The most important thing for an emperor is to be able to govern his subordinates with both grace and power.
The most important thing for a good emperor is not how diligent he is, but how he can bring all the forces together to serve the court. As long as the ministers can serve the court, the emperor does not need to be too diligent at all, because many things are done by his subordinates.
The ministers will do it.
Only by taking into account the interests of all parties can we bring the forces of all parties together.
Zhu Youjian, on the other hand, went astray from the beginning. Not only did he fail to bring the various forces together, he also forced the Qi Party and the Jin Party, which were originally on his own side, to oppose him.
Tie Mo had thought about it a lot before.
If he wants to quickly carve out a niche in this troubled world, the only person he can win over is the Jin Party. He is a son of Shanxi, so as long as he can share interests, why doesn't the Jin Party support him, Tie Mo?
The Donglin Party, the clean stream of officials in the imperial court?
Tie Mo felt that it was impossible for people to take a fancy to him. Who was he? He was a humble soldier who grew up in the country and had no reputation. He was a martial artist. He would be damned if people took a fancy to him.
To win over the Shanxi Party and unite Shanxi merchants, we must not only have interests, but also have strong armed forces. At least for now, this strength is not enough.
Tie Mo still has some self-awareness.
Mantou Mountain is at least a small part of the Kang family's interests. If the Kang family is really determined to destroy him, Tie Mo may not be able to withstand it given his strength.
The Kang family also has taboos surrounding Mantou Mountain. Everyone tries to limit the conflict to a small area and try not to expose the matter to the public. Only in this way can he take advantage of others.
Tie Mo's most urgent need is to expand his strength. To put it simply, it is to strengthen and expand his army.
To raise soldiers, you need food and pay. As the saying goes, food and grass must go before the soldiers and horses are used. Right now, money is enough for the time being, but food is a big problem.
The price of food is rising steadily. Although we can buy food cheaper from the Chang family, it is not a long-term solution.
No permanent friends, only permanent interests.
One day, what will you do if others don’t sell you food? What’s more, buying food also costs a huge sum of money. Therefore, buying land to open up wasteland is a must-do.
Tie Mo directly aimed his gaze at Zhang Bei Pingyuan.
...
Chang Minyue wore a long aqua dress and walked slowly along the ridge. Bathed in the warm morning light, she felt that her whole body felt much lighter.
In a few days, she saw earth-shaking changes taking place in Mantou Mountain.
Dazhai was renovated, most of the robbed miners were sent away, more than a dozen watchtowers were added to various high points, and a training ground was opened to the south of Dazhai.
Now Mantou Mountain is almost equivalent to a military camp, and Tie Mo intends to run it into a fortress.
In my spare time, I found someone to secretly inquire about the details of that day.
The more I learned about him, the more I felt that Tie Mo was a mysterious person.
Wei Xiang led nearly a thousand troops from Huai'an to besiege Mantou Mountain, but was defeated by Tie Mo and fled. You must know that the actual training time of Tie Mo's men was less than three months.
Iron shields and muskets, a random attack, actually drove back an enemy twice his size.
Is the gunshot so powerful?
Chang Minyue was thinking about something on her mind, but she didn't know that she had become the scenery in other people's eyes.
Tie Mo stood on a huge rock, leaning against an old pine tree, looking boredly at the mountain road in the distance.
Zhou Dingshan sat on the other side, carefully wiping the spear in his hand.
"Brother Tie, according to my wishes, we should deal with Wei Xiang and Gu Chengliang severely. If you hadn't specially told them, we could have kept at least half of his people."
"We just need to defeat Wei Xiang's people. They are not powerful men who have taken over and become kings. After all, they are wearing official clothes. If there are too many casualties, it will be a big deal and it will not be good for anyone. Our purpose
The purpose is to occupy Mantou Mountain, not to fight with those like Wei Xiang."
Tie Mo also wanted to kill more of Wei Xiang's troops, but unfortunately, Wei Xiang's troops were different from Mu Liangyuan's. Mu Liangyuan occupied Mantou Mountain. As long as Mu Liangyuan was a bandit, others could not say anything.
The sun was a bit dazzling, Tie Mo turned his face slightly, and a weak figure appeared in his field of vision.
The figure was about ten years old, with messy hair like withered grass, and a dirty face. The little figure was holding something in its arms, looking at the mountain road at its feet, and walking very fast.
Chang Minyue was too preoccupied with her thoughts to pay much attention to the front, so she was hit by the little figure. Her feet slipped and she fell onto the stone wall.
The mountain road is not easy to walk on, and I accidentally felt a severe pain in my ankle.
A figure came out from behind Chang Minyue and directly lifted the small figure up, "You little bastard, you're blind..."
The man's face was pitch black, with only two bright eyes, but he didn't say a word.
The strong man was about to throw the person in his hand to the ground when Chang Minyue said urgently: "Ah Kuan, stop..."
"Miss...this little bastard bumped into you..."
"He didn't mean it, why don't you let him go!"
A Kuan sighed, and had no choice but to put the villain on the ground with his eyes wide open, but he didn't say in a good mood, "You can brighten your eyes from now on."
"Humph!" The villain hugged the things in his arms tightly and turned his head.
Chang Minyue wanted to reach out and wipe the mud on the other party's face, but the other party easily dodged it.
"You baby, you have a bad temper, but I am the one who got hurt."
Seeing the other party being so wary, Chang Minyue couldn't help but shake her head and smile bitterly.
.......
In the blink of an eye, Tie Mo had already walked over.
In the scene just now, Tie Mo noticed that Chang Minyue seemed to have changed a bit. If it had been before, Chang Minyue would have looked at her coldly and sent someone to teach her a lesson.
It seems that it is completely a bad thing to let such a condescending young lady suffer some human suffering.
At least, this woman will no longer treat untouchables like nothing.
When he got closer, before asking about Chang Minyue's situation, the little figure opened his hands and rushed over like the wind.
As soon as he let go of his hand, the things in his arms fell to the ground, making people speechless.
Steamed buns, vegetable cakes, meat bones...
The small figure hugged Tie Mo's waist tightly, and looked directly at Ah Kuan beside Chang Minyue, "Big brother, help, save Nunu..."
"???"
"..."
The sound is clear and sweet, like the gentle call of a kingfisher.
This dirty little person is actually a girl. I had never noticed it before.
"Let go. Let go first. He won't dare to touch you!"
"Brother, you are a good person. Let Nunu follow you from now on. Nunu can do many things, such as singing, washing, cooking..."
Tie Mo was speechless. You little girl is relying on me!
The dirty little girl seemed to be stuck to her body and could not be shaken off. Tie Mo, a man, was too embarrassed to use force. For a while, there was nothing he could do with this piece of dog skin plaster.
"Okay, okay, I'll take you in. You get off me first."
At this time, the little girl landed obediently, but she was holding Tie Mo's belt tightly with both hands, as if she wanted to tie the waistband of her pants.