"Yes! Be brave!
Since Shendu was defeated by us, they have been too honest, without making any small moves, and they are as good as grandchildren. "
"Is not it good?"
Yun Yi said puzzledly.
Zhao Jun shook his head:
“Good or bad.
This is naturally a good thing for those countries that only want to become the masters of Shendu, but it is not for us.
The reason why we were willing to make a truce with Shendu was not only to achieve the strategic goal of temporarily keeping Shendu honest so that we could free up our hands to deal with the Tatars, but more importantly, the population of Yunzhou County was insufficient at the time.
Controlling the three counties of Shendu, covering an area of nearly a thousand miles, our population at that time had reached the limit.
No matter how many there are, our population will be too spread out. If poisonous people attack everywhere, we won't be able to defend it at all.
In other words, the three counties were almost too big for us to digest at that time.
Naturally, it cannot continue to expand.
But things are different now. After several years of development, the population of the Song people in Yunzhou County has almost tripled. Because we continue to plunder people from the pass, uh... not to invite people back, now the entire Yunzhou County belongs to the Song people. The population is already close to five million!
At this time, we need more land, but the boy Shen Du Wang seems to be frightened. He is so honest that I can't find any excuse.
This is not good. After all, I am not the kind of person who waits for his master to come out of nowhere. He still needs to find a legitimate reason.
In addition, the railway matter requires a large number of slaves. After all, many Shendu people in the three counties of Shendu have joined the servant army, so it is not very convenient to capture them as slaves, and it is not enough to capture others, so we have to Expand the source of slaves.
Only by starting a war can we arrest the Shendu slaves openly, and we can also use the war to consume the Shendu people in the three counties of Shendu. "
Yun Yi was stunned when he heard this: "Why do you want to consume the Shendu people from the three counties of Shendu? Haven't they already surrendered?"
Zhao Jun shrugged his shoulders and said: "Originally, they were kept because there were not enough Song people, so they had to be kept to help occupy space.
Now that there are more people in the Song Dynasty, although we can obtain more land through expansion, the land is limited after all, right?
The more Shendu people are left, the more Song people will be unable to get more land. Only when there are fewer Shendu people can the limited land be used to feed more Song people.
Those who submit to us cannot come blatantly, so we must consume them through war after war.
The Yunzhou County Yamen has calculated that there are currently about 8 million poisonous people in the three counties of Nanli.
I don’t plan to fight this expansion for long, so I will conquer one more county and reduce the number of poisonous people in the three counties by one percent through war. "
"That means that in this war, the prince plans to let at least 800,000 poisoned people from the three counties die on the battlefield?"
Zhao Jun nodded and admitted.
"hiss!"
Even Yun Yi, a man with no need for emotion, couldn't help but take a breath of air. His prince really didn't treat the poisonous person as a human being!
One death is 800,000!
Zhao Jun looked at him like this and suddenly laughed: "What? Are you still soft-hearted?"
Yun Yi immediately turned back to an indifferent expression, shook his head and said, "Since you want to do this, Your Majesty, then just do it.
Yunyi listens to you. "
Zhao Jun smiled: "I am not a murderous person. I have always treated the common people very well. However, I have never treated foreigners as human beings."
After a period of time, King Shendu has accumulated a batch of iron weapons. I will pretend to have discovered it and let him discover that we have discovered it.
Then he will attack the three counties preemptively. I will let the servants of the three counties and a small number of Yunzhou troops prepare in advance, and then start a tug-of-war with them at the border of the three counties. Here, we will continue to recruit from within the three counties. The poisoned man goes to the battlefield.
When the number of people consumed reaches the expected level, the support from the Yunzhou Army will be late.
When the time comes to capture a county, this war will be over. "
Yun Yi suddenly asked, "Don't Governor Jiang and others know about these arrangements of yours?"
Zhao Jun smiled and said nothing.
But Yun Yi already understood what he meant, and immediately said: "You also want to use this matter to make Jiang Prefect and others realize the importance of the railway. The "late arrival" of Yunzhou County to the battlefield is your proof to them. s method."
"Okay Yun Yi, you still have this brain! Not bad!"
Zhao Jun smiled and praised.
Yun Yi curled his lips and said, "I just thought of it because you mentioned the cause and effect."
"That's pretty good, yes, I have this idea.
These days, the craftsmen of Tiangongyuan have made great progress in improving the trains, and they can speed up to forty miles in an hour.
This thing is very important for the future of our Yunzhou County. I must build these two railways. Since they can't make up their minds, I will use one thing to make them make up their minds! "
Yun Yi was indifferent.
As long as you are happy, I am just a tool with no need for emotion.
…
What happened next was just as Zhao Jun expected or arranged.
King Shen Du, who acquired the iron smelting technology, began to smelt iron crazily. However, in March of the 27th year of Tiansheng, when he had just stocked up the first batch of iron equipment, his affairs were suddenly discovered!
A businessman from the Song Dynasty accidentally broke into King Shendu's secret iron smelting workshop and clearly saw the scene of iron smelting being done inside, and then escaped from King Shendu's capital.
King Shendu was furious when he learned about it. He beheaded the general who was responsible for guarding the iron smelting workshop but failed to do so, and then ordered the whole country to secretly arrest the escaped Song man.
However, half a month had passed, and no matter how hard they searched, they could not find any trace of the Song man.
Seeing that the secret was about to be exposed, the panic-stricken Shendu King immediately gritted his teeth and stamped his feet. While there was still time, the Tianyun Kingdom should not have received the news yet. Even if they received the news, it would take at least three people to form an army to crusade. Months of time, which means that I have at least nearly four months!
Just do the opposite!
Take advantage of the initiative and launch an attack on Youer County and Woye County first, break through these two counties before the Tianyun Kingdom's army arrives, and capture all the Tianyun people inside as hostages!
He has understood over the years that the people of Tianyun Kingdom are ruthless towards others, but they still value their own people. As long as he can capture the Tianyun people from these two counties as hostages, Then you will have enough time to smelt and make more iron weapons and equipment for the poisonous army!
It is still possible for him to defeat Tianyun Kingdom!
Thinking of this, King Shendu became more determined. Dangjie immediately ordered all the generals in the country to come to the palace to discuss matters, and finally formed an army of 300,000, of which 10,000 were the original bronze guards. Now they have all been replaced. Disguised as iron weapons and wearing armor.
It's just that they didn't have the technology to make armor that was too advanced. They simply smelted two large iron plates and tied them up with ropes in front of and behind them, and it became armor.
Although it was difficult to move, it gave these poisonous soldiers who were originally bronze guards a full sense of security.
290,000 regular troops and 10,000 iron guards marched towards Youle County and Woye County in a mighty manner.
They only had four months, and it would take more than a month of marching to get anywhere. This meant that they only had less than three months to conquer the two counties.
Time is running out, so we can’t delay on the road!
This time it is about the destiny of the country, and no general with poisonous body dares to take it lightly.
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(End of chapter)
