"My lord," Wang Faxiang hurriedly entered the house and said to Zhang Han: "The cabinet has officially issued an edict, Sun Chengzong, a scholar of the East Pavilion University and a scholar of the Ministry of War, is the new Liaodong Economic Strategy, and the emperor has given Shang Fang a sword, a silver medal, a silver coin, a python suit and other things, and Sun Chengzong does not have to return to Beijing, and will take office directly in Liaoxi." Wang Zaijin was transferred to the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and he had already left Shanhaiguan, and he did not come to Beijing to thank His Majesty, and went directly to Nanjing by boat. ”

Zhang Han rubbed his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Wang Zaijin came to thank him for any kindness, it would be good if he didn't jump to scold his mother." ”

Wang Zaijin was humiliated by Sun Chengzong from head to foot this time, this resentment is very great, even if it belongs to the same Donglin lineage, it can't be resolved, during the Chongzhen period, Sun Chengzong made many mistakes in the military affairs of Liaozhen, especially the Yaozhou fiasco of Ma Shilong and Lu Zhijia, and was attacked by Wang Zaijin, it is estimated that until death, Wang Zaijin did not forgive Sun Chengzong.

"Governor Wang Xiangqian and Governor Yan Mingtai are still in power." Wang Faxiang said: "However, according to the information from Chengfang's side, Sun Chengzong is also dissatisfied with the two, Wang Xiangqian, like Wang Zaijin, both advocate giving up the land outside the Guan, Yan Mingtai has no real knowledge, and he is a member of the three parties, and there have been signs of defecting to Wei Zhongxian recently, how can Sun Chengzong tolerate him?" Moreover, Yan Mingtai was promoted as the Liaodong Economic Strategy in the last meeting, and Sun Gebu is now the Economic Strategy, he is the governor, how can he be convinced in his heart, even if the imperial court is for this, Yan Mingtai will be transferred away first. ”

"Yes, well analyzed." Zhang Han praised.

This is the third night of Zhang Han's arrival in Beijing.

There was no news from the palace that the apocalypse wanted to see Zhang Han. It's just that Wei Zhongxian sent a eunuch to come, saying that he had already played the emperor, but recently there have been a lot of things in the palace, there are a few large-scale ceremonial activities that need the emperor to participate in person, so that the emperor can't get out, even if he can get out, there are still a few governors and governors waiting to be seen by His Majesty, and the two new squires are also within the scope of introduction, and there are more than a dozen Jingqing, more than a dozen military attachés in Beijing and foreign generals, only a few of these civil and military officials are qualified to be introduced alone, and most of them are brought to the palace in batches to meet with the emperor, It is usually a few words, asking them to serve with peace of mind, the courtiers bowing their words, only a few high-ranking officials will be asked about the specific policy of governance, and some governors will write their thoughts into clips, which the emperor will read first, and then tell them in person when they meet...... Which of these people and things is more important than Zhang Han, and Zhang Han can only wait with peace of mind.

Xia Xiping said: "The most important thing in Liaodong is the Thirteen Mountains, how are they now?" ”

Wang Faxiang said: "The Thirteen Mountains will not be breached for the time being, the food is enough, the mountain people are very tough, many of the refugees have participated in the group training, and there are also simple weapons, Yang Er and Cheng Fang and other subordinates have the weapons of our and Yusheng, which are very sophisticated, and the Jianyu wants to attack the mountain from the front, the cost is too great, they will not do it." ”

Zhang Han said: "The key is to see whether the Sun Pavilion Department is determined to help the Thirteen Mountains. ”

Wang Faxiang said: "The current news is that Sun Gebu ordered Zu Dashou to send a group of soldiers and horses to the Thirteen Mountains to see if they can break through the encirclement and provide assistance to the mountains, but there are not many soldiers and horses sent, only 2,000 horses, how can this number of soldiers and horses be enough?" ”

Xia Xiping thought about it and said: "It seems that the imperial court is still newly defeated, even Sun Gebu does not have the confidence to fight with Jianyu again, now what they want to do most is to build Ningyuan city defense, and then Ningyuan, Juehua, and Shanhaiguan are horns of each other, and then build a military fort pier in the middle, I heard that they also plan to build a side wall of more than 200 miles, so as to completely separate the old land of Liaoxi and Liaozhong Liaodong and Liaonan...... Rats' eyes! ”

Xia Xiping summed up sharply: "It is said that Sun Gebu is a rare side talent, I don't think he is stronger than Wang Zaijin, Wang in Jin Xiu Xincheng and the old city plus the camp in the mountains to cooperate, such a defense is enough to make the Jianyu unable to enter the customs, Sun Gebu Xiu Ningyuan and then build countless military fortresses, plus military training, millions of dollars a year, so as to exhaust the financial resources of the imperial court, once there is any change, it will be overstretched, and even fall into the dilemma of no rice to cook, once there is a change, the imperial court has no wealth, there is no soldier, or the reappearance of the feudal town, this is the danger of losing the country. ”

Xia Xiping's criticism of Sun Chengzong was naturally a little excessive, and even Wang Faxiang was disapproving. At least Wang Faxiang lives in Jingshi, and since Sun Chengzong took office, the hearts of Jingshi people have settled down a lot, and he feels that Xia Xiping does not know much about these things, and he is a little too full of blame.

Wang Faxiang was a little unconvinced: "According to what Xiping sees, just repair the mountain customs?" ”

"And thistle." Xia Xiping said: "It is obvious on the map that after the loss of Guangning, Jianyu's current goal is to unify the Mongolian tribes, and in the next few years, there will not be much threat to the Ming border...... His tens of thousands of people, snatching Liaodong is already about to die, even if Shanhaiguan tells him to fight down, all the way over, Yongping Zunhua Santun Camp, then to Changping Juyongguan Gubeikou, and then to Baoding, if you want to occupy the key points around the Beijing Division, how to attack if you don't beat down? If he doesn't set up troops to defend all the way, how can he guarantee logistics, and there is only one situation for relying on one or two thousand soldiers to conquer the capital, that is, the people in the city are scattered and take the initiative to open the city and surrender, otherwise a Xiongcheng like the Beijing Division can be defeated with this force? What matters now is to enrich Jizhen, not to ask them to unite Mongolia, if Nuerhachi next step to tie up the Mongols, and then recruit more Han troops to enrich their troops, ten years later they will go from 20,000 soldiers to more than 100,000 soldiers, Mongolia will be all its own, then the Ming Dynasty will really be in danger of losing the country. Now I am afraid that Shanhaiguan will be lost, and I want to build a border wall in the Ningyuan area, isn't this a mouse's eye? ”

"Uh......"

Wang Faxiang looked embarrassed, he was a Lahu who patted flowers, the current head of the military intelligence substation, and the level of current political and military affairs he cared about was really limited, after Xia Xiping finished speaking, his mind couldn't turn around, and he didn't know what Xia Xiping was talking about at all.

It was Li Guobin, his eyes were bright, he listened very attentively, and finally sighed, and he didn't know why.

Zhang Han said with a smile: "Xi is parallel, some things are easier said than done. Putting you in the position of Sun Gebu is definitely not as good as he did. ”

Seeing that Xia Xiping was a little unconvinced, Zhang Han said with a straight face: "It is already very good to be able to make the government and the opposition trust, to unite the forces in front, to suppress Qiu Ba and those civilian colleagues, and to restore the morale of the soldiers in the front, to ensure food and wages, to train soldiers and horses, and to push the city defense hundreds of miles away......

Sun Chengzong's achievements are what Zhang Han said, although he has not made it yet, but in a few years, he pushed the broken defense line of western Liaoning forward for hundreds of miles, stabilized Ningyuan, recovered Jinzhou and other places, trained dozens of battalions of Guanning Army, built more than 100 military fort stations, and brought back the most dangerous situation in the second year of the Apocalypse...... However, as Xia Xiping said, what Sun Chengzong did was useless, and he was going further and further on the wrong path......

It's just that no matter what, it is meaningless to accuse Sun Chengzong of these, and among the scholars and officials at that time, there was actually no better candidate than Sun Chengzong.

As for Wang Zaijin's right approach, it's just that young people like Xia Xiping who are on the outside will think so, and the stability of the Jingshi people's hearts after Sun Chengzong took office shows everything, sometimes the correct strategy cannot be implemented, because too many people are in the fog of war, and only those who have supreme power can choose the most correct path to go if they happen to be able to see through the fog, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse is just a young man who has just practiced the throne, and it is unrealistic to have this kind of expectation for him.

It can only be said that the history of the last years of the Ming Dynasty is the same as all the last dynasties, and every historical turning point is on the road to destruction, and there is no second possibility.

"The matter of the Thirteen Mountains, we have also planned it for a long time, and we can launch it after a while......," Zhang Han said to Wang Faxiang: "What matters now is that the Thirteen Mountains themselves must get in touch with Ning Yuan and maintain a relatively stable channel, not to send a few fine works to run over every once in a while, so that the civil and military officials of the imperial court and Ning Yuan's garrison will not take it seriously." ”

"My lord, there are guests."

Liu Ji hurried over, shouted outside, pushed the door in, and said, "Master Wan Jingwan of the Ministry of Industry is here to worship." ”

Liu Ji still has a worship post in his hand, and the worship post in the big red envelope is very formal, with the name and character of this Wanjing written inside, as well as simple information such as the place of origin.

This kind of greeting post is equivalent to the business card of the people of the time, at least from the shape to the function, and there is almost no difference from the business card of later generations, but there will be something like a phone number on the business card of later generations, and there is no such thing as a greeting post at this time.

"Is this man you deal with regularly?" Zhang Han thought about it for a while, this Gongbu Langzhong was not his old acquaintance, and he didn't seem to have dealt with this person when he and Li Shenming ran the officialdom of Jingshi together in the past.

Liu Ji wiped his sweat and said, "This Master Wan should be recognized by Mr. Li?" ”

Li Guobin said at this time: "Wanjing is a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi, and the same as my family's ancestral hometown, in the past, and Yusheng's pig iron to enter the Ministry of Industry, dot the relationship everywhere, I climbed with this person, gave him fifty taels of silver, and a year of ice and charcoal was given to him as usual, this time I came, but I don't know why." ”

"Fifty taels?" Zhang Han smiled: "State guest, you are stingy." ”

Li Guobin said with a smile: "I was going to give him two hundred taels, but this person said too much, and he couldn't ask for too many rules, so he received fifty taels, and I counted his ice charcoal, so I sent it according to the rules of the six Lang, but he laughed at it, and he would have two drinks with me every time. ”

"Okay." Zhang Han put down the official document he was reading in his hand and said, "Since this is the case, let's go to the living room to meet people." ”

Everyone got up, Wang Faxiang was in front, Li Guobin and Xia Xiping hugged Zhang Han one after the other and went out, and after everyone pushed the door out, a cool breeze blew, and they all felt refreshed.

"The weather will be cooler in two months," Zhang Han said, "that was the most critical moment in the Thirteen Mountains. ”

He thought for a while and said to Li Guobin: "Guobin, the matter of the Thirteen Mountains will be handed over to you, how about it?" ”

Li Guobin said: "Actually, I want to go to Zhaoyuan more, but the time is not right, and it is better to go to Ningyuan." ”

Zhang Han smiled: "Let's talk about it in a few years......

Li Guobin is very interested in Zhaoyuan's gold mines, he has inspected many times, if He Yusheng takes it down, with He Yusheng's ability, Cai Jiu can be mined from Zunhua Iron Yard to Zhaoyuan, at least tens of thousands of taels of gold can be mined a year, and the profits are huge, and the only obstacle is the local gentry in Zhaoyuan, and it is not impossible to solve it...... But now is really not the time, Li Guobin sighed regretfully again.