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Chapter 41: The First World War (2)

The squadron fights, and especially likes to write and ask in advance, to flaunt their own justice, and on this basis, they send troops in an upright manner. ? This phenomenon was particularly popular during the period when the civil government was in power, and it seemed that if it were not so pretentious, it would not be able to convince the gods and gods at the top, and mobilize hundreds of millions of people. It's a pity that the result is not based on the text.

Shu Emperor Meng Chang is measured by the standards of the 21st century, he must be a master of Chinese studies, even in the Five Dynasties period, he can be regarded as a first-class literati. He wants to send troops to the Northern Expedition, so naturally he can't be sneaky, not only will he not hide it, but also follow the example of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty thousands of years ago, and worked overtime in Chengdu day and night to build a worship platform, ready to worship the Shu privy envoy Wang Zhaoyuan as the commander of the army.

Meng Chang's action was so big, how could Da Zhou's secret agent in Shu not be able to detect it, and the news was quickly sent to the Jin Palace. Of course, although Meng Chang is very high-profile, his courage still needs to be improved, he only announced the Northern Expedition, and the date, route, etc. are all secrets.

However, the monarchs of Shu are faint and mediocre, what kind of high-level moves can they come up with?

Guo Rong was a little absent-minded, he was in charge of Guanzhong, there was an invasion of foreign enemies, defending and defeating the other party, that was naturally his responsibility. However, as the prince of the dynasty, when the emperor was getting older, he was hanging out for a long time, even if there were some children in Beijing, but after all, he was still a little uneasy in his heart. He took the secret letter in Wang Pu's hand, glanced at it twice, and said with a smile: "Mr. Wang, the water comes to Tutun, and the soldiers will block it." Since the Shu army is coming, we have to entertain them well. Didn't we plan to seize Longyou a long time ago? Now, didn't this Meng Chang send Long You over with both hands. I dare to say that the Shu soldiers will come out of the Great Scattered Pass and go straight to Fengxiang. We have to set up another game in Fengxiang, so that Shu Bing can taste the taste of four years ago again. ”

Seeing that Guo Rong was full of confidence, Wang Pu not only did not echo the voice, but poured a basin of cold water on his face: "Lord Wang, I'm afraid things are not so simple." ”

Wang Pu's ability, Guo Rong knows, he thought about it carefully, and said puzzledly: "Could it be that Mr. Wang thinks that the Shu army should not be despised ? In addition to this reason, Guo Rong couldn't think of any other reason for Wang Pu to be so cautious. Could it be that this Meng Chang could still send people to the west to contact the Tubo and party members in Lanzhou (now Lanzhou, Gansu) and other places to enter Kouweizhou (now Pingliang, Gansu) from the western front? The current Tibet is not the Tibet of the past, since the civil strife in Tibet a hundred years ago, this country, which was originally a bit of a tribal alliance, has long been torn apart. It is impossible for any Tibetan tribe alone to capture Weizhou. What's more, those people in Tubo have always seen rabbits and eagles, and what can Meng Chang, who has eyes above the top, come up with to convince the Tubo people?

Wang Pu smiled: "May I ask the prince, why did the Shu Kingdom enter the Kou Pass?" ”

Looking at Wang Pu's cunning gaze, Guo Rong's heart sank: "Could it be... Meng Chang is because of our Tuntian Guanzhong? He... Is he afraid that our Da Zhou will come back to life? ”

"The words of the prince, although they are not true, are not far away. In recent days, the relationship between Shu and Chu has been very warm. ”

Guo Rong was shocked: "Mr. Wang's meaning, is this Shu State sending troops to Guanzhong, is it instructed by the Chu State?" That... That... Shu sent troops, will Chu watch the fire from the other side? ”

"The Shu soldiers are out of the Great Dispersal Pass, and it is the best policy for the Chu State to cooperate with the troops, and it is the middle policy to persuade the Shu State to withdraw the troops and wait for the opportunity; If you sit idly by and ignore it, and want to use the strategy of two tigers to compete with each other, and the fisherman will benefit, then it will be the next policy. Wang Pu said with a smile.

Seeing Wang Pu's confident look, Guo Rong pondered: "According to me, although the Chu State has been victorious in the past two years, life has not been easy. Especially in the newly recovered Jiangnan land, there are many rebels among the scholars and the common people. At this time, when the State of Chu sent troops, wouldn't it be in danger? What's more, on the front line of Huaibei, Songzhou, and Guide, our army has deployed more than 100,000 horses, and even if Chu sends troops, I am afraid that it will not get any benefits. ”

"Ten years of Tianfu, Ma Yun sent troops to fight against Jingnan, in the eleventh year of Tianfu, Ma Yun sent the general Ma Guangmeng to the south, and the Southern Han Dynasty fought fiercely with Hezhou, Tianfu 12 years, Ma Yun led troops to the north to attack the Central Plains, the same is the autumn of the 12th year of Tianfu, Ma Yun led troops south to destroy Lingnan, in the second year of Qianyou, Ma Yun and troops to attack Jiangnan, the first year of Guangshun, Ma Yun sent troops to destroy Wu Yue. Lord Wang, look at it, since the tenth year of Tianfu to the present, five of the nine years have been fighting. However, the state of Chu is victorious one after another, and its territory has expanded again and again, and it is even bigger than our Great Zhou. Judging from the usual concepts, aren't the Chu soldiers already tired? In fact, although there are not too many soldiers and horses in the Chu army, they are extremely good at fighting, breaking through the Lingnan, but only 50,000 horses, and breaking the Southern Tang Dynasty is only 70,000 horses, in other words, there are always some troops in the Chu State that are idle, and their battles are to take turns to attack and rest, so as to ensure that the army is not tired. Looking at it from below, there is no problem for Chu to take out an army of 30,000 to 50,000 that has been rested and recuperated. ”

"Although he has an army, he not only relies on the army to fight, but also this money, food, and ordnance are indispensable.

Guo Rong's analysis is not unreasonable, since the first year of Guangshun, Zhou and Chu launched a comprehensive competition, in terms of winning people's hearts, the Great Zhou re-established the Confucian Seventy-two Sages, but the Chu State abducted Wen Xuangong, the Great Zhou issued a land cultivation order, the privatization of official land, as long as the tenants rented the official land, then the official land belongs to the tenants, and also encouraged the reclamation, the fields are owned by the people, at the same time, those who fled due to the war can also be cultivated by the people, and the fugitives come back within three years. Half of the land is given to the cultivators, and if they do not return after three years, then they belong to the cultivators (the population omitted by the Khitan has been extended for three years). At the same time, the Great Zhou also abolished taxes such as cattle rent. Due to the fact that the Jiangnan side was less affected by the war, it did not have the size of Da Zhou, so Ma Yun impulsively waved his pen: never add endowment. For landless tenants, the Chu government was responsible for relocating them to Taiwan if they wished, and the government promised to provide housing, grain, and no taxes for three years. In this kind of competition, the common people have benefited a lot, and they have gradually become interested in their respective courts.

Of course, under the official propaganda of the two countries, the common people of both countries take it for granted that the other side is in dire straits. Not only that, in the Chu ** team, there are many young Zhuang officers who constantly write to the imperial court, asking for troops to be sent to Huaibei to rescue the suffering people of the Central Plains.

As the king of the Great Zhou and Jin Dynasty, Guo Rong still has a certain understanding of the lives of the people of the two countries. Relatively speaking, the taxes of the Great Zhou court were three or four percent heavier than those of the Chu State in the south of the Yangtze River, and the conscription served was also much heavier (under the influence of modern military theory, Ma Yun has always felt that the army cannot be idle, and if he is idle, he will make trouble, and many of the work of building bridges and paving roads is done by the army. In this way, the people of Chu will have a lot less servitude). However, even so, the economic situation of Da Zhou has been difficult to improve, and it can only be barely maintained. In such a comparison, Guo Rong felt that the income of Chu from the land was probably not as good as that of the Great Zhou, so he thought that Chu was "not good in the year, and the landlord's family had no surplus grain".

Guo Rong knew the situation, Wang Pu had already cleared the door, he shook his head and said: "What the prince wants to say is that the harvest of Chu from the fields is probably not as good as our Great Zhou, but there is one thing that you may not have calculated, that is, the Chu State encourages commerce, and the Jiangnan merchant fleet can reach as far as Champa (present-day Thailand) in the south, and Goryeo in the north. ”

Guo Rong's face tightened: "What Mr. Wang means is that the Chu State may buy grain from overseas and then confront our dynasty." ”

"Not bad. Lord Wang, you think that the State of Chu was afraid that we would succeed in Tuntian Guanzhong, so he did everything possible to lobby the State of Shu, wanting the State of Shu to send troops to Guanzhong to help them. However, the Shu State has been defeated by us in the past, and it will inevitably ask the Chu State to jointly send troops. In the case that Shu proposed to jointly send troops, Mo said that Chu still has spare strength, assuming that it is really as described by you, Lord Wang, Chu will definitely grit its teeth and insist. The reason is very simple, we know that Shu will be defeated, and Ma Yun of Chu will probably not have much hope for Shu, so he can only grit his teeth and send troops, otherwise, after the defeat of Shu, there will be resentment between Chu and Shu, and Shu will no longer send troops to Guanzhong, won't Chu gain more than it loses? ”

Wang Pu's words were meticulous, and the analysis of the situation that Chu had to send troops was reasonable. Guo Rong said hesitantly: "In this way, there will be a war in Huaibei." Hey, the Chu army went out of Xuzhou and approached Songzhou, if the confrontation lasted too long, delayed sowing, Songzhou area, hey... , which has put another burden on the imperial court. "The autumn harvest is September, and the winter planting is in mid-October, if the Chu army sends troops in September and stays in the Songzhou area until November, then the people near Songzhou will have no summer harvest.

Guo Rong smiled bitterly and shook his head: If you come out to mix, you will have to pay it back sooner or later. Last year, the Great Zhou sent cavalry to attack Xuzhou, turning Xuzhou, Suzhou, and even Haizhou upside down. But whether it was Ma Yun or Cao Bin, they were really bold at that time, and the people couldn't grow food? The state of Chu actually paid money and grain, recruited local people, and built channels, and was stunned that Xuzhou and other places in Huaibei were engaged in the same as the paddy fields in Huainan, and the channels extended in all directions, and in May this year, the cavalry of Songzhou could no longer pretend to be horse thieves in Xuzhou.

Wang Pu smiled: "Lord Wang, if we defend the city, then this is naturally the case, but what if we take the initiative to attack it?" ”

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