Sun Chuanting stood beside the crown prince, and Wu Fu was on the right, inspecting the seized booty together. He had a brief period of confusion after leaving Xi'an, and heard that Feng Shikong, Huang Jiong and others also had a brief loss of consciousness after the martyrdom, but now he has adjusted his mentality and completely stood by the side of the crown prince.

He felt that he was not too old, and he still had the enthusiasm to settle the world, and he couldn't give it up and end up with a regrettable and sad name. And in the whole world, only the crown prince can save him from the death penalty of losing his teacher and falling into the ground. With the long time with the crown prince, Sun Chuanting rekindled the highest goal in the hearts of every Confucian: to make the monarch Yao Shun, and then make the people pure.

Since Du Fu wrote this sentence, I don't know how many enthusiastic Confucian students hope to achieve such political ambitions. Although there are careerists who steal power among them, they cannot completely dismiss all Confucianism in generalization. Whether it is Hai Rui who scolded Jiajing, or even the likes of Feijun's Xinxue, in fact, they also hope to be able to "go to Jun Yao Shun" in their hearts, but their methods and thoughts are more extreme.

Fifty years old is the peak age of a central minister, too young will lack stability and experience, and if you are older, you will lack energy. After Sun Chuanting walked out of the shadow of his life, he returned to this peak state. He stood firm, and the angle of thinking about the problem naturally changed, and he took the East Palace as the starting point everywhere.

"Solve it first, and then we can say whether it is good or not." Sun Chuanting said with a smile: "Ma Zheng is really a sore spot in the Ming Dynasty, and he used to buy horses from the Mongols. The Mongols sold those inferior horses to us, so that the horses of the official army were never inferior to the Mongols. The border soldiers are still like this, but the horses that are supplied to the mainland have been eliminated again, and the weak and weak follow each other, how can the horse politics of the Ming Dynasty get better? ”

"What Sun Du said is very true," Zhu Cihong nodded. "But there's an exception here."

"Oh?" Sun Chuanting was stunned.

"Nanhaizi." Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Thirteen years before Chongzhen, Jiubian still had to enter Chengliang Horse to be used in the Imperial Horse Prison. These tribute horses are all good horses, and there is no shortage of divine horses. I remember last year when I went to Nanhaizi with my father, the eunuch said that there were no less than 200 horses. ”

Nanhaizi was called Feifang Bo in the Yuan Dynasty, which originated from the Yuan Dynasty training Haidongqing to catch birds and small beasts in this area where the river was full of mooring. In order to make Haidongqing rest and dry the feathers wet with sweat and frost, Yuan Tingte built a drying eagle platform. It still exists today.

After Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, he expanded the hunting grounds of the Yuan Dynasty dozens of times in the twelfth year of Yongle. In the third year of Xuande, the imperial court allocated troops to repair the Nanhaizi wall, bridge, and earthen wall for more than 120 miles, and opened up four Haizi gates around it.

While the warriors were short of horses to fight, the royal garden was filled with herds of good horses. This is not that Chongzhen is stingy and refuses to give. He really didn't expect such a small node. Even Zhu Cihong had thought that cavalry and artillery were the two bayonets of the future emperor at the beginning of the crossing, but without practice, he also ignored the rich resource reserves behind him.

"Write it down! The horses of Nanhaizi and the sea are to be moved away together. Zhu Cihong was afraid that he would forget too much, so he hurriedly summoned Tian Cunshan.

Sun Chuanting didn't know the "prison strategy" between the crown prince and Wu Fu, and couldn't help but be curious: "Where is Your Highness going to move?" ”

"Shandong." Zhu Cihong did not publicize it loudly, nor did he deliberately keep it secret, and it was plain.

"Shandong?" Sun Chuanting was a little stunned for a while. If Beijing can't keep it, it should go to Nanjing. Why are you going to Shandong?

"Sun Du thinks that there is nowhere else to go except Shandong?" Wu Fu interjected with a smile.

Sun Chuanting instantly swept the geography in his mind. The Northwest has never been a grain-producing area. Since the collapse of Kaizhong, the entire Nine Sides can only rely on the south for military rations. During the Wanli period of Jiajing, the waste fields in the south of the Yangtze River were planted, and they could not be self-sufficient in food, and they also lost "the lake is ripe, and the world is full". There was no major upheaval in the country.

If the crown prince wants to have a territory that he has the final say, it is obvious that the three lands of Qin, Jin and Zhao are absolutely undefendable and cannot be defended. What's more, now that the land of Qin has been owned by Li Zicheng, if he can snatch it from his mouth, the prince will not have to think about "his own territory".

What about Huguang? That's the granary of the world. Huguang soldiers can also be regarded as good at fighting.

Sun Chuanting immediately smiled bitterly, if Zhang Xianzhong was so easy to deal with, would Zuo Liangyu still sit back and watch others sleep soundly on the side of his couch? It must be known that Zuo Liangyu no longer needs to raise his own respect, he and Liaozhen are actually the towns of the late Tang Dynasty, and the difference between him and Li Chuang and Huanghu is only to change the banner and establish a government.

Shaanxi, Huguang and Guangdu fell into the hands of the enemy, and the only available land in the world was Sichuan, Shandong, and Jiangnan. Sun Chuanting secretly said in his heart: Sichuan can't go. With the strength of the East Palace, one less one died, and after entering Sichuan, Tusi Yiqiang alone could not be even. When the time came, he was attacked by Li Zicheng from Hanzhong and Zhang Xianzhong from Jingmen, and there was no place to escape.

So there really are only Jiangnan and Shandong to go to.

Sun Chuanting finally couldn't figure out why Donggong chose Shandong. He asked Wu Fudao: "Old man, now the Donggong army is no more than 5,000, and the number of Qin soldiers is only 20,000 if you count the training haode Qin soldiers. A single big war can break your muscles and bones, or even collapse at all. Shandong's terrain is suitable for attack but not for defense, so why not set up a defense along the river? ”

Wu Fu shook his head and said: "If it is a debate, Shandong is indeed far inferior to Jiangnan. If it is about people's hearts, then Jiangnan is a place of death. ”

In terms of military strategy, Sun Chuanting is definitely better than Wu Fu, who has never been in the battle in person. However, when it comes to people's hearts, Sun Chuanting can't catch up with Wu Fu even if he is a horse.

Wu Fu saw that Sun Chuanting was puzzled, and he was also worried that this kind of doubt would be exaggerated, and finally shook the crown prince's determination, so he took the opportunity to analyze carefully: "Every inch of land in Jiangnan is expensive, if Your Highness goes to Jiangnan, how to support the soldiers?" Buying land? There wasn't that much silver grain. Confiscated? Jiangnan Shijia has been married for many generations, one is prosperous, and one is lost, how can it be offended? ”

As long as one is copied, the other families will naturally unite. During the war, the city was opened, and the rent and taxes were resisted on weekdays. Smuggling intelligence is a trivial matter, and it is more likely that under their resistance, they will not even be able to buy food and cloth, and even lead to the collapse of the market. If the contradictions are further intensified, these powerful people will move to the mud village in the mountains, guard the resistance soldiers, and wait for the "king division". That's when I really died of sleepiness.

In this way, even if Jiangnan is obtained, it will be a wasteland, and no matter who it is, it will not give Donggong this time to sweep Jiangnan. Not to mention the reconstruction of Jiangnan, without the support of Shilin, it is extremely difficult to find a scholar, how can we talk about reconstruction? In ancient times, there were many people who betrayed the country to seek glory, but it was rare for them to turn their backs on their families, counting on someone to kill their relatives and Lidong Palace and damage their own family.

"Going to Jiangnan is a tiger's mouth, but going to Shandong is not." Wu Fu said: "Shandong has been swept several times, and the wealthy families have been ruined a lot, and Shili is very weak. Moreover, it is entrenched in Shandong, and the East Palace is the gateway to Nanjing, and the silver grain from the south of the Yangtze River must be sent in a steady stream, so as not to cause local turmoil and ruin the life of the powerful family.

Second, if the imperial court crosses to the south, it is bound to have another big case. Speaking of which, Sun Duke and I are both guilty bodies. Can we let His Highness get involved in the party struggle for our sake? ”

"Take 10,000 steps back," Zhu Cihong said loudly, "As a son of man, I naturally have to guard the gate for my father, and Nanjing still has to be controlled by my father." ”

Sun Chuanting nodded and said yes, this banner of "respecting the emperor" cannot be fallen under any circumstances.

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "In this way, Sun Du is also in favor of the East Palace to stand on its own first, and Xu Tu has recovered." ”

"Your Royal Highness," Sun Chuanting immediately said, "During the Warring States Period, Li Mu was able to consolidate the border and destroy the Huns, but when he entered Handan, he was favored by villains. This is not the ability of the material, it is really a horse of a thousand miles that cannot be used in the room. For His Highness, this is exactly the case.

And now in troubled times, Liao and Zuo Fan towns are self-reliant, the east is peeking outside the pass, and the thieves are rampant in the west, just as the seriously ill people should not be saved by tiger and wolf medicine, His Royal Highness should especially govern a place, take this as the foundation, and then try to restore the north and south. ”

Zhu Cihong was happy in his heart and said with a smile: "What Sun Du said is very true! ”

In the East Palace, there are only Wu Fu and Sun Chuanting, and it is very important for them to unify their thoughts. As long as there are two core figures of Wen Yiwu, supplemented by peripheral cadres such as Li Banghua, Feng Yuanbiao, and Li Yuzhi, and Li Mingrui and Zhang Shiqi as minions, a group can be formed. Otherwise, the crown prince is a paper tiger. (To be continued......)