In the study.

Shi Kefa's face was calm, and his eyes were tightly fixed on the fold in his hand that had been copied by Zhang Zhengchen in the matter. He had read it several times, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Zheng Zhilong was reasonable. However, although Zheng Zhilong's words are reasonable, he is biased......

"Dong Weng ......" Yao Kang looked at Shi Kefa with a nervous expression.

He didn't think that after Shi Kefa was moved by Zheng Zhilong's slightness, he would be a little embarrassed in Shi Kefa's curtain, but he was worried about Shi Kefa himself after being moved.

Now the government and the opposition in Jinling City are shouting and shouting and killing Zheng Zhilong, even Wei Guogong, Shen Tingyang, Jiang Dejing and others dare not speak for Zheng Zhilong.

"Don't worry about that. Although the words of Marquis Annan are also out of sincerity, they are also Huang Zhong Dalu, deafening and deaf, but in the end they are a little biased. ”

Shi Kefa's senses for Zheng Zhilong are complicated. As the secretary of the military department of Jinling, Shi Kefa still knows a lot about Zheng Zhilong's group, if he hadn't been instructed by the emperor and knew Zheng Zhilong's 'will', the latter's threat to the imperial court would now be ranked above Zuo Liangyu's group.

And after removing this suspicion, and then looking at Zheng Zhilong's series of measures, of course, the slaughter of high-ranking officials and dignitaries has not been eliminated, but King Wanliqin, and a series of later measures, such as sending the emperor to Jinling early, and staying in Jinmen, and even cutting down the Tartar bachelor, turning his face with Wu Sangui, and making suggestions to Jinling, can not see his fierce loyalty to the imperial court.

However, those dignitaries and dignitaries who were slaughtered by him hated him one by one, and in a short period of time, Zheng Zhilong's reputation had been ruined, and even now everyone is shouting and beating.

But I don't know what these dignitaries and dignitaries who shouted at Zheng Zhilong did for the court when the court was in danger?

He knew the difficulties and bitterness of the emperor's fundraising.

Compared with the ugly faces of these dignitaries and dignitaries at that time, Zheng Zhilong waved a knife to cut their flesh, but he could make the court loyal and good applaud. However, Shi Kefa still felt that this was a bit of a bandit.

Skipping these and not saying anything, just looking at the current twists and turns, Zheng Zhilong said in a sparse manner: Today's Jiangzuo situation regards the Jin and Song Dynasty as more difficult, shoulders and hearts, and enemies on three sides. The Tartars entered the customs and went south, and the depth of the legacy was not inferior to that of Jinmeng,......, so it was advisable to take enterprising as the first righteousness. If the enterprising is not sharp, the defense will not be strong.

That is, the Li thief is very cunning, and he will die into Qin, if he comes out of the autumn as much as he can, merges with the thief, and looks at the Yangtze River, then the lake is in danger, and the court is in danger.

He also heard that he was in the palace and shook the Central Plains of Qilu. And the minister of the country was in a hurry, but Shao Shu said that the ugly statement (referring to the peace talks with the Tartars presided over by Chen Xinjia) damaged the prestige and bend the body, and the spirit of the loyal ministers and righteous men in the world, the ministers were ashamed, and the ministers were painful.

…… If you lose the present and do not cure it, you will turn to the autumn high, and you will control the south finger of the string, and drink the horse and Huai; And the thief galloped through Jingxiang and went down the river to the east. The disintegration has been completed, what is the extent of the umbilicus?

Shi Kefa had to admit that Zheng Zhilong's worries were very reasonable. If Li Zicheng retreated in western Jin, turned south to join Zhang Xianzhong, fought Jingxiang to the east, or waved his troops to Jingxiang to the east alone, and Jianyu took a truce with Li Thief after capturing western Jin, and instead gathered a large army to drink Ma Jianghuai, the Southern Ming court was afraid that it would collapse immediately.

But Zheng Zhilong guessed that a major premise was that Jianyu and Li Thief would truce, but at the moment, the two families had no such plans. Not only that, Shi Kefa also thought that Zhang Xianzhong was not a willing person, and he and Li Zicheng couldn't pee in the same pot.

But Zheng Zhilong's saying that 'the thief galloped through Jingxiang and went east downstream' was indeed a trouble, so he wanted to urge Zuo Liangyu to attack Jingxiang, recapture Jiangbei Prefecture, and cover the river defense.

But how do you deal with Jianyu? North Zhili, Qilu, and the Central Plains are all very empty.

With Nanming's current strength, is it appropriate to fight to the death?

Shi Kefa is the secretary of the military department, but he knows very well that the army under the rule of Nanming, after deducting the Zuo Liangyu department, which is known as 800,000 horses, all the soldiers and horses in Jiangbei and Jiangnan are added together, which is only two or three hundred thousand, and there are many newly recruited soldiers who are unbearable to fight.

The Hong Chengchou Department stationed in Yangzhou is the best example, from a few thousand remnants of the army to 20,000 or 30,000 horses today, there are many people, but it does not mean that the combat power has also become stronger.

Because of the training of the soldiers? What about the soldiers' swords, guns, and armor?

Doesn't it take time to practice, and it takes time to fight.

The emperor now has money in his hands, and there is no shortage of food in Jiangnan, and even because of the abandonment of Cao Yun, a large number of boatmen who depend on it for a living have been ruined, so that all towns can easily recruit a large number of young and strong men.

Hong Chengchou has expanded from a few thousand remnants of the army to a small 30,000 people at present, Gao Jie's department has expanded to 50,000 people, and Xu Dingguo's small 20,000 people, Liu Zhaoji's 20,000 people, Liu Liangzuo's 30,000 people, Jiang Cao's 20,000 people, Huang Fei's more than 10,000 people, Fengyang's Ma Shiying department of more than 10,000 people, Zhu Dadian's 3,000 hometown children as the standard camp, Lu Daqi and Yuan Jixian also have thousands of standard camps, and finally add the royal camp known as 100,000 troops.

The shelves are all pulled up, but can they really fight at this juncture?

With no shortage of money and food, Shi Kefa believed that as long as there was enough time, these soldiers would be able to train themselves.

But time cannot be exchanged for silver. They can fight in the future, but not now. There are deficiencies in training armor, how can you fight?

Therefore, he took the lead in advocating the 'Lianyu Pingkou', which was to suspend the Ming and Qing dynasties and reduce the danger of the imperial court being attacked from all sides;

So much so that there was a saying in the court that he would rule by dividing the river with Dongyu, and Shi Kefa did not oppose it. Although he had never heard of the phrase 'agreements are meant to be torn apart', he knew very well that all agreements must be backed up by corresponding strength.

It is the Ming and Qing dynasties who joined forces to kill Li Zicheng, if the strength of the Manchu Qing is weak and the Ming Dynasty has a million soldiers, then the Jinling court will definitely be shouting and killing the Tartars, and the government and the opposition are also full of voices to recover the Central Plains.

On the contrary, the sound of shouting and killing should have sounded among the Manchu ministers in the capital.

"Lianyu Pingkou" is just a temporary measure, and winning strength to enrich himself is what Shi Kefa thinks. For this reason, he has become a mediocre person in Yan Ermei's mouth.

Yan Ermei is a famous person in the south of the Yangtze River and a giant of the Restoration Society. Now in Shi Kefa's curtain, first persuade him to go north to restore Qilu, but he will not listen; persuaded the west to conquer the Central Plains again, but did not listen; The third persuaded him to stay in Germany and Xuzhou for the Central Plains, but Shi Kefa listened to it. But the idea is still to surrender Huaisi as the best policy.

The reason is very simple, this is that Shi Kefa thinks that the military strength of the Southern Ming Dynasty is limited, and only Huaisi is already overstretched, how can he still use it?

Going north to Qilu and west to the Central Plains can indeed make the imperial court excited for a while, but it also drags the already limited forces for a longer time, making the already not thick defense even more empty.

It also stimulated the Manchu Qing in Yanjing City, if they felt threatened, they chose to rest with Li Thief, and turned around and went south. Is the Qilu Central Plains still a piece of thin paper, broken by the Eight Banners of the Tartars?

Those soldiers and horses sent to the Central Plains and Qilu were not broken by the Tartars with a single blow, so what good did it do with the affairs of the world?

Moreover, the limited soldiers and horses have been sent to Qilu and the Central Plains, what if Zuo Liangyu of Huguang takes the opportunity to go east?

Shi Kefa had already played against Emperor Chongzhen on this matter, and the emperor obviously agreed with his line of thinking.

And when such a line of thinking is expressed further, isn't it 'Lianyu Pingkou'!

That's why he has such feelings now: "Annanhou is sincere, but he is inevitably biased." ”

"Father, at the moment, there is a lot of shouting and killing for Annan Hou in Jinling City, and countless impeachments will fly to Da Nei in the near future. Since you are grateful for the loyalty of the Marquis of Annan and do not want to be complicit with the Marquis of Jiading, why don't you call yourself sick and close the door now? Said Stilwell.

"Calling the sick closed?" Shi Kefa twisted his beard and groaned. "It's a good idea."

He thinks that Zheng Zhilong is very loyal, and the current climate is too much. But at this time, he really couldn't say a fair word to Zheng Zhilong.

Because that would offend too many people.

In the future, he will still have to do things, and the taste of being constrained by others in many ways is not pleasant, not to mention, it will delay major events. "Well, so be it......"

"Longjiang (Stilwell), you and Xiu Na are going to write an excerpt, and I'll hand it over for the old man tomorrow."

ps: Makes Shi Kefa look less incompetent, but it is by no means "whitewashing" this person.