please make me king

Chapter 1145
It is said that since Hong Chengchou surrendered to the rebel army, although he has assumed the title of chief of staff, he has not really come up with many effective strategies.

However, this time he proposed the strategy of "stabilizing Gan Township, clearing the farmland, and recruiting Gan soldiers to prepare for the Eastern Expedition", which really caught Zhang Shun's eyes.

It happened that there was an "idleman" Sun Chuanting under him, so he immediately ordered him to take office.

As for Chen Jitai, he is a capable man. Zhang Shun is going to wait for Fatty Zhang to persuade the "random soldiers" Dang Shousu and "soap eagle" Zhang Rukui to put him in charge of these two and set up another battalion.

"No, I said His Royal Highness King Shun, you just reuse us?" Sun Chuanting couldn't believe it.

"Aren't you afraid that the two of us are spies sent by the imperial court to deliberately spy on the intelligence of the rebel army and sabotage the plan of the rebel army?"

"Employees are not suspicious, don't say you two are not, so what if they are Daming's spies?" Zhang Shun said with a sneer.

"Even if it is Daming's spy, I dare to use it with confidence!"

Just kidding, if the Ming government and the public are really aware of the threat of the rebel army, how stupid are they to send two spies at the cost of breaking their own life-saving straw?
Even if they are so stupid, you, Sun Chuanting, are not really that stupid!

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin!" Sun Chuanting and Chen Jitai, after some trials, were really convinced this time.

The two couldn't help but bowed: "It is often said that King Shun is magnanimous and courteous to the corporal, making people willing to die."

"Seeing you today, it's true. The two of us can't wait to meet King Shun at the beginning of his career, follow him around all the time, listen to his teachings, and we will have no regrets!"

Sun Chuanting and Chen Jitai are different from others. They are serious people who know the difficulty of doing things.

Now the two of them have just been suspected by Da Ming, and they are somewhat tragic like "I didn't fail the world, but I didn't expect the world to betray me".

As a result, after arriving at Zhang Shun's side, not only were they entrusted with important tasks, but they were also deeply trusted. How could they not compete with each other to die?

After finally appeasing the agitated Sun Chuanting and Chen Jitai, Zhang ordered Wang Jinyi to lead them down to rest.

Sun Chuanting and Chen Jitai knew that Zhang Shun, Hong Chengchou and Lu Weiqi had important matters to discuss, and Sun Chuanting himself was concerned that his son Sun Shirui had been frightened, so they bid farewell to Zhang Shun and went to check the house that Zhang Shun rewarded.

"His Royal Highness King Shun, are these two reliable?" Lu Weiqi couldn't help asking when he saw the two had just left.

"Whether it's reliable or not depends not only on you and me, but also on him!" Zhang Shun pointed in the direction of Shuntian Mansion in the northeast, and couldn't help sneering.

Hong Chengchou gave a wry smile when he heard the words, who said it wasn't?
When I encircled and suppressed King Shun, besides my own arrogance, wasn't there also a reason for the imperial court's desperate urging?

"His Royal Highness Shun, do you really want to change the original stable strategy?" Hong Chengchou frowned, and couldn't help asking again.

"Time doesn't wait for me!" Zhang Shun understood Hong Chengchou's mood and couldn't help saying with emotion.

"If my prediction is correct, I'm afraid there will be a battle between Ming, Jin and me between the end of this year and the middle of next year!"

"Oh? I don't know why King Shun made such a judgment?" Hong Chengchou frowned and asked involuntarily.

Too radical, the newly adjusted strategy of "King Shun" this time is too radical, almost to the point of desperate, life or death.

"Do you still remember my 'food war' back then?" Zhang Shun shook his head and said with a wry smile, "At the beginning, I just had a whim, and based on the mentality of 'beating children on rainy days, idle is idle', I just played such a trick .”

"Now it seems that this move is about to bear fruit!"

"King Shun, what do you mean?" Lu Weiqi hesitated to speak after hearing this.

"Yes, both the Ming Frontier Army and Hou Jin are short of food!" Zhang Shun said with a sneer.

"Actually, we are almost running out of food! If we hadn't squeezed millions of silver from the Fu Fan, Chong Fan, Tang Fan, and Qin Fan princes before, and exchanged a lot of food and grass from Cheng Jia, how could we raise food? Can you afford this more than [-] troops?"

"Shun Wang Mingjian!" Lu Weiqi shook his head with a wry smile upon hearing this.

Before Sun Chuanting was present, Lu Weiqi did not mention this matter in order not to reveal the reality of the rebel army.

In fact, the original annual tax in Shaanxi would only raise [-] soldiers and horses.

Even with the addition of Henan, Nanyang and Ruzhou, the two prefectures and one prefecture still cannot support [-] troops.

If you really want to feed an army of [-], that's easy to do.

The rebel army can back up their troops and send officials to measure the cultivated land one by one. According to the amount and barrenness of the land, it is enough to pay for food as a whole.

It's just that if a massive action is taken, not only will it take three to five years of effort, but it will easily provoke a mutiny.

At that time, under the attack from inside and outside, whether the rebel army can overcome this difficulty is still in doubt.

Disarmament, it is impossible to disarm!

The reason why the rebel army can stabilize its rule in Shaanxi now is because of the soldiers of the rebel army who are good at fighting and the prestige of King Shun's use of soldiers like a god.

If there is a basis for self-destruction, then it is called death without a burial place!

How to do?
Cold!

In Zhang Shun's previous life, there was a saying called "War is the continuation of politics", or more bluntly, "Internal conflicts must be resolved externally".

What do you mean?
If there is an internal problem, they will launch a war to divert the conflict. Now Zhang Shun has a little bit of this meaning.

"How long can the food last?" Zhang Shun asked solemnly.

"If you don't use the three million shi reserve grain, it is estimated that next year's summer grain will not last!" Lu Weiqi concluded.

"Isn't it enough to add Gansu, Ningxia and Guyuan?" Zhang Shun asked in surprise.

"Not enough!" Lu Weiqi shook his head and said with a wry smile, "My Highness King Shun!"

"Our rebels don't only have soldiers to eat food, officials big and small, and disaster relief from all over the world, plus cavalry, elites, one person and two salaries, how can three million shi a year support [-] elite soldiers?"

"Okay, I'm greedy!" Zhang Shun shook his head and said, "How about this, these few days I recruited my father-in-law Li Jingu and Cheng Jia, and bought hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass at all costs to make up for the shortage!"

"No, Your Highness King Shun, do you really want to run Daming and Houjin apart?" Lu Weiqi said in surprise.

"It's not just a run and collapse? I want to smash them all together!" Zhang Shun sneered and said like crazy.

"You've also heard the story of the soil under the king's feet, right? The king of Qin used Shang Yang's strategy of plowing and fighting to fight the survivors of the sixth life, and swallowed it for two weeks and died of the princes!"

"The method is nothing more than the eight characters of 'making a hole, plowing and fighting to build a country'!"

"Today I want to imitate the sages and take advantage of the disadvantages of Ming and Jin to fight for the world!"

"From now on, when expanding the army and preparing for war, everything must be done first, followed by money and food. This king wants to exhaust the manpower and material resources of Shaanxi, and conquer the east and west, so as to pacify the world!"

(End of this chapter)