The corners of Emperor Yonglong's mouth curled slightly, and he smiled with satisfaction, this is a qualified general, and a military general with too many ideas or no desires does not meet the expectations of the imperial court.

This Feng Tang has a lot of vision, he also has a lot of courage, and he also has prestige in the border army, if he has no desire, then he really has to think about it.

Fortunately, this person has good money but has a bottom line, and his son is on the road of civil officials, which is a good thing.

"What do you think of Feng Tang's strategy?" Emperor Yonglong asked.

It stands to reason that Lu Song, as the commander of the dragon forbidden lieutenant, has no right to participate in such court affairs, but he is an old minister of Emperor Yonglong's palace, and his loyalty is safe, so Emperor Yonglong will ask him, and he will dare to answer.

"This strategy is very good, divide and rule has always been the strategy of the imperial court against the steppe tribes, whether it is the Tumut tribes or the entire Tatar tribes, but ......" Lu Song hesitated for a moment.

"But what?" Emperor Yonglong was a little surprised, this should be the consistent strategy of the imperial court, is there anything wrong?

Zhang Jin also talked about this strategy when he came back from Western Xinjiang, and he said that he also thought that this strategy was the best strategy for managing the grassland, but Feng Keng had a different opinion,......

Lu Song's answer surprised Emperor Yonglong, isn't this what Feng Ziying has always advocated? How can there still be different opinions?

"Zhang Jin said that Feng Keng thinks that this strategy is acceptable for now, but the Chahar Department Lin Danbatur is quite ambitious, if it is according to the strategy of the imperial court, it is bound to provoke the dispute between the Mongolian right wing and the left wing, to prevent the right wing from unifying the left wing or the left wing from unifying the right wing, especially to prevent the Chahar Department, as the descendant of the golden family, from making a big ,......."

Emperor Yonglong was also quite attentive to military affairs, so he naturally understood and nodded: "This is the correct solution." ”

But he said that the Tatar tribes were not stupid, and naturally understood the intentions of the imperial court. Originally, they had no choice, but now the rise of the Jianzhou Jurchens is extremely fast, not only to speed up the pace of unification of the Jurchen tribes, but also to extend their hands to the Horqin and Trans-Khalkha tribes in western Liaoning, if the imperial court still adopts the strategy of dividing and ruling to help the weak and suppress the strong against the Tatar tribes, I am afraid that Lin Dan Batur will soon lose his influence and control over the Horqin and Transkhalkha tribes, and push the Horqin and Transkhalkha tribes to the Jianzhou Jurchens, and it will be difficult for the Chahar tribes to resist the offensive of the Jianzhou Jurchens. The balance of the entire outside of the gate will be broken. ”

Emperor Yonglong frowned.

The Jianzhou Jurchens have become the biggest hidden danger, the situation in eastern and western Liaoxi is quite embarrassing, and the evacuation of the six forts in Kuandian has triggered a very bad follow-up impact, making a considerable part of the Han people also turn to the Jianzhou Jurchens, making the expansion momentum of the Jianzhou Jurchens more fierce.

This also triggered many people in the government and the opposition to attack Li Chengliang, believing that he had colluded with the Jianzhou Jurchens.

But Emperor Yonglong knew that although Li Chengliang was responsible, the main responsibility was still in the imperial court.

The huge shortage of food and salary made any general in charge of Liaodong a headache.

In particular, it was too difficult and expensive to transport grain to Liaodong, and the increase in taxes on the local Han people made the attitude of the Han people in Liaodong more and more resistant to the imperial court, which may be an important factor that Li Chengliang finally had to give up the six forts of Kuandian.

Of course, there is another reason that the aggressive momentum of the Jianzhou Jurchens has made the Kuandian Liubao a lonely son, if there is no strong support, it is very likely that it will be swallowed up by the Jianzhou Jurchens to take the opportunity to provoke, and Li Chengliang cannot afford this responsibility.

If Horqin in western Liaoning and the Trans-Khalkha tribes in the north are co-opted or annexed by the Jianzhou Jurchens, then the entire Jizhen and even Xuanfu will be completely exposed to the blade of the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, and it is difficult to say whether Liaodong can be kept.

At that time, the entire Jingshi from the northeast to the north and then to the northwest will be in flames, and even in this palace, there will be no sleep.

"What does Feng Keng mean by this?"

Lu Song replied: "Zhang Jin also asked Feng Keng if there is a solution since this is the case, Feng Keng said that there is no good way to do it now, the Hetao side has just stabilized and balanced, the situation of the Chahar Department remains to be seen, and the unfavorable situation in Liaodong makes the influence of the Great Zhou on the Horqin and Trans-Khalkha tribes unable to achieve, which gives the Jianzhou Jurchen an opportunity to take advantage of,......"

Emperor Yonglong's mood suddenly became bad.

The day before yesterday, he didn't talk to Feng Ziying about the situation in Liaodong, he didn't expect Feng Ziying to have such a deep understanding of the military affairs in the border areas, and even to be so familiar with the situation in Liaodong, and even have deeper insights.

But from Feng Ziying's words, it can be heard that the other party is not optimistic about the situation in Liaodong.

took a deep breath, and calmed down a bit, this is not something that can be solved in a day or two, maybe Feng Ziying strongly asked for the formation of a naval fleet and the opening of the sea in Shandong, that is, to strengthen support for Liaodong, thinking of this, Emperor Yonglong's mood improved slightly.

"Well, I know about it." Emperor Yonglong nodded, "Feng Tang's performance in the counterinsurgency battle this time, you have also seen the performance you presented, compared with Yulin before, the situation of the two towns of Ningxia and Gansu is of course different, but it is not big, why are they completely different?" Could it be that Feng Tang went to Yulin for two years to have the power to defy the sky? ”

Lu Song hesitated for a moment, but finally said: "Your Majesty, in fact, the original situation of Ningxia Town is not bad, but Shi Guangjue tossed Ningxia Town alive, which can be seen from the performance of Liu Dongyang, Liu Baichuan and Tuwenxiu, etc., and it is still quite combative, but its internal contradictions are more prominent, and Liu Dongyang seized this opportunity, but the situation in Gansu Town is indeed very bad, which is mainly due to its special geographical reasons, the difficulty of logistics and supply is too great, and the total army is short for a year, Deputy Chief Soldier Ma Xia has inferior abilities and fears the enemy like a tiger,......"

Emperor Yonglong's face was even more ugly.

Shi Guangjue naturally knew whose path he took to climb to the position of the chief soldier of Ningxia Town, but Xiao Daheng has now become a leader, and if he pursues it, he will inevitably be criticized, and he also knows who is hiding behind Xiao Daheng, and this kind of thing can only be revealed.

The performance of these martial artists is really disappointing, or very different, there are shrewd people like Wang Ziteng and Niu Jizong, as well as characters like Feng Tang who can fight and are accustomed to fighting, but more are mediocre and incompetent goods such as Shi Guangjue and Ma Xia who only know how to make money, which makes Emperor Yonglong's attitude towards this group also complicated and difficult to speak.

But Emperor Yonglong knows very well that now he has to find a way to win over these martial artists, and the children of martial artists in the army still have a considerable weight, and if he doesn't win over, if he is co-opted by the boss, it will be a fatal threat to himself, and he must let them remain neutral at the worst.

"Lu Song, according to your observations, can the status quo of Gansu Town and Ningxia Town be maintained?" This has deviated from today's topic, and it should not be discussed with a dragon forbidden commander Tongzhi, but Emperor Yonglong wants to judge from another perspective other than the cabinet and the military department.

"Your Majesty, if you can't hold on, you can only insist, otherwise once the Tatars of the West Sea cross the Qilian Mountains, and the forces of the Yarkand Khanate entrenched in Hami and Turpan infiltrate Hexi, then our entire northwest will be eroded and out of control, and we will definitely repeat the predicament of the former Song Dynasty."

At this point, Lu Song still has a very sober mind, although Emperor Yonglong has no intention of giving up the northwest now, but it is inevitable that he will not fight this kind of idea when he is overstretched in the future.

"Of course I won't give up the northwest, I just want to know how much the imperial court will have to invest if we want to continue to maintain the status quo of Gansu Town and Ningxia Town, and go west to Shazhou and Hami,......

Emperor Yonglong shook his head with annoyance, "There is no silver and there is no pain in silver, but with silver I can better understand the importance of silver, when I don't have silver, I feel that I can endure everything, once I have the appearance of painting cakes now, I feel that I can't survive anywhere, and I need silver." ”

Lu Song was also a little amused by Emperor Yonglong's words, but he could only hold back.

Sighing, retracting his thoughts, Emperor Yonglong turned back to the topic: "Chai Ke has some plans for the northwest, in order to ensure that the situation in the northwest is not chaotic, but this requires a courtier with prestige and skill to take the lead, Chai Ke Zhen wants him to come back, not now, but he must come back next year, how about the time of Wang Ziteng?" ”

Lu Song was slightly surprised, do you want to let Wang Ziteng transfer to the governor of the three sides? This is not a good arrangement.

"Your Majesty, the prince has just returned from a tour of Shanxi, well, he has been in contact with Niu Gong, Chen Ruiwen, Chen Daoxian and others recently, and well, he has also had frequent contacts with his brother-in-law Rongguo Gong Jia's family,......"

Lu Song's words made Emperor Yonglong slightly stunned, and his brows wrinkled even deeper, "Jia family? Rong Guogong and Ning Guogong? ”

"Rongguo Gong Jia's family, there is no movement on Ning Guogong's side, and it is still the same." Lu Song understood Emperor Yonglong's worries, and hesitated: "There is nothing abnormal over there, and Prince Yizhong also has someone over there,......"

Waving his hand, a contemptuous and disdainful sneer crossed the corner of Emperor Yonglong's mouth, "The boss is really an amorous seed, and he doesn't taboo his father?" ”

On such topics, Lu Song naturally didn't dare to answer, so he could only remain silent.

"Well, I know." Emperor Yonglong returned to the truth, "Let's talk about Feng Keng, you can tell you more about the situation of this son, I need to seriously investigate this person." ”

Lu Song was in a daze, he always felt that he had paid enough attention to this son, but he didn't expect it to be underestimated, just by the emperor's words, it can be seen that this is the first time after the emperor has commented on a person in this tone, the last one is Zhang Jingqiu, but how old is Zhang Jingqiu? How old is this son?

Lu Song started from Feng Keng's family background, from the situation of his maternal Duan family in Datong, as well as the marriage of Feng Duan's two families to Feng Keng's growth process, all the way to the situation of the Linqing civil change.