Chapter 676: Means

Zheng Huchen's reply made Zhao Hao a little confused, according to the report of the spies of the Bureau, Chen Hangyan was mobilizing troops, and was in frequent contact with Huang Hua and Mrs. Xu, and seemed to be preparing for a big operation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info In this way, his plans will all fall through, as Zheng Huchen said, he has no time to operate at all, and support Mrs. Xu to become the eldest sister.

"Your Majesty, why don't you ......make a decision immediately," Zheng Huchen saw that the little emperor was silent for a long time, and said again.

"No, their actions will only be aimed at Meng Yuan, not our Qiongzhou, there is no harm to us in fighting, I just regret that so many righteous soldiers died in vain!" Zhao Yu waved his hand and said leisurely.

"Your Majesty, having said that, Chen Hangyan has established himself as the king and is already incompatible with the Xing Dynasty, so why should we feel sorry for him!" Zheng Huchen said.

"Having said that, I am still deeply saddened to see their blood shed in vain!" Zhao Hao sighed and said, he understood that the most worthless thing in the troubled times was human life, but this was contrary to modern values. And he also feels that with the increase of his power, he has to act in his own heart, but it is still difficult for him to treat human life as a mustard.

"Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous, but you must not tolerate treachery and raise tigers!" Zheng Huchen said, "Your Majesty, as far as my subordinates know, those who are stranded in the palace are not easy to get along with, and it is common for them to write letters and admonish at every turn, and it is common to go against the will of the superiors. ”

"You're saying I'm too soft-hearted." Zhao Hao smiled and said, "As the saying goes, the ruler is long, the inch is short, and there is no perfect person in this world." Those celebrities have some tempers, but they are also talented, and only by knowing others and making good use of them can they make up for their own shortcomings. If it is right, we must listen, and if it is wrong, it can be explained, and we must not be beaten to death with a stick. And your subordinates have not also been bandits and thieves, but they can do things for us where they can be used, not slashed! ”

"Your Majesty's lesson is that your subordinates are abrupt!" Zheng Huchen hurriedly saluted.

"At the moment, I and you no longer need to charge into battle and do it yourself, but a word can decide the life and death of people, and even the life and death of thousands of people, so we can't sacrifice anyone without prudence and senselessness." Zhao Yu also said that in his previous life, he felt that the executives of an enterprise were mainly to do a good job in the construction of three teams of management talents, technical talents and skilled talents, and as the supreme ruler, what he had to do was to coordinate the two teams of the military and the government.

"Your Majesty's teachings are in mind!" Zheng Huchen saluted again.

"Master Zheng doesn't have to be polite in private, just be casual." Zhao Yu waved his hand to sit down and said, "Since there is an accident at the moment, we can also reconsider and think of a safe way!" ”

"Your Majesty means that you still want to support Mrs. Xu?" Zheng Huchen asked.

"Well, the other side of a crisis is often opportunity." Zhao Hao nodded, and thought about it, "Director Zheng, where do you think Chen Hangyan wants to fight?" ”

"Your Majesty, my subordinates thought it was Zhangzhou, and the surrounding states and counties all fell into their hands, and there are only two rich places around it, Chaozhou and Zhangzhou, and their goal is nothing more than these two places."

"It makes sense, but I think that Zhangzhou has been broken by it for more than a year, and the treasury has been looted, even if the gains are limited, so their target should be Chaozhou!" Zhao Yu nodded to the map.

"The opinions of his subordinates are different from His Majesty's, those who are brave and brave have limited combat effectiveness, and those who can go into battle are only those pro-soldiers, most of whom are waving their flags and shouting to make up the numbers, otherwise Chen Hangyan has 50,000 soldiers and does not have to rely on the power of Huang Hua and Mrs. Xu. Although Zhangzhou has been breached, the city defense has also been destroyed, and it is easy to break the city. And now it is the trade wind season, the merchant ships will stop in Zhangzhou, if they are defeated, they can still get something! Zheng Huchen said.

"You're right, it's better to be raw than cooked!" Zhao Yu thought for a while, he judged that the fight against Chaozhou was evaluated by the combat effectiveness of his Qiongzhou army, and now he no longer looked down on those 'leftovers', and the less he gained was not enough for the cost, and it did not make much political sense. But the righteous and brave are different, they don't need to support so many officials, and they don't have to pay them salaries, to put it bluntly, it's good to take care of the food, and the right to seize the war should be given red envelopes, and by the way, they can also catch some people to be junior brothers. And Zhangzhou is easy to fight and has small losses, so it is naturally the best target.

"Then Your Majesty won't send troops to help, right?" Zheng Huchen hesitated and asked. He knew that His Majesty liked to pick up cheap the most, and he didn't think it would be to take advantage of the fire to rob, but he couldn't say that after thinking about it!

"I don't want to stir up this troubled water, but I can secretly participate in it!" Zhao Hao waved his hand and sneered.

"What does Your Majesty want?" As soon as Zheng Huchen heard it, he knew that this black work could only be done by himself, so he asked for an order at the moment.

"What we have to do now is to give Mrs. Xu people and weapons as soon as possible to enhance her strength!" Zhao Yu said.

"Your Majesty, aren't we talking about giving them salt?" Zheng Huchen listened and said suspiciously.

"The big war is about to be too late, and in this kind of chaotic war, those who have combat experience and the good guys in their hands can take advantage of it, grab more things, gather more people, and quickly grow their strength!" Zhao Yu said.

"Oh, Your Majesty is really a genius, so we don't need to slowly support him, this bad thing has also made His Majesty a good thing!" Zheng Huchen said in surprise, of course he understood that Yiyong had not undergone strict military training, and those grassroots officers lacked command ability, not to mention that the various departments coordinated with each other. In this way, those junior officers have combat experience, and the team with sufficient weapons will definitely take advantage, and it is still cost-effective for His Majesty to quickly integrate a team of tens of thousands of people with just these.

"No, that's just the first step." Zhao Yu said, "If Zhangzhou is captured again, Kublai Khan will no longer be a watcher, and will inevitably mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress, and there will be variables in it, but we can't grasp it yet!" ”

"Well, with Chen Hangyan's strength, it is difficult to confront Meng Yuan, and they will either be exterminated under heavy troops, or they will take refuge in Meng Yuan!" Zheng Huchen nodded.

"It's an opportunity, we have to grasp it, Chen Hangyan still has some vision, this season is the rainy season, he chose this time to do it because the Yuan army is not good at fighting in a hot and humid environment, so that he has a chance to breathe, but the time will not be too long, so we have to grasp the time of these few months!" Zhao Yu breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty will live up to your expectations!" Zheng Huchen said that he had already seen that His Majesty wanted not only Mrs. Xu's people, but even the territory.

Zhao Hao's plan was very simple, that is, in the name of repaying his kindness, he sent a batch of armor weapons and a letter from Chen Dun, but he never mentioned the matter of sealing and recruiting peace. The escort team is composed of a group of grassroots officers of Fujian nationality selected by each army, and they must arrive just before the big battle, and assist them in the siege battle, so as to gain trust. The next step is to gradually increase the level of aid and try to build it up within two to three months.

Then take advantage of the opportunity of the large-scale conquest of the Yuan army to weaken the strength of Chen Hangyan and Huang Hua, and at the same time use the personnel lurking in them to take the opportunity to defect to Madame Xu to strengthen their strength. After this war, even if Huang Hua and Chen Jiaoyan were not destroyed by the Yuan army, their strength would be greatly damaged, and a volunteer team led by Mrs. Xu was formed in the Fujian and Guangzhou regions, and an anti-Yuan base was established, gaining a foothold in the interior, and opening up a second battlefield to relieve the pressure on Qiongzhou......

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As soon as the wind and rain heard that Zheng Huchen left Boao to transfer personnel and arrange the transportation of materials, because at this time it was handled in the name of Zhao Hao personally, all the needs came from the Zuozang Treasury, and the personnel were also transferred from the guards, which also saved the need for words and swords in the court, and delayed the effort in vain. At the same time, some of the ships that came from Huanghua to sell salt began to empty, but the reason was that the rainy season had reduced the production of salt, and the supply to them had to be reduced.

Regarding the matter of military reform, the situation changed again as several famous scholars and Confucian scholars from Boao joined the debate. Zhao Hao had to admire that these people were indeed knowledgeable, quoted scriptures to refute the opponents, and faintly gained the upper hand. With the development of positive propaganda work for the military, the attitude of the people towards the military has also begun to change, and they have a sympathetic attitude.

The confluence of the two voices made the conservatives in the DPRK a little panicked, and when they could not pronounce it in the "Qiongtai Information", they turned to other tabloids, and for a time the debate escalated again, Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang felt that the situation was urgent, and they wanted to interfere with public opinion for many days, and held a meeting as soon as possible to discuss the unfinished matters of military reform, and made a conclusion as soon as possible, so as to prevent the situation from getting out of control. But His Majesty only needs them to issue a statement in the "Imperial Daily" to indicate the attitude of the imperial court, but this statement is also extremely simple and vague, which can only lead to more speculation, but it cannot have the effect of conclusiveness.

Regarding the panic of the two first assistants and the discussion in society, Zhao Yu was not in a hurry, but promoted his plan in an orderly manner. He remembered that a group psychologist in the United States once analyzed the psychology of the group in the context of the American election, pointing out that among all the characteristics of the group, the group of voters often shows very little reasoning ability. In the same way, they are uncritical, credulous, easily angered, and extremely simple-minded. This does not diminish with the progress of the times, for as long as the nature of the electorate remains unchanged, it will always have all the characteristics of a heterogeneous group.

Based on the psychology of the masses, he summarized several routines to persuade the voter group to succeed in the election, and Zhao Yu felt that this was not a special case, and it was very similar to the current situation he was facing, and there were lessons to be learned.

First, fame has a tremendous power over the group, and it transcends all other factors. Therefore, the candidate must enjoy the prestige or try to win it. The only factor that can replace personal fame is wealth. In addition to this, knowledge, talent, or even genius are not very important success factors. Under the same conditions, a celebrity's probability of winning a campaign is much higher than that of an obscure ordinary person, and the reason for this is the role of fame. In the eyes of the electorate, it is more reliable to vote for a celebrity they know than to vote for a random stranger, even if the celebrity is a complete villain, and the voter group will feel that they at least know something about his shortcomings.

The second, equally important, is that a candidate of prestige must be able to force voters to accept him without discussion. Since the majority of the electorate were workers or peasants, they seldom elected their peers to represent them, because they despised those who were like themselves, and who had no prestige among them. For example, if the voter is a worker, try to insult and slander their employer, and this behavior cannot be excessive. For the rival of the competition, it is necessary to use the method of assertion, repetition and contagion, and try to convince people that the opponent is a complete scoundrel, and that it is a well-known fact that he continues to act, and if you vote for him, it means that a great disaster is about to befall him.

Third, if your opponent is denigrating you, then you must remember that it is useless to bother with any prima facie evidence. If a person lacks an understanding of the psychology of the masses, then he will defend himself with arguments, rather than denying the rumors with categorical assertions. That way, he doesn't have any chance of winning.

Fourth, a candidate must not take the written program too absolutely, and must leave a certain amount of leeway for himself, otherwise your opponents will use it against you in the future. When the program becomes black and white, it is a conclusive piece of evidence that cannot be denied or denied. However, if you are only expounding your program in a verbal narrative, then it is not too much to talk about it. You can be bold in promising your audience the most important reforms, or you can be bold in preaching to your audience about a bad future.

Groups welcome extreme exaggerations, and those radical words can have a huge effect on the masses, but in the actual political realm, they are not binding on the future at all. Because things are always changing, any reform needs to be constantly watched, and voters have neither the energy nor the opportunity to see these things, and they definitely don't even want to worry about it. Nor do they want to know how far their candidate has gone in implementing his platform, or how far he has been reformed, even though voters think it is that platform that guarantees his choice.

However, after Zhao Yu came to the Great Song Dynasty, he found that some people in China discovered this mystery thousands of years earlier than him, and Confucius was also well versed in this way, so he only said half of the words in his life (benevolence, righteousness and morality), and the other half (what this half is estimated only he knows) will always be hidden in his heart. And Zhao Pu ruled the world with half of the "Analects" back then, not because he couldn't understand it, but because he understood it better than anyone else, but later people misunderstood......