Tao Yuanming shook his head: "Actually, there is nothing wrong. People with different Taoist views will not work together. This is a good saying. He Wuji, Meng Chang and the others want to vent their anger for Liu Yi, and you are also protecting Diao Kui, who is also a nobleman. Both sides
There is nothing wrong with it, I can only say that the timing is not right, maybe this is God’s will.”
Yu Yue gritted his teeth and said: "So, what Confucius said, everyone is at peace with their destiny, is reasonable. People will always be with people who have the same status and family background as themselves. They have a natural sense of closeness and a common language, and they also have
Common values. Although I have been trying very hard to get together with these Qiu Ba and military men over the years, I have never been able to do it because I cannot go against the education I received since I was a child or the teachings of my elders at home.
Taking killing and fighting as a pleasure, destroying cities and massacring living beings as a means to gain wealth are contrary to my basic conscience as a human being."
Tao Yuanming smiled slightly: "But weren't you also willing to join the army and fight in the future? Didn't you do these things to win military glory for yourself and the Yu family's nephews?"
Yu Yue sighed: "Isn't it because these ferocious and barbaric soldiers now have great power, and they have formulated these military merit-based systems like the Qin Dynasty, and their merits are judged based on their heads, forcing us to obey. If I don't join the army,
, then according to the current rules, within a few decades, the Yu family will have to be expelled from the noble family. And, no matter what, after all, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and the expulsion of the Huru are also in the name of righteousness, and to protect our family members.
It is also something we must do to protect ourselves from the evil thieves of the Celestial Master Dao, so we have no choice but to join the army, but it is probably the only thing we can do not to cause evil with our own hands."
Tao Yuanming nodded: "That's good. You can adapt to the present without violating your own conscience. I will help you. Luo Longsheng will help you do these dirty work without you having to do it yourself. If you can't trust him
If so, you can spread your servants and subordinates to various armies to serve as eyes and ears. The Yu family also has its own intelligence spies, which we must learn to use in the army, not just to inquire about the news exchanges between the aristocratic families in the city."
Yu Yue gritted his teeth: "But my intelligence informants have always only lived and acted in the city. Even their disguised identities are ordinary people, merchants and hawkers in the city. If I want them to join the army,
I’m afraid many people can’t bear this hardship.”
Tao Yuanming said calmly: "In the future, if we nobles and high-ranking families want to control the army, then these informants are necessary. The painful lesson from our loss of power in the past is that it is too serious to leave the army, just like the people you brought out this time
My cronies, they can't join the army at all. They can't train and fight with ordinary sergeants all day long. Naturally, they can't get any valuable information. They will only pretend to be powerful when delivering orders for you, which is disgusting. You have to learn this lesson.
, otherwise if something like this happens again next time, I’m afraid no one will be able to save you.”
Yu Yue nodded: "I will secretly recruit and recruit people who are willing to serve me among the newly recruited sergeants to serve as new informants in the army. However, Mr. Tao, you have to ensure that this Luo Longsheng is not a rip-off.
He won't betray us. We are on the same chariot now. If I die, it will be no good to you."
Tao Yuanming smiled slightly: "Even I want to join your shogunate and become your army. Of course, my subordinates will help you keep an eye on Luo Longsheng. This man is a typical soldier, not one of our nobles, and he doesn't have much ambition.
In the past, it was just because life in the mountains was too hard and I wanted to have a better life that I joined the army. But I stayed in the army for twenty years, and I was only a small deputy army officer who could only lead about a thousand people.
Lord, if the demon thief hadn't rebelled again, I'm afraid he would have withdrawn from the army, disarmed and returned to his fields."
Yu Yue frowned: "Didn't you say that Luo Longsheng is good at fighting and a good cavalryman? Why has he not made it in more than twenty years? Is his ability overestimated?"
Tao Yuanming said calmly: "Luo Longsheng still has some abilities. Although he is not as good as the few young marshals and generals in the Beifu Army who can act alone, he still has the ability to command a legion of thousands or tens of thousands of people and defeat an army of monsters and thieves.
He has this ability, but he has no background at all. When he surrendered to the army, he first surrendered to Huan Xuan's Chu army. In fact, he was the army leader more than ten years ago, but Huan Xuan's throne was overthrown before he could sit down.
He stayed in Jingzhou, but when the situation turned against him, he defected to Lu Zongzhi. Therefore, he was not a direct descendant of Lu Zongzhi, so naturally he could not be reused. Over the years, Lu Zongzhi only ruled Yongzhou and rarely launched wars with the outside world. Naturally, Luo Longsheng could not get this
What kind of promotion opportunity? When I asked him to join you this time, I was actually giving him a chance to make a contribution, so he agreed so readily."
Yu Yue was still a little uneasy, and nodded while saying: "But people will change. After Luo Longsheng switched to us, just like Liu Laozhi you said before, he kept trying to lure him with promotions.
Do we have the ability to control him by evacuating his subordinates? What if he doesn’t give up the military power in his hands and loses his strength in the future?”
Tao Yuanming smiled slightly: "He is different from Liu Laozhi. Liu Laozhi was actually dismissed from the army for the first time. When he returned to his hometown to become a landlord, he obediently handed over the military power. If Wang Gong hadn't used it again later,
Without Liu Laozhi, he won't be able to make any waves. Of course, if we do it more beautifully and let Luo Longsheng be a county guard, or a free official in the capital, he should be more satisfied. After all, he won't
Like Liu Laozhi, he had thousands of subordinates before he surrendered to the army. He became a king of mountains and was used to the kind of support that always responds to his call."
"Moreover, Luo Longsheng does not have the ability of Liu Laozhi. His ability to manage the army and fight can only be said to be at a satisfactory level. This is mainly because with the financial and logistical capabilities of your Yu family, he can quickly recruit
A large number of stragglers form a team, and if this team becomes the level of a large state legion, then Luo Longsheng is not suitable to be the leader of this legion. By then, Yu Gong, you may have to find another good general.
ah."
Yu Yue's heart stirred: "What, you mean, I will have to find someone else to take charge of the army then? Do you have anyone here?"
Tao Yuanming said calmly: "It's too early to say this now, but this candidate should be selected from among the major generals and marshals in the Beifu Army. You can ask Liu Yu and ask him to help you send a general.
, take over the legion, guard Yuzhou, and prepare for the Northern Expedition. Don’t say this is your Yu family’s army.” ()
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