Chapter 990: Kill the third child

Zheng Huchen usually feels that he is not a stupid person, but he also won the Jinshi when he was young, and he has been in charge of intelligence work for so many years and can also capture useful information from the vast amount of information, but today he is fundamentally the little emperor's thinking, as if Alzheimer's has arrived in advance, so he is confused, and he really can't understand what the purpose of this bureau laid by the little emperor is.

And he also remembered that the little emperor was good at playing chess through Liu Huang's oral transmission, and everyone in the court was well known, and Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang in the court were also good at this, and they would 'ask the emperor for advice' when they were idle in Qiongzhou, in fact, everyone knew that they were not convinced by the repeated defeats of the little emperor. Once, Zheng Huchen happened to hear the two of them discuss, saying that the little emperor's chess layout was superb, which was simply unpredictable, and his seemingly useless idle man who took a step was often the key to determining the outcome of the victory. But when the victory or defeat is not decided, no one can figure out its intentions, and the far-reaching strategy can be seen.

Zhao Yu was full of confidence and talked eloquently. His plan was to deliberately spread rumors to make the frustrated Boyan suspicious, in order to prevent his own side from easily breaking the city. From a tactical point of view, the city is an effective means of blocking the enemy's attackers and protecting wealth, and Boyan has realized through this series of battles that the progress of weapons has changed the situation of the war, and the current Yangtze River defense line is no longer a moat to block his southern invasion, but to prevent the danger of the southern and northern expeditions.

Through the move of repairing the city, Zhao Yu still admires Boyan very much, and he is very strategic and forward-looking. However, it was not timely to spend a lot of money at this time to restore many demolished cities. You must know that the construction of a city is not an intermittent pile-up, nor a few days' work, but consumes a lot of manpower and financial resources, which is why some dynasties have caused national finances to fall into crisis because of the repair of cities.

The reason why Zhao Hao thinks that Boyan Xiucheng's behavior is out of place is of course not a sudden brain hole, nor is it just a matter of money. In terms of the character of the Mongols, they were nomadic people, and they used to live a traditional life of living by water and grass, moving back and forth between winter and summer pastures, without a fixed residence, and the royal court was just a group of tents, moving around.

During the attack on the Central Plains and Jiangnan, the Mongols had enough of the siege and feared that the rebels would rebel against the city, so they razed most of the cities to the ground. And they did not want to live in the city, many people still lived outside the city, did not want to be restrained, even if the capital city was built, it is said that huge tents were also set up in the inner court, the Great Khan still liked to live in it, and every summer went to Helin to escape the heat, enjoy the nomadic life. Therefore, Boyan's rebuilding of the city will itself attract opposition from the conservative forces.

In addition, from the Great Khan's real gold to ordinary Mongolian nobles, they all pinned their hopes on Boyan to take Jiangnan again, obtain rich taxes, and solve the financial crisis. However, the result was a series of defeats, and the last naval army was also lost, forcing them to switch from a strategic offensive posture to a defensive one, which naturally disappointed Zhenjin, and even more displeased those Mongol nobles, which in turn led to party strife.

You must know that after nearly two years of struggle in the current Yuan court, Zhenjin was able to barely stabilize the sweat position, forming a ruling team composed of Zhongshu Right Cheng Antong, Zhongshu Zuocheng Li Qian, Shangshu Right Cheng Boyan, Shangshu Zuocheng Ye Li and Governor Sang Ge and others, from which it can also be seen that the Sinicization faction occupies most of the court, and the past financial management faction Sang Ge is just a soy sauce player and has been marginalized. However, given the Mongol system, the potential strength of the old faction, led by the emperor, should not be underestimated.

Zhenjin is smart and capable, but in Zhao Hao's opinion, he was taught badly by the Confucians, believed in the Confucian way of governing the country, and successfully brainwashed into a 'Han Chinese'. In order to show his respect for Confucianism, he tried his best to conform to Confucian ethics in his words and deeds. The incense hall of the East Palace was completed, and the architect asked to chisel the stone for the pool, such as the story of the winding water, and the real gold disagreed, he said that there was a meat forest wine pool in ancient times, how could I follow the example of the king of Shang? Whenever he had time to practice shooting with the kings and close ministers, Zhenjin would discuss with them the way of governing the country and cultivating himself.

As a result, there is a big difference between Zhenjin and his father Kublai Khan's view of Confucianism. As a Mongol statesman, Kublai Khan focused on practicality, using Confucian ministers to the limit, that is, when Confucian ideas were in line with his policies, and when Confucian ministers were useless to existing policies (e.g., financial management), he did not hesitate to discard them. Zhenjin has been educated in Confucianism since childhood, and he believes that in order to govern the country, Confucianism must be governed, and he advocates lightly dispensing with small endowments and hiding wealth from the people.

In the past, there was Kublai Khan, and it was difficult for Zhenjin to carry out his ambitions, but when he succeeded to the throne, he reused Hanchen and promoted Confucianism to govern the country, thus winning the support of the Sinicization faction. Since Kublai Khan's succession to the throne, northern China has experienced wars, impoverished people, and financial constraints have been an important problem for his regime. Especially after losing Jiangnan, the most important place of wealth, he still insisted on promoting Confucianism, which was contrary to the actual financial situation.

The Mongols used to be a plundering economy, whenever they were short of money, the first thing they thought of was to rob, so the purpose of waging war was to solve the financial difficulties, but the current policy of real money turned around, not only could not obtain wealth through continuous war plunder, but also reduced rent and taxes, making it difficult for the Mongolian nobles to maintain a luxurious life, and the reduction of taxes also meant that the imperial court could not come up with money and grain subsidies to the kings in the northwest, and they would inevitably be opposed.

Zhao Yu made a big statement to make Boyan invest more in the construction of the city, and he estimated that even if he did not need the imperial court's appropriation, it would deplete the taxes of the Lianghuai region. After the loss of Jiangnan, Lianghuai has become the most important source of taxes for the Yuan court, and Boyan will build a bunch of city walls with the money that should have been given to the imperial court, which will also cause dissatisfaction, not only offending the old school, but even the Hanchen will be dissatisfied with it, after all, in their eyes, Boyan is also a 'barbarian', although it has evolved.

The renovation of Lin'an City has been included in Zhao Hao's work plan, in order to improve people's livelihood and reduce and prevent the outbreak of epidemics. But in the eyes of outsiders, this is not the case, they think that the signal they released is to settle down in Hangzhou, and they do not want to move the capital, and if you read it excessively, it can be understood that he wants to divide the river with the Yuan court and rule, at all, at least there is no plan for the Northern Expedition for the time being. What would the Mongols think then? It is estimated that with his knees, he can draw the conclusion that Boyan is incompetent, and he is not relying on a rainy day to cover up the past......

"Your Majesty's goal is to remove Boyan from power through this, but Boyan will definitely get the support of real money before it can be implemented. After listening to the little emperor's discussion, Zheng Huchen finally understood, but he was still skeptical.

"The emperor has always been wise and martial, how could he do something wrong, and in the end, the top pot can only be Boyan, and even eventually lead to the fall of the entire Sinicization faction!" Zhao Hao said with a shameless smile.

"Hehe, although Boyan was born a barbarian, he also belongs to the Sinicization faction, and he has great prestige in the army, if he is deposed, how can the rest of the people control the army? I'm afraid those Hanchen will also try to protect it. Zheng Huchen said with a smile when he heard this. Of course, he knew that the emperor, as the supreme ruler, was at fault and was also bewitched by traitors, and that his subordinates were not doing things well, but he was always right anyway.

"You have seen the military ministers in my court commit crimes, have there been any things that have happened to the civil ministers?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile.

"This ...... This is extremely rare! Zheng Huchen hesitated.

"That's it, in the eyes of those scholars, it has always been that it is not my race, and its heart must be different, don't look at Boyan's support for Hanfa, but in their eyes, he is always an outlier, and he can only use it, not his own. So they will sit and watch the fall of Boyan, but they don't know that Boyan is deposed, and they will be next. Because in the eyes of Zhenjin, those kings and Mongols are the real people of their own, and under the turbulence of the crowd, they can only sacrifice them in the end, and then they have to use the old Mongolian ministers. Zhao Yu said with a sneer.

"What is this called, Zhenjin has built a few cities, His Majesty has built a city, but in the end it was that Hanchen who was unlucky!" Zheng Huchen stretched out his two hands, pondered for a while, but came up with such an unexpected result.

"Haha......" Zhao Yu laughed out loud when he saw his helpless look, which also reminded him of the strange things in the business war in his previous life, Wang Laoji PK Jia Duobao, and he was disappearing; 360PK Gold Mountain, Kaspersky is gone; Coca-like PK Pepsi, very Coke is gone; Apple PK Samsung, Nokia is gone; Okamoto PK Durex, Jasmine is gone; Catch up with PK58 in the same city, and the people's network has disappeared......

The industry boss and the second child PK, it is not the other party who is injured, but the third child. This kind of result seems absurd, but in fact, it is the psychology of picking up cheap is making trouble, thinking that the boss and the second child are fighting to the death, as long as my third child does not participate in it, in the end they are exhausted and both lose, and the third child will naturally take the position, but he did not think of what the result will be once the boss and the second child compromise with each other.

Therefore, the best strategy for the third child is to help the eldest beat the second child, and sit back and ignore it and get out soon! In the Mengyuan court, the Hanchen are actually the eternal third, if they join forces with Boyan, although they cannot be promoted to the position of the second, they can also join forces to suppress the boss who is the former minister of the king, so as to keep the position of the third. And without Boyan, the Sinicization faction has to face the bosses who have always been malicious to them, and it's hard not to die, but this kind of thing can't be said!

"Your Majesty, if Boyan is deposed, then his plan to build a city will also be stopped, and Your Majesty's layout will not be invalid?" Zheng Huchen thought about it and felt that the little emperor's plan was still flawed, so he reminded him.

"This is a long-term plan, it is not effective overnight, and the initiative is in our hands, when to transform Lin'an City, it must be gradually launched according to the changes in the situation. Taking a step back, wouldn't the old guards in Meng Yuan not know the power of firearms, they just wanted to give up the Han law and restore the old system against Boyan, and they wouldn't be able to get along with the city, let's implement some small actions, maybe they will also actively contribute to this matter. Zhao Hao said with a smile.

"I see, but my subordinates think it's still a little inappropriate?" Zheng Huchen nodded, but he still felt unsteady in his heart, feeling that the little emperor was too confident, and the Mongols were not himself, how could he follow his baton?

"I said so, right?" Zhao Hao thought for a moment and said, he knew that the specific operation of this matter still needed to be carried out by Zheng Huchen, if he had doubts or could not understand his intentions, the implementation would be out of shape.

"Subordinates listen to His Majesty's lesson!" Zheng Huchen said.

"I think that our dynasty has been fighting with nomadic peoples such as the Khitan, Dangxiang, Jurchen and Mongols for more than 200 years, why does it have millions of troops, but they always fall into passivity in battles, and it is difficult to achieve decisive victories?" Zhao Yu asked.

"The subordinates thought that the barbarians were more cavalry, coming and going like the wind, and they could find a little attack at will on the border line and occupy the initiative. However, our DPRK had to defend everywhere and respond passively to the battle, and because it was afraid that the enemy army would deceive and often did not dare to use a large army to reinforce it without authorization, so that even if the army was strong, it would be difficult to achieve a decisive victory. Zheng Huchen analyzed.

"Yes, the nomads often invaded the territory not for the purpose of encroaching on land, but mostly for the purpose of plundering people and property, and the battle line was long, forcing our dynasty to raise millions of troops to rely on fortresses to defend it. The fortress is besieged by the enemy, once the reinforcements cannot arrive for a long time, it will be difficult to support, so that the enemy enters the deep territory, so the fortress is more and more firmly built, and the more it is repaired, the intention can be long-term to limit the enemy's movements. Zhao Yu said

"Exactly!" Zheng Huchen nodded.

"But at present, the enemy and us are attacking and defending in different positions, and the situation has been reversed. Although we are separated by a large river, our naval forces have the advantage, and we can land and fight in any place we want, and even if we want, we can plunder the Gyeonggi region near the coast of Dadu, but we do not occupy an inch of its land, but only treat it as our hunting ground, and we can take advantage of it. After the current Mongols occupied the Central Plains, they also took on the responsibility of defending the territory, and also fell into the dilemma of our dynasty, in order to keep their private wealth, they could only retreat into the city to protect themselves. Zhao Yu said.

Indeed, now that the Mongols have given up their nomadic life in the Central Plains and settled on their own land, it is indeed the best choice to build forts in order to keep their own and protect their tribes. As long as we continue to launch attacks similar to those of the previous time, they will be able to make them restless, and they will have to build forts along the river to protect themselves! Zheng Huchen deeply thought that it was authentic, just as the little emperor said, the change in the situation has affected the change in the form of warfare, and the current situation is not a battle for one city and one place, but mainly to destroy the enemy's economy and hit his morale.

"But Your Majesty, once the enemy builds the city, won't it be a great obstacle to our dynasty to recover Jiangbei, but we don't have the so-called city-breaking artifact!" Zheng Huchen thought about it, and urged the enemy to repair the city, not that it was said that it would be demolished, but the Northern Expedition was the ambition of the little emperor, and at that time, he would have to fight for them one by one, so it would be like shooting himself in the foot......