"This is reasonable." Ye Mengxiong said, "Military Mei should know that this city wall is now in the hands of the rebels. Every day, we have to take away the lives of our Ming soldiers. We will not quell the rebellion. The longer we go, the more variables we have. However, the plan is to quell the rebellion at all costs! Only when the rebellion is quelled can we think about how to restore Ningxia. If the rebellion is uneven, Ningxia will not be in your and my hands."

Mei Guozhen nodded and said, "I understand this principle. When His Majesty heard that the Northwest had won a great victory, he was very happy. He hoped that the army could quell the rebellion as soon as possible. If it took a long time, the greater the expectations and greater the disappointment of His Majesty, it would be unbeautiful. In this way, we can only rely on this strategy. General Xiao, we must not miss it!"

"The end will definitely do your best."

Xiao Ruxun had no choice but to express his opinion.

"Well." Mei Guozhen nodded slightly, as if he had a slight affection for Xiao Ruxun: "In the capital, when Mr. Yang married his beloved daughter to General Xiao, it had caused more or less storms. Many scholars were saying that it would be impossible to marry the daughter of scholarly women. But today, Mr. Yang's eyes were so vicious that he actually saw the talent of a famous general! General Xiao, I heard that you have read books?"

"It is, when I was young, my father asked a famous teacher to enlighten my brothers. Although he never expected us to take the imperial examination and get fame, at least he hoped that my four brothers were not brave men. My father often said that Song minister Fan Zhongyan once said to Di Qing that if he did not study, he would be only a brave man in the end, at most a hundred enemies. He could be a wise and well-versed military strategy.

"How wise is the Lord!" Mei Guozhen nodded constantly: "Those rough men who don't know a lot of big words can fight bravely to kill the enemy. More of them are those who kill good and greedy for life and death! Every time I see it, I wish I could kill them! Among the army, there are very few people with famous generals like General Xiao who have all night long military tactics!"

Xiao Ruxun naturally would not deny such facts, so he spoke: "What the supervisor said is true, but there are still many good generals and soldiers available on the nine borders. For example, Ma Gui, the deputy general of Datong, has a great view of the situation and can see the opportunity of the fighter. The last general cooperates with him, and he always feels like a fish in water. The deputy general of Ningxia, Li Bing, recovers many real-life areas, is also a good general. Dong Yikui, Zhao Wu and others are all good generals."

"Well, I believe there are good generals, but there are too few." Mei Guozhen looked at Xiao Ruxun: "There are very few people who are as good as General Xiao. If General Xiao makes great contributions this time, he may be accepted and rewarded by His Majesty. The future is bright. At this time of national crisis, he still needs to work hard!"

Xiao Ruxun bowed his fists and said, "I dare not be lazy at all!"

"Yes!" Mei Guozhen was quite satisfied: "I don't want such a general in the northwest! Mr. Wei and Mr. Ye are a little more at ease!"

Wei Xuezeng and Ye Mengxiong smiled at each other, but then changed into sadness.

"It's a pity that vengeful thief. I sent someone to surrender. The vengeful thief actually threw my aide, Mr. Liu, into a pan and fryed it! It greatly dampened the morale of our army!"

Wei Xue once thought of the bombed aide and felt heartbroken.

"What?! There is such a thing?!" Mei Guozhen was shocked: "It's really hateful! I'm so conscience! The barbarians really messed up my Chinese people! At that time, they shouldn't have accepted him! It's a pity that Wang Chonggu was greedy for the courage of worship, so he is today! Did those Shanxi merchants really think that no one in the court knew about their collusion with the Mongols to smuggle military weapons? When I return to the court, I must participate in their book!"

Mei Guozhen looked indignant and felt sad. Wei Xuezeng and Ye Mengxiong were not thinking about it, but they were powerless. The huge power of the Shanxi merchants was a foregone conclusion. Yan Song was so powerful back then that he did not dare to anger the Shanxi merchant faction. Although there were capable people in the court that the Shanxi merchants were treasonous, they could do nothing.

Xiao Ruxun vaguely remembers that Mei Guozhen was a disciple of Yangming Xinxue, and was also friendly to Li Zhi. Most people may not know about Mei Guozhen and may have little understanding of Li Zhi. However, if you mention "Burning Books" and "Collection of Books", you will definitely remember the rebellious old man mentioned in the textbook in the late Ming Dynasty.

Mei Guozhen not only read "Burning Books" and "Collection", but also wrote prefaces for "Collection". As an identifyer of such a rebellious idea, Mei Guozhen is not only sharp and invincible, but also has great skills in his hands. As Xiao Ruxun saw, Mei Guozhen's hair was bright and bright, and she spoke with a lot of energy. She was not as weak as an ordinary scholar. She must be a trainee, and in fact it was the same.

Mei Guozhen is one of the few scholars who insist on the six arts of gentlemen. She is not only a Jinshi, but also proficient in cavalry and shooting. In the end, Ningxia City was defeated by Mei Guozhen, who personally took the sword to fight. The main conflict between him and Wei Xuezeng was that Wei Xue once hoped to persuade the surrender to protect the city and the people's livelihood. Mei Guozhen could not stand Wei Xuezeng's retard for imposing intervention, and the two had a conflict.

Wei Xue was once a successful person, and Mei Guozhen was a rebel.

At this time, another plan proposed by Xiao Ruxun reconciled the conflict between the two, so that this conflict did not occur.

As for his original intention, Xiao Ruxun still admired Mei Guozhen very much, and also knew very well how the Shanxi Shang Group grew bigger step by step. After discovering that the Mongols were not in a state of decline, he searched all over the world and finally turned to the embrace of the Qing Dynasty.

These merchants became one of the main beneficiaries of the demise of the Ming Dynasty and the entry of the Qing Dynasty into the pass, and achieved the existence of the so-called eight imperial merchants. They were determined and with a very profound and thorough look, they actually understood the essence of the civil servant system in the late Ming Dynasty!

They started to support their hometown students by supporting their hometown. They exchanged a lot of capital investment and years of persistence to reward many scholars and civil servants from Shanxi, gradually forming a climate. Then they even went out of Shanxi and funded school management across the country, causing a large number of scholars to inherit the feelings of Shanxi merchants, and used marriage, making friends, doing business in partnership and other human relations methods step by step. At the latest, it became a big climate in the Zhengde and Jiajing eras.

At that time, the Eight Tigers of Zhengde were rampant in the world for several years, the powerful minister Yan Song had cholera for decades, Gao Gong had made heavy blows for several years, Zhang Juzheng had implemented severe reforms for ten years, the eunuch party Wei Zhongxian was overwhelming the world for several years, and the secret spies of the Jinyiwei Dongchang were spread all over the world, and those who had a huge power in all dynasties could never do anything to the salt merchants of the Shanxi merchants.

At this time, Shanxi Shanxi merchants and Yangzhou salt merchants’ interests spokespersons forced the emperor to not go to court for decades to protest silently. In the end, a huge absurd thing happened in the Zhejiang tea tax of 12 taels a year!

The deep eyes, the conspiracy of mind, the calmness of behavior, and the sarcastic view of people are chilling. In fact, the peak means of the joint efforts of officials and businessmen in that era, they used censors to form cliques to occupy the moral peak, but they harmed the country and the people to the point of being outrageous.

If the Ming Dynasty was to save the Ming Dynasty, the merchants in the two places had to be eliminated. One was Shanxi merchants and the other was Yangzhou salt merchants. If the big merchants in the two places were not eliminated, the Ming Dynasty would not be saved. However, most of the merchants in the two places were powerful gentry, and had long understood their situation. Relying on years of investment and persistence, they had supported a considerable number of discoursers in the court.

Basically, the entire Donglin Party was infiltrated and controlled by it, and almost achieved an invincible golden body. It was quite terrible. If you want to deal with it with ordinary means, it would be difficult to accomplish anything, let alone the identity of a military officer. The natural disadvantages made it difficult for you to move forward. Even civil servants who did not deal with these merchants would not help you deal with the merchants in these two places.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ruxun couldn't help but be worried.

While continuing to dig the tunnel, Xiao Ruxun was also thinking about the future path, and constantly planning and deducing various possibilities - if he lived a new life, he would never waste the favor of God.

The city's Li Bai and Liu Dongyang did not have as long-standing concerns as Xiao Ruxun. They were only concerned about how to survive now. Their nerves were very nervous and extremely irritable. Wei Xuezeng sent someone to disagree with them, which made their nerves extremely tense and almost lost their minds. Only when they ordered Wei Xuezeng's lobbyists to use tyrannical means to shock the Ming army and also shock those impure people among their own people - helpless, the disadvantages of the rebels were quite clear.

Xibai and Liu Dongyang knew very well that if they surrendered, the rebel soldiers might not die, but even if they did not die at that time, they would have a rare death in the future. After all, they killed a governor and a general, and occupied one of the nine borders. They had violated the biggest taboo of the court. It would be strange if the court did not kill them. They knew their situation very well. Only by grasping the 20,000 soldiers in Ningxia City could there be a glimmer of hope!
Chapter completed!