"Song Xiance?"
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly remembered that the Jinyi Guards had sent news two days ago that he had seen Song Xiance near Mangshikou Town. He also recalled that Cen Hangui had said that Song Xiance was Mr. Zou Da's junior brother. He immediately opened his eyes and started drawing quickly on the Kun map.
"Yes, our calculation was wrong earlier!"
"Because Huang Degong in Hebei is weak in combat, and Mr. Zou Da has a temper that refuses to admit defeat. In addition, the area from Jizhou to Gu County is close and hidden. If he leads his troops south, he can not only attack Huang Degong by surprise, but also gather the people in Shandong. Wolf soldiers."
"In this way, even if there is disagreement, we can lead the army south to disrupt Henan, Huguang and other places, and serve as the vanguard for Zhu Hengjia. I never thought that his purpose was Shen Zhanran, who was confronting Li Guo in the Tietou Mountain area!"
As he spoke, he continued westward along Tietuo Mountain and Mangshikou Town to Datong, Xinzhou and other places. He pondered: "Once Shen Zhanran is defeated and the northwest gate of the capital is opened, whether it is rebels, Jurchens, or This is Zuo Liangyu, who can conquer the capital with troops."
As soon as he had this thought, he frowned slightly and said, "If Mr. Zou Da's goal was really this, he shouldn't have given up Shen Zhan for Li Jing."
"If he had done this at that time, even though the rebels were besieging the capital, Zuo Liangyu could have taken advantage of the situation to enter the capital and seize a large area of land. Coupled with Wang Dehua's move to the capital, there is a possibility of success!"
"But he didn't do this. Instead, he led his army to attack Li Jing. Was it because he didn't want to take advantage of Zhu Yousong, or did we miss something?"
As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he took out Cen Hangui's confession from his arms and read it carefully, then muttered: "Judging from Cen Hangui's story, Mr. Zou Da is most likely Li Zushu's man."
"But no matter how ambitious Li Zushu is, he should also know that with Zhu Yousong and others around, neither Li Zushu nor Zhu Hengjia has the possibility of becoming emperor."
"After overthrowing us, the most they can do is become a powerful minister. They still need to slowly figure it out before they have a chance to win. Mr. Zou Da should not give up this opportunity..."
Zhu Yuanzhang's expression suddenly changed as soon as he spoke. He quickly walked to the cabinet where the secret letters were stored and opened the cabinet marked "Datong".
But he rummaged through all the secret messages in the cabinet and couldn't find the information he wanted. He couldn't help but frown and said, "Did we remember it wrong?"
"It shouldn't be. We remember that we processed a battle report a few days ago. It said that a group of Jurchens had sneaked into the pass and were discovered by Wang Fuchen who was on patrol. There was also a fierce battle. How could it not be?"
At this moment, Brother Li Wu walked into Dongnuan Pavilion with a happy face and reported that he had found a list at the Jinyiwei who delivered Zuo Xianmei's letter.
After verification, he could basically confirm that the people on the list were female agents bought or placed in Jinyiwei by Zuo Liangyu.
Now he has sent his cronies to control more than 60 people lurking in the capital, but there are still more than 100 people scattered in Shanxi, Shandong and other places. He specially came to ask Zhu Yuanzhang to issue an order to eliminate them all.
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard Brother Li Wu's report, he was a little surprised and said: "Are they all Zuo Liangyu's people?"
Brother Li Wu nodded and said, "Based on the confessions of those people, it should be confirmed that they were all ordered by Uncle Ning Nan!"
Although Zhu Yuanzhang believed in Brother Li Wu's methods, he still asked with some suspicion: "Could someone be secretly instigating this?"
Brother Li Wu said with certainty: "The generals were also worried about this, so they carried out severe punishments. They said from the beginning to the end that they were under the instructions of Uncle Ning Nan, so there should be no possibility of lying."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he felt even more confused.
As far as he knew, Zuo Xianmei had contacts with Li Zushu, Zhu Hengjia and others.
Even if Zuo Xianmei wants to show her favor to him, she should take the opportunity to reduce the power of Zhu Hengjia and others, and there is no possibility of eradicating Zuo Liangyu's spy.
Just when he was confused, he suddenly remembered the words "brothers are fighting against each other" in Zuo Xianmei's secret letter.
He originally thought that this sentence was talking about the incident between Cen Hangui and Cen Hansheng, but now it seems that there was a conflict between Zuo Xianmei and Zuo Mengeng, and she used this to attack each other.
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately thought that Zuo Xianmei and Zhu Yousong seemed to be engaged, and now that Zuo Liangyu suddenly sent troops south to hunt for treasure, the marriage was most likely accepted.
This not only explains why Zuo Xianmei did what she did, but also makes sense for her going north.
However, he knew that Zuo Xianmei was cunning and feared that he might have back-up plans, so he ordered: "Except for the group of people in the capital who executed secretly, everyone else sent people to spy on them to see if there was anyone behind them, but they were not allowed to have access to the secrets. document."
"If necessary, some confusing news can be passed on to Zuo Liangyu through their hands!"
After Zhu Yuanzhang waited for Brother Li Wu to agree, he asked him if he had seen the battle report of Jurchens sneaking into Datong.
Brother Li Wu thought for a while and affirmed that he had this news.
Zhu Yuanzhang was already suspicious, but when he saw Brother Li Wu being so sure, he knew that someone had stolen the secret message.
After he dismissed Brother Li Wu calmly, he slowly walked into the palace, opened a secret compartment in the closet, dragged out a metal box, and then took out a golden key from his arms and opened it.
I saw that it was divided into nine parts, and some notes were placed in different categories.
Zhu Yuanzhang picked up a pile of notes from a square on the left and searched quickly.
After a while, I saw a piece of paper written on it: "Although Wang Fuchen has a bandit streak, he has served well in guarding Datong. He can also detect the Jurchens' secret detention. He is not a reckless man, so he can be promoted as appropriate."
After Zhu Yuanzhang looked at it, he put it back. After putting away the iron box, he came to Kun Yutu again, looked at it carefully, nodded and said: "It seems that Li Zushu and others wanted to use the Jurchen's hand to take us away." And remove Zhu Yousong and others!"
"So after the Jurchens failed to sneak through the border, Mr. Zou Da canceled the plan to attack Shen Zhanran and instead dealt with Li Jing, hoping to help Hauge and Obai break through the border."
As he spoke, he checked Li Guo's marching route on the Kunyu map and muttered: "Judging from Li Guo's route, he should now use the Lingshan and Baihua area as the first line of defense after defeat, so the rear The main camp will be set up at Mangshikou."
"If there is any disagreement, he will definitely retreat to the Yu County area and return to Shaanxi along the last route. Zuo Liangyu must also have seen this and sneaked to the Xinzhou area."
"It's just that with Zuo Liangyu's character, he would never take the initiative to provoke the elite rebels. The reason why he did this may be that he suffered a big loss in Shaanxi or got the promise of Mr. Zou Da."
"It can be seen that Zuo Liangyu did not know Mr. Zou Da's plan, so he made this arrangement. However, Zuo Liangyu is not a mediocre person. Now that I think about it, I understand this."
"Mr. Zou Da's plan has failed, and he has offended Zuo Liangyu before, so he will resort to his old tricks and take the opportunity to repair the relationship between the two parties."
Zhu Yuanzhang's furrowed brows relaxed slightly, and he muttered: "We let Mr. Zou Da go on purpose. First, we wanted to sow discord between him and Zuo Liangyu and others, and second, we wanted to use his hand to gather the wolf soldiers to prevent them from going south. It strengthened Zhu Hengjia’s strength.”
"With the wisdom of Mr. Zou Da, he can see this and will definitely try to save it. Especially after the younger generation (the Queen of Zhou Dynasty) instigated the relationship between Wang Dehua and Lu Jiude, he should try his best to save it, so his There is no doubt that the purpose is Shen Zhanran."
"But we have ordered Cen Hangui to lead the troops out of the capital. When the wolf soldiers find out about this, they will definitely go to the rescue. Then Mr. Zou Da will definitely be in a dilemma."
As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he couldn't help but smile, and said to himself: "It seems that we should make Cen Hangui's expedition more grand!"
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