Although Changping Jun is a benevolent gentleman, Qin Jun is not.

When Li Mu captured Guangling, he didn't kill less.

The strong man hesitated and said, "But if you give food to General Xiang, isn't it the enemy?" ”

Chen Qi hurriedly grabbed the strong man and apologized: "Changpingjun, this is a rough man, don't listen to his nonsense!" ”

Zhu Xiang waved his hand and said, "What if the grain of a county is given to him?" Eat less than a few days. But you better find a way to save some food. The granary of Guangling City was already empty, just waiting for this batch of rice to ripen. If the Chu army robs all the grain, you will have a hard time. ”

After Zhu Xiang finished speaking, he didn't wait for these people to speak, and asked them to retreat.

Jiao Yun sent Chen Qi and the others to the door, and when he came back, he asked, "Really give them the grain?" ”

Zhu Xiang said calmly: "People's hearts are flesh and blood, and they know who is good to them." After the Qin people came to Guangling City, they divided the fields to the Shu people and taught the Shu people to plant, seeing that the harvest was about to be made, and the Chu army robbed the grain, do you say that they will still return to the Chu State? ”

Jiao Yun said: "What Zhu Xianggong sees is the heart of the Shuren, not the heart of the scholar. ”

Zhu Xiang shook his head: "The hearts of scholars are also fleshy. Even if they don't usually see the common people, when the surrounding area is thriving, and suddenly it becomes hell, they will also feel heartache. Moreover, the Qin State had not yet divided the fields around Guangling City, and the most fertile fields belonged to those scholars. When food is robbed, they suffer the most. ”

Jiao Yun asked, "Zhu Xianggong is sure that Xiang Yan will rob?" ”

Zhu Xiang said lightly: "Which country's army does not loot after attacking the city, not to mention the Chu army, the Qin army is no exception, and the soldiers are like grates." ”

Raiding after a siege is a practice to boost morale and reward soldiers. Not only are there very few generals who can restrain their soldiers, but even if they want to restrain their soldiers, they must provide their soldiers with enough rewards that they can get without plundering. Otherwise, the generals restrain their soldiers to plunder, which will cause the army to mutiny.

Even Li Shimin, who was recognized as loving the people by later generations, always "took grain on the spot" when he went to war.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the logistics were a mess, the site of the Battle of Wulongban was only 100 miles away from the capital, Li Shimin's soldiers had no food to eat, and "the army was discolored", and the famous crying bag Li Shimin was angry and hungry and cried.

With such logistics, the generals of the early Tang Dynasty could not fight without taking food on the spot.

The early years of the Tang Dynasty were not really troubled times, and the governance achievements of Emperor Wen of Sui were still there, and the granaries of the Sui Dynasty during the period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty were full. Under such conditions, it is necessary to plunder and ensure logistics to fight a war, and in the Warring States Period, there is no need to think about the discipline of the troops.

The army led by Li Mu is not looting now, and it just looks down on that little thing, so it deliberately makes a high profile to reduce the resistance of the Chu people.

Therefore, Zhu Xiang did not have any expectations for the Chu army led by Xiang Yan.

Look at Xiang Yuqi and know what the old nobles of Chu State look like.

Jiao Yun said: "Even if there are no these benefits, Zhu Xianggong will not destroy the grain field. ”

Zhu Xiang glanced at Jiao Yun: "You talk a lot." But I'll set it up, and I'm not going to be an enemy. ”

Jiao Yunxin said that Zhu Xianggong seemed to be very unconvinced by the Chu people saying that he was an "enemy".

Jiao Yun followed Zhu Xiang for a long time, and stayed in the kitchen where Zhu Xiang was always there, Zhu Xiang knew that Jiao Yun knew him very well, and when he saw Jiao Yun's expression, he knew that Jiao Yun was urging him in his heart.

Don't look at Jiao Ping's facial paralysis, in fact, his mental activities are very active.

Zhu Xiang changed the topic: "Fuqiu went with Meng Tian to inquire about Xiang Yan's news, why hasn't he come back yet?" This person is too, what are you doing with Meng Tian? ”

Jiao Yun said: "He knows a variety of Wu Yue languages, and it is easier for him to find out the news than Meng Tian." ”

Zhu Xiang sighed: "A good Confucian scholar doesn't stay by my side to help me deal with paperwork, he always likes to run out." ”

Jiao Yunxin said that there is no necessary connection between Confucianism and the processing of documents, and the Confucian scholars who studied under Mencius and Xunzi both like to run around.

Zhu Xiang complained a few words, and called a group of Chu Guoshi to come in and continue the handover work.

On the second day, Fuqiu Hei returned with a calm face, and brought with him a few soldiers who were ragged but whose crowns were still upright.

Fuqiu said straight to the point: "Zhu Xianggong, Xiang Yan has slaughtered the city." ”

Zhu Xiang's hand shook: "What?!" ”

The people brought by the floating mound knelt on the ground, crying and telling the story.

At first, Xiang Yan encountered resistance, and after entering the city, he said that the people of the city had helped the Qin state and betrayed the Chu state, so he allowed the whole army to plunder and slaughter for a day as an example, and set fire to the city.

After this behavior, the city captured by the Qin State immediately mutinied. The residents of the city were already dissatisfied with the Qin State, and they were worried that the city would be slaughtered by Xiang Yan, so they wanted to drive away the Qin army before Xiang Yan came.

The Qin army may have received Li Mu's order a long time ago and behaved with restraint.

They quickly evacuated their men, took away half of the grain, and then opened a warehouse and released the remaining half of the grain and withdrew to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

The Chu people thought that the Qin people had withdrawn and they must be safe and sound, but Xiang Yan still connived at the looting when he entered the city.

"If it's just plundering, he also ordered us to move our family out and move thirty miles inside!" The scholars of the Chu State cried bitterly, "If you don't comply, you will be sentenced to take refuge in the Qin people and be convicted, or beheaded, or enslaved!" Zhu Xianggong, moved thirty miles inward, how can we live, we can't live! ”

Zhu Xiang's hands clenched in the cuffs.

Internal Relocation Order!

I didn't expect Xiang Yan to make such a cruel decision!

No, this is not something that Xiang Yan can decide alone. It must be the joint decision of the King of Chu and the Southern Chu Jun, and the joint decision of the high-ranking scholars and doctors of the Chu State!

Relocation order...... Zhu Xiang closed his eyes.

Xiang Yan's move is strategically correct.

The most famous internal relocation order is the coastal internal relocation order during the Shunzhi period.

At that time, the Qing Dynasty had no water division, in order to avoid the collusion between Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan and his coastal subjects, and in order to leave enough depth for the Qing army to meet Zheng Chenggong, Shunzhi ordered that the coastal people in Shandong, Jiangsu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces should move 30 to 50 miles inward.

The internal relocation order of the Southern Chu State is similar to this.

The State of Chu saw the advantages of the Qin State Boat Division, and knew that even if the Qin State withdrew its troops now, it would only take the initiative to withdraw after weighing the pros and cons, and it was not really without a chance of winning.

Competing with the Qin State Boat Division by the riverside, the Chu State had very little chance of winning. Instead of leaving a few cities on the north bank of the Yangtze River to the Qin State, which would return sooner or later, and becoming a blood tonic package for the plundering of the Qin State Boat Division, it is better to destroy the city and move inside, clear the wilderness on the land, and set up cards layer by layer.

If the Qin State wanted to attack the Southern Chu State, it could only go ashore first and then march long distances. Not only can the tracks on the way be seen at a glance under the observation of the layers of fortresses, but the Qin army will not get any supplies along the way, and the supply line will also be lengthened.

At that time, the state of Chu only needed to rely on the favorable terrain and wait for work.

There's nothing wrong with that, there's nothing wrong with that.

During the war, the Warring States countries mostly used strong walls to clear the wilderness, drove the Shu people between the fiercely contested cities, burned farmland and villages, and forbade land cultivation to increase the supply pressure of the enemy when attacking.

The internal relocation order of the Southern Chu State is just a strengthened version of the fortified wall and clear the wilderness.

"Take them to rest first, and inform Chen Qi and the others of this matter in advance." Zhu Xiang took a deep breath and regained his composure.

Fuqiu said sadly: "Yes, Zhu Xianggong." ”

The Chu Guoshi who was kneeling and weeping on the ground did not plead with Zhu Xiang for anything, but just cried and left with Fuqiu.

What can they plead with Zhu Xiang? Do you plead to follow Zhu Xiang to the south?

After the people left, Zhu Xiang, who stood up in surprise, sat down on the chair and held his forehead with one hand.

Jiao Yun sighed and said, "It's worthy of Xiang Yan, this move is really ruthless." ”

General Li Mu's strategy of annexing Chu was not to focus on one city and one place, but to rely on the gradually recovering economy of Southern Qin and the reputation of Zhu Xianggong, and constantly radiating influence to the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Sun Tzu said: "The first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the next is to attack the city." General Li Mu adopted the "army strategy".

Although Xiang Yan's move was rude, it was also the best strategy to crack General Li Mu's "army plot".

Burning down the wharf city on the north bank of the Yangtze River, moving the Chu people for 30 miles, and cutting off the influence of Southern Qin on Chu, many of General Li Mu's previous arrangements were invalidated.

The internal relocation of the Chu people will cause many disasters. Xiang Yan will return to the King of Chu after this battle, and the Southern Chu Jun cannot push him out to resist the anger of the Chu people who moved inward. So Xiang Yan herself will be safe and sound.

And Southern Chu Jun will definitely direct his anger towards the Qin State. It was precisely because of the danger of the Qin State that the Chu people along the river had no choice but to move inward. The Chu people did not dare to hate the Southern Chu Jun who could kill them, nor could they hate Xiang Yan who had already left, so they could only hate the Qin State even more.

Through the trade war and Li Mu's grain release and Zhu Xiang's prestige, all the previous efforts were lost.

Ruthless, really ruthless.

Not only was it ruthless to make the lives of Chu people miserable, but this countermeasure also hit the arrangement of the Qin State ruthlessly and accurately, and dealt a severe blow to the Qin State's strategy of destroying Chu.

"I want to be quiet." Zhu Xiang held his forehead and said.

Jiao Yun nodded and left.

As he stepped out of the door, he glanced back.

Zhu Xiang's body trembled slightly, as if he was trying his best to endure something.

Jiao Yun looked up at the sky.

The Chu people along the river moved 30 miles inward, and the houses and farmland were burned down, what did they eat and what did they live?

The land after moving thirty miles inward was not ownerless.

Even if the Chu people did not resist the internal relocation order and obediently migrated with the Southern Chu army, how many would they survive?

This point, more than a thousand years later, the study of the Shunzhi Dynasty's coastal relocation order can give Jiao Yun the answer.

The order of relocation within the coast was annulled after the First World War in Kangxi Taiwan. According to the population comparison between the Jiajing Taiping County Chronicles of the Ming Dynasty and the Jiaqing Taiping County Chronicles of the Qing Dynasty, Taiping County, which is within the scope of internal relocation, has ended the internal relocation order for more than 100 years, and has experienced stable population growth in the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties, and the population is only half of that during the Jiajing period. It can be seen that the coastal relocation order has devastated the people.

During this period, many Qing Dynasty officials also wrote poems of pity for the people, depicting the tragic scene of the coastal people's internal migration.

The property that the common people rely on for survival is houses, land and grain, that is, the landlord can bring some gold and silver, and the property left behind is also a large amount, while the ordinary people have no gold and silver at all.

When their houses and farmland were burned down and they embarked on the road of internal migration, how was it different from exile? On the way, the old and infirm suffered numerous casualties.

During the Shunzhi period, it was actually better than Nanchu.

At that time, Shunzhi had already entered the Central Plains, and the territory was vast, so the migration area was demarcated when moving inward, and if the coastal residents who moved inward could live to the migration place, have fields and land, and then boil until the grain was ripe, there was always a way to live.

But the Southern Chu State is just such a little land, where can the Chu people who moved inward go?

Zhu Xiang put down his hand holding his forehead, spread out the paper, and wrote a letter with ink.

His letter was not addressed to Ying Xiaozheng or Li Mu, but to Xiang Yan and Nan Chujun.

In the letter, he asked what measures the Chu people had taken after they moved inward, and whether they had arranged a way to live.

If not...... If not, please Xiang Yan and Nan Chu Jun let the Chu people go south to survive!

Zhu Xiang put down his pen heavily, and the strength penetrated the back of the paper.

……

Li Mu had not yet returned to Wucheng from South Vietnam.

Now the flow of news is not smooth, and when Li Mu got the news that Yan Guo sent troops, Xiang Yan had already sent troops.

Although Li Mu judged that the state of Chu would definitely send troops, he immediately went back, but it also took time.

Ying Xiaozheng was so anxious that he had to walk around the ferry every day with his hands behind his back, and when he saw the Qin officials coming back, he stepped forward and asked, "Uncle and aunt are okay."

After learning that his uncle and aunt had to deal with the affairs of Guangling City before coming back, Ying Xiaozheng was so angry that he wanted to row to the other side by himself and tie up his uncle and aunt.

Li Si and Han Fei held Ying Xiaozheng down on the left and right.