Chapter 150: The Eastern Crusade is imminent
A new day is coming, today's Di Xin seems to be in a good mood, and the noon meal made the royal chef specially roast a whole whole sheep, and one person ate it all with a jar of clear rice wine.
People with strong bloodlines are like this, a sheep is less than a hundred catties, but after Di Xin eats it, he is still unsatisfied, not scientific at all, and he doesn't know where the food went after eating.
is like the ruthless people in the KTV of later generations who will show off the whole box of beer at every turn, and it is also 12 catties of carbonated liquid, how can the stomach be filled.
Di Xin's joy continued to the court meeting, before the people arrived, Di Xin couldn't wait to rush to His Royal Highness, grabbed Meng Wei's hand, and asked earnestly: "Has the grain ever ripe?" ”
This scene made Meng Wei cry and laugh, farming is not a thing that can be harvested immediately, even if there are gods and ghosts in this world, but there is still a basic law, a place that can be harvested in an instant, Meng Wei has only seen it in a place called Pick Farm.
"King, and wait patiently, the seedlings have turned yellow, it is expected that in some days, the chaff will turn yellow, the grains will become hard, and the autumn harvest will be, besides, this autumn sacrifice has not yet arrived, at least it can be harvested after the Great Witch Sacrifice sacrifice."
Di Xin was a little disappointed, and then saw Cheng Bigan who came together with Shang Rong, talking and laughing, and immediately jumped out again, grabbed Bigan's sleeve robe and asked.
"Prime Minister, dare to ask how much grain reserves there are in the treasury?"
Bigan's smile disappeared in an instant, and he looked at Di Xin vigilantly.
"The king asks what is this?"
"Haha, it's nothing, the widow is just curious, curious!"
"Not a single grain of rice is gone, the treasury is empty, not even a single rat is gone, all of them are starving to death, how much grain do you say there is?"
Di Xin was furious, shook off Bigan's sleeve robe and said angrily: "Uncle Wang is joking with the widow? There is no food in the treasury, so what do the defenders of Chaoge eat? What do the widows eat every day? ”
"It was the king who joked with his ministers first, the Taishi led the army north, the treasury was empty, and they were all counting on the autumn grain cultivated by Meng Bo this year to expand the treasury, but what do you want to do? The minister promised you something, can you still regret it? ”
Seeing the sullen king, Bigan also has a headache, his good nephew, it really doesn't make people worry, the poor soldiers, Wen Taishi just left, the king was immediately overjoyed, and couldn't wait to take the army to fight, which minister could withstand such a disaster?
As long as there is a war, there will be deaths, and there are so many enemies in the world, and there is not only one Dongyi, the princes of the four towns in the southeast, northwest and northwest, which one has not fought with the Yi and the barbarians.
But when it came to Di Xin, he began to look a little abnormal, especially wanting to use his own soldiers to show his strength, and he was always clamoring for the royal conquest.
Anyway, in Meng Wei's impression, the Zhou Dynasty after the Shang and Zhou Wars, this is also particularly obvious, starting from Ji Fa, Zhou Tianzi also likes to engage in the royal driving pro-conquest at every turn, whether he wins or loses, the axle of the six driving of the Son of Heaven has not stopped, from the beginning of the martial king Ji Fa to the period of King Xuan of Zhou, almost every one of them is in the imperial driving pro-conquest, and again and again to beat the army of the Son of Heaven, until the period of King Zhou You, the black cauldron accumulated by the previous eleven kings accumulated on him.
In the time when the country was just founded, not to mention the princes of the Beacon Theater, the Son of Heaven would force him to fight whoever he wanted, and if he did not accept it, he would directly destroy the country, who would dare to be presumptuous?
What Di Xin wants to do now is exactly the same as the group of heavenly sons who want to be macho generals in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
It may be that there is a lack of means of entertainment, and staying in the royal court all day is indeed easy to suffocate people.
Thinking of this, Meng Wei looked at You Hun, this guy has a football team, can't he completely release the energy that the king has nowhere to vent?
As if feeling this gaze, You Hun also looked over, as if he could understand Meng Wei's eyes, You Hun spread his hands, revealing a helpless expression.
Think about it, the king can drag the nine bulls upside down, the existence of joists and columns, if he really wants to compete with ordinary people to play football, no one can really grab him, even if someone is talented and protects the ball like Henry, then not everyone dares to shoot with all his strength in the goal guarded by the king.
Looking at the anxious Di Xin, the ministers were silent, whenever the king was in a bad mood, silence was the best protection for himself.
After a while, Cheng Bigan spoke in advance, trying to divert Di Xin's attention: "King, this time when I heard about the Taishi's expedition, the minister discovered a good talent, and only slightly improved the method of transporting grain, which reduced half of the loss of the Taishi's army's march, and also reduced the time for the army to rest and wait for supplies on the way. ”
Di Xin was a little surprised, he knew how to march and set up formations, reduce the use of grain and straw by half, and reduce the marching time, what an incredible thing, if he can really do the points mentioned by the prime minister, what a farmer, is it not good to be a general!.
And this position of Chaoge Nong Yin is terrible.
The original one-city peasant Yin, not to the doctor, on top of which there is the entire big business of the farmer Yin doctor to take responsibility, was originally an idle official position, but since Meng Bo succeeded to the throne, the shocking act of pioneering and growing grain, directly reversed the identity, so that the Nong Yin Division was useless, but moved outside the west city to learn from this Meng Bo, and was willing to live under him to run a business.
"Meng Bo has never stepped down, why did the prime minister change?"
If he didn't know the temper of his prime minister, if he were someone else, he would have already jumped like thunder, serving pots and cannons, he is not stupid, he is about to harvest in the autumn, and he will change someone to take charge, isn't this an obvious peach picking behavior?
"Uncle Meng's autumn harvest, this person also has some credit, and once the autumn harvest is over, Uncle Meng will have more rewards, and at the same time promote other important positions, the minister opened this mouth to agree with Uncle Meng, who will take over the matter of agriculture and mulberry in the future!"
"Well, the widow knows, so who is this person's name? Who? What did the Prime Minister mean by the reduction of the march? ”
Speaking of this, Bigan was also a little excited: "In the past, the dispatch of grain was done by the ministers themselves, but this autumn harvest is imminent, and the ministers are lacking in skills, so Meng Bo recommended a person to the minister, this person was originally the son of Xibo Hou Jichang, the son of Zhou Guodan, because of his admiration for Meng Bo's academics, he went to Northern Xinjiang to learn the law of innovation, the king, this person is a person who has the way to govern the country in his chest, and has a complete culture and governance!" ”
"Zhou Gongzidan did not directly transport grain from Chaoge, but ordered a light ride all the way, ordered all the places along the way to raise grain and grass, and evenly distributed the military degree every seven days to each city and place to raise, and then waited for the team of Wen Taishi to travel to one place every day, and then they could take it from the granary, saving the people who transported grain all the way to eat and chew, and also reduced the time for the Taishi army to recuperate."
"Of course, this is a loan, not a forced requisition, Gongzidan let the number of follow-up grain troops, lightly travel to transport grain and grass, all the way north, all the way according to the interest of nine out of eleven, to pay off the grain accounts to the nobles and princes in various places. Moreover, this batch of grain and grass was originally returned to this person, and the princes and local clans cleared the bandits of Chidao wherever they passed, which could not only reduce the loss of the escort army, but also stabilize local law and order by taking advantage of the local situation. ”
"This three-pronged thing is that Gongzidan personally arranged the plan, the king, such a virtuous person, what do you think?"
There is light in Di Xin's eyes, the world is fighting, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first, this move really greatly reduces the pressure of food supply in Chaoge, isn't this equivalent to the extra grain, can also support his king's southern and northern wars more times?
Di Xin was about to praise, but then he fell silent again.
"The person the prime minister said? Who is this? ”
"Hui Yu King, the son of Xibo Hou Jichang, Gongzi Dan."
"Bad luck!"
When it comes to Ji Chang, Di Xin is in a bad mood, in addition to the tense situation in Shang and Zhou, he also doesn't have much good impression of Western Zhou, since he was born, Wen Ding has been constantly preaching in the ears of him and Wei Ziqi and others.
If one day the Great Shang will inevitably go to the road of destruction, then the one who will replace the Shang must be the Western Zhou.
No matter how conceited Di Xin was in his life, Wen Ding's words were like a spell, making him always have a sense of crisis, and he always wanted to find an opportunity to strangle the future catastrophe in the cradle.
At this time, Meng Wei stood up and said respectfully: "King, Zhou Guo is Zhou Guo, Ji Dan is Ji Dan, did you ask about the origin of the two when you promoted Doctor Fei Lian and General Evil Lai?" Ji Dan is a talented person, but he is subordinate to the subordinates of the ministers, and the students should not be. ”
Seeing that Di Xin was indifferent, Meng Wei also continued: "Moreover, the king doesn't think that if we use the son of Xibohou to govern the country, and as a result, his son will govern the state affairs of Dashang better than his father, so can this highlight your wisdom and benevolence?" ”
Di Xin thought seriously for a moment before nodding seriously: "Okay, Meng Bo's words are reasonable. ”
In fact, for Ji Dan, Meng Yan also hesitated for a long time, and the same concerns as the king, after all, he was the son of Xibohou, and Meng Yan did not dare to guarantee that if he faced Zhou Guo in the future, whether Ji Dan could stand on his side, or stand on the position of Dashang to do his duty.
It's just that if you want to achieve great things, how can you look ahead and look backwards? If Uncle Liu Huang hesitates a little when employing people, the names of Ma Chao and Huang Zhong will not appear among the five tiger generals, and Cao Cao will not have the victory of Guandu if he hesitates, let alone Zhang Babai, who will be powerful in the future.
Whether you dare to use him or not is a matter of the lord's temperament, and whether to return to Zhou in the end, this is a question that Ji Dan himself has to consider, Meng Wei believes that since he went north from Zhou, this question, he should have an answer in his heart, for a smart person like Ji Dan, painting cakes and preaching are useless, sincerity is nirvana.
Various matters in the court and the central government were raised in the mouths of the ministers, and at this time, Di Xin began to wander the world again, and no one knew what this powerful man on the throne was thinking.
Just when Du Yuanmi reported on the autumn festival and the specifications of the tributes to the princes, I saw that the king suddenly became excited, looked at the ministers below, stood up suddenly, and said to Meng Wei and Bigan.
"The prime minister's words, the widow deeply agreed, since Wen Taishi's northward road used this Ji Dan's strategy, can reduce the itinerary and consumption, Prime Minister, can the grain and grass on the road to the east be prepared in advance? In this way, the widow can also go into battle lightly, directly pull the 200,000 army, quickly send troops, catch them off guard, and teach this group of barbarians a good lesson! ”
“……”
Some of the ministers were puzzled, some were silent, the king seemed to be a little different, although the previous emperor Xin was warlike, at least he was persuaded. But since Empress Jiang's death, the king seems to have changed as a person, which makes people feel a little chilled.
This time, the minister is particularly hopeful, hoping that this is just an example, and after the fight against Dongyi is over, everything can get back on track, after all, even if there is enough food, there will inevitably be casualties during the war.
I hope that the king is just a whim, and the royal conquest can really play a role in destroying or severely damaging Dongyi.
"The matter of laying the grain road in advance, the minister will naturally not object, but there is one thing that I implore the king to accept."
"After the autumn festival, please bring Meng Bo to conquer Dongyi together."
If Meng Bo was on the side to support the Eastern Expeditionary Army, Bigan's hanging heart would be settled.
As a result, the entire Great Shang Crusade is imminent!
Stay up until three o'clock, I can't hold on, after tomorrow is rest, I try to speed up the rhythm, this part of the plot, developed to the present, in fact, it is almost the end.
(End of chapter)