Gao Mingheng's words made Zhu Cihong suddenly brightened, and it was actually three words to sum up - playing yin.

This defeat of the Ming army was overshadowed by Gao Yihuan, and it was Geng Zhongming, who should have been restrained by the Western Wei Dynasty, who suddenly appeared on the battlefield that led to the defeat of the Ming army.

After Zhu Cihong came back, he often wondered if Geng Zhongming was deliberately let go by Gao Yihuan, whenever he thought of this, he hated it so much, but he couldn't do anything about Gao Yihuan.

On the surface, continuing to confront the Manchu Qing showed the determination of the Ming Dynasty to recover the north, occupy a high position politically and morally, so that the Western Wei could not find fault, and secretly funded the Manchu Qing to achieve the goal of containing the Western Wei and curbing the rise of the Western Wei, which was indeed a good plan.

Zhu Cihong nodded heavily, "Pavilion Elder, I understand!" ”

Gao Mingheng coughed a few more times, "Your Majesty, my Ming strength has been greatly damaged now, but we have also recaptured the state capital south of the Huaijiang River, and with my Ming manpower and financial resources, this loss is not enough to shake Your Majesty's foundation." Now that the armies of Zhuri, Fengjie, Zhongguan, and Zhongwu have withdrawn, Your Majesty will be able to restore their morale and restore their strength as long as there is enough time. ”

Zhu Cihong bowed his head and said, "I will continue to recruit new soldiers and retrain them!" ”

"Training alone is not enough!" Gao Mingheng shook his head, "If the Western Wei Dynasty occupies Hedong, the ministers think that Jiannu is just the end of the strong crossbow, and sooner or later they will be defeated by the Western Wei." What His Majesty has to do is first of all to support Jiannu as much as possible in secret, so that Jiannu can support it for a longer time. Of course, if Jiannu defeated the Western Wei, then His Majesty would have to reduce his support for Jiannu, lest Jiannu threaten the Ming Dynasty. This scale needs to be mastered by His Majesty, the purpose is to let Jiannu and the Western Wei Dynasty contain each other, and Your Majesty will have to do three things during this time! ”

Zhu Cihong leaned forward, "What three things?" ”

Gao Mingheng said: "The first thing is to restore the strength of the forbidden army and integrate the localities. If Jiannu and Western Wei contain each other, Your Majesty will not have to worry about external threats in a short time, and it will be an excellent time to solve internal problems. Now Zuozhen is rebellious, only the Zheng family has seized Fujian, His Majesty can Xu Guan Xu Jue, Enwei and Shi, divide and disintegrate, but the Zheng family is across the East China Sea, Your Majesty must master the scale, encroach step by step, and cannot force the Zheng family to rebel. There is a general in the Jiang waterproof division, named Zheng Sen, who is the son of Zheng Zhilong. The minister Guan this person is quite loyal, His Majesty can secretly descend to Zheng Zhilong, it is best to enter Nanjing, send Zheng Sen to Fujian, appoint important positions, and divide the strength of the Zheng family. The second thing is that the Western Wei Dynasty occupies Bashu, Jing, and Xiang, and occupies the upper reaches, and once a war starts, it will be extremely difficult for our dynasty. His Majesty needs to strengthen the defense of Wuchang, arrange defenses in the west and southwest, and prepare for a counteroffensive. The third thing is that the army has to go through the war in order to become a real elite. This time, although the number of our army in the Northern Expedition was large, it was not the opponent of Jiannu, firstly because of the lack of horse troops, and secondly, because the soldiers had not fought for several years, and they were not as good as the army of Jiannu in a hundred battles. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded while listening, Jiannu and Western Wei competed, and both sides had no time to look south, it was indeed the time for him to regroup.

Although the army suffered heavy losses this time, the elite still existed, and he could mention less about Xuzhou and more about recovering Huainan, so as to maintain his authority and dignity. With the strength of the Ming court, it is difficult to deal with the Western Wei and Qing dynasties, but with the identity of the Son of Heaven, he still has the ability to suppress internally.

Now that the warlords of the Ming Dynasty are left, the Zheng family is left, even if the Zheng family cannot be solved, there should be no problem in forcing the Zheng family to give up some benefits to subsidize the imperial court.

The Western Wei Dynasty occupied Bashu and Jingxiang, and occupied the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Gao Yihuan peed in the river and washed his feet, and Zhu Cihong was downstream, so he had to drink Gao Yihuan's foot-washing water, which made Zhu Cihong's heart very unhappy.

The north and the south are fighting, the most important thing is Bashu, Jingxiang, Lianghuai and three places, the Western Wei Dynasty has been based on the second, and if it really fights, it will be very unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, so the second thing must also be done.

It's just that this third thing is a little difficult to do. The Ming army can't provoke the Western Wei and Qing armies now, and fight another war.

Zhu Cihong frowned and said, "Elder Ge, the first and second things can be done, but what should be done about the third thing?" ”

Gao Mingheng said: "Fight the thief!" The western thieves are entrenched in Yungui, and pacifying the western thieves can not only temper the forbidden army, but also capture Yungui and threaten Sichuan, as a pawn for the defense and counteroffensive of the southwest. The minister heard that the connection between Gao Jingzhong and Sun Kewang is very close, and the thief is probably a pawn of Gao Jingzhong to contain my Daming. Lao Chen thought that he should pull it out as soon as possible to eliminate this hidden danger. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded and exclaimed, "I understand! ”

Gao Mingheng instructed again: "Your Majesty, this Northern Expedition is like the Northern Expedition of Yuanjia and the Northern Expedition of Kaixi, the imperial court has misjudged the situation, and the minister is guilty of negligence in the defeat of the army, please Your Majesty must punish the minister." Now that the minister is unwell and cannot handle political affairs, His Majesty punishes the minister, first, to give an explanation to the world, and secondly, to make Jiannu rest assured and concentrate on dealing with Western Wei. ”

The Northern Expedition failed, lost most of the soldiers and horses, and spent countless materials, money and food, and always needed people to take the blame.

Gao Mingheng is the main battle boss, but it is suitable, he will take the blame, first of all, he can afford to carry it, and can keep the vast majority of people from turmoil in the court, and secondly, he can maintain the majesty of Zhu Cihong and maintain the authority of the court, and finally he can properly suppress the main battle faction, and can maintain a tacit understanding with the Manchu Qing without signing a contract.

After all, if the Nanjing court was full of a group of main battle factions and young Zhuang factions who shouted and shouted at the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing would naturally be wary of Nanjing, worried that Nanjing would turn its face at any time and would not be able to maintain a tacit understanding, and the strength of the main battle faction in the DPRK and China would also affect Zhu Cihongming's strategy of fighting the secret master and making peace, making it impossible to secretly fund the Manchu plan.

Since it is a secret master, it can't be known to too many people, so the matter has to be secretly manipulated by the minister of the lord, in case any of the main war ministers who don't open their eyes poke this matter out and angrily scold the lord and faction for betraying the country, then it will be the same as Chen Xinjia's matter, and the matter will be over.

Therefore, after this defeat, in order to realize the change of national policy, Zhu Cihong must suppress the main battle faction to a certain extent and make some room for the main peace.

As soon as Zhu Cihong heard this, his eyes turned red, "The elder of the pavilion can recuperate with peace of mind, and I still need to rely on the elder pavilion in the future~"

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In Hedong, after Dolgon returned to the division, the Wei army released the troops of Beizhili and Weihui, and all of them have been recovered.

Now the Qing army is storming Huguan, Guguan and other places, but the territory of Hedong is quite peaceful.

South of Taiyuan, Fenzhou Mansion.

In a new army camp, the king of Wei erected a banner to recruit troops, and when he came, he gave money to the field, which immediately attracted many people.

This time the Wei army recruited troops, a bit of the Northern Song Dynasty incorporated the unstable factors in society into the forbidden army, and the main targets of recruitment were the Tukou and rebel troops in southern and central Jin.

Most of these people raised troops under the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty, but if they were not managed, it would not be long before they became a stubborn local disease.

At this time, outside the camp, a team of cavalry came over with horses' hooves, and Gao Yihuan rode on the horse and said: "I heard from Xuanyiwei that Zhu Cihong has run to Yangzhou, and the Qing army has not chased the Yellow River!" ”

"What does the king think?" When Chen Mingxia saw Gao Yihuan's expression, he knew what Gao Yihuan was brewing.

Gao Yihuan was silent for a while before smiling: "It's nothing." The Lone King was just worried that Zhu Cihong would make peace with Dolgon. ”

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