Chapter 840: One Mistake in a Hundred Precautions

"Your Highness, both Su City and Songcheng are under the control of the royal army. The general is preparing to send a battalion to Lincheng in the past two days. Read"

It took about three days since Yancheng left, and Zhao Xu and his party arrived at Jinling City at ten o'clock in the evening.

While Chang Wei went out of the city to greet Zhao Xu, he introduced to him the actions of the royal family's troops during this period.

"Are both cities empty?" Zhao Xu asked casually.

"It's not an empty city. We did meet some people, but they were only 10% of the original ones." Chang Wei said.

Zhao Xu nodded. This was what he expected. Not to mention the Wu State, even if the contemporary country carried out such a large-scale migration, it would not be able to take everyone away.

There will always be people who don't want to go and hide, waiting to come out after the powerful army has left.

And according to Tsui Hark, many people also escaped during this period.

"Zhongli allocated fields to the people who stayed behind and gave them food rations. The people became more at ease and their attitude toward the royal family's soldiers became friendly." Chang Wei added.

"Well, this is the best publicity." Zhao Xu was very satisfied.

Li Zicheng's slogan of not paying for food when the king came came attracted countless people to follow him.

Jiangbei's slogan "One out of ten taxes, six acres of farmland" is similar to this slogan.

Since ancient times, people have never paid such low taxes.

Whether they choose to vote for Jiangbei or continue to follow the powerful clan, they will have their own balance of power when the time comes.

After entering the city, Chang Wei led Zhao Xu to the command room.

There is a huge sand table in the command room, which covers the entire mountains, rivers, rivers and cities in the south of the Yangtze River.

On the sand table, small flags were placed at the locations of Jinling, Sioux City, and Songcheng, proving that these places were currently under the control of the royal family's pro-army forces.

"Your Highness, when the Wu State coerced the people to move westward, it was just after the spring plowing, so the people planted rice every home. It is almost June now, and there is still more than a month before the spring rice can be harvested." Chang Wei pointed at the vast area between the three cities, feeling both happy and sad.

Fortunately, Wu State was so sparse that it left behind this crop of rice, which was like bringing food and grass to your doorstep.

The worry is that the people are being forced to move westward. If these cannot be harvested in time, they will rot in the ground.

Furthermore, the end of June is also a busy time for people in Jiangbei to farm, and it is impossible to mobilize people to harvest rice.

"I have noticed it." During the Battle of Jinling, the fields were just green rice seedlings, which did not attract anyone's attention.

But now, the rice seedlings are strong, covered with ears of rice, and the leaves are turning yellow.

The area between Jinling, Sioux City and Songcheng, which is the contemporary Taihu Lake area, has extremely high grain production.

No one can bear to watch rice rotting in the ground.

Moreover, if the Fourth Institute's plan succeeds, the people will have food to eat when they return smoothly.

Harvesting the grain from Jiangnan will not only solve the problem of food for the people, but there will also be a surplus.

On the contrary, it is necessary to transport grain from the north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Yangtze River.

I have to say, this is a tough question.

After pondering for a while, he said: "In this way, during this period, you can find out from the people who stayed behind which fields belong to the common people, and which fields belong to the wealthy and powerful families. The common people's fields will not be moved for the time being, and the fields belonging to the powerful and powerful families will not be used for the time being. When the time comes, let the prince’s soldiers harvest the rice.”

"How can there be enough people for the royal family? In addition to Ningzhou, there are other coastal states that need to harvest rice." Chang Wei shook his head, still frowning.

"There are other ways." Zhao Xu said: "I will order the newspaper to publish a message in the Jiangbei newspaper, recruiting people to come to the south of the Yangtze River to harvest rice, and give them the harvested rice as a reward. Those with a large family will naturally be happy when the time comes, even if the population is If there are not many, if one person is taken out, the busy work will only be delayed for a few days at most, and the harvest will not be affected. "

Hearing this, Chang Wei nodded slowly, "This is a good idea. We can more or less transfer some people from Jiangbei."

Zhao Xu smiled, "Actually, the most fundamental way is to let the people who migrated westward come back and collect their own food."

The reason why he asked Chang Wei to leave the common people's fields unharvested was because he had an excellent idea.

Since ancient times, people have regarded their own land as their life.

It’s sad to see the crops in your fields unable to be harvested during harvest season.

In modern times, even if farmers’ children work outside, they have to go home during busy farming season.

Even if you lose money, you still have to harvest the food from the fields. This is a habit developed over thousands of years.

Therefore, if Tsui Hark's people are allowed to spread the news that the rice is ripe among the people, it will definitely arouse the people's homesickness.

At the risk of conflict with the powerful army, they also wanted to go home.

Thinking of this, he told Chang Wei his thoughts.

"His Royal Highness is really familiar with the people's hearts. If you talk about the last general, he also thinks it's time to go home and harvest rice." Chang Wei laughed.

Qin Shan and Guan Tong also laughed, and Guan Tong said, "But this must be done quickly, otherwise it will be too late."

"This is natural." Zhao Xu said, after thinking for a while he said: "Where is Tsui Hark's person? Let him come to see me."

The Fourth Academy has people in Jinling City in order to facilitate contact with members lurking among the people.

"Yes, Your Highness." In response, Chang Wei gave a few instructions to his personal guards.

The guards left, and not long after, a young man walked in.

"Zhang Heng, commander of the Fourth Academy of Supervision, comes to see His Highness." Seeing Zhao Xu, the young man bowed and saluted.

"No courtesy." Zhao Xu looked at Zhang Heng. There was also a hierarchy within the Fourth House of Supervision.

Xu Ke is the director of the Fourth Academy and is in charge of the entire Fourth Academy. Chai Wu is the deputy director of the Fourth Academy.

There are eight commanders under the chief and deputy chief.

Under the commanders are other positions such as Qianzong.

Zhang Heng is in charge of Jinling, which means that he is basically responsible for the affairs of Jiangnan.

"This time, you four courtyards should cooperate with the royal guards to strive for this action to allow most of the people who are held hostage by the powerful families to return to their homeland." Zhao Xu said.

After a pause, he continued, "You four courtyards are responsible for contacting the backbones among the people who are preparing to revolt, and at the same time publicize that the rice is ripe to guide the people's homesickness. The royal guards will be divided into small groups, disguised as civilians, go deep behind enemy lines, cooperate with the people to revolt, fire the first shot at the critical moment, and cover the people to retreat to the coast."

Zhang Heng was delighted when he heard this, and he said, "If the royal guards cooperate, great things can be accomplished."

"Your Highness is smart." Chang Wei nodded slowly.

The powerful families have been keeping an eye on the royal guards. As long as the royal guards move, they will be alert.

However, most of the Wangfu's personal troops did not move. If they divided the 20,000 or 30,000 people into small groups and disguised them as civilians, they might be able to sneak into the enemy's rear without anyone noticing.

When the time comes, they can cooperate with the civilians to start an uprising. There is no need to worry that the civilians will not follow them.

"In this case, there is no time to lose. Take action immediately tomorrow." Zhao Xu looked at the two and gave them a warning.

After they said yes, the two turned around and left.