As the so-called heroes don't eat immediate losses, he has long heard of Gao Jichang's cunning and changeable reputation, so he is also worried that Gao Jichang will be angry and slash him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

For the sake of his own life, Liang Zhen finally agreed to give him advice under Gao Jichang's coercion and temptation.

However, in the end, he refused to be an official under Gao Jichang, and was only willing to serve him as a cloth cloth. Gao Jichang did not force him, and finally agreed to his request.

Although Liang Zhen was forced to work for Gao Jichang out of desperation, after taking over this errand, he was still very conscientious, and even began to analyze the situation facing Jingnan for him.

“…… In the following opinion, in today's general trend of the world, the most likely to unify the world should be the King of Jin in Hedong, the King of Liang in Bianzhou and the King of Wu in Huainan; As for the other feudal towns, they are all hopeless in the world, at most they are just separating one side! ”

Gao Jichang nodded approvingly: "So in Mr.'s opinion, which of these three feudal towns has the most hope of unifying the world?" ”

Gao Jichang himself has no ambition to dominate the world, after all, if the general pattern of today has been formed, the major feudal towns have relatively stable territory, especially the three feudal towns mentioned by Liang Zhen, and their strength is far greater than that of other feudal towns.

Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic to want to dominate the world, but if you divide one side, there are still some opportunities.

According to his idea, if he wants to divide one side, of course, he will follow the strongest side.

He now belongs to the side of Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang, but Zhu Quanzhong's power has declined recently, especially the war against all parties has not been going well, which makes him gradually have the idea of standing on his own.

"It is obviously too early to say that the world will be unified, and it is difficult to say who has the greatest hope. However, in the following opinion, perhaps King Jin has the greatest hope! Liang Zhen said.

"King Jin? Why does Mr. feel that King Jin has the greatest hope? You must know that in today's world, in terms of overall strength, it should be the king of Liang who occupies the Central Plains as the most, if you talk about momentum, if there is any force today that can compare with King Wu? ”

Gao Jichang was a little puzzled, Li Keyong's strength back then was certainly very strong, and it can't be considered weak now, but his momentum is worse than that of King Wu and King Liang, I don't know why this Liang Zhen is more optimistic about King Jin.

It can't be that I misread this Liang Zhen, right? If this person has no real talent and learning, but he is treated as a guest by himself, it will be a bit embarrassing.

"The reason why I am more optimistic about the King of Jin than the King of Liang is mainly for three reasons, the first point is the geographical advantage, the King of Liang is located in the Central Plains of the four wars, when he was strong, he was able to deter all parties with his strong strength, so that the four feudal towns did not dare to rise up and besiege him, so that he was able to conquer the east and the west to gradually expand his power; But now that his momentum has suffered a major setback, his weakness in the land of the four wars is evident; Even if he wants to unify the world, he has the king of Jin in the north and the king of Wu in the south as his enemies, so it can be said that it is almost impossible for him to unify the world. But King Jin did not have this weakness. ”

"And what about the second point?" Gao Jichang nodded in approval.

"The second point is harmony, King Liang has offended too many feudal towns, plus he committed killing the king, bent on usurping the throne and self-reliance, and wantonly slaughtering the Tang clan and court ministers, don't look at this Tang Dynasty has declined to this point, but there are many people who are dissatisfied with King Liang; However, the king of Jin has always taken the revival of the Tang dynasty as his own responsibility. So in terms of people, it is obvious that the King of Jin has the advantage. ”

As for the third point, it is the time of day, or it can also be understood as luck. King Liang was able to rise rapidly in the land of the four wars in the Central Plains, and finally became the strongest prince in the world, which can be described as lucky; But when he was at his strongest, he suddenly suffered one defeat after another, isn't this the time is gone, and the next thing is to go downhill. Therefore, the time and place are favorable, and he doesn't occupy any of them, how can he compete with the King of Jin? ”

Liang Zhen's statement still seems to be very reasonable, especially the luck mentioned in the third point, but Gao Jichang especially believes in this, so he believes in Liang Zhen's words.

However, there is another point that Gao Jichang is puzzled about: "Mr. is not optimistic about King Liang, so what about King Wu?" The time and place that Mr. just said are favorable, and King Wu also has it; And his strength is extremely strong, and his momentum is far above the current King of Jin, why is Mr. not optimistic about King Wu? ”

Listening to Gao Jichang's question, Liang Zhen laughed, he didn't explain any reason, but asked Gao Jichang: "Jie Shuai can see which dynasty in history unified the world from the south to the north?" ”

"This ......" Gao Jichang was stunned, Huainan's momentum is indeed very strong, but if you think about it carefully, there is really no dynasty in history that unifies from the south to the north.

Even Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, who had the most hope of accomplishing this great cause, was ultimately defeated. As for the other dynasties, they were all unified from the north to the south.

Gao Jichang didn't know what the reason was, and he didn't have much idea of exploring the reason, his purpose was just to seek advice from Liang Zhen, and it was not his purpose to study history.

At this time, he was completely sure that the Liang Zhen in front of him was the talent he wanted, and he was immediately happy about his unexpected gain today.

"So what does Mr. think Gao should do if he wants to survive in this troubled world?"

"Choose the strong, but stay autonomous, don't easily take refuge in any side." Liang Zhen said in a deep voice.

"Imagine that among the many feudal towns in the north, in addition to Liu Rengong, King Jin and King Liang, the three families are stronger, but between these three families, there are also Chengde and Yiwu, their strength is relatively weak, but why can they continue to this day?"

What else can it be, it's nothing more than the two ends of the first rat!

Gao Jichang thought in his heart, but he also vaguely understood the advice that Liang Zhen gave him.

Jingnan is located in the north and south, whether King Wu wants to go north or King Liang wants to go south, Jingnan is an extremely important node in the future.

Of course, this means that Jing Nan is very likely to be targeted by the north and south at the same time, but it also contains great opportunities, if it is used well, it may be able to achieve both sides, so as to survive in the cracks.

Even if one of them came to fight against him, he would be able to ask the other for help and save it.

This is the advice Liang Zhen gave him!

Of course, the reason is very simple, but the actual operation is certainly not so simple, but with the general idea, at least don't be as confused as before.

Since then, with the refuge of Liang Zhen, a resourceful man, Gao Jichang began his difficult road of survival in the troubled times. Historically, he has survived for a long time by relying on this; And in this life, no one can say whether his strategy will succeed.

In the city of Hongzhou.

The news that the Huainan army had already passed Jiangzhou and was rushing towards Hongzhou caused a panic in the city.

For the ordinary people of the city, who had been at peace for nearly thirty years, war was so far away.

Although Zhong Chuan has passed away, in the eyes of ordinary people, the land of Jiangxi Bazhou is still a powerful whole, and there are Jiangzhou and Raozhou as a shield for Hongzhou on the periphery? Why is there no news at all, Jiangzhou surrendered to the Huainan army?

Of course, these people did not know that the actions of the Huainan Army were originally launched under the pretext of responding to the request of Zhong Yangui, the assassin of Jiangzhou, and when the Huainan Army arrived, the Jiangzhou defenders would naturally surrender without a fight, and even help the Huainan Army to attack Hongzhou in turn.

Compared with those ordinary people, Zhong Kuangshi, Liu Chu and others naturally knew much more news.

"Zhong Yangui, a person who was born with a backbone, is not worthy of being a person of my Zhong family!" Zhong Kuangshi cursed fiercely.

In the past few days, the news from all sides has basically been bad news: Zhong Yangui, who led the wolf into the house, not to mention, Tang Bao's attitude on the Raozhou side was also extremely ambiguous, and he delayed the order issued by Zhong Kuangshi for various reasons; On the Fuzhou side, his father-in-law Wei Quansari ignored his pleas for help; Jizhou, Qianzhou and other places also showed no signs of sending troops to rescue Hongzhou; Even, Ma Yin, who had promised to send troops to help him, did not see a single soldier coming at this time.

Today's Hongzhou has been completely abandoned!

With this understanding, Zhong Kuangshi's mood became even worse, his temper became more irritable, and he completely lost the gentleness he had before becoming the lord of Jiangxi.

"Jie Shuai, the current situation is only to lead the main force out of the city and fight to the death with the Huainan army, and if you win, the city can be saved; If you are defeated, the marshal will surrender to Huainan! In the face of the large-scale attack of the Huainan Army, at this time, only Liu Chu still had some opinions, and the others were panicked and at a loss.

"General Liu, the Huainan army is menacing, doesn't our army stick to the city, but go out of the city to fight them?" Hearing that Liu Chu planned to lead the army to take the initiative to attack, Zhong Kuangshi suddenly panicked.

He has a deep understanding of the strength of the Huainan army, when he was outside the city of Shezhou, he was only led by Chen Zhang to lead 5,000 Muzhou soldiers to rush with all his strength, plus thousands of Huainan troops in the city were flanked inside, and more than 50,000 Jiangxi troops fled in such a crushing defeat.

And this time, the strength of the Huainan Army is not less than that of the defenders in Hongzhou City, and the soldiers are more elite than the last time, in this case, Liu Chu has to take the initiative to attack, isn't this hitting the stone with an egg?

"Ahem, General Liu's bravery, we all know it, but this is not a child's play to lead troops to fight. The Huainan Army is strong, and it is not at all that our army can confront it head-on. So in my opinion, let's stick to it! Chen Xiang was almost choked by Liu Chu's suggestion, and it took a long time to react, and he hurriedly spoke to dissuade him.

"Waiting for reinforcements? Jie Shuai, Chen Sima, as soon as this reinforcement is said, it is used to coax those ordinary people, what is the specific situation, don't you still know? Hongzhou, there are no more reinforcements! Liu Chu unceremoniously unveiled the fact that everyone had been unwilling to admit.