Chapter 80: The Judgment of the Top Generals

Feng Sheng and Li Qi came out of the palace and walked on the long road, with high red walls on both sides. Other than that, there is no one else. They all had retinues, but they were all outside Miyagi.

Feng Sheng said, "Han Gong."

Li Qi said, "Uncle Feng, the little nephew doesn't dare to be called that."

Feng Sheng said, "Virtuous nephew, the old man originally wanted to let the old Tang make a mistake, but he didn't want to make it look like this. It's really embarrassing that Old Tang just left."

Li Qi said: "What Uncle Feng means, the little nephew understands, is all for the sake of the court and forbearance for the country."

Feng Sheng looked at Li Qi strangely and said, "Do you think I mean this?"

Li Qi said, "Isn't it?"

Feng Sheng said, "You and the old man have a dog brain, I don't care. Anyway, my Lao Feng is a desperate family, how do you like it? I'll just watch the play. The reason why I remind you is that I don't want to let the old man's thoughts, you don't understand it at all, but you bother to think more about it in inconsequential places."

Li Qi was stunned for a moment and said, "What does Uncle Feng mean?"

Feng Sheng said, "You are all thinking about Old Tang's death, but haven't you thought about why Old Tang died? Why did the old man let the old man fight a defeated battle?"

Li Qi fell into deep thought and was a few steps behind Feng Sheng. Feng Sheng also stopped and said, "Don't you think that in order to fight for power with you, Old Fu must defeat the battle? If you think so, you're underestimating him."

Li Qi also denied this idea in his heart.

He said: "I have also thought about it, this is the lesson that Ying Guogong gave me, but now the two sides are quite harmonious, we don't want to offend this future Guozhang, Yingguo Gong didn't show too much malice before, but why is that?"

Feng Sheng said, "He's just telling you that the north can't win now. Or that the war will become prolonged."

Li Qi was stunned for a moment and said, "Long-term?"

Feng Sheng said, "Isn't that what happens? The highest-ranking general under Fu Youde is Tang Shengzong, just attacking this small city, even if Lao Fu makes his own move, it is not much different from Lao Tang's shot? The reason why he let Old Tang suffer a defeat is to tell you about the situation on this battlefield. It's just that he still thinks it's the Taizu Dynasty now."

As he spoke, Feng Sheng continued to walk with his hands behind his back.

Li Qi hurriedly chased after him and said, "What does Uncle Feng mean? Will the Northern Expedition return in vain today?"

Feng Sheng said, "That's not what I meant, it's also what Fu Youde meant. And it's not that this year will be in vain, and it won't be easy to fight in the future. It's actually the easiest year."

Li Qi still couldn't believe it.

In fact, even now, Nanjing feels that Beijing is like an ordinary rebellion, which will be pacified in a few months or more than a year. But in Feng Sheng's mouth, the long-term seems to be going to fight for more than ten or twenty years.

This was completely unexpected by Li Qi.

Li Qi couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Feng, how many years do you think it will take?"

Feng Sheng pondered for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know, I don't understand. But there's a war in history that looks like it."

Li Qi asked, "What about the battle?"

Feng Sheng said, "The war between the Later Zhou and the Northern Han."

Li Qi is familiar with history, so he naturally knows what kind of war the war between the Later Zhou and the Northern Han Dynasty was.

Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty killed Guo Wei's entire family. Guo Wei rebelled and was established after Zhou. The Northern Han Dynasty was established by Liu Chong, the younger brother of Emperor Gaozu of the Later Han Dynasty, which lasted for twenty or thirty years, and was later destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty. Although the country is small and the people are weak, they gritted their teeth and fought many wars with the Later Zhou Dynasty.

Of course, the reason why the Northern Han was not destroyed was because the Northern Han took refuge in the Khitan. With the support of the Khitan, they can survive the brutal war.

Li Qi couldn't help but ask, "If Beijing is the Northern Han Dynasty, who is the Khitan now?"

Feng Sheng said, "Why don't you think that Beijing is the Northern Han Dynasty and the Khitan?" Then he sighed slightly and said, "Ancient and modern are different, such a class

It's not interesting than that, so I'll just say it, and you can listen to it."

Immediately, Feng Sheng stopped talking. But Li Qi couldn't calm down in his heart.

According to Feng Sheng, will Beijing go through decades of separation?

Feng Sheng's eyes are vicious, although he does not understand modern political economy, but he also keenly judges that Beijing is difficult, and the most important thing is that He Xi and Zhu Xiongying have established a complete set of ruling order during this period of time.

There is already a foundation for a country.

With the existence of such a thing, we cannot simply regard Beijing as a rebel force, but should compare Beijing as a separatist force, which seems to be the same, but in fact it is very different.

Quelling the rebellion may take a few months. However, it is not an easy thing to divide the power on the flat land, and the Northern Han Dynasty is a clear example, compared with the Central Plains Dynasty, but the land of the projectile has persisted in the wind and rain for nearly 30 years.

It can be seen that it is tenacious.

Feng Sheng said that this year is the easiest to calm down, and it is also true. If it cannot be defeated this year, Beijing's foundation will be stable for another year in the next year, and it is difficult to say what kind of situation it will be when the time comes.

It's just that Fu Youde didn't dare to tell the court about this kind of analysis, so he could only express it vaguely. But there are very few people in the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty who really understand military affairs, and no one can understand Fu Youde's hints at all.

Fu Youde just couldn't help but point it out.

Maybe it's also because of a sense of loneliness.

Just because he doesn't have any ambitions now doesn't mean he didn't have them before. He was an old rival with Fu Youde at that time. But the open and secret battles between the two sides are very level, but now, Fu Youde's hints are not understood by anyone in the court at all.

This made him sad, he had already met Fu Youde's future fate was not much better.

After all, Fu Youde was in the Hongwu Dynasty, although among the top few people. But it's not outstanding, but now, it's standing out from the crowd, and it's too unsociable.

Walk above man, and man will not.

Whether Fu Youde is active or passive, it has already reached this point. They are all remnants of the Taizu Dynasty, and they are not allowed in this era.

Not to mention, Fu Youde's current position is actually just a copy of Tang Shengzong.

Generals should focus on winning battles, and once they can't win battles, other problems are problems. Fu Youde, on the other hand, has always been a man who solves other problems by winning battles. Aside from winning the battle, Fu Youde didn't know how to solve other problems.

This is also the reason why Fu Youde died the most tragic death under Zhu Yuanzhang in history.

He killed his own son with his own hands.

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Feng Sheng's prediction was not groundless.

At least at this moment, Zhu Yunwen was asking Fang Xiaoru Ding Xian a question, and he said, "You say, why did Fu Youde do it? Does he have any other ideas?"

When Fang Xiaoru heard this, he sighed in his heart, he didn't believe Fu Youde, but he knew that now that he was in a big war, he couldn't change generals no matter what, let alone change generals, who should he change? Xu Da is apparently completely retired.

And Feng Sheng didn't want to stop the matter. As for the others. How could they be compared to Fu Youde?

Changed to someone else, don't talk about Fang Xiaoru. Even others won't be reassured.

Fang Xiaoru said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that martial arts have always been an ordinary thing, but now the war is related to the situation in the world, no matter what Fu Youde thinks now? Your Majesty should be treated as if he did not know. Now appeasing Fu Youde is more important than anything else. In this case, please refrain from saying this in the future. and the ministers shall assume that they have not heard."

Fang Xiaoru's words can't be wrong.

Since Fu Youde can't be changed now, then these words that affect unity should not be said, no matter what the occasion, they should not be said. Don't know, don't have that mind. But Fang Xiaoru's words have a premise, that is, he has beaten Fu Youde in the ranks of those with different intentions.

However, for civil officials and doctors, for the natural distrust of military generals and nobles, this is for the other party's filial piety

It is a matter of course, and even Fang Xiaoru himself doesn't feel that he is slandering. How can this be said to be slanderous? It's just anticipating the likelihood of things happening in the future and preventing them from happening.