In the past, in the face of a majestic city like Jinyang, there was no good way to besiege, attack, and flood...... Back then, Guo Wei pacified Li Shouzhen, and it also took a year to repeatedly build a city to fatigue the opponent, and then succeeded in one fell swoop.

And now, with gunpowder, the offensive of the Great Zhou Dynasty is like the water of the Yellow River, unstoppable.

Before the war, Chai Rong made a serious assessment that it would take at least 50,000 people to take Jinyang in half a year, but so far, it has only taken less than a month, and the death toll is only 8,000!

"It's not human!" Hanlin Bachelor Wang Pu exclaimed in an exaggerated tone.

Ye Hua shrugged his shoulders, "What is this, if you can research artillery, maybe you can blast through the city wall without losing anyone!" ”

"What?" Wang Pu suddenly became crazy, his eyes widened, and he reached out and grabbed Ye Hua, "Master Hou, what is artillery?" Are you hiding your secrets? ”

Ye Hua stretched out his hand and pulled Wang Pu's claws aside.

"Master Wang, what are you anxious about? Gunpowder is fired on a bed crossbow using the power of the bow, but what if the power of gunpowder is used to fire gunpowder? Isn't it more powerful? ”

Wang Pu's brain was quick, "Yes, but what should I do?" ”

"It's very simple, just use a canister, ignite the gunpowder, and push the projectile out." Ye Hua said in a relaxed tone.

"Simple, so why not do it?" Wang Pu asked with a glare!

"Master Wang, what do you think will be used to make a tube?"

"Use ...... Is it okay to use a bamboo tube? ”

"Yes, but the bamboo tube can't withstand the high temperature, it will burn."

"Then, then use iron!"

"The iron is too hard, and it's easy to blow up."

"What's that for?" Wang Pu was speechless.

Chai Rong's brows furrowed, and he suddenly said, "Ye Qing, do you want to use copper?" ”

"Your Majesty, indeed copper is the best choice!"

"No way!" Wang Pu was anxious, and said with red eyes: "The temple uses copper to cast a Buddha statue, Your Majesty is angry and destroys the Buddha, you, how can you use copper?" ”

Ye Hua was furious, "Wang Pu, what do you mean, the Buddha statue is useless, artillery is a siege weapon, it can alleviate the casualties of countless soldiers, it can help me sweep the world, it can assist Your Majesty, and it can open an indestructible foundation." If you stop such an important thing, your heart can be punished! ”

"I, I'm loyal, every day can be seen!" Wang Pu suddenly turned to Chai Rong and admonished: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that no matter what, copper can't be used, it's really a waste!" What a waste! ”

Chai Rong was noncommittal, his gaze fell on the head of Jinyang City.

"Ye Qing, you go to make some artillery out, if it is really powerful, even if the treasury is exhausted, I will not hesitate to do it!"

Chai Rong set the tone with one sentence, and from this moment on, the war became a veritable money-burning game, and Wang Pu had a deep hatred.

Jiuchi Meat Forest is the image that the ancients felt should be after exhausting their imagination. Wang Pu felt that the ancients were too conservative, and the pair of monarchs and ministers in front of him were the models of spending money!

Ye Hua was full of confidence, Chai Rong was full of anticipation, Wang Pu was holding his head in pain, just when the monarchs and ministers were thinking about each other, Chen Shi was blood-red, holding a prisoner in one hand, walked quickly in front of Chai Rong, and fell heavily to the ground.

"Your Majesty, the minister has arrested the pseudo-Prime Minister Guo Wuwei, please send it down!"

Chai Rong glanced at the people on the ground, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "It's you?" ”

Ye Hua also stared at this person, and wanted to laugh three times, but there was no way, this person looked really funny. His forehead is wide and large, and he has a very sharp mouth, with a protruding upper lip and pressing the lower lip, like a bird's beak.

Just rushing to this look, it's a waste of materials not to be a comedian.

"Your Majesty, do you know this person?"

Chai Rong nodded, "Ye Qing, Bachelor Wang, you see that he looks strange, his name is also strange, his surname is Guo, his name is Guo Wuwei, and he has no words!" ”

"Poof!"

Ye Hua sprayed directly, the same is from the Tao Te Ching, you look at the family Feng Taishi, called Feng Dao, Zi Ke Dao, what about this, the name is nothing, the word is everything, the word is three, Ye Hua is still the first time to see it!

Looks strange, has a strange name, I really don't know what other strange things this person has done?

Chai Rong chuckled and said: "When the first emperor crusaded against Li Shouzhen's rebellion in the river, this person paid homage to him, and his father was hospitable, and asked him a lot of things, I remember that he talked eloquently at the time, and his mouth was like a river, which was not simple, and my father once wanted to reuse this person!" ”

"Oh?" Ye Hua was puzzled: "Then why is it useless?" ”

Chai Rong laughed, "He talked so much at the time, and finally his father asked him what to do." He told his father that the prince was the minister of the Han Dynasty, and he held a heavy army outside, and the people who extended the vertical and horizontal were not the way to prevent the slightest consideration! He said this, how can the father use it? ”

Ye Hua couldn't help it, and laughed out loud without any image.

Imagine that Liu Xuande looked at the thatched house three times, Zhuge Liang talked a lot with him, and finally Liu Bei asked him, what should he do? Zhuge Liang said that Cao Cao swept away Liuhe, swept the eight wildernesses, and all the surnames fell in love, and the Quartet looked up to virtue...... You're no match for him, so surrender quickly.

Believe it or not, if Zhuge Liang said so, Liu Bei promised to strangle him, and there would be no such thing as a three-way house in the world!

So if you want people to reuse it, no matter whether it can be realized or not, you must always come up with a copy of Longzhong.

But Guo Wuwei is otherwise, this told Guo Wei that you are a courtier of the Han Dynasty, holding a large army, and recruiting talents everywhere, this is an ulterior motive, not a way to make a living, in other words, he actually persuaded Guo Wei not to recruit talents...... Well, Boss Guo is as good as a stream, so he drove this Guo Wuwei away first.

Liu Chengjun valued his talent very much and recommended him to serve as a counselor, and later he was promoted to a university scholar and became the prime minister of the Northern Han Dynasty.

It's a pity that as soon as he became the prime minister, the Great Zhou people came, and he also became Chai Rong's prisoner!

Obviously, there is an opportunity to worship the prime minister in front of him, but this one abandons it like a shoe, if there is a regret medicine in the world, I am afraid that Guo Wuwei will buy 10,000 tablets!

Even Wang Pu couldn't help laughing, he took the initiative to defect back then, when it comes to talent, Guo Wuwei is not necessarily worse than him, and even his original reputation is still above him...... Now there are two people, one is standing and the other is kneeling, so ah, in the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, not only must you have the ability, but also have the vision, and follow the right person, which is more important than anything else!

"Master Guo, the city of Jinyang is broken, Liu Chong's old puppet died on the eve of death, as his courtier, what do you want to say?" Wang Pu smiled and said: "You have been wrong twice, you can't be wrong a third time, right?" ”

Yes, abandoned Guo Wei and went to Hedong, making mistakes again and again, if you haven't figured it out for the third time, it will really be hopeless.

Guo Wuwei was lying on the ground, his body trembled violently, and he suddenly howled and cried, his mouth was sharp, and his voice was very sharp and ugly.

"The saint is above, the sinner has long wanted to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, the situation in Hedong is all in the belly of the sinner, what the sage wants to know, just ask, the sinner knows everything and says everything!"

Chai Rong raised his eyebrows, "Okay, I ask you, how many dingkou are there in Hedong?" ”

"There are more than 27,500 households, of which less than 50,000 are Chengding, and after this battle, I don't know how many are left!" Guo Wuwei replied very simply.

Chai Rong, Ye Hua, Wang Pu, the three of them were stunned!

More than 20,000 households! This number is only one-tenth of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty!

And not counting this battle, I'm afraid that the real statistics, not even 20,000 households, you must know that there are twelve states in Hedong, which is roughly equivalent to the north-central part of Shanxi in later generations, although I dare not say that it is a rich land, but it is also prosperous, and the merchants are prosperous, but now there are only so many people left, it is unimaginable!

Guo Wuwei knelt on the ground and cried: "Sage, Liu Chong's rebel thief sent hundreds of beauties at one time in order to curry favor with the Khitan. In the past few years, he has looted a lot, and the east of the river is already thousands of miles away, and there is not much left. Not only is the population gone, but even the food in the treasury is gone, and the entire Jinyang is an empty city! ”

Chai Rong's scalp tingled when he heard this, and in order to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, he mobilized 200,000 troops and countless generals. You must know that more than a year ago, the treasury was emptied in order to recover Youzhou. After Chai Rong ascended the throne, he even wanted to destroy the Buddhist temple and use the bronze utensils collected to make up for the shortfall.

This time, he first used troops to Youzhou, and then attacked the Northern Han Dynasty, and the military expenditure was like flowing water.

In the end, there were no people, no money, no food...... This, how does this make Chai Rong treat the three armies and how to clean up the mess?

"Guo Wuwei, you tell me the truth, is the city really empty?"

Guo Wuwei cried, "How dare the criminal minister deceive Your Majesty, let alone Jinyang, the entire Hedong is like this, in the past, half of the output of the twelve states had to be given to the Khitan, and the rest could be used to raise soldiers and officials!" Although the criminal minister was named the prime minister, the annual salary was only 300 yuan...... With such a small amount of money, even an eagle or a tiger can't eat enough! ”

After listening to Guo Wuwei's words, Ye Hua nodded secretly, he killed from Daizhou to Jinyang, and what he saw along the way was indeed as Guo Wuwei said, the looting and the war had completely destroyed the economy of Hedong, and what they were about to take over was Chidi Qianli!

There is nothing left in the east of the river except land!

No wonder this attack on Jinyang will go so smoothly, it's not that Liu Chong doesn't want to work hard, it's just that he is exhausted and can't play tricks.

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"Hey, hey, Guo Rong, I lost, lost to your father and son...... But I'm not going to leave you anything! No! The old fellow was beaten back to the palace, and with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, he lit fires everywhere, and in a short time the palace was plunged into a sea of fire, and the palace maids and eunuchs fled in a hurry, like frightened beasts, headless flies...... Liu Chong laughed loudly, he stretched out his sleeve, wiped a sword, and then crossed his neck.

Suddenly, Liu Chong remembered that he still had two grandchildren!

"The country is ruined, and you deserve to die!"

Liu Chong used his sword to force Liu Jien and Liu Jiyuan, "Quick, give me death!" Die! ”

The two teenagers looked at the fire in front of them, and then peeked at the decaying and crazy Liu Chong behind them, and suddenly, Liu Jien gritted his teeth, he fell down suddenly, picked up a brick, and threw it at Liu Chong......