Chapter 163: Pleasing each other

A few words made everyone present look at him with admiration. Since the rebellion in Xuzhou, everyone has been worried about survival all the time. Almost all efforts have been centered around how to make the army stronger and larger in scale. However, no one has had time to think about deeper and longer-term issues.

Including the development plan that the old Jinshi Lu Lu Zeng gave to Zhu Bashiyi was just to take advantage of the elite troops of Huai and Si and the food and fodder of Wu and Yue, waiting for an opportunity to compete for the world. However, there was no detailed consideration of how to compete for the Lu and how to manage it after conquering the territory.

Zhu Chongba quickly thought of this layer from the scene in front of him with a small brand. He also revealed the biggest weakness of the Huai'an Army at present, the lack of farming!

To the east of the canal, the fields are mostly saline-alkali beaches. They were not suitable for farming. After the people found that they could find better livelihoods in the city, they were unwilling to continue digging food in the land. Therefore, the Huaidong area has always been unable to make ends meet, and they all rely on purchasing from other places. After Zhu Bashiyi occupied Huai'an, most of the banned Yuan court's tyrants and taxes were given to the people, which accelerated the prosperity of the market in a very short period of time, resulting in a larger grain gap.

Although the method of connecting the transportation of salt to the incoming food can alleviate some of the crisis. However, insufficient grain reserves are ultimately a hidden danger.

No matter how strong the combat effectiveness of an army is, no matter how well the weapons and armor are, they cannot fight without food. Even if they can be out of power at the beginning, if the opponent adopts the tactic of strengthening the wall and clearing the fields, it will be difficult for him to feed the enemy. If the soldiers are killed and cannot continue to advance for a long time, their combat effectiveness will be quickly reduced. When the food you carry with them is consumed, there will be no other choice except retreating.

If the opponent is cruel and ruthless, he prohibits food from flowing to Huaidong by force, or if the food prices soar in the year of disaster, the Huai'an army will inevitably suffer an unprecedented major blow.

Even if all the above situations were lucky enough to be dealt with, the Huai'an army would not have made much progress. Because the wealth of the Huai'an army relies too much on commercial tax and salt tax, while other regions do not have the same rich commercial tax and salt tax to collect. Therefore, if the Huai'an army only tries to separatist one place in the future, or keeps Yangzhou and Gaoyou in their hands, it is only enough to be a powerful prince. If you want to attack the Central Plains in the north or compete for the world, if you do not change the current governance method, the more powerful the territory expands, the weaker the strength will be until you drag yourself to death.

This statement may not be completely accurate, but this is the first time that someone has discussed the same issue with Zhu Bashiyi from such a high and deep perspective. How could he not be moved? What's more, in Zhu Dapeng's memory, the 16th generation ancestor in front of him was the final winner of the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. How could this person's words be too outrageous?

Thinking of this, in front of everyone, Zhu Bashiyi dressed up and saluted Zhu Chongba solemnly on the horse's back. "I heard the general's words today, it was like a wake-up call! Since the general can see the shortcomings of my Huaidong, can he have any tricks to teach me? If so, please give me advice in person, Zhu should thank you very much!"

"The chief general is so serious! Xiaoke must not be the word "gift"!" Seeing that he had moved the famous governor Zhu Zhu in just a few words, Zhu Chongba himself was also a little surprised. He bowed his hands and bowed deeply, and then hesitated, "The chief general general general was three months ago, and one day he went to Huai'an. How sharp the offensive was! For some reason, after he got to Huai'an, he suddenly restrained his minions? Xiaoke couldn't figure it out, so he asked the chief general manager to give advice?"

"This, this, I was able to take Huaian that day, it was purely a risk! Then I didn't dare to use the same trick again, so as not to lose all my previous efforts if I lost it!" Zhu Bashiyi smiled, with a slightly awkward expression on his face.

For more than three months, the Huai'an army has only been wandering around at home and has not made any effort to expand its territory. On the one hand, it is because his troops are too thin, and there is another factor and the most important factor, that is, this guy's strategic thinking.

In fact, in addition to accepting some of Lu Luzeng's guidance, most of his other strategic ideas come from Zhu Dapeng. With Zhu Dapeng's otaku thinking, after having a base, he should naturally focus on farming and dig gold and accumulate strength. When the power accumulates strong enough, he will give the opponent a fatal blow.

Obviously, this strategy is a bit too wishful thinking. Even if Zhu Chongba didn't ask, after listening to his previous words, Zhu Bashiyi suddenly realized this problem. You want to develop slowly, but your opponent is not a fool and will never stand there and wait for you to develop slowly. They will try every means, including military and non-military means, to curb your development, and then kill you alive in Huaidong, a piece of Jin Ke who has copper coins and salt flowing but no rice.

Sure enough, after hearing his explanation, Zhu Chongba immediately smiled and shook his head, "Since the re-use of the same trick is an adventure, how can you know that staying in Huai'an without moving, isn't it a risk? In the light of the small, since the chief executive has raised the banner of righteousness, he is not a risk all the time. It's just that the way of adventure is different, and the results of each time are different!"

"This-?" Zhu Bashiyi didn't know how many times he was stunned. He looked at Zhu Chongba with his eyes curled up, wishing he could cut off the other party's head and knock it open to see what structure it was inside?

Monster, this person is definitely a native monster! His defiance of the heavens lies in the integration of the soul and thinking of Zhu Dapeng, a later generation. Although Zhu Chongba was born and raised, his vision was wider than that of himself, a soul fusionist. You should know that from 1352 AD to 2014 AD, it was a span of more than 650 years. However, the person who had accumulated more than 650 years of experience was compared by an indigenous person who had no accumulation. This blow was really heavy enough.

"When Xiaoke passed by Sizhou, he was fortunate to see the tiger bench under General Xu Da's command!" As if he was afraid that the blow to Zhu Bashiyi would not be big enough, Zhu Chongba thought for a while and continued to say. "The soldiers under General Xu are definitely the most powerful in the world. Even the auxiliary soldiers, to be honest, are not much worse than the soldiers in the Mengyuan side. I heard that under the command of the Grand General, there are five such tiger benches. The Grand General, if he doesn't use him to expand territory, but uses him to guard his family, would it be a waste of resources! Could it be that the Grand General, think that when you are raising your energy, the officials from all over the Mongolian Yuan will continue to live in a drunken life and dream of death like before? Who gave them such courage? After Yangzhou, Gaoyou, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and the arrogant general, who dared to continue to sleep soundly after taking Huaian?! If they only know how to live in a drunken life and dream of death, how could they have been in the officialdom for decades?"

This sentence is even more sharply. Your Huaian Army is developing, and others are not standing still. Especially in places close to the Huaian Army, such as Gaoyou, Yangzhou, etc., they are neither short of money nor soldiers. They are just an enterprising spirit. Now the Huaian Army is eyeing each other, and even if the local officials are stupid, they know that they have to do all kinds of means to protect themselves. How can they continue to drink and listen to operas and live a mess? It is true that most of the officials in the Mongolian Yuan are greedy and slanderous people, but none of them are fools. They are fools, and have long been self-cleaned by the officialdom and will not crawl to a critical position in controlling the entire mansion and a journey.

Whether it is a clean official or a corrupt official, in an official-oriented society, those who climb to a high position must be all good. Thinking of Zhu Dapeng's memory, a very famous statement. The cold sweat on Zhu Bashiyi's forehead finally oozed out. He raised his hand and bowed to Zhu Zhongba again, "When you hear your words, it is better to read ten years of books. Brother Chongba is very good at seeing you, and Zhu is taught this!"

"I dare not, I dare not!" Zhu Chongba quickly jumped off his mount and bowed to the ground, "Xiao Ke was crazy and spoke nonsense in front of the chief manager. The chief manager did not blame Xiao Ke, he was kind. How dare he be treated as the chief manager again?"

"Okay! You are so particular!" Zhu Bashiyi laughed, jumped off the horse's back, and grabbed Zhu Chongba's hand. "Anyway, this place is not far from the city gate, so you and I might as well walk a few steps together and chat while walking. Zhu still has a lot of things in his heart, and he wants to ask Brother Chongba for advice!"

"What kind of virtue is Xiao Ke? How can you dare to call him brothers and brothers to the chief executive?!" Zhu Chongba insisted on refusing to discuss friendship with him, broke his arm free and gave a deep salute again, "If you have any questions, please ask me, Xiao Ke should know everything!"

"You, alas!" Zhu Bashiyi shook his head at Zhu Chongba, and had to say that. People in this era value etiquette and magnanimity very much. He doesn't like it, but he can't fight against the entire era alone. But if you have the chance, ask for advice from the monster Zhu Chongba, a few more tricks, and etiquette or not will become secondary. Anyway, as long as the monster Zhu Chongba himself doesn't care, as a superficial superior, he doesn't need to force it, right?

Although he integrated Zhu Dapeng's soul and memory, he still belonged to Zhu Laonian physically. Therefore, he had no psychological barriers to being brothers with Zhu Chongba. However, Zhu Chongba seemed a little restrained because he was just a little bit, and the other party was a chief manager. But overall, the two admired each other very much, so sometimes although they did not recognize each other's views and practices, they could also give each other enough respect. Therefore, they were getting more and more speculative while walking and chatting. They felt that they met very late without realizing it. "It's a pity that he was not under Zhu!" "It's a pity that Zhu didn't know him earlier before!"

Note 1: Although Zhu Yuanzhang treated his subordinates cruelly when he was old, his knowledge and knowledge were not as bad as in unofficial history. Many of the orders he gave Xu Da had a sense of strategically building a house. Especially some orders from the north during the period were definitely considered to be a planner and win a thousand miles away.
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