My life skills in Daming Liver

Artemisia is also very bitter at first.

Everyone knows that a war must be fought steadily, but that is for the dominant side.

When Qin merged with the Six Kingdoms, it would naturally be able to fight steadily, but if the Six Kingdoms fought steadily, they would end up watching being annexed.

Shanhao said first:

"General, Suiyang is lost, and Henan is about to be lost. When Henan is lost, what will General do?"

"Once Henan is lost, Guanzhong is also surrounded by two sides. If the general doesn't take action now, is he going to wait until Shaanxi is also lost before taking action?"

"Or maybe Shanxi has also lost it and then takes action?"

Shanhao said pessimistically: "If this continues, our Ming Dynasty will have no chance of a decisive battle."

Everyone present fell silent.

Don't you know that what Shanhao Xian said is right.

The current situation is that there has never been a large-scale military expansion in the southeast, and the army has been maintained in a small but capable state.

Therefore, every time we fight in the southeast, we will take a while to recuperate after swallowing a province.

The advantage of this is that each time the territory occupied can be well digested, maintaining such an army will not be a heavy burden on the southeast, and other infrastructure construction can also be started.

Therefore, the more we fight in the southeast, the richer we get. Li Chengliang heard that large-scale water conservancy projects have been carried out in the southeast. Hu Zongxian took Pan Jixun from Huaibei to Huguang, and now he is preparing to build water conservancy projects in Sichuan.

On the other hand, the Ming court's economy has shrunk even more than when Zhang Juzheng was in power. If it is true as Shanhaoxian said, when Henan and Shaanxi are also lost, then there will really be no power to fight.

Li Chengliang understood this truth, and everyone understood this truth, but no one stood up to support Hao Xian's statement.

The reason is also very simple. Henan is not Li Chengliang's direct territory. He persuaded the new Ming army in Shandong to leave Shandong. In order to relieve the siege of Henan, this argument could not mobilize Shandong's army.

Shanhao looked at everyone first, knowing why in his heart, so he could only sit back again.

Next, everyone proposed some conservative plans, such as strengthening the defenses of Shanxi and Shandong, preventing the enemy from breaking into the Gyeonggi area from Henan, and transferring the Ming army from nine sides to the edge of Henan for defense.

After everyone dispersed, Shanhao asked to see Li Chengliang alone.

After seeing Li Chengliang, Shan Hao first said:

"My lord, do you still remember what my subordinate once said in Shandong? Why is the military in the Southeast so strong and why is the military in the Ming Dynasty declining?"

Li Chengliang was already very tired, but facing this confidant, he cheered up and said:

"At that time, my husband said that it was because there were many ministers in the Ming Dynasty, but Su Ze's military order was the only one in the southeast. So after entering the capital, I followed your husband's plan and disbanded the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Section, and dismissed the Imperial College."

Shanhao shook his head first and said: "General, of course we must concentrate all our efforts politically, but the same must be done militarily."

"General, now all the town commanders regard the army as private property that guarantees their status. No one is willing to use his own army to go out and fight. They all want to consume other people's armies to climb to a higher position."

"If this is the case, how can the army maintain its combat effectiveness? Who will fight for the imperial court?"

Li Chengliang's face looked a little ugly. Wasn't that what he looked like when he was in Shandong?

"'Preserve strength, accumulate prestige, raise troops and respect yourself'. Aren't these twelve words the strategy that your husband proposed for me back then?"

Shanhao said quickly: "I'm not talking about the general. Back then, the general was in Shandong, and the court was ignorant and ignorant, so it was necessary to accumulate strength in Shandong. But now the situation is different. The general is wise and powerful, but these generals still use If we treat you in the same way, how can we fight against Southeast Asia?"

Li Chengliang's face looked better. He also understood Shan Hao Xian's proposition and knew that he was not making fun of himself, so he said:

"I, the general, also understand what you are saying, but these are my brothers, close confidants, beloved relatives and friends. It is because of these brothers that Li can go from being a mere warrior to presiding over the imperial court."

Shanhao saw Li Chengliang's expression first and immediately said:

"The general is benevolent, but others cannot understand the general's benevolence."

Shanhao lowered his head first and said: "General, now we have very few opportunities. If we want to break the situation, we can only complete it in one battle and fight a beautiful battle. This way we can consolidate your prestige internally and rely on the residual power of military victory." To solve internal affairs problems, externally it can disrupt the rhythm of the Southeast, so that they cannot develop comfortably and must expand their arms and prepare for war."

“This is when our advantages can be reflected.”

"Our advantage?"

Li Chengliang looked at Hao Xian in confusion, did he still have an advantage?

Shan Hao nodded first and said: "Of course we have advantages. When it comes to a full-scale hot war, we in the north have the advantage. I call it a low moral advantage."

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"It's the advantage of low morals."

"The cost of recruiting soldiers in the southeast is much higher than ours. Soldiers who died in battle have to be compensated. The cost of each soldier is extremely high."

"But in our north, there is not so much emphasis. Soldiers can recruit strong men and fully mobilize them. Even if we in the north have fewer people, we can mobilize more people."

"The Soviet thieves always say that sovereignty lies with the people, so their mobilization costs must be higher than ours. When fighting, their supplies have to be purchased by the government in the market, and they cannot increase taxes at will, but these do not exist in the north."

"So once it is mobilized for a full-scale war, our court will have the advantage!"

Li Chengliang was shocked. Is there still such an advantage?

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that it does have this advantage.

For example, when Li Chengliang wiped out the Liangshan bandits in Shandong, he fought for the sake of preserving Shandong. He was tied up in the war, and the territory he conquered had to appease large households and provide relief to the refugees.

But the Liangshan bandits didn't need it. As long as they used the slogan of dividing the land and fighting the landlords, they could win over the tenants who couldn't survive to take up arms and sweep half of Shandong.

Thinking about it this way, it is really a low moral advantage, because the Liangshan thieves do not need to think about the future, they only need to destroy this old world.

Thinking about it like this, Li Chengliang felt strange again. According to what Shanhao Xian said, how could he be almost a bandit?

The majestic Ming Dynasty was obviously the orthodox one, so how could it be reduced to being like a bandit?

Isn't this the way thieves fight?

But Li Chengliang couldn't think of any better way.

Shanhao said quickly: "General, if you can't even unify the military power, how can you fight against the southeastern thieves?"

Li Chengliang sighed and said: "My brothers have risked their lives for me, and now I want to take away their military power. How can I feel at ease? Let me think about it again."

When Shanhao left the General's Mansion first, he could only sigh.