Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3195: The feud between one family and two people

　　　beat the drum! 』

　　　March! 』

Zhu Zhi, standing on the battleship, waved his arms and urged Jiangdong Army to attack forward.

He can't completely ignore Zhu Ran's life and death, but he can't just care about Zhu Ran's life and death either.

 Zhu Zhi had two sons, technically four, but two of them died in infancy. Including Zhu Ran, he can be regarded as having three sons. In this way, it seems that there is no harm in missing Zhu Ran, but in fact it is turned upside down.

If the Zhu family loses Zhu Ran, they may simply change their surname to Sun!

 Zhu Zhi got a son from old age.

Originally, Zhu Zhi thought that he had no children, so he adopted Zhu Ran as his adopted son in order to inherit the mantle and inherit the family business. However, he did not expect that after accepting Zhu Ran, Zhu Cai was born...

 At this time, Zhu Ran was the elder and Zhu Cai was the young.

 Zhu's army is already familiar with Zhu Ran, and Zhu Ran does have some abilities. If there is a quarrel between the generals, Zhu's father and son will suddenly fight each other. You must know that the survival rate of children in the Han Dynasty was very low. Zhu Zhi did not dare to say that his children would definitely survive, so he did not dare to immediately throw Liu Feng aside like Liu Bei did.

As Zhu Cai grew up, Zhu Ran's proportion in the Zhu family's business increased instead of decreasing.

The reason is very simple. When Zhu Zhi got a son, he naturally pampered him a lot and could not discipline him. Therefore, Zhu Cai was in the dangerous environment of Jiangdong. When he was young, he was ignorant and did not know what to do. He only knew how to dance with a spear and a stick. Horse riding and archery!

Sun Quan, however, greatly praised this and even encouraged it...

As the eldest son of the Zhu family, he is not familiar with the classics and does not know the art of war. He only knows how to ride a horse, whip a whip, and charge into battle. Do you think you can defeat the world?

So can Zhu Zhi leave the Zhu family property in the hands of such a person?

 Further later, Zhu Zhi had a second biological son. I originally thought that this time I could teach him personally and train him well, but I didn't expect that the training was successful. It was indeed good. Then he was targeted by Sun Quan and asked Sun Ce's daughter to marry Zhu Zhi's second son.

So Zhu Zhi had two sons, one was brave and foolhardy and only knew how to act recklessly. The other was married to a princess and was considered half of the Sun family. They wanted to wait for the third son to become a talent, but they lost their luck. Zhu Zhi had two sons one after another. All died young.

Now Zhu Zhi is taking Zhu Ran on an expedition, on the one hand for the sake of the Zhu family's foundation, and on the other hand to further win over Zhu Ran. In troubled times, if there were no people like Zhu Ran to protect the Zhu family's family business, his two sons would probably destroy the Zhu family!

But now Zhu Ran is captured by the Sichuan and Shu army...

 This suddenly forced Zhu Zhi into a dilemma.

 If he continues to attack regardless, Zhu Ran will die with a high probability.

 This is obviously going to directly harm Zhu's interests.

If Zhu Ran is to survive, Zhu Zhi must stop this war.

 Letting the war stop would definitely be detrimental to the Sun family's great cause.

So, should we protect the Zhu family or the Sun family?

 Zhu Zhi must make a decision, and before making this decision, he must first do or determine something.

 Zhu Zhi stared at the battle line ahead.

 He is from Jiangdong, but he is also the head of the Zhu family.

 Which is more important or less important, the country or the family?

 People of different faiths naturally have different choices.

Nowadays, in the Han Dynasty, local governments are in charge of their own affairs. The orders of the court are given if they are there, and if they want to be without them, they are not. If the people have complaints, they are all because of orders from above. If they get benefits, they are in trouble. Those who talk about it are also loyal and honest. In fact, corrupt officials come one after another, and they are constantly being killed and eliminated...

 In such a situation, what kind of belief would Zhu Zhi have?

 What choice will you make?

The guard beside Zhu Zhi looked around and called in a low voice with some hesitation, as if he wanted to say something.

 But Zhu Zhi did not look back, and seemed to be shouting for a fierce battle.

 The guard was a little helpless. He felt that Zhu Zhi's current location was not very good and was a bit too close to the mountain city.

 From his perspective, above the mountain city...

not good!

　　　　　 Commander! Danger! 』

The guard shouted, he had seen stone bullets whizzing out from the mountain city and flying towards Zhu Zhi's ship.

 Zhu Zhi still didn't move.

 The next moment, stone bullets roared and landed around Zhu Zhilou's boat.

　　　Bang! 』

 Large splashes of water filled the scene.

 Zhu Zhi slowly fell down...

　　　　　 Commander! 』

　　　　　 Commander! 』

 The guards quickly stepped forward to protect Zhu Zhi.

Perhaps Zhu Zhi is eager to fight, or perhaps the mountain city has strengthened its firing range. Anyway, the stone bullets and kerosene bombs above the mountain city are now hitting the vicinity of Zhu Zhi's flagship as if they are free.

 The intertwining of water spray and flames is indeed a wonderful sight.

 The war drums of Jiangdong have stopped.

　　　　　 Commander! 』

 There was chaos on the flagship ship.

Zhu Zhi’s whole body was uninjured, but he was unconscious with his eyes closed.

Zhu's guards hurriedly carried Zhu Zhi into the cabin, and then without saying a word, they turned around and escaped from such a dangerous situation.

 When the flag is moved, the whole army will pay attention.

 The first to retreat was none other than the troops directly under the Zhu family led by Zhu Zhi.

There is naturally no problem with this matter. After all, most of the Chinese Army are members of the Zhu family, or the Jiangdong Military Academy, which has a close relationship with the Zhu family...

These troops directly under the Zhu family were closely related to the Zhu family. When they saw Zhu Zhi's fall, they directly withdrew their troops regardless of changes in the battlefield. For them, Zhu Zhi is their sky. Now that the sky has fallen, what could be more terrifying than the sky falling?

　　『Withdraw! 』

 Once the central army moves, the whole army will be involved.

In the water and land of Jiangdong, the drummers who were playing drums opened their mouths and turned their heads to look in the direction of Zhu Zhi's flagship. Seeing that the flag of Zhu Zhi's flagship was tilted and Zhu Zhi was missing from the ship, he couldn't help but loosen his grip and the drumstick fell down.

 As soon as the war drums stopped, all Jiangdong soldiers realized something was wrong and looked back.

 At this moment, it seemed that everyone’s movements had stopped for a few breaths.

"what's the situation? ! 』

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　…　　　

Jiangdong's Chinese army retreated violently, and the two stretched out wings naturally turned into trees without roots.

 Some of the smart ones yelled immediately, turned around and ran away, while others who were dull just stood there, at a loss.

 The army was defeated like a mountain.

 Without faith, if there are more people, there will be more balls?

　　　Ouch! Go ahead and kill him! The head is exchanged for military merit..."

At this time, Gan Ning was covered in blood from the fight and was still moving forward with his sword.

 In this battle, his line is the hardest.

The pressure from the Sichuan-Sichuan navy must be resisted entirely by him.

　　At the beginning of the war, he and his navy suffered losses due to losses, but others made a lot of gossip...

No matter in any dynasty, or in ancient or modern times, there will always be more people gossiping with their hands on their hips than people immersed in doing things.

 Gan Ning trained the Sichuan-Shu navy, didn’t he do his best? But soldiers don't just click and their proficiency will increase rapidly. When encountering Jiangdong soldiers who are good at water battles, isn't it normal for them to be suppressed?

But there are some people who will murmur, chatter, comment on this and that. Gan Ning seemed to say nothing on the surface, but there was always a fire hidden in his heart, and now it all burst out!

After this battle, as long as these Sichuan and Sichuan naval forces can survive, they will become the backbone of the future naval forces!

Above the mountain city, Zhuge Liang shook his head and looked at the Jiangdong Army, which had been defeated because of the fall of Zhu Zhi alone. He sighed, "The defeat of Jiangdong was not due to the lack of bravery of the soldiers and the lack of strong armor. It was the disadvantage of the system." 』

　　　What are the disadvantages of the system? ” asked Faping.

Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "The military system in Jiangdong is about conferring troops." After the death of the father, the son succeeds, and the elder brother eventually succeeds the younger brother. Starting from the Sun family, it was also the fault of the Sun family. 』

 The military conferment system is also called the "leading military system" or the "general military system". The monarch grants a fixed number of soldiers to his subordinates. After the father dies, the son succeeds, and the elder brother succeeds to the younger brother. It can basically be regarded as the family's private armed force. Although among the Three Kingdoms in history, it is common for generals from other countries to have tribes, but hereditary situations are rare. Compared with Wei and Shu, Soochow's military conferment system obviously has a stronger feudal flavor.

“In this case, doesn’t Jiangdong know the disadvantages? Faping saw that the danger of the current war situation had been lifted, the Jiangdong soldiers were fleeing and retreating, and the entire balance of victory had completely tilted towards Sichuan and Shu. His mood naturally relaxed, and he became interested in the political issues mentioned by Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "The lord has words, control, and politics." If politics are unclear, the system will be in darkness. The system in Jiangdong was caused by the unclearness of the master and the disloyalty of the ministers. It was not the fault of the people nor the soldiers. 』

Fa Ping handed over his hand and said, "Please give me some advice." 』

Zhuge Liang looked at Zhu Ran crying bitterly on the city wall, and couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

Just now Zhu's elite soldiers rushed to the city, wasn't it just to see with their own eyes whether Zhu Ran was really captured?

Zhu Zhi has such a decisive decision. On the one hand, he is very vicious and old-fashioned. On the other hand, he really shows the shortcomings of Jiangdong incisively and vividly...

However, these things were also within Zhuge Liang's expectations.

"The defeat of this battle is not the general's fault..." Zhuge Liang walked up to Zhu Ran, whose face was covered with snot and tears. "Since General Zhu knows how hard he has worked hard, he should do more of his filial piety... Come on, please, Young Master Zhu." General, go back and rest! 』

 Someone took Zhu Ran away.

Fa Ping looked on and seemed to have some insights.

　　　　　Since the Zhu family has... fallen, are you not afraid that... you will be punished by him? 』Fa Ping is a little hard to understand.

Zhuge Liang laughed and said, "Of course you will be punished if you punish the guilty, but the family's soldiers are in hand. It only hurts the skin and does not move the muscles and bones, so it doesn't matter... What's more..."

Zhuge Liang shook his head, "Jiangdong Sun Zhongmou has little talent, Zhou Gongjin is seriously ill, and there is chaos in South Vietnam... The Jiangdong clan had no intention of going on an expedition. Zhu Junli's actions played into the hands of the Jiangdong clan. Is there any reason to be closely related and help each other?" ? It's just the sound of thunder and the falling rain. 』

 Fa Ping suddenly realized.

 There is no doubt that any system is formulated by the superstructure. An effective system can never be negotiated by ordinary people through free deliberation. Historically, the alliance system of nomadic peoples has not developed any high degree of civilization for thousands of years, which shows that the free alliance is basically a gimmick. What really works under the skin of the alliance is the rule of the oligarchs.

At the beginning of the dynasty, perhaps the system would be biased towards the bottom, but as the number of the ruling class increases, more and more knife-wielders will take advantage of the people's interests. Eventually, the distribution of interests will inevitably tend to favor the ruling class, and the bottom will become more and more interested. harsh. A typical example is the Ming Dynasty. In its early days, there were still some systems that were close to the people. However, the further it developed, the more decadent the Ming Dynasty became. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was almost on the opposite side of the people. Even if the Qing army does not enter the pass, it will inevitably be defeated by the next dynasty.

Therefore, the Jiangdong military conferment system was originally a system that existed for the Sun family to survive in Jiangdong. What supported the military conferment system were the "Fengyi system" and the "Fuke system". The former is the financial source for recruiting private soldiers, and the latter is used to protect the personal expenses of generals who recruit soldiers. In fact, the realization of Jiangdong's military conferment system relied on the separation and concession of military and economic rights. In other words, conferring military generals achieved military, political and financial independence to a certain extent. Obviously, this poses serious risks to the rulers.

 Although such a system allowed Jiangdong to have three generations without any big troubles in a short period of time, it also led to major hidden dangers in Jiangdong's current situation. By transferring rights, the generals' enthusiasm was mobilized. It was a wartime policy and had a strong temporary nature. Therefore, after the regime is stabilized, countermeasures need to be taken to avoid the transformation of military generals into warlords and the transformation of local vassal towns.

 But it is easy to give it out, but difficult to take it back.

Moreover, this kind of thing is very difficult to control. As a result, in the later period of Sun Quan, he could not command the generals at all. Even Lu Su, who was imaged as an honest man in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, had more than 10,000 direct subordinates, which made Sun Quan really miss him. It's easy to wait until Lu Su dies, then he will show his pig likeness and let out a sigh...

Why does Lu Su have so many soldiers?

 That's because after Zhou Yu's death, Lu Su led his troops on his behalf.

 Why didn’t Zhou Yu dare to let Sun Quan lead his troops after he died?

 Everyone who understands this naturally understands.

 In order to control these generals and prevent them from unlimited expansion, Jiangdong's departments are almost completely privatized. The generals recruit themselves, raise their own money, are responsible for their own profits and losses, and bear all risks themselves. In this way, the soldiers recruited will definitely only listen to the generals, not Sun Shiwan's orders. In order to deal with these problems, Sun Quan was forced to invent many supporting measures, such as the fengyi system, the fuke system, etc. to restrict the generals. The fengyi system and the fuke system both came at the cost of transferring taxes and population. , and damaged Jiangdong's financial foundation in disguise.

  In other words, to patch one bug, create more bugs…

Looking at the development history of Jiangdong, everyone is vying to be the first to conquer Shanyue, but when it comes to foreign wars, it is a mess.

 The crusade against Shanyue means the expansion of private soldiers, but fighting against foreign countries means the consumption of private soldiers.

 Hence, in Jiangdong's foreign wars, not only did the large families in Jiangdong have a low desire to fight, but even the Huaisi Group often did not work hard in order to preserve its strength.

The shortcomings of the current system in Jiangdong have been fully exposed.

As soon as Zhu Zhi fell, the Chinese army retreated directly, leading to the defeat of the entire army...

 In any war, it is often only after the outcome is decided that a large number of casualties begin to occur.

 There will be victory and defeat first, and then there will be heavy casualties.

 So morale is very important.

Maybe Jiangdong really had a chance to capture Yufu, maybe just a little bit short, but it doesn't matter now. When the thread in the hearts of Jiangdong's soldiers was broken, Jiangdong's army, which was ten times the size of Yufu, began to attack on a large scale. Defeated…

 Once the hearts of the people are distracted, it has nothing to do with combat power or the number of people.

Suppose someone among the Jiangdong Army shouted at this time to gather their soldiers and counterattack the Yufu Sichuan and Shu defenders who were pursuing them across the board. With the numerical advantage, not only would they not be defeated, but they would also have a chance to fight back and capture Yufu.

 But war is not such a simple calculation.

 It is the human heart.

 Zhu Zhi fell, even if he killed all the fish and restored the defenders, what would happen?

Every military academy, and even every Jiangdong soldier, knows that there are many of them, but the more people there are, the less likely they are to work together.

Throughout the history of China, there are only a few people who can make the whole country work together...

So now, the choice before Jiangdong soldiers is very simple, whoever escapes in front will survive.

 Those who fall behind will die.

 A large number of casualties began to appear from the moment of the rout...

　　『Withdraw! withdraw! 』

 A certain Jiangdong military academy shouted, "Go east!" Follow the Governor's ship! 』

Yu Fu lost this battle, and the camp built here would definitely not be able to be saved, so he could only continue to retreat to the east. Fortunately, it would save effort to run down the river.

As for the other Jiangdong soldiers on the shore who haven’t had time to get on the boat...

"Wait a moment! 』

Jiangdong soldiers on the shore rushed towards the river, trying to get on board the boat that was about to evacuate.

　　　『Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... hurry up and row the boat! The boat is going to capsize! 』

The military academy on the ship wielded a knife and chopped off the fingers of the Jiangdong soldiers who were clinging to the side of the ship.

 Fingers one by one, like ham sausages, fell into the river.

The military academy's veins bulged out, as if it were crazy, and it even used more force than when it attacked Yufudu just now.

 Just kidding, if you attack Yufu, even if you are defeated, it will be the general's credit. But if you take one step too late now, you will be the one who dies!

　　『Kill! Kill the Jiangdong thieves! "Wu Ban was so high-spirited that he chased them from the island to the middle of the river. He still refused to give up. He raised his sword and led his guards. When he encountered Jiangdong soldiers, he killed them.

As the sun gradually set in the west and dusk fell, many Jiangdong soldiers who were panicking could not choose their way to board the ship, so many tried to escape to the mountains.

Yan Yan who emerged from the mountain city was different from Wu Ban who wanted to behead more people and earn more merits. He shouted, "Drive away the defeated troops!" Drive away the defeated troops! 』

 The speed of slashing with one knife and one spear is really too slow.

Under Yan Yan’s order, the Sichuan and Shu soldiers began to line up, only to attack the stubborn Jiangdong soldiers who tried to resist, and drove the Jiangdong defeated soldiers to the Jiangdong camp not far away...

"ah! 』

 『Mother…』

 The screams started loudly.

 When you are happy, you just have fun by yourself. When you are in pain, you think of your mother.

In fact, there are still many Jiangdong soldiers stationed in the Jiangdong camp, and these Jiangdong soldiers did not lose much physical strength. However, when they saw Jiangdong's defeated troops coming, these Jiangdong soldiers who guarded the camp immediately turned around. Just run.

 The mountains and plains were filled with Jiangdong soldiers fleeing in disorder.

 It's like the people's hearts in Jiangdong, which are already in chaos.