The Infinite Heavens Run Away

Chapter 290 7.46 Cao Jun’s Secret Discussion of the World Situation [Added update for the number one fan “Lighter than a Feather”]

Chapter 7 I forged the soul of Han in the Three Kingdoms
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7.46 The situation in the world and Cao Jun’s secret discussion

The 13th year of Jian'an, 208 AD, late spring and early summer.

The reason why the "Jian'an" era name is still used now is actually easy to understand.

Although the emperor in the capital has been changed from the historical "Han Xian Emperor" to the current "Han Young Emperor", in fact, the officials are still the same group of Han Dynasty elders, and it is understandable that they have the same reign title.

Now that the Han Dynasty has announced its abdication, no one in the world dares to claim the throne, so the "Jian'an" reign name, which has long been in a state of abandonment, has been passed down strangely and is still used today.

In the past 14 years, Deng Feng's territory has achieved tremendous development, and other places cannot remain unchanged.

In the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao, who was recognized by the world as originally belonging to Yuan Shao's power, suddenly raised troops in Chen County. His external slogan was to avenge Yuan Shao, and he almost took over the four surrounding counties with lightning speed.

Then the resources of the five counties were integrated as quickly as possible, and [-] troops were sent to Qiao County, mainly to defend against Liu Bei's army in the direction of Xuzhou.

Not long after he raised his army, the original forces under Yuan Shao followed suit, and soon restored the forces in Yuzhou except Lu County and Pei County, and took over as Yuzhou Mu.

Basically, Yuan Shu worked hard to leave a reputation like garbage, but he all made Cao Cao's wedding dress.

Afterwards, they repaired for three years, during which Liu Bei and Yuan Shu sent troops to attack many times, but they failed to capture even a single county under Cao Cao's command, and Cao Cao's army became stronger and stronger.

In the summer of the fourth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao, in addition to leaving enough troops to guard against Liu Bei's troops, used all his [-] troops to attack Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu's army, which had almost no defense, was defeated one after another.

In less than a year, by the end of that year, all the territory of Jingzhou north of the Yangtze River had fallen into the hands of Cao Cao. Yuan Shu committed suicide in the helplessness of internal and external difficulties. The stage of the late Han Dynasty.

Just over a year later, in the spring of the sixth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao mobilized 20 troops to attack Xiangyang. However, it fell in January and Liu Biao died of illness in panic and chaos.

His wife, the Cai family, joined forces with the Kuai, Huang, and Wen families of Jingzhou to support Liu Biao's second son, Liu Cong, but also killed his eldest son, Liu Qi, and soon chose to surrender to Cao Cao. The Cai family did not suffer a loss, and was "retained" by Cao Cao. ".

By the end of that year, Cao Cao formally took control of Jingzhou, the theoretically richest place in the world, plus most of Yuzhou, Cao Cao's power even surpassed that of Yuan Shao at his peak.

In the summer of the seventh year of Jian'an, Cao Cao used the strategy of "building a plank road in the open and secretly visiting Chencang", pretending to go south to attack the Sun family in Jiangdong, but suddenly turned around and attacked Liu Bei in Xuzhou.

Liu Bei's army was caught off guard and lost consecutive battles, but Guan Yu, the governor of Peijun on the front line, staged another "careless loss of Peijun".

As a result, in less than three months, Liu Bei lost Xuzhou and fled to Yangzhou in a hurry with his remaining forces.

After several twists and turns, Sun Ce released water many times on the advice of his advisers, and later specifically provided assistance. Jiangdong took the opportunity to take back Huainan County, which belonged to Yangzhou. Liu Bei finally took over the Jingzhou part south of the Yangtze River the following year, which was considered reluctant. Played a "switching house" with Cao Cao.

But soon, Cao Cao drove Liu Bei away again, and took control of the entire territory of Jingzhou.

Liu Bei was not an honest person. Seeing that he could not stand up against Cao Cao's army, he entered Yizhou in the name of "a clan member of the Han Dynasty".

At this time, Liu Yan was dead, and Yizhou Mu had been replaced by Liu Zhang. The result was just like real history. In the end, Liu Zhang "actively" gave up the position of Yizhou Mu, and Liu Bei officially took control of Shu.

She also married the Wu family, a local wealthy family, and married the Wu family's legitimate daughter as his wife. The original Cao Bao's daughter, Cao, became "Mrs. Cao". However, Cao Bao had already passed away, so no one would talk much.

By the way, when Liu Bei fled, none of Xuzhou's original big families followed, whether it was Chen Gui, Chen Deng from the Chen family, or Mi Zhu and Mi Fang from the Mi family.

In addition, Liu Bei married Cao Bao's daughter from the beginning, so it was impossible for Mi Zhu to marry his sister to someone else to make her a child, so the "Mrs. Mi" in real history disappeared.

Regarding the question of who she would eventually marry, Deng Feng never knew because the intelligence system was very valuable and it was impossible to spend too much effort on a woman who had no influence.

On the contrary, when Liu Bei "passed" Jingzhou, he "visited the thatched cottage three times" through this timeline, and at the same time gained the loyalty of Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, known as the "crouching dragon and phoenix chick".

Five years have passed now. Liu Bei has already managed Shu as his base, and by the way, he also destroyed Zhang Lu of Hanzhong, which can be regarded as truly completing the unification of Shu.

As of now, the world is divided into four parts, Deng Feng's family dominates, Cao Cao in the middle is in the worst overall situation, Liu Bei is in a corner and has the slimmest prospects, and the Sun family in Jiangdong relies on the support of the navy, and is actually the worst in strength.

The biggest problem is that the next three companies are now facing a strong opponent that they cannot avoid, that is, Deng Feng, the general who conquered the North and now the king of the North, has shown his fangs again after 14 years of silence.

In fact, Deng Feng's 14-year recovery process was not always smooth sailing.

It was okay at the beginning, but after the entire northern force had rested for three years, everyone began to become restless, even Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Huang Zhong, who had followed Deng Feng from the beginning and whose loyalty did not need to be doubted. Once asked to send troops as soon as possible.

Seeing that the problem was getting bigger and bigger, Cheng Lingsu officially announced the facts to everyone, that is, Deng Feng became obsessed because of his practice, and it would take at least ten years for his injury to recover. He must wait until he recovers before he can continue to send troops.

The result was that in just two years, internal problems broke out five times in the Northern Territory, all for the same reason. Seeing Deng Feng recovering from serious injuries, the remnants of the family that had been suppressed and cleaned up in the past started to cause trouble almost regardless of the cost.

Several companies that even Deng Feng felt were loyal came out this time, but they did not expect that what Deng Feng left behind was never just a family and a group of top soldiers, but a force and a system.

None of these problems have an impact beyond the county or county where they are located. They are all reported after they are settled.

Speaking of which, these people are actually very pitiful.

As a normal person who grew up in real society, Deng Feng is not a genius, but he still has some basic common sense.

At least in terms of governing the country, although he could not understand the details, he could guide the general direction and then leave the details to his advisers. These people were all heroes of the moment, and at least in terms of actual execution, they were several steps ahead of Deng Feng.

When it comes to the specific issue of aristocratic families, Deng Feng's method of suppression is actually very simple. Basically, he is surrounded by a large army, and then forces them to hand over their land deeds, retaining only the remaining portion of less than a thousand acres, and the rest is distributed to local farmers under the leadership of the army.

Then, after the division of land is completed, the local security forces are recruited on the spot, leaving a small number of elite field soldiers as the backbone of the security forces, while the other main forces withdraw.

In addition to the land issue, the remaining issue is the issue of private soldiers and private weapons. This is also the top priority of Deng Feng's attack. It is even more important than the land issue. Basically, as long as a noble family is solved, it will be disbanded or even eliminated as soon as possible. A private soldier raised by this aristocratic family.

Moreover, this issue was not discussed at all. Either agree or die. The families that were destroyed because they refused to hand over their private soldiers accounted for more than [-]% of the total families that were destroyed.

The result was that when the news of Deng Feng's recovery came out and these remaining aristocratic families wanted to cause trouble, most of them could only gather a few servants, not even weapons.

Some smart people did win over the local security forces. The problem was that although the army was composed of local people, the key officers were all elites from the field forces.

They dare not say anything else. Their understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Northland Field Army is simply not comparable to that of these aristocratic families who think they know a lot but are actually very ignorant. After they started trouble, even the longest time they could not sustain it for more than ten years. sky.

It was only then that all the forces in the world realized what kind of force Deng Feng was leading.The army basically doesn't care who is the leader, because all middle-level and junior officers are graduates of martial arts schools. With such backgrounds, you don't need to care about who is the boss. The authority for promotion is also in the hands of the superiors. The generals only have the right to report the performance and meritorious service of the officers. and mistakes.

There is no need to expect one-handed control at the county, county and township levels, because the five chief officials are in parallel, the top leader is responsible for the system, and the strict separation of military and political affairs means that no one can really control it even if they have ideas.

Don't expect to win over the upper-level officials and generals, because Deng Feng would increase the price of any of his generals and counselors. No matter where they were transferred, they would only receive this treatment at most.

After that, no one dared to play around. So when Deng Feng decided to pass his position to his son five years ago, everyone took it for granted that Deng Feng knew that the deadline was coming and paved the way for his son in advance. Therefore, the handover was surprisingly smooth.

What's more, Deng Chengye was trained by Deng Feng and a bunch of generals and counselors from an early age. He was speechless in every aspect. His own strength had reached half a step of golden elixir, so there was nothing to doubt.

The only problem is that the second son Deng Chengye is not bad at all. Many people are worried that "the trouble is caused by Xiao Qiang". Fortunately, Deng Feng has paid close attention to this aspect of education since he was a child. Their hobbies are fundamentally different. Deng Chengyuan is actually more like a commander-in-chief than an emperor.

Xiangyang is now the seat of Cao Cao's power.

"My lord, now that Deng Zhengbei has come out again, he has made it clear that he wants to send troops south to pacify the world. We can be said to be the first to bear the brunt and have to guard against it!" After Yuan Shao's death, Tian Feng, who was under Cao Cao's command, was the first to speak.

Frankly speaking, his resourcefulness is really not low. The problem is that his temper is too bad. In addition, Deng Feng's almost destructive evaluation back then means that he still has no strength and no status until now.

Among Cao Cao's counselors, even if he is in the middle of the pack, he can only be the last in the position, so he is the first to speak.

"We all know this. The question now is, how can we prevent it." Xu You, who had never dealt with Yuan Shao since he started following him, answered in a strange tone.

"Of course I should move more belongings home just in case." There was a reason why Tian Feng had almost no friends.

"You——you are a slanderer!" Although everyone knew that Xu You was corrupt, at least they would not expose his scars in person.

"What do Zhongde think?" Naturally, Cao Cao couldn't watch their quarrel continue, so he promptly changed the subject and asked his chief adviser.

"It's very difficult to handle." Cheng Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Looking at Deng Zhengbei's tactics over the years, he never used any tricks, he always crushed his opponents with thunderous momentum.

But ever since the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, the evaluation of "being able to know troops, train troops, and make good use of troops" has never had any water.

So far, there is no force in the world whose military strength can match his, at least not ours, neither in terms of training nor equipment. "

"Lord, why don't we contact Jiangdong and Liu Bei? Now Deng Zheng is powerful in the north. If we don't join forces to fight, we may be defeated individually." Xun You suggested.

"It can only be said that it is better than nothing." Cheng Yu shook his head helplessly, "Liu Xuande is a powerful man in this world, so he will not refuse, but he is far away in Western Shu and has no actual help to our army.

As for the Little Overlord of Jiangdong, although he will definitely agree to cooperate, it is known to the whole world that his sister is now the young lady of the entire Northland, and will be the choice of the emperor and empress in the future. I am afraid it is difficult to believe it! "

"It doesn't matter, just don't let Sun Bofu send troops when the time comes. However, Jiangdong has always had enough rice and grain. We should be in the front and let them provide some grain and grass assistance."

Cao Cao thought more generously, "What's more, it's not a secret that Deng Zhengbei built a large ship at sea. Jiangdong must also know about it."

"Even so, we should make arrangements early. It is better to allocate some troops from the front line of our army and Jiangdong to go north. At least we can increase the chance of victory." Jushou finally suggested.

"Zhongda, have you had any contact with Beidi and Jiangdong recently?" Cao Cao did not speak in a hurry, but turned to look behind the row of counselors on the left.Just after he spoke, almost all the civil servants and generals present frowned.

"My lord, there has been no personal contact between the two parties, but Mrs. Sun took a sea ship to Jianye to return to Ning years ago, so there must have been transactions between the two parties.

Please forgive me, my lord, Deng Zhengbei has always paid attention to intelligence, and even specially arranged for Mrs. Han to be responsible for this matter. Our army's careful efforts failed to break into the escort at that time. "

As if he was born to be in the shadows, a man with an eagle eye slowly raised his head, but his voice made people feel sinister, "I just learned from Jiangdong Xizuo that Mrs. Sun once had a private relationship with Sun Bofu. We had a long conversation, but the specific content is unknown.”

"That's enough." Cao Cao nodded with satisfaction, "I think the two sides have communicated, but they haven't reached an agreement yet. Ziyuan, go to Jiangdong in person, at least let Sun Bofu understand that 'lips are dead and teeth are cold' is not out of reach. "

"Yes, my lord." Xu You stood up and agreed. After thinking about it for a while, he said unwillingly, "My lord, why don't you contact the various grassland ministries? They don't want to continue like this, right?"

"Give up." It was Tian Feng who spoke this time, and it was rare that he didn't mean the slightest bit of sarcasm to Xu You, "Everyone must be aware of my situation.

After Duke Benchu ​​passed away, I once went to the Northland alone, especially on the grasslands, to observe and make arrangements for the future. "

"What's the result?" Xu You saw Tian Feng's expression and knew that the matter was serious, so he also gave up his usual taunting each other.

Everyone else looked over with interest. They all knew about the grievances between Tian Feng and Deng Feng. As for Tian Feng's so-called "arrangement for the future", to put it bluntly, when he met the next lord, if he needed to fight Deng Feng, he would do it. Post these as a follow-up.

"The grassland is no longer the millions of 'string control people' it once was, but the vast majority have been transformed into herdsmen."

Tian Feng's tone revealed his deep unwillingness, "Although I have enmity with Deng Zhengbei, I have to admit that what he did is really for our Han people's century-old plan.

Through large-scale road construction throughout the grassland, and then building cities at important nodes, killing all dishonest tribal leaders, and allocating pastures to herdsmen, they used what they called "cement roads" as a network and the built cities as nodes.

As long as the herdsmen graze their cattle honestly, people will come to buy cattle, sheep, leather goods, and even wool. If the herdsmen have needs, they can rarely buy them if they go to the nearest town.

You don’t even need to do these things yourself. As long as you repair the roads and build the cities, merchants will solve the remaining problems.

Then there is the garrison at points, but there are not many in each town. They still only send out a few backbones, deliberately recruiting the brave warriors among the herdsmen as the main body, and gathering those who most want to fight into their hands.

You only need to pay the military salary with normal money and rations, and you don’t have to worry about being attacked by anyone, and you have a force that dares to fight. It is simply "

"Yuan Hao, according to you, this grassland is already impregnable?" Cao Cao was also surprised by this.

"Today's grassland is actually the same as that of our Han people. The only difference is that Han people farm and grasslands graze." Tian Feng sighed helplessly.

"There are many people on the grassland who are dissatisfied with this and want to make a difference. Our old friends Hufro and Kirby actually want to do some activities, but as long as Deng Zhengbei is still around, no one dares to move.

But if 20 years pass and Deng Zhengbei is really gone, let alone whether the people who want to make big things are still there, even if they are still there, in the grassland 20 years later, the alien races that were once like tigers and wolves have long been used to it. Stable days.

What is left is just a group of farmers grazing cattle, or farmers who have no shortage of meat and have a prosperous life. No matter who wants to make a big move, there is nothing they can do. "

There was silence in the entire lobby, and you could even hear a pin drop.

"Deng Zhengbei, a true god!" Cheng Yu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a wry smile.

"Forget it, let's discuss defense matters." Cao Cao began the specific arrangement
(End of this chapter)