Guangfu has gradually entered the hot summer heat, and in the ice room hall where the contemporary Daxiangguo lives in the summer, with the endless supply of ice and the hydraulic machinery that blows in the moist and cool breeze day and night, it is still cool and refreshing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Several of the Zaifu and privy counsellors who participated in the small inner court sat solemnly on both sides with complete crowns and belts, and leaned slightly sideways to face the throne of the Great Prime Minister, one after another to inform the state affairs, or whispered to each other to discuss the statutes of their respective powers and fields.

"What did Jiang Ning say?"

"I still can't afford to send troops north to help."

"According to Deputy Ning Shu's recital, the time for the new three armies to accompany the capital is still short,"

"Neither the basic posts and subordinates, nor the training and armor of the army, are satisfactory."

"In addition to maintaining the place for the time being, it is really not of great use."

"Only the local Old Shenji Army, together with the re-recruited Danyang soldiers, a total of 4,000 people, has been ordered to go north."

"As for accompanying the capital to stay behind, the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are also waiting for the new and the people's livelihood is withering."

"Even if it is a local garrison in the southeast, it can only be enough to maintain the situation and not become more corrupt,"

"The big cloud thieves who are ravaging Liangzhejiang and Jiangxi have no signs of being extinguished."

"At least for half a year, there is really nowhere to mobilize troops and horses in the land of the mountains."

"What did the three envoys and the Privy Council say?"

"After more than a year of recuperation, although there is a surplus."

"But it's all used to support the chaos of the war in Tiannan."

He couldn't help but feel a little sad and helpless in his heart, when did the dynasty that swept through the world and the sea no longer be able to support the two wars that occurred in the northwest and southeast at the same time.

"How is the negotiation with the Hue party going?"

"Seeing that the rainy season is approaching, the effectiveness of firearms will be reduced"

"If it's not appropriate to talk about it, then there's no need to talk about it."

"No wonder the court is all killed, and the chickens and dogs are gone."

"Also, what is the Southern Prison of Weapons doing? So far, no cannon has been prepared enough to break the city. ”

"So much so that the artillery sent by the army, which was easy to break through by sea and land, was mostly idle."

"The progress of the new ship of the sailor, which will be built by the superintendent, is also not satisfactory."

"At present, the transportation by sea can only be temporarily replenished by the civilian ships that have been recruited."

"The minister has heard that the national dynasty still has a military order in Huainan that suppresses the local army."

"You mean Liu Yanqing's model rear army department ?。。?"

The voices of the full hall who were whispering couldn't help but pause temporarily.

Any affairs related to Huaizhen are undoubtedly the most sensitive topics and reasons for the current Daxiangguo. After all, it was in this hand that the head of Huaizhen was able to take on a heavy responsibility and gradually grow bigger, and even developed to the point where it is now unstoppable and irrepressible.

Therefore, even if the envoys from the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate Luo Fan were privately active in Guangfu and wanted to obtain the recognition and canonization of the imperial court in the name of the Andong Provincial Metropolitan Governor's Office, the news was suppressed by the entire upper echelons quite low-key;

Because, it's a little too embarrassing; The counterinsurgency of the national dynasty in the south was slow and progressed slowly, but Huaizhen, which was nominally invited to send troops to the state and the Luo clan of the country, almost knocked down most of Andong Province and rebuilt the name and order of the Andong Governorate.

Whether this should be commended and rewarded, or whether it should be severely reprimanded and punished, or both, it has become a matter of considerable entanglement and annoyance for the people in power in the court, and even the great ministers in power;

If you want to express your encouragement, even if it is a verbal symbolism, it is to encourage Huaizhen and its subordinates to act more unscrupulously and freely; However, if you want to use this as a reason to reprimand and punish Huaizhen privately, even if it is a nominal action, it must take into account the subsequent impact of many foreign princes in the East China Sea, which will affect the whole body.

After all, although the Anton Da Luo clan is far away in the north, it is also a model of princes who have always paid tribute, and it is beyond the reach of the dynasty for the time being, but if you really want to publicly declare and advocate that it will not be saved, it is undoubtedly a denial of the legitimacy and righteousness that the dynasty has always claimed to the Central Plains and the vast north.

Therefore, over the years, Huaizhen has been a troublemaker in the imperial court, and it is also the existence of the Dinghai Shenshen needle and the mainstay of the national dynasty in the north, which can be described as a headache role that people love and hate.

The princes of the DPRK and the Central Committee naturally hoped that they could transfer this strong army that had made a name for itself in the north back to their noses and then slowly concoct it; Instead of going far beyond the sphere of their own power and influence, doing whatever they want.

What's more, it is said that there is almost no private land under the leadership of Huai Town, and the town marshal encircled and opened up at least 100,000 fertile fields in Huai Shang in the name of Juntun and Gongtian; In addition, it is located in the main line of the North and South China Seas, and it has a wide range of trade profits from all over the East China Sea.

Even if only part of it is used to control and share the profits, it is enough to make the princes of the imperial court eat with a mouthful of oil,。。 Ah no, it should be to solve the situation that the imperial court's financial plans are arduous, and all kinds of official debts and military debts are weak and lack strong pledges and collaterals.

As for the livelihood and life of the local military and civilians, as the so-called "the whole world is not the king's land", shouldn't these people of the northern land who have been saved because of Huaizhen sacrifice for the country's righteousness and bright future prospects?

However, because of the existence of Huaizhen and the need to support several strong armies, the basic pattern that has always been maintained is that the water cannot be poured into the needle and cannot be inserted, even if people are sent over from the normal channels of the system, it is inevitable that they will be put up by the joint force and can only stare dryly, or simply be squeezed and unable to stay, and the fate of rolling back in ashes.

However, as long as the main combat forces under Huaizhen can be transferred back one by one or sent elsewhere, it will be relatively easy to take over this huge foundation and achievements in the name of the imperial court.

But because it involves the overall situation of the Northland, coupled with the illusion of interests, it is certainly not something that can be achieved so easily; So everyone simply pretended to be deaf and dumb about this, and you don't want to say that I don't want to know about it.

However, now that all this has finally come to change, the sudden erosion of the situation in the north and the recurrence of the western army are not an opportunity and a beginning;

Therefore, whether it is the northerner party in the old unification faction in the rear, or the old from the dragon upstart and the old Diyuan; Or the Jingjun faction, the Jingchu faction, and the overseas garrison faction that started with the military exploits of the Second Northern Expedition have reached some kind of preliminary consensus and trade-off for this purpose, and they do not hesitate to use all kinds of side-knocking and side-attacking promotion methods, so that the great Xiangguo, who is in charge of everything, finally made up his mind.

And this time, Liu Yanqing's model rear army headquarters stationed in Jiangbei may be a breakthrough and a beginning.

"The head of the two rivers and the general of the Fu army, Sun Jingbang, is there."

It's just that unexpectedly, Da Xiangguo suddenly raised his head and looked left and right, and suddenly pointed to another name.

"Waiting for the order."

A moment later, Sun Jingbang, who was dressed in a dark purple suit with white sideburns, and still looked strong and resolute, was led to the great minister.

"As the ambassador of the wedding guard, you led the rest of the five city defense armies, and most of the Qiongzhou Jian'er and Yazhou volunteers went north."

"As soon as it was a gift, he led troops to help Guan Luo. and grant rights and opportunistic actions. ”

The audience was slightly shocked, this Qiongzhou athlete and Yazhou Yiyong, but the shogunate clan used to defend and protect the direct leader on Hainan Island, the old private armed forces are an important part;

Even in the previous chaos in Guangfu, he was cautious about the local area and never used it passively, and in his daily life, except for occasionally serving as the guard of honor of the shogunate dignitaries, he has long faded out of the memory of the world for many years.

This time, he was actually transferred out to serve as a wedding escort, which shows the importance and concern of Daxiangguo for the marriage here.

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By the time my fleet arrived at the southwesternmost Yingzhou (present-day Fuyang City, Anhui Province), also known as Ruyin County, more than half a month had passed, and it was also the latest, most withered and dilapidated state in Huaishang, which was about to enter the Huaishang June, which was also the latest, most withered and dilapidated.

On the one hand, because of the proximity to Huaishui, during the Huai River flood a few years ago, Yingzhou, as one of the hardest-hit areas along the Huai River, the population that could run had already run, and most of them went to Suzhou and Sizhou, which were adjacent to Huai Town, and those who couldn't run were either drowned or trapped and starved to death in the local area.

Therefore, when Huaizhen sent troops to take over, in the vast middle and upper states, except for the less than 10,000 residents in the state city who had nowhere to go and were dying, there was no more population to manage; The only way to redevelop and restore some of the higher areas in the north can only be redeveloped and restored by subsequent resettlement and reclamation;

In addition, due to the relative lack of manpower, there are still large areas of collapsed embankments that have not been repaired, resulting in a large area of land that cannot be restored due to repeated inundation and erosion during the rising water in the spring flood season.

Therefore, compared with the neighboring Suzhou, which was also plagued by the Huai River, but because of the timely intervention of Huaizhen and the organization of production to save itself, Suzhou or Sizhou, which recovered its basic output and grain surplus early, was more eastern; The four central and southern counties here are still full of sludge and a large area of water and grass are barren and ruined, and only near the county seat where the reclamation area has been established has a little population and life.

Just in Yongle City, Yingzhou Prefecture, when accepting the work report of the local thief ambassador Zhai Ruwen,

I received news again from Hebei that the remnants of the Northern Dynasty in Pinglu Province had launched another war against Zhang Bangchang, the governor of Quanda, who occupied Hebei, in the name of Han Zhongyan, the envoy of the four towns of Pinglu;

In addition, Zhang Bangchang's troops were defeated and retreated, and in the blink of an eye, they lost a large amount of land, and as of two days before the news was sent, they had already fallen to the territory of about a dozen counties in the two prefectures of Yanbian in the north. Presumably, it won't be long before the envoys from Zhang Bangchang's side asking for help will immediately come over to beg for help.

However, in this case, it is also a potentially good thing for my requisition and operation in Hebei, at least in the follow-up canal dredging project, there will be no decent hostile forces to harass and sabotage in the short term.

And just relying on the so-called rebels in the local area, who are wandering and scattered, like homeless people more than like bandits, as long as the strength of the local armed forces stationed in Hebei Jiansheng Army and the patrol team is enough to hang and expel them.

Moreover, with the consistent urine and understanding of this Metropolitan Governor of Zhang Bangchang, although he did not do a good job in military strategy and governing the people, he was very good at basic imperial means and grasping the army; At the same time, he is also particularly good at looting and gathering, especially for those who are rich and powerful under his rule, who are simply tossed and want to die;

On the other hand, he is also very good at co-opting, co-opting and annexing those local armed forces, and he is known as Pixiu's character, how the armed forces come into his hands, there is almost no way to get out, don't want to escape again; Under normal circumstances, the leaders of these righteous army township brave soil regiments would be stabilized by him with glory, wealth, alcohol, and beauty, and then one by one.

The rest of the people are selected to be suitable for the strong, and the generous salary is used to form the hearts of the people and then fill their own departments, and the remaining old and weak and rebellious people are scattered and disposed of; A considerable part of them were sold as slave labor and coolies to Huaidi, and they were subjected to at least 10 to 20 years of hard labor in the pits and salt works of various mines before they could have a chance to escape.

Therefore, during the years when he occupied Hebei, although he was defeated and defeated many times, he always maintained enough strength and basic strength, and in the face of enemies who were better at fighting than himself, he was repeatedly defeated and returned, and he was always able to recover his strength and make a comeback; In the end, relying on the consumption of strength to drag the opponent down and squeeze it away, and finally save the country with another curve, expanding his territory and power, this is also a pretty good ability.

Therefore, in the face of no other more choices, I can only pinch my nose to maintain, this kind of friendly neighbor and potential alliance relationship that often digs holes for each other.

Of course, because of the other party's Xiaoqiang style that can't be stepped on to death, I am not in a hurry to react and countermeasures, and it is better for Hebei to wait and see for a while before waiting for the opportunity to enter. (To be continued.) )