In July, Nanjing, which had no rain for days, was like falling into a furnace, scorched and lifeless. Li Xin in the military tent was sweating like rain, and he was only wearing a pair of pants, and he had already been soaked with sweat. In this era, it is not the 21st century, and officials must pay attention to their appearance, no matter how cold or hot they are, they should not wear more clothes according to the etiquette system, and they cannot have less clothes.

But if it doesn't rain in the south of the Yangtze River, it's like a fire, and people can't even raise the spirit of dealing with official documents. Where would Li Xin take care of those rules that you want to save face and suffer crimes, anyway, this is the barracks of the Three Guards, and it is his one-acre and three-point land, and he can wear it as he wants.

Not only that, but he also sent a message that all the exercises that should be done after noon will be cancelled until the day has passed. This order was unanimously cheered by all the soldiers. But it is not without opposition, and Li Da, who was built a slave, is actually one of them.

"There is a sentence in the next sentence that I don't know whether to say or not......"

This is the opening remark when Li Da has some suggestions, and Li Xin's ears are almost calloused.

"Then don't talk about it! There is a sour plum soup just soaked in cold water on the case, you go to relieve the heat, and then make a few noises, do you still think that Ben Shuai's anger is small? ”

Li Xin could see from his slightly furrowed eyebrows and disapproving expression as soon as he entered the military tent that this thing was going to use his bare shoulders to deal with official documents, which was nothing more than untidy clothes and solemnity in political affairs, etc., which was pure bullshit. But if he was more serious on this topic, Li Xin couldn't talk about Li Da, so he had to let him drink sour plum soup to block his mouth.

The sour plum soup that has just been soaked in deep well water is difficult for anyone to resist in such hot weather. Li Da pursed his lips, picked up the wooden scoop floating in the clay pot, scooped a bowl of Gu Dong Gu Dong and lowered his stomach in a blink of an eye, still feeling puzzled, and was hesitating to scoop another bowl to drink. I only heard Li Xin say: "Don't worry, open the tube to drink!" ”

Li Da scooped another scoop and drank it with a bang, it was really hearty and happy, and the heat in his body was instantly swept away. After drinking enough sour plum soup, Li Da reminded him of the old words, "The Marquis of Zhenyu didn't let me say it below, and after thinking about it for a while, I still had to say it." After the big deal is finished, it is to receive the punishment under yourself. ”

Hearing Li Da say this, Li Xinxin smiled bitterly again and again, even these big bowls of sour plum soup couldn't buy the noisy Li Da, and he still couldn't stop his noise. Thinking of this, I can't help but sigh secretly, just say it if I want to.

Sure enough, Li Da didn't wait for Li Xin to answer, so he talked about Li Xin's disheveled clothes, "...... If this matter is known to those villains with ulterior motives, and they want to use this to impeach the marquis, isn't it in vain to add to the chaos......"

Where would Li Xin be afraid of Wenchen's impeachment, has he been impeached less since he led the army? As the so-called lice are too much to bite, they have long been trained in insect eating and rat bites.

It's just that Li Xin is silent, but Li Da has a big end of not reaching his goal and not closing his mouth, and Li Xin secretly slandered himself, you Li Da is just a barbarian outside the border, how can you care more about these red tapes than me, an emperor? It's really weird. But he didn't want to say this slanderous remark in his heart and make Li Da ugly, after all, Li Da did these things out of good intentions, although he was a little noisy, but he couldn't hurt people's hearts for this little thing.

Li Xin began to think about what excuse to divert his attention again, and when he saw the thick official document he had brought in and placed on the case, he pointed to the stack of official documents and asked:

"Is there any military situation in the west today?"

This military situation in the west refers to the war between Mi Yan and Zhang Shi in Jiangxi. Since the victory in Jiujiang, all the way to the recovery of Nanchang, the war situation in Jiangxi seems to have fallen into a kind of stalemate, the daily military reports are no major wars, only occasional contact, capture of horse spies, such inconsequential military reports.

Previously, Li Da had also complained that Mi Yan and Zhang Shi in front of him were slow and not very attentive. However, Li Xin was well aware of the pros and cons of restricting command and remote control, so he simply suppressed this situation in the army and did not intervene in the battle situation in the Jiangxi battlefield.

Li Dazheng's spittle flew sideways, and suddenly heard Li Xin mention today's military report, so he slapped his head and hurriedly walked a few steps to the front of the case, pulled out a copy from the thick stack of official documents, and put it in front of Li Xin.

"I almost forgot about it! The war in Jiangxi has changed, and King Huai broke out of the siege, and has entered Jianning, Fujian through Fuzhou and Jianchang! ”

King Huai broke the siege and fled? Li Xin's eyes narrowed, thoughtful. Li Da swept away the previous excitement, and said with great meaning: "Today, I know why Mi Yan and Zhang Shi have not joined Raozhou for a long time, it turns out that what I am waiting for is this plan to drive the tiger and the wolf!" ”

The saying of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf made Li Xin's heart pound, there was no imperial border army in Fujian, and the Weisuo army had long been rotten and unusable, and the only one who could confront the Huaiwang rebels was the soldiers under Zheng Zhilong. But Zheng Zhilong's soldiers are basically distributed along the coast, and in prefectures and counties like Jianning, which are far away from the sea, I am afraid that Zheng will not be able to reach him.

As far as strategy goes, this trick is beautiful. But as far as the heart is concerned, no matter what strategy ends, it is the innocent people who are involved in the war, but Li Xin quickly adjusted his mentality, and the current situation of the Three Guards is already against the current, and if they do not advance, they will retreat. Just as he is ready to fly, all he can do is move forward and forward, and in the end, only with power in his hands, can he carry out the ideas that he can't say in his stomach for days and nights.

With this calculation, Li Xin's mentality calmed down.

"This war report will be delivered to the government hall immediately, and another copy will be copied and reported to the Yamen of the Governor of Nanzhili!"

This extremely sensitive military report must not be delayed, and must be reported immediately, otherwise a delay of a moment or a half may invite rumors. Li Da nodded in response, then came to Li Xin's left hand side and sat down in front of the table specially set up for him, grinding it with his hands, and forgot about Li Xin's disheveled clothes for a while.

The political hall soon received this military report, and everyone looked at each other, and no one took the lead to speak. Since the Wu Zhen incident, the ministers in the political hall have become more and more cautious in their words and deeds, never taking their stance lightly, and have always actively cooperated with the official affairs of the Three Guards to the governor of the Yamen, and never raised objections.

Now the Three Guards let the Huai King break out of the siege and spread the war to the mountainous areas of Fujian, isn't this equivalent to Jiaolong entering the sea and letting the tiger return to the mountain? If you want to completely extinguish the rebels of King Huai, I don't know when and what month I can do it. Since Xiong Mingyu went to Hangzhou, this political hall has become more and more lifeless, Zheng Sanjun and Gao Hongtu are both well-known old foxes, and they have a non-caring attitude towards everything, neither opposing nor clearly expressing their approval.

Now that such a thing has happened, he will not be the first to speak.

At this time, Jiang Yueguang said hesitantly: "The official army has always liked to conceal and lie in wars, and big defeats become small defeats, small defeats become small victories, and small victories become big victories. The Three Guards took the Huaiwang rebels in Jiangxi, and it was a small defeat, maybe the battle in Jiangxi was a fiasco! ”

The head of his analysis was Dao, and several Hanlin who squeezed in also said yes again and again. Even some officials were talking about it. Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, who had been silent, let out a disdainful sneer in his nose at this time.

Defeated? Li Xin's Three Guards Army is He Tarzi's shorter and longer tiger and wolf army, and the foundation of the Huaiwang rebels is just a Huangmei thief, how can they lose the battle. Previously, the Three Guards had been standing still, and Gao Hongtu was still a little hesitant and puzzled. Now, when the Huaiwang rebels invaded Jianning, Fujian, he could immediately conclude that Li Xin was driving the tiger and devouring the wolf.

The thought made him shudder. Li Xin has such a big appetite, not only to include Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi into the scope of his command, but now he has to extend his hand to Fujian in a justifiable manner.

Perhaps as long as the rebels of King Huai are not destroyed for a day, Li Xin's Three Guards Army can chase the rebels all the way to Liangguang and Yungui. The rebels will inevitably kill all the local officials in every gram, and the Three Guards will come forward to maintain local law and order, and the imperial court will cut off communication with Jiangnan, and over time......

In the dog days, Gao Hongtu still couldn't stop the chill oozing from his back. If, as he expected, wouldn't half of the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty fall into the hands of Li Xin? This situation can only be blamed on the imperial court's emphasis on border affairs in the north and light on the south. Almost all the elite soldiers and strong generals were used to fight against the Tartars outside the Guan, and the thieves raging in the Central Plains, and there was no war in the rich land in the south, so there was no strong border army to defend it, and how many men and horses could only one Duke of Wei sit in Nanjing?

If Wei Guogong did not have the fiasco of the Taiping Mansion and sat in the city of sorrow, he might still be able to deter the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, and now that the papier-mâché tiger has been punctured and revealed in its original form, who would care about his prestige after the founding hero Xu Da?

After thinking about it, Gao Hongtu was already drenched in a cold sweat, and no one could stop Li Xin anymore. He forgot to glance at Zheng Sanjun, the head of the Nanjing household department sitting firmly next to him, but when he saw this "old friend" with his eyelids slightly closed and a drowsy appearance, he immediately understood, so he also closed his eyes slightly and dozed off......

Let's make trouble, let's make trouble! Just let these people who don't know whether they are alive or dead make trouble, are there still fewer lessons from the past? Think this will give you a chance? Which one is not a dragon and phoenix among people, Xiong Mingyu or Zhang Fangyan? Didn't they all lose to the town marquis in the end?

Jiang Yueguang was originally an idle official in charge of the affairs of the Nanjing Hanlin Academy, with no position or power in his hands, and he has always been the same as a decoration. Now with this assertion, coupled with the instigation of a cadre of students from the Hanlin Academy, the heart that is unwilling to be lonely can't help but live.

He glanced around with contempt for the powerful people who were all pretending to be dead. secretly scolded in his heart: You wall grass, all of you should be shrinking turtles, otherwise there will be no chance for me Jiang Yueguang to show his hands and feet!

After making up his mind, Jiang Yueguang left the political affairs hall, and there was nothing to discuss with these big officials, but now he thinks about it, and he has several Hanlin students who have a column in Huang Nanlei's "Bulletin", and just write a few articles, just as a stone to ask for directions.