When Zhu Quan heard this, he couldn't help but bow his head slightly, sighed and said, "It seems that the culture and population of the northern and southern provinces are in an extremely unbalanced state. Speaking of this, he suddenly recalled that when his henchman Jing Jun was in Liaodong, he often mixed with Lan Yu's deputy Wang Bi. turned his head and asked Ma Sanbao, a scholar on the side, to summon Jing Jun and Sima Chao.

After tea time, Jing Jun and Sima Chao followed Ma Sanbao to the study.

Zhu Quan asked Jing Jun to talk about the garrisons of the Ming Dynasty in various health centers in the north. It turned out that as early as when the army was conquering Nahachu, Zhu Quan asked Jing Jun to go to Wang Bi's place to learn more about the garrison border defense of various guards. These things were originally confidential matters in the army, but Wang Bi knew that Zhu Quan was a prince who His Majesty the Emperor valued very much, and he had the intention to marry him. is to Jing Jun, the confidant of His Royal Highness King Ning, he also knows everything, and he has nothing to say.

Jing Jun heard Zhu Quan inquire about the garrison of the border guard, so he immediately asked Ma Sanbao to take a military map copied from the map of the Lanyu army and unfold it on the ground when he was in Liaodong. Ma Sanbao lit a few more candles so that everyone could see them more carefully.

Jing Jun squatted on the ground, pointed to the map and said to Zhu Quan: "I know from General Wang Bi that the current imperial court is using two complementary means to defend the Northern Yuan outside the fortress. First, from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Jiayuguan in the west, after eighteen times of earth, the Great Wall was built, called the side wall, of which Xuanhua and Datong also built the inner Great Wall in the south, called the second side, these Great Wall and moats that cost countless manpower, material resources, and financial resources to build are basically to defend against the southward movement of the Mongolian cavalry. Second, set up important towns along the Great Wall and stationed heavy troops. From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the present, nine important towns have been set up to command the front-line sergeants, and the hereditary military system of Tuntian is stationed in the local area. These nine important towns are collectively referred to as Jiubian Town, namely: Liaodong Town, Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Shanxi Town, Yansui Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town, and Gansu Town. Each town of .com had a chief military officer, a governor, and a governor above several towns. The number of troops commanded by these feudal officials sometimes reached one million, and sometimes there were hundreds of thousands, accounting for about two-thirds of the country's military strength. ”

After listening to Jing Jun's words, Zhu Quan sighed and said: "It seems that the population, culture and economy are more important in the south and less in the north, and the army is more important in the north than in the south. ”

Jing Kun pondered for a moment and said slowly, "It's a pity that the army and the Great Wall alone may not be able to resist the Mongol cavalry. ”

"Oh?" Zhu Quan couldn't help but look puzzled when he heard this.

Jing Kun said in a deep voice: "The soldiers are also trained by ordinary people, and they often don't have the idea of one country and one clan in their minds. The most important thing for them is their relatives back home. At present, the population of the north is sparse, and many of the soldiers are most likely not from the northern provinces, and if the war with the foreign race is unfavorable and the morale is frustrated, they always think that there is still a hometown in the south to go to. Speaking of this, he paused slightly, turned his head and stared at Zhu Quan slowly: "If they have already taken root in the northern provinces, then under their feet is the land of their hometown, and there are wives and children and parents not far away. To protect the family and defend the country, as long as these northern soldiers can fight to the death and keep their hometown, they will naturally defend the northern provinces of the Ming Empire. ”

When Zhu Quan and several others heard him say this, they couldn't help but nod their heads again and again, thinking deeply.

When Jing Kun said this, he suddenly twisted his beard and smiled: "However, these military and cultural reasons, we can think of them, His Royal Highness King Yan and the old bald monk Daoyan can naturally think of them, so I am afraid that His Royal Highness will have to have another opinion, lest His Royal Highness King Yan finish his words tomorrow, and you will have nothing to say." ”

When Zhu Quan heard him say this, he couldn't help frowning and said with a wry smile: "This Zhu Laosi, don't look at him as a man with his tail between his legs at any time in Yingtian, but he is actually very powerful." Speaking of this, I recalled the situation when I and Zhu Di met Zhu Yuanzhang before, and continued with a wry smile: "It's just that I just looked at the old man's situation, and it seems to be aimed at me, but I'm afraid that he will let me express my opinion first tomorrow." ”

Jing Kun shook his hand and smiled: "The so-called young and old are orderly, tomorrow in the temple, before the civil and military officials, the emperor will not be so young and then grown, messing up the dignity and humility, he must ask His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the King Yan, and finally get your turn." ”

When Zhu Quan heard him say this, he couldn't help frowning and said, "What if Zhu Laosi finishes everything I want to say?" ”

Jing Kun sat back in his chair, took a sip of tea, and suddenly said slowly: "At present, these ministers in the court are nostalgic for their hometown, and they are unwilling to easily move the capital to the cost of the people. But their parents were also deeply persecuted by the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, and they were like wrenches for such a culturally prosperous dynasty as the Southern Song Dynasty, and they were like wrenches at the hands of foreign races. The Southern Song Dynasty seems to have died in a military defeat, but in fact, the key lies in the four words that His Royal Highness said, the sense of crisis. ”

Zhu Quan naturally knew about the difficulty of Jingkang, but he didn't know about the battle of Yashan, and said in a deep voice: "I want to hear about it." ”

The two discussed until midnight before they went back to their rooms to rest.

As soon as dawn broke on the second day, Zhu Quan had already ridden out of the palace, leading Ma Sanbao and Sima Chao and some accompanying palace guards towards the imperial city of Hongwumen. Walking on the road, Zhu Quan was still worried, and said in his heart: "The sentence of being born in sorrow and dying in peace sounds simple, but it is too abstract and empty, and it is difficult to express the image just by mouth, but I am afraid that I can't convince those nerds." When he was racking his brains and thinking hard, he had already come to a bridge on the Qinhuai River. At this time, it was still dawn, and there were not many pedestrians on the street, and suddenly there was a sound of frogs chirping in my ears.

Zhu Quan glanced at the river, and saw three or two frogs swimming on their legs on the river, his eyes flashed, and he had an idea in his heart, and turned his head to Ma Sanbao and Sima Chao and ordered: "You two go to the river to catch two for me, and then point to the frogs swimming in the river with the horsewhip in your hand." ”

Ma Sanbao and Sima Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly when they heard His Royal Highness King Dening's words, dismounted and ran to the river, messed around with two, and then went to a nearby house to ask for a cloth bag containing rice, packed it and handed it to Zhu Quan.

Zhu Quan carried the cloth bag in his hand, looked at the two small things in it for a while, showed a satisfied smile on his face, tied the cloth bag to the side of the saddle, and rode away.

Seeing him with a mysterious smile on his face, Ma Sanbao and Sima Chao couldn't help but look at each other, and thought in their hearts: "Your Highness has often had some strange actions and ideas since he got along with the three eccentric old men in Liaodong, which is unfathomable.

At this time, on the middle avenue of the imperial city, Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, and other military generals, were divided into two columns on the left and right, and they walked in a row. Many young civil officials saw a young man in a brocade dress not far in front of him, but his face was unfamiliar, and he looked at each other with a little contempt and surprise in his eyes.

This person wearing the costume of Jinyi Wei Tongzhi is Jiang Xian, who led Nai Assassin Wu to Liaodong to rebel against Nahachu. It turned out that although he held an important position in the Jinyi Guard, the emperor's direct pro-army, but because of the confidential and important matter of monitoring the civil and military officials, he never appeared in the early dynasty when hundreds of officials gathered, and only made a great contribution to the surrender of Nahachu because of Zhu Yuanzhang's special order to let him participate in the court today, accept the reward, and the officials from Xu Da and the six Shangshu in the court are also indifferent to him.

Jiang Xian's martial arts are strong, and he can naturally detect the hidden contempt of these Wenchen for him, sneering slightly in his heart, and secretly thinking: These sour Confucians will only talk about misleading the country, when I swallowed the wind and snow in Liaodong and risked my life to assassinate the Mongolian barbarian chieftains, you are still enjoying peace here, and today I want to let you know how powerful I am.

When Zhu Quan came to the "Fengtian Palace" of the early dynasty, he waved to the two little eunuchs at the entrance of the hall, whispered a few words in their ears, handed the cloth bag with frogs in his hand to one of the eunuchs, and followed Zhu Di into the hall.

Soon after the civil and military officials stood on both sides, Zhu Yuanzhang walked out slowly, and after some etiquette, Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon chair and said loudly with a happy face: "Thanks to the emperor's blessing, the soldiers of the three armies use their lives." I conquered the army in the north and surrendered the 200,000 yuan army of Nahachu in the Northern Yuan. Today, there are Nahachu, Guantong and others who led more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians under their command to return to the Heavenly Empire. About 100,000 soldiers and civilians of the three tribes of Wuliangha also submitted to my Ming Dynasty, and the leaders of the three tribes are willing to lead about 60,000 soldiers under their subordinates to belong to our Heavenly Empire. Speaking of this, he turned his head and looked at Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu, Wang Bi and others behind Xu Da, and said in a deep voice: "The generals of the Liaodong Expedition have their own merits, come forward and listen to the seal." ”

When a group of Liaodong generals heard this, they hurriedly lined up and accepted the reward.

Liubu Shangshu, as well as Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, Qi Tai and other civil officials, also knew that most of the Liaodong Yuan army had returned to the Ming Dynasty under the leadership of Nahachu, and they couldn't help but look happy. They thought that Naha Chulu did not make a fierce resistance this time, and saw that after the northern expedition, not only the casualties of the Ming soldiers were not serious, but even the soldiers and civilians of the Northern Yuan Dynasty did not suffer many casualties, and they were all happy about the result of the battle in Liaodong in the northern expedition.

Zhu Quan stood aside and looked at Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, and they were added to the rank one by one, dissatisfied in his heart, and said: You all have the silver, and the officials and lords have it. I also went to fight hard, and I couldn't get any benefits, so I only had a meal, which was too much of a loss. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but reach out and touch the IOU in his arms that he forcibly asked for back from Shen Peng, the leader of the caravan, and secretly thought: For more than 10,000 taels of silver, I have to find a chance to find an old man for reimbursement, so that it is not a waste of work.

This book was first published.

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