The tall and thin and energetic old man beside Lan Yu was none other than Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, who knew that the increasing power of the Chinese officials in the future was an inevitable trend, and Lan Yu's words of such willfulness could not have any practical effect, but might anger the Wen Chen of the DPRK and create obstacles to Xu Da's major affairs, and turned his head to Lan Yu and whispered: "Don't make trouble for Xu Shuai." ”

Although Lan Yu was angry for a while, after all, he was also a sober-minded and strategic person, and he knew the great significance of the construction of Shanhaiguan, so he scolded Fu Youde so much, and immediately came to his senses, and said to Li Xian: "The last general will lose his words for a while, and I hope that Lord Li will not be strange." After speaking, he retreated behind Fu Youde.

A group of civil officials in the main hall, hearing in their ears that Lan Yu would "catch them all" and so on, all of them were included in the "powerless people", the words were quite ridiculous, although they were all angry in their hearts, but most of them were quite knowledgeable, and they did not want to have this kind of battle with Lan Yu, at this time, seeing Lan Yu openly admit his mistake, the breath in his heart was also calm, and no one spoke out to fight back for the time being.

Zhu Quan repeatedly recalled Xu Dafangcai's words, and his mind flashed, and he suddenly recalled the record he had seen in the history books before, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng entered the city of Beijing and forced Emperor Chongzhen to death, after the Ming Dynasty general soldier who was responsible for guarding the Shanhaiguan, the great traitor Wu Sangui led tens of thousands of elite soldiers, but did not resist the Manchurian cavalry, but led the wolf into the room, which led to the Manchu elite soldiers crossing the first pass in the world unscathed. Hearing this, his heart was full of reverence for Xu Da, and he secretly thought: If you don't accept it, this prediction has been foreseen from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty more than two hundred years later, and it is absolutely difficult to do it without the foresight and strategic vision of ordinary military generals. Thinking of this, he walked out of the queue and bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "Erchen thinks that Marshal Xu, Duke of Wei, has a lot of sense, and we should build this Shanhaiguan very strong in order to resist the invasion of foreign races in the future." ”

"Your Highness's statement is ridiculous." An old man with gray hair retorted while walking out, it was Zhao Heng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Zhu Quan saw that this old man was actually refuting his "His Royal Highness" in public, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, recalling the scenes of the minister kneeling on the ground and calling himself a slave in those "pigtail plays" he watched on TV before, and said in his heart: My father is a ruthless character who kills tens of thousands of people at every turn. But today, in full view of everyone, not only did some ministers dare to refute me, the emperor's "son", in public, but also the imperial history Zhou Guanzheng who patrolled the city just now. Dare to say bluntly that what the emperor did is wrong, they are at least much more backbone than those "minions".

Zhao Heng twisted his beard and said: "According to the biography of Sun Tzu Wu Qi in the "Historical Records", Wu Qi, a famous master of the Warring States Period, assisted King Wu of Wei, and the two of them traveled in the same boat on the West River one day. King Wu of Wei said to Wu Qi: "Beautiful! The solidity of mountains and rivers is also the treasure of Wei State! Wu Qi replied: "There is no danger in Germany. The residence of Xia Wei, the left Heji, the right Taihua, Yique in the south, the sheep intestine in the north, the government is not benevolent, and the soup is released; The country of Yin, the left dragon gate, the right Taihang, Changshan in its north, the big river through its south, the government is not moral, and the king of Wu kills it. From this point of view, there is no danger in Germany. If you don't cultivate virtue, all the people in the boat will be enemies. "The old minister thought that although Tongguan was dangerous, after all, Xiang Yu had entered it, Cao Cao had entered it, Liu Yu had entered it, and the Anshi rebels had also entered it. It can be seen that the consolidation of the country does not depend on the danger of mountains and rivers, but on whether the ruler is virtuous. The ancient sages have long been decided. ”

Zhao Heng shook his head and shook his head to talk about it, and Zhu Quan was dizzy when he heard it, and he felt that he understood and didn't understand, but "Solidifying the country does not take the risk of mountains and rivers." This sentence made Zhu Quan's heart tremble, and he only felt that this sentence made some sense, although he couldn't fully understand the deep meaning for a while.

Xu Da suddenly said aloud at this time: "Our Ming Dynasty can't completely rely on the dangerous fortress, it doesn't mean that the dangerous pass is useless. Throughout history, nomads outside the country have always exerted great military pressure on northern Xinjiang. There were Turks in the Tang Dynasty, and there were Xiongnu in the strong Han Dynasty, which could not be avoided, and the Song Dynasty died at the hands of the Mongols. The first line of the Yanshan Mountains in the north of Hebei Province has become an important frontier area for our Great Tomorrow Dynasty to resist the southward movement of the nomads. On the periphery of the Yanshan Mountains, there are two main routes: one is the West Liaoning Corridor, which leads to the Liao River Basin; One is the area from the Datong Basin to the Sanggan River Valley, leading to the Mongolian steppe. Shanhaiguan chokes the way of the west of Liao, and Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass choke the way of Datong. Relying on these dangerous fortresses, our second-rate soldiers rely on bows and crossbows and firearms to stop the first-class alien iron cavalry from moving south. For the sake of future generations, vigorously repair the Shanhaiguan, Juyong Pass, and garrison tens of thousands of elite soldiers. It can prevent our Central Plains people from being trampled on by the iron hooves of foreign races and avoid the disaster of war. He knew very well that although these civilian officials in the DPRK and China were inevitably a little "roundabout", they were not partly important in saving the people of Li from such a big joint as the war of arms.

Although Wang Jing, the secretary of the household department, Zhao Heng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and other civil officials were not familiar with military affairs, they were silent when they heard Xu Da's words, and no longer spoke out against them. This sentence was too heavy, so that those literati who were familiar with history books couldn't help but recall the history of the Song Dynasty's humiliation.

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard Xu Da's performance, he had already made up his mind in his heart, and he had been smiling and appreciating the fierce arguments of these civil and military generals, and when he heard this, he also felt that it was almost the same, so he said loudly: "Xu Da, Duke of Wei, Feng Sheng, Duke of Song, and Fu Youde, Duke of Yingguo, after you wait for the three of you to go down, you can discuss where you need to build a pass and build a fortress in the place below, garrison heavy troops, and then hand me a fold." Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Wang Jing, the head of the household department, and said with a smile: "Wang Jing, what Zhao Heng said is also reasonable, our household silver is not rich, but we have to repair so many important passes, and it will cost a lot of silver." Speaking of this, he pondered for a moment, and then continued in a deep voice: "In three months, it will be my sixtieth birthday, but I am afraid that the courtiers have already begun to think about what birthday gift to give me." Zhao Heng took the order. ”

Zhao Heng knelt down tremblingly, and said: "The old minister respectfully receives the will of the saint. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and continued: "I have appointed you as the director of ceremonies for my sixtieth birthday, and I will make the birthday gift as simple as possible, save all that can be saved, and the value of the congratulatory gifts given by officials above the third grade shall not exceed ten taels of silver." Officials below the third grade only contribute congratulatory messages, couplets and other things. Speaking of this, he stood up and said with a smile: "Prince, King Yan, King Ning and other princes, the princess doesn't need to receive the silver issued by the Zongren Mansion this month." Today's officials in the court, half of this month's silver has also been taken out to repair the Shanhaiguan and Juyong Pass, can you take it? ”

Zhu Quan followed the crown prince and the courtiers to bow to the ground, and said in unison: "The ministers obey the order." Looking at the civil and military generals who had just fought fiercely and fell to the ground at this time, they were all convinced by the "deduction of wages", and couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: leadership is talented, first refuse to give gifts, and then deduct his son's "salary", and finally take this group of "employees" to open the knife, deduct people's wages until everyone is convinced, all support, can't help but be unconvinced, this is the real art of leadership.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting back on the dragon chair, suddenly said with a somewhat gloomy and cold face: "The officials in the court are only afraid that they will criticize me behind their backs, and it is too cruel to say that the officials who are greedy for ink and sixty taels of silver will be punished with "peeling the skin and grass". But have you ever thought about it, our Ming Dynasty has more than 10,000 Beijing officials, and there are countless local officials, even if it is one-tenth of the officials, each person is greedy for 60 taels of silver, then it is difficult to count. Wouldn't it be better for me to kill these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and use the money to do more business? As he spoke, he looked at Lan Yu in the distance, and remembered that there was another big event today, so he pointed at him and said loudly: "Lan Yu, let's talk about the border pass." ”

Lan Yu bowed down and said with a solemn face: "The last general has been stationed in Liaodong for the past two years, and Yuan Taiwei Nahachu has supported 200,000 troops in Jinshan in the past six months, repeatedly invaded Liaodong, killed and plundered the people and animals of our Heavenly Dynasty. The minister asked His Majesty to send troops to attack the Northern Yuan Tartars and relieve the troubles of his henchmen. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the column of Wenchen and said in a deep voice: "Rank Aiqing, if you have any different opinions, you can express your opinions directly." Since it's a court meeting, I naturally want to hear what everyone has to say. ”

Li Xian, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, arched his hand at Lan Yu and said: "Dare to ask General Lan, the Northern Yuan Nahachu Department disturbed the border and harmed the people, and the general had ever counterattacked?" ”

Lan Yu frowned and said, "Naha Chu usually only attacks my Liaodong villages and towns with hundreds or thousands of light horses. Coming and going like the wind, even if you run quickly. Although there were more than 20,000 elite soldiers under the last general, because of the responsibility of defending the city, they could only drive back a small group of cavalry from the Northern Yuan Dynasty with thousands of elite cavalry, but the army did not dare to move lightly. ”

Wang Jing, the head of the household, said to Lan Yu: "It seems that the Northern Yuan Dynasty is still suffering from ringworm, with General Lan's intentions, how many military horses should be mobilized to attack it?" ”

Lan Yu muttered: "With the intention of your subordinates, at least 200,000 troops can be mobilized to inflict heavy damage on Nahachu. ”

"Two hundred thousand?" Lan Yu's words were obviously quite unexpected by the civil officials, causing them to whisper, and some officials had already begun to talk in low voices.

Zhu Quan saw that the civil officials obviously did not agree with Lan Yu's rejuvenation, and recalled what Zhu Di, the king of Yan, said to himself yesterday, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zhu Di with a calm face on his side, and said in his heart: Zhu Di, this kid, not only expected that there would be troops today, but also expected the resistance brought by the civil officials. This kid is very prescient, like a confident chess player, who seems to be unfazed on his face, but in fact, he has already seen the chess games behind him thoroughly. Turning his head to look at the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang who was smiling and looking at the discussion of the civil officials on the dragon chair, he couldn't help but move in his heart, and said secretly: Zhu Yuanzhang seems to like to see these civil officials and military generals arguing endlessly, he has actually made up his mind, but he is watching the excitement from the sidelines, and when the civil and military generals are arguing, he will come forward and make a decision.