Qiming 1158

Chapter 166 Zhao Yucheng has some small resentments

After annexing Dongping Mansion and Yanzhou, Su Yonglin's military power and influence have expanded to varying degrees.

His next military expansion plan is to move towards the scale of 3 people.

At least the core army should maintain a size of 3 people, and use this as the seed for further military expansion in the future, and provide military education and political and ideological education.

Judging from the current situation where there is no basis for large-scale military expansion, with an army of this size, coupled with the armed forces of those landlords who followed him, Su Yonglin's confidence in the next move is also stronger.

Of course, the premise is that at this stage, Zhao Kaishan don't play tricks behind his back.

Otherwise, it would not be easy to deal with Zhao Kaishan while dealing with Jin Guo.

Unless you find some trouble for him internally, divert his attention a little bit, and let him be too busy with internal rectification and struggle to attack him.

If this is really the case, then maybe we can kill two birds with one stone.

Reminiscent of Zhao Kaishan's fragile and sensitive character and narrow mind, Su Yonglin rolled his eyes and thought about it.

The next morning, Su Yonglin woke up refreshed. At that time, he felt very hungry and wanted to eat. As a result, just after washing up, Zhao Yucheng came with breakfast.

"I heard that Uncle Yuting woke up. I thought you must be craving something, so I came here with food."

Zhao Yucheng smiled innocently.

Su Yonglin laughed, very happy.

"I'm really hungry, you came in time, I really want to eat now!"

Zhao Yucheng brought a plate with a few large pancakes, a plate of dark sauce, and a large clay pot.

Su Yonglin rubbed his hands, opened the clay pot, and a strong smell of meat wafted out.

"Okay, meat porridge!"

Su Yonglin couldn't bear the desire to eat immediately, and immediately took a big bowl, and drank it slurply. After drinking a bowl, the whole person felt very comfortable, and felt that his appetite was completely opened up.

"There was a lot of leftovers from the banquet yesterday. Uncle said not to waste it. We picked out all the leftover meat and cooked porridge together. We cooked a lot, and the army outside had enough to drink."

"Well, not bad."

Su Yonglin picked up a large pancake and dipped it in the dipping sauce.Then he began to bite and swallow in big mouthfuls, ate two flatbreads in one go, and drank another bowl of porridge, which was the bottom line for his empty stomach.

Su Yonglin has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he has been able to eat since he was a child. In addition, now that he is marching and fighting, he consumes a lot of energy, so he can eat even more.

When I usually eat with soldiers, I have at least three bowls of porridge, and three bowls of dry rice. They are all bowls as big as a face. Unless there are some rich side dishes, if I only eat grains, I really eat a lot.

But the victorious army had enough food.

It’s just that in this era of insufficient productivity, non-staple food is of course insufficient. If non-staple food is insufficient, people will eat more food, and the grain yield per mu at this time is several times lower than in modern times.

Produce less, eat more, really want to open their stomachs to eat, food is indeed not very rich.

But this is not the main reason for starvation everywhere.

As long as the grain grown on China's land does not encounter some rare natural disasters, it is enough to eat, and the grain output can generally keep up with the speed of population growth.

The reason why the famine has followed Chinese history like a shadow, it is obviously unfair to judge it only by the lack of productivity.

Both the people and the land are doing their best. People work hard to produce, and the land works hard to produce. The total production is not small, and it will not fall to the point of starvation every year.

Blaming all problems on productivity obviously ignores human subjective initiative.

Exploitation, oppression, and land annexation may also be one of the important reasons why farmers cannot get the food they deserve.

Keeping the peasants between hunger and food and clothing, and letting them wander up and down between them, is the most conducive to governance. At that time, the peasants are the most obedient and gentle, and as long as they have a bite to eat, they will not make trouble.

If you are too hungry, you will rebel, if you are too full, you will have more pursuits, which is not a good thing for the emperor's rule.

Therefore, it is the natural consensus of the imperial ruling class to keep the peasants at a standard of living that neither starves nor eats enough.

If farmers can get the land and food they deserve, it is not difficult to eat enough, at least they will not starve to death at every turn.

However, such a delicate balance is not always easy to achieve, and greed will always add to the chaos of imperial policy.

Think about Xu Jie, one of the chief ministers of the Ming Dynasty. His family owns 30 million mu of fertile land in his hometown of Huating County, and the annexation of land has reached a heinous level. You can probably feel that exploitation and land annexation have caused farmers to starve to death frequently. How much the possibility of this phenomenon increases.

With the productivity of the Song Dynasty, only the thirteen states in the traditional Han area, it is not difficult to feed a population of [-] million, and it is not impossible to feed them. The difficulty lies in the distribution.

The dignitaries of the ruling class wantonly enjoy themselves and waste a lot of money, and the remaining peasants will not be full and starve to death frequently.

Is China's land very barren?
Why are there no idle fields in the world, but only tens of millions of farmers still starve to death?

This is a question worth exploring.

Thinking about this problem, Su Yonglin ate up the breakfast in a hurry, even the sauce on the plate was wiped clean by Su Yonglin with a big pancake.

Zhao Yucheng looked at Su Yonglin's eating so fiercely, and thought he was not full.

"Uncle Yuting, if you're not full, there's more at Huotouying, and I'll get it for you."

"Ah? Oh! I'm full, I'm full."

Su Yonglin quickly patted her stomach.

When I was eating, I thought about something, and I ate all the food without knowing it. Normally, this is indeed the limit of my food intake.

"I was thinking about something just now, and I ate it before I knew it. Thank you, Ziying."

Zhao Yucheng nodded and patted his head happily.

"Uncle Yu Ting can eat enough, I'm very happy, anyway, I'm just a soldier captain now, if Uncle Yu Ting needs anything, just tell me, I can do it for you!"

Su Yonglin suddenly remembered that Zhao Yucheng had lost the battle.

"Come on, sit down."

Su Yonglin patted the chair beside him and asked Zhao Yucheng to sit down.

Zhao Yucheng nodded and sat down obediently.

"Tell me, how did you lose that battle?"

Zhao Yucheng's face darkened, he lowered his head, and slowly told the story of his defeat by the Jin army.

After listening, Su Yonglin sighed.

"Even if I were to fight such a battle, I would not be able to win it. There is a big gap between us and the gold thief in terms of cavalry, especially since they still have a lot of cavalry. At this time, we must fight offensive and defensive battles. How can we fight field battles?" What? My brother did something wrong."

"I tried to dissuade him many times, but my father didn't listen."

Zhao Yuxiang vomited bitterly as if he had finally found someone to confide in: "I told my father many times that I can't fight the gold thief head-on, in case the gold thief uses cavalry to cut off my retreat, I should lead the gold thief to the front of the army stronghold to take advantage of the terrain. to fight, but my father didn't want to.

He was willing to listen to other people's opinions, and sent people out to fight the gold thief. I was really worried, and asked for a soldier to cover the retreat of the army, but I didn't expect that there were too many gold thief cavalry, and they came directly towards me. I was surrounded, there was no way to retreat, and the army formation soon collapsed..."

Saying this, Zhao Yucheng's tone became even lower, obviously very frustrated.

Su Yonglin patted his shoulder.

"One is that the army is not well trained and tough, and the other has no cavalry support. The infantry cannot compete with the cavalry in terms of speed. Combining the two, defeat is inevitable. I really can't blame you. It would be just as dangerous if it were me. .”

Zhao Yucheng looked up at Su Yonglin.

"If you were you, what would you do?"

"Without the cover of the cavalry, there is really not much the infantry can do. The only thing is that the battlefield is very close to the barracks. They can move closer to the barracks, attract reinforcements to help, and force the cavalry to retreat."

"I want to, too, but..."

Zhao Yucheng shook his head: "The army is in disarray, and they are thrown into disarray by a single charge. They cannot maintain their formation and follow my orders. I order them not to move. They just stay where they are. I can't do anything but watch the army crumble. Then run away..."

Zhao Yucheng covered his face with his hands, as if he still couldn't forget that scene.

Su Yonglin could only pat him on the shoulder lightly.

"I know it must be hard to lose a battle, but for a general, losing a battle is also a valuable experience. As the saying goes, victory or defeat is a common thing in military affairs. As long as you can continue to fight, winning or losing is not important. Whether you can learn from it and grow. more important."

Zhao Yucheng raised his head.

"really?"

"Of course, when have I lied to you? Of course losing a battle is a valuable experience."

"Then Uncle Yuting, have you ever lost a battle?"

"No."

"........."

Zhao Yucheng's expression suddenly became a little strange, and there was a little resentment in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)