Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 292
Guo Jia and Chen Gui looked at each other knowingly, but neither of them continued.

Yuan Xi should have understood what he said so far, so let's just let it go.

Because if Yuan Shang is not the mastermind behind the scenes, almost all of the remaining possibilities cannot be said openly.

They listened to Yuan Xi tapping lightly on the table with his fingers, lowered their heads and remained silent.

In the hall, Zhao Yun, Liu He, Tian Yu, Yan Rou, Hua Tuo and others didn't know if they had guessed it, but they were also silent.

Yuan Xi thought that when he was in Yecheng that day, someone killed Zhen Fang before him, and he acted decisively, which was somewhat similar to today's dead men.

Yuan Shang, who has never fought a war, is not decisive enough in his actions. In other words, his actions may be disgusting and obscene, but if he is to say that he is cruel and heartless, it is not enough.

He stopped his fingers and said in a deep voice, "This matter is over for the time being."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and heard Yuan Xi say, "I'm going to start building the free school."

"The location of the main school must be connected to the north and south, and the transportation is convenient, so that officials, workers and craftsmen from all counties can come here to study, so it is best to build it in a state government."

"From the point of view of location, Beixincheng is somewhat inappropriate."

"Although Beixin City is a place I have worked hard for several years, it is connected to Jizhou in the south and Bingzhou in the west. There is no buffer in the middle. It is suitable for a military fortress, but it is not suitable for a state administration."

"I've been thinking about where to put the Youzhou government office, which is the most suitable place."

"Until I saw the mountains and rivers along the way on the way to Jicheng in the past few days, I had some thoughts about this place."

"I want to ask you all, I want to set up a government office here and expand the city, is it possible?"

Seeing that everyone was afraid to speak first, he said, "Say whatever you want, it doesn't matter if you are wrong, even if everyone thinks it is right, maybe the situation will change in the future, and it will be very different from what you expected."

"Everyone just say, I'll decide whether to build a city here in the end."

Everyone dared not take it lightly, because this was almost the first time that Yuan Xi gathered all the capable officials and generals under him to discuss matters together.

In the past, Yuan Xi always asked Guo Jia about the strategy, and about the military formation, he always asked Zhao Yun Tai Shici. Now Tai Shici is not here, but he has joined a new subordinate.

Zhao Yun belongs to the Changshan family. Although there is only one person, he is the earliest and the highest.

Guo Jia belongs to the Yingchuan School, so he is considered a loner.

Tian Yu belonged to Gongsun Zan's remnant party, but he was able to do things well and was appreciated by Yuan Xi. In the future, Gongsun Zan's remnant forces in Youzhou should be under his control.

The others are Liu Yu's remnant forces, mainly Liu He, Yan Rou and Xian Yufu who didn't come, all belong to this faction. These people have a deep background in private, so Liu He doesn't want to talk too much now, so as not to be caught by Yuan. Xi is afraid.

Chen Gui is from the Xuzhou family, but this time following Yuan Xi to Youzhou, there are still many Chen's children, so it can be said that their strength should not be underestimated.

As for Hua Tuo's soy sauce, but the network is the most extensive.

There are less than ten people, and the position is extremely complicated. The more people there are, the difficulty of management will increase in series. The relationship between them will also be divided into distances and groups.

Zhao Yun first said: "This place is bordered by the Xiongnu and Xianbei outside the pass in the north, and Wuhuan nomads in the east. The current scale of the city is far from enough."

"Besides, there is a flat river around here, and it is easy to be attacked by cavalry. Even if beacon towers are built along the way, it may not be possible to mobilize troops in time."

After hearing this, everyone nodded their heads, Yuan Xi nodded and said, "What Zilong said is indeed reasonable."

"It's useless to build Jicheng into a solid isolated city."

"If you are surrounded by the enemy, you will be dragged to death sooner or later."

"All I have an idea, too."

"With this city as the center, build a military town on the only way the enemy may come, as a precaution."

"If the enemy attacks the military town, Jicheng and other military towns can support them, and if they want to go around, they can cut off the way back."

After hearing this, everyone thought that this idea was good, but is it necessary to spend a lot of time to rebuild the city?
Guo Jia said: "Young Master, this idea is very interesting."

"Although this place is surrounded by plains, if you take a long-term view and regard it as a huge city, you can control a considerable expanse of land instead of being trapped in the city."

"However, the scope of this city is quite large, covering parts of Zhuojun, Guangyang and Yuyang counties."

Guo Jia started ordering people to take out the map and hang it up. Yuan Xi looked at the ancient place names on it and compared them with the place names of his later generations one by one.

In the north of Jixian County is Yanshan Mountain, which starts from Shanhaiguan in the east and ends in Zhangjiakou in the west, with a total length of more than [-] miles.

To the west is the Taihang Mountains, which are more than [-] miles long and serve as the eastern boundary of the Loess Plateau.

To the south is the Yellow River flowing through Shandong, and to the east is Bohai Bay.

Fan Zhenzhi's "Ode to Youzhou" wrote: Surrounding the sea on the left, embracing the Taihang on the right, pillowing Juyong in the north, rivers in the south, thousands of miles of fertile soil, the best in the world, the capital of emperors, and the land of abundance.

In Guo Jia's conception, Beixin City is just a western military town that straddles the big city of three states, just like the West City Gate.

Everyone couldn't help being dumbfounded, Guo Jia's scope was too big!
Guo Jia explained: "At each important pass, set up military towns and camps. In this way, the enemy can be kept out of Youzhou."

"Only by focusing on this can we build a solid line of defense."

Yan Rou said: "The general thinks that if this is the case, every city and military town will have to send a lot of soldiers, right?"

"It's meaningless if there are fewer people, but if there are too many people, if there is no war, the military rations will be extremely troublesome."

Everyone listened and agreed.

Guo Jia cast his eyes on Yuan Xi, and sure enough, Yuan Xi smiled and said, "I have some immature thoughts about this."

"I've always thought that if cities are built in various places and the enemy invades them, they can only fight on their own. Each city will have to station many soldiers, which is really a waste of money and food."

"However, if we develop water transportation between the cities, level the roads, and keep a mobile cavalry team stationed in each city round, once there is danger there, we will change our defense there."

"In this way, can the number of soldiers stationed be greatly reduced?"

After hearing this, Liu He and others praised, "Young master, this idea is very good."

On the one hand, due to the large population and the consumption of food and water sources, a large city cannot solve the problem by defense alone. As long as the besieging army cuts off the water source outside the city, it will be a deadly move.

On the other hand, although offense is the best defense, given the current situation in Youzhou, it is unrealistic to expand beyond the pass, so defense must be considered.

Defense is also divided into passive defense and active support.

Youzhou, which has a large number of horses, can give full play to the mobility of the support troops and become a living chess move, rather than a dead chess game that is passively stationed and defended.

The reason why Yuan Xi has this self-confidence is because he has the history of later generations as advanced experience, which proves that this idea is feasible.

In four directions, the south of Jicheng is adjacent to Jizhou, and the river network is densely covered, so it is easy to defend.

There is the Great Wall in the north, relying on the defense of the pass, so it is not a big problem for the time being.

The situation in the east is unclear now, and Shan Yu Tadun and Gongsun Du are holding each other back in western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning, which is not the current focus of expansion.

The rest is the most important and most vulnerable western Taihang Mountains defense line recently. As long as a few passes that are easy to defend and difficult to attack are stuck, it will be difficult for the enemy to enter.

There are eight gates in total in Taihang Mountains, one of which is the military capital. Juyongguan is a pass in the military capital.

Feihu Xing is connected to Puyin Xing, and at the same time guards the North China Plain, the Shanxi Plateau and the Mongolian Grassland in the east of the Loess Plateau, and is the most critical node.

The Mongolian army of later generations marched south to the Kingdom of Jin, but was blocked at Juyongguan, so they changed their way to enter Feihuxing, and finally captured Zhongdu, the capital of the Kingdom of Jin, which is now Beijing.

During the Tumu Fortress Change in the Ming Dynasty, Oala held Zhu Qizhen hostage. Zhu Qizhen called the door all the way, and the defenders along the way were forced to switch and surrender. Following the footsteps of the emperor, he successfully defended the capital.

This is to defend against the enemy outside the city. Otherwise, if you defend the capital, you will need hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Before the enemy comes, you will be eaten to pieces.

These lessons of blood, which have been filled in by countless lives in later generations, are now being put in front of Yuan Xi, which will save him many detours.

This is also the reason why he rushed to attack the Black Mountain Army immediately. Although its leader Zhang Yan is powerful, he doesn't know what happened to the future generations, so Taihang Mountain is just scattered around the pass with some not very strong strongholds, which is the best Opportunity.

Yuan Xi's idea was to complete his achievements in one battle, penetrate through the important pass of Taihang Mountain at one time, and build his own camp on it to garrison.

In this way, even if Zhang Yan cannot be completely wiped out, he can advance and attack, retreat and defend, and remain invincible.

Otherwise, the two sides will continue to see-saw. If Zhang Yang realizes the importance of the pass and builds a stronghold first, Yuan Xi will have a headache!

At that time, Youzhou would have to face constant harassment from the Black Mountain Army, and it would be difficult to fight back. Yuan Xi absolutely did not want to see such a scene.

Yuan Xi paid so much attention to Jicheng because he knew the lessons learned from history. This is a nail. Once it is pulled out by foreigners, the north of the Yellow River will be left to wreak havoc by foreigners, just like the chaos in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Yuan Xi told everyone his thoughts on the Black Mountain Army, and finally said: "The Black Mountain Army and the Yuan family have become mortal enemies, and there will be a battle sooner or later."

"If it's normal, the three counties will have enough food after spring plowing and summer harvest, and they can prepare to attack the Black Mountain Army."

Everyone thought about it together, wondering if they were too confident?
Those hundreds of thousands of Montenegrin troops are not hundreds of thousands of pigs!

Yuan Xi saw everyone's doubts, and said: "The other party is indeed a lot of people, but I heard that Bingzhou's grain harvest has been poor in the past two years, and there is no enough to eat."

"Now the spring plowing will start in a month or so, and Jicheng needs a lot of manpower to open up wasteland and build the city, so I want to use some strategies to draw the labor force of the Black Mountain Army."

After hearing this, Chen Gui praised: "One is changing and the other is growing. There are more laborers here to plow the land, and there will be fewer people on the other side of Montenegro for spring plowing. Then there will be even more food shortages, and even more shortages during wars."

"Young master's idea is quite wonderful in the art of war."

"There is nothing more than land and food that can tempt the people. As long as you are willing, you will definitely attract people to vote."

Yuan Xi smiled and said: "There is nothing to be reluctant to part with. The land is dead, but people are alive. Living people are much more important than land at the moment."

"I also ask Mr. Han Yu to help you think about how to get people to take refuge. Then I will ask Guorang to send people to spread the news in the Taihang Mountains."

Liu He said: "If Jicheng is so important, then the magistrate Xu"

Yuan Xi said decisively: "Brother Liu, please collect evidence of his illegality. Even if he has nothing to do with some things, he can't be kept. What's more, what he has done is already deadly."

"The people of Jicheng need an explanation, and they need someone to memorize everything."

"It's up to him."

When everyone heard this, they all trembled in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)