Chapter 219: Conjugation
After the account was dispersed, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) explained this method to Zhao Xun, and Zhao Xun nodded again and again:
"This method is very good, but why don't you say it to Wang Gongzao, so that the generals can judge and judge."
"Zhao Shuai, Wang Gongzao is good at construction, but he does not have water conservancy, and most of the generals are accustomed to fighting on the battlefield, and the method of irrigating the city with water is not common, but there is a precedent. The crown soup canal is small, if you want to store water and flood the city, you must first cofferdam to store water, and its height is less to say that it can flood the city above four zhang.
The cofferdam takes a lot of time and costs money, and the new city is in front of him, in the eyes of Wang Gongzao, it is almost difficult to complete, so Wang Gongzao will not believe in the new city of Guantang Canal and water tank.
But all the generals are making contributions with their heads, even if there is a one-in-10,000 possibility, it is enough to kill the harm, so the generals and Wang Gongzao's opinion must be to the left, and if it is proposed in person, it will embarrass Wang Gongzao. ”
"Hehe, what Wei Ce Ying said is extremely true." Zhao Xun twisted his long hair and nodded, and then said, "It's not early, you can go back to the camp." Tomorrow, when the commander goes to the Guangxin camp to give an order, he ordered the Guangxin Gong to move north to Yangting to garrison. ”
"No!" Bai Liyan took the order and said, "There is still one thing in the end, and I ask Zhao Shuai to consider it." ”
"What?"
Bai Liyan took out Uncle Guang's letter and handed it to Zhao Xun:
"Zhao Shuai, please take a look, you will know a thing or two after you have seen it."
Zhao Xun opened the letter and read it carefully, his eyes swept between the lines, his face immediately sank, and he smashed his palm on the case in anger:
"Kill, kill!"
"Zhao Shuai, please calm your anger, there is no real evidence on this matter, and you can't make a hasty conclusion."
Zhao Xun was malicious, and his clenched knuckles sounded:
"Does the king know?"
"I don't know yet, but after discussing with the old gentleman, the last general decided to postpone the notification to the king, so as not to jump off the wall in a hurry. Moreover, these are mere speculations and cannot be convicted. ”
"Ben Shuai knows about this, you can step down."
"No!"
Bai Liyan quietly withdrew from the big tent, and Zhao Xun approached Uncle Guang's secret letter to the oil lamp, and burned it to ashes.
"Gongsun Pifu, dare to do this!"
Thinking of the generals of the Xian Army who died in vain in Jiangdong in the First World War, Zhao Xun hated to slash Gongsun Yue at this moment and cramp and skin it to relieve the hatred in his heart.
Suppressing his anger, Zhao Xun shouted:
"Where is Xue Sheng!"
Xue Sheng stepped into the account and saluted:
"The end will be."
"Order Wuping Ye Xin, and order Jiang Zhan, the right captain, to come to see me tomorrow."
"No!"
In the first battle of Duyang City in Jiangdong, Jiang Zhan was seriously injured but saved his life, and he was recuperating in Feicheng until after the war, avoiding the most brutal attack of the Jin army. After that, the Xianjun army was disabled, Jiang Zhan was promoted to the rank of chief, and last year he was qualified to be the right lieutenant from the commander, who previously served under Yao Sheng, and then transferred to Zhong Heng. After Zhong Heng and the generals served as the envoys of the Liang army, the men and horses stayed in Wuping and Ye Xin was in charge.
On the second day, Bailiyan rushed to Guantang Canal to give an order, and the news of the relocation had actually reached the Guangxin Army, and a large number of people and construction officials had settled in one after another, and everyone could see that this was to be built in Guantang Canal.
Wang Jiu and Hu Mo didn't want to see him, but after Zhao Xun fell to King Xian in an all-round way, Bai Liyan looked like a traitor in their eyes, and the atmosphere was tense when they met again.
Luo Songting is easy to say, he is a realist, and he does not reject all the conditions that reality is favorable to him, even opponents, can also be wooed. If there had been no marriage at the beginning, Guangxin Army would have been a different result at this time.
"Mr. Luo, Wei came to order the Guangxin Army on the order of Zhao Shuai, and asked Mr. Luo to pass on behalf of the Guangxin Gong."
"Oh, please come with me."
Bailiyan changed his words to Guangxin Gong, which made Luo Songting somewhat disappointed. In his opinion, in just two years, Bailiyan has jumped from a white body to the most relied on cadre of King Xian, and the speed is not fast. Now even Guangxin Gong has to respect him for three points, which is two years ago, who would have thought of it.
"My lord, General Wei came to give the order on the orders of Zhao Shuai."
Luo Songting said, Jiang Min stood up, barely squeezed out two smiles on his face and stepped forward. patted Bailiyan on the shoulder and said eloquently:
"Son-in-law, don't come here lately."
"Thanks to his father-in-law's concern, Wei Xian didn't dare to slack off."
Bailiyan bowed, not wanting to call the word "father-in-law". But after thinking about it, if he really did this, wouldn't he have slapped Jiang Min in the face in front of Luo Songting, Wang Jiu, and Hu Mo, so wouldn't he become a villain.
Hearing Bailiyan call him his father-in-law, Jiang Min had a satisfied smile on his face, which was very real.
"Son-in-law, come and sit."
"Father-in-law Xie." Bai Liyan took out the order and handed it to Jiang Min, and after sitting down, he continued: "Zhao Shuai has an order, so that his father-in-law will hand over the defense line within five days and go north to Yangting to garrison. ”
"It was Yang Ting, but I thought it was going south, so Yang Ting will be Yang Ting."
Jiang Min said, looking at Luo Songting. Luo Songting twisted his short beard, thought for a moment and said:
"General Wei, there are woods north of Yangting, there are many mud swamps near Yangting, the Black Turban Army often infiltrates across the river, after the Guangxin Army moves to Yangting, can Zhao Shuai increase his troops?"
Zhao Shuai did not say anything about this. But Yang Ting is really difficult to defend, and now to build a new city, and it is necessary to transfer people to build the city, Wei thinks that even if there are more troops, there will not be much. Hopefully it will get better in April. However, before that, the lack of Yangting garrison will be a big problem, and Wei thinks that he should transfer troops from Guangxin to the south for reinforcements. ”
Luo Songting and Jiang Min exchanged glances, Bai Liyan saw it in his eyes, thinking that Zhao Xun would make this arrangement, so he let Jiang Min go and ordered him to send the Guangxin army south to reinforce it. In this way, Jiang Min had an excuse for the class to go north for reinforcements, and from then on, he would shrink in Beihai County and not be able to leave.
If Jiang Min is not given this opportunity, Jiang Min will inevitably create an opportunity to transfer out of the Yongxing River Defense Area, and then it will not be a problem for the Black Turban Army to attack Pucheng, but the loss of Pucheng and the capture of Pucheng by the Jin Army. Instead of this, it is better to let Jiang Min occupy Pucheng.
If there is no reasonable excuse for the Guangxin army to leave the Yongxing River defense area, it will be 20,000 horses, and the king of Xian will not be able to explain it.
Luo Songting is a smart person, Zhao Xun did this to give everyone a step down, don't get stiff and can't get off the stage.
"General Wei, after the new city is built, what are Zhao Shuai's plans, and does he plan to cross the river to conquer Tiancheng, Xiaqu and other cities?" Luo Songting asked.
"Not for the time being, General Zhao will move some craftsmen from the deserted village to Xincheng, use the newly dug iron ore in Changqu as a material, and smelt weapons as soon as possible to equip the Xian army, so that our army can be stronger than the Black Turban Army in terms of ordnance quality, and no matter how many Black Turban troops there are, at most it will be a tie with our Xian Army."
"Virtuous son-in-law!" Jiang Min said: "The art of fine iron has been transmitted back to Guangxin to make the craftsmen build it quickly, I don't know if the Xincheng weapon can be equipped with Guangxin?" ”
Nowadays, the production technology of iron products is primitive, far from meeting the requirements of mass production, and the armies of all countries can only be equipped with four or five percent of iron weapons for twenty or thirty years, not to mention the shrinking national strength of Xianguo, the loss of coal yards in Xianxi and Qiunan counties, and the remaining coal is not enough to support such large-scale iron smelting, so they can only find new mines, or import them from abroad.
Coal is also a strategic resource, who can export coal to you nowadays, can only exchange weapons for coal trade means, earn some difference, in the short term to ease the tension of coal, can only open source and reduce expenditure to find new mines.
Jiang Min passed through Luo Songting a month ago, and he had already obtained the second-class method of iron smelting and forging, and there was no technical bottleneck in refining high-grade fine iron or even steel, and now he still wanted a large number of steel weapons, so he was inevitably a little suspicious of getting inch by inch, and even wanted to pull himself into troubled waters.
Even though he knew that his motives were not pure, it was not good to have a seizure on his face, Bai Liyan said quietly:
"I'm afraid this will disappoint my father-in-law, there are more than 300,000 Xian troops, and it is inevitable that priority will be given to garrison soldiers and forbidden troops, and then county soldiers, with the existing iron production, I am afraid it will be difficult to equip county soldiers within ten years, and I hope my father-in-law will see it."
"Oh, then, forget it." Jiang Min said disapprenously, and said to Jiang Qian: "As soon as Qian'er returned to the camp at the beginning of the year, speaking of Rong'er's marriage, Lone originally planned to set an auspicious day before spring, but now I see, the virtuous son-in-law is busy with military affairs, and I am afraid that I will not be able to find time to return to Guangxin to complete the marriage before the spring, in this regard, I don't know what the virtuous son-in-law has planned?" ”
"Well...... Yesterday I have been to the Xuanting Marquis Mansion, and I have seen Princess Lanyuan and Lord Qiao, and the marriage of Lord Jiang should not be delayed, otherwise it is not as good as the confidence to enter the door first, father-in-law, do you say yes. ”
Bai Liyan said easily, Jiang Min was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, stunned for a long time at a loss, Luo Songting was also taken aback, at first he only thought that King Xian would reuse Wei Xian, and he would also give marriage, but then the marriage was delayed, until a few days ago I heard that two Tang girls were given, Luo Songting was a little relieved, where could he think that he would marry Lord Qiao to Bailiyan.
"General Wei, the matter of the Marquis of Xuanting was decided by King Xian?" Luo Songting hurriedly asked, knowing in his heart that he was asking more.
"Yes, it's the King's Day."
He only said before the holiday, not two months ago. Before the festival, King Xian did mention the matter of Xuanting Hou, anyway, no one knew the inside story, even if Luo Songting got to the bottom of it, he couldn't admit it.
The atmosphere was immediately a little cold, Jiang Min forced himself to calm down, and the gloom and loss in his eyes were suddenly obvious:
"What the virtuous son-in-law said is extremely true, the matter of the big wedding should not be delayed, and there is always no confidence in the first door, what does Mr. Luo think?"
"What the lord said is very true, the big wedding should be handled as soon as possible, and it must not be sloppy."
Jiang Min deliberately wanted to drag out the marriage, and Baili Yan sacrificed the card of the county lord of Qiao, which was to tell Jiang Min that the consequence of dragging it out was that the county lord of Qiao would enter the door first.
Jiang Rong's twenty-year-old eldest girl entered the door later, closer than blood, the county lord of Qiao and the king of Xian, and supported Jiang Rong as the main room, so it was not right to say it in a reasonable name, not to mention that it was still a late door. In this way, Bailiyan is the first army of him, and the initiative of this marriage is leveled.