Li Zicheng glanced at the generals under his command and said, "What are your opinions?" How to meet Li Zhi's conquest? ”

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Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are so strong, and his weapons are even more sophisticated than when Chongzhen was in the fourteenth year. The more than 300,000 troops who broke into the army did not seem to win against Li Zhi's 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers.

Li Zicheng was a little nostalgic for Liu Zongmin who died at the hands of Li Zhi at this time. Liu Zongmin is cunning and good at fighting, if he is here, he will definitely come up with a feasible way.

Li Zicheng's strategist Li Yan sighed and said: "At this moment, there is still a glimmer of life if you temporarily avoid Li Zhi's edge and retreat into Shaanxi. ”

Li Zicheng frowned and asked, "Retreat into Shaanxi, if Li Zhi chases into Shaanxi, what is good?" ”

Li Yan shook his head and said, "Then the only way to surrender to Li Zhi is to ask Li Zhi to let us be a peaceful princess." ”

Hearing Li Yan say such frustrating words, the generals in the hall were a little annoyed and looked at Li Yan coldly. Even Li Zicheng felt that Li Yan was shaking the morale of the army, and he had the urge to behead him with a knife.

If it weren't for Li Yan's proposal of the "Juntian Exemption" policy, which made Li Zicheng popular with the people and swept Henan, if it weren't for his past contributions, Li Zicheng would have cut Li Yan.

Li Zicheng suppressed the anger in his heart and looked at his nephew Li Guo. This nephew has always been brave and scheming, and he is Li Zicheng's reliable right-hand man.

"Li Guo, what can you do?"

When Li Guo saw King Chuang asking himself, he stood up and said, "My nephew thinks that now Li Zhi's troops are difficult to fight, and it is not a good strategy to face the enemy head-on. For this occasion, only the front side attracts Li Zhi's attention with regular soldiers, and the back side attacks Li Zhi's grain team with surprise soldiers. If they are cut off from their food and grass, their army will be destroyed! ”

Hearing Li Guo's words, the generals in the second hall were in good spirits for a while.

Hao Shaoqi put down one leg coiled on the chair and said loudly: "A tiger, I haven't seen you for a few days, why can't you be crepe, what kind of soldiers!" You tell me clearly, how to fight it, so that Li Zhi's grain and grass can be cut off. ”

Li Guo looked at Hao Shaoqi and said, "We will take 200,000 foot soldiers as the main soldiers, abandon the eastern part of Henan, and retreat to Shaanzhou. If Li Zhi wants to occupy Henan, he can only chase all the way to Shaanzhou to attack me, and Li Zhi has to come step by step on the rugged road of a thousand miles from east to west of Henan. ”

"We will use 100,000 horse troops as surprise soldiers, ambush in the Luoyang area, and attack Li Zhi's rear. Li Zhi's grain transport team has to travel 1,000 miles from Shandong to Henan, and sooner or later we will be able to succeed. ”

When everyone heard Li Guo's suggestion, they groaned for a while.

Hao Shaoqi stood up and shouted loudly: "Li Guo! At the beginning of this year, there was a bumper harvest of wheat in Henan, and now every household has a stock of grain. What if Li Zhi took the money to buy food with the common people? ”

Li Guo waved his sleeves and said: "We are exempt from taxation in Juntian, Henan, so that the people will no longer be exploited by the gentry, so that the people are full, and they are the most popular among the people, and the people believe in King Chuang." The fields that Li Zhi cultivated in various places over the years were all used as public land, and finally asked the people to pay him land rent. We can spread rumors in Henan, saying that after Li Zhi occupied Henan, he would confiscate the fields distributed by King Chuang to the people as public land, and collect high land rents and land endowments. ”

In this way, in order to prevent their fields from being confiscated, where will the people sell grain to Li Zhi? After Li Zhi entered the mountains of western Henan, we sent Xi Zuo to the place where Li Zhi's army passed, instigated the people to defend their fields, and let the people hide in the mountains with grain, let Li Zhi not want to get a grain of grain from wherever he went. ”

"At that time, Li Zhi's grain transportation team will have to travel thousands of miles to supply the army in front, and if there is no protection for a whole thousand miles, it will inevitably be defeated by our horse army."

Hao Shaoqi heard Li Guo's words, thought about it, felt that there seemed to be no problem, and sat down.

The generals in the second hall were a little excited when they heard Li Guo's strategy, and they talked about it one after another.

Li Zicheng's chief strategist, Niu Jinxing, stood up, shook the feather fan in his hand, and said, "King Chuang, this plan is very poisonous, I think it is feasible." ”

Li Zicheng closed his only eye and thought for a long time.

Then he opened his eyes and said, "Okay, let's act according to Li Guo's strategy, we will abandon Kaifeng and retreat to the mountains of Shaanzhou." When Li Zhi entered the mountains of western Henan, we sent 120,000 horse troops to attack the grain convoy from the rear. ”

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On the tenth day of October, Li Zhi sat in the Qinzheng Courtyard of the Guogong Mansion, and sat opposite Li Huan, who was watching "Plane Geometry".

Li Huan suddenly put down the textbook and asked Li Zhi: "Father, didn't you say that the biggest problem with my Ming Dynasty is that the gentry are shameless. ”

Li Zhi put down an official document, looked at Li Huan, nodded and said, "That's right." ”

Li Huan raised his head and asked, "Then why did my father attack the thieves?" Since the gentry are such scum, wouldn't it be the best solution to let the thieves kill the gentry? ”

Li Zhi thought for a while and said, "Li Huan, you asked very well. ”

Li Zhi stood up and took out a bonsai pine tree from the coffee table next to him. He put the pine tree on the table and said, "Li Huan, you look at a pot of pine trees, why does he grow so rugged?" ”

Li Huan replied: "It was the craftsman who planted the bonsai who used stones and ropes to restrict the growth of the pine tree, and the pine tree could only grow according to the will of the craftsman under the constraints, and finally grew into such a shape." ”

Li Zhi nodded and said: "The pine tree has grown like this under the action of external forces, if one day we suddenly feel that the pine tree that grows like this is wrong, and we hope that it will grow straight and cut off all the trunks of this pine tree with one knife, then what will happen to this pine tree?" ”

Li Huan was stunned and said, "Father, the pine tree will definitely die." ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "You're right, then this pine tree can't stand such a toss, and it will definitely die." ”

After a pause, Li Zhi said again: "The pine tree is like this, and the society of the Ming Dynasty is the same. Daming is like a pine tree, because of various external forces, he has grown into his current deformed appearance. ”

"If we chop it down with a knife like a thief and wash the Ming Dynasty with blood, it is like if we cut down all the branches and leaves of this pine tree with one knife, then the big tree of Daming will dry up and die."

"The gentry have always acted according to the rules and unspoken rules of society, and if we wipe out all the gentry with one sword, then we will be tantamount to smashing all the rules of the whole society. The world will no longer respect the rules and respect the law. In the future, the people will think that the rich can be robbed, and who will dare to get rich by their ingenuity in the future? ”

"We want to change the tree so that it goes straight up, and that's okay. But before cutting down the old culture and rules and killing the old gentry, we must prune the old branches with iron and blood, and forcefully restrict the growth of the old branches, and at the same time cultivate new straight branches and cultivate new culture and rules. Only when the new branches are strong enough to support the culture and rules of the country can we cut down the old branches. ”

Li Zhi remembered the vulnerability of Li Zicheng after establishing Dashun in the original history, and sighed.

"If we don't cultivate a new culture and rules, we will destroy the country like thieves."