It's late at night.
The Ganqing Palace is still brightly lit.
The hall is still in order as usual.
However, unlike in the past, Zhu Youjian, who must have been buried in the memorials at this time, was missing at this time.
"Your Majesty is going to the side hall again?"
Cao Huachun, who rushed over, looked around at the empty hall and asked in a low voice.
"Well, Your Majesty will not disturb you, you have to wait."
Wang Chengen nodded undeniably.
"I heard that Your Majesty does not allow anyone to enter the side hall, and he even killed several eunuchs for this?"
"We don't know what Your Majesty is doing inside, but we just want to do so much and just follow His Majesty's instructions."
Wang Chengen was also a little confused. More than a month ago, the emperor asked someone to clear the side hall, and there must be a period of time every day, and no one was allowed to enter. Even the old man who had been with the emperor for many years was not qualified.
"Is it related to General Li again?"
Cao Huachun's eyes turned, but he knew that in the past, the secret message exchanges between Li Xiu and His Majesty were transmitted through the East Factory, but later, it became a team of cavalry directly sent to the Yongwei Camp to act as messengers, specifically between the capital and the Yongwei Camp.
While Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun were thinking about it, Zhu Youjian was sitting upright in the side hall, holding a piece of letter paper and watching it with concentration.
In front of him was a stack of envelopes, which were undoubtedly secret letters sent by Li Xiu to the capital during this period.
For Li Xiu, all his current strategic plans are indispensable to Zhu Youjian's support, but now he is outside the capital, so he can only let Zhu Youjian understand all his plans through secret letters one by one.
After a long time, Zhu Youjian slowly lowered the letter paper and looked at the stack of envelopes in front of him. Zhu Youjian frowned, obviously thinking about something. After a while, he stood up and turned to look at a map hanging on the wall behind him.
The entire northern Ming Dynasty was clearly marked on the map, but compared with the professionalism of this map, some of the enemy-to-wealth marks on the map that had no professionalism were undoubtedly extremely disharmonious.
This disharmony was naturally ignored by Zhu Youjian. He, a man who did not understand the military, had to explore and understand the map by himself, and then he also needed to understand the strategic deductions described in Li Xiu's letter, and to understand all aspects of the Later Jin mentioned by Li Xiu. It was already very difficult!
Looking at the map in front of him, Zhu Youjian was obviously a little proud.
Li Xiu's memorial said that he naturally firmly believed it, but before that, he knew the truth, but he didn't know why.
Now, it took more than a month of energy to finally figure out the specific meaning of Li Xiu's memorial.
After that, he finally understood what happened to the Later Jin Dynasty, the confidant of the Ming Dynasty.
He finally understood why Li Xiu concluded that the Later Jin Dynasty would definitely enter the pass and rob.
I even understand Li Xiu's good intentions.
I also understood more clearly, the helplessness under these heavy constraints!
He can clearly defend the enemy outside the country, but he can only let the enemy drive in!
After realizing all this, Zhu Youjian suddenly realized how naive his previous governance ideas were.
Why does Li Xiu always emphasize when discussing with him that everything should not be too hasty?
Thinking of Li Xiu's earnest and seductive appearance, the silent support behind him, the silent planning, and the control of his path to power bit by bit, a trace of sadness appeared on Zhu Youjian's face.
As the emperor, even the people around him cannot be protected...
"Why!"
In the silence, sighs with deep guilt and helplessness have lasted for a long time.
Although the night was already deep and the palace was quiet, Zhu Youjian had never rested.
Now, Zhu Youjian has understood that he is not a genius, or even a masterpiece of the emperor.
Any official in the court can make him play around.
However, the heavy responsibility is on your shoulders, the emperor's brother is highly expected, and the ministers are working hard to plan!
He can only choose to make up for his weaknesses.
When the people broke out, Zhu Youjian dragged his tired body and walked out of the side hall.
At this time, in the camp of the Yonggu Army in Luliang County, Shanxi, tens of thousands of soldiers had already gathered. Under the constraints of numerous orders, they marched towards Yan'an Prefecture in Shaanxi under the darkness before dawn.
The war to pacify the thief in Yongwei Camp has nothing to do with the three-sided Governor's Office.
It just simply needs war, war after war, to hone the troops of the Yongwei Camp and accelerate the growth of the Yongwei Camp.
To quell the thief and chaos is just a matter of course.
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The army divided the troops into three armies, the vanguard of the front army, the main force of the central army, and the logistics of food and grass in the rear army.
However, this time, Li Xiu did not regard the cavalry as a vanguard, but ordered Zhou Yuji to lead three thousand infantry soldiers and two thousand auxiliary soldiers, and lightly put into battle, and the speed was also extremely fast.
Li Xiu led the main force of the central army, and the latter army, in addition to the first battalion of infantry, Li Xiu also transferred the cavalry battalion to ensure the absolute arrangement of food, grass and supplies with the mobility of the cavalry.
Front, middle, and back, the three armies marched together and headed straight to Yan'an Prefecture, Shaanxi!
If Shaanxi is a famous poor place in the Ming Dynasty, this Yan'an Prefecture can be regarded as a poor place in the poor place.
Since the Wanli period, the prefecture and county officials in Yan'an Prefecture have never been full. Whenever officials are transferred or arranged to Yan'an Prefecture, they often find various excuses to refuse to take office, and even go directly with seals.
At present, Yan'an Prefecture has become a disaster-stricken area, and the maximum number of officials vacancy has reached seven or eight.
The lack of official governance, coupled with the fact that it is already a poor place, is now full of natural disasters. Therefore, it is natural for Yan'an Prefecture to become a severely affected area for civil unrest.
Looking at the entire Yan'an Prefecture, there are only a few important towns in the territory that have not been lost, and most of the other counties have long been destroyed.
Now that the entire Shaanxi is full of war, although the Three-Border Governor's Office has already launched a suppression of bandits, Yang He's strategy of suppressing bandits is to focus on pacification, and pursue and suppress the bandits is to pacify.
Under such a strategy of suppressing bandits, the current focus of the three-sided Governor's Office is naturally not to mobilize troops to eliminate bandits, but to send envoys to various places to busy recruit bandits.
Li Xiu naturally couldn't agree with Yang He's strategy of suppressing thieves. In fact, whether it is his upcoming suppression or Yang He's care, he will treat the symptoms but not the root cause before the problem of relief and resettlement cannot be solved.
In this case, there is naturally no right or wrong.
As for whether his advancement would disrupt Yang He's arrangements, Li Xiu felt that he seemed to be helping Yang He.
He suppressed the thieves and was afraid of the thieves. Yang He's strategy of retaliating and retaliating would naturally achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Chapter completed!