Chapter 70: Outside the City of Nanjing

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Liu Xu was holding a letter from home in his hand, with a strange expression, as if he was not reading a family letter, but reading an online novel, and it was particularly obscene, especially Long Aotian. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Do you mean to say that my lady cracked a big robbery case of internal and external collusion, personally led people to catch the head and catch the thief in the house, and arrested more than 30 thieves, none of them escaped the net, my third sister has excellent martial arts, and she killed nine bandits by herself, and she was not hurt at all?" Liu Xu frowned: "Are you guys joining forces to joke with the young master?" ”

Liu He was still wearing the thin armor he wore that night, a kind of leather armor often worn by people who walked the rivers and lakes, light and protective, in addition to not being able to defend against javelins, heavy arrows and firecrackers, it could effectively protect the vital parts of the user. The leather armor had been tattered in many places, and there were faint traces of blood on it, which obviously showed that the fight a few days ago was not boasting, and the man in front of him who exuded a fierce aura was by no means an ordinary family member.

"Okay, it seems that Chen Pei'er is now bullish, not only is she famous, but she also has two more sworn sisters, and her power in the family has soared!" Liu Xu thought about it for a while and realized that this was not a bad thing, so he stopped thinking about it, and asked casually: "What did the young grandmother do with that Liu Chuan?" Dog things, eating inside and out, colluding with outsiders, can't spare him, find a reason to beat him to death. ”

"Back to the young master, the young grandmother sent someone to beat Liu Chuan's fight to death on the same day, and the excuse for Xu Zhutou was that Liu Chuan intended to escape and was killed by us on the spot!" Although Liu He is a fierce and martial family, he is just a martial artist after all, and in the face of Liu Xu, the leader of the Jiangnan scholars, the future pillar of the imperial court, he does not dare to show any disrespect.

"Good, well handled!" Liu Xu was secretly frightened, his wife was really not easy to get along with, and he could still think of killing people and killing people on the night of the fierce fight, leaving no trouble, this kind of mentality and determination are by no means comparable to ordinary people. Fortunately, everyone's interests are the same right now, and there is marriage as a constraint, one is prosperous, and the other is lost, otherwise Liu Xu must find a way to restrict it.

"By the way, the young grandmother asked you to come with the 100,000 taels of silver, and said that she didn't say anything else?"

"Back to the young master, the young grandmother let the little one stay by your side to listen, she said that Wei Zhongxian is a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff, you must be careful that his dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and the poor dog eats people."

"En," Liu Xu responded, looking at the domestic servant in front of him, he was about thirty years old, with a Chinese character face and mediocre facial features, but his eyes radiated a resolute and brave light. Such a person is at the peak of a man's physical strength and skills, and he has been practicing martial arts with the third lady for a long time, so he can rely on the force, so he nodded: "In this case, you and a few people who came together will stay by the young master's side and give me the protection, and your benefits will be indispensable in the future!" ”

"Yes!" Liu He's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he probably felt that following the eldest young master was more promising than following the third miss, not to mention that it was easy to get involved in all kinds of fights and vendettas with the third miss, and the mortality rate was relatively high, so it was not a good destination.

"Master, this barracks is almost finished, do you want to inspect it?" Zhou Jun walked over slowly, this young man has been depressed and sad recently because of his separation from Maomao, and the whole person is like a defeated rooster, and he is no longer in high spirits. Fortunately, a high sense of responsibility allows this young man to be responsible for the things he handles, so Liu Xu didn't care.

The young man's heart is troubled, let him deal with it himself, what Liu Xu has to do is just to prevent him from making a big mistake, as for the details, he is not in the mood to manage and cannot control it.

"Okay, the barracks of more than 4,000 people were built in three days, and the construction speed is quite impressive!" Liu Xu responded and praised.

"The main reason is that the division proposed by the master is a good method of grouping and paying according to the piece, which mobilizes the enthusiasm of the soldiers, and sends an acceptance team to inspect the results of the project, so that they dare not be lazy and slippery, so the project is progressing well!" Zhou Jun said that he was only detached from sadness when he was working, and he said in a tone of admiration.

"Well, remember, when is this person most active? Of course, when doing things for themselves, even if they think they are doing things for themselves. How can you make them feel like they're doing something for themselves? Then you should link their results to your own interests. If the person who pierces the wall pierces the iron cone into the earthen wall, then kill the wall-builder, if not, then kill the wall-piercing, so that the progress of the project is related to his own life, how can he not do it seriously? It's just that you remember that this person is wealth, especially people with skills and knowledge are wealth, and if you kill them so easily, you are wasting your wealth, and I don't take it. If you can set up a reward and punishment system, you can get a lot of money for doing a good job, and deduct money or even punish for a bad job, and share the profits with the people below, you can naturally be invincible. "It is impossible for any ruler to rule an empire on his own, not even a diligent emperor like Zhu Hongwu, not to mention the inconvenient transportation and communication in this era, and it takes half a month for news to reach the capital from one end of the empire, which requires a group of loyal bureaucrats who understand the essence of modern management. For this reason, Liu Xu regarded Zhou Jun and others as confidants, and seized all the time to instill knowledge, lest he would have to sing against the civil and official system alone like Emperor Chongzhen in the future.

"The master is far-sighted, inspiring people to think about it, and seeing people to see it!" When Zhou Jun heard this, he lowered his head and thought for a while, and praised loudly with bright eyes.

"Learn slowly, it will be useful in the future!" Liu Xu rode a yellow horse and slowly walked to his own camp outside Nanjing to inspect.

At this time, the Nanjing military department is Wang Zaijin, Wanli 20 years of Jinshi, after the defeat of Guangning, Xiong Tingbi was the military department of the book and the right deputy capital of the imperial history, through Liaodong, Jizhen, Tianjin, Deng, Lai military, barely regarded as one of the few bureaucrats in the late Ming Dynasty who can still do something. It's a pity that this person participated in the revision of the "Three Dynasties Canon", which is somewhat a eunuch. The patrol brigade played the banner of "killing Wei Gelding and burning the important ceremony", which made it clear that the chariots and horses would fight with Wei Zhongxian and his party to the end, and it was Wang Zaijin who resolutely did not allow the brigade to enter the city, but he also knew that things could not be done, and did not send troops to disperse the soldiers.

Liu Xu had long been prepared for this, Nanjing City was the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and its political status and military and economic status were extremely important, like Suzhou, although it was an economic center, but after all, it was not as high as Nanjing. Look at the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong fought hard to conquer the city of Nanjing, and you can see what its status is. If the brigade entered Nanjing, I was afraid that Wei Zhongxian's destruction would be in the palm of his hand, how could the eunuch party not resist to the death.

It's just that in Liu Xu's view, these people's resistance is just a mantis arm as a car, adding to the joke in vain.

From the camp can already see this ancient city, the city since Zhu Yuanzhang to Yuan Jiqing to change the road for the Tianfu began to build, "outside the old city, but Jubao, three mountains, stone city three gates are still, from Tongji right turn to Qingliang is the new extension, Zhou ninety-three miles, the outer wall is doubled." The beginning of the unification of the southern dragon also "spent countless manpower and material resources in the south of the Yangtze River, sitting on the southeast wealth of the land, and finally built such a "south gang of Zhongshan in the east, according to the mountain in the north, control the lake, block the stone in the west, close to the treasure in the south, and run through the Qinhuai in the inside", with a total length of 33,676 meters, "13,616 battlements, 200 shacks". The city wall of the city is not simply made of bricks and stones, but the vast majority of the limestone strips are used from Qinglong Mountain in Nanjing, the interior of the wall is filled with a large amount of gravel, broken bricks and loess, and rammed with bricks layer by layer, close to the upper part of the city wall, it is watered with a mixture containing a large amount of lime, even if it is bombarded with heavy siege artillery is difficult to destroy, it is the Ming people proudly boasted that "the southern capital is high, the armor is in the sea, from the Tongji Gate to the Sanshan Gate section is particularly strong, the Jubao Gate is built of huge stones on the left and right, and the top is several zhang high."

"Great buildings are often extremely grandiose, and such enormity contrasts sharply with the insignificance of human beings, making vulnerable human individuals question the meaning of their own existence, and this emotion is similar to the feeling of "sighing at the sea" that arises spontaneously in the face of mountains and seas. It is precisely for this reason that human beings always want to build all kinds of wonders to hide their insignificance, but is this kind of effort meaningful in the face of time and fate? Liu Xu looked at the city in front of him and thought like this. Then he thought: "The people in this city must think that they are extremely safe when they live behind such a city wall, but how could they have thought that within twenty years, the entire Jiangnan will be reduced to a ghost, and even the strongest city wall in the world will not be able to stop the fall of a dynasty!" ”

Zhou Jun saw that Shizun was not in a hurry to see the camp, but looked at Nanjing City in a daze, and couldn't help laughing: "In this world's Xiongcheng, Shizun is interested?" ”

Liu Xu also smiled and said, "If I have the intention, can you take it for me?" ”

Zhou Jun looked up at this peerless giant city built with solid stones and countless human lives, and said with a wry smile: "If there are hundreds of thousands of troops, isolated from inside and outside, attacking day and night, so that the army in the city does not have time to rest, and continues to attack for several years, it may be able to take it." When he said this, he was not confident, obviously thinking that such a city would be difficult to conquer.

"Zhou Jun, you must know that there is never a city in this world that will not fall, the former capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople, is known as the city that never falls, but now it is also the territory of the Ottoman Turkish Empire? Sage Yun 'The people of the domain do not use the boundary of the frontier, and the country does not take the risk of mountains and streams', this person's heart is gone, his heart is scattered, his bones are soft, his backbone is broken, even if there is a million troops, there is a peerless city, it is impossible to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, you say that this city will be attacked by hundreds of thousands of troops for a few years, I tell you, when the time is right, I will take 50,000 troops to go down in ten months! ”

Zhou Jun has been studying with Liu Xu these days, and has learned a lot of world events, and understands that there is a big empire returning to the west of the Ming Dynasty, so he doesn't care. But Liu Xu's words in the second half of the paragraph were mysterious, and it seemed to have a little bit of prophecy, and Zhou Jun's heart moved when he heard it: "Master, when is the right time?" ”

"If I say it's appropriate, then it's appropriate!" After saying this, Liu Xu stopped talking, and went to inspect the camp on his own.