In the study.

Bai Shengsheng's broken porcelain pieces fell to the ground, and the tea on the table flowed down dripping, converging into a trickle.

Yiguo Gong Liu was not light, constantly wheezing, and his beard curled with his breathing.

Qi Guogong Tian Suo, who was sitting on the opposite side, was still fine, slowly tasting the tea, and asked after a while: "Have you fallen enough?" If you don't have enough to fall at home, I'll ask the little guy to go back and get some, and you can fall again. ”

The lazy tone, coupled with the appearance of being sipping tea there, added fuel to the fire.

But Liu Sheng's anger has been almost sprinkled, and they all say that joy and anger are not visible in color, but it is precisely because joy and anger are invisible in color that the action of smashing the cup can convey anger.

This cup was thrown to Qi Guogong to see, and he was really angry.

For a long time, Tian Suo slowly put down the teacup and shook his head.

"Brother Liu, you don't have to be like this. My son ran to you every day a few days ago, don't say that you don't know about your third child writing "A Brief Examination of Western Kingdoms". Even if he doesn't tell you, with your temperament, you won't know. ”

"Yes, I know."

"That's it. You think that your son can be in the emperor's heart, so you don't care about it. Okay, now that your son Jane is in the emperor's heart, and His Majesty has also sent an errand, are you unwilling? Now blame me again, I really didn't know about Liu Yu's trip to the Northeast in advance. Originally, I thought that His Majesty would let him go with me to receive the mission, but I really didn't expect His Majesty to let him go directly to the Northeast. ”

Tian Suo reasoned with the facts, and secretly sarcastically said that Liu Sheng didn't thank him when he took advantage, and now he is looking for trouble when things are unexpected.

"Then again, it's good to go and get some experience."

"! It's good to go through the experience. Or to the northwest, or to his uncle in the southwest, it's nothing. Can you go to the Songhua River? Is that where people go? ”

"Oh, I don't like to hear that." Tian Suo deliberately used an exaggerated tone, yin and yang.

"At the Songhua River, there are more than a dozen guards and Zhichong Mansion. The soldiers of the border army are guarding the border passes, and we can have fun in the capital. And that place has become an inhuman place to you? Besides, I am a nobleman, and I will rest with the country. When the reward was awarded, the soldiers of the border army could not take their turn, and you would be angry when you asked your son to go to the Songhua River; When something happens, what is the reason for asking the border army to fight bravely to kill the enemy? ”

"Why, your son is a human being, and those soldiers who guard the border for the country are not human beings?"

This is deliberately said.

Liu Sheng knew that Qi Guogong Tian Suo's lazy temperament, and the other party was angry and laughed when he was angry.

"Did you eat lamp ash? Put some light farts. What the fuck are you talking about? ”

"My Yiguo Gong is a lord, is it possible that you Qi Guogong is not? Why don't you go to your majesty and let your son go? The Songhua River, which is not a place where people live, is a bitter cold place, frozen in August and thawed in April and May. Summer is short, mosquitoes are raining, and the border army flees every year, you don't know. ”

"Besides, the Rakshasas are murderous, and spying on the military is extremely dangerous. The inscription of Yongning Temple, Yu'er just read the book and said it, do you know that it is not the literati who talk nonsense? Let him lead the team to the inscription of the Yongning Temple, and let him lead the team to check the roads, rivers, draw maps of mountains and rivers, and spy on the defense of the Rakshasa castle, where is it so simple to go to the border army to serve? ”

Speaking of this, Liu Sheng was even more angry.

At noon, he received a strange holy decree, entered the palace, and found that the Duke of Qi was also there. Only then did he know what errand the emperor had arranged for his son.

said that he was promoted to serve in the army, but in fact it was a cover-up.

The decision-making level of Dashun, who knew the state affairs of the Rakshasas, had already decided on a countermeasure, and he was taken by surprise and unprepared.

Qi Guogong went to receive the Rakshasa delegation and used etiquette issues to argue.

There is a lot to be done around the Northeast.

Liaodong continued to build post stations and hoard grain and grass.

Send people to Korea to recruit some of the North Korea's musketeers, one to reduce expenses, the other to see North Korea's attitude, and the third to check North Korea's armaments.

The artillery of the Beijing camp also had to take advantage of the time when Tian Suo and the Rakshasa people were arguing to secretly transport the cannon to the Songhua River.

Jilin Shipyard seized the time to build ships, requisitioned the elite of the jumping gang left by the Zheng clan in Fujian, sword and shield soldiers, and rattan soldiers, and rushed north to enrich the strength of the sailors of the Songhua River.

Once the time comes, gather forces and launch a northern expedition against the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Let some of the Mongolian tribes riding on the wall in the north choose a side correctly, so as to avoid the disaster of the late Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, the rhubarb and tea trade were used as threats to force the Rakshasa State not to interfere in the war against Dzungaria in the northwest.

As soon as the war in the Northeast ended, the elite soldiers of the various Zhichong Prefectures on the banks of the Songhua River were immediately recruited and sent to the northwest.

First northeast, then northwest. Roughly decided.

Liu Yu wanted to take a group of people and secretly go to the bank of the Songhua River first.

As a rhubarb smuggler, he cooperated with some naturalized Saurons disguised as the deer-hunting tribe of the Evenki tribe to investigate the defense of the Rakshasa Castle and the passage along the river, and draw a map of the Songhua River and Heilongjiang.

And...... The inscription of Yongning Temple during the extension of Yongle is used for future negotiations.

The people in the court are not crazy or stupid, and those who can make decisions such as the Temple of Heavenly Blessing will settle economic accounts.

It can only talk while fighting with the Rakshasa country, which is thousands of miles apart, and it is different from the Dzungar in the northwest where you can plow the court and sweep the caves with all your might.

The northeast is bitterly cold, and there is the Songliao watershed to block it.

Tens of thousands of troops for a long time, or a war that lasted for several years, the imperial court simply could not afford it.

That is, since twenty years ago, the Xiaoice period passed, and the weather gradually warmed up, so that a little food could be grown in that place.

In the past, it was called "dog country", not because of the insulting name, but because the tribes there domesticated moose and hunting dogs, and relied on moose hunting dogs to hunt in winter.

Sweet potato, potatoes and corn were introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and they all thought that it was an artifact, but it was not suitable for it at this time on the banks of the Songhua River.

The song of later generations sang very accurately, "My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China...... and the soybean sorghum that is all over the mountains", not "corn and soybeans all over the mountains".

Before the progress of maize breeding technology, the Songhua River Plain, which had an ultra-short frost-free period, could not grow corn at all, and could only grow sorghum and soybeans.

And soybeans are ...... Even if the technology of later generations progressed, chemical fertilizers were sprinkled like no money, and one acre of land was only 400 catties.

Songne, not Liaodong.

If that place was really a suitable area for cultivation as some people had imagined, how could it be left blank for hundreds of years with Zhuxia's desire for arable land?

The Great Northern Wilderness, before there was no large tractor, it could only be the Great Northern Wilderness.

Breaking through the eastern part of the country, there is no railway that crosses the north and south to cross the Songliao watershed, so it can only break through to the north of Liao.

Songnen Sanjiang, a swamp on the flooded land, without a pump, cannot be planted.

Half-meter-deep grass roots, staggered and jointed, chain rail tractors will be able to break through the grass roots, cattle and horses are tired and unable to plow.

Swamp water that has been silted for years, there are no deep-water wells, yellow rats that have survived the plague and do not die are everywhere, ticks that have sucked blood from the size of millet to the size of a finger belly, and can crawl all over the bodies of cats and dogs like Cthulhu creatures full of warts. All kinds of strange diseases, Keshan disease, rheumatism, hemorrhagic fever, plague, cretinism, forest encephalitis.

Cattle flies, horse flies, mosquitoes, ticks, countless blood-sucking flying insects, gold miners only need to strip their clothes to deal with their accomplices who hide gold, and it will not take a day to be a body of dry bones.

Heavy snow on August 15, ice before melting, hail on Qixi Festival, and cold wind in the wax moon - this is the true appearance of that black land at this time.

Since Chongzhen hanged himself in the year of Jiashen, it has been 80 years since the founding of the country, decades of war, and a few years of real recuperation.

After the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Liaodong was almost empty. Back then, Dashun swept the cave and ploughed the court in Liaodong, four words, I don't know how many corpses.

Now Liaodong is not satisfied, and no one will "know that the north is bitter and prefer the north".

There are very few people who cross the Songliao watershed to go to the Songhua River system, and at most they are some gold mining and hunting skins.

War is a continuation of politics.

After the fight, it will have to be negotiated in the end. And negotiations must rely not only on force, but also on "since ancient times".

Fortunately, Emperor Yongle left some inheritance, and the imperial court has its own bottom line.

Originally, after Li Gan succeeded to the throne, he wanted to solve the border troubles in the northeast and northwest. At first, I also hoped to use the help of missionaries to go to the Northeast to draw accurate maps.

When negotiating, if you don't even have a map, you will lose first.

But now that I have fallen out with the missionaries, I have also caught the missionaries privately sending maps to Macao, which is really hard to trust. Zhuxia did not have a few maps of Europe at this time, but Europe was full of maps of China with latitude and longitude that missionaries had smuggled back. A group of missionaries in the Qin Tianjian and the Ministry Division, Shanchuan Pass has no secrets from the West.

This matter is confidential, and the only one in the noble circle who understands Western studies is Liu Yu.

It's a chore.

There are even some meanings of nine deaths and one life: now Dashun is in the northeasternmost border fort on the bank of the Songhua River, in Yilan County in later generations, and there are still three or five hundred miles away from the confluence of the Songhua River and the Heilongjiang River, not to mention that the Yongning Temple monument is near the mouth of the Heilongjiang River.

In order to guard against the Rakshasas, they can't take a boat, and they can't take a boat.

It was up to the various tribes along the way to pick up and get there.

to disguise themselves as Evenki tribes who hunt deer; Disguised as a merchant smuggling rhubarb, he goes to find out about the defense of Rakshasa Castle.

It is necessary to establish good relations with the various tribes you meet along the way, record the mountains and rivers along the way, and ask the tribes how dissatisfied they are with the "Yasak" fur tax imposed by the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Although it is not as good as Zhang Bowang's access to the Western Regions, it is not easy, and nine deaths and a life are not just a description.

In front of the emperor, Liu Sheng was submissive; In front of Tian Suo, Liu Sheng punched hard.

After all, it was his own flesh and blood, and he was on such a life-and-death errand.

The evil fire in his belly did not dare to be sent out in the Forbidden City, so he could only go home and smash the plate and bowl at Tian Suo to show his anger.

There is no need to walk so the road of Xungui's children.

Even if it is said that he served before going to the army and experienced experience, where do the sons of Xun Gui need such experience?

The one who guarded the southwest and changed the land and returned to the stream was Xiangguo Gong, who was Liu Yu's uncle; The war in the northwest is continuous, the army is gathered, and it is easiest to make meritorious contributions, although the people who are the generals in the power over there are not people in the circle of honors, and they have also spat out wild words in the Wude Palace that they are quite dissatisfied with the children of the nobles, but at least it is safer.

Liu Sheng had long known that Liu Yu had secretly and Qi Guogong was making up the "Brief Examination of Western Kingdoms", and he didn't obstruct it before, because he thought it was a good thing.

Jane was in the emperor's heart, or followed the Duke of Qi to contact the Rakshasa mission, which was a good way out for gilding.

Gold plated and gold-plated, both non-dangerous and long-term.

Who would have thought that the emperor's ambition would throw his son into the three thousand miles of white mountains and black waters at once.

Which is this gilding?

This is a real sword.

Tian Suo estimated that Liu Sheng's anger was almost sprinkled, flicked the teacup, and said quietly: "Brother Liu, do you think that the second son is sealed by Xunwei, and it is casually sealed?" Since the founding of the dynasty, how many people have not been knighted and honored? Do you really think that Xun Wei is a rotten street cabbage like a loose rider? ”

"Don't be nameless here. Call the third child over, and tell me what should be instructed. It's August now, and we have to set off before the lunar month. ”

Liu Sheng sighed, knowing that this matter could only be like this.

When I was about to call someone to pass the word, I finally couldn't help but ask the last question.

"Lao Tian, what are you so concerned about Yu'er?"

Tian Suo is rare and has a solemn expression.

"Brother Liu, you and I will be fifty soon. The younger generation is full of waste, and there must be someone of their own who can shelter the younger generations. I chose and chose and recognized, and I recognized the third child in your family. You know that if you can't even train your troops to fight, why don't civil officials take your power? ”

"The lesson of the previous dynasty, you can't fight, Wenchen will join the border generals in Beijing, preside over the affairs of the Beijing camp, the Beijing camp can't be abolished, you can't use a group of people who pee their pants when they hear about the war, right? The border will enter Beijing, is there still a good day for us? ”

Speaking of concerns, Tian Suo even said some arrogant and illegal words.

"To be a nobleman, you can't all be a pack of pigs, and you can't be all a pack of wolves."

"There are two or three wolves in a pack of pigs, and that's what Your Majesty wants to see. It's all pigs, and His Majesty has no choice but to use the Wenchen border generals to cut the power of the nobles; It's all wolves, Lan Yu, Hu Weiyong, and Li Shanchang are the lessons. ”

"Now it's a herd of pigs, and if you don't force out a wolf cub, you can only lick and eat in the pigsty."