In fact, it's not that Zhao Cheng is really willing to send his face to the countryside.

Knowing that this matter could not be negotiated, it was Zhao Cheng who tested how resolute his Zhu Xiao's attitude towards this matter was, so as to judge the next situation.

Regarding the previous defeat in Xishan, the preliminary judgment in private is that there are people with Wang Xiu in the government, or Wang Xiu himself is someone's glove in the government. Just like white agarwood is Zhao Cheng's glove.

Assuming that this inference is correct, the next step is simple, Zhao Cheng deliberately came to this trip and revealed very key military information to Zhu Xiao.

If it turns out later that this information was used by Wang Xiu's bandit army, it will confirm a lot of things. At the same time, it can be counted.

Before this, Zhao Cheng really didn't know how to fight the war in the future. In fact, it is useless to be in a hurry at this time, just be patient and not make mistakes until the opportunity arises, then place a bet, and then solve the problems that arise in the betting process.

This is actually the solution, and it can be applied in all areas.

Presumably the same for Wang Xiu, after the defeat of Xishan and the failure of Muzhou's Fang Labu plan, he didn't know how to find a breakthrough. So during this period, the two sides were peaceful, until he would hear the news provided by Zhu Xiao: the food of the White Agarwood Department was in an emergency.

Assuming that these inferences are correct, then Wang Xiu will "wait for the opportunity" and start to enter the betting link.

Thinking like this, Zhao Cheng looked up at the sky as he walked, it was even more gloomy than he imagined, and a small amount of snowflakes had already begun to fly, this was the first snow of the year, and it was also the first snow of Cai Jing's Daguan year......

The first snow had already caused Chizhou to freeze.

Zhang Shangying, who was already old and couldn't stand the cold, turned the curtain, and a biting cold wind blew in his face, and there was no comfort in his body.

"Xianggong, please put down the curtain, Chizhou has not arrived yet, you can't stand the cold." The henchman hurriedly said.

Zhang Shangying didn't listen, and wrapped the bear skin on his body tightly, "It's been since the last time I passed through Chizhou, I don't know how many years and months have passed, it seems that nothing has changed here, it's still like that, but the people who are rooted here are leaning over each other, which seems even more chaotic." ”

The entourage didn't answer, and the search was already at war, and how could several groups of people not be chaotic when they were playing here?

Zhang Shangying seemed to be full of memories here, and he always looked at the wind and snow outside along the way, and said for a long time, "During the period of Emperor Zhezong, the old man was in Jiangning Mansion on Jiangnan East Road, and he knew the cupbearer, and that was the closest season to this Chizhou. There are as many thieves as there are in the boundary of Chizhou in my memory, but they are petty fights, not large-scale climate, and there is copper all over the ground, and it is money to pick it up. And because of the bandits, the old man remembered that the wine shipped from Jiangning Mansion was mostly to this Chizhou, and on the way back, in addition to the minerals, mountain goods, furs and other materials here. ”

The subordinates didn't know what the old man was thinking, so they couldn't talk to him.

Zhang Shangying himself knew the trouble he was facing here, and he harmed this place because of a money word.

Today's Chizhou bandits and bandits have been large-scale and centralized, and it will be difficult to deal with them thoroughly. But all that anyone who wants to solve this problem sees is money.

To put it simply, Zhang Shuye wants to include the copper mine here in the household asset form to solve the increasingly serious financial dilemma.

The bandits, or the bureaucracy, want to maintain the status quo. Once the status quo is maintained, it means that these copper mines, which are still producing a steady stream of copper ore, have become their asset wealth. This is called the death of man for money, and the death of birds for food.

That's it, and the cold one set off the war in Chizhou.

Zhang Shangying felt that this group of people was unreasonable, they loved money so much, they didn't go to study or practice calligraphy for this matter, regardless of morality and reputation. All they knew was digging out the ore endlessly, leaving one big hole after another in the earth, and they looked devastated and scorched.

The ore is also refined into copper, which is used to buy the desired materials, but most of them are stored in the cellar and moldy, just as a spiritual pleasure.

"Just for these illusory things, countless idiots have been gathered in this Chizhou to tear up, and now the old man is also here......"

After taking a sip of wine, Zhang Shangying laughed at herself again.

Gradually approaching Chizhou City, I saw groups of refugees gathered in the cold winter snow, and the situation was worse than expected.

Zhang Shangying's heart couldn't help but sink, which means that if these fools can't tell the winner in the short term, then whether it is politics or people's livelihood, the dynasty will pay an unimaginable price in this special period, and Chizhou will really collapse!

As a great Confucian in the world, Zhang Shangying was not very familiar with war, and he was also very disgusted with war. Although he is old now, he is not slow to react. In this situation, Zhang Shangying believes that the reason for this situation is that several of them are indifferent to the people's livelihood, including the cool official Zhang Shuye, they are just to get what they want, and they all sacrifice other things, and they all think that they are right.

If you think you're right, there's a good chance you won't be able to sit down and talk.

"Can the old man's trip really solve the problem of Chizhou and save the people of Chizhou from fire and water?"

Thinking of these, Zhang Shangying muttered with emotion.

Outside the city, Zhang Shangying also saw with his own eyes a group of untidy and even worse than refugees shouting strange "one-two-one" training.

Looking at such an army, and the number of people was only three battalions, Zhang Shangying couldn't help but have the urge to turn around and leave Chizhou immediately. I really can't imagine that this is the current support of Chizhou, and I can't imagine that the madman Zhao Cheng led such a final family background, threatening to fight a decisive battle with Wang Xiu, and threatening to win the war in the end.

Regardless of whether others believe it or not, anyway, after being bewitched by Zhang Ji, the cool official Zhang Shuye believed it, and he wanted to kill these bandits and snatch every piece of copper ore from the land of Chizhou. For this reason, some people have already knocked out the dog's brain in the temple.

The current situation has been very unfavorable to Zhao Cheng, because there was a fiasco in the Battle of Xishan in the past, and later, Zhao Cheng failed to really make achievements, failed to really turn defeat into victory, on the contrary, this scholar who spoke wildly in Lingyang Mountain "command error" suffered defeat, and also mobilized tens of thousands of people to bewitch and say, "I don't care about my merits, but this should not affect the mission of others."

Damn's burning sentences, such heartbroken brainwashing and pushing!

This is Zhang Shangying's conclusion.

Whether others believe it or not, Zhang Shangying doesn't believe Zhao Cheng anyway. But Uncle Zhang believed it at night, that old Zhang was abolished, and the gun-like thinking had entered the extreme, covering up the interests of people's livelihood and the actual situation.

Thinking about it, Zhang Shangying ordered to stop the carriage, and stepped out of the carriage, watching for a long time with his hands behind his back.