It was truly a supreme honor for the emperor to give a small official a treasure for his material allocation application. Li Tuo's hand holding the military order trembled.
Zai Chun took out the small seal he carried with him, and while talking to the kneeling Li Tuo, he stamped the treasures one by one. With the emperor's seal, no one in the six departments would dare to allocate materials like this. delayed.
When Weng Tonghe saw the emperor getting close to Li Tuo, a small official, he felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, and a surge of sour water surged upwards!
In the eyes of a traditional literati like him, petty officials are just out of the ordinary. No matter how capable you are, you are still out of place even if you haven't jumped over the dragon gate.
Why do people like you still want to put pressure on me and share the favor of the emperor? What you said is clear and logical, but doesn’t it make me appear to be false and vain?
The old man didn't understand anything. Of course he knew the reason why Li Tuo was favored at this moment, because when all the horses were silent, everyone was panicking, and the emperor was eagerly asking what to do.
All high-ranking officials can only come up with the so-called "high-level policy" policies, which are all nonsense that sounds extremely correct! But if we want to break the situation, don’t we need solid data, steps and measures?
If the imperial court wants to quell a rebellion, how do you deploy military power? That's not to say that you can make a decision just by pointing on the map. Five thousand people can be annexed on this mountain, ten thousand soldiers can be stationed on this dock, twenty thousand soldiers here, and thirty thousand soldiers somewhere.
This is not painting, this is fighting. Any movement of infantry force must be followed by countless data and materials!
When soldiers march, where can they mobilize mules and horses? How can you haul artillery and ammunition without mules and horses?
Stationed on the top of a mountain, there are several wells. Can they supply river water for these five thousand people to eat? Will it turn into a tragedy like Ma Su guarding the street pavilion?
How many days do you want these five thousand people to defend the war? You have to calculate the approximate casualty rate and how strong the enemy's attack is expected to be withstood, and then you have to prepare sufficient wound medicine in advance!
These are not just words, they have to be calculated bit by bit by countless small officials like Li Tuo!
You can't just slap your head and give as much as you want. The supplies for war must be carefully calculated. The commander of the unit will ask for more supplies. Who doesn't want to have more things in his hand?
Even if there is one more roll of gauze, one less brother will die in the war! These are all real war details. Victory lies in the details, and the devil hides in the details!
Li Tuo said how to guard key locations such as Marco Polo Bridge? If you need permanent fortifications with reinforced concrete, you have to calculate how much cement, sand, stones, I-beams, steel bars are needed...how many civilian workers are needed, how much earthwork is dug!
Also, how many days will it take to build it? Can you build it before the enemy comes? If not, you will have some troops to resist the enemy's attack in the end and buy time for the civilians!
This is war. It’s all about the details. Shouting slogans is useless!
Of course the old man knows this truth, but what can the old man do if he knows this truth? He has no choice, because he does not have these actuarial skills, and he does not even know what permanent fortifications look like!
If you don’t know or don’t understand, then you can only let people who understand speak, but that won’t work either! If a knowledgeable person like Li Tuo is allowed to speak, doesn't that show his incompetence? It seems that he is eating for free. How will the emperor regard himself?
What's more, you, a knowledgeable person, are actually a minor official who has never passed the imperial examination. You, a minor official, dare to understand something that I don't understand. Isn't this treason?
You, Li Tuo, are clearly disrespecting our imperial examination officials! If you are disrespectful to our imperial examination officials, you are disrespecting the saints. If you are disrespectful to the saints, you are disrespecting the ancestors of heaven and earth!
You have already disrespected the saints of the ancestors of heaven and earth, so I will naturally deal with you in a reasonable and orderly manner. If I suppress you, I will suppress you on behalf of the saints!
Yes, that's the truth. When the old man thinks about the problem in his mind, and his thinking changes slightly, he will be filled with a sense of justice for the matter he is about to take action!
"That's right! I'm teaching you because I'm acting on behalf of the saints. Is this how to govern the country? Of course, we have to follow the words of the saints. Who are the disciples of the saints? Of course it's the Confucian scholars like us who read the books of the saints and rely on the tests of the saints!"
He is also a man of God! He’s also a great guy! If you can lie to yourself, brainwash yourself, and do dirty things, you can still have a righteous face and a heart full of justice. You can also stand on the commanding heights and say to you, 'Isn't it for you that I kill you? '
Invincible existence!
Xiao Letian has seen through these Confucian scholars of the late Qing Dynasty. Xiao Letian is very aware of the dark side of human nature. Let alone the late Qing Dynasty, even the residual poison of his previous life still exists!
Identity is a symbol of class. I am a regular worker and you are a temporary worker. No matter how talented you are, it is of no use. I will suppress you just like me!
You, a temporary worker, have shown more talent than me, a regular worker. What do you want to do? Showing off that I'm not as good as you, right?
So in order to protect our own interests and dignity, we temporary workers must join hands to squeeze out you, the catfish!
Bad money driving out good money can happen anywhere in the world!
It is precisely because of the existence of such bad coins that the world is always filled with countless 'correct nonsense'!
When a region's economic development is not going well, you can find all kinds of lofty views from certain companies and officials. From international trade to financial investment to business environment, you can hear all kinds of crude explanations of terms without looking up in a dictionary. I don’t understand it, let alone implement it.
But the people in this place still have to live their own lives. How to solve the employment rate that people want? Can the monthly salary of 2,000 yuan be increased to 2,500 yuan?
Can the construction of a road that was planned ten years ago start starting this year?
The key point is, can those people you mentioned who are extremely correct in making suggestions, starting funds and executing them be brought over?
What's sad is that most people in the world like to blame others, analyze others, and plan others...but they just don't like to go to the fields and execute it themselves.
But things in this world have to be done brick by brick and bag of soil!
In the eyes of Emperor Tongzhi, Li Tuo's performance today was like an awl suddenly emerging from a pile of cotton bags and piercing Zai Chun's heart.
Of course, the awl also pierced the old man's heart, which was sore and painful!
Jealousy is really a kind of original sin. At this moment, Li Tuo told Emperor Tongzhi one by one about the approval documents and troop deployment documents he was asking for, and carefully explained why he wanted the money, food and materials.
Basically every number has a source. After listening to half of these approvals, everyone present can roughly outline what the Yongding River defense line looks like!
When the old man saw that Zai Chun's expression was getting more and more satisfied, he couldn't suppress the evil fire in his heart, "Li Tuo! After you have said so much, I have a question!"
"You said that various fortifications should be built on the Yongding River defense line. How can such a large project take more than half a month? Is it too late?"
"Besides, you have guarded the Yongding River, so can't the rebels of Guiziliu Six take a detour from east to west? The Yongding River only blocks the south side of the capital, but they can pass through troops from the east and west!"
