Chapter 371 The C-character scroll is popular among the people, what Jun En thinks

   "Just this once!" Father and son Feng Tang and Feng Ziying sat opposite each other, and Feng Tang expressed his attitude very seriously.

"The reason why I agreed with you to go to the grassland before was too careless. I thought I could control the situation, but there were indeed too many unexpected factors, but Dad also thought that you would have to go through military affairs once or twice sooner or later. This time it is still under Dad's control. Within the range, Dad knows that you have great ambitions, and is worried that you will encounter such situations in the future and take risks, so you might as well experience it yourself. I didn't expect you to dare to go straight to Ganzhou, and Feng Zuo is not long. Heart…"

"Father, I don't blame Uncle Zuo for this matter. In fact, when we crossed the grassland, there was Bu Shitu and Wulu escorting Du'er Taiji. There was no danger, but I didn't expect the situation in Gansu Town to be so bad that Ma Xia escaped. , will encounter this kind of situation, it is also a last resort,..."

  Feng Ziying quickly explained that Feng Zuo had saved himself several times along the way, and if he still had to be punished for this, then he would feel too sorry.

"Ziying, that's not what I said. The task I gave Feng Zuo is to ensure your safety. When you see this situation in Ganzhou, you should abandon Ganzhou decisively. It's easy for you guys to escape with your lives. It’s fine to flee north and return to the grassland, and fortunately Liu Baichuan has no intention of rebelling, otherwise if they capture Ganzhou, what will you do?”

  Feng Tang showed no mercy.

"It's really not acceptable to be a prisoner. As long as you can escape with your life and keep the green hills, you are not afraid of having no firewood. I believe Liu Dongyang will not be so unwise. It is meaningless to kill me." Feng Ziying is very calm. typical.

"Well, these words can be heard. In a word, as long as you can save your life, it's easy to say." Feng Tang nodded in satisfaction. He was afraid that his son's blood would be hot, and he was really going to have a life. It's really troublesome to be loyal to history.

"Father, what are you going to do now?" Feng Ziying asked: "The soldiers from Henan and Sichuan haven't come yet, and even You Shigong and the others are stationed in Liangzhou and Zhuanglang. Are Master Chai and the others planning to fight? "

Feng Tang snorted coldly in his nose, "Fight? What do you use to fight? How many days can you eat with this little grain in Ganzhou? Now there are only 30,000 people in the city. To take down Suzhou and Gaotai, at least 30,000 more troops will be needed. People, the Ministry of You Shigong is going to bring over, and at least 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers from Henan and Sichuan will do it. Can the court afford it? Yang He was still fighting with me for the little pension money, tens of thousands of taels of silver They are all picking on me, and still want to fight? If these brothers’ compensation and rewards are not honored, who will work for the court?”

   "Then what father means is that Lord Chai and the others don't plan to fight anymore, that's it?" Feng Ziying didn't believe it.

"I'm afraid that won't work. If you keep Suzhou and don't take it back, Chai Ke and Yang He don't even think about it. The saliva of the censors can drown them both." Feng Tang spread his hands indifferently: "Isn't that what father should have done?" The thing to worry about, I only care about the rewards and pensions for my officers and soldiers. They can’t afford to fight, if they say they want to fight, it’s okay to increase the number of troops, and the rewards and pensions should be rewarded. .”

Feng Ziying smiled wryly in her heart, this is the difference in mentality between generals and civil servants, her father doesn't care about that at all, he only thinks that his subordinates should get the rewards and pensions, otherwise he will not be able to sit still, but that's right, he is just the general soldier Officer, not the governor, not the minister of the Ministry of War, it is not his turn to intervene in these matters.

   "Father, what do you think should be done now?" Feng Ziying settled down. Although he has some ideas, but whether it is feasible or not, he still has to ask his father, after all, he has no experience in this area.

"If you fight, you will increase your troops and spend money. If you don't fight, then recruit them." Seeing that his son was so interested, Feng Tang shook his head: "But recruiting is also troublesome. After recruiting, what should we do with the 20,000 soldiers? Liu Dongyang, Tu Wenxiu How do these people arrange? Stay in Gansu or return to Ningxia? Will their subordinates be broken up and reorganized? It’s all a problem. If you don’t pay attention, you will cause a rebellion. Maybe he proposed a condition of maintaining semi-independence, which is the current state, guarding the western frontier for the imperial court, do you agree or not?"

   "Of course it is impossible to agree. If I agree to Lord Chai and Lord Yang, they will go to prison when they go back." Feng Ziying shook her head decisively.

"Well, brother Keng, you understand this too. How can Chai Ke and Yang He not understand? Even if Yang He is the censor of the right-handed capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he still can't convince those officials, and neither can your teacher. No one dares to agree to this condition, it's no different from the former Tang feudal town, it's the same loss of land." Feng Tang curled his lips.

"Actually, there is still a workaround..." Before Feng Ziying finished speaking, she was interrupted by her father: "What workaround? Isn't it a strategy of driving tigers and wolves away and hurting both sides? Let Liu Dongyang go west to Hami, It doesn't matter if you manage the Kansai Seven Guards, how can it be so simple?"

  Feng Ziying didn't expect her father to see through the "brilliant strategy" that she had painstakingly conceived, and she was shocked.

"Brother Keng, what my father can think of, Chai Ke and Yang He can also think of, but the seven guards of Kansai have a vast territory, a small population, and most of them are foreigners. It was lost soon. Now you want Liu Dongyang and his gang to die, how could they go?" Feng Tang shook his head again and again.

"Father, there is some truth in what you said, but it's not entirely true." Feng Ziying calmed down, "As far as I know, there are many reasons why the Seven Guards of Kansai in the former Ming Dynasty gave up. Perhaps the former Ming Dynasty at least recovered Hamiwei and Shazhouwei. Unfortunately, I also learned from the former Ming Dynasty that Jinling was the capital, so I had no time to take care of the northwest. At that time, there was a civil strife in Turpan, and there was a great chance to recover Hamiwei and Shazhouwei. , then there was no chance,..."

   "You mean there is a chance now?" Feng Tang didn't expect that his son had already taken the road of civil servant, so why would he be so interested in military affairs here, and he knew so much about the situation in the northwest grassland.

  He has noticed this since Feng Ziying was willing to go to the grassland before, which made Feng Tang very puzzled.

"My son got the news that the Mughals currently controlling Turpan are in a state of separatist civil strife. They are focusing more on fighting for the control of Turpan. In fact, the Seven Guards of Kansai are controlled by some small tribes. , especially on the line from Hami to Shazhou, where bandits are rampant, which directly leads to the almost severance of this business route. If Liu Dongyang really has the courage and has enough control over his subordinates, then it might be impossible to let him go west first. I don’t think it’s difficult to occupy Shazhouwei, but I’m afraid Hamiwei needs careful consideration,…”

Feng Ziying's words failed to convince Feng Tang, who shook his head: "Brother Keng, let's not talk about whether Liu Dongyang's subordinates are willing to follow him to the west of Jiayuguan. Wei Jiashazhou Wei estimates that the total population is not much larger than Liu Dongyang and his gang of rebels, do you want them to eat sand and soil?"

"Father, I know that food and grass are the biggest problem, but it is impossible to need so many soldiers to go west. Half of the soldiers and horses are enough. Second, don't Suzhou and Jiayuguan also rely on the supply of food and grass from the interior?" Feng Ziying was not discouraged. .

   "The imperial court's supply of grain and grass in Gansu Town has been exhausted, and it is necessary to support Shazhou Wei and Hami Wei?" Feng Tang asked: "Do you think the imperial court will agree?"

"But what if there is no other choice?" Feng Ziying also asked back: "Liu Dongyang's troops occupy Suzhou and Gaotai. If they want to fight, how much will it cost? If they don't fight, let them go west to occupy Shazhouwei and Hamiwei. At least in name, it is to expand the land for the country. Father, do you think the emperor and the cabinet will feel that such a battle can be an explanation to the government and the opposition? Especially in this situation, do you think the emperor will refuse? ?”

  Feng Ziying's words stopped Feng Tang.

  Especially the son's last question, it is even more straight to the hearts of the people.

  Will the emperor refuse? Can you refuse? For the current emperor, what is he most urgently needed and what makes his heart beat the most?

   Of course, it is the promotion of reputation and prestige.

  Even if Feng Tang was in Yulin, he knew that the emperor's ambiguous attitude and Prince Yizhong's unscrupulous efforts to win over scholars put great pressure on the emperor.

The rebellion in Ningxia town gave many people an opportunity to criticize the court for failing to appease the three sides and four towns, which led to the mutiny. These faults undoubtedly became the crimes of Emperor Yonglong, almost Let him write his own book.

  Even if the rebellion is successfully suppressed, it is far less than the huge fame and prestige that can be obtained by recovering the lost land of the former Ming Dynasty.

In terms of familiarity with military affairs in the border areas, Feng Ziying knew that he could not compare with his father, even though he had learned a lot of information from He Zhisheng and other soldiers from Ganzhou, as well as officials from the Xingdu Division of Shaanxi, but military strength and The difficulty of logistical supplies is there. If it is possible, the imperial court will definitely not be willing to go west.

   But in terms of people's hearts, especially the grasp of Emperor Yonglong's mind, and the grasp of the minds of the two civil servants, Chai Ke and Yang He, the old man will be inferior to himself.

  Could it be that Chai Ke wants to stay here forever as the governor of the three sides? Wouldn't it be nice to go back and take over as the left servant of the Ministry of War?

  Could it be that Yang He just wanted to sit on the frontier in the name of Youqian Capital Censor and be an unknown deputy commander? Is there such rich and prosperous places as Zhejiang, Nanzhili or Shandong in Shaanxi?

  The big battle is over, if there is no chance for them to gain something, no one wants to stay here any longer.

   "Father, think about it carefully. People are popular, um, I'm afraid it is more important to the emperor than anything else." Feng Ziying said flatly: "I believe that the two adults, Chai and Yang, can also understand the difficulties of the emperor."

  (end of this chapter)