As soon as Li Jiancheng's words were asked, Sun Shenxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen recommended Yuan Yingtai to serve as the economic strategy of Liaodong.

Li Jiancheng's eyebrows jumped when he heard this, this person Li Jiancheng naturally knew that it was this girl who served in Liaodong in less than a year, the important town of Shenyang in Liaodong and Liaoyang, the capital of Liaodong, fell one after another, Yuan Yingtai committed suicide in fear of crime, and all the east of the Liaohe River fell to Houjin. Hearing that they recommended such a talent to themselves, Li Jiancheng said in a weird manner: "Yuan Yingtai, is this person okay?" ”

Li Jiancheng asked with a strange yin and yang atmosphere, and the people below also heard it crookedly, and Han Kuang, a cabinet scholar, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Yuan Yingtai participated in politics in Henan before, and prepared for Yongping according to the envoy. He used to recruit troops here, rest the fortress, build warships, and purchase gunpowder and ordnance, all of which were very effective, and he was a general. ”

Li Jiancheng also thought seriously after hearing it, Yuan Yingtai is a big man, a native of Fengxiang, Shaanxi. In the twenty-third year of Wanli (1595), Jinshi. Donglin Party members. Awarded to Linzhang Zhi County. He built a long causeway for more than 40 miles to defend against Zhangshui. Transferred to Hanoi again, the water of Qin is diverted through the Taihang Mountain, the Guangji River Canal is excavated, it becomes 25 weirs, tens of thousands of hectares of irrigated fields, the neighboring towns all enjoy its benefits, so far there is the "Yuan Gong Ancestral Hall" of the Ming Dynasty at the head of the Guangli Canal. The Yellow River broke at Zhuwang, and there were many dead soldiers. Ying Tai set up a seat for the house, the diet is moderate, the people are happy to do things, and the two rivers are governed.

Yuan Yingtai is a shrewd and resolute official, and he is very good at water management and financial management, but he is not good at commanding operations, and he has done a very bad job in planning and deployment, so it can only be said that he is a logistics commander, and in this regard, even Xiong Tingbi in history also thinks that he is an expert in logistics and relies on him very much. It's a pity that this person is not a front-line general.

Li Jiancheng heard him say this, he looked at the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu and smiled and said, "Is that so!" Aiqing thinks he's very capable, right? Then it's better to let this Yuan Yingtai and Jiannu fight, and see how capable he is, let's choose the best. ”

Li Jiancheng's words can be said to be full of surprise, this emperor is too whimsical! Can this war be tried casually?

Fang Congzhe was the first to stand up and said: "Your Majesty, this is absolutely unacceptable, how can the matter of the war be lightly moved." This soldier and horse move a lot of food and salary, the time to move the army needs to be timed, otherwise it will lose momentum, a careless will hurt my Ming vitality, please Your Majesty must not be such a child's play. ”

Fang Congzhe first came out and said, and other ministers also came out to preach, but Li Jiancheng heard it but Ha Lu Ha Da Lu smiled and said: "You Aiqing misunderstood, when did I say that I would really use the army." ”

As soon as Li Jiancheng said this, everyone was stunned, why didn't the emperor mean this? But didn't you just say that you wanted Yuan Yingtai and Jiannu to fight? Li Jiancheng saw that everyone was puzzled, and said: "What I said about fighting is not really asking him to mobilize troops and horses to fight Jiannu, what I mean... Belch... Forget it, let's just let you see the real thing, come on, bring the sand table up to me. ”

As soon as Li Jiancheng's voice fell, dozens of people steadily carried a large table from the door to the main hall, this table is five meters long and four meters wide, no wonder it takes more than ten people to carry it, this table is still covered with a cloth at this time, and after this big table is lifted into the main hall to stabilize Li Jiancheng signaled the people below to open the curtain, and the terrain map of the mountains and rivers of the entire Liaodong instantly appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

That's right, this is the artifact that Li Jiancheng asked him to prepare in Luo Sigong's ear yesterday, the sand table.

As soon as the sand table appeared, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty looked at this thing incredibly, the terrain of the mountains and rivers on it was really clear, and the cities in Liaodong were also vividly on it. The ministers all looked at the emperor in amazement.

Li Jiancheng explained: "This thing is called a sand table, and it is suitable to simulate the terrain and mountains. This is the battlefield! Let that Yuan Yingtai come to fight Jiannu on this. I will recommend an opponent to this Yuan Yingtai, and let my teacher Sun Chengzong be the opponent! What do you think? ”

When everyone heard this, they realized that the emperor had premeditated! Zhou Jiamo, the secretary of the Ministry of History, stood up and asked: "The Sun Chengzong mentioned by His Majesty is the leader of the 32nd year of Wanli (1604), who worked in the Zhan Mansion and tutored Sun Chengzong, who was studying for the first emperor at that time. ”

Zhou Jiamo said that only everyone knows such a person, if it is this person! This person is the teacher of the first emperor, and now the emperor says that it is his teacher, so he is definitely qualified to compete with Yuan Yingtai for this son. Everyone didn't expect that the emperor would recommend Sun Chengzong at this time, and he was still the emperor's teacher.

The Donglin Party didn't expect the emperor to recommend such a person at this time, but Li Jiancheng said that it was a competition, and he didn't say that he would recommend it! Could it be that the Donglin Party can not accept this kind of thing? Isn't that saying that you are incompetent? Now it's hard to take it, and winning proves that you have the ability, but once you lose, this position will definitely not be retained! Li Ruhua stood up and asked, "Then dare to ask Your Majesty, how can they compete on this sand table?" ”

Li Jiancheng listened and began to explain to them how to play and use the sand table battle. After talking about the rules, Li Jiancheng said: "This sand table drill is a very good thing to test and cultivate the generals' talents, and I will be equipped with this thing when the Ming Dynasty marches and fights in the future, which can not only make the generals more comprehensive in command, but also enable the imperial court to have a more detailed understanding of the overall situation!"

As soon as everyone heard about it, those who knew it thought it was a good thing, but those who didn't know how to do it only thought it was just a three-dimensional map.

"Your Majesty's majesty is really holy to this thing, if my Ming military is equipped with this thing, then the grasp of the battle situation will be meticulous and inherently undefeated!" The military department Shangshu urged Jingrong to say.

As soon as he said it, everyone else started to preach it, but there were still some people who scoffed at it and thought that these guys were too good at sycophancy.

After Li Jiancheng finished explaining, he said: "Since everyone already understands, it is better to choose those two Aiqing to enter the hall to try one or two!" ”

When everyone heard it, they felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so they went to Xuan Yuan Yingtai and Sun Chengzong to see the palace.

Sun Chengzong and Yuan Yingtai were waiting outside the main hall respectively, Yuan Yingtai was naturally brought by Donglin in advance, Sun Chengzong was also ordered by Li Jiancheng yesterday to find it, and it was also very sudden when Sun Chengzong received the notice yesterday, Sun Chengzong in history joined the political center of the Ming Dynasty as an emperor not so quickly!

Sun Chengzong is now fifty-seven years old, looking like a little old man. And Yuan Yingtai is much younger than Sun Chengzong! Sun Chengzong never thought that the emperor would suddenly come back to him, and he, the emperor's teacher, had not yet taught the emperor a few lessons. Sun Chengzong and Yuan Yingtai entered the hall at the same time, and the two of them went to see the emperor first.

Li Jiancheng raised his hand on it to let the two of them live, and after the two stood up, Li Jiancheng smiled at Sun Chengzong and said: "Teacher Sun, as a student, I haven't been to the teacher's class for a long time, and I didn't think of you until the country came out recently, and the student is really ashamed!" ”

Li Jiancheng said such a passage, and there is no change of color in the court! Li Jiancheng called him a teacher in front of everyone, and said that he hadn't been to class for a long time until the country had problems, and he didn't think of him until the country had problems, you have to know that Li Jiancheng is the emperor! Can an emperor be the first person to think of when the country is in trouble, can such a person be simple?

Only then did everyone know how much Emperor Lu Dao attached importance to this Sun Chengzong, and Li Jiancheng's words seemed to be commonplace, but in fact he was laying a foundation for him to gain popularity. Sun Chengzong naturally understands this below, he has too many doubts about the emperor, but naturally he can't ask in this kind of scene, and the emperor is cheering him up, Sun Chengzong naturally can't cut off his foundation!

"Your Majesty's words are serious! Weichen is only good at some shallow learning, and he is not enough to be so concerned about His Majesty! Sun Chengzong said so, Li Jiancheng's words were so full, if he was not modest, he would definitely arouse suspicion!

But Li Jiancheng ignored these, he said: "Teacher Sun is modest, I have heard you talk about military science, and I know that Mr. Lu Dao is good at soldiers, now it is really good to help me use this sand table to test this incoming Liaodong Economic Strategy!" ”

Sun Chengzong looked at Yuan Yingtai next to him in some surprise when he heard this, the emperor's words were so full, he Sun Chengzong was false in modesty, so he said: "May I ask Your Majesty, what is this sand table?" ”

So Li Jiancheng asked Sun Chengzong and Yuan Yingtai to see the sand table, they explained to them the operation method and use of the sand table while looking at Li Jiancheng, Sun Chengzong saw it in his eyes and was shocked in his heart, he is a person who understands military affairs! In history, in 1622, he came to Shanhaiguan as a scholar of Dongge University and a secretary of the military department, operated for nearly four years, organized and trained 110,000 troops, selected and trained a group of civil and military generals such as Ma Shilong and Yuan Chonghuan, and later recovered more than 400 miles of lost land and created the famous Guanning defense line.

Sun Chengzhong said after the most reluctance: "Your Majesty's sand table is really a war wonder, if it can be popularized, my Ming military command will definitely be able to rise to a higher level!" ”

Sun Chengzong said this, Li Jiancheng was very satisfied, and then announced that the two would play a game. Yuan Yingtai will be the general leader of Liaodong Economic Strategy, and Sun Chengzhong will play the role of **Hachi to represent the Houjin army! Both sides of the hall are blocked by screens, and a small sand table is used to command the order, and the big sand table is for everyone to watch together!