Lan'er, Yuan Liqing, and Yan Erniang are not ordinary women, they all have a keen perception of problems.

Miao Sanguan, the old master of the Hengyang Palace, sent someone to urgently interrogate, and there was indeed a big problem.

It's not a problem, it's a whole bunch of problems, so the letter is sprinkled with tens of thousands of words.

Although Miao Sanguan is an evil scholar, he is definitely not a person who likes to be wordy.

A person who doesn't like verbosity suddenly becomes so wordy, there must be a last resort, so the military advisor Wan Lian hurriedly invited Xiong Chu over to listen carefully to what was said.

In fact, Miao Sanguan didn't say anything in the letter, just retold what happened on the land of the Central Plains in the past three years in the simplest words.

In the first case, the Jurchen Tartars seized Songshan, and Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou surrendered.

This is what happened on February 18 in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), Emperor Chongzhen once ordered Shuntian Governor Yang Shenwu to rescue Hong Chengchou, and sent Fan Zhiwan, a squire of the military department, to rush to help.

Although these two cowards led their troops over, they did not dare to fight. The deputy general Jiao Yun was once again ordered to send reinforcements, but as soon as he left Shanhaiguan, he was slapped head-on by the enemy, and the result was a big defeat.

After that, the Jurchen Tartars broke through Songshan City, the governor Qiu Minyang and the chief military officer Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen were all killed, and the governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengchou, the deputy general Zu Dashou and Xia Chengde, surrendered to the enemy.

Second, there was a rare locust plague in Suzhou and Huzhou, and the price of rice rose 20 times, and the people could only eat tree chips and elm bark; 100 children were abandoned as a group at the entrance of the city gate and alley, "or they were regarded as dead and abandoned, or they were gathered and burned, or they were dug and buried, and countless were covered." ”

Third, the earthquakes in Anyi, Shanxi (northeast of present-day Yuncheng), Puzhou, and Ronghe crushed countless people; and the severe drought continued on the Nanyang and Runan lines in Henan, and the people fled for thousands of miles.

Fourth, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan, and the Red Lady took refuge in Li Zicheng, so their power was greatly boosted. Therefore, Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng City in Beijing three times, and the governor Gao Mingheng opened the Zhujiazhaikou River, flooding Li Zicheng's army of 70,000.

Not to be outdone, Li Zicheng moved to the highlands and let tens of thousands of refugees open the Yellow River and flood the city of Kaifeng. The river runs through the north gate and exits the southeast gate, flooding millions of households in the city.

In the end, only the princess of Zhou, the prince and the governor Gao Mingheng escaped, and less than 20,000 people escaped, drowning more than 300,000 people.

Fifth, on the first day of July in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, because Kaifeng was in an emergency, Chongzhen ordered Zuo Liangyu to help.

Zuo Liangyu and Yang Wenyue, Hu Dawei, Yang Dezheng, and Fang Guoan saw that the enemy was too strong, so they fled without a fight, and all the armies in Xiangyang were defeated.

As a result, in Zhuxian Town, he fell into Li Zicheng's ambush circle, and Zuo Liangyu's whole army was defeated, abandoning thousands of horses and mules, and throwing away all self-respecting grain and grass. Even Ren Dong, the supervisor of the army, died in the battle, and Zuo Liangyu fled to Xiangyang almost alone.

Sixth, on the sixth day of November in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Jurchen Tartars entered Jizhou, broke Jinan and Shandong counties, lost many of them south of Hejian, and broke eighty-eight cities such as Yanzhou.

The governor of Shandong asked Zhu Yifaction, the king of Lu, to take out his own money, so that he could gather 200,000 victims to form an army to resist. However, Zhu Yipai, the king of Lu, regarded wealth as his life and resolutely did not agree to scatter wealth into an army.

As a result, when the Jurchen Tartars attacked the royal city, the common people applauded. In the end, the royal city was breached, and Zhu Yipai and his sons King Leling, King Yangxin, and King Dongyuan were all killed.

The Jurchen Tartars captured more than 369,000 people in Shandong, and seized more than 12,200 taels of red gold, more than 2,250,000 taels of silver, 6 million stones of grain, more than 550,000 heads of cattle and horses, and more than 80,000 horses of precious brocade from the palace.

"What does the lord think?" The military advisor Wan Lian excerpted a few letters, briefly summarized them, and then looked at Xiong Chu.

Xiong Chu shook his head: "I can only say four words: incredible. Hong Chengchou seemed to have won and lost half of the rebels against the exile rebels, and he repeatedly showed his loyalty and asked for money and food, but the whole army was wiped out in the first battle of the pass, and he simply surrendered. Let the scholar lead the troops to defeat every battle, Zhu Youzhen still did not accept the lesson. Incredible. ”

"Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi have been plagued by disasters for 20 years, which has become a norm and can be reluctantly accepted. Now that Suzhou Mansion and Huzhou Mansion have suddenly undergone a catastrophe, and the last rice granary of the Ming Dynasty has all collapsed, it is no wonder that we have such a flood of people here, it is incredible. ”

"Shandong Lu King Zhu Yipai father and son, actually regarded money as more important than their own lives, and didn't even understand the simplest menopausal survival principle. It's no pity that their family is dead, and in the end let the Jurchen Tartars take a big advantage, it's really incredible, incredible!"

Wan Lian raised the letter in his hand: "Lord, before Li Zicheng besieged Luoyang, so did Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu. The officials on the left and right repeatedly asked him to take out the money and money to gather the victims, but Zhu Changxun just didn't do it. As a result, the royal city was breached, allowing Li Zicheng to make a fortune, and Zhu Changxun was killed. ”

"Lord, you are also a child of the Zhu family. To put it mildly, what is the use of princes like Zhu Changxun and Zhu Yipai? As a prince of a town and a vassal with tens of millions of wealth, even if he does not consider the country, he should save the people in his own territory, right? But in fact this is not the case. ”

Now I finally understand that these princes surnamed Zhu will never spend money on the people, because they don't even want to spend money to buy lives for themselves and their descendants, which shows how crazy they are to accumulate wealth. The people grit their teeth and hate them, which is the root cause of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others being able to sweep the Quartet. ”

Xiong Chu nodded: "The military advisor has a point, I can't take care of other places, and I shouldn't take care of them." However, in our territory in Burma and Vietnam, there will be absolutely no iron hat king in the future. Anyone who is reluctant to the outside enemy and does not save the people in the face of death, no matter what their identity is, will be killed. ”

Wan Lian smiled slightly: "As for the character of the lord, we all know it, and we will definitely implement this principle." However, Miao Sanguan sent a letter of 50,000 words, the purpose was not to make the lord sigh, but to use a deep intention. ”

Xiong Chu frowned slightly: "Didn't he just let us know about the dynamics in the north, did he still want to make some name for himself?"

Wan Lian put down the letter and said with a smile: "Hahaha, whether he wants to make a name for himself or not, it's hard to say now." But the problem that Miao Sanguan is worried about is indeed imminent. ”

"What's the problem?" Hearing that the problem had reached an imminent critical juncture, Prince Xiong finally became cautious.

Wan Lian put away his smile and said sternly: "Zuo Liangyu, Yang Wenyue, Hu Dawei, Yang Dezheng, and Fang Guoan have a total of 80,000 troops, and this time there is almost nothing left. At present, he is trapped in the ancient city of Xiangyang and is surrounded to death by Li Zicheng. ”

"Nowadays, in the entire land of Jingxiang, Chengtian, De'an and Runan, there is not a single soldier in the imperial court. It can be seen from this that Henan, Xiangyang, and Jingzhou have become Li Zicheng's world. ”

"In this way, half of our lake, that is, north of the Yangtze River, has become Li Zicheng's territory. In other words, the entire Jiangbei has been lost. ”

At the same time, the Jurchen Tartars in the north were able to break through the Great Wall and travel thousands of miles south to break through Shandong, which was the main reason why Miao Sanguan wrote a letter. ”

Of course, Xiong Chu understood that what Wan Lian said was true, but he couldn't make up his mind about what the future should be, so he didn't continue to speak for a long time.

Since Miao Sanguan, who has always been calm, urgently sent the message, of course he needs to get a clear attitude, that is, the principle of dealing with the current situation. Xiong Chu also knows this.

However, what kind of principles should Miao Sanguan be given in order to cope with the worse and worse situation in the future?

The more Xiong Chu thought about it, the more upset he became, so he stood up and put his hands behind his back, and walked around the Wuying Palace, and it was half an hour in the blink of an eye.

"Three principles: First, try to help the victims as much as possible, and transfer them if they can, anyway, we can open up wasteland everywhere here. As long as the people can endure hardship, they will definitely not starve to death. The increase in the number of people can also provide us with sufficient troops. ”

"Second, no matter what the force is, as long as it does not cross the Yangtze River, Hengyang Mansion will wait and see what happens. We can't reach other places for a long time, but whoever dares to harm the land of Jiangnan, Huguang, we can't sit idly by. ”

"Third, the generals of all departments under the jurisdiction of Hengyang Mansion must be nervous from now on, and the replenishment of soldiers and the improvement and renewal of weapons must keep up, so that they can be prepared to deal with unexpected changes at any time. To put it bluntly, the troops should be prepared for war. ”

Xiong Chu said three principles, and then looked at Wan Lian.

Unexpectedly, Wan Lian shook his head: "Of course, what the lord said is very reasonable, but this is not Miao Sanguan's original intention." As far as I know him, these three principles are definitely not his original intention, otherwise he would not have written such a stinky and long letter. ”

Xiong Chu was a little helpless against these evil scholars, so he could only spread his hands: "The military advisor simply explained it, what does the old master want me to do?"

Wan Lian also stood up, walked directly to the east wall of Wuying Hall and slapped it up, and then drew a circle.

On the east wall of the Wuying Palace, there is a map of the Ming Dynasty that is more than two people high. Wan Lian's right hand slapped on the map, and then pulled up and down, Xiong Chu's head suddenly became bigger.

Prince Xiong opened his big mouth and closed it for a long time: "How can this be true, what does the old master want to do?"

"He didn't want to do anything. Wan Lian walked back to his seat before saying, "The three principles proposed by the lord, Miao Sanguan must have taken precautions. However, although the Yangtze River belongs to the moat, it actually has no great effect. ”

"If the northern forces go south, Yueyang Mansion, Changsha Mansion, and Wuchang Mansion will not be able to hold it at all. Because these places are all water network areas, it is impossible to launch effective means of striking the enemy. ”

In other words, Miao Sanguan believes that in order to implement the three principles of the lord, it is necessary to increase enough room for maneuver, and it needs a broader strategic depth to be able to deploy tens of thousands of troops, or even hundreds of thousands of troops. ”

"In view of this, if we deal with Guizhou, Guangxi, and Zhaoqing, it is the issue that Miao Sanguan is most concerned about now. What he needed was the principles of strategic planning to deal with these three places, not just tactical defense principles against the north. ”

After this Southern Expedition, Xiong Chu's strategic vision is no longer the one of Wuxia Ameng in the past, and he just said the three principles, he just doesn't want the situation to expand.

To put it bluntly, from the bottom of his heart, Xiong Chu doesn't want the big tomorrow to become a worse situation than now.

However, no one is sure how the situation will change in the future. It is precisely because all kinds of possibilities exist that Miao Sanguan raised his worries from a strategic height, which of course makes sense.

Originally, he wanted to connect the north and the south and increase the strategic depth of nearly 1,500 miles. Xiong Chu stared at the map for a long time before he smiled bitterly: "Although the idea is good, you can't move it now." You can prepare according to his plan, but you must not act rashly. ”

Regarding the overall issues related to the Ming Dynasty, Prince Xiong has always hoped that he would be cautious, for fear that the slightest problem would destroy the overall situation of the court.

It is precisely because of this kind of forward-looking thinking that he often behaves at a loss.

The development of things has its own unique laws, and it is not that Xiong Chu is cautious, and he will not come when he should come.

The trajectory of the outbreak of real social problems is exactly the opposite of Xiong Chu's idea.

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