Chapter 22: The Final Restoration of the Old Frontier of the Han and Tang Dynasties (Part II)
The four of them finalized the plan to destroy the Thang Long Mansion, and the next specific implementation plan was the work of the camp soldiers.
Yan Da and Li Xian said goodbye and left, Zhang Dian stood up and moved his shoulders, and smiled at Han Gang: "The next thing, we can also relax a little bit." ”
"Brother Zihou," Han Gang laughed out loud, it was a self-deprecating wry smile: "Do you want to listen to how many sick people are in the army now?" ”
The smile on Zhang Dan's face retracted, and he had to report the number to him every day, where did he need Han Gang to remind, "The climate by the sea will be better, and the main force must be moved to Haimen as soon as possible." ”
In the mountains, forests, rivers and lakes in the south, there are many miasma diseases, but when you get to the seaside, it will be much better. After Haimen became the Jiaozhi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, it replaced Jiaozhou City [Shenglong Mansion] as the new seat of the Protectorate of Annam, one because of transportation, and the other because the counterinsurgency troops transferred from the north were more adaptable to the climate by the sea.
Han Gang sighed lightly: "How many people in the army are looking forward to going back to Yongzhou, Guizhou, or even the DPRK directly, so they have to settle down first." ”
"If the sea gate cannot be built, this battle can only be said to be incomplete. In addition, it is not yet the time for the class teacher to return to the DPRK, so instead of staying in Yongzhou and Guizhou for half a year, it is better to rest in Haimen. ”
Zhang Dian is now wholeheartedly supporting the opening of Haimen. Once Haimen set up a port and started maritime trade, Fujian was the first to benefit. With his contribution to the elimination of Jiaozhi, Zhang Dian will inevitably have the greatest say in it, and the benefits that his family can get will certainly not be less.
Zhang Tun's attitude made Han Gang secretly happy.
Friendship can only be managed for a while, while interests can be maintained forever – as long as the common good can continue to exist. Han Gang used this method to entrap Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu back then. And the benefits that Cochin can bring are by no means limited to wood and grain. Han Gang had another plan in mind.
has merit and wealth, as long as he can do this, no matter who works with him Han Gang, even if he is jealous of his talent, he can still return all the way together by relying on common interests.
Walking out of the temporary meeting hall, Li Xian looked back at the two coaches who were discussing something, his eyebrows furrowed in contemplation, but he quickly shook his head, as if he had given up thinking about it.
During this period of time, he was more and more surprised by the tacit understanding between Zhang Dian and Han Gang.
The two are both talented people with personalities and edges and corners, and if they work together, even if they don't compete for merit, collisions and frictions are inevitable.
When the Son of Heaven personally gave the secret decree, he was worried. Zhang Dian and Han Gang have a very good relationship, and there are many people who know this matter. But no matter how good the friendship is—even if it is an old friend for decades—once they work together, because of their different personalities, opinions, and methods of governance, there are countless examples of them turning against each other in the end. Wang Anshi is the best example.
But at the moment, the two are working well together. This has been the case since Han Gang led the army to defeat Li Changjie under Yongzhou City. To this day, it still is.
Zhang Dian is the master, and Han Gang is the deputy.
Han Gang's plan could not be realized without the full support of Zhang Tun. If you are a jealous and jealous coach, I am afraid that it will become a situation where the two commanders compete with each other and finally achieve nothing.
Self-confidence is very important, Li Xian thinks. No matter how amazing his talents and means were displayed by Han Gang, Zhang Dian was confident in his talents. It was with such full confidence that he could let Han Gang do it.
Like Han Gang, who is talented and young and promising, Zhang Dian can believe it and use it, in other words, this is the prime minister's bearing.
Zhang Dun is by no means a simple character. Li Xian understands this very well. But his character is not favored by the Son of Heaven or even Wang Anshi, and Li Xian also knows this.
Among Wang Anshi's important assistants, Zhang Dan's promotion was far more ups and downs than Lu Huiqing and Zeng Bu. In other words, Zeng Lu and the others, where do they need to be like Zhang Dun, they have to go to Jingnan to take a risk in order to advance to the two systems. There is no need to lead the army to exterminate a country like Zhang Dian in order to have a chance to enter the two provinces, all they have to do is to stay in the capital and assist Wang Anshi - if Zeng Bu is not confused, he can also enter the government at this time.
Of course, it is even more difficult for Han Gang to be promoted, and the problem of age makes him the most creditable and can only be exchanged for a discounted reward. I don't know how the Son of Heaven will arrange his position in the future. Maybe he will be allowed to stay in Guangxi.
But the height that the two of them can reach after the most ruthlessness, Li Xian still has a number.
Officials who have only come out after both military and political affairs have a far stronger foundation than those who have been serving in Beijing. The authority accumulated by qualifications and experience is a prerequisite for entering and leaving the two prefectures in the future, or being appointed to hold important positions in times of crisis.
Li Xian felt that after coming to Guangxi and then going deep into Jiaozhi, he was still less close to them. Although he is a lieutenant official, generally speaking, it is enough to serve the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother well, but if there are few allies who can support him in the outer courts, if he wants to achieve something in the future, it is also a fantasy.
Once the minds are united, the next step, of course, is to get to work.
Yanda is responsible for supervising the barbarians and destroying the Thang Long Mansion. The walls were demolished, the houses were abandoned, and the people of the Cochin people in the city were distributed to the meritorious tribes.
The city walls were destroyed, and even if Thang Long might be revived again in the future due to its geographical and road advantages, it would no longer be a fortified city.
And Li Xian was going to follow Zhang Dian and Han Gang to lead the main force to Haimen. However, before leaving, Li Xian came to find Zhang and Han, not because of anything important, but because he had a proposal.
Listening to Li Xian's proposal, Han Gang was taken aback. This idea was also thought of by Li Xian, who was obviously a eunuch, and he could even think of the problem of reconciling yin and yang.
Li Xian actually used the reason that he couldn't control the lower half of his body in the army these days, and proposed to take back some of the high-quality Jiaozhi girls from the barbarians, assign one to each person, and let them take them back to their hometown.
Li Xian's proposal seems a bit absurd, but it is also a good thing, which proves that Li Xian has opened up his imagination, everything is based on China's interests, and he no longer regards war simply as fighting and surrendering.
Of course, Zhang Dan will not object to this proposal. The means that can appease the morale of the military will never be too little, not too much.
"Since going south, there have been people in the army from top to bottom, all of them are in the right year, and now there are many diseases, if there is a strategy to boost morale, it doesn't hurt to use it."
Han Gang doesn't care about killing people and setting fires, but he is a traitor. The matter of prostitution and plunder, but it has always required strict control in the army. The same is true of Zhangdun, which can be regarded as the cleanliness of Confucianism.
But in the army, after arriving in Guangxi, I didn't see a few women, and the generals and soldiers below were suffocating enough. The country of Jiaozhi is over, and it is not a bad thing to let the generals and soldiers participating in the war have a place to relax.
"But what if the generals take him as their wives?" Han Gang asked.
With the strength of the official army, if it is distributed according to demand, it can at least scrape away 10,000 Jiaozhi women at once. If the Ming media is marrying, the Jiaozhi people will all become the in-laws of the official army, and when the time comes, the relatives of each family will climb, and there will not be many Jiaozhi people left in the hands of the barbarians.
"You can only be a slave and a maid, not a wife, and those who violate it will be severely punished." Zhang Dian sneered, "When they return to the old land of Kansai, across the thousands of miles of Guanshan, it doesn't matter." ”
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Yilan and her two sons sat in a carriage, surrounded by guards in front and behind, and it was time to go to Beijing.
Raise your eyes and look at Thang Long Mansion in the distance. Thousands of people, even elephants, were working on the construction site by the city walls, working towards a common goal.
They are going to tear down the walls of Thang Long Province!
It was rainy, and I don't know how much effort it took to build this wall, but now it has to be scrapped in one fell swoop.
Yilan burst into tears, and the people who died in the country no longer had the right to be angry, and there was nothing left but crying.
If you ask the people of Jiaozhi who are doing coolies under the whips and sticks of the barbarian tribe now, who do they hate the most? The first is Li Changjie, and the second is Yilan and his son Qiande.
If the Great Song Dynasty wants to perish, they will never be allowed to become the target of the people's hearts. On the contrary, it was Prince Hong Zhen, who killed Shengren, and his status in people's minds became high.
The ministers of Jiaozhi, who went north with the army, frequently turned back, looking at their hometowns with difficulty, while the commanders and staff of the official army were discussing how to maintain the control of the Great Song Dynasty over Jiaozhou.
In addition to Han Gang's plan to open the sea, some people have thought of various other plans.
Most of them were denied, but there was one item that was absolutely fine, but Han Gang didn't like it very much.
"Copper column?!" Han Gang frowned slightly in disgust, this was a panic caused by too much money.
How did Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo in the Han Dynasty, know the allusion of this copper pillar Han Gang, of course, "But if you erect tens of thousands of catties of copper pillars in Jiaozhou, you will only be remembered by thieves, and now it is not the Han Dynasty, and the people's hearts are not ancient!" ”
It's really better to set up a Beijing view.
However, Han Gang is in Jiaozhi, but he doesn't want to kill too much. It's just cutting off the toes, it's just a corporal punishment, and the tattoo on the face is also corporal punishment, and it's also corporal punishment, and no one is more merciful
And Zhang Dian definitely hopes to mark the bronze column, this is a matter of virtue that has been famous for the ages, where can he let go of this opportunity, Han Gang can see a little, and it is not easy to say that he is against it, and it is not a big deal to leave and right, just spend money, let them play well.
The construction of the Sea Gate is about to begin, and the Thang Long Mansion is about to be in ruins, but the real change is still in the court. After the Son of Heaven and the two governments received the good news that the Annan camp relied on 5,000 Guanxi reinforcements and destroyed Jiaozhi in one fell swoop, what role would they play in the changes in the court?