God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

Chapter 501 The Bottom Line
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"Isn't it just to use five days of food in exchange for peace? What's so strange, why should we be so angry? The fault of this matter is ours, so why should we blame the people below?" Shen Pei's tone was very calm, and at the same time he looked at it with some doubts. Looking at Xu You, I don’t understand why Xu You is so angry?
You must know that after Yuan Shao took the initiative to take responsibility, he also took on all the responsibilities that happened before.

In this case, forget about what happened before.

Naturally, this also includes Bai Mayi's extortion of grain from Gongsun Zan, and the official's payment of grain. It is expressly stipulated that he will not be held accountable.

Before thinking of a specific way to deal with Gongsun Zan, it was allowed to exchange food for safety. Is there anything strange about this?
What's more, compared to the previous ten days of food, now it only takes five days of food, and the quantity has been reduced by half. Isn't it a good thing?

Even if the grain needs to be transported to Gongsun Zan's camp, there will be some losses on the way.

A little loss is better than nothing. Compared to the difference, doesn’t it save a lot of food?
This kind of behavior should be praised, not the current mood.

It was precisely because he understood the cause and effect that Shen Pei did not understand Xu You's behavior.

"Zhengnan, it was Gongsun Zan who came to ask for it in person before. They gave him ten days of food in exchange for peace. I can understand it." "But Gongsun Zan just goes to a city every once in a while to ask for it. With Jizhou's food, this amount is just a drop in the bucket, so naturally it doesn't matter."

"Ziyuan, I do understand what happened before, but there is nothing wrong with their behavior. After all, we haven't thought of a way to completely cure the problem, so how can we blame them?" Shen Pei frowned slightly, confused. Look at Xu You.

It is expressly stipulated not to look into the past, which also means that things from the past cannot be brought up to the present.

Although the troubles of cutting across the board are many, the troubles of not cutting are even greater.

Now that you've turned over it, don't turn it back again.

"There is indeed nothing wrong with their behavior. If it were during a normal period of time that they would exchange half of the food for peace, I might have to praise them. But at this time, then I can only scold them." Xu You pointed at the pile of bamboo slips in front of him, anger revealed in his words.

"Ziyuan, you mean, not one city? But many cities?" Shen Pei looked at Xu You's movements and the number of the pile of bamboo slips, thought for a moment, and then came to his senses.

"Now that the food has been harvested, there is surplus food everywhere. However, for the Hu people outside the Great Wall, this is also a time to go south to herd horses. They also need to prepare food for the winter." Xu You did not directly answer the review, but Telling about the northern part of Youzhou.

No matter how fierce Gongsun Zan's butcher knife is, there will always be some barbarians who choose to go south to plunder after the grain harvest season.

Although bumping into Gongsun Zan's white-horse Yi Cong is tantamount to courting death, if he does not go south and stays on the grassland, he will not be attacked by the White Horse Yi Cong.

But in that case, how can we survive the winter?
Either starve to death in the winter, or choose to go south and take a gamble.

As long as you don't bump into Baima Yicong, you can have a happy winter. If you do, you will consider yourself unlucky.

Staying in the grassland for the winter means certain death. There is still a glimmer of hope in going south to plunder. Fools know how to choose.So no matter how fierce Baima Yicong's butcher knife is, no matter how prestigious he is.

In order to survive, the Hu people who did not have enough food had no choice but to go south to try their luck.

"But so what? The Hu people outside the Great Wall cannot be Gongsun Zan's opponent. We know this very well. Even most of the letters we sent were rejected by the Hu tribe." Shen Pei looked at Xu You calmly. , I don’t understand why Xu You said this at this time.

There are indeed many barbarian tribes on the grasslands, and there are also many large tribes.

Some tribes are even able to pull out tens of thousands of string-controllers, but it's useless.

Faced with the invitations they sent, the vast majority of the Hu tribes chose to refuse, and some even mocked them directly.

Faced with the threat of Baima Yicong, no Hu tribe dared to agree to their conditions.

Even though the conditions they offered were very generous, so generous that most tribes hesitated, but in the end they all rejected it.

"But there are always some tribes who can't survive because of insufficient food, so they choose to go south. This is the most important thing." Xu You directly pulled out the map, pointed to the terrain on the map, and pointed at Youzhou's vast border. , said seriously, "Youzhou's grassland defense line is too long. Even with the defense of the Great Wall, there are too many loopholes. Even with the speed of Baima Yi Cong, it is impossible to plug all the loopholes."

"But after all, it is some small tribes that cannot survive, and it is difficult to pose a threat to Baima Yicong. Unless we can integrate the entire grassland tribe, we can sweep the entire Youzhou. But in that case, whether it is you or me , or the people behind us are not allowed." Shen Pei shook his head and said with some emotion.

You can command the barbarians, or you can order the barbarians, but if the barbarians unite the entire grassland, a new king of the grassland will inevitably be born, posing a threat to the entire nation.

This kind of bottom line, which can be called the country, is absolutely not allowed to be touched.

What's more, their current situation is not to the point where they don't need to abide by the rules.

Born in a noble family, he knows the unspoken rules of these families very well, and knows what should be done and what should not be done.

"As long as there are barbarians going south, Gongsun Zan will definitely go back after receiving the message. Naturally, he will not stay in the north of Jizhou by then. After he clears out these barbarians, winter will come, and then the snow will be heavy, and the white horses will Yi Cong can only stay where he is." Xu You even marked the maneuvering distance and space of the white horse Yi Cong on the map he drew with his hands, and said in a confident tone.

After Shen Pei heard this, he also reacted. He was silent for a while and said calmly, "In other words, even if they don't give Gongsun Zan food, Gongsun Zan will have no chance to threaten them this year."

"That's right. Originally, I was planning to issue an order in advance to inform them that from now on, they would refuse to pay grain to Gongsun Zan. However, Gongsun Zan sent people to directly notify the officials of each city. With this seemingly discount of half the grain, most of them were All the officials in the city handed over the grain." Xu You casually picked up the bamboo slips on the side and unfolded them directly.

The contents of this bamboo slip are no different from those previously handed over to the judge.

(End of this chapter)