Chapter 55: The Second Crusade 9

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The military strength ratio between the two sides is 1 to 2, that is, the number of troops under Zhang Jiashi is only half of Liu Bang.

However, in such a situation, Zhang Jiashi didn't worry about anything at all, because for Zhang Jiashi, the fact that Liu Bang had lost the basis of his rule in this place could not hide it.

Because in the area north of Huang County, Zhang Jiashi was able to occupy many cities without much effort.

The loss of these cities was not attacked by Zhang Jiashi's army, but most of the defenders of these cities chose to surrender.

After entering some cities, Zhang Jiashi discovered a situation, that is, under Liu Bang's governance, Hengshan County was indeed much better than the large counties north of Nanyang County.

But if it weren't for the fact that most of the people in these counties were quite bad because of their faces and expressions, Zhang Jiashi would still think that Liu Bang would be a place to live and work in peace and contentment.

Obviously, after the loss of Xiao He's talents who are good at internal affairs, and driven by Liu Bang's own **, the lives of these people are certainly much better than those located in areas with frequent wars, but that's all, Liu Bang's wanton expropriation of them has also destroyed the living foundation of the people in Hengshan County to a large extent.

In this case, Zhang Jiashi knew very well that Hengshan County, which had not been affected by too many wars, was quite resistant to Liu Bang by the people in this place.

And there is one thing that Zhang Jiashi doesn't understand too much, because this place originally belonged to Xiang Yu's sphere of influence, and in the original history, this place was Yingbu's sphere of influence.

This means that since there is no inherent trajectory of the two people, King Hengshan and Yingbu, Zhang Jiashi does not think that Xiang Yu will be willing to give up this area that is still fertile land.

And after some explanations by the generals, this place was indeed considered to be the sphere of influence of Western Chu. However, after Emperor Yi Xiong Xin was forced to death by Xiang Yu, Hengshan County was also regarded as an area where Xiang Yu was resisted quite strongly.

In this case, Xiang Yu asked Liu Bang to help him suppress the rebellion in Hengshan County, and he temporarily lent this place to Liu Bang.

After listening to the explanation of this general, Zhang Jiashi knew that there was such a reason.

However, for Zhang Jiashi, what exactly did Liu Bang have planned, and did Xiang Yu know that he was undoubtedly acting against the tiger in doing so, and it was not surprising that Liu Bang ruled this area oppressively.

Compared with many princes, although Liu Bang ruled these areas oppressively, they knew one thing very well, that is, Liu Bang did not completely kill chickens and eggs in Hengshan County, which was not a completely bad thing for Zhang Jiashi.

Maybe Liu Bang was also worried about Xiang Yu's attitude towards what he did, and he had reservations about such a matter.

But in any case, Zhang Jiashi was confronting Liu Bang in the area of Huangxian, and he was also on guard against another matter, that is, whether the Chu army would go south to support Liu Bang under this situation.

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According to the battle between Qi and Chu that was discovered by the fine work some time ago, Tian Heng and Tian Rong brothers were defeated by Xiang Yu one after another.

At this time, Tian Dan personally led the army to reinforce Tian Rong and Tian Heng, but the ability of this Qi King Tian Dan is indeed far from his two brothers.

A fierce battle on a small plain in the south of Langya County resulted in the defeat and death of Tian Dan's soldiers.

This news made Zhang Jiashi secretly shocked in his heart.

Because of the defeat of the Qi State, the main force of the Chu army will be able to move to other places to fight.

And he is not sure enough to defeat Xiang Yu now, let alone Xiang Yu and Liu Bang joining forces.

"It's quite difficult to deal with just one Liu Bang, if there is one more Xiang Yu, oh my God, you might as well spare me." Zhang Jiashi, who spit out such a sentence, couldn't help but think about any way to continue to delay the main force of the Chu army in Qidi.

However, Xiang Yu has never heard of a sentence, that is: "If you don't die, you won't die." ”

After Xiang Yu killed Tian Dan, the king of Qi, he actually divided Tian Jiao into the king of Eastern Qi, and Tian Du was divided into the king of Western Qi.

Obviously, Tian Rong and Tian Heng, who retreated after defeat, did not accept Xiang Yu's arrangement.

After mourning for his brother Tian Dan, Tian Rong and Tian Heng decided to support Tian Yan, who was only seven years old, as the king of Qi, and showed a small number of captured Chu officers and soldiers in Zibo, and scolded Xiang Yu, and counted most of Xiang Yu's mistakes after the army.

In this document, Xiang Yu became the disloyal and unrighteous shameless person of Tianzi No. 1.

After Xiang Yu received this news, he was naturally extremely angry, he rejected Fan Zeng's proposal to attack Sanchuan County to the east at this time, to surround Wei and save Zhao, but continued to lead the Chu army, which was already preparing to return, to continue to attack Qi.

It is said that because Fan Zeng's dispute with Xiang Yu on this matter was very fierce, Xiang Yu had to ask people to take Fan Zeng out of the camp.

Zhang Jiashi, who knew these things, naturally involuntarily showed a smile on the corner of his mouth.

That is, since Xiang Yu chose to continue to stay in Qi State, then after he reacted, I am afraid that Liu Bang has become a corpse.

Zhang Jiashi naturally will not let go of such an opportunity, you must know that once Xiang Yu reacts and he does not have the certainty of defeating Liu Bang, then many things will change uncontrollably.

This situation is naturally not what Zhang Jiashi wants to see.

Therefore, in such a situation, Zhang Jiashi naturally hoped to defeat Liu Bang or even kill the other party before Xiang Yu knew the truth of cold lips and teeth.

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However, to put it this way, Zhang Jiashi has to think that one sentence is very reasonable in the realistic situation:

"The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. ”

In such a situation, Zhang Jiashi simply could not defeat Liu Bang in a short period of time.

Zhang Jiashi reluctantly continued to confront Liu Bang.

But one thing that Zhang Jiashi didn't expect was that Liu Bang opposite him was more anxious than him.

Because the supply of grain and straw for the army under Liu Bang is no longer enough.

Zhang Jiashi didn't figure out one thing, that is, Liu Bang's way of governing is harmful to his rule, and it is also highly toxic to Liu Bang's national strength foundation.

Although Liu Bang's annual grain income is very large, if Zhang Jiashi can get a detailed data, he will find one point, that is, the grain income of the area under Liu Bang's command is not increasing but decreasing.

Because in the area ruled by Liu Bang, heavy taxes every year caused a large number of farmers to flee, and this situation became worse over time.

No one will continue to be nostalgic for their hometown at the moment of life and death.

Of course, Liu Bang did quickly discover this situation and put a stop to it. But for Liu Bang, his method is more like a way to kill chickens and take eggs.

Many of the peasants who fled were hunted down by Liu Bang's army, but this threat only made Liu Bang's peasants more disgusted with Liu Bang's rule over them.

In fact, in many places, there have been quite a few small upheavals.

If Liu Bang hadn't forcibly conscripted most of the young people into the army, I am afraid that Liu Bang would have become the first prince to be overthrown by a peasant uprising.

And the way of governance in Zhang Jiashi's territory, so that the civilians under his rule can still live and work in peace and contentment, has attracted the yearning of many civilians in other regions.

However, except for Sanchuan County, it was very difficult for other civilians to enter the area under Zhang Jiashi's rule.

In terms of treating these people, although Su Teng resolutely implemented Zhang Jiashi's policy, because Sanchuan County was quite short of civil affairs talents, Su Teng could only open the corresponding passes after every period of time, and let these displaced people enter the city and carry out household registration.

Many displaced people were denied entry, and these people could only venture into the interior of Sanchuan County or enter the war zone, looking for opportunities to cross the war zone.

And it's actually very dangerous to do so.

Because more and more displaced people have no food and clothing, they have to occupy a hill and carry out the crime of robbing homes and houses.

However, this approach is not much of a threat to some villages that already have a basic structure, let alone some civilians living in cities.

They often end up targeting their fellow villagers, who are also displaced people......

In fact, Su Teng did not report one thing to Zhang Jiashi, that is, in many areas of Sanchuan County, especially in the east and southeast of Sanchuan County, these displaced people are often intercepted and killed by people who have become bandits.

And some local county soldiers often find a lot of human bones in their lair after exterminating these bandits or bandits......

It can be said that Su Teng did not dare to report these things to Zhang Jiashi at all.

He didn't know if he would bring disaster to him if he hid it, but he couldn't control it anymore.

Because he simply has no means, nor does he have the ability to allow more people to get their own suitable living area.

He had asked Zhang Jiashi and Chen Ping for a large number of grassroots governance personnel many times, but neither Chen Ping nor Zhang Jiashi could refuse his recitals.

Su Teng knew that it was not that Zhang Jiashi and Chen Ping were unwilling to give him these manpower, but that the Great Qin Empire was most lacking in these grassroots governance personnel.

Don't say that Sanchuan County is short of people, even the county guards of Liaodong County have a lot of headaches in this matter.

Because the governance personnel in many places of the Great Qin Empire were originally the official system of Liaodong County itself. Zhang Jiashi has already transferred a large number of management personnel of the Liaodong military system to other places, and if it were not for the strong protest that Liaodong County is also mired in talent problems, Zhang Jiashi estimates that he will continue to transfer the personnel system of Liaodong County.

In fact, not only Liaodong County, but even the Wang family and the Li family, the two great families who were willing to cooperate with Zhang Jiashi and were attached to Zhang Jiashi's wing by marriage, most of the people who could serve as low-level officials, Zhang Jiashi had to relax the recruitment criteria after many consultations with Chen and others.

It can be said that Zhang Jiashi's territory is indeed increasing, but there is also a growing shortage of manpower.

And Liu Bang is naturally more unhelpful than Zhang Jiashi in this regard.

In fact, within Liu Bang's ruling area, many local governance positions can only be filled by illiterate warriors.

In this case, no matter how capable Liu Bang is, it is impossible to develop his own ruling area.

Because the decree could not be effectively implemented at all, and many county decrees concurrently served by martial artists could not understand the corresponding regulations simplified by Liu Bang in imitation of Zhang Jiashi's decree, let alone implement them.

In such a situation, even if Liu Bang really wants to become a virtuous king, I am afraid that he will be powerless.

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For a whole month, the officers and soldiers under Zhang Jiashi's command had no chance of a decisive battle with Liu Bangjun.

Regarding this matter, Zhang Jiashi still let his officers and men conduct some training.

And after all, even Wang Jian back then, if he wanted to defeat Xiang Yan, it took a long time, and he couldn't be in a hurry for a while.

However, Zhang Jiashi did not expect that at such a time, four legendary figures would come to him.

And these four people are collectively known as "Shangshan Sihao".

Zhang Jia learned some things about Shangshan Sihao from his Qingyu Spirit Book:

"Shangshan Sihao" is the four doctors in the last years of the Qin Dynasty: Tang Bing, Duke of Dongyuan, Cui Guang, Duke of Xiahuang, Wu Shi of Qili, and Mr. Zhou Shu of Luli. They were four of the seventy doctoral officials in the time of Qin Shi Huang, and they held different positions: one was to pass through the ancient and modern, the second was to distinguish whether it was true or not, and the third was to teach classics.

Liu Bang had heard of Sihao's name for a long time, and asked them to go out of the mountain as officials, but they were refused. They would rather live a life of poverty and happiness, and also wrote a song "Zizhi Song" to clarify their ambitions, the song said: "Momo high mountains, deep valleys." Ye Ye Zizhi can cure hunger. Tang Yu Shiyuan, where will I go? The fear of wealth is not as good as the wanton ambition of poverty. ”

It can be said that the character of these four people is indeed commendable, but what method Lu Pheasant used to impress such a high-minded person to keep Liu Ying's position as the crown prince is already an unsolved mystery.

Of course, it is not possible for the current Shangshan Sihao to experience their own life trajectory again.

And with the arrival of Shangshan Sihao, Zhang Jiashi naturally did not dare to slack off. But Zhang Jiashi himself was very puzzled, that is, the Shangshan where these four famous hermits and doctors lived in seclusion should be in Shangluo County, Xianyang County.

Why did the other party come running thousands of miles at this time?

It is impossible for Zhang Jiashi to know about this matter himself. And he can't hang the other person in this place.

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Shangshan Sihao is nearly eighty years old at this age, his beard is white, and he has the temperament of a fairy wind and bones.

But Zhang Jiashi didn't think that the other party would come to the battlefield at such a time because of a trivial matter.

Zhang Jiashi naturally didn't expect that the other party actually planned to make him stop fighting.

After Zhang Jiashi heard Shang Shan Sihao's words, he couldn't help but be a little stunned. And Sun Po and others also had strange expressions. Because they knew very well that Zhang Jiashi couldn't see these pedantic people.

But after Zhang Jiashi came back to his senses, he asked Shang Shan Sihao: "I don't know what the reason for the old doctors is, I hope that Lone can stop fighting?"

Zhang Jiashi's words made Shang Shan Sihao smile slightly, and they couldn't help but say in unison: "For the ears of all the people in the world." ”

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Zhang Jiashi was silent for a long time, he wanted to drive these four people out, but his intuition told him that this matter was very problematic.

That's why these four people didn't come early or late, but they appeared in front of him at this time?

Zhang Jiashi knew very well that when he killed Ziying, they did not appear, and when he was in the First Eastern Crusade, they did not appear.

When he killed Zhang Han, these people also did not appear.

And the identity of these four people is very interesting, that is, they are also some of the seventy doctors who are the First Emperor, if they do not agree with the view of great unification, they will naturally not serve the First Emperor.

After all, not everyone has the confidence to sing that lyric: "Momo mountains, deep valleys." Ye Ye Zizhi can cure hunger. Tang Yu Shiyuan, where will I go? The fear of wealth is not as good as the wanton ambition of poverty. ”

He looked at Shang Shan Sihao suspiciously for a long time, and he didn't see anything in these old foxes who had smiled for a long time and had no change in expression.

He had to take a deep breath and said, "Only when the people of the world are unified can they better live and work in peace and contentment. I don't know what to think about this?"

Shang Shan Sihao heard Zhang Jiashi's words and couldn't help but nod slightly.

And Huang Shigong looked at Zhang Jiashi and nodded: "No wonder the first emperor values the regent, and no wonder my apprentice...... No, it should be that the young people who met by fate back then would be willing to serve the regent. ”

When Zhang Jiashi heard Huang Shigong's words, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, because he didn't expect that Han Xin's matter was still related to Huang Shigong.

"The time is not right, hey!" Zhang Jiashi couldn't help muttering in his heart.

But Zhang Jiashi didn't expect that after these four old men glanced at each other, they said in a deep voice: "Regent, Liu Ji can't stay, the regent should know this very well, if the regent wants to be able to fulfill the trust of the first emperor and your promise to the first emperor, then ......"

"Please send a detachment of knights to this place. ”

After Huang Shigong added the last sentence, he walked to the map and pointed to a river beach on the Wujiang River......

Zhang Jiashi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and thought to himself: "Should I ......?"