Military struggle is transferred to economic construction, and economic construction is to prepare for future military struggles.

The significance of Wang Wu's trip to Jingzhou can probably be summed up in this sentence.

There's no way, the gap between the strength of the enemy and me is too big.

Since the struggle has shifted from a brutal one-and-death to a mild white-cat-black-cat stage, political and economic work has naturally become the mainstream.

Then, as long as it can serve this goal, any means can do.

The wooing of Zhang Changgeng is one of the means.

is either to pull Lao Zhang together to create the Qing court, or simply hope that Lao Zhang can give Wang Wu special care and appropriate convenience during his tenure.

The Chinese pay attention to human feelings, and if Lao Zhang is willing to help, Wang Wu will definitely give a certain return.

You can't let people work in vain.

Even if his own uncle and grandfather helped, they had to send a cigarette to someone afterwards, and it was not possible to carry two bottles of wine and a box of tea.

But he didn't have any money, so he had to find another way to show Lao Zhang the way to get money.

This road was obviously the ongoing encirclement and suppression of Kuidong against the remnants of the Ming army.

As long as the war was going on, the Qing court, as the encirclement and suppression party, had to continue to release war materials to Kuidong.

There are two main things about war materials in these years.

One is money, and the other is food.

And the materials invested must be astronomical.

Such a huge amount of materials were not directly delivered to the front line, or transformed into the combat effectiveness of the Qing army on the spot, but relied on people to transform the materials.

Who converts?

As far as Huguang is concerned, of course, it is the Huguang bureaucracy headed by Zhang Changgeng.

The question is, is there a bureaucracy that is not corrupt?

No, not for 10,000 years.

Therefore, Wang Wu hoped that Lao Zhang would think more about himself and not be in a hurry to end the war, but try his best to prolong the war.

Because the longer the time drags on, the upper and lower levels can continue to divide up the materials put down by the imperial court.

Not in the short term, but in the long term.

"Anyway, I've been fighting for three years, and if I fight for another three or five years, who would dare to say that your old Zhang didn't do his best? It's to blame, it's also to blame, it's to blame Mulima, what does it have to do with your Lao Zhang? ”

Wang Wu laid out the facts and reasoned.

Originally, the war could have ended this year, and he must have admitted that he had been ready to sacrifice and reincarnate a few months ago.

At that time, the environment was even worse than the invasion of China by the Japanese state.

After all, at that time, half of China's territory had not yet fallen.

Now, there are only a few townships left.

There is no difference from the death of the country.

Even the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty evolved into the "Western Mountain Thieves" in the mouths of the Qing Dynasty soldiers and civilians.

The mutiny thieves reflect not only the gap in strength, but also the gap in people's hearts.

But after Mulima's trouble, the war will definitely not end before Christmas this year, and the Mid-Autumn Festival may still be fought next year.

Of course, the premise is that the three old marshals don't smash the last bit of belongings on the Qing army's defense line.

In that case, a few more kings won't be able to save it.

Since the end of the war has been extended by Mulima, the responsibility is still on Mulima if it is extended.

It has nothing to do with anyone else.

"As soon as the cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold."

Wang Wu really thought about Zhang Changgeng, so he had to remind him, "I know that your old Zhang is a clean official, and he also pretends to be a person in his heart, and he doesn't want to be miserable, but you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the people below, right?" ”

Wang Wu means that since the first year of Kangxi, the Huguang Green Battalion has been hard with the Ming army for three years, during which it was severely injured by Li Laiheng once, and now tens of thousands of people up and down are nested in the ravine of Kuidong Mountain, and it is better to say something about the officials, but if the big soldiers below are not for that salary, who wants to tie their heads to the waistband of their trousers and endure in this mountain?

However, the Qing court refused to stop fighting and withdraw troops, so as the governor of Huguang, Lao Zhang had to find a way to get some benefits for the big soldiers below.

The solution is simple.

Originally, 100 taels were used for attack, or for the construction of defense lines, but now you take 50 taels for military deployment, and the remaining 50 taels for the welfare of the soldiers, isn't it good?

Why bother to really smash money, food and materials on the Ming army.

"It is always the people, not the weapons and equipment, that decide the outcome of a war."

Wang Wu uttered a wise saying.

Zhang Changgeng's mouth was crooked when he heard it: "I'm going to listen to it, isn't this Xishan a bottomless pit?" What is the difference with Liaodong back then? ”

Wang Wu didn't squeak.

Because there is such a meaning.

"How many times have I told you, I can't oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, the so-called Tao is different and does not conspire with each other, if you dare to say these words to me again, don't blame the old man for turning his face with you, it's a big deal to end up together!"

Lao Zhang gritted his teeth angrily.

Wang Wu also had to correct the other party's mistakes, and said loudly: "I have never persuaded you to oppose the Qing Dynasty. ”

Zhang Changgeng was silent.

Because, too, it's true.

"Secondly, do I advise you to take advantage of your position to get some pension? What's wrong with doing something for the people below? has the right not to use it, and it will be invalid when it expires, do you really not understand this truth or pretend to be confused? ”

Zhang Changgeng was stunned and speechless.

"Lao Zhang, do you think Li Guoying in Sichuan and Bai Rumei in Shaanxi didn't make money from it? If they don't get any money from it, I'll chop off your head and use it as a urinal! ”

"I don't care what others do, I, Zhang Changgeng, will never be a corrupt official!"

"Don't be stupid, you're all traitors, and you still care about the reputation of a corrupt official?"

“”

Lao Zhang was so angry that he didn't want to say a word.

Wang Wu didn't force him, there was too much information, so he had to let Lao Zhang digest it well.

He believed that Lao Zhang would think about his words.

There was trouble on his side, and Xu Lin came to report that it was the group of wounded people who had been transferred from the mountains and refused to shave their hair.

Hearing this, Zhang Changgeng said in a strange way: "If you don't shave your hair, you are still a thief with a white flag in the Han army." ”

Wang Wu ignored the old boy and went directly to see the wounded who refused to shave their hair.

They are all Ming soldiers from the loyal battalion, that is, people from the Lao Shun army system.

There are veterans who have followed Li Laiheng and them for more than ten years, and there are also recruits who have been recruited in the mountains over the years.

Most of them were wounded in the battle against the Shaanxi Green Battalion.

Originally, when they were in Huanglong Mountain, these wounded refused to go down the mountain, and it was the work of King Dong'an who came forward.

But when the soldiers with razors came to shave their hair, the pent-up anger and grievances of the wounded broke out.

Many of the wounded who had already shaved their hair were holding their long hair and crying.

Wang Wu did not do the ideological work of these wounded, and told them the reasons for forbearance that he had already talked about many times before, but directly shouted at the wounded who refused to shave their hair:

"How many Tartars have you killed as me? Or do you have more credit for the Ming Dynasty? Or how many old and weak women and children have you saved?

If you don't have as much as me, please shave your hair like me, this is my last military order from Wang Yaowu as the general soldier of Daming Huguang to you! ”

With that, Wang Wu took off his hat, revealing his bare head.