Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Although these people are obsessed with preaching, but the rules on the Mongolian side are different from ours, they have believed in immortality since the Han Dynasty, and now it is not easy to suddenly let them change their beliefs, most of them will be frustrated in preaching, and it may not be a good thing to do business with peace of mind at that time." ”

Rosen laughed: "Your Highness still doesn't know them very well, since ancient times, the last thing the people want to do is to rebel, which is a felony of killing the head, but they can incite the people to rebel with them again and again, and they can easily sweep tens of thousands of people, which is not something that ordinary sects can do, so I think they can succeed in preaching." ”

"Even if they succeed, it's nothing, they have mastered Mongolia, let's get more horses, at least their relationship with us is much better than their relationship with the Manchus and Wu Sangui."

"Your Highness is unwilling to suffer a loss in life or death."

Cheng Xiaolian suddenly turned his head at this time: "I heard that this time the army's military food reserves were all made by a child?" ”

"That's right, it's the apprentice Han Yue."

"You have to be careful, you are holding the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, if you mess up because you trained the apprentices, I can't spare you."

"So far, Chengdu Prefecture's military food reserves have been less than a grain of rice?"

"I haven't heard Jinyiwei say it."

"That's it, whether it's the minister or Han Yue, it doesn't matter who does this, the important thing is that the matter of military food will not be delayed, and the minister is just cultivating talents for the Ming Dynasty, otherwise in one or two decades, the minister will go west, will it be possible that the grain in Chengdu Mansion will be in a mess?"

"You should always find someone more reliable, Han Yue is still too young."

"His Royal Highness is also very young, but now that he has taken the land of the four provinces, the minister retracts what he said before, and is willing to serve the Ming Dynasty to death, and please believe that His Royal Highness will never miss a major event because of his own selfishness."

Cheng Xiaolian still believes in this matter, as the saying goes, if the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, and if he is not secret, he will lose his body, since Rosen can hide himself tightly after the rebellion of the three feudatories, there is no news at all, Cheng Xiaolian believes that he sees people.

"You can grasp the importance of the matter yourself, and I will leave it to you and Master Kong in Chengdu Mansion."

At this time, Confucius also came closer: "Your Highness, I heard that in recent days, Wu Sangui's old thief has suffered a lot of defeats. ”

Cheng Xiaolian nodded: "Xia Guoxiang is not a mediocre talent, but now he has not completely subdued the hearts of the soldiers in the army, this is not something that can be completed in a moment, besides, Li Benshen and Wu Sangui have been side by side for many years, and now they are dead, and they died unclearly, it is understandable that many soldiers in the army have complaints, we must believe that Xia Guoxiang will be able to hold on." ”

On the basis of history, Wu Sangui has been pinching the military power in his hand until the day of his death, Xia Guoxiang usually gathered a lot of henchmen, but when Wu Sangui died, he would not be able to subdue the military heart for a while, and Wu Sangui died as soon as the morale of the army plummeted, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty took the opportunity to storm and did not give Xia Guoxiang a chance to breathe.

But now it's different, they don't have a lot of pressure on the Western Front, the so-called Hexi Four Han generals have all been defeated by Cheng Xiaolian, even if Wu Sangui is dead now, Xia Guoxiang can take a breath, and now Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu are leading the troops outside. Originally, when he was in Yunnan, Hu Guozhu and Xia Guoxiang were not dealing with each other, but after so many things, he already admired Xia Guoxiang very much, so Xia Guoxiang had slowly mastered the military spirit and began to downplay Wu Sangui's influence.

Now Wu Sangui is obsessed with the sound of glamour, does not want to forge ahead, and is giving Xia Guoxiang a chance, so Xia Guoxiang took advantage of the situation, plus Wu Shifan's ambition is great and talented, everything has been calculated by his uncle, so Xia Guoxiang replaced Wu Sangui just waiting for him to die.

Cheng Xiaolian used to be most worried that after Wu Sangui died, Xia Guoxiang suddenly collapsed as in history, so he couldn't resist the Manchu Qing, and now that Xia Guoxiang's momentum has been achieved, he can be regarded as able to put his mind at ease, as long as Xia Guoxiang is not crazy and helps the Manchu Qing to beat him, there is room for relaxation.

At this time, the battle of Tongguan has been fought for nearly two months, and all the people are tired, even Qu Songjin, who is the best at defense, can not support it, if it were not for the thick walls of Tongguan City, which has been dangerous since ancient times, I am afraid that it would have been captured by Cai Yurong long ago. Rao is like this, and the original 10,000 guards of Tongguan have also been killed and wounded.

Thanks to Wang Jiyong's recruits, who had already been trained, Qu Songtin arranged them in batches at the head of the city, and after rounds of battles, they could be regarded as veterans.

But not only Qu Songjin, Cai Yurong can't support it, since ancient times, siege warfare is a battle with great damage, and this time his opponent is not the people he met before, Wu Sangui's people are superb in horsemanship, but when it comes to defending the city, it can only be regarded as average, this Qu Songjin is much more difficult than them.

Up to now, Cai Yurong's people have also lost about forty percent, he is known as one hundred thousand troops, although there are less than 70,000 people who can fight, but forty percent is nearly 30,000 people, in general battles, the loss of thirty percent of soldiers and horses can make the army rout, Cai Yurong can be regarded as leading the troops well, which did not let the army rout.

But if he continues to fight, Cai Yurong is not sure whether his soldiers can hold on, if it really causes a rout, his head may not be able to be saved.

And his psychological pressure is also very great, in two months, he didn't even beat Tongguan City, and those courtiers in the court didn't know what to say about him.

Sichuan was busy with the spring sowing and began to conscript, a year is enough time for the people of Sichuan to return to the Ming Dynasty, this year they did not pay a penny of taxes, the grain harvested in the field is all their own, every family has saved surplus grain, even if there is no harvest next year, the family can also survive.

So as soon as the conscription order came out, many people came to enlist, in their opinion, only the court of the Ming Dynasty could let them have enough to eat, and for this, it was also worth their hard work for the Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Zonghao is also a small harvest in Gansu, a few months have been smoothed out of the size of the Gansu Mansion, these days there have been many caravans began to go west, in their opinion the Western Regions is full of gold, as long as the road is safe, they can dig back the gold.

The training of the new army became a difficult matter for Cheng Xiaolian, and now Qin Yue led the Shanhe army to confront Geng Shang's allied forces at Kumen, Qu Songtin in Tongguan, Yuan Zonghao in Gansu, Daniel Zhang in Ningxia, and there were no military generals in Sichuan who could train soldiers. Just when Cheng Xiaolian was at a loss, Hu Dadao stood up.

(End of chapter)