This chapter is really hard to write. The first draft of this chapter came out the day before yesterday! I don't know how many times I have revised it, and the more I revise it, the messier it becomes! )
Putting down the water bowl and picking up the feather fan, I fanned it a few times. The huge shadow cast by the flickering light of the candle on the fan slid back and forth on my face and Cao Cao's face. In the flickering light, I said in a low and powerful voice: "There is no best strategy in the world! But Jia has a bad strategy! I wonder if the lord is willing to use it?"
Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and said: "Speak!"
"The emperor is in disgrace, the country is about to fall, and the people are living in misery. The princes are selfish and want to be kings and emperors behind closed doors, but I see that you are ambitious but incompetent, or indecisive, or just want to divide the land and rule like a dog guarding the house! How can you save the world?" Having said this, I stood up and slowly walked to the door of the bedroom. Facing the wind blowing from the door, I threw the fan in my hand to the ground and said: "The one who can end this chaotic world must have the ambition to conquer the world, the ability to control the world, the ability to gather talents from all over the world and use them for himself, and also have..."
A flash of lightning tore through the sky, and thunder exploded in the night and the wind blew violently. Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan looked at each other, and then they each slowly wandered around the only tent with a light on.
Because I was standing with my back to Cao Cao, I couldn't see the expression on his face. Suddenly, a big hand patted my shoulder hard, and then I heard the owner of the hand say in a bitter voice: "Being famous in history and being cursed by thousands of people are things that will happen after death. As long as I can support the country, it doesn't matter if I get cursed a few times!"
I nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay! Then Rong Jia will plan something for the lord. As long as the lord can have a heavy army that can threaten the world, respect the emperor internally to support the government, and pressure the princes to disperse their private soldiers externally, and lead the people to attack those who disobey, the world can be pacified. This strategy is difficult. It is difficult to become a person with a heavy army! It is difficult to respect the emperor! It is even more difficult to ask the princes not to raise private soldiers!"
In fact, the three difficulties I mentioned are a logical relationship problem. The premise is that Cao Cao, you must have a strong military force to guarantee that you can deter the world. The auxiliary condition is that you must be loyal to the court to make the princes who are still in awe of the Han Dynasty obey orders to disband their private armed forces. After the prerequisites are met, whether or not to respect the court is a matter of time. If the court asks Cao Cao to hand over his military power first, will Cao Cao be able to hand it over at that time? But if you don't hand over your military power yourself, how can you make other princes not raise troops to protect themselves? At this time, I did not propose to Cao Cao the idea of holding the emperor hostage to control the princes. The conditions are not yet ripe. It is estimated that Cao Cao himself can't think of this at present, or because Cao Cao still has awe of the emperor in his heart, his subconscious forces him not to think about this.
"Become a person with a lot of troops! Become a person with a lot of troops! Become a person with a lot of troops!" Cao Cao repeatedly tasted my words for a long time and said, "How can I become a person with a lot of troops?"
I was so angry that I almost fainted. Don't use this question to embarrass me! If I knew everything, I would have gone to work alone a long time ago. Why am I wasting time with you here! The master leads you to the door, and the practice is up to you. I have pointed out a way for you, and you should walk the next way yourself! Cao Cao was called a military strategist and politician by later generations! How come you don't even need to use your brain now? Have you been fooled by my extraordinary knowledge for some time? Although Cao Cao has only a thousand people, it is impossible for the landlords to have no surplus food for the New Year. Just because your father can carry more than a hundred carts of treasures around to attract people's envy, if he squeezes it a little harder like squeezing toothpaste, he should be able to get a lot of money and food to support the army. But now he is the lord! I can't say that I will go to your father to ask for money! I can't say I don't know, so I can only say: "First, we need people, second, we need people, third, we need people, and fourth, we still need people!"
Cao Cao clapped his hands and said yes, and even said that Feng Xiao was smart, which made me feel flattered. After sending Cao Cao away, I patted my head and thought for a long time, but I didn't know how smart I was? Later I realized that Cao Cao took my words that I fooled him as "first, we need people, second, we need people, we need soldiers, third, we need people, and fourth, we still need people" as "we need people with wisdom and strategy!" It seems that if a person has a certain reputation, every word he says can be studied to have a profound meaning.
The next day, Cao Cao ordered his men to speed up. When he arrived in Yangzhou, he visited the governor Chen Wen and then went to Danyang County to visit Zhou Xin, the governor of Danyang County. These two were good friends of Cao Cao. Cao Cao told them that the war ahead was not going well, and he was ordered by the leader to recruit righteous men to fight against Dong the thief. Both of them expressed their willingness to do their best for the country. With the support of the two, more than 4,000 people were quickly recruited, and the remaining troops barely reached 5,000. This number of people was far from enough, so Cao Cao ordered Cao Hong to return to his hometown to bring all the family soldiers to obey his orders, and then ordered him to go to Xuzhou to continue recruiting soldiers.
As soon as I got on the road, I found that the soldiers recruited this time were very inappropriate. Some of these people behaved sneakily. Various signs showed that they were very familiar with each other, but they pretended not to know each other. They just whispered from time to time in groups of three or two. The most important thing was that these newly recruited soldiers did not have the morale of those recruited in Chenliu to be loyal to the country. That night, Wei Yan was ordered to secretly capture one of them, and he confessed after a little torture. It turned out that the news of recruiting soldiers was known by a local poor family. He found out that the local wealthy families had donated a lot of money and food to Cao's army, and Cao's army had less than a thousand people. So he contacted many local gangsters and sneaked in under the name of joining the army, preparing to kill the main general at night after arriving in Longkang to divide the money and food.
I quickly told Cao Cao about this, and Cao Cao was furious and wanted to kill all the soldiers recruited this time. Under the persuasion of everyone, it was finally decided to kill the leader, and the rest of the people who were willing to continue to follow would stay, and those who were unwilling would be sent home. A premeditated mutiny was eliminated, but Cao Cao was also angry because of the unhealed arrow wound and the sabotage activities that were obviously of the nature of the underworld. In desperation, he had to stay on the spot in the name of training and watch the changes in the world. A few days later, Cao Hong brought a thousand soldiers to join, and the force at this time was only about 4,000 people.
I remember that in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao was supposed to go to Dongjun to quell the new round of Yellow Turban Rebellion that broke out there, and then obtain the first territory there? Why is there no movement until now! It is really easy to know but difficult to do!
One day, Cao Cao asked me to go to discuss matters. As soon as I entered the big tent, I saw Cao Cao throwing things in anger. Cao Ren and other generals stood under the tent with gloomy faces and said nothing. I hurriedly asked: "Why is the lord angry!
Cao Cao slapped the table hard and said: "The news came from Suanzao that Yanzhou Prefect Liu Dai killed Qiao Mao, the Prefect of Dongjun, after failing to borrow grain from him, and surrendered all his people, and privately sent his men to be the Prefect of Dongjun. The Dong thieves have not been destroyed, but they actually killed each other and privately granted official positions! It's so infuriating!"
I was excited, it finally came! I learned the common behavior of counselors in TV dramas-laughing and saying: "Congratulations, lord, congratulations, lord! "
Cao Cao and his generals were confused by my actions. Cao Cao frowned and asked, "Where does your joy come from?"
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