"Unite the slaves to fight against the thieves!"
Four words came out of Zhou Yanru's mouth.
Chongzhen frowned.
After going around and around, he finally came to the topic of uniting slaves and resisting thieves, which made him a little more disappointed with Zhou Yanru.
It's a pity that he is too young and doesn't know how to hide his emotions, so his face shows a bit of it.
This caught the attention of Zhou Yanru, who had been secretly observing him.
Zhou Yanru, who had always been interested in the position of chief minister, naturally did not want to see himself disliked by Chongzhen, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, the alliance of slaves to resist thieves that I mentioned is not simply an alliance of slaves to resist thieves. To be precise, it means swallowing wolves and driving away tigers. "
"Swallowing wolves and driving away tigers?" Chongzhen's expression softened slightly.
Zhou Yanru said: "Yes, it means swallowing wolves and driving away tigers. We can use the hands of slave thieves to deal with tiger thieves. In fact, when the tiger thieves sent troops to Lushun, it was already decided that there would be no possibility of peaceful coexistence between them and the slave thieves. .”
"Tell me in detail." Chongzhen said.
He was curious about how to swallow wolves and drive away tigers.
Zhou Yanru said: "The strength of the tiger thief is not weak now, but the slave thief should not be underestimated either. As the saying goes, when two tigers fight, one of them will be injured. In the past, there was a lot of friction between the tiger thief and the slave thief, but because of the distance, Because of the Ming Dynasty, every time the friction was restrained, but this time was different, the tiger thieves increased their troops to Lushun. As long as the slave chief Tai Chi was not stupid, he would definitely be on guard against the tiger thieves' actions, and once they used their weapons, they would definitely It will contain the strength of the tiger thieves. With the strength of the slave thieves, as long as they take action, they will definitely force the tiger thieves to continuously increase their troops to Lushun, otherwise the tiger thieves will have no choice but to give up on Lushun."
In his opinion, Tiger Flag is no match for the slave thieves, or this is a common problem among many scholars, who always think that the rebel thieves from outside are more powerful than those within their own family.
"But what good does this do to my Ming Dynasty?" Chongzhen frowned.
Zhou Yanru said: "As long as the slave thieves and tiger thieves take action, the slave thieves will have no energy to target our Ming Dynasty's Ningjin defense line. At that time, your majesty can mobilize horses from Liaodong to enter the pass to deal with the tiger thieves in Shandong or Xuanfu." .”
"This is a way." Chongzhen was somewhat moved.
If Zhou Yanru really wants to do what Zhou Yanru said, he does not need to send people to join forces with the slave traitors, he only needs to sit on the sidelines and watch. Moreover, even if the soldiers and horses drawn back from Liaodong are not used to deal with the rebels in Xuanfu and Shandong, they can still increase the number of soldiers in various places. troops to guard against tiger thieves in Xuanfu and Shandong.
Seeing that Chongzhen was tempted, Zhou Yanru took advantage of the situation and said: "Your Majesty, this matter cannot be delayed for too long. Once the tiger thieves really want to attack our country from Shandong and Xuanfu, it may be too late to mobilize troops from outside the pass."
"Let's do this. Zhou Aiqing will bring it up at the next court meeting." Chongzhen was not good at being expert, but chose to let Zhou Yanru raise it at the court meeting.
In this way, even if something happens in the future, it will have little to do with him as the emperor, but the fault of the ministers below.
"I obey the decree." Zhou Yanru felt that Chongzhen was irresponsible in doing so, but he still agreed.
In the future, he also wants to be the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, so he will naturally not make Chongzhen unhappy at this time.
There were still a few days before the court meeting, and he happened to take this opportunity to make arrangements in advance.
As for whether his plan will pass the parliament, he doesn't really care.
As long as Chongzhen has any plan, it will be fine. He came up with such a method just to please Chongzhen, so it doesn't matter whether others support him or not.
It would even be better if there was opposition from the first assistant, which would be an opportunity to make Chongzhen hate the first assistant even more.
With this proposal, Zhou Yanru reluctantly forced Jian to stay in the emperor's heart. If he continued to stay, it would be more than enough, so Zhou Yanru took the initiative to resign and leave.
"Big companion, what do you think of Zhou Aiqing's proposal?" After Zhou Yanru left, Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen beside him.
Even though the method proposed by Zhou Yanru seemed very good to him, he was still a little uneasy. After all, Tiger Character Flag had caused some unconfidence in him over the years.
Wang Chengeneng was a close person to Chongzhen from the palace to the palace. Naturally, he was not an ordinary person, especially because his inner agility was even higher than that of ordinary people.
So when I heard that Chongzhen still called Zhou Aiqing after Zhou Yanru left, I guessed a bit of Chongzhen's thoughts.
"My servant doesn't know much about this, but it sounds like what Mr. Zhou Ge said makes sense. There is an old saying that says that the snipe and the clam compete with each other for the fisherman to benefit. The slave thief and the tiger thief are the snipe and the clam, and our Ming Dynasty is the fisherman."
"Haha, Daban is right. Ming Dynasty is a fisherman. This time I want to see the snipe and clam fighting with my own eyes." Chongzhen was very satisfied with Wang Chengen's answer.
He had always been unwilling to admit that the Tiger-Character Banner was more powerful than the Ming Dynasty. He always believed that the Tiger-Character Banner was able to occupy so much of the Ming Dynasty because the Tiger-Character Banner took advantage of the situation when the Ming Dynasty was fully dealing with the slave thieves.
As long as Ming Dynasty transfers all the elites from Liaodong into the pass, it will definitely be able to solve the threat posed by the Tiger Flag.
As the king of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen never felt that the Ming Dynasty would be inferior to others.
A few days passed.
On the day when the Ming Dynasty held court, the clouds of war had appeared in Gaizhou, and the vanguard troops led by Daishan had already arrived in Gaizhou and entered Gaizhou City.
The leader of the troops entering Gaizhou City was Sahalian, the leader of the two red flags.
As the army of slave thieves set off from Shengjing, except for Hauge, the owner of the red flag, the flag owners of the remaining two flags followed the army.
Although the commander-in-chief Daishan is no longer the banner lord, he is still the great Baylor of Daijin, and his prestige has been lost after many years of fighting. Even the banner lords below have to give Daishan some face.
Of course, this does not include Mang Gurtai.
As early as when the two red flags were defeated on the grassland and no one out of ten could survive, Mang Gurtai had already begun to look down on Daishan. Even if Daishan was the commander of the army, Mang Gurtai would often contradict him face to face.
Mang Gurtai's current target is Huang Taiji. People like Daishan who have lost power are no longer looked down upon by him, and they usually maintain a superficial politeness when they meet.
But this time Daishan was the commander-in-chief of the army, and Manggurtai was the deputy commander-in-chief, which made Manggurtai even too lazy to maintain his superficial politeness.
In Mang Gurtai's eyes, Daishan had robbed him of his position as the head coach of the army.
"This slave has met his master." Damatai, the counselor, saluted Saharian respectfully.
The reason why Sahalian is called his master is because he was born in the Zhenghong Banner, and as the leader of the Zhenghong Banner, Sahalian naturally became his master.
"Go in and talk." Sahalian entered the other party's yamen.
Damatei led the way for Sakhalian.
Arriving at a room in the yamen, Saharian sat directly at the top of the room, with a Bagala standing on each side.
"Tell me, what's the situation in Gaizhou now?" Sahalian asked straight to the point after sitting down.
(End of chapter)
