"The King of Wu doesn't accept good words?"

"This requires you to prove that what you need to say is good words."

"But this place is not a place to speak."

Wu Zheng laughed, "It's very good here."

The down-and-out scholar was stunned and then smiled and said, "That's what the King of Wu wants... The student decided that the King of Wu will abandon Xuzhou!"

As soon as these words were said, the audience was quiet, and everyone opened their mouths and looked at Wu Zheng in panic.

Song An pointed at the scholar and shouted: "Bold! Do you dare to confuse the people's hearts?!"

"How can I see it?" Wu Zheng calmed down and asked calmly.

"A very simple truth. If the King of Wu had no intention of giving up Xuzhou, then there would be no need to go north today. Xuzhou's city defense should be consolidated immediately."

“That’s all?”

"In the next words, the students thought it was inappropriate to say this... If the King of Wu was willing to give the students half an hour, the students would definitely answer the prince one by one."

Wu Zheng raised his eyebrows, looked at the scholar for a long time, and finally nodded, "Song An, take him back home."

....

"Welcome to the prince..."

Ma Shiying, who was waiting for him, looked at the "down-and-out scholar" behind Wu Zheng in surprise. He couldn't understand why a prince was walking with such a poor scholar who was ungrateful and uncontrollable.

Ma Shiying looked at him and then threw a look at Song An inquiry. Song An shook his head helplessly, meaning that God knew.

While raising his legs into the yamen, Wu Zheng ordered, "Wash him up, change his clothes... Ask him again, if he is hungry, let him eat something, and then bring him to see me...Ma Shiying, come and listen to what he can say later."

"yes."

Ma Shiying responded, but soon remembered that he had something to say, and hurriedly said, "Report to the prince, the two deputy envoys of the imperial envoys are in a hurry to see you... they have been waiting for an hour."

Wu Zheng slowed down, then accelerated his pace, and said as he walked: "Since I've been waiting for an hour, I don't care about waiting for an extra hour... Can I entertain them for dinner."

Ma Shiying smiled bitterly. Is this a treat for dinner?

....

Looking at the clean "down-and-out scholar", Wu Zheng felt that he was much more pleasing than before.

At least a little closer to me, the strange smell disappeared.

A refreshing and capable face with a faint arrogance.

Wu Zheng shook his head inadvertently, this was another thorn.

Of course, Wu Zheng couldn't even notice whether he was capable or not.

"You have a quarter of an hour left." Wu Zheng sat on the chair and waved his sleeves casually.

"No... the prince clearly agreed to the student for half an hour before." The scholar cried out anxiously.

"I don't have so much spare time. Besides, he doesn't have much time to wash and eat?" Wu Zheng glanced at the scholar, "You must know that my time is very precious... has given you a lot of face. I hope you can say something that I can hear."

The scholar smiled bitterly, "What do you want to hear?"

Wu Zheng glared now, "You actually asked me what I want to hear... People come, go out and throw them on the street!"

Song An was eager to try it out.

The scholar hurriedly raised his hand to Song An and signaled, "Prince... the student knows what he said."

Wu Zheng waved his hand, and Song An chuckled and took a step back.

"Student's surname..."

Wu Zheng immediately interrupted: "I don't want to know who you are, at least I don't want to know now... I have to remember too many things, and I don't want to have many useless things in my mind... Time has passed."

"Students can help the prince defend Xuzhou!" The scholar finally became anxious and stopped going around in circles.

Wu Zheng's heart was beaten, but his face remained silent, "Are you stupid to study? Xuzhou is located in a rush, connecting Henan to the west, Shandong to the north, and Fengyang Prefecture to the south, and surrounded on three sides. How to defend it? Do you think that blocking the Qing army's one or two attacks can represent the true liberation of Xuzhou?"

The scholar shook his head and said, "Prince, please let the student finish his words, can you?"

Wu Zheng raised his eyebrows, "It's done...but you have to hurry up."

The scholar took a breath and said in a stern manner: "The prince is right. Xuzhou is located in a rush, but because it is located in a rush, we should guard it even more. As long as we guard Xuzhou, Fujian and Guangdong to the south, Huguang to the west, Sichuan and Shaanxi to the west, Yunnan and Guizhou will be divided into two by the Northern Expedition Army, and cut off in half. Therefore, the Qing court in the northern part of the Qing court has no spare energy to touch the northwest and southeast... At the same time, Xuzhou is located in the middle section of the canal. There is a way to grow grain in the south and eat in the north. With Xuzhou in hand, the prince can ask the Qing court in the north in the future, and there is no way to respond to it!"

This is said beautifully!

But beautiful things often float on the surface, so Wu Zheng was not moved at all and snorted: "Then let's wait until you sit firmly in Xuzhou before talking about it."

The scholar bowed and said, "The student came to occupy Xuzhou for the King of Wu... If the prince wants to defend Xuzhou, he must occupy Fengyang first..."

"Wait..." Wu Zheng frowned, "Do you know how many Qing troops there are in Fengyang?"

"Students know that Prince Ying of the Qing Dynasty led 80,000 Han Banners and 10,000 Man Banners to station in Huaiyuan and Fengyang."

Wu Zhenghe said, "It seems that you have done some homework... But this does not mean that your words can convince me. I will ask you, how can you occupy Fengyang?"

The scholar smiled, "Please be careful not to be impatient."

Wu Zheng labyrinth, thinking, am I impatient?

"The student said just now that if the prince wants to defend Xuzhou, he must occupy Fengyang first. If Fengyang Mansion is in hand, he can connect with Yangzhou and Huai'an. All troops and supplies can go north through the Yangtze River waterway. If he is not good, he can still go by sea..."

When Wu Zheng heard this, he was really impatient. "What is the difference between talking about war on paper and Zhao Kuo?"

This made Ma Shiying cover her mouth and laugh inadvertently. Even Song An raised her head slightly to the sky, and her nostrils that twitched constantly exposed everything.

The scholar didn't care and said with a smile: "If you want to occupy Fengyang, you must first take Yingzhou. If the prince can persuade 8,000 Yingchuan Guards to surrender, then he will have a 50% chance of winning."

Wu Zheng frowned and said, "Can you persuade Yingchuanwei to surrender?"

The scholar spread his hands and said with a smile: "Students have no power to tie up a chicken, and they cannot go into battle to kill the enemy to intimidate the enemy's soldiers, and there is no high-ranking official to show their titles to recruit. How can they persuade them to surrender?"

Wu Zheng snorted dullly, got up and was about to have an attack.

But the scholar continued: "The student has an old friend, named Luo and Zhong Lin, and was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty. Now he is the Suzhou official hall."

"A mere magistrate, has soldiers in his hands?" Wu Zheng looked disgusted, but his body was very honest, so he slowly sat back.

"How can the prefecture have soldiers?" said the scholar, "but now the general of Yingchuan Guard is in a remote position, and the deputy general Xiong Anyuan who actually controls Yingchuan Guard."

Wu Zheng looked at Song An, and Song An nodded slightly to agree with this.

"What, can you say that you surrender this person?"

"No, the student has never met Xiong Anyuan and he doesn't know this person."

Wu Zheng went crazy, "Dare you dare to tease me?"

"But the students know how to say "Surrendering Xiong Anyuan."
Chapter completed!