After listening to what Zhao Kai said, Chen Dong and Chen Dajiang immediately felt that there was something interesting, and quickly followed the words: "The official sage, the land of fish and rice in the southeast, the rich land, is actually the foundation of the country to support the army and bring peace. , we must take them all, and we must not turn the southeast into a wasteland!"
Zhao Kai nodded repeatedly and said thoughtfully: "Well said... If the country wants to have long-term peace, it must have soldiers from the north and wealth from the south. Both are indispensable! Without the soldiers from the north, the Hu barbarians cannot be defeated. If there is no southern wealth, the northern troops cannot be used! If the captives are not pacified, the country will perish; if the troops are not used, the country will be in chaos!
Moreover, the King of Wu who occupies the south of the Yangtze River is my eldest brother. He is not comparable to a gold thief, so there is no need to kill them all. Chen Dong, do you think that if I treat him as the king of Wu and Yue and grant the land of Zhejiang and Zhejiang to the king of Wu, can the southeast be protected from the ravages of war? "
This is to break the earth and seal the king!
Chen Dong, Hu Quan, Yu Yunwen, and Xiao Buyan were all stunned by Zhao Kai's idea.
It's not enough for you to create a group of rebellious and recalcitrant soldiers. Now you actually want to create a rift to seal the king. Aren't you afraid of causing the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and the Rebellion of the Eight Kings?
"Absolutely not!" Chen Dong was a little anxious, "Officials should not forget the Seven Kingdoms of Han and the Eight Kings of Jin!"
Zhao Kai smiled bitterly and said: "Chen Dong, what you said is wrong! The status of King Wu today was not given by me... When he became King of Wuyue, it was not because I ceded the land to him, but because he gave the two Huaihe and Huaihe Rivers to him. The land of Liangjiang and Jinghu South Road was ceded to me. How can this be the Seven Kingdoms of Han and the Eight Kings of Jin? Besides, I am not Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, let alone Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty. Even if there are a few more kings of feudal states, I will still use the recommendation method. The law of kindness can transform the big into the small, so that they will not be harmed by the country."
Chen Dong and others have noticed that Zhao Kai only mentioned Lianghuai, Liangjiang, and Jinghu South Road, but left out Liangguang and Fujian Road... This shows that he does not mind conferring a few more princes with the same surname!
It seems that Zhao Kaiping Jiangnan's idea is to first threaten militarily, then use political means to win over, and then use push-and-favour methods to divide after he succeeds.
This idea seems to be very good, at least it greatly takes care of the interests of Zhao Huan and the kings of the Song Dynasty clan who slipped away to the southeast.
But is it really Zhao Huan and his brothers and sons who govern the southeast now?
"Officials!" Yu Yunwen, who was the most valued by Zhao Kai among the group of Hanlin officials, said, "The state of Wu is shared with the scholar-bureaucrats... Since the King of Wu did not use warriors and only respected scribes, the Southeastern scholars who practiced both civil and military affairs It was of great use. Nowadays, everyone at home and abroad in Wu is controlled by scholar-bureaucrats, and even the power of the king has been somewhat neglected.
The official method of breaking the soil and conferring kings could only win over the clans living in the southeast, but it could not win over the scholar-bureaucrats in the southeast. If the scholar-officials of the Southeast are determined to resist, then no matter how many clan kings with the same surname are granted official titles, they will not be able to capture the Southeast without a bloody blow! If the officials want to take over all the Southeast, they still have to try to win over these Southeastern scholar-officials! "
"Really?" Zhao Kai still didn't believe it. "King Wu was considered a pioneer, so why did he lose his power? Are those Southeastern scholars so capable?"
In the past few years, his external attention has been focused on the Kingdom of Jin, and he does not care much about the southeast, and he does not pay much attention to the scholar-officials in the southeast.
In his opinion, apart from being able to write a few splendid articles, these people have no great abilities. Their bones are very soft and they have been capitulators more than once in history.
And he, Zhao Kai, is not a Tatar with a money rat tail, nor does he know how to grow his hair or not. Why are those southeastern scholar-officials resisting? As long as the upper echelons like Zhao Huan and Zhao Shu kneel down, they should sing praises to themselves, the wise king who reopened the Great Song Dynasty.
"The officials don't know something." Yu Yunwen also knew that Zhao Kai didn't care much about the affairs in the southeast, so he had to explain patiently, "This dynasty...oh, it is the Song Dynasty before the Xuanhe disaster. In name, They shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, but in fact they still used both civil and military forces, and implemented the method of using civil servants to control military forces. That is to say, civil servants were not allowed to control the troops, and military men were not allowed to speak. And then they used different methods of civil and military to restrain each other, and they could not let go Use your hands and feet to do things and hold power. Only in this way can the king have great power, and the world can be stable for a long time."
Long-term stability? Zhao Kaixin said: That is Zhao Gou's stability. Zhao Huan and I have to be cuckold kings... We have become cuckold kings, so why do we need this stability?
Yu Yunwen went on to say: "But because most of the warriors in the world followed the officials, the King of Wu distrusted the warriors very much. After arriving in the southeast, he dismissed the warriors and used the methods of Confucian scholars alone. Once the Confucian scholars were used alone, there would be no constraints. , there is no way to push the responsibility for military affairs to the outside... Therefore, useless Confucianism cannot be used. Confucianism with both civil and military skills can be put to great use. Officials must not underestimate the Confucian officials in the southeast! "
Chen Dong also reminded: "Officials, famous generals since ancient times, have selected few and used many... The Southeastern Confucian officials can succeed through the imperial examinations, which shows that they are not stupid people. If they are kept in high cabinets, If you don't use your wisdom, over time, you will naturally become a useless rotten scholar. If you are entrusted with big responsibilities, more experience, and more time, you will certainly be able to use a group of famous ministers and good generals. So now the southeastern army is not Weak, especially the Southeast Navy, it is really the best in the world!"
Yu Yunwen was well aware of the falsehood and reality of the Southern Song Dynasty, while Chen Dong was well aware of the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty before the Xuanhe War. The Southern Song Dynasty really used scribes now, which was different from pretending to trust civil servants before.
Moreover, leading troops to fight is, to put it bluntly, an "empirical" job. If you do it enough, it will get better... If it really doesn't work, just replace it. Zhao Huan's Wu Jinshi admitted hundreds of people at a time, and he could eliminate a group of people in the process of use.
Zhao Kai thought about it and felt that it made sense, "Then how should I recruit the scholar-officials from the southeast for my own use?"
Chen Dong glanced at Yu Yunwen. Yu Yunwen smiled and said nothing, obviously giving him the credit for providing advice.
So Chen Dong said: "The official family, I think the way to win the hearts of the Southeast is to run the imperial examination well!"
"Run the imperial examination well?" Zhao Kai was stunned, "Does Bachelor Chen think the current imperial examination is not going well?"
Chen Dong smiled and said: "In troubled times, use talents to cultivate scholars... Now that peace is imminent, the imperial examination system should also change from using talents to cultivating scholars."
Zhao Kai looked at Chen Dong and asked: "Raising a scholar...nurturing a scholar to waste?"
"The official sage!" Chen Dong said, "This is Emperor Taizu's way of bringing peace to the world!"
Zhao Kai sighed and said: "The method of this dynasty to bring peace to the world is not only to raise the soldiers to waste, but also to raise the soldiers to waste!"
Chen Dong nodded: "In this way, the world can be at peace, the people can rest and recuperate, and the country can be peaceful for a long time. Isn't that what it means to store swords and guns in the treasury and release horses to Nanshan? I hope that your Majesty will raise soldiers and soldiers for fifty years!"
"Fifty years..." Zhao Kai whispered, "Having the sweat of the world!"
It is now the end of the seventh year of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty, which is 1134 according to the Western Calendar. It is only more than 20 years since Genghis Khan was born. Fifty years later will be the time when Genghis Khan was at his weakest and strongest!
"Guanjia, what are you talking about?" Chen Dong didn't understand what Zhao Kai said, so he asked again.
"It's nothing." Zhao Kai said with a smile, "Scholar Chen, I have written down your suggestion... I still need to think about it carefully. You guys should step back first!"
After Chen Dong, Hu Quan, Yu Yunwen and Xiao Buyan heard this, they bowed to Zhao Kai and then left the Yaochi Palace in the Yaochi Palace together.
Seeing the four people leaving the palace door, Zhao Kai sighed and whispered: "Brother Twelve, what do you think of their suggestions?"
Then I saw a young man in his twenties, wearing a black hat and military uniform, come out from behind a screen.
This young man is none other than Zhao Kai's twelfth brother, King Xin Zhao Zhi.
Zhao Zhi came from Jiangling. He had previously served as the pacifier of Jinghu Road and went out of Jiangling. After the war in the north came to an end, Zhao Kai ordered him to go north. He just arrived in Beijing yesterday.
Today, Zhao Zhengong was one step ahead of Chen Dong, Hu Quan, Yu Yunwen, Xiao Buyan and others. He had been hiding behind the screen and eavesdropping. He knew what the four people wanted to do, so he smiled bitterly and said: "Brother, I think I It is always good to pacify the Southeast without war... The kings of the Southeast must win over, and the scholar-officials of the Southeast should also win over. As for whether to support or use them after the pacification, isn't that just a matter of a word from the emperor?"
Zhao Kai asked again: "You have been in Jiangling for many years. Do you think the southeast is easy to capture?"
"It's not easy," Zhao Zhi said, "taking the southeast requires naval forces...and now that Shandong has not been pacified, the only way to take the south of the Yangtze River is through the Han River. The Wu army has long been tightly guarded in Ezhou and built countless artillery fortresses. . Our naval forces may not even be able to get out of the Han River! Even if they can get out of the Han River, it will be difficult for our naval warships to fight against Wu’s tortoise-shell and iron-hulled ships!"
"Turtle-shell and iron-hulled ship?" Zhao Kai was stunned, "What kind of ship is this?"
Zhao Zhi said: "Please lend me a pen and paper."
Zhao Kai nodded to Wu Meiniang, who immediately put away Zhao Kai's masterpiece - "Map of the World" and covered the desk with rice paper again.
Zhao Zhi took a brush and sketched it on the rice paper. He quickly drew a strange-looking warship - the lower body of this warship was ordinary, no different from a large gang ship. However, there is a circle of baffles sloping inward on the deck. The baffles are not tall, and there are two holes on each baffle, one above and one below. There is also a pointed roof on top of the baffle. In addition, two cannons were placed side by side on the bow of the warship.
"Is this ship made of iron?" Zhao Kai was a little unconvinced.
"Not all of them are made of iron," Zhao Zhi replied. "The baffles and roofs are made of wooden boards with iron sheets nailed on the outside. They are very strong. Even our cannons may not be able to hit them!
In addition, this kind of warship is very low and has a small hull. The cannons mounted on the shore are too far away to hit it. Moreover, this kind of warship has a cannon on the bow, and ordinary warships are no match for it. Unless the same iron-hulled gunboat is built, the Yangtze River will be firmly controlled by the Wu navy. But our shipbuilding skills are not as good as those of Wu State, and we cannot build such a ship! "
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