Section XVIII

In the days after sending Wang Shirong away, Lin Feng has been in a certain state of excitement, and he has done a lot of earth-shattering things in this era for so long, but it is the first time that he has touted it as "the hero of the world" like this, among which the so-called "No. 1 general in the north" or "the leader of the world's heroes" and so on have a certain sense of vicissitudes of history, which makes people feel comfortable and unclear.

However, he doesn't think that this Wang Shirong is very powerful, nor does he think that the four major strategies he presented are absolutely correct - as we all know, most of China's traditional knowledge practitioners like to come to this set, and it is their hobby to point fingers at military and political affairs, and most of these people basically lack practical experience, and only rely on the experience in books and rely on hearsay to make strategies, so the opinions they put forward are not very valuable in practical application in addition to being worthy of strategic reference.

But at present, there is a great shortage of talents in the Han army, so Lin Feng now has to make a posture according to the traditional model - this posture is to put it bluntly is to pretend to be garlic, and it is not tiring to engage in this set of things, when the process of the times has reached today, its specific practices have long been widely spread, because there are many such routines in history, the more famous is Liu Bei, others such as Sun Quan and something also occasionally come, after word of mouth now almost no one in the Chinese does not know.

From the point of view of all measures, it is manifested in the form of when the monarch wants to win over a certain talent, admires all the opinions he puts forward, shows his humility or broad-mindedness when he talks endlessly, pretends to be a good man, and even has to pretend to be confused when necessary, in short, it requires two effects: the first is to make the talent feel that the monarch is not too harsh and should be easy to get along with; The second is to make the talent feel that he will be valued when he defects, because the monarch seems to have no opinion, and the opinions of his subordinates are generally respected here, in short, if you can do both, you can basically win the sense of belonging of such high-level talents.

In all fairness, this set of things has not been eliminated for thousands of years, and it is indeed impossible not to say that there is no reason for him, and as far as Lin Feng knows, this thing is also widely used in the twenty-first century, although the name has changed from "imperial art" to "leadership art", but the core technology in it is basically not different, and the reason why it can be tried and tested again and again is because this set of things is in the dead hole of the Chinese and caters to all talents who have grown up in the traditional environment.

Because this diplomatic activity eventually became the marshal's marriage ceremony, Lin Dashuai also had to accept a lot of "congratulations, congratulations" in the following days, and his subordinates also subconsciously set aside personal space for the lord in these days, and in this environment, Lin Feng naturally felt jubilant - although he himself was still a little inexplicable at this time, but this did not prevent him from celebrating, of course, usually at this time, the sycophants automatically jumped out, However, these people soon found out that Lin Dashuai was indeed a very, very difficult man to serve: he didn't like poetry and singing, he didn't like drinking and feasting, he didn't like beautiful women singing and dancing, and he didn't have the interest to play and go out.

And Lin Feng himself felt very aggrieved, in his own opinion, his psychological activities are very normal - the so-called marriage is a man's grave, so of course it is a good thing to indulge before this, but then he found that it is not easy to find some entertainment in this era - poetry or something, there is no such cell; Drinking is free, to be honest, it's not that the wine and food are bad, it's that these people are too disgusting and can't drink with them; And the so-called "beauty song and dance" is really out of his grandmother's appearance, these guys mysteriously pulled out a group of striptease dances that "still hold the pipa and half cover their faces", and they think they are very avant-garde, but what have you never seen? In Lin Feng's opinion, the performance of these dancers is too amateurish, the instruments are poor, the rhythm is slow, the movements are rigid, the eyes are dull, there is simply no professionalism, it really makes His Excellency the Marshal who took care of the pole dancing almost angry, if it weren't for him as the marshal of the Han Army, I'm afraid he would go down on the spot to make a cameo appearance as a stage director, and in the end, these bastards tried their magic weapons but repeatedly hit the wall, and after tinkering for a long time, they offered a small foot ** - really fucking, so angry that Lin Feng went crazy on the spot.

The extremely disappointed Lin Dashuai finally gave up his depraved life, this day is really unbearable, Lin Feng really didn't expect that there would be today, he wanted to be debaucherous and corrupt but couldn't succeed, it seems that the only thing he can find in this era is spiritual entertainment, a good whole career, Jin Ge Iron Horse to conquer the world - it is indeed a bit of a last resort, and this game is okay at the moment.

When Lin Feng returned to the office of the Marshal's Mansion, he was immediately intimidated by the large number of official documents in the Marshal's Mansion. When the marshal was in the past few days, several giants of the Han army consciously organized a temporary cabinet - for fear that the lord would be jealous of his dictatorship, several members in Beijing implemented a small system of democratic centralism, of course, this will be the lord back, and there is no need for this model to exist.

In fact, the Han military government was indeed extremely busy during this time, whether it was the army or the government, all the work revolved around the major event of spring ploughing - after listening to the reports of Li Guangdi, Tang Bin and others, Lin Feng really had a general impression of spring ploughing in this era.

It is indeed unbelievable that Lin Dashuai from the industrial age is almost incomparable in the political height of spring ploughing in this era - according to Li Guangdi's description, that is, "survival and prosperity, and this spring", the implication is that if this spring ploughing is not good, then everyone should not do anything, just break up. Of course, Lin Feng also understood what he meant, the current situation of the Han army was a little special, that is, there were nearly two million displaced people on the border of Liaodong, if this burden could not be unloaded earlier, it was indeed impossible for his Han army to do anything else. Therefore, at present, both the government and the military of the Han army are concerned about the resettlement project of displaced people, and spring plowing is the first step in the resettlement work.

It was a very tedious task: counting the population, dividing the dwellings, appointing officials, surveying wasteland, constructing basic water conservancy projects, building housing, reclamation, seeds, farm implements, food rations, ...... The most frightening thing is that these people are still very dangerous, and no one dares to guarantee 100 percent that they will obediently obey the government's arrangements, you must know that at present China is the leader of the peasant movement, and the feudal landlord class reactionaries like Lin Feng have been repeatedly dealt heavy blows in the past few years, so when doing such purely administrative affairs, they have to invite military representatives to attend and participate.

The talent is good at this time, such a board and a glance interlocking administrative work, if you let a wild and unruly person like Wang Shirong do it, it is estimated that he will go crazy sooner or later, and Li Guangdi, Tang Bin and others Although their mouths are a little stupid, they are really professional in doing this kind of thing.

During this period of time, the team of cantonment officials under the leadership of Tang Bin had successfully sorted out the two million people, and after listening to the report, Lin Feng immediately overturned a fallacy in his heart - who said that we Chinese are scattered and lack organization?! In fact, our Chinese society has always been very organized and well-organized. When is it, so many people are crying and dying from hunger and cold, and they are fleeing from famine in a foreign land to ask for food, but the interior is strictly organized according to the clan and dialect, and the barriers are clear, and everyone will never put it together indiscriminately, and Tang Bin's work is to carry out along the line of clan and region, after appointing a large number of grassroots officials, this group of displaced people relies on their own inertia to adjust themselves - the big surname is in charge of the small surname, the big family is in charge of the single household, the patriarch is in charge of the people, the parents are in charge of the family, and the father is in charge of the wife and children- It's a very clear structure, and it's built in strict accordance with the Confucian academic syllabus, etiquette, and ethics, so when the government started all-round food and fuel relief, it began to consciously operate benignly.

This cold winter is really a cruel test for them, in the raging ice and snow, there are nearly 200,000 people who died in obscurity, of course, most of them are old people and children, on the surface, the causes of death of this group of people are varied, Tang Bin's official report is very taboo did not mention the word "starvation", but used a great deal of space to describe various symptoms: such as edema of the whole body, yellow skin, limb atrophy, faintness, wind cold, etc., if you don't know the inside story, It seems that there is an inexplicable plague somewhere, of course, Lin Feng and officials at all levels are naturally bright, but no one has pierced this lie that can be broken at the first poke, and the laws of officialdom naturally have its operating rules.

In fact, as a government management agency, the Han army has indeed done its best, otherwise in this environment of minus 20 degrees Celsius, the death toll is probably far more than 200,000, this winter this group of displaced people in order to keep warm, burned the entire Forbidden City - except for a few thick pillars, roof ridges were sent to Tianjin Port, other beautifully carved wooden planks were rudely disassembled into pieces, and given to these people as firewood. Fortunately, the Forbidden City is a traditional Chinese civil engineering building, otherwise there is not so much dry wood, after listening to the report, the only little guilt in Lin Feng's heart for destroying the monument is gone, the Forbidden City saved 1.5 million people this winter, and the temperature released by its burning has allowed at least 300,000 children to survive - what could be more important than this?! Let the historians of later generations die!

In addition, the rough food collected by the Han military government is now about to be distributed, in fact, those displaced people are not eating at all those things that can be eaten, but lotus leaves, lotus leaf stalks, reed roots and a small amount of soybean cakes and wheat wheat harvested from the Baiyangdian Lake area of Baoding, these things can also be regarded as a collective wisdom invention of the Han military government. The Zhuang family in Baoding Prefecture was ordered to hand pickle them, and after a few months, these things became life-saving food and grass.

However, even these things are about to be eaten up right now.

After the report, Li Guangdi and Tang Bin looked gloomy, this winter is tantamount to an ordeal for the two of them, these months, the two have not had a night of sleep, Li Guangdi has been collecting materials for office guests day and night, and Tang Bin is running around in the ice and snow, sometimes visiting the camp in person, sometimes supervising the work of officials, sometimes inspecting the reclamation of wasteland, it is common to run dozens of hundreds of bars in the ice and snow a day, both of them are only in their early thirties, but now the spirit of the committee is premature, Like two poor little old men.

"Jin Qing, Kong Bo, you ...... Suffered! Lin Feng thought of the desolation in the past few days, and felt even more guilty in his heart, "Hey, it's also handsome, when I slapped my head and insisted on resettle these millions of homeless people, I was really young and conceited, and I always looked at things in this world too simply, but it affected you!" ”

"Why did the lord say this?! ......" Li Guangdi and Tang Bin glanced at each other, and thanked each other urgently, "The lord rarely has great ambitions, he is a genius who helps the world and saves the people, and it is also the destiny of heaven. ”

Lin Feng was dumbfounded, the so-called Destiny of Heaven is Chen Menglei's brainwashing thing that was forcibly concocted by Chen Menglei according to his own instructions, they don't know whether it is humility or sarcasm when they say this, they moved their butts uneasily at the moment, and turned their heads to Zhou Pei and said fairly, "Pei Gong, how much grain is still stored in Tongzhou!" ”

"Lord, there is grain in Tongzhou!" Zhou Peigong looked at Li Guangdi sympathetically, "In the past few months, merchants in Jin and Hui have tried their best to help us buy grain, and although we have consumed these months, we can still support the wheat harvest until there is more than enough!" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, Ben Shuai means to send a batch of grain to the displaced people during spring ploughing!!" Lin Feng coughed lightly and reminded, "This batch of food is the last batch of life-saving food given to them by our Han, and it won't be a lot, Jin Qing and Kong Bo want to remind the homeless people to save some food!" ”

Li Guangdi was overjoyed, nodded hurriedly, was pleasantly surprised, suddenly saved a matter, and asked unconsciously in confusion, "Lord, why is the food distributed at this time?!" ”

"It's simple, I'm afraid they'll rebel!" Lin Feng looked at Li Guangdi and Tang Bin, who were puzzled, and explained, "Jin Qing and Kong Bo are both scholars, here Ben Shuai will give you a wake-up call!" ”

"You must be very strange that the peacekeeping did not give them life-saving food during the most difficult time of winter, and now that the weather is warmer, they are given?!" Lin Feng said solemnly, "There are several reasons here! ”

"Everyone has seen what kind of days the displaced people have lived this winter, eating grass roots, cultivating tree bark, chewing ice and snow, father and son and wife are separated, our Han has limited financial resources, we can only provide relief for a while, it is impossible to let them survive the winter safely, if they are given food, what will they do? - Don't tell me that they are grateful and won't rebel against anything, I don't believe in that," Lin Feng said coldly, "They didn't rebel in winter, because they couldn't rebel, we are their only hope, if it is reversed, this ice and snow, without Lao Tzu to suppress it, they will all be finished within three days!" ”

Li Guangdi couldn't help but shiver and listened in horror.

"The people are the foundation of the imperial court, and the so-called water can carry boats and overturn boats, this truth is very clear - the reason why Ben Shuai spent so much effort to save their lives is because I still expect these people to pay taxes and food, and expect them to serve me as soldiers to serve the country, and at the same time, I have to watch out for them and not give them a chance to rebel!" Lin Fengye did not hide it, and said bluntly, "It is the beginning of spring now, the earth is thawing, and the wild vegetables in the field are also growing, and what is even more terrifying is that because of the warmth, even if they have no food or clothing, they can support them to go far - what I mean is that their range of activities is large, and they can go far to rob the people of Gyeonggi to fatten themselves, you say, at this time, someone suddenly instigated among the displaced people: why are those Zhili people fed and clothed in the city, while we are starving and freezing here?!" ……”

Tang Bin couldn't help but nodded, he had the most contact with the displaced people, this kind of reactionary remarks have long been in contact, the reason why no one believed it before was because it was cold and frozen, and he couldn't go far at all, but now that the spring is warming, I'm afraid there will be some variables. couldn't help but agree at the moment, "What the lord said is true!" ”

"Hehe, Ben Shuai doesn't understand any people's livelihood politics, I only understand people's hearts and human nature, I just think repeatedly, if I am a homeless person, what will I think at this time? What do you want to do? Lin Feng said with a smile, "There is another reason for giving them grain now, I want them to be a little stronger, because I am about to send seeds and farm tools - last year I appointed Jin Shang Hui merchants to buy a large number of golden potatoes (sweet potatoes) and artichoke (potato) seeds, I asked the old farmers, these things, especially potatoes, can be harvested in March - that is to say, I will send them a small amount of rations, and they will go to the field to find some wild vegetables or something, and there will be food in more than two months-do you adults understand this plan?!" ”

Tang Bin and Li Guangdi perked up, and patted the situation, "Dashuai is really a genius!" ”

"Jin Qing, Kong Bo, you are all the humerus of this handsome, you don't have to be so sycophant!" Lin Feng unceremoniously broke it, ignored the embarrassment of the two, and turned his head to Zhou Pei and said fairly, "Pei Gong, I don't expect this matter to be so smooth, at the moment the Liaodong garrison is insufficient, there is only one army of Jianwei Zhonglang General Wang Dahai, only 8,000 people, if those homeless people are in turmoil, they will definitely not be able to suppress it, I intend to mobilize two brigades of elite cavalry from Xuanhua Mongolian Zhonglang General Zhao Guangyuan to patrol the defense, what do you think?!" ”

"That's great!" Zhou Peigong was worried, "However, Wang Dahai and Zhao Liangdong's reorganization and redress plans have to be retreated, and the officers' martial arts training plans will also be greatly affected!" ”

"You arrange these, how can there be a good thing in this world that everyone is happy about? Let's make an emergency first! Lin Feng said with a wry smile, "In addition, Wang Dahai was ordered that the areas of the displaced people's reclamation must be separated, and no border crossing is allowed, in addition, a large number of forts and fortresses must be built in various important places in the reclamation area, and the displaced people must be monitored at all times, and the displaced people must be suppressed at all times, and as soon as they find that someone is lying to confuse the people, they will be killed on the spot, and they would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one go, and the commander will never allow any chaos among these millions of people-" Lin Feng's expression turned sharp, "Chief of the General Staff, Lord Li, Lord Tang, have you heard clearly?!" ”

"Obey the orders of the lord!" Hearing him call the official rank and reprimand, the three people who were named hurriedly bowed down and answered.

"Okay, you go and arrange - by the way, Jin Qing and Tang Bin want to greet the landlords and people in the Luanhe area, at this time it will often cause a big disaster, you want them to set up some militia regiments by themselves, accept the guidance of General Wang Dahai, and at the same time send grain and Ding to repair some village forts to strictly prevent the infiltration of the displaced people, and Pei Gong will send a group of capable officers from the martial arts to the militia regiment, called 'internship', to guide the training of these landlord militia groups!!"

After the three of them left in a hurry after answering the order, Lin Feng turned his head to look at Chen Menglei, who had not said a word from beginning to end, "Okay, now you tell me, what's going on with the rebels over there in Liaodong?!" ”