Chapter 247: The Official's Calculus (Part 2)
Pan Mei was puzzled, Wang Jixun and the others were watching the joke on the side, and then asked: "Old Pan, he is really the son of your subordinate Li De, and your son-in-law, why doesn't he look like you?"
"Go, he is a civil servant, of course he has to do this."
Not only him, Wang Ming and Fan Yu collected all the books and chapters, handed them to Pan Mei, and sent the rest to the capital. The Five Dynasties were in chaos, and many classics in the Central Plains were burned together. Although the Southern Han Dynasty was not very good, there were still some, so most of the classics could be found again and not disappeared. Seeing Song Jiu and a group of soldiers busy, they also rolled up their sleeves and joined.
In one day, Fuzhou City was almost completely renewed.
Then Song Jiu asked Pan Mei for prisoners. I don’t care about how you kill me during the war, but after the war, the prisoners of war were under my control. Song Jiu couldn’t understand how Pan Mei fought, and Pan Mei didn’t understand how Song Jiu appeased the people. Just give it to him. Song Jiu gathered the prisoners and the people. After more than a day, the people were still confused and confused, but they were not as scared as they were at the beginning. They gathered outside the city one by one. Song Jiu and Wang Ming looked at each other, and Wang Ming found a few scholars and handed the notes in their hands, so that they could read them in the crowd.
That is, the basic laws and taxes of the Song Dynasty. Fuzhou later implemented these humane laws and taxes. Song Jiu said that taxes were a little more harsh, which was his opinion. Compared with the harsh taxes of the Southern Han Dynasty, the taxes of the Song Dynasty were paradise!
Wang Ming said: "From now on, the stone has been shaped and erected at the gate of the city. Any official who dares to violate it can report it to the court for disposal."
The people are still staring at each other.
Wang Ming said again: "Before Your Majesty leaves the army, I have said that I will rescue the people in this area. The king's army is here to rescue you. There are also prisoners of war, the nearby soldiers and civilians will go home immediately, and the plan will not be investigated. Those who are far away, please send people to contact each other, and each person will give you ten to twenty kilograms of grain to return to your home."
Wang Jixun wanted to interrupt, but he couldn't let it go. As soon as they were letting them go back, they became an army, but when he spoke, he suddenly stopped. Because Wang Ming finished speaking, the people and prisoners of war suddenly knelt down in groups, and some people cried.
In fact, nothing was done. Could it be that these prisoners of war were killed one by one? Since Wang Quanbin's incident, anyone who dared to be detained could only be detained. After being detained, they would have to give them food, drink and wear. Then they built a house, which was not considered full, and most of them were renovations.
Fan Yu said blankly: "No wonder Bashu has set up a temple... Since then, Fuzhou has never rebelled again."
Not only was there no rebellion, many people spontaneously transported food and grass for the Song army. The soldiers were good and the people were good, and everyone became brothers, so how could they be embarrassed to start? So after the war in Fuzhou became peaceful.
The time was not long, and the reinforcements arrived a little, and some of the food and grass were transported over, and the army set out again. First, they robbed Baixia Mountain, the highland southeast of Fuzhou City. This speed should be fast. Otherwise, if Hezhou dispatched a large army in Baixia Mountain, it would definitely be a fierce battle.
Some Han troops were released and said that when they were defeated, they always had reasons for defeat. They said that the Song army was extremely fierce, and they could all go up to Mount Everest, go to the Pacific Ocean, and they were extremely kind and righteous. There was no way to fight this, so when the Song army came, a few defenders on Baixia Mountain either fled or surrendered.
When the governor of Hezhou Chen Shouzhong saw that the Song army was wrong, you were going to fight Zhaozhou or Guizhou, why did you aim at our Hezhou? You had to ask for help from Nanhan. Liu Yu sent the chief general Gong Chengshu to pacify Hezhou. When he heard that the Grand Tutor arrived, the Han soldiers warmly welcomed him together.
When Lao Gong saw that it was good, his morale was high and he could use it, so he read the imperial edict. But after reading it, he found that something was wrong. The soldiers had not dispersed together. Gong Chengshu said, what else do you have?
"Where is the money? We fought hard with the Song army. Did the imperial court not have any rewards?"
Old Gong is as stupid as a wooden chicken.
The Southern Han was not without money, but on the contrary, it was very rich. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, although one country was more than the other, the Central Plains was also a bastard. Therefore, the country was established for a long time. Although several monarchs were very cruel, there was one advantage. They attached importance to sea transportation and Guangzhou ships brought them a lot of wealth. It can be said that Liu Yu pulled out his hair, which was enough to kill the group of soldiers. But no, there was only a piece of paper. The soldiers had no chance to watch and dispersed, leaving only Lao Gong and Chen Shouzhong. Lao Gong was not stupid, and knew that this kind of morale could not be defeated.
However, the Song army went south like a bamboo shoot, and the vanguard had already arrived in Fanglin. Especially the large soldiers of the Song Dynasty marched and did renovation work, built houses for the people along the way, and even gave some small gifts to the people. Several generals and civil servants allocated some money to help the weak. So when the Song army arrived in Fanglin, the people of Fanglin actually forgot that they were the people of the Southern Han Dynasty. Some old men knelt on the side of the road holding tea and wine to welcome the Song army. When the Song army came, the people cheered on both sides of the road. When hundreds of guards in Fanglin saw that something was wrong, we would cheer as well, put down our weapons and cheer together.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Lao Gong said to Chen Shouzhong: "Governor Chen, you can hold on for a while first. The family will bring reinforcements for you. Remember, don't go out of the city to fight, you will be defeated if you leave the city."
He was still very clear-headed and hurried back to Guangzhou.
The ministers discussed and asked Pan Chongche to lead troops to resist the Song army. He was the most capable veteran in the Southern Han Dynasty. After the civil strife of Ma Chu, the Southern Tang general Bian Hao took the opportunity to invade Hunan. The Southern Han Dynasty was not willing to fall behind and took advantage of the victory to capture Chenzhou. Bian Hao sent troops from Tanzhou to rescue him. Pan Chongche set up an ambush in Yizhang and defeated the Southern Tang army. Therefore, the former general of Chu State, Liu Yan, Wang Kui, Zhou Xingfeng and others took the opportunity to capture Changsha and expel Bian Hao's Tang army. Wang Kui took advantage of the victory to attack the south.
, Pan Chongche again, led his troops to attack, defeated Wang Kui for 50,000 troops and 80 miles away. Liu Yu succeeded to the throne and appointed Pan Chongche as the commander of the northwest. More than a year later, Liu Yu suspected that Pan Chongche was willing to rebel and sent eunuch Xue Zongyu to check. Because he failed to ask for bribes, Xue Chongyu came back and said that Pan Chongche ignored military affairs, but only used more than a hundred actors to play jade flutes, which made Liu Yu furious, recalled Pan Chongche and seized his military stewards.
But he was not the most visionary general, and the most visionary was an eunuch Shao Yanjuan. Of course, most of the ministers of the Southern Han Dynasty were not eunuchs, but also eunuchs, and that thing was gone anyway. He asserted very early that the Song Dynasty would use troops to the Southern Han Dynasty, either learn from the Southern Tang to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty, or start to build city walls and train elite soldiers from now on. Liu Yu refused to answer silently. It was not until the Song army occupied Chenzhou that he asked Shao Yanjuan to recruit soldiers and practice military affairs in the north.
Pan Mei saw that it didn't cost much, just a letter, a letter with no origin. The letter said that Shao Yanjuan rebelled, and Liu Qing killed the man.
The Northern Han Dynasty was also using counter-espionage strategies. Li Qianpu was in Xizhou for ten years and had a general named Liu Jin under his command. He was extremely brave and powerful. The Northern Han Dynasty was worried about it and made a wax bullet and sealed the book on the road. He obtained it for Zhao Zan and presented it to Zhao Kuangyin. Li Qianpu used the family forty as a guarantee. Zhao Kuangyin realized that he released Liu Jin and gave some shocking rewards.
The two counter-espionage schemes were even more skilled in the Northern Han Dynasty, but they failed. Pan Mei’s counter-espionage scheme was simply a waste of time, but it was successful.
Once Shao Yanjuan left, Pan Chongche went down, and Wuling was no longer the Great Wall of Southern Han...
Liu Feng also thought of this person and sent eunuchs to quickly send an order to summon Pan Chongche. After listening to the imperial edict quietly, he was like those soldiers. That was nothing? He was even more dissatisfied. How much contribution I made to the Southern Han back then, not only did I let me go, but also put a high hat on me. Now I think of me, it's okay, at least give me some advice. I'm not a dog or a cat... He wouldn't yell directly like a soldier, and said lightly: "No, the old minister has bad eyes and can't lead the troops."
If it were others, they should be able to wake up at this time and give a few words of comfort. Pan Mei actually has not many soldiers, less than 20,000 people, most of them are miscellaneous soldiers. They can do it in one go. Once they are defeated, they will be defeated faster than anyone else.
Who knew that Liu Feng was furious and said, "Why do you need to respect the sacred? Wu Yanrou has no strategy!"
Wu Yanrou was actually able to compare with Pan Chongche, and sent Wu Yanrou to save Hezhou.
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"Father-in-law, why should I withdraw?" Song Jiu asked.
"Boy, don't ask, please be careful," Pan Mei replied. He made the son-in-law miserable, saying that he did well, and that all the prisoners of war were released, and then as they were worried, they were organized by Nan Han again. He said that he did not do well, and that the soldiers and civilians all the way seemed to have changed into another form. Pan Mei even worried that if this continues, his subordinates could raise the butcher knife in their hands to the soldiers of Nan Han.
The army retreated twenty miles in a row, and it was approaching dusk, so it hurriedly set up the camp.
On the other side, Wu Yanrou's army arrived in Nanxiang, Hezhou. He heard that the Song army fled and did not seem to have much force. He was overjoyed and did not let the soldiers get off the boat. Instead, they asked them to rest for a night, continue to set off tomorrow, and then landed on the shore to fight the Song army to the death.
As night fell, Pan Mei ordered the three armies to rest.
Pan Mei called Song Jiu out of the tent. When she arrived here, even though it was the end of September, the weather was still very warm, but it was the best time to send troops. Until next summer, it was not hot weather. As for autumn, winter, and spring, Song Jiu had explained. There are some places with severe malaria to avoid.
Pan Mei patted the grass and said, "Song Jiu, sit down and let's have a chat."
Song Jiu came to Hunan in front, and before the wine was ready, the army set off and in the blink of an eye, he arrived at the city of Hezhou. The father-in-law and son-in-law had not had a good talk. Pan Mei asked again: "How about Weide Weigu and others?"
"Father-in-law, it depends on how you think. If you think you have worked hard all your life and want your children to live a good life, it doesn't matter to them in the capital. They are just playboys and don't do evil, they just enjoy life a little. Moreover, there are many people in the capital, and I have opened up overseas financial resources, which is enough to ensure that their generation, and even their next generation, have no worries about food and clothing."
"What boats do you have?"
"That's not a few ships, but golden ships. It only took two trips to sea and could bring at least tens of thousands of benefits. Japan is still poor, and Goryeo is also poor. If you go south, or pacify the Southern Han Dynasty, you will get ports such as Guangzhou and shipbuilding technology, as well as nautical charts, and make a lot more profit."
"Your methods of changing money are so superb," Pan Mei sighed. He was like a thief on the front line, and finally got ten thousand yuan in money, but in the eyes of his son-in-law, he was like a piece of paper, completely gray. Pan Mei had no intention of making money now, so why did she make money? Not only him, but even Yin Chongke had no intention of making money, and her son did nothing, and she had more money than he did, so why bother to make money secretly?
"Not that, a country is unstable without farmers, unfamiliar with workers, and unfamiliar with business. I have the word "industry and commerce" and the advantage of knowledge. Isn't it easy to be rich?"
"You can talk about it further."
"If my father-in-law wants them to be angry, it is not OK to enjoy themselves in the capital. He is born from worries and dies from pleasure. It is not necessarily a beautiful jade after carving. But if you want to get beautiful jade, you must be carved. For example, if you lead troops to fight, your two brothers are not better than me."
"What if I read?"
"Then I don't know much about it, but it's difficult to get a Jinshi. Either the reading material class, it's a minor path, and it's hard to do politically."
"Who do you think is the great way of Confucianism and material things?"
"My father-in-law, do you really think that a country will not be able to leave Confucianism? Look at some powerful Western countries. Some of them have Confucianism. Some countries have longer established countries than the Han and Tang dynasties, and they also have kings and emperors. What is the answer in this way? But Mr. Ye, we say this in private, don't make it public, those great scholars will spit us to death."
"You continue to talk about Weide and the others."
Chapter completed!