Chapter 3107: Drawing fire from under the cauldron
Fang Xuanling believed that he had always been good at judging people. Su Dingfang had the qualifications of a famous general. He could strategize and win thousands of miles. If time passes, he may not have a place in the history. But Liu Rengui is more expert in government affairs and has outstanding abilities. He has lived under Su Dingfang for a long time and his talents cannot be extended.
, over time, resentment will inevitably arise, leading to factions within the Navy.
It would be better to take this opportunity to let Liu Rengui go north to perform meritorious service. If he can take this opportunity to break away from the navy and take a step further, not only will his personal ambitions be fulfilled, but he will also be able to turn back and support the navy. It can be said that he kills two birds with one stone and has the best of both worlds.
But knowing that once he goes north to Guanzhong to defeat the King of Jin and help the crown prince ascend the throne, it will be a tribute to the dragon. Whether Su Dingfang is willing to give up and fulfill Liu Rengui needs to be explained in advance...
Su Dingfang's mind turned around and he understood what Fang Xuanling meant. He immediately laughed and said: "The prime minister and the general have only been together for a short time, so he doesn't know much about the general's temperament. The general does not dare to boast about his achievements. Every time the navy
Every achievement is achieved by the bloody battles of the generals and soldiers, but when it comes to mind and magnanimity, the generals are not willing to be inferior to others."
After a pause, he returned Fang Xuanling with a cup of tea and lamented: "At the end of the year, I was going to follow Duke Wei, wasting my years, and being depressed all day long... I can most understand the depression of having great ambitions that are hard to achieve and being suppressed repeatedly. It was like an invisible tower.
It is extremely uncomfortable to feel like a mountain is pressing down on you and you have no choice but to try your best to escape. Therefore, since General Mo was promoted by the Duke of Yue and entrusted with the post of Commander of the Navy to take charge of this world-strong army, he worked hard to promote him.
Talents, as long as they are capable, should be cultivated as much as possible so that they can be put to use. Regular talents are extremely high and are not just things in the pool. A mere navy is definitely not the end of his career. For the late general, his achievements as a dragon are just the icing on the cake.
Righteousness is the step to progress. If you can take it a step further, the general will be happy and give you full support. How can you be jealous and obstruct it? Prime Minister, you are looking down on the general."
He knew his own family affairs, and Su Dingfang believed that his military tactics and strategies were not inferior to anyone except Wei Gong, but he also knew that he could only work hard in the army in this life.
Climb the pavilion to pay homage to the prime minister and go straight to the center.
If you don't have that ability, but you still have the extravagant hope to get to that point, isn't it just asking for trouble? Once you enter the center, with your own abilities and personality, you can be tricked to the bone by those people in just three or two days.
Remaining.
Why bother...
It is better to just stay in the Navy, where you can not only make great achievements, but also cultivate talents, such as Liu Rengui. I fully support him now. When he reaches a high position, how can I not miss today's friendship?
At the beginning, the reason why Duke Wei handed over military duties and stayed at home was deeply jealous of His Majesty Li Er and ostracized by Zhenguan's ministers. In the final analysis, no one had a good word to say in front of His Majesty Li Er...
The officialdom is ups and downs, and if you want to rise steadily, you must not only have outstanding talents, but also have noble people to support you along the way.
After all, officialdom is not only about talent, but also about people and sophistication. He has been both civil and military all his life, and he considers himself to be outstanding in strategy, but he lacks talent in this area. He only knows how to immerse himself in work and does not know how to interact with people. Therefore, in the past two years, he has also summarized
Here’s an experience: Since you don’t have the talent in this area, don’t be too demanding and just cultivate a few subordinates who are good at dealing with people. When these people reach high positions in the future, you won’t have to suffer in this area...
Moreover, he is an open-minded person. If he doesn't have any tolerance, he has been affected by the rejection of Li Jing and has been depressed all these years. How can he wait for the day of recovery and rise to the top?
Therefore, he was always happy to see the achievements of his generals, whether it was Xue Rengui, Pei Xingjian, or Liu Rengui in front of him.
Liu Rengui stood up, bowed and saluted, and said gratefully: "Thank you, Prime Minister, for your cultivation, and thank you, Commander-in-Chief, for your support! The general has always been a member of the navy. He is proud of his experience in the navy, and he has long regarded the navy as his robe."
Like brothers and sisters, in this life, I can only be grateful and never be in debt!"
He really spoke from the bottom of his heart.
I think that Liu Rengui almost became Fang Jun's domestic slave. It was only when he joined the Navy that his talents were fully displayed. With his ambition to become a better man and unwilling to be mediocre, no matter where he goes in the future, his resume in the Navy will be his
A glory that can never be erased.
Moreover, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the navy. Among the generals who have gone out one after another over the years, and the generals who are still serving in the navy, which one is not a genius? In time, when these people slowly go out and fill higher positions
, and gradually a powerful political force will be formed.
Above the court, throughout the ages, if you want to go further, you cannot go it alone. You must have like-minded people to join forces and forge ahead, and the "Navy Department" may be his greatest political capital.
The name of "Navy Department" will one day be the backbone of this empire and resound throughout the world...
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Xiao Guan led his servants in Jinling City to urgently transport all the money, silk, goods and goods from various shops and houses out of the city and hid them in Guanyin Mountain. However, he turned back and went down the mountain, rushing back to Nanlanling by boat and horse.
It's not that he didn't pay attention to these money and silk goods. This time he summoned private soldiers from the Jiangnan gentry to gather in Jinling to cross the Yangtze River and go north. The Xiao family almost spent most of the family property. These money and silk goods were particularly important in the process of restoring the family business and should not be allowed to happen.
However, precisely because of the dominant position of the Xiao family in this gathering of private soldiers, he was afraid of becoming an important target of the navy, so he had to return to his ancestral home in Nanlanling without stopping and conduct an emergency evacuation according to the predetermined plan.
He even ignored the fact that his grandfather Xiao Xun was trapped in the naval formation and his life and death were unknown...
A few days later, Xiao Guan returned to Nanlanling in a hurry. Fortunately, he did not find any naval soldiers coming ashore from the Yangtze River to attack Nanlanling.
Since the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the northern gentry have been migrating southward. The Xiao family of Lanling also crossed the Yangtze River and migrated south of the Yangtze River.
Becoming a prominent family in Wujin, and having such amazingly talented clan members as Emperor Xiao Daocheng of Qi Gao and Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan successively appeared, the Xiao family of Lanling became more and more prestigious, and was vaguely the largest clan in the south of the Yangtze River.
Now Wujin has been renamed Nanlanling, which is the ancestral land of the Lanling Xiao family. It has many industries and a deep foundation. If it is massacred by the navy, the consequences will be disastrous...
Returning to the ancestral home to summon the clan elders, because Nanlanling is close to the Yangtze River, we got the news early that tens of thousands of Yanziji's private soldiers were defeated by the navy in a battle, which saved Xiao Guan a lot of words.
In the lobby, Xiao Jun, the son of Xiao Xun, was sitting in the middle. Xiao Guan and a group of clan elders were sitting next to him. They asked Xiao Guan impatiently: "Why did you come back on your own and abandon your grandfather?"
Xiao Guan's face was full of shame and he said helplessly: "My grandfather took a boat to the river to stop the navy, but then the navy suddenly arrived and launched a brazen attack. We were caught off guard while we were boarding the boat to cross the river, resulting in a huge defeat. The army was in chaos.
Of course, I couldn't find my grandfather. At that time, the boy was afraid that the navy would attack the ancestral home, so after properly placing the money and silk goods in Jinling City, he kept returning all the way. He really deserves to die."
Xiao Jun first cried silently, worried about his father, and then angrily slapped the case and cursed: "Fang Jun, you really bullied me too much!"
Although Fang Junyuan was in Guanzhong, and the order of the navy to attack the private army in the south of the Yangtze River had nothing to do with him, he created the navy by himself, so the blame must be placed on Fang Jun, not to mention the indirect death of his brother's only son Xiao Siye.
Although Fang Jun has gained a good reputation as a "dead person", how can the blood debt be written off?
However, the Xiao family married their legitimate daughter to Fang Jun as their concubine...
It is really entangled with grudges, love and hate are inseparable.
Thinking of my old father being trapped in the naval formation in his seventies, I feared that there would be a misfortune, and I became even more angry and unspeakable.
Xiao Guan said: "The naval force is strong and it is difficult to resist on the river. This place is always under the threat of the navy. It is better to temporarily close the clan and go south to Yangxian to avoid its attack, and then reconvene all the families in the south of the Yangtze River to discuss the follow-up. Otherwise
If we stay here, who knows when the navy will land to attack?"
In the great battle at Yanziji, tens of thousands of private soldiers from the south of the Yangtze River were unable to resist, which made him deeply afraid of the navy. Nanlanling was only a few dozen miles away from the Yangtze River, and the navy could attack at any time, so he could not sleep well.
Furthermore, the Xiao family was the leader in summoning various families in the south of the Yangtze River to raise private soldiers and go north. Now they were defeated and suffered heavy losses. Countless soldiers were missing and there must be very few who can return to each family. If this is the case,
If we give up, the Lanling Xiao clan will almost become extinct from the Jiangnan clan.
Even if it is extremely difficult to recruit private soldiers again, a gesture must be made, otherwise the Xiao family will become the sinners of the Jiangnan clan...
Xiao Jun hesitated and sighed: "Back then, the dust was swirling in the north, and the wars were bloody. My ancestors had to abandon their ancestral homeland and move south with their families. During this period, they went through countless hardships and suffered countless twists and turns. Only then did they cross the Yangtze River and settle in the south.
So... are we now going to give up the family fortune that we have worked hard for for hundreds of years, ignore our ancestral graves and clans, and move south again? We, our descendants, are ashamed of our ancestors."
Even for an ordinary family, it is not easy to move their entire family, let alone a wealthy family like the Lanling Xiao family?
Xiao Guan said anxiously: "But the navy is rampaging across the river and is waiting for danger. Who knows when it will attack? Father, cut it off if you must, otherwise the disaster of overturning is just around the corner!"
The other clan elders were also silent and were in a dilemma.
Just at this moment, a servant rushed in and said urgently: "I would like to inform you, Sir, that an official letter from the Shipping Company has arrived!"
Xiao Guan hurriedly said: "Bring it quickly!"
He stood up and took the official letter from his servant, opened it and looked at it carefully, reading ten lines at a glance, and suddenly sighed: "There is no need for the whole clan to go south to escape, and it is no longer possible for the Jiangnan clan to recruit private soldiers to gather and go north."
After saying that, he handed the official letter to his father and sat down again, with a dejected look on his face.
The Shipping Department actually seized all the Jiangnan clan’s merchant ships, warehouses, shops, and warehouses... This was a complete blow to the bottom of the pot. In this way, anyone who dared to go against the Shipping Department would have to bear the consequences of massive wealth losses.
The Shipping Department and the Navy are basically one with each other...