Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2450: Pie in the Sky, Hope for a Successful Son

Looking back at the Central Plains War, it ended in just a few months.

However, the war in the south lasted for two years. After two years of long and hard fighting, the war in the southern battlefield was finally brought to an end and the south was completely conquered.

Then there were three years of epidemic and five years of recovery.

Before I knew it, ten years had passed in just a blink of an eye.

In ten years, the old generation of generals have grown old without anyone noticing. It is time for the new generation to write their legends in this world.

Compared with the older generation, although there are a few people of the new generation who are worth looking at and using, they are really too insignificant compared to the reputation built by the older generation.

Therefore, in this Pingnan Campaign, Li Xiang boldly recruited a newcomer, Li Hao, as the commander-in-chief of the two armies in the Pingnan Campaign, and appointed him as the Grand Marshal of the South.

The prince even has a son, but he has always lived in the palace. Not to mention the battlefield, he has rarely had real contact with the general public.

This won't work. Back then, Li Xiang, before he was even twenty, had already mounted a horse and held a gun, engaging in fierce battles with the northern grassland people. After decades of fighting north and south, he had finally established the current foundation of the Great Jin Dynasty.

He conquered his world with every shot he took.

Compared to him back then, the current prince is still a little immature after all.

Therefore, Li Xiang decided to throw the prince to the battlefield, at least to let the next generation of the country realize the cruelty of the battlefield and that they are not just flowers in a greenhouse.

Whether they will have enough ability to weather the storms in the future is not the point yet, but at least they have to experience what storms are like first.

There was no such idea of ​​letting his son hide his identity and become a soldier or a low-level officer for training. In Li Xiang's opinion, it was no different from having nothing better to do.

He is the crown prince, second only to the emperor and above everyone else, and the helmsman of the future empire.

On the battlefield, anything could happen. If you really hide your identity and become a soldier or a low-level officer, even if you are secretly protected, it is impossible to be all-round. Once an accident happens, it is completely a waste of time. You think you have picked up sesame seeds, but in fact you have lost watermelons.

After all, Li Xiang just wanted the prince to experience the battlefield, not to make him a general. He didn't need to become any kind of general, not even a general who was invincible in every battle.

The empire today is no longer the same as when he started it. There is no need for a leader to fight and lead the way. He only needs the leader to learn how to control the people below.

Today's empire has grown into a behemoth, and it will become even more powerful in the future.

Not to mention that Dajin will unify the world in the future, and there will be no more wars from now on.

Even in the Jin Dynasty at that time, there were still wars to fight, but it had not yet fallen to the point where the emperor had to go to the battlefield himself.

If the emperor himself goes to fight for the country in a chaotic world, then that is fine, and it is actually a plus. But after the world is pacified and prosperous, if the emperor needs to fight the war himself, in Li Xiang's opinion, this is the incompetence of the country's generals. As the crown prince of the empire, Li Xiang does not need him to be a general who wins every battle, nor does he need him to be an invincible and fierce general. He just needs him to learn how to use people.

Or to put it simply, even an invincible general like Bai Qi was given to him, and below him, there were countless elite soldiers and generals, plus the staff in his own Prince's Mansion. If he still didn't understand how to play this game and couldn't win this battle, then there was no need for him to keep the position of Prince, and he should make room for someone else as soon as possible.

Let’s put it this way, the arrangement for the prince this time is like throwing a pie from the sky to him, and he just needs to catch it.

As for his status as a crown prince, even if he had never been on a battlefield before, as the commander-in-chief of an army, the ministers would naturally have no objection.

After all, any minister with a bit of political wisdom could see that the purpose of sending the prince to war was not to send him to fight, but to let him take advantage of the opportunity. At most, in the eyes of these civil and military officials, Bai Qi, the commander of the First Army, made it a little more difficult to take advantage of the opportunity.

However, it is all within the controllable range.

Establish some prestige for the prince in the army and lay a solid foundation for his future opportunities.

Of course, these things are not completely easy for the prince. If he wants to catch this pie that falls from the sky, he needs to have some ability.

Letting the prince catch this pie that fell from the sky is Li Xiang's real test for him.

The prince's biggest problem was that in this battle, among the two armies, the commander of one of them was Bai Qi, not Wei Qing, his biggest reliance, or even other important generals of the Jin Dynasty.

Bai Qi, his daughter Bai Qian, had been married to the King of Jin a few years ago. The King of Jin was obviously the biggest rival of the Crown Prince.

In other words, no matter what, Bai Qi is naturally in an antagonistic relationship with the prince.

However, Li Xiang wanted him to understand that Bai Qi was against him on his journey from crown prince to emperor.

But to the ruler of the empire, no matter what his faction is, he is just your subject.

As the ruler of an empire, no matter which faction the ministers below belong to, it doesn't make much difference to them. The only thing is to balance the strength and relationship between the various factions and prevent any one party from dominating.

Regardless of whether the people in this faction are honest and upright, or treacherous and treacherous, their existence is necessary.

It is also because of this that the generals in the First Army were almost all not the veteran generals who had followed Bai Qi for many years in the Jingzhou Legion at the beginning.

Even the few veteran generals who had followed him during the Jingzhou period were transferred to the Yizhou Legion with him, but these were all relatives like Li Cunzhang, which gave the prince the opportunity to control them.

Of course, with Bai Qi's personality, even if he had some conflicts of position with the prince, he would not use the war to make a fuss.

If we do this, it will be a complete mutual destruction.

Of course, even if this is true, for Li Xiang, it is not an intolerable problem. At most, this goal has not been achieved, but another goal has been achieved.