Back in the house, Zhang Yuyan asked about what happened in the court today, and Zhang Yiyi told one by one, and then said:

"Originally, according to the plan of our majesty, even if he wanted to bring it up, he would never bring it up now, but with Deng Siguang and others as stepping stones, His Majesty simply took this opportunity to settle the matter directly.

It can also be seen from here that our majesty is not a good person, at least he grasped the timing very accurately.

It's just that there is one thing that the old man has not been very clear. ”

"Grandpa, what is it that you can't understand?"

Zhang Yuyan asked curiously.

Zhang He's eyes flashed, he looked at the south and said slowly: "According to Your Majesty's strength, it is easy to pacify the south at this time, only 50,000 troops need to go to the south, and those families in the south will definitely not dare to disobey."

But the strange thing is that His Majesty has never mentioned the south since he ascended the throne, and he has never said when he will calm the current chaos in the south.

The north and the south are not unified, which should be something that every emperor cannot tolerate, but our majesty's approach makes the old man very incomprehensible. ”

"Maybe Your Majesty thinks it's not time yet?"

Zhang Yuyan guessed.

"When the time comes, what is more important than the unification of the North and the South?"

Zhang He shook his head, obviously not agreeing with this statement.

Zhang Yuyan said: "Now that the northern Xiongnu have just gone, not to mention that the entire focus of the imperial court is on restoring production in the north, but most of the energy is focused here."

Now the south is also in chaos, if it is unified now, maybe the imperial court will be exhausted.

Grandpa, you just said that with Your Majesty's military strength, you can easily pacify the south, but have you ever thought about it, Your Majesty controls far more than the north in our pass.

The granddaughter heard that even Tatar is under the control of His Majesty, and His Majesty has the title of Heavenly Khan like Taizong of the former Tang Dynasty.

Outside the customs, in order to control the Tatars, His Majesty must also keep troops.

In this way, the grasslands in the north of Guannai and the grasslands further north outside Guanwai already need a lot of troops to sit in the town, and your Majesty is standing in the south and does not want to send many troops to the south, let alone take over another mess before one mess is cleaned up, and clean up two messes at the same time, can the current imperial court really do it?

The South is not like the North.

The north has been attacked by the Xiongnu and other barbarians outside the border all the year round, and there are not many families such as Jiangmen and military households.

But this time the Xiongnu invaded, these two were almost wiped out, which means that today's north is like a blank sheet of paper, easy to paint.

But the south is different, our hometown is from the south, and there are so many families in the south that you won't know how much grandpa is.

It's our Zhang family, because of your relationship with your grandfather, and now it's a big eunuch family.

If His Majesty had taken back the south, it would have taken much more energy to pacify it than it had been in the north. ”

"Family?"

Zhang He nodded slightly, closed his eyes and thought quietly.

Zhang Yuyan didn't bother him at this time, knowing that his grandfather would be like this when he was thinking about important things, so he just got up gently and replaced the warm tea for his grandfather with hot one.

After she finished changing the tea, Zhang He suddenly opened one eye and asked, "Yu Yan, what news has come back from my hometown recently?" ”

Zhang Yuyan thought for a while, and then said: "Nothing else, the family can still control the neighborhood."

But I heard that there is a reform army on the side of Haifu County, and the momentum is very strong, and it has already won the territory of three or four prefectures.

There is also a tendency to expand to other places.

Its momentum is not to be underestimated, and so far no army in Haifu County has been able to subdue the Renovator Army. ”

"Where did this revolutionary army come from, and where is the leader?"

"I don't know."

Zhang Yuyan shook her head, and Zhang He, who was still thinking about something just now, suddenly opened her eyes, sat up straight and asked:

"I don't know what it means? Didn't you find it? “”

Zhang Yuyan shook her head:

"No, it's that this reform army is very mysterious, according to the family's information channels, this reform army seems to have appeared out of nowhere, and there is no way to find out everything about this Li Zicheng's past.

The only thing that can be found out so far is that they first appeared in the Summer Gate, and nothing else can be found. ”

Zhang He narrowed his eyes after listening, and only slowly opened them after a long while, and muttered:

"Xiamen, suddenly appeared, the reform army......

I always feel like something is wrong......"

For a long time, Zhang He didn't think of any relationship between these people, so he withdrew his thoughts and continued: "Yu Yan, you send a message back, you must not treat the people harshly in your hometown, with Your Majesty's character now, if he catches the fault of our Zhang family, the old man will not be happy." ”

"Grandpa, don't worry, my granddaughter has already sent the news back, and the cousins and cousins who used to make trouble have stopped going out, and they have stayed honest during this time, and they will never make trouble for you, grandpa!"

Zhang He nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Okay, that's it for now, let's prepare for dinner, and I will enter the palace when the time comes." ”

"Into the palace?"

Zhang Yuyan was stunned, and Zhang He said: "When the dynasty came out just now, His Majesty asked the prince to inform me that I would go to the palace in the afternoon.

The old man estimated that he should discuss the specific details of the test method.

I'm afraid this discussion time will not be short, and finally Yu Yan will let the kitchen prepare a few good cakes for the old man to bring, just in case. ”

After understanding the reason, Zhang Yuyan suddenly went to prepare with tears and laughter.

……

In the palace.

"Your Majesty, there is news from Haifu County that Li Zicheng and they have taken another place, and at the same time, the number of elite soldiers under his command has expanded to 10,000.

The families in the south seem to feel threatened, and the Xu family in southern Jiangsu, the Gao family in northern Jiangsu, the Chen family in Xijiang, the Qian family in Lingyue, the Li family in Yanjiang and the Mu family in northern Hunan seem to have a tendency to unite.

These six families can be said to be the largest six families in the south, if they join forces, even with our support, but Li Zicheng's side is under a lot of pressure, and it may not be able to maintain the current momentum.

Even if they really cooperate, Li Zicheng and they may be difficult to resist! ”

Wang Huaien looked worried and reported the news he had just received to Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun's eyes flashed after hearing this, and he sneered: "I thought they could endure it a little longer, but I didn't expect that they couldn't help but come out."

In this way, you tell Li Zicheng to let him hold on a little longer, and I will prepare here.

Since these six have taken action, there is no need to clean them up everywhere, clean up these six families, and the others will be easy to do.

Have you found any recent traces of the Ding family? ”

Zhao Jun asked.

Wang Huaien nodded and said:

"The last time they appeared in Tianfu Mansion in Haifu County, it seemed that they wanted to go to sea, but it happened that the location of the sea entrance was occupied by the reform army, so they were blocked somewhere, and now the Ding family is still staying in Tianfu Mansion and waiting for the opportunity."

"Arrived at Tianfu Mansion?"

Zhao Jun laughed, and then his face suddenly turned cold:

"Now that the location has been confirmed, there's no need to wait any longer, let the dark guard do it.

Except for Ding Nie, who wants to live, the rest of the Ding family doesn't need to keep their hands, they are killed, and no one is left! ”

Wang Huaien immediately nodded and agreed: "The slave understands!" ”

On that day, a Haidongqing rose to the sky and headed south.

……

(End of chapter)