Chapter 2: Strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness (I)

"Where did you send the 800-mile rush?" Zhu Yinglong asked anxiously without waiting for Xu Yingyuan to hand over the tin seal cylinder that was packing the urgent folds.

"Wuchang." Maybe he ran all the way. After finally finding out that the emperor had come to Shou'an Palace, Xu Yingyuan hurriedly wiped the sweat from his forehead, shook it and replied.

Careful Yanhong held a candle in one hand and protected the beating candlelight in the other hand, and walked slowly over, illuminating the faces of the three of them.

Zhu Yinglong quickly removed the tin seal, then twisted his hands, and the tightly-sewn cylinder turned into two pieces. Then he took out the memorial inside, spread it, and got under the candlelight. When he saw it, he suddenly felt a trace of cold air rising from the soles of his feet, which penetrated his heart and lungs.

"Xu Yingyuan, you should immediately use the pass token to leave the palace and quickly pass the old dean Sun and Lord Xu Guangqi to me to the palace." Zhu Yinglong closed the memorial and turned to Xu Yingyuan and quickly ordered.

"I'll go now!" Xu Yingyuan checked his expression and knew that something might have happened, otherwise he wouldn't have summoned the two old men into the palace in the middle of the night.

"Slow down!" Xu Yingyuan was about to turn around, but was stopped by Zhu Yinglong.

Zhu Yinglong frowned and said, "Go quietly, come back quietly, go." Xu Yingyuan quickly opened the palace door and walked out.

Zhu Yinglong and Yanhong opened the tent and returned to Zhang Yan's soft collapse. They told her that they had important things to deal with. Then they left Li Qing to do a detailed inspection for Zhang Yan, and then returned to the Palace of Yangxin with Yanhong. As for Da Yu'er, can she still punish her in front of Zhang Yan? Zhu Yinglong was about to transfer her away in a few days and replace her with a few reliable palace maids to serve. He was a daughter of Mongolian Belor. Zhu Yinglong didn't think such a girl could take care of others at all, and didn't know what Xiong Hu thought, how could she arrange her to Shou'an to serve Zhang Yan?

"I'm really sorry for both of you, the two old men, entering the palace late at night." Zhu Yinglong apologized to Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi, who were hurried behind Xu Yingyuan.

"The emperor killed the old minister. The emperor called us into the palace so late. It must be that something big happened in the court." Jiang was still old, and he guessed it as soon as he guessed.

"The Miao people rebelled!" Zhu Yinglong slowly spit out these four words.

"Ah!" Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi looked at each other in horror. If they were to ask the emperor and his two confidant officials to summon them to the palace overnight, this rebellion might be small, and they might be in big trouble.

"The two old ministers, please first look at the 800-mile emergency secret memorial that the Governor of Huguang gave me!" Zhu Yinglong ordered Xu Yingyuan to hand over the secret letter he had just presented to him to the two trusted officials standing below.

Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi, who were browsing the secret letters together, couldn't help but take a deep breath after reading Xiong Tingbi's memorial. They gathered 100,000 troops within three days. Although they were mobs, the Miao people's fearlessness was famous all over the world. Otherwise, the court would not have no choice but to build a Miao Great Wall that grew more than 300 kilometers long to defend against the Miao people's uprising and resistance. Since the Ming Dynasty, the Miao people have been regarded as foreign barbarians by the court. Of course, there is also a reason for the ruler himself, that is, when Emperor Taizu raised an army to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Taizu was only one of the few rebel armies, and Emperor Taizu's biggest enemy Chen Youliang, his territory is now.

In the Huguang and Jiangxi area, the Miao people and several other ethnic minorities supported Chen Youliang at that time. Although Emperor Taizu pacified Chen Youliang, he also said in front of the world that "Although he is not a descendant of my Chinese, if he is naturalized etiquette, he will also regard it as the same." But it was not done, so he has always adopted a high-pressure policy towards several ethnic minorities such as the Miao people, occupying the land they rely on for survival, selling Miao girls as slaves and prostitutes, levied high taxes, coupled with the greed of local officials and the interweaving of hatred for hundreds of years, and the uprisings were bloody suppressed. It is conceivable that if the Miao people were prepared for the uprising again, what would happen?

"Emperor, except for Chenzhou Prefecture, Baojing Xuanwei Office, Yongshun Xuanwei Office, Jingzhou and other places, the imperial army basically controlled Huguang. Although Changsha's city walls are solid and difficult to defend, it has become an isolated city now, and the date of capture is just around the corner. The old minister believes that the pseudo-Ming official troops in Jiangxi and Guangdong and Guangxi do not have the courage to attack us without authorization. In this way, after our army captured Changsha, it will be divided into two large armies and continue to advance southward until the land of Huguang is recovered, and then defend several important passages and strong cities into Huguang, while the other one goes westward to capture Jingzhou, leaving a small number of troops behind.

The team guarded the passage to prevent the Miao people in Guangxi from being in a row with the rebellious Wu Heimiao. The biggest trouble is that the large number of Miao people also live in Guizhou. The imperial court not only wanted to recover Huguang, but it was over. Therefore, an army must be recaptured Guizhou. Then the three armies embedded Wu Heimiao's rebels tightly in the Laer Mountain (Xinzhai) area, implemented a solid wall and clear the fields, and promoted step by step, rushing the nearby Miao people into it, compressing the Miao people's living space. The old ministers wanted to see, there was no food and no land, how hundreds of thousands of Miao people could rely on the mountain to eat the mountain!"

Good guy, Zhu Yinglong and Xu Guangqi both opened their mouths and took a breath of cold air. Sun Chengzong could think of strategies for coping in such a short time, and his ideas were so clear, and his methods were so fierce. Zhu Yinglong and Xu Guangqi were so angry that they both felt cold. If Sun Chengzong's strategic goal was really achieved, hundreds of thousands of Miao people who rebelled were over. This is really a veteran who didn't take action. One move would not be a big hit, and it would be more than twenty. It seems that Sun Chengzong wanted to solve the hidden danger of Miao people once and for all.

Xu Guangqi, who believed in Catholicism, put forward his opinions against Sun Chengzong for the first time, and advised him hard: "Your Majesty, the old minister believes that this strategy will harm the harmony of heaven. If this is implemented, the emperor's reputation of governing the world with benevolence and virtue may be destroyed. Think about the thieves who burned, killed, looted, and the emperor can make them surrender and become good people under our Ming Dynasty. The Miao people rebelled because the officials forced the people to rebel. It was not the court, but the pseudo-Ming court. If the court did not tolerate them, how could all the people in the world surrender? This is a little bit impossible, the emperor."

Sun Chengzong, who stood on one side, was not at all unhappy at all, his face was calm. From a purely military perspective, Sun Chengzong was not at all wrong. His purpose was to wipe out the rebels. However, from the perspective of politics and people's hearts, even if his strategy could be finally completed, I don't know how much time, how much silver, how many soldiers' lives would be, how heavy the impact it had on that land, the people's hearts, etc. The hatred between the Han and Miao would probably be a dead knot that could not be dissolved for thousands of years, and this was just a solution.

Zhu Yinglong saw that Sun Chengzong was still moving, as if he was thinking, and immediately understood in his heart that what Sun Chengzong wanted was not this result, but that the Miao people would know what the result would be if they rebelled. Sun Tzu's Art of War said: In all the methods of using troops, the whole country is the best, the country is the next best, the army is the next best, the army is the next best; the entire brigade is the next best, the brigade is the next best; the entire army is the next best, the army is the next best, the army is the next best. Therefore, victory is the one who wins all battles, not the one who defeats others without fighting, and the one who is good and good. What Sun Chengzong wants is the one who defeats others without fighting. What he wants is the strategy itself, not really implementing it. After understanding this, a smile appeared on Zhu Yinglong's face. Sun Chengzong was not the general who killed iron blood, how could such a sinister strategy be produced?
Chapter completed!