Chapter 9 Section 9 Brain Teasers

Looking back at the entire "Battle of Jingnan", Zhu Di's rapid success is somewhat incomprehensible.After all, Emperor Jianwen was the righteous son of heaven, and Zhu Di was a rebellious army. He raised an army of 800 people and fought against the entire empire with one corner.However, in just three years, the world was turned upside down. Emperor Jianwen, who had justice, fame, imperial financial power and military resources, lost to an out-and-out traitor. This is really puzzling.In fact, this is a logical necessity. On the surface, Zhu Di launched a rebellion, which was extremely rebellious and immoral, and everyone got it and punished him.However, the moral force of righteousness under heaven is based on interests.Without the backing of interests, any moral precepts can only be empty slogans.The struggle between Zhu Di and Emperor Jianwen was neither a life-and-death struggle among ethnic groups, nor a major adjustment of the interest pattern within the entire society, but an internal struggle at the top of the ruling group.Who wins and who loses does not affect the interests of the vast majority of members of society.The ministers all understood very well that the world belongs to the old Zhu's family anyway, as long as the master's surname is Zhu.As for ordinary people, they don't even care whether your surname is Zhu or not. They will be obedient citizens to whoever has the strength, and they will call you long live as long as they have a bowl of rice to eat.

Therefore, from the very beginning, not many generals of the southern army were willing to work hard for the internal struggle of Lao Zhu's family.Especially after the King of Yan fought several big victories in a row, not many people seriously resisted, and more people paid most attention to observing the direction of the wind, ready to fall to the stronger side at any time.King Yan attacked Zhangde, and the guard Zhao Qing refused to surrender at first, but he said to King Yan, after you enter the capital, just give me a note that is two fingers long, and I will rush over obediently. Fate is obedience, but I dare not surrender yet.This represents the position of quite a few people.

People with a discerning eye quickly saw that King Yan had a better chance of winning.It is very interesting to compare the counselor groups of King Yan and Emperor Jianwen.King Yan didn't like scholars very much, but paid attention to recruiting some strange people, so the advisers around him were mostly monks and warlocks, who looked nondescript, but in fact these people concentrated the wisdom of the people. Come on, I don't know how many times better. Although the little emperor and his counselors are full of economics, they are actually resourceful and indecisive.Emperor Jianwen entrusted Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng with the task of reducing the feudal vassal, and devoted all his energies to the restoration of the old system. He spent all his time discussing with Fang Xiaoru how to change the official system according to the "Zhou Guan", reduce the punishment, and govern the country with benevolence and righteousness. Discuss how to implement well fields.These nerds are so darn cute.At the beginning of the war, Zhu Di also put on a steady and steady posture, step by step.His idea is to conquer the world step by step from north to south.However, in Shandong, he met the tenacious resistance of Tie Xuan and Sheng Yong, two of the most capable generals under Emperor Jianwen. They fought for several months, suffered heavy losses, and could not move forward.

At this time, Zhu Di suddenly came up with a brain teaser idea: Why do you have to deal with the Southern Army in Shandong?If you go around Shandong and take Yingtian directly, and sit on the throne of the emperor, won't the world be determined by the spread of the law?As soon as this idea appeared, Zhu Di immediately regained his excitement from the failure.He regrouped his army and headed south via the junction of Shandong and Henan, breaking through Dong'e and Wenshang, all the way like a broken bamboo. Passing through Xuzhou and passing through Linhuai, Yan's army's strategy is to never fight a tough battle, attack if they can, and go around if they can't.Soon, soldiers came to the city of Yingtian.