Chapter 80 The judgment of top generals
Feng Sheng and Li Qi came out of the palace and walked on the long corridor with high red walls on both sides. Apart from that, there is no one else. They all have followers, but the followers are all outside the palace.
Feng Sheng said: "Mr. South Korea."
Li Qi said: "Uncle Feng, my nephew doesn't dare to be called that."
Feng Sheng said: "My dear nephew, I originally wanted to make Old Tang suffer, but instead he ended up like this. It's really sad that Old Tang left like this."
Li Qi said: "My nephew understands what Uncle Feng means. They are all for the sake of the court and the country."
Feng Sheng looked at Li Qi strangely and said, "Do you think that's what I mean?"
Li Qi said: "Isn't it?"
Feng Sheng said: "I don't care if you and Lao Fu are fighting each other. Anyway, I, Lao Feng, am a homeless person. You can do whatever you want? I'll just watch the show. The reason why I remind you is that I don't want Lao Fu to You have not realized my thoughts at all, but instead you are spending too much time on unimportant things.”
Li Qi was stunned and said, "What does Uncle Feng mean?"
Feng Sheng said: "You are all thinking about Old Tang's death, but you have not thought about why Old Tang died? Why did Old Fu let Old Tang lose the battle?"
Li Qi fell into deep thought and fell a few steps behind Feng Sheng. Feng Sheng also stopped and said, "Don't you think that in order to fight for power with you, Old Fu must make Old Tang lose the battle? If you think so, you are underestimating him."
Li Qi also rejected this idea in his heart.
He said: "I have also thought about it. This is the lesson that Duke Ying Guo taught me. But now the two sides are relatively harmonious. We do not want to offend the future father-in-law. Duke Ying Guo did not show much malice before, but that And why?”
Feng Sheng said: "He is just telling you that the north cannot win now. In other words, the war has become protracted."
Li Qi was stunned and said, "Long-term?"
Feng Sheng said: "Isn't that true? The highest-ranking general under Fu Youde is Tang Shengzong. If he attacks this small town alone, even if he attacks it himself, it will not be much different from Old Tang's attack? The reason why he gave Old Tang a fight The defeat is to tell you the situation on the battlefield. However, he thought it was the Taizu Dynasty now."
As he spoke, Feng Sheng put his hands behind his back and continued walking.
Li Qi hurriedly caught up and said, "What does Uncle Feng mean? Will the Northern Expedition return without success today?"
Feng Sheng said: "This is not what I meant, but also what Fu Youde meant. And it is not that this year will be a failure, and it will not be easy to win in the future. This year is actually the easiest year."
Li Qi still couldn't believe it.
In fact, even now, the Nanjing side feels that the Beijing side is like an ordinary rebellion, which will be put down in a few months or more than a year. But the long-term development in Feng Sheng's words seems to take more than ten to twenty years.
This was completely beyond Li Qi's expectation.
Li Qi couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Feng, how many years do you think it will take to fight?"
Feng Sheng thought deeply for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know, I can't understand. However, there was a war in history that was quite similar."
Li Qi asked: "That battle?"
Feng Sheng said: "The war between the Later Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty."
Li Qi is familiar with history and naturally knows what kind of war the war between the Later Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty was like.
Emperor Yin of the Later Han Dynasty killed Guo Wei's entire family. Guo Wei rebelled and established the Later Zhou Dynasty. The Northern Han Dynasty was established by Liu Chong, the brother of Emperor Gaozu of the Later Han Dynasty, who separatized Shanxi. It lasted for 20 to 30 years and was later destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty. Although the country was small and the people were weak, they gritted their teeth and fought many wars with the Later Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty.
Of course, the reason why the Northern Han Dynasty was not destroyed was because the Northern Han Dynasty surrendered to the Khitan. Only with the support of Khitan can we survive the brutal war.
Li Qi couldn't help but ask: "If Beijing is the Northern Han Dynasty, who is the Khitan now?"
Feng Sheng said: "Why don't you think that Beijing is the Northern Han Dynasty and the Khitan?" Then he sighed slightly and said: "The ancient and modern times are different. This kind of thing is different."
It actually doesn't make much sense, so let me just say it and you can just listen to it. "
Then Feng Sheng stopped talking. But Li Qi couldn't calm down in his heart.
According to what Feng Sheng said, wouldn’t Beijing have to go through decades of separatism?
Feng Sheng had a sharp vision. Although he did not understand modern political economics, he also keenly judged that Beijing was difficult to deal with. The most important thing was that He Xi and Zhu Xiongying had established a complete ruling order during this period.
Already have the foundation of a country.
If this thing exists, we cannot simply regard Beijing as a rebel force. We should compare Beijing as a separatist force. It may seem the same, but it is actually very different.
It may only take a few months to put down the rebellion. However, it is not an easy task to separatist forces in the plains. The Northern Han Dynasty is an obvious example. Compared with the Central Plains Dynasty, it was only a small area, but it persisted in the precarious situation for nearly thirty years.
You can see the tenacity in it.
Feng Sheng said that this year is the easiest to calm down, which is also true. If we can’t win this year, Beijing’s foundation will be stable in the next year. It’s hard to say what the situation will be like by then.
However, Fu Youde did not dare to tell the court about this analysis and could only express it in a vague way. However, there were very few people in the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty who truly understood military affairs, and no one could understand Fu Youde's hints.
Fu Youde just couldn't help but point it out.
Maybe it's also because I feel a sense of loneliness.
He doesn't have any ambitions now, but that doesn't mean he didn't have them before. He and Fu Youde were old rivals at that time. However, both sides fought openly and secretly very well, but now, no one in the court understood Fu Youde's hint.
This made him sad. He had already seen that Fu Youde's future end would not be much better.
After all, Fu Youde was among the top few people in the Hongwu Dynasty. But he didn't stand out, but now, he just stands out from the crowd and is too out of place.
If one's actions are higher than others', others will not do the same.
Regardless of whether Fu Youde is active or passive, he has already reached this point. They are all remnants of the Taizu Dynasty and cannot be tolerated in this era.
Not to mention, Fu Youde's current position is actually just a replica of Tang Shengzong.
A general's priority should be to win the battle. Once he cannot win the battle, other problems will become problems. As for Fu Youde's behavior, he always solves other problems by winning battles. Apart from winning the battle, Fu Youde didn't know how to solve other problems.
This is also the reason why Fu Youde died the most tragic death under Zhu Yuanzhang in history.
Killed his own son with his own hands.
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Feng Sheng's prediction was not groundless.
At least at this moment, Zhu Yunwen was asking Fang Xiaoru and Ding Xian a question. He said, "Why do you think Fu Youde did what he did? Does he have any other ideas?"
When Fang Xiaoru heard this, he felt a thump in his heart. It was not that he believed Fu Youde, but that he knew that there was a war going on, and the generals could not be replaced under any circumstances, let alone the generals, who should be replaced? Xu Da is obviously completely retired.
And Feng Sheng had no intention of blocking the situation. As for everyone else. How could they compare with Fu Youde?
If it had been anyone else, let alone Fang Xiaoru. Even others won’t be relieved.
Fang Xiaoru said: "Your Majesty, it has always been normal for me to think that warriors are domineering, but now the war is related to the world situation. No matter what Fu Youde thinks now? Your Majesty should pretend that you don't know. Now appeasing Fu Youde is more important than anything else. In this case, please Your Majesty, don't say anything anymore. I will pretend that I didn't hear you."
What Fang Xiaoru said cannot be wrong.
Since Fu Youde cannot be replaced now, these words that affect unity should not be said, no matter what the occasion. Just pretend you don’t know and don’t have that intention. But there is a premise for Fang Xiaoru's words, that is, he has already classified Fu Youde as a disloyal person.
However, for civil servants and bureaucrats, there is a natural distrust of military commanders and nobles. This is not the case for Fang Xiaoru.
It's as it should be, and even Fang Xiaoru himself doesn't feel that he is slandering. How can you say this is slander? It's just about predicting the possibility of future events and preventing them from happening.
