"Has the prince ever thought that if he didn't run the Central Plains and the Taiping Army in Jiangnan marched north, how would the prince deal with it? Now the prince is a strong soldier and a strong horse, but the thief Xiucai also looks at the north, he has the Tang Domain, the prince has the Yan Domain, and the lower officials secretly think that there is no Manchu Qing in this fight for the world, only in the prince and the thief Xiucai. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info If the prince does not run Henan, how can he stop the thief Xiucai, if Henan falls into the hands of the thief Xiucai, how can the current situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty not be the end of the prince in the future? ...

The prince's army is going north, but the Central Plains is extremely empty, if the lower official is a thief Xiucai, he will take advantage of this move to march north and take Henan in one fell swoop! At that time, there will be Jianghuai to follow, and those who can attack and defend will become his thief and talent, not the prince. Moreover, if Henan is lost, the prince's army and Shaanxi, Gansu and Yungui will also be cut off, and the prince will have no north but lose the roots, and in the end, I am afraid that it will be for the thief to drive the tiger and devour the wolf. ”

Li Guoying said clearly, it is not difficult to distinguish who the praying mantis is and who the yellow finch is. Hu Yuxuan and Fang Xianting both changed their faces, they have always considered taking Beijing one step ahead of the thief Xiucai, and then with the help of the momentum of recovering the old capital and the 200,000 elite soldiers to go south and compete with the thief Xiucai, but they never considered whether the thief Xiucai would suddenly send troops to Henan when the Wu army crossed the Yellow River and went north as Li Guoying said. If that's the case, the right time and place will be taken away by the thief Xiucai.

Wu Sangui listened attentively, but did not make a sound. In the past, he listened to Hong Chengchou's persuasion to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty and enter Sichuan to seek Shaanxi, but he did not think that he could quickly enter the Central Plains, but the situation changed rapidly, and the weak Manchu Qing and the great temptation to recover Beijing had made it difficult for him to stop his pace. After Li Guoying presented Tongguan, he was more concerned about taking the Central Plains in one go, taking Beijing, and then taking advantage of the momentum of recovering Beijing and the elite soldiers in the north to go south, but he never considered whether the thief Xiucai would sit back and watch him eliminate the Manchu Qing and take Beijing.

Li Guoying's words made Wu Sangui deeply realize that he might be too optimistic, and while he was concentrating on catching cicadas, he didn't notice that there was a yellow finch behind him staring at him. He has never despised the thief Xiucai, he knows very well that once he takes Beijing, a civil war with the thief Xiucai is inevitable, after all, there can only be one emperor, whether he and the thief Xiucai have thought about taking the Ming Dynasty in their hearts or not, there will always be a winner between the two. Only the ultimate winner can truly enjoy the fruits of so many years of conflict between the Ming and Qing dynasties.

It's just that the thief Xiucai really dares to defy the world's condemnation, provoke a civil war before the Manchu Qing Dynasty is destroyed, and fight in the same room? !

Wu Sangui did not dare to take the lead in launching a civil war, because he knew the terrible nature of the people's hearts, he was afraid that he would bear the notoriety of the second Sun Kewang, and he was afraid that the people of the world would be punished by the sword, so he resisted the impulse to plot against Huguang, and also strictly ordered not to clash with the Taiping army, and only focused on the Northern Expedition to grab the first credit of the recovery. Only then can he, Wu Sangui, become the first hero to restore his sight, and Zhu Youlang in his hands can truly become the first emperor in the legal system, rather than the Tang King who ascended the throne in the southern capital. Only then can he openly crusade against the Tang Fan who stole the throne and the thief Xiucai who disobeyed the orders of the imperial court, so that he didn't have to worry that the people's hearts were not on his side Wu Sangui.

But can he endure Wu Sangui, and can he endure it as a thief?

Wu Sangui's breathing became heavy, if the thief Xiucai really dared to take advantage of the life and death between him and the Manchu Qing to send troops to the Central Plains, he would be attacked on his back. It's just that he never thought that he could seize Tongguan so easily and swing the Central Plains, isn't it precisely because he became a yellow finch and got the biggest benefit of the thief Xiucai, a praying mantis. The thief Xiucai wanted to be a yellow bird in turn, why was he not allowed.

At this time, Li Guoying leaned over and bowed again: "Lord Wang, the art of war often says that the time, place, and people, the most important of the three is the word people. The people support it, the soldiers are strong and the food is sufficient, and the people are united. With this person, although it is located in a thousand miles of plains, it can prosper the country; If you lose this person, although you have the solidity of mountains and rivers, you can lose the country. Now there are many people in the prince, Kaifeng is just around the corner, and the gentry of the Central Plains are all responding to the prince, so the prince should start to run Henan to establish the foundation. The situation in Henan is related to the future strategy of using troops, managing Henan, and holding the Central Plains, so that the prince can take the north without worries, so that the thief Xiucai is tied to Jianghuai, this policy, the prince must accept! ”

After hesitating for a long time, Wu Sangui asked Li Guoying: "If this king wants to run Henan as the foundation, where should he start?" ”

Li Guoying said: "To operate Luoyang and Nanyang first, to Kaifeng as the middle, east and west joint venture, this is the fundamental. ”

"What's the point?" Wu Sangui's eyes flashed.

Li Guoying said in a deep voice: "Luoyang is known as the world after tomorrow, there is the danger of Hangu in the west, and the fortification of the tiger prison in the east. The tiger prison is closed in the border of Bishui County, since ancient times, it is the eastern gateway of Luoyang to defend it, the cliff is hundreds, the middle road can be passed, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Ten miles north of Luoyang City is Bishan, which seems to be Luoyang's outer Guo. There is a dragon gate in the south of Luoyang, which was called Yique in ancient times, and it is also very dangerous. In fact, from Luoyang to the south, it can be guarded everywhere. Bear's Ears Mountain and Funiu Mountain, stretching for hundreds of miles, have become the natural barrier of Luoyang. According to the opinion of the lower officials, the prince should take Luoyang as the pivot of the Central Plains, garrison strong troops in Nanyang and Kaifeng, and divide the division to defend Runing, then the Ming army in Huguang cannot enter the Central Plains from Xiangyang and Yunyang, and the Taiping army of Jianghuai must first conquer Xuzhou if they want to enter the Central Plains, and our army has long been prepared, and there are heavy troops gathered in the Kaifeng area, then the Central Plains will be impregnable. At that time, the prince will be invincible, and he can go north to seize Beijing with all his might. After the recovery of Beijing, it can take Henan as the foundation and send troops to the south, or Jianghuai, or Huguang. ”

As soon as Li Guoying's voice fell, Fang Xianting praised: "This policy is very good!" The ancients compared the struggle for the world to the Central Plains, if the Central Plains is in my hands, then it is unknown who will kill the deer. Lord Wang, Xianting was wrong, the real enemy of the prince is the thief Xiucai, not the Manchu Dynasty! Henan, we must operate, we must not pay attention to it, otherwise there may be a big disaster. ”

Hu Yuxuan thought about it again and again, and felt that Henan could not afford not to operate, otherwise it would be too much trouble. He said: "Since ancient times, it is very important to have a foothold in the world. Liu Bang took Guanzhong as the foundation, so he was able to go out of Yan and Zhao in the north, Qi and Lu in the east, chase the Central Plains, destroy Xiang Yu and unify the world. Li Yuan's father and son possessed Taiyuan and Hedong as the foundation, took Chang'an in the west, and then went out of Tongguan in the east, competed with Wang Shichong for the eastern capital, and received the Central Plains to unify the whole country. Emperor Hongwu first took Nanjing as the foundation, destroyed Chen Youliang in the west, Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng in the east, and then went on the Northern Expedition to expel Meng Yuan. Therefore, since ancient times, whoever wins the world immediately, must first choose a foothold, can fight and defend, and has wealth and strength. After 20 years of military disasters, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Shaanxi have long been barren and difficult to be the fundamental land. Although Henan is broken, it is stronger than these provinces, especially for the thoroughfare of the world, if it is stable in my hands, it can indeed cut off the heart of the thief Xiucai to go north, so that the prince can go north with all his strength, and he can also go south according to this in the future. ”

Wu Sangui was quite moved, but said: "It's good to run Henan, but how to do it, we can only decide according to the situation after we capture Kaifeng." There are too few literate people in our army, and the number of people is increasing rapidly, and there is a great shortage of people in various battalions. If in the future, officials and counties will be appointed to govern the localities, and there will not be many people who are familiar with writing and writing to take charge of the books and books of the prisons, and things will not be easy to do. ”

If you want to run a business, you must set up officials and appoint posts, you must recruit exiles, distribute seeds of cultivated cattle, resume production, and let the people recuperate.

Fang Xianting chuckled lightly and said: "The prince doesn't have to worry about this matter, General Hu Guozhu has entered Henan, and the local gentry have come to vote, these people are the best candidates to govern the people." ”

Hu Yuxuan also nodded and said: "Yes, the prince is humble and respectful, he is thirsty for virtue, and he values scholars, I think that the scholars from the Central Plains and even the north will slowly come to the prince's command, and then there will be no one available." ”

Wu Sangui couldn't help nodding when he heard this, and was about to speak, when he suddenly saw Ma Bao hurriedly going to the city, he couldn't help but stop talking and looked at Ma Bao.

After Ma Bao arrived, he said with an anxious face: "Lord Wang, Guizhou Governor Zhang Guozhu is in a hurry, the thief Xiucai has made a move on us, and the Taiping Army in Guangxi is attacking our Dushan Prefecture!" ”

The thief Xiu just made the first move?!

Wu Sangui's face instantly became gloomy, this thief Xiucai is really bold, he dared to take the lead in attacking him, but he didn't plot against the Central Plains, but what did he mean by going to Guizhou?