"Stupid? Mr. Fan laughed, even a woman's family knows how to have a smart child, how can there be hope to have a stupid child? ”

"Great Khan, if you don't believe it, call a guard to come in and let Weichen try it."

"That's good! Curb Pilon! Huang Taiji raised his voice and shouted, and Ji Bilong came in from outside the tent and saluted Huang Taiji: "See the Great Khan? “

Huang Taiji smiled and pointed at Kupilon and said, "Mr. Fan, you can try it on Kupilon!" ”

"Yes, Great Khan!" Fan Wencheng turned to Kubilong and asked, "Kubilong, where do you get the food in your mouth, the clothes on your body, your official position, the grange, and your slaves?" “

Without hesitation, Kupilon replied: "Naturally, it is from the old Khan and the Great Khan!" “

"Then if there is more food and clothing produced in your grange, how should you spend it?"

"Except for the small family, the others are lonely in the tribe!"

"Hmmm! Say hello to Wechen! ”

"Curb Pilon, you step back first!"

"Great Khan, most of the ministers of the Ming Kingdom are ten years old, and those who have come out of the three scientific examinations are naturally smart people. However, after these smart people were officials, they regarded the high-ranking officials as their own ten years of hard work, and they did not have the slightest gratitude to the Lord. In their eyes, being an official is not to serve the Son of Heaven and the country, but to work hard for a long time. ”

"If the ministers of the Ming Dynasty are all these people, it is no wonder that the state affairs are getting worse!" Huang Taiji laughed: "But if it's like Mr. Fan, the smarter the brain, the better!" ”

"The Great Khan praised it so much, and the micro-ministers didn't dare to be ashamed!" Fan Wencheng hurriedly bowed down and bowed: "However, since Wanli in the Ming Kingdom, state affairs have been changing, the party of the superior has been fighting, and the small people are suffering from harsh governance. Since the new emperor succeeded to the throne, although he had the intention of trying to govern, he was too eager to seek governance. Instead, it is harmful. The world is turbulent, and it is where heroes come in! “

Huang Taiji stretched out his hand to help Fan Wencheng up and said: "Among the people, there is only Mr. Fan who can know my heart, if I am the first lord of Liu, Mr. Fan is my Zhuge Kongming!" “

It should be said that when Huang Taiji said this, he had a considerable degree of sincerity. There was a strange phenomenon in the Later Jin regime at that time, a group of Han intellectuals represented by Fan Wencheng who had thrown themselves under the command of Huang Taiji were more enthusiastic about the "great cause of rejuvenation" of the Dajin Kingdom than many Jurchen magnates, that is, they hoped that the Later Jin regime could reach Guannai and establish a great empire that included the northeast, Mongolia and even the north of the Yellow River. The reason for this is that in addition to the desire for personal prosperity, the kind of "orthodoxy" and "mandate of heaven" ideas in their minds play a great role, and in Fan Wencheng's view, Huang Taiji is the emperor of the mandate of heaven. His mission is to assist the other party in establishing immortal achievements, and the concept of the modern nation was still very weak in the minds of the people of that era. Among the Jurchen aristocracy, due to cultural education and vision, the greatest ideal of most of them was only to keep the fruits of their existing victory, to be recognized by the Ming Dynasty as an independent state, and to live a stable and prosperous life. For a hero like Huang Taiji, Fan Wencheng, although he was Han, knew his mind better than many of his compatriots.

"Great Khan, deal with Sun Chengzong's reinforcements. I have a plan! ”

"Oh, Mr. Fan, please speak!"

Sun Tzu said: Soldiers, treacherous. Therefore, it can be shown but cannot be used, it is not used to show it, it is near and it is far away, and it is far away and it is shown to be near. Profit and temptation, chaos and take, attack it unprepared, surprise. Although Sun Chengzong's messenger entered the city, it was impossible to agree on a specific date, and could only set an approximate time. If it is then pretended that reinforcements have arrived to relieve the siege. Zu Dashou will inevitably go out of the city, even if he can't annihilate it, even if Sun Chengzong's reinforcements really arrive, Zu Dashou will not dare to go out of the city at that time. ”

"Good plan!" Huang Taiji high-fived and praised. As Fan Wencheng said, it was impossible for Sun Chengzong to agree on a specific time on his letterhead, because Sun Chengzong needed to draw garrisons from many places in order to mobilize an army large enough to break the encirclement of the Houjin army. It takes a long time to concentrate these troops in Jinzhou and train them into a large army with combat effectiveness, and there may be many accidents on the way, even if Sun Chengzong is Zhuge Liang's resurrection, it is impossible to calculate the specific time to be consumed, and it is only possible to agree on an approximate time, and then the defenders in the city judge the arrival of reinforcements through the movement of the Jin army outside the city. And this time frame is not a secret to Huang Taiji, after all, it is impossible for so many troops to be assembled, mobilized and trained to hide from the eyes of the spies, and once the preparations are completed, Sun Chengzong will not be able to delay for too long - the food of the Ming army in Dalinghe City is limited.

Huang Taiji Qu pointed to the calculation: "Sun Chengzong mobilized all the soldiers and horses, and it took at least two months to compile and practice, so what should be done in this time?" “

"Hold on and wait for it to change!" Fan Wencheng said with a smile: "The Great Khan raised the army of the country, is it for this mere city? Zhuge Kong Mingyun's siege is the bottom, and the heart is the top! Although the Ming people have a strong city and deep pools, if the Great Khan can put his heart in his heart and win the hearts of the Liao people in the city, what is he afraid of? “

Hebei, Wuqiao.

The cold wind, rain and snow drove most of the pedestrians into the house, and even the most hard-working farmers hugged their wives and huddled on the kang to keep warm. On the official road, more than 1,000 men and horses were marching northward with difficulty, most of the soldiers were in rags, some did not even have boots, their faces were full of numbness and exhaustion, and the livestock and horses in the team hung their heads, and they did not even have the strength to neigh.

A burly young general stood on the mound beside the road, looking at his team, his face was dark, his skin was rough, and his face had the kind of coldness and solemnity that is unique to people who have experienced a hundred battles and seen life and death, and the general flag behind him has been frozen by the cold wind, rain and snow, and it is difficult to see the word "hole" embroidered on it.

He is Kong Youde, the general of the left battalion of the Dengzhou infantry, although he is nominally the general of the left battalion of Dengzhou Town, but in fact his subordinates are all veterans of Liaodong, most of whom are cavalry. He is a native of Tieling, Liaodong, and his father are local miners, after Nurhachi raised an army, Tielingwei soon fell, Kong Youde followed his father to rebel against the rule of Houjin, after the defeat of the exile to Liaodong, in Guangning to join the army, the official to the guerrilla, and then to serve Mao Wenlong, renamed Mao Wenshi, became Mao Wenlong's righteous son.

After Mao Wenlong was killed by Yuan Chonghuan. Its Dongjiang town was under the command of its deputy general Chen Jisheng, and soon after Chen Jisheng was killed by the rebellious general Liu Xingzhi, and the Dongjiang generals attacked and killed each other. Huang Long, who originally belonged to the military town of Liaoxi, was appointed as the new commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town, and Kong Youde, who was an old man of Dongjiang, was excluded, so he and his friend Geng Zhongming led their troops to defect to Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai at that time, and Kong Youde also became the general of the left battalion of the infantry in Denglai Town.

After the Daling River was surrounded by the Houjin army, Sun Yuanhua ordered him to lead his troops to Liaodong to participate in the battle, first by sea, because of the hurricane failed, and there were many casualties. Later, it was time to take the land route, due to the lack of food and salary along the way, the local government refused to supply, the soldiers were hungry and cold, and they went to Liaodong to fight with the fierce Houjin army, and the soldiers complained a lot.

As the main general, Kong Youde naturally knows this, but he has no choice, as the master of an army, of course he has the power to kill the soldiers under his command, but on the other hand, these soldiers are also the foundation of his life. Why did Sun Yuanhua give him the position of an exiled Sanpin general? After all, it wasn't because he had more than a thousand battle-hardened sergeants under his command? The military attaché's character is not valuable. If he had no capital, it would be just a matter of one sentence for those civil officials to strip him of his clothes. Therefore, Kong Youde intentionally or unintentionally relaxed his control over his subordinates, and asked some soldiers to go out to "collect food" at night, saying that it was to collect food. In fact, it was robbery, and the soldiers were compensated for their property and had the opportunity to vent their grievances while getting food.

But two days ago, there was a bad thing, and some blind soldier smashed open the door of a house in the city. snatched a chicken, which was originally just a trivial matter, but this chicken belonged to the servant of Wang Xiangchun, the wang clan of Shandong. This Wang Xiangchun is the eye of the thirty-eighth year of Wanli. The official went to the Nanjing Ministry of Officials to test the meritorious Lang, the great-grandfather did the military department Shangshu, the grandfather did the Taifu Shaoqing, the father did the Huaiyang military preparation road, the Zhejiang according to the inspection envoy, the elder brother did the Zhejiang political envoy, the fifth generation of the family was born as a Jinshi, and it was a famous eunuch family of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Kong Youde, a character like this, naturally couldn't afford to offend, the soldier was heavily punished by the "arrow parade camp", and the soldier was punished with hatred and killed the servant that night.

This stabbed the hornet's nest, Wang Xiangchun's son refused to give up, and demanded that Kong Youde be held responsible, and the helpless Kong Youde had to evacuate Wuqiao, kill the soldier who committed the crime, and send his henchman Li Yingyuan to negotiate, but Wang Xiangchun's son never allowed it until he extorted Kong Youde with a sum of money. This became an important reason for the mutiny, on the one hand, the Liaodong front with a bleak future, on the other hand, the oppression and contempt of the government squires, on the same night, the deputy general Li Jiucheng, who had lost the money to buy horses, joined Kong Youde's department, he was afraid of being punished, so he instigated the soldiers who had long been dissatisfied to hold Kong Youde hostage to launch a mutiny, and the civil rebellion in the northwest had just been quelled, and a new rebellion broke out in the eastern territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Shaanxi, Yulin.

This is located in the northernmost part of the Loess Plateau Xiongcheng faces the Mu Us Sandy Land, faces the Yellow River in the east and Luliang in Shanxi, and connects with Wuzhong in Ningxia and Qingyang in Gansu in the west, forming a protrusion of the Loess Plateau to the Inner Mongolia Plateau, where the northernmost stronghold of the Ming army in Shaanxi is located, and the station of the governor of Yansui is also here.

"Lord He, Lord Governor is in the signing room, please come with me!" A handsome, seventeen or eighteen-year-old servant in Tsing Yi politely said to He Renlong, judging from the accent, he was a Hokkien native.

"Don't dare!" At this time, He Renlong was extremely humble and polite, he was careful to be half a step behind the servant, and he did not have the arrogant and domineering appearance on weekdays. The reason is very simple, the newly appointed governor of Yansui Hong Chengchou is a native of Nan'an, Fujian, and it is very common for civil officials in the Ming Dynasty to raise prostitutes, especially in Fujian, this young servant is handsome, and Hong Chengchou's fellow townsman, He Renlong is not willing to spoil his future because of a moment of inattention.

The two of them passed through the two courtyards, and then arrived at the outer room of the signing room, where twenty or thirty officials were full, all waiting for Hong Chengchou to receive them, and the servant invited He Renlong to sit down and wait, and then went into the inner room. He Renlong still heard of the style of the governor who had not been in office for a long time, perhaps because his imperial examination was only a second-class jinshi, and unlike the civil officials in the late Ming Dynasty, who were generally good at talking and not good at practice, Hong Chengchou was famous for his unfathomable actions and shrewdness and ability in his previous official positions. Especially when he was under Yang He, although his boss advocated Fu as the main thing, Hong Chengchou was very cruel when he fought with the peasant army, not only rarely accepted the surrender of the peasant army, but even repeatedly killed and surrendered. But Yang He couldn't catch him, and because of Hong's exploits and the aid of the DPRK and China, he had to be promoted to the governor of Yansui, a position in the military and political system of Shaanxi, which can almost be said to be second only to him.

He Renlong sat in the signing room, and saw that the officials in the room were like flowing water, and every once in a while someone entered the room, and after coming out, all of them looked nervous, and some were sweating, and they couldn't help but feel a little worried in their hearts, just when they saw a familiar general come out, he hurriedly took a step forward and pulled him aside, and said in a low voice: "Brother, Lord Fang Cai Hong has asked you something, let's talk to me first, it's better to be prepared." ”

The general wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed: "Brother He, this new Lord Hong is not a good match, let's keep those little tricks on weekdays and don't show them, everyone knows everything!" ”

"What?" He Renlong opened his mouth wide, although the military generals at that time could not suffer losses and engage in floating income like civil officials, but all kinds of tricks such as killing good and risking merit and eating empty salaries were not less than those of civil officials, He Renlong was even the best among them, if they were all telling the truth, wouldn't they give people a handle?

"Don't be in a hurry!" The general sighed: "Although this Lord Hong is shrewd, he is also a human being, and he knows the difficulties of leading our troops. If you coax him to deceive him, it will not work, but if you can complete the errand and fight, he will turn a blind eye to those things and let them go. “

"I see!" Hearing this, He Renlong breathed a sigh of relief, and then the green-clothed servant shouted He Renlong's name, he hurriedly tidied up his robes, walked into the house quickly, knelt down and kowtowed two heads, and said in a deep voice: "Yulin Weidu Division, the cavalry left battalion guerrilla He Renlong see the governor!" “

"Lord He, please get up!"

Due to the reason of his hometown, Hong Chengchou's accent has a strong southern Fujian accent, but the bite is very clear, although he was born poor, but the affluent life since entering the office has already polished off the traces left by the poor life in his early years, the white and plump chin has a neatly trimmed beard, thick eyebrows, narrow eyes, slightly prominent cheekbones, giving people a shrewd and capable feeling. (To be continued.) )

PS: Seeing this, those book friends who complain that I write some irrelevant chapters should probably guess that they can get something, Weber does like to go around in circles when writing books, but whether it's a TV series or a novel, what's the point of a flat and straightforward narrative? Finally, routinely ask for tickets, ask for subscriptions, and ask for rewards.