"Huh?" Hui Shiyang's youngest son was taken aback, "Doesn't that mean ......?"

Hui Shiyang shook his head with a wry smile and said, "It's true that my father saw the wrong situation, and I thought it was ...... But at this time, it is not the time to regret it, but to try our best to find a way to remedy it. Now there is no peace in the world, and there is still room for use in many places. As long as we do it right, not only can the situation be reversed, but we may even be able to go further. ”

"Daddy, what do you mean ......"

"Don't say ......," said Hui Shiyang, "come here, sit down, and stretch out your hand......"

The youngest son followed Hui Shiyang's instructions, walked to him and sat down, and stretched out his right hand again. Hui Shiyang covered the sleeve of his right hand over his palm and began to write on his hand. The youngest son's face kept changing, and finally Hui Shiyang asked, "Do you understand?" ”

The youngest son nodded and said, "The child understands, it's just ...... It's just that Father, you ......."

"My father won't be wrong this time, but now the situation is not difficult to see, hehe, it's still Qian Qianyi's luck. It's just that although Qian Qianyi is lucky, why is this person timid in doing things, not even as good as a woman, where can he achieve anything? You just do what the Father says. Well, the night is late, and I am tired now, so go back and rest. ...... early tomorrow morning"

"The child understands." His youngest son replied.

……

After more than half a month, his youngest son came back, met his father, and the two had a conversation, and early the next morning, Hui Shiyang went to see Li Zicheng. Hearing that Hui Shiyang invited him to see him, Li Zicheng was a little surprised. In fact, at the beginning, he named Hui Shiyang as the right minister, and it was more just to show the world an attitude of "corporal courtesy". Didn't expect him to really make a difference. And although Hui Shiyang is famous, he is really not good at military affairs or anything. Li Zicheng had already discovered his military strategy in his conversation with him, which probably means the level of a scholar. Therefore, it is generally only when you need to understand some things within the Ming Dynasty that Li Zicheng really uses Hui Shiyang. In normal times, Hui Shiyang rarely took the initiative to meet Li Zicheng because he was not familiar with military affairs and was also old.

At this time, Li Zicheng was still having breakfast, and when he heard that Hui Shiyang was coming, he put down his rice bowl and said, "Oh, since Hui Lao Pingzhang is here, please ask him to sit in the front hall first, and I will come out immediately." ”

As he spoke, he stood up and said to the Gao family who was serving on the side: "You go and take out my dress, you can't be too casual when you see Hui Shiyang." ”

"When Your Majesty sees General Liu and Niu Pingzhang, you can talk to them about things while eating, why do you have to be so formal when you see Hui Lao Pingzhang?" Gao asked.

"What do you women know?" Li Zicheng said, "Hui Pingzhang is different from them, he is an example for me to show my mind to the world. I want to use him to show the scholars of the world that I am not a rogue who doesn't know anything, but a king who aspires to the world. I am also willing to accept them and give them a chance to be salty and renewal. Therefore, when dealing with Hui Pingzhang, my every move must be very in line with etiquette. This is not only the respect for Hui Pingzhang, but also the respect for the world's readers. ”

"But Your Majesty has robbed those officials in Beijing, and they are only afraid that they will hate Your Majesty to the core. And Hui Pingzhang's reputation among scholars is not necessarily good. At this time, Gao had already taken the dress from the maid's hand, and served Li Zicheng to put it on, but he said so.

"Because of this, I have to be kind to Hui Pingzhang more and more." Li Zicheng said, "Actually, which of those scholars doesn't want to be rich? Of course, they knew that I had robbed their teachers, seniors, and peers, but I didn't rob them. As long as there is wealth to be gained, why should they bother with robbing others? Moreover, even if I rob them, as long as they believe that I am willing to give them wealth, they will still take refuge in me. And to convince them of this, it is very important to treat Hui Pingzhang well, even if his reputation is not good. Even having a bad reputation is actually not a bad thing. Everyone will think that a character like Hui Shiyang can get rich, let alone me? ”

Li Zicheng said as he put on his dress and lowered his head, but he saw the unfinished meal, so he said: "Oh, by the way, you can let people keep these things first, and I will come back in a while, and I will eat them when it is hot." ”

……

"What does Hui Pingzhang mean is that I want to take Wuchang?" Lee became a self-enlightened man.

"Your Majesty." Hui Shiyang stood up tremblingly and said, "Although the old minister doesn't understand military strategy, he also feels that there are many benefits to winning Wuchang. ”

Lao Pingzhang sat down and spoke slowly. Li Zicheng replied with a smile.

"The biggest threat to our DPRK now is none other than the Zheng family in Fujian." Hui Shiyang replied, "Although the old minister is not familiar with military affairs, he also knows one thing, that is, raising an army that can fight can be fought is a very expensive thing. Lao Chen heard that the Zheng family monopolized the sea trade and was rich enough to rival the country, but their foundation was on the sea. Therefore, most of the money in their hands has to be spent on the sea, so although their army is elite, it is very small in number. I heard that there are only 10,000 or 20,000 people. ”

Speaking of this, Hui Shiyang paused, saw that Li Zicheng was thinking, and then said: "To be honest, although the Zheng family's army is small, but the elite is abnormal, if you really want to say, these 20,000 soldiers can almost be seen as more than 100,000 soldiers." But Your Majesty also knows how much territory can such 20,000 soldiers control? In this regard, the Zheng family's 20,000 soldiers, that is, 20,000 soldiers, must not be used for more than 100,000. The world is so big, if his 20,000 soldiers are sprinkled into it, they will not be able to see it. Therefore, if Zheng Zhilong wants to compete with us for the world, he must rely on other Ming armies to control the place, concentrate these 20,000 elites, and use them on the blade. As for our army, Lao Chen felt that our Dashun army could not compare with the elite of the Zheng family, but the other armies of the Ming army were captured. The most taboo thing for our army now is to fight hard with the elite of the Zheng family, and the best way is to give priority to attacking other Ming troops, which can be regarded as cutting off his wings first. If we eliminate Zuo Liangyu, even if the Zheng family army goes up the Shuojiang River, the safety of the grain road along the way will have to be guaranteed by ourselves, how many people are there? A little here, a little there, how many more people can be used to fight? ”

Hearing this, Li Zicheng also nodded, but then he shook his head and said: "What Lao Pingzhang said makes some sense, it is not difficult to defeat Zuo Liangyu, but Zuo Liangyu is actually a feudal town on one side, and with him, it may be more troublesome for the Zheng family to use troops in Huguang." ”

"What the Holy One said is not unreasonable. It's just that although Zuo Liangyu has some shadows of a feudal town, he is not a real feudal town. Hui Shiyang replied, "Holy Lord, the feudal towns are independent of the imperial court, not only because they have soldiers who do not obey the orders of the imperial court, but also because they themselves have the money and food to support these soldiers. Zuo Liangyu really didn't listen to the words of the Ming Dynasty court, but now it is not the Ming court that is fighting for the world with the saints, but the Zheng family, the Zheng family has its own territory, its own money and food, its own soldiers, except for the brand hanging, everything is its own, that is the real feudal town, and it can even be said to be a country of its own. And judging from the terms of the loan they reached with the Ming court, their disobedience is also obvious. Compared with them, Zuo Liangyu is not a person with such ambitions, coupled with his tyrannical nature, he is not a person who can govern the place, he occupies the granary of the world in Huguang, but he makes Huguang mournful. Huguang now does not have enough money to feed his troops. In addition, he lost to Zhang Xianzhong and our army in a row, and suffered heavy losses, so it stands to reason that he should have been finished a long time ago. However, Lao Chen heard that he has now pulled up another team, there are quite a few people, and the guys in his hands are not bad. Does Your Majesty know where he got the money and food? ”

Zuo Liangyu was the closest Ming army to "Xiangjing", and Li Zicheng naturally knew a little about his situation. So Li Zicheng replied: "I heard that there are businessmen who have trafficked a large number of people from him, and Zuo Liangyu's people even came to our territory not long ago to rob people...... Lao Pingzhang, do you mean that his buyer is Zheng Zhilong? ”

"Exactly!" Hui Shiyang said, "The Zheng family occupies several large islands overseas, and it is said that the largest is no less than the entire Huguang. The land on these islands is not particularly fertile, but there is no shortage of rain. Nowadays, only the Zheng family needs a large population to develop these sites. Therefore, in the whole world, if there are a large number of buyers, there is almost no need to ask, the buyer must be the Zheng family. It was by selling the population to the Zheng family that Zuo Liangyu had those money and food. Therefore, Zuo Liangyu's money and grain are actually controlled by the Zheng family, in fact, not only the money and grain, but also Zuo Liangyu's armor battles were also bought from the Zheng family. It is said that the Zheng family found a large iron ore mine overseas, and only needed to shovel out a layer of three-foot-thick soil on the earth, and the best iron ore was underneath. Two stone mines can produce the kind of stone iron. Therefore, in the puppet Ming army today, many people are from the Zheng family. As the saying goes, 'the hand that takes people is short, and the mouth that eats people is short', Zuo Liangyu may be able to resist the order of the Ming court, but how can he resist the Zheng family's request? So for the imperial court, Zuo Liangyu is a feudal town; But for the Zheng family, Zuo Liangyu is his wing. Since this is the case, our army should naturally cut him off first. Besides, there are many other benefits to cutting off Zuo Liangyu......"

Li Zicheng didn't know much about some things about the Zheng family, and when he heard Hui Shiyang say this, he asked: "Where did Lao Pingzhang know this, I don't know if the news is reliable?" ”

"Your Majesty, the old minister originally served as an official in the Pseudo-Ming Dynasty, so naturally there are some news channels, as long as you inquire, you can always find out some news." Hui Shiyang replied.