Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 487 Emperor Shi's National Policy
At the end of March, Xu Xuan went to the capital again, saying again that Li Yu was innocent, and that Qin Guoshi had no name, and asked to withdraw his troops.

It's just that this time, he wasn't so confident. The soldiers came to the city, and all the land outside the capital was lost. There was no room for negotiation at all. He could only try to persuade Qin to withdraw his troops from some etiquette and morality.

Shi Congyundao didn't embarrass him, but simply explained that it is impossible to withdraw the army. Today, the next family is the general trend. If Li Yu understands the current affairs, knows the general situation, and surrenders the city as soon as possible, he may be able to save the king.

Then let him go back.

By the end of March, more than 100 generals including Lin Renzhao and Zhu Lingyun were escorted to Beijing, and many of them were pardoned for their crimes. After all, it was his own family who fought, and Emperor Shi didn't want to embarrass them.

Among them, 13 people including Lin Renzhao were recommended by Cao Bin, saying that they were rare talents, and they were promoted to continue to serve in the army. Allow them to return to Jiangnan after the war.

Afterwards, Emperor Shi, who was in a good mood, visited Xiao Hunian. He hadn't looked at it carefully before, but now it seems that Xiao Hunian is a young girl with a high chin, like a proud peacock.

Her clear and beautiful face has a special flavor. In fact, it seems that, probably because of riding a horse and practicing martial arts all the year round, her figure is actually very well-proportioned and slender. Before that, she had been asking to bring her own pendant into the bedroom, but was rejected by Lin Shanggong, and finally made trouble in front of him. Come, Emperor Shi agreed after thinking about it.

If she stays in the dormitory, she can keep it, and when she needs to attend the dormitory, just call her over.

When a person is in an unfamiliar environment, his self-esteem will become very strong, which is a kind of self-defense.

Emperor Shi looked at the little girl in front of him, stretched out his hand and pulled him to sit beside him, "Who taught you Chinese?"

"My father." She said calmly.

Emperor Shi stretched out his hand and groped in some places, "You are quite calm."

"My father and uncle are all afraid of you, but I, um, I'm not afraid of you at all," Xiao Hunian said stubbornly.

"Of course, don't be afraid. I'm your husband. Why are you afraid of me?" Shi Huangdi smirked. Although she pretended to be calm, she was still just a little girl, and she was no match for Shi Huangdi.

"Yeah." Xiao Hunian looked up at him, his eyes filled with mist: "I'm not afraid."

A few days later, Xiao Hunian was indeed much more well-behaved. A 19-year-old child was no match for Emperor Shi. After in-depth communication, she was even clingier than other concubines after getting acquainted. Emperor Shi also understood this in his heart. A young girl who has just begun to fall in love, coupled with the conventions of this world.Secondly, she was alone in the capital, and the only thing she could rely on was herself.

For this reason, Emperor Shi felt that it was his duty to take care of the young girl, and he often visited her. He also had political considerations and hoped that Xiao Hunian would give birth to a child for him.

April was Shi Congyun's happy time, probably because he was from Khitan, Xiao Hunian was very good at riding, indeed better than many people.

In mid-April, Cao Bin and the commanders-in-chief of the various armies wrote letters together, stating the situation in the south. Now only Jinling City is trapped, and there is also a Tang army of more than 3000 people in Xuanzhou, southwest of Jinling.

The main general is Lu Jiang, who was originally a patrol inspector along the river in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but he refused to surrender.

Everyone felt that they should ignore him first and take Jinling directly. When the Southern Tang Dynasty falls, he must have no reason to stick to it, and his little people will not be able to make waves in Xuanzhou.

After the last resistance force, Zhu Lingyun's army was destroyed, the southern capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Hongzhou, and other places have also been taken over by the Qin army. Now in the entire south of the Yangtze River, only Jinling and a small part of Hongzhou are still in the enemy's hands, and the rest of the counties have been taken over by the Qin army. The army took over and began to implement the laws of Qin State, and the people resumed production and life.

Shi Congyun was very happy after seeing it, so he summoned the second government and the third department to discuss the next action plan.

After several days of discussion, it was finally decided that Luqiu Zhongqing would go to Jiangnan in person, and as the magistrate of Jinling, he would have full power to coordinate Jiangnan's government affairs, and asked Li Fang to assist.

Shi Congyun also added Zhang Qixian, the young man he was optimistic about, and asked him to go to the south of the Yangtze River to practice and experience, and let the old Chen Chengzhao and Shen Yilun return to Beijing to rest.

At the same time, it was ordered that one-third of the more than [-] troops should be transferred back to Beijing, leaving only the siege troops, because at this time, apart from the Jinling defenders, there were no large-scale Tang army armed up and down the south of the Yangtze River.

And because of the strict military discipline of the Qin army and the account of Emperor Shi, the Qin army did not burn, kill, loot, poison the people, and there was no place to resist the armed forces during the march, so there were not so many troops to maintain order. For the rule of Qin, Jiangnan Many people actually knew it well in their hearts, and they had expected this day to come, so they didn't have much resistance.

On the contrary, there are very few people in Jiangnan, such as Lin Renzhao and Lu Jiang, who fought bravely to the end.

Cao Bin predicted that Jinling could be conquered within two months. If it wasn't for the fear of killing the people in the city and causing too much damage to Jinling, it might take half a month to take it down with concentrated firepower and continuous bombardment day and night.

Of course, such a proposal was rejected by Emperor Shi. It is very difficult to destroy the city walls and gates with artillery now, not to mention that Jinling’s city gates have been specially reinforced, and they have also heard that Qin’s artillery is powerful.

What Cao Bin said by shelling was not to hit the city walls or gates, but to bombard the city continuously, destroying the houses and buildings in the city by throwing projectiles, and killing the soldiers and civilians in the city to cause a morale blow.

It is conceivable that if shelling takes turns, you can't sleep in the middle of the night, maybe there will be shells falling from the sky at any time, and death is like the wind. It is unbearable for everyone, and you will definitely surrender after not holding on for too long.

However, Emperor Shi did not intend to use such a method in Jinling.

In order to make meritorious service, the craftsmen of the secret department also proposed a method. They took people to the south of the Yangtze River, built workshops on the spot, and cast a giant cannon to blast open the city gate.

When Emperor Shi heard it, he was a little dazed, ah, has Jinling become the Constantinople of the East?

However, Shi Congyun did not reject this proposal. It is contradictory. War is the cruelest, most inhuman, and heaviest killing human activity. When technology advances the fastest.

Shi Congyun doesn't know if the craftsmen of the Confidentiality Department can really build a giant cannon to blast open the gate of Jinling City. What he cares about is sending these people there. a good thing.

So he approved 27 craftsmen of the secret department who jointly signed Shangshu, allowed them to go to Jiangnan to implement their own plans, and allocated a huge sum of [-] yuan to them.

Today's Emperor Shi has plenty of money, and in the next few years Jiangnan's taxes will be sent directly to Daliang, nothing else, just being generous!

By April, the forty battalions who had first met Daliang had returned to Daliang from Bianshui to rest. Emperor Shi ordered the officials of the Privy Council to prepare the reward charter and submit it, and then rewarded the troops.

Afterwards, the twelve elite battalions were transferred to the northern front line. As the situation in the south stabilized, Emperor Shi gradually looked north to Youzhou, Yunzhou and other places. That was his hometown, and it was his other father Shi Yanchao. Looking forward to the place.

However, before the war in the south was completely over, Emperor Shi did not intend to act rashly, but the move of continuously increasing troops, many people in the country could see his intentions.

On the eighth day of April, Emperor Shi said bluntly in the Chuigong Hall when the senior officials of the Second Mansion and the Three Divisions were anxious to meet: "One generation should do the work of one generation, just as Han Xin said to Han Gaozu at the beginning. Solve problems while thinking about battles.

Otherwise, once the world is stable and the lives of the people are stable, and no one wants to fight, if you go to send troops, there will be many constraints and you will be unable to do what you want. It will not only be me, but you will all become sinners in history. "

Seeing that Emperor Shi was straightforward and still spoke so seriously, everyone nodded, and no one dared to say anything else.

Emperor Shi didn't want to leave room for them to discuss such big issues of right and wrong. If they were stable for 20 years, the Qin army would not be the experienced Qin army now, so once the wheels of war started, they must not stop , until crushing powerful enemies from all directions, this is Shi Congyun's national policy.

(End of this chapter)