"Your Majesty, Weichen has a proposal. Now that Yunnan has been restored for more than half a year, the rebellion in Longchuan and other places is just a disease of ringworm and scabies, and it is necessary to open Enke to make people feel at ease. It can also change the phenomenon of many officials as officials. Yang took a sip of the teacup in his hand.

"......" Zhu Youlang paused, not knowing how to answer. It is true that Kaienke can send a group of local talents, but after bringing these people in, these people will hold power, won't it add trouble to their own reforms? Alas! From the bottom of his heart, Zhu Youlang wanted to change all the imperial examinations into a system of subjects, or simply replace the content directly, no longer taking the Bagu Wen and the Four Books and Five Classics, but directly replacing the content of primary and secondary education in later generations--- of course, this is impossible, if this is done, Yunnan will return to the Manchu rule within a year.

Reform is the art of compromise, this sentence was disgusted and even extremely despised by Zhu Youlang before the crossing, but at this moment, he also had to admit that this sentence was correct. If you can't smash the chain with violence, you can only try to cut it slowly.

However, looking at the past and present, there have been successful reforms and failed reforms, looking back on his nearly two-year journey, Zhu Youlang knows that he may have to make a choice between the two roads......

And at this fork in the road, there is a thick fog......

Under the city of Longchuan, a big banner with white characters was waved in the wind, which scared the people and soldiers at the head of the city trembling, the soldiers did not know the Chinese characters, but the symbol that represented Bai Wenxuan was still known, Bai Wenxuan had been fighting in Yunnan for many years, and he was as well-known as Li Dingguo, and now he was on the same page as Bai Wangye?

The Ming army kept shooting arrows into the city outside the city, of course, not because the equipment of the new army was regressive, but because these arrows did not have arrows on them--- they were tied with letters of persuasion, not only in text versions, but also with pictures: a man lays down his weapon and gets food. Each shot of an arrow drew a backlash from the top of the walls.

After two days, the Ming army stopped shooting arrows, but just blocked the place. The rebel Tusi relied on the mountains and rivers to win, but this condition was instead taken advantage of by Bai Wenxuan, because the blockade of several main roads did not even require half a battalion. Even if it is not convenient to dig a tunnel and blast the city wall, it can damage the city gate by tying a gunpowder bag directly with a bamboo pole, and the city gate will be opened after a few more explosions.

In the distance of the southern city wall of Longchuan, a row of rocket racks stood tall, each loaded with a slender and huge rocket. The commanding officer held out his fingers and blinked a few times in each eye.

"Forty degrees, ready..."

In order to enhance the accuracy of the rocket, a detachable giant protractor is installed behind the rocket rack (only up to 90 degrees, of course), so that even people who have never touched a rocket can operate the rocket as long as they know the numbers.

Twenty rockets flew into the air with tail flames and landed in the city with fire oil. The defenders of the city had seen rockets, but they were still terrified by the screeching noise, and they screamed. At this moment, the Ming army erected a shelf and set up a row of lifts.

The defenders, who had just put their hands off their ears, saw from the battlements that the row of guns did not look like guns, and the cannons did not look like cannons, and hurriedly shrank their heads again. People stand outside their own range, and they fight in vain. They were protected by walls several feet high, and they were well aware of this.

After the three rows of lifts and robberies were released in turn, they crackled and hit the potholes at the head of the city, but there were not a few people, and then, the Ming army under the city actually closed the team?

Seeing this, the young son, who was supervising the war in the city, hurriedly ran back to report to his father.

"You're saying they didn't do anything but launch rockets and hit guns for a while?"

"Exactly. For some reason, the child always felt a little strange, when did the officers and soldiers dare not fight? Do you think..."

"Stupid!" Maybe it's because he got along with the old boy a lot, and Lord Tusi's brain opened, "This is to surround the point to help, treat us as this point, and let the other families come to save us!" ”

"Field battles are always easier for officers and troops than sieges, and when they solve the reinforcements in the field, we will really die!"

Hearing his father's serious tone, the youngest son was frightened silly, "What should I do?" ”

"Hmph, come with me around the city." Toast-sama said. Originally, this youngest son was his favorite, and if he had a single clan, he would definitely send him out of here... Thinking of this, there was no longer a dying regret in his eyes, but only pity and worry for his son's fate.

Looking at his son who had just been weakly crowned, Tusi really couldn't rest assured, indeed, he had the idea of weakening that nephew, after all, everyone wants to eat more and occupy more, but at this critical moment, you still fool others, will people really give our family their lives at such a critical moment? After the track is completed, many people in our clan may lose their jobs, but a side branch, or even a few people, it is enough to eat some leftovers, don't you force him to beg for food?

However, it was useless to worry about these at this time, and Tusi collected his grief, and circled around this small city, which was not much bigger than Hanlong, and there was a well in the city, and besides, it was daylight, and the flames of twenty rockets were quickly extinguished. Only charred black marks were left on some roofs. There were few pedestrians on the road, and even if there were, they were cowering, panicking like a lost dog. The doors and windows of every house were closed, and there was a depression.

On the other side of Longchuan City, the gunshots rang out again, and they also only washed the city. Lord Tusi seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly scratched his head and said to the young son: "Go quickly, which one asked you to block the city gate, open it for me!" ”

"Huh? Originally, it was difficult for us to defeat the official army, and now we have to..."

The slap of "pop" fell on the face of this child who had not been wronged at all, and he almost burst into tears.

"Go!" Toast was furious.

Tusi had a great power in his head, and only when the official army fought a decisive battle with the reinforcements who rushed over, he went out of the city to support, and suddenly attacked from both sides, so that he could turn defeat into victory and finally negotiate with the imperial court. Although the sound of the flintlock pistol and the rate of fire will greatly increase the difficulty of setting up an ambush, since you have chosen to seek death instead of waiting for death, what does it have to do with going out of the city to "find death"?

Subsequently, Tusi called a few of his older sons, and brought people to guard the north and south gates, preparing to immediately counterattack the outside as soon as something happened (this is the most cost-effective defensive plan for the defenders in the city, which can defeat the officers and troops who have not formed a formation in a short time, of course, if the speed of the formation on the opposite side is fast enough, then gg), not only that, but also temporarily set up a mechanism behind the city gate, and the first batch of officers and soldiers who rushed in will be stoned to death.

(End of chapter)