"You have a clever plan?"

Emperor Hongwei asked with interest.

Xu Rui nodded: "I don't know if it's good or not, but it's a vicious strategy." ”

Emperor Hongwei's eyes lit up and said, "Don't come quickly!" ”

Xu Rui said: "It's very simple, my Great Wei is reforming and changing the law, and the new policy of the Holy Lord will greatly promote industrial development, and with the development of industry, the whole world will change, including the form of war."

It is foreseeable that the Great Wei is about to enter the fast lane of development, as the so-called quantitative change causes qualitative change, when the power of development reaches a certain height, it is no longer simply relying on good horses and courage to make up for it.

For the grassland, which is weak but extremely powerful, they may be able to imitate it at first, or buy artillery with a lot of money, but with the rapid development of Great Wei, with their weak foundation, they will only be thrown farther and farther away by Great Wei.

At that time, even if they tried their best to get 100 artillery pieces, our army had at least hundreds of thousands of artillery pieces, and the range and power were dozens of times that of their artillery, would they still have a chance of winning such a battle?

Also, the grassland has always dominated the world with cavalry, but the cavalry is not invincible, and this time the Black Flag Army of the Southern Dynasty broke the halberd and sank the sand is the best example.

Do you remember the heavy machine gun you described to you last time? It's the kind of firearm that can shoot hundreds of arrows in a breath, and as long as this kind of thing comes out, large-scale cavalry battles will completely disappear from the stage of history!

The new form of warfare will wipe out all the advantages that the steppe people can rely on, and they will become fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, at our disposal.

In addition, others may lose a lot of money when they fight with the grassland, but the saint still doesn't know the minister, even the most barren land minister can forcibly deduct a few copper plates, the grassland is full of gold in the eyes of the minister, and it is so rich that it is full of oil! ”

Hearing Xu Rui's words, Emperor Hongwei was immediately moved, but he didn't want Xu Rui to feel that he was as greedy for money as him, so he deliberately showed a touch of disdain and said: "If something comes to your mouth, you can't do without a word for money, and there is no pattern in a good way." ”

Xu Rui didn't take Emperor Hongwei's sour words to heart at all, and raised three fingers and said: "Within five years, the household department can collect this amount more from the grassland every year." ”

Emperor Hongwei was taken aback: "Three million taels? ”

Xu Rui shook his head: "Thirty million taels!" ”

"What!"

Emperor Hongwei's pupils shrank, and he said in surprise: "Thirty million taels? Do you want to squeeze the grasslands into a human state? ”

Xu Rui shook his head: "The minister never disdains to do the matter of killing chickens and taking eggs, but he is still very interested in integrating the entire grassland into the industrial system and raw material origin of the Galaxy Group."

At that time, the ministers will be as docile as lambs to keep this group of scourges, and no matter how we exploit them, we will not say a word, and from then on, the northwest grassland will also become the source of the disaster and become the back garden of my Great Wei, the money bag! ”

"Is that true?"

Emperor Hongwei asked in a deep voice.

Xu Rui nodded: "The minister is willing to make a military order, and if he can't fulfill his promise one by one after five years, the minister is willing to be punished!" ”

Emperor Hongwei frowned: "What are you going to do?" ”

Xu Rui shook his head: "Don't care what the ministers do, you just need to give the minister a marriage envoy, and the rest will be handed over to the minister!" ”

Emperor Hongwei put his hands behind his back and paced back and forth a few times in the midst of the chaos, obviously very moved in his heart, but gradually, the red light on his face slowly dissipated, and finally shook his head.

"No, at present, the army of the Southern Dynasty is pressing, the Twelve Guards of the Beijing Division and the Apocalypse Guard are all being rebuilt, you are the only trump card in my hands, if you are allowed to go to the grassland now, I am really not sure to win this big battle with the Southern Dynasty."

Xu Rui breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and a faint sneer hung on the corner of his mouth.

"There is something that the minister only figured out when he was in prison."

Xu Rui said leisurely.

Emperor Hongwei's eyes narrowed slightly: "What's the matter?" ”

Xu Rui said: "The previous minister has never figured out why King Wuling would launch a big war against us in winter.

First, the army of the Southern Dynasties invaded the northern country in winter, and the cold weather and long supply lines would be a nightmare, and no reasonable commander would risk his life.

Second, we had just fought a vicious battle with the Southern Dynasties, and hundreds of thousands of Wuling pro-troops suffered heavy losses, and although the remaining hundreds of thousands of elites did not really fight with our army, they first fought with the Northern Qi for several months, and then returned to China to quell the chaos, and they were already exhausted.

The minister thought that the elite of the Southern Dynasty would not recover until the spring of next year at the earliest, and the most seriously injured Black Flag Army would take several years.

Thirdly, King Wuling's use of soldiers has always been a combination of virtual and real, imaginative, and unpredictable, but this time he is in a position, as if he wants to fight to the death with us, and it seems that he is attacking me with his own shortcomings.

Each of the above points is fatal, and it really makes the minister unable to figure it out, until the minister discovers a detail! ”

"What details did you find?"

Emperor Hongwei asked.

Xu Rui said: "A year ago, the Wuling pro-army raided Xichuan, and it was supposed to establish an advance supply base, and then the country would continue to transport supplies to support the front line.

However, from beginning to end, the Southern Dynasty did not transport even a grain of rice to Xichuan, and the Wuling pro-army adopted the extremely risky method of using war to feed the war.

At that time, the minister thought that the Wuling pro-army had no time to slowly establish an advance base in Xichuan in order to fight quickly, but recently the minister figured out that it was not that the Wuling pro-army couldn't wait, but that the Southern Dynasty simply didn't have so many materials to transport! ”

"What?"

Emperor Hongwei was shocked when he heard this.

Xu Rui explained: "At that time, hundreds of thousands of the main forces of the Southern Dynasties stayed on the battlefield of the Northern Qi Dynasty, dormant and unmoving, with the national strength of the Southern Dynasties, it was basically the limit to support such a huge army to fight abroad, how could it be possible to open up another supply line?"

You must know that if a second supply line is opened by sea to transport supplies to more than 100,000 Wuling pro-army, the cost of money and grain on the way is even several times that of the supplies transported, which is equivalent to the Southern Dynasty to support a million troops to fight abroad.

At that time, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household made calculations, believing that the Southern Dynasty had the strength to support it, but it would not take more than a month at most, and the finances of the Southern Dynasty would completely collapse after one month.

But we have all forgotten one thing, that is, King Wuling is fighting abroad, and it is Emperor Longyou who is in charge of the court, will he push the country to the limit to support King Wuling to wage war with the outside world?

The answer is naturally no, and in hindsight, King Wuling did not really trust Emperor Longyou, so he would not risk pushing the country's finances below the safety line.

Then only the supplies for the Northern Qi front should be the security limit that the national strength of the Southern Dynasty can bear, and this line is much smaller than the estimate of our military department and household department, that is to say, the national strength of the Southern Dynasty is weaker than our estimate by nearly one-third! ”

Emperor Hongwei was shocked, slammed his fist on the floor, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that you only figured this out now, otherwise if you delayed for a few more months, maybe you would have been able to leave all the more than 100,000 Wuling pro-army behind!" ”

Xu Rui nodded: "That's right, the Southern Dynasty's cost in that big war is even greater than we imagined, and it will definitely not be able to support another big war in a short time, so the Southern Dynasty army has been confronting our army since it appeared, and there has been no substantive action, it's not that they don't want to fight, but they can't fight at all!" ”

Emperor Hongwei frowned: "Since this is the case, then what is the reason why they sent troops at this time?" ”

Xu Rui shook his head: "The Southern Dynasty sent a large army to confront our army, just to contain our army at the lowest cost.

And even if we know that the Southern Dynasty is no longer capable of launching a big war in a short period of time, as long as they show their troops on the border for one day, our main force will not dare to act rashly, after all, we are not afraid of 10,000, we are afraid of just in case, and no one can afford the danger of destroying the country.

There is no way to know what the specific Wuling King wants to do.

Chen thought that the most likely inference was to send a small force to attack the Northern Qi, but the Northern Qi land was barren, easy to defend and difficult to attack, they had just fought a year ago, it was said that there was no reason to fight again, and I don't know what was so attractive to the King of Wuling in the Northern Qi. ”

"In other words, in any case, the decisive battle between the north and the south that we thought before did not exist at all?"

Emperor Hongwei asked suspiciously.

Xu Rui nodded: "That's true, at the moment, the twelve guards of the Beijing Division are still being rebuilt, and they don't have the ability to fight, and the northern and southern dynasties have their own scruples, so they can only stare dryly."

As long as the Holy Lord sticks to the gate of the country, puts on a posture of fighting a protracted war with them, and dares to guarantee that at least until the autumn of next year, King Wuling will never rashly start a big war. ”

"In that case, it is not impossible for you to be the marriage giver......

Emperor Hongwei showed a deep groan when he heard this.

The corners of Xu Rui's mouth hooked up a sneer, thinking of Princess Qixia's tearful face, and the greedy Wu Liji on the grassland, his eyes bloomed with imperceptible killing intent.