Although Lu Jianchao entered the official position as a Tanhua, it was a pity that because he came from a poor family and had no support in the court, he only got an errand to go to the Hanlin Academy to study literature. This undoubtedly poured a bucket on the ambitious Lu Jianchao cold water·······················
Although Lu Jianchao felt very shocked at the time that he went to the Hanlin Academy to study literature, he felt that this was simply overkill and made it difficult for him to fulfill his ambition. However, decades later, Lu Jianchao felt very lucky about this!
After all, the power of the Great Zhou Dynasty was already declining at that time, and the party disputes in the court were very serious. It can be said that it was very chaotic for all the forces to sing and me to appear!
Therefore, at that time, if Lu Jianchao, who had no backers, held any important position, he would definitely be punished. Even if he didn't do it, your family would be ruined, and you would be exiled and demoted!
Although there is no future in studying literature in the Hanlin Academy, no one will pay attention to you. You can be alone!
Later, Lu Jianchao met Murong Lun, and with the help of Murong Lun, his career began to rise rapidly. However, his experience in the Hanlin Academy also made Lu Jianchao develop the habit of being cautious!
With the outbreak of the Luo'an Incident, the imperial court's control over local areas also fell to the bottom. However, Lu Jianchao, who was not very ambitious and courageous as a civil servant, had no other ideas. He was in charge of Jiangnan because of the support of his good brother Murong Lun. Southern Tour of the Imperial Court, so he initially supported the Southern Tour of the Imperial Court...
At that time, half of the military expenses of the Southern Patrol Court were provided by Lu Jianchao. Therefore, Murong Lun, who had a huge influence on Lu Jianchao, also became an indispensable and important figure in the Southern Patrol Court!
In fact, after all, Lu Jianchao has been following his eldest brother Murong Lun for half his life. Where Murong Lun chooses to stand, he will stand there. He doesn't have much opinion!
In normal times, Lu Jianchao would not have had many choices in life. After serving as the governor of Jiangnan, he would be transferred back to the imperial court, and he might serve as the minister of one of the six departments with the help of Murong Lun.
If possible, before becoming an official, it would be great to be able to join the cabinet and be called Mr. Lu Ge. This was also Lu Jianchao's biggest wish in his life!
But no one thought that Guo Zuo, who had been inherited for three hundred years in the Zhou Dynasty, seemed to be coming to the end of his life. This also gave Lu Jianchao a new choice in his life!
Although he does not have much ambition and is not very courageous, it is simply impossible to say that Lu Jianchao has no ideas at all in the position of Governor of Jiangnan. He has also fantasized about it late at night when no one is around, and even There have been some attempts, but after several attempts, Lu Jianchao realized the most serious problem between him and Jiang Nan!
As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters breed unruly people. As the richest place in the Zhou Dynasty, the people in Jiangnan were very keen on doing business to accumulate wealth. This also made the living standards of the people in Jiangnan higher than that in other areas of the Zhou Dynasty. ·························
The affluence of life makes the people in Jiangnan generally not like to be soldiers, let alone fight. Therefore, the Jiangnan Army has very few people who voluntarily enlist in the army. Every time the army is recruited, it is forced to apportion it to recruit enough soldiers and horses.
In addition, Lu Jianchao was born as a civil servant and was not good at military affairs. Moreover, in these troubled times, what Lu Jianchao, who was born as a civil servant, was most afraid of was the military attache's coup, so he attracted and divided the original generals of the Jiangnan Army and gave these people away. After being idle, he distributed the military power to several cronies including his nephew Lu Yun.
After such operations, even though Lu Jianchao bought firearms technology from the Fengwu Army and built a firearms factory that was able to mass-produce the Fengwu Army's Weiyuan Guns and Crouching Tiger Cannons, the combat effectiveness of the Jiangnan Army was still indescribable!
This is also the fundamental reason why facing the Zhennan Army under Xu Zhaojie, the Jiangnan Army obviously had the right time, place and people, but still could not completely eliminate the Zhennan Army and suffered consecutive defeats!
Lu Jianchao is not stupid. He naturally knows that the Jiangnan Army under his command is not strong in combat effectiveness. He also knows that if he wants to dominate the world, the combat effectiveness of the army is very important!
Lu Jianchao also wanted to strengthen the Jiangnan Army
Therefore, he spent huge sums of money to purchase firearms technology from the Fengwu Army and build a firearms factory. Although Lu Jianchao told Ye Mingsheng that he did this to guard against Xu Zhaojie, only he knew Lu Jianchao’s true thoughts... ·····················
However, although the firearms are good, they are far from the effect that Lu Jianchao expected to significantly improve the combat effectiveness of the Jiangnan Army! The Jiangnan Army is still at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Zhennan Army!
As for how to solve this problem, Lu Jianchao also had an answer in his mind. He knew that as long as he could delegate power and recruit a group of capable generals, the combat effectiveness of the Jiangnan Army would not be improved!
However, Lu Jianchao has deep concerns about delegating power to these people. He is always worried that after these people get power, they will not focus all their thoughts on improving the combat effectiveness of the army, but think about overthrowing him, Lu Jianchao!
For Lu Jianchao, although he would like to try to dominate the world if possible, what he cares more about is whether his position in Jiangnan is stable and safe!
Therefore, Lu Jianchao never fully delegated power to his subordinates, and still concentrated the military power in Jiangnan on a few close associates such as his nephew Lu Yun, in order to ensure that his position was stable.
To be honest, under such circumstances, facing the ever-victorious Fengwu Army, Lu Jianchao actually did not have much confidence in the Jiangnan Army under his command. Therefore, although he did not make a decision on whether to negotiate for peace, Lu Jianchao was in the debate among his men. , in fact, they are somewhat inclined to let the Zhennan Army go.
When the Fengwu Army went south, the first battle was against Jingchu, then Huainan, and finally Jiangnan. Therefore, Lu Jianchao had previously thought of providing his own money to let Xu Zhaojie and Jingchu contribute, so that the three families could join forces to resist those who wanted to dominate the world. Fengwu Army······························
However, although Lu Jianchao thought well, Xu Zhaojie was not of the same mind as them at all. He wanted to annex the south by himself, integrate the resources, military strength, and financial resources of the south so that he could compete with the Fengwu Army and compete with Ye Mingsheng!
So Xu Zhaojie first sent troops to Jingchu and captured several prefectures and counties in the south of Jingchu, and then invaded Jiangnan. Although from a military perspective, Xu Zhaojie expanded the territory of the Zhennan Army and enhanced the strength of the Zhennan Army!
But from the perspective of the overall situation, no one of the three southern families is as powerful as the Fengwu Army. Only by uniting can it be possible to compete with the Fengwu Army. If the three families are not united, they will only be defeated by the Fengwu Army. Defeat it, and everyone will flee south from the clutches of the Fengwu Army!
Therefore, Xu Zhaojie's ambition led to the alliance of the three southern families being aborted before it was truly formed, forcing Sun Chenggong to move closer to the Fengwu Army!
Therefore, Lu Jianchao has been secretly scolding Xu Zhaojie, saying that a warrior who has no overall view of the situation deserves to be unable to defeat the Fengwu Army!
Although he was scolding Xu Zhaojie, Lu Jianchao had to be more realistic. The strength of the Zhennan Army was far inferior to that of the Fengwu Army. Now that the Fengwu Army has annexed Jingchu, its strength has undoubtedly reached a higher level!
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Lu Jianchao couldn't help but sigh. Today's Jiangnan is like a big piece of tempting fat, and it is surrounded by wolves. Everyone wants to take a bite. Although he, the governor of Jiangnan, is very angry about this, he is also Very helpless!
Just when Lu Jianchao was in a dilemma and was thinking hard to find a perfect solution, a servant suddenly came over and reported that it was his son Lu Houde who came to see him.
As soon as he heard that Lu Houde had arrived, Lu Jianchao knew that Xu Zhaojie's escape back to Huainan had come to an end, and he immediately nodded in agreement.
After a while, a young man with a slender figure, a handsome face, and an appearance that was 70% similar to Lu Jianchao came to Lu Jianchao... ·······
This person is Lu Houde, the eldest son that Lu Jianchao relies on most!
Just as Lu Jianchao thought, after seeing the ceremony, Lu Houde introduced:
"Dad, the matter has been investigated clearly. Xu Zhaojie only brought six or seven guards, disguised himself as a businessman, sneaked out of Chishan Mansion at night, bribed the navy officials, and sat on the Songjiagang Shouchun returned to the ship!"
Although he had already expected it, when Lu Jianchao heard his son's introduction, an unknown fire suddenly rose in his heart. He grabbed the teacup on the desk and smashed it to the ground!
"boom!"
With a crisp sound, this precious porcelain bowl worth more than ten taels of silver was broken into several pieces. Feeling his father's anger, Lu Houde lowered his head and said nothing.
After half a cup of tea, the anger in Lu Jianchao's heart gradually subsided, and he asked Lu Houde in a deep voice:
"Who among the navy took bribes?"
Faced with this question, Lu Houde fell into silence. Seeing that his eldest son did not speak, Lu Jianchao's heart sank, knowing that the answer must be someone close to him.
Although he hesitated, Lu Jianchao, who still had lingering anger in his heart, still wanted to know who tortured the bold man. He gritted his teeth and said:
"explain!"
Seeing his father insisting on knowing the answer, Lu Houde then said:
"Naval Commander Wang Chuanxiang····························"
Although he expected that his identity would be unusual for doing this, otherwise Houde wouldn't be so jealous, but when he heard the name, Lu Jianchao couldn't help but look at the eldest son in front of him who he valued most.
Lu Houde was not surprised at all by his father's reaction. He continued with a calm expression:
"Dad, the evidence is here! You can send someone to investigate at any time! Although I don't like him, I will never frame him in this matter!"
After hearing what his son had said, Lu Jianchao was silent for a while, then nodded calmly.
Seeing that his father, who was furious just now, now stopped farting after hearing the name Wang Chuanxiang, Lu Houde's heart was full of sarcasm!
Because he knew that no matter what he said, his father would not blame Wang Chuanxiang, so Lu Houde was too lazy to waste words. He wanted to say goodbye directly, but suddenly thought of something, and took out a letter and patiently addressed it to his father, Lu Jian. said:
"Dad, there is one more thing. My brother-in-law Zhengshan has sent you a letter. Please see what you do!"
After speaking, Lu Houde handed the letter to Lu Jianchao. Lu Jianchao became more and more interested in the letter, so he opened it and read it directly.
After a cup of tea, Lu Jianchao read the letter three times. He also put down the letter with a sad look on his face and fell into deep thought... ···
This letter was written by Murong Zhengshan, Murong Lun's son, to Lu Jianchao. The content of the letter is mainly divided into two parts. Because Lu Jianchao and Murong Lun were both life and death friends and in-laws, Murong Zhengshan also informed Lu Jianchao. News of Murong Lun's death, and some circumstances of the Murong family.
As for the second part of the letter, according to Murong Lun's will, he had something to give to Lu Jianchao, so Murong Zhengshan wanted to fulfill this wish for his father.
, so he intended to go to Jiangnan with his things, so he asked Lu Jianchao if it was convenient.
Although he had known the news about Murong Lun's coup attempt in Luo'an more than a month ago, Lu Jianchao still felt very uncomfortable when he heard the introduction of his old friend's son. Not only is he his best friend, but he is also his great brother in his career!
When he was framed and imprisoned, he was about to hang himself when he was devastated. Murong Lun stopped him and actively worked for him outside, helping him to clear his injustice. Later, he was able to rise through the ranks and take the lucrative position of Governor of Jiangnan. , and it was Murong Lun who was working for him from behind.
Therefore, Lu Jianchao was definitely grateful to Murong Lun!
