I saw that Xiao Han's reply this time was very brief.

"Don't worry, you will definitely live up to the trust of His Royal Highness the Prince, and Duan Liang will die within two months."

Zhu Biao: ...

How is this... It's completely different from what I imagined.

Shuzhong.

Xiao Han and Mu Ying sorted out the army and incorporated a large number of Xia State soldiers.

Leaving He Wenhui with 20,000 Hanzhong defenders to suppress Shuzhong, Xiao Han, Mu Ying, Lan Yu, and Zhu Wenzheng went directly south with 100,000 Ming elites.

Squeak!

In the carriage, Xiao Han sat upright and looked south, his eyes were deep.

Zhu Biao's meaning, he naturally understood, but Xiao Han understood that the more this time, the more he had to play with momentum, Ying Tianfu was not short of these 100,000 people, and 100,000 people were not enough to deter those powerful families.

Returning now, in Xiao Han's opinion, it will make the powerful people of the family feel that the Ming Dynasty is strong and weak, and they can be bullied, and they want to make those powerful families feel awe of the Ming Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts, so they can only strike hard.

At this time, all those who dare to pick up the beards of the Ming Tiger will be crushed and crushed, so that the ill-intentioned people can feel afraid.

"Fengxue, what are we going to do next?"

Outside the carriage, Lan Yu asked Xiao Han on horseback.

"Just hit."

Xiao Han said lightly, of course.

Sapphire: ...

Boom!

Familiar formula.

"Ahem!"

Xiao Han landed his eyes on the chessboard in front of him, slowly moved a few chess pieces, and for a while it seemed that his movements were a little big, and he couldn't help coughing twice.

Xiao Han's body is not good, even if he has been relying on the imperial medicine to nourish himself, he has not improved much, all the way from Qutangxia Fortress to Southern Xinjiang, and fought for thousands of miles, which is not a small load on Xiao Han's body.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Biao finally decided to let Xiao Han go back, he is confident in Xiao Han's ability, he is not afraid that Xiao Han will not be able to defeat the Duan clan and King Liang, but he is afraid that Xiao Han will not be able to bear the pressure of continuous fighting.

"It seems that the action has to be faster, otherwise the fight will be too intense for a long time, and I'm afraid it will be easy to win the final battle."

Xiao Han looked at the chessboard in front of him, smiled wryly and shook his head.

Xiao Han still has a lot of things to do, a lot of policies, and a lot of strategies that have not been completed, he is not afraid of falling on the battlefield one day, but he doesn't want to fall here yet.

The suburbs of Dali.

Duan's and Polo Timur's face pressure from the Ming Dynasty and were forced to strike and renegotiate.

"King Liang, do you want to tell this official that you suspect that those people were bribed by Da Ming to attack my Duan family?"

Compared with a few days ago, Duan Bao had obviously lost a lot of weight, and he looked quite haggard.

The Duan family of Dali, which was originally flourishing, has now, after the previous blow, there are only three or two big cats and kittens left, and whoever faces it will almost collapse.

"That's how it should be."

"The people who attacked you all committed suicide after the incident, and their families all disappeared."

Polo Timur was also full of fatigue and opened his mouth to explain.

"'Doubt', 'Should'!"

"King Liang, after all, those people are still your people, don't you even know if they were bought by the Ming Dynasty?"

Duan Bao said sarcastically, if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty to eliminate the Xia Kingdom, he might come over at any time, Duan Bao really wanted to continue to fight to the death with Polo Timur.

The people of his Duan clan are about to be defeated, but as a result, this King Liang doesn't even know what is going on with his subordinates, and the relevant murderers and family members have all disappeared, and there is no proof of death!

No matter how you look at it, it looks like it was hidden by Polo Timur.

Thinking of this situation, Duan Bao couldn't help but clench his hands and want to breathe fire angrily.

"That's right, we have made the greatest thorough investigation, and this king hopes that Chief Duan can choose to believe this king."

"After all, this king can still endure slander when tens of thousands of brothers have died, and I will give you an explanation."

"If this king really wants to lie to you, he can directly say that the person who attacked your Duan family has nothing to do with us at all."

"Now that Da Ming is our common threat, no matter what, this king hopes that Manager Duan can make a rational choice."

Polo Timur spoke lightly.

"This matter, the official still needs to think about it, the prince should go back first, and the king will give you a result in the end."

Duan Bao clenched his fists and spoke coldly.

"Good!"

"This king's side left first, and I hope that Manager Duan can think about it calmly."

Polo Timur nodded and turned to leave.

"I'm sure that this official will put aside his grudges and join forces with you in order to survive, so do you have nothing to fear?"

Duan Bao gritted his teeth, closed his eyes tightly, and the green tendons on his forehead burst out.

"Big brother..."

"We... Do you really want to continue to join forces with that Liang King? ”

Duan Bao's younger brother Duan Liang escaped because he was on a mission at the time, but almost all his family members died in that massacre.

If it weren't for the last shred of reason in his heart, when he saw Polo Timur just now, he would have already raised his knife and slashed at King Liang.

"Join forces! Join forces! ”

"What can I do if I don't join forces?"

"If you don't join forces, everyone will die!"

Duan Bao gritted his teeth, his eyes were bloodshot.

"Big brother..."

"Actually, we have another way."

"It can not only defeat the invasion of the Ming Dynasty, but also take the opportunity to take the territory of Polo Timur and the old land of the Xia Kingdom."

Duan Liang's eyes narrowed slightly, full of hatred.

"Oh?"

"Let's talk about it."

Duan Bao said coldly, he was no less hateful than Duan Liang for Polo Timur, if he could ensure the safety of the last members of the Duan family, he could still pit Polo Timur to death, Duan Bao would definitely not mind.

"It's very simple, the main force of the Ming army is in the summer capital, and right in front of it is the territory of Polo Timur, the elite of the Ming Dynasty is only 100,000, if you launch an attack, you will definitely choose the whole army to take most of the main force away."

"We are allied with Polo Timur on the surface, but in fact, we can send some people to do things perfunctorily, the real elite main force, go north directly, copy the back road of the Ming army, let the Ming army and Polo Timur fight to the death first, and so Polo Timur will be defeated, the Ming army must be quite tired, then we can eliminate the two forces in one fell swoop, directly occupy southern Xinjiang and Shu, and then unite with Meng Yuan to attack the Ming State, forming a three-point world."

"If we can, it's best for us to take over Guanzhong, let Meng Yuan take the Central Plains and Shandong, and send the Ming Kingdom back to Jiangnan."

Duan Liang explained to Duan Bao.

Listening to Duan Liang's words, Duan Bao's eyes couldn't help but light up, if Duan Liang's strategy could really be realized, then Dali would be able to grow into a great force that was not weaker than Meng Yuan and Mingguo.

At that time, it will directly surpass the ancestors, directly claim the emperor, and control the vast land.

In particular, Guanzhong and Shuzhong have been the foundation of the emperor since ancient times, and the Qin and Han dynasties have dominated the world because of this.

In addition, they still have southern Xinjiang, and in that kind of situation, whether it is Mengyuan, who occupies the Central Plains, or Daming, who retreats to the south of the Yangtze River, will not be stronger than them.

"It's a good idea, but it's not too much to take for granted."

"What if we can't take Shuzhong quickly, or if Polo Timur is defeated too quickly?"

Duan Bao pinched his chin, although he was also very excited about the big cake painted by Duan Liang, he still had the least sense.

"Big brother, where is the absolute safety of things in the world, no matter what, this is more feasible than us directly doing our best to help the enemy Polo Timur, right?"

"After all, if we go to help them, if we lose, everyone will die together, and if we win, they will get the Qiandi, and we will have to divide it with them in Shuzhong, and the difference between pay and harvest is too much."

"In the world, how can there be such a truth, we do our best, pay a lot, the risk is the same, but the gain is pitiful."

Duan Liang opened his mouth angrily, and continued to move towards Duan Bao with affection and reason.

"Humph! Since it was he Polo Timur who was unkind to us first, then it is no wonder that our Duan family is unjust, since this is the case, let's do as you say. ”

"Lose, everyone dies together, win, our Duan family winner takes all!"

"Then, let Polo Timur and the Ming army go dog-eat-dog first, Shuzhong, it's ours!"

Duan Bao got up and did it! In this dispute, his Duan family fought against the water, don't die if you don't win, but win!

As long as you can win, then you must pocket everything and settle all the grudges.

Ying Tianfu.

At the insistence of Zhu Biao, the Spring Festival was held normally, and there is no doubt that the Four Books and Five Classics are still the track of the powerful family, and the political outline of the Ming Dynasty and the law of the Ming Dynasty are equally divided between the powerful and the wealthy businessmen.

After all, although the Four Books and Five Classics were all the self-reserved places of the family's heroes, after all, it is a new subject, and everyone is starting to memorize it again, and the time is still short, and no one can lead anyone in the mastery level.

And the Daming agricultural science is also the same as Zhu Biao expected, most of the participants are some aspiring peasant children, these people are really shabby compared with the children of wealthy families and wealthy merchants.

Those people with prominent status, when they go out, they are all in front of the back, accompanied by scholars, dressed in fine clothes, not stained with dust, and one by one in the examination room of the Four Books and Five Classics, the Political Outline and the Great Ming Law.

And the examination room of Daming Agricultural Skills, it looks like it is in good condition, and the clothes can be considered complete, but they are all puddings, which are not good, and it can even be said that they are in rags and showing their faces, and even Zhu Biao suspects that they are begging all the way when they see it.

To be able to appear in this Jinling City to take the exam, I am afraid that I have already lost half my life.

It's no wonder that these people are like this, after all, this is the only time, under Zhu Biao's strong insistence, there is no chance that you can go directly to the spring without Qiuqiu, who can rush over, who will take the test.

If you can show your understanding of agriculture and enter Zhu Biao's eyes, it is a step to the sky.

And wait until next time, you must first participate in the autumn festival to have a chance to have the spring festival, and the examiner of the autumn festival, even if Zhu Biao arranges all the civilian children who came up this time to be the examiner, it will not cover many state capitals at all.

As for the state capitals where those powerful Confucian scholars serve as examiners, although they will not maliciously brush downward, if you refuse to work for the family to which they belong and want to continue to walk, in most cases, I am afraid it will not be easy.

Looking at the list of Gongsheng students who passed the Spring Exam and were about to participate in the palace exam, Zhu Biao's eyes narrowed.

This time, although there is no qualification restriction for the reference of Daming agricultural science, there are still not many people who have passed this subject, only one-tenth of the traditional subject, and there are only about a dozen people in total.

Among them, half of them are scholars from families who have had hands-on farming experience and already prefer agriculture, and there are only six real low-level civilian tributes.

"Alas!"

Looking at this result, Zhu Biao couldn't help but let out a faint sigh, in order to adhere to the implementation of the imperial examination reform, Daming was under great pressure.

During the period before and after the examination, Zhu Biao asked Jinyiwei and the Ming soldiers to suppress three powerful conspiracies and seven peasant uprisings that were instigated.

It sounds a little strange, everything that Ming Ming did was for the sake of the peasant people at the bottom, why would there be such a thing as a peasant uprising, the family is strong, how many benefits have been given to achieve this step.

In fact, on the contrary, not only do the powerful families not have to give benefits, they even only need to increase some exploitation, increase the survival pressure of those people, and then create some public opinion, so that the people can attribute all this to the court.

The whole process, even without much cost, can make a lot of money without pain.

A lot of times, people don't care what you do, they only care about what they think you've done.

Those who rebelled thought that they had fallen on the road to fight for their rights and interests until they died.

After paying so much, in the end, Da Ming only got six civilian tributes, how could this not make Zhu Biao feel frustrated?

"Biao'er, I haven't seen you for a while, why are you sighing here?"

"It's not like our mark."

Squeak!

The door was pushed open, and Zhu Yuanzhang leaned against the door frame in an ordinary coarse coat and smiled at Zhu Biao.

"Daddy?"

"Didn't you go to Fengyang's hometown?"

"Why didn't you come back suddenly, I didn't say a word, and Erchen can arrange to welcome you here."

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang who suddenly appeared, Zhu Biao couldn't help but be slightly surprised.

"Huh."

"We did go back, but I heard that recently, some people are very dissatisfied with our Daming reforms, and even caused a peasant uprising."

"It's been too long, the world has forgotten what we Zhu Yuanzhang did, we can't come out, they still think we have died?"

"Let's come back now, you will continue to reform, and let's see how many people are making trouble behind our backs."

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, during this time, the wind at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty changed very drastically.

At the beginning, under Zhu Biao's propaganda, the people were quite optimistic about the reform of the Ming imperial examination, but later as the family heroes reacted, the wind direction began to change, not long ago, when Zhu Yuanzhang Weifu visited a tavern in Fengyang, there were even drunk people who scolded Daming in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

At that moment, Zhu Yuanzhang understood that he had to come back.

"Dad, will you start to resume the court tomorrow?"

Zhu Biao's eyes lit up, Zhu Yuanzhang's prestige as the Hongwu Emperor is still much greater than Zhu Biao after all, with Zhu Yuanzhang personally coming forward to continue to preside over the government, then the different voices will be much smaller.

"No, you will continue to be the host and preside over the court, and we will pull a small chair next to you."

The corners of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth were hooked, and he opened his mouth lightly.

Although he knew about the reform of the imperial examination, he did not know the specifics, and it was inconvenient for him to take over directly.

Therefore, it is the most appropriate way to let Zhu Biao continue to preside over and Zhu Yuanzhang personally appear on the stage.

Southern Xinjiang border.

"In the wind and snow, Polo Timur mobilized all the 180,000 troops that Liang could draw to the front line, and the Dali Duan family also mobilized 100,000 troops to support Polo Timur."

"However, according to the observation and report of the Jinyi Guard's secret agents infiltrating the front line, the quality of the 100,000 troops sent by the Duan family is extremely poor, not only is the armor rate about equal to none, but even the weapons are wooden sticks, which are completely the people's husbands with weapons from the opponent."

Mu Ying took a secret letter, sat opposite Xiao Han and spoke.

"Oh?"

"Duan Bao is so perfunctory, doesn't Polo Timur have anything to say?"

Xiao Han's eyes narrowed slightly, and a smile appeared in his eyes.

"We didn't find out about this, but it seems that after the people sent by the Duan clan arrived, a messenger was sent, and in the end, both sides didn't seem to be very happy."

Mu Ying shook her head and said the news she had.

"It's a strange thing to be happy, it's nothing more than Polo Timur asking Duan Bao why he sent people to be perfunctory, and Duan Bao used the reason that he didn't have any elite troops in his own house to be perfunctory."

Xiao Han smiled, not surprised at all.

"Doesn't that treasure know that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold? If Polo Timur were killed by us, he would not have survived. ”

Mu Ying frowned slightly, as if she was quite puzzled by Duan Bao's behavior.

"Hehe, the game I did at the beginning, but now they haven't solved it, and the reason why the truce was re-established to unite against my Daming is just forced by the situation."

"In this case, the Duan clan sent troops to help their enemy Liang Guo, and the risk was still defeat or destruction, but the gain was almost equal to nothing, so how could that Duan Bao be willing to send troops to Liang State."

Xiao Leng laughed, his tone quite disdainful.

"Could it be that he really dares to let us destroy Polo Timur?"

Mu Ying opened his mouth in shock, he couldn't believe this kind of thing at all.

"Of course not, don't forget, the Duan clan borders the western part of Shudi."

Xiao Han pointed to the sand table in front of him.

"Are you saying that the Duan clan will choose to gamble everything and try to attack Shu before we destroy Polo Timur?"

Mu Ying opened her mouth in shock, this kind of strategy can be called a gamble.

"In this case, wouldn't it be very dangerous for Shu Di at this time, I will divide my troops back to support He Wenhui!"

Mu Ying suddenly got up and exclaimed.

"Not necessarily."

"Since I dare to make a promise to destroy Duan Liang and both sides in two months, I am sure, on the side of Brother He Wenhui, I have already made arrangements, Mu Shuai can just continue to lead the army to attack King Liang."

Xiao Han stretched out a hand and shook his head.

Summer capital.

"The Duan clan really chose to take a risk and attack Shudi."

"Everything, as expected."

He Wenhui looked at a bag in his hand, and a trace of amazement appeared in his eyes, all of this had already been clearly stated in the bag left by Xiao Han before he sent out the army.

(End of chapter)