Mo Zhinian no longer spoke, he understood, Wu Zheng was venting his resentment.

He didn't give up, because Wu Zheng needed a listener at this time, and this listener needed to be able to understand his words.

At the very least, it was to make Wu Zheng think that he could understand him.

Don't obsessively bow your head, lower your eyes, stand with your hands solemn, and listen quietly.

"On the day of his accession to the throne, he wore an old robe...... Hehe, who is this Hanqi? In the name of it, thrifty! I don't understand, from ancient times to the present, I have never heard of a thrifty and thrifty ...... Gui is a son of heaven, and he doesn't want to let his subjects be fed and clothed, but thinks that his subjects are thrifty with him...... Starving with him? ”

"The people don't understand, it's just that, this Manchu Dynasty's civil and military ministers, they are all from the wind and the fire, which is not a human spirit, but no one is willing to say it, the emperor's new clothes...... One by one, they are full of praise, the Ming monarch, the British lord, and the revival of the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner. ”

"Well, look, more than 20,000 fallen soldiers have turned into white slips of millions of bereavement silver. The people were in turmoil, and the court discussed it, and in the end, 21 people were beheaded, and they were unlucky, hey...... Forget it. The monarchs and ministers unanimously agreed that there was no official corruption among them, only the emptiness of the treasury, and only because a few rich and unkind people were persecuting the families of the fallen soldiers...... That's right, the new monarch has only been on the throne for a few days, the new dynasty and the new atmosphere, how can there be a huge greed that is dirty and perverts the law? ”

"None of these old and elite ministers of the country know how much of a consequence this will cause? The family members are bullied and die, and they can't even pay their families, and now among the seventy or eighty thousand troops in the imperial court, is there anyone willing to fight bloody battles for this imperial court? ”

"These people, heal the scars and forget the pain...... I regret it. Wu Zheng finally cried, "We should let the Qing army occupy Zhenjiang, and let Nawa and those important ministers of the court who are thick-skinned enough to be the city wall, taste what it means to have a wolf sleeping soundly on the side of the couch, and taste what it means to toss and turn and can't sleep at night." ”

Looking at Wu Zheng, who was crying bitterly, Mo Zhinian sighed softly in his heart.

He could understand that a teenager who had not yet reached the crown was burdened with pressure that he should not have been carrying.

More than 20,000 lives, this is not a string of empty numbers, but a living person, a family of men and women weaving, ancestors and grandchildren in the same house.

It was just a battle, and in the blink of an eye, it turned to ashes.

Rao is Mo is obsessed with being a person who already knows the destiny of heaven, and he can't help but moisten his eyes.

Wu Zheng slowly stopped crying, he waved his hand and said, "Mo Lao, go back, I'll talk about everything tomorrow, I'm tired and want to rest." ”

Mo Zhinian sighed, and arched his hand: "I also hope that the lord will temporarily stop the sadness in his heart and take care of his body...... The old man retired. ”

……。

"Do I want to be emperor?"

This question appeared so vividly in Wu Zheng's mind for the first time.

To this day, Wu Zheng has been subconsciously avoiding this question.

Wu Zheng, whose heart is for future generations, understands that the emperor is a high-risk profession, and in Wu Zheng's view, being an emperor is far less enjoyable than being a general or a feudal official.

Wu Zheng wants to be a famous minister who will leave a name in history.

He only wanted to expel the Tatars and restore China.

He hoped that the Han people would not be slaves for those 300 years.

He hopes to reproduce the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Wu Zheng didn't want to seek the country and usurp the throne, he just wanted to revive the Ming Dynasty and make it better.

This is why there is Zhang Guowei's house in Shaoxing Mansion, and the "Han Ming" is said.

All of Wu Zheng's plans are also laid out according to this goal.

He is willing to be a minister and be a famous general who protects the country and the people.

Because Wu Zheng knows very well that the emperor may not be the only peak of life, the real peak of life is to create a prosperous era for future generations, leaving a treasure mountain that cannot be reached by predecessors.

And this, even if you don't become an emperor, you can do it.

Wu Zheng didn't want to be confined in that palace city like a prison and fall into an endless power struggle.

Therefore, Wu Zheng supported Zhu Yujiao to supervise the country, because Zhu Yujiao would not become an obstacle to his own work like Zhu Yihai.

Therefore, Wu Zheng can agree to support Zhu Cihong as the emperor, because the match with Zhu Cihong made Wu Zheng feel that Zhu Cihong had almost the same goal as himself.

Wu Zheng even secretly breathed a sigh of relief, because the responsibility in his heart was shared by someone, and even more than half of it was shouldered.

Therefore, Wu Zheng can tolerate Zhu Cihong to detain Zhou Simin to stay in the capital, since he enjoys the rights, he has to bear the obligations, the emperor is like this, and the ministers should naturally be like this.

Therefore, Wu Zheng tolerated Zhu Cihong's recovery of the taxes of the three governments, even if there was no way, he used some methods of chickens and dogs to fill the financial gap after the taxes were handed over.

Therefore, Wu Zheng even planned to agree to Zhu Cihong's share of the commercial tax to relieve the financial difficulties of the imperial court.

But all this, as the families of the more than 20,000 fallen soldiers could not get full pensions, began to collapse.

This is by no means a trivial matter, especially when the horses are fierce and the intention is to recover, especially when the strong enemy in the north is eyeing Jiangbei.

The consequences of this are very serious.

After dying in battle, the family was even owed the bereavement pension by the imperial court, and how did the soldiers go into battle to fight the enemy?

The back is cold, who can muster up the courage to fight bloodily?

Wu Zheng didn't dare to imagine what kind of collapse would happen when this kind of resentment spread from north to south, and his image of raising soldiers with a lot of money and never deducting a penny from soldiers in the past three years.

What sadds Wu Zheng the most is that these more than 20,000 soldiers have become a lone army that must fight to the end because of his plan.

Fighting a defensive battle to this extent was actually beyond Wu Zheng's expectations before the battle.

The Ming army is normal, no, even if it is the Qing army, even in later generations.

An army must have non-combatants.

For example, logistics, joining the army (staff officers, civilian personnel), auxiliaries, etc.

To put it simply, an army of 10,000 people normally has about 30 or 40 percent of non-combatants.

This is also a saying that if an army loses more than 50 percent of its combat effectiveness, it is equivalent to losing its combat effectiveness.

Because, the real battle losses have reached more than fifty percent, and in fact, it is really impossible to find combat effectiveness.

But this Jingwei is different.

Its predecessor was the army after reorganization and training when Wu Zheng went on a northern expedition from Hangzhou Prefecture to the righteous army and the original Qingming army that had been collected along the road.

It can be said that there is no non-combatant formation.

Even the records of joining the army to record military exploits are concurrently served by combatants.

It is precisely because of this that this army has combat effectiveness that the original Ming army could not match.

It is precisely because of their trust and worship of Wu Zheng, and because they know what the purpose of this battle is, that they can fight until almost the entire army is wiped out without retreating.