Chapter 1103: Chips
Hearing that His Majesty asked the School Affairs Office to dispatch personnel to the Han Dynasty to participate in the armored cavalry, Lu Yi suppressed the ecstasy in his heart. It was not until he left the palace and returned to the School Affairs Office that he laughed loudly.
The people below come up:
“It seems that the school secretary has encountered something happy?”
After Lu Yi finished laughing, he patted the other party on the shoulder and said with a smile on his face:
"It's not that I've encountered a happy event, it's that we've encountered a happy event. Go and call everyone over. I have something to tell you."
When the people in the school affairs office learned that they were going to send people to the Han Dynasty, they were all overjoyed.
Since the school office has a job to make money for His Majesty, everyone knows that doing business with Han people is the most profitable.
Let alone military procurement.
Although they don't know how much food the armored cavalry will pay.
However, among the three countries, military procurement accounts for the majority of the imperial treasury expenditures. It is conceivable that the amount of money and food is huge.
Since it is a necessary expenditure, who will make these weapons and armor and how to make them?
There is no need to deliberately touch it, oil and water will automatically get on your hands.
You say your family’s materials are good, and he says his materials are good. As long as the difference is not big, it’s important to choose which one, right?
In the past few years, Xinghanhui has taken great care of the school affairs office, and only then has the school affairs office regained a firm foothold in front of His Majesty.
The school affairs office also reciprocated the favor and made many conveniences for the Xinghan Hui in Wu.
There is a close relationship between the two.
“The purchase of horses from the Han Dynasty was clearly negotiated by the school affairs office, but in the end it was advantageous to Zhu Ju.”
Someone said angrily: "This tone is really hard to swallow!"
Lu Yi waved his hand and said in a gentle tone:
“Let bygones be bygones. Even though the armored cavalry is a military matter, we don’t know much about it, and it’s hard to intervene even if we want to.”
“But now that His Majesty has encountered difficulties, he finally remembered the good things about our school affairs office.”
Qin Bo nodded and agreed: "I think that Zhu Ju has never been to the Han Dynasty, let alone had any friendship with Feng Junhou."
“I think it’s impossible to discount the money and food that Junhou Feng entrusted to his armored cavalry. If I don’t say more on purpose, it’s all for His Majesty’s sake.”
Lu Yi understood, smiled and said:
"We are different. Not only have we met Feng Junhou, but we have also had close contacts with the Xinghan Society."
"If we are asked to talk, it will not be an official talk. We can build friendship with Feng Junhou privately."
“When necessary,” Lu Yi said here, paused, and said leisurely, “Didn’t the Xinghan Hui always want to grow more sugar cane in Jingzhou?”
“It’s just because of the general’s reputation that we have been more cautious.”
When the general led the army to garrison in Jingzhou, he wrote to Your Majesty to let the soldiers garrison in Jingzhou.
So although sugar cane cultivation is very popular in Jingzhou, most of it is done by private individuals.
Although there are some farms for military lieutenants, most of them are in the south. In core areas such as Nanjun, restrictions have not been relaxed.
“If Feng Junhou can really help us gain face in front of His Majesty, we can also think of ways to give Feng Junhou face, right?”
At this time, Lu Yi was confident in using the fields to grow sugar cane as a bargaining chip.
That is the food of Shu.
Although the Han Kingdom and Wei thieves fought in Guanzhong two years ago, grain from Shu was still continuously transported to Jingzhou, which greatly enriched Jingzhou's grain and grass supply.
This credit must also be recorded on the head of the school affairs office.
Because it is the school affairs office that is coordinating this matter.
Now that Han has captured Guanzhong, it is a veritable land of abundance.
I heard from people at the Xinghan Hui that the leader had mentioned that after the situation in Guanzhong stabilized, we could continue to increase grain shipments to Jingzhou.
The only request is to release restrictions on Jingzhou’s fields and help Xinghan Hui grow more sugarcane.
In fact, the school affairs office is not without doubts. Since Shu and Guanzhong are both called the Kingdom of Abundance, why can't we grow more sugar cane in Shu?
The people of Xinghanhui sighed:
“The land in Shu, especially the land around Jincheng, mostly belongs to aristocratic families.”
"The princes and the aristocratic families in Shu were at odds with each other, so the Xinghan Hui could only go to Nanzhong to plant sugar cane at the beginning."
"And the Prime Minister has always been fair and strict. Even Feng Junhou has been punished by the Prime Minister before, so he dare not make too many mistakes."
"Although the Prime Minister has passed away now, the monarch has not returned to Shu for many years. You can't give up your achievements and return to Shu to worry about this just for the sake of sugar cane, right?"
“Besides, when the king was young, he was told a lot of unpleasant things by people in Shu because of some trivial matters.”
“Now that I have become an important minister in the court, I don’t know how many people are watching me. It’s even better not to go too far, otherwise, people will be afraid of me...”
The reason is very sufficient and the tone is extremely regretful.
There is no other way, what about Qiao Ling Ling, who is ruthless and cruel, what Xiao Wen and Feng Gui Wang are all real rumors, even people from the Wu State School Office have heard about them.
When the people in the school affairs office heard about it, they felt a little sad for some reason.
Yeah, why is it so difficult to do something?
In the eyes of many people in Wu region, isn't the school office also like a wolf and a tiger, hated by others and hated by ghosts?
“Although Xinghan Huijia has great achievements, there are actually many difficulties internally.”
"Just a few days ago, someone took advantage of the death of the prime minister to put eye drops on the huili, and the leader had to send someone to check the huili."
“I heard that some people were singled out because their hands and feet were not clean, which affected their wives and daughters. In serious cases, they even lost their lives..."
"Well, despite the current status of Junhou, in fact, he is walking on thin ice behind his back. He is just afraid that if he is not careful, someone will get caught!"
"Anyway, there are sugar cane from Nanzhong and sugar cane from Jingzhou. The king feels that it is fine now and there is no need to start a war."
There are all kinds of things that made the school administration feel a little sympathetic.
It turns out that Feng Junhou is not easy either!
However, it was precisely because of knowing this that the school affairs office finally made the final decision to fully liberalize Jingzhou’s land restrictions.
It is actually not a bad thing to use the land in Jingzhou to grow sugar cane for His Majesty's armored cavalry.
Even some generals in the Jingzhou army may be grateful to the school affairs office.
After all, I watched others make a lot of money growing sugar cane, and they even got brown sugar every year.
The farmland that I have worked so hard to cultivate can only be used to grow food. Who would be happy if it were replaced by someone else?
This is exactly what the saying goes: don’t worry about scarcity but worry about inequality!
Of course, this kind of thinking has also arisen in recent years.
If it had been a few years ago, when Jingzhou was experiencing food shortages, it would be a different matter.
I don’t know why, but more and more private fields are being used to grow sugar cane, but the price of food is getting lower and lower.
It’s really strange and strange that it’s no longer easy to pay thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars for a handful of grain!
The big bosses in the army didn't understand, but Lu Yi and others, who were personally responsible for the matter, understood it all too well.
Even this matter, they regard it as the merit of the school affairs office.
After all, this is to prevent Jingzhou military officials from suffering from food shortages.
However, compared to Lu Yi’s optimism, Qin Bo is a little worried:
“Xiao Shu Ling, if what Zhu Ju said is true and the armored cavalry really needs that much money and food, what should we do?”
Hearing this, Lu Yi smiled slightly and said slowly:
“This matter depends on the ability of Principal Qin.”
“Me?” Qin Bo was a little stunned.
"Yes." Lu Yi nodded, "I must stay with Your Majesty and cannot leave for a moment, lest someone secretly harm us without knowing it."
“As a Qin school official, you have frequently traveled between Wu and Han. You are the most suitable person to be familiar with the situation in Han.”
"This time when you go to Han, you will not only complete the task of building the armored cavalry for our school office, but you will also do it to His Majesty's satisfaction."
The school affairs office is different from other courtiers.
No matter how difficult the matter is, as long as it is something entrusted by His Majesty, it must be done well.
"It would be best," Lu Yi's voice turned gloomy, "to allow the school affairs office to reasonably intervene in the affairs of the armored cavalry."
Qin Bo was shocked: "If this happens, I'm afraid Zhu Ju will..."
Lu Yi said in a deep voice: "We don't understand the matter of leading the army, but Zhu Ju also doesn't understand the matter of money and food."
“He leads his army, but we can’t let him do whatever he says about the cost of the cataphract.”
Lu Yi looked at Qin Bo with a cold look, "You need to inquire more. It is best to ask Feng Junhou in person to see what the specific situation is."
Qin Bo heard this time that Lv Xiaoshu said that if he had no solution, he could ask Feng Junhou if there was any solution - Jingzhou's farming was a bargaining chip.
I believe Feng Junhou will also be happy to see a win-win situation - no, it should be said to be a win-win situation, or a win-win situation.
After all, there is still the Jingzhou family, and now the Jingzhou Army lieutenants can finally get involved.
Winning money!
The only price in this matter is just a piece of military base.
Anyway, Zhu Ju and Feng Junhou have no friendship. We in the state of Wu are all willing, but there is no reason why Feng Junhou is not willing.
“I understand when I go down.”
Qin Guan bowed his hands to Lu Yi.
Lu Yi then smiled with satisfaction.
Feng Junhou, who was thousands of miles away, didn't know about the dirty things inside Wu State. Even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
After the former Prime Minister Shi Yangyi surrendered to the enemy, he knew that although the Han Dynasty had already defeated the Wei State, it was even beginning to split within the Wei State.
But Emperor Sun would be even more helpless when facing the Wei State, which had gained the advanced posture of the Han Dynasty.
When the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty was there, there were two long histories in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
One is the accompanying army commander Shi Yangyi, and the other is the staying commander Shi Jiang Wan.
As the name suggests, the military commander Shi Yangyi followed the prime minister to lead the army.
The Changshi is the first person under the Prime Minister in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Logically speaking, if the prime minister is away, the army should be temporarily commanded by Chang Shi.
So in the original history, there was a conspiracy theory that the prime minister originally asked Wei Yan to take over the leadership of the army.
As a result, after the prime minister's death, Yang Yi ignored the prime minister's will and colluded with the military leaders to squeeze out Wei Yan. This is somewhat untenable.
Because whether it is from a legal perspective or a procedural perspective, Prime Minister Chang Shi is indeed the most suitable person to succeed the Prime Minister and temporarily command the army.
Unless Wei Yan can lead a large army alone like Feng Junhou, he is not an official in the prime minister's office and has a transcendent status.
This is why the prime minister, even though he knew that Feng Junhou was still young and not very qualified, still insisted on letting him take over from him to lead the army in Guanzhong.
As long as the procedures are in place, at least in the name of justice, no one can find fault.
Furthermore, the prime minister also believed in Feng Junhou's ability and overall view.
Although in this historical line, Feng Junhou became the person who succeeded the prime minister in charge of the Guanzhong army, not Yang Yi in the original history.
But before that, Yang Yi, the commander of the army, had full access to most of the secrets of the army.
Feng Junhou has reason to believe that the State of Wei has the secrets that Yang Yi brought there.
Coupled with the lesson of being beaten by the Han cavalry, and the experience of beating the Wu Kingdom.
Even if Wei cannot restore the Han cavalry, the Wei cavalry will definitely have a qualitative improvement in combat effectiveness.
Just based on Sun Shiwan's reputation, he can't beat the original Wei cavalry. If there is another Wei cavalry PLUS, will it evolve into Sun Wanwan?
But think about it, if you want to evolve into Sun Wanwan, then you have to add up all the men in the Wu Kingdom?
Feng Junhou has always been kind-hearted and could not bear to see Emperor Wu turn into Sun Wanwan, so he naturally taught the Han how to form a cavalry army.
Just in this way, the military generation gap between the three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Wu will be greatly narrowed - if Wu can really form a cavalry.
But even if Wu failed to form cavalry, Feng Junhou didn't care.
As long as they know how to deal with the new cavalry that may appear in Wei, it will be fine.
In any case, Feng Junhou didn't have much hope for Emperor Wu at all.
Whether the people of Wu are willing to admit it or not, the situation has become clear now that the Three Kingdoms have stood together:
The protagonist who unified the world was either Han or Wei, and Wu was just a supporting role.
Unless Wu can break through Hefei, or Xiangyang.
These two places are the support points for Wei State to suppress Wu State.
Wu Guo cannot capture these two places, so it will be suppressed in the south forever.
Otherwise, even if Emperor Wu wanted to backstab a big man again, he would have to attack Yong'an.
If Hefei and Xiangyang are in hard mode, then Yongan is in **** mode.
Originally, Wei State had a third support point, which was used to suppress Ji Han, and that was Qishan.
It is a pity that with the help of a certain country turtle, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty finally won this key point permanently in his first Northern Expedition.
After Wei lost Qishan Fort, it has been having nightmares on the western battlefield over the years.
Emperor Wu naturally saw all this, so he became more and more eager to capture Hefei.
Lu Yi is a close person of Emperor Wu, and he is good at figuring out what is best for him. How could he not see this point of view of Emperor Wu?
As a lucky minister, Lu Yi had no insights into national affairs.
So he didn’t even know how to lead the army to help His Majesty take Hefei.
But for so many years, His Majesty has led the army north to attack Hefei every year, but he has failed to capture this place.
From Lu Yi's point of view, His Majesty may not be able to achieve his wish simply by relying on Wu's soldiers.
But in this world, there are always more solutions than difficulties.
For example...can we ask allies to help?
Feng Junhou is a famous general in the world. Over the years, he has conquered cities and territories and conquered everything.
The battle in Guanzhong was fought thousands of miles away, which shocked the world.
Let alone the rivers and mountains inside and outside, how many dangerous and important cities are there?
Why can they be conquered?
Since Wu and Han are allies, Feng Junhou is now willing to teach Wu even the most important weapons of the country, such as the armored cavalry.
So what's the harm in asking him if he can capture Hefei?
The School Affairs Office helps His Majesty spy on the situation of courtiers and localities. It is instinctive to collect intelligence.
Now everyone in the Wu Kingdom is only looking at the Han Dynasty's armored cavalry.
But according to the information inquired by the school affairs office, the Han State, or Feng Junhou, still has a powerful siege weapon in his hands.
At the Battle of Xiaoguan that year, Feng Junhou used 3,000 cavalry to defeat the 100,000-strong army of Wei thieves, which attracted the attention of the world.
But few people have noticed that Shiro Seki, who stole the show in the Battle of Guanzhong, had actually appeared in the Battle of Xiaoguan earlier.
At that time, Guan Shilang led a partial army and was able to defeat two of the bandit's fortresses in a short period of time.
According to a Mr. Ma who is closely related to the Xinghan Society and wishes to remain anonymous, he accidentally mentioned:
What Sekishiro used was a siege weapon called a stone cannon.
When activated, the sound is like thunder, and it hits the ground. No matter how big or fortified your city is, it cannot withstand the attack of such a magical weapon.
The generals of Wu State were embarrassed to ask for advice, but for Lu Yi, shamelessness didn't matter at all.
As long as it makes His Majesty happy, what does shame mean?
But Lu Yi also knew that even if it was the Wu-Han Alliance, Feng Junhou was not a good person. There was no reason for him to help without any reason, let alone such a magical weapon.
So, it depends on whether the chips you offer can impress the other party.
PS: Although the land in Jingzhou is fertile, it is located in a war-torn place. The three families of Liu, Cao, and Sun took turns to take over the throne, so when it finally came into the hands of the state of Wu, it was already desolate.
Lu Xun once wrote to Sun Quan because of the lack of food in Jingzhou, asking for the army general to lead troops to reclaim wasteland. This can be regarded as the beginning of Wu's farming.
So the food shortage in Jingzhou at that time has been recorded, and it is not the author's imagination.
(End of this chapter)