Even guys as fearless as Xiao Shilian and Chen Zhishen would not want to collide with the Xianbei cavalry in this unobstructed place outside Luoyang City.
Why bother letting the soldiers under your command die?
It would be better to wait until the spring of next year, then push forward the naval ships, and use the infantry to lure the opposing cavalry into the range of the naval ships, and then use artillery and trebuchets to greet them. There is no need to be aggressive if it can reduce casualties.
Li Xingchen smiled and said: "We are not in a hurry whether to negotiate peace or not. If Yu Wenxian wants to negotiate with us, he will naturally come to our door eagerly. If Yu Wenxian is determined to counterattack during the winter, then our peace talks are nothing more than a show of hostility.
To be weak."
Now that the Han Dynasty is strong and the Northern Zhou Dynasty is weak, at least on the surface, that is the case. If Li Xingchen ran over and asked for peace talks with Yu Wenxian, wouldn't he clearly tell Yu Wenxian that the Han Dynasty has no confidence in fighting the Xianbei cavalry in winter? Although Yu Wenxian is a
Although he was a heroic figure, he was more of a military commander. Li Xingchen believed that if he showed such obvious fear and flaws, Yu Wenxian would definitely give priority to dispatching a large army to fight Li Xingchen.
The cowardice of the enemy naturally provides a great opportunity to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
Yu Wenxian will definitely not give up.
Therefore, even if Li Xingchen doesn't want to fight Yu Wenxian, he still has to hold up the fight first.
Only by not being afraid of fighting can the enemy hesitate to fight.
When you meet on a narrow road, if you don't dare to show your sword, you will lose completely.
What's more, Li Xingchen didn't have any capital at all. If he really had to deal with the Xianbei cavalry going south in winter, Li Xingchen would be waiting for work and have firearms to support him. He might not be able to win this battle!
Therefore, what Li Xinchen has to do now is to wait and clean up his own mess while seeing how Yu Wenxian plans to deal with it. After taking Luoyang, the initiative on the battlefield is actually completely in Li Xinchen's hands. Yu Wenxian
No matter whether he comes or not, Li Xingchen can make every move.
There are actually not many things going on in the Taiwei Mansion. The next step is to do preventive work if Yu Wenxian may go south. The officials of the six departments who followed Li Xingchen all the way north are getting busy.
These guys ate and drank along the way. They saw all the scenery they should see. It was not their turn to go to the battlefield. What they knew was that His Majesty had a team that could take over the entire court at any time.
The frame was supported, and those who didn't know better thought that these guys were here for an outing, and a group of young people didn't know if they were flirting with others along the way.
Now their good days are over.
Led by Yuan Chengjia, the Minister of Punishment, and Luo Yi, the Minister of Civil Affairs, the top priority of the officials of the six ministries is to complete the overall planning of the newly recovered land as soon as possible. Whether it is spring plowing in the coming year or taxation laws, they must be in line with those in the Han Dynasty as soon as possible. In addition, there are also officials
The selection and transfer of officials, the screening and assessment of old officials, and the statistics of local treasuries are all the responsibilities of the six ministries. Although the military can send people to help, it is just a stand-in, and the family members know best about their own affairs.
Compared with the last time when Li Xingchen entered Guanzhong, the six departments were led by the Ministry of Husbandry. This time, they were actually led by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Officials. There was no way, Luoyang was about to become a military town, and there was nothing to do with the treasury.
Speaking of which, it is a place that has been devastated by war for a long time. It is different from the last time I entered Guanzhong and took all Yang Jian's belongings. The Ministry of Household Affairs had no place to go if they wanted to count the money, but it was the criminals in the prison.
There are quite a few of them, and they need to be cleaned up by the Ministry of Punishment.
In addition, the main task of the Ministry of Household Affairs is to spend money, so Li Xingchen did not ask the Ministry of Household Affairs to send anyone above the rank of assistant minister. The two assistant ministers were not enough for Chen Shushen's command from the rear. Sending the assistant minister to come was no different from killing the brother-in-law.
Of course, the North has no money, so there is no need to mobilize troops like this.
The task of the bureaucracy is not easy. After all, it is not an easy task to select talents, quickly stabilize the local area and integrate them into the Han system.
In addition, Huang Qi, the Minister of Commerce, also came from Chang'an. Huang Qi was Li Xinchen's first secretary-supervisor and an old acquaintance of Li Xinchen. This guy did a good job as the prefect of Huayin. Later, Xue Daoheng, the Minister of Commerce, was transferred to
After going to the Ministry of Punishments, Huang Qi took over his duties.
The Ministry of Commerce played a role that many people did not expect during the Northern Expedition. It transferred materials to the north, coordinated water and land routes along the way, and even planned the roads. The Ministry of Commerce played a great role in this. After all, the Han army's scouts
And it is impossible for Baipao to really obtain almost all the geographical and hydrological conditions in the north in just a few years. However, in the process of traveling northward, the merchants already know most of the roads well. This time the navy
Going north along the Ying River, Ru River and other tributaries of the Huai River relies on the roads that the caravans have explored before.
In addition, countless merchants followed the army, either helping to transport supplies, or directly transporting their own goods northward. In any case, their actions greatly solved the Han army's logistics problems.
And because their goods entered northern markets in a timely manner, they promoted stability in the north.
After all, before the Han army came, food and clothing had become a problem in the war-torn Central Plains. The food, clothing, and various daily necessities coming from the south undoubtedly attracted their attention. At the same time, with the gathering
With the formation of the city, the rise of workshops, academies and even restaurants and inns, etc., also promoted employment in the north to a great extent.
The population in troubled times has always been a very difficult problem to count, because there may be a large number of people hiding in the deep mountains and old forests and inaccessible swamps. They would rather make a living by fishing and hunting than go to the plains.
Go to the farmland. After all, no one knows when bandits, robbers or even rebels will come. Once they leave, not to mention your family and children, your own life may not be saved.
Now that the Han Dynasty has all the land in the Central Plains of Henan, these people can finally come out of the deep mountains and old forests. Through the large number of jobs provided by the markets and the emerging workshops around the markets, these people can also quickly find jobs.
For many people who have lived in the mountains for many years or were even born in the mountains, even if they have the strength, farming is not their strong point, not to mention working in a workshop, the salary they receive is not as high as
Poor arable land.
Of course, part of the reason is that no one knows whether the Han Dynasty can really occupy the Central Plains. In the past three hundred years, many Southern Dynasties have arrived in Luoyang during the Northern Expedition, but there are only a few times where they can really gain a foothold. Who knows?
Can a strong man really gain a foothold in Luoyang and the whole world?