Regarding these issues, Su Yonglin felt that there was no need to hide them now that the matter was over.
"At the beginning of the uprising, it was April. At that time, only three states, Juzhou, Yizhou and Mizhou, responded with more than 10,000 troops. As of now, the entire Shandong East Road, plus Tai'an Prefecture, belongs to the Liberation Army. The total strength of the Liberation Army has exceeded 100,000, about 120,000 to 30,000."
Jiagu Asu's eyes widened again.
"It has only been three months, and it has reached this point? 120,000 to 30,000? How did you do it? This is simply impossible!"
"Thanks to your brutal expropriation, even though the Liberation Army was just a group of landlords and gentry trying to protect their land, as soon as they rebelled, countless people would immediately follow.
And why do you think it’s impossible? You expropriate people arbitrarily and do not care about the life and death of the people. They have no land and cannot even eat. If they don't rebel, they will starve to death. If they rebel, at least there is hope of having enough to eat. Why not give it a try? Have you read any books? "
Su Yonglin's words stunned Jiagu Asu.
"Of course I have."
"Have you read the Han family's history books?"
"I heard it, but I didn't read it carefully."
"There is a saying among the Chen She family in the historical records, "Death now is also death, making great plans is also death, waiting for death, how can the country die?" Escape is death, rebellion is death, they are all death, why not fight for that glimmer of hope? Where’s a handful?”
Su Yonglin looked at Jiagu Asu: "When you were eating, drinking, playing and enjoying yourself, did you really not think that the anger of the people could burn you to death? Aren't you worried? Aren't you afraid?"
I have to say, this sentence makes sense.
Who cares about this when it's just luxury?
Indulging in wonderful enjoyment, who would care about the lives and lives of the people?
So Jiagu Asu sighed deeply.
"The shipwreck in the river was your fault, right?"
"When I talk about this, I find it very interesting. Why don't you send someone to check in advance whether the place where the army needs to pass is safe? I didn't see the sentry, nor did I see the vanguard. I made a series of preparations but nothing happened. Use it, what do you think?"
Su Yonglin's rhetorical question made Jiagu Asu feel speechless and quite regretful.
So he covered his face with his hands.
"Do you think we are vulnerable at all, so you didn't do these things? Or did you not think about it at all?"
"Stop asking."
"Well, it seems I guessed well."
Su Yonglin nodded: "I arranged the blocking of the river. I knew in advance your marching numbers, route, and your water transportation of food, so I thought of blocking the river to prevent you from moving forward, and then looked for fighters. Destroy you.
At that time, I thought that the best situation was for you to leave most of your troops and attack Tai'an Prefecture with a few elites first. However, I felt that the possibility of this was not high. But you actually did it. You know how happy I was at that time. ? "
"My cavalry..."
"I set up an ambush and killed them all. I chose a good battlefield, about half a day's journey from here, with mountains on one side and water on the other. I sent people to block both ends, and they were finished."
Su Yonglin said lightly: "Just yesterday, the battle started in the morning and ended at noon."
"yesterday?"
Jiagu Asu suddenly frowned: "You came here immediately after finishing at noon yesterday?"
"No, we set out last night."
"you……"
"We marched in a hurry at night, accelerated our speed, and rushed here before the fifth watch. When the gongs and drums of the fifth watch are beating in your camp, we will officially launch an attack and defeat you in one fell swoop."
Jiagu Asu was stunned for a while.
"In more than a day, you fought two battles and were on the road again. How many people did you...escape?"
"No one escaped, but dozens of people were injured by falls and dozens of people were sprained. I feel very sad, but there is nothing I can do."
Su Yonglin sighed and said: "Unlike you, we can't afford to lose. If we lose once, we are finished, so I must keep winning, keep winning, and win until complete victory. My soldiers all understand this truth , they are of the same mind as me, right?"
Su Yonglin suddenly asked loudly, and then all the Shengjie Army soldiers around him replied in unison.
"right!"
The uniform voice frightened Jiagu Asu, and he finally accepted this fact.
"What other plans do you have next?"
Jiagu Asu suddenly paid attention to this issue.
"Capture the East and West Roads of Shandong and the Damingfu Road, and use this as the basis for the Western Expedition and the Northern Expedition, with a view to overthrowing the Jin Dynasty and regaining the Central Plains."
When Jiagu Asu heard this, he was immediately shocked.
"Do you want to make the Northern Expedition? Retake the Central Plains? Do you want to unite with the Song Dynasty to join the Northern Expedition?"
"No, alone in the Northern Expedition, the Song Dynasty... Huh, forget it, I'm not interested. Anyway, I'm not interested. I just want to overthrow Jin Ting and take back the Central Plains, relying on my own strength."
"Your own power?"
Jiagu Asu stared at Su Yonglin and asked, "What is your position in the Liberation Army? What is your position as the commander of the Victory Army?"
"Below the leader Zhao Kaishan, there are me, Su Yonglin, and another general Sun Ziyi, and then there are others. This is my status."
"You are only twenty years old, why do you hold such a high position in the Liberation Army of more than 100,000 people?"
Jiagu Asu was very curious.
"It's very simple, because I, Zhao Kaishan, and Sun Ziyi, the three of us are the initiators of the rebellion."
"The initiator..."
Jiagu Asu narrowed his eyes: "You are not old, but you are quite courageous."
"It's not that big originally, but after defeating you, it should be a little bigger than before."
Su Yonglin's sarcasm made Jiagu Asu angry for a while, but thinking about his situation, he suddenly lost the confidence to get angry and could only hang his head feebly.
"I know enough."
"Then it's my turn. I also have a lot of things I want to know. In exchange, you have to tell me."
Jiagu Asu raised his head.
"What do you want to know?"
"Does your emperor know about our rebellion?"
Jiagu Asu smiled.
"What, are you scared?"
"It's not that I'm afraid, I'm just a little confused. If he knows that we are rebelling here and that we have swept most of Shandong, why doesn't he send troops south to attack us instead of you? Does he believe you so much?"
Jiagu Asu stopped laughing.
To be precise, I couldn’t laugh anymore.
His performance gave Su Yonglin a bold guess.
"Could it be that you deceived the superiors and subordinates and did not tell your emperor about the situation in Shandong? Or maybe you just reported the good news but not the bad news, and talked about it lightly, without reporting the actual situation at all."
"Stop asking."
Jiagu Asu held his head in his hands and lowered his head deeply.
"It took me a long time to do this! Hahahahahahaha! Hahahahaha! God helps me! God helps me!!!"
Su Yonglin stood up, bent down and patted Jiagu Asu's shoulder hard, laughing so hard that he couldn't stand upright.
"I'm laughing so hard! Hahaha! Really! I thought about it over and over again, and I thought of countless reasons, and I even came up with a wonderful reason for you, and then this happened... Am I overestimating you guys? Already? Hahahahaha!"
With such a smile, Su Yonglin turned around and looked at the soldiers of the Shengjie Army behind him.
"Have you seen it? For the sake of their own lives and futures, these local officials deceived their superiors and concealed things from their superiors. They could even deceive the emperor about things like rebellion. You can imagine how many things they deceived their superiors and concealed. .
This is what bureaucrats and superiors do. For their own selfish interests, they can ignore the public interests of the entire country and do all kinds of unthinkable things. They would rather allow the rebels to grow step by step than tell the emperor the actual situation, just for their own sake. self-interest.
What a terrible bureaucrat? What a terrible gentleman? Are they our enemies? Of course, they will be our enemies, they will exploit us, use their power to bully us, and even kill us. Of course they are enemies.
But in a sense, they can also be friends. For example, now, because of selfish interests, they did not tell the emperor the true situation and told the court. The court did not know what happened and thought it was just a group of bandits gathering in the mountains and forests, and did not care at all.
You said that if they had the ability to suppress the rebellion, they would be lying to others. But most bureaucrats and superiors do not have this ability, so they can only continue to deceive superiors and deceive subordinates. The more dangerous they are, the more they deceive. Like a gambler who loses his mind. "
