I was immersed in the gentle countryside last night, and I went to bed some late, and I had something on my mind, but I got up early today.

After a simple wash, Zhu Yuan came to the study, threw himself in front of a map and began to compare and consider, and instructed the follow-up freehand to take out the letter he wrote to Lao Zhu last night.

Freehand took out the key and opened the big cabinet by the wall, took out the letter, and said: "Little official, let's be busy after eating?" ”

His own petty official slept a little late last night, and he got up early today, and he was a little worried about his body.

Zhu Yuan took a charcoal pen from the pen holder and drew it on the map spread out on the book, and when he heard this, he just asked, "What time is it?" ”

"It's still the beginning of Chen," Freehand said, converting it again according to the 24-hour system proposed by his own petty officials, and then said: "It's less than eight o'clock." ”

Zhu Yuan thought for a while and said, "Let He Xuan go and inform Lord Hua and Lord Wu, um...... The letter will be changed, so at ten o'clock, we will have a meeting and discuss important matters. ”

Freehand understood that this was the right matter, nodded, motioned to the blank next to him to persuade his petty officials to eat first, and hurried out.

Blank and other freehand to go out, also stepped forward, and called softly: "Little official......"

Zhu Yuan did not raise his head and used a charcoal pen to draw from Bianliang to the mouth of the Daqing River in the north of the Yellow River, and said: "Bring it here, I will eat here." ”

Liubai opened his mouth, still wanting to speak.

Zhu Yuan waved his hand: "Big thing, obedient." ”

Blank said no more, turned around and walked out the door.

came to the kitchen, instructed Qingniang and Luo Shui to bring breakfast to the main house study, and glanced around, the sack Nizi was there, the mountains and rivers were also there, and the two girls who had just arrived in a group yesterday had their own petty officials named them, and she couldn't call them for a while.

And then......

After sweeping around again, he asked Luo Shui in a blank space: "Where is Nuan Niang?" ”

Luo Shui, who was putting the porcelain cup with shark fin on the tray, also subconsciously looked around, shook his head and said, "It should be in her house?" ”

Liubai motioned for them to go to the main house with food, and he went out by himself, called two little maids to follow, and came to the south house to warm the mother's house.

When I entered the door, I saw Nuan Niang sitting in front of the dressing table in a daze, her eyes were dazed, her hair was not combed, and her clothes were not changed.

Liubai pursed his lips and stepped forward, his face full of disgust, but he picked up the comb on the dressing table and began to comb Nuanniang's hair, while instructing the two girls: "In the cabinet, pick out two bright clothes." ”

As he spoke, he turned to Nuan Niang, looked at her expression through the bronze mirror on the dressing table, and teased: "I don't know, I thought I met the sad lady in the play, but you're not." If you have some appearance, you are also a mother-in-law, and the little officials can take a fancy to you, that is your blessing, this yard is not large or small, you are still slumped, who do you show it? ”

Nuan Niang didn't speak, and shook her head.

Liubai pressed it with force, combed it, and began to pull up Nuan Niang's hair, while continuing to speak venomously: "If you were a chaste martyr, you would have died early, and there would be no now." Since you are not willing to die, you must accept your fate. Hmph, I look at you, it's just underwhelming. If you find a whip and smoke it every day, you will be honest in three days, and you will be a petty official and generous, which will make you more and more embarrassed. ”

Nuan Niang struggled to hang her head again and began to cry.

Liubai was not pitiful at all, straightened her head again, held her hair, and continued to taunt: "Young, crying, who are crying, crying that your daughter is gone, snort, what a joke." Don't think I don't know, Sister Freehand has carefully asked about your life experience, if you are like this again, hum, I have your whole family good-looking. ”

Nuan Niang's body trembled, and there was some shallow hatred in fear, and she looked through the bronze mirror.

Blank is not afraid at all, pouting and saying: "The little official pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, and the freehand sister is also soft-hearted, even so, I will be a bad woman, and I will not feel comfortable seeing you by the side of the little official." Do you want to die? If you want, I'll find a place for you to hang yourself today, and then quietly bury someone. After that, the petty officials wanted to beat or scold, and I suffered it all. Talk, do you want to? ”

Nuan Niang trembled again, and subconsciously avoided the blank gaze in the mirror.

She......

I don't know if I don't want to die, or if I don't dare to die.

The two girls listened to the white little female tiger like a mighty tiger, they were all trembling, opened the cabinet at the head of the warm mother's bed, picked out the clothes according to the blank instructions, and stepped forward to show her.

Liubai lit a bright red makeup flower armor, a moon-white embroidered skirt, and instructed two girls, one opened Nuan Niang's makeup to choose jewelry, and the other went to fetch water to wash the woman's face, and continued to complete a flowing cloud bun, and finally did not forget to stare at Nuan Niang in the mirror, and reprimanded: "Hypocrisy." ”

Inside the house.

After the meal was set on the table outside, Zhu Yuan put down his pen, came to the table and sat down, picked up Kuaizi and sandwiched a small soup dumpling that must have been made by Qing Niang, and put away his thoughts for the time being.

I took a bite of the soup bag, and while picking up the spoon, I noticed the warm lady standing next to the blank space.

Seeing him look at it, Nuan Niang, who was a little more resigned to her fate than in her previous temperament, still subconsciously avoided her gaze, but a layer of blush involuntarily appeared on her dignified face.

Thinking of last night, Zhu Yuan smiled and motioned to his side: "Come here." ”

Leave a little mouth blank, or get out of the way.

Nuan Niang lowered her head and lowered her eyebrows, looking at a loss.

Zhu Yuan called the woman to his side, but he didn't do anything else, feeling the fragrance that every woman is different, continued to eat, and said after a while: "If you don't like to stay in the inner house, in a few days, the school prepared by Yinghai Division will have a women's class, you go and be a female gentleman and teach them." ”

Standing outside, Liubai shook his head first when he heard his petty official say this.

How can this be done?

Before she could open her mouth, Nuan Niang had already shook her head, and her voice was still very soft: "Slave...... Just stay in the house. ”

Rubai breathed a sigh of relief.

This woman is interested in herself.

Zhu Yuan said: "I don't raise rice here, since you are deliberately perfunctory in doing things on weekdays, then go out and be a female gentleman, so it's decided." ”

Nuan Niang deliberately hid something clumsy, even if the women around her didn't break it, Zhu Yuan had already found out.

Seeing Zhu Yuan say this, Nuan Niang stopped speaking and accepted it silently.

Seeing this, he had to persuade: "Little official, this ...... How can it be done, it is not decent. ”

Regardless of whether her petty officials give this woman a title or not, since she has already taken it in, and let her show her face again, then outsiders will have to see the joke.

As for what kind of rice is eaten, how many people eat white rice in the front and back yards?

Zhu Yuan ignored a certain girl, and said to Nuan Niang: "It will take some time for the school to start, so that those girls from yesterday, you teach them to recognize some words first, and this time you are not allowed to be perfunctory, otherwise you will be punished." ”

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Nuan Niang hummed softly again.

Speaking of those girls......

I remembered last night, and Nuan Niang's face turned even redder.

The little man next to him is really, too good at ...... Mess around.

Seeing that his petty officials ignored him, he opened his mouth blankly, but he could only think about waiting for Freehand to come back and let her persuade.

After Zhu Yuan and Nuan Niang finished speaking, they did not snub Qingniang and Luo Shui on the other side, turned their heads and talked about yesterday's "Island Yi Zhi", praising them for their good school.

After talking like this, after breakfast, Zhu Yuan returned to the book in the room.

The letter that I plan to send to Lao Zhu today, in addition to explaining why I am not suitable to return to Jinling, there is also that bad move, and the other is a suggestion for the battle of Dadu.

Zhu Yuan adopted the method of reverse deduction.

First of all, one thing is confirmed, Emperor Zhizheng will not stick to Dadu, but will only flee in a hurry after the Ming army presses the border.

This is what happened in the original timeline.

Zhu Yuan didn't think that because of his butterfly, Emperor Zhizheng would be able to inexplicably have a little more courage to hold on, and he was more likely to choose to flee.

Based on the results, the Ming army can deploy accordingly.

The first is to identify strategic objectives.

If the strategic goal of the next Northern Expedition is only to capture Dadu and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun that have been lost for too long, then Lao Zhu does not need to change his strategy to increase troops to the north at all, he just needs to go again according to the previous script.

Now that Lao Zhu has changed his mind, it is obvious that the primary strategic target of the next battle of Dadu is not that city, but two people.

Emperor Zhizheng father and son!

The reason why the Northern Yuan Dynasty was still entangled with the Ming Dynasty for decades after withdrawing from the Central Plains was that the Yuan Dynasty's lineage had not been severed, so that whether it was the northern desert or the southern desert, there were Zhengshuo respectable and refused to belong to the Central Plains, resulting in the Ming Dynasty having to continue to use troops abroad.

This time, as long as the father and son of Emperor Zhizheng are won, the result will be like the last years of the Ming Dynasty in another timeline, Emperor Chongzhen's father and son were killed, the Ming Dynasty lost legal orthodoxy, the royal family was not recognized, and the whole country quickly fell apart.

At present, the Yuan court is already divided, which is worse than the end of the Ming Dynasty. As long as the father and son of Emperor Zhizheng are won, not to mention the orthodox Yuan court, even if the former Northern Yuan Dynasty can no longer exist.

At that time, whether it is Zhang Li in Guanzhong, or the expansion of Shanxi, or Nahachu in Liaodong, or even the Liang King and Duan in Yunnan, there is no clear allegiance to the object, and the Ming army will only get twice the result with half the effort.

Even the Ming Xia regime in Sichuan, seeing the fall of the Yuan court, would make a wise choice faster as it once did.

All in all, Emperor Zhizheng father and son are like the first card of that complete set of domino cards.

Therefore, it can be said that taking the father and son of Emperor Zhizheng is even more strategic than conquering Dadu and recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Now that the strategic goal is set, the next step is what to do.

Zhu Yuan's first suggestion is only one word: fast!

Compared with the previous Northern Expedition from Shandong to the camp step by step, the next step, we must fight quickly, don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place along the way, we must be before Emperor Zhizheng's father and son escape from the capital, the soldiers come to the city, and catch turtles in the urn.

Of course, this is the ideal state.

The problem is that Emperor Zhizheng's father and son are not blind and deaf, and pressing over quickly here may also allow them to flee faster.

Therefore, Zhu Yuan's second suggestion is also a word: block!

Assuming that Emperor Zhizheng's father and son still fled in advance before the Ming army besieged Dadu, the Ming army had to send surprise troops even more in advance to block the various critical passes where Emperor Zhizheng might have fled, such as Juyong Pass in the northwest of Dadu, such as Yuguan to Liaodong, and even some other passages that might be used for escape.

In Zhu Yuan's letter yesterday, the main thing was to suggest that Lao Zhu divide a number of strange troops and go to block the pass in advance.

And a big reward.

The commanders of all walks of life, those who have won the father and son of the emperor, it is not too much to be crowned a prince. Just like Liu Bang once offered a reward in order to win Xiang Yu, he gave thousands of gold and 10,000 households.

This is not the time to slam the door.

In addition to the two things of 'fast' and 'blocking', there are many detailed suggestions.

For example, hundreds of portraits of Emperor Zhizheng's father and son were drawn by sketching and distributed to various armies, so that in case Emperor Zhizheng's father and son escaped, they would be chased and intercepted, and they would be chased and intercepted according to the map.

For example, according to his memory, Zhu Yuan believed that it was not possible to win over him, and in order to avoid the expansion of the Yuan family's firm allegiance to the Yuan room in his bones and sent troops to rescue Dadu, he must divide his troops to maintain the oppression of Taiyuan.

For another example, if you are lucky enough to block Emperor Zhizheng's father and son in the capital, the siege of the capital also needs a quick word, and it must not be dragged into another protracted Pingjiang lock city.

Zhu Yuan's suggestion was to use a large amount of gunpowder to directly blow up the city wall.

I have written everything I was going to write before, but from last night to now, Zhu Yuan's brain, which has been constantly running around this matter, has a new idea, an idea that is still to prevent the father and son of Emperor Zhizheng from escaping.

The army was divided.

The land troops, according to the rhythm of the previous Northern Expedition, continued to move north for the camp step by step.

Another strange army went down the Yellow River from Bianliang, arrived at Bohai Bay from the northern outlet of the Yellow River, and then took a naval ship to assault Zhigu.

Zhigu, which was later Tianjin.

The strange soldiers landed from Zhigu, did not go to Dadu, but went straight to Juyong Pass in the northwest of Dadu, and before the Yuan Court reacted, they first cut off a route that Emperor Zheng's father and son were most likely to flee to Kaiping.

Of course, since they have all arrived in the Bohai Sea, by the way, they will divide another army, not too much, three or five thousand is enough, hugging the grass and beating rabbits, and taking the Yuguan Pass in the northeast of the capital, which leads to the outside of the pass, that is, the later Shanhaiguan.

This not only blocked another escape route for Emperor Zhizheng's father and son, but also blocked possible reinforcements in the direction of Liaodong, killing two birds with one stone.

The strange soldiers here secretly Chen Cang, and the door was successfully closed, and the regular army on land could start fighting dogs.

Inside the study.

Zhu Yuan considered it in detail, and added this idea of 'darkness to Chen Cang' in the letter, and the time was close to his own time.

This letter is five or six thousand words long, and it is inevitable that some alterations will be made, but Zhu Yuan does not have the energy to transcribe it again, and it is not suitable for the women around him to help transcribe it, I believe that Lao Zhu can also understand, so he directly packed the envelope, sealed it with fire paint, and handed it over to Wen Zao, who had been waiting for a long time.

Waiting for Wen Zao to leave in a hurry, Zhu Yuan turned to Mingyuantang and discussed the specific implementation matters with Hua Gao and Wu Zhen, who rushed over.

Anything is easier said than done.

No matter how many ideas you have, if you don't do it, or if you can't do it well, it's all vain.

Now that Lao Zhu has made up his mind, the 15,000 people that the navy plans to transfer must also speed up the integration. Moreover, if Lao Zhu agrees to his dark Chen Cang plan, more preparations are needed here in order to cooperate.

The three of them discussed for most of the hour, and some things were preliminarily finalized.

The first is the schedule.

The 15,000 men of the navy must be dispatched by the end of June, and assembled in Shandong by the end of July, and a large number of sea vessels, preferably in Laizhou in the north of the Shandong Peninsula, rather than in Jiaozhou in the south.

When the time comes, if Bianliang has a division of troops to come over, they will pick it up together, except for a small number of people who rush to Yuguan, and the brigade will go straight to Zhigu.

Today is May 16th.

In other words, there is only about a month left to prepare.

Not only that, while dividing 15,000 troops to the north, the matter of transporting grain could not be stopped, after all, the basis for Lao Zhu to change the strategy of the Northern Expedition was the opening of the sea grain route, which provided sufficient food and salary for the army at the front.

In case of an accident on the grain route, it would be worse than the 15,000-strong army not being able to go north on time.

Therefore, all these things, which are easy to say and easy to do, are complicated.

At the end of the meeting, the three of them simply had lunch here, and then hurriedly went to get busy.