.In a blink of an eye, Hu Zongxian had been away for almost half a month. When he arrived in Huizhou, he was indeed sick and asked to rest at home for a while. Although the cabinet had not approved it, anyone understood that Mr. Xu wanted him not to come to Beijing. At most, he would try to keep it in a fake manner, but he would definitely approve it in the end.

In March, the birds and grass grow, the two embankments of Subai and peach willows are sandwiched together, and Hangzhou City has reached a beautiful time of warm wind and intoxication. But now sitting in the signing room, I am sure I can't feel a trace of warmth. One r, one 1 1 1

The troubles in the southeast will not stop because Hu Zongxian left, and the reversal will become more and more intense, and there will be a tendency to be crowded with each other.

First, in Quzhou, Wang Bengu came to urge him all day long, asking him to send troops immediately to wipe out the thugs; then there was the rebellion of the three Chaos in Jiangxi, the governor of Guangdong and the governor of Jiangxi, and they were defeated and lost seven or eight counties. Seeing that the three Chaos were about to be trained, they would become a country in the middle of the country if they did not focus on the suppression.

Next is the issue of food and salary. In the past few days, the people below have already sorted out the accounts. Except for Huguang, which has almost never suffered from war, there are big gaps in all provinces... Zhejiang Nanshi is better, and can pay up to 60% of the military salary, followed by Fujian, which can be half, and the worst is Guangdong and Jiangxi, which can only pay up to 30%.

Seeing that the salary was less than half a month away, the governors from all over the country did not dare to stay in the province, and they all ran to Hangzhou City to ask for support. Not to mention that the vassal treasury had no money, Chen Momo was rich, and he could not give it to them. After all, he, the imperial envoy, was only responsible for the military and political affairs in the Southeast. In the eyes of people, maintaining the status quo is the only thing that is required.

If the reputation is not upright, the words are not going well. If the words are not going well, the things will not work. Before the court officially appointed, Shen will not easily get into this muddy waters, especially the most difficult things to settle for money and food, and will never get involved.

There is another private matter. Rou Niang wrote to me that Ruohan was four months pregnant and now she is not very stable and has a big reaction.

This made Chen feel a little complaining!" It suddenly turned into a full of guilt and self-blame, but he was plagued by official duties and could not return to Beijing. He had to write a sincere letter and ordered someone to send it to his home in a hurry.

He was in a mess and could not handle official duties, so he simply pushed open the piles of files and found the two books given by Hu Zongxian. He carefully looked through them. Hu Zongxian was right. The author of these two books was really a master of military theory. In Shen's opinion, Hu Zongxian's evaluation was actually low. He believed that this person was a genius from the times.

Among the two books, "Jiangnan Jing" has eight volumes, each volume is divided into two sub-volumes. The above volume one is the general essence of military affairs; the below volume one is the general examination of the internal and external situation of Jiangnan; the above volume two is the hand-volume of Volume 2, and the following volume six is ​​the record of the mountains, rivers, rivers, and the following four prefectures belonging to Suzhou, Changzhou, Songjiang and Zhenjiang. Each of them is accompanied by local enemies and key points; Volume 7 discusses the matters of war and defense, Volume 8 discusses the war and preparations, and finally uses water conservancy, storage and grain from Susong. It is also accompanied by maps such as the Southern Capital, the entire map of the prefectures, the entire map of rivers, lakes, lakes, and dangerous maps. You can read the whole picture of the southeast in your heart, so that those passes, the key names of mountains, rivers, rivers, lakes, and dangerous maps are no longer just place names, but really let you understand where the danger is and where it is, so that you can provide strong support for decision-making.

This is the first time Chen has seen such a high-level and detailed and objective military information report in the southeast. Moreover, he saw that the book had summarized the saying of the Japanese: "The best strategy is to capture the sea in the sea and not to put it near the shore; refuse to guard the sea and the harbor, and do not allow the land to be buried, which is the middle strategy; if you go deeper and harm the place, you should be punished, it is the worst strategy. It is clearly proposed that when dealing with the enemy from the sea, the best strategy is to "catch the sea in the sea" to defend the enemy above the sea border; the middle strategy is to "capture the sea and the harbor, and block the enemy outside the country's gates. The worst strategy is to carry the enemy deeper and eliminate the enemy in the territory.

This view proposed at the beginning of the anti-Japanese war was correct, and it was in line with the actual situation of the government army that was stronger than the Japanese and weaker than the pirates on the way. If it was adopted, the time to eliminate the Japanese pirates would be greatly shortened, the losses would be greatly reduced, and the effect would be better.

However, the Governor Zhang Jing at that time adopted the worst strategy and put the Japanese pirates into the mainland. When Hu Zongxian was in power, he could only work hard to expel Japanese pirates who had already established strongholds on the coast. It was not until these two years that he had the conditions to re-annihilate the enemy on the ocean.

What makes the sun even more like a treasure is the book "Chuhaitu" which has thirteen volumes, 173 pictures, about 260,000 words. It has a detailed discussion on the coastal geography, weapons and facilities, and coastal defense strategy of the Ming Dynasty, and is definitely an epoch-making masterpiece.

Moreover, in this book, the author put forward many unique insights, which are not only unspeakable by previous generations, but also highly consistent with the modern maritime power strategy known as Shen. The author listed the three principles of maritime defense strategy, namely, the so-called "restraining the ocean, the hoarding coast, and the guarding of the city." Among them, the most important thing is to "restraining the ocean, the so-called "restraining the ocean, the so-called "restraining the ocean, the great idea," the author believes that the sea defense must be guarded from the sea" and the advocacy of "strikes in the ocean, and the attacking the thief in the near ocean" is the volume 12 "restraining the ocean," the author actually used a whole volume to explain the importance of sea power to a country. If you remember correctly, the concept proposed by the West, Ma Han should be the 19th generation. Ji Shi was three hundred years later than him. What is more valuable is that this person not only has such a strategic vision, but also has deep tactical attainments, as if he said, "When the thief cannot defend it from the sea, the coast's defense is the second battle." He clearly described the elements of coastal defense war: first, the navy and the land soldiers on the shore should be in the right place. In order to implement water and land attacks when the enemy lands land, and set up pre-defense on the shore to prevent the key points of the enemy's possible landing, and leave troops for emergency support. The purpose is to "annihilate the enemy when they are about to land but have not landed. It is really amazing. What he said is simply the key to modern anti-landing war.

Chen was taking notes seriously while reading. Over the past few days, he had written tens of thousands of words of experience. The more he wrote, the more curious he became. What kind of genius was he who could write such military writings?

Later, when I asked the mansion, I found out that it was Hu Zongxian's friend, written by a scholar named Zheng Ruo, who was once called Kaiyang. Chen asked someone to invite him, but the mansion's butler told him that Mr. Zheng and Hu Zongxian went north together. "He still followed the Grand Marshal?" Chen asked Lu. "No, Mr. Zheng said he was going back to his hometown." The housekeeper respectfully said, "Join took the Grand Marshal's sailboat." Where is his hometown?" Chen asked. The housekeeper said, "Juan is from Su Song's generation, but I really don't know where it is."

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything again, Chen asked him to retreat, got up and walked outside the house, and said to Sanchi: "Let Zhu Wu help check the situation of that Zheng Kaiyang and deliver it as soon as possible." Sanchi responded and walked quickly.

Chenru stood in the yard, looking at the bright spring light, sucking in the fresh air, feeling refreshed, and heard someone say at the entrance of the yard: "It's such a good weather, it's a good time to go out for a walk, so don't stay in the house all day."

Chen turned his head and saw that Tang Ruji, who was wearing a common man, nodded at him and said with a smile: "You don't have a large army to urge you to die, why are you still staying in Hangzhou, right?"

Tang Ruji bowed to him and smiled respectfully, "I think that sir, I must have someone to help you when you first come by. Didn't you leave?" "Haha..." Chen smiled and said, "Then I want to thank you." "Don't dare." Tang Ruji smiled and asked casually, "Why did the pair of sisters sent to the sir yesterday have been returned this morning?" "That's what..." Chen laughed and said, "You also know that my mentor has just passed away. Although he is plagued by official duties, he cannot mourn your master, but he still has to stop his voice and expression."

So that's it. Tang Ruji then breathed a sigh of relief and said with a respectful look: "Your pride is sincere and filial, and he is a role model for the learning of the officials." This is not just a saying. Tang Zhongcheng, who was born with brocade clothes and jade clothes, has also recently worn common clothes. Needless to say, he knows who he learned from.

But he was unwilling to give up and returned in vain, and said diligently: "Then go out to raft the West Lake and relax, you won't ruin your filial piety, right?" "That won't..." Chen shook his head and smiled. Bei was not giving face anymore. It was probably Tang Ruji was about to collapse, so he nodded and was about to agree, but at this time he heard a burst of rapid footsteps.

Chen was obviously familiar with this voice and smiled apologetically at Tang Ruhuo, "It's probably an urgent matter from Beijing." Tang Ruji was so depressed that he thought why was it so unhappy?

Sure enough, I saw the gatekeeper in the mansion, carrying a red feather in his hat, and dusty messenger came in, kneeling in front of Shen Ju on one knee and said, "Eight hundred miles in a hurry, please sign for it." As he said that, he took off the bag on his back and took out a large yellow envelope.

Chen nodded, took out the contact from his sleeve, covered the big envelope with a crack, and the messenger pulled the letter off, took it into his arms, and handed the real letter to Chen Ju.

Chen looked at the guard guards and was intact, so he asked him to retreat. At this time, Tang Ruji also knew the tact, "Go out for a walk first." What the eight hundred miles of quick transmission must be a major military event, so he must avoid it.

Chen smiled apologetically at Tang Ruji, then turned around and opened the envelope with a silver-plated letter knife, pulled out the letter paper inside and opened it. It was a cabinet's literary style. Recently, officials from the villages from Ganzhou and Guangdong have been published, telling that their hometown has fallen to the hands of the three anti-civilians, and the relatives of some officials were also killed. What's even more tragic is that five officials were brutally exterminated. These five people wore mourning clothes and knelt down outside the Xiyuan Gate. The capital was shocked and disturbed the emperor's palace. The emperor had issued an order to eliminate the three anti-civilians, and restore peace to the people in Gandong.

Finally, there is also a handwritten by Mr. Xu: 'Yesterday I have recommended you as the Southeast Strategic, generalize the military and political affairs of the Southeast, and control the civil and military affairs of the six provinces. After the appointment, the government has returned to the court. The appointment has not arrived. The top priority for the dynasty is to determine the candidate for the Governor of Jiangxi and Guangdong, and plan to encircle and suppress the "Three Chains Rebels, and must control the situation within half a year and basically calm it down within one year. Otherwise, it will be very unfavorable for me and you."

After carefully reading both sides, confirming that there were no missing information, Chen took the letter back to the envelope and drilled into the heavy and thick iron box. Then he ordered: "Please come in, Lord Tang."

When Tang Ruji came in again, he saw the adult sitting upright behind the big case and knew it was time to talk about business, so he saluted respectfully and then sat on the rosewood chair under him on his order.

"A letter from the cabinet just now" Chen stopped polite and said, "I urged again to quell the Sanchao rebellion as soon as possible, but I did not know the situation in the Jiangxi and Guangdong area. Brother Tang had any candidates to help me solve my doubts. Tang Ruji thought for a while and said, "Liu Xian seemed to have served as a general in Guangdong, so you can ask him. "Yes." Chen nodded and ordered the outside, "President Liu asked him to talk to the mansion." Naturally, someone ran to pass the order outside.

Taking advantage of this space, Tang Ruji whispered: "Sir, the official, I think there is a fire in the distance in Ganzhou, but it is actually more dangerous to smoke nearby." "Oh?" Chen asked: "∽ Smoking? "Yes," Tang Ruji said: "After all, it's too far away, and no matter how big the trouble is, it's still small, but if these things in front of him are not solved well, they will be a big event that is impossible to leave." As if..." Chen said calmly. As if he said, Quzhou, for example, the military pay issue..." Tang Ruji pretended to be very calm: "For example, the candidates for governors in all aspects..."

Chen looked at him with a slant and said in a narrow voice: "Especially, the candidates of each general are the most important ones ● right?"

Tang Ruji's face turned red and he murmured: "The officials are full of public intentions. Now the Southeast civil and military officials still miss Hu Zongxian, but they don't listen to the greetings of the adults. You should make a choice of governors as soon as possible. Those new governors will definitely be grateful to you and help you to suppress all the people below. Only in this way can the adults keep the government orders smoothly and respond to them in one call, so that they can establish unparalleled merits."

"Hahaha, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, Chen shook his head and smiled. "I don't want to build a merit or honor) to pass through these days safely, and burn the incense." As he changed his mind, he said lightly: "But what you said is right. I have to deal with so many provinces and regions alone, and it is really too much pressure..." "It's time to find someone to share the burden.

"Tang Ruji continued excitedly: "The lower-ranking official looked at Yan and recommended himself to the Governor of Jiangbei, so that he would not have to worry about the north of the Yangtze River anymore." "Hehe..." Chen stroked the warm Hetian jade paper on the table, and smiled with unknown meaning, which made Tang Ruji feel so guilty that he had to laugh dryly with him.

Fortunately, Shen stopped laughing for a while, and looked at him with a squinted eyes and said, "Do you want to be the governor of Jiangbei?" "You Dao is to be a wise man but not avoid relatives." Tang Ruji patted his chest and said, "Of course, there is no need to avoid himself.

"Okay, responsible." Chen Ji smiled, but whispered: "However, when you were the governor, the war had already moved to Jiangnan, but in the end, the achievements in the fight against the Japanese were not made. If I gave you the first governor, wouldn't it be difficult to convince the public?" "Isn't it just your word?" He was used to the domineering behavior of Yan Song's era, but he forgot his current benefactor, and he didn't even have half of Yan Song's power.

Chen Ji smiled bitterly, took out a few letters from the drawer, handed them to Tang Ruji and said, "You can take a look at it yourself."

Tang Ruji quickly stood up, took the letters with both hands, retreated back to his seat, and browsed quickly. He saw that Gao Gong, the Minister of Personnel, recommended Li Yan, the Minister of War of Nanjing, as the Governor of Jiangbei; and Zhang Juzheng, implying that Xu Jie asked him to write this letter, recommended Yin Zhengmao, the Governor of Huguang, as the Governor of Jiangbei; and even the boss Yan Ne, who was tactfully asked him to consider his student Lu Shude... and there were also several people who asked him to ask him to do so, but he had no intention of reading.

When he raised his head again, Tang Ruji was already worried and muttered, "Isn't he just a devastating governor? Why are everyone looking at him?"

"That's what he said." Chen sipped the tea ceremony: "The Governor of Jiangbei is in charge of the vast majority of Nanzhili except Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Songjiang... Can we find a more prosperous place in the world?" "Sir, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, a garden?"

"Of course not." Chen felt that the time was coming, and he would be completely discouraged when he hit Tang Ruji again, so he began to add to the fire, "I should do my best to recommend you, but you have to do something to let those people get out of the way." "What are you doing?" Tang Ruji was not stupid, so he naturally knew that it was impossible to pass the test easily. "Solve a big problem for the Southeast and the court." Chen smiled and said, "Then no one can argue with you."

Tang Ruji understood and said hard: "You don't want me to get money, are you?" Chen would definitely not expect him to judge in war. The contribution he could make is to make money.

"It's true that he is Brother Siji." Chen Ji's smile on his face became even brighter, and he said, "I have calculated that the total difference in military salaries in Southeast this year is 2 million taels. If you can help solve it, everyone will accept your affection. If anyone dares to rob you, no need to say, everyone will drown him if they spit out."

Tang Ruji couldn't laugh and said, "The finances in a province are not yet fully integrated, let alone supporting other provinces. If I really do that, I will be scolded to death by the civil and military officials of the province."

"Oh, it's not for free." Chen said in a hurry: "They write IOU, calculate interest, pay two points according to the industry's loan, and use the government's reputation as a guarantee to ensure that it will not be invalid due to personnel changes. Is this okay?"
Chapter completed!