Chapter 440: Secrets
Ignoring Feng Yi and the others, who were still standing under the porch and in the courtyard like a stake, Han Qian pushed the door and walked into the house.
The stove was blazing, the room was steaming, Han Qian took off his heavy official robe, saw Feng Yu walking in, ignored him, walked straight to the desk and sat down, spread out a lesson plan that had not yet been revised, and put pen to note.
Feng Yi glanced at Xi Ying, he couldn't figure out what Han Qian was thinking in his heart for a while, hoping that Xi Ying could give him a hint.
Xi Ying took Han Qian's official robe and hung it on the wooden shelf in the corner.
Feng Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "It's the first time that everyone else knows that you have such an idea today, and it is inevitable that they will be a little unable to think about it-"
"You want to open it?" Han Qian turned around, looked at Feng Yi and asked.
"I ......" Feng Yi snorted for a while, and said, "I think it, what Feng Yi said still has some truth, thinking about what kind of scenery Li Yu was when he fought in the south and the north, he handed over the military power back then, naturally he had a big mind to return the people to recuperate, and hoped that Emperor Tianyou could finally collect troops in the imperial court and make the land of Jianghuai rest forever, but things may not all be as he wanted; And even if he did, Emperor Tianyou didn't believe in his loyalty. Thinking that when the Liang army invaded Jingxiang on a large scale, the situation was so urgent that Emperor Tianyou had to drive the expedition in person, but he did not think about using Li Yu. You and Your Highness have been born in the interval, I am worried that if we return to Xuzhou this time, Your Highness will not think of us even if there are thousands of difficulties in the future......"
"Do you think I'm playing a trick with His Highness to retreat into advance, and think I'm cocooning myself?" Han Qian asked.
"I didn't say that," Feng Yi denied, but said, "Not to mention Li Pu, Zhang Ji has no contact with the palace of Zhedong County over the years, and when Li Yu died of illness, his son Li Xiu was in Sitiandun, and they all stayed in front of the bed, which shows that they have not all agreed with Li Yu's approach over the years." ”
"Alas!"
Han Qian sighed softly, pushed open the window, and saw Feng Yi, Kong Xirong and others standing in the courtyard looking over here, and did not leave.
Li Yu once said that with his prestige, he could not change the views of the people around him, which is actually not false at all.
Li Yu left a will before his death, hoping to choose a place to be buried in Guangdezhai, which means that he hoped that his son Li Xiu could get closer to the Chishan Army and have some affection, but his son Li Xiu finally insisted on sending someone to transport Li Yu's body to Sitiandun for burial.
Although Sitiandun is currently within the territory of the Guangde Army, less than 100 miles away from Guangde Village, Li Xiu's move is not so much that he has no intimacy with the Chishan Army and Han Qian, but rather a rebellion against his father Li Yu's last will and will.
There has never been loyalty for no reason, and there has never been betrayal for no reason, he can now force Feng Yi, Feng Yi, Kong Xirong, and Zhou to follow his orders, but he can't stop them from all having their own ideas and interests.
Of course, the person standing in this courtyard has more thoughts in his heart at the moment, maybe he feels unworthy and unfair for him, but deep down he still regards each other as a whole.
He was determined to give up military power after the war, and they were unwilling to break away from this whole, which meant that they would have to give up the power and interests that could have been at his fingertips.
Even if Zuo Guang's German army did not participate in the battle to recover Jinling in the later period, with the current military exploits, plus the three princes who were in urgent need of their cronies to control the court and Zhuzhou counties after succeeding to the throne, Gao Shao, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji, Zhou Chu and others had more experience, and they should also be awarded senior generals at the level of generals and even deputy commanders, and at least they should have middle and high-level official positions such as state soldiers and horses envoys or state Sima in the localities, and even lead the history of the state assassins.
The Feng family was convicted of rebellion by Emperor Tianyou and was copied from their clan, but at the beginning of the plot to cut the feudal war, the reason why Feng Yu agreed to cooperate with the relocation of the Feng clan to Xuzhou was that after the three princes succeeded to the throne, they could pardon the Feng family's crimes.
It is not normal to ask everyone to have the mind to spare their own lives and ask for their lives for the people, on the contrary, everyone has their own interests and demands, and there is nothing excessive.
When Li Yu returned to seclusion, Zhang Feng was only in his early thirties, and when he was in the prime of life and made meritorious contributions, did he want him to give up everything and follow the reality of Li Yu's seclusion in the mountains and forests for retirement?
So Gao Shao, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji, and Zhou everywhere all have the merit of being from the dragon, but now he asks them to let go of all this, and retreat to a corner of Xuzhou with him, and they have no ideas, is it realistic?
Thinking of this, Han Qian sighed slightly in his heart, dragged over the chair, sat in front of the window, looked at Feng Yu and said earnestly: "At this time, there are probably only Wang Wenqian, Yang Yuanyan and Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang, who are eager to hope that I have the ambition to take it from chaos, but you have to remember one thing, since ancient times, there has never been a hero who can really take it from chaos, but whoever has such an idea has always made a wedding dress for others!" ”
Feng Yi said: "The boss is dedicated to the people, and he will not change his mind even if he is tortured, no matter how unwilling we are, we will not be so confused as to persuade you to take it randomly." Everyone also hopes to end this war as soon as possible, but after the recovery of Jinling and the succession of His Royal Highness, where to go, maybe there are some different ideas, I say a presumptuous word, you can't let everyone have no idea of their own at all. ”
"You go on......" Han Qian said.
"I think, even if it is unlikely that the imperial court will allocate hundreds of thousands of dollars from the annual income every year to make up for the gap in the support of the Guangde Army's embassy, or if the Guangde Army's government is too close to Jinling, it will always make His Royal Highness and Li Pu and others unable to sleep, but your lordship asks to lead the Zuo Guangde army and more than 200,000 women and children to cross the river to fill Shouzhou, resist the Liang army in the middle line, and at the same time be responsible for containing Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, no one will fight with you for this drudgery, right?"
Han Qian said: "Do you really think that if I propose to cross the river to defend Shouzhou as a condition, I can really seize the military power of the Zuoguang German army, and really bring more than 200,000 old, weak, women and children over?" ”
"The general trend has been achieved, everyone is fighting for merit, except for us, no one will preserve their strength when they share the greatest credit, even if they can't capture Jinling a year ago, besieging Jinling City is not a problem, and His Highness's succession to the throne is a matter of one or two months earlier and one or two months later," Feng Yi said, "After His Royal Highness succeeds to the throne, Yang Zhitang and the clan will definitely focus on the interests he wants to operate in Jinling and the host states of Jiangnan in addition to the basic plate of Baohong Prefecture - His Royal Highness may be more inclined to reuse the people in the clan to guard the society at that time." In addition to Yang Zhitang, the Zheng clan should set their sights on Jingxiang, and the Zhang clan should want to consolidate their power in Langyue and Langyue, and Zhang Han's qualifications are too shallow, far from having the opportunity to compete with you to lead his troops across the river and garrison Shouzhou. After the war, the Marquis of Xinchang will most likely set their sights on Shaozhou and Hengzhou, so that they can take Yongzhou in the near future, and the benefits in it will be enough for them to digest for a while. The situation in Shouzhou is the most complicated, and there are strong enemies on the left and right, except for you, who dares to pat his chest and say that he will sit in Shouzhou, and there will be no mistakes? ”
"At the beginning, in order to protect myself, I gave His Highness the trick of power and trickery, and once His Highness succeeded to the throne, he would definitely be the first to use the trick of power and trickery on me, and this is one of them,"
Han Qian knew that there were some things that Feng Yi and they couldn't think of so thoroughly, but Feng Yi mainly thought that there was a way to ensure that everyone's basic interests were not damaged, but there was no such thing as the best of both worlds.
"And to bring two or three hundred thousand women and children to Shouzhou, and turn them into soldiers who are not much better than slaves and maids in the land of the four wars, violates my original promise to them, and I have no faith in breaking my promise, and the second is also; Third, they have a clear candidate to Shou Shouzhou. ”
"Who are they?" Feng Yi thought about it for a while, and didn't know what suitable candidate Yang Yuanpu could have to lead his troops to recover Shouzhou and defend it after recovering Jinling.
Han Qian said: "Today's good news from Jiangzhou came, I thought you could figure it out?" ”
"......" Feng Yi was slightly stunned, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't know what he should understand, and looked at Han Qian with confused eyes and asked, "You mean Li Zhihe?" Li Zhihe won a great victory, Li Pu looked depressed when he heard the news, I think after recovering Jinling, it is inevitable that Li Zhihe will go further, but if I am Li Pu, I would rather let you be more powerful, and it will be convenient for him to gather more people against you at that time, than to let Li Zhihe completely get out of his control! ”
"When did Lipp become a climate? You underestimate the Lu Qingxia next to the concubine, Li Zhihe is the person she really puts her heart into cultivating or supporting! Han Qian said.
"How is that possible?" Feng Yu was about to jump up as if someone had stepped on his tail, but he didn't understand how Han Qian could think so!
"It turns out that after you returned to Xuzhou, you have always been wary of Li Zhihe!" Xi Ying stood aside and heard this, and couldn't help but interject his lips and sigh.
Han Qian stood in front of the window and was silent for a long time, waiting for Feng Yi and Xi Ying to digest the news.
In the established historical process of the dream world, after the chaos in Jinling and the Jianghuai region, Li Zhihe was still active in Jiangnan for a long time, and he also admitted that he was a child of the former dynasty, but the history books did not admit this, thinking that this was just a small means for Li Zhihe to deceive people.
However, in such a chaotic situation, Li Zhihe could only do this by receiving the remnants of the Xinchang Marquis Mansion and the Late Red Mansion, but this was contradictory to Han Qian's observation of the relationship between Li Zhihe and Li Pu, Chai Jian, Li Chong and others.
Therefore, Han Qian had long speculated that the Late Red Mansion might have another layout on Li Zhihe, but it was only at this time that he was confirmed.
Although Jia Yan likes to use ambush tactics, how could Han Qian not know how difficult it is to send an elite ambush army of more than 1,000 people into the depths of the enemy territory without being discovered?
This is not something that can be explained by the negligence of the enemy army, but before Li Zhihe sent out the ambush troops, he was already convinced that the enemy's scout and reconnaissance system would inevitably have negligence that would allow them to exploit loopholes.
Otherwise, who would be willing to take more than a thousand elites to take such a risk that doesn't even have a chance of winning two or three percent?
Li Zhihe didn't officially leave Ezhou until almost June, where did he have time to stuff enough nails into the scout reconnaissance system of the Jiangzhou defenders?
Only the Late Red Mansion, which is the remnant power of the Shenling Division in Jiang Zhun, still has the potential to be further imagined.
Han Qian naturally didn't explain anything to Feng Yi and Xi Ying about the historical trend in the dream world at this time, and said: "At the beginning, the Shence Army and the Shenling Division of Sichuan and Shu were all under the rule of Tian Lingzi, and Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, was just a member of the Shence Army and was not much dazzling and prominent, but after the fall of the previous dynasty, the forces managed by Tian Lingzi quickly fell apart, but Wang Jian rose rapidly under the support of the Shenling Division Shu Division and controlled the two rivers - if you say that this is the most commonly used mode of use by the Shenling Division, Can you think of something? ”
"My lord is saying that Lu Qingxia, as a woman, is inconvenient to directly come forward to control the military power, but it is necessary to prevent Li Pu from being under her control after he is powerful, so he will inevitably bury a shadow to balance him a long time ago, and Li Zhihe is this shadow?" Feng Yu gasped and asked in surprise.
Li Zhihe has the talent of governing the army and commanding the army, and he is pragmatic but extremely decisive.
Especially in the early days of the Jingxiang War, Li Zhihe could not hesitate to risk breaking with the people of the Marquis of Xinchang Mansion and his adoptive father Li Pu, and joined forces with Han Qian to counteract Chai Jian, Li Chong and others, and returned power to Yang Yuanpu.
In Feng Yi's opinion, Li Zhihe is Han Qian's staunchest ally, even if Yang Yuanpu may guess Han Qian, Li Zhihe should also help this side speak, and will not stand up and fight with Han Qian for the opportunity to get out of Zhenshouzhou
Where did Feng Yi think that such a possibility still existed?
Han Qian took out a letter and newspaper from his arms, handed it to Feng Yi and said: "In addition to the good news sent by the messenger sent by Jiangzhou today, Yang Qin has already sent the letter to Nantang Village for half a day. ”
Yang Qin led a thousand soldiers and more than 30 warships in Xuzhou, and this time he also received a call-up and was assigned to the Wuya Army Naval Division to escort the eastward march of the soldiers and horses along the river - Yang Qin was by Li Zhihe's side at this time, and naturally had a closer observation of the battle for the capture of Jiangzhou.
Feng Yi compared the similarities and differences between the two letters, there were indeed some extremely inconspicuous subtleties, if it weren't for Han Qian's direct reminder, he might not be able to see it, he pondered for a long time, and then asked: "If Li Zhihe is Lu Qingxia's secret son, but the question is how can Lu Qingxia be sure that Li Zhihe can be used by her?" Li Zhihe is not a better person to control than Li Pu! ”
Lu Qingxia can control Li Pu, which is not difficult to understand, after all, Li Pu mainly got to this point with the help of Lu Qingxia, Li Pu can't do without Lu Qingxia, at least he needs to be tied to Lu Qingxia in order to keep his power at this time, but how can a character like Li Zhihe easily become a puppet controlled by others?
"In the year when Liang Taizu killed Zhaozong of the previous dynasty, two young sons in the clan died later, but I sent someone to secretly dig up these two young sons' tombs, all of which were empty!" Han Qian said.
"What?" Feng Yi never thought that there would be such a possibility, but in this way, Han Qian's many guesses made sense.
Feng Yi sat there stupidly, the secret that Han Qian said was so shocking to him that he didn't know what to say for a long time.
Li Zhihe may have been one of the two children of the former dynasty clan who disappeared that year?
Feng Yi also deeply felt the gap between him and Han Qian, probably because of this invisible huge gap, so that he couldn't see the suspiciousness of Li Zhihe, right?
After a long time, Feng Yi swallowed his saliva and said with difficulty: "The situation is more complicated than I thought, but it is a big taboo in the eyes of anyone to go to Jinling without permission to take away the military power from Li Pu, and there is really no way to retreat!" Feng Yu said something taboo, my lord, you handed over the military power today, and his heart is no matter how frank he is, but in the eyes of His Royal Highness, it is just 'Zhou Gong is afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang is humble and has not usurped the time', not to mention that you gave him power and trickery in the first place. ”
"You have such an idea, it's just that you still fundamentally think that Xuzhou is a corner and it is difficult to do anything!" Han Qian said, "The foundation of Xuzhou is shallow, so I want to go back to Xuzhou, and Xuzhou is rewarded by His Royal Highness and the Eight Classics." In addition, I have a way to salvage His Highness's trust in me a little - at least until this time, I have a clear conscience with His Highness. The secrets of Li Zhihe must not be passed on, as for the rest, you do more work with Feng Yi and them, and don't bother me with this matter again. And those who want to stay in Jinling are not a bad thing, whoever wants to stay in Jinling, I will try my best to make arrangements for him, after all, after recovering Jinling, His Highness also needs to have available people around him. ”
Although Feng Yi still felt in his heart that he should not easily hand over his military power and retreat to Xuzhou, he thought that the situation after the recovery of Jinling was still so complicated, and he couldn't think of any way to solve many contradictions and problems.
Unless Yueyang's soldiers and horses suffered a major setback when attacking Chizhou or under Jinling City, the war would continue to drag on for a year and a half.
Only in this way can they take the opportunity to take control of the three counties of Liyang, Yangxian, and Jintan at the northern foot of Jieling Mountain, and thoroughly resettle the nearly 200,000 extra women and children, and one or two crops can be harvested in these fields, and more than 300,000 women and children can be self-sufficient, and no longer rely heavily on external supplies.
If the war ends in two or three months, and the families in Liyang, Yangxian, and Jintan counties are clamoring to return their land, and the financial system controlled by Li Pu, Zheng Yu and others cuts off the supply of grain to more than 300,000 women and children, what will they do?
At present, although there are more than 8,000 households and small families, and a total of more than 50,000 people have been granted farm houses, and a number of ripe fields will be harvested after autumn, but the grain obtained is limited.
The newly cultivated fields will not be harvested until the summer and autumn of next year, and the generals and their families who have been resettled in the new fields will need to supplement a total of 70,000 or 80,000 stone grains every month to barely make ends meet.
Langxi Guangde Anji three counties mining coal and iron, the current amount is not large enough, but also need the surrounding states and counties willing to trade, in exchange for scarce materials, once the three princes recovered Jinling and succeeded to the throne, the relationship between the Guangde army and the surrounding states and counties eased up again tense, the surrounding states and counties cut off the channel of trade, they will immediately lack food, what can be done then?
Thinking about it this way, Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang sent troops to Xuzhou and forced the Chuzhou army to withdraw to Huaidong, perhaps it was aimed at them, not giving them the opportunity to digest so many women and children, right?
Of course, Feng Yi couldn't go around saying this, otherwise, breaking this would only make the Third Prince and Li Pu even more jealous of this side.
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Feng Yi walked to the courtyard and motioned for everyone to go out first, don't disturb Han Qian again, but Feng Yi stepped out of the courtyard and couldn't help asking: "Brother, what do you think Han Qian thinks in his heart, let's not be thieves, but we have to guard against thieves, right?" ”
Zhou Chu, Feng Xuan, Zhao Wuji, Zhao Qi and the others watched Feng Yu follow him into the house for a while, thinking that Han Qian should have something to say to him, and they all turned their heads sideways.
If you don't keep things secret, you lose.
The so-called people are mixed-mouthed, not that some people really have the heart of betrayal, but that everyone will react accordingly to different information, so it is easy to expose flaws in the eyes of those who have a heart.
For example, about Li Zhihe, Han Qian kept it secret to this day, because he didn't want the Late Red Mansion to know that he had guessed the most core and critical secret, so that the Late Red Mansion could expose its flaws for them to use.
Feng Yi guessed that Han Qian was determined to hand over his military power and retreat to Xuzhou, but he also wanted to let the contradictions within the Late Red Mansion, the contradictions between the three princes and the concubine, and the Marquis of Xinchang be exposed first!
Li Pu did this, at least he would not have any greater ambitions and ideas, as long as he honestly confessed to the three princes, the three princes were in power and their prestige was growing, and they would not bother with him, but if Li Zhihe was a child of the previous dynasty, the situation would be completely different.
This will eventually lead to a serious conflict between the final goal of the Marquis of Xinchang Mansion and the Late Red Mansion, which also involves the concubine, and all this is really lively.
And Li Zhihe is really a disciple of the former dynasty, I believe that he will also fight for the opportunity to go out of Xiangzhou or Shouzhou.
Thinking of this, Feng Yi couldn't help but think that if Han Qian could slightly alleviate Yang Yuanpu's jealousy of him, it would not be the best policy to retreat.
Now there are some secrets that can't be told to Feng Yi and others, Feng Yi also has a headache, and can only say perfunctorily at the moment: "The Chishan Army recruited slaves and maids to enlist in the army, which made the family gate very jealous, and the first emperor and His Royal Highness established the country with filial piety, and the adult's filial piety period has not expired, and he only came to Jinling in the name of the first adult's last wish, so anyway, after the war, the adult needs to write a letter to request to return to Xuzhou to keep filial piety." As for whether His Highness will win the favor at that time, I will say ......"
"Han Qian really wants to write a letter to ask him to return to Xuzhou to keep filial piety, and His Royal Highness won't just take the opportunity to agree?" Feng Yi smacked his lips and said.
"Then there is no way to do it," Feng Yu said, "Your Excellency needs to return to Xuzhou to guard filial piety, but if we have anyone who is willing to stay and serve His Highness, it is okay, and at the same time, we also need someone to stay in His Highness, lest His Highness be surrounded by traitors who speak ill of Xuzhou!" ”
Feng Mi's mind changed, so he considered the follow-up according to Han Qian's plan to hand over the military power and return to Xuzhou, and also saw that Han Qian had some idle chess and cold intentions before.
After handing over the military power, the German army of Zuo Guang and the generals could only discuss how to deal with them, and they lost the leading power and initiative.
At that time, even if the third prince gave Han Qian enough face, fulfilled Han Qian's promise to join the camp slaves and maids, and also rewarded these generals for their military exploits, the greatest possibility was to separate them and resettle them, and it was impossible to concentrate on them near the Guangde Military Mansion.
For the majority of the people at the bottom, the main thing is to seek stability and a safe life, and after the scattered land resettlement, the biggest demands are satisfied, and then Dingtian occasionally thinks of Han Qian's goodness, and don't expect them to do anything else.
However, for some people, the moment they pick up the sword, bow, spear, and halberd, the blood in their chests is ignited, although many of them regard the literacy class as torture, but they master the basic organization, the method of training, and have a deeper understanding of the world, how can the blood ignited in their chests be extinguished?
Once they are dispersed and resettled in the prefectures and counties, there is no other way to be promoted, and they are not willing to be suppressed at the bottom and have no future, either through business, business, or through liaison with officials from Xuzhou, to maintain contact with Xuzhou.
Therefore, they still have to have a considerable number of people stay in Jinling, or go to other states and counties and serve in the army.
On the other hand, Han Qian had the need to return to Xuzhou to keep filial piety, and others who had made great contributions should be promoted and rewarded by the imperial court.