Humane Yongchang

Chapter 468
The bright moon shines on the river.

The three-masted ship serving as the flagship of Chen Sheng's temporary command was quietly moored in the wharf of Linjiang County.

It stands to reason that he personally led the army into Yizhou this time, taking advantage of Liu Bang's unpreparedness to outflank his retreat, responding to the soldiers quickly, and rushing to Chengdu before Liu Bang in Hanzhong returned to Chengdu at all costs. Capture Liu Bang's foundation in Yizhou!
However, since Chen Sheng set foot in Yizhou, he deliberately slowed down his marching speed uncharacteristically. Like the grandfather who went out for a walk, he walked up the river in a calm and steady manner. The fleet will stay for a day or two...

It has been almost ten days since they set foot in Yizhou.

But they finally arrived in Linjiang County (now Chongzhou, Chongzhou, Xiaolou's hometown) yesterday.

There are at least five or six days of waterway away from the scheduled destination Jiangzhou.

This is very unreasonable...

But Chen Sheng naturally had his reasons for doing so.

It should be noted that although Yizhou has surrendered to the Han Dynasty in name, it is the territory of the Han Dynasty.

But in essence, because the Northern Expedition was imminent, the big Han never had time to take over the rule of Yizhou.

Therefore, the ruling power of Yizhou is actually still controlled by Liu Bang's confidants, Ji Zhou's former ministers, local aristocratic families in Yizhou, Nanman chieftains and other powerful classes.

Chen Sheng knew well that among these people, many of them were opposed and hostile to him, Chen Sheng, and to his big man!

If these people want to achieve something, it must be insufficient!
But on their land, it's not too easy to think of something bad!
However, their soldiers and horses along the way went deep alone, with neither support nor side support, and even the food and grass carried with the army was extremely limited...

Under such circumstances, how can you underestimate the enemy and advance rashly?
According to Chen Sheng's intention, of course, he took advantage of this rare opportunity to move forward while eliminating those Yizhou dignitaries who had accumulated many evil deeds and hard-won habits along the banks of the river.

Coincidentally, they can also replenish a wave of food and grass on the spot, and the transportation loss alone can save a lot of food!
what?
Find a decisive battle with Liu Bang?Quick fix?

Chen Sheng didn't have to take the initiative to find Liu Bang for a decisive battle.

He is the one who is coming now!
It's time for Liu Bang to rush to find him for a decisive battle!
Although Chen Sheng is not sure, whether Liu Bang has the courage to die with him and kill him.

But this is not important.

Anyway, if Liu Bang dares to come, he should be settled first, and then continue to accept Yizhou.

If Liu Bang is afraid to come, he should first take over Yizhou, which has not been ravaged by the war, and then go north to cook Liu Bang and Ying Zheng together!
This is leaving your own home to fight.

No matter what kind of pots and pots are broken, he, the head of the family, will have to pay the bill in the end!
So of course, the negative impact of the war should be suppressed as low as possible!

……

"Your Majesty, please have dinner."

A short soldier carried two food boxes, bowed into Chen Sheng's cabin, and saluted with fists folded.

"let it go!"

On the other side of the cabin, the dim yellow halo of the oil lamp stretched Chen Sheng's figure sitting on the ground for a long time. He sat in front of a short table, holding the oil lamp in one hand, and pointing with the other on the file lined with white silk. Read down word by word.

As for the files in front of him, the low table in front of him was piled up as high as a hill. Sitting behind the hill, he was almost submerged by these files.

These files are Li Si's list of officials who were sent to him today through the news transmission channel of the Special Warfare Bureau.

The information of each official on the directory is very detailed, from the official's name, background, knowledge, to past political achievements, and the moral investigation issued by the Special Warfare Bureau, there are detailed records... There are already a few points What a character report looks like!
But this is not what surprised Chen Sheng the most!
What made him even more intriguing was that in Li Si's personal letter sent along with these files, it was clearly mentioned that the list of officials was a first draft obtained after repeated discussions between him and Fan Duo.

But the inscription on the back of the dossier only has Li Si's name, not Fan Zeng's.

At first, Chen Sheng also thought that this old guy was trying to steal credit.

But after carefully reviewing the files, I feel that it is not...

In these files, the number of officials who were born in Jixia Academy accounted for a large proportion.

The names of Li Si's "favorite students" are all listed.

Chen Sheng never denied the excellence of the students of Jixia Academy.

The Jixia Academy was built by him himself, and he poured a lot of effort into it, the cradle of great Han talents.

He knows better than anyone else what advantages and strengths the students of Jixia Academy have...

But here, it is not a question of whether the students of Jixia Academy are good or not.

It's a question of whether Li Si, as the host responsible for the system reform, should avoid suspicion!
Of course, Chen Sheng wouldn't feel bad because Li Si recommended a vote of his "protégé student".

With Li Si's experience and wisdom, Chen Sheng also believed that he must understand that he would not care about this trivial matter.

After all, the great grandfather once said: Power grows out of the barrel of a gun!
Chen Sheng is holding the handle of the 200 million Han army in his hand, so why should he be afraid of who is forming a party in the court for personal gain?
But whether he cares or not is one thing.

How Li Si did it was another time.

It's as if the subordinates always deliberately leave a few extremely obvious typos in the materials and speeches written by the superiors for the superiors to point out and modify.

Even if Chen Sheng, the king, didn't care about Li Si's promotion of his favorite student, Li Si, as a subordinate, shouldn't take advantage of this shareholder style to promote his favorite student without hesitation, and even the recommender didn't bother to pretend.

Obviously shouldn't do this, but Li Si did it anyway.

And he did it so openly and blatantly.

'Could it be that this old man wants to retire and return to his hometown? '

Chen Sheng slowly figured out a little bit of taste, thinking that he didn't seem to have criticized that old guy recently, and even he had never said a serious word to him when the old guy returned to Yongzhou without success, why did he say so? Thinking of retiring and returning home?
Then, he thought of Han Fei, whose presence in the court was getting lower and lower. That guy was the right minister of a big man, but now even he, the king, often couldn't see him for several months. , even if Wang Ling called him into the palace to discuss matters, that guy always declined Wang Ling on the grounds that he was sick and unable to move...

Taking Han Fei as an example, Chen Sheng felt a sense of enlightenment: "Retire bravely?is this necessary? '

From this perspective, he could somewhat guess what Han Fei and Li Si were thinking.

Of these two people, one is the leader of the Dahan judicial system, with both legislative and law enforcement powers in one body, and his legalist disciples are spread all over the states, counties, counties, and towns of the Dahan, and the number is still rolling. On the turn.

The other is the leader of Dahan's administrative system. In addition, he was the dean of the Literary Academy of Jixia Academy for four years. It can be said that Li Si's brand is deeply imprinted on the entire civil servant system of Dahan, and now he is fully responsible for reforming the system. thing……

More importantly, the two of them are still brothers!

Even though the two of them had always been at odds, they were ministers in the same hall, and the number of times they met in private was very few.

But in the eyes of the people below, that's not the case at all...

As the saying goes, three people make a tiger, and one mouth makes gold.

Chen Sheng reckoned that if he didn't suppress these two people again, even they themselves would almost think that they were really cultivating wings and waiting for the opportunity!

'Trust you and believe something is wrong? '

Chen Sheng laughed and put away the file in front of him, thinking that when the matter in Yizhou was settled, he had to take some time to go back to Jinling to have a good chat with the two brothers.

The revolution has not yet succeeded, mule... Comrade, you can't run away with a bucket!
He stood up, tied the sword on the weapon rack around his waist, and prepared to go out to inspect as usual.

At this moment, an officer of the Special Warfare Bureau quickly stepped in, took out a bamboo tube with a pheasant tail attached to it from his arms, and held it in his palm: "My lord, an urgent letter from the Jinling headquarters!"

Chen Sheng frowned, took the bamboo tube and crushed it, shook out the silk book in it, and glanced at it intently.

As soon as he saw half of it, he lost his voice in astonishment: "When did I give Liu Bang the order to go south to Baiyue?"

The officer of the Special Warfare Bureau stood in front of him, not daring to speak, pretending not to hear him.

Seeing this, Chen Sheng waved his hands and said, "Go down first!"

"only!"

After the special warfare officer retreated, Chen Sheng wandered around the cabin twice while pressing Tai'a sword.

Then he simply took the saber and put it back on the weapon rack. He strode to the two food boxes on the side, opened it and took out the warm food inside, and racked his brains while eating—this motherfucker What is the situation?
He must have never given Liu Bang the order to go south to Baiyue!
So Liu Bang must be pulling his Wang Qihu to pretend to be a tiger!

But the question is, why did Liu Bang use his Wang Qi as a cover?

'Could it be that he wants to use this to mobilize the 20 Yizhou Army under his command to fight me? '

Liu Bang's base camp is in Chengdu.

And the Jiangzhou he was about to go to was in the south of Chengdu.

Geographically, this is possible!
After all, Liu Bang's 20 Yizhou Army is not all his loyalists.

Now that the Han Dynasty is about to rule Kyushu, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the war is coming to an end, but any normal-minded and terrifying upright ape can see that there is neither future nor money for being an enemy of the Han Dynasty...

Pulling his king's flag as a pretense to order 20 Yizhou troops, and choose another month of dark and stormy nights to command 20 Yizhou troops to attack him. , Become a matter for all Yizhou soldiers!

This operation, in terms of motivation and principle, does make sense!

'But if it's just to create an established fact, isn't it a bit deceitful to do so? '

Chen Sheng held a piece of fat and transparent pork, shoveled a big mouthful of white rice into his mouth, and chewed it, the freshness of the pork perfectly relieved the anxiety of excessive use of the brain: "Once I beat it with great fanfare." Didn't he go completely blind for the traitorous boy?For such a big event, that guy doesn't think I won't receive any news, does he? '

Thinking of this, he picked up the bowl again and took a big mouthful of white rice with lard poured into his mouth: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"There is no shortage of talented people in the Fengpei Group, even if he has a brain twitch alone, everyone can't have a brain twitch with him! '

"Assume first that he knows that I will learn that he has falsely passed on the king's decree. '

'Then he still dares to continue to do this, there are only two explanations! '

'Or, he is sure that he can achieve the intended purpose through the family decree before I tear my face apart! '

'Or, he is sure that I will not expose him even after I learn about his fake king's decree...at least not immediately! '

There is too little information, and it is already the limit to be able to deduce these two explanations.

If you push it further down, it becomes a fantasy...

Chen Sheng put the rice in his mouth, thinking in his heart, of course, when he received Liu Bang's handwritten letter from the traitor, why didn't he denounce him as a traitor and a repeater with great fanfare?
Oh, by the way, it was to stabilize the situation and morale.

At the same time, it is also for the purpose of not forcing the 20 Yizhou army under Liu Bang's command to face the endless opposition with the big man!

All the soldiers and horses in Kyushu, except for the two elite soldiers trained by the new training method, the Yijun and the Huben Army, all the soldiers and horses in Kyushu can be regarded as the personal property of the general!

It's like Chen Sheng's uncle, Chen Ao, who can transfer the most elite troops under his command to Chen Sheng!

It would be unimaginable if this matter were placed among the Red Clothes Army and the Huben Army!
All the soldiers of the Red Clothes Army and the Huben Army were taught on the first day of their enlistment that they are loyal to the Great Han, His Highness the King of Han, and all the Jiangdong elders in Han...

They don't recognize anyone except Chen Sheng's Wang Ling!
Even with Chen Sheng's Wang Ling, no one could bring up such words as "anti-Han" and "anti-Han Wang" in front of them!
Even if it is the immediate superiors who get along with them day and night, it is the same.

Therefore, in the eyes of normal people, the reaction of the 20 soldiers of the Yizhou Army to Liu Bang's betrayal of the Han Dynasty should be: 'What?Seeing that the big guy can live a good life, but you rebelled, you bastard?Isn't this pure idiot?Forget it, whoever loves and wants to follow you, whoever will follow you, I won't serve you anymore! '

But in fact, once this incident was exposed, the reaction of the 20 Yizhou Army soldiers was: "It's broken, and the big guy can live a good life, but we turned out to be a big guy, you said Said that this matter made a fuss...'

one you.

one us.

The difference between them is huge!
Even if the 20 soldiers of the Yizhou Army long for peace and do not want to continue the war, at most only a part of them will flee from the Yizhou Army!
And what is certain is that even those who escaped from the Yizhou Army will only be a very small number of soldiers and horses!

The rest, even if they don't want to start a war with the big man, they can only bite the bullet and follow Liu Bang all the way to the dark!

Therefore, for Chen Sheng, it is the most beneficial choice for Chen Sheng to cover up the fact that Liu Bang has turned against the big man, and wait until he has an absolute advantage to expose this matter and divide the Yizhou army...

"I chose to cover up this matter in order not to force the 20 Yizhou army to the opposite side of the endless death!" '

'now what?I have already taken the lead, and I am not afraid of Liu Bangyu's death. Why should I cooperate with him to cover this matter? '

"Unless, he didn't come to kill me..."

Chen Sheng's heart suddenly brightened, as if he thought of something, he tore off the ball of silk books on the food table, and took a closer look: "Going south to Baiyue?"

(End of this chapter)