Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

The banquet at the Prince Regent's Palace was going on in a lively manner, and it became a relaxed court meeting where everyone expressed their opinions.

The DPRK and China had always had different opinions on whether to deal with the Manchus first or to wipe out the puppet regime of Li Zicheng, and they argued endlessly.

But fortunately, with the new rules and new atmosphere of the new dynasty, there was no situation like the situation before Chongzhen seventeen years ago, when political differences naturally escalated to personal attacks and impeachments, which ultimately led to deep hatred among colleagues and alienation between monarchs and ministers.

Therefore, at this time, the differences of opinion were just debates, but the whole atmosphere was harmonious and there were no personal attacks. Of course, everyone was not anxious during the debate.

Especially at this time, the generous and gentle Zhu Cihong was in power, and he was trying to balance the opinions of the two factions, so that there were differences but not harmonious relations.

If it were the old days of Chongzhen, Chongzhen's fickleness and temperament would change day by day, which would be tantamount to adding fuel to the fire between the two sides, turning differences into contradictions, and thus intensifying the contradictions.

Of course, Zhu Cixi also understood that regarding the issue of war and defense, he had to listen to his third brother and make the decision.

In order to ease the dispute between the two factions, he held the reception banquet for Zheng Hongkui and Yu Minzhong in the more relaxed Regent's Palace, so that everyone could speak more calmly when they debated.

This is Zhu Cixiang's scheming.

However, he clearly thought that no one would be offended by the way his third brother and Li Yan resolved the dispute between foreign affairs and domestic affairs, so they directly ignored the theories of the two factions and came up with a third plan of attacking Sichuan.

Faced with the proposal of the third plan, when the ministers were at a loss for what to do, Li Yan continued to state his own point of view, which was actually Lu Mou's point of view: "Now, the Ming Dynasty cannot have a group army directly under us like the Southern Group in Jiangnan. Now, the puppet regime in the troposphere can hold on to key points and respond to the recovery of Jiangnan. Now only Mrs. Qin is struggling to support it in Sichuan. Once Mrs. Qin is defeated, Zhang Xianzhong can completely isolate himself from the Ming Dynasty by relying on Sichuan's natural terrain, without any internal forces. In response, we attacked Sichuan again, and the situation was so great that our colleagues in the Ministry of War, together with the senior generals in the staff, believed that our war strategy now should be to weaken and contain the Manchu Qing Dynasty, stabilize the northwest, suspend Jiangnan, and use all our strength. "Recover Sichuan."

Now, aren't the ministers divided into two factions: the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Jiangnan faction? Stop arguing. Neither of our two factions accepts the opinions. Let’s turn to Sichuan.

Li Yan's speech really caught the ministers off guard. Why, the two factions are quite difficult to deal with. If you make another mistake, do we want to kick him out?
Just when the ministers were not ready to support or refute, Lu Mou stood up, holding the wine glass, gnawing on the pig's trotters, and walked to the map: "Li Bingbu, you go down and eat something quickly, otherwise the food on the table will be Got eaten up and wiped clean by your colleagues.”

This joke made the tense atmosphere relax again.

Lu Mou wiped his greasy mouth: "The Ministry of War's consideration is correct. It is also in line with our current situation. Sichuan's products must not be destroyed, otherwise it will be too difficult for us to recover in the future. And Zhang Xianzhong is now With tens of millions of taels of silver, we cannot give him the opportunity to use this huge amount of money to develop. "

Everyone suddenly realized, oh, the sentimental regent wants to conquer Sichuan, and the reasons for relieving the people and regaining the land of abundance are all nonsense. It turns out that he is thinking about the tens of millions of silver in Zhang Xianzhong's hands, and those Malan flowers. .

This is really a disaster for the rich family.

Now, Zhang Xianzhong is the pig's trotters in the hands of the regent. Although it is difficult to chew, it is delicious.

Since the regent had such a noble reason, the two factions immediately gave up their positions and firmly supported the regent in hosting this gluttonous feast. Because our venerable regent always leaves a mouthful of broth for everyone who participates in a feast.

Lu Mou made the final decision: "In order to ensure that this battle to annihilate Zhang Xianzhong proceeds smoothly, I have decided that the strategy implemented by our Ming Dynasty now is to hold Li Chuang down in the south and ensure several key points in Jiangnan. The most critical thing in this matter is to Zhenhai Hou Zheng Hongkui's Jiangnan Navy came to realize it."

Zheng Hongkui immediately stood up and handed over his hands: "I will never let down the regent's trust."

"Your main strategy is to connect the area from Hukou to Yangzhou. Although our fortresses in the Ming Dynasty are isolated by Li Chuang, they are not isolated."

"As ordered."

"Your weapons and equipment will be supplied by the northern court, and your military expenses will be paid by Nanjing Stay."

"Thank you to the regent Zhou Xiang for the arrangement." He raised his glass to Zheng Hongkui, motioned for him to sit down, and then continued: "As for the Manchu Qing, we must adopt a diversionary approach to prevent them from attacking my northwest capital. For this reason, this diversionary The task will be handed over to the Northern Navy of Dingyuan Lord Yu Minzhong and the two elders of the grassland. "

Yu Minzhong stood up and held his hands in his hands: "I respect your order."

"Your goal is to continuously raid the coast of the Bohai Sea of ​​the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, so that they have to send heavy troops to defend the coast. Among them, your navy must also harass the rebellious North Korea, so that the Manchu and Qing Dynasties have to constantly rescue North Korea. In When the Qing Dynasty is exhausted, in the end, I will buy you more ships, train 20,000 marines, and surrender North Korea again. "

When he mentioned North Korea, all the ministers here hated him.

This man has been enjoying the grace of the Central Plains Dynasty since the Tang and Song Dynasties. When the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by Japanese slaves and the Manchus, he rescued him several times and was able to survive. Even when the Ming Dynasty was in the most difficult and dangerous times, he rescued him. He directly betrayed the Ming Dynasty and became an accomplice of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

During the several times when the Manchus invaded the capital, these stick men were far more cruel to the Ming Dynasty than the Manchus who built slaves to the Qing Dynasty.

Yu Minzhong stood up and asked with the pleasure of imminent revenge: "May I ask the regent, are we prepared to conquer North Korea again?"

Lu Mouyun replied calmly: "This time, I will destroy the country for this unfed wolf cub." Then he faced the ministers and said: "This king's decision, whoever opposes it, who approves it, raise your hands if you approve it" ”

The ministers all raised their wine glasses high with the intention of relieving their hatred.

Lu Mou also raised his glass: "Then let's raise a glass to celebrate the upcoming establishment of the Koryo Province. Let's do it."

All the ministers shouted together: "Drink a lot for the establishment of the Koryo Province."

Jian Guo couldn't help but stop drinking: "Third brother, the war at home and abroad is still going on. Why do you want to destroy North Korea first? Is this putting the cart before the horse? Well, or maybe you are impatient. This matter should be treated slowly. Picture it.”

After being reminded by the calm regent, everyone suddenly realized.

Yes, the current Ming Dynasty has a poor record. It can also be described as being precarious and may overturn at any time. However, it seems a bit unreliable to have the ambition to destroy the country at this time. No, it's too unreliable.

So everyone looked at each other, affectionately, and toasted to celebrate too early.

So, Liu Zongzhou stood up and loudly praised his disciple's performance: "We drink heavily for the stability of the prison country."

The ministers toasted to this.

Of course, Huang Daozhou could not weaken his disciple's momentum. He stood up and said: "Everyone, we drink to our regent's ambition."

Let’s have another drink.

So, a minister stood up and wanted to toast to the emperor's health; another stood up to toast to the growth of King Yong, and another one came out: "For - for one more drink, cheers -"

At that time, I felt distressed as I looked at the increasing number of empty wine jars on the ground. It’s okay to just eat and drink for free, but you have to get by just fine.

You are eating and drinking like this, but you are not letting people live. (End of chapter)