It's another summer night, the moon is in the sky, and the breeze is refreshing.

"Student to meet Master!"

Pushing open the door of the study, seeing Zhu Zhiyu sitting on the Taishi chair, Zhu Mingzhong hurriedly took two steps forward and bowed three times.

Two days ago, Zhu Zhiyu came over as the general's envoy, not only did he come, Zhu Daxian also followed, and at the same time there were more than a dozen civil officials who were not valued by the general, and their arrival also allowed Zhu Mingzhong to set up a shogunate shelf that belonged to him.

And all this is mostly facilitated by Zhu Zhiyu, and it is precisely because of this that Zhu Mingzhong feels that this teacher is worth worshipping.

"Hurry up, it doesn't have to be this way."

Zhu Zhiyu hurriedly left his seat, helped Zhu Mingzhong up with his own hands, and then said with a smile.

"The last time I saluted you for the teacher, it wasn't for your kneeling and three bows. Sit down, sit down and talk. Next time, it won't have to be like that again, you know? ”

For the student in front of him, Zhu Zhiyu can be said to be quite satisfied, but he is inevitably too ignorant of literature and ink, and he doesn't know anything about books and articles, but on the other hand, he has learned a lot of things, although he doesn't know books and articles, but he only needs to make a little bit of a difference to the subset of scriptures and history, and he can always say some reasons. And there are occasional words that are always thought-provoking. And the reason why Zhu Zhiyu mentioned "rites" is because the two of them talked about "rites" yesterday.

"Students know!"

When he responded respectfully, Zhu Mingzhong sat down, and after the two talked about "etiquette" for a long time yesterday, he deliberately recalled Zheng Jiajun, who made Zhu Zhiyu extremely disappointed. In Zhu Zhiyu's view, these people are still "pirate habits", and their behavior is rude and does not understand the rules of etiquette. At the beginning, Zhu Mingzhong thought this was an exaggeration, but after some recollection, Zhu Mingzhong noticed that it was indeed as he said, the Zheng family army seemed to have strict military discipline on the surface, but this kind of military discipline was more of a style of passing on pirates, that is, the military law was strict in wartime, and there was no law in peacetime. Feed! He said hello and walked over.

According to Zhu Zhiyu's statement, this is "unorthodox", and it is naturally impossible for such an army with a different system to assume the responsibility of Zhongxing Daming, and in Zhu Mingzhong's view, this is the biggest weakness of the Zheng Junjia or most ancient armies. Sometimes etiquette is also a manifestation of discipline.

After a little reflection, Zhu Mingzhong found that he seemed to have neglected the etiquette in the army - he had always used the old-style bow or one-knee salute in the army, and this must be changed in the future. There is no need to think about it all night yesterday, Zhu Mingzhong is not sure to use that kind of military salute.

"Give it mighty, turn it into thunder, give it spirit, and turn it into a sun star ......"

After Zhu Mingzhong sat down, Zhu Zhiyu looked at him and chanted his plagiarized words.

"If you are born, you will be Chinese, if you die, you will be bright, and if you are angry, you will be heavy, and if you are seven feet, you will be light...... These terms are well written! Whoever can make this statement must be a man of great loyalty......"

Zhu Zhiyu looked very excited, looked at Zhu Mingzhong and added,

"At that time, Cangshui couldn't recognize people because of words, and he really fell into the inferiority, but Cangshui was a true gentleman, and later took the initiative to show favor to you, although he had the intention of soliciting, but he was open-minded."

Seeing that the teacher appreciated it so much, Zhu Mingzhong thought to himself in his heart, fortunately, you don't know that I plagiarized Zhang Huangyan, but he said:

"Lord Squire, you are a model for your generation in everything!"

Smiling slightly, Old Master Zhu looked at Zhu Mingzhong and said:

"I heard that when you met the general later, you said that the general's Northern Expedition would be defeated?"

"Teacher, the students are worried that the general's character will be taken advantage of, which will lead to the failure of the Northern Expedition."

Zhu Mingzhong's words made Zhu Zhiyu silent for a moment, then looked at him and asked,

"It seems that you are not optimistic about this Northern Expedition?"

Although he did not believe that he could bear the burden of Zhongxing Daming because of the lack of etiquette in Zheng's army, Zhu Zhiyu still pinned his hopes on this Northern Expedition, eager for the success of the Northern Expedition and the recovery of Jiangnan.

"Chengren, this time the army went out, it can be said that the horse is strong, and the Qing army in Jiangnan is empty, since entering the Yangtze River, not to mention Chengren, you conquered Jiangyin on the eighth day of the first month. On June 16, Guazhou was taken, thousands of Manchu and Han soldiers and horses were broken, the "Rolling River Dragon" was destroyed, and the Qing army's floating camp on the river was burned, and then the army broke the reinforcements sent by Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Jiangning, and the commander Guan Zhongzhong on the 22nd in Zhenjiang Yinshan, nearly 20,000 Manchu and Han soldiers and horses were defeated in front of the battle, and Gao Qian, the Qing Zhenjiang guard, and Dai Kejin, the prefect, were even more frightened and surrendered...... This Yanping Northern Expedition is so smooth, why are you still worried, Chengren? ”

Looking at the disciple with a worried look in front of him, Zhu Zhiyu's eyes were full of suspicion, even if he had never entered the Zheng family, he also knew that the Zheng army's eyes were full of jubilation, and there was a great chance that he would be able to recover Nanjing tomorrow, and the Northern Expedition would succeed the day after tomorrow, and he himself was full of confidence.

But there is only one person, only one person who doesn't believe all this, and that is Zhu Mingzhong! Although he didn't mention it to the outside world, he Zhu Zhiyu knew very well what his disciple thought.

"Teacher, the general's use of soldiers is naturally beyond our speculation, but those who use soldiers are known as soldiers and nobles."

In the past, when there was no leader of the army, the understanding of "the speed of the soldiers" only stayed literally, but now, through the surprise attack in Changzhou, Zhu Mingzhong already knows the importance of these four words in the war, speed can make up for many tactical deficiencies, as long as the speed of the troops is fast enough, then the slower opponent will be difficult to react in a hurry.

"The Northern Expedition of the Great Army is to use the main force of the Qing army to use the southwest, and take advantage of the emptiness of the south of the Yangtze River to carry out the Northern Expedition, which can not only cut off the heavy tax areas of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that the taxes and people in the south of the Yangtze River can be used by me, but cannot help the Manchu Qing, and at the same time can make the main force of the Qing army withdraw from the southwest, so as to reduce the pressure on the imperial court......

When Zhu Mingzhong mentioned the imperial court, he noticed that Zhu Zhiyu's brows were slightly frowned, and he seemed to be unhappy, although it was fleeting, he was still caught, and then he realized that this teacher of his was a supporter of King Lu, and the imperial court in his mouth was the Yongli Imperial Court in the southwest, which was not the imperial court recognized by Zhu Zhiyu.

After all, it has been mentioned in many historical materials in later generations that the failure of the Southern Ming Dynasty was due to internal strife, whether it was civil officials or military generals, all forces were selfish and wanted to set up vassal kings as emperors. They spent much more energy on internal friction than on fighting the Manchus, and even worse, they tried to use the Manchus to clear out their opponents and watch the Manchus attack.

These people......

With a sigh in his heart, he restrained his thoughts that were a little floating because of Zhu Zhiyu's strange appearance, and Zhu Mingzhong continued.

"Originally, Jiangnan was empty, and the general should seize the opportunity to fight quickly, but what did the general do now?"