Although it has entered the spring, but the weather does not get warmer at all, a winter snow, a cold, only make the land of North China is a thick snow, thanks to the people of North China do not plant wheat in winter, often idle for a few months, after raising the land, to plant a season of sorghum in the spring. Otherwise, even if the weather is like this, even if you plant wheat, you may not be able to have a good harvest.

And in the field of the winter idle land outside the city of Jinan, a continuous earthen camp, which will be almost covered by snow, the seven-foot-high earthen fortress looks like a protrusion on the snowfield, and between the earthen fortresses, the chimneys in the corners of the shacks that are half-buried in the ground like graves are even more smoking, unless they get an order, otherwise the soldiers in this shack will never come out.

Once upon a time, this camp was full of tents, but now in such a cold day, the thin tarpaulin tent is naturally not used, so the soldiers dug out the shack directly on the ground, and then hid in the shack for the winter, at least it is always warmer than the tarpaulin tent, plus the fire rising in the small hearth, it is naturally far better than the tarpaulin tent.

In the middle of the shack, several huge tents stood, and unlike ordinary tents, this tent was a thick cotton tent, which could withstand the cold.

"Well, this winter seems to be longer than usual......"

Fan Wencheng, who walked out of the tent, looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky and muttered to himself.

"Now the winter inside this pass is so long, if it is outside the pass, it is estimated that the sorghum is planted in the spring, and it may not be harvested before the winter."

At this time, Fan Wencheng, who was dressed in a bearskin fur, was in this snow, and his face was full of worries about the country and the people.

"You're going to lose it, if not...... This Manchuria is going to be difficult! Hey, thanks to the Qing Dynasty entering the customs, otherwise the Central Plains will be full of sorrow, but people will not starve to death every year, now like this, there are fewer people and more land, isn't it a prosperous era! ”

When he said this, Fan Wencheng's face was a little proud, as if he had participated in all this. For him, the tens of millions of people killed by the Qing soldiers after entering the customs are not worth mentioning, and even necessary.

"Hey, it's such a cold day, I have to persuade the emperor to live in Jinan City when I go back!"

When he walked towards the emperor's tent, Fan Wencheng thought in his heart, the reason why he wanted to persuade the emperor to enter the city was because he really couldn't stand the cold in this tent at his age.

"If the emperor thinks that Jinan City is heavy, then change places......"

The reason why the emperor has been reluctant to live in Jinan City, on the surface is to share weal and woe with the soldiers of the Eight Banners, but in fact, it is because the yin of Jinan City is too heavy, more than 20 years ago, when Emperor Taizong led his troops into the customs, he killed all the way along the canal to Shandong, killing millions of Ming people along the way, not to mention that nearly a million people inside and outside Jinan City were killed, and when he left, Jinan City was burned with a fire, that is, after more than 20 years, the prosperous city by the canal was still not seen yesterday's prosperity, Now there are only 30,000 or 20,000 people in Jinan, and bones can still be fished out from time to time in the wells in the lake.

It is precisely because of this that the emperor feels that the yin qi of Jinan City is too heavy, so he will avoid it.

It's not Taizong after all!

Sighing in his heart, Fan Wencheng entered the cotton tent, which was two feet high above the ground and did not show the slightest cold, and with the charcoal fire in a few fire pits, it only made the tent look very warm.

"The slave knocks on the emperor!"

As soon as he entered the tent door, Fan Wencheng hurriedly kowtowed.

"Excuse me!"

Although the emperor said that he was exempt from courtesy, Fan Wencheng still knelt there, and as a slave, he must have the consciousness of a slave.

"Master Fan, you must also know that this Zheng thief is now holding the family of the official eunuch from Liangjiang as a hostage, intending to copy his family and flow his family, and disturb the hearts of my officials and people!"

Fu Lin, who was sitting on the tiger skin dragon chair, did not raise his head after Fan Wencheng entered the tent, but directly talked about the things that gave him a headache.

"There was an excerpt from the governor of Shandong, and in the past few days, another prefect and six prefects have abandoned India and fled south, if it goes on like this, if we don't wait for us to go south, it is estimated that all the local officials in the world will have to abandon India and flee! When the time comes, who will take charge of the place? For my herdsmen? ”

Fu Lin's tone was full of perverseness, and he seemed to be kind, but his eyebrows were even more murderous, and he looked like he was ready to kill at any time.

"These Han people are all without a king and a father, and they don't think about Jun En like this. It's hateful! Damn it! ”

Fan Wencheng, who knew the emperor's character, immediately followed the emperor's intentions, first criticized those Han officials, and then continued.

"But the emperor doesn't have to worry about no one being the emperor's herdsman, if you say that there are the most people in the world, I'm afraid that there are the most people who want to be officials. The southerners don't want to be officials, so naturally there are northerners, and when all the officials in the world are northerners, the southerners themselves will be in a hurry......"

At that time, in addition to the strict order to recruit officials from the previous dynasty to return to the court, Fan Wencheng not only suggested the opening of the imperial examination, but also suggested that those jinshi who only had the qualifications to be officials in the previous dynasty should be recruited, and the deputy list of tribute students who were equivalent to the preparation of the students were selected as officials, so that the problem of insufficient officials was naturally solved.

Of course, Fan Wencheng also deliberately chose northerners instead of southerners with strong resistance, so that at the beginning of entering the customs, most of the officials in the world were northerners. After this situation occurred, only those southerners who were suppressed by the northerners could have scholars participate in the imperial examination.

There are countless people in the world who are willing to be officials. If he Fan Wencheng hadn't wanted to be an official back then, how could he have taken the initiative to defect to Taizu?

"Although this is the truth, if this matter is not solved, there is no way!"

Fu Lin looked at Fan Wencheng and said angrily.

"Zheng Thief's methods are so despicable, do you really think that I don't dare to kill his father and brother?"

After Zheng Zhilong surrendered twelve years ago, in order to appease Zheng Chenggong, the Qing Dynasty gave preferential treatment to Zheng Zhilong, who surrendered, but because Zheng Chenggong never surrendered, Zheng Zhilong said that he was under house arrest in the capital, and even two years ago, he even intended to send Ningguta and armored people as slaves, just to contain Zheng Chenggong, and did not make the trip.

Now because of Zheng Chenggong's "killer move", Fulin only thought of Zheng Zhilong again.

"Hmph, if it'...... I have to kill his father and brother! ”

The emperor's angry words were heard in Fan Wencheng's ears, which only made his heart tighten, and he said in a loud voice.

"Your Majesty, you must not, this Zheng Zhilong is alive and can still make Zheng Zhilong throw a rat trap, and it can be used if necessary, but if it is killed, it will no longer be of the slightest use, and besides, this Zheng thief is originally raised by the feudal Yi and is not subject to Chinese education, killing Zheng Zhilong makes him have no scruples!"

Fan Wencheng dissuaded again and again, lest the emperor kill Zheng Zhilong in anger, and the reason why he wanted to keep Zheng Zhilong alive was because in his opinion, Zheng Zhilong who was alive was more effective than dead.

"Hmph, don't I know that if I really wanted to kill him, I killed him two years ago, and I would have waited until now! Let that old dog live for a few more days! When the Zheng thief is captured in the future, all of their Zheng family will be escorted to the execution ground, and they will all be executed at Ling Chi! ”

Waving his hand, Fu Lin, who motioned for Fan Wencheng not to say any more, continued.

"But no matter what, Zheng Thief's poisonous plan is going to be broken, what can Master Fan do?"

"This ......"

The emperor's inquiry made Fan Wencheng's mind sink slightly, he really didn't have any good way. Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Fu Lin said directly.

"Fang Cai has an excerpt sent from Beijing for 800 miles, which is Jin Zhijun's excerpt, he thinks that since Zheng Thief intends to take the officials of Liangjiang as a hostage, the imperial court might as well use the method of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle to break its poisonous plan!"

originally thought that Fan Wencheng would have some good plans, but seeing that he had no choice, he directly said Jin Zhijun's suggestion.

"What is the method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle? Don't know how to draw salary? ”

Fan Wencheng asked a little puzzled.

"That Zheng thief was born as a pirate, and his poisonous plan is all in the flow of my Qing Liangjiang officials to Taiwan, if he can send troops to take Taiwan, in this way, naturally Zheng thief's poisonous plan will not be broken, without Taiwan, how can he coerce the officials and their relatives to go to Taiwan? After the defeat of the army, the slave envoys and dependents? ”

The emperor's words made Fan Wencheng, who had no idea, suddenly light up, and agreed again and again.

"This law is very good, this law is very good, now the main forces of Zheng thief and Zhu thief are in Jiangnan, and the Taiwanese are just Zhu thief's new expansion of foreign barbarian land, and the defenders are scarce, if the emperor can send a few generals who are good at water warfare, this Taiwan can naturally be leveled, so that it can not only stabilize the heart of the official eunuchs in Jiangnan, but also cut off the retreat of Zheng thief, this plan is very wonderful, very wonderful!"

Seeing that Fan Wencheng agreed with this suggestion, Fu Lin nodded, and then said.

"It's a good plan, but my Qing Dynasty doesn't have a long water war, and Taiwan is located in the open sea, how can it be easily taken?"

Although he was inclined to agree with this plan in his heart, Fu Lin also knew his own ability, if the Eight Banners had the ability to fight water battles, how could they allow Zheng to succeed to this day.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers of the Eight Banners are long in land warfare, but in Fujian, the original Zheng family is in the general, and there is more than one person who is good at water warfare, in the view of slaves, this battle can be ordered to Fujian Governor Li Shuitai to take over, in recent years, he has recruited more than a dozen rebel generals and tens of thousands of soldiers, such as Haicheng Gong Huang Wu and Shi Lang are all good at water warfare, and Shi Lang can be ordered to lead the water army to capture Taiwan!"

But just a moment of effort, Fan Wencheng decided on the candidate to attack Taiwan, for the DPRK and China are good at water warfare, he naturally knew it a long time ago, originally he did not think of the way to attack Taiwan, but now, the emperor just said, he realized that this may be the best way to solve the problem at hand, so he suggested.

"However, it is still necessary for the emperor to strictly order Haicheng Gong to seize Taiwan as soon as possible, otherwise when the Zhu thief reacts and sends additional troops to Taiwan, it will naturally be more difficult to capture Taiwan at that time!"