I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 464, the real character of the hero

Cao Cao and Guo Jia both agreed with Xun Yu's judgment and nodded. Not to mention the hard work, even the Qingzhou army at home also consumed most of the food and grass!

Xun Yu pointed to the map on the case table and said, "We will defend the west front with Luoyang City as our base. The nobles in Yuzhou Yuantan and Yuzhou will deploy heavy troops in Yingchuan, Chen Guo and Liang Guo. The general will definitely support the defenders in Yuzhou Yes. And we try to control Xuzhou, so that the main army will be limited to the Central Plains.”

Cao Cao was originally a person with a strong character, and he was also a person who suffered repeated defeats and battles in history. He calmed down, thought about it carefully, and found that now is indeed their best chance to occupy Xuzhou.

So he said: "I heard that you are going south to Xuzhou, but we have to write a letter to Yuan Tan and Liu Bei each, telling them that we occupy Xuzhou only to guard against the big army and strengthen ties with the imperial court, and also to support Henan. Zhang battlefield, let Yuan Tan concentrate his main force to deal with Lei Gong. Tell the generals under him not to hurt any soldiers of the Xuzhou army, and send them to Yuzhou! Yuzhou still needs their strength!"

Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, and Guo Jia looked at each other and nodded. The Qingzhou army went south to Xuzhou in such a critical situation not to take advantage of the fire, but for the overall situation of the court and to save Xuzhou before the big army.

Xuzhou in the hands of the Qingzhou Army is in the hands of the big man.At present, the various forces of the Han Dynasty can rush to Xuzhou in time and can defend Xuzhou, and only Cao Cao and the others. This argument is true no matter where it is, and Yuan Tan must not dare to tear himself apart with them now.

Then Cao Cao calmly said: "This time the coalition army was defeated. First, there was a lack of enough cavalry, which allowed the big army to take the initiative in the strategy. Qingzhou couldn't buy war horses. We can't change this. But relying on the Taishan Mountains, we There are also ways to weaken the advantage of the Dagan cavalry, and Zang Ba did a good job this time.

The second is that the number of cannons in Dagan is far beyond our imagination. The Han coalition forces only have hundreds of cannons, but Lei Gong has thousands of cannons. In this Central Plains War, we suffer because of the lack of artillery firepower. Any fortified city of the Han Dynasty will fall apart in the face of Lei Gong's thousands of artillery bombardments.

From now on, we in Qingzhou will collect all the copper mines, copper coins and copper products, and make all of these into bronze artillery. Qingzhou needs hundreds or even thousands of artillery defenses to withstand Dagan's attack! "

This artillery war is the power of the gods, and it can be regarded as fully displayed. In future wars without artillery, it is destined to be the passive side to be beaten.

Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, and Xun You all nodded their heads. In the Central Plains War, if the main army did not have thousands of cannons to assist them, the coalition forces might not be able to defeat them, but at least the solid fortifications would be enough to hold back the main army. An aggressive attack can even turn this great war into a war of attrition that hurts both sides.

Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia and said: "The banknotes mentioned by Feng Xiao can now be implemented in Qingzhou. We need to replace all the copper coins in Qingzhou with paper money, and then cast all these copper coins into cannons.

Although we were defeated in the Central Plains War, Lei Gong also gave us a sharp weapon against his cavalry, which is artillery.If each of our infantry battalions is equipped with a few artillery pieces, it will be enough to control cavalry on foot. To exercise mobility, cavalry can only carry light and short-range flying thunder cannons, but our infantry does not need much mobility. Running 50 miles is the same as running 30 miles. The cavalry cannot run, and after we bring the artillery with a long range, we can rely on the artillery to repel the cavalry charge. There is no longer any power to fight back. "

Xun Yu and the others were surprised when they heard Cao Cao's words, and found that the artillery really restrained the cavalry to a certain extent!
But Guo Jia said with a wry smile: "It's too late for Ming Gong to issue banknotes. The most important thing about issuing banknotes is reputation. You must let others believe that you are money, so that we can use banknotes to buy everyone's goods.

But in this Central Plains War, Lei Gong defeated hundreds of thousands of coalition forces from the Han Dynasty, and now the whole world has descended from the small people to the nobles. Who doesn't know that Lei Gong is the most likely person to establish a new dynasty and become the emperor.

Under such circumstances, who can believe that the banknotes we issue can really be used as money? You must know that the Central Plains has been occupied by the Dagan army. The next attack target of the Dagan army is either Sili or our Qingzhou. At this moment, who dares to use his wealth to believe in our banknotes, which may be defeated at any time, and who is not afraid of losing all his wealth.

I'm afraid that even Qingzhou's nobles are unwilling to help Minggong now!They helped Minggong in the past. Firstly, there was no other way. Leigong didn’t accept them at all. Second, their hatred for Leigong made the nobles of the big Han want to use Minggong to gather their strength to defeat Leigong and completely wipe out Leigong. This time the Central Plains was defeated, I am afraid that the nobles in Qingzhou will be disappointed in us! "

Cao Cao snorted coldly: "How disappointed are they, how dare they go to Lei Gong? If Qingzhou is captured by Lei Gong, all their disciples and old officials will be kicked out. Lei Gong will not want their people. They have their own students. Their background In Dagan, you can only become a businessman, not to mention being an official, you can't even be a small official.

They can bear to fall from the first class to the situation that is not even as good as a businessman!You must know that Lei Gong has always driven them to death. As long as they don't want their whole family to go to the Western Regions, the desert, or the desolate island, who else can they support besides me? "

Guo Jia shook his head and said: "But now they can't see the hope of victory, and they can still survive the surrender. If they continue to support us, they are also afraid that their families will be ruined! Now I am afraid that many people are secretly contacting Lei Gong, wanting to help Qingzhou in the future. defeat to find a way out.

Cao Cao said angrily, "How dare you threaten me? If you really think that Dong Zhuo can do something, I can't do it! From now on, hand over the blueprints of the cannons to the noble families in Qingzhou, and ask them to spend all the money in the family." To make artillery, if they don't want to be killed by Lei Gong, they will find ways to strengthen their weapons.

At the same time, we are forcing people to use banknotes for transactions, confiscating all copper coins from the people, and using them to make cannons. Anyone who dares to trade with copper coins will confiscate the goods and copper coins. This will prevent Qingzhou from leaving a single copper coin! "

Xun Yu was surprised and said, "Then what about our transactions with the outside world? Other forces will not agree with the banknotes issued by us in Qingzhou!"

Cao Cao sneered: "If the outside world doesn't approve, we will barter, but not a single copper coin can flow out of Qingzhou. If it is not enough, we will not buy these goods!"

(End of this chapter)