Zhu Youxiao carefully looked at his views and suggestions on the situation in Liaodong.
This scholar believes that the edge should be avoided. In his opinion, the current Liao soldiers are not even as good as the Ming army during the Battle of Saarhu. They have completely lost their courage, let alone compared with the slave soldiers who are in full swing today.
Moreover, he also strongly supported Xiong Tingbi's strategy, which was to defend the city, fortify the walls and clear the fields, and did not give the old slaves a chance to invade the invaders, let alone leave the city easily.
He even made a bold suggestion to withdraw the people of Liaodong into the pass, so as to curb the development of the old slaves to the greatest extent.
He also mentioned the issue of generals in Liaodong. Since Li Chengliang, he believed that Liaodong today has become the same as the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty. It belongs to the Ming Dynasty in name but has actually become a warlord of its own.
Zhu Youxiao was dumbfounded after reading it. His views were so similar to those of a person who had traveled through time and space.
"This man is talented, please quickly summon him to the palace to see me!"
Zhu Youxiao naturally knew what was true and false in Liaodong. He recalled what the Jin Yiwei had reported to him. Ordinary sergeants in Liaodong didn't even have any decent clothes. Some even had to wear armor naked in such extremely cold weather. That was iron armor.
ah.
Can such an army still be called an army? Compared with slave soldiers, the Ming army is a beggar. This sentence is absolutely correct.
The slave soldiers were fully armed. They had to wear at least two layers of armor all over their bodies, and almost everyone wore a large cotton armor. The Ming army had only a layer of tattered iron sheets all over their bodies. I'm afraid they would have frozen to death before they started fighting.
Liaodong is a bottomless pit. Only by cleaning everything from top to bottom can it be rejuvenated. If the Liao affairs are not handled well, the Ming Dynasty will still be slowly eaten away by these moths and old slaves.
Emperor Chongzhen in history threw millions of grains into Liaodong every year without even a drop of water floating on the water, leading to a vicious cycle. The people inside and outside the Pass were miserable, and even the army inside the Pass had not made any noise for several years. The worst thing was
As white soldiers, Emperor Chongzhen hardly gave them any warning. They were ordered to go out to kill slaves and suppress bandits everywhere in the pass. They only needed an order to attack without any complaints. They were such a loyal force to protect the country.
The army, Emperor Chongzhen actually did not give them a sound.
If it weren't for Qin Liangyu's die-hard loyalty and unparalleled prestige among Sichuan chieftains, the Ming Dynasty would have died a few years earlier. When Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin were around, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng didn't dare to look to Sichuan, and Sichuan was even more insignificant.
The uprising is all the result of Qin Liangyu.
And in a bottomless pit like Liaodong, he could throw almost a year's income of the country into it without any hesitation and never look back.
Zhu Youjian, you are really a sinner of the Ming Dynasty, a sinner of the Han people, and a disgrace to the emperor!
"The common man Zhang Yu comes to see His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Pingsheng!"
Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhang Yu carefully. This man actually looked stronger than Zhu Youxiao who had practiced martial arts for several months, riding and shooting, but his appearance was really not that good.
"Did you write this policy yourself?"
Zhang Yu bowed and said:
"Your Majesty, it was written by ordinary people. If your Majesty cannot do it, your Majesty can verify it."
Zhu Youxiao looked at him dressed as a scholar and asked curiously:
"Do you have any fame?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the common people have no fame. The common people have tried to take the scholar exam several times. But they really couldn't pass it, so they gave up."
Although the Ming Dynasty took the Eight-part Writing Examination to obtain official positions, judging from Zhang Yu's strategy, it is impossible for this person to fail to even pass the examination as a scholar. He is lying.
"I'll give you another chance!"
Zhu Youxiao said slightly angrily.
Zhang Yu quickly knelt down and begged for mercy:
"Your Majesty, the common people did not mean to deceive the emperor. It is really the common people who have something to hide. Please forgive me."
"No matter what you say, I will be exempted from guilt, just say it boldly!"
Zhang Yu nervously replied:
"Your Majesty, the ordinary people think that stereotyped writing is really harmful to people. Moreover, I have been fond of reading military books since I was a child. I don't like the Four Books and Five Classics. However, the ordinary people really look down on the stereotyped writing."
"Oh? Then tell me how bad stereotypes can be so harmful to people, and why do you look down on them?"
"The common people believe that the eight-part essay is the greatest danger to our Ming Dynasty!"
"The eight-part essay makes scholars lose the ability to think innovatively. In order to win the imperial examination, scholars only study the Four Books and Five Classics, instead of letting a hundred flowers blossom in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the common people become zombies!"
Zhu Youxiao looked at him deeply again.
When Zhang Yu saw the emperor staring at him, he broke into a cold sweat behind his back.
"You are very good. At least you dare to tell the truth in front of me. Emperor Taizu's stereotyped appointment of officials is indeed full of loopholes. You are one of the few people who dared to boldly oppose Emperor Taizu in the past two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, and you did it in front of me.
"
"Although I have exempted you from the crime, you dare to talk about Emperor Taizu, which is disrespectful. What do you think should be punished for disrespect?"
When Zhang Yu heard that the emperor wanted to punish him, he was sweating profusely. His first thought was to behave differently, thinking that the emperor would take him seriously, but he didn't expect that he just mentioned stereotypes, and the emperor became angry.
The reason why Zhu Youxiao wants to punish him is very simple, because now is the era of the emperor.
"I like your character who dares to speak out very much. I don't like those cunning villains who appear to be one thing but behind the scenes. I think you have no intention. Take me out and fight for twenty!"
The little eunuch on the side understood the meaning as soon as he heard that he was being taken out.
These days, if you don't have a good brain, you can't even survive, let alone serve the emperor? How can someone with a weak brain get here?
These twenty battles were fought very lightly, and Zhang Yu could at least barely walk.
"Let me ask you, now that the Ming Dynasty has lost all its national power since the Battle of Sarhu, Mongolia, Jianzhou, and the northwest are all ready to move, and even the country is not stable now. Tell me, what should I do? Think about it.
Let’s talk about it later, I’ll wait for you and give you time.”
After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he started reading the memorial, while Zhang Yu was thinking hard.
The sun was going down, and Zhu Youxiao had finished all the things he needed to deal with. He looked at Zhang Yu again and saw that he was dancing and dancing below, as if he was simulating it in his mind.
"Your Majesty, the common people think that Nurhachi in Jianzhou is now at its peak. Your Majesty should defend instead of attack. He ordered Xiong Tingbi to hold on to Shenyang to prevent the old slave from becoming powerful and out of control. They can only wait for our new powerful army of the Ming Dynasty to be born, and then we can fight with the old slave.
Let’s have a showdown.”
"As for the Mongolian tribes, the grassroots people think that they can adopt the strategy of dividing and attacking them. The grassroots people think that they can win over the weaker ones to fight against the stronger tribes and let them fight among themselves. In this way, they will not be able to take care of themselves and will not invade the Ming Dynasty again, and they can be consumed
Their vitality."
"But inside the pass, I really can't think of a good way. I don't know how to govern the country."
Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhang Yu who was kneeling below, and felt that his long wait was finally not in vain.
"Zhang Yu listened to the decree and asked you to be promoted to the fifth rank of Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff. You will follow the emperor and wait for orders."
"I sincerely thank you for your holy grace!"
Zhang Yu now only laments that His Majesty is wise, he indeed made the right choice!