After Xu and Tian retreated, Zhu Youdong was about to let the palace maid come in to help him change his clothes, but he heard Li Shizhong's voice outside: "Your Highness, I have something to report."

"Oh, Shizhong, come in."

"Your Highness. Yesterday, I received two letters from Liaodong at the same time. After reading them, I felt deeply confused. Therefore, I would like to ask Your Highness to make a decision!"

"Letter from home? Liaodong? Bring it to me."

The first thing to unfold was the letter written by Li Chengliang to Li Shizhong. After only reading a short paragraph, Zhu Youdong couldn't help but slap his forehead with his hands: Damn it, how could you forget this?

In fact, Er Li's letters all talked about the same thing: Kuandian Liubao.

In the first year of Wanli (1572), young Li Chengliang defeated the Jurchens entrenched on the west bank of the Yalu River, and then built six fortresses in this place for the purpose of placing a knife on the back of the Jurchen settlement.

Dian Fort is the largest, so it is called Kuandian Six Forts.

To make a simple analogy, it might look like this:

On a straight line, there are four points abcd from northwest to southeast. Among them, a is Li Chengliang’s Liaodong Town, b is Nurhaci’s Jianzhou Jurchen, c is Kuandian Six Forts, and d is North Korea. The importance of Kuandian Six Forts is as follows

It's very obvious.

It was 1606 AD, and twenty-three years had passed since Nurhachi raised his army with thirteen pieces of armor.

In the past twenty-three years, Nurhachi had already unified the five Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou, conquered the Changbai Mountain Jurchen tribes to the north, and severely damaged the Jurchen tribes in Haixi. He gradually became the overlord of the Northeast region.

But no matter what, because Jianzhou was still at an absolute disadvantage compared to the Ming Dynasty at this time, plus the Haixi Jurchen Ula, Hada had not yet perished, and Ye He still retained considerable power. More importantly, Li Chengliang was still there at this time.

Liaodong. Therefore, no matter how many military victories Nurhaci achieved at this time, he never dared to take action against the fortress bearing the banner of the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, the more military victories he achieved, the more humble he became towards the Ming government.

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But this brings about a problem: because the Kuandian Six Forts are stuck on the back of the Jianzhou Jurchens, the Jianzhou Jurchens have always been under the strategic siege of the Ming Dynasty. And because of the existence of the Kuandian Six Forts,

The Jianzhou Jurchens were unable to effectively attack and bring the East China Sea Jurchens under their rule. Not only that, the private trade between Jianzhou and North Korea was also greatly restricted.

In terms of military strength alone, it would not be too troublesome for Jianzhou to capture Kuandian at this time. But defeating Kuandian, which was flying the banner of the Ming Dynasty...

This put Nurhachi into a dead end: without conquering Kuandian, development would be impossible. Without development, it would be impossible to accumulate enough strength to completely unify the entire Jurchen. Without unifying the entire Jurchen, of course there would be no power to challenge the Ming Dynasty. But if Kuandian was conquered at this time,

Dian will arouse Daming's anger in advance...

It would be great if the Ming Dynasty could give up Kuandian on its own... This is probably what Nurhachi often said when he went to bed and dreamed at night in recent years.

But now Li Chengliang is really ready to give up Kuandian Six Forts.

After all, Taisun has shown great potential and has shown signs of becoming a heroic figure. On the one hand, the Li family is now making a lot of money from doing business with Taisun. On the other hand, the future prosperity of the Li family will rest with Taisun.

On top of that, once the Six Forts of Kuandian are abandoned, it is conceivable that it will lead to overwhelming impeachment. Therefore, Li Chengliang, who has become more and more unruly in recent years, actually took the initiative to write a letter to Zhu Youdong (written to Li Shizhong in fact)

I want Zhu Youdong to see it), and elaborated on the reasons why he voluntarily gave up Kuandian.

People tend to be verbose as they get older. In the letter, which was more than ten pages long, Li Chengliang gave three reasons over and over again: First, the court had no money, and Liaodong Town had no money! While he could not give more support to Kuandian Liubao, Liaodong

The armaments of Jianzhou cannot maintain the strength of its heyday. Second, the strength of the Jianzhou Jurchens has become stronger and stronger. Under the premise that Liaodong Town is currently facing many difficulties, it is better to have a military conflict with Jianzhou later rather than earlier. It is difficult to hold on if it is given up.

The Six Forts of Kuandian diverted troubles to the east, allowing Jianzhou to harm the Jurchens in the East China Sea. Third, although Jianzhou became increasingly powerful, its population was a flaw. Moving more than 100,000 people from the Six Forts of Kuandian back to the mainland of Liaodong not only protected

It killed the Han people and left Jianzhou with no population to develop...

Of course, Li Chengliang also said in the letter that he also knew that the best way for the heavenly kingdom to control the barbarians was to use the barbarians to control the barbarians. Therefore, as Nurhachi became increasingly powerful, he also tried his best to support the Shuerhaqi family within the Jurchens in Jianzhou

, and at the same time, they also paid attention to protecting Ye He and Wula, so as to contain Nurhaci...

After Zhu Youdong read Lao Li's letter, his reaction was to jump up from his seat and angrily tore the letter into pieces!

As a time traveler, Zhu Youdong certainly knows that the Jianzhou Jurchen who is extremely humble today will grow into a sky-swallowing behemoth in the future. But at the same time, Zhu Youdong also knows that as long as Huang Taiji does not ascend, the Jianzhou Jurchen is nothing but a hammer. And Huang Taiji wants to

Going up? In this plane, that is absolutely impossible!

In the long-term plan of the time traveler, Jianzhou Jurchen is really not a thing: as long as I am here, there may not even be Saarhu, so how can I have the Qing Dynasty behind me?

But today, he finally realized how malicious the wheel of history was towards him.

"Great grandson?!"

"Your Highness, calm down."

Seeing Zhu Youdong's unusual and rare outburst of rage, Li Shizhong and the eunuchs and maids in the corner were all so frightened that they knelt down.

Generally speaking, the eunuchs, maids and guards in Da Neili all like to follow the grandson.

This man has none of the willfulness and pranks of a child, but only the rationality and stability of an adult. Moreover, the grandson is not picky about food and clothing, and basically does not lose his temper. In addition to having some requirements for everyone's work efficiency, overall, he is

Yan is easy to serve. The most important thing is that the grandson does not treat everyone as a human being like the emperor, prince or concubine, but treats them with a level-headed attitude. This feeling may be considered common by modern people.

But from the perspective of the servants of this era, they feel extremely comfortable and grateful.

However, only because of this, when Zhu Youdong showed unprecedented anger, everyone was really frightened.

"Someone is coming!"

"My grandson, please give me your instructions."

"Are you literate?"

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I have never been to the inner study hall and am illiterate."

"F*ck, forget it, go and fetch Wang Chengen."

…

"Grandson, what do you want me to do for you?"

"Just now, my hand slipped and tore up Uncle Ning Yuan's autographed letter to Shizhong. Go pick it up for me and glue it in order."

Were the scraps of paper on the ground really just a slip of the hand? However, Wang Chengen didn't say anything. After gently saying yes, he led someone to collect the scraps of paper on the ground bit by bit, and then went to the edge and pasted them on his own.

"Huh~~" He repeatedly clenched his fists and let go, and after taking a few deep breaths, Zhu Youdong calmed down and picked up Li Rubai's letter again.

In his letter, Li Rubai clearly expressed his opposition to the plan to abandon the Six Kuandian Forts, and pointed out that if the Six Kuandian Forts were abandoned, Liaodong Town would indeed be able to save a lot on military expenses, and Jianzhou Jurchens would not be able to get Kuandian's ten

Ten thousand Han people. However, the Jianzhou Jurchens will quickly swallow up the remnants of the Dong'e tribe and the Wanyan tribe of the Jurchens, and they will no longer have any scruples when annexing the Jurchen tribes in the East China Sea. They can even invade North Korea... In short,

Its power will also be greatly improved. Moreover, without the thorn in the back of Kuandian, Jianzhou will have greater strategic depth. Once there is a change in the future, it will be infinitely more difficult for the court to suppress it!

Hey, such an obvious truth can even be seen by a simple warrior like Li Rubai. Can Li Chengliang, who has been coordinating the overall situation of Liaodong for decades, not see it?

"Li Shizhong!"

"...Your Highness, I am here."

"Have you read these two letters?"

"Yes, I have all seen it."

"What's your attitude?"

"I... I really don't know. To be honest, what my second uncle said makes sense. However, my grandfather has been guarding Liaodong for so many years. He always has more experience and sees things more profoundly, right?"

"So you are wrong! Your grandfather lives a long life this year? He will be eighty this year, right? As the saying goes, the elderly always think about the past, and the young think about the future. Your grandfather is old and only thinks about how to ensure the stability of the current situation in Liaodong.

.As for what will happen in the future, he can’t see it! Therefore, when Ning Yuanbo encountered such a thing thirty years ago, he would go out of his way to fix the problem behind the Jianzhou Jurchen. Now Ning Yuanbo only thinks about how to deal with it during his tenure.

No problem!"

"minister……"

"But I'm still young. Don't talk about me. My father, my grandpa, is not very old either!"

"I... am scared."

"Immediately leave the capital overnight, go to Liaodong in person, and give Uncle Ning Yuan a message: Liaodong Town is short of money, and I will find a solution. But if he abandons Kuandian Six Forts, you, Chunzhong, and
Chapter completed!