Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 822

[Chapter 822]

“His Royal Highness, Sucheng and Songcheng are all under the control of the royal family’s troops. The last general is preparing to send a battalion to Lincheng in the past two days.”

Since Yancheng left, about three days later, Zhao Xu and his party Arrive at Jinling City at Shifen in the evening.

While Chang Wei went out of the city to greet Zhao Xu, he introduced to him the actions of the royal family’s pro-army during this time.

“Are both cities empty?” Zhao Xu asked casually.

“It’s not an empty city, but I met some common people, but it’s only 10% of the original.” Chang Wei said.

Zhao Xu nodded. This was within his expectations. Not to mention the Wu country, even a contemporary country that engages in such a large-scale migration cannot take everyone away.

There will always be people who don’t want to go and hide, and come out after the powerful army has left.

And according to what Tsui Hark said, many people escaped back during this period.

“Zhongli distributed the fields to the remaining people and gave them rations. The people have become more at ease, and their attitude towards the royal family’s troops has become more friendly.” Chang Wei added.

“Well, this is the best publicity.” Zhao Xu was very satisfied.

Li Zicheng’s slogan that if the king came, he would not pay the food, attracted countless people to follow him.

Ten taxes and one tax in Jiangbei, and six acres of land are divided into six acres and this slogan is similar to this slogan.

Since ancient times, the people have never paid such a low tax.

Whether they choose to vote for Jiangbei or continue to follow the powerful clan, they will have their own steelyard in their hearts at that time.

After entering the city, Chang Wei led Zhao Xu to the command room.

There is a huge sand table in the command room, which covers the entire Jiangnan mountains, rivers and cities.

On the sand table, small flags were planted at the locations of Jinling, Sioux City, and Songcheng, proving that these places are currently under the control of the royal army.

“Your Highness, it was after the spring plowing that the people of the state of Wu moved westward, so the people planted rice in their families. It is almost June now, and there is still more than a month before the spring rice can be harvested.” Chang said. Wei pointed to the vast area between the three cities, both happy and sad.

The good news is that the country of Wu has kept all the secrets, leaving this season’s rice, which is like delivering food and grass to the door.

What is worrying is that the common people have been coerced to move westward. If they cannot be harvested in time, they will rot in the ground.

Furthermore, the end of June is also the busy season for the people in Jiangbei, and it is impossible to send people over to harvest rice.

“My lord noticed it.” During the Battle of Jinling, the fields were nothing but green rice seedlings, unnoticed.

But now, the rice seedlings are strong, covered with ears of rice, and the leaves are turning yellow.

The area between Jinling, Sioux City, and Songcheng, which is the contemporary Taihu Lake area, is extremely high in grain production.

No one can bear to watch the rice rot in the ground.

Moreover, if the plan of the Fourth Court is successful this time, the people will also have to eat when they return smoothly.

Harvesting the grain in the south of the Yangtze River will not only solve the problem of food for the people, but also have a surplus.

On the contrary, it is necessary to transport grain from Jiangbei to Jiangnan.

Needless to say, this is a tricky question.

After pondering for a while, he said: “In this way, during this period of time, you can ask the people left behind, which fields belong to the common people, which fields belong to the rich and powerful families, the fields of the common people will not be moved for the time being, and the fields of the powerful and powerful families When the time comes, Tian will ask the soldiers of the Wangfu’s army to harvest rice.”

“How can there be enough people in the Wangfu’s army, besides Ningzhou, there are other coastal states that need to harvest rice.” Chang Wei shook his head, still frowning.

“There are other ways.” Zhao Xu said: “The king ordered the newspaper to publish a news in Jiangbei’s newspaper, recruiting people to come to Jiangnan to harvest rice, and giving them the harvested rice as a reward. If there are not many, if one person is taken out, the busy farming will be delayed for a few days at most, and the harvest will not be affected.”

Chang Wei nodded slowly when he heard the words, “This is a way, more or less people can be transferred from Jiangbei.”

Zhao Xu smiled, “Actually, the most fundamental way is to let the people who moved westward come back and take them into their own homes. food.” The

reason why he asked Chang Wei to keep the common people’s fields from harvesting was because he had an excellent idea.

Since ancient times, people have regarded their own fields as their lives.

I can’t see the crops in my field can’t be harvested when it’s harvest time.

In contemporary times, even if the children of peasant families work outside, they have to go home during the busy farming season.

Even if you lose money, you have to harvest the grain in the field. This is a habit that has been developed for thousands of years.

Therefore, if Tsui Hark’s people spread the news that the rice is ripe among the common people, it will definitely arouse the common people’s homesickness.

At the risk of conflict with the powerful army, they also want to go home.

Thinking of this, he shared his thoughts with Chang Wei.

“Your Highness really knows the hearts of the people like the palm of his hand. If you want to talk about the last general, the last general also thinks that it’s time to go home to harvest rice.” Chang Wei laughed.

Qin Shan and Guan Tong also laughed, and closed the passage: “But it needs to be faster, otherwise it will be too late.”

“It’s natural.” Zhao Xu said, thinking about him, “Where is Xu Hark’s person? Let him Come see me.” The

Fourth Court has people in Jinling City, so that they can easily get in touch with members who are lurking among the common people.

“Yes, Your Highness.” After answering yes, Chang Wei gave some instructions to his personal guards.

The guards left, not long after, a young man walked in.

“Commander Zhang Heng of the Fourth Academy of Supervision, see Your Highness.” Seeing Zhao Xu, the young man bowed and saluted.

“Excuse me.” Zhao Xu looked at Zhang Heng, and there are levels in the supervision of the Fourth Court.

Tsui Hark is the principal of the Fourth Academy, commanding the entire Fourth Academy, and Chai Wu is the deputy principal of the Fourth Academy.

There are eight commanders under the chief and deputy principals.

Under the commander, there are officials such as Qian Zong.

Zhang Heng sits in Jinling, which basically means that he is in charge of the affairs of Jiangnan.

“This time, your four courtyards must cooperate with the royal family’s troops to strive for this operation to allow most of the people who have been coerced by powerful clans to return to their homeland.” Zhao Xu said.

After a pause, he continued, “Your four courts are responsible for contacting the backbone of the people who are preparing to revolt, and at the same time publicizing that the rice is ripe, to guide the people’s homesickness, while the royal family’s troops are broken up into pieces, pretending to be ordinary people, and going deep into the enemy’s rear Cooperate with the people in the uprising, and fire the first shot at the critical moment to cover the people’s evacuation to the coast.”

Zhang Heng was overjoyed when he heard this, and he said: “With the cooperation of the royal family’s troops, great things can be accomplished.”

“Your Highness is wise. “Chang Wei nodded slowly.

The clan has been watching the royal family’s army, and they will be vigilant whenever the royal family’s army moves.

However, most of the troops of the royal family did not move. Twenty or thirty thousand people were reduced to pieces and disguised as ordinary people, and they may have penetrated into the enemy’s rear without anyone noticing.

At that time, cooperate with the common people to start an incident again, and don’t worry that the common people will not follow them.

“Since that’s the case, it’s not too late. We’ll act immediately tomorrow.” Zhao Xu looked at the two of them and warned them.

In response, the two turned and left.

(end of this chapter)