Chapter 53 Spring Returns "Fortunately, they didn't say that King Wu would not pay for the food when he came."
Zhu Chongjiu flipped through the secret report sent from the north by the General Intelligence Department and threw it on the table with some depression.
Because the cold flood season came a little later this year, as well as some other internal reasons, the main force of the Huai'an army has not yet crossed the river.
Only a small force was sent out and a few outposts were established on the north shore.
Judging from the intensity of the enemy's resistance and the intelligence at hand, Tuohuan Timur was obviously not prepared to place the main battlefield on the bank of the Yellow River.
The Huai'an Army's subsequent river crossing work will basically not be interfered with much.
There will be no suspense about the goal of pushing the main force to the front line of Jeju in mid-February.
What is even more exciting and inexplicable is that the powerful gentry in the North who were originally expected to cause trouble for the Huai'an army began to change their attitudes.
Many families risked being confiscated and exterminated by the Mongolian and Yuan officials, so they sent their direct descendants and nephews to Xuzhou to serve.
It seems that the guys who previously provided money and people to support Chahan Timur and Li Siqi have nothing to do with them.
To paraphrase a popular saying from Zhu Dapeng’s time and space, the situation at hand is very good.
Not averagely good, but surprisingly good.
But despite the great situation, there were some trivial things that made Zhu Chongjiu feel speechless.
It was like eating a state banquet-level meal and suddenly discovered a plate of fried stinky tofu hidden inside.
"In fact, it's not wrong to add that the King of Wu will not pay for the food when he comes."
Liu Bowen's evaluation of the military intelligence office's actions on the hidden front in the north was very different from Zhu Chongjiu's.
"Anyway, in the newly restored land, we will definitely not be able to collect the grain taxes this year and next.
And the lord's future treasury needs will not depend on the local grain taxes.
So, why don't the lord just take the initiative and do a favor?"
"But after all, sooner or later, we have to close the door.
You know that's not the only thing I'm worried about."
Zhu Chongjiu glanced at him and shook his head slightly.
Obviously, Liu Bowen was deliberately interrupting.
I don’t want to distract myself from these little things.
After all, up to now, all matters related to the Northern Expedition are being carried out in accordance with the predetermined plan of the General Staff Headquarters, without delay and in an orderly manner.
It was almost as perfect as a clock that had just appeared, every tick was accurate.
It's just that there's more of a cold air of steel inside, and it lacks some of the flavor of life.
However, Zhu Chongjiu couldn't help but be distracted sometimes.
Although, his current thoughts are incompatible with those around him.
Except for Sesame Li, who has been dead for many years, no one in the world understands the allusion of "The King of Wu will not accept food when he comes".
But now, he could vaguely see himself slowly moving closer to the King Li Chuang of that year.
Relying on the people's dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty and their expectations for light taxes and light taxes, the old order was quickly smashed to pieces.
However, after turning from a rebel to a leader, he found that many of the responsibilities that his opponents had previously shouldered were passed on to him.
But under his command, he only has 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers to fight, and two to three million in usable wealth.
Many good promises made earlier quickly turned into a dream.
He had promised not to pay the grain before, but later he found out that if the people were not allowed to pay the grain, King Chuang himself would have to starve to death.
"Is it the price of food in the north, or is the protagonist of the nursery rhyme sung everywhere worrying too much?"
If Liu Bowen could guess what Zhu Chongjiu was thinking, he would definitely cry out for injustice.
In fact, he didn't pay much attention to Zhu Chongjiu's emotional changes in recent days.
The reason why I spoke out to enlighten the other party was just to fulfill the duty of a courtier.
"Although the price of food has increased far beyond the predictions of the General Staff, as long as wild vegetables grow in the fields, not many people will starve to death.
Moreover, the Lord has tried his best to guide the people to flee the famine, and he is not the one who forces them to stay in the city.
You.
As for those nursery rhymes, since ancient times, when leading troops in battle, they have used all possible methods."
"Yes, the responsibility is not on me for starving to death, but on Meng Yuan's side."
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Zhu Chongjiu glanced at Liu Bowen again, his face becoming more and more lonely.
This is the pain of the time traveler.
Even the people who have walked closest can find it difficult to understand his thoughts.
After all, there are hundreds of years of evolution between the two sides.
And having passively lost the "wolf blood" of the nomads for more than seventy years, the heroes of China in this time and space are far more ruthless and cold-hearted than their predecessors in the Song Dynasty.
"It's just, I heard a sentence."
Before Liu Bowen could continue to explain, he added with a wry smile.
"No matter how noble and bright the ultimate goal is, it should not be pursued by evil means.
Because the goal is a tree and the means are seeds.
How can evil seeds grow into a tree of justice?"
This sentence is even further away from people’s thinking nowadays.
Liu Ji was stunned for a long time, then he stroked his beard and shook his head in response, "I'm afraid this sentence was said by the late master.
Why did Wei Chen not see it in the book of masters given by the late master?
Please forgive me for speaking frankly.
This statement sounds really shocking at first.
However, I am afraid that the teacher’s words are about how to stand up in prosperous times, not how to create peace in troubled times.”
Hidden Master is the honorific title compiled by Zhu Chongjiu for his mentor.
Especially in the eyes of Liu Ji, Luo Ben and other civil servants, their own lord who can hold Huaiyang with a butcher's knife is definitely not an illiterate man.
Rather, like Zhang Liang at the end of the Qin Dynasty, he was a disciple who was taught by a hermit sage of unknown origin and was highly praised by him.
As for Zhu Chongjiu, he compiled it one after another based on his own memory, and commissioned Lu Shuang'er to copy several books that in another time and space could only be regarded as ordinary high school or pheasant university textbooks, such as arithmetic, physics, basic economics, etc.
People who have been in contact with it automatically think that it is Zhu Chongjiu's master's secret skill, and its status is equivalent to Taigong's Art of War and Huang Shigong's Three Strategies.
Note 1 Zhu Chongjiu really couldn't explain the mystery of the fusion of two souls and the intersection of two time and space, so he smiled and acquiesced to Liu Ji and others' speculation.
The advantage of doing this is that in the eyes of people around him, he is no longer the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha.
But it also led to a huge negative consequence, that is, after reading all the secret knowledge he contributed, Liu Ji and others no longer believed in every word in the book, but began to try to argue or question .
"It is said that Taigong Shang once said that it is better to take what is straight than to seek what is wrong."
Like Liu Ji, Luo Ben also felt that Zhu Chongjiu's sudden mentality was a bit inappropriate.
"But Taigong Shangzhi's words were to teach King Wen how to govern the country, but not how to conquer the world.
Since ancient times, military strategists have maintained that there are differences between internal and external affairs."
"Yes, my lord himself once said that as long as it can save my Huaiyang children from sacrifice, I don't care to use some extraordinary means during the Northern Expedition."
Lest Zhu Chongjiu violate the benevolence of a woman at the critical moment, Chen Ji, the head of the Military Intelligence Department, also hurriedly followed Behind Luo Ben's support, the three strands of mustache he had just grown looked extraordinary.
Although Su Mingzhe, the head of the Government Affairs Council, did not help, what he suddenly pulled out like magic was a thick stack of account books.
Without looking carefully, Zhu Chongjiu knew just by the color and markings on the surface that this was to create convenience for the Huai'an Army's Northern Expedition.
It was a breakdown of the investments made by the General Manager's Office in recent months.
That was a very huge amount, almost equivalent to a whole year's tax revenue of the Grand Steward's Office.
Fortunately, in addition to taxes, the General Manager's Office also holds the dividends received from Huaiyang Company in the past two years, and has just raided Pu Shougeng's home.
Otherwise, according to this trick, the Huai'an army will have to cut off its food and salary before it can reach the capital city.
Whether it was a vocal refutation or a silent reminder, everyone here expressed the same content.
Those who achieve great things do not stick to trivial matters.
In order to ensure the success of the Northern Expedition, any means can be used as long as it is effective.
Morality and compassion can only be applied to one's own people and cannot be given to the enemy's troops and people.
The so-called own people are the Huaiyang General Manager's Office, Huaiyang Company, Huai'an Army, and the newly revealed Huaxia Fuxing Society.
At most, it can be expanded to all the people under the current rule of the Grand General Mansion.
And the Li Shu people in the occupied lands in the north should definitely not be counted.
"Several people misunderstood that Zhu was not suddenly showing mercy, nor was he accusing the Military Intelligence Department of being too insidious in recent times."
Under normal circumstances, Zhu Chongjiu could obey the unfaithful advice from within the General Manager's Office. .
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But at this moment, he made an exception and chose to be stubborn.
"I just think that if you can do it honestly, try not to use these extraordinary methods.
Nursery rhymes are easy to make up and spread quickly enough.
But nothing Be careful, others may take advantage of it and harm yourself.
As for the current man-made famine in the north, although we are not responsible, it was undoubtedly caused by us in the first place, so Zhu cannot wait any longer."
After a slight pause, his eyes quickly swept across everyone's faces, and what he saw were mostly hesitation, confusion, depression and disappointment.
"So, Zhu decided that we won't wait any longer.
Deji, pass on my general order."
Hu Deji, the adopted son of Hu Dahai, the general staff officer of the General Staff Headquarters, stepped forward with excitement on his face.
"I sent an order to General Wang Xuan and Feng Changshi from the waterway.
The Sixth Army Corps, after receiving the order, immediately launched an attack on the Yuan army on Yidu Road.
Within two months, Jinan must be captured and Dongchang threatened.
We also gathered the affected people from various places and carried out local relief.
The necessary food and grass were directly transferred from Yangzhou Liuhoufu."
"Yes" Hu Deji agreed loudly again, grabbed a special steel-point pen, and began to write military orders by hand.
"Huang Zheng, the head of the Works Bureau, and Yu Changlin, the head of the Household Bureau.
Starting tomorrow morning, you two will be responsible for organizing the people and craftsmen to build a pontoon bridge on the Yellow River.
The cost can be relaxed, but the bridge must be built strong enough, at least It can withstand the severe floods on a normal scale."
"De Ling" Huang Laowai and Yu Changlin were both practical men.
Regardless of whether they supported heading north now or not, they both stood up and took orders decisively.
"Lord" Zhang Song, the head of the Internal Affairs Department, stood up and hesitated to speak.
Although he had not spoken before, he and many of the civil servants present agreed in private that it would be more beneficial to them if the Huai'an army would delay the attack by ten days and a half.
After all, the famine in the north had just begun, and the feud between the local officials of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and the powerful families had just begun.
The Huai'an army waited for today on the south bank of the Yellow River, allowing the disaster in the north to continue to spread and conflicts to continue brewing.
Perhaps many cities could be defeated without a fight.
"General Xu Tiande," Zhu Chongjiu didn't stop.
He ignored him and quickly turned his gaze to Xu Da, who was always silent.
"From now on, you will immediately implement the Privy Council's Tianzi No. 1 action plan.
Don't do it again."
Delay.
After crossing the river, you will be solely responsible for some matters on the front line.
Liu Bowen will be responsible for making suggestions for you, and Zhu will personally organize the delivery of supplies in Xuzhou."
"Yes."
Xu Da suddenly grinned, raised his hand and gave Zhu Chongjiu a standard military salute.
Just because he doesn't like to talk doesn't mean he doesn't have his own thoughts.
And the decision Zhu Chongjiu suddenly made was exactly the one he was looking forward to most.
After such a long time and such a huge change in status, the Grand Governor is still the same Grand Governor, and he still has not forgotten the dreams he told everyone when he was in Xuzhou.
Xu Da understood that he had not forgotten either.
Note 1: The purpose is the tree and the means are the seeds.
This is a famous quote from Martin Luther King.
Note 2: According to the historical records and the biography of Liu Hou.
Zhang Liang met an old man named Yi when he was walking.
The old man rudely ordered him to pick up his shoes many times, but Zhang Liang obeyed with patience because of his age.
The old man saw that his boy was teachable, so he gave him a book called Taigong's Art of War.
And it calls itself Huangshi at the foot of Gucheng Mountain in Jibei.
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Zhang Liang relied on this book to assist Liu Bang in conquering the world.
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, someone pretended to write the Three Strategies of Huang Shi Gong in the name of Huang Shi Gong.
Because of its high level, later generations still regarded it as a military classic even though they knew it was fake
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