In the study, Prime Minister and King Qi, Yu Wenming, were talking to the prince Yu Wenli. In front of the father and son, there was a map with the mountains and rivers in Huainan and Jiangnan, and Yu Wenming was listening to his son's statement on it.

Yu Wenli was young and served as the governor of Yongzhou for more than a year. In fact, he had just adapted, let alone never led troops to fight a war. He could not think of any strategy to pacify Chen Fang's strategy based on himself.

In fact, this is the exam for his son by Yu Wenming, a father. He handed over several Pingchen Fangluo drafted by his confidants to his son, letting his son think about it himself, and then express his own opinions.

Whether it is said well or not, whether it is right or not is secondary. The key is to think carefully about it so that you will know what you really want to lead troops south in the future.

When the Jiangnan is pacified, the troops will return to the court and their son will be glorious, and his father will naturally be glorious.

Chen State should have been done four years ago, but because of changes in the Zhou Dynasty, Chen State was able to survive until now.

In this regard, Yu Wenming felt that it was boring to drag on it, and it would change later. So after he stabilized the internal and external situations of the court and the outside world for more than a year, he began to plan to pacify Chen and unify the world.

Ending hundreds of years of war and confrontation between the north and the south was a great achievement that had been famous in history. Yu Wenming should have led his troops to fight himself, but as the prime minister, he could not leave Chang'an easily to avoid any change.

His control over the prefecture was not yet at a certain level.

For Yu Wenming, there are too few reliable officials, and it is inappropriate to stay away from Chang'an, the power center. Therefore, if he goes to war, it is best to bring the emperor with him to "in-person expedition".

But the emperor was too young. Once the environment was not adapted to the environment and the land on the way, it would face a dilemma. Therefore, Yu Wenming knew that he could not move.

In this way, someone else had to be appointed as the marshal of the army and lead troops to pacify the Chen State. Although there were many suitable candidates, Yu Wenming could actually choose only two people, one was his younger brother and the other was his son.

Wang Yuwen Wen, who has fought on the battlefield for more than ten years, has made great achievements and has never been defeated. He is known as "unbeaten". From a military perspective, it is perfect to appoint Yuwen Wen as the commander-in-chief Chen.

But the problem is, how should Yuwen Wen enjoy such great achievements?

Yuwen Wen has already reached the title of King. No matter how high it is, can it be a territorial treasury?

If you don’t reward your achievements, it’s hard to reward them. Yu Wenming knew that his younger brother’s position was already very high, and no matter how high he was, he could not be higher than himself.

Of course, if Yuwen Wen really made great contributions to pacifying Chen State, there would actually be no way to reward him. That would be to grant Yuwen Wen's sons the county dukes and the state dukes as rewards.

But if this continues, what should I do after several years?

If a person has no long-term contempt, he will have immediate worries. Yu Wenming knows his situation and will definitely take the position. Then he will have to face a problem: his younger brother has too many sons, which will become a threat to imperial power in the future.

Since the catastrophe of the second year of the elephant, the royal family has withered. As of today, the adult men are Yu Wenming and his younger brother Yu Wenwen. Yu Wenming's eldest son Yu Wenli. He is less than twenty years old this year and can barely be considered a real adult.

The underage men, Yu Wenming, had a second son, his youngest son, and Yu Wenwen, who had six sons.

Yu Wenming and his son are four, and Yu Wen Wen and his son are seven. After more than ten years, the little guys will start to enter the government, and the number of people between the two sides will begin to be unbalanced, which is a hidden danger to the imperial power.

When Emperor Tianyuan rejected the imperial uncles, he gave the relatives an opportunity to take advantage of it. In view of this, Yu Wenming knew that he would have to decentralize the power of the royal family and protect the imperial power with the royal family.

But by then, except for the prince, the other royal family will be Yuwen Wen and his son. With such decentralization of power, the strength of Yuwen Wen and his son will greatly increase, which is not good.

However, if the power was not divided to the royal family, not to mention what Yuwen Wen would think, Yu Wenming felt that relying on himself and his son alone would be very difficult to calm so many powerful people.

Therefore, the royal family should use it, but they should not use it too much. This has high requirements for power and skills, which is the so-called "imperial arts". Yu Wenming is afraid that Yu Wenli will not be able to sit firmly in the throne after a hundred years.

Either like Emperor Tianyuan, he was determined to defend the royal family, but he was cheaper than his relatives; or Yu Wenli was overshadowed by his uncle and cousin, and he was in trouble in the end.

Yu Wenming even felt that it would be difficult for him to suppress his younger brother, because Yu Wen Wen was so outstanding.

At the beginning of last year, Yu Wenliang, the king of Qi, made arrangements before his death, allowing Yu Wenming to rule in Chang'an, and let Yu Wen Wen shock Guandong in Luoyang. The two brothers, one inside and one outside, support each other.

This arrangement is indeed effective. Over the past year, Yu Wenming has gradually stabilized people's hearts and has gained power more and more tightly.

But as time goes by, the relationship between the two brothers will inevitably change, and finally the relationship between superiors and subordinates becomes the relationship between monarch and subjects. At that time, the situation will be different again.

Yuwen Wen is in charge of Luoyang, and after a long time, he will not lose his life. This is a hidden danger to the imperial power and a hidden danger to the country. Once it is not handled properly, there will be a risk of a civil war.

Yu Wenming knew that he would face this problem sooner or later and had to find a way to solve it, but his actions should be "light" and he could not stimulate his younger brother. Otherwise, if he was not careful, a civil war between the East and the West would break out.

If you really want to fight, Yu Wenming is not very confident in defeating his younger brother, because Yu Wenwen's performance on the battlefield was too magical, and all kinds of strange weapons emerged one after another. Yu Wenming is not sure how much chance his army will have when facing Yu Wenwen.

Not to mention that brothers are fighting each other, they will only let outsiders take advantage of the situation and fight each other. No matter who wins, they are just making wedding dresses for others.

The Yuwen family's country could not withstand such torture, so Yuwenming did not want to choose this path unless he had no choice but to start making arrangements in normal times and slowly weaken his younger brother's strength.

This is a serious reality and has nothing to do with brotherhood. Yu Wenming knew that if he did not make plans in advance, he would probably have a headache if he ascended the throne and became emperor in the future.

Now is the time to make arrangements in advance, Yu Wenming made up his mind to never let Yu Wen Wen be the head coach and make great contributions to pacifying Chen State.

Therefore, Yu Wenming wanted his son Yu Wenli to be the head coach and to win this great achievement, which would prevent Yu Wenwen from being rewarded with great achievements and being difficult to reward, and the other hand, it would also allow Yu Wenli to accumulate reputation.

When he became the prince in the future, he would have enough reputation to gather the court officials and compete with King Bin.

This is the layout of Yu Wenming, and no one can change it, but the problem is not that it is the choice of the opportunity to use troops.

It would be great if the troops could be launched next autumn. This would be enough to make full preparations, but Yu Wenming was afraid that it would change after a long time and that his son's credit would be taken away by his younger brother.

So it is best to start at the end of this year and end the war before the rainy season comes next year.

But this is too hasty. After all, it only took two years of cultivation and rest in Henan. If you make a big move, Yuwen Wen will definitely use this as an excuse to persuade (obstruct).

Of course, Yu Wenming was confident that he would eliminate the criticism and asked his son to lead troops to attack Chen State at the end of the year. But in this way, if the war was unfavorable, it would be a big problem, let alone if Yu Wen Wen was doing something bad on his back...

Although Yu Wenming doesn't think his younger brother will really make trouble in the supply of food and grass, it is better to think carefully about the power struggle sometimes.

Yu Wenming thought about it over and over again, and felt that the night was long and dreaming, so he finally decided to take action at the end of the year. In any case, he had to ensure that his son won Pingchen Dagong. So he started taking the exam for his son these days to see what he had for Pingchen.

But in fact, Yu Wenli does not need to participate in military affairs specifically. The important task of commanding the army's operations is to be handled by the marshal chief and Sima. Yu Wenming's son is so serious about taking the exam to give his son a chance to exercise.

You must know how to use troops, otherwise you will show your timidity in front of your uncle.

As for the excuses for war, of course, there will be no shortage. Chen Bogu and Chen Fangtai, a royal family member who fled from Chen State to Zhou State, had a grudge against Chen Shubao, the emperor of Chen State. For Yu Wenming, these two people are good tools.

Chen Bogu and Chen Fangtai will "cry" about Chen Shubao's atrocities in Chang'an, saying that the people of Chen were in dire straits, so they were planning for the people of Jiangnan to ask the royal army to go out to fight and punish the people.

So, there will be no problem.

Yu Wenming thought so, and when he saw his son talking very well, he was very satisfied. The father and son talked for a moment, and suddenly an emergency official document was sent by the assistant minister of the prime minister.

Wei Wen, the general manager of Hongzhou, sent an envoy to report urgently that the Zhou merchant ship was attacked outside the capital of Chen Guoguo Jiankang, and suffered heavy losses;

The patrol envoy, Wang Wang Yu and Wen Wen sent an envoy to report that the patrol sea ship was attacked at the port of Kuaiji County, Yangzhou, and suffered heavy losses.

Wei Wen sent an envoy to report urgently, waiting for the court's further decision to take corresponding measures, while Yu Wenwen sent an envoy to report urgently, and Yu Wenming could see his younger brother's anger and the other party's request from the writing.

Immediately send an envoy Chen State to negotiate. If the other party does not give a satisfactory reply and compensation, then start a war.

Yu Wenming, who had originally planned to launch troops at the end of the year, saw a great excuse for war in front of him, but was happy, but he was a little confused.
Chapter completed!