Only the "three holes of the cunning rabbit" can "sit back and relax".

This is especially true in the life-and-death political and military game.

When Zhu Pingjin threw out the general He Youyi to implement the southward strategy, he never gave up the Yangtze River in the east.

In late autumn and early winter last year, Shu had just sent away a rare harvest season.

Zhu Pingjin, who had just received the official edict from the imperial court to take charge of the affairs of the Shu king's house, impatiently took advantage of the opportunity of Huang Jin to take up his post in Nanjing, and handed over the 100,000 stone grain in his vast warehouse to his uncle Qiu Zigong to be transported to Jiangnan for sale.

Selling grain for disaster relief and earning money to win people's hearts is of course the right thing. But the real meaning of Zhu Pingjian's move is to take the opportunity of selling grain to advertise himself on the Yangtze River, the political and economic corridor of the Ming Dynasty, and make a familiar face.

If something is good at the top, it will be good at the bottom. Sure enough, things soon came out.

Qiu Zigong found a large number of displaced people in Anqing Mansion and immediately became keenly aware that this huge human resource was a rare strategic opportunity for the rising Shu Prince's Mansion.

While asking Zhu Pingjin to open the door to accept the displaced people, Qiu Zhigong made a clear suggestion to Zhu Pingjian: Divide the river and rule.

Dividing the river and ruling it, the traditional measure of the past dynasties is "to guard the river must guard the Huai, and Anshu must be safe and Han". Zhu Pingjin made instructions based on this and forwarded them to a number of confidants and ministers to circulate them, so as to spy on people's hearts.

After that, with the large-scale entry of millions of Jing and Chu refugees into Sichuan, with the successive victories in the war situation in northern Sichuan, and with the Shu clan Zhu Zhihan traveling around the six countries in Chu, especially the Liao Wangfu in Jingzhou, the Jingwang Mansion in Qizhou and the Huayang Wangfu in Lizhou, the strength of the Protector Army lost no time in infiltrating the three places of Yiling, Lizhou and Wuchang.

Up to now, Yiling and Lizhou each have a four-battalion shelf regiment: the 9th and 10th regiments of the Protector Army. To the outside world, it is said that the security team is hiding people's eyes and ears.

On the boundary between Rongmei Tusi and Shizhouwei that you pass through South Sichuan Road, there is a security corps with a scale of more than 1,000 people and co-managed by Hanyi.

The provincial capital of Huguang, the Wuchang Mansion of the King of Chu, and the blind date team of officers led by Lin Yan.

The strategic idea of laying out along the Yangtze River to the east can be called another way, that is, the "Yangtze River strategy".

In addition to Zhu Pingjin's own contributions, the rapid advancement of the Yangtze River strategy is driven by the joint efforts of all internal forces:

The Shu clan headed by King Neijiang and King Shiquan hoped that Zhu Pingjin would take Nanjing and win the absolute qualification for the throne. They can also skip a grade, and a chicken dog ascends to heaven;

Sichuan officials, led by Liao Daheng, hoped to seize Huguang Nanzhi and win a broader space for their career and future;

The cadres and businessmen of the Yazhou department, headed by Hong Qihui, hoped to open up the Yangtze River, so that tea from Sichuan and horses from Tibet could be sold to South China, and cloth from Jiangsu and Zhejiang and porcelain from Jiangxi could be sold to the roof of the world.

However, the combined strength of all these people is not as great as the strength of one person.

This person is Zhu Pingjin's wife Luo Yuhong.

Luo Yuhong tasted the sweetness of issuing silver money in Huguangnan, coupled with the deep-rooted regional discrimination in her mind, so she unswervingly asked Zhu Pingjin to beat her down from the big cities along the Yangtze River.

Zhu Pingjin knew that his wife even used Liu Hongting's identity as a Taicang person to formulate a top-secret plan, that is, to take advantage of the cheap land price in Shanghai to buy land on the east and west banks of the Huangpu River.

Once Zhu Pingjin occupied Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Shanghai was immediately designated as a special city. Then take advantage of Shanghai's unique geographical advantages in leading the Yangtze River Economic Belt and facing overseas markets, give policies and preferential treatments, and use her magical quill pen to draw a circle on the East China Sea!

Liu Hongting was strongly recommended by her wife again and again, and finally sent back to Nanzhili as she wished, and nine times out of ten she had this secret mission. As for how many silver bills Liu Hongting took with her when she left Sichuan, even Zhu Pingjin didn't know!

Compared with the southward strategy, the Yangtze River strategy has no difference in the latecomers and is far ahead.

Seeing that the general trend has been achieved, some people are in a hurry and are busy coming out to say strange things and cause sabotage. The people at the head are Zheng Anmin, the prime minister of the Shu Palace, and Song Zhenzong, the chief general of the palace.

Song Zhenzong was originally a native of Qinzhou, Shaanxi Province (now Tianshui City, Gansu), and came to Sichuan from Qindi to fight and flee all the way;

Zheng Anmin was originally from Guangzhou, Guangdong, but he was an official in Shaanxi for many years until he was assigned to the Shu Palace.

Perhaps it was the common experience of the two, or perhaps it was the two of them who formed a private party, in the future development direction of the Shu Prince's Mansion, they coincidentally advocated the development of the north, and together with Tian Qian, a native of Hanzhong Mansion, they became the three backbones of the Beijin faction (Ma faction).

Although the voices of the three of them are loud and the reasons are sufficient, because they all have a background in Qindi, they are suspected of shouting for their own interests. Zhu Pingjin has long turned a deaf ear and resolutely refrained from expressing his position.

Recently, however, the situation has changed.

The call for northward expansion has not only been rising day after day, but some people have already boldly put it into action.

These newcomers to the Beijin faction are obviously the official army of North Sichuan Town, which has just been reorganized into the National Protector Army.

With the cheering and shouting of the officials and soldiers of North Sichuan Town, Zhu Pingjian, the son of Shu, can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Because, the main body of the expression of demands is the army, it is an armed military group!

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The town of North Sichuan was named because of its main garrison area.

In order to guard against the thieves from the north and the local rioters in Bashan, northern Sichuan has become the main combat direction of Sichuan, so the town of northern Sichuan almost includes the main mobile forces of the Sichuan official army.

Adapting and digesting North Sichuan Town is Zhu Pingjin's deliberate goal.

With the help of the fact of Wang Chaoyang's mutiny, the brilliant victory in the Battle of Bashan, and the surrender of Liao Daheng, the governor of Sichuan, and Liu Zhenfan, Ding Xianjue, the generals of northern Sichuan, Zhu Pingjin threatened with strong military strength and was also co-opted with generous treatment, and finally passed the decision to reorganize the army in Sichuan at the Baoning Conference.

Liu Zhenfan, Ding Xianjue, Zhu Hualong, Long Fuhuang, Wang Xiang, Yang Zhan, Hou Tianxi, Deng Ruoyu, and the rest of Gan Liangchen, Zhang Zuokai, Tu Long, etc., as well as the garrison sergeants of Lizhou Wei, Songpanwei, Maozhou Wei, Baoning, Qingchuan, Diexi, Xiaohe, etc., were all reorganized into the National Protector Army. Among them, the regiment-level units include four infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, and the Maowei, Songpan, Lizhou, Long'an garrison regiments and the Baishuiguan garrison battalion, which are equivalent to three field regiments.

The great victory in the battle to suppress bandits in northern Sichuan not only allowed these old generals in northern Sichuan to begin to plan their future development direction, but also made their soldiers begin to find new interests.

In this context, the town of northern Sichuan set its eyes on the north, Hanzhong and Longnan in Shaanxi.

The army is not a killing machine at the mercy of those in power. It is an armed group formed by thousands of normal people, and normal people must have their own selfish interests.

Thousands of individuals with self-interest come together to form an organization with common interests.

So how do these thousands of individual individuals form a unified alliance of interests, instead of thousands of water molecules doing irregular Brownian motion? This has a direct bearing on the army's founding history, organizational structure, and interest formation mechanism.

Here are two simple examples.

The historical Tartar army became extremely fierce once it entered the city.

Why?

Because of the Tartars

The sub-army did not have a fixed salary, and the generals' private wealth and soldiers' food and clothing all came from the capture and looting of the battlefield. Any resistance from within the city will be seen as an obstacle to their robbery;

For example, the Sichuan army, which was poorly equipped and funny in history, and fought like a child's play, once the foreign army approached the hinterland of Sichuan, it would be met with waves of fierce counterattacks.

The Central Red Army in Tucheng and the Fourth Front Army in Baizhang Pass both suffered greatly from the Sichuan Army.

The Central Red Army was defeated at Tucheng and was forced to cross Chishui four times; The Battle of Baizhangguan of the Fourth Front Army failed, and it had to cross the grassland twice.

The real reason for the fluctuation of the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army is actually very simple:

The Sichuan army implements the defense zone system within itself, with large warlords and small warlords and small defense areas, and the large and small defense zones are interlocking with each other, which is similar to feudalism.

The Sichuan army ate, drank, slept and all the supplies from their defense areas. In their opinion, if anyone, whether the Red Army or the Central Army, wants to occupy their defense areas, they want to grab territory with them and take away their jobs!

Because of this, the long-term history of raising the army in North Sichuan Town, the world military system of father and son, and the master-servant relationship between the master and the family, have formed the so-called "Jiangmen" of all sizes in North Sichuan Town.

The northern Sichuan Jiangmen took the land they owned as the foundation for survival, the combat effectiveness of the army as the development space, and the marriage between each other as the link, and finally formed a military system with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty.

In this military system, interests are intricately intertwined, and one trigger affects the whole body. Once it is not handled properly, Wang Chaoyang's mutiny is a lesson from the past!

Zhu Pingjin, a top student of D school, is familiar with modern history and D history, and knows that leading soldiers is the biggest challenge facing a manager.

Zhu Pingjin was not like some simple-minded ministers in the imperial court, who naively thought that he could command the army at will with Shang Fang's sword and the royal flag.

When he founded the National Defense Army, he had deliberately combined the demands of the individual army with his own ambitions, and systematized and universalized them organizationally and ideologically, so that he could completely control the army and command the army like an arm.

However, the recent reorganization of the official army in northern Sichuan once again presented Zhu Pingjin with a problem.

Ma Gan has brought back the demands of the officials and troops in northern Sichuan in great detail: they want land, they want food, and they also want to go to a higher level in their official position and the scale of the army! Their eyes had long been fixed on the north, which they were most familiar with, Qin Long. There, there are their long-time adversaries, as well as the land and wealth they dream of.

Hou Liangzhu was defeated and luxurious, and he had to grab his military exploits and fight for land. He did not hesitate to occupy land for his family in Xuyong, which was close to the battlefield, to support his family. It is these family members who have become the capital of his son Hou Tianxi's comeback.

Xu Mingjiao's occupation of Qipanguan and Ding Xianjue's entry into Shaanxi without a will, looking at the Hanzhong Plain at his feet, is undoubtedly a direct embodiment of this appeal.

If Zhu Pingjin, as their commander, directly ignored their demands, then the town of northern Sichuan would be separated from Zhu Pingjin. It is possible that the reorganization that has just been completed will become a farce in name only.

However, allowing Hu to come to northern Sichuan will not only lead to ideological confusion among Shu cadres, but will also cause a lot of trouble to the planning and implementation of Zhu Pingjin's overall strategy.

Therefore, this time, Zhu Pingjin's decision on the future development direction of the Shu Wangfu must be considered not only from the perspective of strategic interests, but also from the perspective of the interests of wives, clans, officials, troops and merchants.

The comprehensive consideration from multiple perspectives has brought a high degree of complexity to decision-making, and the development model of survival in the cracks has brought a high degree of sensitivity to decision-making.

This is the reason why Zhu Pingjin did not rest during the Zongzi Festival, but was busy summoning Zheng Anmin and Song Zhenzong, who were determined to advance from the north among the cadres of the lineage.

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