Chapter 5086 Hundreds of troops marched to southern Hunan
Tao Yuanming smiled slightly: "Why, does General Zhu intend to directly raise an army in Jiangzhou? Or do you want to simply not participate in the subsequent eastward march, but to wipe out the demon bandit's influence in Jingnan, Xiangzhou?
, take over places like Changsha and Bajun?"
Zhu Chaoshi sighed: "With the demon thief's troops and horses, it seems that Lu and Xu are very powerful, but their defeat has been determined. If we want to march eastward to jointly attack the demon thief, we will not lack hundreds of my subordinates. My idea is
, at the same time as the decisive battle, I will open up a flank battlefield, first wipe out the demon bandit forces from the north of Wuling to the Yangtze River, and recapture Xiangzhou. In this way, no matter whether the demon bandits win or lose, their connection with Wuling and Guangzhou will be given.
If it is completely cut off, even if you are lucky enough to win the water battle in the Leichi and Zuoli area, you will be at a loss."
Tao Yuanming nodded: "This is indeed a good idea, but the demon thieves are west of Nankang, and there are tens of thousands of party members in big cities like Changsha, Baling, and Yueyang. You only rely on a few hundred people to defeat them.
Can we really sweep this area?"
Zhu Chaoshi said confidently: "I know the demon thieves in these places very well. In fact, just like this Nankang City, they are basically big families from various places. The powerful people have changed sides. The main force of the demon thieves made sneak attacks in various places and sent out troops.
After the Five Ridges, they have always been concentrated together. They have laid down the cities along the way and left. They have given some pseudo-jobs to the local gangsters and asked them to defend the city on their behalf. At most, they have only left a symbolic number of dozens or hundreds of old thieves everywhere.
Monitor the defenders everywhere."
"In addition to paying the taxes agreed upon by the demon thieves to supply the army with food and supplies, these local snakes don't even have to do anything to conscript their husbands, so in the past two years, they have actually accumulated a lot of benefits. If we take advantage of this
If we forcefully attack cities under the banner of eradicating all evil, the powerful people in these places will fight to the death. If we ask these people to hand over the grain stored in the warehouses for the past two years, then they will be reluctant to lose the benefits they have plundered, and they will not surrender immediately. Therefore, these
The outcome of a battle does not depend on the number of troops on the other side, but on our battle for the heart."
Tao Yuanming's eyes lit up: "General Zhu, please tell me in detail, how to use this battle of attacking the heart? I may also need it here in the battle to pacify Jiangzhou."
Zhu Chaoshi smiled slightly and said: "It was your amnesty order that gave me this idea. The successful capture of Nankang City this time has a lot to do with this amnesty order. Except for the idiot Bao Haozi, everyone like the Ding family
, Big families like the Xiang family actually contributed to some extent in the last rebellion, at least they were rebellious afterwards. If we really pursue the case, how can they be as willing to surrender and surrender as they are now."
Tao Yuanming nodded: "Yes, this is Liu Pushe's order, and he also wants to give the powerful people from all over Jiangzhou a chance to make things right. However, he did not say that the food in these local official warehouses can be returned to their owners.
For them. This is urgently needed supplies behind the army. Just like in Nankang City, should the military rations be distributed to families such as the Ding family and the Xiang family?"
Zhu Chaoshi said calmly: "I think it's completely okay, because this is the people's wealth that the Bao family has plundered over the past few years. Although we have no problem taking all these military rations now, the local people and powerful people are still not too happy to eliminate the Bao family.
, when the imperial government comes and wants to collect their grain, recruit their men, and go to other places to fight, then even if they obey, they will still have resentment in their hearts."
"But if we turn it around and we introduce such a policy, that is, the imperial court will recruit soldiers and horses who are willing to go out with the army to wipe out the monsters and thieves from all walks of life, and then take away the military rations these soldiers and horses need for half a year, and the remaining rations will be left to the local area
The garrison and officials, that is, the powerful local family heads, will allocate and use them. From next year, only the grain and grass will be collected according to the usual taxes. Even the collected grain and grass can be reduced or reduced according to the situation. Only in this way can these powerful local powerful families be stabilized.
With a strong heart, let him serve the Jin Dynasty."
Tao Yuanming sighed: "Although the idea is good, what if the powerful people from all over the country take advantage of this policy to not only pay food to the court, but also to plunder the people? This does not mean that they have changed their banner.
That’s fine, it’s too cheap for them.”
Zhu Chaoshi smiled slightly: "This is only for wartime use. There are also backup plans. These local troops who go out with the army will come back with military merits. At that time, we can appoint these people as officials or even officials based on their military merits and return to their hometowns.
Later, they would hold official positions. This would form a constraint on the original tyrants. At most, they would be free and happy for a year or two, which would be some reward for their loyalty to the court. But after the monster thieves were pacified, they would slowly
The local powerful will be replaced by people from the imperial court."
Tao Yuanming's eyes narrowed slightly: "Do you mean to temporarily appease these powerful landowners and side with the imperial court, but then you still have to take back their power and put them under direct jurisdiction of the imperial court?"
Zhu Chaoshi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said: "It is paradoxical. Although the imperial court sent officials to the states and counties in the past to govern, they were the children of the gentry and not local people, just like Zhang Changshi."
As he spoke, Zhang Yu, who had been standing aside and listening to the conversation between the two, smiled and said: "Zhang Changshi, come over and discuss it together."
Zhang Yu smiled sheepishly. Just now, everyone intentionally or unintentionally stayed away from Zhu Chaoshi because Zhu Chaoshi's appearance of eating people's hearts was too scary. But at this time, it seemed that the terrifying murderer Zhu Chaoshi had turned into a calm and majestic figure.
General Zhang Yu was no longer so afraid. He came over and said, "General Zhu is right. The biggest trouble for us foreign officials is that we are not familiar with the local people. It is impossible for us to lead an entire army ourselves."
Come here, just like me, I only brought more than thirty servants and family members to take office. I can barely protect my personal safety at ordinary times, but if there is a thief, like the demon thief last time, it is impossible to protect it alone.
The environment is safe for the people.”
At this point, Zhang Yu curled up his lips: "General Zhu, you are the leader of the army, and you know these things best. The troops that can really fight must be garrisoned in various places, and the local troops that are usually in the prefectures and counties,
Most of them were owned by local wealthy families. In the name of official positions given by the court, they recruited villagers from their own clans, and the clansmen were treated as Ding, and they lured the local ordinary people with the benefit of exemption from labor service.
Therefore, if a big family like the Bao family secretly associates with thieves, or even becomes a thieves themselves, then the orders of our court will not be accepted locally at all." (End of this chapter)