Wu Xiuwen's conversation made Song Xiance so obsessed with hearing it, but Liu Bu didn't believe in it at all, and didn't believe in these absurd and bizarre ones, because Liu Bu knew that it was always people who determine their destiny and the general trend of the world, not a bunch of graves. Liu Bu only recognized a little, that the world had no eyes, mountains and rivers had no spirits, and that the world was not kind to treat all things as straw dogs? When did people care about straw dogs?

The decline of the Ming Dynasty is already very obvious. The only one who can destroy the Ming Dynasty is Jiannu. However, no one in the Ming Dynasty now has this idea. Who can believe that the country with a population of hundreds of millions will be ruled by Jiannu, who has a population of only 200,000?

Although the Ming Dynasty has been beaten by Jiannu, he is optimistic that all the officials of the Ming Dynasty believe that once the Ming Dynasty breathes, it is not difficult to concentrate its superior forces and deal with Jiannu. Many officials of the Ming Dynasty also believe that the Ming Dynasty has great achievements and it is not a big problem to lose a few more times, but as long as Jiannu is defeated once, he will be doomed.

If Liu Bu said that the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed by Jiannu, the people of the Ming Dynasty would be ruled by Jiannu in the future. I believe that these people would criticize him for his farts and scold him to the point of being bloody, thinking that he was talking nonsense.

Even if some people elevate Jiannu to the level of life and death enemy of the Ming Dynasty, it is actually mainly to strengthen the infectiousness of their own words. In essence, they would not think that the Ming Dynasty could still be destroyed by Jiannu?

This was almost the first time that Liu Bu heard that the Ming Dynasty might be destroyed by Jiannu, and they might enter the Central Plains. Although this person started with Feng Shui and geomantic techniques and analyzed it, the result was true.

Feng Shui theory is illusory, but Liu Bu knew one thing: this is a mysterious science. Even in the 21st century, many billionaires and social elites in later generations were very superstitious and trusted in this regard.

In this era of superstition in the whole nation, Feng Shui has risen to an extremely high level, and even as the main basis for analyzing things, Liu Bu felt strange, how did Wu Xiuwen know the secret that only the senior officials of Jiannu knew?

It turned out that Wu Xiuwen was hunted by his enemies more than 20 years ago and hid outside the pass for more than ten years. He could not make a living outside the pass, nor could he use fraudulent means, and could only place orders in a Taoist temple.

This period happened to be when Nurhaci rose again. He even met Nurhaci and dealt with some people around him. He knew many secret things about the senior management of Jiannu.

Liu Bu found that this man knew a lot, and he was considered a talent, so he kept him by his side, let him serve as his military advisor, and let him provide advice on some matters.

Wu Xiuwen is different from Song Xiance. Song Xiance is an ambitious wild Taoist priest. He is familiar with military books and likes to analyze problems through military books strategies. However, Wu Xiuwen analyzes through physiognomy and sympathy. In his words, the reason why he stayed with Liu Bu was that they found that everyone around Liu Bu was all overlords and all people with the destiny of kings and generals. If he could join in, he would naturally be able to take the ride. If he wanted to be a small official position and work in the local area, he would definitely not be able to enter the small circle of Liu Buzhe.

And he understood more, that is, he made such great contributions to the Liu family and had a high status in the Liu family, but at the same time he knew a lot of things. Staying by Liu Bu's side can reassure Liu Bu. If he hides in a place where the other party cannot see, it will make the other party think too much and will cause murderous intentions.

So Wu Xiuwen simply stayed with Liu Bu and participated in military aircraft as Liu Bu's staff officer.

Although Liu Bu has many talents around him, he still formulates the main strategies. For example, he insists on fighting with Jiannu in Jinzhou and Luda to learn about the details of Jiannu to facilitate the future war with Jiannu.

In fact, there are also some ambitious people under Liu Bu's subordinates, just like Liu Zhongyong and others. After fighting so many battles, as their strength increases, their ambitions are also increasing. People from the bottom of the Ming Dynasty understand how corrupt the Ming Dynasty is. The Ming Dynasty is so weak, so they can take advantage of the situation to seize more benefits.

Therefore, they are not very interested in going out of the pass to fight Jiannu, because even if they win Jiannu and seize the land outside the pass, they are all scraps, not rich places. People like Liu Zhongyong and others are more keen to destroy bandits. You should know that if they pursue bandits, they can occupy some wealthy places. As long as they occupy these wealthy places in their hands and become their own sphere of influence, they can expand themselves again.

For example, they did a very good job in the beginning before. Wouldn't it be a general of Fengyang to become king and dominate the richest Jiangnan area in the Ming Dynasty? It would be a big defeat when they came outside the pass. If Liu Bu had not had a backup plan and had troops stationed in secret, and would have prepared for entering this area in the future, they would probably have been opposed by their subordinates.

The reasons for their opposition are actually very simple, because outside the pass is too poor. Even if you occupy the entire Liaodong, you will not be able to pacify the world. When Li Chengliang dominated the entire Liaodong, what about this? But if you occupy a few pieces of territory in the Ming Dynasty, it would be different, and this can expand their power even more.

There is something worth mentioning here, after Liu Bu’s incubation incident, he slapped the wool from Jiangnan, which made the people’s livelihood in Jiangnan wither. Although Fengyang Governor Zhu Dadian proposed the theory that owing money is the old man, there is no doubt that those who owe money cannot be the old man after all, after all, the grandson still owes money.

What is particularly pitiful is that after several months of the silver hatching incident, the court believed that the matter had passed and had been suppressed, so it started to increase taxes here again.

The silver incubation incident did not directly cause the Ming Dynasty's financial collapse. This is just a superficial phenomenon. This is because these officials have already suffered a lot. They are now trying hard to squeeze and plunder money desperately, hoping to make up for their losses. It just didn't break out for a while. However, Wu Zongda, who was responsible for pacifying the local area in Jiangnan, believed that this matter was over and the wealthy Jiangnan had survived this level.

Therefore, when the imperial court dealt with Jiannu on the one hand and bandits on the other hand, it required a lot of money and food, so he agreed to the emperor and the court's request to increase taxes in these places.

Originally, the government's exploitation and exploitation made people extremely difficult for life. They just barely had a meal. Those who could eat a full meal were considered wealthy families. Many families were half full every day and lived a very difficult life.

However, the government once again increased its efforts to exploit and exploit, which overwhelmed the local area. Finally, resistance against rent and taxes occurred in many places in Jiangnan, but they were strongly suppressed by the government. However, the more the government suppressed the people, the stronger the resistance of the people. The entire Jiangnan was in dire straits. Originally, it was a heavy tax area for the Ming Dynasty. Relying on the land tax in Jiangnan alone could maintain the expenditure in the north of the Ming Dynasty. However, after this incident, the court did not find a way to make up for local losses and alleviate local pressure, but instead increased its efforts to squeeze, which completely broke out the conflict between the two sides.

Judging from the information collected by Liu Bu, there are the thirteen prefectures in Jiangnan. Many places have completely collapsed in their economies. However, there is no term for economic crisis, and the government has no ability to deal with this aspect. Therefore, many people just think that it is the issue of people resisting rent and taxes. Liu Bu knew that this was actually a huge crisis. If you don’t handle such a thing well, your harm to the Ming Dynasty will not be under a rebellion.

All of this was expected by Liu Bu. If Jiangnan did not rebel and the world was not in chaos, what chance would he have to win in chaos?

Only when something happens in Dajiangnan, a place with heavy taxes and is unable to provide money and food to the north will the Ming Dynasty be fundamentally shaken.

Am I cruel? Is this mean? Liu Bu asked himself, but when he thought about the fact that after Jiannu attacked the Ming Dynasty, he rushed into Jiangnan all the way, such as Yangzhou, the Three Massacres of Jiading, the Guangzhou Massacre, etc., he felt no guilt at all. A small-scale riot and economic crisis was better than the whole Jiangnan to make Jiannu beaten to nothing.

When did Liu Bu take action? He took action when the Ming Dynasty was about to collapse? If nothing happened in Jiangnan, it would be as stable as Mount Tai, and would continue to provide money and food to the north of the Ming Dynasty. The Liu family would not have a chance. This opportunity would eventually be left to Jiannu and let them replace it.

So Liu Bu called all this a pain short than long pain. He triggered this crisis in advance, causing chaos in the south of the Yangtze River and the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, and causing chaos in the north, so that they had more opportunities. Then there would be no money and food in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and there would be no way to support so many troops without money and food, which would not be enough to support their large-scale military operations. In this way, they took advantage of the situation and the opportunity would come.

Now, Liu Bu has a deep understanding of what kindness means to be a soldier. Since you are a general who is in charge of soldiers, you cannot be kind to a woman. The only thing he wants is to achieve great things with the least sacrifice.

What he was thinking was that no matter how miserable it is now, it would not be even worse than the demise of the Ming Dynasty. It was slaughtered by Jiannu. Therefore, it has triggered an economic crisis ahead of schedule, making Jiangnan unable to provide money and food to the Ming Dynasty. The north could not support its huge war machine. This was his established strategy.

This is also a strategy formulated by the Liu family and his son. They were already prepared to rebel, but Liu Bu could not tell his father that I was a time traveler and could know the past and the future. The Ming Dynasty will definitely be over, and we can replace it.
Chapter completed!