Dao Yan said: "Since His Majesty ascended the throne, although he has exerted a lot of favors on civil officials, for the civil officials of the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the ropes on their heads are still tied. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoYour Majesty still does not allow people from the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to be officials in the household department, and none of the few ministers that Your Majesty trusts the most are from the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. ”

"So they are not satisfied with Your Majesty. At this time, there was first a rebellion, and then His Highness Qingjun's side, and they saw the hope of changing all this, so they supported His Highness. ”

After Zhu Di listened to Daoyan's words, he said hatefully: "The people of the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are all moths of the country, and now we have to accept their help. ”

"According to this king, Yun Xi is still too soft on them, and they don't dare to do anything if they kill a group of people."

Dao Yan said: "Your Highness, the poor monk thinks that even if he kills a group of them, it is only a temporary matter, and he must not hire people from the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang as officials, and in the end, he must adopt the rules set by Emperor Taizu." So it is not wrong for His Majesty not to kill. ”

Zhu Di said: "This king is annoyed when he sees these things, so it's better to deal with them cleanly." Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Di not to know this truth, and it is not that he is not bad at doing such a thing, but he still feels annoyed.

Dao Yan said: "Your Highness, if Your Highness succeeds, these things can't always be handled in that way, it's better to do it according to Emperor Taizu's rules." ”

Zhu Di said: "Alas! The king knows. ”

After that, Dao Yan originally wanted to discuss other things with Zhu Di, but at this time, Zhu Neng, who was responsible for exploring the path of the former army, rode back and said to Zhu Di: "Your Highness, there are some things ahead. Zhu Neng's expression was indescribably weird, as if he had seen a mouse tying a bell to a cat.

Zhu Di asked strangely, "Zhu Neng, why do you have such an expression?" What the hell is going on up ahead? ”

Zhu Neng said: "Your Highness, someone said earlier that they wanted to reward us. ”

"What? Reward us? Zhu Di was stunned for a moment and then said, "Take this king to have a look." ”

After a while, Zhu Di came to the front of the army, and saw a man wearing an eight-grade official uniform with some short-shirted people driving a few sheep, thirty or forty pigs and a cow, as if he wanted to hand over these livestock to the front army. Fortunately, Zhu Di usually governs the army very strictly, and these people do not dare to accept things from unknown sources without authorization, and the formation of the army is not chaotic.

Zhu Di had just walked here, and the man in the eight-grade official uniform led by him swept Zhu Di who was wearing the prince's clothes, and then he immediately trotted two steps in front of Zhu Di.

Zhu Di's guards were extremely nervous for a moment: they all knew that Zhu Di was actually going to rebel, and they were very afraid that this person was actually an assassin disguised. For a while, the sound of "brushing, brushing, brushing" fast knives out of the sheath came and went.

However, this person was not an assassin, and he did not get too close to Zhu Di, and knelt down at a distance of about three or four steps from Zhu Di and saluted, saying, "Minister Li Qing of Wuqiao County pays a visit to His Royal Highness King Yan." ”

Zhu Di said: "You get up." After waiting for Li Qing to get up, he asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Li Qing said a little nervously: "Your Highness, the minister was ordered to reward the army. ”

"His Royal Highness King Yan led his troops south to pacify the rebellion in Shandong, which was very hard. I, Dong Liangyan, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, said: "Your Highness has come here from Beiping to the south, and you will not carry much grain and grass with your fast horse. Therefore, Dong Liang, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, gathered all the cattle, sheep and pigs in the county to reward His Highness for going south to quell the rebellion. Order the ministers to send it to His Highness. ”

Zhu Di was silent on the surface, and said: "Where are you embarrassed to ask for local things? ’

Li Qing said: "Whether it is the guard house or the local government's mansion, it is the place of the Ming Dynasty. Now that Shandong's rebellion is raging, we wait for Wuqiao County to be close to Shandong, and we have been looking forward to Wang Shi going south for a long time, so how can we Wuqiao County not express something. ”

Zhu Di still didn't have any special expression, and said: "In that case, you put down these pigs, cattle and sheep and go back." Thank you to Dong Liang, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, for me. At the same time, Zhu Di ignored Zhu Neng's movements and did not say anything.

Li Qing bowed down and said, "How can His Royal Highness thank you." Then he said a few words to Zhu Di, and then handed over the pigs, cattle and sheep to Zhu Di, and returned to Wuqiao County with people.

When they were far away, Zhu Di ordered: "Order all the soldiers to be on guard!" The infantry formed a large formation against the cavalry and marched slowly; The cavalry also formed a formation ready to charge. ”

Dao Yan said: "Your Highness, this is clearly the plan of 'sacrificing the army and saving the country' in the Spring and Autumn Period, which shows that the front is empty and unprepared, why does Your Highness let the soldiers be so vigilant?" ”

Zhu Di said: "The plan of 'sacrificing the army to save the country' is not unheard of, even the people who have not read much books know this strategy, how can the magistrate of Wuqiao County think that we don't know this strategy?" So how could he use it like that? ”

"Besides, Wuqiao County is not in the route from Dongguang County to Dezhou, and we have no intention of entering Wuqiao County, presumably Wuqiao County can also think of it. There are so many of us, even if Wuqiao County is full of people in the county, there may not be as many soldiers as our army, if Wuqiao County does not pay attention, the court will not criticize Wuqiao County. ”

"On the contrary, if it attracts our attention and then is very likely to lead our army to Wuqiao County, wouldn't that be a fire? The loss of a city is a capital offense. On the one hand, it is a capital crime, and on the other hand, it is a few words of reprimand at most, if you are the magistrate of Wuqiao County, if the county seat is really empty, what will you do? ”

"Therefore, this king expects that the imperial court must have at least 10,000 people coming to Wuqiao County, and the people who led the troops used the strategy of 'sacrificing the army to save the country', hoping to make our army careless, and then take the opportunity to sneak attack."

Dao Yan brought his role into Wuqiao County, and then found that if Wuqiao County was really unprepared, it was indeed a very idiotic act to do so, unless Dong Liang really loved the country to the extent that he didn't want his own family's life, he would definitely not do it.

However, Dao Yan still said: "However, what if Dong Liang, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, is really a die-hard person and uses the strategy of 'sacrificing the army to save the country'? ”

Zhu Di said to Zhu Neng at this time: "Zhu Neng, you lead a thousand cavalry to go around Wuqiao County and explore the situation in Wuqiao County." Regardless of whether Wuqiao County was prepared or not, they sent someone back to inform them. Zhu Neng led the order to lead the troops to the east.

Zhu Di then said to Dao Yan: "So this king sent Zhu Neng to test it and see if Wuqiao County is really empty." ”

Dao Yan asked again: "Then why didn't you let Zhu Neng detain Wuqiao County just now?" ”

Zhu Di said: "A county may not know much about things; Instead, detaining him would make the soldiers suspicious. Now this king has not declared to the soldiers of the army that we have rebelled, and rashly let the soldiers know that I am afraid that it will shake the morale of the army, so this king did not detain that person. ”

After a while, after Zhu Neng came back with his troops, he said to Zhu Di: "Your Highness, when I led my troops to a place about seven or eight miles away from Wuqiao County, I saw a group of cavalry in front of me, about two thousand people, and the ministers did not dare to move, so they came back with their troops. ”

Zhu Di said: "It seems that the imperial court really has an army that has come to Wuqiao County, waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack our army." Order the ministries to be more cautious and not to slack off! ”