Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 62 Fengzhou is the main battlefield

Wang Jing and Han Lingkun divided their troops to take Chengzhou and Jiezhou.

Luo Youdu led [-] soldiers to garrison Fengzhou.

Wang Jing and Han Lingkun each dispatched [-] soldiers from their own subordinates to Luo Youdu, plus [-] surrendered troops from Qinzhou's Zhao Yu's command, for a total of [-] soldiers.

This is the first time leading the army, Luo Youdu felt a little excited in his heart, but more cautious.

The first time may also be the last time.

In this era, there are too few opportunities for civil servants to command soldiers.If you perform poorly once, it is impossible for you to have the opportunity to take your turn in the future.

The sense of impression substitution will affect a lifetime.

After careful consideration, Luo Youdu asked Cao Bin to take over Fengzhou's city defense.

Zhang Jianxiong left behind by Wang Jing and Yang Yuan left behind by Han Lingkun are both good fighters.

Letting them charge forward is a good hand, but if they want to take over the city defense and be responsible for the security of the city, they may not be as good as Cao Bin.

Although Cao Bin has never been on the battlefield, after being a general, he has been involved in these military affairs.What is lacking is experience, it is easy to get started.

The most important thing is Cao Bin's character.

Cao Bin is unsmiling, serious and careful in his work, and is very suitable for this kind of meticulous work.

Give it to Cao Bin, Luo Youdu can rest assured.

On the third day after Wang Jing and Han Lingkun left.

Luo Youdu called Zhang Jianxiong, Yang Yuan, and Cao Bin to the Fengzhou Council Hall.

"General Zhang and General Yang, do you feel wronged by staying in Fengzhou?" Luo Youdu greeted Zhang Jianxiong and Yang Yuan familiarly, and asked half-jokingly.

Zhang Jianxiong and Luo Youdu are familiar with each other, and said firstly: "There is a little grievance, and this is not directed at the capital prison. The general respects the person of the capital prison. It's just that the general's hands are itchy, and he stays here in Fengzhou. There's no use for it."

Yang Yuan smiled awkwardly, obviously meaning the same thing.

Luo Youdu showed a mysterious smile on his face and said, "Then if I say that Fengzhou will be the main battlefield, do you believe it or not?"

Zhang Jianxiong and Yang Yuan looked at each other.

Zhang Jianxiong said excitedly: "Could it be that the Kingdom of Shu sent other troops to attack Fengzhou?"

"No!" Luo Youdu said: "The people who came should be Li Tinggui and Gao Yanchou."

Zhang Jianxiong frowned and said: "The news that Lord Bao Guo got is that the two of them led an army to reinforce Chengzhou and Jiezhou."

Luo Youdu stretched out his hand and clenched his fist and said, "I'm [-]% sure that their goal is Fengzhou. The so-called reinforcements to Chengzhou and Jiezhou are just a blindfold."

Zhang Jianxiong and Yang Yuan were dubious.

Luo Youdu said: "How about taking a gamble?"

"What are you gambling?"

This time it was Yang Yuan who spoke, a real gambler who loves to gamble like his life.

Luo Youdu said: "It's not big, just treat yourself to a drink!"

Zhang Jianxiong immediately said: "The supervisor appreciates the face, so what if I invite the supervisor to drink ten tons of wine? But this time, I will invite the supervisor to drink."

Yang Yuan also said: "The last general also wants to drink the wine of the capital prison, so it's a gamble."

"Okay!" Luo Youdu snapped his hands together: "It's a deal!"

He stared at the second general with burning eyes.

Luo Youdu knew that his prestige was not enough to convince Zhang Jianxiong and Yang Yuan completely.

Zhang Jianxiong and Yang Yuan only obeyed the orders of their superiors.

This kind of assignment cannot be strictly prohibited.

Faced with Luo Youdu's order, they would probably think about it, and then choose to obey or oppose.

What Luo Youdu wants is complete obedience, and only through this kind of betting, can he calm them down and make them truly recognize their abilities, so that he can further command them.

"I won't say anything else! The two generals will go back and arrange the soldiers to prepare for the battle, and then you and I will spend the past few days in Cuihonglou, and I'll treat you! Remember to call General Zhao, and don't tell him about our bet..."

The General Zhao he was talking about was the surrendered General Zhao Ting.

It is true that Zhao Ting is a surrendered general, but he is not a general promoted by Meng Chang, but an old general from the later Jin Dynasty, a general of the Central Plains, and has not been reused.He doesn't have much loyalty to the Shu Kingdom, and just lives with his salary. Compared with Han Jixun, he is still trustworthy.

But Luo Youdu didn't intend to take this risk, and didn't count him among them.

Zhang Jianxiong and Yang Yuan took orders to go.

Only Luo Youdu and Cao Bin were left in the hall.

"In the next period of time, the three generals Zhang Jianxiong, Yang Yuan, and Zhao Yu and I will drink flower wine in the Cuihong Building and act carelessly. You have become familiar with the Fengzhou city defense in the past two days, so relax your vigilance appropriately. Loose and tight, keep a good sense of proportion. We not only want to attract Shu soldiers, but also make them look down on me, a frail scholar."

The [-]% certainty that Luo Youdu said was not a random guess based on memory.

Now he has a factual basis.

After splitting up with Wang Jing and Han Ling, Luo Youdu stayed in Fengzhou's archives for a whole day and night, reviewing Fengzhou's population growth rate and taxation situation in the past ten years.

Twelve years before Fengzhou Guangzheng in the Shu Kingdom, the economic situation was very good.

Meng Chang adopted the two-tax law, and the common people only had to pay land tax and household tax.Among them, arable land is paid one bucket per mu per year, and there is even a tax exemption from time to time. The corvee situation is even simpler, that is, road construction and water control.

It can be imagined that the people of Fengzhou at this time were very happy.

But just 17 years after Meng Chang ascended the throne, that is, 12 years after Guangzheng, the land tax was changed from one dou per mu per year to three per mu per year, directly tripled, and the corvee levied was the previous year More than twice as much, from the project of benefiting the people by building roads and water control, to repairing palaces.

People's livelihood has been affected since then.

The tax situation in Fengzhou became more and more chaotic as it went on. Originally, there were only two taxes. Gradually, there were chief money, warehouse tax, agricultural equipment tax, cow leather tendon horn tax, Jinji tax, silkworm salt money, Quyin money, and city regulation money. Various additional tax increases emerge in endlessly.

This does not include corruption.

Corvée is also repeated every year.

Especially two years ago, when Meng Chang wanted to repair the palace, he directly bought good nanmu to offset the tax.

Fengzhou, which relies on the Qinling Mountains, happens to be rich in nanmu. In order to pay taxes, the people gave up farming and turned to woodcutters, causing famine.

Luo Youdu didn't believe that Meng Chang was specifically targeting Fengzhou, the situation in Fengzhou must be the epitome of most of the states and counties in Shu.

See the big from the small, and know the autumn of the world when a leaf falls.

War is the continuation of politics, and economics determines the direction of politics.

How the economy means what countermeasures the other party will adopt.

The opponent's economy is in a mess, and it is doomed to be impossible to fight a protracted war with them.

Therefore, sending generals Li Tinggui and Gao Yanchou to support Chengzhou and Jiezhou respectively, and using Chengzhou and Jiezhou to resist the Zhou army for a protracted war, is probably a blindfold.

Because they can't afford it!
Attacking Fengzhou, blocking the Zhou army's back road and grain road, and ending the war as quickly as possible is their only choice.

Therefore, Luo Youdu firmly believed that Fengzhou was the real goal of Houshu.

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