Chapter 107: Three parts military, seven parts politics (please subscribe)
After leaving the court.
As soon as she returned to the Imperial Study Room of Qianqing Palace, the Red Lady asked anxiously: "Your Majesty, do you really want to give up sending troops to go south to conquer?"
"Of course not, but those old guys also reminded me that the problem in Jiangnan cannot be just resorted to force, but should be divided into three parts military and seven parts politics."
Zhu Cixiang waved his hand and asked the others to retreat, and then spoke slowly.
"Three points military, seven points political?" The red lady looked at him with a puzzled face, obviously not understanding what it meant.
Zhu Cixiang saw this and planned to teach her a lesson. After all, a general who does not understand politics can only be a tactician, but cannot be a strategist who coordinates the overall situation.
And this kind of talking on paper is exactly what he is good at.
So he waved his hand: "Come, dear concubine, sit here and let me explain to you what three parts are military and seven parts politics."
The red lady blushed, but she had no choice but to walk over. Zhu Cixi took her into his arms and sat beside her.
"My beloved, you were so bold last night, why are you so shy now?"
Zhu Cixi leaned into her ear and smiled.
This girl was so fierce last night.
"My concubine was acting recklessly last night. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"
The red lady bit her lips tightly and buried her head in his chest, her voice sounding like a mosquito.
When I think of the madness last night, my face feels hot and my ears are so red that they are about to bleed.
“Didn’t I punish you yesterday??”
As if he didn't know she was shy, Zhu Cixi raised her head and asked her to look straight at him.
The red lady was a sweetheart, so she could not bear his teasing. She murmured with blurred eyes: "Your Majesty is young and promising, heroic and mighty, and he is the emperor. I, my concubine, are from a humble background, mediocre in appearance, and married." How can I, my wife, be worthy of His Majesty's love?" After saying this, tears welled up in her eyes.
"My beloved, please don't belittle yourself. In my opinion, my beloved is much more attractive than Chen Yuanyuan."
Zhu Cixiang said.
Indeed, in this era, I am afraid that only Zhu Cixiang would regard the Red Lady as a treasure.
In his opinion, the red lady has a typical devilish supermodel figure, with long legs, a small waist, bulging front and back, and the most important thing is that she has good looks. She is simply the best.
As the saying goes, rare things are valuable. In this era, ladies from the Xiaojiabiyu family, gentle and dignified ladies and talented women are everywhere. He wants to have as many shows as he wants every year in the future.
But it’s hard to find someone with a figure like Red Lady’s.
He had already experienced the fun last night.
As for why the emperor cannot be suppressed, he doesn't care and doesn't care about it.
"Your Majesty, do you really think so?" The red lady was a little doubtful, but she was more surprised.
When the red lady saw his appearance, the stone in her heart finally fell.
I finally believed that this little emperor was not just trying to win over me, but he was really greedy for his body.
"Your Majesty, please clarify what is three parts military and seven parts politics?"
"Well, these three parts are military and seven parts are political. As the name suggests, politics is the main part and military is the supplement. Force is used as a means of deterrence, and political means can be used to solve the problem first.
For example, in Jiangnan now, there must be discord among the people, and everyone has their own agenda. If the army directly attacks the border, it may force them to unite and fight to the death, which will add some troubles and obstacles in vain.
It would be much easier if we first clarify the rumors, then use political means to divide and disintegrate them, making them give up resistance, and finally deal with them one by one.
So I plan to let the Queen Mother go with my beloved concubine, so that you only need to bring 20,000 soldiers and horses. Then the Queen Mother will be responsible for clarifying the rumors, winning over people's hearts, and playing a good role, while you will raise the butcher knife to ransack the house and be responsible for playing a bad role, haha!
"
At the end of Zhu Cixiang's words, he also had a sinister smile on his face.
This is a strategy he came up with after some weighing.
After all, he cannot go to Jiangnan in person for the time being. Even if the Red Lady goes to kill one party, it will not fundamentally solve the problem. On the contrary, it may fall into greater turmoil, allowing careerists to take advantage of it.
Therefore, for the time being, all the places in the south of the Yangtze River are required to surrender, so that the Red Lady can recruit and train troops in Nanjing while raising money and food to continuously transport them back to the north.
By next year's autumn harvest, after he had stabilized the situation in the north, he could go directly to Jiangnan to carry out reforms.
At that time, someone will definitely stand up and oppose the reform, and he will kill others, pull some people away, and beat others.
Of course there is the most important point.
That means there is no need to put all 100,000 elites into one basket, which reduces risks.
As an emperor, this is actually the most important thing.
"Do you want your mother to come with me?"
The red lady nodded in understanding, and then said in surprise.
"Yes, those civil servants and nobles are not worthy enough, and I am not at ease. When the time comes, I will announce that my mother and concubine will go to Nanjing to pay homage to the ancestral mausoleum on my behalf and appeal to Taizu. I did not kill the king or my father. My throne is
According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, I am the king of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Cixiang felt that if something like this happened, Nanjing would always be a hidden danger, and someone of his own who could represent the royal family must be sent to take charge.
Even if you do nothing and just live in the palace in Nanjing, those guys who talk about benevolence, justice and morality will definitely not be able to get around them if they want to establish King Pan.
It was impossible for Chongzhen and his two younger brothers to go. The princess was still young, so she could only let Queen Zhou go. Quan should let her go to Jiangnan for vacation to relax. Besides, whether Chongzhen was dead or not, she should be the most convincing.
A year later, he went to Nanjing in person. After the reform was completed, he directly abolished Nanjing's status as the capital and split up Nanzhili.
"And there is currently another place that needs to be solved more urgently than Jiangnan."
"But Xuanfu Datong?"
The red lady reacted immediately this time.
"Yes, although the civil and military officials from both places have come forward to plead guilty, I asked Jiang Yu and Wang Chengyin to come to Beijing to report on their duties, but they both refused because they were ill and blocked Juyongguan. Obviously they wanted to bargain, so they asked me to issue an order first.
Forgive them!"
"Hmph, it's simply wishful thinking. If they had honestly followed the order and entered the capital, I would have spared their lives. Now if I don't confiscate their homes and kill their clans, where is my imperial power?"
Zhu Cixiang said at the end, his whole body was filled with bastard murderous intent, and he had obviously sentenced those people in Xuanfu Datong to death.
Although the red lady is a full ten years older than Zhu Cixi, her face is full of admiration at this moment. She leaned on his chest and whispered emotionally: "Then why don't you let me go and capture those people for your majesty first?
How about going to Jiangnan again?"
"No need to trouble my beloved concubine, the matter in Jiangnan can't be delayed any longer. This time I have to deal with them personally, otherwise it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart!"
Zhu Cihong waved his hand. He must have the remaining 80,000 troops in his hands after the red lady left. This time to attack Xuanfu is a good opportunity.
"But swords have no eyes on the battlefield. It would be too dangerous for Your Majesty to go there in person. How about letting Liu Fangliang go?"
The red lady straightened up with a worried look on her face.
Obviously now his whole body and mind are captured by Zhu Cixiang.
"No, I'd better go on my own. Concubine, don't worry, I can still easily deal with the gang of people in Datong, Xuanfu.
My beloved concubine does not know that the eight Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou had liaisons with slaves as early as the Tianqi period. They smuggled large amounts of weapons and food for them all the year round, and even betrayed all kinds of intelligence about the border troops. They are simply deserving of death.
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Zhu Cixiang gritted his teeth in the end.
Compared to those people in Jiangnan, the eight Shanxi merchants are even more hateful.
Another reason why he wanted to send Queen Zhou and the Red Lady to go south together was that he wanted to save troops and horses to clean up Xuanfu Datong.
One and two places are the barriers to the capital, and they must be resolved to completely improve the three-sided defense of the north, leaving no opportunity for Jiannu and the Tatars to take advantage of.
Secondly, in the entire north, there are only two places where there is no drought or locust plague this year, and the intruders have not suffered any damage when crossing the border, so this year's autumn harvest in the two places is quite abundant.
If he hadn't wanted to wait for the wheat to be harvested and dried, he would have done it long ago. How could he have waited for a month?
"If this is true, those Shanxi merchants should confiscate all their homes and exterminate their clans!"
After hearing this, the red lady also had a look of resentment on her face and said with murderous intent, "Does that still have the slightest bit of girlishness just now?"
"It's not just the Shanxi merchants. I'm afraid the entire civil and military officials of Datong and the military attachés of the Xuanfu are inseparable from this matter. Compared with the scattered sand in Jiangnan, this group of people has formed an interest group. This situation will have to do with Jiangnan.
Take the opposite measures, seven points military and three points political to solve..."
Zhu Cixi also stopped and patiently explained the analysis to her.
It wasn't until the red lady understood it thoroughly that the two of them moved to a side hall to have a meal.
After finishing the meal, Zhu Cixi smiled and said: "My dear concubine, you worked hard last night and got up early today. Let's go to the palace to have a good sleep and recharge our batteries. We will stay in the palace tonight until I discuss it with my mother."
After that, I’ll come find you.”
"I obey your orders!"
The red lady nodded and followed the maid down.
Now even if Zhu Cixi asked her to die immediately, he probably wouldn't hesitate at all.
………
In Kunning Palace, Queen Zhou was almost shocked when she heard that her son was going to Nanjing. She was completely convinced by her son's unusual idea.
"Hong'er, if we can restore Jiangnan without using weapons, my mother will naturally be willing to go. But she is worried that if she doesn't do it well, she will miss important events?"
"Don't be nervous, Queen Mother. Isn't there a noble concubine here? In fact, it's very simple. All the dirty work is done by her. Queen Mother only needs to be responsible for appeasing people's hearts.
For example, when the imperial concubine arrested someone and ransacked her home, the civil servants would definitely come to the queen mother first to plead for mercy and complain. Then the queen mother would summon the imperial concubine, pretend to reprimand her, and then allow the imperial concubine to reduce some of her crimes.
In this way, the gentry and officials in the south of the Yangtze River will not go to extremes in despair, but will think that the queen mother can make decisions for them. After all, the imperial concubine will be wary and dare not do anything random, haha!"
Zhu Cixi said with a smile.
After hearing this, Empress Zhou understood what she should do. Seeing his appearance, she couldn't help but glared at him angrily. After thinking about it, she said: "Hong'er, why don't you let your concubine go? She is a scholar."
Lin Zhong has a reputation as a virtuous person, especially her influence among the people in Donglin in the south of the Yangtze River is not comparable to that of the Queen Mother. If she is allowed to go, she will get twice the result with half the effort, and your Queen Mother's thinking and skills are far beyond the Queen Mother's reach.
, she is the most suitable for this kind of thing."
"Well, that's true. Auntie does seem to be more suitable."
Zhu Cixiang's eyes lit up and he thought about it while touching his chin.
With Zhang Yan's reputation and status, when she arrives in Nanjing, those civil servants will probably immediately come around to kneel and lick her. In terms of influence, his mother is indeed inferior to her.
And since Chongzhen was placed on Xiyuan Island by him, Zhang Yan visited him every day.
Although the two of them have not done anything outrageous yet, if they continue, gossip will spread sooner or later, so it would be best to send Zhang Yan to Nanjing.
Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong took a peek at Queen Zhou and understood that she might have some selfish motives.
But he naturally wanted to stand by his mother's side.
Empress Zhou saw that her son had seen through her thoughts, and said slightly embarrassed: "It's just that the empress is worried about this matter, and your father may not agree..."
"Father doesn't need to worry about it. The main thing is to see what Auntie wants." Zhu Cihong waved his hand.
"Your aunt knows the general picture best. If you explain clearly the stakes of this matter to her, she will definitely agree."
