Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 242 Ma Su: Oops, I Was Careless
Wang Ping's current image is quite desolate, his messy hair is casually tied into a sword-hilt style, his hairy beard grows freely on his upper and lower jaw, and his rough linen clothes are worn so that his skin feels faintly painful.

From the outside, he looks more like a gangster who hides in the mountains all the year round and occasionally runs out to do some worthless business.

Such a dignified appearance, the deterrent power it brings to merchants running the rivers and lakes is extremely huge.

What do business people fear most?
Naturally, those "no capital buying and selling parties".

Therefore, at the beginning, everyone kept a cautious distance from Wang Ping.It wasn't until the news of "Don't be afraid, everyone, this person is Wang Ping" spread that everyone breathed a sigh of relief, showing disdain from angles that Wang Ping couldn't see.

Naturally, Wang Ping could hear people whispering around him, most of what they said was about him, and they were all some ugly words.

Moreover, the warrior's keen intuition told him that there are many people pointing at him behind his back.

He turned his head and saw two young merchants sitting side by side at the window near the cabin door. The two whispered while secretly looking at this side, what they said was unbearable.

An uncontrollable anger suddenly rose in Wang Ping's heart.

He knew that the status of warriors in this era was not high, and they were often ridiculed, teased and regarded as reckless by literati.

He also knew that what he had done before was disgraceful.

But it wasn't that the group of ignorant and lowly businessmen in front of him laughed at his capital. Even if he had no official position, he still belonged to the upper class of the "soldier-samurai" class.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, what is the status of businessmen in this era, do they have no idea?
Also, don't they know the truth of "everyone gets angry, blood splatters five steps"?

That being the case, it is very necessary for me to remind them, and express the uselessness I suffered in Sichuan.

Wang Ping stood up with a cold face, pointed his saber at the two merchants, and said in a cold voice, "Robbery."

"Robbery!"

Seeing that Wang Ping was alone, the two merchants smiled at each other and waved their hands behind them together.

The five attendants immediately drew out their weapons, and rushed over screaming.

Wang Ping waved his saber casually, one sword at a time, stabbing all five young servants to death, and then held the sword against the two merchants again.

The faces of the two merchants changed wildly, and they knelt down on the boat deck, and obediently took out all their money.

Wang Ping drove the two of them to the deck, watched the two of them jump off the boat and fell into the torrential river, using their hands and feet together, they swam desperately towards the shore, then put away their swords and sheathed them, and went back to the cabin to sit down.

This time, the whole cabin was quiet.

No one dared to gossip behind his back.

The two young sons looked at Wang Ping with admiration, their little faces filled with pride.

There are no more waves on the way.

The passenger ship rides the wind and waves down the river, and it only takes one day and night to arrive at Jiangling.

After the ship docked at the pier, Wang Ping's family of four came to Jiangling City with the flow of people.

After traveling not far, Wang Ping was surprised to find that his deeds had spread from central Sichuan to the people of Jiangling City, but the version circulated here was that "Wang Ping deliberately withdrew his troops early because he had a quarrel with Ma Su and had no military law." After being convicted, he escaped from prison and tried to take revenge on Ma Di, but failed and was seriously injured, so he was demoted by Zhuge Liang as a commoner and would never be hired."

This gave him a little more confidence in his trip.

It has to be said that the strategy Ma Di came up with was flawless, and there was hardly any trace of human manipulation in it, and it was not suspected of "excessive force" like Zhou Yu's attack on Huang Gai during the Battle of Chibi.

However, Wang Ping also knows that there is no distinction between high and low strategies, and some strategies are just right.

Although the "bad meat strategy" is not very clever, but it worked, so it is a good strategy.

No matter how perfect and seamless Ma Di's strategy is, if it fails to succeed, it is not a good strategy.

Wang Ping is not in a hurry to see Lu Xun now and ask for an official position in Wu, because that would seem too deliberate.

Although his education level is very low, he has worked hard at the bottom of society for many years, and he understands the truth that "self-recommendation is not as good as his recommendation".

He took the opportunity to rob the merchants on the ship and force them to jump off the ship on purpose, in order to spread the news of his coming to Jiangling from other people's mouths at a faster speed.

Wang Ping used the stolen money to buy a dilapidated small courtyard in Jiangling City, settled down, bought a small boat, and learned to fish for a living.

Then, patiently waited for Lu Xun to come to invite him.

He knew that Lu Xun would definitely come.

……

Chengdu, East Gate Tower.

Ma Di leaned against the city wall, with the winter sun on his head, looking towards the east of the river, his thoughts were turning, and he was full of worries.

He always felt like he was missing something.

But I couldn't remember it for a while.

Being very tangled, Zhuge Liang walked up the tower slowly, and looked over with a smile: "Youchang is missing your old friend?"

Ma Di turned his head and suddenly smiled: "You can't hide anything from the Prime Minister. I think of a god-sister I met in Qiang in the past. I think she is already this year, and she is in her prime."

"Oh? The land of Qiang is in the northwest, why does Xiaochang look to the southeast?" Zhuge Liang's wise eyes seemed to be able to read people's hearts.

"..." Ma Di said deliberately, "The earth is round, and looking to the southeast is actually the same as looking to the northwest." After thinking about it, he decided to be more direct and test whether Zhuge Liang saw his trick.

"Then which old friend does the Prime Minister think I am missing?"

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly: "Wang Ping."

Ma Su shook his head quickly, and said stiffly, "No!"

Zhuge Liang didn't argue with him, and said to himself: "Although this plan is clever, it may not be successful."

"..."

Seeing that Zhuge Liang had spoken so bluntly, Ma Di knew that his plan had been seen through, so he nodded and said, "From the perspective of the prime minister, can this plan be hidden from Lu Xun?"

Zhuge Liang pondered for a while, then shook his head: "Even if you can hide it from Lu Xun, it's hard to do amazing things."

"Could it be that you don't know the result of Wei and Wu's intrigue?"

Ma Su nodded: "I have heard a little bit that Wei Guofan's plan was completely defeated, and Wu Guofan's plan was completely defeated."

Wei and Wu frequently played "anti-indirect tricks". Of course, Ma Di knew, and even knew more and more details than Zhuge Liang.

Before the founding of the country, the Wei and Wu countries opened up a new front outside the frontal battlefield-the espionage war.Unlike the frontal battlefield where there are winners and losers, Cao Wei was completely defeated in this battle, while Soochow was completely victorious.

In the original time and space, the spy war between Cao Wei and Sun Wu had been contested four times.

The first time was during the Battle of Chibi.

In July of the 13th year of Jian'an (208), Cao Cao led an army of hundreds of thousands to the south, captured Jingzhou without bloodshed, and pointed his sword at Jiangdong and Jiangnan.Sun Quan, the Lord of Wu, thought over and over again, and in order to protect Jiangdong, he decided to join forces with Liu Bei to fight against Cao.

The Soochow Navy and Cao Jun immediately met on the Chibi River and fought several games, but they were unable to win.During this period, Cao Jun was defeated by the Soochow Navy.As a last resort, Cao Cao had no choice but to move the navy to the north of the river, merge with the army, and put all the warships on the Wulin side of the north bank, and the battle came to a stalemate.

In December, seeing Cao Jun linking warships end to end, Zhou Yu thought of a plan to attack with fire, so he and his veteran Huang Gai performed a "bitter trick" in an attempt to feign surrender and set fire.

Therefore, after being "beaten violently", Huang Gai secretly sent someone to present a book to Cao Cao.The letter blatantly accused Zhou Yu of "acting against the law", and solemnly offered to lead the army to the prime minister of Beitou. After some scrutiny, Cao Cao, who was very wise and always good at calculating others with schemes, believed it.When the agreed date came, Huang Gai prepared more than a dozen light ships, fully loaded with dried woodfish paste and other inflammable materials, covered them with cloth curtains, tidied them up, and led the ships to set off.

When the southeast wind was strong, Huang Gai made people raise the sails, and the boat took advantage of the wind. In less than an hour, Cao Jun's camp was in sight.When Cao Jun saw Huang Gai coming as promised, he didn't defend himself, and stretched his neck to wait and see.When the boat was about [-] miles away from the Cao boat, Huang Gai ordered the soldiers to "fire at the same time", "The fire was fierce and the wind was fierce, and the boat was like an arrow, flying into the barren, burning the northern boat, and extending to the shore to camp firewood."Cao Jun "many were burned and drowned", Zhou Yu then personally led the army to land and charge, Cao Jun was defeated and surrendered to Nanjun.

The second battle of Shiting.

Shu Han Jianxing five years (227 years).At that time, Cao Xiu was the supreme military commander in the southeast theater of Cao Wei at that time.During Cao Xiu's tenure, he repeatedly raised troops to invade the border of Soochow, and many of them were captured, which caused Sun Quan a headache.In order to deal with Cao Xiu, Lu Xun offered a false surrender plan, intending to lure Cao Xiu to send troops, and ambushed him halfway.

After some investigation, Sun Quan chose Zhou Dory, who was then the prefect of Poyang.Poyang is adjacent to Yangzhou and is the border between Wei and Wu.And Zhou Bream is a fierce general under Sun Quan, with both wisdom and courage.After Zhou Bing received the order, he wrote seven letters to Cao Xiu one after another.In the letter, Zhou Bream made out of nothing, falsely claiming that he had been reprimanded by Sun Quan many times and was worried about being persecuted, so he planned to return to the north with Poyang County and serve Cao Wei.At the same time, he notified the time and place of the "uprising" one by one, and asked Cao Xiu to send troops to respond.

In order to do enough tricks and further deceive Cao Xiu, Sun Quan sent "special commissioners" to Zhou Dory seven times before and after Zhou Dory wrote letters to Cao Xiu.On one occasion, Zhou Dory was "forced" to come to the place where the "special commissioner" was staying to make a high-profile confession to show his loyalty.

This made Cao Xiu, who was dubious about Zhou Bing's surrender, after learning about it, he believed in his surrender.When the appointed date came, Cao Xiu personally led an army of [-] to meet him.When the army marched to Shiting, they were ambushed by Zhou Bing's army and Lu Xun's army. The Wei army was unprepared and was defeated in an instant.

In the first two times, Soochow was the one who took the initiative to use the space, and all the strategies were successful, which made Cao Wei deeply aware of the power of "spies".

Therefore, the third "spy war" was initiated by Cao Wei on his own initiative.

Three years after the Battle of Shiting (230), Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui personally planned to win the round.After some secret selection, Cao Rui set his sights on a young man——Yinfan.Yinbo is brave and resourceful, eloquent, well versed in the law, and loyal enough to "Cao Wei".

Cao Rui secretly summoned Yinfan and asked him to feign surrender to Wu, seek the post of court lieutenant, wait for an opportunity to frame and alienate ministers of the state of Wu, and provoke internal strife.

In February of that year, Yinbo crossed the river at night and "defected" and defected to Soochow.

When he first entered Wu, Yinfan did not attract Sun Quan's attention, nor did he arrange any official positions.Seeing this, Yinbo recommended himself and wrote to Sun Quan. In addition to expressing his dissatisfaction, he also put forward many constructive improvement strategies around the judiciary and law enforcement.

Soon after the letter was delivered, Sun Quan invited Yinfan into the palace.Yinbo went straight to the point, analyzed the situation, pointed out the shortcomings, and proposed countermeasures one by one.Sun Quan fell in love at first sight.The next day, Yinfan was appointed as Tingwei Supervisor.

Seeing that Yinfan was favored by Sun Quan, he was in an important position, and he was young and promising, all the ministers of Eastern Wu came to make friends with him. For a while, there was a lot of traffic in front of Yinfan's mansion almost every day, full of guests, and it was very lively.However, some officials, such as Yang Qi, Yang Di, and Pan Jun, remained vigilant against Yinbo and insisted not to communicate with them.

In the ninth year of Jianxing (231), Sun Quan, who had repeatedly benefited from the spy war, repeated his old tricks. He ordered Zhonglang to trick Sun Bu into surrendering to the Wei general Wang Ling. Wang Ling was fooled and led the army to meet Sun Bu. Ambush Wang Ling.Seeing the urgency of the situation, Yinbo conspired to rebel immediately, and wanted to flee with his troops to stop Wang Ling.Because of the haste, Yinfan was arrested and was beheaded by Sun Quan soon after.Cao Rui's plan was defeated, and the carefully laid chess pieces were pulled out.

The fourth spy war was also initiated by Cao Wei.

In the first year of Jiaping (249), Cao Shuang was killed by Sima Yi after the Gaoping Mausoleum Incident. Wen Qin, who was usually very close to Cao Shuang and was a champion general at the time, was terrified.In order to show his loyalty to Sima, Wen Qin made a plan.In the second year of Jiaping (250), on the grounds that he was persecuted by the Sima family, Wen sent people across the river with a letter and threw him into the camp of Wu general Zhu Yi, falsely claiming to surrender.

Wen Qin's wishful thinking is to lure Zhu Yi to lead his army to meet him through a false surrender, and then attack him halfway.Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that this is completely "plagiarizing Soochow, plagiarizing Zhou Dory".

Zhu Yi saw through Wen Qin's plot at a glance.Therefore, while Zhu Yi "presented Wenqin's letter to Sun Quan, because of Chen Qi's hypocrisy", while mobilizing his horse and fighting hard, he wanted to use his tactics.Wen Qin saw that Wu Jun was sharpening his sword and was ready, so he had to give up and his plan went bankrupt.

In the same time, why did Cao Wei lose completely and Soochow win completely?
Ma Su summed up three reasons.

One is the degree of sophistication of the strategies.During Soochow's two uses, they were carefully planned and coordinated with many parties, striving to be realistic and reasonable.

On the other hand, Wei Guo was not too distracted. He was not calm enough the first time, and he simply followed suit the second time.

In this way, it is strange to be able to succeed.

The second is empiricism.When Cao Cao sent his troops to the south, Liu Cong, who was the shepherd of Jingzhou at that time, surrendered after hearing the wind, and Cao Cao took Jingzhou without any effort. From this, Cao Cao thought that Sun Quan of Dongwu would follow in the footsteps of Liu Cong, the shepherd of Jingzhou, and bowed his head to himself. Sun Quan did not surrender.Therefore, Cao Cao pinned his hopes on Sun Quan's subordinates, thinking that under heavy pressure, some of Sun Quan's generals would definitely have second thoughts about Sun Quan. Therefore, when Huang Gai sent the letter of surrender, Cao Cao believed it without thinking too much. , the result was deceived.The same is true for Cao Xiu being deceived by Zhou Fang.Before Zhou Fang feigned surrender, two generals from Soochow had successfully surrendered to Cao Xiu. Therefore, Cao Xiu took it for granted that Zhou Fang's coming to vote this time was a matter of course, but he was defeated.

The third is that the psychology is different.

According to common sense, it is the weak side that surrenders to the strong side.Among the Three Kingdoms, Cao Wei's comprehensive national power is significantly higher than that of Soochow. Therefore, the surrender of Cao Wei from the weak side of Soochow is easier to understand and accept psychologically. , not distracted, and uphold the principle that anyone who comes is a guest, in order to show the tolerance of a big country, and then achieve the purpose of winning over and buying people's hearts.

On the contrary, the weak side is often difficult to understand and accept the surrender from the strong side psychologically, and there will always be countless question marks in their hearts.Projected in action, it is manifested as being cautious, and always looking at these surrenderers with suspicion, and even placing eyeliners around the surrenderers, so that even if the false surrender can escape for a while, it is difficult to escape for a second time. .

……

Seeing that Ma Di was silent for a long time, Zhuge Liang asked, "Your Chang, do you know why?"

Ma Di actually had the answer in his heart, but he pretended not to understand, and asked, "Please enlighten me, Prime Minister."

Zhuge Liang turned his head and looked at the white clouds in the sky, and said eloquently: "Those who are good at counting people are sensitive to perception; those who are good at attacking are quick to act. With the disposition of the monarchs and ministers of Eastern Wu, they will do everything for their own benefit. Going out of the alliance and surrendering to Wei is as common as drinking water, how can you believe defectors from either side? No matter how perfect your story is, he won't believe it from the bottom of his heart."

"So, how can an undercover agent succeed?"

Hearing this, Ma Su's expression changed drastically, and he finally realized what he was worried about.

"Oops, Wang Ping is in danger!"

(End of this chapter)