"Shinkoku is back?"

Zhang Yan was a little puzzled.

"Your Majesty, didn't Xin Guogong go to Henan Mansion and Shaanxi to suppress bandits a few months ago, why did he suddenly come back, could it be that the thieves have been wiped out?"

"Not really." Zhu Youxiao shook his head: "Although Xinguo Gong defeated the main force of the thieves and killed the thief chief Gao Yingxiang, some of the thieves still fled to the north of the Yangtze River, and the Jiangning army is still looking around for news of those thieves." ”

Zhang Yan was puzzled: "If this is the case, the Duke of Xinguo should stay in Henan Mansion, how can he come back, could it be ......?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Yan was slightly startled and looked at her husband with wide eyes.

Zhu Youxiao nodded appreciatively: "Zitong is really smart." ”

Zhang Yanfeng's eyes widened: "What is the matter of Xinguo Gong, who actually left tens of thousands of troops on the front line and returned to Beijing alone after the great victory?" Belch...... The concubine is guilty and should not ask about military affairs. ”

Zhu Youxiao shook his head: "It's hard for me to say about this matter, if it can be done, it will indeed be a great thing for Daming, but if it is done badly......" Speaking of this, Principal Zhu You sighed, shook his head, and showed worry on his face.

"Your Majesty!"

Zhang Yan held her husband's hand and said softly.

"No matter what, the concubine will always be with Your Majesty, and the same is true for Cijie."

"Well, we're all in this together." Zhu Youxiao smiled and held his wife's hands with his backhand......

"Grandpa Guo has returned home...... Grandpa Guo has returned home......"

Bursts of cheerful voices echoed in the backyard, and when Yang Feng returned to the mansion, Hai Lanzhu, Da Yuer, Zhezhe, Zheng Tuoniang, Xianniang and other wives and concubines all greeted him, and when more than a dozen wives and concubines were divided into several rows to greet him, Rao is Yang Feng was also startled by the fact that he boasted that he had experienced a hundred battles.

Looking at the pair of hot eyes that his wives and concubines looked at him, Yang Feng couldn't help but shudder lightly and gently stroked his old waist, it seems that the nutrition express line can't stop in the past two days.

In the next few days, except for Yang Feng who stayed in the mansion to accompany his wives and concubines, he all entered the palace and stayed in the imperial study with Zhu Youxiao, muttering that he didn't know what he was discussing, and for this Zhu Youxiao even stopped the morning court for three days.

This phenomenon has gradually been discussed by the government and the opposition, and everyone is very curious, what are the two monarchs and ministers doing every day, what can make them discuss for so long?

This curiosity soon turned into an unease, especially as the civilian clique began to become agitated and even panicked.

It's funny to say that it has been almost 300 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and after the desperate suppression of civilian officials in the past hundreds of years, the status of military attaches is so different from the early days of the founding of the country that it can be described as very different.

I think that at the beginning, not to mention the princes and generals in the Hongwu period, even the military attachés in the Yongle period could walk sideways, but now, even a small seven-grade county order can scold the chief military officer of the second grade, which is simply difficult in the early days of the founding of the country.

The good life of civil officials has been so long, but now there is such an outlier as Yang Feng, he is not only deeply attracted by the emperor as a confidant, but also has a heavy army to be able to fight well, and the most important thing is that he will make money, the Daming royal business house under his command has now opened all over Daming, and the profits handed over to the royal family every year are gradually increasing, and last year alone reached seven million taels.

Today's Zhu Youxiao can be described as a pouch, not only rebuilt the Beijing camp, but also trained tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng, he is now suppressing bandits in Shaanxi.

With these 60,000 elite soldiers in hand, Zhu Youxiao is too angry compared to before no matter what he says and does, who dares to try disobediently? Is this master really ruthless?

That's it, now the emperor is still plotting with Yang Feng, how can this not make the ministers tremble.

"Aiqing, I still don't know the bottom in my heart. These people are called Liukou, that is because these people have a strong wandering nature, if they do not follow our plan to the south, but scatter and flee in all directions, then the harm caused is too great, or the entire Ming Dynasty will become erosive. ”

In the imperial study, Zhu Youxiao looked at the huge map hanging on the wall and said worriedly.

"Your Majesty, this is something that Weichen has also thought of."

Standing next to him, Yang Feng picked up a small wooden stick, pointed to the map and said, "Your Majesty, please see, the current form is like this." The 30,000 new troops led by Lu Xiangsheng were distributed in Shaanxi and Shanxi, while the 25,000 Jiangning troops of Weichen were gathered in the areas of Mengjin and Jiyuan, and were now advancing towards Huaiqing Mansion.

Once Huaiqing Mansion is recovered, the road to the northwest of the thieves will be completely cut off, so that Mr. Lu's new army can draw their hands and order them to advance to Shunde Mansion and Zhangde Mansion at that time, so that the thieves will have no way to go except to plunder to the southeast. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded after thinking for a long time, and then suddenly asked: "But what if the thieves are exterminated by the officers and soldiers in Jiangnan when they are flowing southeast, aren't we calculating in vain?" ”

"Hehe......"

Yang Feng let out a meaningful laugh.

"Your Majesty, do you have any misunderstanding about the combat power of those guards and garrisons in Jiangnan?"

"Well, I didn't say that!"

Zhu Youxiao also knew that he had made a low-level mistake, Jiangnan has always been a place where literati gathered, and the literary style was especially prosperous. There is no problem in letting the landlords, gentry and gentlemen there chant poems and point out the country, but if they are allowed to lift a knife and cut people, I am afraid that nine and a half out of ten will be scared to pee their pants.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the large area representing Jiangnan on the map, his eyes showed a complicated expression, and his expression was full of emotion, "Aiqing, if this matter is revealed, I and you will both be stinking for 10,000 years!" ”

Yang Feng snorted coldly: "Your Majesty, don't forget, the gentry in Jiangnan today have completely occupied the right to speak there, and they firmly control the local military and political power. The people at the bottom only know that there are clan elders and village elders but do not know the government. The edicts issued by the imperial court were not even as useful as the words of the local gentry, so what was the use of such a place for the imperial court?

The only way to do this is to sweep all these people into the dustbin of history, and only then can the power of the imperial court reoccupy it. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Feng couldn't help but think of the modern Taizu, Taizu relied on the strategy of encircling the city in the countryside to completely wipe out the clans and gentry forces that had been entrenched in China for thousands of years, and now he is just borrowing the surface of Taizu's strategy, as long as he can put the gentry forces in the south of the Yangtze River to the end, even if it is a stench for thousands of years?

Yes, Yang Fengjin's strategy for dedicating to Zhu Youxiao was to drive those remnants of the thieves to the south by driving the wolf and devouring the tiger, so that they could do what Yang Feng did not dare to do and could not do.