Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty The Northwest Situation of the Vegetarian Meal
Lu Sheng's thoughts represent the ideas of many literati in this era. This type of person is actually easy to understand. There was no shortage of ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. Later generations called it the Holy Mother School. On the one hand, it was worried about the country and the people, and on the other hand, it was cowardly and unaware.
But society really cannot lack this type of people, because if the overall atmosphere of a society is all iron-blooded, it is also a terrible thing. This type of Virgin Sect's thought is needed to hedge against the Iron-blooded Sect's thoughts, and this is the doctrine of the mean.
Sometimes there are some conflicts between the country and the people, such as in war. As for the matter, the people will sacrifice. Some people will lose their fathers, some people will have husbands, and some people will have sons. This is a tragic thing. However, if you don’t fight, the national security environment will always be threatened, and larger-scale tragedies may occur.
Under dialectics, we should consider that there are choices. Some wars need to be avoided, and one group of people needs to fight. Some wars must be fought, and another group of people needs to go against the crowd.
It is naturally time for Gan Qi to disagree. He looked at Lu Shi and asked: "If you live a life of peace, you will be at peace for a while, and you will be able to maintain peace for decades, what is it?"
When Lu Shi saw Gan Qi speaking, he could not understand what he knew? But he said: "My husband, since ancient times, he has said that fighting will lead to a destruction. This time he has stopped fighting and reconciliation. If he still wants to attack, he will inevitably be wary."
Disputes are never a means of deciding things. Gan Qi looked at Lu Xian and smiled slightly: "Magistrate Lu is right. If you are warlike, you will die. A warlike country like Xixia, which is full of military wars and frequent provocations, you will die."
When the little official Zhong heard this, he hurriedly continued: "What my husband said is very true. Haha, Dangxiang is the warlike country and will surely perish."
Lu Shi was very anxious that he had to argue with reason.
Gan Qi raised his hand, "No need to say too much. This time the army came thousands of miles away and had countless food and drinks. How could it be easily retreated? If it retreated easily this time, the Dangxiang people thought that our Song army general was incompetent and would be more unscrupulous in the future. They would fight this battle without saying much."
After saying that, Gan Qi stood up and waved to Zhong Shi: "Take me to patrol the battalions in Yanzhou."
Zhong Ai hurriedly asked to lead the way.
But Lu Shen shouted: "Mr. Gan Xiang, you are so ignoring the overall situation and the safety of the people. For your own contribution, you have to start a war between the two countries. The subordinates must report the truth to His Majesty to know."
Gan Qi looked back at Lu Shi, his face looked extremely ugly. It was also interesting now. Everyone talked about the "big situation" to him. Gan Qi was also a little puzzled, what is the overall situation?
Is it different for everyone to see?
If Dangxiang doesn't fight, it will cause disaster. This is also Gan Qi's overall situation. Gan Qi closed his eyes and was too lazy to care about him, just said, "Han Jiang."
Han Jiang stepped forward and bowed: "The emperor is here."
"Manpower, material resources, money, and logistics, and everything you need to do is pay you a hand. You can do it in this prefectural office. If you can't handle it, you will come to see you." Gan Qi had already gone out.
Han Jiang bowed: "Don't worry, my husband, the emperor's order is here, and I dare not slackew."
Lu Shi looked at Han Jiang, and how could he not understand it? This was the meaning of seizing power. The money and grain of a state government were all the power of the prefect. A Beijing official came and took away all his power.
Lu Feng shouted: "Gan Xianggong, you can't act like this beyond your authority."
Gan Qi was too lazy to answer, and he was already getting on the horse at the door.
But Han Jiang bowed to Lu Shu and replied, "Prince Lu also asked him to forgive his crimes. This is an imperial edict, and it is difficult to violate the imperial edict."
As Gan Qi went out, he was stunned and happy. A husband from Gan came, which finally made him feel like he was letting go. He naturally smiled happily. The young Master Zhong was on the side couldn't help but speak: "Be really relieved. Then the prefect Lu is not a good official. There are more than 20,000 troops in Yanzhou, and even Yanzhou City, but he was besieged by 20,000 people and dared not leave. Wouldn't he tell Dangxiang people to joke?"
Zhong Sai immediately turned around and glanced at Master Zhong who was talking nonsense.
Mr. Zhong said embarrassedly again: "Fortunately, Mr. Gan is here, and once Mr. Gan comes, everything will be fine."
Gan Qi looked at the uncle and nephew and smiled.
In the Yanzhou military camp, drums sounded and people gathered everywhere quickly. Gan Qi was very satisfied with the speed of gathering troops. He prepared for the Northwest Army at all times, and it would indeed not disappoint people.
However, more than 20,000 troops still disappointed Gan Qi. Gan Qi knew that the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty were the most brave and brave in fighting in the northwest, but he didn't know that the equipment of the Western Army was so bad, with one or two thousand iron armors, and the rest were leather armor. Some people even had ragged leather armor. I don't know how many years the weapons have been used, but although they were sharpened, many swords and guns were smaller. This is not because they were not well maintained, but because they were used for too long, too much, and too little.
Gan Qi felt sad, that is, such a poor army, one of which has been fighting against the Dangxiang people for so many years.
There is something wrong with this era, and there is always something wrong.
What's wrong?
Gan Qi has the answer, it is not that the country has no money, nor that the country has no resources. It is that the country has long lost its ability to allocate resources. Tokyo is as rich as Jiangnan, and even Daming Prefecture is rich, but the resources cannot go to the places where it should be.
A national organization has no ability to allocate resources reasonably. What is the significance of this organization?
The only meaning of the country organization is to let resources go where they should go.
It is to let the Tokyo husbands eat fewer foods and give the army more iron armor to save lives. This matter is easy and easy to say, but difficult, but it is as difficult as climbing to the sky.
The soldiers with dark faces came forward to meet Mr. Gan.
Gan Qi nodded, everyone encouraged him a few words, and then said, "Everyone prepares and starts tomorrow morning."
Many military generals were ordered, and Gan Qi had to encourage these people and do psychological construction for these people. The method was very simple. Gan Qi spoke: "The Privy Council ordered me to open the border and to retreat to the enemy. I was promoted to the deputy general of the army and horse in Yanzhou and to be promoted to the guerrilla general."
Zhong Yi was overjoyed when he heard this. He originally wanted to be able to regain his post, but this time he was suddenly promoted. He was extremely happy. He quickly bowed: "Thank you for your kindness."
"This is what you deserve." Ganqi replied.
Looking at the many military generals in the audience, they were all full of energy, not for anything else, but for their hands and feet, they knew the court's intentions and knew that as long as they were enterprising, they could be promoted.
I know how to do it later.
Gan Qi is hinting everyone that if you do it successfully, you will receive a reward.
These military generals in the northwest, one by one, are brave and good at fighting, and will do it!
But you still have to have a capable coach and don't do it blindly.
Everyone dispersed, ready to get off their homes and prepare to start.
Gan Qi brought 7,000 cavalry, plus more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Yanzhou, almost 30,000. Yanzhou also has 4,000 cavalry, serious cavalry.
Han Jiang began to be responsible for logistics, and Zhang Feng began to join the army.
In the Suizhou City, Di Yong was very excited when he saw Gan Qi. Thousands of troops knelt down from the platform and bowed to Di Yong, shouting that he was mighty.
After a meeting of the Central Army, Gan Qi began to study various maps and asked about the generals present about various terrain and roads, as well as the rough distribution of the enemy troops.
Time is too late. After the meeting, we continued to set off the next day and headed straight to Longzhou besiege.
There were 40,000 Dangxiang troops in Longzhou City, and there were less than 40,000 Song troops outside Longzhou City, which just surrounded them.
The leader of the Longzhou Party Xiang was actually the young emperor Li Liangzuo. This was something Gan Qi didn't expect. He didn't even know the background of this emperor.
Everyone introduced Gan Qi. Gan Qi only knew that this emperor was only twenty years old and was an extraordinary person. He ascended the throne at one year old. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth began to seize power, killing uncles, relatives, and generals, and then holding great power. It is really amazing that a person at the age of threeteenth and fourteenth can do these things.
This emperor was also an extremely warlike emperor. He led his troops from time to time to invade the territory. Two years ago, he used a trick to lure the head general of the Song Dynasty's Security Army out of the city and killed him.
This is also strange. Gan Qi has never heard of it in Tokyo?
The enemy emperor lured and killed our generals, but did not cause any storm in Bianliang?
Looking back, what was Gan Qi doing two years ago? He fought in Yanyun? He could figure it out more clearly. It must be that the court who received the news at that time suppressed the news, for fear of fighting against the Western Xia and enduring the Liao Dynasty.
In recent years, there have been constant wars in the northwest. Li Liangzuo led troops from time to time invading the territory. The court was holding it back. No wonder Lu Shi was able to be the prefect of Yanzhou, and there was no reason. No wonder Zhong Zai couldn't help but march into Suizhou. It was so frustrating. What's even more frustrating is that Zhong Zai won the battle and was even convicted.
When he heard this again, Gan Qi was so angry that he cursed: "A group of people with corpses and food are in the court, and they are shameless and care about their daily alcohol and meat, regardless of the life and death of the border troops. What's the use of such a husband?"
Zhong Shi was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly said, "Your Madam is careful when you speak, and you are careful when you speak."
Gan Qi is not afraid of these things now? He said: "The dead people in the northwest are just written in words, and they just become a document. When they arrived in Tokyo thousands of miles away, the husbands read it and threw it away. They thought it was a trivial matter like someone fighting on the street, but they didn't know how difficult it was in the northwest. It's ridiculous."
This is the same reason. After a war was fought thousands of miles away, the enemy retreated. Isn’t it a trivial matter to get to Tokyo? Especially in the recent Tokyo, which has fought against Liao Kingdom, Yanyun, and has to deal with Gan Qi, who has made great contributions to the master. Which is not a big deal? Just a few wars in the northwest, this is not a big deal in the eyes of those husbands.
But he didn't know that this was to indulging the Dangxiang people to be more unscrupulous, and they would come to burn, kill, loot, and leave. Officials like Lu Shi took the initiative to make big things small and cover them up, which made the Tokyo court disregardless of the matter in the northwest. If Gan Qi had not come here in person, he would have thought that some small fuss in the northwest were just border frictions.
If it weren't for Zhongshi's "big mistake" this time, Gan Qi wouldn't have come. Xixia still doesn't know how arrogant it is.
Li Liangzuo was also smart, and he went back and forth in the Song Dynasty. He left after a little benefit. After a while, he came again, and he expected that the Song people would not really fight back.
This time Gan Qi surrounded Longzhou and surrounded Li Liangzuo in Longzhou City. Perhaps Li Liangzuo must have been surprised.
There is no siege, but it has to be built, but there is no shortage of Northwest Ordnance Craftsmen.
Gan Qi looked at the small city in front of him, and came out angrily, saying, "Since you are here, you should break the arm of the Dangxiang and go east from the Jianing Military Office. How many cities are there?"
Zhong Yi replied: "Longzhou, Hongzhou, Youzhou, Xiazhou, Shizhou, Yanzhou, Yinzhou, and Dacheng, there are seven cities, about twenty towns, dozens of fortresses, and Tiemenguan Fortress in Xingqing Prefecture, which is north of the land."
After Zhong Shi answered, everyone looked at Gan Qi.
Gan Qi said with a stern face: "Every place in the seven states, take it and capture Tiemen Pass before he can stop!"
Everyone was shocked because Gan Qi was too angry. If they seized these places, Dangxiang would have been shorter. If the iron gate was also captured, then Dangxiang Xingqing's mansion would be immediately under the attack of the army. It would be as difficult as reaching the sky to achieve this goal. Everyone had never even thought about it. Once this matter was done, Xixia would really become Xixia, and only Xi.
Gan Qi said nothing and said, "Send someone to call and scold, and use Dangxiang to scold, and scold Li Liangzuo."
Zhong Shi immediately found someone to do it.
The twenty-year-old Li Liangzuo was in power in the country. He was in the Song Dynasty and was a natural resource. Gan Qi thought that he could not really be able to escape.
This has nothing to do with personality, but the Dangxiang people no longer take the Song people seriously. As long as this is the case, when Li Liangzuo truly learned the information on the Song army's military strength, he would inevitably face the challenge.
Gan Qi then laid all the troops and horses without hiding them, so he asked the Dangxiang people to investigate and investigate clearly.
If Li Liangzuo did not respond to the battle at this time, when Gan Qi's 50,000 mighty army arrived at the battlefield, Li Liangzuo would not respond to the battle.
Gan Qi had only more than 30,000 people, so he put them in for the Dangxiang people to see. He even gathered troops to review and let others count them clearly, and more than 30,000 people were there.
The people who understand Dangxiang's words organized dozens of people. At the head of Longzhou City, they kept shouting and cursing, calling Wei's name the 18th generation ancestor of the Li family. The Dangxiang royal family, whose surname was Wei, was once a dog and horse under the Tang Dynasty. After making meritorious contributions, the Tang Dynasty gave Wei's name the surname Li, so Li Yuanhao. Now Wei's name is Li, has become a major concern for the Central Plains dynasty.
If Li Liangzuo did not respond to the battle at this time, when Gan Qi's 50,000 mighty military troops arrived at the battlefield, Li Liangzuo would not respond to the battle. Gan Qi had only more than 30,000 people, so he arranged for the Dangxiang people to see, and even gathered troops to review, so that everyone could count them clearly, with more than 30,000 people.
The people who understand Dangxiang's words organized dozens of people. At the head of Longzhou City, they kept shouting and cursing, calling Wei's name the 18th generation ancestor of the Li family. The Dangxiang royal family, whose surname was Wei, was once a dog and horse under the Tang Dynasty. After making meritorious contributions, the Tang Dynasty gave Wei's name the surname Li, so Li Yuanhao. Now Wei's name is Li, has become a major concern for the Central Plains dynasty.
Chapter completed!