Gentlemen, listen to the sword chant

Chapter 102 Statement and Jiang Ziqi
Haizhou.

At the beginning, Lin Guming threatened Dake and Yanchang to lead his troops to defend this place with the imperial army as a threat. They are ready to move, and they all want to dominate the allied forces and gain control.However, as soon as the news of Xi Shen's defection to the enemy came out, Dake and Yanchang canceled this idea, and began to scold and joke, the house was stolen, how many more beatings?Now Dake and Yanchang had a rare thought together, planning to withdraw their troops from Wuyue.It doesn't matter if you don't get mixed up in this muddy water.Originally, when the two sent troops, they were just putting on a show. Everyone came. If they didn't come, wouldn't it be embarrassing for the court and labeled as a rebel?
Chinese army tent.

Yan Chang set up a banquet and invited the lieutenant generals to drink. This was the last meal for the troops withdrawing from Haizhou. According to news, Dake left yesterday with the Western Regions Army, Shanxi Army and Bingzhou Army.

At this time, counselor Fan Ke waved the paper fan and said in a low voice, "General, I think it's okay not to leave."

Fan Ke is over eighty years old, but his body is strong. This talent is full of talent. He is not only Yan Chang's military adviser, but also Yan Chang's adoptive father. He almost watched Yan Chang grow up, and he has been going out with the army. His prestige in the army is very high He is a counselor personally selected by Yanchang's mother. He assisted Yanchang's father to ascend the throne back then, and now he will also assist Yanchang in inheriting the Snow King's throne.

"Father Ya, why did you say that?" Yan Chang was stunned, everyone left, Xi Shen had defected to the enemy, it was only a matter of time before Wuzhou fell, if he didn't leave now, wouldn't he wash his neck and wait for the Dongying people to chop him off?

Fan Ke smiled and said nothing.

Yan Chang rested his chin and began to think, with a strange expression on his face: "Father Ya, please explain clearly."

Fan Ke no longer relied on the old to sell the old, closed the paper fan, and said with a smile: "General, it is precisely because everyone has left that we have no power to compete. If we don't leave at this time, this great military achievement will not only help His Royal Highness the Third Prince." Ascending the throne will also stabilize your prestige in the north, why not?"

Yan Chang looked distressed, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered all the singers in the main hall to retreat. The soldiers didn't understand, so Yan Chang simply got up, followed Fan Ke to the war room, looked at the sand table, and said, "Ya Fu, the dozens of Xi Shen Wan Dajun, plus the Dongying people, if we don’t leave, it’s definitely not enough to guard Haizhou, what do you mean by that?”

Fan Ke calmly analyzed the situation, and said: "General, the imperial court has issued an edict to abolish Xi Shen's title in Wuzhou. The army is in chaos. Now Xi Shen is already in a state of distress. He can mobilize less than [-]% of his troops. , In addition, the resistance and disgust of the people in Wuzhou towards Xi Shen is also increasing day by day; secondly, Uesugi was also dismissed from the military post by Dongying political circles, and is about to return to Guangling. The new commander-in-chief is Chizuko Honma , this person is a right-winger in Dongying, a fanatical believer who advocates war; third, the little princess fell into the hands of Dongying people; by the way, I heard that the hundreds of families hidden in Wuyue are also secretly moving..."

Yan Chang guessed Fan Ke's intentions, and suddenly realized: "Yafu means that this battle will not end so soon?"

"That's right, I'm guessing that if this campaign continues like this, the situation won't stabilize for a year or so."

"so what should I do?"

"Pretend to retreat and abandon Haizhou, but in fact stand still."

"But..." Yan Chang felt unhappy because there was not enough food to last until later, seeing Fan Ke's weird smile, Yan Chang understood that he was going to grab food from the people in Haizhou.

"General, those who achieve great things don't care about small details. Right now, our army has no way out."

If you are not ruthless, you will not be able to stand firm. Yan Chang, who was born in a noble family, understands this truth better than anyone else.

Seeing Yan Chang's hesitation, Fan Ke immediately took a strong medicine and began to deduce the occupation by pointing at the sand table.

"Look, general, now that Wu Bei's army is in chaos, Xi Shen can't take care of himself. His only chance is that the Dongying people stabilize the situation for him and support him to continue to hold this position. Xi Shen has long been out of morality. As time goes by, his There will be fewer and fewer loyal ministries, and Dongying is about to transfer power. Honma Chizuko’s attitude towards Wu Yue is temporarily unclear. There are only a few possibilities for the future situation. First, Xi Shen will sit firmly in his position like the king of Yue , become the puppet King Wu of the Dongying people in the Wuzhou area, but this possibility is very slim, because Xi Shen's traitorous country makes it impossible for the remaining allied forces to leave safely. He has offended all the princes, and will definitely send troops here in the future In the name of avenging and eliminating thieves to pick up cheap, the secret hundred families will not miss this opportunity, and Wuzhou will only become more and more chaotic; second, although Dongying has acquired the Wuyue area, it has not obtained the documents from the Great Liang court. Wuyue still belonged to Great Liang. They urgently launched a war, pulled the imperial court into the water, and forced the imperial court to sign an agreement to recognize Dongying's legal seat in Daliang. But now that Lin Guming has returned to the capital, the fuse is Princess Uesugi. Qi Bao won Lin Gu's life, it will be very difficult to keep the princess this time, the war will definitely expand..."

In short, the interests of all parties are entangled in Wuyue, so that the water is very deep, and the words are unclear.

How deep is the water?
E.g.

Prince Gong knew that he could not win the support of the princes through normal channels, and he wanted to steal the throne, so he reached a cooperation with the Dongying people.As long as Prince Gong ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he would cede the Wu and Yue prefectures to the Dongying people in the name of Emperor Great Liang, so as to guarantee the legal rights of the Dongying people in Wuyue.What he has to do is to kill people with a knife and use Dongying people to eradicate the Zhongzhou Tiejun. No matter what plan he has, the Zhongzhou Tiejun will always be a hurdle that cannot be avoided. Therefore, he will try his best to find opportunities and find the spearhead, so that the Zhongzhou Tiejun has to go to Wuyue join the war.

Huangshi took away the eldest prince and the third prince. Huangshi was the one who ruled over the entire capital. He wanted to support the little prince. His mother was a nobleman in Zhongzhou. To use the iron army, you can only hide in the palace and use other methods to repel the Japanese people.

Xi Shen has great ambitions. He doesn't want to really bow down to Dongying, he doesn't want to be the dog of Dongying people, he doesn't want to be an obedient and well-behaved puppet like the King of Yue. His essential purpose is to control the nine counties of Wuzhou, nothing more.Surrendering to the enemy and betraying the country is just his compromise. His real goal is to break away from the control of Great Liang completely like the princes of the fourteen prefectures, to be his own king, and to be an independent leader without being oppressed by the court.Therefore, he wanted the Dongying people and Great Liang to completely break out into conflict, and take advantage of it to reap the benefits and collapse the court. He is a pioneer. If he succeeds in independence, more than half of the 28 princes in the fourteen prefectures will choose independence.To a certain extent, his purpose is the same as Prince Gong's, which is to use the Japanese people.

Hundreds of families, let’s just talk about Jiang Ziqi, who joined the Mohist tycoon in the Lianchi uprising and set off a bloody storm. It was to overthrow the tyranny of Great Liang, to smash this decadent dynasty, and to re-establish a new one where the people are their own masters. country.Now, the opportunity has come.Great Liang is like a dying dragon, it smells of decay from inside to outside, and it is full of moths. Jiang Ziqi hides in the dark. Like the right-wing fanatics in Dongying, he wants to see the imperial court and the Dongying people fight bloodily. If they are defeated, the world will be in chaos. At that time, it will be the time for their hundreds of families to spread free ideas among the people.Great Liang, the fourteen prefectures are twisted together and working together, that is Great Liang, if it is in chaos, it will be a broken mirror, the court will fall, the tree will fall and the monkeys will scatter, this is the scene that their hundreds of families want to see the most , because only in that way can we take advantage of the chaos to lobby and preach and confuse the people.

There are also those who want to make a fortune through the war.

For example, Gongsun Lan, who has a grass on the wall, can fall in whichever way the wind blows. He just wants to secretly use the money from the user's bank to resell food and armaments, so that a steady stream of money will flow into his pocket.

For another example, the Japanese cabinet and the military government are also divided into factions. The leftists only want to end the war quickly and colonize the Wuyue area. They don’t want to waste too much money. , but in the entire Great Liang.Prince Gong is using the people from Japan, isn't it true that right-wingers in Japan are also using Prince Gong?If you can support a king of Yue as the leader of Yuezhou, why can't you support Prince Gong as the emperor as a symbol of Great Liang?

In short, the situation is very complicated.

Because of such a complicated situation, Fan Ke asserted that the war could not end like this.

Yanchang finally made up his mind, first ordered most of them to pack up to create the illusion of retreating to Haizhou, and then went to a natural danger fifty miles away from Haizhou to build a cottage, and then ordered his subordinates to disguise themselves as Wu Beijun and enter Haizhou City to rob. They broke into private houses and robbed the common people of their belongings, whether it was food or rice noodles, whatever they could take away, and those who resisted were killed directly, regardless of so much.He wants food to support the army, and he wants to blame this incident on Xi Shen's Wu Beijun.

……

June 25th, [-]th year of Tai'an.

The Third Allied Forces boarded a warship from the mainland of the Dongying Islands and landed at the port of Suzhou. Chizuko Honma and Uesugi Qi held a power transfer ceremony in Guangling. The war is about to end with a devastating force.

……

Chen Ci has been restored, and he met Jiang Ziqi as he wished, and it was Jiang Ziqi who ordered him to be rescued, otherwise Chen Ci would have gone to the Palace of Hell to report.Chen Ci has always been curious about who wanted to save him. He guessed that it should be missionaries from hundreds of schools, but he didn't know what the purpose of these missionaries was to save him.

In the purple bamboo forest, beside the river, there is an antique gazebo.

Jiang Ziqi looked at Chen Ci with a smile, waved his sleeves, and pumped out his true energy. In a short time, the pot of tea was steaming and gradually boiling, which was very frightening. He picked up the teapot, poured a cup for Chen Ci, and said: " The Dragon Well in the West Lake and the green robes in Taozhi Mountain are all rare items, especially during the war. In recent years, Taozhi Mountain has been plagued by banditry, causing a lot of trouble. A down-and-out scholar gathered a group of like-minded people to occupy Taozhi Mountain monopolizes the green robes of Taozhi Mountain, which are sold in the market, and they eat a little less. Even people in the northern palace want to taste one or two. It is a rare thing. Oh, yes, Speaking of which, my catty green robe was a gift from an old friend, and it has a lot to do with you."

"Who?"

Chen Ci was holding a teacup, which was very hot and full of enthusiasm.Jiang Ziqi's display of genuine energy to boil water, although it was a calm and breezy hand, shocked Chen Ci. The elegant scholar in Tsing Yi in front of him is not a useless scholar who only knows nothing but a tyrannical internal master , I am afraid that he is also a top-notch person in the Jianghu.

"Your father, Mr. Xin Wuji Xin." Jiang Ziqi smiled, held a cup in one hand and rolled up his sleeves in the other, as a gesture of courtesy, he took a sip of hot tea.

The statement is silent.

He really has no relationship with that cheap daddy.

However, people in the world rumored that Xin Wuji donated money for his righteousness, and he had contacts with many heroes in private, and even used his position to save many Jianghu people in prison. However, Jiang Ziqi rescued Jiang Ziqi because of Xin Wuji. The statement was unexpected.

"You saved me, not just because of my father's friendship?"

Jiang Ziqi laughed loudly and gave a thumbs up: "Tongtong, then I won't beat around the bush. Your father is a foolish and loyal person, and he will not resist until his death."

The statement was all ears.

"What do you think of this country and this dynasty?" Jiang Ziqi's eyes were burning.

Chen Ci sneered in his heart, why didn't he know what these missionaries were up to?They spread banned books, advocated freedom and equality, intended to subvert the imperial power, and establish a brand new country. But the slogan was so loud that it made people laugh. The world panicked, and it was all for the benefit. He didn't believe that this group of greedy people really had such good intentions?

Jiang Ziqi laughed dumbfounded, as if he had seen through the disdain and sarcasm in the statement, and said with emotion to himself: "Thousands of years ago, the capital city was very brand-new, and thousands of years later, the change of dynasties was like flowers blooming and withering. In the statement, The world shouldn't be like this, and people shouldn't be born like this, at least not just like this. You come from a family, and you have never suffered, and you haven't seen the suffering of the people. It's all bustling, so you don't understand me."

"Ha ha."

He was answered with a sneer.

Jiang Ziqi was not angry either, instead he stood up, looked at the riverside with his hands behind his back, and said calmly, "Chen Ci, let me ask you, do you know "Thirteen Households"?"

Thirteen household servants?

I have heard from the statement that "Thirteen Households" is a law on corvee taxes promulgated more than 200 years ago, and it is still in use today. It contains many clauses and is also a tax standard for maintaining the country's economic operation.

"Know a thing or two."

Jiang Ziqi said: "Chen Ci, do you know? Great Liang is huge, with a vast expanse of land. It is like a pyramid of solidified classes. Those at the top can use their power to exploit those at the bottom. There are frozen bones and great cool supplies, enough for everyone to live a life without worrying about food and clothing, but you open your eyes and see that the heavy land rent and state tax have bent people's backs, and the superiors treat them like cattle, horses and livestock , They divide people into three, six, and nine classes. Some things are there when they are born, and they are not there if they are not born. The purpose of life for the people at the bottom is to cultivate, and they are constantly farming. Their only role is to use labor to feed the pyramids. People. You have said so much, but you don’t understand, because you are also a superior, and you will never understand what it means to be hungry, what it is to be naked, what it is to be unable to see hope, and what it means to be unable to see tomorrow. Do you know The Japanese pirates in Japan, the Tartars in the grasslands, and the barbarians in the desert are not the most terrifying, at least the common people are not afraid of them, it is you, you dignitaries, do you understand what I mean?"

(End of this chapter)