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Shao Jiugong, who is bent on playing a majestic role in the southwest, keeps these eight words firmly in his mind, but how to attack the heart, in the specific implementation, it is a little different.

To be precise, the eight words "attacking the heart is the top, attacking the city is the bottom" spread from Zhenjiang to Guangxi, and then when they were implemented to those Wu army generals, they were simply and simply materialized into money and women.

After taking Dushan City, Lu Guangzu's expeditionary army's second town and Wang Youxi's fourth town, as the vanguard, marched to Pinglangsi, eighty miles away from Dushan, without resting for a day.

There is another person who rushed to Pinglang with the Taiping Army, this person is called Li Zhiting, who is the staff of Zhang Chaoxuan, the former governor of Jiangxi in the Qing Dynasty, who was born in the Ming Dynasty, and his writing is very outstanding, and he is quite famous in Jiangxi. However, this person's seat teacher is more famous than him, and he is the backbone of the eunuch party, and now Feng Quan, a scholar of the Qing court and the temple. Li Zhiting was able to counsel military and political affairs under Zhang Chaoxuan because of the recommendation of his teacher Feng Quan.

In addition, in order to break the fighting spirit of the Ming army and the anti-Qing Han people, Li Zhiting also wrote a lot of whitewashed articles for the Manchu Qing Dynasty under the instruction of Zhang Chaoxuan. After the Taiping army invaded Jiangxi from Guangdong and conquered Nanchang, Zhang Chaoxuan and Tong Fengcai and others were dismembered and abandoned, but Li Zhiting was unwilling to die with his master, but wagged his tail to the Taiping army and begged for mercy. Because of his good literary color, the Taiping army could get it, so he picked up a life and stayed in the Jiangxi Governor's Yamen as a secretary.

Once, Jiang He, the governor of Jiangxi at the time, was in a hurry to write an official letter to Shao Jiugong in Guangxi, but he was illiterate at all, so he couldn't write it. There are a few old calligraphers under him, but his pen and ink are limited, and he can't accurately express what Jiang He wants. Jiang He was so anxious that Li Zhiting recommended himself and said that it was better to let him write it. As a result, Li Zhiting waved it, and those old calligraphers read it, and they all praised it, and read it to Jiang He, Jiang He was also overjoyed, thinking that this person was a person and must be reused. But before Jiang He was ready to reuse this Li Zhiting, he was recalled to Nanjing by a paper order.

Without the support of Governor Jiang, Li Zhiting would still be his secretary, but fortunately, Li Zhicui, the political envoy of Jiangxi, knew his ability and felt that it was a waste for Li Zhiting to be a small secretary, so he was ready to protect him as a county parent to the military marshal's office. At this time, Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, went to the military marshal's office, saying that there were too many vacancies in Guangxi, and asked the military marshal's office to send some officials to Guangxi. When Jiang He came over, Li Zhicui's letter of protection was also delivered, so Gui Yongzhi, who presided over the selection and transfer of local officials from the Military Marshal's Office, sent Li Zhiting and some other people to Guangxi.

Gold will shine wherever it goes, and within a few months of Li Zhiting arriving in Guangxi, he was selected by Governor Shao Jiu. Like Jiang He, Shao Jiugong also thinks that Li Zhiting, who writes excellent articles, is a talent, and he is also eight and exquisite, and his tongue is excellent, so he cultivates it wholeheartedly. This time, Li Zhiting was ordered by Shao Jiugong to enter Guizhou with the army and attack the Wu army with money and beauty.

Shao Jiugong, who didn't understand exactly what Dashuai meant by attacking the heart, understood "attacking the heart" as asking for money for money, asking for women for women, as long as you are willing to surrender.

And Li Zhiting, who specifically executes the money to women, has his own understanding, that is, he must be generous, he must be generous, and he must not be careful, as long as you make a bid, it will not be a counteroffer.

Knowing that Li Zhiting was spending a lot of money in Guizhou, Shao Jiugong was a little unbearable, but Li Zhiting dispelled his concerns with a word and firmly allocated funds to him.

Li Zhiting said this: "Let's give money, but Wu Sangui also gives money, so we must give more money than Wu Sangui, so much so that those people can't refuse." In this way, there will be more and more people who defect to us or agree to our conditions, and if this continues, even Wu Sangui's descendants and generals will probably have to be tempted by it. ”

Li Zhiting's point of view can be summed up in one sentence, that is, we must leave a deep impression on the Wu army of Yungui, that is, Zhou Dashuai of the Taiping Army is more generous than Wu Sangui!

In addition, Li Zhiting's cleverness lies in the fact that he never talks about his position with those who persuade them to surrender, nor does he require them to defect to the Taiping army, as long as they take the benefits and go elsewhere.

In addition to sending money to buy the generals of the Wu army in Guizhou, Li Zhiting also knows the hearts of the people, and the women he gave to the generals of the Wu army were not the goods of the Qinglou, nor the beauties snatched from the people, but the noblewomen of the bannermen. Not to mention whether these banner women are as noble as Li Zhiting boasted to those Wu army generals, and whether they are really good-looking, then the generals of the Wu army really eat a set. Because the noble lady of the banner man used to be high in their eyes, but now she has become her own plaything, and this sense of accomplishment is not an ordinary satisfaction.

In order to search for enough banner women to satisfy the generals of the Wu army, Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, sent an unprecedented letter to all provinces in the name of the governor of Guangxi, requesting that the young women of the banner people in the territory be sent to Guangxi, which gave many banner prostitutes a new way out. Of course, there is no shortage of flag girls in various places who sell the flag girls assigned to them by the government and then sell them to the government.

As the offensive of money and women worked, the Taiping army continued to approach Guiyang. It's just that there are more and more bannermen and women accompanying the marching procession. Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, specially ordered that hundreds of carriages should be allocated to the front for Li Zhiting's use, and these carriages were specially used by those banner women.

A scene that made people laugh and cry appeared, the artillery of the Taiping Army had not yet been erected, but at one end of the battle line, there were many generals and soldiers of the Wu Army, who were collecting money while enjoying the bannermen and noblewomen who could not dream of riding before. After eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, the Taiping army was busy putting away the artillery, because the city they were about to attack had already taken the initiative to open its doors.

In this way, all the way from Duyun to Guiyang, almost all of the Wu army was co-opted by Li Zhiting, and the sound of drinking and playing every day overshadowed the rumbling sound of cannons and shouting and killing. Zhang Guozhu, the governor of Guizhou, wailed, his soldiers are good, but he can't see money or women.

Naturally, there were people from the Military Intelligence Department on the front line, and the news was quickly reported to Zhenjiang.

Zhou Shi couldn't laugh or cry because he felt that he was so tricked by Shao Jiugong and that Li Zhiting, and he Zhou Dashuai now gave people the impression that "many people with money come stupidly and quickly".

However, he recognized this approach very much, and he said to Guo Xiong and others: "Yue Fei said that civil officials don't love money, military officials are not afraid of death, and the world is peaceful." But it didn't say that military attachés can't love money and can't be lustful. Sun Tzu's Art of War said that the first soldier is strategic, the second soldier is fighting, and in the end, he has no choice before he moves roughly. If you can get the effect of mobilizing troops without losing a single soldier and using only some money, then why not? ”

However, Zhou Shixiang knew very well that although it was effective for a while to buy the generals of the Wu Army with positions, money, and beauties, it was actually extremely disadvantageous, but as long as the Taiping Army could control the overall situation, these guys who were bought by money and women would still have to be eliminated step by step.