In the past, when facing a mighty city like Jinyang, there was no good way except for siege, attack, and flooding... When Guo Wei pacified Li Shouzhen, it took a year to build the city repeatedly and tired his opponents, and then he succeeded in one fell swoop.

Now, after possessing gunpowder, the Great Zhou's offensive came from the sky like the water of the Yellow River, unstoppable.

Before the war, Chai Rong had a serious assessment and had to pay at least 50,000 people, and it took half a year to take Jinyang. However, so far, it took less than a month, and the death toll was only 8,000!

"This is not something that can be done by human power!" Wang Pu, a Hanlin scholar, exaggerated in an exaggerated tone.

Ye Hua shrugged, "What's this? If you can study artillery, maybe a person can break the city wall without losing it!"

"What?" Wang Pu suddenly became crazy. His eyes widened and he reached out to grab Ye Hua, "Marquis, what is the artillery? Have you hidden your own secrets?"

Ye Hua reached out and pulled Wang Pu's claws aside.

"Mr. Wang, what are you anxious about? The gunpowder is fired on the crossbow on the bed, using the power of the bow. What if the power of the gunpowder is used to fire gunpowder? Is it more powerful?"

Wang Pu was very quick-witted, "Yes, but what should I do?"

"It's very simple. It's just use a barrel to ignite the gunpowder and push the projectile out." Ye Hua said with a relaxed tone.

"Simple, then why not do it?" Wang Pu asked with his eyes wide open!

"Mr. Wang, what do you think you are using to make a tube?"

"Can you use... bamboo tubes?"

"Yes, but the bamboo tube cannot withstand the high temperature and will burn."

"Then, then use iron!"

"The iron is too hard and easy to explode."

"What should I use?" Wang Pu's speech was frustrated.

Chai Rong frowned and suddenly said, "Ye Qing, do you want to use copper?"

"Your Majesty's wiseness, indeed copper is the best choice!"

"No!" Wang Pu was anxious and said with red eyes: "The temple uses copper to cast Buddha statues. Your Majesty was angry and destroyed the Buddha. How can you use copper?"

Ye Hua was furious, "Wang Pu, what do you mean? Are Buddha statues useless? Cannons are powerful weapons to siege cities. They can reduce the casualties of countless soldiers, help me sweep the world, assist Your Majesty, and open up a foundation that will never be defeated. You can stop such an important thing, and your heart will be punished!"

"I am loyal, and the sun is clear!" Wang Pu suddenly turned to Chai Rong and advised: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that no matter what, you can't use copper. It's really a waste! It's too wasteful!"

Chai Rong did not comment, and his eyes fell on the head of Jinyang City.

"Ye Qing, go and make some artillery. If it is really powerful, even if it is consumed, I will do whatever I want!"

Chai Rong set the tone with one sentence. From this moment on, the war turned into a veritable money-burning game. Wang Pu was deeply frustrated.

The wine pond and meat forest are the image that the ancients thought that the foolish monarch should have after exhausting their imagination. Wang Pu felt that the ancients were too conservative, and the pair of monarchs and ministers in front of him were a model of spending money!

Ye Hua was full of confidence and Chai Rong was full of expectations. Wang Pu held his head in pain. Just as the king and his ministers were planning their own, Chen Shi was covered in blood and carried a prisoner in one hand. He quickly walked to Chai Rong and fell heavily to the ground.

"Your Majesty, I have captured the fake prime minister Guo Wuwei, please let your Majesty do it!"

Chai Rong glanced at the person on the ground and suddenly his eyes lit up, "It's you?"

Ye Hua also stared at this person, wanting to laugh three times. There is no way. This person looks really funny. His forehead is wide and big, just like Li Yu's, but his mouth is very sharp, his upper lip is protruding, pressing against his lower lip, like a bird's beak.

Just because of this look, it would be a waste of materials if you don’t become a comedian.

"Your Majesty, do you know this person?"

Chai Rong nodded, "Ye Qing, Mr. Wang, you see that he looks strange and has a strange name. His surname is Guo, his name is Guo Wuwei, and his name is Wuwei!"

"puff!"

Ye Hua directly sprayed, both of them came from the Tao Te Ching. Look at the Taishi Feng, who is called Feng Dao, and he is called himself. This person is named Wuwei and has a word of Wuwei. This is the first time Ye Hua has seen the word of three characters!

He looks strange and has a strange name. I really don’t know what strange things this person has done?

Chai Rong chuckled and said, "When the late emperor attacked Li Shouzhen in Hezhong rebelled, this man was praying for the visit. His father treated him warmly and asked him a lot of things. I remember that he was talking and speaking out loud at that time. It was very difficult. His father once wanted to reuse this person!"

"Oh?" Ye Hua was puzzled: "Why is that useless?"

Chai Rong laughed, "He talked so much at that time, and finally the emperor asked him what to do. He told his father that he was a minister of the Han Dynasty and had heavy troops outside, and that he was a magnanimous person, not to be careful of the way to avoid distant thoughts! How could he use the emperor?"

Ye Hua couldn't help but laugh without any image.

Imagine that Liu Xuande visited the cottage three times, and Zhuge Liang talked with him a lot. Finally, Liu Bei asked him what to do? Zhuge Liang said that Cao Cao cleared the six directions and swept the eight desolates, all the people were in love with him, and all the people were admiring him... You are not his opponent, so you should surrender quickly.

Believe it or not, if Zhuge Liang said so, Liu Bei would guarantee that he could strangle him to death, and there would be no more visits to the cottage in the world!

So if you want others to reuse it, no matter whether it can be realized or not, you must come up with a copy of Longzhong.

But Guo Wuwei was not the case. This person told Guo Wei that you are a minister of the Han Dynasty, holding a large army, and recruiting talents everywhere. This is ulterior motives, not a way to make a plan. In other words, he actually advised Guo Wei not to recruit talents... Well, Boss Guo is doing good and drove Guo Wuwei away first.

After being disappointed, Guo Wuwei had to go to Hedong. Liu Chengjun valued his talent very much and recommended him to serve as a counselor. Later, he was promoted to Grand Secretary and became the prime minister of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Unfortunately, as soon as he became prime minister, the people of the Great Zhou came, and he became Chai Rong's prisoner!

There was obviously an opportunity for Xuan Ma to worship the prime minister, but this person abandoned him like a piece of shoes. If there was a medicine for regret in the world, I was afraid that Guo Wuwei would buy 10,000 tablets!

Even Wang Pu couldn't help laughing. He took the initiative to join him back then. In terms of talent, Guo Wuwei was not necessarily worse than him, and his reputation was even higher than him... Now two people, one standing and the other kneeling, so in the ups and downs of the officialdom, you must not only have the ability, but also have vision. It is more important to follow the right person than anything else!

"Scholar Guo, Jinyang City is broken, and Liu Chong's old man died in the morning. As his minister, what do you want to say?" Wang Pu smiled and said, "You have been wrong twice, so you can't make the mistake again the third time, right?"

Yes, I abandoned Guo Wei and defected to Hedong, making mistakes again and again. If I haven’t thought it through this third time, it will be really hopeless.

Guo Wuwei lay on the ground, his body trembled violently, and suddenly burst into tears. His mouth was sharp and his voice was very sharp and unpleasant.

"The saint is above, and the criminal minister has long wanted to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. The situation in Hedong is in the belly of the criminal minister. What the saint wants to know, just ask, the criminal minister knows everything!"

Chai Rong raised his eyebrows, "Okay, I ask you, how many Dingkous are there in Hedong?"

"There are more than 27,500 households, of which less than 50,000 are born. After experiencing this battle, I still don't know how many people can be left!" Guo Wuwei's answer was very straightforward.

Chai Rong, Ye Hua, Wang Pu, all three were stunned!

More than 20,000 households! This number is only one tenth of that of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty!

And it’s not about this battle. I’m afraid that there are not even 20,000 households after real statistics. You should know that there are twelve states in Hedong, which are roughly equivalent to the central and northern Shanxi in later generations. Although I dare not say it is a prosperous place, it is also prosperous and merchants are prosperous. Now there are only such people left, which is simply unimaginable!

Guo Wuwei knelt on the ground and cried, "Sage, Liu Chong's rebels sent hundreds of beauties at once to please the Khitan. In the past few years, he plundered the Hedong area, and there was only a few left. Not only did the population disappear, but the food in the treasury was gone. The entire Jinyang was just an empty city!"

Chai Rong's scalp was tingling when he heard this. In order to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, he mobilized 200,000 troops and countless generals. You should know that more than a year ago, the treasury was empty in order to restore Youzhou. After Chai Rong ascended the throne, he even wanted to destroy the Buddhist temple and use the collected bronze ware to make up for the loss.

This time, he first used troops to Youzhou, and then attacked the Northern Han Dynasty, and the military expenditure was like flowing water.

In the end, there was no people, no money, and no food... How did Chai Rong reward the three armies and how did he clean up the mess?

"Guo Wuwei, tell me the truth, is the city really empty?"

Guo Wuwei cried, "How dare the criminals deceive Your Majesty? Not to mention Jinyang, the whole Hedong is like this. In the past, half of the output of the twelve prefectures had to be given to the Khitan, and the rest could be used to raise soldiers and officials! Although the criminals were named prime minister, their annual salary was only 300 jin... Such a little money would not even be full of an eagle or a tiger!"

After hearing Guo Wuwei's words, Ye Hua nodded secretly. He killed from Daizhou to Jinyang. What he saw along the way was indeed as Guo Wuwei said. The plundering and war had completely destroyed the economy of Hedong. They were about to take over the Qianli of the Pigeon!

There is nothing left in Hedong except the land!

No wonder this time the attack on Jinyang was so smooth. It’s not that Liu Chong didn’t want to fight to the death, but that he was so desperate that he couldn’t do anything.

...

"Hehe, Guo Rong, I lost, I lost to you father and son... But I won't leave anything for you! No!" The old guy was beaten back to the palace. He held a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, igniting fire everywhere. Not long after, the palace was trapped in a sea of ​​fire. The palace maid and eunuch ran away in a hurry, like a frightened little beast, a headless fly... Liu Chong laughed to the sky, he stretched out his sleeve, wiped a sword, and then crossed his neck.

Suddenly, Liu Chong remembered that he still had two grandsons!

"You should die too!"

Liu Chong used his sword to force Liu Jien and Liu Jiyuan, "Hurry, die for me! Die!"
Chapter completed!