"Two Aiqing, you see, the situation everywhere now, alas! I am in chaos, and I hope that the two Aiqing can come up with a charter, and I will follow it. ”

In Nanjing's imperial palace, a very delicate palace room that has just been renovated exudes a faint smell of paint.

Zhu Yousong, Emperor Hongguang, Ma Shiying, the first assistant university of the cabinet, and Li Shouhan, the general of Liang Guogong and the general, these three pillar-level figures in the power system of the Ming Dynasty sat facing each other. is slightly different, that is, there is a chair under Zhu Yousong's buttocks, while Ma Shiying and Li Shouhan are embroidered piers. to distinguish the difference between kings and ministers.

On the Longshu case in front of Zhu Yousong, there are several thick documents, which contain submissions, correspondence, official documents and other forms of documents, constituting a complete chain of evidence.

This document, which made Zhu Yousong feel tricky, was submitted to the palace by Li Shouhan overnight. From the Liao Dongzhi Department stationed in Xuzhou, Shandong.

Speaking of which, this document was seized from Liu Yuanqing!

Joy and sorrow, when Liu Yuanqing with a full harvest, with Hong Jinglue, General Duoduo's deep friendship to the Jianghuai people, with the generous conditions that can make their children and grandchildren inexhaustible, on the way from Kaifeng to Huai'an, accidentally in Xiayi County, near Guide, encountered Liao Dongzhi's troops from Xuzhou patrol rangers.

Originally, seeing that this convoy was huge, and it was coming from the northwest, the rangers planned to come over to inquire about the dynamics of the Qing army and learn about the military situation. However, Liu Yuanqing has a ghost in his heart, where can he dare to come into contact with these Nanyue army masters? Immediately, he ordered his entourage to hurry up and run along the official road from Xiayi County to Yongcheng County, intending to flee by taking the road.

Isn't this just a thief who doesn't admit himself? If you don't have a ghost in your heart, why do you run away when you see us? The rangers who came out to patrol the sentry, which one of them was not an old figure who fought in a war? Immediately urged the horse to catch up.

Liu Yuanqing is also a ruthless character, even if the people who are ordered to accompany him, he unloaded several carts and mules and horses full of gifts and treasures from the great generals Duoduo and Hong Jingluo, and used them for his own carts as a backup, and these carts were laid across the official road. First, to block the road and delay the catching speed of the Nanyue army, and second, if this group of uncles is also to make a fortune, the goods on these big cars will be considered to buy road money.

However, this trick is used in other armies, and the tricks of the four towns of Jiangbei, Zuo Liangyu's army, and even the Dashun army may be very effective. However, it is almost meaningless to use it on the Nanyue Army, an army that has always given priority to military merit.

"Sure enough, there is oil and water! Leave the first class of people to search these cars carefully, and the rest of the people continue to chase! ”

The rangers are still in hot pursuit.

"Quick! Come on! Liu Yuanqing kept urging the accompanying carriages and horses to speed up. He knew very well that the mission he was burdened with was absolutely against heaven. Once he falls into the hands of the Nanyue army, even if he is not slashed by the guillotine and kicks down from the city to find a home in the mass grave, his fellow students, teachers and gentlemen will also rush to kill him to extinguish his mouth, in order to save his own life. As for what righteousness and feelings, I'm sorry, we are readers, and those are the things of the lower riba people who lead the car pulp sellers to play.

Panic. After a wild run, flight and pursuit, the prey and the hunter get closer and closer. In strict accordance with the regulations of the army, the war horses fed with fine salt, bone meal, eggs, grain and forage gradually brought into play their physical advantages, and they were getting closer and closer to Liu Yuanqing's chariot and horse team, and two squads had already separated from the brigade, galloped down the official road, and outflanked them from both wings along the wilderness.

"Click" a loud sound came, followed by a few long neighing of horses, a team of cars, because of the road bumps, accidentally the axle broken, the body overturned to the ground, even with the horse also fell to the ground, and then, behind it galloped several cars, also a stack of sound crashed up, in this Ming Hongguang years caused a series of rear-end accidents.

Taking advantage of the panic, Liu Yuanqing made full use of his biological instincts and learned geckos and sea cucumbers, what tails, what internal organs, as long as our lives are here, then everything is there!

However, the documents he carried in the car, as well as the confessions of the entourage, became the documents on Zhu Yousong's desk.

The stakes are big, even Zhu Yousong is a little big. Judging from the seized documents and the confessions of Liu Yuanqing's entourage, the wide range of people involved, the number of people involved, and the influence and financial resources behind these involved personnel made Zhu Yousong, who had been displaced for a period after the destruction of Luoyang City and experienced all kinds of situations in the world, also secretly complained. He had heard of the names of these people, and he also knew some about the strength of these people.

"Even if I have a cadre like Liang Guogong, I can't bear the same pressure as this generation of Taishan!" Zhu Yousong secretly complained in his heart.

In the document, the dozens of names who are either listed and co-signed on the letters, or have separate letters to Duoduo and Hong Chengchou, the names of the two leading figures in the Qing army, are all mentioned in the current Ming Dynasty and the opposition, and they are all rich and powerful figures. If you really send troops to capture it, I am afraid that it will make the Jianghuai change color in an instant.

Zhu Yousong's worries came from several other documents. They are also from Jiangbei, Xuzhou and Yangzhou. Although they were respectively from Lu Mahong, who commanded the whole army as Li Huayu's surviving person, and Shi Kefa, who went out of Yangzhou as the secretary of the soldier department of Jianjidian University and commanded the army between Jianghuai and Huai, the content reflects the same thing.

That is, the troops of Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Li Chengdong, Jin Shengheng, and others in Jiangbei were in a state of great emotion, and they expressed their opposition to the fact that the general sent personnel to the army for inspection and review, and there was a faint risk of mutiny.

On the one hand, there are local gentry who collude with the enemy, and on the other hand, there are arrogant soldiers and fierce generals who resist the military orders of the imperial court. Hundreds of thousands of troops and dozens of families with strong financial resources and huge strength want soldiers and horses, money and food, and what they lack is nothing more than a name and an excuse!

Although Liu Yuanqing himself was not caught red-handed, all kinds of letters, official documents, and documents stamped with the seal of the great seal of the great seal of the great commander of the great commander of the great commander of the great master of the Hong University and the commander of the general Duoduo, and the list of the various departments of the Qing army that did not trespass and disturb the nuisance were clear.

"These dog thieves! What a big dog guts! Although in front of the emperor, Ma Shiying, a scholar of the first assistant university in the cabinet, couldn't hold back the anger in his heart and scolded loudly.

For him, the pressure is enormous. Upstream, Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of horses confronted each other on the Anqing front line with the Southern Guangdong Army and Naval Division. Although, after Shi Lang's thunderous means, the vanguard of Zuo Liangyu's army was all the wontons, so that Zuo Liangyu's army did not dare to move, and at the same time, it also greatly affected the business of selling wontons in Nanjing. However, after all, Zuo Liangyu has more than 100,000 Dashun troops behind him who are heading east day and night, and if Zuo Liangyu and the suspected enemy in various parts of Jianghuai that are emerging at the moment cannot be resolved as soon as possible, then Zuo Liangyu's army will be rushed by the Dashun army downstream, and it is bound to break through the defense line of the Nanyue army. At that time, Anqing will not be able to hold it, and the soldiers and horses and official gentry in Jiangbei will take the opportunity to make trouble again, and this Ming country will be completely finished!

Shousuke didn't know anything. The latest military report that a certain family got before entering the palace. Dongnu's forward Aobai Department has crossed the Qinling Mountains from Guanzhong, Fufeng, Meixian and other places and entered Hanzhong. It is reported that a small-scale outpost battle of 100 people has taken place with Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters of the Great Western Army. ”

Li Shouhan smiled bitterly and revealed the latest emergency military situation to Emperor Hongguang and the first assistant scholar in front of him. Ao worshiped into Hanzhong and fought with Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers and horses, which was quite a bit of the taste of the Qin people who looked down on the Yue and had nothing to do with themselves for Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying, who were far away in Jinling. There's even a bit of schadenfreude in it.

Whether it was the Qing army that defeated the Great Western Army, or the Great Western Army drove the Qing army back to Shaanxi, or even took advantage of the situation to capture the 800-mile Qinchuan. For Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying, they can all use the so-called Bian Zhuang stabbing tiger strategy.

However, Li Shouhan didn't dare to think so.

Since ancient times, Jinling has not been a suitable place to build a capital. However, anyone who established a capital here was not a particularly long-term regime. Whether it is the Sun Quan family of the Three Kingdoms, or the Tianjing of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is closest to us, the Nanjing Kuomintang regime is the same. It's not the fantasy feng shui of Jinling's royal spirit, but the terrain.

Those who have always defended Jinling must set up a defense line from the so-called Jingxiang to defend the upstream. Then fortify layer by layer in order to hold Jinling. If you have doubts about this strategy, you can go to see the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Condor Heroes, and the writings of the barber Zeng Guofan. Whether it was Wang Junlou's ship to Yizhou, or Kublai Khan, Zeng Guofan, they all went east along the Yangtze River from Wuchang, Xiangyang, and Anqing to eliminate the regime in the southeast.

If the Qing army with Ao Bai as the vanguard defeated Zhang Xianzhong's department and entered Sichuan, and then, quickly and with the official gentry and local armed forces in all parts of Sichuan, defeated or even killed Zhang Xianzhong, then the upstream would be completely passive. Wuchang and Xiangyang were exposed to the guns and iron hooves of the Qing army.

"If you want not to be beaten passively, you have to take the lead!" Li Shouhan habitually closed his lips again and gritted his teeth secretly.

Watching the chewing muscles of his cheeks move together, Ma Shiying, who was already very familiar with him, knew that his good partner was afraid that he was thinking about what he was thinking about, and he was calculating the benefits and losses.

"Your Majesty, Lord Shousuke. A certain family has a humble opinion, and took it out for His Majesty and Lord Shoufu to show. Li Shouhan's words were very modest and respectful, but Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying both understood that his idea was final. Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying also made some suggestions and modifications at most at the technical level.

"Your Majesty, there is a folk proverb that boils do not squeeze out pus. Now, the dilemma facing the imperial court in the west and north is a boil, which is about to be ripe, and it is precisely for His Majesty to make a decision and eradicate these two tumors in one fell swoop! ”

Seeing that Li Shouhan's eyes were full of murderous aura, and his expression was even more determined and abnormal, he couldn't help but feel that Zhu Yousong was also infected.

"Is there a proper way for the general? Do you want to cross the river and go north immediately? ”

"Your Majesty, when you followed Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty and traveled to the people, have you ever heard of the phrase killing chickens to show monkeys?"

Li Shouhan quietly put on a high hat for Zhu Yousong without a trace. The down-and-down time in his life was compared with Liu Xun, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty. What kind of person is Liu Xun, who can be regarded as one of the people who have done the best in reputation and merit among the emperors of the past dynasties: on being a man, there are allusions to the deep love of the sword and the love of Nanyuan. On power schemes, after ascending the throne, he endured for many years, and beheaded the Huo family, who had been in power for a while, and regained his position. In terms of martial arts, he is better than his great-grandfather, Emperor Wu of Han. During the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty had the largest area, with more than 6 million square kilometers directly under it, plus the Western Regions Protectorate, the northern Xianbei and the Xiongnu homeland, the controlled area was 13 million square kilometers and 25.6 million square kilometers. At this time, the territory of the Han Dynasty stretched from the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the Ryukyu Islands, and the north-central part of the Korean Peninsula, including Kyushu Island. It is bounded by the Arctic Ocean in the north, Central Asia in the west, Gaoligong Mountain and Ailao Mountain in the southwest, and central Vietnam and the South China Sea in the south. At this time, the national self-confidence of the Han people was also unprecedented.

The legendary Han Xuanding Hu Monument is even more shocking. Where the sun and the moon shine and the rivers go, they are all Han soil! In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. In the Biography of the Southern Xiongnu, Ban Biao's recital to Liu Xiu includes "Han Bing's prestige, the general command of all countries, the sun and the moon shine, all of them are concubines." These sentences confirm the iron-blooded era of fierce rebellion. It is also left to future generations to enjoy infinite reverie.

When it comes to civil governance, it is even more capable officials to suppress the powerful and powerful, and amnesty the world more times. adjust economic policies and rectify industry and commerce; Suppress mergers and acquisitions, and lightly punish small endowments. Even the famous "Historical Records" was promulgated in the Xuandi Dynasty. At this point, the national strength of the Western Han Dynasty reached its peak, but the price was the lowest. The people's livelihood rests, and the four seas are quiet. The history said that "it is a good official of the old Han Dynasty, so it is prosperous, and it is called Zhongxingyan".

was able to become one of the four emperors of the Western Han Dynasty with an official temple name with Emperor Taizu Gao, Emperor Taizong Wen Liu Heng, and Emperor Shizong Wu Liu Che, and Emperor Zhongzong Xuan Liu Xun can also be called a generation of heroes.

"I've heard that, of course. The so-called killing chickens and monkeys! "Thousands of wears, but sycophants don't wear. Zhu Yousong, who was in a much more relaxed mood, also had that leisure and chatted with Li Shouhan.

"However, there are too many monkeys, and they are all battle-hardened old monkeys, and killing chickens is no longer useful. You can only pick one of the monkeys that they think is the fattest and strongest, and kill it to show them! ”

Li Shouhan was like an old monk fighting Zen words, and he said his inner thoughts to the two partners in front of him murderously.

These words suddenly shocked Ma Shiying and sweated. Of course, not in a cold sweat. It's sweat of excitement and excitement.

"What do you mean, Sir?" Ma Shiying pointed westward, and then his right hand slashed in the air. This action, the three people in the room are very clear, and they want to make a final decision on Zuo Liangyu.

Solving Zuo Liangyu's army is not a difficult thing for the Nanyue army. The difficult thing is that if Zuo Liangyu is solved, what should the hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops who are chasing behind him do? Could the Nanyue army not succeed in a fierce battle with Li Chuang's army in the upper reaches?

"Your Majesty, the one who is beggar-thy-neighbor is the one who is in the middle of the war. Horizontally and vertically, those people in Jiangbei already have two hearts, so it is better for me to open up and let King Li Chuang go to the hometown of Jianghuai to revisit. It's good to clean up this place for us. ”

Li Shouhan's words were very plain, as if he was talking about his parents and cleaning his room. However, Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying trembled when they heard it, and they didn't know if it was because they were excited or afraid.

My grandfather! General! Your idea, but it cost hundreds of thousands of lives at once, ruined the incense of hundreds of thousands of families between Jianghuai and Huai, and gave Li Zicheng the wealth and goods they had accumulated over the years.

"Your Majesty, they can't be used by me anymore. Then don't stay in this great tomorrow and waste the food of the world. Let Lao Li clear the way for His Majesty, so as not to let His Majesty's hands get bloody. Thousands of years later, it is difficult to write in the history books. ”

The big strategy has been decided, and the rest of the things could have been done by Li Shouhan to go back and organize the manpower, and the military department and the staff office would come up with a combat plan together, but Zhu Yousong was very interested in Li Shouhan's proposal of killing the monkey king and scaring the monkeys, and then opening his mouth to put the broken army star in the Jianghuai to kill the monkeys. I have to ask Li Shouhan to give him a detailed explanation.

As a result, in the emperor's new palace room, the first assistant scholar of the cabinet was transformed into a person who served tea and water, and passed objects, and the general Liang Guogong listed books, inkstones, pen holders and other things on the ground to tell his thoughts and plans for Emperor Hongguang.

The jade belt around the waist became the Yangtze River, and the wat board in his hand became the Huai River. The waist card and jade pendant were taken off and became the representatives of the Ming army, the Qing army, the Shun army, and the Western army, the pen holder became a city, and the inkstone became a town. And boxes of books have also become the garbage that must be cleaned up in Li Shouhan's eyes.

"Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo's subordinates claim to be among the 500,000, but there are only 100,000 soldiers who can fight, and there are really more than 10,000 elites who can really have combat effectiveness. It was Gao Jie, who was already dead, and Huang Degong's subordinates stationed in Wuhu had some combat power. ”

Li Shouhan kept taking all kinds of objects handed over by Ma Shiying and explaining them to Emperor Hongguang one by one.

(Don't ask me where the palace maids and eunuchs who served around the emperor were.) plotting such an earth-shattering deed that completely lost the conscience of heaven is naturally to send away all the people around him! ）