Chu State, Chengdu, Yiming Pavilion.
Yiming Pavilion is the study room of Chu kings in the past dynasties, which means "if you don't sing, you will be done, and if you make a blockbuster, it will make people famous".
"Liu Yuan is a loser! Idiot! Idiot! Even if I let a pig go there, I wouldn't be able to take over the entire palace in a day!"
"Bang!" The white jade paperweight hit the pillar, knocking off a dragon's beard from the black dragon relief on the pillar.
"Ou Wenyi is also a loser! He is known as a wise man, but at his age, he still can't deal with a young boy, causing such a big trouble!"
"Dang!" The ink jade inkstone and the white porcelain vase died together.
Normally, King Xiangtong of Chu could not put it down, but now he also became the target of his anger.
"Huhu, that old man Panfu is the same! There are a lot of young people who underestimate the enemy and rush in, living up to the king's high hopes!"
Speaking of General Pan Fu, although the King of Chu was extremely angry, he still had some moral integrity.
After all, General Pan Funen was of great virtue and had fought a bloody battle in the north to turn the tide. Now that he died on the battlefield, even the King of Chu had to retain some respect for him.
"Your Majesty, please calm down." Chu Princess Ji Yue waited until most of Chu King Xiangtong's anger was vented before she dared to persuade him softly.
"Calm down my anger. How can I calm down my anger? Every one of them speaks eloquently and is known as a good general or great sage. But what happened? The great Chu was defeated by useless people like them!"
"Your Majesty, maybe it's not that they are incompetent, but that Lu Wu is too cunning?"
"Cunning, what cunning? That Lu Wu is just -" Chu Wang Xiangtong suddenly got stuck in the middle of his sentence.
He originally wanted to say that Lu Wu was a soldier and a fighting general. He was a standard brave man. It was hard to say whether he had brains or not. How could he be called cunning?
(Throughout the ages, military strategists and generals are basically violent maniacs who are extremely superstitious about force, and there are very few people who are good at playing tricks.)
But looking back, Ou Wenyi's defeat may have been due to Lu Wu's sudden rampage; Jiang Xingde's betrayal of Chu may have been carefully planned for a long time;
But General Pan Fu is good at guarding and is by no means a reckless person. Liu Yuan is also a capable official who he personally promoted.
These people were either defeated by Lu Wu or surrendered to Lu Wu's sect. It might be a coincidence for one person, but could it be a coincidence for so many people?
Lu Wu started from scratch and had no talents at all. Several generals who were born as maids and maids were useless. From the beginning to the present, they were invincible.
In particular, every time Lu Wu entered a city, he would definitely remove senior officers from the army and promote lower-level soldiers to officials, thereby accepting the rebels and rallying the morale of the army. He also promulgated military regulations and imitated the Qin Dynasty's twenty-level military nobility system, making everyone warlike. .
Moreover, Lu Wu blatantly forced and plundered large households and obtained countless gold, silver, grain and grass. After dividing the profits with the soldiers, he still had a large surplus, which was enough to support the military expenses for at least one to two years without increasing taxes.
Although this is not a long-term solution, in the short term it can be used aggressively to ensure logistical worries.
Lu Wu's military strength has grown like a snowball. Now, combined with the land of the two mansions, this person can mobilize at least one hundred thousand troops - even excluding county soldiers, he can mobilize more than 20,000 sergeants.
Twenty thousand troops may not seem like a lot, but in fact, any war must consider mobilization costs, logistical supplies, effective command range, and battlefield capacity. More troops is not always better.
Twenty thousand elite troops are enough to stand alone and compete with the Chu State in some areas - even Chu King Xiangtong had to plan carefully if he wanted to mobilize 20,000 elite troops for an expedition.
These people and horses have to sit on one side, and they can't move just because they want to.
Blindly tearing down the east wall to repair the west wall, most likely you have to press the gourd and float the gourd. The loss outweighing the gain is still a trivial matter, and exposing bigger flaws is the trouble.
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King Xiangtong of Chu was so furious that he lost not just one city of Yuci, but the entire Yuci Mansion - in just three days.
After Lu Wu captured Yuci City, he almost never formally used the army. He only sent people everywhere to persuade them to surrender, and he captured 19 county towns in Yuci Prefecture without any bloodshed.
In the few cities that persisted in resisting, some large households in the city secretly leaked information. What's more, they even directly opened the city gates to allow Lu Wu's army to enter the city.
Just less than a month ago, with the help of local snakes like the Jiang family of Nanhe Prefecture, Lu Wu wanted to take over the entire Nanhe Prefecture, and he had to fight through cities one by one.
But now, Lu Wu's prestige is resounding in several surrounding prefectures, and Yuci Prefecture is even more isolated and helpless. Therefore, in any county that feels that it cannot withstand Lu Wu's attack, even if the county magistrate and county lieutenant are prepared to resist, the big households in the city will rebel.
Just kidding, if we don't surrender quickly, recruit Lu Wu, and conquer the city, we will destroy three big families.
How many large households can there be in a city? Who can say that it will not be their turn?
The Zhang family, a famous aristocrat in Yuci Prefecture, had no chance of surrendering because Lu Wu broke through Yuci City too quickly. As a result, the whole family was wiped out, leaving only some poor relatives who couldn't fight with eight poles, and a few who had no chance to inherit the family business. The concubine, who studied abroad and gained fame, survived.
Relying on these people to revive the Zhang family is probably more difficult than reaching the sky - whether these people are determined to revive the Zhang family or not is a matter of debate.
Yuci Mansion, Yuci City, City Lord's Mansion.
Lu Wu was dealing with official duties and frowned from time to time.
To be honest, Lu Wu was not interested in dealing with official affairs at all. Even fighting on the battlefield was much more comfortable than dealing with such trivial matters.
However, it is not easy to get out without establishing a system that can operate stably and equipping it with talents sufficient to run the system.
What's more, people's hearts are undecided now. If I dare to be lazy, I'm afraid that this little power will fall apart in the blink of an eye.
"General, a letter from Mrs. Qiutong of Nanhe Prefecture." A soldier rushed into the lobby and presented a letter with both hands.
"Husband: Seeing words is like meeting each other."
"The trip to the Qian family went well.
The concubine killed six elders of the Qian family, the mother-in-law of the Qian family, the legitimate son and the following confidantes, a total of 131 people. Now Qian Wei's father voluntarily resigned as the head of the family, and Qian Wei's son Qian Sui was embraced by the heads of each house in the Qian family. The head of the Qian family offers thirty thousand taels of silver and two hundred acres of land to Chongsi.
It's just that my husband originally wanted Qian Sui to be the first heir of the Qian family, but now he is directly supported as the head of the family. Doesn't it go against the husband's wishes? "
"Other retired sergeants have been properly accommodated. The disabled are allocated acres in one place to facilitate unified care. I have hired 60 servant women and strong men to take care of them. Soldiers come to inspect every day."
"Dozens of families including the Zhu family, the He family, and the Sun family in Nanhe Prefecture came to our door, hoping to send the eldest son to serve in the husband's military camp and replace the second son back home. I don't know what to do with it. I have to wait for my husband. Decide for yourself.”
"I organized a Zhechong Division. According to what my husband said, I auctioned off a small portion of calligraphy, painting, and jewelry obtained from confiscating the house, and obtained a total of 774,523 taels of silver, far exceeding the estimated 500,000 taels of silver. But from my perspective, many of them deliberately paid high prices, probably to flatter their husbands?"
"The State of Wu sent people to Nanhe Mansion and said that they wanted to confer a title on my husband, called Zhenjiang Bo. I don't know if it is true or not. If it is true, my husband is the founder of the country, and I am the wife of a country? The sisters are a little anxious. I want my husband to come back quickly to marry them and let them become wives."
"I also hired some female officials to form a staff team. Some of them are responsible for checking and calculating the financial income and expenditure, and the other part helps me and my sisters come up with ideas - I will discuss these with my husband in detail later."
