The battle report of the Longmen Battle was delivered to Nanjing as quickly as possible. After reading the battle report, Zhu Yicheng sighed, silently closed the note and put it aside, stood up and walked slowly in the hall with his hands behind his back.

When we head south to Guangdong, the original plan was to take more than a month to solve the Qing army in Guangdong and swallow the entire Guangdong in one bite. However, more than two months have passed, and the Guangdong strategy has not yet ended. At the beginning, it was quite smooth, but later, due to the emergence of the Portuguese fleet, the South China Sea Battle broke out, which temporarily stopped the pace of attacking Guangzhou. Now Lan Li took the initiative to attack and tried to defeat Yang Xu's side troops in one fell swoop. It had to admit that Lan Li's sense of battlefield was indeed keen and he also grasped the time for attack.

In this era, the transmission of information is too slow. Although there are pigeons in the army to transmit messages, this ancient method of transmission is not reliable. It often happens that pigeons are lost on the road or even fall into the hands of the other party. Therefore, in the army to transmit messages by pigeons in the army, there are code words, that is, passwords. In addition, in case of unnecessary circumstances, most information is still transmitted by people.

There is no way to do this. Zhu Yicheng had information in his head that was hundreds of years later, but he was not a god and could not get a telegram out of thin air. Fortunately, Yang Xu won this battle, otherwise the Eastern Route Army would be defeated by Lan Li and Ma Gongcheng's main force in Xin'an would lose his side troops, which would be even more difficult to fight in Guangzhou.

In addition, the battle situation between Henan and Sichuan was not very good. Zhu Jiancai's troops were defeated in Henan, and lost several cities. However, Zhu Jiancai was not a vegetarian. This old man was very slutty. Seeing that the situation was not good, he directly let go of the road from Sichuan to Henan, causing Wang Zhiqing's army to rush into Henan directly.

Now the three armies are fighting in Henan. Although the Qing army is strong and has Mongolian cavalry, it has lost its spirit under Wang Zhiqing's sea of ​​people tactics, resulting in a stalemate in the battle situation in Henan.

This news was sent from Henan by the Jinyiwei. The accuracy of the news is unquestionable, and the content is even more detailed and true than the military newspapers seen by Zhao Hongcan and others.

What made Zhu Yicheng angry was that the Qing court, Zhu Jiancai and Wang Zhiqing's three armies fought in Henan, and countless local people were killed and injured.

Zhu Jiancai won't say that this old boy is not a good person, he has always been cruel and ruthless. In order to protect himself, he can even sell his friendly troops directly. Wang Zhiqing is also a hero. After rushing into Henan, he attacked the north and attacked the north, burned, killed and looted. Even the Qing army was the same. The green camps in the Qing army were slightly better. How could those Mongolian cavalry resist when they arrived in the Central Plains? They rode their horses and plundered each time, and slashed with a little resistance. Since the Qing court now needs the Mongols to pacify Henan, the Qing army did not see it. Some Qing army even took action to steal one in the dark when they saw the Mongols plundering. How good can Henan be?

The Central Plains was in chaos, which was a great opportunity for the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, Guangdong has not yet been taken, and the Ming Dynasty cannot draw any action to intervene in the battle of the Central Plains. Fortunately, Zhu Yicheng sent Dong Dashan to Anqing and laid a nail firmly in Jiangbei, but it is difficult to mobilize troops to advance north.

There is also the situation in the hinterland of Sichuan. Guangyuan's garrison Yue Zhongqi and local chieftains attacked Cangxi, which curbed the important roads in northern Sichuan in one fell swoop, causing the Qing army to go from Shaanxi and Gansu to Sichuan, and reversed the situation in Sichuan. This made Zhu Yicheng unavoidably worried.

No one knows Yue Zhongqi, but Zhu Yicheng knows very well. This is a famous general. He is comparable to Nian Gengyao in terms of fame, but his military use is even better than Nian Gengyao.

Yue Zhongqi was profound, resolute and wise. In the Qing Dynasty, the Han people who were ministers were appointed as generals. Even the Manchu soldiers obeyed him, only Yue Zhongqi. In the quelling of Qinghai rebellion, he made great achievements. All 720,000 square kilometers of Qinghai were subordinate to the Qing Dynasty. He promoted Anzang and established great achievements. 1.23 million square kilometers of Tibet was included in the Qing Dynasty. After the re-commissioned commission, he pacified Dajinchuan. Later, he was called a giant military minister of the three dynasties by Qianlong, which was enough to show his merits.

Yue Zhongqi is very good at fighting, and it is extremely difficult to deal with. This person suddenly appears in the military newspaper, which makes Zhu Yicheng secretly alert. You need to be careful when facing this person in the future.

To be far away, the key is the Guangdong side. Guangdong's strategy has been delayed for too long, and the Guangdong problem must be solved as soon as possible. After the Battle of Longmen, although Yang Xu's army won, it temporarily lost the power to advance. From the memorials of Yang Xu to Zhu Yicheng, it can be seen that this battle was extremely fierce and the Ming army suffered a lot of casualties. Now the Ming army needs a certain amount of time to rest, so it is unlikely to continue to move westward to Guangzhou. However, this battle can defeat Lan Li, which is not a bad thing for Zhu Yicheng.

But the next two attacks became Ma Gongcheng's troops' north attack, and it was just a group of people. It was difficult to win Guangzhou as quickly as possible, but Guangzhou had to fight. Only by conquering the entire Guangdong battle in Guangzhou can the goal be achieved.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yicheng couldn't help but look back at the case, and quickly walked to the side of the case to pick up another memorial.

This seems to be a memorial, but the person who wrote the memorial was different. This person was not an important official in the court or a senior official in the local area, but Bao Honghui, who was appointed as the Xin'an Maritime Boat Training Department.

In order to commend the Bao family for their transportation logistics work in the south of Guangdong, Zhu Yicheng specially gave him this position. In fact, according to what Wu Sidao said, the Bao family took a fancy to Xin'an and tried to develop Xin'an as the main port for Bao'an's future trade. Zhu Yicheng, who knew Xin'an, had to admire Bao Honghui's unique vision. Compared with Shanghai, Xin'an is not inferior at all. Before fighting Guangdong, Zhu Yicheng had thought about how to develop a Hong Kong place after taking over Guangdong.

Who would have thought that Bao Honghui actually proposed it in advance. In addition, the Bao family made many contributions to the strategy of attacking Guangdong in the south. Moreover, the Bao family’s support for the Ming Dynasty in the past two years is obvious to all. This time, Bao Honghui was responsible for the heavy responsibility of private negotiations with Macau, so Zhu Yicheng gave Bao Honghui the position according to the Shanghai example.

The content of the memorial is very ordinary, just some ordinary things, but the mystery lies in the end of the memorial. Bao Honghui wrote some things at the end of the memorial that only Zhu Yicheng could understand, that is, tell him that Bao Honghui had already joined Macau. The two sides had initially discussed some suggestions, but in the end, Zhu Yicheng had to decide. At the same time, Bao Honghui had brought the Macau messenger back. If Zhu Yicheng needed, he could summon this person at any time.

After all, the negotiations with Macau were conducted privately, and Bao Honghui was indeed cautious in doing things, which even satisfies Zhu Yicheng.

Originally, Zhu Yicheng planned to put the people in Macau aside and then talk about it, but because of the sudden occurrence of the Battle of Longmen, he had to reconsider the ceasefire with Macau. The most important thing now is to take Guangdong, and everything else can be temporarily put on hold for this purpose.

Holding this memorial, Zhu Yicheng thought about it for a long time and finally made a decision.

The next day, Zhu Yicheng left the palace in a very small dress and quietly looked at a courtyard located in the East City of Nanjing. This place was a house house placed by Bao Honghui in Nanjing. Bao Honghui and Fernando lived here these days. Although with the rise of maritime trade, the trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Western countries deepened, there were not many Western merchants coming and going to and from the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention Ningbo, even in Nanjing today, you can often see many Western merchants appearing.

In the Ming Dynasty, as long as they have official quotas, these Western merchants can move freely within the scope permitted by law. This is also the policy determined by Zhu Yi to promote business prosperity, change the secular concept of the four people, and improve the status of merchants. These policies did have many effects, making the entire Ming Dynasty extremely prosperous and full of vitality.

But because Fernando has a special identity, he has been living in this house since he arrived in Nanjing. Fernando knows the general situation and understands the reason. He just feels a little bored when staying in the house every day. In addition, he doesn't understand Chinese, so no one can communicate with him except Bao Honghui, so he can only look forward to completing the task one day earlier and returning to Macau.

When Zhu Yicheng came to the courtyard, Bao Honghui, who had received the notice, was waiting early. Seeing Zhu Yicheng get off the sedan chair, Bao Honghui hurried forward, and did not bow to the big ceremony to avoid attracting attention. However, after Zhu Yicheng was welcomed into the courtyard, Bao Honghui then paid a ceremony to worship.

"No need to be polite, get up." Zhu Yicheng waved and asked him to get up, and waited for him to get up and asked, "Where is the person?"

"Go back to the emperor, the man lives in the backyard. I have already arranged it. Please ask the emperor to follow me to go to the back hall for a while, and I will bring the man here."

Nodded and followed Bao Honghui to the back hall. After sitting down, someone naturally served good tea. Zhu Yicheng didn't go to tea, but just waved his hand and asked him to bring the person. After a while, Bao Honghui came with Fernando, who had not yet known what was going on.

When he entered the back hall, he saw Zhu Yicheng sitting in the front seat at a glance. Although Zhu Yicheng was young, his experience over the years made him look a little older than his actual age. In addition, he was tall and naturally had a momentum after being in the upper position for a long time. The beard on his lips added a little majesty, and he was obviously not an ordinary person.

Although Fernando was a destitute noble, he was also a noble. When he saw Zhu Yicheng, he was stunned at first, and then he looked at Bao Honghui beside him.

"This is my Emperor Ming Dynasty." Bao Honghui said in Portuguese.

Fernando was shocked, and at the same time, he showed joy on his face. He hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and kowtowed with the etiquette of Chinese people, and said a lot of things he didn't understand.
Chapter completed!