Chongzhen nodded: "Changqing is reasonable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoJiangnan is a heavy place for taxation, and there is no room for mistakes, so it is not too late to protect Jiangnan first, and then save Fujian. ”

Turning his head and seeing Zhang Fengyi who was still kneeling on the ground, Chongzhen scolded angrily: "I can't come up with an idea, do what I am told, right?" You heard what you just said, hurry back to the yamen of the military department to give orders! ”

Zhang Fengyi wiped the sweat on his head as if he had been amnestied, "The minister retired." He quickly got up and walked away.

Wen Tiren was also about to return to the cabinet, but was stopped by Chongzhen.

"Long and slow, what do you think of this recital?"

Wen Tiren took a copy from Wang Chengen's hand and saw that it was the Guangdong governor Mu Tianyan's request to set up a military town in Qiongzhou to resist the Yi people, the Japanese and other forces. When this excerpt was drafted by the cabinet, the news from Fujian and Zhejiang had not yet come, Wen Tiren did not think too much, he just gave the green light to Xie Sanbin's face, and did not let this recital, which should have been shot in the cabinet, be stillborn. Now that I have received urgent news from Kinmen and Taizhou one after another, looking back at this twist and turn, it is inevitably too coincidental, and it is easy for people to have a bad association.

But this idea can only rot in the stomach, and must not be spoken. Wen Tiren replied: "The minister thinks that there is a reason for setting up a military town in Qiongzhou, and after the Fujian guerrilla Zheng Zhilong died at the hands of Hongmao, no one in the Nuoda Haijiang can defend it, and the hidden danger is not small. Fortunately, Xia Nan suddenly rose to the top, and took over the mantle of Zheng Zhilong from the perspective of strength, and it is not impossible to rely on him at sea. However, for hundreds of years in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to Dongjiang Town, nine border towns were also established, and it seems a bit abrupt to set up a military town for coastal defense alone. In short, there are pros and cons to setting up a military town, and the ministers dare not be arbitrary, so they can only be judged by His Majesty. ”

said both sides of this, and finally kicked the ball to Chongzhen, which means that he didn't say it. Chongzhen was a little dissatisfied with this answer, but he didn't have a seizure, he just waved his hand: "This matter must be considered in the long run, and the excerpt will not be issued for the time being, you go down first." ”

After Wen Tiren left, Chongzhen carefully read this recital from the beginning, and then put it back on the desk, frowning and thinking. This thought turned out to be more than an hour, the sky was already dark, and it was time to eat.

Wang Chengen didn't dare to urge Chongzhen, but just ordered the palace people to light candles.

The light stimulated Chongzhen in the darkness, he seemed to wake up from a dream, and looked around blankly: "What time is it, why is it dark?" ”

"It's already three quarters of the unitary hour, long live the lord, it's time to pass the meal." Wang Chengen replied.

"It's just time? Not...... Let's pass the meal. ”

The dinner in the imperial dining room had already been prepared, and it had already been warmed up, and as soon as Chongzhen opened his mouth, the large and small dishes were immediately sent up.

Chongzhen has something on his mind, he doesn't have much appetite, and he has a few chopsticks to eat, which tastes the same as chewing wax. He ordered a table full of dishes and instructed Wang Chengen: "Tell the imperial dining room to cook less in the future, I can't eat so much alone." Besides, now that the state affairs are difficult, and there are major wars everywhere, silver is needed, and you have to pay attention to diligence and thrift. ”

Wang Chengen looked at Chongzhen, whose dragon robe was patched, his heart was sour, and he agreed in a low voice.

Chongzhen didn't notice his emotions, and after a few casual bites of food, he asked people to withdraw from dinner. Then he stood up and walked a few steps, and suddenly asked: "Cheng'en, you say, is there any connection between the establishment of military towns and the emergency in Zhejiang and Fujian?" ”

Wang Chengen was taken aback: "This ...... Long live the lord, the slave is ignorant, please make it clear. ”

"Then I will make it clearer: Zhejiang's widows and Fujian's red hairs, were they single-handedly promoted by Nan this summer in order to achieve his goal of opening Qiongzhou?"

Wang Chengen was terrified: "Long live Lord, if Nan has such an ability to drive the red-haired and Japanese people at will this summer, it will be terrible, and the slave maid can't even think about it......"

Chongzhen nodded: "I think so too, if there is such a suspicious person in the Ming Dynasty, the harm is no less than that of the Tartars in Liaodong and the rogues in the west, and even more so." ”

Wang Chengen thought about it carefully and said tentatively: "But, long live the lord, then again, how can a mere Qiongzhou Mansion general have such great ability?" You must know that in order to expel the red hair, the Apocalypse fought in Penghu for three years, and the dynasty fought in Kinmen, spending soldiers and horses, money and food; Not to mention the Japanese people, the Jiajing Dynasty fought for 20 years, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died. These two groups of people are wolf ambitions, greedy and cunning, how could they be willing to be driven by a general? ”

Chongzhen let out a sigh: "It is said that the bystanders are clear, you haven't seen the twists and turns, your thinking has not been disturbed, and your thoughts are simple and pure, but what I think is a little complicated." If the red-haired and the Japanese were both characters who could be easily driven, they wouldn't have had to fight so hard back then. However, the timing of this military town is too coincidental, and it has to be suspicious. ”

"Dare to ask Long Live Lord, which one will come first, this excerpt or the news from Zhejiang and Fujian?"

"Naturally, this excerpt ......came first," Chongzhen replied casually, and then was stunned, "In this way, it is not a request for a military town after inciting the war, and it can somewhat clear some suspicions." Unless he thinks it's as easy to drive the red-haired and the Japanese as it is to summon the house slaves, he will go up the fold first......"

Even Chongzhen himself didn't believe it. If the red-haired and Japanese people who were so tormented that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty wanted to die were just domestic slaves in the eyes of Xia Nan, then wouldn't the faces of Jiajing, Wanli, Tianqi and Chongzhen emperors be swollen?

Chongzhen shook his head self-deprecatingly, he firmly believed that such a demonic character would not appear in the Ming Dynasty, in the final analysis, Xia Nan was just a capable and ambitious general.

He picked up this note again, if Xia Nan could really expel the red hair and the Japanese Kou, then what harm would it do to agree to his request to set up a military town? There are not too many generals who can fight in the Ming Dynasty, but too few, and it is more useful to encircle a military general who is good at training and fighting, than ten civilian officials.

Thinking of this, he sat back in his chair and put pen to paper: If this person can obey the dispatch of the military department and expel the Hongmao warship in Kinmen in Fujian and the Japanese in Taizhou, Zhejiang, the matter will be handed over to the court for discussion.

Xia Nan, who was far away in Qiongzhou, did not know Chongzhen's psychological activities, he only knew that the trick of the red hair and the Japanese invaders had achieved initial results, and the order of the military department was sent to Guangdong soon after, and then handed over to him, and the order was also very simple: the Qiongzhou battalion was opened on the same day, advancing by land and water, and repelling the Kinmen red haired warships and the Taizhou Japanese invaders. If it is impossible to divide the troops into two routes, they will go to Taizhou first, and then go to Kinmen after expelling the Japanese invaders.