In the Ming Dynasty, when the country was in trouble, the first to receive feedback and start formulating countermeasures was never the emperor but the cabinet, so when the emergency situation in Jiliao appeared, Zhang Siwei, as the first assistant, immediately convened a meeting of cabinet officials.

Although the officials of the two factions are fighting a war of words over high-level pragmatic matters, and the General Administration Department is softened, but the lower level is beaten below, and the bigwigs at the top or the top level meet each other, but they don't have much anger with each other, and they all greet each other with smiles.

It's not that a few cabinet elders are particularly well-cultivated, but that although this matter is related to Gao Pragmatic, a special person, it is precisely because of the special that in fact, several cabinet elders are like a mirror in their hearts, and now it is impossible for the emperor to deal with Gao Pragmatic because of this.

The great merit of the previous battle of Monan has not been rewarded, and now he has helped the emperor force the Empress Dowager Li to return the power in one fell swoop, no matter which dynasty or generation such a merit is placed in, it is indispensable to be rewarded, how can he be punished for this matter?

The reason why the Xinxue faction can't help but come out to make this wave this time is nothing more than to maintain a momentum, after all, the Xinxue faction is currently in the folk and Shilin, compared with Shixue, it still has an obvious advantage, but it has not been able to fight at the top of the court for more than ten years.

However, if Gao Shishi instructed the Jinyi guards to arrest them this time, and they were still indifferent, there might be a change in strength from top to bottom, and over time, it might even lead to a reversal.

Of course, Zhang Siwei and others also understand this, so the two sides seem to have a fierce war of words, but in fact, for the top-level bigwigs, it is nothing more than acting with each other, and there is no real moment to decide the winner, and now that there is something in the court, then the acting stubble might as well take advantage of the situation to stop, anyway, there are steps to go down.

If there is anything to gain from this wave of mutual performances, it is to once again prove the emperor's favor for Gao Pragmatic, which may ...... At least it's about the same as between the first emperor and the high arch back then, and I'm afraid it's not realistic to want to break it up.

In this case, it is better to find an opportunity to move Zhang Siwei than to move him, after all, he is pragmatic and wants to enter the cabinet, and no matter how you look at it, it is still far away.

Several pavilion elders arrived, Zhang Siwei waved his hand and invited them all to sit down, then glanced around, and asked unhurriedly: "What is the matter of inviting the princes to come today, I think the princes have already understood......

He paused slightly, and his face was worried: "The battle of Mo Nan is not far away, I thought that the Tumen would be defeated by this, not to mention a slump, at least for ten years, but who knew that this fang actually broke the convention, but intensified, first robbed the town of Ji, and then broke the town of Xitieling, as if the disaster was still ...... I don't know what the princes have to say about this? ”

Below Zhang Siwei, Shen Shixing, Xu Guo, Yu Youding, and Pan Sheng glanced at each other, and they were not busy talking.

Wenchen is this broken faction, pay attention to what Mount Tai collapsed in front and his face did not change, Zhang Siwei himself is also Wenchen, of course, he also knows the thoughts of these people, he couldn't help but smile slightly, and turned his eyes to Shen Shixing: "Yaoquan has a good strategy to teach me?" ”

Shen Shixing smiled gently: "Yuan Fu, although Tumen's move is quite unexpected, but at the end of the crossbow, he can't wear Lu Min, he does this is nothing more than to replace defense with offense, in order to save his reputation and stabilize the interior." I have to say it, I don't think he will take the initiative in the future, I just need to calm down and watch his defeat. ”

"Oh?" Zhang Siwei guessed the intention of Shen Shixing's words as soon as his eyes rolled, and said with a smile: "Not necessarily, even if you go deep into Liaodong, maybe you can avoid it again as long as you remind Li Chengliang to pay attention, but as long as the Tumen continue to attack Qi Jiguang's back road, at least this Daning City will not be able to defend it, and it will be easy for the Tumen to attack the supply line for hundreds of miles." ”

This problem is indeed quite tricky as Zhang Siwei said, because the root cause of this situation lies in the overall internal relocation of the Daning Capital Division back then.

In the first year of Yongle, the Daning Metropolitan Division moved to Baoding, which gave the Wuliang Habu the opportunity to occupy the original site of Daning, resulting in the inability of Liaodong and Xuanfu to contact, and also caused loopholes in the northern, western, and eastern border defenses of Yanjing. This is only the beginning of the decline of the defense of the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, and this crisis of internal relocation is an ongoing chain reaction.

The first is the internal relocation and abandonment of other northern tunwei of the Ming Dynasty. In the first year of Yongle, Zhu Di used the reason that Dongshengwei was lonely and difficult to defend, and transferred the left and right guards to Lulong and Zunhua, and Dongshengwei was abandoned, and there was no business at all. The same is true of Kaipingwei, Yongle began to move inward, to Xuande five years, because of the Mongol invasion of the border, Yongning Guard will abandon Xuanfu, Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji sent Xue Lu to build Yongning Wei five forts, in order to defend the palace, but because Kaiping, Chicheng dilapidated, can not supply Yongning Wei, had to move Kaipingwei south to the monolithic fort, which is equivalent to giving up the operation of MonanMongolia, so that Yanjing City is always exposed to the threat of Mongolian forces.

Compared with the Hongwu period, during the Yongle and Xuande periods, its front line retreated more than 300 miles from the space, which led to the defects in the national defense of the Ming Dynasty.

After the Orthodox Dynasty, Xuanfu and Datong became the front-line military fortresses, and the Outer Great Wall became the first line of defense, which means that once the Xuanfu soldiers could not stop the Mongolian cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry could drive straight into from Juyong Pass.

Similarly, in the area west of Yanjing, Datong Town could have been relied on, but after the internal movement of Zixing and Shouyu Qianhusuo and Kaipingwei, Datong Town lost the barrier to the northeast, and after the Dongshengwei moved inward, there was a loophole in the northwest of Datong. Under the loss of the northeast and northwest barriers, Datong is like a lonely city.

But fortunately, after Gao Gong's tribute and the high-level and pragmatic battle of Monan, the front line of Xuanda of the Tumut Department was completely lifted.

However, Gao Gong's strategy of "West Huai Dong System" is only half completed so far, and the troubles on Jiliao's side are far from being solved.

Earlier in the Yongle period, in the situation of actively shrinking the defense line, Zhu Di first adopted the method of Huairou and sent envoys to appease him in order to restrain the Wuliang Habu again, and he also achieved a certain success at that time.

However, for the Wuliang Ha Sanwei tribes, in order to obtain the right to reside in the Daning area, they rebelled and attached to the Ming Dynasty from time to time, and often joined forces with the Arutai of the Mongolian Asute Department to attack the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Di attacked Arutai, he led the army to attack the three guards of Wuliang Ha who supported Arutai, although the Wuliang Ha Department suffered some casualties, but it was not completely wiped out, and it can only be said that it was temporarily suppressed by the Ming army.

Moreover, as mentioned above, Zhu Di's several Northern Expeditions in his life, although they were huge, compared with the Hongwu period, neither captured the core leaders of the Tatar and Warat departments, nor did they defeat the Mongol tribes strategically.

When Zhu Di died, the Ming Dynasty stopped its expedition to the north, and the Mongol tribes got a chance to recuperate and gradually invaded south. During the Hongxi period, some ministers suggested that Dongsheng, Gaoshan and other ten guards should be moved back to their hometowns and forts to garrison troops, but unfortunately Zhu Gaochi only had the appearance of old Cheng and did not have the ambition to expand the frontier and did not adopt it.

Fortunately, although Wuliangha in this period occasionally committed crimes, he still paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

In the Xuande and Orthodox years, the Wuliang Ha Sanwei moved southward, and the main part of it has gradually moved from the original pastoral land to the Liaohe River Valley, which is close to the economically and culturally developed Han region in Liaodong, and gradually moved south to the foot of the Great Wall.

At the beginning of Xuande, the rhythm of the Wuliang Ha tribe to the south had reached the point where they could herd horses on the banks of the Luanhe River near Jizhou Town, but Emperor Xuande adopted the rule of defense and did not want to go to war, so he just blindly admonished and set up a Wanquan Division to improve the defense of Xuanfu and make up for the gap of Kaipingwei's internal migration to Houmonoshi Fort.

In the last years of Xuanzong and the early years of Yingzong, the border defense of the Ming Dynasty was lax and the imperial police were weak. The Wuliang Ha Sanwei launched an all-out offensive from the Xilamulun River to the Liao River valley and advanced southward.

After the "Civil Engineering Change", the Ming Dynasty was even more timid, and basically no longer adopted the expedition strategy, or adopted the Fusui strategy, so that the Wuliang Ha Sanwei could move to Huangshui and Daning, or he could only send heavy troops in Jizhou, Miyun Guard, Longqingwei, Kaipingwei and other places to prevent the Wuliang Ha Sanwei from rebelling.

At this time, the north of the Great Wall has completely become a grassland for others. And now, in order to cooperate with the highly pragmatic battle of Monan, Qi Jiguang sent troops to occupy Daning City, which is hundreds of miles away, but this Daning City is a lonely city, and it is not like Tumut's side that started planting agriculture.

But since Daning City is so far away from the Great Wall, the Mongol cavalry can't attack the fortifications, can't they plunder the baggage team? Therefore, Zhang Siwei's statement completely rejected Shen Shixing's so-called "calm and quiet".

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