During the march towards Fengjie, Zhu Youlang learned from the old man that there were many villages like them that built villages and protected themselves in Sichuan.

People in troubled times have a cheap life than dogs, and the city walls have changed their king's flag. Maybe the surname in Sichuan will be Zhu the moment before, and the surname will be Zhang the moment later.

Of course, after a long journey, Sichuan's surname is Zhu now...

In order to survive, ordinary people often build villages to protect themselves by themselves.

In this way, even if someone wants to attract men, coolies, and masters, they have to think carefully.

A man is angry and bleeding ten steps.

Maybe they can't change the results in the end, but they can still do it by pulling some people.

In the eyes of those big men, the slightest common people like them are as humble as ants. Only by lying together to keep warm can those noble people be slightly afraid.

But if you get into a big bandit, it is impossible to resist just a few hundred people.

It was because the old man and the others wanted to join the army.

Although joining the army in this troubled times is a life-threatening death, at least there is still hope of survival. If you continue to stay, you will only be a dead end.

They made the most realistic choice when the two powers were in conflict with each other.

Zhu Youlang also thought about acquiring these martial village villagers along the way, but it was still too unrealistic to think about it carefully.

The Northern Expedition Army's food and grass are allocated in a fixed quota, and it's okay to add hundreds of people. If thousands or tens of thousands of people are added, it will definitely accelerate the consumption of food and grass, which will increase the risk of attacking Chongqing.

The battle in Chongqing was a key battle that Zhu Youlang planned for a long time, and there was no way to lose anything.

The same thing is said, saving ten or a hundred people is worse than saving the world and the world.

As a king, it is great benevolence to put the world first.

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I have to say that the scenery in Sichuan is still very beautiful.

It was mid-spring, with red flowers, green willows, green grass and green trees.

Zhu Youlang rode forward on a horse and felt a little better when he saw the picturesque scenery.

"Your Majesty, when Mr. Wolong was stalking Ma Shuzhong, what he had always thought about was the plan of the Northern Expedition?"

At some point, Li Dingguo came up and was only half a horse behind Zhu Youlang.

"It should be like this."

Zhu Youlang still highly respects Zhuge Liang.

Reconstruct internally and externally, consolidate government and stability, report to the country, and safeguard the common people.

Zhuge Liang is almost a perfect person.

But precisely because he was a perfect man, he seemed so miserable and so sad that he failed to settle the Central Plains and restore the Han Dynasty.

It is said that regret is beautiful, but in Zhu Youlang's opinion, regret is not considered beautiful.

"The strength of Shu Han is still a little weaker."

Zhu Youlang shook his head.

In fact, among the Three Kingdoms, Shu Han is the weakest.

Not to mention comparing with Cao Wei, even Sun Wu can't compare with Sun Wu.

This is determined by geographical location.

Cao Wei had the entire north. At that time, the north was still the political and economic center.

On the contrary, the south is full of wilderness, far from the prosperity of the world during the Ming Dynasty.

Relatively speaking, Jingzhou is still relatively prosperous.

After losing Jingzhou, Shu Han lacked food and money, he basically had no capital to compete for the world. Zhuge Liang made several northern expeditions, and all his efforts were only to do his best to do his best, and more so was he helpless.

The current situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty is so similar to that in Shu Han, and it is even worse.

After all, there is no one who can even find a person who can join the clan and even the clan.

If you want to not become a tragic hero in the eyes of others, you must expand your territory as much as possible.

Huguang must be obtained, and the prerequisite for taking Huguang is to take Chongqing first.

From this perspective, Zhu Youlang's vision is still somewhat similar to Zhuge Liang.

"But I believe that the Ming Dynasty will definitely have a different ending from the Shu Han."

Zhu Youlang held the reins of the horse with one hand and held the whip with one hand to point the front, saying, "King of Jin, I have failed and won this battle. I must win this battle!"

The more disadvantaged the party needs to gamble and fight.

There is nothing to lose for the Ming Dynasty.

If you can win Chongqing, you can continue to fight. If you can't win, you will die slowly like Shu Han.

In this time and space, Zhu Youlang hopes that he can create some differences.

He believed in miracles, and miracles were created by each of their monarchs and ministers with their hands.

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"King of Jin, if you want to win Hanzhong in the future, how much chance do you think you have to win?"

Since we talked about Zhuge Liang, Zhu Youlang instinctively thought of Hanzhong.

Hanzhong is not far from Sichuan. If Hanzhong is captured, might it be an option to further seek Guanzhong?

Unexpectedly, Li Dingguo smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, the Eastern Barbarians have heavy troops in Hanzhong. Li Guoying, the governor of Pseudo-Sichuan and Shaanxi, hoarded all the most elite troops here, and it is probably difficult to attack. Besides, even if Hanzhong is captured, it is difficult to attack Guanzhong in large numbers. Food and grass supply is a big problem, and the transportation loss along the way is too great."

After a moment of pause, Li Dingguo sighed: "Guanzhong is not the same as before. In the past, those who won Guanzhong won the world, but now Guanzhong is a drag."

There is no problem if you think about Li Dingguo's words. In the Han and Tang dynasties, Chang'an was both a political center and an economic and cultural center.

In this case, Guanzhong has a very strategic significance, and countless regimes who wanted to settle the Central Plains regarded seizing Guanzhong as the top priority.

Shu Han is such a regime.

But since the Song Dynasty, the scene of the eight waters surrounding Chang'an in Guanzhong is no longer there.

Long-term drought and rain caused poor crops to be harvested, and they could not be irrigated and transported by canals. Gradually, Chang'an became lonely. On the contrary, Luoyang's status improved.

When the Ming Dynasty was established, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also considered moving the capital to Xi'an and sent the crown prince Zhu Biao to inspect it himself.

But the matter ended up in the end, probably because Zhu Yuanzhang and his son felt that Xi'an was no longer enough to serve as the capital at this time.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Guanzhong became even more desolate.

Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng are both from Guanzhong, and Li Dingguo is naturally no exception.

Why are there so many giant thieves in Guanzhong? Of course it is because of poverty.

If the poor can’t get rid of the blame, and if the poor change their children and eat, they will naturally have to reverse the situation.

After all, survival is human instinct.

Sun Chuanting raised a Qin army and wished he could pay for the money, but he could only raise three thousand people with all his strength.

Isn't this telling the problem?

In the late Ming Dynasty, Guanzhong was so poor that he could not even make money even if he digs three feet into the ground.

Perhaps it was because the image of Guanzhong or Chang'an in history was too glorious, so Zhu Youlang always unconsciously substituted it.

It seems that it is indeed not a wise move to seize Guanzhong.

Li Dingguo was originally from Guanzhong, so he naturally would not deliberately belittle his hometown. Even he said this, proving that Guanzhong is indeed not of great value.

Now the Ming Dynasty has no fault tolerance rate, and it must keep winning to turn the tables. As long as you can’t stop breathing, you will really be buried.

The best strategy is to capture Huguang and follow the Yangtze River to capture the Yangtze River.

This is also good. At least everyone will not leave room for fantasy and can fight to the end.

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