Seeing that Crown Prince Zhu Houzhao could not speak for a long time, the ministers present couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Li Dongyang and others were thinking: "The prince has always been a teenager and doesn't know much about the current situation of the war. I guess someone taught him to say something before. He had not prepared this question for Yu Qiao, so he didn't know how to answer it."

Thinking of this, Li Dongyang immediately made a statement and expressed his opinion so that the prince could make a decision based on this and then implement the handling.

Li Dongyang came out and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince..."

"I thought of it!"

Zhu Houzhao suddenly shouted and interrupted Li Dongyang's words, "I think Zijing Pass should not be the focus of my Ming defense. We must strengthen the defense of the capital, and at the same time mobilize all the troops to support the capital, just like what Yu Shangshu did decades ago. Sir... what I said makes sense?"

Li Dongyang was choked by the naughty child and didn't know how to answer for a while. Xie Qian had already praised him: "The prince is very good!"

At this moment, Zhang Mao and Ma Wensheng were looking at Xie Qian, and their expression seemed to be saying, "What are you doing to flatter the prince for no reason?" If this naughty child is arrogant, the matter will be complicated... Have you forgotten the incident of the prince trespassing into the Qianqing Palace before?

Zhu Houzhao was praised by Xie Qian, and was indeed greatly encouraged. He said excitedly: "Oh, by the way, there is also Tumu Fortress. If you want to win this battle, you must send reinforcements to Tumu Fort to rescue Mr. Shen. If he can lead his troops back, the capital will be saved!"

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and others were all winking at Xiao Jing. It was obvious that the prince seemed to know too much.

These old ministers looked down on Zhu Houzhao, who was in his teenage years old from the bottom of their hearts. Although they wanted to regard the prince as the governor and obey orders everywhere, they actually just took the prince out as a decoration so that if something happened, someone would take it.

So Zhu Houzhao expressed his opinions here, which seemed to them like a naughty boy showing off his skills in front of them. He was simply talking nonsense and didn't want to listen carefully at all.

Xiao Jing quickly advised: "Your Highness, the knowledge of these ministers... is all world-famous. Why don't the prince listen to their opinions?"

Zhu Houzhao said: "I'm listening, gentlemen, just say anything, we can sit down and study it slowly!"

The unaware is fearless, this is the most true thought in the hearts of the ministers present.

A young man of twelve or thirteen actually said he wanted to sit down and study the things on the battlefield with Hongru in his sixties or seventies. He was extremely arrogant. They unconsciously thought of Shen Xi... Although Shen Xi is not as arrogant as Zhu Houzhao, every point he put forward is finally proven to be true and credible, which makes them very embarrassed. Who knew that the prince has come out to show off again now.

Liu Jian was relatively loyal and straightforward, reminding: "Your Highness, Tumu Fort is still west of Nei Pass in the Great Wall. Now the Nei Pass is in a hurry and cannot send troops to aid!"

"well!"

Zhu Houzhao sighed quietly, obviously disagreeing with Liu Jian's opinion, "How could it not work? You don't think about it. The Tatars came all the way from Zijing Pass in the south. Outside Juyong Pass in the north, they must be suspicious of the troops, or they may have serious shortages of troops."

"At this time, as long as we send 500,000 troops out of Juyong Pass, we will be able to kill the Tatars. At that time, the Tatars who attacked Zijing Pass will see that the situation is wrong, and they will still escape with their tails in their arms? This is called surrounding Wei and saving Zhao!"

Although this sounds like that, Zhang Mao and others are standing on their hair. What's going on with this?

Now the imperial court does not have a 500,000 army, and even a 50,000 reinforcements may not be pieced together. As for the encirclement of Wei and rescue of Zhao, it is even more nonsense. It is not much different from sending troops to die.

Zhang Mao frowned: "Your Highness, many things are not as simple as you imagined... It is better to make a long-term plan for this matter."

Zhu Houzhao pouted: "What are the long-term and short-term plans? How good is my opinion? This is the result of my research on many achievements in the Heavenly War Arts. I have already understood that the Tatars are actually paper tigers. As long as we have more people than them, we will not lose this battle. If you are afraid of death, you can let me come in person and I will lead the army in person..."

"Ahem!"

When Xie Qian heard this, he quickly coughed and interrupted Zhu Houzhao's words.

Before this kid becomes emperor, he is already thinking of "the imperial guard" in person. In other dynasties, even if this kid is the crown prince, it would be "disrespectful".

Unfortunately, things are so dramatic. No one from Zhu Houzhao competes with him for the position of the prince, and it is rare for the queen to give birth. Unfortunately, the princess was born. Zhu Houzhao's throne was unstoppable. If he was unwilling to inherit the throne, the Ming Dynasty would be prone to chaos.

Xie Qian quickly smoothed out the situation and said, "Your Highness's proposal is naturally excellent, but in the surrounding areas of the capital, there is still insufficient troops and food, so how can we send troops to aid? Moreover, it takes multiple parties to coordinate and take time. It is better to organize the defense of the capital, or reinforce troops to the Zijing Pass..."

Zhu Houzhao said dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Xie, this is your fault. How to send troops to Tumu Fortress requires coordination from multiple parties, and why do you say it takes time and effort? Is it not difficult to reinforce Zijing Pass?"

"this……"

Xie Qian didn't expect that he was just a small grammatical disease and was keenly caught by the naughty child, and he even spoke accurately to him.

Zhu Houzhao continued, "Besides, it seems that there is more than Shen Xi and Shen Qing's family in the Three Borders and Xuanda. Liu Shangshu's troops are also there. Even if you don't consider sending troops to rescue Tumu Fort, you should consider how Liu Shangshu's troops return to Beijing so as not to be taken advantage of by the Tatars."

"Actually, if you give up sending troops, you will lose the opportunity to attack the Tatars from the troops brought back by Shangshu Liu. What kind of way is this to use troops?"

Although these words were just simple truths, at least so many ministers present did not expect it.

The seven consultants and ministers did not expect that Zhu Houzhao would say so much, and it didn't seem like someone was choreographing it in advance. It seemed that every sentence was thought out by Zhu Houzhao himself.

All the ministers were thinking in their hearts: "Where did the prince learn this? Although it was a bit naive, many of the words were loud and loud!"

They didn't know that Zhu Houzhao was naturally confused about studying the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics", but he worked very hard on military strategies. Usually, everyone has their own preferences, and the prince is just like this. The military tactics that Shen Xi taught him were simple and easy to understand and very practical, so that Zhu Houzhao unconsciously learned some practical strategies.

Xie Qian looked back at Liu Jian and others, probably repeated Zhu Houzhao's words, and emphasized: "... His Highness the Crown Prince believes that the army was sent from Juyong Pass..."

Li Dongyang looked at Xie Qian and seemed to be saying, "We heard it, you don't need to mention it."

Liu Jian asked: "This matter must not be done. Before Liu Shangshu returns to the capital, it is better to fight head-on with the northern enemy troops. Strengthening the defense of the capital is the top priority!"

"Hey, sirs, are you a little brave? No wonder Mr. Chen told me that what we lack most on the battlefield in the Ming Dynasty is not the personnel or resources, but a kind of courage. We always think about defending and defending, but we never thought that we could win if we played, and let the Tatars know how powerful our Ming Dynasty was?" Zhu Houzhao protested dissatisfiedly.
Chapter completed!