Chapter Twenty-Four: I Thought Too Calmly About My Enemies
These ministers want to die.
However, the problem that Emperor Wu considered at this time was not to fight, but to defend.
There is no way to keep without money.
Gotta have money.
Where does this money come from?
That's right!
Emperor Wu smiled all of a sudden, and he thought of a brilliant idea.
Yes!
The Zhuge Dark Group that was killed before, although the three clans of Zhulian came, they haven't raided their homes yet, so who knows how much money they have in their family?
Moreover, during the three years of the reign of Zhang Tianran.
He doesn't have much power in the court!
Even if the land is divided, his emperor said that it is not counted, and he must ask Prime Minister Gu for permission.
Who is Prime Minister Tuogu?
Isn't it the good old man Zhuge Dark, whom the first emperor relied on the most?
Zhuge has always sought stability, and has always been known for being steady, thorough, honest, and good-looking, and in the eyes of ordinary people, there are not many fancy intestines. Even the first emperor, who was known for his wisdom and martial arts, was deceived by him.
It's really a bit of a doorway.
As a result, now that he has been killed, no one in the Northern Yanzong no longer misses this prime minister who is known for his "virtuousness".
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"
"Your Majesty, could it be that you have lost your mind and gone crazy?"
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"That's it! Everyone, be quiet! Listen to me! ”
Emperor Wu finally spoke!
As soon as he spoke, the ministers fell to their knees and listened respectfully to the oracle.
"As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. Why do you think about going to war, but not about food and grass? At this time, the imperial court treasury was empty, and there was no spare energy to buy grain and grass, so I hoped that you would donate some money to support me! ”
As soon as Emperor Wu's words fell, the faces of the courtiers darkened with bitterness.
His Majesty the Emperor even asked them to donate money!
That's too much!
Don't you know that they are very honest officials? A large family is about to be unable to support it, and they still have to donate money?
Isn't that a knife against their necks?
"Also, I plan to raid the homes of the rest of Zhuge Dark's party and transfer all the stolen money from their families into the treasury, what do you think?"
"Your Majesty Shengming!"
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
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Mountains and tsunamis.
Dead friends are not dead and poor, and they are not very resistant to raiding other people's homes now, after all, their own family property is important.
In fact, Emperor Wu didn't expect money from this group of indiscriminate iron roosters at all.
It's just a matter of using this excuse to let this group of ministers pass his true thoughts.
After the end of the early dynasty.
Emperor Wu instructed Wei Qianzhong to take the eunuch to raid the house.
Emperor Wu returned to the harem to prepare for the next war.
Through previous contact, he and the Beiyan Sect already knew each other's strengths, but most of the people in the Beiyan Sect still treated him with the same eyes as in the past.
So, in a way, they will underestimate the enemy.
This is the only factor that Emperor Wu currently considers in his favor, and the others are all disadvantaged.
In terms of troops.
At present, the strength of Dazou is not as much as imagined, and the existence of empty salaries leads to a full allocation on the surface, but in fact the number may not be half, taking the nine battalions as an example, the number is 200,000 people.
But now after checking the statistics, there are less than 90,000 people.
It's really 10,000 people in one military camp.
According to rough estimates, including the number of troops summoned by Guan Yu and Cao Zhang, there are probably nearly 300,000 troops in the entire Dazou combined, which can be used as an army for war.
Except for the 100,000 Transformation God Realm Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, the other troops, the Northern Yan Sect, could be directly paralyzed by the crowd tactic.
Other aspects such as financial resources, I won't go into details, it's really not on the same order of magnitude.
This made Emperor Wu very distressed.
When did he Zhang Tianran ever be so troubled?
When I slept before, I couldn't sleep well because of Beiyanzong.
"Your Majesty, why are you sighing at such a young age?"
A crisp woman's voice sounded in Emperor Wu's ears.
He looked up in confusion to see who was speaking.
A pink figure floated over, stretching out her snow-white jade hand to knead his extremely tired temples, looking at him with a smile, which seemed to be a pleasure.
These days, she has been by his side to protect him, seeing his joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and her good impression of him has also grown day by day.
"Mulan, how do you think I should break the situation now?"
Emperor Wu enjoyed her massage, closed his eyes, stretched his arms, and slowly talked about his worries.
In fact, Emperor Wu Zhang Tianran was not afraid that he would lose to the sect forces, but was afraid that his troops had just gone out on the front foot, and the base camp on the back foot had been attacked and the empire had fallen.
If you come to the last encirclement point to help, there will be no chance of a comeback.
Before, he was worried about grain and grass, but the method of raiding the house can indeed solve the problem of grain and grass, so now he has taken into account the defense of troops.
It's not easy to be an emperor these days!
None of the ministers are reliable.
He can only use his own brain.
The one who is the emperor is so tired like him?
How nice would it be if there was a strategist, a wise strategist, at this time?
He regrets it now, he has always valued military generals before, and now he really hopes that a strategist will fall from the sky.
"Your Majesty, the Admiral thinks you're overthinking! Judging from the last general, the defensive situation that His Majesty is concerned about is completely unfounded. ”
"Mulan, what do you mean by that?"
Emperor Wu's eyes suddenly opened, and he turned to look at Mulan, who was winking at him.
"Your Majesty, the last general didn't mean to say that His Majesty was wrong, but the last general thought that he didn't dare to Beiyanzong, he didn't have that list to directly offend the imperial capital, if he drove straight into the hinterland of Dazou, then what was waiting for him would definitely be internal fragmentation!"
Mulan's eyes shone with wisdom.
Your Majesty, I think things are too comprehensive, but in fact, on the real battlefield, there are many considerations.
If the Northern Yanzong broke through the capital of the vassal country Dazou and penetrated deep into the hinterland today, would it attack the capital of the vassal country under his sect tomorrow? From this and the other, as long as he is a sect master with strong vision, he will not do such an act that outweighs the losses.
"Oh? Mulan, what do you mean by this? ”
If Emperor Wu realized, his eyes when he looked at Hua Mulan also changed, from the previous dispensable indifference, to the current attention, with a great posture of condescending and respectful.
Maybe he thinks that Mulan is not a general in command, so he ignores the fact that Mulan is a smart woman.
Mulan explained her thoughts to him one by one.
He made an "oh" sound as if he had lifted the clouds and seen the blue sky.
True, he did not take this situation into account.
This is a world of people, everything talks about variables, all about people's hearts, whether it is cultivating immortals or dynasties, in essence, they are all the same hill.
It's all a struggle between people.
Before, he thought too complicatedly, and regarded Beiyanzong as an emotionless, absolutely calm machine as a reference, so he didn't take into account this subtle change in people's hearts.
It was he who made a mistake.