Devil’s Advent

Locusts have been born in a long drought, and the appearance of this locust plague is enough to make the already extremely difficult Dayan be stripped of the last "prosperity" fig leaf;

No matter how well the war is fought, one victory after another can continue to come, but will the common people, who are already hungry, cheer for it?

Ji Laoliu asked He Sisi to take a sea bowl with rice on the bottom and vegetables on top, and a pair of chopsticks, and got into the carriage.

Eunuch Zhang was driving the carriage, and the direction of the carriage was outside the city, in the back garden.

Ji Laoliu was frowning while eating,

at the moment,

The thoughts of fighting for power and profit have actually faded away, and he didn't even ask anyone to find out if the prince of the East Palace had left for the back garden.

It stands to reason that if I received the booklet on my side, the prince's side could only be one step faster than myself.

I worked hard, like a paper maker, trying my best to make Dayan's house look so that there would be no air leaks everywhere. Right now, this job can't be pasted.

The beam is about to collapse.

Since ancient times, there has been no dynasty that lasts forever. Back then, Daxia created the Zhuxia civilization, and the three princes opened borders, which spread the fire of Zhuxia to the entire east;

The results of it,

Daxia has already died.

What about Dayan?

Eight hundred years of Yan Tiantian,

It's been a long time, it's really been a long time, so long that many people will get used to it that Dayan Tianxia really should rest with the sun and the moon.

But in fact, this is not the case.

Ever since his father, Real Madrid, stepped into the door, Ji Laoliu felt that this method was a bit too radical. Yes, attacking Qian, swallowing Jin, chasing the wild, and cutting Chu, the power of the Great Yan country seemed to be in full swing;

But this group of false fires is too hot, a pot of cold water will not cool down, but the bottom of the pot will explode directly.

In the past, during a disaster year, the imperial court could use its own granary storage. If it was not enough, it would transfer the grain from the normal county to the disaster-stricken county. If it was not enough, it would collect donations and distribute it. Traditionally, the imperial court sent imperial envoys and ordered them to distribute food;

Those who are obedient and obedient can always get a decent one, and those who are disobedient will be labeled as "rebellious".

In the end, everyone endured a little longer, sold their ancestral land, took refuge in a big family and became servants, and they always survived. Even if they died of starvation, only a small number of them died of starvation, which was not a big problem.

But the problem is that after the horse stepped into the door, political power has been unprecedentedly centralized, but there has been a huge vacuum in terms of production and people's livelihood. In addition to the foreign conquests in recent years, Dayan itself has been hollowed out. The layer-by-layer squeezing method has been used long ago. Now that you squeeze it again, there is no grain. Where can you press it?

When the carriage drove outside the city, Ji Laoliu finished his meal.

This time, he rarely ate all the rice grains in the bowl. Finally, he poured water into it with a teapot, shook it, and drank the oil and water together.

In the past, Ji Laoliu, as long as conditions allowed, was also a master who never hated eating and eating, but today, he really started to take food seriously.

"Master, it's the East Palace team."

Eunuch Zhang, who was driving the car, reminded.

Ji Laoliu lifted the curtain and looked forward. Sure enough, the team from the Eastern Palace came earlier than him.

In addition, in addition to the East Palace team, there are Zaifu's carriage and the carriages of several other officials.

Ji Laoliu put down the car curtain, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

In the past, he was compassionate and worried about Dayan's future, so he cherished every grain of rice;

Now he has regained his true color as a fox in the political hall, stepping into this black vortex.

this,

Perhaps it is the real majesty of the emperor;

Being in the backyard, he doesn't care about the government, but everyone knows who is the real master of Dayan.

Ji Laoliu shook his head,

His father's authority is no longer something that can be shaken by a supervisor of ceremonies or a minister. He can hand over a lot, but in fact, it is equivalent to not handing over anything.

No one dares to ignore him,

unless……

"Banban Zhang."

"The slave is here."

"Return to the household department."

"Yes, master."

Ji Chengjue's carriage turned around, he came, but he left again, this scene must not catch the eyes of others, but he left just like that.

The locust plague broke out, and the prefect of Huwei County had predicted that it would soon spread to Tiancheng County. If this possibility was not high, he would not have dared to write this in his notebook.

Going to the back garden and looking for the emperor is an instinct of a son and a courtier.

But at the door,

Ji Laoliu didn't want to go in again.

Natural disasters are beyond the reach of human beings, and it is useless to find his father. Moreover, he clearly knows what kind of arrogant person his father is.

The battle against Chu was carried out by him personally, so it is impossible for him to agree to terminate the war at this time.

No matter how much the price is paid, no matter how dilapidated the family's foundation is, the emperor's will cannot be changed.

That being the case,

Are you going to see your father?

What's the point?

The prince went with a group of dignitaries,

Could it be that they really dared to assassinate the father and let the father order to strike?

No,

they dare not,

All they can and dare to do is to hint, hint, hint again, put the disaster-stricken book on the top, and try their best to hint.

It's like playing a shadow puppet show, and what you're playing is actually just a matter of understanding.

Ji Laoliu sat in the carriage and entered the city again.

With his hands, he gently rubbed his face.

He doesn't know how long the battle in Chudi will last, and he doesn't know how long his father's body can last.

He can do many things, but most of them are meaningless when faced with these two unknowns.

When he came to Hubu, Ji Chengjue could clearly feel the low air pressure here.

Ordinary people may still be ignorant, and other officials may not see it clearly. Only the officials here clearly know how hollow the seemingly huge empire of Dayan has become.

Ji Chengjue sat back in his seat, picked up the paper, and began to review it.

Seeing him like this, the others slowly began to resume work.

"My lord, this is a zip from the east." A member of the household department, Wailang, delivered a zip to Ji Chengjue.

In the battle against Chu, the Emperor Yan had opened the door to all conveniences early on. Therefore, the Zhezi from King Jingnan could appear directly on the desk of the Ministry of Households without passing through the center. Of course, the center would definitely have a backup.

In short, if King Jingnan needs anything, the rear can directly communicate with it, and then implement it, without giving the slightest chance to shirk.

It can be said that at this point, King Jingnan's treatment is enough to make all the generals in other countries collectively envious.

This is the real thing, standing behind this handsome is the whole Dayan.

But the problem is that if King Jingnan needs anything, he will directly mention it, and if you follow the usual process and routine, if you raise it ten points, the center can change it to eight points for you. , gave the appearance of six or seven points.

This is standard procedure.

But the ten points here must be real.

Ji Laoliu took a deep breath, and opened the notebook. In his mind, he had already figured out how many civilians, weapons, war horses, and food he wanted...

indeed,

It is for the military supplies for the next season.

Ji Laoliu reached out to take the teacup, and then, the teacup shook, and the tea spilled on the table. Fortunately, it was cold tea, not hot.

Putting down the teacup, Ji Laoliu picked up the book again and placed it in front of him.

This is winter, that is, years ago, the military supplies that must be delivered to the front line, because both preparation and transportation will take time, so it must be brought up now.

However,

The numbers on this...

The need for war horses has not changed;

The figure required behind the fodder is only... 20% of the previous season's figure!

The rest of the aspects are only 20%, or even less than 20%.

most exaggerated,

Is the husband,

On the civilian husband, King Jingnan's comment was: Repatriation as appropriate.

What does it mean?

It means that the civilian husbands on the front line are enough, there is no need to add more people forward, and the civilian husbands in the rear can also be repatriated.

Ji Chengjue would never think that it was King Jingnan who knew about the current finances of Dayan's household department and the current difficulties of people's livelihood in Dayan, so he was deliberately considerate of the rear;

This is not something King Jingnan would do.

The reason for this change in demand is that

Because of,

because,

because……

Ji Chengjue slumped back on the chair, clutching the fold tightly in his hand;

King Jingnan thought,

fighting,

It will be finished soon.

Ji Laoliu stretched out his hand and covered his chest. The previous news of the locust plague made his chest feel like a huge stone was blocked. Although this scripture did not directly describe the frontline plan and progress, it already revealed enough information.

The stone is pressed and moved,

This person can't bear this kind of tossing up and down, it's even more unbearable than Sisi being on top after confinement.

thing,

It has to be done one by one, no matter what, the war in the east should be able to see the light, next, we should consider how to fight the disaster.

try,

Let's kill less people.

actually,

Ji Chengjue has always wanted to ask his own father,

If the old Yan people get hurt in the end,

Even if you swept away the four great kingdoms and unified the Xia,

in the end,

Who will be cheaper?

After dealing with the matter at hand and ordering the accountable matter,

Ji Chengjue got up and left the household department again, and got into Eunuch Zhang's carriage.

"See you?"

Ji Chengjue asked.

"Return to the master, I see, but it is said that His Majesty got angry and said that you, the crown prince of the country, are not capable of supervising the country, so get out of the East Palace by yourself."

"Father really said that?"

"Yes, my lord, the news came from our people, and when the prince and Zhao Jiulang came out of the back garden, they also looked like they had been reprimanded. The prince almost fell when he got on the carriage with his soul still alive."

"Hehe." Ji Chengjue smiled, "It's just pretending."

Before they go in, they should know that they will be scolded;

And the father, before he learned that they were going to enter the back garden, he already knew that he was going to scold him later;

One is ready to be scolded, the other is ready to be scolded,

This is why Ji Chengjue turned around at the gate of the back garden,

The situation is bad,

But no matter how bad it is, someone has to do it.

What's the point of following the established process there?

"Master, according to the news from Wen Yin, a confidant of His Royal Highness's house had a meeting with Li Yinglian last night."

After the fourth prince Ji Chengfeng was in charge of the first part of the Beijing camp, he came to him to ask for military equipment, food and fodder, but he rejected it on the grounds that the front line was tense.

After that, the crown prince opened the Forbidden Army treasury, and allocated weapons, money and food from here to the fourth prince.

In the eyes of outsiders,

This is why the fourth prince, like the first prince, chose sides;

It's just that the eldest prince is on the side of the Sixth Master's Party, and the fourth prince is on the side of the prince.

"Has Li Liangshen's movie gone south?"

"Yes, it has already gone south, and the former army just left today."

Li Liangshen went south to put pressure on Ganren, so that Ganren could reconsider whether he dared to make a desperate northern expedition.

"Notify the people in the west and ask them to pay more attention to the situation of Zhenbeihou... Zhenbei Palace in the west."

"Master, do you think that person will have something to say?"

"There is no doubt that the emperor's body is bad, and the war in the east is about to come to an end. Do you still remember that the Marquis of Zhenbei entered Beijing four years ago? That was the beginning;

I think,

He may come to Beijing again as an end. "

"Master, if that person comes again, then we..."

"The people on Gu's side, except for Zheng Fan, the rest are all planning to have a retreat in the future. At the very least, they can protect Gu's family to leave the capital and keep the world peaceful.

From the very beginning, Gu never thought of meddling with real military power and using military power to persecute him.

If you really want to think that way, you will underestimate Father Gu, the prince, and the same is true.

Everyone, play for fun, make trouble for trouble, it’s really not good, you can also punch and kick in the court, but who wants to get involved in the military power and fight in the same room, ha ha...

Sometimes, Gu Zhen feels that he is that cricket, being watched and fighting with others. "

"Master, the slave is the cricket, master, you are..."

"In the eyes of my father, everyone in the world is just a cricket, nothing more than a big one or a small one."

Ji Chengjue sighed,

And said:

"That crazy woman, is she safe now?"

Emperor Yan moved into the back garden, and the princess who originally lived in the back garden had to move out. The back garden was so big that he could definitely live there, but it didn't comply with the rules. The princess had half the status of a daughter-in-law.

Therefore, the princess now lives in a royal garden in Xishanju.

Before the back garden was built, it used to be the place where successive emperors of the Ji family spent summer and soaked in springs.

"Master, the princess went to the Tian family's old house the day before yesterday."

Hearing this, Ji Chengjue fell silent.

count the days,

It's almost time for Tian's New Year Festival.

a long time,

Ji Chengjue spat out two words;

"madman."

………

If you look down from the sky, you can clearly see that from the north of Zhennan Pass, there is a large area of ​​camps.

The Yan army has been building siege equipment, but for such a long time, the Yan army has never really launched a battle against Zhennan Pass;

Not only did the Yan army turn a blind eye to Zhennan Pass, but even the East and West army camps below Zhennan Pass.

The Chu army has been waiting for death, but the Yan people are puzzled.

in addition,

There was also a very strange scene on the battlefield, which was different from the tense atmosphere where the two sides were facing each other and pushed to the front line of Zhennanguan. Yan Jun started a parade behind the military village.

The so-called military exercises are actually military training.

In the army that conquered Chu, the Zhenbei Army and the Jingnan Army's lineage need not be mentioned, but the other soldiers and horses are somewhat uneven.

Under the banner of King Jingnan, the various units of the Yan Army began to practice strictly in accordance with the original requirements of the Jingnan Army. What they practiced was no longer the weakness of the Yan Army to attack the city, but cavalry field formations, charging, crossing, and detours. , and so on the details of tactics.

For other soldiers and horses, the performance of the Jingnan Army as a blueprint is at the forefront. When these soldiers are training, they have a reference point, and the atmosphere in the army is that no one will accept anyone. , The soldiers participated in the training and wanted to improve their subjective initiative in the next round of parade.

Therefore, the effect of the exercises is indeed very good.

This move is incomprehensible to outsiders.

The national war has begun, and it has been fighting for so long. The people of Yan have already pulled out the military forts north of Zhennan Pass. If they don’t take advantage of the situation to attack Zhennan Pass and stay there to start training, it will be wasted every day. A large amount of military supplies, if a commander from another country dared to do this, he would probably be accused of slowing down the war and having ulterior motives.

However, King Jingnan's majesty in the army was too high. Since the start of the war, the only orders issued by Emperor Yan were verbal orders. Therefore, no one in the Yan court dared to put their beaks on his decision.

Everyone will say that sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood, but no one dares to sharpen a knife with Anshen in front of the eyes of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops.

At the end of a parade, the rankings were ranked and the rewards were distributed.

All the generals gathered in the king's tent, waiting for King Jingnan's routine comments after each parade.

finally,

King Jingnan walked into the king's tent.

"See you, my lord!"

"See you, my lord!"

See you all.

King Jingnan walked up to the commander-in-chief's seat, his eyes swept across the audience,

road:

"The Chu people's food road has been cut off."

The generals were in an uproar for a while.

immediately,

Many people think of one person, the one who never showed up in the second round of the campaign.

Then, everyone's faces showed excitement;

Because all the generals present knew what it would mean for the hundreds of thousands of Chu troops in front of them to be cut off from their food roads. It meant that even if they continued to guard the strong city and stronghold, they would fall into depression and panic.

It means that the battlefield situation will undergo a qualitative change!

"Pass down the military order of the king, all the ministries should prepare their troops and horses, prepare food and grass, and wait for the military order of the king to raise troops. In the past, the king surrounded the 40,000 Qingluan army of the Chu people in Yupan City by the Wangjiang River. This time, the king wants to bring Let's surround you with another big one."

"The last general takes orders!"

"The last general takes orders!"

"Li Fusheng stays here, I wait, let's make preparations."

All the generals left the king's tent one after another, and hurried back to their respective troops to greet them.

In the king's tent,

Li Fusheng stepped forward and asked:

"My lord, what are your orders?"

"Li Fusheng, your department must be prepared for a long-distance attack. When the army is dispatched, you will be responsible for heading straight to Jingcheng."

"My lord, but that boy Zheng Fan wrote to say that the situation is critical?"

Li Fusheng really cared about Zheng Fan.

King Jingnan shook his head and said, "Since he led his army into Chu by boat, this king has not received any news from him."

The battlefield span is too large, even if it is eight hundred miles to rush, there will be an extremely long lag, not to mention the current area of ​​Zhennanguan, where the Chu people can be said to be strictly guarded, and ordinary messenger soldiers are almost impassable.

Li Fusheng hurriedly asked: "Then how does the prince know that Zheng Fan has already captured Jingcheng? Burned the grain and grass stored by the Chu people?"

Facing Li Fusheng's inquiry,

King Jingnan just responded casually:

"got used to."