Accompanied by Jiang Shiwu's words, the eldest son Jiang Sucai spoke decisively, "Father, no matter what the political slogan of my general's mansion was originally, I have persisted for more than 20 years. This is a proposition that has been deeply rooted in everyone's hearts, and this cannot be moved."

"We can only find a way out from other aspects."

Sometimes the political slogans and propositions are really unchangeable, just like Li Zicheng, the King of Chuang in the late Ming Dynasty in the Wuling Age. The strategy of equalizing the fields and exempting taxes was one of the greatest boosts that he could finally sweep the world and conquer Mingdu. If it were a folk song, it would be the slogan of welcoming the King of Chuang and not paying food.

Even afterwards, after taking over the capital of the Ming Empire, Li Zicheng found that it would be impossible not to pay grain. If the people did not pay grain, he would have no income... But he did not dare to overturn his proposals all at once. At most, he changed it gently to not pay grain in the previous three years.

As for Li Zicheng tortured civil and military officials in the capital and plundered gold and silver wealth, in addition to the fact that he hated the powerful, more importantly, he had to collect wealth and reward the three armies.

If the three armies are not rewarded, the army under his command will be in chaos. If the proposal of welcomeing the King of Breaking is changed, the people from all over the world who had welcomed him in the past would probably abandon him all at once.

Then there is only torture all civil and military officials.

Jiang Zuo's political proposition of the general's office is to love the people and raise the people. Although the current general's office is much better in form than the embarrassment of Li Zicheng's capture of the imperial capital in the late Ming Dynasty. For example, if they only want to rule the people, the meals of two meals a day will be reduced by a few cents, so that the people could eat enough to become 70% full, and they could save a lot of food to support the army.

For example, if nearly one million people suffer from disasters, they will not be able to save a lot of gold, silver and wealth to expand their arms, but Jiang Su still does not agree to do so.

Over the years, the General's Mansion has made the people under his command accustomed to it. As long as you are willing to abide by the laws of the General's Mansion and as long as you are willing to work hard, you can have enough food and clothing.

Suddenly, if it is cut, it will easily cause all kinds of random thoughts among the people.

Do you think the General's Mansion can have sufficient ore for sale, but who is mining? Isn't it the young and strong labor force among the nearly one million people? They often work in the mines and work hard, just to support their families?

If the situation suddenly changes, even if it will not cause chaos, the human heart is hard to say.

As soon as Jiang Zuo finished speaking, the second son Jiang Meng frowned and said, "You said it easy. If you don't reduce the food in the people, where can you buy military supplies and weapons? If it's easy, we can only be trapped in Taihua Ershan?"

"You just want to learn from Gao Zhen and plunder those local tyrants and evil gentry. We don't have so many warships and navy, nor are there any famous naval generals like Gao Zhen."

When it comes to Lu Zhan, Jiang Meng, Jiang Huai and Jiang Tao are all very strong. Even if they are not as good as their father Jiang Shiwu, they will not be far behind. But naval battles are completely different.

Lao Qi Jianghua also smiled bitterly, "Brother, it's not that we don't want to find a new route, but that we are fighting in a naval battle. Our caravan is still okay in self-protection, and it's even more difficult to talk about progress."

"Even if we expand the navy, there is no one. The fishermen on the coast of Zhao State, who have some experience, have been plundered by Gao Zhen and He Jian. If we were to rule the people down from the navy, when will they be qualified for training?"

A qualified navy is much more difficult to train than an army. First of all, whether you can get used to the wind and waves at sea is a super big problem.

Gao Zhen roared along the coast of Zhao State for eight years, and his excellent military sources had been almost plundered by him. In those years, the gentry and nobles of Zhao State, and the gentry and noble forces from the six provinces of Da Shang Dynasty came to Zhao State, were also plundering such military sources.

During that period, the general's mansion had no self-restraint and had little progress. If he missed that era, he would not have the right source of troops. He Jian's 30,000 naval forces had the most sources, and he inherited the naval sailors who had lost gentry and nobles, etc.

"The State of Zhao is not good, where are Wei and Zhou and other countries?" Jiang Suo shook his head as soon as he asked this question. He almost forgot some information about Wei and Zhou and other countries.

It is hard for the people of those countries to come out, but if they don’t seek refuge, who will come to Zhao State where wars are everywhere?

Unless you plunder strongly, but plundering... is equivalent to automatically corrupting the political proposition of the General's Mansion.

After pausing, he looked at Jiang Hua, "Have you ever tried to attract troops from the coastal provinces in the southern part of Dashang?"

Jiang Hua smiled bitterly, "We are not strong enough, our caravan is doing business seriously between Shang and Zhao, and there is still stability. But if we go to the southern provinces of Dashang to recruit soldiers, let alone whether the Shang emperor will be evil, even if it succeeds, transporting it back to the General's Mansion will still require crossing the sea areas controlled by the provinces northwest of Shang. It is easy to be discovered and sunk."

After all, recruiting soldiers is not a one-time job. If you want to expand the 5,000 navy into, you are qualified to fight against He Jian and Gao Zhen? He Jian has 30,000 elite troops and 20,000 high. If you expand to at least 30,000, you will have hope of suppressing it.

But this is what you can do if you run a merchant ship once? Even if you run ten times, you can't do it.

"Not only does our strength allow us, we must also maintain our original trade routes and provide sufficient supplies to the General's Mansion."

"We have iron ore and copper mines here, and our own ordnances, which can build knives, guns, artillery, but tea, rice, oil, salt, cloth, etc. are all unable to produce their own products, and can only rely on commerce. If the caravan goes to the big merchants to recruit soldiers, how can we maintain the daily needs of millions of people?"

As he was talking, Jiang Hua completely understood Jiang Shiwu's mood.

If the original political propositions of the General's Mansion remain unchanged, they will soon be surpassed by He Jian's development until they can defeat the General's Mansion.

But change, all kinds of ideas are difficult to achieve.

He felt that unless a miracle happened, otherwise... a hero of the Jiang family would be worried about the future.

Jiang Su, Jiang Meng and others also became deeper and deeper under these words.

Seeing that all the philosophers were feeling a little depressed, Jiang Shiwu slapped the table and chair and laughed, "Okay, I can't think of a good way out, it's a temporary difficulty. If my Jiang family can go to this day, it will never fade easily."

"You must know that there are not only Shang and Zhao countries in this world. Even if one day, King He Jian, the Zhao family will be completely revived and led a 100,000 army to invade. So what? We have other ways out, such as taking millions of people to join Qi, or even Tang. Which way can't be easily exchanged for light?"

"With the mind of Emperor Shang and King Qi, how could it be that we can't stand our own family?"

Jiang Shiwu has been working hard for more than 20 years. Even if the current General's Mansion is hard to say, it is only in Zhao, and his future is worrying. He is likely to be suppressed by He Jian in the future. At that point, if they do not want to surrender to He Jian, they can also turn to Qi Tang.

As long as his 30,000 elite soldiers are willing to hand over to Emperor Tang, why worry about wealth and honor? If he takes millions of people to join us, why worry about not being able to be a Duke?

Of course, this refers to the choices that need to be considered only after the Zhao State's battle for hegemony has failed 100%.

As for surrendering to He Jian, he would not choose, not because he looked down on He Jian, but because he was far superior to He Jian's king of Zhao with his people's expectations. If you go to the country, He Jian would keep him rich in the past few years, and he would definitely kill him all over the family when he was in the limelight.

In order to revive, He Jian could give him real stability after Zhao'an's death, and might even give him wealth and honor, because those two, one is just famous, the other is notorious, and the Jiang family... It is not too exaggerated to say that at this moment, the millions of people in Zhao's country have returned to Jiang. If such Jiang Shiwu is willing to surrender to He Jian, he will be seeking death.
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