his heart, he tried to suppress it.

"Let's ...... Let the stinky boy come to Chang'an quickly! Just say I want to help! In addition, hand over all the soldiers and horses you have recruited to ......."

When Xu Fan heard that the nine words came out of Xu Chen's mouth, he couldn't help but think of Xu Chen's life experience, his apprentice had too many secrets, and Xu Fan still felt that he could guide him, but now after listening to these nine words, Xu Fan's entire mind was full of associations......

No wonder this kid started training when he was in Yuzhang...... No wonder he tried his best to get money...... No wonder he refused to come to Chang'an with him...... Now we have to recruit soldiers!

Once the thoughts wander, they will become more and more uncontrollable.

"Ah, teacher, what are you talking about?" Wang Ce's face was also incredible, and there was a trace of anxiety in his heart, so he took Xu Fan's hand and asked.

"Huh?" Xu Fan woke up from his reverie, and when he saw Wang Ce's face, he was shocked in his heart: "No! That stinky boy reacted too quickly, if he passed through this, maybe this guy would slip away with someone!"

"Oh! no...... I didn't say anything!" Xu Fan smiled and said casually.

Wang Ce looked at the teacher in disbelief.

Xu Fan smiled and continued: "In that case, the purpose of the rebels is still obvious, but they have learned to forbear, take a place first, and then slowly ...... it."

Seeing that the teacher brought the topic back again, Wang Ce didn't think much about it. Wang Ce, who couldn't understand the power of those nine words, naturally couldn't imagine that the teacher's heart would rise with a strong sense of vigilance in an instant.

"What do you think the rebels will do next?" Xu Fan asked Wang Ce.

Wang Ce thought for a while and replied: "Jianzhou is estimated to be unable to hold, after the rebels obtain Jianzhou, they will either march south and attack Guangzhou, or stick to the current three prefectures of Fu, Quan, and Jianzhou." ”

"After that...... It should be possible to give full play to the power of the sailors, and along the coastline Cholera Gangnam Dongdao and other places, it can also penetrate deep into rivers and lakes to plunder inland areas......"

Most of these speculations were analyzed by Wang Ce from the intelligence sent by his eldest brother, and the results were roughly the same as the purpose of the rebels.

"In this way, isn't most of the world going to be cholera by the rebels?" Xu Fan wondered.

Wang Ce smiled bitterly: "Yes! Datang has no water division, the powerful water division of the rebel army is like entering a no-man's land, as long as there is water, the world is big, you can go there!"

"It's like the Han Dynasty when Bai Mountaineering and the Tang Dynasty by the Weishui River, once the Central Plains Dynasty has no cavalry, the cavalry of the grassland people can go south to herd horses at any time, the Great Wall of China, everywhere is dangerous, everywhere to defend, where can I accept it?"

"In this case, it won't work to move the people by the sea inward?" Xu Fan asked.

"Then the big river and the big river, Chang'an is on the edge of Weishui, do you want to move it too?" Wang Ce said with a smile.

Xu Fan was silent.

"What should I do, you must have a way, right?" Xu Fan looked at Wang Ce.

Wang Ce's thoughts flew around, and he replied after deliberation: "Strengthening the construction of the naval army, just like cavalry against cavalry, the sailor naturally has to deal with the sailor!"

When Xu Fan heard this, he fell into deep thought, and muttered in his mouth: "If you want to build a sailor, you must first have a boat......

"And it can't be an ordinary ship, it must be a sea ship that can sail far away, the rebel sailors' warships are all large sea ships today, and their maneuverability is far from being comparable to those flat-bottomed river boats. Wang Ce answered.

"But now more than ninety percent of the ships in Datang come from Hongzhou shipyard, although Dengzhou also has a shipyard, all the boats that can be built are flat-bottomed boats, plus over the years, the imperial court has not paid attention to it, and the craftsmen have already run most of the ......" Xu Fan is the prime minister, and the information in the Ministry of Industry is still turned over, but the above records about the shipyard are still decades ago, fortunately, Xu Fan was demoted to Yuzhang, otherwise the understanding of the shipyard is estimated to be the same as the officials in Chang'an, staying a hundred years ago!

"By the way, didn't you say last time that you were going to build a shipyard in Shengzhou?" Xu Fanzhao remembered that Xu Chen seemed to have heard that he was going to build a shipyard in Shengzhou.

"It's been built...... Only just laid the foundation, Yangzhou rebelled, and then busy with the defense, the project was stopped, when the rebel army went south, by the way to the shipyard outside Shengzhou City to burn, now, there is a scorched earth......"

The most true lie is nine truths and one falsehood, anyway, the shipyard has been bombed by the eldest brother, and the ruins have been transported to Ryukyu, and I am not afraid of the teacher to verify it.

"Damn! The rebels must have known that you were building a shipyard, so they deliberately left a group of men and horses to go south by land, in order to destroy the shipyard!" Xu Fan slapped the table suddenly, with a deep regret, and complained from Wang Ce in a blink of an eye: "You are really, seeing the rebels' perseverance in attacking Shengzhou, you don't know how to send some people to garrison the shipyard!"

Wang Ce's heart lit up, come on, teacher, you said so, so be it, and save me from making excuses!

"Yes, yes, yes, the eldest brother also regretted it, when the ship was destroyed, the eldest brother also wanted to send someone out of the city, but it was ......"

"Forget it...... He doesn't have many people on his hands, the people in the city are the most important, and if the shipyard is gone, it's gone......"

"Yes, yes, yes......" The words were all said and said, what else could Wang Ce say?

"Tell me in detail about the water master, I'll draw up an excerpt, tomorrow's court meeting, take it out and discuss it at that time!" Xu Fan picked up the pen, spread out a blank piece of paper, and began to write.

Wang Ce on the side dictated the thoughts in his heart while grinding ink.