It is strange to say that when Yuan Chonghuan first served as Ning Qianbing, the relationship between Man Gui and him was still very close. But with the end of the Ningyuan War, Yuan Chonghuan was promoted to the governor of Liaodong, and Man Gui was the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and the official positions of the two were promoted, and the relationship between the two gradually became a big problem.

Man Gui and Yuan Chonghuan both came to Ningyuan to serve after being single-handedly promoted by Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong learned the lesson of the civilian command of the Ming army in Liaodong, which led to the failure of several battles, and he advocated giving more military command to the generals of the Ming army.

Therefore, under Sun Chengzong, Man Gui gained a lot of military autonomy, and Man Gui could make his own decisions in training troops and arranging temporary tactics.

During the construction of the Ningyuan defense line, Man Gui and Yuan Chonghuan were arranged by Sun Chengzong, one was in charge of the army, and the other was in charge of the overall situation, and the cooperation between the two at that time was still very tacit.

The relationship between Man Gui and Yuan Chonghuan was obviously cracked, or because of the tactical differences between the two sides in the Battle of Ningyuan.

In the Battle of Ningyuan, there was a great conflict between Man Gui's defensive counterattack and Yuan Chonghuan's strict defense tactics.

From where he began, Man Gui found that Yuan Chonghuan's attitude towards him was getting worse and worse.

After Yuan Chonghuan was promoted to the governor of Liaodong, he was even more dissatisfied with Mangui's military command, and the two had a very unpleasant quarrel several times for Ningyuan's military affairs.

In Man Gui's view, what Yuan Chonghuan needed was a soldier who could fully carry out his orders, and not a commander who was proficient in strategy and tactics.

Feeling the deteriorating relationship with Yuan Chonghuan, Man Gui let out a heavy sigh again.

"General Man, I was going to go back and teach Zu Meng, a rabbit cub, a good lesson, so I retired first."

Seeing Yuan Chonghuan's attitude towards Man Gui, Zu Dashou's heart blossomed.

Although he had a bloody encounter in the public money bank, he could see Yuan Chonghuan's true attitude towards Man Gui, and Zu Dashou felt that it was also worth it.

After the war of Ning Yuan, Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui rarely appeared on the same occasion.

Although Zu Dashou has been speculating that there is a lot of contradiction between the two, Zu Dashou never thought that the contradiction between Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui had reached such a point.

It's good to have contradictions.

The deeper the contradiction between you, the more important my ancestor and my Guan Ningjun can occupy a heavier position in Yuan Chonghuan's heart, right?

Zu Dashou, who lost face, walked out of the gate of Qianzhuang with a smile.

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"Zu Dashou is most likely to jump out first to find trouble?"

Looking at the report sent by King Ning Yuan's shopkeeper, Zhu Youzhen shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that his estimate of the lower limit of the senior generals of the Ming army was still overestimated.

The first to find trouble with Qianzhuang was not the low-level generals of the Ming army, but senior generals like Zu Dashou.

Also, for a large store like Qianzhuang, which obviously has a deep background, how dare the low-level generals provoke indiscriminately. The reckless man who really has no brains in this world is actually very rare.

"Go, as quickly as possible, send the news of Jinyoukaizhong to Ningyuan. Let the Ningyuan branch prepare for the opening of the Jinyou in advance. ”

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Youzhen issued a preventive order.

What the shopkeeper sent from the king was just an early warning report that might have provoked Zu Dashou. Based on such a speculative report alone, Zhu Youzhen is not good at taking any clear actions against Zu Dashou.

After thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen felt that using the brocade right to open the middle to exert pressure on Ning Yuan might be of greater help to Ning Yuan's branch.

didn't know that Ma Jiang had dealt with Zhu Youzhen, who was civil and military in Ningyuan, and quickly summoned Zheng Yingtai.

"Lao Zheng, arrange it and raise a batch of materials for building the city as soon as possible and send them to Ning Yuan first." Zhu Youzhen was very eager to arrange.

A single gimmick in the right opening of the brocade may not be enough to subdue Ning Yuan's civil and military affairs, but a batch of real materials will definitely allow Ning Yuan's civil and military forces to understand the importance of the public money bank.

Zhu Youzhen suddenly discovered that with the help of Kaizhong, he had actually controlled a large part of the logistics supply of Ning Yuanming's army.

Hehe.

I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. There is also such a side benefit to this opening.

Since Kaizhong still has such a powerful auxiliary function, then he is sure that he will be able to deal with his ancestor Dashou.

Thinking of this, the eagerness on Zhu Youzhen's face suddenly dissipated, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a hint of a smile.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen discovered that he unconsciously faced a local powerful faction like Zu Dashou, and he also had a means to restrain them.

I didn't know that Zhu Youzhen's psychology had a huge reversal in an instant, and feeling Zhu Youzhen's eagerness, Zheng Yingtai hurriedly responded: "We don't need to transport the city construction materials from the mainland to Ningyuan?" If His Highness is in urgent need, the small one will immediately rush to Ningyuan and raise a batch of materials for building the city on the spot. ”

Hearing Zheng Yingtai's words, Zhu Youzhen's heart rose again.

What to do, Zhu Youzhen thought that he could rely on logistics and transportation to restrain Ningyuan's civil and military, and Zheng Yingtai told him that the materials for building the city were actually raised locally.

Doesn't this make Zhu Youzhen's dream shattered in an instant?

"Are you saying that Ningyuan can raise Jinyou's fortification materials locally?" Zhu Youzhen asked with the intention of what to do.

"Yes, Your Highness. If you can't raise supplies locally, the cost of building a city will be too high. Zheng Yingtai affirmed with a little strangeness.

"We collect the earth and stone materials needed to build a city like this locally and hand them over to the border army. The bricks were also fired in local kilns, and only large timber needed to be transported from other places.

If all the earth, stone and bricks have to be transported from the mainland, the imperial court can't afford the freight alone. ”

"According to what you say, if the border army builds the city, they will not be able to collect supplies on their own, then we still need to open the city." Zhu Youzhen replied casually.

"Your Highness, the so-called border army building a city is not really built by those who are soldiers.

Like the large number of people needed to build a city, the border army has no right to move. Not to mention the masonry materials needed to build the city, the border army had no financial resources to buy them.

In fact, the local magistrate was still in charge of the construction of the city, and the border army was just in the name. Zheng Yingtai said with some contempt.

Knowing that His Royal Highness King Xin was not very clear about these common-sense things, Zheng Yingtai introduced Zhu Youzhen in special detail.

Listening to Zheng Yingtai's introduction, Zhu Youzhen's spirit slowly rose again.

Why do you need to open the city to build a city?

In fact, this involves a principled issue of the Ming Dynasty's control of the border army.

With the longevity of the Ming Dynasty, the combat power of the most elite Beijing camp at the time of the founding of the country has been weakened, and the military strength of the Ming capital has become less and less deterrent to the local area.

And the nine-sided town of the Ming Dynasty, due to hundreds of years of large and small wars, the most capable army of the Ming Dynasty gradually hoarded to the nine-sided town of the Ming Dynasty.

How to control the nine-sided towns of the Ming Dynasty, so that the nine-sided towns of the Ming Dynasty will not appear in the tail of the difficult to control the feudal towns?

This is a major problem that the Ming court has to face since the Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty.