"The southwest is mountainous, the terrain is treacherous, the mountain people are fierce, they have always refused to obey the king, if there is a war, the logistics supply of the imperial army will be a great problem, and Guizhou is poor and poor, just to transport these supplies to the past consumes a huge amount, if you do not prepare early, once the incident starts, I am afraid it will be ......"

Ma Shiying's words made Feng Ziying feel that she had not chosen the wrong person, at least the other party still put some thought into the situation in the southwest.

Once the battle breaks out in the battle of the flowing land, pacification is not a problem, the key is how much the imperial court needs to pay, and the most important thing is the cost of logistics and supplies, which will be an astronomical amount, and it is estimated that it will not be lower than the Ningxia rebellion, or even higher.

Such an expense may be unbearable for the Great Zhou Imperial Court, which has not yet caught its breath, and Feng Ziying is also worried that once the battle over the flowing soil triggers a war, Nurhachi's side will wait and see?

The White Lotus Church won't take the opportunity to cause trouble?

Even if people are more worried, will the Japanese people also come to take advantage of the fire to rob?

A few years ago, when the people of the Qing Dynasty became Japanese, there were secret agents who went deep into the White Lotus Sect, which made him very vigilant, and also reminded him that although in the previous life, after the Renchen Rebellion subsided, Tokugawa Ieyasu opened the Tokugawa Shogunate era, and the situation of the Japanese raiding and disturbing the Ming Dynasty gradually disappeared, but now the Great Zhou and the Ming Dynasty are different, and many things can no longer be judged by following the history in the previous life.

It can be seen from the Linqing Civil Revolution that the Japanese people in this time and space are different from the Japanese people in their previous lives, they seem to be more ambitious and aggressive.

Therefore, Feng Ziying thinks that it is not enough for Ma Shiying to say that the Tusi occupy a favorable location and people, and there is still a time for heaven, once an incident arises, the Jianzhou Jurchens will also launch an offensive, and the White Lotus Sect will echo each other from afar, and even the Japanese people will come to take advantage of the fire to rob.

"Yaocao, then you mean that the imperial court is going to start preparing now?" Feng Ziying nodded lightly and asked.

"At least there should be some preliminary preparations, in order to avoid irritating the toasts, you can increase the supplementary transportation of armaments and materials, such as hoarding materials in Chongqing now, as for the garrison? It can take the form of rotation and quietly mobilize some elite ,......"

Ma Shiying has already completely considered preparing for war in accordance with the model of the toasts who are about to start an incident? It can be seen that he came out of Guizhou and is suspicious of these toasts in his hometown? Even more than Wang Yingxiong and Feng Ziying, they thought that the war would be imminent.

"Yaocao? You and I are worried here, but the court may not see it this way, there is a slight movement? Maybe you'll think it's going to stimulate the belligerence of the toasts? ......" Feng Ziying shook her head.

Ma Shiying sneered, "The imperial court is covering its ears and stealing the bell, deceiving itself? What if these toasts don't have objections? Some material allocation? Rotation of a small number of troops? What can stimulate them? Only a ghost in the heart? Will you worry about this? If the imperial court ties itself and does nothing in this way, then disaster is not far away. ”

As if thinking of something again, Ma Shiying asked with some puzzlement: "I feel that they should be preparing for non-bears, why does Ziying say that the imperial court maintains it this way?" What does that mean? ”

"Nothing interesting? Did the non-bears do some preparations? But many of them are the result of our private analysis and judgment? But the Ministry of War doesn't think so, at least it doesn't think the situation is so serious, so some things can only be done by Xiong and Dazhang half-privately and half-publicly? For example, there are some things that can be done by the Ministry of War, but there are some difficulties between the Criminal Department and the Long Forbidden Lieutenant, and it is not so convenient to communicate through some private channels. ”

Feng Ziying's explanation made Ma Shiying also thoughtful, "Ziying, do you want me to do something?" ”

nodded, Feng Ziying also made it clear: "Yaocao, Uncle Fang, Fei Xiong and I are now going to each go to their respective posts, you also know that "Internal Reference" has been running for a few years now, and its influence is getting bigger and bigger, and the purpose of founding "Internal Reference" is to let those of us who have just stepped into the road of official careers and have not yet been wiped out have a suitable channel to explain our views and voices, so the rule we specified at that time was that the editors were all like-minded new science and technology scholars, The author and publisher can be either a new scholar or an official who has already served as an official, but he needs to hide his identity when publishing the article, so as to prevent the reader's judgment from being affected by identity interference,......"

Ma Shiying's eyes suddenly lit up.

Now the "Yuedan Talk" in the academy is following the model of "Internal Reference", and the proposal is also Feng Ziying, but when "Yuedan Talk" was launched, their group of people was already facing the most nervous Spring Festival, so they basically did not ask about the preparation of "Yuedan Talk".

And "Yuedan Talk" only took two issues to open up its influence, not only in Tonghui Academy and other academies but also in several other academies such as Tonghui Academy, but also in the Guozijian is also very popular, which also makes Ma Shiying and his gang regret it very much.

Ma Shiying thinks that with his literary talent, it is not a problem to win an editor-in-chief in "Yuedan Talk", and he can also use this platform to expound many of his views and opinions through "Yuedan Talk" to win more exchanges and supporters.

It's just that the time is just not coincidental, and when the Spring Festival is over, it is impossible for his group to go back to publish articles in "Yuedan Talk", so Ma Shiying is also very regretful, and he also turned his mind to the higher "Internal Reference".

Seeing the excited look on Ma Shiying's face, Feng Ziying knew that "Internal Reference" was still very attractive to this fledgling rookie.

After all, this is a publication that can affect the changes in the entire court situation, and the bigwigs of the DPRK and China, including the emperor, are all loyal readers of this publication, even if many people may not agree with many of the views above, but they are willing to use this publication as a window to understand the changes in the current political situation and local social conditions and public opinion.

"I'm afraid Yaocao has already guessed it, right?" Feng Ziying smiled gently, "That's right, I intend to invite you to join the "Internal Reference", become a member of the editorial board of "Internal Reference", and serve as the editor-in-chief. ”

Ma Shiying's heart thundered, editor-in-chief? He expected Feng Ziying to invite him to be the editor-in-chief, but he didn't expect to be the editor-in-chief, and what are the rights and responsibilities of the editor-in-chief?

Although she was very excited in her heart, Ma Shiying also knew that there must be a lot of responsibility and pressure behind this glory.

"Ziying, can I ask about the composition of the editorial committee of "Internal Reference", the responsibilities and rights of the editor-in-chief, and the direction and focus of the next "Internal Reference"?"

Ma Shiying's caution and calmness are in line with Feng Ziying's perception of him, so that he can also shoulder this burden.

"The main theme of "Internal Reference" Yaocao should understand that several sections are basically laid out one by one in accordance with the important tasks of the imperial court, but what we emphasize is to take the first step, and will not completely follow the existing major policies of the imperial court to discuss, but more prospects, realistic assessments and post-event summaries, especially prospect prospects and predictions, and post-event summaries and analysis of problems,......"

Ma Shiying nodded, "Internal Reference" has channels to read in Qingtan Academy, he has read almost all the tribes, and he has made excerpts and notes for some wonderful articles and fragments, and has studied them repeatedly.

"And the direction of the next step of "Internal Reference", I personally think that it is still necessary to focus on people's livelihood and military affairs, people's livelihood is directly related to local stability, and stability is related to the overall stability of the imperial court, to be precise, it is to solve internal worries, and military affairs mainly refers to border affairs, including the dispute over the soil we mentioned earlier, which is a combination of military affairs and people's livelihood, more complex and thorny, in a word, the most urgent problem of internal and external troubles, is the focus of the "Internal Reference" forever chased."

Feng Ziying's answer did not satisfy Ma Shiying, he continued to ask: "Ziying, can you be more specific, if you want me to be the editor-in-chief in the next step, I understand, the editor-in-chief needs to make strategic predictions in the use of articles and the determination of the direction of future collection and topic selection, I am not willing to lose the good situation that you have worked so hard to fall into my hands, and I can't afford this responsibility." ”

"Well, it's not that exaggerated, but I can also tell you a concern of our group of people, in terms of people's livelihood and economy, the development of sea trade and industry and commerce accompanied by sea trade after the opening of the sea, we think this should be a focus on solving the financial embarrassment of the imperial court, of course, this is not enough, how to develop the silk, tea, porcelain, iron, cloth, medicine, and salt exported by the sea trade can be focused on, well, we think that the editorial committee can take the initiative to ask local officials for the next step. Listening to their suggestions and opinions in this regard, the prefects of each prefecture are all four-grade officials who are fully qualified to read the "Internal Reference", and even lower county ordinances, I think they should all have this power, of course, this may require a process,......"

Feng Ziying's bold proposal made Ma Shiying also excited, which means that the coverage of "Internal Reference" will be larger, and the influence radiation circle will be comprehensively enhanced, and the manuscript is to encourage local officials to participate in the enthusiasm, which will drive their interest, and allow them to obtain the right to read and know, then it will stimulate their enthusiasm for participation, and at the same time, the impact of this reaction will be greatly strengthened, and this subtle influence is self-evident.

Ma Shiying had to admire Feng Ziying for being a genius, and in his opinion, the creation of this "Internal Reference" was even more significant than the opening of the sea, which was enough to influence and change the implementation of the laws and decrees of the entire Great Zhou court.

"......, military affairs are always unavoidable, and it is related to the life and death of the Great Zhou, so where is the next focus? We think that Liaodong will definitely be the most important, but the more urgent may be the dispute over the southwest land we talked about earlier, and it is very likely that the situation will deteriorate, you should know that Yang Yinglong's son Yang Kedong is still in the Beijing Division, right? ”

Ma Shiying's face was heavy and he nodded slightly.

He didn't know about this situation, and he only knew it recently, which also shocked him, the court was not without suspicions, otherwise he would not let Yang Yinglong's son be a hostage, but Yang Yinglong was willing to do so, either he was really calm-hearted, or he was forbearant and plotted, of course Ma Shiying knew that this could only be the latter.

"Once Yang Kedong changes, it means that the door of war is opened." Feng Ziying said with certainty: "The Long Forbidden Captain is responsible for monitoring Yang Kedong, but I think that once Yang Yinglong wants to make a move, there will definitely be a complete strategy to let Yang Kedong get out, and once Yang Kedong disappears, the war will basically be counted down." ”

Ma Shiying took a deep breath, "Ziying, I understand, is there anything else?" ”

"Once the war breaks out in the southwest, will the Jianzhou Jurchens, the White Lotus Sect, the Mongols, and even the Japanese and the southwestern Dongwu and Annam, take advantage of the fire to rob? I'm afraid that "Internal Reference" needs to be reminded in advance. Feng Ziying spread her hands and said helplessly: "We only have such a big influence and right to speak now, and we even use the Ningxia Rebellion and the strategy of opening the sea, so we must use this right to speak to the maximum." ”