Back to Daming to be a genius

Chapter 220
To be honest, Song Xiance is actually very dissatisfied with his boss, Young Master Zhang—this is not to say that Young Master Zhang doesn’t trust Song Xiance. In fact, Song Xiance wrote almost all of Young Master Zhang’s confidential memorials. They had to go to Song Xiance first, and then make a decision after listening to Song Xiance's opinions and suggestions. This alone is enough to prove that Young Master Zhang regards Song Xiance as a confidant and a think tank.But what makes Song Xiance very dissatisfied is that Young Master Zhang is really too strong. He is so strong that Song Xiance has no chance at all. Song Xiance took the lead. As for Song Xiance's more difficult strategic vision and long-term planning, the young master Zhang who doesn't engage in conspiracies and tricks is uncomfortable, and even Song Xiance has been left without a trace. What chance does Song Xiance have to show off? How long?

If I had to change to another knife and pen master, my master is so capable and trusts me so much, maybe this master would still wish for it, and just eat and drink spicy food every day to write memorials for Young Master Zhang, but he has a hard and rebellious bone on the back of his head For the ambitious Song Xiance, working for a boss like Young Master Zhang is undoubtedly a nightmare. Not only is there no room to flex his muscles, but even daily affairs do not get the slightest chance to show his talents.If it hadn't been for Song Xiance to see through Young Master Zhang's seemingly gentle and modest appearance, there is still a great ambition that is unwilling to be lonely, Song Xiance really wanted to leave and find another space where there is more opportunity to display his talents ——For example, Gao Yingxiang, who has already established himself as the king of Chuang, and Wang Jiayin, who has established himself as the king of Shanxi, are all Ming masters that Song Xiance admires.

Fortunately, just when Song Xiance was worried about not being able to show his talents, an opportunity finally came. The Mongolian businessman who was bought by Young Master Zhang brought news that Jiannu sent an envoy to contact Lin Dan. Young Master Zhang inquired about the purpose of the Jiannu envoy's mission to Chahanhot, but Song Xiance and Young Master Zhang both concluded that Jiannu was understood by Xianglian Menggong.In order to avoid fighting on both sides as much as possible, or to delay as much as possible the time for Lin Dan to turn against the Ming court, Young Master Zhang immediately made a decision to request an order from the court, and also sent envoys to Chahanhot to contact Lin Dan, promising to win over Lin Dan with more favorable conditions, at least Prompted Lin Dan to adopt a neutral attitude between Daming and Jiannu, and gave the Ming court and Young Master Zhang time to prepare for the war.And Song Xiance, who couldn't wait to show off his talents, immediately proposed to Young Master Zhang, hoping that Young Master Zhang could ask the imperial court to appoint himself as the envoy of the Ming Dynasty to Chahanhaote.

"Boss, although the student is just a commoner, it is not without precedent for me to use commoner as a national envoy in Ming Dynasty." In order to convince Young Master Zhang, Song Xiance also cited the precedents of the dynasty, saying plausibly: "In the 20th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese invaded North Korea, North Korea asked my Ming Dynasty for help, the war was critical, and our dynasty lacked time to prepare. In order to delay the Japanese pirates’ attack momentum and buy time, our court’s famous minister Shi Xingshi recommended Shen Weijing, a commoner, as the national envoy to the Japanese pirates’ army. Shen Weijing did not disgrace his mission in the strategy of delaying the army, and successfully prevented the Japanese pirates from attacking for three months, which bought vital and precious time for our Ming Dynasty, and also prevented the war from burning into our territory. The students are not talented, and they are willing to follow the example of Shen Weijing's predecessors, Went to Chahanhot to negotiate with the Great Khan of Mongolia, Lin Dan, and persuaded him to continue to maintain a friendly relationship with our Ming Dynasty, and cut off the alliance between Mongolia and Jiannu."

"Master Song, Shen Weijing did a good job, but what happened to him in the end was not so good, he was hacked to death by Li Rusong in the barracks, are you not afraid of repeating his mistakes?" Young Master Zhang asked with a wry smile.Song Xiance nodded immediately, and replied with a smile, "Of course I'm afraid—but, you're not Li Rusong, my boss, so students don't have to be afraid."

Young Master Zhang stopped talking, thinking nervously—with Song Xiance's eloquence and knowledge, he is indeed the best candidate for this task, and it is not a problem to recommend Song Xiance as the ambassador, and it will be sure to write a letter to Wei Zhongxian to say hello .The only thing that worried Young Master Zhang was the difficulty of this mission to Mongolia.After thinking over and over for a long time, Young Master Zhang finally asked again: "Master Song, after you go to Chahanhot, if Lin Dan asks me, Daming, to return the Karaqin Grassland and Horqin Grassland? How would you answer him?"

Master Zhang's question hits the nail on the head, and he directly pointed out the contradiction between the Ming Dynasty court and Lin Dan. The well-deserved Mongolian Khan, of course, will not tolerate these two grasslands being actually controlled by the Ming court, let alone the betrayal of Mongolian Taiji such as Oba, Selen, and Ukeshan, who donated their protons to the Ming court. For example, if the conflict cannot be resolved and reconciled, it will be inevitable for Lin Dan and Daming to resume their war.However, Song Xiance's answer made Master Zhang's eyes brighten. Song Xiance cupped his hands and replied: "Master, if Lin Dan asks for the Horqin Grassland and the Karaqin Grassland, then the student should ask him—the Ming court rented these two grasslands from him." A prairie!"

"Lease?" Young Master Zhang was very pleasantly surprised—although Young Master Zhang came from a later generation, Young Master Zhang himself did not think of this coup before.Song Xiance thought that Young Master Zhang didn't quite understand what he meant, so he explained: "Boss, the students think so, since the Ming court can't lose the buffer zone of Harqin Grassland and Horqin Grassland, Lin Dan can't do it for his face. Give up these two grasslands, then our Ming court can rent these two grasslands from Lin Dan for a little money. In this way, Da Ming can continue to use these two grasslands to defend the capital, and let Lin Dan get real benefits The advantage is that there are steps to go down, so as to avoid the intensification of the conflict between Ming and Mongolia, which will eventually lead to war. And as long as you rent it for ten or eight years, when you, the owner, wipe out the thieves in Shaanxi and the slaves in Liaodong, and then return to Gyeonggi, Even if Lin Dan wanted to take back these two grasslands, he didn't have the guts to ask for it."

"After I have wiped out the Shaanxi rebels and the Liaodong Jiannu, Lin Dan dares to come and ask for the Horqin grassland and the Karaqin grassland? If I don't snatch his Chahar grassland back, he can go for fun!" Young Master Zhang He snorted arrogantly, and said with a smile: "Well, your move should have some effect on Lin Dan. The Ming court will also give Lin Dan a thousand taels of silver every year, and give some more silver to buy peace. I won’t object too much. As for how to persuade Lin Dan to accept it, and how to deal with enslavement envoys who might offer a better price, it’s useless for me to say it here, and how to do it depends on your adaptability.”

"Boss, so you agreed?" Song Xiance asked in surprise.Young Master Zhang nodded, and said with a smile: "I just agreed to recommend you as a national envoy. As for whether the emperor and Jiu Qiansui agree or not, they have to decide by themselves."

After finally agreeing to recommend Song Xiance as the national envoy to stand alone, Young Master Zhang hastily worked out the details of renting two grasslands from Lin Dan, wrote a letter together with Xuanda's military report, and handed it over to Song Xiance to the capital to hand over to Wei Zhongxian , Persuading Wei Zhongxian and Ming Xizong to accept this concession bill.In order to convince those stubborn and acid scholars in the imperial court, Young Master Zhang also made a separate report, and carefully calculated an economic account for the Ming court, that is, how much military expenditure will be needed after the war with Lin Dan, and how much additional budget will be needed to strengthen the defense of Jimen, Compared with these expenses, the cost of renting two grasslands from Lin Dan is so little-in fact, this account is mainly for Wei Zhongxian, as long as Wei Zhongxian feels that keeping peace with Lin Dan for the time being is better than going to war with Lin Dan immediately. Most likely, he would accept Young Master Zhang's suggestion.And as long as Wei Zhongxian accepted it, those speech officials and censors in the court whose heads were as stubborn as granite would have no effect even if they wanted to object.

Young Master Zhang’s temper is that he likes to do things in a tight-knit manner. Although the leasing bill with great hope of success has been enacted, just in case, when seeing Song Xiance off, Young Master Zhang took Song Xiance’s hand and said: “Master Song, For your mission to Chahanhot this time, it would be best if you could convince Lin Dan to accept our Lend-Lease Act. If this method does not go well, Lin Dan is determined to use force to take back the two grasslands of Karaqin and Horqin, and even Lin Dan and Jiannu reached an alliance— —Then you must completely enrage Lin Dan and lure Lin Dan to directly attack us Xuanda!"

"Let Lin Dan come directly to fight Xuanda?" Song Xiance was taken aback.Young Master Zhang nodded solemnly, and said with a cold snort: "Master Song, do you think I'm really afraid of fighting on both sides? I'm actually afraid that after Lin Dan and Daming fall out, they won't come to Xuanda to die, but will go to harass the Jimen defense line, or join forces with Jiannu directly." Attacking Liaodong from both sides, I am in Xuanda's reach, and I can't deal with him! If he really wants to turn his face, then you can directly instigate him to fight Xuanda. I just use him to train my new slave army! By the way, scare him , Convince him, so that he will never dare to think of Daming in his life!"

"The boss is really a powerful and fearless person. Others are afraid of fighting on two fronts. It is you, the boss, who takes the initiative to instigate others to fight on two sides." Song Xiance wiped off his cold sweat, and once again felt sad for himself—how did he Just set up such an awesome boss?I take one step and see three steps, but this boss takes one step and see ten steps!

"Be careful." Young Master Zhang patted Song Xiance on the shoulder again, and instructed: "Although it is the order of the Mongolian army not to kill the envoy, you should also take care of yourself and don't get yourself trapped. If you get out matter, where do I go to find such a good teacher?" Song Xiance stopped talking, but solemnly bowed to Young Master Zhang, got on his horse and set off.

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After Song Xiance was sent away, Young Master Zhang felt relieved a little, and began to turn his eyes to pay attention to the internal affairs of Xuanda. Right now, Young Master Zhang had two top priorities, one was to prevent the Shaanxi peasant rebel army from invading Xuanda, and the other was to fully implement Spread into acres.It’s okay here, there is Ma Shiying, who has been promoted to the governor of Xuanda, to worry about it. Master Zhang only needs to withstand part of the pressure from the court, and use force to cooperate with his implementation of the New Deal. At the same time, he will forcefully promote drought tolerance and high yield. Ma Shiying also picked up the task of crops for Young Master Zhang. In the spring, nearly [-] mu of high-yield crops were planted at once. Regret the intestines, and there will be no difficulty in promoting planting next year.And what worries Young Master Zhang the most is the intensified rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu to the west of Xuan Da.

If you want to use one sentence to describe the current situation in Shaanxi-Gansu, then it is more appropriate to use the sentence "rice porridge being boiled" to describe it. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who were inadvertently rebelled by Young Master Zhang, in the last year alone, there have been dozens of rebel leaders in Shaanxi and Gansu, such as Sweeper King, Xing Honglang, Heisha God, Cao Cao (Luo Rucai) . Hundred characters), each leading a group of hungry people to kill and set fire to eat big families, burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of crimes.The army led by Sun Chengzong, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and Hong Chengchou, governor of Shaanxi, were fighting fires everywhere and were exhausted. Although the combat effectiveness of these thieves' troops was not very high, they couldn't stand the strength of their numbers. Wandering westward, the army of Sun Hong and his wife could take care of the east but not the west, could hold the south but couldn't defend the north, was exhausted and exhausted but still could not wipe out all the rebels, and the rebels were getting better and better. After a rush, the officers and soldiers left and gathered into a group, and went to sweep the ground that the government had just calmed down, making Sun Chengzong and Hong Chengchou dumbfounded, but helpless.

Sun Chengzong and Hong Chengchou can be regarded as old sparrows on the battlefield. They knew that they could not suppress so many rebellions by force alone, and they had thought of ways to appease them, but the problem was that the imperial court and the Shaanxi-Gansu region could not afford money!It is impossible for Wei Zhongxian to do the same to Master Zhang. Even if he digs out from the gap between his teeth, he will save military expenses to the old political enemy Sun Chengzong, let Sun Chengzong make contributions and establish prestige, and turn around and make trouble for himself, so Sun Chengzong and Hong Chengchou can From Wei Zhongxian's hands, that is, the military pay and food that can barely support the frontline operations, if you want to ask for more food to relieve the hungry and appease the rebels, then I'm sorry, Wei Zhongxian just four words-self-raised on the spot!And when Young Master Zhang was promoted to the governor of Xuanda, Sun Chengzong and Hong Chengchou, who were full of anger, finally found a vent. While desperately driving the rebel army to the territory of Xuanda, they kept writing letters to Master Zhang for help. ——From the first day of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first lunar month, Master Zhang officially became the governor of Xuanda to the present four months, and Sun Chengzong and Hong Chengchou have sent more than one hundred letters asking for help and food!As a result, Young Master Zhang felt a lot of pressure, even if he was extremely thick-skinned, he felt a little embarrassed.

On April 25th, Man Gui, who went south to reinforce Taiyuan's defense line, sent the first battle report. His 20 cavalry defeated Gao Yingxiang's army in the Huangjian Mountain area, forcing Gao Yingxiang to flee back to Xing County, and successfully ruled out the danger of the rebel army threatening Taiyuan. ——The number of enemies killed will not be reported, and it doesn't make much sense for one's own people to kill their own people.But what made Young Master Zhang dumbfounded was that Gao Yingxiang had just been beaten away by Man Gui, and the two relatively large insurgents, Shen Yiyuan, Shen Yikui Brothers and Buzhanni, were driven into Shanxi by Hong Chengchou. One occupied Lin County, and the other ran into the Mopan Mountains, posing a threat to relatively affluent Taiyuan.On the side of the Shanxi and Datong defense lines where Master Zhang personally sits, although the leaders of the rebel army are afraid of Master Zhang's illustrious reputation and dare not take a step beyond the thunder, the army led by Sun Chengzong is desperately moving all the rebel troops. Drive here, forcing the rebels to come to Young Master Zhang's defense area to ask for life. At present, there are at least [-] rebels crowded west of Kelan Mountain.

"Old Sun Ge, Hong Chengchou, you are not very kind, are you?" After reading Man Gui's battle report and listening to the scout's report, Young Master Zhang was inevitably a little depressed, and couldn't help muttering dissatisfied in front of the civil and military officials, "No matter what Said, I won your official positions for you in front of Jiuqian, so you treat me like this? As soon as you find the thieves, you fight from west to east. It is clear that you want to drive the thieves to me and relieve you. The pressure has made me anxious, so I will also send out troops to fight back the thieves."

"Zhang Xiantai, if you don't hurry up, you can't." Zhang Honggong, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, did not speak so relaxedly like Young Master Zhang, and said nervously: "Although the combat effectiveness of these thieves is not very good, but there are too many ants and they can kill an elephant. More than 20 thieves are entrenched in the west of Kelan Mountain, and if you are not careful, it may cause a catastrophe."

"Master Zhang, let's fight." Ma Dengyun, who has been promoted to the general of Zhenwu Guards, also agreed with this opinion, and took the initiative to ask Ying to say: "You don't need to send out your lord's slave army. The last general will lead the 20 cavalry as the forward. Zhang Zongbing sent [-] troops to cooperate, and the [-] mobs will definitely be sent back to Shaanxi."

"Why do you need to use a sledgehammer to kill a chicken?" Zhang Honggong wanted to show off in front of Young Master Zhang, and rushed to say: "Zhang Xiantai, the combat power of the rebel army will not be known at all. It claims to be 20, but in fact there are only [-] to [-] capable of fighting. , and do not belong to each other, each fights independently, there is no need to dispatch General Ma's iron cavalry, the last general will lead the Shanxi army to fight, within a month, keep all these thieves driven away!"

Young Master Zhang didn't speak. After a long while, Young Master Zhang sighed and murmured: "It's a pity, they are all Han Chinese, I can't do something like this. Otherwise, hum, slaughter these 20 thieves, It’s just a piece of cake for me!”

"Slaughter 20 thieves?" The officials and military generals of Xuanda who were present looked at each other, thinking that our Zhang Xiantai is really getting better at bragging. It is easy to drive away 20 thieves, but is it possible to kill them all?
"My colleagues, do you think this governor is bragging?" Seeing the disdain of his accomplices, Young Master Zhang snorted coldly and said, "This governor can tell you how to do it—this governor still has a little food and military pay. If this governor Is it possible to adopt a strategy of appeasement, use money and food to trick these rebels into surrendering, trick them into laying down their weapons, and then imitate Bai Qi to kill 40 Zhao soldiers and slaughter these 20 rebels?"

"Yes, yes...possible." All the Xuanda civil and military officials present were tongue-tied, thinking that our Zhang Xiantai deserves to be nicknamed Xiao Baiqi, and he could think of such a ruthless trick.Over there, Young Master Zhang sighed again, "Oh, I can't bear it. If the opponent is Jiannu, I wouldn't hesitate to use this move, but they are all Han Chinese, and they are all Ming people who were forced to this point by the famine. How can I have the heart to use this tactic? Anyway, Ben Du is also a kind person by nature!"

"If you are also called good-natured, then aren't we all the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva?" All the Xuanda officials in the hall murmured in their hearts, despising their bosses for being bitches and building their own memorial archways.At this time, Young Master Zhang stood up and said: "It is still not a solution to let the thieves occupy the Kelan Mountain area all the time. Datong Governor Sun Chuanting, Shanxi General Zhang Honggong, and Zhenwu General Ma Dengyun listened to the order. The governor ordered you to lead your troops to attack, and you must drive the thieves in Kelanshan back to Shaanxi! Remember, no prisoners will be kept, our food and grass are barely enough, and we cannot bring food back!"

"Decree!" The three generals clasped their fists together and solemnly agreed.Young Master Zhang pointed to Sun Chuanting, the new governor of Datong alone, and said: "Sun Futai, you are the one I strongly recommended in the imperial court and promoted at nine thousand years old. It depends on whether you can shut up those officials in the imperial court who think you are not qualified." You performed well this time."

(End of this chapter)