Chapter 502: A speechless situation

In the second year of Chongzhen.

January 29th.

Forbidden City.

Morning court.

With the fearful eyes of the ministers, various rituals were completed and today's morning court began.

"Do you guys have something to report?" Yang Jing asked first. In the past few days, Yang Jing has been in a very good mood, the government has been smooth, and the money has been collected. Therefore, he is full of energy and is rare to have such a good mood. He often says that if he spends these days every year, every month, it would be the most beautiful thing in the world.

The ministers could only look up to the current emperor who seemed very young. They all guessed what they wanted to say and how they wanted to say. They all knew that this emperor was not easy to fool. Today, they would be fooled by the emperor and they would be beaten up by the emperor that day. Therefore, they had to consider all the things reported, and then pondered them, for fear of angering the emperor.

"Report to Your Majesty, I have something to report." All the ministers were silent. Seeing that no one stood up, Lin Qi stood up and reported the matter.

"Oh, what's wrong with Lin Qing's family?" Yang Jing asked. It was Lin's incident, and he thought it was that. Now the matter of the salt merchant has been settled, and even half of the tax this year has been obtained. I guess the school party is here to ask himself for money.

"Report to Your Majesty, your Majesty has a general strategy for running the school. I beg your Majesty to examine it..." Lin Qiong said, raising a very good book.

A eunuch handed over the book. Yang Jing looked it up and found that it was indeed related to running the school, including the general manager and some details.

"Yes, I looked through it. Although I haven't looked closely, I feel that it is full of Lin Qing's hard work." Yang Jing praised.

"Report to Your Majesty, I am afraid. This strategy is to gather the wisdom of countless people with kindness and ambition. Only when you have this strategy, it is not the merit of me, and I dare not be specialized in beauty." Lin Qi immediately gave in fear.

"Yes, the matter of running a school is a major event to promote the concept of a saint, and a major event to promote the wisdom of a saint. We should gather the wisdom of talents in the world... I looked through it a little. The Qing family mentioned in this strategy that it costs about two million taels of silver every year now to try this strategy, right? " Yang Jingwei asked.

"When you go back to your Majesty, I have discussed it with all my colleagues. According to your Majesty's instructions, this matter is an unprecedented major event. You should be cautious and find a more suitable set of experience before promoting the world. Therefore, I and all my colleagues think that this matter should be carried out gradually and should not be reckless. Therefore, the result of the discussion now is that if you try it, it will be enough for almost 2 million taels of silver every year. After you have enough experience, it will be implemented in my entire Ming Dynasty..." Lin Qiong said cautiously.

"Well! Two million taels, okay! This is a major event for promoting the cause of the saints, and I support it. I will do this." Yang Jing did not want money to be asked for money in the previous few times, so he refused and spared the circle, so he responded directly. It was quite straightforward, without any hesitation.

Although this matter was expected by many people, it still caused a lot of sensation in the court. No matter what, it was two million taels of silver! Although everyone is already accustomed to the emperor's large sum of silver, it can be seen that an Imperial College Priest who only earned 2 million taels of silver to run the school, he still couldn't help but jealousy. He was really jealous. With this 2 million taels of silver to run the school, the number one person in the world has been completely recorded in history. How can he not be jealous? Following the emperor, he has indeed a "prospect"!

Lin Qiong stood there cautiously, surrounded by the jealous eyes of a group of ministers.

"Thank you for your kindness!" Lin Qiong was still cautious in thanking her, with a hint of flushing on her cautious face because of excitement.

"Well, in this way, I strongly support the school in promoting the cause of the saints. I still have some ideas about the school. I still need to discuss with the Lin Qing family. In this way, I will leave the court later. The Lin Qing family and the Liu Qing family, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, and I still have to discuss with you." Yang Jing looked at Liu Zhouzong not far away, lowering his head and silently, knowing that this great scholar in the world still had some opinions. He didn't mention his name when he praised the school. Seeing this situation, Yang Jing immediately said Liu Zhouzong's name loudly. Naturally, he could not suppress his favor.

"I obey the order!" Lin Qiong answered cautiously.

"I obey the order!" Liu Zhouzong first lowered his head and sulked, but now he was mentioned by the emperor, which was compared with Lin Qiong. Seeing the emperor smiling at him, the emotion disappeared immediately, and passion immediately filled his whole body, and he shouted thanks for gratitude.

Seeing that the emperor mentioned Liu Zongzhou and asked Liu Zongzhou to stay, the ministers looked at each other, which attracted many ministers to jealousy. Didn’t this guy just rely on taking the lead in charge for the emperor in the mansion to achieve what he is today? Many ministers were jealous and envious, but there was no way. Now they are celebrities in front of the emperor and masters who talk for the emperor, so they can only be jealous. Many ministers are thinking about it. Now that they are looking for the emperor, they are "successful" and "famous people in history". Should they also think about it carefully...

...

Liaodong.

Songshan Fort.

Huang Taiji stood on a small hill and looked at Songshan Fort in the distance, silently. He had been surrounded by this small castle for several days. Except for being speechless, he didn't know what to say or do.

The besieged city could only be surrounded like now, and it could not even dig a pit. Now the weather is still frozen in the ground. Huang Taiji was really not interested in digging the ice and hard land. He suspected that if he kept digging a pit to fight, his Eight Banners soldiers would almost become farmers.

Siege? Faced with Songshan Fort, he knew that the people in the city would never surrender and could only attack hard. If the attack was fierce, there would definitely be a group of overwhelming grenades flying out. If they attacked, it would be just to fill it with human lives. And human lives, obviously, Huang Taiji could not afford so many lives. Such a small city was completely a military fortress. Even if it was captured, how much could it gain? I guess the things in the city were consumed almost, which was not enough for them to divide them. Huang Taiji knew what his background was, and he said it was the founding of the country and the big gold. However, he knew that once he could not grab things and could not divide things, his country would fall apart and be near in front of him.

His reputation as a Jin Jin has always been poor, and he has countless blood feuds. In the last two years, the Jinning War slaughtered Juehua Island. Last year, he fought Zhenjiang Fort and left the reputation of capturing North Koreans as cannon fodder. Therefore, he did not expect to persuade the people in the castle to surrender. Now, the ground of Jinning is even empty. He searched around for a long time, but no one was found. Even if he arrested people to fill in, he could not find anyone. If he had not seen traces of preparing for the New Year in some houses, he would have suspected that this was a dead domain outside the pass.

"Shank you, please rest for a while." Fan Wencheng whispered, saying that Huang Taiji had been standing here and looking at Songshan Fort for a long time.

"Oh, it's Xian Dou!... Is there any news for the spy?" Huang Taiji woke up from silence, stood there for a moment, and then asked.

"Sweat back, there is no news for the time being..." Fan Wencheng quickly lowered his head and did not dare to deal with it. More than ten riders died at the beginning of this year. It was indeed not a good sign. Now, he has only been surrounded by Songshan Fort for a few days and has lost several groups of spies. This bad premonition gradually enveloped Fan Wencheng's heart. In front of Huang Taiji, he did not dare to breathe, for fear of being bad.

"Oh, Ben Khan underestimated that Yuan Manzi. I don't know where this Yuan Manzi learned the ability to steal. He is a dignified Liaodong Governor, just do some stealing things..." Huang Taiji was upset for no reason, and his heart gradually became covered with a layer of fog. His vision and thinking seemed not as flexible and open as before. He lost a few spies, but no spies were inquiring about the news. The feeling of being stuck was always uncomfortable.

"Da Khan, that Man Yuan is just a coward. He dares not face me, Da Jin, and he will only do despicable things. He will give ten thousand soldiers to the servants. He will die as much as he dares to ask him to come..." A erect general next to him said carelessly.

"..." Huang Taiji did not answer, but looked straight at Songshan Fort. He also wanted to fight against the Ming Dynasty, but facing the empty Jinning and facing the Songshan Fort that was ready to defend to the death, this is nonsense. If you want to fight against the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also said that we should fight against the Dajin to attack the city.

"..., Xiandou, how do you think about this?" Huang Taiji turned to ask his adviser.

"When Khan returned to Da Jin, Wen Cheng thought that the loss of the spy was probably because of the expert's guidance, and he specifically attacked my spy. I thought that Da Jin had now surrounded Songshan Fort and wanted to force Jin Ning to send troops, so I had to send spies to find out the news. Yuan Manzi saw that Da Jin's weakness was accurate, so he came to this point..." When Fan Wencheng saw Huang Taiji ask, he had to start a careful analysis for Huang Taiji. Although he was unwilling, he could not help him.

"Well, it's not bad! It makes sense, Xiandou continued." Huang Taiji looked at Fan Wencheng, nodded and said, and then continued to look at Songshan Fort in the distance.

"...There are only two ways now. The first is to strengthen the number of sentry detectives to avoid being taken advantage of by Yuan Manzi's men; the other is to simply attack Songshan Fort and force Songshan Fort to seek help. In this way, Yuan Manzi had to come out. His idea of ​​beating me with a spy will naturally fail." Fan Wencheng thought for a moment and gave two paths.

"Strong attack?..." Huang Taiji asked back with some disappointment. He also considered this question. If the strong attack could be done, he would have had a strong attack. What is the purpose of strong attack? What kind of strong attack is? Now he has no decent cannon. If he wants to attack the city, he will have human lives. Now, there are probably no people in the entire Jinning place except for a limited number of cities. Could it be that he can use his own lives to fill it? Just to pull out this small city, so many people died?

"... Xiandou talks about how to prevent the spy from losing. I won't mention the strong attack for the time being." Huang Taiji is also a smart person. He knows that the consequences of the strong attack are not only inconsistent with the strategic intention, but also incurable. Therefore, he can only ask the spy about the spy.

"...Return to Dahan, now my spies in Dajin are mostly teams of ten people, at least two or three people, and now it seems that it is not possible. Now each spy team needs at least forty or fifty horses, and at least more than one hundred horses. In this way, we can prevent Yuan Manzi's sneak attack..." Fan Wencheng thought about it and could only give this method. According to normal people's thinking, these spies with more than one hundred cavalry teams are exaggerated enough. You must know that the spys in the army are absolutely elite. They are not elites but cannot be spys. The spys need to be sent out in all four major directions. The area where each spy explores is not too wide, and they must continue to report the news. The manpower required is not a small number. The spys with more than one hundred cavalry teams are quite exaggerated.

"When Yuan Manzi first attacked me, he used two thousand troops. How do you think about this?" Huang Taiji sighed. It was not good to be too smart, so he thought a lot. Now this situation made him think about it and think about it. After thinking about it, he was worried about it and there, worried about it, and there was endless trouble, having endless thoughts, and having endless problems. It was really a torment. Huang Taiji envied those brainless barbarians at this time. They would not think about these problems, nor would they consider so many problems, and they would not have had their own troubles and would not have suffered such torture.

"This..." Fan Wencheng was suffocated by Huang Taiji's words. He had not considered this issue before, but he was unwilling to think too much. This is really an unsolvable problem...

"...Return to Da Khan, if he wants to deal with Yuan Manzi's cavalry, my Da Jin warriors are sure to win with one-on-three. If they are one-on-four, they can win. If they are one-on-five, they can only protect themselves. But if there are too many, they are afraid that it will be inappropriate. If Da Khan said that Yuan Manzi would dispatch two thousand troops at a time, then I Da Jin would need at least four or five hundred to ensure victory..." Fan Wencheng immediately took advantage of Huang Taiji's words and said that he had considered this issue, but he did not want to say it directly. He did not want to be troubled by this difficult problem.

"...Spy with four or five hundred men in one team?" Huang Taiji asked himself. If this is the case, two teams of spies in each direction will require eight teams, which is only three or four thousand elite troops. Thinking about the long-term lack of outsiders, Huang Taiji will have a headache. Such a large force is missing. In the future, the Ming Dynasty will send troops to encircle and annihilate the Ming army, which is also a troublesome thing...

The Eshima generals on the side listened to the conversation between their Khan and the Han minister for no reason, and they didn't know how their Khan would say this.

Huang Taiji was still looking at Songshan Fort from afar, still thinking.

"...Shank you, there is a saying that Wencheng doesn't know whether to say it or not..." Fan Wencheng looked at Huang Taiji, who frowned and looked into the distance. After a long struggle in his heart, he finally decided to say this.

"Oh, Wen Cheng just says anything. You are Ben Khan's adviser. You should give advice for Ben Khan. Even if you say it wrong, it doesn't matter." Huang Taiji retracted his gaze from the distance and stared at Fan Wen Cheng and said.

"Reply to the Khan, Wen Cheng thought that since Yuan Manzi could send two thousand men to chase me twenty horses, he would definitely send more men. Therefore, Wen Cheng thought that even if he was a spy with three or four hundred men in a team, there would be problems..." Fan Wencheng hesitated for a long time and still expressed his concerns. Yuan Chonghuan used two thousand men to threaten them at the beginning of the show. He had a deep impression of him. How could he forget? I didn't say it before, that was because I was afraid of getting into trouble. But after thinking about Huang Taiji's words, Fan Wencheng knew that Huang Taiji was not unaware of the problem. When Fan Wencheng thought of Huang Taiji's melancholy gaze, he felt scared and said the words he was stuck in his heart.

"... Not bad..." Huang Taiji withdrew his gaze that stared at Fan Wencheng and said something lightly.

Fan Wencheng only felt that his vest was soaked at this moment. When he saw Huang Taiji turn his face, he felt that he could breathe.

"... Then what should I do if I see Yixian Dou?" Huang Taiji glanced at Fan Wencheng again and asked faintly.

"When Khan comes back, according to Wen Cheng, there are two ways to defend against the harassment of Yuan Manzi..." Fan Wencheng said immediately.

"Just say nothing about Xiandou." Huang Taiji said.

"First, my Dajin should be stationed in Jinzhou and Ningyuan, each of which has an elite force stationed, with a number of people of about 2,000. In this way, I am not afraid of Yuan Manzi's sneak attack; then a smaller-scale man and horse stationed in the northeast and southwest directions, echoing the two men and horses to avoid the incident of spies being attacked. This is the righteous guard..."

"The second is to lure Yuan Manzi and capture all his cavalry in one place, so that he has no more cavalry to harass me to explore the horses, and in the future he can only rescue him with infantry..." Fan Wencheng said fiercely.

"...It's not bad, it makes sense. What should I do if I lure Yuan Manzi out?" Huang Taiji asked after him.

"Sweat back..." Fan Wencheng was about to answer, but suddenly rushed over not far away.

Everyone quickly looked over.

"Report! Master, the news in the pass is urgently reported..." the slave shouted anxiously.

"Take it..." Huang Taiji changed his calm appearance and said anxiously. Now the news inside the pass was almost completely interrupted due to the heavy snow and the Shanxi merchants. He really had no energy to continue this chess game that could not be seen clearly and unrecognized. He was troubled by these uncertain situations, anxious and uneasy, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he had to pretend to be calm...

"Where does the news come from?" Huang Taiji asked while tearing open the letter.

"Return to the master, the letter was sent from the sea. Now the sea has just thawed a little. If you can take the boat, we will surround Songshan Fort, and this boat will be easier to get closer to our section of the sea..." the slave explained quickly.

"Um..." Faced with such an explanation, Huang Taiji just said something.

After tearing open the letter, Huang Taiji read anxiously. The more he read, the more his brows became, the worse his face became. Suddenly, his face turned red and white…

"Sweat...sweat..." Fan Wencheng saw something wrong with Huang Taiji and quickly shouted softly.

Huang Taiji's face turned very bad and turned bright red. After a while, he said: "...It's okay, I sweat a little dizzy, I want to go and take a rest..."

Fan Wencheng couldn't help but glance at the letter inadvertently. After seeing only a few words, his pupils contracted sharply, and then he looked at Huang Taiji in horror.

Huang Taiji has returned to "calm". Except for the bright redness on his face, he can't see any reputation. His face is calm and he said lightly: "...It's okay, go back..."
Chapter completed!