"King, as long as the Duke of Guangxin arrives before the main force of the rebels, deal with the rebel army and the rebel generals, quickly control the armies, and transfer the population of each county and village to the city, even if there is an army of 100,000 besieging the city, with the population of 500,000 in Guangxin and the grain stock, there should be no problem in holding on for half a year."

Hearing this, King Xian suddenly laughed:

"General Wei really knows more about Guangxin Gong than the widow, Guangxin Gong has been running Guangxin City for many years for three generations, and the grain and grass army is unfathomable, and now it seems that General Wei wants to make the best use of it."

"The king's words are serious, these are the baggage prepared by the black turban rebels in response to Qin Han and instigating Guangxin Gong to go astray, once Guangxin falls into the hands of the rebels, these grain and grass baggage population will naturally fall into the hands of the rebels, and Guangxin Gong will also be used."

"And after that? Guangxin was besieged, the black turban thieves still have hundreds of thousands of horses west of the Yongxing River, our army is still unable to recover the capital county of Xijun, and now it has been attacked by the rebels into the hinterland of Beihai County, the situation is even more sinister than the beginning, General Wei can't let it wreak havoc in Beihai.

General Wei should not forget that Beihai County will be out of production this year, and the rations of more than one million mouths from this winter to next spring have not yet been settled, and if it is delayed until next year, Dingyang, Guangxin, Lincheng, and Pucheng will all be within the deterrence of the rebels, and how will the people of the four cities farm. ”

That's exactly what I'm going to say. Although the rebels said that Guangxin was surrounded, but the rebels' grain and grass baggage had to pass through Pucheng and Dingyang to supply, at this time our cavalry stationed in Dingyang City played a role, robbing its grain and cutting off its cooking, and the rebels were bound to retreat after a long time.

If it does not retreat, it will inevitably transfer heavy troops from the west bank of the Yongxing River to escort grain and grass, so that the pressure on our army on the Yongxing River will inevitably be reduced, and at this time the rebels are divided into two places, and the rear must be extremely empty, at that time our army can secretly replace the 30,000 cavalry in Dingyang City, replace it with 30,000 infantry troops, and then secretly go south to cross Wuping, attack west again to take Shaoping, and move the people back to the Yongxing River, so that the rebels will never be able to divide their troops to fight. And ......"

"And what."

"And the 150,000 Jin army of Jiguang is in Lei City, if the Jin army does not come to the rescue, wouldn't it be better?"

"Shhh...... That's right, as long as Guangxin is kept, if the Jin army still does not move, then what will the Jin army do after the Black Turban Rebellion is put down in the future! ”

In peacetime, the right to garrison troops must have a plausible excuse and explanation, even though Xianguo is a subordinate state of the Jin State, the Jin State has no reason to send 250,000 troops to the Xianguo.

Now that the younger brother is in trouble, the eldest brother will not help, what will the eldest brother do in the future, Xianguo can justifiably ask the Jin State to withdraw its troops. If you don't withdraw, Bailiyan will also think about it, and at that time, she will go everywhere to attract bees and butterflies to mess with flowers and grass, so that the Jin army will not be able to eat mutton and cause a commotion.

"King, this bet is that Guangxin City can be defended, and our army can secretly draw troops to the west to capture the eastward migration, so Chen Feishi's old general's naval army is very important, and all the warships of Wangqinjiang should be secretly transferred to the western front as soon as possible, once our cavalry goes south, General Chen Feishi's naval army will immediately set off for the west. If this battle can be won, Shaoping alone will have a population of nearly 200,000, and the blow to the rebels will undoubtedly be unprecedented. ”

"What about the grain and grass, where is the grain and grass! General Wei won't be disappointed. ”

"If the survival of the country is concerned, the last general will not dare."

"Where does the grain and grass come from?"

"Tuntian, let Liang Jun Tuntian."

"What, how can An Taihou agree!"

Of course he can't agree, the king can first mortgage 40,000 inferior war horses to him, and promise to return the high-grade war horses of Liang State to him next year, and An Taihou will definitely agree. Moreover, it can also force the Liang army to move to the line of the Yongxing River, giving the Black Turban Army the illusion that the Liang army is advancing westward, forcing the rebels to dare not rashly cross the river again on the bank of the Yongxing River. ”

"Why next year?" King Xian asked.

"Because the mare is already pregnant, we will have 20,000 or 30,000 more young horses and thousands of donkeys next year. As soon as we come and go, even if our army returns the horses to Antaihou, it doesn't matter. Therefore, the horses that were given to Antaihou must be inferior stallions, and they must not use mares, otherwise the mares and young horses will not be returned. ”

If Liang Jun wants to go to Tuntian willingly and hand over all the rations in Tuntian, it is obviously impossible, and there must be some motivation.

First, more than 40,000 inferior stallions were mortgaged to Ji Tong, so that he could see some hope, and then King Xian made a guarantee with a piece of paper, and waited for the war to ease and delay until next year, so as to reassure him. Wait until next year when the mare gives birth to cubs, and the salty army's own mare will be replanted again.

At this time, the war horses of the Liang army in the hands of the Xian army were consumed by the war, and they didn't know how much they could have left, and finally returned these war horses to Ji Tong, and took back 40,000 inferior horses, and the Xian army did not lose money.

At this time, the decadence on King Xian's face was swept away like a passing cloud, and he took out two bowls of iced sour plum soup from Bingjian and handed one of them to Bailiyan.

"Wei Aiqing is really a widow in time, and Uncle Guang can't even think of such a clever plan as Wei Aiqing."

"The king has won the award, it's not that Uncle Guang can't think of it, in fact, the Chengdao faction is too conservative and does not dare to deviate from the scriptures and do things that are contrary to common sense, so when the eloquent and foolish factions have put it into practice, the Chengdao faction can still only hold on to the defects, counting on Kuang Fu Liang Dynasty to rule the world again, but in fact it is a frog at the bottom of the well, seeking a while, but not a lifetime."

"The frog at the bottom of the well? That's a wonderful statement. Now that the plan has been decided, can General Wei go to Guangxin for the widow and share the worries for the widow. ”

"I'm afraid I can't ride a horse, I can only take a car. And if you want to leave, you have to leave immediately, and the general is afraid of a slight delay, lest you miss the opportunity. ”

"Well, Ye Xin came here with 40,000 horses, left 10,000 miscellaneous horsemen, and the remaining 30,000 were commanded by Ye Xin, and immediately went north with General Wei and the Marquis of Dingyang and Guangxin. In addition, Zhao Xun was ordered to transport 30,000 horses to join Ye Xin in order to speed up the march, and General Wei thought that this was appropriate. ”

"King Shengming."

Ye Xin brought more than 40,000 people here, of which more than 20,000 were the elites who attacked Shao Ping, and the other 20,000 were miscellaneous cavalry who stayed behind to guard the Yongxing River.

Dispatch 30,000 people to gallop north, each of them only has one war horse, and it is already the limit to rush 120 or 30 miles in a hurry, and it will take at least four or five days to reach Dingyang, and it is impossible to arrive in two or three days.

Therefore, it is necessary to travel more than 25 miles a day with one man and two horses to reach Dingyang within two to three days, and arrive at Guangxin on the evening of the third or fourth day, and take the lead in taking over the two places one to two days before the rebels.

After that, King Xian immediately summoned Ye Xin and the Marquis of Dingyang, and immediately gathered the army to go north to Dingyang.

When he left the palace, it was already seven o'clock, Baili Yan wanted to visit Gongsun Yue and ask him about the fact that the Lei Cheng Jin army was not moving, but he thought that the entire Central Plains Beihai region was the territory of the Foolish Sect, and Gongsun Yue, who belonged to the Xiong Dao, didn't even know about Qin Han's existence, and it was obviously impossible to know what the rebels had done to the Lei Cheng Jin army.

The way back to the Legation was full of devastation, and although the corpses had been removed, the red blood stains on the ground remained, and there were even human stumps in the corners that had not had time to be cleaned, and I don't know if it was an animal or a human internal organ in the water.

Most of the fires in the eastern part of the city have been extinguished, and the combustibles are burned out without burning, and the fires will be extinguished sooner or later, but the losses are not tragic, more than half of the people affected by the disaster, and the direct economic losses are at least one-fifth or more of the annual revenue of the state treasury, and the indirect losses are not known to be much.

However, I heard King Xian mention that last night he raided Jiang Yan's Mansion, and more than 100,000 pieces of silver were copied out alone, more than 6,000 pieces of gold, more than 700 large and small gold collars, dozens of pearls of all kinds, more than 500,000 copper coins, more than 100,000 acres of land deeds, and other cloth, jade, crystal, etc., the number is huge, to the point of touching the heart, and the rest of the unknown accounts do not know how much, these wealth is indeed too much for a big Sima.

More than 500,000 copper coins may be reasonable, and even the king of Xian will not be surprised if he has a million copper coins, even if he is corrupt, but he is his uncle, trying to make some money, what can be wrong, but there are so many gold, silver and jewelry hidden at home, that is 1.2 million should not be.

Gold and silver, as the absolute currency of large-scale transactions at present, are restricted by many technical conditions such as prospecting, mining, smelting, etc., and the annual output is not much, and the silver and gold circulating in the Central Plains are far from reaching the peak of the Qing Dynasty, with an annual income of 30 or 40 million taels of silver. If we consider the land area of the Central Plains, the density of gold and silver is very scarce

After the expenses of the next year are removed, the treasury can save tens of millions of gold, silver and precious metals at the end of the year, which is a huge amount, so copper coins and physical spot are still the main sources of wealth.

Gold and silver are more collected and stored by the state, and the gold and silver owned by individuals are easily forcibly exchanged for copper coins by the government by law, so merchants nowadays prefer to bury the excess gold and silver in the ground to prevent it from being forcibly exchanged for copper coins, which are more likely to depreciate.

Now Da Sima's family is 100,000 gold and silver, and when compared horizontally, it is at least equivalent to the purchasing power of millions of taels of snowflake silver in the heyday of the Qing Dynasty, which is beyond the income that a current official eunuch can get by corrupting the law for a lifetime, not to mention more than 100,000 acres of land and unknown accounts.

According to Gongsun Yue's own statement, the policy cost he had to pay in order to win over and buy the support of the elite class of the Xianguo accounted for 20% of his export benefits, which meant that if Gongsun Yue exported 50 million stone of grain and grass to the outside world, the magnates of the Xianguo would at least share the benefits of cash and goods worth more than 10 million stone.

At the same time, these grains and grasses are poured out of the official warehouse without exception, so most of them can only be purchased by economic means, and the difference and benefit is that Gongsun Yue promised to the elite class to support him in the exchange of the "Nongsang Order".

In the end, the rebels ate on the grain and grass provided by the corrupt officials, and then killed their heads to sacrifice the flag, and finally a few corrupt officials knew that their selfishness was based on endangering the entire country and even their personal lives. What a irony to say.

The confiscated property of Jiang Yan's mansion more or less gave the country on the verge of bankruptcy a breather, and there was reason to believe that King Xian would confiscate more of the family property of the powerful relatives who only Jiang Yan and Gongsun Yue Ma were the heads of the country, so as to fill the treasury.

In other words, given the current severe political situation in the country, it is possible to spend money to buy crimes, not only to legally deprive property, but also to gain a good reputation, and at the same time to stabilize the precarious regime.