Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1431
Zhang Jackal had enough reasons to kill Ma Qiu.After all, although Ma Qiu is only a single husband, he is the absolute confidant of the Lord Shihu. Even if he made a big mistake, the Lord should punish him.

Once Shi Hu learns about Zhang Jackal's behavior, one can imagine what kind of wrath the Lord will cause.If there is not enough return, Zhang Jack will naturally not take such a big risk.What's more, he not only intercepted and killed Ma Qiu, but also intercepted such an important military situation as Xiangguo's fall.

After careful analysis, Zhang Jackal's main purpose was to delay the Lord knowing the fall of Xiangguo, at least until after the middle school New Year's celebration to let the Lord know about it.

This so-called New Year's celebration is not just a flashy ceremony, especially since Zhang Jackal has been by Shihu's side for more than a year now, so he knows better what Shihu's intentions will be achieved through this celebration.

Moving to Xindu last year, the situation in the middle school was dire, the hearts of the people were broken, and there was a lot of waste waiting for camp, so that the enthronement ceremony of the Lord was done hastily, and there was no matching solemn and majestic ceremony at all, which also made many middle schools People don't even know that the Lord is no longer the King of Zhao, but the real Emperor.

Now that the Xindu business has come to an end, there should be a matching ceremony to announce it to the world.This is not just a simple ceremony. If the Lord is still the King of Zhao, he will be weaker than the emperor of the Jin Kingdom in the south in the people's minds. However, a little difference in name and status falls into the hearts of the world, and it will breed a lot of distracting thoughts.

In addition, Zhang Jack knew that this long-planned ceremony was not only a supplementary ceremony for His Majesty's coronation, but also a real enfeoffment ceremony.

At present, the Southern Kingdom is pressing harder and harder, and the hearts of the people in the country have almost collapsed. It is imperative to award officials and honors to reward the ministers in the country, so as to stabilize the hearts of the upper class of the Jie Kingdom.On this basis, Shi Hu intends to go a step further, not just conferring vain official titles, but actually splitting the ground and conferring the remaining population and territory of the Jie Kingdom to a group of important ministers.

In other words, Shi Hu also knows that the current national power is not enough to support him to become a true Ninth Five-Year King who promises everything. Due to reality, he has to make major concessions, and wants to be a prince and alliance leader, so as to win over and consolidate the hearts of the people in the country.

This is definitely an extremely difficult decision for Shi Hu, who has been fierce all his life.But as of today, he has no better choice besides this.

Indeed, there are still hundreds of thousands of armored people in China at present.But these exaggerated words probably can only intimidate those ignorant ordinary people, how could those who really know the soldiers be deceived by this.

For more than a year, Zhang Jackal has always followed the Lord Shihu, and naturally has a more comprehensive and specific understanding of the power possessed by the middle school.

Among other things, the Twelve Armies inside and outside Xindu that have been reorganized in the past year are actually nothing more than appearances.Although there may be as many as hundreds of thousands of strong soldiers gathered around Xindu through continuous conscripts and expulsion of people from all over the place, but the real army is not just as simple as farmers reorganizing and armoring.

What's more, at present, the country simply can't produce enough ordnance to arm hundreds of thousands of troops. As for the most basic food and grass supplies, it is already approaching a precarious situation.

If it weren't for this, the Lord would not have issued such an extremely strict alcohol prohibition at the beginning of last year. Although this prohibition also meant to take the opportunity to eradicate hidden forces, it was more because the country's current grain reserves could no longer contain the slightest waste.

In the past few years, Hebei has always been unstable. There is almost no day in the country where there is no war.

Originally, the Jin family headed by the Taiyuan Guo family raised supplies to supplement the army's consumption. However, after the fall of Xiangguo, in order to suppress and deter these Hebei aristocratic families who were used to swinging from head to tail, the Taiyuan Guo family was one of these aristocratic families. The representative portal was first massacred and suppressed.

After the power of the Hebei aristocratic clan was suppressed, it meant that the supply channels that the middle school relied on before were cut off.Afterwards, the supplement of materials was to directly plunder people's wealth under the cover of moving the capital.The Jie army directly scattered out of the countryside, looting the population, money and food of the surrounding counties and counties, and collecting them for military use.

Through such means, the country of Jie has indeed raised as many as several million dendrobium grains in a short period of time.But this method of plundering is doomed to be short-lived. Even those who are tyrannical and ignore the king's law must admit that this direct method of plundering is the practice of robbers and gangsters, and it should not be a way for a king to govern the country.

Moreover, several million dendrobium grains and grass seem to be a huge amount, but compared to the huge scale of soldiers and civilians gathered inside and outside Xindu, it is also like a drop in the bucket.Especially with the lessons learned from the disaster in the southern counties, the people in various regions of northern Hebei are already in danger, and there are even some rural tyrants who directly resist the Jie army's law enforcement, which makes it more and more difficult to supplement later.

As for the gathering of so-called large armies inside and outside Xindu, the six foreign armies known to Zhang Jackal alone, although nominally numbering [-] troops each, actually have less than [-] capable soldiers on average!Not even the Sixth Inner Army under Shi Hu's personal command in Gongwei Xindu City was fully formed, and the Chinese Army with the largest number of troops could reach more than [-].

In other words, the so-called Twelve Armies Inside and Outside are nothing but a self-deceiving scam.Even if the country really has enough troops and weapons to arm it, it simply cannot support such a large-scale army for a long time.

In particular, the method of relocating the capital and residents was too violent, which completely stopped all the production of the living people between Xiangguo and Xindu, and after arriving in Xindu, there was no such thing as organizing the living people to resume farming and reclamation.

If there are no major changes, a large-scale famine will definitely break out in the middle of the country next spring. At that time, let alone maintaining a large-scale armed force, I am afraid that even those living people who gather outside the city will have a large area. Famine Escape!

In the face of such a prospect, Shihu has nothing to do. Distributing the land and population to his subordinates in order to reduce the pressure and counterattack on himself is already one of the few choices Shihu has.And the so-called commanders of the twelve internal and external armies, if nothing unexpected happens, will become real princes worthy of the name after the New Year Ceremony.

Because of this, even though Zhang Jackal knew what the so-called Twelfth Army was like, he still worked hard to win a seat.Their Zhang family itself has a large number of private soldiers and loyal followers. Once they are qualified to crack the ground and truly own their own territory, their power will have another qualitative improvement!
It was precisely because of this prospect that Zhang Jackal was able to stick to the status quo and not retaliate when the Lord had already shown obvious vigilance against him.

Of course, his attitude can be regarded as a kind of prudent self-protection. After all, there are many people who know the Lord's intentions. Once Zhang Jackal opposes the Lord's suppression against him too fiercely and affects the formation of the subsequent new order, he will become The common enemy of all powerful ministers in the country!

The cracking of the soil and the establishment of princes seem to have weakened Shihu's authority as a king to a certain extent, but in fact it is an excellent strategy to solve the current predicament of the Jie Kingdom and restore the country's power.

On the one hand, the generals have their own fiefdoms and people, so they are no longer simply loyal to the Lord, even if they want to protect their own feudal power from being damaged, they must resist the Jin army without fear of death. attack.

To them, Shihu is no longer just a simple owner, but also an ally who is closely related to them. Once the Jie Kingdom falls, according to Jin's always strong style, it will never accept and maintain this order exist.

On the other hand, the strengths and weaknesses of the north and the south are clearly visible, and many aristocratic families and powerful people of the Jin people may have secretly planned to join the Jin State.Now that they are given a lot of titles, it can not only restrain them, but also increase the dangers and burdens they need to face when they join the enemy.

You are in the field of sages, so you can naturally sit on the side of the state of Jin, pat your buttocks, relaxed and happy, but if you become a high-ranking official of the state of Jie, you will naturally become the target of those generals of the state of Jin chasing down and asking for credit.

It is precisely because of this kind of consensus that the real powerful ministers in the Jie Kingdom are unwilling to see accidents happen and interrupt the New Year's ceremony.The reason why Zhang Jackal was able to completely intercept the military situation in the west was because of the secret cooperation of these people in terms of details.

Doing so seems to be ignoring military and national affairs, but if it is only delayed for a period of time, there will be no serious consequences.

After all, the fall of Xiangguo is already a fact, and according to the powerful combat power displayed by the Jin army, it is almost a dream to counterattack and regain Xiangguo in a short period of time, and no one will be willing to be ordered to stay away from Xindu at the critical moment when the new order is about to emerge. Core, go to the dangerous place of Xiangguo.

Moreover, it is the worst season of winter, and the road is full of wind and snow. Even if the Jin army conquers Xiangguo, it will be difficult to continue to advance to Xindu based on the results of the battle in this severe winter.Therefore, the fall of Xiangguo in the short term will not have an actual bad impact on the situation in Xindu.

Concealing Xiangguo's military situation is the consensus of all the officials.The reason why Zhang Jackal was willing to stand up was that he had bigger plans, not just the qualifications he would obtain at the New Year's Ceremony.

The entrustment of the New Year's Ceremony is just a sorting out and balancing of the current situation in the middle school, and it will not increase the overall national strength in the short term.Even if each family obtains the actual land and population, the original danger still exists. If they can't suppress the offensive of the Jin army, all they will have is just a piece of empty cake.

(End of this chapter)