Ming Dynasty: The poisonous imperial teacher, Zhu Yuanzhang advised me to be kind

Chapter 42 Chu Nan’s second evil plan to deal with Bei Yuan, driving the dog to eat the wolf!
"What's wrong?" But Empress Ma was not stupid. She could tell that they were shocked by her opinions, and immediately looked at Zhu Yuanzhang unconvinced.

"Zhongba, isn't Chu Nan's plan kind?"

"You don't even want the soldiers to rest during the New Year. That's really vicious."

"What?" Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked. Sister, what happened to you today? Not only did you not mention Chu Nan's poisonous scheme, but you also mentioned my poison? He was really annoyed.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang excited, and he looked at Chu Nan: "Chu Nan, don't you have a trick and a trick? Tell me about the trick you were tricked into."

Zhu Yuanzhang had been shocked by Chu Nan's vicious plan before, so he understood that each of Chu Nan's three plans must be more vicious than the last.

Since the plan of Qiu Shouchun fighting failed to shock Empress Ma, then falling into the trap would definitely shock Empress Ma, so he wanted to hear whether Chu Nan fell into the trap.

Moreover, he himself really wanted to hear the trick.

Although the plan is good, it still requires some military action. Given the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is better to avoid military action if possible.

The others also looked at Chu Nan curiously. After all, the plan he came up with was so good, so falling into the trap must be even better.

"Okay." Chu Nan listened to Zhu Yuanzhang's urging and spoke without saying anything more.

"Your Majesty, if the core of my lower plan is four words, 'defend in autumn and fight in spring', then the core of my middle plan is eight words, 'make friends far away and attack near, drive the dog to devour the wolf'."

"Make friends with distant countries and attack nearby ones? Drive the dog to eat the wolf?" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned after hearing Chu Nan's words. What did Chu Nan want to do?
The other princes were also puzzled. They all knew this idiom and its origin, so what did Chu Nan want to do?
Make friends with distant countries and attack them? But the Ming Dynasty borders many countries, aren't they equally far away?

"Could it be?" But after hearing Chu Nan's words, Liu Bowen's eyes lit up, because he suddenly understood what Chu Nan wanted to do.

If Chu Nan really did that, it would definitely be a good idea.

Seeing that they were surprised, Chu Nan continued to speak.

"Your Majesty, this minister's eight-word plan is very simple to explain."

"The original meaning of 'make friends with distant forces and attack nearby forces' should be to make friends with distant forces and attack nearby forces, but this is not what I mean by 'make friends with distant forces and attack nearby forces'."

"My idea is that since we are dealing with the Northern Yuan, we should make friends with all the forces except the Northern Yuan. As for the Northern Yuan, we should attack it."

"This way, when we attack the Northern Yuan Dynasty, we won't have to worry about intrusion from other forces."

"That makes sense." After listening to Chu Nan's words, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

In fact, in addition to the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was surrounded by many powerful enemies who were eyeing it covetously.

For example, some forces in the Western Regions, the Zhen people, and some natives near India in the south, all had frictions of varying degrees with the Ming Dynasty.

But if we had a better relationship with them, we would have no worries when attacking the Northern Yuan Dynasty and would be able to mobilize more troops.

"Good." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. This was a good plan.

But he frowned again.

"The plan is good, but it's not poisonous. It's strange. How can your plan not be poisonous?"

"Yes." The other princes were also puzzled. They were used to Chu Nan telling people vicious plans, so how come this plan was not vicious?

"Zhongba, are you confused?" But Empress Ma was shocked when she heard it.

"Since this plan is quite good, why do you still want to use a vicious plan? You are so vicious. Look how kind Chu Nan is." Then she kept thinking about her princes: "Princes, what's wrong with you? Didn't your master teach you benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness? Why do you like to use vicious plans so much? Could it be that you were led astray by your father?"

"What?" Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes were all stunned.

They are vicious? Chu Nan is kind? What is this? It's going to explode!

Even Chu Nan felt embarrassed. In fact, he was not that simple and kind. His plan was just a little bit vicious.

Then he said, "Your Majesty, I have four more words to say about falling into a trap."

He continued to explain: "The remaining four words are, 'drive the dog to devour the wolf', which is also very simple to explain."

"The Ming Dynasty is a powerful dragon that dominates the world, and the Northern Yuan Dynasty is now a ferocious jackal. It is easy for a powerful dragon to use all its strength to deal with a jackal, but it will also pay a price."

"And now your majesty's idea is that you don't want to pay the price, but you want to kill the jackal. That's easy. Aren't there many other forces near Beiyuan?"

"For example, Nuzhen and Goryeo. We can treat Nuzhen and Goryeo people as hunting dogs, provide them with gold, silver, food, and equipment, and drive them to continuously devour the Northern Yuan people."

In fact, Chu Nan didn't come up with this idea on his own, but learned it from many people.

The first force to learn from is definitely Da Piaoliang. It supports younger brothers around others, and then treats them as dogs to bite others. It has done this too many times.

The second person to learn this was naturally Li Chengliang, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, he could have easily wiped out the Nuzhen people in Liaodong, but he knew clearly that if he wiped out the Nuzhen people, he would be useless and would end up like Qi Jiguang.

So he nurtured the enemy to strengthen himself. Nurhaci and his men became more and more powerful as he nurtured them. After they were well trained, he let Nurhaci fight the Ming army, and he attacked again. After defeating them, he gave Nurhaci money and let him rise again.

This cycle continued over and over again. Nurhaci could not be destroyed, and Li Chengliang's military power could not be removed.

So this is also a case of driving the dog to swallow the wolf, but this time the Ming Dynasty has become the wolf.

"This? This is a good strategy!" This strategy was often used in the game between big countries in later generations, so it can be used in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also shocked after hearing this. He didn't need to send out many troops. He only needed to send some gold, silver, food, and equipment to make the Northern Yuan people suffer. That was simply a huge profit.

"In this way, my Ming Dynasty only needs to manipulate things behind the scenes, right?" The princes were not stupid. After listening to Chu Nan's explanation, they understood Chu Nan's idea.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty could inflict damage on the Northern Yuan people without losing a single soldier.

Liu Bowen also nodded. This strategy was really good. If the world was a chessboard, this strategy would make the Ming Dynasty the chess player, and whether it was the Zhen Kingdom, Goryeo, or the Northern Yuan Dynasty, they would all become chess pieces, at the mercy of the Ming Dynasty.

Once a country becomes a pawn of another country, can it last long? If it does, the Northern Yuan Dynasty will surely be defeated!
"Okay!" But after they were shocked, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have caught something and laughed at Chu Nan.

"Chun Nan, your plan this time is not very kind."

"You didn't hurt our Ming people, but you made friends with the Nuzhen and Goryeo people, gave them supplies, and asked them to fight the Northern Yuan people, but they suffered a lot of injuries."

"Chu Nan, your scheme doesn't harm the people of the Ming Dynasty, but it does harm the people of other forces. You don't leave them any chance to survive."

Then he looked at Queen Ma proudly: "Sister, do you still say that Chu Nan is not poisonous?"

(End of this chapter)