Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Mrs. Wu showed a hint of worry on her face: "Master is right, but have you ever thought about it? The officials have always held the attitude of resting with the people because of the lessons learned from the battle of Tumubao. As for border troubles, they also let the nine borders The town army did its own thing and got rid of the incident. This time, I'm afraid it will be done according to the previous method."

"Master, if you write a note to ask the imperial court to send a large army to suppress it, I am afraid that all the officials will object. You have been raising and looking after you for two years, and you have finally gained such a great reputation. It is unwise to annoy all the officials this time. This concubine has a personal opinion, and maybe there is something wrong, so I invite Master Haihan."

Su Mu shook his head: "Madam's words are reasonable, but there are some things that a husband can't tell you clearly. Otherwise, I'm afraid I will never have a chance to make a comeback."

Indeed, Zhengde hated himself for plotting to kill Liu Jin, and had ignored him for the past two years, apparently having taken away all his affection.If I stay here in the Huitong Hall, I'm afraid it will be like this for the rest of my life.

After these two years, he held back and did not take any action, did not attempt to return to the political arena, and waited for the day when the Tatars invaded.

In real history, the third invasion of the Ming Dynasty by the little Tatar prince can be described as a watershed.The first two trips to China were just to rob some property for the winter, and the scale was not large.But after two robberies, the little prince survived the difficulties smoothly, and after seeing through the weakness of the frontier army of the Ming Dynasty, his ambitions swelled and he was ready to fight a big battle.

That is to say, since the third invasion, the Tatars moved southward whenever they encountered a snow disaster, and turned the north of Shanshan and Shanxi into barren land.

Because of this, Emperor Zhengde couldn't bear it anymore, and finally in the 12th year of Zhengde, he sent soldiers from all over the country and the little prince to an unprecedented battle in Yingzhou, and finally cut off the northern border troubles of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop.

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Now it is the sixth year of Zhengde, and after the new year, it will be only seven years of Zhengde, and there is still a long time until the 12th year of Zhengde.

Su Mu couldn't wait, and didn't want to wait.

The history of this time and space has been changed beyond recognition because of his own existence. There are still five years until then, and in these five years, the ghost knows what will happen.

Therefore, Su Mu decided not to delay any longer.

For this day, he asked Guan Jizong to go to Datong as the magistrate a year ago, asked Xie Ziran to be the commander of the Shanxi capital, and now let him go to Datong and concurrently lead the Shanxi travel capital.

Think about it, with Zhengde's temperament, he must be eager to fight the Tatars, but he is just concerned about the reaction of the civil servants, so he can't explain it clearly.

I, Su Mu, can still speak in the civil service system now, if I can initiate the use of troops against Tatars.Even if Zhengde and I can't get rid of our previous suspicions, at least it can let the emperor calm down.

At that time, you can take advantage of the trend and return to the central core decision-making level.

Of course, the civil servants will definitely rebound strongly, but they can't take care of that much now.

As far as Su Mu considered, the civil servants were not blindly opposed to sending troops, but had concerns.

The Ming Dynasty was actually a very strong dynasty.Foreign policy has never been compromised. There is no marriage between Han and Song Dynasty.Taizu and Chengzu's war against the north has always been only one word "fight!"

Even in the year of Chongzhen, when the domestic peasant army spread across more than ten provinces and the country was in turmoil, it never thought of compromising with the Manchu Qing in Liaodong, nor did it have the mentality of trying to secure the outside before fighting the inside.

However, the lessons of Tumubao were so painful that Emperor Hongzhi, who had been in power for more than ten years, held a rather restrained attitude towards the northern border troubles.

But the bravery in the bones of the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty was innate. How could the kingdom of Huanghuang be bullied by the barbarians like this? It hurt the self-esteem of the nation too much, right?

Su Mu felt that the civil servants could still do some work.

As long as the emperor decides to use troops against Tatars, it is his time to return to the core of political decision-making, but he cannot let it go.

Hearing what Su Mu said, Mrs. Wu smiled slightly: "Master's words must be right for you. If you want to do it, just do it. In fact, whether the master is an official or not, it doesn't make any difference to the concubine, as long as the family It is enough for people to be together in peace. In fact, the three-year-old master of Zhengde went to Shaanxi for a year. Sometimes when I think about it, I wish that the master did not become an official, and he was still the one who lived in the small courtyard in the past. Su Juren."

When mentioning the past, Su Mu felt emotional and held her hand.

After a long time, Mrs. Wu patted the back of Su Mu's hand lightly: "It's getting late, if the master wants to write a notebook, he should do it earlier, as staying up late will hurt his health."

"En." Su Mu nodded, without any delay, he picked up the pen and finished writing the notebook in just a moment.

Just as he had thought before, there was no need to write so many vain and convoluted things in this booklet, it simply and straightforwardly explained the reason why the imperial court must use troops against the Tatars.

There are four reasons: First, the coming of the Tatars this time is a good opportunity for me to gather and annihilate them.Otherwise, the Tatars follow fast horses and come and go like the wind, and it is impossible to capture such an opportunity in the future;

Second, the reason why the scale of the Tatar invasion is getting bigger and bigger is actually very simple. It is because the Tatars have tasted the sweetness in the southward robbery again and again, and the war dividend has further strengthened the Tatar's strength.If you don't use troops against the enemy this time, the enemy's power will grow bigger and bigger like a snowball.In the future, if I want to use troops against him, I will definitely pay a higher price;

Third, Sun Tzu said: Before counting victory, count defeat first.If I can't annihilate the invading enemy in one fell swoop, what if the war is protracted?In fact, it is also a good thing, after all, it also weakens the enemy's strength to a certain extent.The whole family of the Tatars has a population of only about [-]. It is not bad if there are [-] young and strong who can go to the battlefield. If one dies, one less.And in my celestial dynasty, there are trillions of living people.Take a corner of the national war, even if this war is protracted, but persevere, the final victor will be me;

[-]. If the enemy does not fight us decisively, but we withdraw from Shanxi and return to Mongolia in the north, will I be wasting food and fodder?It is also a good thing, according to Chen, the weather this year is much colder than before.Because of this, the Tatar family went south for the winter.If the Tatars return to the north, they will inevitably face the harsh winter on the Mongolian grassland, the death of livestock, and the hardship of the people.It doesn't take me to go to the Ming Dynasty to go to the north, and I will be in chaos first.

"Therefore, this battle, no matter how you look at it, is beneficial to me and has no harm."

Su Mu put down his pen and rubbed his already hot hands.

When he was writing the notebook, Mrs. Wu kept looking at it. Seeing that her husband had finished writing, she said with a smile: "I think I have never seen a notebook written in vernacular like this before. However, it is well-founded and can stand the test of time." I don’t know much about military affairs, but after reading it, I think what the master said makes sense.”

"Military is the continuation of politics, and everything should be focused on politics. And politics, and even everything in the world, cannot escape the word profit. Things that are beneficial to the country and the nation must naturally be done."

Madam Wu put away the notebook: "How about, as a concubine, let someone give the notebook to my father first, and ask him to forward it to His Majesty?"

Su Mu thought for a while: "No, the cabinet seeks stability, and I'm afraid it will reject my memorial. It's better to pass it directly to the supervisor of ceremonies, Zhang Yong should understand what I want to do."

Speaking of this, Su Mu smiled lightly, as if he was talking to himself: "A year and a half ago, I helped him cut off Liu Jin, and now it's time for him to repay me."