please make me king

Chapter 703 Harvest and Strategy

After the "Lantern Appreciation Festival" on the Shangyuan Festival, Zhang Shun achieved remarkable results in the battle, almost killing all the talents in the Henan government, adding a lot of flesh and blood to the civilian officials of the rebel regime; It even made the rebel army "change the shotgun for the cannon", which has almost completely changed.

Zhang Shenyan couldn't bear the excitement in his heart, and read aloud in public: "After the Battle of Song County, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang, was captured alive, Li Bei, the deputy commander-in-chief, was beheaded, and more than [-] officers and soldiers were killed. Two thousand one hundred and seventeen officers and soldiers were captured. people, beheaded [-] people, and the rest broke up and left."

"In the battle of Luoyang, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, was captured alive, Chai Shihua, general officer He Renlong, and Bai Guangen were surrendered, and Wang Chengen, general officer of Lintao, Ai Wannian, deputy commander-in-chief, Liu Guozhen, and deputy commander-in-chief were beheaded. Among Liu Chenggong's three and four generals, only Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, is at large."

"Forty-two thousand officers and soldiers were destroyed, [-] were beheaded, [-] were captured, [-] were surrendered, and the rest were at large. It would harass the people. Timely cleanup is the order of the day.”

"Twenty red cannons were seized, ninety-eight general cannons, sixty-two Fran cannons, one hundred and one extermination cannons, and countless other bird guns, three-eyed guns, quick guns, bows and arrows [-] pairs of armor were seized, as well as countless waist knives, spears, axes, and swords.”

"[-] shi of grain were seized, [-] jin of gunpowder, nearly [-] jin of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, and countless dried meat, oil, salt, sauce, and pickles."

"The rebel army suffered [-] casualties, and more than [-] people were slightly injured. The general 'King of Troubled Times' unfortunately died in battle; the lord King Shun was seriously injured; the general Liu Cheng was seriously injured. Fortunately, Mrs. Xiang healed him, and his life is not in danger. .The rest of the generals have injuries, big or small, and they are all fine now!"

"The rebel army captured Ruzhou and Xin'an counties successively, and the officers and soldiers were all empty. Now, the rebel army should be ordered to divide into four directions and occupy the surrounding counties as a basis. I don't know what King Shun's intention is?"

"What do you think?" Zhang Shun asked everyone with a smile when he heard the words.

When Cao Wenzhao heard the words, he stood up and remonstrated: "The centipede is dead but not stiff. The Ming Dynasty has been in the world for more than two hundred years, and it has two capitals and thirteen provinces in the world. How can it be underestimated? Now the governor of the five provinces, Hong Chengchou, is newly defeated. , Qin land has no owner, why doesn't King Shun take it? Follow the old wisdom of Qin and Han, sit in the pass and rule the world, advance and attack, retreat and defend, enough to be the king of the world!"

As soon as Cao Wenzhao finished speaking, the audience was in an uproar.This is a big plan to take over the world, and it is almost related to the lives of everyone present here.If one wrong step is taken, one's body will be smashed to pieces, how can it be decided so easily?

Lu Weiqi quickly stood up and objected: "In the past, Xun Yu persuaded Wei Wushe Xu Shouyan to consolidate the foundation, and Zhang Bin advised Shi Le to take Hebei to build a foundation, all of which are the emperor's policy!"

"The husband drives all over the world, wandering and looting, this is the art of thieves. Its prosperity is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden!"

"Why? If the roots are not strong, the tree will not grow. Even if it is victorious in all battles, it will be a tree without roots. If there is a slight setback, it will scatter like birds and beasts!"

"In the past, Gaozu Baoguan, Guangwu occupied Hanoi, and they all had deep roots to control the world. Advancing is enough to defeat the enemy, retreating is enough to hold on, so even though there are difficulties and defeats, it will eventually help the great cause. This is the strategy of the emperor!"

"Now that King Shun is based in Luoyang, he will destroy the officers and soldiers, and Zhenghe will occupy Henan. The eight passes are guarded inside, Tongguan, Huaiqing, Nanyang, and Zhengbian are based outside, and the gourd in western Henan is used as a weapon. The hero is the city oar, who in the world can stop it?"

Just kidding, I just imitated Xun Yu and persuaded all the scholars to take refuge in King Shun, and you let the main force of the rebel army go away. Do you want everyone's wealth and lives?
Even if all the scholars are not killed and the whole family is killed, when the "local snake" from Shaanxi comes to vote, how can he show the usefulness of his sons in western Henan?
Cao Wenzhao was not afraid of hearing this, but smiled and said: "Mr. Lu's theory of deep roots and solid roots is very agreeable to me. I heard that there are bonsai in the south of the Yangtze River, but pines and cypresses are planted in pots, and people at that time called it '" "Small world" is true. As the saying goes, "the basin is small, the world is big, and the scenery is new with old trees"!"

"It's the same for the family and the country. If you plant it between the sky and the earth, you can become a towering tree; if you plant it in a basin, you can only create a landscape. Now that the land in Henan is small, like a basin, how can it become a towering tree?" Plants? Although fierce tigers are fierce, they cannot fall into Pingyang; although dragons are majestic, they cannot enter shallow waters, so why not?"

Then Lu Weiqi originally said that his opponent was "Yafu" Zhang Shenyan, he never expected that Cheng Yaojin would come out of this way, but Cao Wenzhao and himself sang against him.

It turned out that Cao Wenzhao was the most prestigious general of the frontier army, and had commanded many generals of the frontier army, so his reputation was quite high.Originally, after surrendering to the rebel army, he was worried that King Shun would be suspicious, and secondly, he didn't bother to fight for power with the generals.

Now that the rebel army has defeated Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, it can be seen that King Shun has soared into the sky.Chai Shihua, general officer of the Gansu Army, Bai Guangen, and He Renlong joined in, and the strength of the descending army was greatly increased for a while.Then Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but be ready to move, so as to become the leader of the Jiangjun Department.

This is not because Cao Wenzhao has different ambitions and wants to compete with Zhang Shun for a day, but because he is more confident in Zhang Shun's future and wants to take the opportunity to show his value.

Cao Wenzhao took advantage of his strength and talked about the "bonsai theory", which almost choked Lu Weiqi, the representative of Heluo scholars, to death on the spot.However, Lu Weiqi is not very vegetarian. Hearing the words, he thought for a while, and couldn't help but argue: "Your Excellency regards Heluo as a basin, which is really not worth refuting. To the south, there is Huguang, and to the west, there are three Qins. To the north there are Hanoi and Shanxi, and to the east there are endless plains, which is a rich land in the world. King Shun sits in Heluo and looks at the world, this is the business of Xia and Shang!"

"South Huguang, North Shanxi, West Three Qin, and East Central Plains, this is the land of the Four Wars, why is it called Guang?" Cao Wenzhao said sarcastically when he heard the words, "Qin has the advantage of elite soldiers, and it is called the world. Elite soldiers. Connecting Qinggan and Western Regions to the west, there is a victory with armored horses; it is located on nine sides, and there is no danger of siege from all sides; sitting on the solidity of Weihan, it becomes a country with four frontiers. It can be attacked when it advances, and it can be defended when it is retreated. Qin, Han and Tang supported it to control it The whole world has become the victory of the Han and Tang Dynasties!"

Lu Weiqi was disturbed by Cao Wenzhao and almost vomited blood.He hurriedly said to Zhang Shun: "The world is different, so things are different. In the past, the fertile land, the country of four fortresses, now the dragon veins have been cut off."

"One said: the Han River was diverted, and the Guanzhong-Hanzhong waterway was cut off; the other said: Drought, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Shaanxi has experienced many droughts, and in recent years there have been severe droughts in successive years. At the beginning of the Hongwu period, the populations of Shaanxi and Henan were almost the same. The population is only half of that of Henan, and the taxation is only half of that of Henan."

"A rich country and a strong army are nothing more than population and food. Shaanxi has four towns and three gates, but it is not as good as Henan province. How can it be the foundation? What's more, Henan's prefecture can be stabilized with a little governance. And If you enter Shaanxi, you will have to fight endlessly for a long time, and if there is a slight setback, wouldn't it be impossible to even defend the Henan government?"

(End of this chapter)