Chapter 281, the situation of the Northern Song Dynasty
"Then let the young master recruit people to help the court build its own weapons and equipment. Now that the court has money and food, it is worried that it can't recruit people to do things! The world will be in chaos without these merchants!"
'It's all chaos. Jia Xu knew that the world was already boiling because of the appeal. If Dong Zhuo was defeated again, it would be impossible to suppress the world. Maybe the princes would challenge Dong again, but
After all, Jia Xu was not Dong Zhuo's confidant, and he did not dare to complain to Dong Zhuo like this!
He could only tell the truth: "The Prime Minister, if it is built by the craftsmen of the Shaofu, it will take too long. After all, this is the logistics of a 100,000-strong army, and the Prime Minister has forgotten that when the Kwantung Allied Forces rebelled a year ago,
Many high-level craftsmen took advantage of the chaos and went to Lei Gong's territory. Without these great craftsmen, the Young Mansion's efficiency will be even worse! I'm afraid that the Huangfu Song War has been fought, and we haven't gotten enough weapons and equipment yet!"
Dong Zhuo was very embarrassed when he heard this. He knew that Jia Xu was trying to give him face. Anyone who took advantage of the chaos to go to Lei Gong's territory was sold to Lei Gong by him in exchange for grain, weapons, and armor.
But he has no choice. If he cannot defeat the Kwantung Allied Forces, the Han Dynasty will fall apart, and there will be no one in the world to resist Lei Gong. Now the sacrifice of a group of craftsmen ensures the unity of the Han regime. The sacrifice of these craftsmen is worth it!
Jia Xu thought for a while and said: "Prime Minister, now the three places of the Han Dynasty, that is, Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Yangzhou, have not been punished. The Prime Minister can order the state pastors in these three places to help purchase the logistics materials needed by the army!
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The three southern states are the territory of Liu Bei and other Han clan clan members. They are not within the scope of the imperial edict. In addition, Liu Bei and the others also have enough prestige to prevent the local nobles from causing chaos, so they are not affected at all in the entire south.
The impact of the warning order!
Dong Zhuo thought for a while and said: "Leave this matter to Wen He and you. We must ensure that the army can attack Taiyuan County in March!"
Jia Xu nodded and left slowly!
Not long after Jia Xu left to look, Li Ru walked up to Dong Zhuo and whispered: "Prime Minister!"
Dong Zhuo then opened his eyes and asked, "What are Yang Biao and the others doing these days?"
Dong Zhuo already felt that Yang Biao and the others were dissatisfied with him. If it weren't for the Thunder Lord who asked him to deal with him now, he felt that Yang Biao might have asked his son Yang Xiu to go to Chang'an to form a Kansai alliance to attack him.
In Dong Zhuo's view, Yang Biao and Yuan Wei were the same thing, but Yang Biao was young and had not yet learned to be as cunning as Yuan Wei.
Dong Zhuo had begun to distrust Yang Biao, so he sent Li Ru to keep an eye on what Yang Biao and the others were doing. Dong Zhuo didn't want to go through another struggle with Dong Alliance!
Li Ru sneered and said: "During this period, Yang Biao has been frequently contacting the nobles and nobles in various places. Now that the Yellow Turban Army has been wiped out, the nobles and nobles in various places have begun to feel that you, the Prime Minister, have little effect. They cannot see the hard work of the Prime Minister, and they are even more concerned about it.
It is not until the prime minister works hard to maintain the court against Thunder Lord."
"They began to feel that the Prime Minister was domineering and that the power in their hands was too small, especially the chaos in the Central Plains caused by the imperial edict. Many ministers have secretly said that the Prime Minister is a warrior and does not know how to govern the world.
, they are beginning to have objections to you, Prime Minister, and I am afraid they are thinking about how to form the Kwantung Allied Forces!"
Dong Zhuo instantly stood up and said angrily: "These insidious villains, most of the accusations have been made by them. One Yuan Shu alone made more than 3 billion yuan. The entire Guandong clan made a lot of money from this accusations."
There are more than hundreds of billions of dollars. I am making money to deal with Thunder God. They are making money for themselves. I didn’t say anything in order to deal with Thunder God. They actually mean to criticize me and get me down."
Dong Zhuo really couldn't bear it anymore. He just took the blame. The wealthy nobles who got the benefits actually blamed himself for governing the world. This is really a shame!
"I really pissed me off. I didn't even fight the Thunder Lord. I just turned around and slaughtered them all. Why should I fight the Thunder Lord? It's not easy to fight the Thunder Lord! If I'm not careful, I might not even be able to save my life. Still.
It's better to fight off these useless Guandong clans! It's true that I don't know how to govern the world, but I can rob you. If I rob two or three of your families, the court's taxes for a year will come out. This is no better than forcing the common people to rebel! Since you don't want to fight with me
Alliance, then the good old man and Lei Gong will make an alliance, and the two sides will divide the world equally with the Yellow River as the boundary!"
Li Ru was frightened when he heard this and said: "Prime Minister, now is not the time to be impulsive. I really let Lei Gong seize the land of Hebei. The Prime Minister will not stay in Luoyang City for a long time! Lei Gong is an evil tiger, and Yang Biao and the others are just
They are just guard dogs. The alliance between the Prime Minister and the evil tiger to deal with domestic dogs is not seeking skin from a tiger! It will definitely backfire on you!"
Li Ru naturally looked down on the hypocrisy of Yang Biao and other wealthy nobles, but he was even more afraid of the tycoon Lei Gong who would turn the world upside down. In Li Ru's opinion, it was okay to cooperate with the noble nobles in order to deal with Lei Gong!
Lei Gong's strength is already superior to them. If Lei Gong is allowed to occupy the wealthy Hebei and solve the food crisis of Tengjia Army, Luoyang, where they are located, will definitely become Lei Gong's next attack target. Li Ru sees this very clearly.
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Dong Zhuo said fiercely: "I would rather fight with Lei Gong's sword and spear, even if I really die under Lei Gong's sword, I would rather not continue to cooperate with these insidious villains. I feel disgusted if I cooperate with them!"
These aristocratic nobles are really cunning, shameless, and can only hold back their teammates, but they don't know it yet, and they think they have no plan left.
In the two years since entering Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo has seen through them. Stripped of their status as a noble family, they are just a group of hypocritical and incompetent hypocrites. It is better to be their enemies than their allies. As enemies of the noble family, they often
If you will help yourself and become their ally, you can only watch them drag you to hell!
Li Rudao: "The Han clan has to be killed. If we don't kill them, we can't suppress them, but not now! The Prime Minister doesn't care whether we want it or not. Lei Gong is the biggest enemy of the Prime Minister now. Yang Biao and the others have no military power, so they can be killed easily.
But Lei Gong has hundreds of thousands of troops around him, and they are more elite than the imperial court. Now Lei Gong's only flaw is food. They have to rely on restricting the rations of their troops to maintain the situation of the entire Tengjia Army.
Now that we have been fighting Lei Gong for half a year, the Tengjia Army will definitely not have much food reserves, so the Tengjia Army is now in its weak period. If the Prime Minister wastes this opportunity, when Lei Gong takes over Youzhou and Jizhou, then Lei Gong will
The trapped dragon ascended to the sky, and the Tengjia Army, which occupied the entire desert and the three states of the Han Dynasty, was strong enough to dominate the world. The prime minister would be defeated by Lei Gong if he could withstand the attack of Lei Gong for at most a few years.
And now the armies of all parties in the Han Dynasty have contained the 400,000-strong Tengjia Army, and the entire Taiyuan County is empty. If we don't take this opportunity to defeat Lei Gong, no one in the world can stop Lei Gong from getting the entire Han Dynasty, and the Han clan is just
They are just a bunch of defeated dogs. As long as the Prime Minister can defeat Thunder Lord, he will gain the prestige to suppress them, and then the Prime Minister will not need to listen to their barking dogs at all!"
After Dong Zhuo vented his anger, he took a few deep breaths to calm down. He knew that what Li Ru said was right. No matter how much he admired Lei Gong, Lei Gong was still his biggest enemy and an opponent to be defeated. No matter how much he despised Yang Biao and the others,
But he still has to rely on Yang Biao's disciples and old officials to govern the world. The reality is that Dong Zhuo is so helpless!
This is the flaw of Dong Zhuo, a boy from a poor family. Without a distinguished life experience, there would be no disciples or old officials. Without the guidance of famous people, there would be no classmates and friends. Even if Dong Zhuo became the Prime Minister, he still would not have anyone to help him.
Originally, Dong Zhuo could promote his own township party and form a Xiliang Party to help him handle the government affairs of the Han Dynasty, but they, Xiliang, have been rebelling for hundreds of years. In the past few years, Xiliang has been in the hands of the rebels, and the entire court has no
A few officials from Xiliang, after all, if the court really wanted to have a few important ministers from Xiliang, Cui Lie would not give up Xiliang at all times. At this stage, the Han Dynasty has a lot of generals in Xiliang, and civil servants cannot say that there are none, but
Basically it has no influence on the court.
It can be said that the rebellion in Xiliang was equivalent to digging up Dong Zhuo's foundation. Dong Zhuo couldn't find several rural parties in the court! This forced Dong Zhuo to rely on noble families in other places as allies to govern the world.
At first, Dong Zhuo formed an alliance with Yuan Wei, but Yuan Wei looked down on Dong Zhuo at all and wanted to drive Dong Zhuo away. So in order to conquer the Guandong Alliance, Dong Zhuo had to form an alliance with Yang Biao. This was because of Lei Gong's relationship, so he and Yang Biao
Biao's alliance is still very fragile. If they really defeat Lei Gong this time, I'm afraid their alliance will part ways soon!
Dong Zhuo had suffered enough from not having his own people, and he said viciously: "No matter whether I can defeat Thunder Lord this time, I will take back Xiliang. At that time, I will invite all the celebrities from Xiliang to Luoyang City to let Yang Biao and others
You know, even without them, I still have enough people to govern the world, and the world will still be short of officials!"
At the Shangshutai, Zhu Jun and his subordinates were also very busy. They were either helping the army to count the various logistical supplies they needed, or they were analyzing the intelligence sent from Taiyuan to understand how strong the Tengjia Army was in Taiyuan County. It can be said that
Zhu Jun now wants these 100,000 troops to leave as soon as possible than Dong Zhuo!
Because he knew that Huangfu Song's current situation was extremely dangerous. If the imperial court did not attack Taiyuan County with 100,000 troops, the best case scenario would be that the imperial court would lose Youzhou, and the worst case scenario would be that all of Huangfu Song's 300,000 troops would be annihilated by the Tengjia Army.
, Lei Gong took advantage of the situation to conquer Jizhou and occupied all of Hebei. By then, the Han Dynasty would be in danger.
Lei Gongke was completely different from the rebellions in other parts of the Han Dynasty. The rebellions in other places lacked weapons and food and relied on the power of large numbers of people to rise and fall suddenly.
But Lei Gong's weapons and equipment were not only more sophisticated than those of the imperial court, but he also dominated the entire desert.
The barbarians under his command can allow Lei Gong to easily summon 200,000 cavalry. This is a more powerful force than the Xianbei Kingdom at its peak back then. If Lei Gong's 200,000 cavalry are allowed to rush to the Yellow River, the entire Central Plains will be in danger, and the Han Dynasty will be destroyed. Possible to perish.
Therefore, Zhu Jun has a strong sense of mission. He must find a way to help the court seize this only opportunity to defeat Thunder Lord.
Ever since Dong Zhuo issued the proclamation order, he had not cared about anything in the outside world, and was focused on how to conquer Taiyuan County, calculating the military strength of Taiyuan County, and increasing the court's chances of winning.
Dong Zhuo walked into the Chancellor's desk and saw Zhu Jun who was busy, his face already pale. He was a little moved in his heart. Although the civil servants of the Han Dynasty were hypocritical and incompetent, they warriors could still hold on!
Dong Zhuo looked at Zhu Jun and said: "Brother Gongwei needs to ensure his health. Your help is indispensable for this battle!"
But Zhu Jun said: "The Prime Minister should go to the land east of Hedong now. Although the Tengjia Army is different from other rogue bandits, they also follow the path of all the people being soldiers. Calculating the nearly one million tribesmen in Taiyuan, the Tengjia Army is in Taiyuan." We can recruit an army of 100,000 people, and even though the combat effectiveness of this 100,000 army is not as good as Thunder Lord's standing army, it is still as powerful as our soldiers who are as big as the Han Dynasty.
Even if Brother Zigan is involved in the Imperial Tengjia Army in Jizhou, the Tengjia Army we have to face may number fifty thousand, but the defense cannot be underestimated!"
"The Prime Minister also needs to recruit 50,000 troops in the land of Three Rivers, so that we can launch the Northern Expedition with 150,000 troops. The ratio of troops will reach three to one, and the chance of winning will be greatly increased!"
The three counties of Hedong are among the best in the world and are the source of the Han army. The Sanhe Cavalry is even more famous throughout the world! It was in the three counties of Hedong that Huangfu Song mobilized an army of 50,000 and defeated a million Yellow Turbans!
Therefore, these three places are full of martial virtues and rich generals are everywhere, and they can easily recruit elite armies. The expansion of the Central Army of the Han Dynasty was all recruited here. It can be said that it is because of the elite reserves of the Three Rivers Land, Luoyang Only the imperial court could rely on the sparse tens of thousands of northern and southern armies to suppress the world.
It can even be said that this is an extremely advanced military system that will not be outdated even after thousands of years. If Xu Wei were here, he would find that the system of the Han Dynasty is almost the same as the modern military system. It’s just that Xu Wei’s A genius with national strength can implement such a system throughout the entire country, but the Han Dynasty is not strong enough and can only implement it in the wealthy Hedong, Hanoi, and Hexi regions to ensure its own soldiers.
Dong Zhuo thought for a moment and felt that it would be better to attack Taiyuan County sooner rather than later. If they continued to delay, there might be changes that would be unfavorable to the court. Especially if they were outnumbered by the Tengjia Army in Taiyuan County, it would be even more difficult for them to attack Taiyuan County.
He said: "Okay, I will go to Hedong County right now. I will leave it to Brother Gongwei to take charge of the rear. Lei Gong is no better than ordinary thieves. He needs my big man to use all his strength to defeat his opponent. Please ask Brother Gongwei to mobilize all parties." Army, so that my 500,000-strong army of the Han Dynasty can unite to destroy the Tengjia Army!"
Zhu Jun said: "I will definitely not let the Prime Minister worry about the rear!"