"Nanding City?" Zhu Zanyi said with some suspicion: "Just now Gu said, according to the proven situation, the soldiers of the Hu Dynasty in Nanding City will definitely fight to the death with the Ming soldiers, after this battle, Nanding City must be very dilapidated, how can it be used as the capital?" ”

"Your Highness, it is really because the soldiers of the Hu Dynasty will fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty that Nanding is suitable as the capital." Lin Yurong replied very unexpectedly: "Your Highness, if the soldiers of the Hu Dynasty have a bloody battle with the Ming Dynasty, they will definitely recruit the people in the city to help in the war and use them as the people who defend the city, so that Your Highness will have a suitable reason to eliminate the people of Annan in the city." ”

"No matter what happens in the future, now, the people of Annam can not be trusted by the people of the Central Plains, no matter where the capital is, Your Highness must migrate the people and military households from Guangxi to the vicinity of the capital to protect the integrity."

"But the migration of the people of Annam for no reason is not conducive to His Highness's rule in this place, and it will arouse the suspicion and dissatisfaction of the local soldiers, gentry and officials, who think that they are inferior to the Han people, so they must not move the people plainly."

"So a city like Nanding that is in a good position and will fight with the Ming Dynasty is revealed. His Royal Highness could count all of them as prisoners of war and sell them to the merchants accompanying the army on the grounds that the people in the city were assisting the Hu Dynasty soldiers in defending the city, leaving at most a very small number of people who did not participate in the defense of the city. The people who had migrated from the country were placed in the places left behind by the relocation, and could even live in their vacant houses, without having to build houses. Even if there are some gentry left in the city, these gentry leave the people of Annam, and they will become trees without fate, and His Highness can easily take care of them. ”

"As for the destruction of the city, his subordinates thought that no matter how dilapidated the city was, it would be easier than building a new city on flat ground; What's more, Nanding City is located along the Yellow River, directly connected to the sea, with convenient transportation and suitable for the capital. ”

"This is the minister's opinion, please consider it Your Highness."

"Well, you're right." Zhu Zanyi thought about it carefully and said: "Nanding is indeed very suitable for being regarded as the capital in the future. Saying that, he waved his hand arrogantly: "In this way, even if the resistance of the Annanites in the city is not fierce, we must make him more fierce, at least to make outsiders think that it is very fierce." ”

Zhu Zanyi is not stupid, and naturally knows that although it stands to reason that the defenders of Nanding City are all Hu Jichen's cronies, if they see that they will be defeated, they may not die for Hu Jichen; And this time, in order to fight for the slightest hope of capturing and killing Hu Jichen, he has decided to surround Nanding City on all sides, and the defenders in the city have no possibility of escaping at all, and it is very easy to surrender under unfavorable circumstances. They capitulated, so how else did he implement this strategy?

Zhu Zanyi's meaning is that even if the Annan people on the opposite side have the intention of surrendering, they will never accept it, and must be attacked into the city by a large army, and the Nanding garrison has completely lost the ability to resist and then consider the issue of accepting prisoners, and then sell them to the merchants accompanying the army. Of course, Zhu Zanyi will announce the news to the public: in fact, he was going to accept the surrender of the Annanes, but when he was about to accept their surrender, a defender attacked the Ming army, and he thought that the other party was surrendering by fraud, so he refused to accept it. It was not until after the captives were taken in that they learned that most of them wanted to surrender, and only a very small number refused to surrender, leading to this outcome.

The minister suggested that His Royal Highness must use less artillery, so that the defenders of Nanding thought that the army did not carry many cannons in this attack on Nanding, and after learning that Hu Jichen had fled from Nanding City, he changed to Wai Sanque Yi, so that the defenders in the city had the hope of escaping, so that they would not surrender. After finding out the situation of the defenders and knowing the strength of their defenses, they will use all the cannons to bombard a corner in one fell swoop and break through Nanding City in one fell swoop. Lin Yurong said again.

"That makes sense. Cannons also have a limit on the number of times they can be used, and the barrel of a cannon cannons can not be used for long, so they have to be spared. Zhu Zanyi nodded. Immediately, the two of them discussed how to fight this battle.

After the two finished discussing, Zhu Zanyi was about to encourage Lin Yurong a few words, but suddenly reacted, and said with a smile: "Since the last sentence of your proposal to make Nanding the capital, you have always called yourself a minister, not a subordinate or a lowly position, why, I want to make a vassal an official but I am embarrassed to say it directly, so remind Gu like this?" Don't worry, Lone will definitely bring you over from Uncle Huang. Well, the left and right kings are just from the second grade, and the servants of the sixth hall are only from the third grade, and the lonely future will appoint you as the standard of the fourth grade, and it will not bury you. ”

The mark is a military unit that Zhu Zanyi figured out by himself. He will not have a lot of troops in the future, and the standing army will not exceed 100,000 after the country is settled, and he feels that if he takes a guard as the basic unit, the soldiers are a bit too much, so he decided that the thousand households of the feudal country will only govern five hundred households in the future, and the five small thousand households belong to one standard, the chief officer is the standard, the four products, and the auxiliary officials are the pipe bands, from the four products. Although this method of commanding troops has not yet been made public, Zhu Zanyi has already discussed it with Zhu Yang in private, and Zhu Yang thinks it is very good, and he already plans to do the same after returning to his feudal state.

Lin Yurong naturally knew that appointing him as the standard commander was already a great trust, and he was a little moved by this, and he was indeed a little moved by the 1 feudal official who came to Zhu Zanyi, but he still said with a straight face: "Your Highness, your subordinates just made an unintentional mistake, not what Your Highness thought. He paused, and then said: "But the minister is a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and whatever position His Majesty appoints his subordinates, his subordinates will receive the holy order, and there will be no complaints." ”

What Lin Yurong said was very decent in this era, and there was no problem, but Zhu Zanyi, who had been in the capital with Yunxi for six years, thought of something else. According to Uncle Huang's words, what is Lin Yurong called, what is he arrogant, I forgot, the very appropriate word that Uncle Huang said. Zhu Zanyi thought for a long time and didn't think of that word, and then thought: "No matter what, I remember that Uncle Huang said that the word is more pleasing to the eye for women, and it is not good if it is a man." But I heard Lin Yurong use the word without any problem. ……’

Zhu Zanyi was thinking that it was already noon, and Zhu Zanyi was reminded by his eunuchs, and hurriedly put down what he was thinking about, and said, "It's noon, and the ministers and Gu are having dinner together." ”

They excused themselves and went to the dining hall to eat together.

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"Congratulations to Your Majesty." Ruan Xizhou, the pacification envoy of Nanbei River and the defender of Nanding City, said this to Hu Jichen, who had already left the city. Yesterday evening, Hu Jichen had learned that Zhu Zanyi had led a large army to conquer Nanding, in order not to be blocked in the city, he explained everything in the city to Ruan Xizhou and others this morning, and quietly left Nanding City after lunch at noon, and wanted to rush to the western capital.

"Ruan Aiqing, I will hand over Nanding City to you, you must defend this city and prevent it from being occupied by the Ming people. I went to the western capital, and I will definitely recruit soldiers from other places to rush to relieve the siege as reinforcements. Hu Jichen said.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will not dishonor." Ruan Xizhou said with a very firm face.

"Haha, you Ruan Xizhou is a very good general in my Dayu, and it will not be easy for the Ming army to break through Nanding City. What's more, they don't know the rest of your skills, and they will definitely suffer a big loss under Nanding City. ”