To be honest, before he saw those thick files, Xiong Tingbi was still very disdainful of the so-called 'Pingliao Plan' that Gao Qiqian took.

The founding of the Ming Dynasty has been a long time, and Cheng Zhu Lixue, which was respected at the time of the founding of the country, has become increasingly rigid with the development of the Ming Dynasty in the past hundred years, and has become more and more incompatible with the development of the times. During the Zhengde period, a generation of great Confucian Wang Yangming put forward a new idea of heart-oriented after induction, digestion and absorption of the ideas of his predecessors. He took 'to conscience' and 'the unity of knowledge and action' as the central doctrine to create a line of mind and science, which made Confucianism have a new development.

But whether it is Cheng Zhu Lixue or Yang Ming Xinxue, they all belong to the category of philosophy. Although these metaphysical studies are thought-provoking and guide the trend of thought, they are not easy for everyone to learn. Compared with the science of science, although the thought of mind founded by Mr. Wang Yangming is more advanced, due to the characteristics of the mind and the study of the heart, the style of study of the Ming scribes is becoming more and more empty.

Many half-bottle vinegar scholars and officials who have not learned the essence of mental science are no longer willing to do practical things in a down-to-earth manner, and have only learned to speak loudly and deceive others. They also call it 'Caring for the Country'.

Under the influence of this atmosphere of advocating empty talk, the so-called 'Qingliu' officials who control public opinion in the Ming court have become more and more influential (after all, everyone likes to stand and talk without backache), and the atmosphere of the entire Ming Dynasty has become more and more impetuous.

Specifically, there are fewer and fewer court officials who are willing to do practical things in a down-to-earth manner, and there are more and more officials who only seek fame and fame.

Later, in order to seek fame and fame, those so-called "Qingliu" and "concerned about the country" officials did not even do the most basic investigation and research, and dared to speak out to the court about some specious things to talk about political affairs.

These civil and academic officials who can't even understand the basic situation (such as the direction of the mountains and rivers in Liaodong) can imagine the effect of what they do behind closed doors.

However, these specious and exaggerated plans were used to coax the young emperor with little experience in governance, but they were very easily praised by the emperor.

The emperor is easy to coax, but these unrealistic plans, Xiong Tingbi, who has always been proud, have always been unbearable.

Especially now, Xiong Tingbi, who has a painful pain, hates these so-called 'Qingliu' and 'Caring Country' officials who are only good at talking on paper.

Just like Yuan Yingtai and Wang Huazhen, they are not Qingliu officials who are known for their reputations. They didn't make the plan full of tricks and blows. But if it weren't for them, Daming would not have suffered a series of defeats in Liaodong, and he Xiong Tingbi would not have been imprisoned in this edict and wasted these years of good time.

is also 'Pingliao', if they really mess around, they can not bury Shanhaiguan directly, then it can be regarded as God bless Daming.

With extreme distrust of the so-called 'Pingliao Plan', Xiong Tingbi opened the thick file on the table.

"Hey, what is this?"

Turning through a few pages of the dossier, Xiong Tingbi was suddenly surprised to find that what he was seeing now was not the 'Pingliao Plan', but the detailed defense intelligence of the Ming army on the front line of Ningyuan in Liaodong. In the intelligence, from Jinzhou, which is being built to Ningyuan, which is heavily garrisoned, how many soldiers are stationed in the fortresses and forts, who are the main generals, and how many grain, grass and ordnance reserves are all clearly written and marked.

So detailed?

Xiong Tingbi stretched out his hand and flipped through the following files, and the words Guanglu Island, Dongjiang Town, and Fort Lushun instantly came into Xiong Tingbi's eyes.

What surprised Xiong Tingbi even more was that he also saw a dossier marked with the words Houjin Tartar at the bottom.

Difficult、Could this be the detailed information of the Houjin Tartar? Unconsciously, Xiong Tingbi's throat was dry.

It was difficult to suppress the curiosity in his heart, Xiong Tingbi grabbed the file marked with the Houjin Tartar and roughly took it out and put it directly on the top of the file.

Flipping through the file, familiar names such as Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, Amin, and Mang Gurtai jumped into Xiong Tingbi's eyes.

Like the intelligence of Ning Yuanming's army, the composition of the combat power of Baylor, the banner lord of the Houjin Dynasty, and the garrison area are also clearly written. It's just that the detailed number of people in each banner of the Houjin, the armor and ordnance, and the grain and grass reserves of each banner are clearly marked next to the numbers in the file.

This, this......

Looking at this detailed Houjin information, Xiong Tingbi's hands couldn't help but tremble. Instinctively, Xiong Tingbi grabbed a pen and paper and began to extract what he thought was the key information.

Writing, writing, Xiong Tingbi's strokes became slower and slower, he raised his head suddenly, and shouted to Gao with a somewhat hideous face: "Are these true?" ”

Yes, these files, all this information is true?

Xiong Tingbi is not one of those clear streams who can only talk about empty words. In the thirty-sixth year of Wanli, when Xiong Tingbi served as the imperial governor of Liaodong, he personally investigated and summarized such information. At that time, the Later Jin was still called Jianzhou Jurchen.

It was precisely with that intelligence that Xiong Tingbi was sure that Nurhachi would make the Ming Dynasty's henchmen in great trouble, and put forward a series of plans to defend Liaodong and contain Nurhachi in turn.

If it weren't for those words and very feasible plans, after the defeat of Sarhu, how could Emperor Wanli firmly use Xiong Tingbi to clean up the mess in Liaodong, and gave Xiong Tingbi absolute trust and support.

And after Xiong Tingbi took office in Liaodong, he did live up to the expectations of Emperor Wanli. Soon stabilized the situation in Liaodong, and relied on the Ming army in the Liaoshen region to gradually suppress Nurhachi back to the Fushun area.

To be able to do this, Xiong Tingbi also relied on a detailed grasp of the intelligence of both sides of the enemy in the Liaodong region.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi, who served as the commander of Liaodong and personally commanded battles, understands too well the true use of intelligence for a campaign decision-maker.

Because of this, Xiong Tingbi is particularly afraid that this information is wrong. For example, during the Battle of Guangning, if Wang Huazhen hadn't insisted on going his own way and naively believed in the false information he had obtained, and didn't listen to his Xiong Tingbi's advice at all, there would not have been a fiasco in Guangning later.

Xiong Tingbi during the war in Guangning could judge the authenticity of the information obtained by Wang Huazhen from the information from various channels, but Xiong Tingbi, who has been imprisoned for four years, still has the ability to distinguish the truth of this information.

If this information is false, then ......

Xiong Tingbi, whose face was a little distorted, stared at Gao Qiqian, and his heart was extremely conflicted.

Xiong Tingbi was afraid of hearing Gao Qiqian's negative words in his mouth, but he really couldn't believe the information reported by the Ming army below. Xiong Tingbi is well aware of the shortcomings of today's Ming army.

The Ming army everywhere deceived and concealed it seriously, and the information they reported, not to mention the Houjin, was the intelligence of the Ming army itself in various parts of Liaodong, Xiong Tingbi never dared to believe it completely, he believed it at most with a discount.

was stunned by Xiong Tingbi's sudden question, and Gao Qiqian couldn't help but look at the young entourage on the side of the table.

How should this question be answered?