Xuande

Chapter 733 Guan Yu is Loyal
Guan Yu thought about it, and felt that what Guo Jia said was reasonable.

Earlier, when they were still in Liangzhou, he had heard Liu Bei say a word.

The military is an extension of politics, all military is to achieve political goals, and all politics will also use military as the basis for the final solution.

Therefore, a wise ruler will use military power for clear and beneficial political purposes, otherwise, it is called militarism.

Liu Bei built the Jiangnan Military Region and mobilized a large army to go south to clean up the Yellow Turban Army. What he did was bring Jiangnan under his rule for the sake of population, land, taxation, and resources.

In other words, it is for the sake of development and to achieve this goal that the military is used, not for the sake of the military.

After figuring this out, Guan Yu felt that what Guo Jia said made sense.

Shanyue covers most of the entire Yangzhou area, and almost every county in the Jiangnan area has traces of Shanyue's activities. If you put on an image of only attacking but not negotiating, and make Shanyue's thieves despair, how many battles will it take?How many years will it take to get rid of them?

At present, the most effective attack method of the Han army is to burn the oil cans with fierce fire. If the fight continues like this, is it possible to use the oil cans with fierce fire to burn the entire Jiangnan in the end?
How much kerosene is needed?

Can the imperial court afford it?

The Han army has just arrived and their foothold is not stable. If they put on an attitude of killing Shanyue at this time, although it can deter Xiaoxiao, it will undoubtedly add a lot of cost to subsequent political actions.

Liu Bei told him that before the slave restriction operation was launched, world affairs were still divided into three parts of politics and seven parts of military affairs, but after the slave restriction operation was launched, he will fully transition to three parts of military affairs and seven parts of politics.

He wants to give full play to his strategic deterrence, and maximize this deterrence. He does not use force until necessary. Even if he uses force, he must strike with precision.

Doing so not only saves money, but also virtually expands the amount of deterrence.

After gaining fame, you can't always use violence to solve problems. Violence is a means, but not an end.

Mature rulers should use violence cautiously, so using the ultimate means against Danyang Shanyue is very detrimental to Liu Bei's career.

Get rid of the Yellow Turbans, fight the Yellow Turbans, and not fight Shanyue, so as to deter and show goodwill. With one hand a carrot and the other a big stick, a wise Shanyue leader should know that he has few choices.

Guan Yu is loyal, absolutely loyal, and he is very willing to think about Liu Bei's career.

He has always believed that his own contribution should take a back seat compared to Liu Bei's career. Liu Bei's career is the most important, and his contribution is below that.

Liu Bei is not only his boss, his guide, his benefactor, the person who single-handedly changed his tragic fate, but also the mentor who taught him the necessary knowledge and guided his growth.

The combination of several important key points makes Guan Yu feel that Liu Bei's interests are always the first thing he should consider, and his own credit is not the most important thing.

So he quickly thought of this joint, and thought that Guo Jia's thinking was also for long-term considerations, and he agreed with Guo Jia's point of view.

If this kid has always had such an attitude, then Guan Yu feels that it is not something that cannot be considered if he continues to cooperate with him for a long time.

"If you think so, then I will support you. When are you going to negotiate with those mountain bandits?"

"After the New Year's Eve, when it's New Year's Day, we should make a big fuss and take out all the wine, meat, and surround the thief's lair. Let's celebrate the New Year, drink and eat meat, and be extremely happy. The most joyful voice can be heard by the thieves, and the aroma of eating meat can also be smelled by the thieves. Let them know how rich our reserves are."

Guo Jia picked up the wine glass, drank the still warm wine in one gulp, and then showed a smirk.

Guan Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately understood what he meant.

A group of besieged people, who are in great pain and are short of supplies, if they find that the people who besiege themselves can drink, eat and celebrate the New Year with joy, what kind of subtle changes will happen to their hearts?

Not to mention the Yellow Turban, what would Shanyue think?

A smile appeared on Guan Yu's expressionless face all year round.

For some reason, he suddenly felt that this little boy who didn't look very pleasing to the eye before now looked more and more pleasing to the eye.

Inexplicably, he felt that this little boy had a bit of Liu Bei's youthful demeanor. In those days, Liu Bei also repeatedly resorted to tricks at such moments, leading them to achieve the greatest results with the smallest cost.

After deciding on a strategy, Guan Yu gave orders that there would be no more fighting for the next few days. In addition to maintaining daily vigilance and training, everyone would celebrate the New Year's Eve of the next five years in Jian'an.

The Central Han Army has always been very secure in terms of food supply. It has never been overwhelmed in terms of food supply.

When there is no combat mission, the diet of the soldiers is relatively simple, mainly food and side dishes. Cooking rice in a big pot, frying vegetables in a big pot, and putting some oil and water can basically meet the needs of the soldiers.

There are less meat, vegetables and fruits, and eating once every three days is a relatively normal frequency. If you expect to eat every day, even if Liu Bei can afford the money, the speed of material supply cannot keep up.

When performing combat missions, the food standards of soldiers will be improved, the supply of protein foods such as meat will be increased, and the supply of oil will also be increased, allowing soldiers to increase their energy reserves.

In terms of food, Liu Bei has never been short of food. Vegetables and fruits are more precious and difficult to grow, and it is not easy to supply them. However, according to the plan, a part of the area is designated to grow vegetables and fruits for the imperial court and the army.

Both the imperial court and the army have special vegetable and fruit supply plans.

The meat side is relatively simple.

In Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou, three large-scale animal husbandry areas, there are a total of more than 700 million cattle, sheep and horses being raised. Basically, most of the meat supply of the Han army comes from here.

When the imperial court needs it, it will order the land of the three states to select fat cattle and sheep and transport them to Luoyang for slaughter, and then provide them to the army.

If there is a marching mission to the south, the method of slaughtering on the spot, salting or air-drying is adopted, and the method of storing meat on the grassland is used to increase the storage period of the meat, instead of being obsessed with fresh meat.

The taste of fresh meat is of course good, but firstly, livestock such as cattle and sheep have a long journey southward, and they are afraid that they will lose fat on the road.

On the other hand, Liu Bei also implemented a family livestock raising plan within the collective farm, and arranged for the collective farm to concentrate on raising some poultry and livestock, such as chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, etc., especially pigs, and when the court needed them, they would purchase them in a centralized manner.

In the Han Dynasty, the pig breeding industry achieved unprecedented development, and the method of raising pigs in captivity appeared, but the location of the captivity was a bit embarrassing, and the pigs were generally kept next to the toilet.

However, the feed for raising pigs is not given by Ollie. It is mainly aquatic duckweed and algae, supplemented by medicine seedlings and leftovers from the kitchen. Basically, what is left over from human food is given to pigs.

Of course, castration technology has also appeared at this moment, but the spread is relatively slow, and it is not very common. Only a few areas have castration technology, and most areas do not, so pork is not very delicious, and the taste is not very tender.

After Liu Bei came to power, some changes were made to this.

(End of this chapter)