Chapter 531: The scale of the war is destined to expand
This was the first time that Zhiyao ordered the execution of so many people in addition to national and military laws. He killed more than 130 eunuchs and maids at once, as well as 16 eunuchs and female officials.
Eunuchs are servants of the palace, and eunuchs are high-ranking officials. Although both of them have no balls, eunuchs are servants, and eunuchs are at least officials.
In many novels, once time travelers gain power, they will cancel the eunuchs, but the facts will prove that this is not feasible at all.
After all, there are so many women of the king, and it is impossible for them to see the king all the time. Let alone receive favors, something will definitely happen when they are lonely.
Under normal circumstances, unrelated persons are strictly prohibited from entering the harem. Some tasks are not something that palace maids can undertake, and eunuchs will definitely be needed.
As for the palace guards? Although they perform their duties in the palace, they cannot enter the harem if they want. Even if they do, they are always under surveillance by the eunuchs.
Since existence is reasonable, if the feudal dynasty completely abolished the profession of eunuchs, do you believe that the harem will definitely become a mess?
The king doesn't have enough time to deal with various affairs, so how can he have so much time to take care of the women in the harem?
In some interpretation works, the king is having fun with women all the time. It is simply unreasonable for the country to survive. In real history, most of these kings also died in the gentle land as they wished, and the country was also facing destruction.
It's so dangerous that the country actually dies.
Zhiyao had many heirs, but not every prince or princess was like Zhikai. Many princes and princesses had already gotten married and had children.
This era attaches great importance to direct descendants. Not only the son's generation, but any generation below is the most precious.
Let's put it this way, even if the original country does not strictly implement the primogeniture system, the male who is the legitimate son will naturally have the highest order of inheritance.
Zhiyao doesn't need to deliberately play the "Tweeting Order".
In fact, Zongzhou himself encouraged the separation of families. Didn't the Zhi family separate from the Xun family, and then later entrusted the Fu family, Cheng family and other small clans?
Zhiyao only needs to urge each family to divide the feudal families fairly, causing an originally strong family to be divided among generations.
It's true that they come from the same origin. As long as they have their own demands, a family will even fight harder than with outsiders.
Zhiyao now has about twenty grandsons and more than a dozen granddaughters. She can still remember the names of the first few grandsons and granddaughters, and the faces of the following grandsons and granddaughters are familiar, but it is too difficult to remember their names.
There is nothing I can do about it. There are too many children and grandchildren, my daily contact with them is very limited, and there are really too many things that need to be dealt with every day. It is not that I am too indifferent to family ties.
"The battle to the east has reached a critical point. I am determined to increase the number of two 'divisions' and strive to end the war within two months."
"In the battle to destroy the Song Dynasty, the Chu State indeed sent troops to rescue. Shangqiu has been besieged by the prince's troops. The kings and ministers of the Song State are all in the city. If they were there, the Song Army would not dare not rescue them. The Song Army would rescue them. The Chu Army had no choice but to march with them.
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"Chu was so greedy that it tried to save the Song Dynasty and annex Yue at the same time. The country had gone through great chaos, and it really didn't know how to choose between the two."
Many of the important ministers of the original country were fighting abroad, but most of the team of the three ministers and nine ministers stayed in "Zhongjing".
An important minister does not necessarily need to have a particularly high official position. The most important thing is to be trusted by the king.
Because someone among the three princes passed away, Zhiyao had to make adjustments later.
Zhi Xuwu was appointed as the general.
Han Geng was appointed to power.
Bank of China's Qi takes office as Situ.
The rest of the Nine Qings were also mobilized, and many young and strong newcomers got the chance to come forward, including Zhong Wu and Hu You.
Zhong Quan, the previous head of the Zhong family, has died of illness.
The Hu family's Hu solution is to make way for Hu You, and the person is still alive.
If you look at the list of Sangong and Jiuqing, you will find that people from the Xun family account for the majority. This is because the strength of the group of people who are not Zhiyao's blood relatives and who have been loyal to the Zhi family for generations has declined, and the new rich have not really grown up. .
Zhiyao did not use too violent methods and slowly reduced the power of the old families in the original country. Once it reached a level that was recognized as feasible, more drastic reforms would be implemented.
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This method of slowly taking back power and suppressing it takes a long time. The advantage is that a huge conflict will not break out all at once. Even if someone is dissatisfied and colludes, and really wants to resist, it will only be after the strength is weakened, so that the country will not fall into too big a crisis. turmoil.
Regarding the battle to the east, Zhiyao never thought it would last so long.
It has been more than a year since the Vietnamese army officially marched there.
At present, King Gou Jian of Yue still has nearly 60,000 troops on hand. If they do not receive supplies, their food supplies can last for two months at most.
Sima Ranju's plan was to consolidate the encirclement and consume the Vietnamese army's food supplies until they were at the bottom. At that time, the Vietnamese army would only surrender and then starve to death.
More than one person judged that King Gou Jian of Yue would not surrender, and basically guessed that King Gou Jian of Yue would choose to hold on to the end.
If King Gou Jian of Yue is willing to surrender, after the forces that originally came from the east have surrendered one after another, it will be obvious that the situation is over for the Vietnamese army. There is no need for the Vietnamese army to hold on, and they should take advantage of the situation to negotiate the terms of surrender.
Because the Battle of Donglai happened earlier than the invasion of the Song Dynasty by the Yuan Kingdom, King Goujian of Yue was trapped and did not know the information about the invasion of the Song Dynasty by the Yuan Kingdom. It is expected that the King of Yue Goujian would not pin his hope of escape on the victory of the Chu-Song Allied Forces. On Yuan Guo’s body?
King Gou Jian of Yue knew one thing very well. Their main force was trapped in the north. The first to send troops to attack the mainland of Yue would not be the original country. Instead, it would be the former allies Chu and Song.
After understanding that reality, it was impossible for King Gou Jian of Yue not to understand that even if he could escape from the predicament, Yue had actually lost the possibility of becoming a powerful country, and even if it could survive, it would only be able to survive.
Understanding is one thing, but what to do is another. For people like King Gou Jian of Yue, being able to survive means there is still hope. How could he give up so easily?
The Yuan State guessed the Chu State very well.
As expected, the Chu State was so ambitious that it wanted everything. It had to pay attention to both sides, but both sides seemed to have insufficient troops.
"Thirty thousand Song troops threaten Puyang, and it is expected that Chu will send troops to open another front." Sun Wu said.
Hu You asked: "Where do you think the Chu army will open its front?"
This is also something everyone wants to know.
Sun Wu said firmly: "If Chu opens a front, it will be with the Man clan."
The choice made by Gou Jian has become a negative example. The Yue State could have intervened in the war of destruction against the Lu State, but the Yue State did not do so in order to preserve its strength.
The situation in the world has reached the current situation. It is not obvious that the Yuan State wants to annex the princes of the world. The Chu State and the Song State will learn the lessons of the Yue State and do anything that can hit the Yuan State.
However, based on the comparison of the strengths of all parties, unless the original country suffers a major defeat and causes internal turmoil in the original country, other countries will only be able to breathe under the pressure of the original country.
This time, the general who commanded 30,000 Song troops was extremely audacious. This did not mean that he dared to invade the original country, but specifically that he ignored the danger of his own monarchs and ministers.
In fact, their choice was right. Only 30,000 Song troops joined the battlefield in "Shangqiu". At most, the local original army had to defend against one more Song army. It was impossible to defeat the original army besieging "Shangqiu".
The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty came to the rescue.
Under this premise, 30,000 Song troops invaded the Yuan Kingdom's homeland, which might be able to attract the Yuan army that was besieging "Shangqiu" to divide their forces to rescue them. This is the most likely way to relieve "Shangqiu".
The 30,000 Song troops were a beautiful idea, but the mistake was that they did not understand the strength of the original country.
"Puyang" has now become one of the old capitals of the original country. It is also the eastern barrier of the new capital "Zhongjing". How could there be no garrison troops?
At the beginning, "Puyang" only had 3,000 defenders. It was clear that 30,000 Song troops were invading. In less than a month, nearly 10,000 troops were recruited from surrounding areas. After the war started, newly assembled former troops from various places continued to "Puyang".
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It is not an exaggeration to say that the 30,000 Song troops stirred up a hornet's nest. They triggered the joint defense mechanism of the original country. The young and strong people within the Zhili area will assemble in batches. They need to reach the battlefield before going to the battlefield. They can be assembled within three months.
Send out an army of not less than 50,000 people.
This large army may have weaker combat effectiveness than other field armies. Thanks to the original country's national policy of gathering for drills every year, the soldiers in it are not untrained farmers.
They may appear weak at the beginning due to various reasons. After fighting a few games to get used to it, with the advantages of equipment and command system, and they are still fighting to defend their homeland, maybe they can just rely on this temporarily assembled force.
Thirty thousand Song troops can be wiped out.
It was precisely because of that that the Huben Army, which had been stationed in "Zhongjing" for a long time, was not transferred to the "Puyang" battlefield at all. By the way, the two Manchu divisions assembled in "Zhongjing" were also on standby.
Zhiyao is rushing to conquer the world, how could he not pay more attention to military affairs.
It should be said that no matter what Zhiyao is doing, his goal is to increase the national power. Once the original country's national power is strong enough, its military strength will inevitably be enhanced.
If Zhiyao were even more insane, with the country's population close to tens of millions, it would not be difficult to assemble an army of one million people. It would even be possible to sustain food consumption and ordnance replenishment for three years, but why bother?
By working steadily and conquering the world, the national power will be more preserved and the lives of ordinary people will become better and better. Isn't that what a wise king should do?
Therefore, in some respects, Zhiyao is also an extremely greedy person, but his greed is different from Chu's way of not knowing what to choose.
What was discussed at the North Korean meeting was the war that was breaking out recently, and people's livelihood was rarely mentioned.
Waiting for the court meeting to end, Zhiyao called a few people to have a small meeting.
"I originally thought it would take ten years to fight for unification, but now it seems it won't take ten years." Zhiyao was talking about the changes in the situation.
For example, the Yuan State would have spent at least three years cultivating itself after destroying the Yue State before trying to destroy the Song State. However, what the Song monarchs and ministers did gave the Yuan State a big opportunity?
The Yuan Kingdom's war of annihilation against the Song Kingdom has begun, and it has successfully trapped the Song monarchs and ministers in "Shangqiu". It is impossible to give up in the face of such a good opportunity.
The choice made by the Chu State gave the Yuan State another opportunity to bleed the Chu State within the Song State. Of course, the rulers and ministers of the Yuan State hoped to annihilate the Chu army heading north.
"So, your Majesty does not want to destroy Ba and Shu, but also wants to destroy Chu?" Sun Wu asked.
This is almost equivalent to nonsense.
Sliding down from the upper reaches of the river not only ensures a rapid advance, but also ensures the logistical supplies of the army. Because of this consideration, Zhiyao thought of destroying Ba and Shu first and then Chu.
The Yuan State had the opportunity to wipe out 70,000 to 80,000 Chu troops within the Song State. In addition, the Chu State had just wiped out over 100,000 people in "Xinzheng" a few years ago. Even though the Chu State had a population of close to 5 million, it had lost so much in a short period of time.
In the army, people cannot grow up with just a blow. If Chu State is facing the situation of having no troops to recruit, if we don’t try to destroy it, do we have to wait for the new generation of Chu State to grow up?
"In this case, the main attack will still be on the upper reaches of the river, but... Oyuan did not operate the land where merchants were, and Chen Di and Cai Di returned to Oyuan's rule not long ago." Sun Wu expressed a concern.
Later, Sun Wu said: "If you want to destroy Chu, you must not have less than 600,000 troops."
In other words, if so many of Chu's war-worthy troops have been wiped out, why is it still so difficult to fight? This is the difference between winning a certain battle and a war to destroy the country.
The territory of Chu State is too vast, and the mountains and rivers in the territory will be a huge trouble. Furthermore, they have Yunmeng Ze, which occupies a huge area.
Of course Chu State would not pay attention to Yun Mengze in normal times, but when things got impossible, Yun Mengze would become a retreat.
Let's put it this way, it is really not difficult to hide hundreds of thousands of troops in Yunmengze. Hiding there, you can also use waterways to quickly attack many surrounding cities. If you cannot defeat them, you can also use waterways to retreat again.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Yun Mengze once hid in hundreds of thousands of people. No one kept statistics on how many people died in the harsh environment. However, Peng Yue, the anti-Qin people, became a group of princes because of Yun Mengze as a retreat.
When the Yuan Kingdom launched a war of annihilation against the Chu Kingdom, they needed to leave garrison troops at every location they conquered. In some areas, they even needed to leave heavy troops to ensure the logistics and supply lines. How could the number of troops needed be so small?
Zhiyao knew very well that the 600,000 that Sun Wu mentioned was still the minimum requirement, and wanted to be more secure with a total force of not less than 700,000, and that did not include the civilian servants responsible for transporting the baggage and the auxiliary troops accompanying the army.
"If I am determined to destroy Chu, I must be fully prepared. Now I am worried about how many casualties will be caused by destroying Yue and destroying Song." Zhiyao said.
There is another issue that Zhiyao has to think about. If three powerful countries are destroyed in a short period of time, conventional warfare will be fine. However, future governance will be the biggest problem.
The South now and the South in the future are two different things. From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States to the Han Dynasty, it was generally called the Chu Territory. The people living here were notoriously difficult to rule. A war of unification launched from south to north, or
The Chu people were born to conquer the world, and many people in the area were always thinking about overthrowing the central government's rule.
This time Zhiyao will be the first king to complete "One World", and it is impossible to miss the troubles of the First Emperor in the original history!