Lu Chengfeng encountered such a serious matter as soon as he arrived, of course he had to ask what happened. Wang Jinlong told him about the cause and effect, and finally concluded: "I guess that my wife and children have moved here from Niujia Village, which makes Shi Miyuan feel that he has lost his hole cards to check and balance me, so he wants to use this means to demonstrate with me, and let me know that he has other means to check and balance me." ”

Lu Chengfeng groaned: "My subordinates think that this matter may not be Shi Miyuan's handiwork. Since he knows that you are in and out of his mansion as if you were in a no-man's land, he will be cautious in making any decisions that may upset you. This kind of little trick of not selling grain is not a key point for us, just change places to buy grain, but it will make you unhappy, as long as Shi Miyuan is not stupid, he will never do this. ”

Wang Jinlong was still very happy when he heard him call himself a "subordinate", and Lu Chengfeng accepted his new identity. And his analysis is also reasonable, it seems that it is really necessary to have a sober person to assist him.

Wang Jinlong said: "If it weren't for Shi Miyuan's idea, there would be many possibilities, and there are many confused people in the small court of Lin'an." These people always regard themselves as loyal ministers, but in fact, they have not achieved enough things and have more than they have failed. If you deal with one, you will attract them to besiege them like mad dogs, which is very troublesome! ”

Lu Chengfeng chuckled and said, "These people are actually easy to deal with, as long as they know that we are powerful, they will naturally be cowardly." Don't look at them all claiming to be loyal, but when it comes to dealing with Jin Guo, aren't they still silent? Why not? It's because they're still afraid of death in their hearts. Once the Jin State is offended, what should the Jin State do if the Jin State asks the Lin'an Small Court to deal with them? Wasn't that how Han Yanxuan died back then? So, as long as we are tougher, they will change their tune. ”

Wang Jinlong was surprised: "I remember you said before, if I take refuge in the Jin Kingdom, you won't do it with me." Now you are encouraging me to do something against the small court of Lin'an, isn't this a big rebellion? ”

Lu Chengfeng laughed and said: "As the so-called success and defeat of the king, as long as you really overthrow the Lin'an small court in the future and sit on the throne yourself, who will say that you are a big rebel?" It's normal to change the dynasty. Didn't his Zhao family's country also be snatched from the hands of the Chai family's orphans and widows? ”

Wang Jinlong also laughed and said, "I asked you to be my mastermind, it seems that you have chosen the right person." However, it is not the time to be tough on Lin'an. In fact, I have a plan for a long time, and I am ready to annihilate them in one fell swoop, and then replace them. Until then, you must not startle the snakes, lest they become more prepared and make it more difficult when they want to do it. Think about it, is there any other way? ”

Lu Chengfeng pondered for a moment and said: "If you can't do it to Lin'an, then do it to Jin Guo and make an example of killing chickens and monkeys!" It's just that our strongest soldiers and horses are the water army, if we attack the Jin country with the water army, I am afraid that it will make Lin'an Rabbit sad and be prepared, I don't know if this will cause trouble for us to attack Lin'an in the future? ”

Wang Jinlong looked at him in surprise and said, "Of course it will cause trouble!" I haven't told anyone about the plan to attack Lin'an, but I didn't expect you to coincide with me. If Lin'an starts to guard against attacks from the sea, the difficulty of our attack will increase a hundredfold, and it will be impossible to destroy them in one fell swoop. ”

Lu Chengfeng opened his mouth wide and said, "Attack from the sea? Wiped out in one fell swoop? This...... Unlikely, right? Our navy only has a few dozen ships, I'm afraid ...... It's okay for the navy to be a surprise soldier, but it's okay to use it to destroy the country, how is it possible? ”

Wang Jinlong understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "You just came, and you are not familiar with our hole cards. Well, I'll take you on a walk. ”

With Wang Jinlong personally leading, Lu Chengfeng read all the military secrets very smoothly. Only Wang Jinlong knew all these secrets before, even those high-level generals knew at most some of them, and Lu Chengfeng was the second to know them all.

After reading it, Lu Chengfeng was in a state of confusion for a long time. He couldn't have imagined that Wang Jinlong's army would have such combat power, this is not a warlord at all, it is definitely the strength that only the hero who dominates the world deserves!

Not to mention anything else, just talking about the most basic infantry, neat queues, and sophisticated equipment are only the surface, and the most terrifying thing is their will to fight. When Lu Chengfeng came to watch, he happened to meet a battalion of soldiers who were doing physical training.

A battalion organized by Wang Jinlong was exactly 500 people. A full five hundred men, carrying a weight of fifty pounds, ran thirty miles in one hour, and then held on to a high ground and held out for two hours under the siege of three battalions! Although it was only a drill, none of them were deliberately injured to retreat and rest, but persevered until the last soldier. And the reward is just dinner and dinner, and each person can eat a piece of fat that weighs half a catty.

These soldiers trained so desperately that Lu Chengfeng couldn't understand that just for a meal of meat, he really almost fought for his life, is it worth it? If they don't have anything to eat, they will starve to death, just to survive, but they are obviously well fed and warmly clothed, and even if they have no meat to eat, they have enough rice and vegetables, and it is not worth fighting for their lives. But these soldiers are fighting like this, how can they not confuse Lu Chengfeng.

Wang Jinlong just smiled at this, when he was in the army, he didn't even have a reward for big fat. It's not that you can't eat big fat meat, but you can eat it casually, it's not a reward at all, aren't you still fighting hard one by one?

Someone once said that whether an army is strong or not is measured not by when they win, but by when they lose. If the battle is won, the rabble can also burst out with powerful combat power and beat the water dogs together. And when the battle is lost, the rabble will only disperse in a hurry, and the real strong army will be defeated without chaos, regrouped, and sometimes even turn defeat into victory. The army trained by Wang Jinlong almost has such qualities.

The infantry is like this, and the cavalry is certainly not bad, although I don't know when they became cavalry, but they are all hoop legs, without exception. When I asked, I found out that they actually rode on horseback almost every day as soon as they opened their eyes, and the skin on the inner thighs had been worn out many times, and they had already developed a thick layer of calluses. Thanks to Wang Jinlong, they were equipped with more than 10,000 horses, otherwise they would not be tired to death if they practiced like this all day long, and the horses would also be tired to death.

What frightened Lu Chengfeng the most was the water army. On the surface, Wang Jinlong only had 2,000 sailors under his command, but the merchant fleet was much larger, with at least more than 20,000 people and hundreds of ships. In wartime, these men and ships can become sailors in the blink of an eye. If it is used to transport troops, it can transport all of Wang Jinlong's existing infantry and cavalry at one time.

Lu Chengfeng estimated that the 25,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry under Wang Jinlong were estimated to be able to fight five or six times the ordinary army of this era. In other words, there are more than 100,000 troops that can be topped. If you face a brisket army like the Southern Song Dynasty, you can fight more.

Once these troops are transported to Hangzhou Bay for landing, coupled with a surprise attack, it is really not a lie to take Lin'an. No wonder Wang Jinlong was reluctant to fight by landing across the sea, because he planned to use this trick to make the final decision.

After seeing the situation of the army, Wang Jinlong took Lu Chengfeng to see the secret military workshop. Although he could not use the existing conditions to make modern weapons, black gunpowder was something that had been around for a long time, and it was still no problem to use it to make some relatively primitive gunpowder weapons. For example, explosives packets, or guns made of brass that can only fire solid pellets. As for the musket or something, Wang Jinlong couldn't look down on it, so he simply didn't want it.

After seeing the power of these weapons, Lu Chengfeng became more determined, as long as Wang Jinlong was willing, it would be no difficult to take Lin'an. The only thing that is uncertain is whether everyone in the small court of Lin'an can be wiped out. It's nothing if those officials run away, the key is that the members of the royal family must not run away, otherwise it will be easy to set up another court in other places and continue to oppose Wang Jinlong, which will be troublesome.

After looking around and returning to the conference hall, Wang Jinlong asked, "Chengfeng, what do you think now?" ”

Lu Chengfeng said: "I'm just wondering now, why don't you do anything to Lin'an?" With our current strength, it will be easy to take Lin'an! ”

Wang Jinlong raised two fingers and said, "Two reasons." First, my arrangement in Lin'an has not been completed, and I have to make sure that none of the people of the Zhao royal family have slipped through the net, otherwise the follow-up will be very troublesome; Second, I am now seriously short of talents, and if I take Lin'an now, I will have to reuse those original bureaucrats. I don't need to talk about the virtues of those guys, do I? Reuse them, so what's the difference between me and Zhao Kuo, who is now sitting on the throne? ”

In the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuo can be regarded as a relatively promising monarch. During his reign, he defined science as pseudo-science, and Zhu Xi and his party were not allowed to hold official positions; overturned the case for Yue Fei, posthumously named the king of E, and cut off Qin Hui's title, which dealt a blow to the surrender faction; He also fought two relatively large wars with the Jin State, the second of which had already started for two years, and Wang Jinlong also received several holy decrees asking for assistance, all of which were dealt with by Wang Jinlong in a bluff.

What can such a powerful monarch do? Knowing that Shi Miyuan is a traitor, didn't he let him cover the sky with one hand? It's not that he doesn't want to oust Shi Miyuan, it's that he can't. Even Zhao Kuo's son Zhao Hong, because he was too young, couldn't bear to write "Mi Yuan should be a duel for eight thousand miles" on his desk, so he was pulled down by Shi Miyuan when the throne was alternated, and pushed Zhao Heju, who didn't know how far away the bloodline was, to the throne and changed his name to Zhao Yun, which was later Li Zong.

Shi Miyuan can make the emperor helpless him, which shows how big the power is. This is not that Shi Miyuan's own methods are so powerful that they cannot be matched, but that the group of scholars behind him is united to fight for imperial power. The Song Dynasty raised scholars for three hundred years, and in the end, the tail of the scholars was too big to be controlled. If Wang Jinlong also relied on scholars to control the country, the end would never be much better than that of the Zhao family.