Steel Dynasty - Chapter 649

[Chapter 648 Nationalization of the Army]

The faint scent of sandalwood filled the study.

Niu Ben thought for a moment and looked worried: “What the emperor said is true. If the King of Huainan takes action, it will save us a lot of effort, and at the same time, it can also weaken the strength of the King of Huainan. If Yan, Liang, and Zhao are all After it was destroyed, only King Huainan and King Yong were left north of the Yangtze River. But is the emperor prepared to let the vassal state continue? After all, the civil strife in Da Yu is enough to show the harm of the vassal king to Da Yu. “

What General Niu can see, I can naturally see, but King Yong and King Huainan have surrendered to me, but I can’t easily use troops against them. The current strategy can only appease them, and wait until the Great Yu Kingdom is stabilized.” Implementing the strategy of cutting down the vassal can save the people from the suffering of the war, and can also solve the vassal king’s problem without any bloodshed. Besides, the barbarians are still in serious trouble, so I just want to put down the rebellion as soon as possible.” Xiao Ming said thoughtfully.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to deal with the feudal kings once and for all, it’s just that everything must be done with a strategy. Since he can pull one to fight, why bother to challenge all the feudal kings by himself.

And an important issue is that if the war continues, the country of Chongqing will be completely reduced to a mess. The casualties in this battle of Yunzhou City were all the young men of the country of Chongqing.

Among them, the number of deaths in the Battle of Yunzhou is not mentioned. However, many people who transported grain and grass to the Three Kings Alliance also died. This does not include the rebels who looted and killed people after the defeat.

It is easy to say that the Three Kings Alliance Army was defeated, but in fact it caused serious war problems in the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

To answer this question, one only needs to look at contemporary Middle East issues to understand what the people in the north are experiencing.

During World War II, soldiers had the pleasure of killing civilians indiscriminately. In this far-uncivilized dynasty, killing people during wars was simply commonplace.

The Niuben battle report of the Yunzhou war was on the table, but the information collected by Wang Xuan was under the table. According

to the information provided by the secret guards, the three kings’ coalition was very destructive this time, and most of the civilian men they recruited came from the occupied royal family. Prefectures and counties, at the same time, the food, grass and baggage of this battle were also forcibly imposed on the people of these prefectures and counties.

During their capture of the city, the people in these prefectures and counties had already suffered their massacres, and now they were suffering even worse.

If the barbarians attack at this time, he really doubts that the people in these places will eventually go to help the barbarians, because these vassal kings may not treat them any better than the barbarians.

Based on these, after thinking about it, he decided to win over the dependent vassal kings and stabilize the country as soon as possible. After all, the real enemy of the Chongqing Kingdom has been staring at him, and it is in his interest to completely destroy the north.

Although these dependent vassal kings are hidden dangers, at least they can maintain stability.

Moreover, after removing King Yan, King Zhao, and King Liang, King Yong and King Huainan cannot pose a threat to the central power at all, and can only be digested slowly.

“Your Majesty is far-sighted, but the general seems to be worrying too much.” Niu Ben breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Ming glanced at Niu Ben. In the past two days, officials such as Pang Yukun and Zhan Xingchang had mentioned this issue. This was different from the attitude of old officials from Chang’an such as Fiji.

After Xiao Ming thought about this for a while, he understood that after he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the Chang’an officials and Pang Yukun and other feudal officials became increasingly unable to pee in the same pot.

One is that Chang’an officials still value family status and look down on officials with civilian backgrounds such as Pang Yukun. Secondly, these officials tend to be conservative in their thinking and are not as open-minded as the feudal officials.

Pang Yukun and others are vested interests in Xiao Ming’s elimination of the wealthy clans. Psychologically, they are instinctively wary of the wealthy clans. They are worried in their hearts that the wealthy clans will gain power and they will be liquidated.

After all, the wealthy families in Qingzhou are inextricably linked to other wealthy families in Dayu, and they have great opinions on Pang Yukun and others.

Secondly, Pang Yukun is trying to restore the Legalist trend of thought, and these officials from Chang’an still have strong Confucian ideas, and the two are even more at odds with each other.

From Xiao Ming’s point of view, he naturally favored Pang Yukun, but the land under the jurisdiction of the feudal state continued to expand, and he had to rely on old officials to manage states and counties for him.

He also had some headaches when facing this contradictory problem, but there was currently no solution. After all, it had only been five years since he came to Qingzhou.

He has been able to achieve such achievements in the past five years, which is unprecedented in the country of Chongqing. However, even so, the number of officials he can train is limited. Even so, there are still some officials trained by Bowen Academy who are different in appearance and appearance. , I still respect Confucianism in my heart, and I am on the same level as Fiji and other conservative officials.

However, he was very unhappy when Niu Ben raised this issue, because he knew that the army must not be thoughtful, otherwise it would be easy to cause trouble.

No matter how much officials make trouble, it is just lip service. A modern army will get into trouble if it acts rashly.

So he said sternly: “General Niu, you are too lenient in this matter. Soldiers only need to obey orders and do not need to care about government affairs.”

Niu Ben’s heart trembled when he heard this, and he suddenly woke up, “Your Majesty, The general is guilty!”

“Don’t do it again next time! I know what you are worried about, but you think too much. Don’t forget that it was my idea to kill the rich people. Some people can’t change it.” Xiao Ming’s words seemed to have something to say. refer to.

“As long as there is an emperor, the general will feel at ease.”

Niu Ben bowed and said, Xiao Ming is now the emperor, and he gradually feels that Xiao Ming is transforming into an emperor.

“That’s right. I will discuss merits and reward them in a few days.” Xiao Ming said with a smile. He also expected these generals to continue fighting for him, and appropriate comfort was necessary.

After bowing, Niu Ben turned around and left the study. At this time, Xiao Ming put down the brush in his hand and stood up.

Looking at Niu Ben’s figure as he crossed the stone bridge, Xiao Ming sighed softly. Only after he became the emperor did he realize that it is easy to be a foolish king, but it is too difficult to be a wise king.

Because it is difficult to balance a group of people under your command, and at the same time, you have to worry about the army. After all, in this era, generals do not listen to orders, and it is commonplace to support the troops with self-respect.

Even in contemporary times, military coups often occur in some countries. The fundamental reason is that the army has become the private army of some generals.

This situation was very common in feudal dynasties. Because of this, the emperor had many restrictions on generals.

Now Xiao Ming also encountered the same problem. He must not let himself want to kill a general who could easily lead his army to rebel.

After thinking about it, he felt that the way to solve this problem was to nationalize the army. If this was the case, he would have to pay close attention to the long history of the army.

(End of chapter)