The rise of the prince

Chapter 418
Starting early the next morning, Li Xingzhou led the new army to understand the specific situation in Jiangzhou City. It stands to reason that such a major preparation in advance should be at least ten days and a half months, and then slowly carried out.

But the emperor gave him too little time, only three months.

This is inseparable from Yu Chengan's calculation.

He bypassed Pingzhang Shidegong, and gave the emperor a memorial first, and also left the impression that the matter in Jiangzhou was "not that serious" in the emperor's mind, so that today's results will come.

One step first, one step at a time, and then he will be able to break the silver road with Duzhiska, and take the opportunity to disrupt the negotiations with the Kingdom of Jin. The two-pronged approach makes it difficult for him to take care of both.

If he can't handle Jiangzhou in the end, and there will be a mess of negotiating with the Kingdom of Jin when he goes back, and the two things will go hand in hand, the emperor can't blindly protect him even if he thinks in his heart.

Even if he manages to settle Jiangzhou, he can still be impeached for the matter with Jin Guo, this is Yu Chengan's calculation.

Yu Chengan is worthy of being an old fried dough stick, he is very seasoned and ruthless in his work.

The most important thing about this matter is that he cleverly prevented him from finding the blame.

It is almost a compulsory course to shirk responsibility in the chaos in the court. At the beginning, the crown prince defeated the entire fleet of Jingguo. The whole world was outraged, and the emperor had to deal with it. But the crown prince is a member of the royal family, the foundation of the country, what should I do? ?
Pull someone out to take the blame, fortunately, the crown prince has a lieutenant general!

This lieutenant general was probably not a coincidence, the emperor was afraid that he had deliberately arranged it before the expedition, with him, if the crown prince made a mistake, no matter how serious the crime was, he could be blamed on him.

In the end, sure enough, the prince was fined and grounded, and the lieutenant died at Anxiakou, and he was charged with a lot of crimes, one of which was to deceive the prince and deceive the crowd.

If Mr. De had discovered the clues about Jiangzhou's matter first, and discussed it in the court first, Mr. De and others would have insisted on arranging a deputy for him. The reason is very simple, if the matter fails, there is room for escape.

But Yu Cheng'an circumvented the Pingzhang matter and wrote directly to the emperor, and then relied on the crown prince to speak in front of the emperor to settle the matter internally, without any court discussion at all, and did not give him a way out at all.

So far, if something happens in Jiangzhou, he has no room to escape, and it only takes three short months.

Li Xingzhou was naturally in a hurry and could not tolerate a moment's delay.

He listed the purchase receipts and handed them over to Xie Linjiang, and then assigned the 180-odd women who were finally called together to tell them what they were going to do.

Then Wang Ke was asked to be responsible for arranging the manpower. After Wang Ke got the worksheet and work area division he had listed, he was confused and didn't understand what he meant.

But Li Xingzhou just told him to do it.

One day in the afternoon, he took a few sergeants and led the way around Jiangzhou City.

The law and order and environment in Jiangzhou City were worse than he had imagined. With a few sergeants, he actually witnessed the robbery of money in the street, and the gangsters ran away when they got their hands, but they were never caught at all.

The most frightening thing was that at the end of the day, they met a group of people twice, and they were robbed in the street twice in one day, which showed how poor the law and order was.

The first time was in the prosperous area in the south of the city, and the second time was in the more remote east of the city. A young scholar was directly surrounded by several strong men in a corner to rob money.

The scholar was rescued by them, but he was wounded in several places all over his body, and he staggered away without thanking them.

Several men from the new army were filled with righteous indignation, but Li Xingzhou paid attention to something else.

In the afternoon and later in the evening, Wang Tong came to see him in person. Tubi Mountain Villa and the Ningjiang government office were separated by three streets, not very far. After meeting, he asked him how he planned to deal with it, and he could ask the government to cooperate.

If Wang Tong hadn't been an official, he would still be a good person, with a kind heart and a very strong self-esteem, so he would not think of doing bad things, so he has always felt guilty that he was the one who got Li Xingzhou involved in this matter.

But these advantages of him turned into fatal flaws when he was in a high position, which harmed many people.

Li Xingzhou told him all about his plan, and said, "I really need the cooperation of the Ningjiang Prefecture Yamen."

After Wang Tong heard this, he looked confused, a little puzzled: "This? Why is this, what is the use of this? It's just like a child's play. If such a light thing can be done, then wouldn't Jiangzhou have already done it? rule."

"But you have never done it." Li Xingzhou said: "You just think about it. Doing and thinking about the simplest things are two different things. You just think about it, but you never do it. In the current situation, you can naturally do whatever you can."

Li Xingzhou knew in his heart what Wang Tong liked to hear most, so he went on to say: "If you don't accumulate small steps, you can't reach thousands of miles. If you don't accumulate small streams, you can't form rivers and seas." The sage also said, "Don't do evil because it is small, and don't do it with kindness." Small but not for'.

In Jiangzhou's current situation, many officials have racked their brains, but they all want to solve the problem once and do big things, but they forget that the saints have taught the world to do small things. "

Wang Tong was stunned, thinking, nodded slowly, and his eyes lit up: "That's right, you said that, I just remembered, don't do something because of the smallness. The sages have taught us a long time ago, but we have lost it." heart!"

Wang Tong lamented that he had forgotten his original intention, and thanked Li Xingzhou for waking him up. Finally, he promised to cooperate with Pingnan Wang in all his actions and drank a few glasses of wine with him before leaving. This was the most harmonious meeting between Weng and his son-in-law. A conversation is over.

After sending Wang Tong away, Li Xingzhou finally heaved a sigh of relief. Don't do good because it is small, and don't do evil because it is small. Naturally, he used it to fool Wang Tong. Wang Tong is a typical nerd and listens to the words of saints the most.

The reason why he did this was because the matter required the cooperation of the Yamen.

On the same day, Xie Linjiang bought many large bamboo baskets, brooms, rags, and buckets from various parts of the Jiangzhou market, and brought them back to the villa in a horse-drawn cart.

At dawn the next day, more than 100 Xiang troops were ordered to enter the city. The officials at the top of the city were greeted by Wang Tong, but they did not stop them, and opened the door to let people into the city.

These Xiangjun were wearing armor with knives, leather armor, Jingguo-style knives on their waists, and several people with bows and crossbows. Under the leadership of the capital, they held torches and waited outside the gate of the villa.

Li Xingzhou also just got up, around [-]:[-] to [-]:[-], he was used to getting up early.

Seeing these strictly disciplined Xiang troops, he gave Shen Lin another look in his heart.

100 people lined up, all came out to meet him and then returned to the team.

Most of the Xiang army were in leather armor, and only the elite of the imperial army could afford to wear iron armor.

Li Xingzhou has also seen those armored heavy infantrymen. They are really armed to the teeth, with four or five layers of armor inside and out, and only two observation holes are left for the eyes. Most of the weapons are bones, giant axes and spears.

In fact, many people are influenced by martial arts novels and have misunderstood the ancient army.For example, the most typical eighteen types of weapons are clearly recorded in the Song Dynasty. The so-called eighteen types of weapons come from the records of the Song Dynasty, but the records say one bow and two crossbows
The most elite heavy armored infantry of the Song Dynasty army used only three standard weapons, spears, giant axes, and sledgehammers. Heavy armored infantry basically did not know how to use knives and swords, but light armored infantry did have knives.Both Song Chongjia and Jin Chongjia had visors, and the unearthed visors were forged as a whole, leaving only two round holes in the eyes for observation.

Four or five layers of iron armor cover the whole body, leaving only two observation holes for the eyes, holding a long gun, a giant axe, and a sledgehammer in his hand, moving slowly, like a small tank, the style of painting is very different from the imagination of later generations.

Seeing this, Li Xingzhou asked the sergeant of the new army to bring out a large pile of baskets, and then distributed a bamboo basket to each of the soldiers of the Xiang army.

(End of this chapter)