"That said, Zhu San wants to marry me? I am willing to hire a land in Henan Province and seven states... Do you believe in this kind of thing
Zhou Huaian said with a weird expression; he really didn't expect that his son and daughter were only a few days old, and they were already worried about him, and he was still the five-generation living Cao Cao.
"This Saburo of my family has not been a worry-free person since he was a child; now he is whimsical. My younger brothers and sisters are also feminine, please don't be offended..."
Zhu Cun, the third army general of the third army, who is next to him, is helpless on his face;
Instead, it was the Chief Military Ziyi, as if Yang Shigu, who was always so elegant and calm, smiled slightly:
"From a personal point of view, seeking employment from the eight states is only a nominal excuse. In fact, this Dongdu stayed behind to use the marriage of his children and wanted to ask the king for a guarantee and retreat..."
"So, did Zhu San encounter obvious problems and predicaments?"
Zhou Huaian thoughtfully said:
"If so, my third brother has always been a very thoughtful and extraordinarily stoic person; if it weren't for great difficulties and obstacles, he would definitely not bow his head easily, let alone say what to do..."
Zhu Cun is unceremonious; although there is a brother who leads the army outside, his standpoint and attitude have always been upright, and his impartiality makes people unable to fault.
"Is it because of the local locust plague?"
Zhou Huaian's heart moved:
"Or that's the case. According to reports from Xie Tong and others in Luodu City, the locust plague after the opening of the spring in Henan was so huge that it was everywhere in the prefecture and counties.
Yang Shigu, who is qualified to have access to most of the intelligence collection work, nodded.
"In this way, I am afraid that the entire land of Henan and Central Plains is inevitable. We must also prepare early, just in case..."
Zhou Huai'an nodded, and he understood what he meant; locust plagues can be different from disasters that are confined in a certain area such as floods and droughts. They will eat up all the crops and vegetation in a place. Large-scale movement and migration driven by instinct; it can be called a mobile natural disaster.
Therefore, it is not enough to eliminate the worms to control the locusts in one state or several states; locusts bred in other places can continue to fly over. Even along the flat terrain of the Huanghuai Plain, it is enough to spread and flood the entire Henan Province; and the local forces can be described as complicated, and it is almost impossible to get a dog's brain.
Therefore, those who have the ability and willingness to manage and prevent troubles, namely Zhu Lao San of Duguidao and Cao Xiang of Tianping Army, are only the two closely related to the Taiping Army. But in fact, these two companies are also quite limited in what they can do. They are not at all comparable to the Taiping Army, which can mobilize the whole people under a single order and offer rewards for extermination of locusts and work for relief.
Therefore, it is necessary to prepare for the worst. If the disaster situation in Hanoi evolves and the locust swarms continue to grow, they may even go north and cross the Yellow River, or fly over the narrower Huai River, which is now in Huainan, which is under the control and leadership of the Taiping Army to carry out spring ploughing and irrigation operations.
On the other hand, it is because after the end of the locust plague cycle, which led to the great famine of crop pellets that year, the various forces in the Central Plains were desperate and collapsed and merged, or they took risks and carried out military adventures in order to plunder opponents and consume them. Surplus population, and so on, a series of involuted chain reactions.
This is for the Metropolitan Government, which is currently developing steadily, trying to digest the newly occupied Jiangdong Huainan area through gathering population and large-scale public facilities construction projects; while maintaining the continuous fighting on several fronts in Guannei, Dongchuan, Xichuan, and Shanxi, This is not good news. '
This means that once there is a major change in Henan and Huaibei, which are separated by a river, the Taiping Army in Huainan will no longer have enough force to intervene and intervene except for the newly reorganized Twelfth Army.
Of course, the Taiping Army can continue to watch the fire from across the bank, watching the distressed forces fight lives and kills on the northern Central Plains, and can even arrogate and provoke in the middle in order to profit from the bulls. In the end, in the case of mutual internal friction, with thousands of miles of ignorance of chickens and dogs, and extinction of people, it is undoubtedly much more time-saving and worry-free to intervene calmly to clean up the mess.
However, it is contrary to the original intention of the Taiping Army to live the people and livelihood, and it is also contrary to the present ideas and knowledge that it brings, and it is in line with those emperors and generals in history who are traditionally low-believers and low-righteous and only seek personal dominance. Cold-blooded heroes, is there any difference
Although right now, the Taiping Army has been supporting some of these forces to maintain a regional balance of power and relative power balance, and it has also gained a lot of complementary benefits from it. But as a basic bottom line, the Central Plains, which was slain everywhere, is not in line with the demands of interest.
At least on the premise that there is still a glimmer of possibility, it is better to make a difference than inaction. Thinking of this, Zhou Huaian suddenly spoke to Zhu Cun:
"Actually, this child-daughter agreement may not be negotiable..."
"My lord, please think twice about this matter... this is just his temporary delusion..."
Zhu Cun said in surprise:
"If we can make the soldiers shed less blood and let the local people and people preserve more vitality, what is the future marriage of my little girl? Since she was born in my family, she will naturally bear the responsibility of the corresponding relationship. ."
Zhou Huaian inevitably said with mixed feelings in her heart: He didn't expect that he would still follow the old path of the ancients. Is this the price of being a superior.
"Isn't this the intention to support his generation in the first place? What he fancy is that he is able to treat and protect the people well.. I just turned back and told that Zhu Sanyi privately that he wanted to be my in-laws, just by relying on him. The offer of one government and seven states is not enough, I need him to do more..."
Then, he said to Zhu Cun:
"Old Zhu, you must return to the situation where you are based in Huainan. It is not only to assist the Huainan Rehabilitation Department in disaster preparedness and famine preparedness, but also to select the local Huainan and Huaixi old pawns who are in charge of the local labor service, and give me more than 20 supplements. The battalion and the temporary battalion are coming..."
"In addition to the manpower for dredging canals, strengthening river embankments, opening up irrigation and repairing roads, you can dispatch and requisition other construction army and labor camp sequences; I will order that eastern Zhejiang and western Zhejiang have been listed later. The completed part of the navy marched northward and entered the Huai River to swim and guard to ensure several passages for refugees from Huai River to exile...
"At the same time, I will order the summer grains from Lingdong and Annan to be transported directly outside Guangling City through the sea route, so that the place will not be in danger. The Yaxia Metropolitan Government can do roughly this... more than you can. Is there anything else to add?"
"The king is naturally thoughtful, but his subordinates also want to have the right to select one hundred students from the big lecture..."
After carefully listening to the corresponding appointments and deployments, Zhu Cun also said with a solemn expression: After all, the ability to get his related person to return to Huainan without avoiding suspicion of the full-time corresponding things is certainly a great trust and value, and it is also the same. Great responsibility and commitment.
"There are too many top picks for a hundred people, and other departments and local states and counties can't compete for it. You can only give you twenty top picks, plus eighty top picks..."
Zhou Huaian made a discount without hesitation.
After all, one of the most sought-after resources under the supervision of the general capital today is the graduates under the system of these major seminars. In order to cope with the need to maintain the occupied areas and rear supply lines on several fronts in the west, even the students during the internship period were shortened, and the ducks were pulled out for emergency.
But after Zhu Cun took the order, he couldn't help but slow down and waited for a while before he met Master Yang who came out later:
"Yang Ziyi, why didn't you say a word just now? It's really not trivial to get married. Anyway, I should advise you!"
"What can I say? The king no longer cares about his own family for the sake of the world's livelihood and the people. Can he still go against the trend as a minister?"
Shigu Yang, who stopped, said calmly:
"What's more, in my opinion, what Luodu left behind is more of a name than reality; plus the fact that the queen was born, there are still ten or twenty years of things, who can tell the future..."
—I’m the dividing line that I can’t tell —
At the same time, Henan entered, and another major force related to the Taiping Army-in Tianping Town, on the pier outside Yuncheng South Water Gate on the north bank of Onozawa, Cao Xiang, who described the more heroic and generous Tianping Army after staying, was also looking forward. Looking expectantly at the shining water surface, a full-loaded fleet slowly approaching the shore.
As he eagerly greeted him, he saw a young general jumped off the riverboat at the port. He trot and sprinted forward, clasping his fists and half kneeling in salute:
"Participate in Cao Shuai..."
"Zi Jing has worked hard, and it's okay to come along the way..."
Cao Xiang stretched out his hand to support the same young cronies and said:
"Fortunately, not insulting the mission! Relying on the brothers for their lives, and also relying on Cao Shuai's reputation, although there were some twists and turns on the road, but it was finally transferred back!
The general named Zijing said respectfully:
“It’s 34,000 shi for rice and wheat, 6 million catties of special concentrated dry food, more than 390,000 canned meat and vegetables, and egg powder, slab sugar, dried soy sauce, etc.... It’s just that, subordinates. Not only will the wealth that I bring with me is exhausted, but also more than 8,000 unpaid accounts on credit..."
"It's so good. It's so good..."
Hearing these numbers, Cao Xiang, who seemed to exceed his basic expectations, nodded in praise:
"It's okay for the first half of the road. After leaving Luyang Pass, there were people escorting through the whole area of Yuzhou; when it came to Xuzhou, there was a lot of chaos, but no one dared to commit the tiger's prestige..."
The young general said again:
"Just after passing Yinzhou to the banks of Yingshui, you can see the local migratory locusts swarming like clouds, and the vegetation is bald; there are sometimes hordes of refugees entrenched by the road; when passing by Chenliu and Xiangyi, they seem to be local guards. The army also followed far along the way, but after all, it did not act rashly..."
"And the chaos in Bianjing became more and more difficult to support, and the armed children went rampant in the countryside and there were many deaths on the road, and the ordinary business travelers were also extinct... When Guoqiao boarded the boat on the night, there were open fire wands rushing to attack. , Shooting with the Yingzha crossbow and arrows to Tianming only then retreat slowly..."
"Then changed boats to enter the Cao and head westward. It was also every night that a team of people followed up with fire, and some thieves set up a barrier in the Caohe, but they were cut by an axe... During the period, they won the weak and injured a large animal. Sixty-seven heads, and more than a hundred Erlangs were injured by Liu Shi..."
"Enough, you can come back safely, that is the greatest blessing... Others needless to say, let's go down and have a good rest!"
Hearing this, Cao Xiang interrupted him:
Afterwards, amidst the cheers that a large amount of food was transported into Yuncheng, Cao Xiang sighed heavily. Although I have just received a large amount of food for income, this may not be the last time today. I took advantage of the opportunity to obtain supplies from the neighboring dao friends, and I will have a long period of hard life in the future.
After all, the locust plagues that have erupted after the beginning of spring have not only allowed the original entrenched in the territory of the Taining Army, but also competed for each other to win the battle. It also greatly disrupted his steps to rehabilitate and gather strength in the local area. However, as the so-called "Fu Wushuang" does not come singly, the next news disrupted his mood again:
"What, Caizhou thieves have made a great effort to increase their troops? Now it is the spring famine season, where can they get food and grass and soldiers?" (End of this chapter)