Yang Guangkui praised: "Sure enough, what Mr. Xiong said is very much in line with the holy heart. The Holy Lord said that a large number of deductions should be carried out before the battle, and the influence of all aspects should be taken into account, and each situation should have a plan in advance, so that the enemy's conspiracy can be resolved, and then we will have a greater possibility of winning. “

After that, he motioned to the staff officer next to him, and the staff officer stood up and gently uncovered the cloth on the middle case, revealing the sand table model on the desk.

As soon as Xiong Tingbi saw the sand table, his eyes could no longer take his eyes off, the map he saw on weekdays was simple and rough, and this sand table could even show the height of the mountains and the width of the river in detail, which was really the supreme weapon when studying military operations.

Yang Guangkui said: "The saint calls this a sand table, and we deduce it on it, but we have insufficient intelligence, Mr. Xiong has been in Liaodong for a long time, and I don't know where to add." “

Xiong Tingbi stood up and looked at it carefully, and recalled it while watching, which really made him find a mistake: "There is still a small road here that leads to Liaoyang, which can be added." That's all I can see. ”

Yang Guangkui asked the staff officer to mark it on the sand table, and then asked: "The Holy Lord wants us to lay a nail in southern Liaoning first, where does Mr. Xiong seem to attack first?" ”

Xiong Tingbi looked at the sand table carefully and said, "I don't know if the chief of staff has a big heart?" ”

Yang Guangkui said: "What do you say about Mr. Xiong? ”

Xiong Tingbi said with a smile: "The emperor wants to pierce a nail in southern Liaoning, and the location of the nail is debatable. If Jinzhou Wei is defeated and Nanguan is occupied, then the entire Jinzhou can be said to be impregnable, and this nail can be firmly rooted. ”

Yang Guangkui looked at Jin Zhouwei and said, "What if I have a big heart?" ”

Xiong Tingbi said: "If you have a big heart, then directly hit Gaizhou, as soon as you hit it here, then hit Fuzhou and Jinzhou to the south, and threaten Yaozhou and Haizhou to the north, the place around this nail will be bigger, and it will be easier for the Liao people to escape, and Jiannu will guard against us attacking Yaozhou, Haizhou and even Anshan at any time." ”

Yang Guangkui asked again: "Then Mr. Xiong thinks it is better to fight?" ”

Xiong Tingbi smiled and said: "If I lead the troops, of course I will attack Gaizhou and even Yaozhou, so that I am close to Jiannu and can attack them at any time, but our army's field combat ability is still a little different from Jiannu, but I am afraid that I will not be able to achieve good results when attacking." ”

Yang Guangkui said: "Our Guards will not be worse than Jiannu in the field, so let's prepare a few sets of plans first, and the staff officers will conduct deductions, and when the first division comes, Division Commander Lu will choose the direction of attack." Bai Jiansen, you take your group to deduce the attack on Jinzhou, Li Delin, your group deduces the attack on Gaizhou, think more about several possibilities, and prepare more, our soldiers will fight more smoothly and sacrifice less. Dai Chunfeng, you are responsible for liaising with Luo Tongzhi and reporting Jinyiwei's intelligence to the General Staff in a timely manner. ”

A few days later, the 1st Division also came to Kyaw Wah Island. Juehua Island will become a bridgehead for the Ming army to send troops to western Liaoxi and a material base for the entire eastern Liaoning. Juehua Island is more than 20 miles offshore, there is a main island and three small islands, the main island is wide at two ends, narrow in the middle, irregular gourd-shaped, the coastline is about 50 miles long, the total area is about 50 square miles (13.5 square kilometers), the island stores the grain, grass and gunpowder needed by the Guards, among which the grain is about 120,000 stones, which can be used for the needs of more than 30,000 people of the two divisions and sailors of the Guards for a year.

The original Juehua Island guard general Jin Guan, Yao Youxian and others all took the soldiers to Shanhaiguan by boat, leaving only more than 1,000 ships and more than 4,000 sailors and about 2,000 merchants, the commander of the navy is the former Dengzhou Wei commander Qi Zuoguo, the eldest son of Qi Jiguang, he is now a general of the navy, temporarily classified into the Guards series, responsible for transporting soldiers and grass.

The merchants came to sell grain to the defenders of Juehua Island to exchange salt, and they were supposed to go with Jinguan and them, but they were left behind by Yang Sichang, saying that they were grateful for the help of the righteous businessmen, and they must have a glass of wine together before leaving.

The banquet was held at the Yamen of the original Juehua Island Guardhouse, and there were more than 50 merchants, with a total of eight tables. Yang Sichang raised his glass at the main table and said, "Fellow businessmen, first of all, let's wish the dragon good health, please drink this cup." After that, he and Liu Boze drank the wine in the cup in one gulp and lit up the bottom of the cup.

The merchants were retained, and their hearts were beating all the time, and they didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the new logistics minister, so they had to drink a glass of wine in a gloomy way.

Yang Sichang said: "I will leave you today, I really have important matters to discuss, first give you a thorough understanding, the emperor intends to revise the law of Kaizhong." ”

The opening of the Chinese law is a system in the Ming Dynasty to encourage merchants to transport grain to the border in exchange for salt, and give salt sales patents. In the newspaper, the salt merchants transported grain (or other items, such as silk and even horses) to the granaries of the designated border areas in accordance with the requirements of the Ming court's investment promotion list, and exchanged them for salt from the government; the salt merchants exchanged the salt for the salt and then took the salt to the designated salt field to wait for the salt; the market was that the salt merchants transported the salt to the designated areas for sale.

The royal family, eunuchs, nobles, and bureaucrats saw that it was profitable to hold salt, and they begged for salt and resold it to salt merchants to make a profit. This phenomenon is known as "nest occupation". This phenomenon has intensified, undermined the system of opening up China, and seriously affected the government's fiscal revenue, and it has become imperative to reform the salt law to make up for the country's fiscal revenue.

Zhu Youxiao wanted to reform the salt law, and the first thing that affected them was these merchants, so as soon as Yang Sichang spoke, the merchants' faces changed greatly. The profit of selling salt is very great, and China's famous Jin merchants and Zhejiang merchants were the first to start selling salt. The main people who transported grain to Juehua Island were Jingshi merchants and Shandong merchants, who bought grain from Jingshi or Shandong and transported them to Juehua Island by ship, just to obtain salt and to support salt in Changlu Salt Field. Now that the emperor wants to reform the salt law, who knows what it will turn out in the end, and I don't know if they can continue to do a good business selling salt.

Yang Sichang was silent, just holding a wine glass and looking at the flustered businessmen. Finally, a businessman couldn't help it, stood up and asked, "Your Excellency, I don't know how to change the opening of the Chinese Festival?" ”

Yang Sichang said with a smile: "I only know that the law is going to be reformed, as for how to change, I don't know yet, I am here today, but I don't want to discuss how to change the law in China, but there is a big injection of money, I want to send it to all the businessmen, I don't know if you are interested?" ”

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