Fantasy Three Kingdoms: Four knots in Taoyuan at the beginning

Chapter 73 071, Li Xiangyang to the northern expedition

"Why?"

At this time, Xiangyang is not the later state government, Xiangyang, and it is completely inferior to Jiangling.

Chen Yuan said: "My lord, Jiangling is the prefecture of Jingzhou. It is a place where great powers gather. If we enter Jiangling, we will inevitably be constrained by many powerful powers, and there will be many changes in our actions. Instead, we should first station in Xiangyang and use the land of Xiangyang as our foundation. Eliminating the sect thieves in Nanjun is to frighten the powerful Nanjun, and it is also good for training troops. When the sect thieves are settled and the lord marches into Jiangling with troops, who would dare not accept it?"

There was another purpose, which Chen Yuan did not mention.

He felt that Jiangling was too far south, which was not conducive to the future Northern Expedition.

Therefore, in Chen Yuan's mind, the future state government must be moved to Xiangyang.

Not only is it conducive to accepting refugees, but it is also conducive to the future Northern Expedition.

Liu Bei was thoughtful.

Chen Yuan did not intend to follow Liu Biao's method in history to put down the sect thieves.

How did Liu Biao do it?

He asked Kuai Yue to send people to invite 55 sect thieves to a banquet, behead them all, and attack their tribes together.

This method will make other sect thieves dissatisfied.

Because the method you used is too dirty.

Moreover, the reason why Kuai Yue helped Liu Biao was because Liu Biao gave up a lot of benefits to the Kuai family and the Cai family.

To put it bluntly, Liu Biao compromised with Jingzhou Haoqiang.

Therefore, the situation in Jingzhou later was that Liu Biao and the powerful Jingzhou ruled Jingzhou together.

What consequences did this lead to?
As a result, Liu Biao has been trapped in Jingzhou for more than [-] years, and he has not stepped out of Jingzhou.

Is it because Liu Biao doesn't want to go out?
No, he thought.

If Liu Biao had no ambition, he would not have entered Jingzhou alone. Wouldn't it be nice for him to be a marquis in the Northern Army in Luoyang? Why risk his life to enter Jingzhou alone?
Since you have great ambitions, why didn't you go out of Jingzhou?
It is because of the constraints of Jingzhou's tyranny.

The tyrants in Jingzhou are actually similar to those in Jiangnan, Huaiyang, and even the tyrants in central Shu.

They don't have any idea of ​​​​unifying the world, they can maintain their own interests.

This is why there were many surrenderers in these places later.

Because they surrendered, the interests were not damaged much.

On the contrary, the war will cause them more losses.

If it were you, you would also surrender.

Chen Yuan would definitely not let Liu Bei follow Liu Biao's old path, otherwise he would be trapped to death in Jingzhou.

To describe it in one word, it is the dog of the household.

Although this word is actually used to describe Liu Zhang.

But from Chen Yuan's point of view, using it on Liu Biao is not against harmony at all.

Because Liu Biao spent his whole life wandering around Jingzhou, without taking a step out.

As the saying goes, success is also Kuai Cai, and defeat is also Kuai Cai.

After listening to Chen Yuan's words, Liu Bei thought for a while, then looked at Gu Yong and Xi Zhicai: "Yuan Tan, Zhicai, what do you two think?"

After hearing what Chen Yuan said, Xi Zhicai and Gu Yong began to think.

Hearing Liu Bei's question at this moment, Gu Yong spoke first: "Zichu, as you said, we will first station in Xiangyang, but Xiangyang is sparsely populated, where can we send food and grass?"

Not to mention Jiangxia Huang's, who can be deceived the first time, absolutely cannot be deceived the second time.

Because, as long as Liu Bei and the others show their flag in Xiangyang, Jiangxia Huang will know that Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng have failed.

In the whole of Xiangyang, there was not much food in the past, but now there are 10 thieves, plus the original people, there are as many as [-] people.

This food consumption is not a small number.

Xi Zhicai coughed and said, "Zi Chu, do you have any information about the sect thieves in Nanjun?"

The two most important things in war are food and intelligence.

Both Gu Yong and Xi Zhicai brought it up.

Only by solving these two problems can they gain a foothold in Xiangyang, and then eradicate the thieves in the territory one by one.

If you can't solve it, you might as well go to Jiangling.

Although they have to be constrained by powerful forces, Gu Yong and Xi Zhi are sure to deal with them.

Chen Yuan naturally considered these two issues.

"First of all, it's an intelligence issue. I asked Xianhe to go ahead of us. I think Xianhe now has a good understanding of the situation in Nanjun and even Jingzhou, so we only need to ask Xianhe to Xiangyang to find out."

Everyone else nodded.

They also know a thing or two about Xianhe's ability. If you say that Jian Yong has political and military strategies, it is nonsense, but Jian Yong's diplomatic ability is not weak.

Although this guy is a bit disrespectful, his affinity is beyond the charts, and anyone can get along with him very comfortably.

Such a person could not be more suitable to serve as a diplomatic official in this era.

Because he can sniff out a lot of news.

"As for the food and grass? We can now combine war raising with mass production."

"We all know that wars are supported by wars. What does mass production mean?"

Speaking of this, Chen Yuan became excited.

"My suggestion is that we only select 3000 of the [-] thieves to be incorporated into our Jingzhou army, and all the rest of them will be turned into civilians on the spot. According to our method in Youzhou, we will rule them with the law of Baojia and organize them. They cultivated the land and fished and hunted to supplement our food and grass."

"Besides, we can still buy grain and grass. Now that the grain has just been harvested, no matter whether it is in the hands of the people or the powerful, there must be no shortage of grain, and the price will not be too expensive. We should be able to buy a batch."

As for why Chen Yuan threw away the grain in the government treasury, it was because the grain had already been occupied by Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, and now it belonged to them.

But Xiangyang is now a county, and the food is not very much. In addition, what Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng got from Jiangxia Huang's is only two thousand shi.

One stone of grain is 120 catties, and two thousand stones is only more than 20 catties.

A normal soldier consumes about five liters of grain a day, which is one and a half catties.

After reorganization, Liu Bei had 6000 soldiers and consumed [-] catties of food every day.

24 catties of grain can be saved for a month.

A month later, ammunition and food ran out.

There are still about ten months before the harvest next year, which means that Liu Bei and the others still need at least [-] shi of grain.

The grain of [-] shi is not much, and it is not much.

Nanjun Haoqiang can definitely get it out, but if he wants to get food out of their mouths, he has to spend a lot of money.

Liu Bei doesn't have that much money.

Therefore, for the present plan, the only way is to use war to support war and self-reliance, as Chen Yuan said.

Chen Yuan didn't need to worry about the issue of war, with so many generals and talents around.

With Liu Bei's current strength, it won't be too easy to wipe out mere sect thieves.

Therefore, Chen Yuan pulled Gu Yong to prepare for large-scale production.

At the moment, Liu Bei made a division of labor, and Xi Zhicai served as the right army adviser and went out with the army.

Chen Yuan was appointed by Liu Bei as Jingzhou Biejia and Zuo Junjun, which established Chen Yuan's position as Liu Bei's number one minister, with both civil and military skills.

Gu Yong was appointed as a government official, giving Gu Yong the second status of a government official.

(End of this chapter)