From a son-in-law to a favorite of the empress

Chapter 960

This porridge distribution lasted until the afternoon, and the pocket formation was completely tightened, and the fish had been revealed.

The spy of the Shenque went up to the tower and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, we have selected the people who are in the middle of the team and can read and asked for two small bowls, a total of 72 people."

"We Shenque will quietly bite them, check them one by one, and catch the real fish."

Zhou Yuan nodded and said: "Don't be anxious to close the net. The implementation of a plan must have a commander. Find their core figures and catch them alive."

The spy clasped his fists and said: "I understand."

Zhou Yuan looked down, but his brows slowly wrinkled. The weather suddenly changed, and it seemed that it was going to snow again.

The cold winter is extremely unfavorable for the transfer of the army. This not only limits the opponent, but also limits itself.

The competition has begun, this is just an appetizer, and the real highlight is still to come.

Although Wuyao Camp, Yongxiao Camp and Elite Camp are the most elite warriors of Dajin with strong combat power, they will still be in a mess if they are careless.

In the next period of time, we must be cautious and decisive.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuan turned to look at Su Youzi and smiled: "Master, I have to be busy. I can't accompany you for a while. You must listen to the Virgin Sister, otherwise I will worry about you."

Su Youzi said: "You shut up and don't say anything, which is the greatest concern for me."

These days, she has had enough of Zhou Yuan's shameless words.

Li Yu'an was a little hesitant: "What are you going to do? I must stay with you, otherwise if the other side has a master assassinate..."

Zhou Yuan waved his hand and said: "There is no master here, don't worry, Virgin Sister."

Li Yu'an shook her head and said: "No, you can never be lucky with safety issues. I must stay with you. Don't persuade me."

Speaking of this, she glanced at her sister and said: "Since she wants to witness, she must witness everything. Just pretend that we are not following."

Zhou Yuan had no choice but to smile bitterly.

Along the way, he was assassinated many times and was in a desperate situation. Virgin Sister attached great importance to safety issues, and this really couldn't persuade her.

"Okay, you guys go do your work first."

"The people are full, now it's time for the Li Dynasty to stand up and express its attitude."

"Remember, promise the people something, such as allocating land, reducing taxes, and distributing food."

"Now what they care about most is food. If you give them food, they will do anything."

Li Yu'an nodded and said, "I understand. I will take the old ministers down now. Sister, you are the second princess, you come with me."

Su Youzi did not refuse, but did not agree, just stood quietly.

Zhou Yuan said, "I'll wait for you in the general's tent."

The so-called general's tent is just a residential house, but the environment is still clean.

Zhou Yuan drank tea while looking at the map, and then sighed.

Originally, the Qingchuan River was enough for Song Wu to encircle and kill Li Jingzhi's western forces, but this weather might be a problem.

Sure enough, about half an hour later, the Shenque spy hurried to report.

"Your Excellency, Governor Song is in a hurry."

Zhou Yuan took the letter and opened it. It said: "According to the order of the commander, the cavalry spies went out in full force, killing the young and strong men who moved quickly along the way. A total of six spies found Li Jingzhi."

"We followed the clues and advanced all the way into the mountains, guarding each pass, and planned to fight a beautiful ambush."

"However, Li Jingzhi was very smart. When we were marching, he went east through the Cheongcheon River."

"The river here is frozen, and people and horses can walk across it. The defense line is too long. My army cannot cover the coast and cannot lock the opponent."

"So I will After pursuing the enemy along the way without success, he returned to Heechuan to wait for the order from the commander-in-chief. "

Zhou Yuan thought for a moment before saying, "Tell Song Wu to leave 5,000 troops to garrison Heechuan and take another 5,000 troops north to Jiangjie to control all the areas west of the Changjin River."

"Time is tight and troops are scarce. Let him deal with the local aristocratic families as quickly and as fiercely as possible, distribute food, select militia and representatives, and control the area on behalf of the Lee Dynasty."

"Complete the complete reshuffle west of the Changjin River within half a month."

As he finished speaking, Zhou Yuan's letter was already written and handed out.

He turned to look at the map hanging on the wall, frowning and lost in thought.

At present, the areas in the Qingchuan River basin and north of it, including Dingzhou, Anzhou, Heechuan, Samjuri and Yizhou, have all been controlled.

Next is the area south of the Cheongcheon River and north of the Taedong River. There are no cities here, mostly villages, so it doesn't take much effort.

So Zhou Yuan called the Virgin Sister and many old ministers of the Lee Dynasty to comeThe general's tent held a meeting.

"Sir, if you have any instructions, just tell us directly. We old guys promise to do our best."

"Yes, yes, Sir is the biggest backer of our Li Dynasty. The princess is also very visionary. Fortunately, she didn't follow Jin Zhentang at the beginning."

A group of old guys talked heatedly, and even Li Yu'an couldn't listen anymore.

"I said, can you restrain yourself? When did I meet Jin Zhentang?"

"What concubines, what serving, don't give us these empty words, just sit down honestly!"

The old ministers didn't blush, but just smiled and sat down slowly.

Zhou Yuan looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "The nature of this war is not aggression, not anti-aggression, and certainly not to eliminate bandits, but to conquer the world and seize the country."

"Therefore, the control over the separatist areas will directly affect the reputation and reputation of Zhulu Dingding, which will directly affect the people's hearts."

"So we are not in a hurry to go south. We must firmly control the areas north of the Taedong River and west of the Changjin River in the shortest possible time."

"This area has a large number of coastal plains, rich in products, large amounts of grain, high yields, and fertile soil. Wo, the population is also concentrated, much better than Li Jingzhi's side. "

"We don't have enough troops now, and we can't station soldiers in every city, so we can only adopt the method of governing the people with the people."

"In the next period of time, you will follow the army to various major towns, kill the wealthy families, plunder food and money, and only keep one or two families for support."

"We will use part of it, and distribute part to the local people, mainly to the groups we support, so that they can help suppress and govern the people."

"Give official positions and titles, They hope that our Li Dynasty will win and they are afraid that we will lose. ”

“Therefore, they will work hard to help us.”

“Land and food resources should be controlled by them, which is conducive to their work.”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuan sneered: “We only have half a month, and after half a month, we will attack Pyongyang.”

An old minister couldn’t help but said: “Sir, what a good idea, but just kill the nobles and gentry, what crime is it?”

Zhou Yuan said: “Which noble family and gentry doesn’t oppress the people? Just in the name of standing up for the people, Kill them all, no matter if they are guilty or not. Innocent people are guilty of possessing a treasure. In times of war, they should be prepared to be eaten. "

"Don't be restrained when doing things. Now is not the time to practice kingly and benevolent governance."

"We will do the killing. You are responsible for calming people's hearts, dividing land, and distributing food in the name of our Li Dynasty."

"In essence, this is a move to control the separatist territory and win the hearts of the people."

"With the power of thunder and the heart of a bodhisattva, people are afraid and support us. This is what we have to do."