As the situation in Taiwan stabilized, Hutchison has a real way out, and Zhang Han is really relieved.

This sense of peace of mind is actually difficult for others to understand... Zhang Han went through and over again, and the merchant army was in trouble, so he was still trembling and cautious. In the eyes of others, this was his cautious nature. Only Zhang Han himself knew that he was really worried and afraid!

"Next year will be a turning point." Zhang Han said: "Sun Ge's troops will definitely be resigned in the second half of this year. Wang Faxiang and others delayed him for half a year, but the eunuch party has become increasingly power in the court. How can it tolerate a Grand Secretary of the Donglin Party continue to manage Liaodong? They are almost in the armpits, and they are afraid of accidents."

Li Shenming said: "How is this possible? The soldiers were soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and Sun Ge's troops were civil servants."

Zhang Han smiled and said, "You have probably read the secret report of the Military Information Department and forgot it? Last year, when the battle was at its peak, Sun Dahushou invited him to Beijing, but Wei Zhongxian was scared to death. He sent many people to guard the city gate with the Emperor's Sword and ordered Sun Chengzong not to enter the gate. What was he afraid of? The Guanning Army was from nothing, from generals to camp soldiers, and they were all brought by Sun Chengzong. These hundreds of thousands of soldiers were not dared to say that everyone listened to Sun Chengzong, but as long as the main generals had the courage to follow, they could easily pull out tens of thousands of people. What was there in the imperial court? The Beijing camp soldiers went to Guanning Iron Cavalry? The four guards in the Imperial Horse Supervision still had some combat power, but they could never be the opponent of Liao Town. If you really want to force Lao Sun to rebel, Wei Zhongxian had a hundred heads that were not enough to cut."

Li Shenming smiled and shook his head and said, "It is absolutely impossible for Sun Chengzong to rebel."

"But he has the ability to rebel." Zhang Han smiled and said, "Wei Zhongxian is afraid that there is nothing, what about the emperor? What will the emperor think? Although Sun Ge tribe is his most respected teacher, a pure Confucian and a wise minister, if he manages western Liaoxi for several years, will Liaoxi belong to the court or the Sun family? All the generals from the top to the bottom are used by Sun Chengzong. At that time, will the emperor's edict be effective, or will the Sun Ge tribe's order be effective?"

"It's too heart-killing." Although Li Shenming shook his head, he was also from a scholarship after all, and he was never willing to agree with Zhang Han's so-called Sun Chengzong's ability to rebel. However, no matter what, Li Shenming said: "It seems that Sun Ge's resignation is inevitable."

"That's right." Zhang Han felt very proud and replied with a smile.

This conclusion is not the research result of later historians, but the result of Zhang Han's own analysis.

Emperor Tianqi was very concerned about the emperor's mind, but he did too much to drive away Donglin. Although he wanted to make up for it later, he had no idea how to start for the time being.

The incident of Sun Chengzong was considered a continuation of the party struggle, but there were deeper reasons for his resignation. The main reason was that he had been guarding western Liaoning with the Grand Secretary of the Dongge for too long, and it had been so long that the emperor could not even feel at ease with his teachers.

In fact, this is not a waste of worries. In the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led his troops to besiege the capital. Emperor Chongzhen blatantly captured Yuan Chonghuan at the most critical moment, which caused Zu Dashou and other Liao Town generals to panic and led their troops to flee. At this moment, Huang Taiji might not have been able to persuade the generals of Liao Town to rush to the Jurchen side, which was really over. The most tense moment was that Sun Chengzong was responsible for taking over the mess. Old Sun comforted Zu Dashou with only letters. Although the warlordization of Liao Town was inevitable since then, Zu Dashou never went to the capital again, and he had never been to Shanhaiguan. He only stayed in Jinzhou and Ningyuan Youtun. The cause and effect were planted early.

"Oh, what did the emperor and Wei Yin think?" Li Shenming was very dissatisfied and complained: "With Sun Ge's troops in charge, the Jianlu did not know the truth and did not dare to attack western Liaoning at will. Once Sun Ge's troops were removed from office, it would inevitably lead to the ups and downs of the people in western Liaoning in the short term. In addition, the general officer was just replaced. Isn't this self-destruction of the Great Wall?"

"The general has been replaced for several months." Zhang Han said: "Before, the Jianlu had suffered some minor losses. In addition, they have been in peace with each other for the past two or three years, which gave many people in the court the illusion that it seemed that there was nothing they could do with the Jianlu in the city, so it would be the same for anyone."

"Who may be replaced?" Li Shenming frowned and said, "There are only a handful of officials in the court who are familiar with military affairs. If it was not a party dispute, at least Yuan Keli would be available. Now I really don't know who to send."

"It's mostly Gaodi." Zhang Han has his own intelligence system source, and there are also specialized personnel analyzing based on the qualifications and trends of senior officials in the court. Gaodi should be the first candidate to replace Sun Chengzong.

"This person is quite suitable." Li Shenming thought about it and remembered Gao Di's resume: "In the 17th year of Wanli, he was quite old. He served as the chief of prefectures and counties, and had rich local government experience. He also served as the chief of the government office. He had worked hard all the way from prefectures to households to inspectors and the governors. He worked hard all the way for more than 30 years. In the first year of Tianqi, he served as the governor of Xuanfu and began to be familiar with military affairs. When he was in Xuanfu, he invested 7,000 taels of money to work hard. At that time, the Xuanfu soldiers had not paid any payment for several months. Governor Gao's move was very heartbroken, and the court praised him very much. In the second year of Tianqi, he became the right minister of the Ministry of War, and then became the left minister of the court. He retired last year... It seems that the court was about to restore this person."

"Yeah." Zhang Han said: "Yes, besides him, there are no ministers who have experienced and experienced in the military and the Ministry of War. Originally, Yuan Keli was indeed the best candidate, but Yuan Gong was regarded as an enemy by the eunuch party, and there was no possibility of this. There were also several suitable candidates, either looking at Donglin or unwilling to intervene in the party struggle. This person Gao Di has been a civilian official and a senior official for decades. He has to take the overall situation into consideration. Therefore, although he is not a member of the eunuch party, as long as the court needs to use his place, he will not be discouraged because of the party struggle."

Gao Di is indeed such a person. Maybe he is really incompetent, but it was too boring to later that the Donglin Party falsely accused Gao Di as a eunuch party. Gao Di had nothing to do with the eunuch party from beginning to end.

"Wei Zhongxian is still tactful in this regard." Li Shenming snorted coldly and said, "The eunuch party has troubled to conquer Sun Ge's troops. If another person with insufficient qualifications and strong eunuch party is selected, even if the Liaoshi completely asks Wei Zhongxian to take the blame, the emperor will still have some suspicion of Wei Yin. This is great. If an old minister with sufficient qualifications and no party color comes out, the emperor will not object, but will think that Wei Yin will take the overall situation."

"Yes, I'm talking very well. It seems that Brother Zunlu also has the potential to be a power eunuch."

"The dog's mouth cannot spit out ivory." Li Shenming glared at Zhang Han and said, "Sun Xiaozheng is coming back soon. What are the plans for the rest of this year?"

Zhang Han had just returned to Qingcheng and was full of things. Only then did he realize the importance of a political official like Sun Jingting. He didn't need to worry about any trivial matters. He immediately welcomed Li Shenming a few words, and then continued: "He has already arrived in Datong when he read the Tang Dynasty. At most, he went to Lingqiu and other places. He will be back in ten days. As autumn approaches, the winter on the grassland is coming, and I think I will also go and see it."

"Isn't it that I've been so thrilling to deal with business recently, and I'm thinking about going out for a walk and having fun?"

"Yes, yes." Zhang Han laughed.

After laughing for a moment, Zhang Han suddenly said, "I have a premonition that starting next year, the leisurely days are probably over. After fighting next year, it will probably be one life-and-death battle after another."

Li Shenming laughed and said, "It may not be as serious as you think?"

"Well, I'm thinking about it seriously." Zhang Han said: "We have been going smoothly all the time. Even if we were surrounded by Bu Situ Khan and more than 100,000 Tumot troops in Jining Castle two years ago, I didn't worry too much. What is the reason? I have strong confidence in defeating the Beilu. Those trashed and beat them all look at them. But the Donglu is different. It's like the Beilu wrestling. Before, we won a thin man, which is not a skill. After the Donglu came on stage, we were like wrestling with a strong and cunning strongman, and we need to show off our ability to get the whole hang."

"I always have confidence in you." Li Shenming beat him up for no reason. His relaxed expression made Zhang Han's teeth itchy.

In fact, it is not just Li Shenming, but also the same reaction from the bottom to the top of the military commander.

As the sky falls, Zhang Han is also a tall man who comes to the top. It’s been a day or two for everyone to rely on Zhang Han. From an ordinary business to the current situation, who dares to say that he has such skills?

Since everything depends on Lord Zhang, it will not be a day or two, of course we should continue. Anyway, Zhang Han will be the one who decides everything, and it will be right for everyone to do things together.

"Wenlan, don't worry, I think you are a little unconventional about the Donglu. No matter what, there are only less than 30,000 soldiers in its troops, plus all Dingkou, and the Mongols and Han troops who surrendered to the enemy, there are no more than 100,000. Our Hutchison may not be worse than them. The battle can be fought slowly, and it doesn't matter if it loses two games."

Zhang Han thought that this seemed to be true. Is he really too Jurchen?

But he was indeed full of heart for Huang Taiji. Judging from the strength on the books, he not only had good strength, but even had the strength above the Jurchens. In recent years, he has trained the front-line team through actual combat of different sizes and sizes. At the same time, he also knows a little about how powerful Jianlu is.

That is, it is stronger than the Northern Lu and Ming army, and it is stronger than the ordinary troops of Hutchison. However, compared with the elite Shang army, especially the lancers, jumping warriors, mountain heavy armored infantry, and hunting cavalry, ordinary Eastern Lu did not have the advantage at all. Perhaps their white armored combat power was stronger. Zhang Hangu was also the white armored and Ge Bushxian of about 3,000 people in the Later Jin army.

On the ancient battlefield, there was no technical generation difference, and sometimes thousands of elites had a decisive role—

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