Nanjing, Li Xin got up from his chair, came to the window, pushed the two wooden windows open, and a fresh air mixed with a cold cold poured in. The delicate Western clock on the table ticked rhythmically, and just a few minutes before he had signed a decree. Cheng Mingjiu, the commander of the Korean garrison, was transferred to the command of the Lianghuai garrison, while Mi Yan, who was originally in charge of the Lianghuai garrison, was transferred to Seoul to take over Cheng Mingjiu's position.

In recent months, Li Xin clearly felt that a few henchmen around him had done something hidden from him, and he knew very well what these people were thinking, although the original intention was not necessarily bad, but if he took 10,000 steps back, if this kind of unauthorized behavior was not punished as it should be, the embankment of a thousand miles would collapse in the anthill.

After Li Xin mastered the huge resources, he had the idea of starting from the system several times, but this top-down power system not only has a low cost of governance, but also has a thousand-year-old political tradition, and this habit has long been ingrained in people's hearts, and even penetrated into the bone marrow. If there is to be a change, it will inevitably harm the vested interests, and who is not included in the large number of civil and military forces, including himself?

Under heavy internal and external pressures, it is clear that drastic change would be a self-defeating foolishness. Therefore, after a few small attempts, many of his ideas were all gone.

If he can't start with the system, then Li Xin can only rely on scheming.

Cheng Mingjiu's decision on the matter of peace with the Manchu Qing Dynasty violated the bottom line of this top-down power system. In the ecological environment of authoritarian politics, which is cheap to rule, the effect of this behavior is also immeasurable. With the end of authoritarianism, the foundations of rule are in danger of disintegrating.

However, these people are all the Pao Ze brothers who crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood with Li Xin, and let him kill the killer, but he can't be ruthless. In a dilemma, Li Xin could only choose a compromise method, to transfer Cheng Mingjiu away from Seoul, the strategic center of gravity of the Three Guards, and to transfer him to Lianghuai, which played a relatively secondary role, on the premise that his merits were not rewarded.

This is enough to serve as a wake-up call to anyone to refrain from acting arbitrarily.

As far as the truth is concerned, Li Xin is very distressed about his current mentality, and he said that being an emperor is a lonely person, and at this moment, he is not an emperor, so he has begun to consciously doubt and guard everyone and things around him.

It was as if one day his tense nerves were loosened, he would lose everything. For a moment, Li Xin also had a seizure of Wenqing, and sighed with emotion, at this time, whether he had huge resources and power, or these things bound him and forced him to run all the way to the dark.

Li Da quietly walked in, put away the official documents on the table and sent them to the secretariat, which was a staff agency set up by Li Xin to assist him in handling official affairs, although it was not famous, but all the decrees came out of it, and even influenced the Nanjing Political Affairs Hall, in a sense it was eroding the boundaries of the latter's power.

Li Xin turned around, and Li Da's movements slowed down, but he saw that his face was pale and his expression was a little trance.

"Didn't I give you a half-moon vacation, so that you can rest and adjust your mentality?"

Sakha is Li Da's sibling, and Cheng Mingjiu treated his body in an extremely insulting manner, and after the news reached Nanjing, the streets and alleys were indeed full of joy. However, it is self-evident that it is in the heart of this deep-thinking Li Da, that is, the former Wakda.

However, Li Da refused to dwell more on this matter, and replied in a calm voice: "At the beginning, each was its master, and he was ready to meet each other. The humble will naturally be sad for his brother, if the marquis of Zhenyu thinks that the humble will abolish the public for personal reasons, then he will underestimate Li Da. ”

Li Da bit the two words of his Han family's name very hard, so as to show that Saha's affairs would not affect his ability and judgment to handle official business.

Even Li Xin had to admit that since Li Da became a staff member, he has been cautious, has no distractions, no details, and has never made a single mistake, otherwise how could he be the chief of staff in a sensitive capacity?

"There is news from Beijing, and Yu Zhenhou is very hindered."

After Li Da put away Cheng Mingjiu and Mi Yan's transfer documents, he put another official document on Li Xin's desk. Li Xin nodded slightly, and then frowned. The news of Li Dakong has already been sent back from Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen already had the idea of cutting the military power of the Three Guards. The king of Jin, the lord of Xinle, was canonized as a princess, and then transferred him to the north to complete the marriage, but I am afraid that he will soon come to Nanjing.

Li Xin opened the letter and looked at it a few times, and it was indeed Princess Xinle.

"What do you think?" Li Xin asked lightly.

Li Da replied almost without thinking: "Zhu Youzhen is not well-intentioned, and the Hou of Zhenzhen must not risk himself and put himself in danger!" ”

In Li Da's consciousness, he is descending Li but not Ming, and mentioning the great tomorrow has always been called by his name to show his heart.

Li Xin nodded again, noncommittal, only said that he knew, and waved his hand to let him retreat.

After half a day's effort, Li Da came back with a stack of official documents, all of which were related to the situation in the south. Li Xin looked at them one by one in order. Half of them involve one person.

This person's name made Li Xin's head seem to stretch slightly, it was Zheng Sen. Although Zheng Sen has spared no effort to oppose him and the Three Guards since he appeared in Li Xin's field of vision, because of more than ten years of compulsory education, he has no ill feelings towards this person no matter what.

After Zheng Sen was completely driven out of Guangxi, he first wandered in the country of Annam for a while, and then somehow suddenly grew stronger, conquering the important towns of Annam in one fell swoop, Thang Long Mansion and Thanh Hoa Province, and capturing and killing the lord of the Ruan clan who had always been a headache for the Ming Dynasty.

But to Li Xin's surprise, Zheng Sen seemed to have no intention of gaining a foothold in Annan, so he pushed out the Li family, who lived in a corner of Gaoping, and helped him to become the lord of Annan.

The lord of the Li clan of Annam was originally under the oppression of the Ruan clan, and could only survive in Gaoping under the protection of the Ming Dynasty, and never imagined that one day he would be able to recapture Annam Zhengshuo, so he was very grateful to Zheng Sen and recognized Zheng Sen as his uncle.

It is said that the king of Lancang, Surya Wangsa, was still a young and promising ruler of the country, and he was extremely wary of any foreign army, and after hearing about the actions of Zheng Sen's army in Annam, he ambushed Zheng Sen in the rainforest. In a fit of rage, Zheng Sen captured Luang Prabang, the old capital of the Lancang Kingdom.

However, Lancang State Network poured the country's strength into the new capital of Vientiane, gathering an army of tens of thousands of people, preparing to expel this Ming Dynasty rebel general. At the same time, envoys were sent to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty and another large country in the western part of the Lancang Kingdom, Donghu State.

The Ming Dynasty had frequent civil strife at this time, so it was natural that there was no time to look south. At this time, the Donghu Kingdom was in its heyday, and the southern Ayutthaya was dying by it and was about to expand eastward, so how could it be easily let go in the face of such an opportunity.

Therefore, King Talong, who had succeeded to the throne for more than ten years, immediately led his troops into the Lancang Kingdom, intending to annex this powerful neighbor in the name of rescuing the Lancang Kingdom.

In the end, the three armies with their own evil intentions launched a major battle that lasted for three months in Vientiane, the new capital of Lancang State.

In addition to fighting Zheng Sen's army, the army of the Lancang State also fought with Donghu, who was on the expedition of the labor division. As for the specific situation of the battle, Li Xin did not know, but the result was that Zheng Sen took advantage of this melee, captured and killed the king of Lancang in one fell swoop, Surya Wangsa, and drove the army of Donghu out of Lancang.

King Tarong of Taungoo was wounded by arrows in the Battle of Vientiane and died shortly after returning to the capital of Ava.

After that, the kings of the Three Kingdoms died at the hands of Zheng Sen, and Zheng Sen's fame suddenly spread throughout the rainforest, and everyone was terrified.

After Zheng Sen occupied the Lancang Kingdom, it seems that he also changed his original intention in Annam, occupying large territories of Lancang, Dacheng and Donghu. It took more than half a year to carve out a vast territory in the rainforest.

After capturing the ancient city of Baigu in Donggu, Zheng Sen chose this important coastal town in Donggu as his station. As long as you take a sea boat to the west in the sea south of Baigu, it will not take long to reach Tianzhu Kingdom.

After learning more about Zheng Sen's legendary experience in Southeast Asia, Li Xin intuitively felt like watching a good show.

However, the messy name of the country also confused him, and after careful identification, he matched the name of the country at this time with the name of the country he was familiar with in later generations.

Li Xin even had an unbelievable idea that if Zheng Sen was short of money, food, and weapons in Southeast Asia, he could even give appropriate help.

However, he quickly dismissed the idea. Zheng Sen and the Three Guards have a hatred of killing their father and seizing the country. Isn't helping him now cutting meat and feeding it to the wolves? One day, sooner or later, he will bite back.

Despite this, Li Xin was still full of interest in Zheng Sen's expansion in Southeast Asia, and even vaguely expected that this guy would be able to unify Southeast Asia and establish a Han dynasty there. However, this is contrary to the interests of the Three Guards and even China, a unified and powerful Southeast Asia, especially the person in charge is Zheng Sen, who has a common enmity with the Three Guards, and then it is bound to fight against China.

After some consideration, Li Xin still signed several orders and sent people deep into the rainforest to contact the remnants of Lancang, Dacheng, Donghu and other countries, in an attempt to restrain Zheng Sen's rapid expansion. Even if he can't be eliminated, at least he must be contained in the southeast rainforest, and he must not be allowed to dominate in the rainforest.