After dealing with the problem of shirking responsibility for the current situation in Sichuan, Zhu Shuren and Fang Kongzhi can also completely exert their strength and repaint on a blank piece of paper that is waiting to be rebuilt, depicting the rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty.

The sun and the moon reopen tomorrow, but it is not a warm invitation to dinner. Even if you are inviting guests to dinner, you must clean the house before you have a treat! The previous bad debts and bad historical legacies, Zhu Shuren will not carry them at all.

In addition, to speak a word of conscience, Zhang Xianzhong's entry into Sichuan can be regarded as a catharsis of the contradictions accumulated in Sichuan for hundreds of years, at least the problem of the disparity between the rich and the poor around the Chengdu Plain disappeared overnight - the vassal kings, magnates, officials, and landlords were all slaughtered, where did the wealth and the poor come from?

Although all this was not the result of Zhu Shuren's connivance at all, he had already tried his best to pursue as quickly as possible, but no matter what, these tragedies finally happened objectively.

After Zhang Xianzhong is killed, order will be restored, and the social contradictions will be vented, so as to ensure that there will be at least 100 years of peace in the future. From this point of view, the final beneficiary of all this fact is still Zhu Shuren and his gang.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Fang Kongzhi and Zhang Huangyan rested in Chongqing for two or three days, so that the lightly wounded soldiers in the previous siege of Chongqing could almost recover from their flesh wounds, and the troops restarted to march westward, and the troops were divided into two routes.

As for the tired troops and the seriously wounded, of course, they were left to garrison Chongqing, and the various units were rotated according to the losses.

Zhu Shuren is still the governor of Huguang, and the authorization he received before was only to fight until Chongqing and gain a sufficiently heavyweight foothold for Fang Kongzhi and Zhang Huangyan in eastern Sichuan. The follow-up work of exhaustion theoretically needs to be completed by the Sichuan governor and the Sichuan military preparation road.

This is also no way, who makes Chongzhen really feel that Zhu Shuren's loyalty is still slightly inferior and suspicious compared to Sun Chuanting's absolute loyalty.

In order to beware of the great officials of the feudal territory, they can only play this bit of imperial tricks.

On the day of the second expedition, Zhu Shuren personally went out of the city to see him off, followed the large army for a whole day, and returned to the city in the evening until he was sent to Jiangjin County, which was seventy miles away.

At the time of parting, Zhang Huangyan also advised him to go back early: "Don't worry, with General Liu and Qin Zongzhen, following me and Fang Futai respectively, we will definitely be able to achieve success, and Chongqing is still full of problems, there are many things, and it is useless to send them again." ”

Zhu Shuren nodded: "Be careful all the way, don't look at the way you and General Liu need to take a deeper detour, but I am still relatively more worried about Fang Futai and Qin Zongzhen's way."

After all, if you go to the Minjiang River, there are relatively large naval warships available, even if Zhang Xianzhong takes the initiative to fight a sports war, there is nothing you can do, and if you can't fight, you can retreat down the river.

If Zhang Xianzhong knew that our various parts were attacking together, outflanking him and cutting off his back road, so he dared to stay away from Chengdu and fight with the official army and seek to break through, then Fang Futai and Qin Zongzhen might not be able to defeat Zhang Xianzhong.

Of course, if Zhang Xianzhong really did this, I guess he would be able to jump off the wall in a hurry and drag his back before he died. If you want to go back to Chengdu, I'm afraid it will be difficult, maybe it will be too late. If you and General Liu cut off their way back, it is also possible to avenge Fang Futai Qin General Town in the follow-up field battle-

But I still don't want this situation to happen, what I want is to keep the whole division of our army, and if neither of the two roads can be hit hard, then kill Zhang Xianzhong! Therefore, contact each other in a timely manner and help each other. ”

Zhang Huangyan patted his chest and said that he must pay attention to the follow-up march to the offensive road, and he will send fast horse messengers every one or two days to contact Fang Kongzhi Qin Liangyu, and there will be no loopholes.

Ordinary people may hear about this strategic exchange between him and Zhu Shuren, but this is mainly because they don't understand the tactical background and don't understand the whole story of their strategy discussed behind closed doors in Chongqing City a few days ago.

According to the conclusion of the military discussion before the war, the troops sent this time were divided into two routes, and in the initial stage, they were still combined into one, and before they arrived in Luzhou from Chongqing, they all acted together and went up the Yangtze River.

Luzhou is still under Zhang Xianzhong's control, but according to the latest information, Zhang Xianzhong did not have many troops left to defend - Zhang Xianzhong was clearly aware that his first task was to concentrate on taking Chengdu. If it weren't for the fact that he was so greedy and wanted to block the official army reinforcements outside the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River at the beginning, he wouldn't even have left so many soldiers there for Bai Wenxuan.

Therefore, in a place like Luzhou that can be bypassed, Zhang Xianzhong naturally will not stay long, and if he stays, he will be broken by each other, and his combat strength will be damaged in vain.

When Zhu Shuren was making plans, although Luzhou was still an enemy, he and Zhang Huangyan had already tacitly acquiesced that the place belonged to the official army, and it was within easy reach.

After arriving in Luzhou, according to the plan, the officers and troops will begin to divide their troops.

Fang Kongzhi, Qin Liangyu, and Fang Guoan will transfer from Luzhou to Luoshui, go upstream, pass through Neijiang, Ziyang, and Jianzhou, and finally attack Chengdu.

(Note: Jianzhou is now Jianyang County, Chengdu, and now the new airport in Chengdu has been built to Jianyang, so that place is not far from ancient Chengdu.) ）

Because the water is relatively narrow and there are many shallows, large warships cannot be used on this road, and the reason why they have to march along the river is mainly to facilitate the transportation of grain, and the combat troops still mainly advance on foot.

On the other hand, Zhang Huangyan and Liu Guoneng, including Yuan Shizhong, who was newly incorporated under Liu Guoneng, and the cavalry troops sent by Zhu Shuren, continued to go up the Yangtze River until near Yibin after arriving in Luzhou.

From the Yangtze River to the Minjiang River, and then all the way through Qianwei, Leshan, Meishan, until Qingcheng Mountain Dujiangyan, copy Zhang Xianzhong's back road. Their purpose was to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from continuing to flee after he could not hold Chengdu.

This way, because the water volume of the Minjiang River is far more abundant than that of the Luo River, large warships can be sailed, and the safety of the troops is also more guaranteed. Even if Zhang Xianzhong wanted to attack after discovering this group of people and horses, and directly relied on the naval army to retreat, Zhang Xianzhong had no choice.

Just pay attention to the vicinity of the Leshan Giant Buddha, the confluence of the Dadu River and the Min River, and don't be swept away by the undercurrent whirlpool. But in fact, since the Tang Dynasty built a water conservancy near the Leshan Giant Buddha, the confluence of the Dadu River and the Min River, the water situation is far less dangerous than before the Tang Dynasty.

The simplest shorthand is that these two roads of people and horses, one way to Luzhou Laojiao turned north, the other road continued to go straight, until Wuliangye turned north.

Another digression, since ancient times, attacking Bashu from the land of Jingchu has basically divided the troops in this way after entering Sichuan - Liu Bei was blocked near Luocheng during the Three Kingdoms, and after Pang Tong was shot by Liu Zhangjun, Liu Bei had to wait for reinforcements on the front line of Luocheng.

Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun took the southern route of the Minjiang waterway to outflank Sichuan, and Zhang Fei's land troops took the northern route, and finally went to the gateway to Chengdu to join the army.

Therefore, Zhu Shuren and Zhang Huangyan and Fang Kongzhi chose this route, and there was no creativity, just just take the most mature and stable plan of the ancients and copy the answer.

Qin Liangyu and Fang Guoan took Zhang Fei's road, and Liu Guoneng, Zhu Wenzhen, and Yuan Shizhong took Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun's road.

Qin Liangyu and Fang Guoan's routes require a certain amount of safety vigilance to prevent them from being broken by each one, while Liu Guoneng and Zhu Wenzhen's route is as safe as Mount Tai, which can absolutely ensure that they can advance and retreat freely.

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With a strict battle plan and strict implementation by the troops, the follow-up battle naturally does not need Zhu Shuren to worry about directly.

In the next few days, until the Lantern Festival, he went to Chongqing to appease the people and restore order and production.

Although the Sichuan region was partially slaughtered, the eastern Sichuan region finally resumed the rule of the government in the first month, and there is still half a month to relieve the breath, which should not delay the spring ploughing.

It's just that too many bureaucrats, landlords, and wealthy households have been killed, and a lot of land has become terra nullius, so the work of the new government to reconfirm land rights will be a little heavier.

As long as there is an heir, Zhu Shuren will not be too ugly to eat and directly distribute the fields to the poor peasants - most of the rich people have been killed by Zhang Xianzhong, and they all pick the richest ones to be slaughtered first, so even if there are survivors, most of them are only a little rich.

At this time, it is more important to resume production as soon as possible and restore social order, so that the landlord's field with heirs can also be stabilized as soon as possible, so that everyone can produce with peace of mind.

The bureaucratic comprador capital can be confiscated directly, and the national capital should still be slowly "redeemed".

In addition, taking advantage of the more than half a month before spring ploughing, Zhu Shuren also had to organize the transportation capacity of Huguang in the rear, and then try to transport as many potatoes as possible to promote in Sichuan, at least in eastern Sichuan or Badi.

Western Sichuan and Chengdu Plain, there is no drama this year, even if Zhang Xianzhong is killed, it will definitely be after the end of spring ploughing. Agricultural production in the Chengdu Plain can only follow the old traditional production model.

Fortunately, Shu is originally humid and hot, it is a southern climate, and it was originally planted with double cropping rice, and it was impossible to plant winter wheat in winter and change to corn after harvesting wheat.

Therefore, corn does not need to be promoted to Sichuan for the time being, and the new staple crops that Zhu Shuren need to worry about are only potatoes.

Unless the Hanzhong Basin is won in the future, the climate of Hanzhong is a bit close to Guanzhong, and there is a certain wheat cropping area, which can promote winter wheat planting in winter and corn planting in early summer after receiving the goods.

For not having time to promote potatoes in the whole territory of Sichuan in Chongzhen for sixteen years, Zhu Shuren was originally a little sorry in his heart, but after a few days of field investigation and in-depth investigation and understanding of some surviving local grassroots officials in Sichuan, Zhu Shuren was relieved -

Among the agricultural areas of Sichuan, mountainous agriculture is mainly distributed in eastern Sichuan, or Badi, that is, around Chongqing. Chengdu in the west is surrounded by plains, all of which are flat and low-lying paddy fields, and it is a bit wasteful to grow potatoes.

The greater value of potatoes lies in making full use of the rotten land in the corners and rugged areas, so three or four prefectures around Chongqing, including Chongqing, Kuizhou, Tongchuan, Shunqing, plus a small part of Luzhou Prefecture, can make full use of the suitable potato land, which is already very good.

Zhu Shuren stayed in the vicinity of Chongqing, settled the people's households, confirmed the right to land, organized production, and did not do anything else, it took a month just to do this - don't be too slow, people who have done grassroots civil affairs work, know that none of the thousands of things here are brisk, and it is probably very fast to sort one out in a month.

On the other hand, it was also during this period that there was really nothing to worry about in front-line military affairs, and everything was still progressing step by step.

From Chongqing to Chengdu, the actual marching distance is about 900 miles, which is still the road of Luoshui, if it is the road of Minjiang, because it has to go around far, it will only be slower.

According to the speed of searching and advancing in the enemy-occupied area and advancing while occupying it, it is impossible to achieve a speed of 50 miles a day, and it is also necessary to consider that some prefectures and counties have Zhang Xianzhong's small units left behind to solve, even if there is no suspense in the battle, it can be delayed for a few days in each battle.

The officers and troops set out on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and arrived in Luzhou Prefecture five days later, where they fought with Zhang Xianzhong's small force for three or four days, and it was already 21 days since the city was taken, and most of the delayed time was spent waiting and assembling siege equipment and building the necessary siege fortifications and camps.

After taking Luzhou, the two roads had to be slightly rectified before the actual division of troops, and it was already twenty-four to set off again.

Anyway, Chengdu has been ravaged by Zhang Xianzhong, and at this time, there is no time rush, and the most important thing is to fight steadily.

Fang Kongzhi and Qin Liangyu Fang Guoan, arrived in Neijiang on the 28th, and had a small battle, continued to go north on the first day of February, and arrived in Ziyang on the fifth day of the first month.

Subsequently, because they were getting closer and closer to Zhang Xianzhong's core main station, they had to be more cautious, advance more slowly, and let the elite cavalry scouts go farther away to detect the enemy's reaction, and wait for Zhang Huangyan's side by the way.

Zhang Huangyan arrived in Yibin at the end of the first month, it was also a small battle, it took several days, a little rest on the sixth day of the second month before going north again, four days later the soldiers passed through Qianwei without blood, and arrived in Leshan on the tenth day of the first month.

It was also in Leshan that Zhang Huangyan and Liu Guoneng encountered Zhang Xianzhong's army for the first time in an organized division of troops to resist and defend according to the danger, and it was Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son Kewang himself, who came to Leshan with tens of thousands of thieves, relying on the natural dangers of the Min River and the Dadu River, trying to cut off this pivotal node that the official army and waterway army would rely on in the future.

When he learned of this situation, Zhang Huangyan was also a little surprised, because it was completely inconsistent with the expectations before the war - at the military discussion before the war, the two sides repeatedly deduced and discussed, and felt that Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to fight with the official army now, and if the official army forced over, there was a high probability that the siege battle would be carried out in Chengdu in the end.

Even if Zhang Xianzhong wants to fight in the field, it should be in a shallow and narrow place on the plains, looking for Qin Liangyu and the Ministry of National Security to fight a decisive battle, and first strive to break through and eat this way. How could he go to find trouble with Zhang Huangyan, who marched along the Minjiang River and could attack and retreat?

Zhang Huangyan has a bunch of excellent warships, even if he can't beat them, he will definitely be able to run away if he runs directly along the Minjiang River. How could Zhang Xianzhong disperse his forces and send such a large main force to carry out a pursuit and annihilation battle that was impossible to catch?

To use a layman's analogy, this is even more incomprehensible than the fact that before the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon sent Grouchy to pursue Blucher.

Napoleon sent Grouchy to divide his forces, so that he could have a chance to catch up with Blucher and break them first, and finally return before the decisive battle, and join forces with the emperor himself against Wellington.

Zhang Xianzhong sent Sun Kewang to divide his troops to Leshan, but at most he was delayed and blocked, preventing Zhang Huangyan from advancing, but he would never be able to defeat Zhang Huangyan.

At most, Sun Kewang and Zhang Huangyan couldn't rush to the decisive battlefield of Zhang Xianzhong and Qin Liangyu Fang Guoan on the other side, and both sides had a main force that was transferred out and could not participate in the decisive battle, so Zhang Xianzhong didn't have to make any money!

After Zhang Huangyan realized that something was wrong, he immediately sent a fast horse messenger to Ziyang to contact Fang Kongzhi Qin Liangyu and Fang Guoan, asking them to be cautious and not to advance too quickly.

At the same time, he immediately sent a fast boat back down the river and returned to Chongqing along the Minjiang River and the Yangtze River, and reported to Zhu Shuren to inform him of the situation.

Because it was going down the river, the mountain river was flowing rapidly, but this time it was very fast, and on February 14, Zhu Shuren, who was in Chongqing, learned of the situation.

At first, he was quite puzzled, but fortunately he knew history, although historical events had been changed beyond recognition, but at least he knew the endowment and temperament of all the big men in the late Ming Dynasty.

Things may change, but people's endowments, ambitions, and temperaments are difficult to change.

Hearing that Sun Kewang asked to divide his troops to the south to intercept him, Zhu Shuren pondered for a while, and after eliminating all unreasonable explanations, the last remaining explanation, whether it seemed unreasonable at first glance or not, was mostly the truth.

However, Zhu Shuren couldn't say it clearly.

Fortunately, it is also a coincidence that when Zhang Huangyan and Fang Kongzhi reported on the situation at the front, the prince of the supervising army had not yet been in Beijing, and had been stranded in Chongqing, observing the performance of Zhu Shuren and others.

Originally, the prince said that he would leave before the end of January, but he also saw that Zhang Huangyan and Fang Kongzhi were like a bamboo in the first half a month, and they could advance a prefecture and county every few days, so they delayed again and again, and they thought that they could get the news of Zhang Xianzhong's award and Chengdu's recovery as soon as possible, so that they could go back directly to Chongzhen to report the good news.

Now that Zhang Huangyan's advance was stopped by Sun Kewang, the prince also realized that he couldn't wait for the good news, and Zhu Shuren also explained to him, saying that he would not be able to wait for the result of the war within a month, but he already had a plan to ensure that Zhang Xianzhong was captured and killed in Sichuan.

He told his father-in-law his analysis half-truthfully: "Father-in-law, this official has been, this Sun Kewang may have wavered in his loyalty to Zhang Xianzhong, although he may not betray his father-in-law, but he also gave birth to the idea of fleeing separately when disaster came."

He asked himself to divide his troops to go south to block Leshan, even if he was bypassed by our army, he could stay in Leshan on the grounds of harassing the grain road. If Zhang Huangyan and Liu Guoneng's soldiers and horses change their advance route in the future, abandon the Minjiang route, go to join forces with Governor Qin Zongzhen, and advance to Chengdu by another way,

Sun Kewang can still refuse to return to Chengdu to rescue Zhang Xianzhong on the grounds of 'possible fraud and beware of the false retreat of the officers and soldiers to lure the enemy'. And Leshan, where Sun Kewang refused, is also a key point in western Sichuan, where the Minjiang River and the Dadu River converge. Even if Zhang Xianzhong is finally wiped out and the line of the Minjiang River is blocked, Sun Kewang's partial division can still go to the Dadu River to escape, although it is destined to only go to the wild land, it is better than being buried with Zhang Xianzhong. ”

Wang Gonggong didn't know much about military strategy, and after listening to Zhu Shuren's analysis, he suddenly felt that it was very reasonable, the only thing he didn't think was that the people who worshiped people as their fathers in this era should not be so unfilial and betrayal of their fathers.

But this concern was quickly dispelled under Zhu Shuren's explanation - Zhu Shuren quoted scriptures and classics to count the glorious achievements of how he had repeatedly seduced the righteous son of the leader of the thieves who cut off his children and grandchildren to kill his father and cast his son, and specifically cracked down on the ruling model of recognizing the righteous father and the righteous son.

In the end, he did not forget to introduce a guerrilla named Liu Sandao in the army to Wang Gonggong, and proudly told him that this guerrilla Liu was the Zhu Shuren who killed his father-in-law Liu Xiyao.

Wang Gonggong saw that Zhu Shuren was so good at persuading people to kill his father-in-law, and he was also silent, and did not question it again.

He still secretly thought in his heart: When he went back to report these deeds to his father-in-law Wang Chengen, he must omit them.

The surname of the country is dedicated to unfilial people, this is not to say.

After chatting about Sun Kewang's possible movements, the prince asked again: "But why did the country surnamed Ye tell our family about this?" No matter what he thinks in his heart, after all, he has not crossed the clear road now, and he has not officially betrayed Zhang Xianzhong. When our family reports to His Majesty, there is no need to mention Sun Kewang. ”

Zhu Shuren hurriedly said in an inducing tone: "Why don't you mention it?" The use of soldiers is to draw inferences from one example, and the father-in-law thinks about it, since even Sun Kewang may have different intentions, shouldn't we be wary of the danger that other people under Zhang Xianzhong's command will also have the danger of preserving their strength and leaving their own way back?

What His Majesty wants is not only to defeat Zhang Xianzhong, but to eradicate the rest of the poison! That's why this official spent so much effort and deployed two ways to outflank! If Zhang Xianzhong can divide Sun Kewang to go south and stay in the retreat of the Dadu River, is it possible for him to go north to Jiangyou and Jianmen Pass, leaving the back road to Hanzhong?

Although Guanzhong now has Inspector Sun in charge, blocking the way out of Hanzhong to go north to Guanzhong, and can ensure that 'the land of Nanzheng is really a heavenly prison', but within a few months, Sun Chuanting and Li Zicheng may also have a battle.

If Li Zicheng and Sun Chuanting had a slight mistake during the fierce battle in Guanzhong, or if Zhang Xianzhong's partial division had withdrawn to Hanzhong in advance to wait for the opportunity to move, giving the thief and Zhang Xianzhong the opportunity to merge, it would be the worst bad news in the world! ”

When the prince heard this, he was also shocked, it seemed that this was the truth, and he couldn't help asking: "What does the surname of the country think?" Why was it that the troops were only divided into two ways to encircle and not to divide the troops into three routes? blocked Zhang Xianzhong's way to flee north! ”

Zhu Shuren shook his head: "We sent troops from Huguang into Sichuan, how can we block the road to the north of the Chengdu Plain?" Before the loss of Chengdu, I heard that the officers and troops in Mianzhu, Jiangyou, Jianmen and other places had been dispersed in advance, and those places had been in the hands of Zhang Xianzhong for a long time.

Therefore, in order to block Zhang Xianzhong's escape to the north, only the imperial court sent another army from Shaanxi controlled by Inspector Sun from the Dasan Pass to the south, through Yangping Pass, to seize Hanzhong in advance, and block Yangping Pass, so as to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from going north to Hanzhong, and also completely block the possibility of breaking into the confluence of Zhang.

Alas, it is not easy for Inspector Sun, and the Shaanxi soldiers will definitely not be able to pull out. I heard that since Li Zicheng was defeated by me in Kaifeng last winter, he retreated to Luoyang, crossed the Yellow River north to eat Hedong, and Shanxi soldiers and horses could not be banned.

It would be nice if the Shanxi army could enter the pass from Pubanjin, and pass through the Chencang Auxiliary Defense Dasan Pass to the Yangping Pass to prevent the confluence of Zhang. Of course, this is just the official's words, and the father-in-law should be cautious when he goes back, so as not to be suspected by His Majesty that the eunuchs interfere in military planning, and the official is actually not good at ignoring these extraneous things. ”

After hearing this, of course the prince felt that it was very reasonable. Zhu Shuren has been fighting with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong for so long, his sense of smell must be very sensitive, and it is absolutely right to believe him!

As for Zhu Shuren, because of his sensitive identity, he regretted that he missed his mouth, and felt that he Zhu Shuren should not come to offer advice on this matter, for fear of being suspected by Chongzhen......

This thing is too easy to do, after Wang Gonggong returns to Beijing, he can find someone to sell this favor, just say that someone else thought of it, and even dedicate the strategy to his father-in-law Wang Chengen first, and let Wang Chengen do this favor, anyway, as long as Wang Chengen knows in private that this righteous son is very filial, in the future, when Wang Chengen is old and helps him to be the celebrant supervisor, he will already burn high incense, and the favor of the foreign court, it is useless for him to take it now.

Although the prince does not know much about military strategy, he still understands the personnel of the DPRK and China, and he also knows the names of the generals in various places.

He finally thought about it in his mind, and remembered that Cao Bianjiao, the chief soldier of Taiyuan, had just been asked to go south in the past few months, blocking Li Zicheng, who was eating in Hedong, and beware of him going north to Taiyuan.

Cao Bianjiao's recent days are also very hard, there is a Tartar-driven Horqin Mongol cavalry in the north of Yanmen Pass, and Li Zicheng in the south has stirred up the east of the river, I heard that Cao Bianjiao can't even pay the military salary in Taiyuan, after all, the tax source from the south is gone.

It is better to let the father-in-law persuade His Majesty to move Cao Bianjiao to the Guanzhong in Hexi, and return it to Sun Chuanting for temporary dispatch, and then go to Chencang Dasan Pass to block Sun Chuanting's southern wing, and in the future, there will be one more insurance to prevent Zhang Chuang's confluence.

I heard that Cao Bianjiao was also a person who escaped death, if it weren't for Zhang Mingzhen, the chief soldier of the Sea Road, and Zheng Chenggong of the Nanjing Household Department who crossed the sea to transport grain to the Liaodong Army in Shanhaiguan last year, and by the way saved the troops of Tashan Xingshan from retreating from the sea, this Cao Bianjiao would have died in Tashan.

As for after Cao Bianjiao was transferred, if Li Zicheng felt that northern Jin was empty, didn't want to go back to Shaanxi, and wanted to go north to Taiyuan and Datong, then the imperial court would also be eager to let Li Zicheng go to fight with the Tartars who detained the pass, and Li Zicheng didn't have the courage to think about it.

"Thank you for solving your doubts, so that our family will return to Beijing and know how to comfort Your Majesty."