It must be admitted that Wu Changshi's statement is extremely contagious.

Especially for Gao Jie, this is even more so. He was very unhappy in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, although he was born as a thief, but he has always prided himself on his loyalty, and he was actually quite dissatisfied with the eunuch party and the country.

Moreover, his ambition is very great, and when he sees that he is supporting King Fu to be the emperor, he has the title of Xingping Bo, so if he makes another war exploit, can he be crowned a marquis and a king?

"Mr. Wu said this, why did he teach me?" After thinking for a while, Gao Jie asked in a low voice.

"As far as Gao Shuai can see, where is the biggest danger to me now?"

"Naturally, it's a thief!" Gao Jie said without hesitation.

"General Gao's words are wrong, with General Gao's ability, as long as the imperial court can fully support it, exterminating the thieves is just a matter of rebellion. The first danger in the imperial court is not to break in, but to Yu! ”

Gao Jiemo was silent, just staring at Wu Changshi.

"General Gao, do you think you can defeat Yu Guozhen?"

"I can't."

"Exactly, Chuang Rebellion and Yu Guozhen, there are four losses and four wins! Although the rebellion seems to be huge, it is actually a rabble, and Yu Guozhen's subordinates are well-trained and battle-hardened, and they are all tigers and wolves. The rebellion was defeated and collapsed, and Yu Guozhen's subordinates became more and more courageous. Rebellion is rootless, and Yu Guozhen is a rich man in the world! The rebellious officials are all vulgar and uncivilized, and if they want to rule the world, they must reuse scholars, Yu Guozhen runs his own school and trains students, and there is no need for Confucian students to govern the world. The reason why this rebellion was defeated and the reason why Yu Guozhen won the fourth! ”

Wu Changshi said with high interest, shaking his head, but he completely forgot that the principle of four losses and four wins was originally summed up by Zhang Pu and Zhou Zhong. He glanced at Gao Jie, who was listening to it with relish, and then at Wei Xuelian, who was stunned, his voice paused slightly, and then continued: "Therefore, it is difficult to prevent thieves from rebelling!" ”

"Yu Guozhen is the first emperor of the South China Sea, and he is named a marquis today." Gao Jie said: "How could he threaten the imperial court!" ”

"How can he not threaten the imperial court, the misfortune of the first emperor, Yu Guozhen is the culprit! First, after the thieves captured Xuzhou, not only did he not recover Xuzhou, but let people send a large amount of grain and grass to the thieves. Second, he sent a large army to seize Shandong, and when 20,000 soldiers broke into Beijing on the side of the Beijing division, he neither diligently nor contained, and waited to see the success or failure, which can be seen! Third, the first emperor died, he didn't think about avenging the first emperor, but he was busy grabbing the territory, occupying Shandong first, driving the ancestors to Huai'an, and seizing the two Guang without surrendering to the sea! Fourth, he nominally prevented the epidemic, but in fact he colluded with Li Yan, the lone soldier who stayed in Tianjin, and the self-respect of raising thieves was clearly revealed! ”

Wu Changshi came out in one breath, and Gao Jie was dumbfounded when he heard it.

Since ancient times, the literati lawsuit has one mouth, and the three-inch tongue can reverse the black and white eunuch Zhao Gao's finger deer as a horse, compared with these contemptuous literati, it is really a small thing. Yu Guozhen's four charges, Xiang Xiang Gaojie felt that it didn't seem to be exactly like that, but Xiang Xiang made him feel that it was indeed the case.

He couldn't help but admire in his heart, and he was secretly vigilant, it seemed that these unscrupulous literati really couldn't be offended.

But at least for now, Wu Changshi's statement is in his favor.

"So what?"

"In the past, the Wei State was strong, Wu Shu was weak, and Wu Shu was united, and there was a three-legged trend." Wu Changshi's eyes sparkled, and he knew that he was close to success: "Since Yu Guozhen is the biggest threat, it is natural to join forces to deal with him." ”

"With whom?"

"Thieves, Jianyu, anyone who feels that Yu Guozhen is the most threatening can join forces!"

If you change someone else, I am afraid that you will have to cover it up, but Wu Changshi is bold and reckless, and he has no scruples at all when he speaks.

Gao Jie was silent for a while, and then sneered: "In the opinion of the scholar, you can let us join forces with one mouth?" I'm afraid that even if they join forces in name, they will also be broken by each one! ”

"Knowing righteousness, moving for profit, why worry about disharmony?" Wu Changshi said: "Yu Guozhen has a heart of disobedience, and he is punished to get rid of the national thief, and this is also righteous." In order to win the hearts of the people, Yu Guozhen mobilized countless grain materials and hoarded them in Yangkou, Qingdao, and Jinan in Shandong. Yu Guozhen is good at strange and ingenious skills, so that he is rich and rivals the country, he is in Shandong, will bring many craftsmen, as long as these craftsmen are snatched, Xinxiang's musket artillery glass steel, Xuzhou can also produce! ”

When these words were spoken, Gao Jie suddenly made up his mind.

He was originally a bold figure, otherwise where would he dare to rebel, and where would he dare to kidnap Li Zicheng's wife to put on a green hat for this king of Chuang!

Although he prides himself on his loyalty, his loyalty is only for one word, profit!

Yu Guozhen is indeed terrifying, but the interests represented by Yu Guozhen behind him are also great, especially the muskets and artillery from his side, which are far more powerful than the imitations of Daming himself. Indeed, since Yu Guozhen occupied the islands of the South China Sea, he has been in a position where he can attack and retreat, and it is very difficult to completely eliminate him, but what Gao Jie needs is not to completely eliminate him, as long as Yu Guozhen is driven out of Shandong and this landing point is lost, what do you have to worry about?

"In your opinion, how should you do it?" Gao Jie stood up and asked.

"The general went north along the canal to attack Yanzhou Mansion, General Zu Kuan went north to attack Qingzhou Mansion to occupy Qingdao Pass, cut off Yu Guozhen's sea retreat, Li Chuang went east, attacked Dongchang Mansion, Li Chuang Li Yanbu went south, attacked Yangkou, and cut off Yu Guozhen's other sea retreat. In this way, the four sides of Jinan Mansion have become encircled. ”

Gao Jie was moved, but he still pretended not to like it: "How can I be Yu Guozhen's opponent?" How could the imperial court agree to let me do it? ”

"Yu Guozhen went north this time, with only more than 20,000 or 30,000 troops, and he was scattered for disaster relief, and the main force around him was no more than 8,000. And among the surrounding armies, Li Chuang has 200,000 armor soldiers, 100,000 generals, and 50,000 or 60,000 generals Zu, with an army of 400,000, attacking 20,000 people, that is, no matter how powerful Yu Guozhen is, no matter how strong his jurisdiction is, how can he do it? As for the imperial court, Gao Qiqian has already gone south one step ahead of us, and he and Yu Guozhen are even more incompatible, and this time they will be reused by the new emperor. Donglin Zhugong, there are three of me to persuade you, Ma and Ruan, I think I will be optimistic about it! ”

Speaking of which, how could Gao Jie still not allow it, he nodded: "That is the case, there are three gentlemen Lao!" ”

Next is the courtesy, the three of them have worked hard all the way, and it is finally time to enjoy it. But Wei Xuelian was a little unpleasant, and when there was no one, he pulled Wu Chang and said, "Brother here, do you really want to be an enemy of the Hou of the South China Sea?" ”

"At the beginning of Zhou Ge's recovery, in the manual given to him by Zhang Tianru, there were two lists of people who must be killed and people who must be used, and the first person who must be killed is Yu Guozhen." Wu Changshi said: "The one who troubles the Ming Dynasty is Yu Guozhen, if you don't punish this person, you will not be able to help the righteous person, and the righteous person will be difficult to use!" ”

His words were murderous and full of resentment, Wei Xuelian glanced at him in surprise, but he didn't know when Wu Changshi and Yu Guozhen had such a deep hatred.

It's just endless.

Wu Changshi's own family knows his own affairs, and he and Yu Guozhen are indeed endless. It was he who encouraged Zhang Pu to deal with Yu Guozhen at the beginning, and it was also a joint decision between him and Zhang Pu to send Wan Shihua to Xinxiang, and after Wan Shihua, he also decided to let Zhou Zhong also go to Xinxiang.

Originally, his plan was to ask for directions by throwing stones from Zhou Zhong to see if there was a chance to enter the high-level of Xinxiang, so as to leave a way out for himself. But after discovering that they had no room for use under the Xinxiang system, he pondered stealing some of Xinxiang's technical information. Back then, on the occasion of the fireworks show to welcome the queen of the Japanese kingdom, there were people from Wu Changshi.

And Zhou Zhong finally didn't expose it, or rather, it was precisely because Zhou Zhong was incompatible with the Xinxiang system that Yu Guozhen didn't care about this non-German literati at all. Zhou Zhong obtained some knowledge such as steelmaking and textiles through open channels, such as the textbooks of Xinxiang Middle School and various books published by Xinxiang, and then said goodbye and left, saying that he was going to enter Beijing to participate in Chongzhen's 16-year scientific expedition, and Yu Guozhen did not keep him.

All these things let Wu Changshi know that if Yu Guo is ambitious, even if he is not liquidated, his personal ambitions and ambitions will come to naught. Therefore, he felt that he was indeed a mortal enemy of Yu Guozhen, and even when he went south, he deliberately avoided Shandong, which was controlled by Yu Guozhen.

Yu Guozhen didn't know that he was regarded as a mortal enemy by a non-German literati, in fact, after he walked out of the historical process of wanting to restore normalcy, that is, the road to revitalizing China, he knew that he would become a thorn in the side of some people, like Wu Changshi, in front of his eyes is just a small insect that can be shot to death, and his real enemy is the group represented by Wu Changshi.

Seeing that time flew by, and the plague, which would have spread on a large scale when the weather warmed up, not only did not expand, but began to disappear, Yu Guozhen breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that it should be his own anti-epidemic measures that had an effect.

But now is not the time to stop the anti-epidemic measures, and it will be at least another two or three months before the quarantine system is lifted. Yu Guozhen just had some leisure at this time, and began to take stock of his gains in the past six months.

controlled Shandong and Liangguang in the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and the combined population of these two places, according to the statistics of Chongzhen's three years, should be 23.12 million. Although the population of Shandong has decreased in recent years, because the victims in Beijing and the Central Plains have taken refuge in Shandong, Yu Guozhen actually estimates that the population is even more than this. In his original plan, he only occupied Liangguang, so the manpower preparation was also made according to the scale of expanding the rule to 12 million people, but now because of the plague, he had to include Shandong in advance, which made his manpower seem to be stretched.

Ten years of trees and a hundred years of cultivating people, although it is an exaggeration to say this, but in fact, a talent that meets Yu Guozhen's needs needs at least three to five years to cultivate, and one to two years to intern, which can be regarded as competent. Yu Guozhen did not want some rotten people to mix in with the new class he had built and bring those rotten and degenerate things to pollute his system, so in Dongshan, he mainly controlled three lines: the Xiaoqinghe line from Jinan to Yangkou, the planned Jinan-Qingdao railway line from Jinan to Qingdaokou, and the canal line from Dezhou to Liangshan. The prefectures, counties, villages and towns along the route here are all under the military management of the Tiger Guard.

And the limited manpower, the ability to show under great pressure, made him happy. (To be continued)