Is this a godsend?

However, Ji Chang had no choice, whether it was to cut off Bo Yikao's wings or find a way to deal with him, it would lead to a certain degree of civil strife, but now that Shang was eyeing him, he could only delay as much as possible.

"What can Guangchengzi teach me?" Ji Chang could only pin his hopes on Guangchengzi.

"Nowadays, the big problem is that the merchants have more than enough strength, while Zhou's strength is weak, and there is a dispute between the elders and the young of the direct line." Guang Chengzi pointed out Ji Chang's worries when he opened his mouth. He must have the courage to use Guang Chengzi as his name. The ability to call this name.

"For the current plan, the only way to divert the attention of the merchants in Dayi is to bribe her in the name of marrying a daughter, and then ask Bo Yikao to go to the merchants as the eldest brother and ask him to delay time."

"But, what's the use?" Ji Chang frowned, this will only make Shang covet him more, and Bo Yi Kao will only get more benefits.

"Of course it's delaying Zhou's daughter's affairs. The King of Shang will be angry because of Uncle Zhou's repeated delays. After a long time, the King of Shang will be tyrannical, and anger will kill people. If Bo Yikao is killed, Zhou will turn against him!"

"What if you don't kill them?"

"Prisoner, Zhou can turn back. If you don't kill or imprison, you will damage the prestige of the business." In this era, this kind of face-jumping behavior, if you don't kill or imprison the person opposite, then... "All the princes in the world It can be reversed"

This meant that King Shang didn't have the courage to kill the proton at all, nor did he have the courage to really turn his face. Then the other princes must be ready to move. At that time, Shang would also have no time to threaten Zhou anymore. Now is the critical moment for Zhou.

They are attacking the land of Jin, and with the help of Guangchengzi's prestige among the barbarians and the Western Qiang, they subdue the barbarians and gradually expand the land. At the same time, they vigorously develop farming. , the most fearful thing is at this time, Zishou will look directly at him.

"Can……"

"Your Majesty, do you want to kill a hundred sons for the sake of one son?" Seeing Ji Chang hesitated, Guang Chengzi said sharply, "If the King of Shang conquers Zhou, there will be no hundred sons. Why bother with one son?"

"However, King Shang does not necessarily attack Zhou, he..."

"Your Majesty!" Guang Chengzi was in a hurry, you are not anti-business, how can I build up my career, how can I climb to the position of the master of the gods - why don't you apply for the job in Modu? ——Can he apply for the job better than the big white fox?

Especially Shang Wang is an old critic no matter how you look at it.A macho man with reddish-brown hair or a big white fox who is fragrant and soft, but can be controlled, which one is more marketable in the eyes of lewd ruffians, do you still have to choose?

Although the fox is in the harem, does the fox have no sisters or relatives?It's his turn to be in the good position of the emperor's teacher, a guy who came from the Western Regions and falsely used the name of Guang Chengzi?

Take ten thousand steps back and say, the fox has dealt with it, and you are no one in the Shennong Jiang family, right?The competition is too fierce, and it is better to have a potential stock like Cheng Zhou, but now this potential stock has suddenly started to retreat, how can this make Guang Chengzi not in a hurry!

"Your Majesty, the King of Shang has a personality that you know by yourself. Even if the King of Shang suddenly becomes a good old man, and the people in Modu are all tigers and wolves, how can you let him go?"

"...Okay!" Ji Chang thought for a long time, and could only agree cruelly, but in his heart, he still hoped that Bo Yikao would be imprisoned instead of killed.

Historically, Bo Yikao was also a hostage in Modu, driving for King Zhou, and was killed until Ji Chang ran away. In a sense, Ji Chang was not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Modu, I just processed the rice sent by Chudi into embarrassment. It is a kind of dry food cake made of boiled rice and dried. Compared with the original millet cake, it is easier to store and more resistant to hunger. , is also easier to handle.

As for the glutinous rice mixed in, King Shang took it out separately and smashed it into rice cakes. This work was not done by him, but was handed over to the fox and other female relatives as food when he was fighting Dongyi.

Put the nian gao into the pan, deep-fry it with butter until it turns golden brown, and after drying the oil, laminate it in a wooden box and sprinkle with salt to preserve it for a period of time. It has a strong appetizing effect during the march, and it is very hungry!

"Oh, Bo Yikao brought a gift? It's just right, let him drive for me." Zishou hasn't planned to completely turn against Cheng Zhou now, and Cheng Zhou hasn't done anything, so this kind of preferential treatment is normal. Others People don't have any opinions.

"Then what will the king do in the future?" Jiang Hou asked. Among Zishou's female relatives, only Jiang Hou and the fox would intervene in political affairs. Zhi runs around every day to do things for Zishou, while Qing Niao is a servant. Zishou bestows on her the title of Sword Attendant, which is to help memorize the Three Divine Swords.

Don't underestimate this position. In this era, it is like the position of distributing sacrificial meat. It almost means that Qing Ling is the head of the inner palace guards, and it also means that he has a part of the sacrificial power. I don't think it's an insult.

Of course, others see it this way, but for Zishou, it is debatable which sword she is serving, especially this year when she goes out for a few months at every turn, and Zishou is very concerned about the women who rob those tribes. Not interested, so...

In a sense, it is indeed a sword servant, but most of the time it serves the "brave sword" of a Shang king who does not want to be named. After all, as a brave man who often fights against monster girls, the brave man's short sword is the most important. Weapons are also the key to defeating the monster girl.

Well, a brave man is also a brave man in various senses. After all, few people in this year dare to really fight against monster girls like Zishou. It is still a one-on-one AOE style of play. It is very difficult for them to fight one-on-one. Of course, Maybe it's because they don't have a "Shanghaojian" relationship.

"In the future, of course, I will continue to drive and fight for me, and then I will have military merits, and I will be rewarded first." Zi Shou said with a smile, Bo Yikao is the eldest son, and Ji Fa is his younger brother. Wouldn't it be more wasteful to use it to kill it?

If the reward should be rewarded, if even Zhou Bo's eldest son can get a fair reward, who would question the justice of himself, the king of Shang?

"It's just a qualified banner~" The banner made Zhou's princes no longer worry about it, and made Zhou's princes believe that even if the king of Shang attacked Zhou, he would not kill them all. In this way, the resistance encountered by Shang would drop several times. level, and their will to resist will not be too strong.

"What if Zhou continues to procrastinate? In this way, if he is not killed or imprisoned, the whole world will look down on the king." The fox thinks a little more, and this is not difficult to think of, because Guang Chengzi also uses yang. Mou, I'm not afraid that you will cut Zhou ahead of time.

Because Zhou's attitude is in place, and in addition, through the news from Chudi, he clearly knows that Shang has no money. Shang has no money to attack Zhou in a short time-not that he has no money to send troops, but that he will lose money if he attacks Zhou. Drop your pants, just drag on for a few more days.

And as long as Zishou can't break the situation violently in a short period of time, when Zhou really starts to delay doing things, it must be when Zishou's army is out to conquer Dongyi or Huaiyi. At that time, he will either kill Bo Yikao to maintain his prestige, or It is even more unwise to sit back and watch one's prestige be damaged, and return to the teacher to defeat Zhou.

"Whoever said that I want to imprison him, I want to help him. We are relatives. He Bo Yikao is my uncle (brother-in-law), and Taisi is my aunt (mother-in-law). As an elder brother, he should not take my sister Send it? At that time, I will order Bo Yi to return to Xiqi to remind me."

"But what if you don't want to?"

"That's easier." Zishou rolled his eyes, and when the time came, he would naturally say, "Uncle Zhou absolutely doesn't want this to happen. There must be a villain by his side bewitching him to use a knife to kill and assassinate Young Master. Since Young Master is the eldest son of Uncle Zhou , we should set things right, and as a lord, we must help him!"

"Give a soldier to Bo Yi to test, and make him punish the king and punish the villain." In Zishou's time, there was no such thing as the king's side, and no one did such a thing, so when he came up with this idea, don't After talking about the Queen Jiang, the fox was stunned. Is there such an operation in this world?

"The division of troops is weak, Boyi Kao..."

"Does he dare to kill his eldest son?"

"What if Bo Yikao is unwilling to do this? Why don't you lead the troops back to the Zhou Dynasty? Wouldn't the king also lose the soldiers?" Queen Jiang frowned, and retorted according to the thinking of people in this era.

"Why wouldn't he be willing? It doesn't matter even if he doesn't want to, Qingyou, Jiang Shi, when the time comes, you will arrange two witch sacrifices in the army, and then you can poison him in the Zhou territory. Zhou will be in chaos, we Taking Ji Fa to kill his brother as an excuse to send troops to conquer Xiqi, and using Bo Yi Kao's vassals and officials as aid, compared to the way, there must be Zhou people's meal pots to welcome the king's army, right?"

Just kidding, if you, Uncle Zhou, don't do anything, why don't I, Zi Shou, not do it?At that time, the direct sorrow overwhelmed me, and there were so many simple things.

Not to mention that Bo Yikao has been a son for so long, if he doesn't have any powerful princes under his command, it will be a real failure. At that time, the merchant army will not be familiar with the terrain, and the problems of losing soldiers and generals in successive battles and having no money will be a big problem. It can be easily solved, and activities in the surrounding environment are like being at home, and some people lead the way.

But Ji Chang and Ji Fa directly lost righteousness, they said they didn't do it?Who could have done that?Directly send troops to let Bo Yikao lead the troops home to the "loyal elder" on the side of the Qing emperor, accept me?Is there still a need for this method if I want to kill him?

As for whether he has seen through it, Zishou thinks it is still possible, but so what?The loyal princes of Bo Yi Kao, when Ji Fa takes over, can they still protect their status? Even if they see through it, it's useless.

As for the princes on the opposite side, it is even more useless to see through it. What's the point of them even saying that?Zishou only needs to swear to the sky that he has never done it. No one in this day and age has such courage, let alone believe the enemy's slander, and his loyalty is too low.

"The king is wise." Empress Jiang nodded. The king is really wise. A plan, even before it even started, has been planned out with one more wicked follower, blocking every gap, and even the impact of the failure of the plan on Shang. Not too much, after all, it is Zhou who is competing for the reserve in the direct line, and I am afraid that the more lively the fight, the better.

The only flaw or the biggest flaw is that if Ji Fa is really a loyal person, he will not compete with Bo Yi Kao at all, or Bo Yi Kao will not compete with Ji Fa, but the big position is in front, and the brotherhood is really true. Is it so reliable?Zishou doesn't think that this is the case between father and son, let alone brothers.

After all, Han Feizi said: If a husband cannot be trusted with the closeness of his wife and the closeness of his son, the rest cannot be trusted.

[PS]

Exploded Magic Dictionary:

Carve a boat and ask for a sword:

Shang has a good sword, and everyone admires it. Some people from Chu wanted it, and they called their left and right to ask, "how did you get this sword?"A sage said to him: "Bad swords come from the hands of slaves, and they are made with bad gold. If they are sold in the wild, you only need to send a servant with gold to summon them; good swords need to be made by famous craftsmen. Fire fuel charcoal requires all kinds of tempering and tempering before it can be obtained. It is hidden deep in the room and kept secret from others. You need to hold the pearls and jade yourself and ask for it sincerely.

So the people of Chu carved wood to make boats, went to Shang to ask for swords and returned, and got what they wanted.

Later generations praised and said: "Swords are like this, so are people. Talented people have a lot of arrogance. You should visit them in person and bow down to get them. Just like Chu people carved boats and dived to get good swords."

It is used to describe when you are looking for talents, you need to pay respects to the corporals and visit them in person.

Chapter 38 External Sanity Maintainer

At the end of April, the spring plowing was over, and the King of Shang began to summon all the minor nobles and warriors. However, the princes could not recruit, because if they prepared in advance, they would delay the spring plowing, and if they set off after the spring plowing and could not catch up with the King of Shang’s chariot team, it would be easy to delay the summer harvest. , Therefore, the king of Shang only summoned a part of the small nobles and warriors.

Although it would also delay agricultural production, these people did not involve too much land, which also meant that Che Dongyi's team was much smaller this time, and Zishou couldn't take all the people out.

Of the six divisions recruited by Modu, in fact, only four divisions could be recruited to ensure that the agricultural production would not be damaged too much, and a division composed of noble warriors of Modu directly under King Shang would stay behind. In the end, he could only Started the expedition with the three divisions assembled by the little nobles from the four fields.

According to the scale of the war between Shang and Dongyi, it basically belongs to the type of daily conquest. It is probably similar to the plateau tug-of-war between Tang and Tubo. It is not a large-scale decisive battle, and it did not cause Dongyi to mobilize. As a discrete tribe, Dongyi, with only the Renfang (Yifang) being slightly unified, could not mobilize.

And it's not that they don't cultivate the land at all, and counting the marching time, when King Shang's chariot passed by, it happened to be the day when they were about to harvest wheat beans in May (the black beans were harvested in May at that time, and the climate was different from now). In other words, the merchant army can directly cut the opponent's grain. Although it is impossible for the army to scatter ducks to collect grain due to the scattered farmland, it is no problem to collect some supplements along the way.

Not to mention that fighting at this time can directly cause the opponent's food to rot in the ground. To achieve this effect, one must have a very accurate judgment on the calendar and time. This is also the knowledge of the priests and the nobles. If you understand this, you will not even be able to do the most basic work of collecting tributes well, let alone the slightly more complicated government affairs.

This is why Zishou said that the civil servants under Ah Zhong can only run errands and be used as advanced postmen, because they really only have this ability, can understand simple serial numbers, handle some trivial chores, and run errands , I really want to be promoted to govern... They don't even know what time it is today.

However, the knowledge of the nobles relies too much on summarizing experience and monopolizing knowledge from generation to generation. Therefore, if there is a huge change in the climate, the past calendar and astrology will not be of reference.

For example, the farmland at this time usually harvests wheat and beans in May, but because the climate is getting colder, in fact, Zishou delayed spring plowing for about half a month, and harvested wheat and beans at about the end of June, and used crop rotation Interplant with fast-sowing short-duration millet to be harvested with soybeans by October in the fall.

This means that the productive time of agriculture becomes more intensive, and there is less time to spare for fighting. Of course, it also means that in the following climate change, the losses suffered will be correspondingly smaller.

At this time, the climate of the Shang Dynasty was probably similar to the warming of the modern climate and continued to strengthen for several decades. The precipitation line moved northward, and then soon, about 10 years after Emperor Xin, the temperature would drop rapidly. After that, it started to warm up again.

And this change in climate will bring about great changes in agriculture. If Zishou hadn't traveled through it, the original Emperor Xin would never have the knowledge to modify the calendar and the agricultural planting cycle. When he was in the prime of life, he encountered large-scale famine and reduced agricultural production.

In order not to starve to death, he had to constantly use troops abroad, which resulted in a large amount of consumption of his own strength, and Zhou was also affected by this drastic change in climate.

However, here is the interesting part. This cold period only lasted for 30 to [-] years, just covering the entire process of Shang’s death and Zhou Li. In the eyes of the ancients, it was natural that Shang’s destiny was lost. They couldn’t understand it. The relationship between the volcanic eruption and the cooling of the climate, and they couldn't recognize what the Little Ice Age was. They only knew that when King Shang was in power, the weather was getting weirder day by day and the food harvest was dying.

After the Zhou Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, the climate warmed up and the weather became smooth again. Therefore, people at that time could only attribute it to the fact that the Shang lost the destiny, and Zhou was the orthodox emperor.

And Zishou is doing this kind of thing now, gradually adjusting the time of agricultural production, as far as possible before the arrival of the Little Ice Age, adjusting to a suitable production time, and at the same time, taking advantage of the general information lag in this era, taking advantage of this unequal Time to attack the enemy.

Because the harvest time was delayed by about a month, the Shang army sent troops at a time Dongyi never thought of. Usually, Dongyi would feel at ease when he saw that Shang hadn't moved at the end of March. Why?If they start off in April, they will miss the summer harvest in May and June after the fight. Therefore, the merchant army will not move without Shi Lezhi.

But the problem is that the actual harvest date around Modu is June and July. In other words, dispatching in April will not affect the summer harvest.

This small time change caused Dongyi to be almost defenseless. At the same time, Shang could still obtain its harvest. It took only one day for Zishou to understand why Zhuge Kongming said that he was a general. He didn't know astronomy or geography. The reason for mediocrity.

Because they don't understand the astronomy and farming time, the Dongyi people will end, and this time, Zishou didn't use the original war method of agreeing with Dongyi, but copied the European British's method of looting on horseback.

Divide the three divisions under his command into three groups and advance side by side. He led the central army to advance along the north bank of Jishui, and the right army marched along the south bank of Jishui, sticking to the Huaihe River basin. Finally, the left army delayed about one day's journey as backup. Led by Cockroach and Feng Bo.

One thing needs to be mentioned here, Zishou was shocked when he heard Uncle Feng's name at first, but later found out that he is the eldest son of the Feng family, has nothing to do with Fengshen, and does not have such a magic weapon as a wind bag, but it is said that he has " interest soil".

However, after studying for a long time, Zishou did not understand how to use this clay-like soil, and Feng Bo didn't know, only that it was passed down from the earliest ancestors, and now it has become a I enshrined the mascot.

And because the origin of this kind of thing is too exaggerated, Zishou did not dare to come up with the bad idea of ​​kneading the soil into hands and sending it to the pottery kiln for burning. Now, whether he can run away is another question.

Because the Shang army came suddenly, even though Dongyi was prepared because of the abnormal gathering of Shang, he didn't think that the Shang army would attack him at all. In fact, Zishou didn't even think about making an appointment with them. All the way to loot the past.

The tactical plan is to use chariots and horses as the vanguard, rush forward quickly, and after defeating the opponent's weak troops, burn their villages, destroy their farmland, and plunder their wealth.

The left army, which is mainly composed of armored infantry, arrived about a day later, and started when the Dongyi reinforcements put out the fire and grabbed the food that the Chinese army had not had time to burn. In other words, the opponents were scattered in the fields and villages, facing the formation. coming pawns.

The chariot gave Zishou the basic ability of this kind of blitzkrieg, because the chariots of the Shang Dynasty had at least 3 people in a car, and the larger nobles used it, and there were [-] people. That is to say, it is not the same as a simple cavalry unit .

If it wasn't for the harsh environment and poor maneuverability of chariots, to be honest, it is more reliable than cavalry in this kind of assault warfare. Not only is the impact force stronger than cavalry, but also a chariot has at least one long weapon, one The configuration of sword shield and an archer, in other words, getting out of the car is a standard three-person combat team with tacit cooperation.

It's a pity that before Zishou, no one had ever used chariot troops in this way because of the appointment of battles. Therefore, when Dongyi encountered such a strange style of play, people were stunned. Started to get off the car and form a team, started to plunder and kill slave deserters in groups of three, and the horse team went straight across with torches, completely burning the village.

This avoids the possibility of slaves running away. If they don't want to die in the wild, they can only pack up the leftovers in the ruins and wait for the left army to come to accept them or their own reinforcements to come.

If you can't go around the strong city, you will be obedient in the face of Dongyi's strong city, and you will attack the old and weak Dongyi tribe. If the opponent has fewer people, you won't be able to beat them. A pure chariot raid force with chariots-before this, no prince or king of Shang had ever used this tactic.

Because chariots are something that nobles only have, and the people of the country don’t have them. Once they get rid of it, it means that the mainstay of a regime will evaporate. The danger is too great. Moreover, chariots are both powerful and fragile. After coming down, without the cover of the left and right pawns, it will be destroyed soon.

Coupled with terrain problems, the maneuverability of the chariot is very poor at all. No one has ever thought about accepting this plan of using the chariot as a pure means of transport for infantry.

Gallop along the main road to the place, get off the car, dismantle the horses, and turn into infantry and horses to raid the unsuspecting villages. Even if the opponent is prepared, Zishou has prepared enough torches.

Throw directly with strange force, point the village, and then confront each other outside the village, wait until the opponent misses the best time to fight the fire, retreat, get in the car, and run before the reinforcements see the black smoke burning the village.

"Have you been a guerrilla before?" Xiao Lian, who was called out for safety, sat on the crossbeam of Tianzi's frame, with a complicated expression, "Or did you study in Somalia? Why is this standard rogue tactic so used? ...proficient."

"Of course, I have 5000 years of wisdom from predecessors at home and abroad!" There may not be much wisdom in war, after all, he has never read a book of "History of War", but this kind of pure tricks and tactics come out A few messy tricks, in this era when everyone is still very pure, the effect is actually good.

If Zishou can only be regarded as a rogue tactic, then Cockroach and Feng Bo are really rogues with wry smiles on their faces. Simply put, what can the Dongyi people who have their villages and farmlands burned down do?

If you are lucky, those who come to the reinforcements will be better off, and when you can confront the merchant army, withdraw some people and supplies, and those guys who are sitting in the ruins and crying, have no way to go except to join the merchant army .

And in order to have a bite of food, they can only follow the Shang army to conquer the villages and tribes that have been harassed or destroyed by the Shang king, and then plunder their food and reserves to eat.

As the number of the left army swelled, the cockroach also sent some reinforcements to Elai. He did not have this kind of riding and looting as a pioneer to destroy, and concentrated the enemy in the city. The number was not large enough, so the fight was more difficult.

Moreover, the expansion of the number of people means that the burning of the fields by the merchant army has become less, and it has become the harvesting of a large number of Dongyi slaves and savages who have been coerced, and these slaves and savages have no sense of belonging.

In this day and age, only nobles have a sense of belonging, and it would be nice for savages and slaves to know which small noble they belong to, let alone a higher level, only the savages in big cities like Modu can have a vague sense of belonging. A sense of belonging, and this sense of belonging is closer to...discrimination against outsiders.

As long as they are not asked to cut their own green wheat, there is nothing wrong with it, and when they find out that it is not bad to be coerced, after all, the merchant army can't eat so much spoils, and they don't want to let the Dongyi people stay, so they simply Send it out, everyone has a share.

"Gudu Gudu!" Zi Shou took the pottery cup handed over by Qing Niao and drank it in one gulp, "Where are we now?"

"We're going to enter Jishui Haikou soon." Xiao Lian looked up at the stars in the sky.

"How do you know?" In this era, there are almost no accurate maps. Without locals leading the way, it can only be random chaos. This is the main reason why no one has accepted this tactic before.

"Knowing is knowing, there is no reason?" Xiao Lian shook his head, and there was a look of doubt in his eyes.

This is also the reason why Zishou only dared to go one day away from the rear army and did not dare to make a further quick attack. One day's journey, the cockroach can still find the king's route by relying on the locals and black smoke, but if you wait two more days, then If the three armies are really out of touch, I don't know who is who.

Although Zishou Shangjun has no experience here, and the fight is dangerous, but Dongyi has no such experience. Who the hell has seen this kind of thing? The enemy themselves don't know where they are driving, so they guess even more. In addition, the information is delayed. The information Dongyi often collects comes from the increasingly bloated left and rear troops, and they dare not go out of the city to fight in the field.

The reason is very simple. Although it is impossible for these Dongyi people who have been coerced to fight on the battlefield, it is okay to fight against the wind. Sticks and bone implements are just enough.

But here is the problem. The Shang army knew that these people could not fight, but the Dongyi scouts didn't know. Seeing the boundless tens of thousands of troops marching forward, everyone was terrified. No iron-headed boy dared to leave the city. field battle.

"Send a message to the cockroaches, if there are too many people, find a place to settle them down, and then give them some of the captured Dongyi weapons and spoils that we can't take away, pay attention, check it out, those little nobles take it away , as well as slaves and savages, leaving only Chinese and warriors." Zi Shou thought for a while and said to Qing Ling.

"In addition, slaves and savages, let them assist in harvesting and netting, as well as collecting intelligence, reward these savages for breaking down villages, let them become Chinese, and then select those who perform well and settle them down, and reward the breached villages For them, pay attention, you must choose the kind of nobles and samurai who have gone to the city to divide the villages."

"Your Majesty, what's the point of this? Why give our loot and land to these losers?" The other little nobles couldn't understand either. "Buy us time. Besides, these things are ours in the end." Zi Shou looked at them To the east, "Qing Niao, go and deliver the message."

Qing Niao nodded, her limbs and wings grew, and she turned into a phoenix bird with blue and gorgeous feathers as tall as a person, and then spread her wings and flew to the southwest.

"I've been thinking about a question. She obviously doesn't have big breasts, so how did she fly?" Zishou looked at the direction of Qingyou Fei's departure and said, and then Xiao Lian showed a look of garbage on his face, "Don't get me wrong , I mean academically, birds need well-developed pectoral muscles to fly, and for a bird as big and heavy as a human, the pectoral muscles must be at least two meters thick to support it, how does she fly?"

"Then explain, how do I fly?" Xiao Lian floated on the frame, with blond hair floating slowly. "Hmm... makes sense, but don't fly around when you wear a skirt, your calf shape is very good..."