(Today's ticket mobilization, the red ticket breaks 12,000, and a chapter is added in the early morning)

Gao Zongting is also a person who thinks very highly of himself, Lin Jian invited him to join Huaidong, and entrusted him with the important task of the canonical order, but he did not give in.

After sitting down, the more Lin Jian confided the core secret, the more uneasy Gao Zongting felt in his heart.

Before Li Zhuo went to Jiangning as the secretary of the military department, Gao Zongting went to Jiangning on behalf of Li Zhuo to observe the situation, and it was at that time that he noticed Lin Tie, and was the first to realize the extraordinary things that Lin Tie hid under the bad name of "swineherd". Since then, Gao Zongting has paid close attention to the rise of Lin Bin, and his relationship with Huaidong is also close, and he can speculate about the secrets of Huaidong that outsiders don't know, but Huaidong's hidden strength under the water is really in front of him, which still makes Gao Zongting scream.

As early as September last year, Lin Jian borrowed money from the Huaidong Qianzhuang established by Xincheng, and absorbed a large amount of rice and grain from the local government to prepare for a famine.

In the eyes of the world, Huaidong's influence only expanded dramatically after March this year.

In the name of the fake Qin Wang, he attacked the east and the west, and Huaidong rapidly expanded the total number of standing troops to nearly 70,000 in a very short time. The war in eastern Zhejiang lasted for two months, and in the later period of Huaidong, a standing army of about 50,000 troops and horses was maintained in eastern Zhejiang to conduct a military confrontation with the luxury family. Huaidong also secretly supported the Red Jacket Army, relieved the Huaisi Rebellion, and led the Zhao'an Liumin Army to prepare for the establishment of the Huaiyang Town Army. In June and July, 30,000 sturdy people were recruited from Huaisi and incorporated into the workers' camp, so that the scale of the workers' camp was restored to the level of about 80,000 people. Huaidong also completed the construction of the 300-mile-long Hanhai embankment during this period.

Behind all these things, it means a huge consumption of materials.

The Jinhai Grain Road has been interrupted since the beginning of February, which means that Huaidong will no longer be able to benefit from the Jinhai Grain Road from the beginning of February.

Gao Zongting previously speculated that the reason why Huaidong's power expanded sharply in the first half of the year and did so many things was mainly due to last year's grain reserves. At the same time, it is speculated that once Huaidong's grain reserves are exhausted, the momentum of expansion will be curbed, and relying only on the tax revenues of Hailing, Huai'an, and Mingzhou to maintain such a huge military garrison, it is easy to fall into the dilemma of being overstretched and lacking rice and grain.

However, the truth of the matter is that Huaidong's rice and grain reserves have never been less than 800,000 stones. And after being joined by the Jinhai forces, he provided materials equivalent to 400,000 rice grains for nearly 400,000 soldiers and civilians to move south, and Huaidong's rice grain reserves were even further increased to 1.4 million stone - Gao Zongting knew that his joining Huaidong was just icing on the cake, and Huaidong had already laid a solid foundation on the road of taking the world against the grain.

In the face of absolute strength, the role of stratagem will appear weak.

If Yanjing could have a reserve of one million stone rice and grain before the siege, even if the Jingying army was no longer in the climate, the final outcome of the Yanji war would most likely be that the Donghu people would withdraw from the pass after plundering.

Obviously, even if the Donghu people occupied Yanjing City, it would not be easy to completely control the situation in Yanji and Jin County.

"From what Zong Ting has seen, how long will it take for Yan Hu to completely control the northern land and restore the ability to use troops on a large scale in the Hehuai region?" Lin Jian asked.

"The governor often sighed when he was alive, and the two generations of the king of Donghu were both male kings, which was the greatest misfortune of Dayue in recent decades, and this is exactly the case," Gao Zongting sighed, "The king of Yu changed his position as emperor in Yanjing, and he granted amnesty to the world and reduced taxes for three years in the area affected by the war." On the surface, Yanhu was unable to collect a little money and grain from Yanji and other places in three years, but in fact, the king of Yuwang had a very good mind - Yanji and other places had already been disabled, and without three years of recuperation, Yanhu was also extremely difficult to collect money and grain from ordinary people. The people are poor, hungry, and even easy to eat, but it does not mean that the squires and wealthy households have no food in their hands - in the southern and central Jinxi regions, the devastation of the war is not serious, and the gentry and gentry who live between the docks and the bases have a large amount of rice and grain in their hands, but the people have no silver in their hands, so they don't think that these gentry will give them rice and grain for nothing......"

Gao Zongting continued: "...... Not to mention Jin County, like the eastern Hebei region, the damage caused by the war is not as serious as imagined. Donghu people Chongguan nine years to break the border into the Kou, the main attack is Yannan and the west of Shandong, ten years after the spring of the captives through the east of Hebei from Linyu out of the pass, but in the east of Hebei there is no large-scale siege of the city and land, the broken dock fort is not few. However, due to the fact that most of the generals of Jizhen came from eastern Hebei, and many of the generals of Jizhen were wealthy gentry who occupied land in eastern Hebei counties and invaded their fields and even passed through the townships, so the imperial court still reduced the one-year land tax of eastern Hebei counties after the war. I estimate that even at this time, there is still some surplus grain in the counties of eastern Hebei...... The higher the price of grain in Gyeonggi, the more the gentry in Gyeonggi and the counties in eastern Hebei held the grain in their hands, and the more the grain merchants hoarded. The weak and incompetent court, including the governor, has long been powerless to change this situation. ”

“…… For Yan Hu, the most important thing at the moment is not to worry about not being able to raise food, but to let these wealthy gentry take out the food without causing a fierce confrontation," Gao Zongting said, "Zhang Xie surrendered, and the king also promised not to loot the city before entering the city, and the officials and generals were all appointed according to the pre-war Houlu, but it is not known how much silver the inner court and the children of the royal clan can loot for Yan Hu, only the Miyatian Huangzhuang near Gyeonggi and under the jurisdiction of the inner court has no less than one million acres of fertile land - Yan Hu Ruo used officials and gold and silver to buy both prongedIt should be able to raise a lot of grain in eastern Hebei and southern Jinnan. ”

"Of course, even the displaced people will not survive the famine year without surplus food after returning to their hometowns," Gao Zongting continued, "When the captives come, the people flee, in addition to gold, silver and necessary dry food, many people will bury the grain that they can't take away, and they may not all be found by the captives, and most of them can use this grain to survive the famine year when they return to their hometowns—for us, the most optimistic estimate is that after the autumn of next year, Yanhu will be able to restore the ability to use troops on a large scale in the Hehuai region; In fact, it is very likely that after the Yellow River freezes this winter, Yanhu will use troops against Hehuai......"

"The Hehuai defense line is still vulnerable at the moment, if it were me, I would not let go of this opportunity as long as it was possible." Lin Jian sighed softly.

"Mr. Gao, let me ask more, is it possible for Chen Zhihu to be used by Yan Hu?" Lin Xuwen asked.

Chen Zhihu fell into Sanhe alone, trapped to death for Tuan Tuan, there was no possibility of breaking through, Chen Zhihu died or surrendered, even if he surrendered, there were many situations. Lin Xuwen was afraid that after Chen Zhihu surrendered, he would die for the tiger - Chen Zhihu, as the head of the Five Tigers of Eastern Fujian, had far surpassed the other four during the period of guarding Datong and serving as the envoy of Henan.

On the Hehuai defense line, there was hardly a single general who could match Chen Zhihu.

Gao Zongting's expression was gloomy, and he said: "Chen Zhihu values grievances and grievances and ignores loyalty, if he doesn't know the truth about the death given by the commander, he may die in battle, and he will not yield to Hulu, but ...... I'm not sure. "Obviously, Yan Hu will send people into Sanhe to persuade him to surrender, and Gao Zongting can't predict what the outcome will be.

Lin Jian didn't care much about this, and it was too unnecessary to be afraid of one person and his morale would be greatly reduced. Chen Zhihu is an extremely sharp knife, and the key is to see whose hands it is in. Chen Zhihu guarded Datong or served as the envoy of Henan, and he seemed to be murderous and murderous, but in fact he did not show great wisdom to turn the situation around.

Speaking of the martial arts of the leader, Ning Zechen, Ao Canghai, Zhou Pu and others in Huaidong's department, and even Sun Zhuang, are not necessarily much worse than Chen Zhihu! And the female tiger of Huaiyang Liu Miaozhen should be able to give Chen Zhihu some hardships on the frontal battlefield.

Song Jia stood behind Lin Jian and interjected: "According to what the concubine has seen, even if Chen Zhihu can be used by Yan Hu, Yan Hu will also use him to find the Cao family!" ”

Song Jia's role by Lin Bin's side, Gao Zongting and Lin Xuwen naturally did not know, listening to Song Jia's opening to participate in the discussion, and in a word, Gao Zongting was also quite surprised, and said: "What Miss Song said is extremely true, Tao Chun guards the Qing River, and from the river Huai, it is Huaidong, which is inextricably linked with the original Eastern Fujian Army, and Yan Hu will not prevent Chen Zhihu from turning back in front of ......the battle."

It's easy to forget the time flies, and before you know it, you see the morning star rising in the sky.

Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting arranged to rest in other courtyards, and were about to say goodbye and leave, when Chen Huamian came in to inform Chen/Yuan Liang that they had come to Laizhou, and they had arrived at the Xiashan camp to see Lin Tie.

"It's really greedy enough to swallow elephants," Lin Jian patted the table angrily and stood up, pointed at Chen Hua's face and said, "If you go to reply, just say that I don't see him." ”

Without the support of Huaidong, it would be a fool's dream to support King Lu just by relying on the Gu family and the Liang family.

After Lin Jian arrived in Laizhou, although he sent people to comfort the Empress Dowager Liang and King Lu, it was only as a courtesy for his courtiers, and he did not contact Gu Siyuan and others, and he had already clearly stated Huaidong's position, that is, Gu Siyuan and them retreated in the face of difficulties, and did not make extraneous branches at this time.

Gu Siyuan took the Empress Dowager Liang and King Lu to Qingzhou, he himself did not come, but replaced Chen/Yuanliang over, after Chen/Yuanliang arrived in Laizhou, he didn't look at the time to come to ask for a meeting, naturally he made up his mind to persuade Lin Jian to agree to support King Lu as emperor together.

Lust for profit, profit for wisdom - Lin Jian didn't expect that after Gu Siyuan, Chen/Yuanliang and others set up the Qingzhou Army, they would hold on to this greed.

"My lord, I think it's better to see each other......" Gao Zongting suggested.

"Yes," Lin Xuwen also persuaded, "This may only be the thoughts of the people in Qingzhou, and Lord Jiangning Gu may not support it." It's better not to have a stiff relationship, or not to have a stiff relationship! ”

Lin Jian frowned, he really didn't have much confidence in Gu Wuchen.

Gao Zongting clasped his hands, and he also suspected that Gu Wuchen couldn't withstand the temptation of supporting the merits.

Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian went to Jiangning, in fact, they announced that Huaidong would no longer support Gu Wuchen in the struggle for power in Jiangning.

Gu Wuchen is the left servant of the military department, without the support of Huaidong, there is no opportunity to go to the cabinet to worship the prime minister - if Gu Wuchen wants to worship the prime minister, the only way to take this opportunity is to support King Lu as the emperor, and he will assist the government as a minister.

Counting the time when Gu Siyuan took Empress Dowager Liang and King Lu and his party to Qingzhou, they should have asked Gu Wuchen what he meant.

Gao Zongting suggested that Lin Jian not tear his face immediately, but to stabilize them and prevent them from taking risks.

Listening to the persuasion of Gao Zongting and Lin Xuwen, Lin Lian's face eased and asked Chen Hua's face: "Just Chen/Yuan Liang come alone?" ”

"There is also a person surnamed Zuo, who looks like a eunuch," Chen Huamian said, "Uncle Yang Pu also came over." ”

Yang Pu has been in Jiangning during this time, and he rushed over, which means that Gu Wuchen wants to pay homage to the prime minister by supporting him.

Lin Lian lowered his hand weakly, he didn't expect that it was Lin Gu's two families who had supported each other and walked through the ups and downs over the years, but he didn't expect to usher in such an ending.