Shu Chen

Chapter 135

The moonlight is like flowing water, pouring between the sky and the earth with the new wind.

A few strands shone through the window curtains into the office room, leaving jagged and mottled bright traces.Teased the obstinacy of several grease lamps, wantonly swaying the light and shadow in the house.

Just like the smile on Zheng Pu's face at the moment, the ripples gradually fainted.

He rebelled against Wei Cao Rui, and after he was swindled by Sun Wu and Zhou Bing, lost his army and lost his land, he actually imitated this trick and used it on my big man~~
After reading the two statements submitted by You Chu, the prefect of Longxi, Zheng Pu couldn't help laughing.

Because Xu Miao also vaguely mentioned, let You Chu act as an internal communication, and secretly found out the places where the Han's garrison troops and food, fodder, supplies, etc. were stored in various places in Longyou, and informed them to the Wei army.

"Prime Minister, Pu thinks he can use his tricks."

Gently put the cloth and silk on the table, Zheng Pu's eyes were burning, and he said: "Since Governor You forwarded this letter, it can be seen that he is loyal to our great man. You can also set up a conspiracy to rebel against Wei Xu Miaoxu and a snake, and lure Wei Xi Liang soldiers and horses enter the place where our army is ambush and destroy them in one fell swoop! If things are harmonious, we will have no worries about rebelling against Wei, Lai and Koulong for several years!"

However, the prime minister shook his head slightly after hearing this.

"Zijin's strategy is wrong."

Uh?
What's wrong?

Hearing this, Zheng Pu, who was originally smiling, was completely stunned.

And the prime minister didn't wait for him to ask questions, so he continued to speak in a calm tone, "Mencius said, 'If you get the world's way, you get the people, you win the world. If you get the people, you get the heart, you get the people. Get it There is a way in your heart, get together with them as you want, and don’t do anything evil to them. The people’s return to benevolence is like falling under water, and beasts running away.’ Although I know what Zijin said, it’s all for the court. However, we must also refrain from it, and we must not be greedy for short-term benefits and ignore people's hearts."

It turned out to be the case.

When this happened suddenly, I was so happy for a while, it made me forget to count people's hearts.

After the prime minister finished talking, Zheng Pu thought for a while, and suddenly realized.

Indeed, he has always been ruthless in planning and planning, and he advocates omnipotence. For a while, he only considered issues from the perspective of military struggles, but forgot to start from the perspective of the court.

Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's veto was out of the desire to Anyou Chu.

You Chu's family background was not high at first, they were disciples of Zhang Ji, a famous official who rebelled against the Wei Dynasty, and were promoted to the position of two thousand stones by Wei Wu Cao Cao.Later, because the Wei army was unable to rescue Longyou, he had no choice but to surrender to the big man in order to protect the lives of the people in the county.

Today Ni Wei came to write a letter to persuade him to go back. It is rare that he has no heart to repeat it.

If, according to what Zheng Pu said, he would let You Chu lure the old lord against Wei into the ambush circle of the great Han, and his reputation would definitely be cast aside by the world!

Since ancient times, people will not stand without faith.

In a world that advocates happiness, kindness, and sincerity, if You Chu heard Zheng Pu's words, he might be alienated from the big man.

Moreover, the first emperor Liu Bei was in exile for half his life, but the people under his command never left him; to continue the glory of the Han Dynasty with his humble background, isn't the word "love and righteousness" the biggest reliance?

Not to mention, today's three-pointer, the weakest big man, the biggest reliance is the human heart.

It not only has the accumulation of 400 years of the Han Dynasty, but also has the charm of benevolence and righteousness of the first emperor.

If you order You Chu to avenge the old master, you will lose the benevolence of the former emperor, and you will destroy the Great Wall yourself.

Furthermore, You Chu is from Guzang, Wuwei County.

It is today's big Han Liao Zuoli, very few people who were born in the four counties of Hexi.

The prime minister intends to use him as a banner for the big man to treat Liangzhou people well, so that it will be more convenient for him to attack Liangzhou in the future.

Even if it is a large family that has been passed down from the more than 100-year Qiang Rebellion, when family inheritance conflicts with love and integrity, few people will choose the latter.And in the barren soil of Liangzhou, where the bones are exposed in the wild, it is difficult for friendship to take root and thrive.

"No! Pu is taught."

Zheng Pu, who figured out the reason, hurriedly apologized respectfully, "Pu didn't think carefully, so he was eager for quick success and instant benefit."

"I'm not responsible, Zijin doesn't have to."

After waving his hand, the prime minister smiled coyly, and said in relief, "Zijin was already exhausted after rushing all the way back. And just knowing about it, he set up a plan. It's understandable that he didn't think thoroughly for a while, so don't blame yourself."

After a pause, he continued to ask, "Recently, Ni Wei Duo sent ranger scouts to Longyou to visit. According to Zijin, will he send soldiers to fight this time?"

"Back to the Prime Minister, Pu secretly thought it would not be possible."

Hearing and asking, Zheng Pu, who had thought about it along the way, replied without hesitation, "The defeat of Shiting in the anti-Wei side, the people in the country must be in turmoil, and they will definitely not send a large army to fight. Whether there is an attack or not, each department of our army must assign a station to prepare for the battle. Gai sent rangers to spy on Weiwei, and if he saw that our army's defenses were empty, he might use lies as deeds."

"Zijin's words won my heart!"

First he smiled and nodded, then the Prime Minister had a trace of worry in his brows, and sighed, "Oh, my time in Longyou is still short. Although all the passes and sieges have been built, people's hearts have not yet been attached. Against Wei Ben Many riders, and now they have lured the Xianbei Hu captives into the Guanzhong, if the elite riders harass me frequently, I am afraid that Li and the common people will not be safe!"

Zheng Pu was silent.

Because Niwei's method of warfare is to use the long to strike the short.

However, there are too few cavalry pawns, and the big men who cannot guard the mountains, rivers and passes of the whole territory of Longyou can only passively defend against this.

However, the prime minister will not ask Zheng Pu to resolve the gap in national power.

Feeling moved, he found some pieces of cloth from several sides of the case and handed them over, telling the reason why Zheng Pu was called back to Ji County, "After hearing that there was a change in Ni Wei, there were books from both Hanzhong and Wudu. Mr. Zijin Look, think about it, and then tell me."

"promise!"

He hurriedly got up and took the cloth, Zheng Pu looked at it carefully, frowned while thinking.

It turned out that Zhao Yun, who guarded Hanzhong County, planned to send troops into the Qinling Mountains to burn down the plank roads of Baoxie Valley and Tangluo Road.

Because the garrison strength in Hanzhong is nearly [-], and now a large number of Li and Shu have migrated in, he has to divide a lot of garrisons to maintain order, and it is difficult to defend against the attack of the army against Wei.

And if the plank road is burned down, and people monitor it from time to time, even if the army against Wei invades Hanzhong, the prime minister will have enough time to dispatch troops from Longyou and other places to return to help.

It is a rainy day.

Ma Dai, who was guarding Wudu, didn't say anything.

He just claimed that he would have nothing to worry about defending Dasan Pass with his own troops, but he might be powerless to maintain order in the county and other matters.In other words, he secretly asked the prime minister for instructions to let the Chen Shibu, who is now stationed in Wudu County, stay behind.

The last one was a letter from Li Yan who was far away in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

Although he didn't hear about the attack by Ni Wei, he turned his defense in the Jianghuai area after the Battle of Shiting, and asserted that Ni Wei's troops would definitely move out of the northwest in the next few years.Therefore, I came to discuss with the prime minister whether it is necessary to send nearly [-] people from Yuan Wei's tribe, who had been transferred to the right general not long ago, to Longyou or Hanzhong to prepare for the war.

Yuan Wei, the right general, was from Yingchuan.

It was the Yuan Cong family that the first emperor Liu Bei followed when he served as the shepherd of Yuzhou. His ability is roughly similar to that of Fu Kuang, and he can guard the peace of one side.

It has to be said that after seizing Longyou, the disadvantages of the big man's decline have become more obvious.

Once there is a slight turmoil against the Wei Dynasty, the big Han will inevitably fall into the cramped situation of insufficient troops just to defend the soil.

After all, the borderline has become longer, and the area that can be attacked has become wider.

Every place may be invaded by invaders, and no one dared to defend lightly, so as to avoid giving Ni Wei a chance to drive straight in.

Naturally, there are ways to resolve this dilemma.

Such as attacking instead of defending!
Concentrate troops to march into Liangzhou or other places, control the initiative on the battlefield in your hands, and force Niwei to send the main force to fight, so that you can worry about the defense of Hanzhong and Wudu County.

"Prime Minister, Pu is generally thoughtful, please try to speak boldly."

After bowing his head and pondering for a long time, Zheng Pu finally cupped his hands and made a sound.

"Well, Zijin doesn't need to be restrained."

The Prime Minister, who was asleep with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and nodded lightly when he heard the words, and waved his hands, "I don't want to discuss what the official said. Our army is short of food and fodder. It's not when things are in danger, so it's not usable."

It also made Zheng Pu pause for a while, and then immediately smiled.

It's not that there is any selfishness in Li Yan's advice.

On the contrary, it came out of a public heart.

It's just that in Hanzhong County and Longyou, the daily consumption of food and fodder for resettling Lishu and training new soldiers is no less than that of wartime.

In Li Yan's view, sending the right general Yuan Wei to increase the troops will greatly increase the transport capacity of the Bashu land, and may also drag down the people of the Shu land who are suffering from corvee labor.

If you want to come to station, you have to wait until after the first autumn harvest in Hanzhong next year.

Furthermore, the rebellion against Wei has not yet come on a large scale, so the soldiers will be less tossed if the big Han can not mobilize the army.

"promise."

Nodding his head and smiling, Zheng Pu said softly, "Pu thought it was feasible to burn down the plank road before the general. However, even if the plank road is burned down, it may not be able to counteract the turmoil that disturbed the border of our army from the attack of Wei Wei. That's why Pu thought that for today's The only plan is to preemptively strike and lure the main forces against Wei to Longyou so that they cannot threaten Hanzhong and Wudu counties!"

"Zijin's intention is to use offense instead of defense?"

The prime minister frowned, and shook his head slightly, "I'm not going to hide it from Zijin, I thought about it before. However, our army is only [-] in Longyou, and the cavalry is not yet sound. Wei Liangzhou's troops can also defend it. At that time, if you go against Wei, don't send one or two troops to Longyou, and the other tribes may invade Hanzhong County."

It is true that one hair can move the whole body.

Cao Zhen, the great general who rebelled against the Wei Dynasty, has experienced many battles and has a strategy in mind.

If the big Han sends troops to Liangzhou, it is very likely that he will "encircle Wei and save Zhao" and take the initiative of the war into his hands.

However, Zheng Pu didn't think of sending troops out of Jincheng County, "Prime Minister, Pu's intention is to lure the rebellious Wei into the colony of Longxi County."

"Introduce Longxi?"

The prime minister raised his eyebrows slightly, scratching his head in thought.

Not long after, he became displeased, and his tone was a bit harsh, "I have made up my mind to speak against Wei Yin about You Zhongyun, and Zijin is not allowed to say anything more. This is the foundation of my great Han country! How can I destroy myself because of the First World War?" Great Wall!"

Uh.
I don't blame the prime minister for his angry face.

The only way to allow Ni Wei to take the initiative to send troops out of Longxi County is to let You Chu pretend to be "Jian".

The matter had just been concluded, but Zheng Pu mentioned it again, and the prime minister was naturally annoyed by his stubbornness.

"Prime Minister, Pu has absolutely no intention of letting Governor You bow down."

Hastily stood up and confessed, Zheng Pu spoke quickly and urgently, "Pu felt that since he was against Wei and said that You Taishou was secretly working in the dark, he would definitely lure other bureaucrats in Longxi County to betray me."

"Ok?"

De Yan, Prime Minister Fang stretched his eyebrows, smiled and stretched out his hand to pretense, "This is the best. Well, let's sit down."

After saying that, he lowered his eyebrows and stroked Hu while thinking.

At that time, Guan Xing led the army to force You Chu to surrender. In order to appease Li Shu in Longxi County, the prime minister not only let You Chu continue to serve as the prefect, but also other bureaucrats did not adjust their duties.

Now, as Zheng Pu said, if you go against Wei Yin to lobby Chu, you will definitely send people to lobby others.

After all, those people were originally Liao Zuo against Wei.

It's just that those lieutenants' authority is too low to obtain the secrets of the big man in Longyou, as well as the real situation of the deployment of troops and horses of various ministries.

Even if he followed Zheng Pu's words, he would not be able to send troops to Longxi.

Soldiers are the way of life and death.

How can you be careless!

Especially the battle of Shiting has just come to an end.

"Zijin's strategy is difficult."

The Prime Minister, who had been thinking about it for a while, said in a regretful tone, "The great general Cao Zhen has fought against the Wei Dynasty for many years, and Cao Xiu has learned from the past. I am afraid that he will not repeat the same mistakes and fall into the trap."

"As the prime minister said, Bi Nacao really won't fall for it."

First, he bowed his hands in salute, and Zheng Pu, with a gurgling smile, had a cunning flash in his eyes, "However, Pu thought that Xu Miao, the governor of Liangzhou who rebelled against the Wei Dynasty, and others might not be able to fall for it. Because Pu often wrote letters with Brother Bosong, he also got When Brother Wen Bosong said "recruit talents and pick up relics", many spies who rebelled against Wei were mixed in."

Well, the prime minister asked Zhuge Qiao to carry out the "recruiting talents and collecting relics" that Zheng Pu advised in the past.

After Niwei learned about it, he also secretly sent many secret agents pretending to be down-and-out scholars, who were spotted by the Han army and escorted back to the Shu subway mine to work as a coolie for a lifetime.

Recruit talents to pick up relics, and go against Wei Xi to do evil?
The prime minister tilted his head, his eyes full of doubts.

Seeing that the cunning look on Zheng Pu's face had not dissipated, he lowered his head and pondered for a while.

When I was young, I got up from the case again, walked to search for a while in the shelves on both sides, took out a lot of copybooks, spread them on the case tables, and read them carefully.

From time to time, I move the grease lamp closer to read the tiny characters.

Sometimes I would condense my eyebrows into a river, write a few words with a pen and ink, and groan with my eyes.

Finally, he got up again, holding the grease lamp in his hand, and carefully observed the map tied on the wall by the hemp rope.

Zheng Pu, who was on the lower side, didn't dare to make a noise, and took a slow drink of the already cold wine, waiting for the prime minister to make a decision.

Because he knew that the prime minister already understood what he said.

Now I am thinking about whether the cost of dispatching troops and horses and leading Wei into the ambush in Longxi will be directly proportional to the results when this strategy is implemented.

Those who can make soldiers die hard, but never go ahead, are the talents of generals.

And after thinking before and after, thinking about everything in every detail, and preventing any problems in any side branch, is the talent of the commander.

Not to mention that the weakness of the big man is now declining, so that the prime minister, who has always been cautious, has to deliberate and calculate repeatedly every time he makes a decision before he dares to make an assertion.I'm afraid that if I take a wrong step, the big man will fall into a situation where there is no redemption.

There was a long silence in the office.

Even the moonlight that diffused through the curtains felt bored and left.

Prime Minister Fang turned around and sat down, put the grease lamp on the table, looked sideways at Zheng Pu, and said in a very pleased tone, "Zijin's way of planning is comparable to that of Yihou Faxiao in the past!"

After saying that, without waiting for Zheng Pu to be humble, he laughed heartily.

　I have been working overtime and all night for the past two days, and the update time is unstable, sorry~~~
　　
　
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