"Your Highness's plan is far-reaching." Liu Yi crossed his hand and stepped aside.

Xu Zixian snorted coldly, this guy is really hateful, obviously putting on a face that he doesn't want to believe but has to obey.

In front of the middle and lower-level military attaches or soldiers, these important generals will definitely maintain the authority of the King of Zhongshan, order the prohibition, awe-inspiring to obey the military orders, and never dare to disobey the slightest.

Fu Qian argued with Xu Zixian because of technical problems, and even got the two of them to spit on each other's faces, if it weren't for the difference in status, Fu Qian was afraid that he would have to spit out the three-character scripture.

Even so, after the quarrel, Si Pa wiped his face, and still went to do things, before the king of Zhongshan made a formal decision, when he discussed with his subordinates, he had this kind of belly, and the quarrel was noisy, it was up to who could convince whom, once the decision was made, that is, no matter what he thought about or not, he had to honestly follow it, and he must not violate it.

In this matter, for Xu Zixian's judgment, among the generals, there are many people who are quite dismissive. And there have been many requests to meet for secret talks...... Of course, he was afraid of hurting Xu Zixian's face.

Everyone dares to speak freely, this is the atmosphere that Xu Zixian deliberately cultivated, but it involves the overall situation, and it is related to the face of the King of Zhongshan.

Liu Yi is one of them, but this guy is the only general who dares to express his opinions and dissatisfaction in person, which is also in line with his usual endowment personality.

"Liu Yi, you don't have to say much." Xu Zi glanced at Liu Yi first, and said categorically: "My Uncle Wang will be defeated, the victory or defeat is within these few days, our army must be ready to set off at any time, and we must not delay the time and delay the fighter." From now on, the whole army will be ready to go out at any time, the soldiers will be waiting for each other, and the military attachés will live in the camp, waiting for military orders. ”

"Yes," Qin Dongyang and Liu Yi, all the military attachés, all saluted, and said, "Obey the king's order." ”

……

"The Xiang army is making noise again?" King Zhao's eyes were bloodshot, and he feasted and drank for many days, although he set off after the end of the day, for this prince who was unbridled in pleasure and often slept until noon in Fuzhou, the current situation was still a bitter matter.

After hearing the report, King Zhao's eyes flashed sharply, and he immediately untied the ceremonial knife he was wearing, and commanded Liu Jie and the others: "Now give this king to the bullet pressure, the leader will be beheaded, and the servant will be punished with a military stick. ”

For such a matter, King Zhao dealt with it quickly and decisively, showing a very iron bowl and determination.

Xu Ziwei on the side nodded one after another with a solemn face, some of the old staff knew that it was wrong, but it was not easy to dissuade them in public, Liu Jie and the others showed bitter faces, but they had to take the knife and leave.

Because there were no rewards at all, and even the original salaries were not paid, the morale of the Xiang army was extremely poor, and after many days of continuous marching, the speed of the daily march dropped to less than 20 miles.

After going out of the valley, it is not more than 100 miles away from Jianyang County, and it has been walked down for four consecutive days, but there is still no trace of Jianyang County.

The speed of the forbidden army at this time also slowed down, the water transportation was unfavorable, the forbidden army sent a small number of cavalry and foot soldiers, searching for people everywhere to carry grain and grass and military supplies, how could the Jianyang area be the most troubled place, a large number of miners either fled, or from thieves, or together with their families, they had already joined the Zhongshan army in Nan'an, the place was empty, there were broken walls and ruins everywhere, and the villages were almost burned, almost all of them were burned down, and the land was almost white.

The fields on both sides of the road are almost all abandoned, because there was chaos here in Jianyang more than a month ago, and Li Kaiming erected the flag to pacify the place in the early days, and it did not change much, but only killed the big households who were resentful of the people, and collected grain from ordinary big households to help the war. Before and after the dispatch of troops to Fuzhou, Li Kaiming moved the main force to the area of Jianyang, and in the face of the border areas of Fuzhou, he used the strategy of clearing the wilderness with strong walls.

Large households and people have all moved away, villages have been burned down, warehouses have been emptied, and even if there are many streams, I am afraid that even the wells will throw some pig and sheep carcasses to dirty the well water.

A hundred miles of land is not far away, but when an army of nearly 100,000 people is marching, a hundred miles of open space is enough to cause heavy pressure on logistics and supplies, as well as an emptiness in defense.

Because the four fields are lonely, and there is no one around,

There will inevitably be a sense of confusion about the deployment of the thief, and the source of military intelligence and espionage will be completely empty, and if the war is fought in enemy territory.

The more so, such as the famous generals of history, such as Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Dou Xian, and Li Jing and others, led the elite cavalry into the grassland for thousands of miles, there was no supply for thousands of miles around, and there were enemies on all sides, and it was normal to lose the deadline or be besieged......

These qualities, Zhao Wang himself does not have.

A large number of Xiang army belly army, has reached the verge of collapse, every day there are a large number of Xiang army clamoring for salary, asking for food, Zhao Wang only from the forbidden army a small amount of allocation, so that these Xiang army will not really grain rice does not enter the road, but the allocation is limited, many Xiang army can only use gruel and wild vegetables to feed the stomach, and the forbidden army has three meals a day, Zhao Wang and his servants, the guards, but every day the wine and banquet continues, the two are contrasted, the people's hearts are uneven, and they do not wait to say more.

Li Gu's face was gloomy, and he watched Liu Jie and the others lead the guards, and the elite cavalry rushed into the noisy box army, and the army stick and leather whip swung down, and the soldiers of the box army who were beaten scattered and fled.

Then he arrested more than a dozen people who did not have time to escape, and did not interrogate, but directly escorted them to the side of the Minjiang River, put them on the neck with a horizontal knife, and directly beheaded them, and threw their bodies in the wilderness and discarded in the weeds.

More than a dozen bloody human heads hung on the trunks of trees on the side of the road, a large number of soldiers of the Xiang army were silent, but there was not much fear, many of the Xiang soldiers pursed their lips and held on, most of them were expressionless, and a few people showed anger.

"This battle has to be fought quickly." King Zhao was also confused, and said: "The Xiang army is too unsuccessful, too unorthodox. After this battle, I can't fix it! ”

"The king is very right." Liu Guangsi rode a horse and waited not far away, and when he heard this, he agreed greatly, and said: "They are useless, just bluffing, and we still have to fight a tough battle." ”

"When the generals arrive, the thieves will be destroyed." King Zhao was very happy and said to the generals of the forbidden army: "I still have to rush to the road today, and finish this battle as soon as possible." ”

A group of generals of the forbidden army also looked at each other, since the Minjiang River to Jianzhou, it has become narrow, the water transportation is unfavorable, there are not many mules and horses carts prepared before, there are no people around dozens of miles, there are very few people, it is extremely difficult to carry grain and grass, and the prepared grain and grassland are not much, and they can only keep the soldiers of the forbidden army without food.

And the money awarded in advance, the forbidden army is only two or three times per person, and the income is quite limited.

It's just that the national and French military law is above, and the soldiers have to obey the order to move forward, but like the Xiang army, the morale of the forbidden army is not high, and it is just a matter of marching hard.

But the king's decree is above, and all generals must not disobey it, and they should all inherit it now.

……

"Zhao Wang walked to Jianyang Changkeng?"

After hearing the little official's report, Lin Douyao was silent for a while, and finally could only wave his hand to make the little official who reported the news retreat.

"It's too slow." Yang Shiwei, who has white eyebrows, has been old for a while, and his face shows dissatisfaction and tiredness that cannot be concealed.

In the past month or so, Fuzhou has also been under tremendous pressure.

And it is not necessary to provide a large number of manpower such as ships, sailors, and slender men, and the gentry are not too cooperative, because although everyone knows that the Liukou is coming, the jade is burned, but in the last days, the power of the government is insufficient, and the king of Zhao really has no prestige at all.

What's more, Yang Shiwei is very suspicious, among the official gentry, there are quite a few people who are secretly thieves!

"Your Highness has sent people to ask for money and food." Lin Douyao was silent for a moment and said, "What does the transfer envoy say?" ”

"Minfu, manpower, on Yang Dafu." Zhao Debang was silent for a moment, and said: "It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and the Jingshi side has also sent someone over, and we are the positive endowment of Fujian Road, apportionment, year."

After that, it will be shipped. If you don't hide it from the commanders, the lower officials can only keep the money and grain that they have received one after another, and at most give some miscellaneous grains, and they can't give the usual money anymore. ”

The ministers in the hall looked at each other, and the Northern Expedition was also at a critical juncture, and the daily Tang newspaper was that the forbidden army was in the area of the old Jinzhou at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and there were many fierce cavalry battles with Donghu along the Xiaoling River, and the two sides suffered losses to each other. The battlefield revolves around Jinzhou and the Daling River.

And at present, the construction of Jinzhou City is still far away, the nearest place of Donghu Bingfeng is to reach the west hundred miles of Yuguan, that is, the current place where Li Guorui built the city, there are pine, tower and other mountains as the outer barrier, build the Qiantun City, for the Yuguan that is, the barrier outside the Shanhaiguan, if the Jinzhou city is not built, even so, it seems that the Donghu people will not easily call Li Guorui successful...... The war is in a state of anxiety, 300,000 forbidden troops and hundreds of thousands of Xiang troops, people, millions of troops inside and outside Yuguan, the convoy of grain and grass from Yanjing to Guanmen is endless, the north is doing its best, the policy of apportionment was made public a month ago, Jiangling is located on the Jiangnan East Road is the first to pay the money and grain on the way, followed by Guangdong South Road, Fujian Road if there is no continuous bandit rebellion, should be handed over before the two Zhejiang Road, although there are also many difficulties, after all, it is a way to local wealth, if you don't hand over, The center will be wrathed.

Even if Li Kaiming is in trouble, now that King Zhao has proposed to ban the army and the army to be requisitioned, the two central governments are obviously hoping that King Zhao can fight and draw, and the Son of Heaven should also think, at this time, Zhao Debang continues to pay money and grain to deliver to King Zhao, obviously he will not be able to pass the test.

"I also know what Lord Zhao is embarrassed about." Lin Douyao was silent again, so he had to turn to Yang Shiwei and said, "I can only try to be helped by Fuzhou Mansion?" ”

"The story of this dynasty." Yang Shiwei smiled bitterly: "Fujunzhou County is not allowed to withhold the two official taxes, originally it was to keep the wine superintendent, salt tax, door stall money and other commercial taxes for local use, and later the central government used a lot of money, and these miscellaneous taxes were also handed over." Up to now, all kinds of money and money need to be handed over. If the magistrate is thick-skinned and levies miscellaneous taxes in advance for more than ten or twenty years, there is still some money and grain in the state and county treasury, but if the other generation levies it, most of it goes into private pockets, and the state and county government treasury is still empty...... The old man doesn't put these miscellaneous taxes into his private pocket, but the old man is not too bad for the people, and the treasury is also empty! ”

The ministers present are really helpless.

If Yang Shiwei is prevaricating, he might as well put some pressure, but this old prefect has always upheld the public heart, and Fuzhou's taxes are indeed not much, which is the least levied by the military prefectures of Fujian Road.

This is also the reason why Fuzhou, like Quanzhou, surpassed Zhangzhou, which was very prosperous before, with a good prefect, the place is prosperous and rich, and a bad prefect is like the establishment of a state, which becomes the source of chaos.

Everyone looked gloomy, and finally Zhao Debang made up tens of thousands of rice beans and coarse grain, and Yang Shiwei promised to requisition thousands of people, and this matter had to be requisitioned by local big households, that is, the helpers of the gentry and giant clans, otherwise thousands of people would not be able to send thousands of yacha to arrest them door to door? It can only be handed over to the patriarch of the big clan, and the various giant clans under the Fuzhou Mansion will send out dozens and hundreds of people to undertake this errand.

"This is the public meeting summoned by the chief of Fuzhou Road?" After getting out of the handsome minister's yamen, the old state on Yang Shiwei's face became more obvious, and after leaving the mansion, he shook his head and sighed.

"Isn't that a matter of course?" Zheng Liqi looked like he was at ease, and he just smiled slightly when he heard this.

Yang Shiwei said unwillingly: "Is it really so bad that people's hearts have collapsed? ”

"Yes." Zheng Liqi said: "Some people have always said that the troubled times are coming, but when it will come, and what it will look like, no one can say. At this time, isn't it clear about Dafu? This is the troubled times, and this is the way the troubled times should be. The center is powerless, the local people are different, the marshals and my generation are hollowed out, only those who have military power and strength are attached, the families are strong and have different thoughts, gather money and food, shrink their children, and even hide armor and weapons, and train private soldiers, this will be a matter soon. In fact, Jingnan has been like this for a long time. ”

Yang Shiwei turned his head in horror and stared at the black and thin torturer in front of him.