"First pacify the widows, and then expel them? Alas? Pingzhi, I agree with you! Wang Shizhen showed a look of surprise on her face, until she found that everyone was looking at her with strange eyes, and then she bowed her head and admitted with a constipated face: "Okay, okay, I admit it, I don't understand military strategy at all, I just hate the Japanese Invaders very much, so I advocate that the Japanese be wiped out first, the key is that I don't know much about the Japanese and the Mongols, and suddenly asked me to write a strategy, how can I write it?" ”

Li Yiyuan also said with a little depression: "What Yuan Mei said also makes sense, I am the same, Yuan Mei still lives in the southeast, how much I know about the Japanese Invaders, I grew up in my hometown in Jiangxi since I was a child, I didn't have a Woko and no Tartars, I used to think it was an advantage, but now I feel that this is simply a disadvantage, I don't know much about the Wokou and the Mongols." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Zhang Juzheng nodded and said: "How many years have my generation of scholars been studying the way of scripture and righteousness, about the real practical learning, there is no way to learn, and there is no talent like Pingzhi, you can lead the army to fight, accumulate experience, for us, not to prevaricate with the words of the sage is already the limit, my intention is to recapture the Hetao, contain the Mongols, and then pacify the southeast, because I think that the Mongols go south every year, and the court has no energy to deal with the Japanese." ”

Yang Yusun agreed: "My idea is similar to that of my uncle, it was rumored that the governor of the three sides had written a letter to ask for the recovery of the Hetao, advocating the battle of the resumption of the set, I think, it should be reasonable, so I support it." ”

Zhu Ji shook his head: "I think Pingzhi's view is right, first easy and then difficult, although I haven't read the military book, but I have also heard the truth that the outside must first be safe, the family is not calm, let alone fight against foreign enemies?" The Japanese are an internal trouble, and the scale is not enough to threaten the survival of the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongols, with hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen, are very terrifying. ”

Li Chunfang nodded and said: "My opinion is the same, the Japanese are confined to the southeast corner, not enough to threaten the entire Ming Dynasty, but the position of the Mongols is very important, the death of the former Song Dynasty is vivid, for thousands of years, the Central Plains has been repeatedly disturbed by the northern grassland tribes, and it has not been solved, the Mongols are a confidant, we must be cautious, and we must not start a war rashly." ”

Ling Yunyi supported Yang Yusun and Zhang Juzheng's views: "That being said, the reason why the Mongols can go south every year to threaten the nine borders is the root cause of the loss of the Hetao. ”

Xu Wei laughed, causing everyone to look at Xu Wei together, Wang Shizhen said unhappily: "Fat Xu, what are you laughing at?" ”

Xu Wei was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "You guys, the most experienced person is on the side, and he has seen bloody killings and trained soldiers, why don't you ask him why he is still here to express his opinion?" Isn't this a sacrifice of the basics? Hear what he had to say. ”

Everyone thought about it, Zheng Guang was the one with the most right to speak, and Zhang Juzheng asked: "Pingzhi, what do you mean by first south and then north?" Or, isn't it the best of both worlds to recover the loop and pacify the southeast at the same time? ”

Zheng Guang turned his gaze to the north and said in a low voice: "Compared with the Japanese invaders, the Mongols are the real henchmen of the Ming Dynasty, this point, there is no doubt that the threat of the Mongols is ten times that of the Japanese invaders, in the past Taizu Chengzu Northern Expedition, there was no time to lead less than 100,000 troops, just like that, more than a dozen Northern Expeditions still could not completely eliminate the Mongols, but let them resurrect, make a comeback, and once again become the border trouble of the Ming Dynasty, which is enough to prove the strength of the Mongols."

Although the Japanese are mainly pretended to be the coastal residents of the Ming Dynasty, but their main base is in the sea, like a duckweed without roots, can not take root in the place, there is no threat and enterprising power, I can defeat its more than 7,000 people with 3,000 soldiers, I am confident, I use 50,000 elite soldiers, can pacify the Japanese on the southeast land within a year, but if you want to eradicate the Japanese invaders, you must open the sea ban, it is not a simple military issue, but involves the national policy, not we can discuss at present.

Judging from a military point of view, the threat of the Japanese is not big, but the biggest threat brought by the Japanese is that the tax revenue of the main wealth of the Ming Dynasty has been sharply reduced, so that it affects the treasury and the north to resist the enemy, that is to say, without the money from the southeast, the north cannot fight, and the imperial court has no money to support the northern border army to take the initiative, so it can only be beaten passively.

So I said, if the north wants to start a war against the Mongols, it must pacify the southeast and restore the southeast tax revenue, and after three years, the imperial court will have money before it can start to attack the Mongols. Or will we snatch the loop back, and he will sit still?

Do you think that even if we take back the Hetao, will we sit still and watch the loss of the Hetao and do nothing, or will we raise our army to retaliate? How many cavalry can I call? I think there are no less than 100,000 mobile troops, even if he has other enemies on the steppe, but 100,000 cavalry, he can definitely take it, and he doesn't need any food, he can grab it directly, and feed the war with war, this is the consistent style of the Mongols, there is no logistical threat, they can do whatever they want, but we can't.

How much do you think the imperial court can use to support Governor Zeng's war with the current financial resources? How many troops could Governor Tsang bring to attack the Loop? After defeating the Hetao, how many soldiers will I use to retaliate? to retake the Loop? Will Governor Tsang be able to cope with my retaliation? Can you cope with the second and third times? Once I send the main force to attack, can the soldiers and horses under Governor Zeng really deal with it? Don't need the imperial court to raise an army to support? How much money can the imperial court have to raise troops and reinforcements? Is there enough food for the soldiers? ”

The more everyone listened, the more frightened they became, impressed by Zheng Guang's foresight, Zhang Juzheng was greatly surprised and annoyed, patted his head and said in annoyance: "Why didn't I think of this?!" ”

Zheng Guang continued: "We thought very well, only fought one battle, and recovered the Hetao, but there is a sentence, it is easy to fight the country, it is difficult to defend the country, and the Hetao is defeated, and I will be indifferent?" On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to sleep soundly? A local war is easy, but if we want to do this, I won't listen to us, if he runs out of 100,000 iron horsemen to go south, how many soldiers and horses does the Ming need to send to defend the Hetao? Will the situation get out of our control? The war of hundreds of thousands of people in the north has begun, and can the south continue to fight? ”

Xu Wei showed a smile that was really like this: "So, fighting on two fronts is a taboo for soldiers, either pacify the Japanese first, or, deal with the Mongols first, you must not come together, otherwise both sides will be bad, the current Ming Dynasty is not as good as the beginning of the country, the fierce generals are like clouds, the army is elite, it doesn't matter if the north and the south fight together, and the Mongols are much stronger than the Japanese Kou, it may take three years to deal with the Japanese Kou, and it is possible to deal with the Mongols in thirty years." ”

Of course, Zheng Guang did this, not only out of the assumption of the actual situation, but also one point, the incident in history was a tragedy, the emperor strongly supported it at the beginning, but then suddenly changed his course, and then killed Zeng Mo and Xia Yan, although Yan Song's blame is indispensable, but if the emperor is bent on washing away the shame, no matter how Yan Song behaves, he can't shake the heart of saving face.

It can only be said that Emperor Jiajing, a smart emperor, began to question the battle of the Futao, and he may have also thought of what might happen later, the imperial court was unable to defeat the Mongols in one fell swoop, once he fell into the quagmire of war and fought a protracted war with the Mongols, how much energy would he, the emperor, have to spend? The current emperor is no longer the ambitious emperor who has just begun to ascend the throne, the emperor has begun to be lazy, and the emperor has begun to seek stability rather than breakthroughs.

It is very likely that after three minutes of heat, Emperor Jiajing began to think about the benefits and disadvantages of this matter for himself, whether this battle can be won, and if he loses, what should he do? If I win, will I retaliate? Will it intensify its attack on the Ming Dynasty? In that case, a local war will turn into a full-scale war, does the Ming Dynasty have the financial support?

Emperor Jiajing began to wonder why he was so excited, searched for the roots, and finally found the reason that prompted him to think about war in the first place - there was no money to cultivate......

To put it bluntly, the cause of this incident is that the emperor is poor and crazy and wants to get a few money to play, instead of sticking money to solve those seemingly illusory problems. It's easy to kill a defeated Zeng Mill, but it's so easy for me to fool? You hit him, he won't fight back for more benefits?

Zeng Milling is dead, but there are so many problems left for the emperor to solve, and such annoying things have to be done by the emperor, so where is there time for idle cultivation?

This time, the strategy was not to ask the Jinshi how to solve the problem of the southern and northern captives, but the emperor began to be entangled in his heart, began to worry, and began to wonder if his own large-scale operation had caused some uncontrollable situations, and whether such a situation and situation were really needed by him.

The emperor began to question.

Emperor Jiajing may not want to solve these problems at all from the bottom of his heart, he just wants to get by, and when he dies, he can be happy with the flood, Shengjun? Great? Military? This is not what he is pursuing, really not, he never thought of really going to a full-scale war with Mongolia, what he thought about was maybe just being bullied ruthlessly, poor and crazy, on a whim, wanting to change the current situation.

However, he soon realized that in order to become an emperor who was not short of money, he first had to become an emperor who had no time of his own and could not do whatever he wanted......