Back to Daming to be a genius

Chapter 94
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After waiting anxiously for nine days in Liaocheng, on the evening of the ninth day, the capital finally sent Ming Xizong's order with six hundred miles of fast horses-agreeing that Young Master Zhang should hand over the rest of the disaster relief work to the eunuch Song Jin, the supervisor of Dongchang He and Zhao Yan, the governor of Shandong, allowed Master Zhang to return to Beijing immediately.After scolding the Ming court for its slow work efficiency, Young Master Zhang, who had already made all preparations for departure, hurriedly handed over the work, led a few important confidants on the road first, and returned to the capital overnight. In the hurry, Young Master Zhang didn't even have time to collect Shandong people spontaneously organized more than 40 Wanmin umbrellas to give him, and they didn't have time to bring Zhang Qingyun, who couldn't ride a fast horse, so that he would be punished by Zhang Qingyun in the future.

Hurrying non-stop all the way, more than four days later, that is, the afternoon of the third day of September, the travel-stained Young Master Zhang and his party finally returned to the city of Beijing after a long absence for several months.After checking Lu Yin's official documents and entering the city, although he knew that his parents, whom he hadn't seen for half a year, were waiting for him to return in the new house in Prime Minister Wen's alley, Young Master Zhang still didn't go home immediately, but asked Zhang Shitou to lead him with Song Xiance. , Lu Wanling, Bo Jue and others went home to report the news first, while he led Xiao Chuan and a group of Dongchang soldiers straight to Weiran Hutong near Xuanwumen, and went directly to Wei Zhongxian's home to ask for an audience.

Very fortunately, the busy man Wei Zhongxian happened to be at home, and he quickly agreed to Young Master Zhang's request to see him. He was led into the back hall of the Wei Mansion by the young eunuch, and Young Master Zhang saw Wei Zhongxian in the vermilion official uniform sitting in the middle with a gloomy expression. On both sides of Wei Zhongxian's [-] trusted aides Wu Hu, Wu Biao, Yang Liuqi and Feng Quan were all present. In front of Wei Zhongxian was kneeling a middle-aged man who looked vaguely familiar. Tears and snot, as if something bad happened, and the begging for mercy just crying in front of Wei Zhongxian has not yet come to fruition.Young Master Zhang did not hesitate, rushed up to his knees and kowtowed, tears came as soon as he said it, choked up and said: "Godfather, my son finally saw you, my son Zhang Haogu, kowtow to godfather, godfather Wanfu Jin'an .”

"Monkey boy, are you back? When did you come back?" Seeing Young Master Zhang appearing, Wei Zhongxian finally showed some smiles on his gloomy, thin old face, looked at Young Master Zhang and said happily: "Monkey boy has lost some weight, look at your dusty body , haven’t you gone home to change it?”

"Thank you godfather for your concern." Young Master Zhang kowtowed, wiped his tears and replied respectfully: "My child just arrived in Beijing, and I came here to greet my godfather before returning home, so I didn't have time to take a bath and change clothes. Godfather please forgive me."

When Young Master Zhang returned to Beijing, he didn't even visit his parents, so he came directly to pay his respects to Wei Zhongxian. With this loyalty alone, how could Wei Zhongxian blame Young Master Zhang?So Wei Zhongxian smiled happily: "Forgive me for what crime? What crime do you have? This time, you did a great job in the fundraising and disaster relief mission in Jiangnan. , Jiangnan officials, Shandong people, and Li Shi all praise you, and it is not in vain that our family loves you. Get up, and go to show respect to your sixth brother and other adults."

"Thank you godfather for the compliment, the child is smashed to pieces, and it's hard to repay the kindness of godfather." Young Master Zhang kowtowed three more respectfully, and then got up to salute and greet Wei Zhongxian's confidantes, including Cui Chengxiu, Yang Liuqi and others. Young Master Zhang has the best relationship. When we meet each other, we must say a few words of courtesy to Young Master Zhang, and greet the situation after parting. Most of the others do the same. Only Feng Quan, who has the worst relationship with Young Master Zhang, just clasped his fists and snorted with a strange expression on his face. beating face.When it was the turn of the last hapless guy kneeling in front of Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian snorted: "Leave him alone, let him kneel and die here." Eldest Young Master Zhang had no choice but to nod to the hapless guy as a salute.

"Brother Zhang, you released relief in Shandong. I heard that you didn't even visit Linqing, your hometown. Why did you rush back to Beijing with a carrier pigeon? Did something happen during the relief?" Cui Chengxiu asked.Young Master Zhang cupped his hands and replied: "Thank you Brother Cui for your concern. Nothing happened to the release of relief. I heard that Liaodong was defeated. Sun Chengzong and Sun Dushi submitted a letter to resign. I am worried that the Liaodong war is related to the national destiny. I am afraid that I will change the commander at will. It's not good for the morale of the army, and it will cause shocks in the government and the public. That's why I hastily asked for an order to return to Beijing, just to share my worries with my godfather on this matter, and ask my godfather to proceed cautiously."

"Monkey boy, you have a bit of a conscience. When encountering a big event, the first thing you think of is to share our family's worries—that's like this trash." At this point, Wei Zhongxian kicked the poor luck who was kneeling in front of him on the chest, The hapless man with a thin body panted on all fours, but the hapless man didn't even dare to moan, and immediately got up again and knelt down in front of Wei Zhongxian again.Wei Zhongxian snorted again: "But you came a day late, just yesterday, the emperor had approved Sun Chengzong's resignation, and the imperial edict had been issued."

"It has been approved? The edict has also been promulgated?" Young Master Zhang was dizzy, and almost sat on the ground——Although our Young Master Zhang's historical knowledge is shallow, we know that after Sun Chengzong's resignation was approved, Ming Xizong and the old eunuch Wei They also sent a trash named Gao Di to guard Liaodong. As a result, the first thing this trash who was greedy for life and fear of death did when he took office was to burn all the food in the front line, and all the troops were transferred back to Shanhaiguan. The three new towns of Jinzhou, Youtun, and Dalinghe, and a large amount of military supplies, also fulfilled Yuan Chonghuan's Ningyuan prestige, causing the imperial court to exhaust its national power in the future to repair the Ningjin defense line that never worked, and buried it for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. seed!That's why Young Master Zhang hurried back from Shandong to the capital, in order to persuade Wei Zhongxian to keep Sun Chengzong, so as not to repeat the mistakes of history - but unfortunately, Young Master Zhang rushed too slowly, and was still one step too late.

"Although the relationship between Sun Chengzong and our family is not very good, our family does not want him to resign. However, Ma Shilong, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong that he single-handedly promoted, was defeated in Liuhe and lost thousands of troops. Lu Zhi, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Qianfeng Battalion, Both Jia and General Li Chengxian died in the line of duty." When mentioning Sun Chengzong and Liaodong, Wei Zhongxian's face quickly darkened again, and he said bitterly: "As a result, the officials and censors of the court all came forward to impeach Sun Chengzong for improperly employing people and underestimating the enemy. Old man Sun was furious. He handed in his resignation immediately, and his attitude was still very firm, no matter how much the emperor and our family tried to persuade him, there was nothing the emperor and our family could do, so we had to allow him to resign and go back to seclusion."

"Sun Chengzong's resolute resignation is probably not as simple as Liuhe's defeat—he belongs to the Donglin Party, and now the Donglin Party in the court is about to be killed by your old eunuch Wei. To seek a good death, I am afraid that the only way to go is to resign." Young Master Zhang analyzed in his heart, but he did not dare to say it in person.After hesitating for a while, Young Master Zhang, who had already prepared for the unexpected, knelt down on his knees again, kowtowed to Wei Zhongxian and said, "Godfather, since the resignation of Master Sun is irreversible, no matter who is going to replace Master Sun To manage Liaodong, all children want to present a Liaodong strategy to their godfather, please guide the new Liaodong strategy envoy to carry it out."

"Oh, I didn't expect that my son is not only proficient in poetry and books, but also knows about military affairs. Tell us about the strategy of Liaodong." Wei Zhongxian asked happily.Young Master Zhang took out a map of Liaodong that he had already prepared from his arms, pointed to the desk next to him and said, "Godfather, please move and let the child explain it to you on the map." Wei Zhongxian nodded, stood up and kicked again. The unlucky guy kicked and shouted: "Trash, come over to our house to see."

Young Master Zhang spread out the map of Liaodong, first pointed out several important locations of the capital, Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Shenyang, and then pointed to Shanhaiguan and said: "Godfather, please look, this is Shanhaiguan. Shanhaiguan is not only the gateway to Gyeonggi, but also The Liaodong Jinglue Mansion is where the defense is the safest and the troops are the most abundant—it is also the most ideal place for my Ming army to fight against the Jiannu Tartars! Why? Shanhaiguan is a thousand miles away from Shenyang, the hometown of Jiannu. In the distance, there are large and small Linghe Rivers and Sanchahai in the middle where ships can pass. If the main force of building slaves fights our Ming army at Shanhaiguan, then our Ming army does not need to fight in the field, but only needs to stick to consumption. The Daming Navy headed north from the sea, cut off the way back to build slaves, closed doors and beat dogs, and within a few months, they could completely wipe out the main force of slaves! At the same time, our Daming East Town (Phi Island) Army, North Korean Army and The naval army can also take advantage of the situation to sneak attack on the empty nest of Jiannu troops, so that they can't look at each other from head to tail, and they will be chaotic without fighting."

Wei Zhongxian doesn't understand military affairs, but what Young Master Zhang said is very simple, Wei Zhongxian can barely understand it.After pondering for a while, Wei Zhongxian asked deeply: "Monkey boy, the trick you mentioned may work, but the Ming army and the main slave-building force are in a decisive battle at Shanhaiguan. What about the city and the people north of Shanhaiguan? You can't give up all of them, right? "

"No, never give up!" Young Master Zhang shook his head resolutely, and then explained: "Godfather, the reason why my son explained this strategy to you is because the previous two Liaodong economic strategists, Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong, all revolved around this strategy of closing doors and beating dogs." The arrangement is just that they did not announce it in order not to alert Jiannu to alert them. But the boy can be sure that even if the strategy of closing the door and beating dogs is successful, the main force of Jiannu will never jump into this trap! Why? The Jiannu thief chiefs are not fools, how could they not consider the danger of a decisive battle at Shanhaiguan? So they will never come to Shanhaiguan, but borrowed from Mongolia to sneak attack on other passes of our Daming Great Wall defense line, and invaded from other places Central Plains."

"And there is another very important point, godfather, please be careful." Young Master Zhang added: "Master Sun resigned in anger, and Jiannu heard about it, and he will definitely take advantage of the chaotic opportunity of our Daming Liaodong Army's change of commander to fish in troubled waters." Invading the Ming Dynasty, if the new Liaodong economic strategist gave up the land north of Shanhaiguan just after taking office, the morale of the Liaodong military and civilians would be greatly demoralized, and people would be panicked, which would be disadvantageous in the war. Therefore, Haier believes that after the new Liaodong economic strategy takes office, not only can he not abandon the land north of Shanhaiguan For the land, we should strengthen Ning Jin's defense, stabilize the hearts of the Liaodong army and people, first use the defensive battle that the Ming army is good at to win a battle, establish prestige, and then prepare the army for war, and focus on the strategy of destroying the slaves."

"Tanhualang, you said to strengthen Ning Jin's defense, can it be defended there?" the unlucky guy who was kicked by Wei Zhongxian asked cautiously.Although Young Master Zhang was very surprised about his identity, he still pointed to the map and explained: "I dare not say that I am completely sure, but there is hope. My lord, please see, Mr. Sun Chengzong and Sun have repaired Jinzhou, Youtun and Datong in the area of ​​Jinzhou this year. The three cities of Linghe——according to what I have learned in the past few days, in order to attack Yaozhou this time, Ma Shilong hoarded food, grass and military supplies in these three cities. After the frontline troops retreated, they also stationed in these three cities. , the troops and supplies are quite sufficient. If the new governor of Liaodong orders to abandon these three cities after he takes office, it will be too late for the army to bring back the supplies and can only be burned. Wouldn’t it be a pity? So I think that the new governor of Liaodong will arrive After taking office, we should concentrate the food and grass of the soldiers and civilians of these three cities in one city, abandon the other two cities, and concentrate our forces to defend the first city! Even if the slave army attacked, the Ming army would have sufficient strength to defend the city!"

"The three cities of Jinzhou, Youtun and Dalinghe give up the second city and concentrate on defending one of the three?" The unlucky man muttered to himself, and then asked, "Tanhualang, which city do you think should be defended?"

"Jinzhou!" Young Master Zhang replied decisively, and explained: "Jinzhou is located between the Daling River and the Xiaoling River. At that time, Jiannu was cut off by our navy in order to prevent grain, and the only way to go was to withdraw troops quickly—that is, after the new governor of Liaodong took office, he only needed to concentrate his troops to defend Jinzhou, which had sufficient food and grass, for a winter. The crisis can be resolved, and at the same time, the new governor of Liaodong can also secure his position because of the victory in defending the city, and stabilize the morale of the army and the people! In the longer term, Jinzhou suffered a loss in the first battle of Jiannu. In order to avenge Jiannu, the primary target of the next battle must be Jinzhou It is beneficial for me to reorganize the army and prepare for the Jinzhou army to fight and retreat, lure the enemy to go deep, lure the main force of slave building to Shanhaiguan, and truly realize the strategy of Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong to close the door and beat dogs."

After finally ending his long speech, Young Master Zhang added: "Of course, military and national affairs are not a trifling matter. It's easy for me to talk about military affairs on paper here, but to really defend Jinzhou for a winter, we need a wise general who is brave, resourceful and loyal. Brave generals guard Jinzhou, only in this way can there be any hope of success. You must not use a reckless man like Ma Hualong, let alone use a rich man like Yuan Yingtai and Wang Huazhen, that will only ruin the country's affairs."

After pondering for a long time, Wei Zhongxian finally opened his mouth and shouted at the unlucky bastard whose face was still covered with tears: "Did you hear that? After arriving in Liaodong, we will do the same for our family. First, win a battle under the city of Jinzhou to stabilize Liaodong." The hearts of the army and the people are not in vain for our family to recommend you as the Liaodong economic strategy in front of the emperor."

"This unlucky guy is the new envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy?" Young Master Zhang was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked Cui Chengxiu who was next to him about his background.Cui Chengxiu lowered his voice and replied with a wry smile: "That's right, he is the former Minister of the Ministry of War and the new Liaodong Economic Strategy Envoy Gaodi Gao. Nine thousand years old asked him to go to Liaodong. He dared not go no matter what. When you came in, he was hugging you. Crying on Jiuqiansui's leg - saying that none of the previous Liaodong military envoys had a good end, he didn't want to be imprisoned like Yang Gao and Wang Huazhen, and begged Jiuqiansui to go to someone else."

"What's wrong? Why did the old eunuch Wei still choose this trash?" Young Master Zhang groaned in his heart.But over there, Gaodi suddenly knelt down to Wei Zhongxian, kowtowed and said, "Nine thousand years old, if you must step down as an official in Liaodong, then I dare not refuse, but I hope that nine thousand years old will send someone to the next official." I will serve as the deputy of the official, and sit in Jinzhou in place of the next official, and hope for nine thousand years of grace."

"Okay, as long as you are willing to go to Liaodong." Wei Zhongxian, who has been exhausted in the selection of candidates for the Liaodong economic strategy these days, was overjoyed, and asked, "You said, which deputy do you want our family to send you?"

"He!" Gao Di pointed at Young Master Zhang, Young Master Zhang thought that Gao Di had picked on some unlucky person behind him, and looked back gloatingly, but saw that behind him was empty, empty... …

(End of this chapter)