Chapter 247: If you don’t do it for yourself, heaven will kill you, earth will kill you

When Zhou Li's mother and daughter saw a man walking into the hall, they probably had guessed Zhang Ning's identity, so they stood up from the chairs one after another.

Zhang Ning first stepped forward to greet Yao Ji and asked his mother for her health.

After Yao Ji introduced two female guests, Zhou Li hurriedly bowed.

Zhang Ning thought: Although he is a member of the royal family in terms of identity, there is only the emperor in the world who can ignore seniority in many cases, right?

He was not a entrusted person at first, and he immediately replied: I have met my aunt.

Zhou Li's face was so funny that he heard it. The name of aunt really sounded comfortable. Before he got married, he called him like a relative.

He turned to look at the girl from the Zhou family again, wanting to nodify him, but after all, he is only a peer, a man is superior to a woman, and the Zhou family has a lower status than the royal family.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Ernie turned a blind eye, but just bent her knees and made a happy wish, and her eyes lowered to avoid it.

Many young ladies were shy when they looked at the ground to avoid men's gaze, but she was not. It seemed that it was just a kind of etiquette. As expected, the Peach Blossom Fairy did not completely talk nonsense. The feeling that the young ladies of the Zhou family gave people was indeed cold.

Then Zhang Ning took the seat and several people chatted for a while. It was mainly because Yao Ji and Zhou Li's conversation. Because they were elders, Zhou Erniang didn't say a word, and Zhang Ning just responded to a few words from time to time.

As soon as Zhou Li talked, he exposed his vulgarity. It was nothing more than clothing, materials, jewelry, and homely gossip. Zhang Ning was not interested at all, but just smiled politely.

However, Zhang Ning caught Zhou Erniang's gaze intentionally or unintentionally. She glanced at each other by chance, but she immediately avoided it but couldn't hide it.

Sure enough, she was still very interested in Zhang Ning.

Many things can be concreted. Two men and women who are not aware of each other, the girl cares about only a few concrete contents, such as wealth, nobleness, appearance, and etiquette.

All things can be seen with your eyes, so it can only be like this, and no one else can blame you.

When something has already been possessed, you can naturally become confident.This kind of confident experience was something that Zhang Ning could not feel in his previous life, and it turned out that it was just that.

Zhang Ning sat in the hall for a while, then said goodbye and left.

In this era, blind dates will not deliberately leave room for men and women to live alone, and just find opportunities to look at each other; if it is in the folk, many people will still hide it, such as first asking a man to have a tea party, and the little girl will not come out to hide and look at her for her reserve, and then find an opportunity to let the little girl show up and let the man take a look. This is the case.

The next day, Zhang Ning went to the Guifei Garden to meet Yao Ji again, but this time the Zhou Li family and his daughter were not present.Yao Ji basically wanted to ask Zhang Ning if she was satisfied.

He just said: Everything is up to the mother.

Yao Ji nodded and said: Then I will write a letter to your father first, and then give a betrothal gift to the Zhou family... Can you handle the matter in the yamen?

Zhang Ning smiled and said: Daily affairs only make perfect. There are the same group of people around you, and the way you handle things is similar. There is not much difference between managing a government and a county.In addition to inquiries about important things in person, there are only three ways to manage politics: first, issue laws and regulations; second, describe the intention to the staff and the Senate Department, and let them come up with detailed rules to achieve their goals; third, appoint a person to be fully responsible for something, mainly to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the people around them, and let them do competent things.

Yao Ji sighed slightly: You have not been disciplined by your parents since you were a child, but you have learned a lot.

This time she managed Zhang Ning's marriage, she found the feeling of being an elder, but it soon disappeared.

She also found out the reason, perhaps because Zhang Ning had grown up, his ability and mind were no less than that of his elders, and Yao Ji could no longer discipline him; there was another important thing, although she was unwilling to admit that the secret in the cult headquarters could not be dispelled like a ghost, which made her lose her majesty as an elder from her heart.

At this time, Zhang Ning said again: There is news recently that my mother should have known it too.The court sent several people to take charge of Huguang affairs. The first was Yu Qian, the second was Xue Lu, the second was Wuyang Hou, and the other was from the Jinyiwei.Yu Qian's position is the governor of Huguang. According to his level, it can be concluded that the scale of the next rebellion prepared by the government will definitely be much larger than that of Zhu Yong's attack. We must prepare as soon as possible.

Yao Ji asked: How do you plan to deal with it?

The military expansion preparation has never stopped. The enfeoffment of my father to my mother and me this time, as well as the marriage with the Zhou family, will allow more descendants of Yu Chen to join the Zhuque Army. We are also screening and recruiting brave and strong army expansion from Chenzhou Prefecture.But these conventional means are far from enough, and I am considering a more substantial policy implementation strategy.

Zhang Ning said, now we have occupied the entire Chenzhou area, Gaodu County, Changde, and Lizhou, Cili, Shimen, Yuezhou.The most important thing for governance in various places is not political clarity and letting the people live and work in peace and contentment, but how to use these resources to maximize the transformation into armed strength. The only way is to realize militarism according to local conditions... He realized that his words were somewhat detached from the description of this era, and he reacted and said in a daze, "Is it too boring to tell you about military affairs?"

Yao Ji shook her head and said: Isn’t the matter between Western Rome you mentioned last time pretty good?Look, I still remember it very clearly now.Although I feel novel when I hear you speak, I like this tone very much, calmly, attentively and seriously. I can understand that this feeling is very good and very close... As I said that, Yao Ji's face turned slightly red, and she came back to her senses and pretended to be calm and stopped talking.

Zhang Ning's eyes stroked her face and said: In the past, I have considered the importance of possession and the importance of being recognized. Public opinion is in the hands of landlords and scholars, so after occupying a land, they have issued ordinary but recognized laws, such as not disturbing the people, treating scholars well, etc.But the situation has increasingly brought this idea to a dead end, especially the situation in Nanjing Hanwang is getting worse and worse, making hope smaller.Martial power is particularly important in this pattern, and King Yàn confirmed this truth back then.

The so-called military and country is to use all possible potential to carry out wars.Before, whether it was the Battle of Yongdingwei or the Battle of Gaodu, our confrontation with Zhu Yong was just a comparison of the army. Huguang clearly had a population of tens of millions, but Zhu Yong could only control a few thousand people; the same is true for us. Gaodu County alone had a population of tens of thousands, but only the Zhuque Army could be used for combat. What did the others do in the war?In addition to the difficulty of attracting a few strong men to repair the city and transport it, most of the food and supplies came from the government treasury, and huge resources could not be used in the war.Most people did not make any contribution after the war, whether to the official army or the Suzaku army.

Yao Ji asked with interest: Since the people are unwilling to participate in the civil war for the government army, and even more unwilling to work hard for us, what can you do?Do you want to be a Latino?

Zhang Ning said: Operations are not just about fighting on the battlefield, but also about many restrictions, such as logistics and military supplies, boosting morale, etc.In my opinion, the easiest source of morale is to give benefits to soldiers. No one can prevent them from escaping military households while preventing them from escaping on the battlefield... War is a life-and-death battle. At this time, why should the gentry and gentry occupy a large amount of resources for the people in power just for a good reputation?My idea is to tilt the wealth from all over the country to the military, and those who are most beneficial to the battlefield will get the most benefits and status...

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After careful consideration, he was eager to concretely implement this reform.

It is said that it is meticulous thinking, but it is actually only a few days, and there is a lack of field investigation and targeted experiments, but it has to shake the core of governance for thousands of years. It seems too impatient to make such a decision.

However, Zhang Ning has his own basis for being bold. With his current situation and territory, he does not have to bear the mission of the rise and fall of the whole world. What is he afraid to make trouble?

The intention of rule is to tilt resources to those who are beneficial to war, with productivity and wealth (cake) that big. If someone takes up a large chunk, then there are always some people who want to spit it out.

Who are the people who are good for the war?

At present, there are only two types of people in power in the territory of the Suzaku Army: the first is Zhang Ning's direct official staff, the group of people in the Senate, and civil servants in various places; the second is military generals, and the generals of the Suzaku Army often go to and from the Senate to discuss matters, and they are also people who can speak.

These people who participate in decision-making either make suggestions for the war or lead troops to take action. They are all people who are beneficial to the war.

If people don’t punish themselves, heaven and earth will be destroyed. The people involved in the decision-making have no reason to reject Zhang Ning’s proposal. Why do I have to watch those gentry and masters enjoy wealth and embrace each other?

If such a thing is in a larger regime, of course, there will be some civil servants who are brave enough to stand up for the sake of the people and the country; but it is impossible for such people to appear within the Zhangning Group. Most of them are military generals, and the cultural level of civil servants may not be very high. The highest one is Zhang Ning himself, and the county magistrate Wang is just a supervisor.

The Senate quickly came up with several specific measures.

The fertile and flat arable land in Chengxiang area was granted to the congressmen and soldiers, with the reason that they could gather troops in Chengxiang fortresses and farm farms. This military farm was different from the military farms in the garrison. Just like the value of the land in Chengxiang was different from the land in the border mountainous areas, the group of people could still not escape the circle of farming ideas. The first benefit that came to mind was land. Moreover, if the land in densely populated areas was occupied, you could rent it out to tenants to enjoy the fruits of their successes and become landlords overnight; allowing meritorious generals to be changed to local chiefs, this is the method to improve the political status of military generals. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a rule to become generals and ministers. Later, those in power realized the terrible separatistity of warlords, and the Song and Ming dynasties were completely abolished. The second strategy of the Senate was also expected. The Ming Dynasty was the official in society. Everyone wanted to be an official after they wanted land. That's it.

Many proposals made Zhang Ning quickly realize the side effects of this incident: warlord separatism may occur.

In fact, when he first proposed a military strategy, it was difficult to avoid this situation, allowing soldiers to obtain enough wealth and political status. Isn’t it the rhythm of the warlords?

From the perspective of social progress, doing so is a completely regression.