Chapter 119: A long-term plan

"Get up and speak." The Empress Dowager finally relented, and after Zhu Qizhen got up, she said, "Tell me, your so-called long-term plan?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Niangniang also knows that my family has become the king of the domain, and from Emperor Taizong to the present, all of them have adhered to the policy of cutting the domain. ”

The Empress Dowager said: "It's all like this? Do you still want to cut? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's not that I don't miss my kinship, but that the clan is multiplying day by day, and I'm afraid that the imperial court will not be able to support it one day." ”

"The grandson also doesn't want the grandchildren to be raised as pigs. Always think of a way, although the grandson has not come up with a solution yet, but no matter how you do it, you can't let those who are useful to the country suffer. ”

"No matter who it is, as long as you can guard Luchuan. So that Myanmar will no longer disturb the border. It is a great achievement, the imperial court has so many Tusi who fall and rebel from time to time, Luchuan is a place, Si can gather an army of 300,000, in terms of population, it is enough for me to go to the Ming Dynasty, and make all kinds of Tusi subordinate to it. ”

"If we can annex Myanmar in the south, it will also be a big country."

"Isn't it better than sitting at home?"

"And there is no 100-day red flower, he has a chance that he will continue the national ancestry."

"If it weren't for the fact that the second brother was still young, had no experience, and couldn't stand alone, the grandson wouldn't want to give it to Uncle Xiangwang."

"Phew." The Empress Dowager said: "What nonsense are you talking about? This is what you should say as an emperor. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's my grandson who said the wrong thing. ”

The Empress Dowager no longer doubts Zhu Qizhen's intentions at this moment, it is not that the Empress Dowager believes in Zhu Qizhen more, he at least believes that Zhu Qizhen did not deliberately put King Xiang to death.

The Empress Dowager fell into deep thought for a while. I secretly weighed in my heart whether this matter was good or bad for King Xiang.

The Empress Dowager has a keen strategic vision.

From the distance from Beijing to Luchuan, she obviously felt that the Ming Dynasty Center was beyond the reach of the Luchuan area. It is precisely because of such a distance that after King Xiang arrived in Luchuan, as long as he was loyal to the imperial court, the court's support for King Xiang was endless.

It is not impossible for King Xiang to sit on the possibility of a great power in Tiannan.

But as a mother, she wants her children to be safe and sound, rather than making achievements. What is the situation in southern Yunnan, the empress dowager has already heard about it, and he is afraid that King Xiang will not even be able to adapt to the climate of Changsha, so he will come to the north to recuperate.

What happens if you go to Luchuan and don't adapt to the local climate?

All kinds of ideas made the Empress Dowager unable to make up her mind.

But just when the Empress Dowager couldn't make up her mind, in the Xiangyang Xiangwang Mansion, King Xiang had already received a flying pigeon from the Beijing Division.

King Xiang looked at the note in his hand, his face was full of emotion for a while, he was silent for a while, and said, "Let the chief manager come here." ”

After a while, the chief manager of Xiangwang's Mansion came.

Although the chief steward was a eunuch, he couldn't see the appearance of serving people at all from his bearing, holding a rosary in his hand and saying, "Lord, you call me." ”

King Xiang gave the letter in his hand to the chief steward and said, "Look at it. ”

After reading it, the chief manager smiled slightly and said, "This is actually Taizu's old strategy, just like Taizu is sealing the king." If you use it well, it is naturally good, but if you don't use it well, it will be too much to hold onto, and it will be a difficult situation. ”

King Xiang said: "Then do you think that my nephew is good or not?" ”

The chief manager sighed and said, "Just right." The imperial court is really beyond the reach of Yunnan, seal a king and Luchuan, I am afraid that the land of Luchuan, known as 300,000, but it is not enough to raise tens of thousands of elite soldiers, from Yunnan to Jiangnan, there are natural dangers everywhere, just get stuck in one place, just wait for the imperial court to come several ways, and annihilate in one fell swoop. ”

"And attacking Myanmar from the south of Luchuan is a strategic situation. Burma is thousands of miles in circumference, enough for His Royal Highness. When the time comes, after the prince has the foundation of Myanmar, will he want to go back to Jingjing? ”

King Xiang sighed and said: "Sijia father and son, they are all short-sighted people, if I have 300,000 soldiers, I will never come to offend the Ming Dynasty and sweep away the Burmese Tusi is not good." ”

The chief manager said: "It seems that the prince is moved. ”

King Xiang said: "Why, as a disciple of Master Yao, aren't you impressed? Or after you were cut off the root of your troubles, you are really determined to be the chief administrator of my house. ”

The chief steward said, "Amitabha." However, there is a danger in it, can the prince think about it? I am an outlaw, but I am not afraid. Afraid of the prince? ”

The chief steward was a disciple of Yao Guangxiao.

And he was one of the disciples of the personal lineage, and participated in the rebellion of the King of Han, and when he saw that the King of Han was not enough, he threw himself into King Xiang.

He and Yao Guangxiao are actually all the way, and they are both characters who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic.

It can be seen from the fact that after the defeat of King Han, he did not vote for Xuanzong, but instead voted for King Xiang. He has no idea about the world at all, and his only idea is to show his strategy in the troubled times.

It's just that the Ming Dynasty has been inherited for five generations, the people are subordinate, and the people are stable.

Naturally, he couldn't find a chance. can only stumble down on the Xiangwang Mansion.

King Xiang gritted his teeth and said: "Lonely is fed up, trapped in this city, it is better to live than to die." Xiangyang City may be a place for others to live and work in peace and contentment, but for the Lone King, it is just a larger prison. ”

"I'd rather die than live like this."

"Isn't it Luchuan??"

The chief steward said: "In this way, the prince must immediately start to act, write to the imperial court, write a letter to the empress dowager, and confirm this matter." ”

"It's best to let the prince join the expedition."

"It's not that the poor monk said that the prince is not, but that the prince has been in the center, but after all, he has not been in the battle formation, if he is really sealed to Luchuan, such a war will be commonplace in the future."

"The prince conquered Luchuan from the army and also accumulated some experience."

King Xiang pondered for a while and said, "Will the little emperor agree?" ”

The chief manager said: "This matter was originally proposed by him, and he will naturally do it." ”

"Okay." King Xiang said, "Lonely, I'm going to write a letter." ”

King Xiang worked all night, wrote a memo, and then wrote a private letter, which was addressed to the Empress Dowager. Ask for the support of the Empress Dowager.

After all, the Empress Dowager is the Empress Dowager, and only a little thing exposed between her fingers is enough for King Xiang to eat in Luchuan.

If you don't ask the Queen Mother at this time, when will you ask for it?

Everyone in the world knows that the Queen Mother actually doesn't have many days left.

It's just that King Xiang's recital has not yet arrived in Beijing.

However, there were 800 miles from Yunnan to rush to Beijing first. There is also the news that Jinyiwei got from the tile spur.

Two messages at once, almost front and back.

What Zhu Qizhen saw first was Luchuan's request for tribute.

When Zhu Qizhen saw it, his heart suddenly felt relieved, and it would take some time for reinforcements to arrive in Yunnan. Now in Yunnan, Luchuan did not dare to attack the Ming army, and the Ming army did not dare to attack Luchuan.

However, Luchuan seems to have the ability to attack, while the Ming army's offensive ability is somewhat lacking.

Therefore, Luchuan himself wanted to make peace. Zhu Qizhen was naturally willing to let them waste their own time, and immediately approved Zhu Qizhen.

Now Zhu Qizhen has begun to leave Wang Zhen behind and review the folds by himself. Wang Zhen only has the power to sort out the paperwork.

As for Mu Angqiu's 120,000 reinforcements, the military department has prepared 150,000, except for more than 10,000 people in Meng Ying's headquarters, the rest are the southern army.

This is also considering that Meng Ying, as the main general, does not have any descendants around him, and I am afraid that he will not even be able to suppress these 150,000 horses.

Therefore, it is specially approved.

Isn't today's Beijing camp short of these 20,000 people?

Immediately, Zhu Qizhen sent Mu Ang a handwritten letter, asking him to defend as a residence, and not to lose his division before the arrival of the army. immediately counted the merits of the Mu family and encouraged him to live up to his ancestors. As long as the army arrives, it is a great achievement.

Zhu Qizhen estimated that this thing was not difficult to do.

After Zhu Qizhen dealt with this matter, he opened Jinyiwei's secret report, and was immediately surprised and delighted, he couldn't believe it, and said, "Tuohuan is dead?" ”

Finally, Zhu Qizhen understood why the change in Tumubao was in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, instead of about five or six years of orthodoxy as he expected.

Because of the change of the civil fort, the leader of the thorn is called Yexian. It's this year's top.