Hearing this, Liu Rengui got up and went to the bookstore to pick up a battle report. He came back and remade it and handed it to Zheng Rentai. He said: "My lord, look at this. The battle report just arrived. You Wuwei crossed the Weishui River and went south yesterday. With the King of Jin's butt, he annihilated 10,000 Cui's private troops in Tongrenyuan."
Zheng Rentai was shocked: "Xue Wanche led his army across the river to the south?"
He quickly took the battle report and read it carefully.
After reading it, I was silent for a long time.
Previously, in order to prevent the King of Jin from marching to Chang'an from Tongguan, the imperial court ordered the armies of the Sixteenth Guards to march to Ba River to set up defense lines. As a result, Xue Wanche blatantly disobeyed the emperor's order and not only failed to cross the Weishui River to stop Yuchi Gong as ordered, but instead led his troops to retreat dozens of times. Here, there was an uproar among the government and the public, who all believed that Xue Wanche had defected to the King of Jin and garrisoned troops north of the Weishui River, eyeing Chang'an.
As a result, Xue Wanche was still Your Majesty's opponent. This time he crossed the Wei River, all the forces in Guanzhong thought that they wanted to join forces with the King of Jin, and joined forces to attack Chang'an. However, in the end, Cui, the former general of the Tongren, left the King of Jin behind. His private army strangled them all...
Fortunately, the King of Jin did not believe Xue Wanche's surrender. Otherwise, if he put Xue Wanche's Youwu Guards together with his own army of 100,000, wouldn't he be sleeping with a wolf?
It can be seen that the current situation is not as favorable as it seems to King Jin. There are many overt and covert methods and strategies of the imperial court. King Jin wants to approach Chang'an City to cause turmoil and overthrow the throne. I am afraid it is not as easy as imagined. .
Although such a strategy of luring the snake out of its hole is extremely dangerous and will suffer backlash if it fails, if it is done correctly, it can indeed eliminate the opposition in the court once and for all, firmly control the government, and make the throne as stable as a rock.
After all, the new emperor is not bound to implement the New Deal yet, and there are no many constraints to implement the New Deal to the world...
This is a big game of chess, and everyone is swept up in it. With the ups and downs of the waves, there is always danger of disaster.
I don't know what to say, so I can only sigh: "Cui's private army is tragic."
He was the head of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and he led the clan's private army to fight against the navy. Naturally, he knew that the clan's private army was poorly trained, poorly equipped, and of low quality, so he dared to risk his life in a decisive battle with a powerful enemy. Sacrifice requires what kind of courage and determination.
The Cui family of Qinghe has a well-deserved reputation.
But Liu Rengui chuckled and said disapprovingly: "The army is an army, and the people are people. If farmers have to distribute weapons and weapons to disguise them, how is it different from bandits? It is not impossible for aristocratic families to exist. Poems and books can be passed down, people's wisdom can be enlightened, and teachers can be taught. The local people are knowledgeable and courteous, and inherit the Chinese culture. These are the contributions of the aristocratic families. However, monopolizing the local area, exploiting the people, and even cutting off the connection between the court and the people prevented the government from going to the countryside, treating a piece of land as private property, and there was no one in sight. There is no empire in the heart of the imperial court, and you can sell everything for profit, but this is the way to death for the clan. You think that you can separate one party by taking control of its military and political wealth, or wait for the chaos to swallow up the land and enslave the people. , but you don’t know that you yourself will eventually die because of it.”
This is what Fang Jun often talks about. All his subordinates feel their ears are about to get calluses when they hear it, but they also deeply believe it.
When a powerful family isolates the court for their own selfish desires, prohibits government orders from going to the countryside, uses money to support private armies or even bribes the army, trying to treat a state or county as a piece of their pocket, the final outcome is bound to be a military-political conflict.
The result of the conflict between the military and the government will inevitably be that the military becomes dominant and politics will be completely crushed.
"No matter how rigorous political power is, it is nothing more than a flower in the mirror and a tree without roots. Only the army is the symbol of imperial sovereignty. After all, political power comes from the handle of a knife."
Liu Rengui concluded that he was "plagiarizing" Fang Jun's words...
Zheng Rentai was silent for a while and asked: "Why can't the private armies of clans develop and grow under the nourishment of clans, and in turn maintain clan politics?"
"The combat effectiveness of the army lies in training, equipment, and strategy...but the most important thing is belief. The belief of the private army lies in the clan. They fight for the clan. They seem not to be afraid of sacrifice...but that's just what they seem. That's all. The Cui family's private army has actually reached the ultimate level of a clan's private army. However, in front of Youwuwei, it is like a mantis blocking a cart with its arms, vulnerable to a blow, and is crushed into powder in an instant. This is because the soldiers in Youwuwei are from From all over the world, they fight for the empire and for China. This magnanimity and courage are nourished by the dragon energy of the Nine Provinces and the destiny of China. How can they be compared to the private armies who know their own place? For example, you and I, when you are for When we fight for the interests of one family and one surname, we have to fight with each other. Behind you is your Zheng family in Xingyang. However, when we fight for the territory of the empire and to defend against foreign aggression, we have the entire empire behind us, and we have the Kyushu Tripod in our chests. , Family, country and world!”
The mind determines the pattern, and the pattern determines the achievement.
When a person fights for his country and hundreds of millions of people, he is almost invincible. Even though he may die in a battle, his soul will remain immortal.
Even if he is just an illiterate trafficker and a lackey, when he is in it, he will naturally be infected by the majestic momentum and plunge into it without any regrets.
Zheng Rentai remained silent and frowned.
This was an argument he had never heard before, subverting the values he had already formed, but it sounded very reasonable...
Family, country, world.
What do personal successes and failures, honor and disgrace, life and death count in front of the vast land of China and the Chinese bloodline that has been passed down for thousands of years? Zheng Rentai, who has struggled back from the brink of death countless times, fully understands that there is no limit to his mental limit. The more fearless he is, the more powerful he can be. When the human body is in such a state, he abandons the honor and disgrace of life and death, and only has the world of China and hundreds of millions of people in his heart. Who can defeat him?
Liu Rengui stood up, and under the service of his own soldiers, he put on the armor and stomach one by one, including the breastplate, shoulder armor, falcon tail, shoulder armor, shoulder armor, arm armor, belly armor, robe belly, robe armor, falcon tail, hanging legs, etc. Tao Ni Lin... every part is meticulous and neatly dressed, which is the most stringent thing in the navy.
There is nothing you can do about dying on the battlefield because you are not strong enough to fight, but if you die on the battlefield because you are lazy and fail to protect your body, this is the lowest mistake. Pao Ze may sympathize with you, but most of them will sneer at you. , or even use your name as a negative example to wake up generations of newcomers. This is absolutely unbearable.
Finally, he put a horizontal sword on his waist, Liu Rengui put down his visor, and said: "Let's go, send the order for the whole army to move out, rush to Tongrenyuan to join forces with Youwuwei, and then join forces and move towards the south. We have to give His Royal Highness, Prince Jin, felt a sense of urgency and asked him to rush to Chang'an to quickly end this war."
This time, from the south of the Yangtze River to the north, along the canal, they swept through the Jiangnan private army, the Zheng family's private army, Luoyang, Hangu Pass, and Tongguan. Their military power suppressed the entire Kanto region. The name of "Liu Rengui" resounded throughout the world, just in time. He took the opportunity to enter the imperial court to realize his lifelong ambition. He couldn't wait for this day to come as soon as possible.
Zheng Rentai followed him out of the tent silently.
Compared with the outcome of the entire war, the shock caused by the destruction of the Cui family's private army obviously made Zheng Rentai feel more deeply. If he had not immediately changed his mind when he realized that the current situation was not good, I am afraid that the current Cui family would be the same as the Zheng family. .
The once glorious and glorious family could influence the ownership of imperial power and even compete in the Central Plains. Although they still played an important role in this war, they suffered disasters and were massacred at every turn. This also verified Liu Rengui's words just now from the side.
The family members of the aristocratic family must completely eliminate their chronic diseases and transform into a royal family. Otherwise, if they want to rely on past experience to continue to separate one party and dominate, the end will be extremely miserable.
This means that the military is about to completely break away from the control of the clan and become the master of the world's situation.
Military power has completely moved away from the powerful families, and the political power without military power will either depend on the army and be sucked by it and eventually suffer backlash, or simply let it go and give up the previous survival model.
In short, the powerful family can no longer cover the sky with one hand like before...
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Bailuyuan, the main tent of the Chinese army.
King Li Zhi of Jin looked at Changsun Wuji, who was walking in quickly from outside. He ignored his frivolous steps and haggard look, suppressed his anger, and spoke with a stern look through his teeth: "Young Master Ying, you might as well talk to me. , Qiu Xinggong, who you recommended to guard Hangu Pass, not only did not resist desperately, but even opened the city and surrendered before the enemy troops reached the pass as soon as they were lost? Why did Xue Wanche, who had sworn allegiance to the king, suddenly cross the river to attack, and the Tongren They originally annihilated more than 10,000 Cui's private troops, but now they are coming with murderous intent, threatening to capture me alive and present him to the false emperor for a canonical punishment? Huh?!"
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Li Zhi, who had always been elegant and elegant, could not suppress the anger in his heart no matter what, in front of Yuwen Shiji.
Yu Wenshiji looked dejected and speechless.
He screened these two people, and after confirming that they were correct, he asked the King of Jin to appoint them with confidence. However, accidents happened, and he was naturally to blame. How to explain it?
Li Zhi's anger continued: "This king is not asking for accountability, but I want to ask you, if these two people are not trustworthy, how can you guarantee to me that all the forces you contact in Guanzhong are trustworthy? Yes. Or did they promise that the king would raise troops to respond, but in fact they would betray the king when the situation came to pass, and offer the king's head in front of the false emperor to seek reward?"
Although the army had long given up on the strategy of heading south to Chang'an through Hangu Pass and Tongguan, the two events of Qiu Xinggong's loss of Hangu Pass and Xue Wanche's attack across the river cut off the army's retreat, seriously affecting the morale and morale of the army, and the consequences were extremely disastrous.
His last sentence is the focus of the current situation: Who is trustworthy and who is not?
Yu Wenshiji stood there, sweating in the face of Li Zhi's questioning about his responsibilities, his head was burned, and his heart was apart. All he could do was to try his best. How could he guarantee this kind of thing?
Who can guarantee that?
