The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 175 Returning to Linzi
Liu Tai left Yu Yao to deal with Zu Ti, and Liu Tai believed that Yu Yao could complete the task.

After all, in Liu Tai's opinion, as long as he does not encounter an unreasonable monster like the God of War, the excellence of the soldiers and the military system itself can make up for the gap between generals.

As for the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, from the end of the Han Dynasty to the unification of the Sui Dynasty, there may have been people close to the level of the Four Sages, but no one really reached the level of the Four Sages. Otherwise, if such a person really existed, the entire Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties would not have appeared. 300 years of troubled times.

Liu Tai did have an impression of the name Zu Ti, which Liu Tai did not deny, but as far as the information he knew now, Zu Ti was not included, which meant that Zu Ti had not been leading the army for a long time.

The soldiers he summoned were based on soldiers from the Yanzhou family. Liu Tai knew this kind of soldiers very well and listened to their family masters instead of directly listening to their ancestors.

This means that nothing happens when fighting with the wind, but as long as there is a stalemate or fighting against the wind, whether there will be any weaknesses depends entirely on the psychological quality of these family heads.

Maybe the heads of these aristocratic families feel that it is not worthwhile to continue throwing their clansmen and slaves here, so they will choose to conserve their strength even if they do not escape on the spot.

The presence of such a person on the battlefield is a weakness. If there are too many of them, the entire front will be riddled with holes.

Except for military god-level figures who can touch every front on the battlefield, when anyone else encounters such a situation, the only question left is how long they can persist before losing.

Liu Tai relied on his own impression of the name Zu Ti and could tell that Zu Ti was not easy to deal with.

But sometimes it is difficult for an individual's ability to fight against a collective organization. At least Liu Tai doesn't think Zu Ti is such a person.

Even in history, Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang can be regarded as the leading military strategists in the entire Three Kingdoms, but Cao Cao still had great victories and defeats, and Zhuge Liang still fell behind in Wuzhangyuan.

As long as he is not the kind of pervert who has a 100% record in history, Liu Tai said that no one who comes to Taishan County may be able to win easily!

At least Taishan County, where Yu Yao was stationed, had gathered the right people at the right time and the right place. If he wanted to lead a group of rabble to capture Taishan County, this would be looking down on the military system he had built.

Even though it was Zu Ti who led this rabble, after all, he was not a descendant of our ancestors!
Of course, in addition to Liu Tai's confidence in the military system he created, he also had some infiltration into the Yanzhou family. Naturally, Yang Man's help was indispensable. After all, Yang Man was born in the Yanzhou family.

In fact, the Yanzhou family's attitude towards Liu Tai is somewhat complicated. It is not too much to say that they are rejecting him. After all, Liu Tai recruited Yang Man, and with Yang Man's endorsement, his reputation began to gradually improve in Yanzhou.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Tai used Taishan County as a springboard to sell salt, cloth and other basic supplies to Yanzhou. Now in troubled times, there is no need to worry about sales.

There is no way, now Liu Tai and Wang Jun are fighting, Sima Rui in the south is suppressing the rebellion, Liu Yao is fighting in Chang'an, and he even has the strength to separate his soldiers to harass Li Ju in Xingyang.

The largest salt field of this era was affected by the war. This not only caused difficulties in production, but also in material transportation.

For the counties in Yanzhou, they all relied on the salt sold by Liu Tai.

As for cloth, this kind of production material needs to be provided in an area with stable production. It can be said that Liu Tai will take advantage of the opportunity to attack Yanzhou. Maybe many aristocratic families will surrender in the name of the Yang family and the Di family.

But the problem is that Liu Tai went crazy to attack Yanzhou at this time. If he chooses to capture Yanzhou, he will not only be bordered by seven or eight forces, but he may also be attacked from all directions at any time, and sooner or later he will be exhausted.

Therefore, it was enough for Liu Tai to only choose to trade some production materials with Yanzhou through the strategic point of Taishan County.

This is also the reason why many aristocratic families in Yanzhou followed Zu Ti's words and left directly.

Because Zu Ti's banner was to respond to Wang Jun and jointly attack Liu Tai, these aristocratic families were somewhat loyal to the Jin Dynasty and wanted not to appear so maverick, so they followed Zu Ti to attack Taishan County.

These people originally had the intention of paddling the water, but when they saw that the situation was not good, they chose to escape.

But they didn't expect Zu Ti to be so generous that he didn't need to continue to fight Liu Tai, so naturally they wouldn't insist.

After all, defeating the Xiongnu Han Kingdom will return to the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, but people always need to eat salt and wear clothes. Nowadays, there are constant wars everywhere. Even if it is politically correct to defeat Liu Tai, it does not prevent them from buying Liu Tai's salt and food. Cloth, after all, people always have to survive.

Zu Ti was not clear about the twists and turns here, but Zu Ti knew that these Yanzhou families were not very interested in attacking Liu Tai Taishan County.

So in this way, some people were allowed to leave and the remaining people continued to attack Liu Tai.

To be honest, Zu Ti was still a little surprised that one-third of the people were left.

Originally, Zu Ti thought that all his men must be gone, but he didn't expect that there were so many people willing to stay.

This made Zu Ti breathe a sigh of relief, and he began to take advantage of the situation to conduct unified training on these soldiers, and also wanted to use this Taishan County to hone his ability to lead troops.

After all, during the Eight Kings Rebellion, although Zu Ti was constantly being roped in and promoted, he never really commanded soldiers.

When he was valued by Sima Yue and had the ability to lead troops, his mother died and he could not stay filial piety.

This was Zu Ti's first time leading troops. Through his strategic vision, he realized that fighting between Wang Jun and Liu Tai would actually allow him to find opportunities for development. He was more precise in finding forces that could cooperate, which has already been shown. His excellence.

And leading troops for the first time can unite the soldiers' beliefs and determination to die, and further demonstrate his commanding ability.

But that's all. After all, it's just his first time leading troops. No matter how talented he is and how good his plan is, if he wants to implement it, he still needs a little bit of experience. After all, he doesn't have Han Xin. It's his first time to lead troops. Just go to destroy Sanqin.

Even if you are as smart as Zhuge Liang, you cannot avoid this. At most, Zhuge Liang can make no mistakes.

Other ordinary people need more opportunities for trial and error. Of course, not everyone can make up for their mistakes on the battlefield.

Liu Tai led the army back to Linzi as quickly as possible. At this time, Chu Hui and Zhou Ping greeted him with joyful faces.

No matter what, Liu Tai was able to get rid of Gou Xi so quickly this time, which was a great thing for Liu Tai's men.

Liu Tai saw the two people and was welcomed into Linzi by them, but he didn't take any rest and asked them:

"How was the fight between Wang Jun and Uncle Wang Sang?"

"The river is frozen, and Nanpi City's defense line along the river has been completely broken through by Wang Jun. Now Nanpi City has been surrounded by Wang Jun's army.

Although we have lost contact with the inside, Wang Sang had sent someone to deliver a letter before Nanpi City was surrounded.

He told us that the food stored in Nanpi City can be stationed until next summer, and asked us not to worry.

After Gou Xi is dealt with, it won't be too late to come back to support Jizhou! "Chu Hui said, "However, we need to go to support as soon as possible.Although Wang Jun's Red Blood Cavalry and his family's cavalry were unable to play a role in the siege battle.

However, he has many craftsmen who are good at making siege equipment, and the specific intensity of the siege will be beyond Wang Nanpi's expectations. "

"Yeah!" When Liu Tai heard this, he nodded in approval, and Liu Tai looked at Zhou Ping.

Zhou Ping saw Liu Tai looking at him and replied decisively: "Please give the Duke an order so that all our troops can rush to Nanpi to capture and kill Wang Jun!"

Liu Tai nodded in recognition when he heard this, and then said, "I understand, the more you can't be anxious at this time.

First let the news out that Gou Xi was defeated by us and captured [-] of Gou Xi's soldiers, so that the soldiers know that we are invincible.

At the same time, the soldiers who went out for the expedition were given a week's rest to reduce the fatigue in their hearts.

Since Uncle Wang Sang judged that he could survive until next summer, there was no reason for him to be easily defeated by the opponent in the early winter.

Now that we have an absolute strategic advantage, there is no reason for us to panic. "

We have the advantage but are panicking! "

Hearing Liu Tai's words, Chu Hui and Zhou Ping couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Although they also knew that Nanpi City where Wang Sang was stationed needed to deal with Wang Jun, they had worked hard to build it from the first day they got it.

So as long as Wang Sang can work together, and Zhao An is causing trouble behind Wang Jun, there will be no problem in a short time.

These words were based on his own judgment. Now that they were spoken from Liu Tai's mouth, he felt inexplicably at ease.

In any case, relying on Liu Tai's military qualities, they recognized Liu Tai's military judgment.

After hearing Liu Tai's words, Zhou Ping began to make preparations for the expedition, such as informing the soldiers of the time of the expedition, confirming the information of the soldiers, and checking the supplies for the expedition. If there was anything missing, he would reach out to Chu Hui to ask for it. .

Because Liu Tai was scheduled to go out for the expedition in a week, Zhou Ping became the busiest one and needed to move up and down to deal with it.

Liu Tai watched Zhou Ping leave, turned to Chu Hui and said, "We have captured [-] soldiers this time. Send them to Guo Pu and ask him to dredge the river from Linzi to Bohai Bay as much as possible and complete the connection between Linzi and Bohai Bay." !”

"Did the general finally choose to open up the Bohai Bay and reach Linzi?" Chu Hui was a little surprised when he heard Liu Tai's words.

Because after Guo Pu surveyed the entire water canal, he mapped out two river courses, one leading to Guanggu City and the other leading to Linzi.

Because Guanggu City will become the political center of Qingzhou in the future, in Chu Hui's opinion, it is a normal choice to build this canal directly to Guanggu City.

"No, our economic center and political center will be separated. Linzi, as the economic center, needs to clear the merging and channels first. As for Guanggu City, as our political center, it doesn't matter if it's slower!" Liu Tai shook his head and said .

To be honest, Liu Tai doesn't know why the economic center and the political center of any big country are separated.

The location is neither too far nor too close, at least it is an area that can be directly controlled. Even this did not start in modern times.

But Chang'an and Luoyang had already appeared in ancient China. Later, after the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was opened, they were divided into Beijing and Jiangnan.

Liu Tai didn't know what this meant. After all, he was not a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in his previous life. He was just an ordinary student who was taught the art of slaying dragons by a great mentor. But since all powerful countries later did this, he would also be the one to do it. Just do it.

Separate the newly established Guanggu City from Linzi, let Linzi be the economic center, and let Guanggu City be the political center.

Chu Hui heard that Liu Tai had made a decision, so the next step was to arrange for these prisoners to be given to Guo Pu to build the canal.

After all, the person who really did the work was Guo Pu, and Liu Tai was just the one who came up with the two plans, and Liu Tai made the final decision.

The decision-making for the superiors is a natural difference for the people at the bottom. Needless to say, maybe Guo Pu just made a slight bend in the design issue, which will make some people rich. Some people are lonely.

But Liu Tai didn't care much. After all, the next one or two years would be enough to reform these prisoners through labor.

If they really adapt to life in prison, they may not want to leave.

After all, compared to this era full of chaos, although life in prison is somewhat miserable, it is still down-to-earth.

Now that this matter has been decided, Liu Tai no longer worries about it, because Liu Tai believes that after Chu Hui returns, he will definitely work overtime to handle this matter. After all, as long as there is something at hand, If it is dealt with, Chu Hui will be very uncomfortable.

At this moment, Liu Tai said to Chu Hui, "In addition, Gou Xi suffered a big loss this time and agreed that we would conduct mutual trading at his place. You can also arrange this matter smoothly!"

"It seems that Gou Xi has been defeated this time!" Chu Hui couldn't help but smile a little when he heard Liu Tai's words.

A very important point in letting Gou Xi survive in the first place was to use Gou Xi as a springboard to sell goods to the Jiangnan region and earn profits. Even the salt stamps in Liu Tai's hands might be able to be circulated.

After all, anyone at the top level basically knows that war is about making money. In addition, the status of businessmen in this era is low. If any aristocratic family does not have a few white gloves, Chu Hao still knows the importance of mutual trading. of.

For Liu Tai, he is even more eager to be able to trade with each other.

Because Liu Tai understands very well that in this era, his real ability to form dimensionality reduction strikes is not his own force, or his own art of war!
It was the commodity frenzy brought about by industrialization that he had seen in the era of rampant finance. The power of commodities and currency was Liu Tai's absolute ability to carry out dimensionality reduction attacks on other forces.

Therefore, when Liu Tai heard Chu Hui's teasing, he calmly replied: "Thirty thousand soldiers really hurt his vitality. If there is no mutual trade, I doubt whether he can support Xu Gong with Sima Rui's support." Come down.

He naturally knew that regardless of whether there were traps or not, the most important thing was that he survive first. "

"If he and Xu Gong continue to confront each other, will it affect where our products are sold?" Gou Xi hesitated.

Liu Tai answered calmly:
"Just pry open the hole. If it's basic supplies, the more war we fight, the scarier these items will become, so there's no shortage of people to sell them to.

And like our pure white crystal fine salt, it will definitely take the upper-class route, let alone be affected by the war!
Just like the original Sichuan brocade, it was sold for its quality and luxury! "

　One update today, don't wait any longer
　　
　
(End of this chapter)