The reason why different cognitions are formed in different human individuals is that in addition to different thinking habits, education levels, feelings and concepts, the most important thing is that the angle and height of looking at the problem are different, which is often said to be "the ass determines the head".

Long Qisheng insisted on transporting grain for thousands of miles to help the army, while Liu Hongting refused on the grounds that it did not conform to the rules of Qianzhuang.

The controversy that has arisen as a result is more or less like this.

Long Qisheng fought hard in front of Liu Hongting, whose identity was much higher than him, not only to adhere to his mission, but also to worry about the instability of the officers and soldiers of the fourth battalion.

Long Qisheng was ordered to arrive in Xiangyang from Boryeong, and did rebellion and liaison work in the camps of Mo Chongwen, Wen Ruzhen, and Yang Guodong.

Wen Ruzhen and Yang Guodong, the two main generals, were already disappointed in the rotten politics of the imperial court, and were afraid of joining the Henan battlefield, coupled with the practical needs and pressures of logistics and military morale, Long Qisheng took the initiative to send silver tickets and contact channels, and the two battalions of Wen Ruzhen and Yang Guodong immediately approached each other.

However, Mo Chongwen, the main target of Long Qisheng's trip, is different from Wen Ruzhen and Yang Guodong.

Mo Chongwen was distinguished in battle, dared to rush and kill, and had an instinctive dislike for any suggestion to retreat and avoid battle; Mo Chongwen joined the army as a student, started as a small soldier, and was promoted to a general by relying on his military exploits and the appreciation of his superiors, and the concept of loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness was deeply rooted in his mind, and he had an instinctive courtier loyalty to the court.

Long Qisheng wants to pull Mo Chongwen, a diehard, over, and the difficulty can be imagined.

As a result, Long Qisheng had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and focus his work on Wen Ruzhen, Yang Guodong and Mo Chongwen's people.

Not surprisingly, when Mo Chongwen found that the battlefield environment was extremely unfavorable, he did not choose to resolutely disobey and save the lives of himself and the soldiers of the first battalion, but instead tore his face and whipped Long Qisheng in public.

At the critical moment, the chess pieces that Long Qisheng had previously dropped around Mo Chongwen played a role.

Yao Keming and other core figures of the Mo camp invited Wen Ruzhen and Yang Guodong in time, and persuaded Mo Chongwen with the current predicament and future hopes, forcing him to take the initiative to put forward the plan of "golden cicada shelling" out of the battlefield.

The golden cicada is not mysterious, it is nothing more than finding a reason to slip away.

However, after Wang Shicong, who is also from Sichuan, learned of this plan, he took advantage of the topic in order to realize his political ambitions, not only packaged a victorious escape as a daring action with no return, but also inadvertently wrapped Ma Jinzhong, who was discriminated against in the left army, and made Fang Guoan, the deputy marshal of the Chu army, openly part ways with the marshal Zuo Liangyu.

It is expected that everyone is in hiding, and all actions are a cover to cover people's ears and eyes. Zuo Liangyu regarded the night attack of the fourth battalion as the best cover for him to flee without a fight. On the contrary, it was Yang Dezheng, a pig teammate, who couldn't bear it, and gave Zuo Liangyu an excellent reason for his hasty escape south and the retreat of the four battalions to Bozhou!

But why did the four battalions retreat to Bozhou on the banks of the Vortex River, instead of the pre-imagined banks of the Yangtze River, such as Jingzhou, Yiling and other places?

Why did the four battalions of men and horses not continue to retreat south after occupying Bozhou, but stayed there?

The former is because all the generals are unwilling to return to Huguang, and they are then held hostage by Zuo Liangyu and the Huguang government, especially Ma Jinzhong, who has completely offended Zuo Liangyu. The only feasible way to leave Zuo Liangyu was to retreat to the Hehuai region east of the Yinghuo Mountains.

The latter was because the sacrificial thieves and Gezuo thieves suddenly captured Lu'an, Luzhou and other places south of Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui), cutting off the southward road of the four battalions. The 7,000 tired army rushed south, and it was likely that they would encounter a powerful enemy and fight a battle of life and death that they didn't want to fight but had to fight!

The 7,000 men and horses of the four battalions of officers and soldiers who successfully broke away from Kaifeng City were forced to stay in Bozhou, which was halfway through the withdrawal, which was like cooking a pot of unpalatable rice, which made Long Qisheng panic in his heart.

The thieves had entered the Huanghuai region twice on a large scale at the end of the eighth year and the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, and although the Bozhou area was not as red as the central Henan Plain, it was still withered and desolate; The government fled, and the people fled.

If the officers and soldiers of the fourth battalion want to hold out in the area for a long time, they will inevitably let the soldiers go to the countryside to collect grain and use knives and guns to snatch away the wheat that the people have just harvested.

Long Qisheng knew that except for Yang Guodong's first battalion, which had good military discipline, the officers and soldiers of the other three battalions were habitual offenders who robbed things.

Especially the soldiers of Ma Jinzhong's first battalion, who have been thieves for longer than they have been in the official army. If they are allowed to go to the countryside to collect grain, I don't know how many lives will be ruined, and I don't know how much hatred will be aroused!

What is even more worrying is that if this army continues to make a living by looting, how can it be integrated into the national protection army with the purpose of "protecting the country and the people, and peace in the world" and the iron law of the three major military disciplines in the future? Even if such an army can fight again, how could Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu, be able to completely absorb them?

Therefore, if Long Qisheng wanted to complete his mission, he had to find the source of food supplies and let the four battalions of 7,000 men and horses hold out until the middle of August when the rice in Huaibei was ripe.

When the military rations are ready, the future can be re-planned. or reclaim the locality, or go south as a whole.

If he gets the support of the Shu Wangfu or the Protector Army at that time, he will be alive and well, and his dragon Qisheng will be considered a complete merit.

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Long Qisheng's thoughts can be said bluntly, but Liu Hongting's careful thinking and big plan can't reveal half a sentence in front of this upright man, not even Chen Ying next to her.

As the former deputy chief of general staff of the caravan and the company commander of one of the first six companies, as the former director of the Luo Office, as the future nephew and daughter-in-law of Master Shu and the fiancée of Shu Guoping, Liu Hongting can be said to be one of the ministers closest to the Shu Palace, and may also be the only minister who can make a small temperament in front of the prince and Miss Luo.

A woman's unique intuition, naturally intelligent mind, and Miss Luo's famous big mouth not only let her know many things that others don't know, but also let her taste different from others.

For example, the relationship between Shu Shizi and Miss Luo, everyone in the world thinks that they are an unmarried couple. However, Liu Hongting did not feel the passion and sweetness unique to unmarried couples from the two. She feels more about the habits, trust, compromise and helplessness brought about by the perennial run-in between old husbands and wives!

Another example is Miss Luo's angry criticism of the Firearms Bureau's slow production, and once blurted out "seventy troops".

This is even more bizarre.

Some women guessed that it was a slip of the tongue, and some men ridiculed it as brainless. According to the usual theory, there are 800 people in one battalion of the National Protector Army, and if all units above the battalion level are organized according to the four-four system, the first army will have 200,000 people. Seventy armies are a full fourteen million people, twice the total population of Sichuan, how is this possible!

However, the deep understanding of Miss Luo's nature made Liu Hongting come to a different conclusion from other women.

Miss Luo's understanding of the formation of the military system is only half a claw at most. She only knew that an army had a large number of people and was the largest combat unit, but she didn't know how many people there were in an army.

However, with Miss Luo's ignorance of the military system, what she blurted out was not 60 divisions or 80 regiments, but the accurate "70 armies".

Where does this number come from?

Liu Hongting believes that the only source of this number can only be the prince Zhu Pingjin himself.

Miss Luo said "seventy armies", and everyone else took it as a joke. But when the prince said "seventy armies", I'm afraid no one would dare to laugh!

Maybe the "seventy armies" are the ultimate scale of building a strong army in the heart of the prince!

Readers know that there are clouds in "Zhou Li": "Wang Liujun, the third army of a large country, the second army of a sub-country, and the first army of a small country (Note 1)".

Governance, martial arts, ritual music, education, religion, Yiwu, finance, farming, machinery, roads, and countless work contents can be counted on your fingers, and the scene of Shu that changes every three days may be the best annotation of the ambition of the prince and his wife.

Perhaps, their goal is not as simple as fixing the world. What they want is not only the Ming Dynasty, but also a brand-new Ming Dynasty, a heavenly kingdom that stands tall in the world!

This time, she was ordered to go to Jiangnan, and the prince and Miss Luo gave them unprecedented power and resources.

Politically, Liu Hongting is the chairman of the Nanzhili of the Shu Wangfu, the chairman of the Zhejiang Military and Political Commission, and the personal representative of the Shu Wangfu in Nanzhili and Zhejiang;

Militarily, Liu Hongting is the commander of the Protector Army's Nanzhili and Zhejiang;

Economically, Liu Hongting is the big shopkeeper of Huitong Qianzhuang Nanjing.

In other words, Liu Hongting has the right to control all the Shu people in Nanzhili and Zhejiang!

Considering that Liu Hongting was far away from Sichuan and it was impossible to report everything, Miss Luo also thoughtfully customized a special authority for her that no other general number level treasurer did have, that is, she could issue a total of 30 million taels of silver banknotes from Huitong Qian Zhuang before the first day of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

The cashier's note can be roughly divided into three types: immediate payment at sight, short-term payment and medium and long-term payment. The cashier's note is essentially a large banknote, and it is the same as the Gregorian banknote. It's one thing for Pike to have a million-pound card that no one else can change.

Liu Hongting's acquisition of the right to issue banknotes is equivalent to obtaining the right to issue silver banknotes in disguise. Once Huitong Money and Silver Notes gain a foothold in Nanzhili, Liu Hongting will become the economic tsar of Zhizhi and Zhejiang.

Compared with Miss Luo's authorization, the authorization of the prince Zhu Pingjin is not inferior:

Liu Hongting can appoint cadres at and below the battalion level in Nanzhi and Zhejiang, and report to the Shu Wangfu for approval at the battalion level and above. In other words, Liu Hongting has obtained the authority to appoint cadres of the military department. If she is disloyal and unjust, she can easily use the economic resources and political power in her hands to create an independent kingdom in Nanzhi and Zhejiang!

With great power comes great responsibility, and with great power is a mountain of responsibility.

From the publicly announced will to the secret arrangements below, Liu Hongting's tasks are mainly four:

The first is to consolidate and expand the power of the Shu Wangfu in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and look for agents of the Shu Wangfu in the Nanjing officialdom and upper echelons;

the second is to occupy the financial markets of Nanzhili and Zhejiang, so that the wealth of the silver banknote that swept the local area was used by the Shu Wangfu;

The third is to publicize a series of principles and policies of the Shu Palace, so that the political proposition of "protecting the country and the people, and the peace of the world" will unite the people's hearts, and let Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu, the king of the Ming Dynasty, known as the "benevolent and virtuous", become the spiritual belief and net worth sustenance of the officialdom and the people;

Fourth, it is necessary to secretly establish and deploy a part of the armed forces in Jiangnan, and make preliminary preparations for the large-scale military stationing of the National Defense Army in Jiangnan.

These four tasks include the phased strategic goals of the Shu Wangfu to Nanzhi and Zhejiang, the rich land of the Ming Dynasty.

After coming to Nanjing, in the face of the rout of Huitong Qianzhuang in Jiangnan, Liu Hongting used a lazy appearance to hide her inner anxiety.

She is always trying to find a way or opportunity to completely break through the current predicament.

Shizi often said on various occasions that every job must find the right "starting point", that is, the focus point. If we grasp and grasp it steadily, we will be able to turn a small opportunity into a big opportunity, or even a strategic and overall opportunity, so as to completely reverse the entire passive situation of work.

So what is the starting point for the current work of Nanzhi and Zhejiang provinces?

With the experience of Renshou County and Pengshan County, and with the consciousness and instinct of a woman, Liu Hongting almost immediately identified a general direction: use the military situation to fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the fire!

But if there is a war today, there are soldiers everywhere, and there is chaos everywhere. Nanzhi Zhejiang, the land of wealth in the world, where is the key point that needs to be really focused?

It just so happened that Long Qisheng took the initiative to come to the door and sent her a big red envelope.

Note 1: The military system of the Zhou Dynasty recorded in the Zhou rites can be roughly called the "Five-Five System". With "one army" and five people as the basic unit, every five is progressive (one pawn and four taels are exceptions). There are 12,500 people at the military level.