In May of the 11th year of Hongxi, when the sky was lewd rain, strong winds, and river tides were monstrous, the water of heaven and earth was several zhang high, more than ten miles from north to south, and countless people drowned in the vicinity, and the survivors flowed, and the fields were wiped out.

In the following June, the epidemic in Wucheng, Gui'an, and Deqing counties in Zhejiang Province killed more than 10,580 people. In July, more than 9,100 people died in the five counties of Yinxian, Congxi, Fenghua, Dinghai and Xiangshan in Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang.

The epidemic can be called the number one enemy in ancient times, and the imperial court is extremely concerned about it, and urgently dispatched a number of ministers and relevant officials to the disaster area for evacuation, treatment and pacification, etc., to prevent the epidemic from continuing to expand.

My aunt and grandmother's family hurriedly entered Beijing to avoid the epidemic, and this kind of thing is not easy to say clearly, because if the epidemic cannot be controlled, Jinling is likely to close the city gate at any time, and the whole city will search for people who may be infected.

Xu Hao didn't dare to slack off in this regard, and held a banquet and set up a stage in order to coax the old man in and isolate him. Let Xiangyu take the rest of the people to the countryside to settle down, fortunately, the old aunt and grandmother are well-informed, and this time they decided to move their family to Beijing immediately, and it was not a big problem.

Last year in the north, Yang Rong, a cabinet minister, was ordered to succeed Zhang Fu in Gansu, and was the first to establish a precedent for Wenchen to govern all armies, which can be called a move with both advantages and disadvantages.

Song Hu, the chief military officer, was ordered to recruit the rebellious chieftains, and successively captured the chieftains Baersi, Duoluo, etc., and dispatched Li Ying, an official of the Tusi, to garrison Yemachuan.

The rare rebellion of the Liangzhou chieftain commanded He Ming to lead his troops to pursue and die, and Li Ying continued to pursue and capture all of them. Only the old Han escaped and left the left guard of Chijin Meng, and Song Hu reported to the imperial court, pointing out that the old Han was commanded by the guard to hide Talini, and if the head of the Kou was not removed, it would be a border trouble, and he should send troops to fight.

Yang Rong reported that the old man's rare sin should be cured, but it was the middle of winter, and the road was sinister, and it was not the time to use soldiers. And there are only a few who are guilty. No soldiers can be out.

Zhu Gaochi adopted Yang Rong's Jianyi, prevented the border generals from using troops, and at the same time issued an order to reprimand Talini and order him to tie up the old Han Jinjing.

During this period, Xu Hao's carefully planned raid was successful, and a strictly trained 5,000-person elite team ran thousands of miles in ten days, annihilating the main force of the tribe that had spent the winter in Benjamin in one fell swoop, killing more than 4,000 adult warriors, and scattering the rest. 20,000 old women, old and young, and countless cattle and horses were captured.

In order to preserve his strength, Arutai was also very afraid of the firearms and elusive strike methods of the Ming army, so he did not dare to send troops to support, so Arutai and Benjamin parted ways.

Arutai pleaded guilty and forced Benyasuri to lead the remnants of the defeated army to flee to Warat, and on the way to the Xing'an Mountains, he was chased and intercepted by 30,000 Liaodong troops halfway, and the Mongol army was defeated. There were only about 500 men left in Benjamin.

Waramahamam took the opportunity to send troops to kill Benjamin, and made Bari Khan. This made Arutai furious, and sent envoys to Beijing, asking the imperial court to send troops to avenge the late lord Benjamin. And willing to lead the department as a pioneer.

In the Qianqing Palace, the old god Xu Hao was there, and he did not join the heated debate of the ministers.

History has changed, the demise of Duoyan Sanwei. Directly guide the northern border army and the Liaodong army to border the Warat people, although the buffer zone between the two sides is gone, but who is the Ming army afraid of today? It is not about the supremacy of firearms. However, the modern army, which has a large number of flintlock pistols and various artillery, is no longer inferior to the Mongol knights who come and go like the wind.

The pursuit may still be weak, but the defense is more than enough, and this is the Ming army in the early middle and early Ming Dynasty, and the combat effectiveness is still the first in the world, and then there is no mixing of a large number of civil officials and eunuchs, the role played by the martial arts school, and the generals who have a lot of autonomy, how can they lose to the Mongols whose morale has plummeted and who are still breathing?

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army basically proved the truth that the soldiers were one and the generals were in a nest, as long as the generals were not incompetent, the Ming army could defeat any enemy, even in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the ministers of the DPRK and China will definitely try their best to clamp down on and weaken the military power of the commanders and generals, and Xu Hao is happy to see this, and this must be the case, otherwise the danger of the military generals' dictatorship is too great. But at the same time, it is absolutely not allowed for the civil servants and even the eunuchs to arbitrarily override the military attachés, there must be a degree in this, and I also believe that with the old scheming of the civil ministers, it is not difficult to control the situation.

Since Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, he has not launched a vigorous large-scale military operation against the north, but it has also made Arutai and Mahamu deeply jealous, and they dare not harass the border passes.

This is the same as the Yongle Dynasty in history, Zhu Di's first two personal expeditions to the north achieved great victories, which shocked the Mongols. However, it is no longer cost-effective to continue to send troops to reduce the strength of Warat or Tatar, because relying on the vast grassland, Arutai will definitely not face it head-on, and will adopt roundabout tactics to avoid a decisive battle, although it can also consume the strength of the Tatars, Xu Hao thinks that it is a loss, and the soldiers and horses move the grain and grass first, and the loss of the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is greater.

This is similar to the game of the Three Kingdoms, under the premise that none of the three parties can completely eliminate each other, the best policy is to calm the brake side, otherwise the blow to Arutai will make Mahamu take the opportunity to sit big, and vice versa, in short, the five personal conquests of the Yongle Emperor, in addition to further weakening the Mongol power and maintaining the temporary tranquility of the border, also made the Ming Dynasty exhausted, and did not achieve a decisive strategic victory at all.

Xu Hao also wanted to go through many preparations to assist Zhu Gaochi in mobilizing the whole country, and complete his work to leave a name in history. However, the Mongols are not fools, they can run if they can't fight, and they can't completely occupy the land, and they can't resettle and reclaim the land.

If the Mongols dare to come to Koubian, they must resolutely fight back, and at the same time, the affairs of the war can be solved by means outside the battlefield, such as division, co-optation, assassination, sneak attack, bribery, and the two tigers fighting.

In fact, there is no need for Xu Hao to say anything, he wants Zhu Gaochi and the ministers to agree to send hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer Mongolia? It's just a fantasy, it's not that the ministers don't want to fight, but they are worried about failure?

With the momentum of the Ming Dynasty today, it naturally gave the ministers unlimited confidence, believing that it was enough to maintain the current shape, and there was no complete strategy, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses could not be used lightly.

This year, Mengzuowei commanded Talini to be busy offering the old Hanjin, and Arutai repeatedly asked for surrender, and Mahamu, whose strength had greatly increased, did not have the joining of Duoyan Sanwei, and he did not dare to rebel openly.

At this time, some ministers built yì named Arutai and Mahamu as kings, and encircled them, so that the border soldiers and civilians could recuperate, which was approved by many officials.

Xu Hao opened his mouth and said: "Seal a fart, we don't care if they are willing to be kings, even if it is temporary, there are not many good strategies to deal with the Mongols, only to kill one by one, in order to maintain the combat strength of the soldiers." ”

Seeing that many ministers looked puzzled, Xu Hao explained: "My Han people belong to the agricultural civilization, if they do not fight for a long time, the soldiers return to the fields, and the upper and lower levels are becoming more and more arrogant and corrupt, resulting in the deterioration of the national strength from the peak. The Mongols are not, they belong to the nomadic people, from the Xiongnu, the Turks to the Mongols, and they are used to fighting wars every year, and they are accustomed to fighting wars, which is by no means comparable to our Han people.

At that time, there will be no Taizu and many warlike founding generals, and there will be no today's elite in a hundred battles, what will be the resistance? A talented farmer all over the world? Those who use it also resist with poetry and songs? So that the descendants of later generations were subjected to the catastrophe of alien horses stepping on the Central Plains, and Yuanmeng has only been less than a hundred years now. ”

Yang Shiqi asked in a deep voice, "Then how does Lord Xu think to deal with it?" ”

Xu Hao said: "I have limited ability, and I don't have any good solutions. I only know that the Mongols are the mortal enemies of my Han people, at least for hundreds of years in the future, they will not die with each other, and the king should be in order to appease his heart, accumulate strength and intend to succeed, not for the purpose of obtaining temporary peace, the wolf will always be a wolf, and the king will destroy himself by himself, which is really ridiculous. ”

Not really! In history, Zhu Di was crowned king in order to go on another Northern Expedition, and now some ministers are crowned kings in order to save worry and effort.

Zhu Gaochi weighed the pros and cons and said: "Arutai is now weaker than Mahamu, and it should be used as a king to check and balance Warat, and neither side can annex the other." Xu Hao's words are good, I would never think that Arutai or Mahamu, who are ambitious as wolves, would sincerely surrender to me. ”

Bird's Nest.

A couple of men and women climbed ashore from the river with a grin, because there were trees around them, thinking that there was no one nearby, and continued to work boldly and confidently.

Wang Danzi and Hua Fengxian on the other side of the river couldn't help but look at each other, and for the first time in their lives, they bumped into Ye-He, and Danzi said in a panic: "Who rode Sister-in-law Xu under him?" ”

"Draw a sword to help a true gentleman, and if you don't save you when you die, you are a villain." Hua Fengxian, whose little face was flushed, read two sentences of dialogue on the stage, and said jokingly: "You have learned boxing and kicking from your father, why don't you go to eliminate violence and peace for Tianxingdao?" Carry me over and see. ”

"That's voluntary, it's not like I can't understand it."

Driven by curiosity, Danzi ran around with the phoenix on his back, lurking in the thick grass to peep.

It's a pity that at this time the men and women have lost both, and they are lying down under the shade of a willow, and their bodies are covered with shiny white sand, like two carps jumping ashore from the water, panting with their mouths wide open.

Wang Danzi naturally stared at the seductive part of Xu Sloppy daughter-in-law, while Hua Fengxian blushed and glanced at the man's soft little thing, and secretly said that he had the same hair as himself, could it be that Danzi was the same?

Suddenly, I heard Sister-in-law Xu sigh contentedly: "Do you really want me, a rag that has been ridden by thousands of people?" ”

"Mrs. Zhang, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, Chen Ping, has married five men, and the two main families of Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, are both prostitutes, and I have the same hobbies as them." The strange man is extraordinary as soon as he speaks, and he seems to be very knowledgeable.

Sister-in-law Xu sighed faintly and said, "You take out the ancestral twenty acres of land, Xu is sloppy and willing to exchange me for you." ”

The man said, "How can a man be bought and sold if he is not a chicken or a dog?" ”

Sister-in-law Xu said angrily: "You are a dime, how can Xu sloppy give you my body of more than 100 catties for nothing?" (To be continued......)