Chapter 489: General Staff
Zenpo does have other tasks.
However, it was only after trying to persuade the Marquis of Shanxi, and then from there he transferred to Sichuan Province to Jiangnan to find the Great Zhou court.
His mission was very heavy, and it was actually the first attempt of the Jurchens to establish an encirclement of the Qi State.
Xu Shiyang's Jurchen encirclement put a lot of pressure on the princes of the Wanyan family, and they naturally wanted to follow suit and encircle the Qi country.
The first step in this operation was to convince Zamuhe, and this was done well.
The next step is to convince the Marquis of Shanxi, Shanbao feels that he is not small.
The reason is that the former 20 years of Shanxi Shihou defecting to the Muguls was not a real country, and those steppe Tatars would not rule the country at all, so in fact, the Shanxi generation was ruled by proxy.
To put it more clearly, the Marquis of Shanxi is the tax collector of the Mughal people!
For the Mughals, as long as the prince can give 1.3 million yuan of wealth to the Great Khan on the grassland every year, the Mughurs don't care how they rule Shanxi.
In other words, the thirteen princes have been the emperor of the soil for twenty years!
Shanbao has no doubt that this group of people can no longer adapt to the days when there is a strong political regime on their heads, and this is the basis for persuading the Shihou family to oppose the Qi State.
As for the Great Zhou in the south, Shanbao is a little psychologically uncertain.
After being separated by the Qi State, the connection between Dajin and Da Zhou was completely severed, and the princes did not know the character of the new emperor, but they just felt that this guy supported the main battle faction and most likely would not participate in the anti-Qi encirclement network.
However, if Emperor Longdao can consider the problem from the perspective of his own interests, then Shanbao's trip will have the opportunity:
The Jurchens were no longer able to destroy the Great Zhou, but the Qi State had this ability, and sooner or later there would be a civil war between the Han people between Zhou and Qi.
Shanbao only hoped that the Han Emperor Longdao would see this.
As for Dajin's conditions for peace talks with Da Zhou, when Shanbao came, the three princes Bo Jilie once gave him a penetration:
The main thing is to comprehensively revise the previous Jin and Zhou peace treaties, the Great Zhou no longer claims to the Great Jin, and the Great Zhou Emperor no longer treats the Great Jin Emperor with his sons and nephews.
On the contrary, the Emperor of Jin could pay tribute to the Great Zhou and send tribute envoys to the Great Zhou every year to pay tribute to the Great Zhou Emperor:
10 pairs of white mink, 10 pairs of sable skin, two bear skins, one tiger skin, and 100 catties of ginseng.
Moreover, the Jin State supported the Great Zhou's action to recover the homeland of Jiangbei, and the two countries were bounded by Shanhaiguan.
In exchange, the Great Zhou was supposed to support the Jin state's efforts to regain southern and eastern Liao, and rebuke the atrocities of the local government of the King of Qi in Liaodong.
At the same time, he gave back 300,000 stone of grain and 200,000 yuan of money every year.
Businessmen from the two countries exchanged views.
In general, it is enough to save face and get enough benefits.
Although the gold was given to Zhou, it was tribute.
Although Zhou gave a lot of money, it was a gift.
Jin Guo was even willing to help Emperor Longdao create a grand scene for all countries to come, and if Emperor Longdao was as vain as his ancestors, he should like it.
If an agreement can be reached, then the largest gap in the anti-Qi encirclement network can be blocked, and Da Zhou, who occupies the position of righteousness, should be able to contain a large part of the Qi army's strength in the southern part of Qi Province.
In addition, 500,000 yuan of grain per year is of great significance to Daikin's resumption of production.
In the end, ......, hehe, if the Qi State is really attacked and killed by Jin, Mongolia, and the surrounding areas, then according to the border division, Zamuhe and Da Zhou will definitely fight for control of Ji Province and even Qi Province.
And Dajin, as long as he takes the money and food "given" by the Zhou people, he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
Chances, there's always one.
Right?
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At this time, Xu Shiyang did not know that the Jurchens were trying to build an anti-encirclement network against themselves.
He just continued to prepare for the upcoming winter offensive step by step.
While constantly transporting troops and materials to southern Liaoning, the General Staff hoped that Xu Shiyang would be able to carry out a task of bullying the enemy in the early stage.
The idea of the General Staff was:
Xu Shiyang, the commander of the whole army, may be the backbone of the Qi army in the eyes of outsiders, and where he is, the main force of the Qi army should be there.
But in fact, the role that Xu Shiyang can play is not big.
After putting forward the strategic plan and completing the general framework of the plan, the staff officers suddenly found that the current Commander-in-Chief Xu Shiyang stayed in the staff headquarters to make no sense in formulating the details of the implementation of the specific plan, and even ...... hindered his hands and feet.
Therefore, some people tentatively proposed that His Excellency the commander should go to Hebei Province to inspect Ji Province with great fanfare, and it would be better to make it known to the whole world, so as not to expose the true strategic intentions of the Qi army and the time of the attack.
In layman's terms, this task is to tell Xu Shiyang:
Don't get in our way, can you play by yourself?
In this regard, Xu Shiyang readily agreed.
Perhaps other commanders of this era will feel that it is disrespectful for them to be given such tasks by the General Staff, and there is even a possibility of grabbing power.
It's just that Xu Shiyang, a traverser, looks at the problem from a completely different angle.
The General Staff dared to give orders to himself, and Xu Shiyang was even very pleased that this painstaking organization had finally grown into a strong military core that existed for victory, rather than just his own mouthpiece!
This means that in the future, Huaxia no longer needs the so-called "No. 1 general in the world", and the work that professional professional officers can accomplish is far beyond the limit of what all famous generals can do!
Even if a stray arrow hits Xu Shiyang's head immediately, the Qi army will not collapse, because now the real brain of the Qi army has become the General Staff.
This is a gratifying change from the commander-in-chief's decision-making model to the officer's corps's decision-making model, and Xu Shiyang will certainly be happy.
Therefore, he did not dislike the General Staff at all with regard to himself, the commander-in-chief, as a prop to bully the enemy, but happily ran to Shuntianfu according to the requirements of the General Staff.
After arriving at Shuntian Mansion, Xu Shiyang immediately summoned local officials and announced in public that the site for the new Qi palace had begun.
Some young officials were very puzzled, why did the construction of a new palace start again now that the Schönbrunn Palace in Quancheng had not yet been completed?
Xu Shiyang's explanation is:
As the capital, Quancheng is an expedient measure from a historical, cultural, political, and military point of view.
In the current situation of the rapid development of the military and economic strength of the Qi State, it seems inappropriate for the King of Qi to continue to command the operation of the whole country in Quancheng, so he came to Shuntianfu this time in order to build this place as the core of the government of the next stage of the Qi State.
Since it is the seat of government and the de facto capital, it is natural to build a royal palace first so that the king of Qi can become the ruler.
And the reason why the new capital city was chosen in Suncheonfu is because it is a geographical crossroads.
Like the northeast link Liaodong, the north link Mengwu, the west is very close to Shanxi, the south is the core territory of Qi Ji Province and Qi Province, to the east can also directly enter the sea from Jinmen, the geographical location can be said to be very advantageous.