Thief Emperor

Chapter 529 Annual Goal!

There is actually nothing to talk about regarding the redistribution of land, and Li Yun was not discussing this matter with Lu Yunzhang.

He will definitely do this. It can even be said that this is the real foundation of Jiangdong's foundation and his Li family's future foundation.

The reason why he talked about this matter with Lu Yunzhang was that since both parties were negotiating the conditions, Li Yun had to make the conditions clear to the other party. Otherwise, when Li's actions came to an end in the future, these Lu family members would complain again.

"Lu Jieshuai, listen carefully."

Li Yun said quietly: "If you are willing to help me take over the remaining Wuchang Army and deal with the aftermath properly, I can consider giving you a position in Jiangdong. The children of the Anzhou Lu family, as long as they are talented, can also serve as officials in Jiangdong after passing the Jiangdong assessment."

Li Yun is still in great need of civil servants now. He will no longer give these so-called thousand-year-old families any privileges, nor will he give them the power to recommend people. However, this will not prevent him from recruiting them as "employees."

It is undeniable that in this era, due to the extreme unfairness of educational resources, there is a considerable gap between the personal levels of children from poor families and farming families and those from wealthy families, especially the outstanding individuals among them.

A more obvious example is Du Qian and Yao Zhong.

In terms of personal qualifications, there is not much difference between these two people, but Yao Zhong is still far inferior to Du Qian.

This is the case when Yao Zhong happened to have read a lot of books. If it were normal, the gap between the two would only be greater.

As Jiangdong is seriously short of civil servants, it is quite cost-effective to use these children of aristocratic families. All Li Yun needs to do is to control this group later.

Lu Yunzhang was lost in thought for a long while. When he heard that he could become an official, he relaxed a little. After a long silence, he asked, "Mr. Li, do I have any other choice?"

"Of course."

Li Yun smiled and said, "You were defeated by me, but that doesn't stop you from being a loyal minister of the Great Zhou. If you continue to be a loyal minister of the Great Zhou, I won't make things difficult for you. When the time comes, General Lu will fight to the death for your loyalty. The worst that can happen is that I will spend more effort to attack the Wuchang Army."

"besides."

Li Yun looked at Lu Yunzhang and said with a smile: "The Anzhou Lu family, it is best to move now, otherwise after my army arrives in Anzhou, I am afraid that everyone in your house will be in trouble."

“It’s not easy.”

Lu Yunzhang turned pale and murmured, "How can there be someone like you? How can there be someone like you..."

Li Yun's reaction was far beyond his expectations, or rather, beyond the expectations of the aristocratic families of that era.

At this time, no matter which force it is, if it can get the support of the aristocratic families in the stage of starting a business, it will be very happy.

The two sides will "hit it off".

Because the aristocratic families have the influence that these emerging forces need most.

However, Li Yun's train of thought is completely different from those emerging forces. He does not intend to cooperate with the Anzhou Lu family, but simply wants to conquer them.

There was no thought of giving them any special privileges.

Li Yun smiled and said, "There are people like me. Marshal Lu Jie, don't rush to answer me. I will give you one day. Tomorrow morning, if you don't come to see me, I will send troops to Huangzhou to attack the Huangzhou Wuchang Army."

"If the Huangzhou Wuchang Army is very capable and causes me some trouble, then we can still talk about it. I can give you more benefits. If the Huangzhou Wuchang Army is as vulnerable as the previous Wuchang Army."

Li Yun glanced at him and said with a smile, "Then Marshal Lu will wish you the best."

"Zhou Bi."

Li Yun called out, and Zhou Bi, who was at the door, quickly trotted in and said, "Master Fu."

"Please ask Marshal Lu to go and rest. Well, be polite to him until tomorrow morning."

Zhou Bi responded, then looked at Lu Yunzhang and smiled: "Marshal Lu, please leave."

Lu Yunzhang finally came back to his senses. He looked at Zhou Bi and his expression changed again: "Yes, it's you!"

Zhou Bi once went to Yuezhou City as an envoy to meet him, but that time, Li Yun launched an attack right after Zhou Bi left.

He hated Zhou Bi almost to the core at that time, so he remembered it vividly.

Zhou Bi smiled at him and said, "It's me, Lu Jieshuai. We meet again."

As he spoke, Zhou Bi looked at Li Yun, then at Lu Yunzhang, and continued, "Today, the army distributed two pounds of meat to me. After you leave, General Lu, I will treat you to meat and wine."

Lu Yunzhang looked back at Li Yun, sighed deeply, and nodded, "Let's go."

At this time, he already regretted surrendering.

But regret is never of any use.

…………

After seeing Lu Yunzhang off, Li Yun immediately summoned Chen Da, Su Sheng, and several captains to the big tent to discuss matters.

At this moment, these people were not far from Li Yun's tent. Not long after, a group of seven or eight people came to Li Yun's tent and saluted Li Yun. "Greetings, Lord!"

Li Yun just nodded to them, and then nodded slightly to Su Sheng, then sat in the main seat, pressed his hands, and said, "Sit down and talk."

As everyone took their seats, the map in the big tent was hung high.

Everyone's eyes fell on the map, but Li Yun did not look at it. Instead, he said directly: "Before today's meeting, let me tell you about our overall goal this year."

"Now, more than half of Huainan Road is in our hands. The remaining ones are Guangzhou, Huangzhou, Shouzhou, Shenzhou, Anzhou, Mianzhou and several other states."

"Oh."

Li Yun thought about it and continued, "There is also Shuzhou, which is the closest to us."

"Now, the battle of Qizhou has come to an end. As long as we take over Shuzhou and Huangzhou, we can expel the Pinglu Army and slowly drive them out of Huainan Road."

"Our goal this year is to completely occupy the entire Huainan Road before the end of the year."

After saying this, Li Yun lowered his head to drink a sip of tea, then stood up again, pointed his finger at the hanging map, and said, "We are here now, Qizhou."

"To the east is Shuzhou, and to the west is Huangzhou."

"General Su."

Su Sheng immediately stood up, clasped his fists in a proper manner, bowed his head and said, "I am here!"

"Huangzhou is now handed over to you. You can prepare tomorrow and lead your troops into Huangzhou. Huangzhou should be occupied by the Wuchang Army now, but I'm afraid there are still some Pinglu Army."

Li Yun paused and continued, "I just had a detailed talk with General Lu. With his character, I think he will bow his head and surrender tomorrow. Brother Su, take him with you. If he can still control the Wuchang Army, it will be much easier for us to take over Huangzhou."

Su Sheng bowed his head deeply, clasped his fists and said, "I obey your command!"

Li Yun looked at Chen Da again and said with a smile: "Chen Da, you lead the troops to the east and take Shuzhou. Although Shuzhou is now sandwiched between us and looks like an easy target, Shuzhou is a large area and is adjacent to a huge mountainous area."

"Don't slack off. I'll give you three months to take down Shuzhou carefully and completely. Don't leave any hidden dangers."

Chen Da had already stood up by now. Hearing this, he bowed his head deeply and said, "I obey your command!"

After saying this, he thought for a moment and said, "Sir, our Luzhou County Magistrate Huang Chao is very fierce. Last time, he took the soldiers from Shucheng County and took Shuzhou Tong'an. Can I let him go to Shuzhou with me and help me take over Shuzhou?"

Hearing this, Li Yun lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "No problem, it's good to ask him to help. I haven't seen him for a long time. When you see him, tell him that if he fights well enough in this battle, after the war, no matter who the future governor of Shuzhou is, I will promote him to be the Sima of Shuzhou."

Chen Da responded and bowed his head deeply: "I understand!"

He was still quite excited in his heart.

Although he was one of the first people to follow Li Yun, much earlier than Generals Su Sheng and Zhao Cheng, to be more specific, even Zhou Liang officially followed Li Yun later than him.

However, up to now, he has not made any outstanding achievements, and his current rank of captain was all thanks to Li Yun's promotion.

Now, the credit that Shuzhou could obviously take was placed before him. It was foreseeable that as long as he was careful enough, nothing would go wrong with Shuzhou.

This great achievement was already in front of him, just waiting for him to take action.

Because he had a draft in mind, Li Yun quickly arranged the things that needed to be arranged. When the military meeting came to an end, Li Yun sat back in the main seat and continued, "There is one more thing I need to inform you of."

"Since the establishment of our Jiangdong Army, the military discipline has been quite good. There were a few scums who oppressed and robbed the people, but they were dealt with quickly."

"I believe that everyone here can maintain this kind of military discipline for one day, but we can't always lead the current number of troops. As the army grows larger in the future, it is inevitable that we will be deceived by our subordinates."

"Since the year before last, I have started planning to establish an inspection department in each army."

"The army has an inspection department, and the captain's camp has an inspection office."

"Each inspection is under the command of the generals of each military camp only during wartime. In peacetime, General Zhou Liang is in charge of it."

"The mistakes found by the Inspection Department will be sent directly to General Zhou Liang and me without going through the generals in the army. I will handle them in the end. As for the number of people to be inspected in each military camp."

"Draw five out of a hundred."

Li Yun glanced at everyone's expressions and knocked on the table without waiting for them to speak.

"This has been tried out in General Zhou Liang's army for a year, and the results are quite good. It will be gradually implemented in other armies before the end of this year."

"Everyone, do you have any comments?"

Given Li Yun's prestige, naturally no one dared to object. Everyone stood up and bowed their heads deeply.

"I have no objection!"

(End of this chapter)