Chapter 19 Night Discussion on the Power of the World
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----------Daming Temple is located at the middle peak of Shugang in the northwest suburb of Yangzhou Prefecture. It was first built in the Liu Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty. Hence the name. It was renamed several times after repeated rise and fall. It was once called the West Temple.
After the Ying Yang Guards of Ling Temple arrived at Yangzhou Prefecture today, Yun Zheng pulled his troops to camp outside the Daming Temple and came to visit the Daming Temple himself.
"Leaning on the railing at dawn, you can see the green mountains of six generations; when you come to drink wine at night, the bright moon is just above your head."
Yun Zheng put down his pen, looked at the couplet he had mentioned, and felt quite satisfied. He turned around and said, "Master Abbot, please forgive my disciple for my poor writing skills. It is difficult to describe the majesty of this temple."
The abbot master's Dharma name is Universal. He smiled and clasped his palms together: "Amitabha, I am the benefactor of all the great talents in the world. This statement is really too modest."
Yun Zheng smiled and waved his hand: "Master has praised his disciples as worldly mortals. Today, if I bother you, I hope that Master will forgive me if I disturb you."
Master Pushan smiled and said: "If you have a pure heart, you are a pure person. The donor's visit to our temple is like a cool summer breeze. It's just the right time. Why bother?"
Yun Zheng then smiled and said: "It's so lively to stay away from the hustle and bustle for a while and listen to the sound of the water. Don't be too tired to sit for a long time in the remoteness and enjoy the coolness of the mountains. Since this is the case, I would rather obey my order than to be respectful. I bother you masters and disciples."
Soldiers are willing to offer some fresh fruits and vegetables, and my disciples are willing to offer two thousand taels of silver as fragrant oil."
Master Pushan nodded slightly, clasped his hands and said: "Amitabha, the donor is benevolent and benevolent. I, the Buddha, must have recorded a meritorious deed for the donor. In this way, the donor will please rest in this Pingshan Hall tonight, and I will arrange for the fresh fruits and vegetables."
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"Master Please" Yun Zheng's noble and noble demeanor can be described as impeccable
----------------------------------------"Donor Yun, King Yueyang is here" Yun
Zheng was in the room guessing what would happen when all the armies gathered in the next two days, when he heard the young monk outside the door whispering a report.
The young novice stayed outside to take care of Yunzheng's daily life in Pingshan Hall. In fact, there were white-clad guards guarding the courtyard outside, both openly and covertly.
Yun Zheng was a little surprised. He originally thought that Feng Wuwei would arrive tomorrow, but unexpectedly, this time Lin Xi seemed to really go all out to make something famous, and even arrived overnight. However, he didn't take a good rest after arriving, but he came here instead.
Seeing myself, I'm afraid I have something to discuss with myself
After slightly adjusting his clothes, Yun Zheng said calmly: "Young master, please go and report back. Just tell me that Yun Zheng will be here soon." The young novice agreed repeatedly and went to report without mentioning it.
Since Yunzheng is fine, he can leave immediately. However, as the highest-ranking nobleman in the empire, he must maintain certain rules in his words and deeds, at least where outsiders can see them. For example, when welcoming guests, theoretically a county king is better than a prince.
The Duke is half a rank higher, but in fact, because Yun Zheng, the heir apparent, is hereditary and irreplaceable, and if Lin Xi cannot ascend to the throne, his title of county prince will have to be extended to him in the future. The so-called favor means that I am the prince.
, son, Duke, grandson, Marquis, etc., so in fact, Lin Xi's prince himself is not much different from Yun Zheng's prince. To put it more realistically, the "fief" that Yun Zheng can inherit in the future is complete.
There are two provinces of Shanxi and Hebei, and if Lin Xi cannot ascend, there will only be Yueyang Mansion. Therefore, in terms of actual power, Yun Zheng's status is slightly higher. If Lin Xi comes to visit, if Yun Zheng goes out to welcome guests without any reward, it is
It was against the rules, not to mention that now that he was living away from home, he naturally had to wait until the host's family went out to greet the guests before he could come forward easily. Although Yun Zheng didn't like this complicated set of etiquette, since he already had this status and planned to settle for it.
With this status, he can only make do with these things.
After taking some time, Yun Zheng went to greet King Yueyang. Lin Xi looked a little tired, but in good spirits. It could be seen that he was in a good mood at the moment. Naturally, the two young people couldn't help but have some pleasantries when they met. After that, Lin Xi
He politely said a few words to Abbot Pushan, and then went with Yunzheng into Pingshan Hall where he was staying tonight.
Outside, these two people looked like paragons of morality. Once they entered the room, they were like the white-bone demons under Monkey Sun's fiery eyes. They fully realized their prototypes and made no distinction between guest and host. The two of them sat down casually, and the Six Wise Kings even more
He stretched himself out in a very ungraceful manner.
Yun Zheng was even more rude than him. He sat down on his gums, pointed to the table and said, "The water is over there. If you want to drink it, pour it yourself."
Lin Xi took a breath and said dullly: "How come you don't even have anyone to help you?"
Yun Zheng curled his lips and said: "You don't mind your image as the Six Wise King, but I don't mind asking a few people to come and rub my shoulders and back, and serve tea and water. The only trouble is that this is a temple, there are only men, not women."
Lin Xi also pouted: "Okay, I'll do it by myself. Without servants to serve me, I won't even be able to drink a glass of water?"
Yun Zheng waited for him to finish a glass of water before he said leisurely: "You are so anxious to see me. Do you need my help with anything?"
Lin Xi chuckled: "Look at what you said, am I like that kind of person... Uh, Chengfeng, what do you think the outcome of this co-starring will be?"
Yun Zheng's eyelids drooped: "How do I know what will happen? Just do whatever you want."
Lin Xi coughed dryly: "Don't you have any ideas?"
Yun Zheng relaxed his waist and smiled: "What do you think?"
"I don't believe you can't see it." Lin Xi glared: "Your situation is very bad!"
Yun Zheng laughed: "It's alarmist, I'm fine, why is the situation so bad?"
Lin Xi patted the table gently: "Chengfeng, did you really not see it or were you pretending not to know? You know that Cao Rui is Gu Heng's person."
Yunzheng touched his nose and sighed softly: "You mean, Gu Heng is close to the prince, and the prince is now close to the Zhou family, so it will naturally be easier for Cao Rui and the Zhou family to have trouble.
Mao Ni...are you afraid that he and Zhou Jun will join forces to control this six-army joint performance?"
Lin Xi felt relieved: "It's okay if you know, I'll pretend that you really don't know, and you're pretending to be real."
Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "So what if you know? Can you solve the problem if you know it? The Cao family and the Gu family have not been together for a day or two. Now Gu Heng and your prince brother are making great efforts to win over the Zhou family. At this time, even Cao Rui
It's normal to give Zhou Jun some benefits in some things that we can do. Even if we know, what can we do?"
Lin Xi opened her eyes wide: "How dare they play tricks? Our supervisor is also on the evaluation team!"
Yun Zheng understood this time. This guy planned to make Ying Yang Wei and Feng Wu Wei form "allies", but this was not a big deal. Yun Zheng smiled softly: "Xu Shaoyang, I will tell him
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Lin Xi laughed as expected: "Shao Guang, I told him early in the morning." After finalizing the matter, he felt relieved and said, "I actually know that with your ability, Ying Yangwei doesn't need to be afraid.
What can I do to help here? I actually don’t mean to use any crooked ideas. The main reason is that I am afraid that if we are too honest, we will suffer a loss. When the time comes, it will be embarrassing if Zhou Jun and Cao Rui join forces to set up a plan."
Yunzheng nodded: "I know this."
Lin Xi hummed, and suddenly said: "I don't know what the situation will be like this time. Last time he suffered such a big secret loss. According to his temperament, he must be looking for trouble this time."
Yun Zheng smiled brightly: "I'm very welcome to find a place." He said leisurely: "I'm just afraid that he is a eunuch who goes to a brothel this time, and he is weak-minded."
Lin Xi laughed: "What kind of metaphor is this... But I like it. It's what you said. With such an incident happening in the Leng family, I guess there must be something abnormal on Leng Yu's side. Although the fourth child seems to have little to do with it, it has nothing to do with it."
The possibility of Leng Yu relaying is much smaller.”
Yunzheng nodded without saying a word.
Lin Xi suddenly frowned: "Tell me, to what extent will this matter about the Leng family go? Will it have a big impact on the Leng family?"
Yun Zheng smiled: "Why, you don't have anyone under your command to give you advice?"
Lin Xi naturally has people under his command to advise him. For example, Mr. Rong He is a very powerful adviser. However, Lin Xi always trusts Yun Zheng's judgment on military-related matters. After all, he has always felt that when he was young,
Yun Zheng is extremely powerful in this aspect, and Yun Zheng's record so far is indeed very good, and his martial arts skills are nothing to mention. Therefore, Lin Xi still feels that he should listen to Yun Zheng's professional opinions on the direction of the war to be safer.
Yun Zheng tapped his gums lightly with his fingers, thought for a moment, and said slowly: "It's not easy to determine the overall situation in this matter right now."
Lin Xi was a little surprised: "Why?"
Yun Zheng did not answer this question, but instead asked: "Do your advisers think that the rebels...oh, I mean the rebels, think that the rebels are just a group of mud-legged people who temporarily organized themselves to take advantage of the Leng family's temporary absence.
Why did Cha Cha capture several places, and the fall of Jiangyuan County was mainly due to the fact that Zhang Huanzhi underestimated the enemy and lost most of his combat power before defending the city, so that the gang of rebels succeeded?"
Lin Xi nodded: "Isn't it so?"
Yun Zheng shook his head, but still did not answer Lin Xi's words, and continued to ask: "Then have you or your counselors considered another thing, which is how the Leng family will deal with the rebels in this rebellion.
Processing? And in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, will the Lengjiashuai Mansion’s monopoly methods for tea, tea bricks and other substances change as a result?”
Lin Xi frowned: "How to deal with it? I haven't paid special attention to this, but judging from the Leng family's consistent toughness, it will probably be wiped out to the end? As for the franchise..." Lin Xi shook her head: "The Leng family loves money.
It is famous all over the world. In order to make money, they even ordered farmers to weave more Sichuan brocade, buy it at a low price, and then sell it in Luoyang. There are also some rumors that the Leng family has taken advantage of the Sichuan and won a lot of land... Tea franchise is such a profitable business
, I think the Leng family will definitely not give up... Why, do you think this is related to whether they can quickly suppress the rebellion?"
Yun Zheng closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's a big deal... If the Leng family doesn't give up the tea franchise, judging from the current situation, it's unlikely that they will quickly wipe out the rebellion."
Lin Xi was greatly surprised: "What? How is it possible? Can't the Leng family's 120,000 troops wipe out the rebellion quickly?"
Yun Zheng remained unmoved and said calmly: "The main force of the direct lineage of the Leng family is the Chengyu Seventh Guards, with thirty-nine thousand two hundred people. The Xingyuan Guards and Juzhou Guards, which are eighty thousand, can only be considered second-line troops.
The combat effectiveness is very average. After just one big battle, the Chengyu Seven Guards have already lost an entire guard. This means that the main force of the Chengyu Guards now only has 33,600 people. Compared with the number we have now,
The strength of the troops is the same, and the guard who died in the battle needs to be reorganized and restored to its previous combat effectiveness, which cannot be achieved in a short time. As for the 120,000 troops you mentioned, yes, the Leng family has 120,000 troops, but you
Don’t forget that in the middle and eastern areas of Shu, only Chengyu Guards are stationed. Xingyuan Guards and Juzhou Guards are near Hanzhong. If they want to return to Shuzhong to aid, the road is very dangerous and it takes more than a month.
They will definitely not be able to reach it; the Juzhou Guards are further away and are scattered throughout Guizhou. It is necessary to transfer them back to Shuzhong to exterminate the rebels. It will not be possible in three months. Therefore, in fact, the Leng family can use them within one month.
There will not be many troops coming to exterminate the rebels, because even if there are Chengyu guards in central and eastern Shu, there are only three guards who can be brought to the vicinity of Chengdu immediately, and there are still three guards left in Yuzhou.
If it will take at least half a month to transfer back, then this account can be easily settled. It is said that the rebel army will grow to 50,000 or 60,000 people within ten days. So when the Chengyu Guards gather together in half a month, let alone
If there are more, 100,000 people will not be a problem? The Chengyu Guards only have more than 30,000 people, and some of them have to be left to guard Chengdu. In this way, the number of troops that can go out will not exceed 30,000. 30,000 elites can fight against 100,000 rabble.
You have the advantage, but what if the other party is not a gangster? I think it’s hard to say.”
Lin Xi took a deep breath, frowned and asked thoughtfully: "Isn't it a mob? Can a bunch of mud-legged people gathered in such a hurry still be considered elite?"
Yun Zheng smiled brightly: "What do you think are the main differences between the rabble and the elite?"
Lin Xi raised an eyebrow: "It's just equipment, training experience and so on... Oh, and there is enough food and grass."
Yun Zheng didn't discuss this with him too much. These few points were enough, and he said: "Okay, let's talk about equipment. When the rebel army took Pengshan, it is said that they seized weapons and equipment for 20,000 to 30,000 people. Although
A large part of them are used and sealed, but they are still fully capable of temporary use. After occupying Jiangyuan, an important frontline area facing Tibet, although I don't know the exact number of ordnance captured, according to my
According to the practice of the Wei Dynasty's war reserves, the Leng family's ordnance stored in Jiangyuan should be enough to arm another 50,000 or 60,000 people. As a front line against Tibet, let alone food and grass. I dare say that the food and grass in Jiangyuan is enough to feed 100,000 people for at least half a year.
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After Lin Xi pondered for a while, he nodded in agreement, but he still asked: "But in terms of training, you can't say that those rebels can surpass the Leng family army?"
Yun Zheng shook his head slightly: "The military quality of the rebel army is naturally inferior to that of the Leng family army." When he said this, before Lin Xi asked, he continued: "But you ignored a very important issue, which is morale."
Lin Xi's heart moved slightly: "You mean, the morale of the Leng family army is not as good as that of the rebel army?" He pondered for a moment: "This argument is a bit absolute? The Leng family army is a powerful army of the imperial court, and this time it is also to suppress the rebellion.
The army, not to mention that they lost one of them before, should be regarded as a shame by the remaining six guards. In this way, the whole army is eager to avenge their shame. Just because they are so powerful, how can they lose morale?"
Yun Zheng waved his hand: "Chen Guang, your algorithm only takes into account the advantages of the Leng family, but not the advantages of the rebel army. So, the combat purposes of the rebel army are different from those of the Leng family army, which led to the rebellion of the rebel army."
The morale of the Leng family army will be higher than that of the Leng family army. If you don’t believe it, let me analyze it for you. First, let’s talk about the purpose of the battle. The purpose of the battle is why they are fighting. This seems silly at first glance. The Leng family army is naturally fighting because of the rebel army. They are eating
The Leng family’s food, so the key to helping the Leng family quell this rebellion is the rebel army. Why did they rebel? So why did the rebel army rebel? In fact, it is very simple. They have no way to survive! Those tea farmers, tea vendors, and even more Shu people
There is no way for farmers to survive! Chenguang, the Leng family was too harsh. They forced the people under their rule to the point where they could no longer survive. At this time, Huang Xiaobo rebelled. Those who could not survive found that they could only survive by following Huang Xiaobo.
It would be strange for them not to become thieves at this time if they can have a bite of food! It is precisely because of this that Huang Xiaobo's rebel army grew to fifty or sixty thousand people in just ten days. Talking about morale, the Leng family did not recruit people, but just kept
