Zheng Sen stayed in Hong Chengchou's temporary mansion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Hong Chengchou first tested his Confucianism, and then talked about his "Origin of Species", obviously, this work still has some influence, so that Hong Chengchou has not only heard of it, but even seems to have read it.

"Da Mu, your heavenly knowledge of things is indeed unique, it sounds very weird to the rough, but if you think about it carefully, it really makes sense. It's just that in the process of coming from heaven to man, it still doesn't seem to be solid enough. But at your age, it's rare to have that kind of insight. Hong Chengchou said, "My brother wrote to me and mentioned you many times. He was very dismissive of your teachings, but he was full of praise for your talent and character. ”

"Before I came, I also went to see the old lady and the third gentleman. The old lady and Mr. Three only asked me to bring a message to the superintendent, so that the superintendent could serve the country loyally, and not think about it, but Mr. Three did not mention to me the matter of the study of things. Zheng Sen replied.

"The third child doesn't take the right path by himself, and his mind is spent on the trail of writing and painting." Hong Chengchou shook his head and smiled, "He couldn't tell you what he said at the beginning, let alone at this time?" He's just hiding it himself. Actually, I like your way of studying, which is down-to-earth, much stronger than those who only talk about the heart. ”

"Actually, there is nothing wrong with talking about the nature of the mind and the enlightenment. It's just that enlightenment is not a castle in the air, and there are true and false, and some people think they are enlightened, but in fact they are just false enlightenment. Zheng Sen replied.

"What is false enlightenment and what is true enlightenment?" Hong Chengchou is interested.

Zheng Sen thought for a while and said: "Supervisor, this is like playing Go, encountering a difficult situation, thinking about it for a long time, and finally suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and came up with a hand that he thought was wonderful, only thinking that with this hand, the crisis was solved and the future was bright." However, he didn't want his opponent to come to a thirty-three hand calming head leisurely, but his own chess collapsed all at once. Inspector, this realization that thinks that he has solved the crisis is a false enlightenment. If you can't try to use practical things to cultivate yourself and rule the country and level the world, most of the truths that you think should be like this in your head are false enlightenment. And there are always people in the world who think they are enlightened, but they can't do it with facts, but they don't injustice that they don't have true enlightenment, but think that they should not linger in mundane things, which is to fall into heresy such as Buddhism and Taoism, and lose the original intention of the Holy Gate. ”

"Well said!" Hong Chengchou stroked his palms and praised, over the years, he has also been accustomed to seeing countless people in the court who talk about mental morality as Zheng Sen said, but when he does things, he will only make trouble and drag his feet. For example, there is such a one in the army today.

"Da Mu, I know that you are doing scholarship for the purpose of governing the country and leveling the world. I heard the third child say that when the Dutch were in Koubian, you followed Counselor Ling Zun in military affairs, and I think you also have some experience in military affairs. How do you think the siege of Jinzhou should be solved now? Hong Chengchou suddenly asked again.

Zheng Sen listened and hurriedly said: "Such a military event, how dare the kid talk nonsense?" ”

"I told you to say, you say, what are you afraid of?" Hong Chengchou said with a smile.

"In this way, the boy has trespassed." Zheng Sen bowed and said, "Supervisor, Jian Yan is actually a human being, and he can still be hacked to death with a knife." The so-called 'Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000 people, and 10,000 are invincible' and the like, but they are all things made up by those who lost the battle and humiliated the country in order to shirk their own guilt. It's not impossible to defeat them. It's just that Jianxuan has almost never suffered a major defeat since the rebellion, but it is not accidental. It is natural to be cautious when dealing with such an enemy.

Inspector, why have there been more victories and fewer losses since the rebellion? Students think that things in the world have their own internal and external causes. Once defeated, the clan will be annihilated, and there is no way out, so they will fight bravely. One or the other can overcome the internal cause. However, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, have I encountered fewer brave men? In the past, this Mengyuan, and the later widows, aren't they brave? However, as soon as the heavenly soldiers come out, those who are recruited will be served, and those who are asked for will be peaceful, so what? Attack it with the world's obedience, and An can not win. Where is the obedience of the world? In the power of the world. Hit a corner of the world with an invincible? However, since Zhang Taiyue, there has been no one in the court, and the affairs of the world not only cannot meet the power of the world, but are hindered everywhere. As a result, not only did it not unite the forces of the world to seek rebellion, but it ...... So that the DPRK and China have a Taiyue, and there is today's thing. ”

"Alas......" Hong Chengchou also sighed and said, "It's useless to talk about this now." You just say what do you think you should do now? ”

"Supervisor, Jianxuan has won many battles and won many battles, and he has accumulated prestige. There are many cowards in our army who have not yet fought. In this way, An can win. Besides, there are many veterans and new recruits in our army. In a rash decisive battle, I am afraid that it is difficult to have a chance of victory. Today, the most important thing is to be invincible and deal with it, seek more small victories, and not rush to seek big victories. There are many small victories like this, and the army knows that Jianxuan is just like this, and once the fear is gone, there is a chance to defeat. And after all, there are few people in the land, and they have been holding each other for a long time, and I have worked hard in the Ming Dynasty, so they are naturally more and more so. The superintendent should be invincible first, in order to peek into the gaps. Supervising more than 100,000 troops, as long as the camp is tightly organized and the grain and grass are endless, there is no reason for brittleness. Therefore, the preservation of grain and grass is the top priority, and there is no defeat if there is this.

The superintendent now uses the sea to protect grain and grass, which is a good policy, although the Jianzhi army is strong, it cannot threaten the sea lane, so the grain and grass are worry-free. However, if the bond is held until winter, the sea freezes, and it is difficult for the ship to dock. The superintendent can leave heavy troops in Tashan Xingshan and hoard a part of the grain and grass in Bijia Mountain. Make the elite guard.

Beacon Hill is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and only at low tide there is a land bridge connecting to the shore. It's a natural risk. If a man builds a wall on Beacon Hill opposite the landing bridge, and arranges sailors on the sea. For example, the Dutch rented plywood warships and arranged them around the land bridge. The Dutch plywood boat has about ten Hongyi cannons on one side, one on each side is twenty cannons, and a few cannons are arranged on the wall, so that the grain road is worry-free. Our army can slowly hold on to the enemy, harden the village, and fight in a daze. There can be more than 100,000 soldiers in the whole country at most, and our army will use two people to consume one person, so that even if our army is exhausted, the elite of the other army will also be exhausted, and it will definitely be destroyed. Therefore, they do not dare to spend it like this with us. In this way, there is a chance to break the siege. ”

"Stockpiling grain on Beacon Hill?" Hong Chengchou said, "This place is good, but in winter, it will freeze, and the sea ships will not be able to get close at that time." But it's also dangerous. At that time, Juehua Island was frozen because of the result, and the result was ......"

"The Overseer can lend Dutch soldiers to defend." Zheng Sen said, "The Netherlands is tens of thousands of miles away, and all the way to the ship, it is necessary to build port cargo stations in some places along the way to repair ships and dry goods. For tens of thousands of miles, there are naturally many such places. There were also robbers in many of these places, and the goods and silver carried by Dutch ships were not wanted, but the Dutch were good at building cities and defending. Although they had very few people left behind in those ports, they were not easily captured by others. Two years ago, the Battle of Jinghai, has the Inspector heard of it? The Dutch and the Japanese were defending the terminal. Besides, the Netherlands is tens of thousands of miles away from our Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers who can be sent here together are only a few hundred, and the Japanese ronin in exile are only one or two thousand. I don't worry about the future when they are anti-customer-oriented. All they want is to make money from trade. Spend some money to ensure the safety of the food route, so why not. Besides, with these people guarding, wouldn't it be nice for the Overseer to free up more elites for battle? ”

Hong Chengchou thought for a while and said, "There is some truth in what you say. In particular, the six words 'harden the village and fight the dumb battle' do have a lot of ideas. Who do you think will be assigned to guard this mountain official? ”

Zheng Sen said: "The internal move does not avoid relatives, and the kid thinks that his uncle is the best candidate." ”

"Tell me why." Hong Chengchou said.

"Uncle Jia is good at naval warfare, and Beacon Mountain is surrounded by the sea on three sides, so he can just use his uncle's strengths. Besides, if I want to cooperate with the Dutch in the future, my family will do business with the Dutch for more than one day, and many of my uncle's men can understand Dutch, so it will be more convenient to cooperate. ”

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Zheng Sen is sure that the measures he proposed should be very appetizing to Hong Chengchou, because most of this set is his original historical arrangement. The same is true for Beacon Hill, including Tunliang. It's just that in the original history, he didn't have Zheng Zhihu to give him grain and grass by sea. As a result, he hoarded grain and grass on Beacon Mountain, but was attacked by the Manchus and robbed of grain, and as a result, the army was scattered at once due to lack of food.

Zheng Sen felt that the Ming army had been defeated too badly at Songshan, which was not good for his plan. Because now the competition between the Zheng family and the Spaniards in Manila is only afraid that it will soon enter the stage of showdown, at this time, through a large-scale war of attrition, let me and I Daqing stop for a while, it is really good for Zheng Sen.

Of course, Zheng Sen also understands that even if there is no matter of robbing grain and grass, even if it is a war of attrition, the probability of my Ming winning is still very low. This is because my Daming specialties are all kinds of laggards, and secondly, because I have no money in Daming. Although my territory is much larger and richer than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the organization of my Ming Dynasty is now sparse, far inferior to that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so most of the material resources that can be concentrated are really not comparable to Jianxuan. And my Ming Dynasty is even more famous, if Hong Chengchou wants to use one or two silver here, my Ming officials at all levels start with taxes, all the way down, I am afraid that if the tax at the beginning is not ten taels of silver, to Hong Chengchou's hands will really not even be able to get one or two silver. In contrast, at least at this time, the Manchu bandits did not have universal corruption, and Hong Chengchou really might not be able to fight for mobilization.