Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 168 Martial Arts Master!The third paper man!

Jinan Prefecture, Jinyiwei Yamen.

On the martial arts arena, Su Hao closed his eyes and rested his mind. The next moment, Su Hao suddenly opened his eyes. Using his strength on the stone slab, his whole body jumped up to a height of nearly two feet, and when he was about to fall, he suddenly twisted his body. , as if borrowing force from the void, it jumped up nearly two feet again.

When he was about to fall, Su Hao slapped his palm towards the void on the side, and with the force of the rebound, he moved sideways for more than ten feet. At the same time, he twisted his body and borrowed the force again, flying upwards obliquely like a dragon, like a cloud dragon. After moving hundreds of feet in mid-air, Su Hao slowly landed.

At this time, a paper knife suddenly appeared in Su Hao's hand. With one strike, the sky and the earth seemed to darken. The next moment, a knife light pierced through dark!

hiss!
As soon as the light of the knife passed, a clearly visible shadow of the knife was left in midair, and then slowly dissipated.

Landing!

Reward!

Seeing the dissipating blade shadow, Su Hao nodded in satisfaction. Since he was promoted to a martial arts master, his internal strength can support him to stay in the air for a short time. Although he can't fly freely like a congenital master, it's not bad. up.

And more importantly, after he reached the master of martial arts, the sword intent and pure yang artistic conception that he had comprehended before, these two artistic concepts can already exert their full power. If you want to behead at close quarters, then there will be a good show.

Having comprehended the two artistic concepts, his current martial arts strength is not considered weak among all martial arts masters.

After testing his strength, Su Hao went back to Qianhu Loft and began to handle official affairs. Now he occupies more and more territories and more and more official affairs. Although he can delegate some powers, the foundation is still not stable. When delegating power.

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No. [-] and No. [-] immersed themselves in processing official documents, while Su Hao came to the side to meditate and practice his inner strength. Although his inner strength has already surpassed that of a martial arts master, the innate master is still far away. After opening up the meridians of his whole body, the The internal strength only filled up less than [-]% of his dantian, and if there were no adventures, he would have no hope of breaking through the innate realm for at least four or five years.

At this time, Liao Qing came up with a letter: "Qianhu, this is a secret letter from Dongchang Mansion."

Secret letter?

After receiving the secret letter, Su Hao opened it casually and read it carefully.

interesting!
After reading the secret letter, Su Hao frowned. This letter was sent by Tang Xiangjin. The content of the letter is a plan, a plan with a high success rate. If it succeeds, Shandong has a great possibility to become his pocket If it fails, there is not much loss.

After thinking for a while, a strange look flashed in Su Hao's eyes. If he succeeds this time, then he will almost be proclaimed emperor. Those wealthy families in the city have tried to persuade him to join him several times before, but he rejected them all.

Although proclaiming the emperor can make him change his name, but now he can't control the whole Shandong, and he doesn't have any great achievements. Proclaiming the emperor is just a joke, but Xu Hongru is proclaiming the emperor. What's the use of this, it's not easy to be wiped out.

Since ancient times, emperors have been made by men with strong soldiers and horses. They don't have enough strength. Proclaiming emperor is just for self-entertainment. According to his original plan, at least the three prefectures of Qingzhou, Dengzhou and Laizhou must be won before he can be called emperor. The capital of Jianguo, these three mansions face the sea on three sides, and the terrain is complex, can become the foundation.

After thinking for a while, Su Hao got up and went to the side room. In the room, a skeleton made of bamboo was extremely conspicuous, surrounded by a lot of paper skins. This was his third natal paper figurine.

As his internal strength improved, his physical fitness became better and better, and he could refine more mana. Although most of his energy was devoted to refining the demon spirit paper armor in the past six months, it was still difficult for him to refine it. Refined the third natal paper figurine.

Walking in front of the bamboo skeleton, Su Hao made seals with his hands. The next moment, all the paper skins seemed to come alive, like white pythons wrapped around the skeleton. Soon, a natal paper figurine took shape.

After putting away the No. [-] natal paper figurine, Su Hao took out a lifelike paper figurine from his sleeve. The paper figurine looked exactly like himself.

Mana was injected, and the paper figurine grew against the wind. After a while, it became the size of a normal person. Then, Su Hao used his internal force to force a drop of heart blood onto the paper figurine's forehead. The next moment, the blood was absorbed by the paper figurine. After the heartache, a breath of life appeared on the paper figurine.

"Uncle Fu, please control this paper figurine to sit in Fucheng for me."

Su Hao woke up Fu Bo who was sleeping.

"Don't worry, young master."

After waking up, the paper figurine Fu Bo turned into a ghost and got into the paper doll's body. Soon, the paper figurine became flexible under Fu Bo's control.

Looking at the paper doll that was exactly the same as himself, Su Hao nodded in satisfaction. This paper doll was specially made by him to cover his whereabouts. Ever since he raised the art of painting skin to the pinnacle, he was able to create skins that resemble real people's skin. With almost the same paper skin, plus his hard work and Forbe, it is not difficult to pretend to be him in a short time.

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Outside Dongchang City, a huge military camp stretches as far as the eye can see stands on the east bank of the canal, and on the west bank is the tall and majestic Dongchang City.

Wang Congyi and Yang Guodong looked at the dense crowd of peasants in the canal cleaning up the silt in the river.

"There are also experts among these rebels."

Wang Congyi sighed as he watched the silt cleared by the peasants from the canal. Tang Xiangjin and others organized the silt to be dug from Dongchang Lake by the peasants and soldiers. The silt not only made it more difficult for them to clean up, but also broadened the area of ​​Dongchang. The size of the lake made it more difficult for them to attack the city.

"It's useless to have an expert."

Yang Guodong on the side said calmly: "In another three or four days, the remaining river canals will be dug again. By then, the water transportation will resume, and with the food, the imperial court will be able to recruit more troops, mobilize more masters, and lay siege on multiple sides. They are bound to lose."

Although Su Hao has quite a lot of troops now, the war is not just based on the strength of troops. Now Su Hao only occupies the entire Jinan Prefecture, surrounded by Da Ming's territory, there is no geographical advantage at all.

As long as the imperial court overcomes the current crisis of food shortage and recruits more soldiers and horses, all the way from Qingzhou Prefecture, all the way down from Dezhou, all the way from Yanzhou Prefecture to the north, and finally they attack eastward, only 40 to [-] troops are needed , Su Hao can be completely trapped in Jinan Mansion.

Now the opponent has 10,000+ soldiers and horses, and the food consumed every day is unimaginable. Only Jinan Prefecture cannot afford to support so many soldiers and horses. They don’t even need to attack the city of Jinan Prefecture, they only need to slowly eat away all the counties. Su Hao will be defeated.

"Mr. Yang is right."

Hearing Yang Guodong's words, Wang Congyi showed a smile on his face. In the past two months, the pressure on his shoulders was not small. If the capital was not busy liquidating eunuchs and had no time to pay attention to him, he would probably have already Was demoted back to his hometown.

But seeing Dongchang Mansion which was still completely silent, Wang Congyi frowned again and said, "Mr. Yang, the rebels in Dongchang Mansion must know about this kind of thing, but the other party just sits and watches us dig the canal without blocking it at all. If you don't even try to delay, is there any fraud in it?"

"probably not."

Yang Guodong shook his head and said, "Our 10,000+ army is here. It is normal for the opponent not to dare to leave the city. After all, the opponent's only support is the tall city wall. Without the city wall, the opponent is no match!"

Hearing this, Wang Congyi also felt that he was a little suspicious. His 10,000+ army was stationed here, and the other party dared to go out of the city was tantamount to courting death.

.........

On the other side, the government office of Dongchang Mansion.

"See Chito!"

Looking at Su Hao, Tang Xiangjin and others were stunned. No one expected that Su Hao would suddenly come to Dongchang Mansion from Jinan Mansion.

Looking at the people saluting, Su Hao calmly said: "Get up."

This is not because he pretended, but because since ancient times, there has been a distinction between superiors and inferiors. Now that Tang Xiangjin and others are his subordinates, they naturally have to respect this ceremony. He has no idea of ​​following the path of equality in modern society, so etiquette is indispensable. .

If he still maintains the equal attitude before, it will indeed have the effect of winning people's hearts in a short period of time, but it will bury hidden dangers for the future, because once the equality lasts for a long time, Tang Xiangjin and the others will also think that they are equal to each other from the bottom of their hearts. Then over time, some thoughts that should not be there will appear.

Therefore, instead of leaving hidden dangers for the future, it is better to set the dignity and inferiority now. Maybe this is a bit unreasonable, but this is the reality. Confucianism can defeat other schools of thought and make the world respect Confucianism mainly because of its loyalty and filial piety. The concept of benevolence and justice, respect and order is the most suitable technique for the superior to control the subordinates.

"Tang Baihu, how likely is it that the plan mentioned in your secret letter will be successful?"

After retracting his thoughts, Su Hao asked.

"Back to Qianhu, the next official has full confidence."

Hearing Su Hao's words, Tang Xiangjin clasped his hands and said, "Your official has already sent people to find out. Now the summer grains in Huguang and Henan are being harvested, and the capital has also concentrated the grains from these two places to the south of the Yangtze River. We will leave after the canal is opened. The canal will be transported to the capital, and in three or four days, the canal will be re-dug, and in a month at most, a large amount of grain will be gathered in the south of the Yangtze River."

After a pause, Tang Xiangjin continued: "Now there are eighteen Hongyi cannons in the city, and the section of the canal near Fucheng is within the range of the Hongyi cannons. The officials have already prepared tens of thousands of sacks of mud. Sha, we will sink the boats and block the river again with sand when the food grains are transported officially!"

Hearing what Tang Xiangjin said, Su Hao immediately understood why Tang Xiangjin was so sure. Needless to say, the importance of grain to the imperial court, he only took millions of grain grain from Linqing Prefecture and Dezhou, and blocked the canal. There have been more than a dozen mutinies. If he blocks three or four million shi of grain in Jiangnan this time, I am afraid that the capital will collapse because of it.

As for transporting the grain to the capital by land, that's nonsense. Last time he transported 5000 shi of grain from Dezhou to Jinan, it took four or five days and nearly [-] vehicles of various kinds for a distance of only [-] miles. , nearly [-] people were transported.

And the distance from Xuzhou to the capital of nearly two thousand miles, three or four million stones of grain, is to invite the gods to transport it, and the gods will be exhausted. Even if it is transported by the Yellow River to Kaifeng and then to the capital by land, it is more than 400 miles.

To transport the three or four million shi grains from Kaifeng to the capital, at least nearly 400 vehicles and three or four million civilians will be needed for more than a month, and it will take at least one month to go back. Two months are just for the people to eat At least 30 million shi of grain is needed, which is nearly 40% lost. Adding the food for livestock, it directly loses 60/400, and only [-]/[-] of the [-] million shi grains can reach the capital.

And this is only on paper, the casualties of civilians along the way, the casualties of livestock, the loss of vehicles, and the loss of 40 young and old people who were delayed for two months during the busy farming season, among them, it is even more incomprehensible. This is what he took away. Millions of stones of grain, blocking the canal, can cause more than a dozen mutinies in the north.

In addition to land transportation, the imperial court can actually transport grain by sea. However, sea transportation has been abandoned for more than a hundred years. It is almost impossible to use sea transportation temporarily. Although there are sea ships among the people, it is too late to organize enough ships in a short time. In three or four months, the capital is probably already cold.

So at that time, Wang Congyi had only two choices, one was to attack Dongchang Mansion at all costs, and the other was to organize masters to attack the city wall to destroy the Hongyi cannon and rush to repair the canal.

However, the area of ​​Dongchang Lake is very large now, with a width of tens of feet from the edge of the lake to the bottom of the city wall. To attack the city is to die. It is impossible for a 10,000+ army to take down Dongchang Mansion, so Wang Congyi can only organize masters to attack City wall destruction is an option for Hongyi Cannon.

And this choice is what Tang Xiangjin wanted, to wipe out all the masters in the imperial army, and then take the opportunity to defeat the imperial army. Although it is difficult for a single strong man to decide the outcome of the war, if an army loses all the masters, then this There is no doubt that this army will be defeated!

Once the 10,000+ army of Wang Congyi is wiped out, in a short period of time, the imperial court will have no spare power to organize another army to attack them, and the blocked water transportation is related to the lifeline of the imperial court, so the capital must either mobilize the frontier army, or Recruit him.

However, it is not realistic to mobilize 10,000+ frontier troops to attack him. First of all, there is no food. If the frontier troops are mobilized, the frontier troops may take down the capital first, so if he can defeat Wang Congyi's 10,000+ army, then the court There is a high probability that they will choose to recruit him, and then turn against him after solving the problem of grain supply.

As for the conditions for recruiting him, let him open it, and you can ask for the whole of Shandong. With the importance of three or four million shi grains to the north, there is a high probability that the capital will accept it, because if there is a real chaos in the capital, The whole of Shandong is also his, and it is difficult to stop him with the bravery recruited by the prefectures and cities.

After all, if these bravery are really useful, it is impossible for the Jurchen in the previous life to take over the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)