"Two Aiqing, it's a good means!"

In the warm pavilion of Emperor Zhu Yousong of Hongguang, Zhu Yousong smiled and gave a thumbs up to Ma Shiying, the first assistant of his cabinet and the governor of Fengyang, and Li Shouhan, the general and Duke of Liang.

The lords, gentlemen, righteous and gentlemen of the Donglin Party carefully organized a court meeting, which was originally intended to crusade against the many perverse acts of Li and Ma in the court. For example, the people of the court were expropriated violently, disrespectful to Confucianism, and often used to raid the house to collect the money and grain accumulated over the years, and finally led to Zuo Liangyu's army going down the east of the river, and the courtiers did not think about how to make up for their mistakes and save the situation, on the contrary, they tacitly cooperated with Li Chuang's army of traitors to intercept Zuo Liangyu's army in Susong and Anqing. As a result, the left army was flanked by the imperial army and the rebel soldiers and horses, and suffered heavy losses.

Even if Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying can't change their ways, at least let them be restrained, at least, Zuo Liangyu should be allowed to lead a small number of personal soldiers to Nanjing, and at the same time, let the family raider and the imperial history be more restrained.

However, a wishful thinking that was originally played well was messed up by Li Shouhan with a few pairs of wonton picks and long fish noodles.

Those who planned to act as pawns, took the lead at the beginning of the court meeting, and attacked Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying's various actions of Han, Zhan, Ke, and Dao, and the Qing gossip officials in the court did not care about Ma Shiying, who was also a scholar, and when they saw Li Shouhan, the well-dressed Liang Guogong, they couldn't help but feel itchy in their throats and disgusted in their chests and abdomen. The reason is very simple, the wontons and long fish noodles in the stomach complement the scene in his mind where Shi Lang turned the thousands of captured Left troops into wontons and bandao noodles.

Thanks to Li Shouhan's printing, the quality of all kinds of pirated books in the bookstores in Jiangnan is so good that it is a mess. It is undoubtedly a great thing for those poor scholars, even those who do not like to read the books of saints can find their favorite reading materials from the ambiguous expressions of the shopkeepers.

Whether it is Yuan Wuya's 120 editions, or the Shuangfengtang version that includes Zhengtian Hu and Zhengwang Qing, or the 71 editions that were cut in half (this version, it seems that the annotators have not yet started at this time.) A classic episode in which the heroes don't know each other is to ask you "Eat wontons or bandao noodles?" ”

"Liang Guogong, these fast sons-in-law of Chenglong, are really not a family with him!" Thinking of the origins and behaviors of Shi Lang, Zheng Sen and others, and then thinking about the wontons or long fish noodles that they had just eaten, these gossip officials changed their invincible style in the past, and they all looked at their noses and mouths, and their eyes drooped slightly, just like old monks in their homes.

As a result, a originally vigorous court meeting was dumbfounded by the dampness of gunpowder.

For this small tactical victory, Ma Shiying and Li Shouhan didn't take it to heart, it's nothing! But Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong didn't see it that way. He was already very disgusted with the time-consuming and labor-intensive activities of the court discussion but had no practical effect, but when he saw the end of this court meeting, he couldn't help but be happy. After the end of the court meeting, he ordered his relatives to follow the eunuch to pass the decree, and invited the first assistant to Lord Ma and the marshal Lord Li to enter the palace.

Sure enough, when he returned to his bedroom, Zhu Yousong was smiling. praised the methods of Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying.

After a few words of praise, the chief eunuch of the palace took several palace maids in the palace of Emperor Hongguang to offer snacks, tea, fruits and other things.

Although it is normal etiquette, the situation is different.

What is placed in front of Ma Shiying is naturally the best tea and dim sum in the palace, and in front of Zhu Yousong and Li Shouhan, the two monarchs and ministers, is a cup of steaming hot cocoa.

Li Shouhan picked up the porcelain cup and smelled the aroma of hot cocoa, "Minister, thank you." When Zhu Yousong's eyes met, the two couldn't help but look at each other and smile, their smiles full of "You know." "Coco, it was Yin Lei Shangfeng and others who brought tribute from the land of Fusang, and Li Shouhan gave it to Zhu Yousong instead. The truth is also very simple, first, this thing is from overseas, which is very rare. Second, it is rich in calories, which is extremely convenient for replenishing physical strength.

(What, you said that the emperor didn't have to do any physical labor, and he couldn't play football and basketball, how could there be so much physical exertion?) Says who?! If you look at the palace maids in Hongguang's dormitory who came up with tea and snacks, you can know why Emperor Hongguang has so much physical exertion! ）

These palace maids in Emperor Hongguang's bedroom are different. The color of the skin ranges from dark to light, but the body is the same color with two straight long legs, a straight back, and a strong waist. According to the essence of culture such as "Dong Xuanzi", a woman with such a figure is a treasure in bed. In other words, these black female slaves are all from Kenya in East Africa and the Arab region of North Africa, and any one of them can be a supermodel. Therefore, Emperor Hongguang needs to use hot cocoa to replenish his strength. It's simple and convenient, and the effect is obvious.

In the palace of Emperor Hongguang, there are more than ten such women, some from Tianzhu, some from Tianfang, and some from Mugu Dushu and other places. Among them, more than half of them came from the wood and bone bundles. They were quietly sent into the palace by the fifth son, Li Huachen and Qilin. Several of the female slaves were from the family of an emir thousands of miles away, and after the death of the emir, his wives and concubines and daughters became the spoils of the enemy army, and were sold by slave traders. Several of the daughters were purchased by Li Huachen at a high price of a fire gun and sent back to Nanjing to pay tribute to the Son of Heaven. (Not to mention that this price is cheap, many female slaves can't be sold at this price!) In recent years, the price of slaves in Syria and elsewhere has been visible to everyone. ）

Talking about other emperors, there is no way, at most, there are three thousand beauties in the harem, ten beauties and so on. It's not the northern aromatic fat and the southern eyebrows. Emperor Hongguang has a very good vision of the times, and does not win by quantity, let alone in the Central Plains. In his palace, there are palace maids from Europa, from Tianfang, from Tianzhu, from North Korea, and from wood and bones. Most of them are beauties from all over the world that Li Huachen and Hu Dan and others exchanged for firearms, silk, tea, and iron and steel treasure knives. In this regard, Zhu Yousong also has his own words.

"Back then, there were Korean and Mongolian concubines in the palace of Taizu and Chengzu, although I was not good, I was willing to follow the second ancestor Jiwei."

In this regard, Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying, who are regarded as "power traitors" and "eunuchs", are very happy and have formed a tacit understanding. As long as this emperor can stay in the palace well and don't come out to make trouble with us, then we will give him whatever he wants.

As a result, Ma Shiying's Moutai in Guizhou's hometown, Li Shouhan's various overseas exotic things, and all kinds of beauties flew like snowflakes. Anyway, now the trade route from Xingyi Mansion in Guizhou Province to Guangzhou along the Yongjiang River through Guangxi, and then to Nanjing is also very smooth, and the emperor wants to drink some soju on both sides of the Chishui River, which is a simple matter. As for the beauties of various countries, don't look at the five or six people who were dressed up when they entered the palace, but most of them were in the mouths of slave traders, at most they exchanged a fire gun for five people.

With such a low cost, you can get the full authorization of the emperor, so why not do such a deal? Therefore, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong, the emperor, is much more comfortable than his cousin Zhu Youzhen. Outside, there are two people, Ma Shiying, the first assistant, and Li Shouhan, the marshal, to go to Zhang Luo for him, and he just needs to be the emperor in the palace. The degree in the palace is used in accordance with the standards of the Wanli Dynasty of Shenzong.

After the three of them were polite to each other, Zhu Yousong suddenly asked Li Shouhan: "General, although the court meeting today has not said what the outcome is, but Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of horses are entrenched in the upper reaches, and it is not a situation. Is there any charter for the Marshal to settle this matter? ”

Get! The matter in the court still has to be solved!

However, fortunately, Li Shouhan is also prepared for this.

"Your Majesty, although this person is known as a million soldiers and horses, in the eyes of the minister, he is just a group of rabble, a native chicken!"

These words, that is, Li Shouhan, a person who holds hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers on land and water and has 100,000 miles of rivers and mountains, said it, and it is not so arrogant in the ears of Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying. If someone else said something similar, whether it was Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting of the previous dynasty or Hong Chengchou, who had become an important minister of the two countries, they would all be washed by Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying with the cocoa and Longjing tea in their hands.

"Why do you say that? Ignoring Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of horses as nothing? ”

However, this is what Li Shouhan said. It seems that this lord marshal, since he was born, has never lost a battle, all the way from a small thousand households to the current position of hundreds of millions of people under one person. Several times the king of Qin, there are a lot of achievements to show off. The combat effectiveness of the Nanyue Army, and the loyalty to the Ming Dynasty (at least Li Shouhan's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty) even the Donglin people who have been urinating with him can't say anything. He can only be accused of arrogance, not reading, not knowing etiquette, etc.

"Brother Wei Ru, I know that you have been fighting horses for half your life, you have rich experience, and your command is like a rain of warriors and a cloud of warriors. But how can this left-wing army be a rabble that is vulnerable? I also hope to make one or two clear things in detail. Ma Shiying saw that the emperor was stunned for a moment, and immediately stood up and said the doubts in the emperor's heart.

"Exactly! Li Aiqing! Both I and Lao Ma know that the strength of the soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army is the crown of all the armies in the sea. When you entered the king of Wanliqin in Beijing for the first time, you killed thousands of slaves and thieves at one time, and the ministers of the court and the central government were so shocked that you thought that you were like those unpromising guys, killing good people and lying about their military exploits. By the time of the Liaodong War, if it wasn't for the luck of the Tartars, I am afraid that I would have drunk the Mahun River and recovered Shenyang long ago. ”

"What the emperor said is extremely true! The commander of the marshal was not only brave and invincible in Linqing Marquis, His Royal Highness the county lord, but also the county Ma Shilang, who also swept the Liaodong Peninsula and killed Dongnu Xiaoer, who was famous for not crying at night. It was the model brigade of the year, which fought from Beijing to Sichuan, and from Sichuan to Liaodong, and was invincible everywhere. The Model Brigade was just a side branch of the Marshal's subordinates. ”

Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying, just like teasing and praising cross talk, measured each other's work and cheered each other, in order to set up Li Shouhan and find out his truth, why do you say that Zuo Liangyu's department is vulnerable?

"Humph! Er Ya was in Tower Hill, if he had not been unfortunately injured, he was afraid that the two white flags of the Dorgon brothers would have been annihilated on the spot. I dare not say whether I can recover Liaodong, at least, Huang Taiji will be greatly injured, and if it evolves like that, can you Zhu Yousong still sit here today, and call yourself a lonely widow? Li Shouhan scolded a few words, but he still answered Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying's questions very positively.

"Your Majesty, Lord Shoufu, although the soldiers and horses under the ministers have the name of elite, but the world does not know that there are no unwarlike soldiers in the world, the key is to look at these soldiers and horses, how to raise them on weekdays, how to train, how to instill military discipline, what kind of equipment to match, and how much military salary."

Li Shouhan thought that what he said was extremely simple, but when he heard these words in the ears of Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying, it was like a heavenly sound.

"As the marshal said, that is, all the soldiers and horses in the world can become the elite of the Nanyue Army?" Zhu Yousong's eyes flashed with countless little stars.

"Exactly! It wasn't Wei Chen who spoke wildly in front of His Majesty. Our Nanyue army and Liaodong rebels have fought many times, whether it is a field battle or a fortified attack, they can win the battle, this matter is known to the world. However, the combat power of the slave thief is comparable to that of Li Chuang's department. Your Majesty," Li Zicheng saw that some doubts flashed in the eyes of Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying, "However, the core backbone of the slave thieves is only tens of thousands of Manchurian soldiers of the Eight Banners, and the rest are all the rebellious Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Army. Li Chuang's soldiers and horses, beating these people is like chopping melons and vegetables. However, if Li Chuang's soldiers and horses encountered the Qing army with the Eight Banners of Manchuria as the core, it would be difficult for Li Chuang's soldiers and horses to take advantage of such Qing troops with many firearms, artillery, and strong morale. However, Li Chuang's soldiers and horses, if they encounter the soldiers of Zuo Reverse Liangyu, they can be broken by talking and laughing! ”

"If my Ming officers and soldiers can be as elite as the soldiers and horses under the marshal, then what are you afraid of the hundreds of thousands of local chickens and tile dogs on the left!?" Zhu Yousong was also infected by Li Shouhan's emotions. His hands clenched into fists, banging on the splendid pillows.

Originally! When Li Shouhan first entered Gyeonggi, he defeated the two red banners with thousands of men and horses, and suffered heavy losses, and the number of casualties and prisoners was almost the same as Li Shouhan's troops. Later, Wu Biao was dug into a corner by Yang Sichang and others with high-ranking officials and lords as bait, and he was also a famous figure in Sichuan and Liaodong. Wu Biao's model brigade has fought almost all the elite units of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia, and has never been defeated. And the soldiers and horses of Li Shouhan's headquarters, whether it was on the battlefield of King Qin several times, or in Tashan, Liaodong Peninsula and other places in the Great War of Western Liaoning, and the soldiers and horses of the descendants of the two white flags Dolgon brothers launched a positional battle, or swept the various prefectures and counties of the Qing army behind the enemy's lines, when did they lose the battle and collapse for thousands of miles?

Therefore, Li Shouhan said that Zuo Liangyu is just a group of local chickens and tile dogs, which is confident and well-founded. Your soldiers and horses can fight eight banners and several banners in Manchuria with a brigade of troops, and the losses of several banners are often more than 10,000, and the heads cut off are calculated in thousands, why are you afraid of Zuo Liangyu's garbage army that is about to collapse against Li Zicheng's army? You must know that if you can inflict tens of thousands of casualties on the battlefield against the five core components of the Manchurian combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners, the two yellow flags, the positive blue flag, and the two white flags, you don't have to fight it yourself, but I am afraid that Huang Taiji himself will come out to sue for peace. If he doesn't come out himself, the Manchurian nobles of the Eight Banners will also send him out as a condition for peace. Where do you need to use the unreliable assassination method of boiling shrimp with tomatoes to solve Zuo Liangyu? Eating tomatoes and boiled shrimp can cause arsenic poisoning, so how many tons of tomatoes do you have to eat? Isn't that the same as the plot in Zhou Xingxing's "Jiupin Sesame Official"? "You use a pound of arsenic and a pound of sugar to cook sugar water, which one of you will eat like this?" Zuo Liangyu is not a fool, he won't eat a few tons of good things at a time, right? Besides, if it really solves his troops, everyone opens up the formation, and the soldiers and horses fight, wouldn't it be more powerful in all directions? Isn't it better to tear off the faces of Zuo Liangyu and step on the urine pit?

The dignified array, the banner of righteousness, the effect is not better than boiled shrimp with tomatoes?

"If my Ming officers and troops are like the soldiers and horses under the marshal, it is not impossible to recover the Beijing Division, recover Liaodong, and follow the example of Chengzu to expedition to the desert." Zhu Yousong muttered to himself.

Good wine, good sex, good goods. This is the label that the Donglin Party put on him. However, these labels do not mean that he Zhu Yousong is an emperor without ambition, on the contrary, it is precisely because of his environment and status that he has a stronger desire to make contributions than any emperor. He wants to prove to the world that he, Zhu Yousong, is not an improper emperor, but the destiny of heaven. Moreover, it can also prove for his father, His Royal Highness King Fu, that if the Wanli God Sect could not be held hostage by the traitorous party in the DPRK and China, and resolutely pass the throne to his father, I am afraid that the current Daming country is a different scene!

"I want to reorganize the army and fight the military, and I want to work hard. One day, I will pay tribute to my ancestors in the Taimiao Temple in Beijing, and the choice of the Wanli Emperor was right! Thinking of this, Zhu Yousong couldn't help but clench his fingers into a fist again.

"Marshal, old horse, how can I turn my Ming officers and soldiers into elite and daring divisions like the soldiers and horses of the marshal's headquarters?"

Continuing from the topic just now, Zhu Yousong is very concerned about how to improve the current Ming economic division (that is, the traditional Ming army, after all, the Nanyue army is Li Shouhan's personal army in terms of actual situation and legal theory. Combat effectiveness. Not to mention that it can have the same combat effectiveness as the Nanyue Army, even if the combat effectiveness level is to the extent that it can defeat Li Zicheng's army, then his goal of recovering Beijing and recovering the lost territory can be said to have hope.