Zhang Sheng, who had previously been sent to the Nanchang Mansion of the Jiangxi Political Envoy to give gifts to Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, returned to Yunnan. The thing she sent was a script copied by Du Qianrui, so that King Xie Ning made up a play for her.

Zhang Sheng brought back two not-so-good news.

King Ning accepted the script, but politely refused Zhu Gaoxu's wooing. Such a result was originally expected, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't have much hope before. King Ning at this time was much smarter than King Ning in Tang Bohu's time.

In the morning when the sun was rising, the temperature gradually rose, and the heat intensified Zhu Gaoxu's irritability.

In the study, Zhang Shengzheng recounted what he saw and heard in King Ning's mansion, "When the last general met King Ning, King Ning was wearing a Taoist robe and was discussing Taoism with Heavenly Master Zhang Yuchu in the Danfang. The last general presented the script copied by Mrs. Du, and before the last general could speak, King Ning said that he had now found the path of the Great Dao Immortal from the Dao, and he had no intention of doing mundane things.

The last general, please take a step to speak, and Zhang Tianshi retired. At the end of the year, King Ning made up a script for Mrs. Du, making Mrs. Du famous, known all over the world; King Ning and King Han's uncle and nephew have a very close relationship, and they can't hide it from the court, for fear that the court will be unfavorable to King Ning. There are many brocade guards in King Ning's mansion, all because of the distrust of the imperial court.

King Ning said that he only had hundreds of guards now, and he could not help the king of Han, and he was already pure in heart and devoted himself to cultivating the Tao, and he was worried that worrying about worldly disputes would damage the Tao......"

To this day, the vassal king's guard has been weakened to a greater or lesser extent; But the one who was cut the most thoroughly, on the contrary, was King Ning, who was expected to "divide the world equally", and there were only a few hundred guards left. In other feudal kingdoms, after the battle of Annam and the preparation of the border, the number of guards of a vassal state was sharply reduced, and the maximum number did not exceed 10,000; Except for Zhu Gaoxu's third brother Zhao Wang.

The situation is still unclear, the world is watching, and perhaps the next change in the situation is the key.

Zhu Gaoxu remembered the King of Shu who was going to assassinate him before, and then he heard King Ning's posture hanging high, and said in his heart: I'm afraid that there are more than two of them who have the same idea as King Ning of Shu.

Then Zhang Sheng talked about some military information.

On this trip, Zhang Sheng went to the secret sub-divisions of the Northern Division of the Shouyu Mansion in Huguang and Jiangxi, and collected some information before returning to Yunnan.

Compared with the previous deployment, the enemy army has a new movement. On the Huguang side, some troops in the Jingzhou and Wuchang areas are being transferred south, and Changsha Prefecture, Tanzhou, Hengzhou, and other places are increasing troops. Jiangxi's political envoys also successively transferred some soldiers and horses, and marched south to the Shaozhou Prefecture area.

In such a situation, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly wondered: Is the Huguang strategy formulated by the Han Wangfu not long ago leaked!?

But he immediately judged that a leak was certainly impossible. First of all, the time is not right, and it is impossible for the imperial court to get a secret report and make a transfer in a short period of time. Secondly, there are very few people who know that strategy at present, all of them are people who will definitely be punished by the Nine Clans once the Han Wangjun army fails, and the possibility of them leaking secrets is too small.

Zhu Gaoxu raised his head, looked at Zhang Shengdao, and said, "General Zhang's errand is doing a good job. You negotiated with Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and persuaded Lu Bing, the commander of the Guizhou Army, to lead the whole guard to surrender to Cheng, all of which were working hard and making great contributions. This king promoted you to be the envoy of the right town of the north division of the imperial palace. ”

Zhang Shengxi said: "The last general Xie Wang Ye cultivated!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and Zhang Sheng bowed back.

Zhu Gaoxu

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Motioning for Wang Gui to come closer, he said in a deep voice: "Your godson Cao Fu, do you know Huang Yan next to my third brother?" ”

Wang Gui bowed and said, "I know." ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "I asked Zhang Sheng to send a few people to escort him, and asked Cao Fu to try to go to Beiping." ”

Wang Gui immediately replied: "The slave then informed Cao Fu and told him to prepare the trip. ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and looked at a map on the table. Gradually, he realized that the military movements of the imperial court should be based on the situation. Zhu Gaoxu launched the war of crime, and the actual goal was to seize the capital of the Ming Dynasty and oust the puppet emperor from the throne. The Beijing division was in the east, and troops were dispatched from the three southwestern provinces, and the direction was roughly surmising.

If the north goes out of Hanzhong, the south is far from the north, and the Qinling Mountains of Daba Mountain are not easy to break through, so it is unlikely. Going down the river along the Great River Channel, the sailors of the Han Wang's army were a big problem, and the disadvantages were too great. And there is the Xueling Mountain Range in the east of Guizhou, and even merchants and messengers are reluctant to climb that large mountain range, and it is almost impossible to go to the army...... Only the Irihuguang Road in the central part and the Guangxi direction in the south were left, so the transfer of the imperial court was also reasonable.

The situation was quite unfavorable for Zhu Gaoxu.

Although once the Han army is dispatched, the march and supply of more than 200,000 people cannot hide from the eyes and ears of the enemy, and the traces will always be exposed; But Zhu Gaoxu's intentions seem to have been guessed by the other party more than a month ago! This difference is very large, because it takes a lot of time for both sides to mobilize their troops, and it is difficult to make adequate preparations if the enemy forces make temporary deployments.

At this moment, Mr. Li walked into the study with a stack of things.

He bent down, made a courtesy, and immediately said straight to the point: "The report sent by Wei Dudu, please take a look at the prince." ”

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand and continued, unfolded the letter and read it.

Wei Da personally wrote: In early May, the Marquis of Xiping sent people to exchange people with Zhang He in the east of Kuizhou Mansion. The person sent by Zhang He did not have a Jianwen after Ma's. The last general also learned afterwards, and it was inconvenient to question the Marquis of Xiping, so he had to send someone to report to the prince.

Zhu Gaoxu's left cheek moved the corners of his mouth, and he suddenly twitched slightly.

He glanced up at Mr. Li and saw that Mr. Li was standing there without any intention of speaking. Zhu Gaoxu said: "I ordered Mu Sheng to deal with this matter in advance, so it is also possible that Mu Sheng thought that Ma was not important, so he made concessions. ”

Mr. Li nodded and said, "What the prince said is indeed reasonable...... Even if there is no Queen Ma, our conditions are very harsh, the puppet emperor of Jingshi agreed, dare to love the first emperor is really poisoned? ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Eight or nine is not far from ten." ”

Mr. Li has been very busy recently, and when he saw that Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, he hugged his fists and left.

Zhu Gaoxu really didn't have much to say. Mu Sheng is just in a certain detail, not completely obedient, Zhu Gaoxu can't just fight with him and turn his head to deal with Mu Sheng because of this?

Or because Zhu Gaoxu is irritable today, when he sees this news, he can't help but think about it. The people in the court should have re-talked with Mu Sheng again, so they could bargain; The key is that the person who came back has little to do with Mu Sheng, why should Mu Sheng compromise?

Zhu Gaoxu was even worried that if he lost the battle of Huguang this time, Mu Sheng would see that the situation was wrong, would he directly control Sichuan, Yunnan and other places, and turn against the imperial court?

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Mufu's influence in western Sichuan and Yunnan is not small. Now Mu Sheng is in Chengdu City, and in the family of Mu Mansion in Kunming, there are also his younger brothers Mu Ang and Mu Xin. Once the main force of the Han Dynasty's army left the southwest region, if Mu Fu was determined to rebel, it would be difficult to stop it.

Usually, Zhu Gaoxu still trusts Mu Sheng very much, because even if Mu Sheng surrenders to the imperial court, most of them will have no good fruit to eat; But he didn't dare to guarantee that at the moment when the defeat of the war was almost a foregone conclusion, Mu Sheng would still be so loyal.

Will Mu Sheng grasp a life-saving straw when he has no choice and show the court his intention to make up for his mistakes? In that case, Zhu Gaoxu will be miserable, the front will fail, and even the nest in the rear will be gone!

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't deceive himself, he was already in his heart, and began to question his decisions and goals.

When in front of the soldiers and brothers, Zhu Gaoxu has always been very firm and tenacious. Except for a very few people close to him, I am afraid that from generals to soldiers, they should all think that the King of Han is always right in the use of soldiers! He never hesitated, never got confused, always grasped the truth, and implemented the initial strategy to the end.

These were several big victories on the battlefield that instilled confidence in the soldiers. Just like the recent Battle of the Southwest, Zhu Gaoxu fought a great battle against the enemy's actual more than 300,000 troops with more than 100,000 troops. Common sense is that it is impossible to win a battle, but Zhu Gaoxu told the brothers with facts that he has a way to win!

People always use experience to understand the world and people.

However, Zhu Gaoxu knew very well what he was, at least he was not a god at all. Not only was he often hesitant and frightened, but he also believed that there was an element of luck in previous battles.

If the commander of the reinforcements in Guizhou was not Wu Gao, if there was a more serious problem in the transmission of news from Guizhou to Yunnan, if the battle was postponed for a period of time, and Zhang Fujun in Jiaozhi Province would have stockpiled enough military rations first...... The outcome of the campaign can be vastly different, and any slight difference in detail can cause chaos in the big picture.

This is the reason why he has experienced no less than 100 battles, large and small, and he is still afraid of every battle, because the battlefield is really changing rapidly, and some factors are completely beyond the control of human will.

Zhu Gaoxu sat at the large table in the middle of the study for a long time, silent for a long time, neither reading the report nor doing anything.

In the chaos of his thoughts, he finally found what he was waiting for in his heart: he was waiting for the decision of the upper echelons of the Jingshi to send the enemy army.

The Ming court had a system, and the military order for the transfer of troops came from the military department, and then passed through the five military governors' offices. However, these two yamen are only the institutions of execution and transmission, and the real decision-makers are the emperor and the ministers close to the emperor, not limited to official positions.

Wang Ning has devoted himself to Buddhism in recent years, and his son, Zhu Gaoxu's cousin Wang Zhenliang, has been transferred out of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and has been strictly guarded against by Jinyi Guard! Because Zhu Gaochi knew the relationship between Gao Xu and Wang Zhenliang, the three brothers fled Beijing during the Jianwen period, and Wang Zhenliang helped a lot.

It is even more impossible for Qiu Fu to participate in the major events of military aircraft, and his every move is monitored most strictly.

However, Zhu Gaoxu still has a card in his hand: He Fu.

There are very few people who know about this matter, and the imperial court should still know nothing. It stands to reason that He Fu should have tried to send the news recently. Zhu Gaoxu has a liaison base in Beijing, and the most important one is the jade shop he personally operated, and Chen Dazhui also rushed to Beijing before.

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