The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 295 Targeting the Central Plains

Wang Xizhi came out of Liu Tai's palace of Han Dynasty and happened to see Wang Du walking at the gate.

When Wang Du saw Wang Xizhi coming out, he hurriedly came up and said, "Young Master Yi, you finally came out. It seems that the King of Han agrees with you!"

Seeing Wang Du's concern, Wang Xizhi said cheerfully: "Your Majesty allows me to move my late father's coffin, and I've just let it go. But I'm afraid I'm going to disturb you for a while!"

"What are you talking about!" Wang Du smiled calmly and said, "It's not me you're disturbing, but Zheng Lue."

The two looked at each other and smiled, then walked all the way towards Zheng Lue's residence in Yecheng.

Of course, not long after these two people left, Liu Tai left the Han Palace and immediately went to the Interior Department.

At the same time, Liu Tai's servants immediately called to the mansions of important ministers who were named one after another.

Although in order to suppress Chu Hui's tireless overtime work, involution occurred, so by the specified time, basically all the ministers who were working inside had already left.

But even so, someone will be left on duty to be responsible for dealing with various accidents that may occur.

When Liu Tai came to the Interior Department, he saw Wen Qiao already waiting inside. Apparently he was on duty today.

"I've met the king!" Wen Qiao saw Liu Tai arriving and immediately saluted Liu Tai.

Liu Tai nodded, and then said, "Wang Dun rebelled?! Is the news confirmed?"

"Yes!" Wen Qiao nodded, "Because of Wang Dun's actions, Gou Xi also responded, saying that he would defend the majesty of the Jin court and attack the Xiaoxiao people, so he directly dispatched the army to attack Xu Gong!"

"He's really good at seizing opportunities!" Liu Tai understood immediately after hearing Wen Qiao's words.

Gou Xi has endured for so many years. In addition to needing time to accumulate strength, more importantly, he needs to wait for an opportunity for Sima Ruiteng not to support Xu Gong, otherwise he is afraid that Xu Gong will come back this time.

In history, Xu Gong was annihilated by the Jin court because of his duplicity and capriciousness.

But now Xu Gong doesn't have the conditions to be duplicitous at all, which makes Xu Gong become Sima Rui's shield to isolate Gou Xi.

And Gou Xi's desire to kill Xu Gong was not something that happened in a day or two. He couldn't find the opportunity before, but now he finally found the opportunity, so naturally he would not let it go.

However, with Gou Xi's attack on Xu Gong as evidence, Liu Tai believed that Wang Dun's rebellion might be true.

"Let's make a dozen copies of these materials. When everyone comes later, everyone will send one copy!" Liu Tai said to Wen Qiao.

"I will prepare meeting materials, tea and snacks now!" Wen Qiao replied to Liu Tai.

Soon Wen Qiao ordered people to prepare the tea. The tea was naturally picked from Mount Tai, and the pastries were delicious ones made by top pastry chefs. However, copying the information required movable type printing.

Well, movable type printing has already been invented.

To be more precise, after the creation of Caihou paper, at least woodblock printing quickly became popular.

After all, no one can underestimate the wisdom of the people. When relatively cheap paper such as Caihou paper becomes more popular, all supporting things will slowly develop with the wisdom of the people.

For Chinese characters, unlike English which only requires twenty-six letters, there is not yet a strong demand for the technology of movable type printing, because woodblock printing technology is sufficient for printing characters. Daily needs.

Basically, most folk inventions and creations are like this. There is no mature technical system to climb the science, and they only rely solely on spontaneous inventions and creations by the folk. They basically start from pragmatism and invent according to market needs.

Therefore, famous companies can often play a role from 1 to 100, but fundamental breakthroughs from 0 to 1 require genius inventions and creations, or national weapons that are coordinated by the entire country's resources, not just emerging due to demand.

The movable type printing technology in front of me was naturally invented by Liu Tai, because there was little demand for movable type printing compared to the people or scholars, but for Liu Tai's work, the most common thing consumed regularly was paper.

Because by using a large amount of paper, the corresponding efficiency can be improved. Maybe if you have worked on the street, you will have the impression that one or two printers are simply not enough, and some departments even need to configure a special printer.

Nowadays, the movable type printing in the Department of the Interior functions more like a printer. Each person holds a copy of the material, which saves these people the time of having to personally send someone to copy it, but it only saves a little bit. It’s just time.

Of course, the best thing about movable type printing technology is that it can be used to print newspapers, so that the country's decrees can reach the bottom directly, so that even the lowest level of scholars can more or less have a sense of honor that they have participated in national events.

However, this matter still has to be postponed, because the introduction of newspapers at this time will actually help the family control their tongues, and it may even form a political group similar to the Donglin Party.

In contrast, Liu Tai hoped to wait until Wang Xizhi took out simplified Chinese characters and then spread them through simplified character newspapers, thereby increasing the literacy rate among the lower classes.

Even for some remote areas that even I can't take care of, the newspapers that have been accumulated one by one may be used as teaching books by the locals.

Therefore, even if Liu Tai knew that movable type printing was a bit extravagant just to improve the efficiency of the office for a big man like himself, he would just make do with it now. After all, this was to allow this technology to be passed down smoothly.

Soon, everyone arrived at the Interior Hall one by one and sat down in their seats.

Refreshments and information have been placed in the Interior Hall, and almost everyone can't help but think deeply after reading this information.

Liu Tai looked at the crowd and said, "Wang Dun has rebelled. Can you all tell me what you think?"

Everyone looked at each other, and Wen Qiao came out and said, "Let me talk about the current situation.

Our current main force of scouts is in Yuzhou, Sizhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou.

Regarding Wang Dun's rebellion, because Wang Dun was far away in Jingzhou, our scouts did not find out the news there.

It was because Xuzhou Gou Xi sent troops to Xu Gong in the name of protecting the Jin court that we learned the news.

So with mutual support, the news about Wang Dun’s rebellion should be true!”

"Perhaps the Langya Wang family has long been determined to rebel, so they sent Wang Xizhi to come to my big man to prepare a way out!"

At this time, Chu Hui spoke up. After all, Wang Xizhi's journey to the north can be regarded as evidence to some extent.

"Furthermore, even though Gou Xi and Xu Gong were fighting, he wanted to make a big deal out of the chaos, but more importantly, he still wanted to survive in this turmoil that he couldn't figure out!" Xi Jian sighed,

"Gou Xi stayed away from the Jin court, fearing that he had no idea why Wang Dun would rebel, so he decisively raised the banner of the Jin court and used this opportunity to deal with Xu Gong first.

Not only has he made it clear that he will not participate in the civil strife in the Jin court, but at the same time, when the civil strife ends, whoever represents the Jin court will probably be the one Gou Xi will side with! Liu Tai was stunned when he heard this, but after thinking about it carefully, Gou Xi couldn't be wrong in making this choice. After all, it was so safe.

"Since there is such evidence, it seems that Wang Dun's rebellion against the Jin Dynasty is true. Then how should we make a decision?"

Liu Tai looked at the crowd and said: "When Zu Ti died, the Jin court had a safe handover, so we chose to wait for the Yongji Canal to be built.

But now that Wang Dun has rebelled against Jin and internal strife has arisen in the Jin court, how should we choose? ? "

Hearing Liu Tai's doubts, everyone couldn't help but talk among themselves.

After all, this time is different from last time. Although Zu Ti was a famous general, his death would at most mean that the upper limit of the Jin army was limited.

But this time Wang Dun rebelled within the Sima clan. This was probably the opportunity Zhuge Liang had been longing for during the Northern Expedition.

If you let this go, I'm afraid it's an opportunity that cannot be missed and will never come back.

"Boqi? How long will it take for the Yongji Canal to be fully repaired?" Chu Hui asked Cao Yi immediately.

"For one month, we have implemented a three-shift system to work day and night!" Cao Ni said,

"It's unrealistic to expect them to speed up the progress of the project. After all, even laborers need to rest!"

"Each shift's working hours are extended by two hours, so we can gain more time by working three shifts!"

Liu Tai looked at Cao Yi and said, "I will give you a salt coupon of 100 million yuan. I don't care how you use it, but for the overtime cost of 100 million yuan, I want to see the entire project completed ten days ahead of schedule.

Uncle Cao, you can ask the corvees if they want to rest. "

"Rest? Why rest! Those who have not contributed to the Han Dynasty need to rest. The corvees under my command are all the pillars of the Han Dynasty. If I don't just add two more hours of corvee work, let alone the subsidies, even if they are not given, the common people of the Han Dynasty Shouldn’t we contribute to the great man!”

Cao Yi spoke righteously and decisively.

Liu Tai couldn't help but sigh when he saw Cao Ni's appearance. He turned to Xi Junjun and said, "Chang Meng, you sent a military historian into the corvee system of Yongji Canal, and asked the military historian to tell these people to ask them to speed up Yongji Canal." Ji canal construction.

Let them know that those who built the Yongji Canal will work night shifts to subsidize them, so that they will have no regrets in working hard for the unification of the Han Dynasty! "

When Cao Yi heard what Liu Tai said, his face changed, and he said to Liu Tai with a slight complaint, "King of Han, you don't believe me!"

"Uncle Cao, this is related to my Han Dynasty's southern expedition, and I have to proceed with caution.

Still following the old rules, the military history system still does not interfere in any way with the original system, but only records and explains to the people. Liu Tai looked at Cao Ni and said,

"I believe, Uncle Cao, you can complete this task, right!?"

"Please rest assured, King Han. With the money and food in hand, I will definitely not drag the Han back!" Cao Yi said seriously.

"Yes!" Liu Tai nodded and said, "If the Yongji Canal can be opened in only about twenty days, then my idea is to attack. We will still implement our last strategy and do not seek to attack Jin Ting at once. We must destroy it, but at least we must capture the Central Plains!"

"If so, we need to notify General Zhao An's army to go south!" Xi Jian said, "But I'm afraid that the dried meat stored in the north will be insufficient!"

"If you don't have enough dried meat, you can only use dried fish to hold it up!" Liu Tai said calmly,

"Originally, I was going to let him take the Yongji Canal, directly intimidate Xingyang with Wang Sang, and take advantage of the trend to enter Yuzhou. Now I can only change the road and go to Qingzhou with me.

The dried fish in Qingzhou is not as good as meat and he is starving, but now that the Jin court is in civil strife, he has to find food by himself behind the Jin court! "

After thinking about it, everyone agreed with Liu Tai's idea. At least there was a backup plan that could be implemented immediately.

"In this case, we will enter the mobilization state of the army!" Chu Hui took a deep breath.

Although he is already familiar with this model, he prepares food and grass from behind, and Liu Tai is responsible for conquering the world.

But this time Chu Hui still said to Liu Tai, "Then how many soldiers are we going to mobilize this time, and how far will we fight?"

"Wang Sang has 20,000 troops, Zhou Ping has 30,000 troops, Zhao An has 20,000 troops, and my headquarters has 30,000 troops. A total of 100,000 soldiers are needed." Liu Tai calculated.

In addition, there are about 50,000 soldiers as reserves. He can actually only support 150,000 soldiers, but in order to support these 150,000 soldiers, he has nearly five times the number of soldiers.

Fortunately, the soldiers do not need to spend money to support them, otherwise Liu Tai would feel that he would not be far away from resorting to military warfare.

Hearing Liu Tai's words, Chu Hui breathed a sigh of relief. Don't think that Liu Tai's soldiers were only 100,000, but in fact, the various types of troops serving the 100,000 soldiers were probably several times their number.

The only good thing is Zhao An's Legion, because they are operating behind enemy lines and are relatively free. They only need to complete strategic tasks and are completely free to play.

But again, before they join Liu Tai's army or complete the mission, Chu Hui only needs to prepare the first batch of food for them, and then basically does not need to worry about their logistics.

Because when they arrived at the rear of the Jin court, they would solve the supply problem by themselves. As an army that had come from the rebel army, they were very familiar with how to find supplies from wealthy households.

As for annihilating Zhao An's army, to be honest, as long as Zhao An is careful, it will be relatively rare for the entire army to be annihilated, at least in this area of ​​the Central Plains.

There is no way, the Central Plains area is flat and more suitable for cavalry combat. This is Zhao An's biggest advantage.

As long as he retreats when he feels that there is not enough food to eat, Jin Ting will have no way to stop him.

"I will immediately start dispatching grain to Jijun and Liyang. This road is familiar to me, but Mount Tai is too far away from Yecheng. I can't dispatch grain directly. Someone needs to go to Yanzhou to dispatch!" Chu Hui said to Liu Tai! .

"Leave it to Dao Hui!" Liu Tai said calmly, "If I remember correctly, Dao Hui was born in Gaoping County, Yanzhou!"

"Your Majesty has a good memory, I am from Gaoping!" Xi Jian replied decisively after hearing Liu Tai's words.

"Yes!" Liu Tai nodded, "So our next goal is to engulf Sizhou, Yanzhou and Yuzhou east of Huanghulao Pass, and clear the obstacles of the Jin army's Hulao Pass. If we successfully capture the three states, we can even Intimidate Xuzhou... In short, I want to take over the Central Plains!"

"I will obey your orders!"

(End of this chapter)