There is no love without a reason, and there is no hate without a reason.

Although this has been said badly, it does not affect the correctness of the truth. The Wu villagers' strong support for the great cause of the Northern Expedition was so strong and enthusiastic that even Shen Zhezi was surprised.

In fact, since the Jiangdong coup d'état and the establishment of Luoyang, there is no doubt about the success of the Northern Expedition for Shen Zhezi. Especially after the success of the western expedition and the return of Shaanxi to Xingtai, the fall of the state of Qian is only a matter of time or time.

The reason for this confidence is that Xingtai already has a professional army that has experienced a hundred battles, is mature and powerful, and can even be said to be unparalleled in this world. This is the premise and the most important factor for the success of the Northern Expedition, and what determines the fall of the Kingdom lies in the adequacy of logistical support, in other words, the constraints from the productive forces.

Last year, Xiangguo was breached, and Shi Hu, the lord of Xiang, decided to withdraw to the north and move the capital, which was a strategic move. If the Wang Division still wants to inflict an effective and fierce blow on the Qiang State, the main opponent is no longer the army of the Qiang State, but the exponentially increasing pressure on the logistics side.

There were many twists and turns in the series of battles in the Northern Expedition last year, and the main reason was not whether the combat effectiveness of the army was strong or not, but whether the distribution of the troops of the Wang Division on the entire Hebei battlefield had reached the optimal allocation, and the biggest factor supporting the deployment of troops was whether the logistical conditions could be achieved.

At the very least, if there is no strong support from the logistical aspect, after October last year, the royal divisions of Hebei will need to shrink and reduce consumption, and there will be no more strategic advantages locked in by the Central Route Army to capture Xiangguo, the Eastern Route Army to Chen Bing Dongwu City, and the direct threat to Xindu of the Qianguo.

Otherwise, the predicament faced by the Hurun army on the Guangping side earlier will be extended to the entire Northern Expedition in this winter.

Although Xingtai has made a lot of preparations for this Northern Expedition, the logistical support it can provide can only meet the needs of the frontal battlefield. However, the overall outbreak of the Jiangdong Wu people in the past year has almost transported the people's financial resources accumulated in the land of Sanwu in the past few years to the battlefield in Hebei.

If we talk about history in later generations, we may call this phenomenon the awakening of the collective will of the people of Sanwu as a whole, who are no longer just lazy to join the general trend of China by virtue of the great river and natural dangers, and already have a clear consciousness and goal of being the pioneer and mainstream of the world.

If we only rely on the mobilization power possessed by Xingtai, it is impossible to achieve this step at all, but it will be suspected of using all kinds of resources to catch fish and use force in a reckless manner. For example, the martial arts of the Han Dynasty have become the world-famous martial arts that this nation is talking about and proud of for the next two thousand years, but at that time, it was so poor that a generation of martial emperors had to turn around and rest with the people.

The opening of the Han Emperor can be said to be the ultimate embodiment of the will of the country or the king, and the Qin Emperor's unification of Zhuxia is called the peak of martial affairs. And this top-down expression of will has a common characteristic, that is, it ignores the demands of the bottom.

However, this time, the support of the people of Jiangdong, especially Sanwu, for the Taipei Expedition was an expression of their will from the bottom up. In fact, this is a situation that Xingtai, including Shen Zhezi himself, is not very happy to see, Xingtai has always sought stability, and the enthusiasm of the people of Sanwu is a kind of loss of control to a certain extent.

Xingtai exists as a hegemonic government, and it can even be said to be the prototype of the political system of the new dynasty in the future, in addition to the main governance responsibilities, there is also overall planning, running-in and balance. If any of them is too powerful, it will cause the tilt and instability of the chassis.

And Shen Zhezi, as the controller of Xingtai, Xingtai is not only a tool for him, but also his support. When Xingtai no longer has balance and stability, but has a strong expression of demand, it will in turn control his will, making him become the executor of Xingtai's will appeal.

Therefore, when forming the Xingtai, Shen Zhezi was also consciously balanced and tolerant, and there was no special treatment for the Sanwu family, and even to a certain extent, there was a certain degree of suppression and alienation, and few Wu people held important decision-making positions.

Because since he came to this world, Shen Zhezi has realized that the Wu people have a very strong conservative and self-sufficient complex, including his father Shen Chong, and his lifelong wish is nothing more than to recreate Eastern Wu and divide Jiangdong.

This kind of psychology is really understandable, to be honest, even from the moral level. As long as you are immersed in the scene, you can feel the attitude of China and North Korea towards Jiangdong people, and no Jiangdong person will feel pity for the sinking of China and North Korea, but it is a pity that these Chinese and Korean crown and belt families died not clean enough, and they actually retreated to Jiangdong to make a fortune.

In view of this, when Shen Zhezi integrated various resources in Jiangdong, he talked less about morality and more about benefits for the Wu people. Based only on the attitude of China and the DPRK towards the Jiangdong people, arrogating morality will only be a blow to oneself. Jun regards his ministers as enemies, and his ministers are like enemy countries, and it is okay to say that Wu people are narrow, if they say that Wu people should destroy their families and relieve difficulties, and fight to the death in the Northern Expedition, they are really not afraid of being thundered by the sky.

Shen Zhezi can understand the psychology of the villagers, but he doesn't agree with it. Since morality cannot be boasted of, it simply became a transaction, because after going north, he has been paying attention to the distribution of benefits.

At the same time, he was worried that the villagers' conservative self-sufficiency would suddenly attack and restrain him, and he did not dare to grant the villagers more political authority. Even because he was worried that the villagers would play some tricks in yellow robes and forcing them to do their jobs, they rarely returned to Jiangdong in recent years.

But facts have proved that it is better to block everything than to be sparse, and when a certain demand is about to come out and cannot be faced, it will definitely explode in its own way. For example, the Chinese and North Korean elites ignored the growing power of the northern Hulu and still indulged in their own internal power struggle, and as a result, they were directly overthrown to the ground.

However, this outburst of the Sanwu villagers was still a good thing for Shen Zhezi, at most it only caught him off guard. In fact, there is another reason for the expression of the will of the villagers this time, that is, he is unwilling to ascend the throne and officially take the throne.

Similar to the tone of persuasion, it was already noisy a few years ago, especially in the Wu group, there was a huge voice, but it was only because of Shen Zhezi's super prestige and the control of Xingtai that it did not flood out of control, so that Shen Zhezi could also calmly arrange the Northern Expedition.

Replacing the Jin court and establishing his own empire is already a necessary way in front of Shen Zhezi.

But the reason why he has not taken this step for a long time, from a selfish point of view, Shen Zhezi feels that once he becomes the emperor, it will at least mean an affirmative summary of his own stage, and he does not feel that he has such qualifications now. The Northern Expedition has not yet been completed, and the Shi clan is still in the court, rashly claiming the title of emperor, which is not worthy of the name, which will only make him descend to the level of Shi Hu and Cheng Han Li, and he cannot talk about the co-lord of the world.

From the point of view of public heart, as a powerful minister of the southern country, since he has ascended to the pole and got his wish, should he give an explanation to the people who follow him?

How to adjust the power and how to distribute the interests are not things that can be finalized in a short period of time, and even if there is a mature plan that has been recognized by all parties, it will inevitably take a certain amount of time to run in.

Today, he is neither Shi Hu's exhaustive mountain, pretending to be honorable, and urgently needs to maintain stability, nor is he suddenly rich and eager to prove his success to the world.

The dialogue between Ran Min and Murong Jun in history is quite worth touching. One is a servant who enjoys the grace and devours the master, and the other is a remote Yidi with a human face and a beast's heart, either arrogant or usurped, accusing each other, which can be called a joke.

However, Shen Zhezi's intentions may not be understood by the villagers. In the old years, the six counties of Jiangdong can already be respected, and if more than half of them are dying today, they deserve their name! Even for some Jiangdong old people, they will feel that the current situation of the Xingtai is too powerful, and the stalls are too big to make them lose the position of the mainstream of the new dynasty, thus hindering their use.

Of course, this was just Shen Zhezi's previous worries, so he was reluctant to give the villagers more right to speak, and even refused to talk about it. But now the people of Wuzhong Township have proved to him with facts that Wu Township is brave and brave, not afraid of the world's prying eyes, and is not afraid of exhausting the characters, and will also seek to become Jiangdong!

If Shen Zhezi was the leader of the Wu people before, leading the Wu people to strive in the world, then the performance of the villagers this time really made him feel the steadfastness of being backed by a strong backing. In the future, no matter where he goes, the Sanwu folks will be his staunchest supporters!

The awakening of the will of the Wu people does not lie in the fact that they have comprehended the mighty national righteousness of Zhu Xia, but the strong confidence that the three Wu are one and unite as one.

And Shen Zhezi, whether as the leader of the Wu people or the future lord of the world, should give enough face and correct guidance to such a powerful force under his command, instead of presetting a position in advance and pinching the root cause with the result.

In the past, he called himself a prophet of the world, wanted to unify the north and the south, and was determined to go on the Northern Expedition, but now he has been taught a vivid lesson by the villagers. I haven't seen you for a long time, and the folks are no longer the Wuxia Amon of the past!

Gu Chang didn't know the many feelings in the general's heart, and when he heard the general's tone of self-reproach, he said cautiously: "Jiangdong has accumulated a lot of spiritual beauty for generations, so that he can rise up in this world, the general's humane leader, extraordinary and refined, if you want to make great achievements, how can you be idle." The villagers are willing to look forward to it, but they only hate to be able to do their best to help the king, but to gather small into big, accumulate and go far, and wish the general to stride forward bravely and worry-free! ”

"If it were in previous years, I would only be ashamed to receive such a great reputation. However, Gu Jun has gone north now, and I want to encourage you and encourage each other, and I must not be humiliated and disappointed. ”

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he pointed at Gu Chang and laughed.

When Gu Chang heard this, he couldn't help but be even more excited: "The general is forging ahead, and the humble heel is in the back, I am willing to ask the military order to police himself, if he can't make Weizhou safe and secure within the year, he will hang his head under the banner and punish him!" ”

"Haha, if that's the case, then Hebei Shiyong will have no color. Two years, the year after tomorrow, I will go here again, and then it will be a reward or a punishment, but I will not be a pretending to be others. ”

Gu Chang had all the twists and turns this time, Du He had already reported it truthfully, and Shen Zhezi had previously knocked on the plan to express his displeasure. It is good that the villagers are enthusiastic, but the overall restoration of Hebei is the most important state event for the future of Taiwan or the new dynasty, and it is still necessary to engage in a struggle of will, even if the direction is good.

The villagers put on that posture of helping Gu Chang, Shen Zhezi really couldn't say anything, in the final analysis, it was the unscrupulous style of Jiangdong that his father brought up, which was too aggressive. However, it is gratifying that the villagers can enthusiastically participate in the reconstruction and construction of Hebei, instead of just being trapped in Jiangdong and hoarding goods.

In fact, even if there was no Gu Chang, Shen Zhezi also planned to invest a large number of people from Sanwu Township in Hebei, and correspondingly, the Hebei people would be sent south in large numbers to continue to promote the continuous development of more remote areas in the south of the Yangtze River.

For example, after the general Zhang Tan stepped down as the Taishou of Wei County, Shen Zhezi had several interviews with him, and it was basically determined that he would serve as the assassin of Xiangzhou, and join the conquest of Chenghan in Shuzhong after the Hebei incident.