Three Kingdoms: The blind box draws Da Qiao at the beginning

Chapter 291 Jia Xu’s second plan: to show weakness to the enemy

Lu Yi entrusted Liu Bei to Wei Jing, and was quite emotional when he saw the soldiers taking Liu Bei to the camp.

Wei Jing saw this and said, "Liu Bei has changed hands several times. Marquis Wu, you should be careful."

Lu Yi smiled and said, "I know, but people change."

"As long as you come here and work sincerely, what does it matter what he was like in the past?"

"Heroes don't ask where they come from."

"Come on, Ziqi, let's continue talking about transporting food."

Wei Jing smiled at Lu Yi.

This is probably what he likes most about Wu Hou.

Thinking back to the time when he and his friend Bu Zhi were in trouble in Shu County, Lujiang, they almost starved to death, and Bu Zhi even went so far as to beg for food for the Bu family.

Not only did Wu Hou not dislike himself and Bu Zhi, he also allowed himself and Bu Zhi to enter the Lu family.

Over the years, he and Bu Zhe have worked with him, and he has always trusted them, and has never regarded people like himself and Bu Zhi as inferior.

Don’t heroes ask where they come from?
Wei Jing felt a little warm in his heart.

Lu Yi was listening to Wei Jing continue to talk about transporting grain. He mentioned that although Wu County and other places were trying their best to collect grain, various aristocratic families were also contributing.

However, there are more than 6 soldiers here in Shouchun!
There are also tens of thousands of war horses.

These expenses are an unbearable amount every day.

Some wealthy families are already complaining.

Although Zhang Hong, Chen Deng and others were trying their best to comfort him.

However, if it continues, the consequences may still be unimaginable.

Now, the entire Wu County officials, led by Chen Deng, Zhang Hong and others, have begun to cut back on food and clothing.

The Lu family, especially the women of Lu Yi, began to eat one meal a day instead of three meals a day.

Only a few of Lu Yi's children still eat three meals a day because they are too young.

Fang Hao and Lu Da are also vigorously increasing business operations, but for a while, it is difficult to achieve results.

When Lu Yi listened to Wei Jing's report, he felt that one was as big as the other.

Since taking the position of Lord of Jiangdong, he has discovered more and more that fighting a war depends not only on the invincibility of the army, but also on logistics.

Without strong logistics, it is difficult for the army to achieve combat effectiveness.

This is also the reason why he envies Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao had been fighting against Youzhou Gongsun Zan before.

It didn't end until the first two years.

However, with Jizhou as a big granary as a backer, they don't have to worry about food and grass issues at all.

Although I also have the land of Yangzhou, Jingzhou and Xuzhou.

However, these three states have been washed away by war before, with corpses strewn across the fields and a large number of fields being laid waste. Therefore, it will be difficult to resume production in a short period of time.

This is why he insists on recuperating at such a critical moment.

However, Liu Xie and Cao Cao were too deceptive.

As long as Liu Xie and Cao Cao don't cheat him, they can keep the Central Plains between Yuan Shao and himself for five years.

It only took five years to recuperate, and the states and counties under his rule recovered.

By then, he would not be afraid of Yuan Shao at all.

Unfortunately, there are not so many "ordinary things".

They've all been tricked.

Cao Cao can still understand it more or less.

After all, Cao Cao also wanted to survive.

But Liu Xie couldn't understand it.

When he knew that Cao Cao was withdrawing from the Central Plains, why did he blatantly recruit soldiers to help him?
What's going on in his head?
Didn't he think that such behavior would lead to Yuan Shao's full force going south?
Not to mention that he couldn't recruit many soldiers to assist him.

Even if he could really recruit them, how could such a makeshift army resist Yuan Shao's battle-hardened troops?
This Liu Xie definitely imagined that he could regain the Han Dynasty after Cao Cao withdrew from the Central Plains!

I really don't have any vision.

Therefore, although Liu Xie was killed, he could not feel any sympathy.

Seeing Lu Yi's headache, Wei Jing asked tentatively: "How about ending the recuperation early and collecting it from the people? Especially the people of Baiyue in Kuaiji and other places. In the past two years, all taxes have been exempted and reduced. A lot of food and grass.”

Lu Yi waved his hand and said, "Absolutely not!"

Are you kidding me?
As the Lord of Jiangdong, if I go back on my words now, will I still have prestige in the future?

People are unbelievable!
Let alone sitting in this position.

Moreover, wouldn’t he know what the lives of the people under his rule were like?
Although the vast majority of ordinary people are not as miserable as before, they are still far from the situation of two meals a day.

In many places, you still have one meal a day.

It's the lunch meal.

Go to work with hunger in the morning and go to bed with hunger at night.

If we stop recuperating now and collect grain and grass again, the people will definitely return to the situation of "exchanging food for food".

By then, if Yuan Shao is not dealt with in front of him, there will be another fire in the backyard!

The people are likely to rebel.

In particular, the Baiyue people in Kuaiji and other places launched many rebellions in the original history because they did not have enough to eat.

As a result, Sun Quan in the original history was almost overturned in his early days.

He will never compromise on this matter.

At this moment, a figure slowly walked in from outside.

It's Jia Xu.

Lu Yi shook his head to get rid of all kinds of complicated thoughts. He smiled and said to Jia Xu, "Why are Wen He here? Is there something wrong?"

Since Jia Xu was given full authority to carry out the alienation strategy, Jia Xu rarely came to the commander's tent.

Lu Yi didn't know what he was doing specifically.

Chen Deng had previously suggested that Lu Yi create a special army. The soldiers of this army only performed one duty: to monitor the civil and military officials on the front line.

Lu Yi flatly refused.

As a time-traveler, Lu Yi was particularly disgusted by his boss staring at him all day long before going to work.

This approach is really ugly.Your subordinate is an individual, not a mere chess piece, and he also needs private space.

Especially the civil and military officials on the front line.

If they really want to rebel or do something shameful, they will always find a way.

Since it cannot be contained, why continue to use high-pressure policies?

Blocking is worse than sparse.

Jia Xu came in, knelt down and sat on the mat to the left of Lu Yi, looked at Lu Yi and said: "The old minister is going to implement a second strategy. This time, it will involve a lot of trouble, and I have to ask Wu Hou for instructions."

"If Marquis Wu feels that it is inappropriate, I will cancel this plan and think of another one."

Lu Yi laughed.

This Jia Xu is really cautious.

Even if you give him the sword and let him have full authority to act expediently, he will still come to ask for it.

When he gave the sword to Chen Deng and Zhao Yun, they never asked him again until they completed all the tasks and took back the sword.

Sure enough, it is the famous "protect oneself wisely" in history.

Lu Yi said: "Tell me, what's the plan?"

Jia Xu rolled up his sleeves and said, "I want to move the Shouchun granary to Xiacai, and then send [-] elite troops to defend the city alone."

Lu Yi: "."

Wei Jing stood up and said in a voiceless voice: "Are you crazy? There is a large army in Shouchun, so it is absolutely safe."

"It's inconvenient and unsafe to put it in Xiacai."

"Once Yuan Shao's army secretly sneaks into Xiacaipocheng, we will be completely finished!"

"Besides, we are short of food now, so there is no chance for mistakes!"

"Does Mr. Jia know how serious our food crisis is now?"

Lu Yi also looked at Jia Xu with some confusion.

He didn't understand why food and grass were moved from safe areas to unsafe areas.

Moreover, [-] elite soldiers were specially sent to defend the city alone?

Doesn't this also weaken Shouchun's defense in disguise?
Jia Xu is not the kind of person who talks on paper.

Jia Xu responded to Wei Jing's question and continued slowly: "This is the second strategy, to show the enemy's weakness."

"There must be fine work in our army."

"Yuan Shao must have known about our food dilemma."

"So, he has more options than we do."

"Just like this, he confronted us. They had the advantage of food and grass, and they didn't panic at all."

"But we can only be eaten alive."

"As soon as we remove our defenses and reduce consumption, he will attack the city."

"We couldn't resist."

"If we don't withdraw our defenses, we won't be able to hold on with such a huge consumption of food and fodder."

"In this case, we might as well send the food and grass out to give Yuan Shao an opportunity."

"Faced with such a situation, Yuan Shao has only two choices: stealing or not stealing."

"The vast majority of people would agree not to steal."

"They should be in favor of trying to siege the city during this period to test our specific strength. How many soldiers do we have? We have rich combat experience."

"If we are vulnerable, they will attack the city in force."

"If I am strong, they will continue to fight like this but not fight."

"In this situation, we can either wait for the food and fodder to be exhausted and collapse into chaos; or we can't hold back and passively go out of the city to attack, thereby being wiped out by them."

"Their losses will be minimal."

"There are a few people who are eager to make meritorious deeds and may suggest stealing."

"Strong enemies are often defeated by internal fighting."

"That's what we want."

"In order to prevent this from happening, Yuan Shao will definitely send some troops to steal."

"At that time, we will annihilate this part of the enemy force."

"The enemy who advocates stealing will definitely be criticized and suppressed."

"This has always been the case with Yuan Shao."

"At that time, we can come up with a third plan to make this part of the enemy rebel."

"The enemy fades and we grow."

"Let's fight with all our strength."

"Then there is a possibility of victory."

Wei Jing murmured and said, "That being said, this is too dangerous. If I make a mistake, I can't imagine the consequences."

Jia Xu looked at Wei Jing, smiled slightly and said, "Actually, it's not dangerous at all."

"I'm just asking you to enter the urn."

"If we still can't handle this situation, then facing the enemy's frontal attack, we can only be passively beaten and eventually be completely defeated."

Then he looked at Lu Yi and said, "Of course, I am not absolutely sure."

"Wu Hou, you make your own decision."

"If there is a mistake, I will not be held responsible."

"After all, mistakes do happen."

"It can only be said that on the battlefield, no strategy is completely certain."

"Any strategy may go wrong."

Lu Yi looked at Jia Xu speechlessly.

In a word, he doesn't want to take responsibility, and he doesn't want to be held responsible after failure.

Lu Yi said: "Then execute it! If anything happens, it will all be blamed on Gu."

Looking at Wei Jing, Lu Yi said: "Cooperate fully with Wen He."

(End of this chapter)