Chapter 335 Desire

For a moment, he seemed to be in a thick fog and suddenly heard someone begging for mercy: Don’t kill me, don’t kill me!

He looked down in the voice, and his two familiar and unfamiliar faces surprised him.

One of them has a fat face, Wu Yong, and the other has a thin face as long as a horse, which is Zhan Zhuli.

Both of them were tied with their hands behind their backs and were kneeling on the ground.

Wu Yong knelt on the ground, unable to move his hands, rubbed his calves like a beast, and cried with tears in his eyes: I have a wife, children, and children at home. You can't kill me, what sin do I have to die?!

After begging for a while, Wu Yong suddenly cursed: I will drag you to hell even if I die!

Standing in the fog, Zhang Ning was in a daze, fear and anger. He had an extra sword in his hand, and he slashed desperately in front of him, and his body was soon covered in blood.

Just as I was tired of slashing, I felt smoke and thirsty in my throat. When I looked up, I saw that somehow I was in the desert again, and my whole body was still covered in blood.

A black flag suddenly rose in front of him, and a large number of people rushed towards him.

When you rushed out of the horse, a man wearing a high hat shouted: You are surrounded, why don’t you put down your weapons quickly and raise your hand to surrender!It is natural to kill someone and pay for your life. You are guilty and there is no place for you in the world!

A sense of fear enveloped his heart, and he threw down his sword and turned around and ran away.

He was dry and thirsty in the desert, and he raised his head and gasped.

Suddenly I heard a whizzing sound behind me. When I looked back, I saw a few sharp frisbee like blood droplets flying towards my neck.

His hands and feet were cold at once, and he watched the terrifying thing spinning in, and he couldn't hide it. Despair and extreme fear hit him.

I'm going to die, and I'm going to die like this; but if I don't die, there is no place to go, and sin is not tolerated to the world... He shouted loudly in fear.

He stared at the blood droplets flying to his throat with his eyes wide open, and stood there tense, waiting for that moment to come...

Suddenly he woke up from the bed, Zhang Ning opened his eyes and sat for a while, finally realizing that it was just a nightmare.

The candles in the bedroom were burning to a small part and the window was slightly white.

He looked around and saw the neatly folded yellow brocade on the stool beside the bed, and there was a black winged crown on it.

Finally, I can fully confirm that what I just did was a dream, and this is the reality.

He climbed to the edge of the bed, reached out to pick up a black hat, stroked his fingers and felt the subtle fiber texture on it, and finally felt good in his heart.

No one can chase after him, he has the power to have the soldiers in his hands!

I do whatever I want, and kill people if I want!

The memories of reality have completely flooded into my heart. Now even Emperor Jianwen is on the same boat as himself. There are countless civil servants and generals in the Vermilion Bird Army, as well as local officials who have surrendered and turned their favor after they surrender. No one wants this boat to capsize...

If I die, countless people will have to save their lives, at least it will not be easier!

The feeling of power enriched him, and his guilt and panic gradually faded.I remember that I haven’t had nightmares for a long time, and I don’t know what’s going on these days.

Only then did Zhang Ning feel thirsty and his mouth was so dry that it didn't even have saliva.

Want to drink water!

A direct and strong need occupied all senses. He hurriedly climbed out of bed, without wearing any shoes, and saw a teacup on the desk, so he ran over and opened the lid, but it was empty inside.

water!A sweet taste kept circling in my mind, and water became the best thing in the world.

There was a mud stove by the wall, but it looked pitch black and there was no spark at all, and the charcoal fire inside had already been extinguished.

However, there is a copper teapot on the low stool next to the stove, and there may be some cold boiling water left in it.

Zhang Ning hurriedly walked over and twisted the teapot. The light weight disappointed him again. He shook it twice, but he didn't hear any sound.

The door was pushed open, and a young man appeared at the door wearing a jacket. He was the clerk responsible for taking care of Zhang Ning's food and daily life.

I saw Zhang Ning standing barefoot on the ground, twisting a copper teapot in his hand. The young man immediately understood and bent down and said: Prince, wait a moment, I will go to the kitchen to boil water and make tea for you.

Fuck Nick!Zhang Ning cursed inwardly and said: Take the teapot and get me a pot of water from the well in the yard, right away!

The young man hurriedly advised: The weather is so cold, it is not good to drink raw water. The prince wants to cut interest rates... I'll tell you to go right away!

Zhang Ning shouted coldly, frightened the young man and hurriedly came over to get the teapot with his head buried.

The daily life of serving people is indeed more careful. When Xu Wenjun was by his side, he didn’t even have a sip of water in the bedroom?

When Zhang Ning poured water into the teapot mouth with the face of the clerk without any grace, an unprecedented sense of satisfaction immediately filled the emptiness of his body and mind, swallowing the cold well water in big mouthfuls, unable to stop.

Human desires can also be so simple; only what you need and what you desire will appear precious and impatient, even if it is a pot of cold well water worthless.

Only in the short moment after satisfying his desire can he become happy without distraction.

Power, desire, things that make people unable to stop, the kindness and guilt in their hearts are less important at this time...

Zhang Ning occasionally thought that if he had not been a regular and kind ordinary person before, he might not have felt this way.

I drank a lot of cold water. It was not yet dawn, but Zhang Ning obviously couldn't sleep.He asked someone to prepare breakfast, get up and wash himself.

Then I rushed to the official office early. Today I came too early, and all the officials did not come, and the official office was empty.He first carefully read the recent official documents, intelligence and the Senate files.

Half an hour (one hour) the staff of the Senate came to pay the price one after another. When they learned that the prince had arrived a long time ago, several people came to apologize.

Zhang Ning had no choice but to comfort him and said that they were not late and there was no fault of being late.

It seems that Zhang Ning came too early, which is not a good thing. In addition to pretending to be diligent, it will put unnecessary pressure on the people below. If you still ask others to follow your own diligence harshly, it will also create a high-pressure atmosphere, which is obviously a counterproductive thing.

At this time, Zhu Heng brought a group of civil servants and staff to the study. After greeting each other, Zhang Ning continued to look through the things in his hand and said: Part of the Shenji Camp, which was originally in Huangzhou, left Huangzhou to transfer to the west. Yesterday, he had to report again, and the Sichuan Army came along the river.Jingzhou will soon assemble a government army of tens of thousands of people. It is unreasonable that so many soldiers gather together without fighting and can only consume a large number of military supplies in vain.If the government forces break through the river defense in the west and occupy a foothold on the south bank, it will be very unfavorable to the overall strategy.What solutions do you have?

An aide said: I suggest that you immediately order General Zhou to mobilize all the main forces of Wuchang camp to the northern border of Lizhou and monitor the movements of the official army. Once there are signs of crossing the river, you will lead a large army to block the river bank.

Shortly after the Wuchang Camp was formed, the number of people was not the main force of our Zhuque Army, and the number was too great compared to that of the official army, so I might not be able to stop it. In addition to this strategy, I think that Yao Erlang's army in Yuezhou should also be ordered to transport the main force to the west bank of Dongting Lake by boat in order to promptly reinforce the Wuchang Camp to fight on the shore.At the same time, the first battalion of the naval army in Dongting Lake should finish the training on the lake and be transferred into the Yangtze River. On the one hand, it is responsible for cutting off the Yangtze River's route and water transportation military supplies, and on the other hand, it is training on the river.

At this moment, Zhu Heng pondered: In order to defend the Western Front, the strategy you proposed is of course good.But in this way, the fourth battalion of our Zhuque Army has three battalions on the western front; in Wuchang, there is only one group of people in Yongding Camp, and there is no navy army to assist in the war.In the long run, the court may also transfer large troops from Yangzhou and other places, and Wuchang and other places must not be improperly operated.

Zhang Ning slapped the file on the table and said: The Sichuan Army suddenly appeared on the western front, which caught us off guard.It is necessary to focus on preventing immediate dangers. Yongding Battalion can expand its troops or build another battalion.Now the emperor issued an edict to order all regions to select military sources from the military households in various important towns.

After hearing this, everyone expressed their opinions and discussed them, and put forward some ideas and suggestions.

The staff believed that they should first contact some famous bureaucrats and write letters to support Emperor Jianwen as an example, and then give full play to the grace and power that many local officials and commanders of the garrison publicly comply with the name of Jianwen's emperor; then they could legitimately recruit strong men from military households from all over the country for military expansion and preparation for war.

There are also people who have been re-producing the old tune, expanding the Senate Department, reorganizing the six ministries and nine ministers, making the center a more formal government system. One is the more quota that can accept scholars from all over the country, and the other is the more powerful the emperor.

The commander of Yongding Camp Wei Bin proposed to slightly change a series of preferential laws for military households in Chenzhou and Changde, and then apply it to Wuchang, Yuezhou, Changsha and other places to win over the desire of military personnel to return.

Half a month ago, Zhang Ning felt that the timing of doing these things was wrong, but now he saw the close relationship between military and political affairs. Instead of starting from the big picture, he restricted the actual things in front of him.

He could no longer hesitate to delay and immediately agreed to the proposal of adding six ministries and promulgating preferential military households in Wuchang and other places.

In order to expand our troops in the future, we should now prepare to reorganize the system.I think it can be imitated by the Beijing camp, and set up armies in one battalion and divisions (posts) in each army, so that the number of soldiers in the battalion can reach tens of thousands of people just like the Beijing camp.

Expanding the system is a good thing that both civil and military officials like, and no one is opposed at the moment.

Zhu Heng also proposed the accompanying idea, deploying the main combat troops in strategic locations to facilitate mobile calls; the city defense ordered local garrisons to re-enlist military households to form, and used the major camps of the Zhuque Army in the important areas as helpers for deterrence and surrender of local generals and officials, saving the troops stationed in various places and putting the strength of the Zhuque Army into the battlefield even more.