Chapter 98: Reality and Fiction

Regarding the conditions offered by Shen Shuren, Wan Yuanji, who represents Yang Sichang, is of course unwilling and afraid to accept it at first glance.

However, I don't know what Shen Shuren told him and how he analyzed it. All in all, after some unbelievable operations by outsiders, Wan Yuan Ji still took Shen Shuren's reply and went to Nanyang to meet Yang Sichang to recover his life.

Shen Shuren himself would not go to Nanyang, and now Nanyang is the station of Zuo Liangyu's army, and he and Zuo Liangyu have become inseparable. And Yang Sichang is old and seriously ill, and the ghost knows when he will be stimulated a little more and he may die.

If after the Shenshu people went, Zuo Liangyu felt that the imperial court could no longer control him, and wanted to attack the Shenshu people, then the Shenshu people would lose a lot.

The situation in Chongzhen's fifteenth year is very different from Chongzhen's fourteenth year. Last year, Zuo Liangyu was seized by the will of the imperial court and had to be relegated to the town. After the fall of Hong Chengchou this year, Zuo Liangyu's courage can at least become several percent.

Seeing Wan Yuan Ji coming back, Yang Sichang also supported his sick body and listened to his report: "When will Shen Shuren send troops north?" ”

Wan Yuan Ji sighed with a bitter face: "Elder Ge, Shen Shuren asked you to give him two or three months to rest and recuperate, and gather the soldiers and horses. He also told the truth that some of the elite of the Huangzhou Army were actually transferred by him to the newly established Nanjing Hubu Guardian Battalion at the beginning of the year, as the basic backbone of the new army.

Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong fought bloody battles with the Tartars in Liaodong, and there were many wounded soldiers.

However, he said that the battle with Li Zicheng, in fact, there is no need to rush, don't look at Li Zicheng just killed Governor Wang Qiaonian last month, it is precisely because after he fights, he will also need to be rectified, and after killing Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying, it will take time to rectify the interior and punish dissidents, Li Zicheng will not make a big move for the time being-

Shen Futai also said that from the fall of Fu Zonglong to the fall of Wang Qiaonian later, it was not delayed for three months, and this time it is estimated that it can be delayed for three months, at least two months. ”

When Yang Sichang heard this, his first reaction was very angry, even a little angry.

Shen Shuren was brought up by him all the way, and every time he made a meritorious service, he tried to find a way to be rewarded with a promotion, but this time he was forced by His Majesty, why didn't he want to share his worries as soon as possible?

Could it be that he is also gradually turning into a left-handed jade?

"Lake Tu! Didn't you tell him that it was because Li Zicheng had just annexed the Luo and Ma tribes, and now he was unable to command him for a while, maybe there were some generals who missed their old masters and could be rebelled by us.

At this time, if you don't take the initiative to attack Li Zicheng, will you wait for two months to completely purge the interior and punish dissidents, and we will not be able to send troops to recruit again! Yang Sichang couldn't help coughing violently as he spoke, and people who didn't know the truth were afraid that he would think he could cough out his lungs.

Wan Yuan Ji was also heartbroken when he heard this, knowing that Ge Lao's body was already deteriorating, he hurriedly patted his back and handed the decoction medicine, waiting for Yang Sichang to calm down a little, and explained:

"What the elder said is unreasonable? In fact, the student also said this to Shen Futai, but he advised us not to be impatient, and if we want to hurry, we should not forget our original intention, and adhere to the plan of 'four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net'. Wait for Li Zicheng to slowly consume and weaken. ”

Yang Sichang was a little stunned when he heard that Shen Shuren actually quoted the strategy he proposed back then and repaid him with his own way, and he was embarrassed to get angry.

After all, people respect him and implement his consistent strategic thinking.

Yang Sichang held his breath, and coughed for a long time before sighing: "At this time and that time, now Li Zicheng's strength has skyrocketed, the longer he waits, the better his internal integration will be, obviously the stronger he is, how can he still wait and get weaker?" ”

Wan Yuan Ji heard Yang Sichang ask like this, but instead showed a leisurely admiration and admiration look, but the direction of his eyes was not towards Yang Sichang, it was a kind of leisurely fascination that was distracted, and he was admiring a person from afar.

The students said the same thing, but Shen Futai said, let the students calm down and come back to take a good look at Zhuge Liang's "Later Teacher's Table".

'From the minister to Hanzhong, in the middle of the year, and then lost Zhao Yun...... Deng Tong and others, Qu Chang, Tun generals more than 70 people, sudden generals, no forward...... There are more than 1,000 warriors. These are all the elites of the Quartet that have been entangled in the past few decades, not owned by one state; If it is a few years, it will lose two-thirds, so why should it be an enemy? This minister's unsolved five also. ’

With the wisdom of Zhuge Kongming, why do you think that 'if you don't kill the thief, the royal industry will also die'? It is because of the above paragraph that Zhuge Liang knows that the generals and elite soldiers left by Liu Bei are not what Yizhou can produce.

It is Liu Bei's accumulation of decades of travel around the world, including the Northern Yuan Cong and Jingxiang people. When Ji Han only has Yizhou, he wants to rely on local talents to make up for the needs of the Northern Expedition, but it will only gradually become exhausted and gradually wither.

Shen Futai told me that although Li Zicheng is temporarily extremely prosperous today, he relied on killing Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying to annex his subordinates. But his rise and fall has also laid the root of the bane. If it drags on in the future, his troops will only fight less and less, and the reason is the same as the dilemma after Zhuge Liang entered Shu. ”

When Yang Sichang heard this, his eyes finally flashed with a glimmer of light, as if he had been cleared of the clouds. Although he was old, his experience was still there, and after a little thought, he immediately grasped the essence of Shen Shuren's thoughts: "What he means is ......"

Wan Yuan Ji didn't sell Guan Zi, and directly relayed the reply: "Shen Futai said that these horses that Li Zicheng can annex today are the ones that he and thieves from all walks of life have been entangled in Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui and Jin, and have been entangled for many years.

Although it claims to be more than 300,000 people, it is not a place in Henan that can support and coerce. And since the moment he killed Luo Rucai, he was destined to be suspicious of his subordinates, and there would be no colleagues in the future, and it was impossible for him to break up the troops and go out and decentralize power everywhere.

This force of 300,000 people can only have one goal, one leader, and follow him Li Ziren to turn around, and he can't go too far and stand on his own. In previous years, the thieves were able to feed so many soldiers and have a steady stream of thieves, relying on breaking the whole into pieces and sucking blood from many provinces.

Once screwed together, it will decay for a long time! Just like Zhuge Liang nested in Yizhou, Zhuge is still like this, let alone a thief. ”

Yang Sichang pondered for a while, and was completely convinced of this insightful opinion, it was not that Shen Shuren was good at fooling, but that his words were indeed reasonable.

Thieves have no economic system, so they rely on robbery. Therefore, if the whole is broken into pieces and sucks blood from multiple provinces, it can still maintain the operation cycle of the economy and fight for support.

After joining forces, the military is strong, but the economy is weak, and the sustainability of the economy is greatly destroyed.

And the thieves can't come up with a set of new policies for economic construction, and they will change from grabbing to long-term tax collection, and if this transformation is not completed, they will eventually blow themselves up.

Shen Shuren is so sure, of course, because he knows that Li Zicheng will eventually blow himself up in history, and he can't afford to establish a base area or an effective system of economic self-sufficiency and internal circulation.

Not every single piece of land can make a lot of money like Beijing.

In the end, Li Zicheng will be like a strain that jumps into a petri dish, at the beginning of the frenzied reproduction, after the protein in the agar block is exhausted, it will devour itself and eventually become extinct.

Just don't let him break the petri dish and jump into another petri dish.

Wan Yuan Ji saw that Yang Sichang also understood Shen Shuren's theory, so he cautiously added: "Finally, Shen Futai secretly wrote you a secret letter to analyze the key points.

He also said that if necessary, the elder can use this reasoning, add or delete as appropriate, and admonish His Majesty, so that His Majesty should not be too anxious to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng. After all, even if he immediately went north to reinforce him, if Li Zicheng was unwilling to fight for the time being, it would only cause the veterans of our army to be tired in vain.

Li Zicheng just killed Wang Qiaonian, he will definitely seize Wang Qiaonian's army rations and grab something more or less, it should be enough for Li Zicheng's army to eat for a while, and he won't be too anxious recently.

Finally, Shen Futai has one more condition, I hope you agree. ”

Yang Sichang frowned: "Say." ”

Wan Yuan Ji carefully relayed: "Shen Futai said that his jurisdiction was originally in the Huguang and Yinghuo Mountains, and it is said that as long as Li Zicheng does not go south, he will sit in the place, as long as he ensures that Zhang Xianzhong is blocked."

Now that he had to send troops to encircle Zhang Xianzhong to the north, he didn't dare to disobey. But he knows that there is a bad example in the court now: the courtiers will bully whoever is easy to bully, and whoever runs for the court will be used to death. He didn't want to be consumed by the imperial court like Hong Chengchou.

Therefore, if the soldiers and horses to besiege Zhang Xianzhong go north, they should also be treated equally, how many troops Sichuan sent, and how many troops he and Governor Fang also sent. Otherwise, it will be a situation where whoever is anxious for justice and righteousness will die of exhaustion first. ”

After hearing this, Yang Sichang was quite displeased, but after calming down, he also knew that he could not bully honest people.

Chongzhen's employment is indeed too bullying honest people, and he wants to be a stubble, and Shen Shuren wants to benchmark Sichuan, but he doesn't want his own small group interests to suffer additional losses.

Yang Sichang finally made a decision: "That's it, these conditions have been promised to him, three months is too long, give him two months, and after two months, the army must set off to the north to help me find Li Zicheng to fight." Count him the time of the march on the way, two and a half months later at the latestβ€”even if June 20 is good, he will have to go to Nanyang or Xinyang to get all of them.

He said that the scale of the troops should be the same as that of Sichuan, and this point also depends on him, and when the time comes, let Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, send 30,000 troops, from Hanzhong to Shaanxi, and supplement it to Sun Chuanting, who has just arrived.

The Shaanxi official army was sent to death twice in vain by Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian, and they all lost almost everything, if there was no Sichuan army to help, Sun Chuanting was only afraid that he would be a bare pole when he first took office.

Shao Jiechun is willing to send 30,000 people, and he can't sink people at least 30,000 people? Lots of it, no less! ”

Wan Yuan Ji finally breathed a sigh of relief, and finally added with anxiety: "Ge Lao, there is another suggestion, which was also said by Shen Futai, and the students don't know whether to talk about it or not......

Yang Sichang: "So many words have been said without a king and a father, how many sentences are missing?" But it doesn't hurt to say it! ”

Wan Yuan Ji whispered in his ear: "Shen Futai said that he delayed the news of going north, and I hope that you can hide the generals and staff around you, and only say to the outside world that the main force of Shen Futai has been ordered by you to be transferred to Xinyang, and Liu Guoneng will join the army, and he can attack Li Zicheng's army in Henan at any time." ”

Yang Sichang's face was a little ugly: "What does he mean?" Do you even want to hide it from your own people? ”

Wan Yuan Ji sighed: "Shen Futai feels that there must be someone around you who has been bought by Zhang Xianzhong - you yourself should also feel that Zhang Xianzhong dared to sneak attack Xiangyang last year, and it was the time when you sent troops to the north and Xiangyang was empty."

If it weren't for Shen Futai's temporary return to the army at that time, and the speed was in a hurry, the people around you didn't know, and maybe they wouldn't have been able to catch Ai Nengqi that time. So he wanted to take advantage of this time to pass on some fake news to Zhang Xianzhong, and he would plan it, and beat Zhang Xianzhong before going north to ensure that Huguang was okay this year. ”

Yang Sichang was said to be blushing and quite ashamed, he had Zhang Xianzhong's intelligence around him as a traitor, which he himself felt, but he didn't know the level and couldn't catch it.

That's it, this matter has to rely on the tree man.

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