Chapter 990
Zheng Huchen usually feels that he is not a stupid person. After all, he has passed the Jinshi when he was young. He has been in charge of intelligence work for so many years and has been able to capture useful information from the vast amount of information. But today he is fundamentally based on the little emperor's thinking, as if Alzheimer's disease has arrived early, which makes him confused. He really can't understand the purpose of the plan set up by the little emperor.
He also remembered something. The story of the little emperor being good at playing chess was reported by Liu Fu, and it was well known in the court. Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang in the court were also good at this. They would ask the emperor for advice when they were doing nothing in Qiongzhou. In fact, everyone knew that they were not convinced by the little emperor who had been defeated repeatedly. Once, Zheng Huchen happened to hear the two people discussing, saying that the little emperor was superb in chess and was simply unpredictable. His idle guy who seemed to have taken a step was often the key to the decision of the outcome. But when the victory or defeat was not decided, no one could figure out his intentions, and his strategy was obvious.
Zhao Bing was full of confidence and talked with ease. His plan was to deliberately spread rumors first, which made Boyan, who was frustrated, wonder. In order to prevent his own side from easily breaking the city. From a tactical point of view, the city is an effective means to block the enemy's attacking side and protect wealth. Through this series of battles, Boyan has noticed that the progress of weapons has changed the situation of the war. At present, the Yangtze River defense line is no longer a natural barrier to block his invasion of the south, but a dangerous obstacle to preventing the southern and northern expeditions.
Through the action of building a city, Zhao Bing still admires Boyan very much. He is very strategic and forward-looking. However, it is not appropriate to spend a lot of wealth to restore many demolished cities at this time. You should know that building a city is not made up by interrupted piles or several days of work. It requires a lot of manpower and financial resources. This is why some dynasties have caused the national finance to fall into crisis due to building a city.
The reason why Zhao Bing thought that Boyan’s behavior of repairing the city was not the sudden enlightenment or the money problem. Judging from the Mongolians’ personalities, they were nomadic peoples. They used to live a traditional life of living through water and grass, and moved between winter and summer pastures. They did not have a fixed residence. The royal court was just a tent group, migrating everywhere.
When attacking the Central Plains and Jiangnan, the Mongols suffered enough to attack the city and were worried that the rebels would rebel, so they razed most of the cities to the ground. They were unwilling to live in the city. Many people still lived outside the city and were unwilling to be restrained. Even if the capital was built, it was said that giant tents were built in the inner court, and the Khan still liked to live in it. They went to Helin every summer to escape the summer heat and enjoy a nomadic life. Therefore, the rebuilding of the city itself would arouse opposition from conservative forces.
In addition, from the Khan real gold to ordinary Mongolian nobles, they all hope that Boyan can take Jiangnan again, obtain rich taxes, and resolve the financial crisis. However, the result was continuous losses, and the last navy army was also lost, forcing them to change from a strategic offensive situation to defense, which would naturally disappoint the real gold, and even dissatisfied the Mongolian nobles, which would trigger party struggles.
You should know that after nearly two years of struggle in the Yuan court, the real gold was able to barely stabilize the position of Khan, forming a ruling team composed of the Right Prime Minister of the Secretariat An Tong, the Left Prime Minister of the Secretariat Li Qian, the Right Prime Minister of the Secretariat Boyan, the Left Prime Minister of the Secretariat Ye Li, and the Left Prime Minister of the Secretariat Sang Ge. From this, it can be seen that the Chinese faction occupied most of the court, and the former financial management faction Sang Ge was just a so-called soybean and had been marginalized. However, given the Mongolian system, the potential strength of the conservatives led by the Sect King cannot be underestimated.
Zhen Jin was smart and capable, but in Zhao Bing's view, he was ruined by the great Confucians. He believed in Confucianism's way of governing the country and successfully brainwashed himself into a "Han". In order to show his admiration for Confucianism and Taoism, he tried his best to conform to Confucian moral norms in his words and deeds. The incense hall of the East Palace was built, and the architect asked to chisel stones into a pool, like the story of Qushui and Liushang. Zhen Jin disagreed. He said that there was a meat forest and wine pool in ancient times. How could I follow King Zhou of Shang? Whenever he was familiar with the shooting time with his close ministers, Zhen Jin would discuss with them the way of governing the country and cultivating himself.
This makes Zhenjin and his father Kublai Khan's view on Confucianism. As a Mongolian politician, Kublai Khan focused on practicality. He used Confucian ministers with limited means that he used Confucian ministers when their claims were in line with their policies. Once Confucian ministers were useless for the current policies (such as financial management), he would abandon them without hesitation. Zhenjin received Confucian education since childhood. He believed that to govern the country, Confucian rule was necessary, and advocated light taxes and burying wealth for the people.
In the past, Kublai Khan was unable to show his ambitions. When he ascended the throne, he reused the Han ministers and promoted the rule of Confucianism, thus winning the support of the Chinese faction. However, he deviated from reality. Since Kublai Khan succeeded to the throne, due to years of military use and large-scale conferred princes, northern China has experienced wars and people's poverty, and financial tensions have always been an important issue that plagued his regime. Especially after losing Jiangnan, the most important place for financial resources, he still insisted on implementing the Confucian system, which is contrary to the actual financial situation.
The Mongols used to be a plundering economy. Whenever they were short of money, the first thing they thought of was to rob them. Therefore, the purpose of launching a war was to solve financial difficulties. However, the current policy of real money was to make money and plunder through continuous wars, but they also needed to reduce rent and taxes, making it difficult for the Mongolian nobles to maintain a luxury life. The reduction in taxes also meant that the court could not provide money and grain subsidies to the sects in the northwest, and would inevitably be opposed by them.
Zhao Bing made a big talk and asked Boyan to invest in building a city. He estimated that even if the imperial court did not need to allocate funds, he would exhaust the taxes in the Lianghuai area. After losing Jiangnan, the Lianghuai area had become the most important source of taxation for the Yuan court. Boyan built a lot of city walls with the money that should have been given to the imperial court, which would also cause dissatisfaction. Not only did he offend the conservatives, but even the Han ministers would be dissatisfied with him. After all, in their eyes, Boyan was also a "barbarian" even though he had evolved.
The transformation of Lin'an City has been included in Zhao Bing's work plan to improve people's livelihood, reduce and prevent the outbreak of epidemics. But outsiders think that the signal they send is to settle down in Hangzhou and do not want to move the capital. If you over-interpret it, you can understand that he wants to divide the river with the Yuan court and govern it. There is no plan for the Northern Expedition at the moment. What would the Mongols think at that time? I guess they can draw the incompetent conclusion of Boyan with their knees, and they can't cover up the past by making plans...
"Your Majesty's goal is to get Boyan off the stage through this, but if Boyan takes such a big move, he will definitely get the support of real gold before he can implement it. If the real gold is guaranteed, wouldn't Boyan be dismissed mean that he made a mistake in employed people?" After hearing the little emperor's argument, Zheng Huchen finally understood a little, but was still skeptical.
"The emperor has always been wise and powerful. How could he do something wrong? In the end, he was the only one who was forced to the tank, and even eventually led to the collapse of the entire Chinese faction!" Zhao Bing said shamelessly with a smile.
"Haha, although Boyan was born into a barbarian, he was also from the Chinese school and had great prestige in the army. If he was dismissed, how could the rest control the army? Those Han ministers might also protect it." Zheng Huchen said with a smirk after hearing this. Of course, he knew that the emperor was wrong as the supreme ruler and was bewitched by the treacherous and his subordinates were not good at doing things well. Anyway, he was always correct.
"Have you ever seen the military officials in our dynasty commit crimes, and the civil officials have the support of the situation?" Zhao Bing asked with a smile.
"This... this is extremely rare!" Zheng Huchen hesitated and said.
"That's it. In the eyes of those scholars and officials, our clans have always had different minds. Although Boyan supports Han law, he is always an alien in their eyes and can only be used, not as his own people. So they will sit and watch Boyan fall, but they don't know that Boyan is dismissed, and they will be the next one. Because in the eyes of Zhenjin, those sect kings and Mongolians are the real ones. Under the storm of the crowd, they can only sacrifice them in the end, and then have to use the old Mongolian ministers." Zhao Bing said with a sneer.
"What's this? Real gold has built several cities, and His Majesty has built one city, but in the end it was those Han ministers!" Zheng Huchen stretched out his hands, thought for a while, but came up with such an unexpected result.
"Haha..." Zhao Bing laughed at him with helpless look, which also reminded him of the strange things in the business war in his previous life. Wanglaoji PK Gaduobao and his vanishing; 360PK Kingsoft, Kaspersky disappeared; Ketao PK Pepsi, Very Coke disappeared; Apple PK Samsung, Nokia disappeared; Okamoto PK Durex, Jesbon disappeared; Ganji.com PK58.com, Baixing.com disappeared...
The industry leader and the second brother were injured, but the third brother was not the other party, but the third brother. This result seemed absurd, but it was actually the mentality of picking up the bargain. Thinking that the eldest brother and the second brother would fight to the death, as long as my third brother didn't participate, they were exhausted and both sides suffered. The third brother naturally took the lead, but he did not think about what would happen if the eldest brother and the second brother compromised each other.
Therefore, the best strategy for the third brother is to help the boss beat the second brother, and he will be eliminated quickly! In the Mongolian Yuan court, the Han ministers were actually the eternal third brothers. If they joined forces with Boyan, although they could not be promoted to the second brother, they could also join forces to suppress the boss, who was the old minister of the sect king, and thus maintain the third brother's position. Without Boyan, the Chinese faction would have to face the bosses who had always been malicious towards them. It would be difficult to even die, but such words could not be said!
"Your Majesty, if Boyan is dismissed, his plan to build the city will also be stopped. Will Your Majesty's layout be invalid?" Zheng Huchen thought about it and felt that the little emperor's plan had some flaws and reminded him.
"This is a long-term solution, and it cannot be effective overnight. The initiative is in our hands. When will the Lin'an City be transformed, we must gradually introduce it according to the changes in the situation. Let's take a step back, wouldn't the conservative schools of the Mongolian Yuan be ignorant of the power of firearms? They just wanted to give up the Han law and restore the old system to target Boyan, and would not be unable to get along with the city. If we do some small actions, maybe they will actively promote this matter." Zhao Bing said with a smile.
"So that's the case, but I think it's a bit inappropriate?" Zheng Huchen nodded, but he still felt uneasy. He felt that the little emperor was too confident and that the Mongolians were not himself, so how could he follow his baton?
"Did I say that?" Zhao Bing thought for a moment. He knew that the specific operation of this matter still needed Zheng Huchen to execute it. If he had doubts or could not understand his intentions, it would be distorted when he executed it.
"I respectfully listen to Your Majesty's lesson!" Zheng Huchen said politely.
"I think our dynasty has fought with nomadic peoples such as Khitan, Dangxiang, Jurchen and Mongolia for more than 200 years. Why do we have a million troops but always fall into a passive position in the battle and find it difficult to achieve a decisive victory?" Zhao Bing asked.
"My subordinates thought that the barbarians had many cavalry, and they came and went like the wind, so they could find some attacks on the border and take the initiative. However, our dynasty had to defend everywhere and respond passively, and were worried that the enemy would often dare not use large-scale reinforcements without voluntarily, so that even if the troops were strong, it would be difficult to achieve a decisive victory." Zheng Huchen analyzed.
"Yes, nomadic peoples often do not invade land, but mostly to loot people and property. The front line is long, forcing our dynasty to raise millions of troops to rely on the fortress camp. However, the fortress camp is besieged by the enemy. Once reinforcements cannot arrive for a long time, it will be difficult to support it, which will allow the enemy to enter the territory. Therefore, the fortress camp becomes more and more solid and more repairs, with the intention of being able to hold on for a long time and restricting the enemy's actions." Zhao Bing said
"That's right!" Zheng Huchen nodded.
"But at present, the enemy and us are offensive and defensive, and the situation has reversed. Although the enemy and us are separated by the river, our navy has the advantage and can choose any location to land and fight. Even if we are willing, we can go ashore near the sea of Dadu and plunder the capital area, but we do not occupy an inch of its land. We just treat it as our hunting ground and take a handful of our side. After the Mongols occupied the Central Plains, they also bear the responsibility of defending the land and fell into the dilemma of our dynasty. In order to protect their own private wealth, they can only retreat into the city to protect themselves." Zhao Bing said.
"That's true. Now that the Mongols have given up their nomadic life in the Central Plains, they have settled on their own land. In order to protect their own abilities and protect their tribes, building fortresses is indeed the best choice. As long as our dynasty continues to launch harassments similar to those in the past, they can make them restless and have to build forts along the river to protect themselves!" Zheng Huchen thought it was authentic. As the changes in the situation had already affected the changes in combat forms. At present, it is not a battle for one city and one place, but mainly to destroy the enemy's economy and attack its morale.
Chapter completed!