Three Kingdoms: The opening incorporates Li Cunxiao

Chapter 454: To govern troubled times with great benevolence. Driven by vulgar interests

Outside Xiangyang City, the army returning from the north was on schedule.

On the chariot, Cao Cao reached out and tugged on his cloak that was blown by the wind, and looked at Zhang Wu in front of him.

"You kid really don't want to go back with me? After winning the battle in the past, you were the most anxious to go home."

Zhang Wu said casually: "Isn't this Wenruo temporarily acting as pastor of Jingzhou? The situation in northern Jingzhou is complicated. I have to stay and support him, right?"

This is a typical case of lying with open eyes.

The new Jingzhou Mu Nai appointed by Cao Cao was Kuai Liang. After the demise of the Cai family, the Kuai family became the largest wealthy family in Jingzhou, followed by the Huang family.

With the marriage between Zhang Wu and Kuai Yu'er, Cao Cao was not afraid that Kuai Liang would cause trouble.

The reason why Xun Yu was left behind was just to hand over military affairs and deal with the aftermath. Where is the need for Zhang Wu?

"You? Helping or causing trouble? That's all, remember to turn around before the official event."

"Here."

The drums beat louder, the flags circulated, and the army marched slowly.

Zhang Wu suddenly thought of something and quickly caught up with Cao Cao.

"Father-in-law, please wait a moment. Wu has something to understand, and I would like some advice."

"So what?"

"My father-in-law has made it his mission to conquer foreign tribes in his early years. Recently, when I was reading military books, I suddenly came up with some novel ideas, so I wanted to ask for advice."

Mentioning his childhood dream, Cao Cao immediately became interested and waved his sleeves: "Come closer and tell me."

Zhang Wu laughed and got off his horse and climbed onto the chariot.

Cao Cao laid out the chessboard and took the lead in making the move: "Ask me, what do you want to know?"

Zhang Wu is no stranger to Go. He learned it as early as when he was working with Xun You.

He picked up Bai Zi and placed it on the star: "Now that the Hu people are moving north, the borders of the Wei Dynasty are not in danger. I am just curious. If the Hu people are powerful and break through the northern border, the Central Plains will be weak, and the political power will move south, how will the Han people in the Central Plains survive? Where?"

At the end of the Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the princes of the Central Plains were fighting in chaos. Cao Cao had naturally imagined this possibility, and even calculated and deduced it countless times in his mind.

But the reality was different. After Cao Wei's strong rise, it did not leave enough time for the Xianbei people to integrate. Even Zhang Wu's two northern expeditions defeated the once prosperous ethnic group to pieces and moved northward.

But now that Zhang Wu has proposed a policy, Cao Cao is naturally interested in arguing with him.

"I want to ask you, how many Han people are there and how many barbarians are there?"

"Count it five to five."

"How much power is there?" Since it was a policy statement, Cao Cao naturally had to ask about the premise.

"It is tentatively designated as the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms. We occupy Jizhou, and the Hu people from all directions are eyeing us. The southern royal family is the main political power of the Han people. Those in power hate me so much that they will definitely not send troops to help."

Cao Cao was too lazy to elaborate on the specific military strategy. Go has a saying of "golden horns, silver edges and grass belly". Zhang Wu chose Jizhou as the foundation, just like the star positions on the Go board. He had to move to the northeast to capture all Youzhou. Stand firm.

The real difficulty is to gain a firm foothold while gathering the Han people in the north to fight against the barbarians, and at the same time be wary of the cold knives coming from the south of the Yangtze River.

This is obviously no longer a problem that can only be solved by military force.

But Cao Cao didn't know that this was not a problem Zhang Wu came up with. It would actually happen in the Central Plains of China under the correct time and space, a hundred years later.

Cao Cao shook his head and sighed: "You do give people problems. Could it be that Zi Qian wants to join politics?"

"No interest, just curious."

Zhang Wu didn't want to enter politics, he just asked for Cao Cheng. Cao Cheng was different from Cao Cao in that his power had just started, and because Zhang Wu was tired of doing business in the main realm, he could not stay in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties for a long time to conquer the world for him.

What's more, every time he crosses the border, he can only appear in Yecheng, which is difficult to solve the urgent need.

If I really want to make Cao Wei's flag fly freely in another time and space, I mainly have to rely on Cao Cheng himself.

"This is a bold idea. If you are not careful, the Han people may not be able to survive."

"No."

Cao Cao frowned and Zhang Wu smiled bitterly. Cao Cao is already at the pinnacle level of politics he has ever seen, with a political attribute as high as 99. Naturally, it is most appropriate to ask him for this kind of question.

But even a great politician and military strategist like Boss Cao finds it difficult, so Cao Cheng is really in danger.

The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties totaled more than three hundred years.

If it were so easy to resolve, it wouldn't be the darkest chapter in Chinese history.

On the chessboard, the two of them were absentmindedly making moves.

Unconsciously, the chariot drove out for nearly fifty miles.

After a long silence, Cao Cao held on to his son for a long time.

It's not that his chess skills are not as good as Zhang Wu's, on the contrary, the situation of Cao Cao's black stones on the chessboard is also very good.

"In the chaos of war at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were so many powerful men in the world. Do you know why I disrespected Yuan Shao and instead made wine with Liu Xuande to talk about heroes?"

Zhang Wu was stunned for a moment, wondering why Cao Cao suddenly changed the subject.

Zhang Wu had already heard about the story about green plums cooking wine before the hero appeared. In his inherent thinking, Cao Cao should cook wine with Liu Bei.

But he never delved into why Cao Cao had a drink with Liu Bei.

In novels and history, Cao Cao and Liu Bei cooked wine when Liu Bei was living in Xuchang.

The wine was cooked this time when Shouchun was besieged and trapped by soldiers.

No matter which time, Cao Cao was on the side with absolute advantage.

Does Liu Bei, who is at the end of his rope, really qualified to talk about being a hero?

"Please ask my father-in-law to clarify my doubts."

Cao Cao let out a long sigh and made a decisive decision, and then all the doubts in his heart were solved: "In his early years, Gu believed that the king's hegemony alone was not enough to conquer the world, and only sharp methods were not enough to consolidate the troubled times. It was precisely in Liu Bei's case that Gu saw something else. A possibility.”

"The art of benevolence, virtue, and gentleness can still be established!"

"Liu Xuande is far inferior to Gu in terms of ambition, strategy, selection of talents and talents, but he has fought in all directions, and can always turn danger into safety. He can quickly establish a foothold in any place he goes to. If he raises the flag of righteousness, help from all directions will come to him. He is even in Xuchang At that time, Gu Fenming knew in his heart that he was a great threat, but he was afraid of his reputation of benevolence and found it difficult to kill him."

"This is the power of benevolence and virtue."

"Now that the Wei Dynasty has been fighting for years, the treasury has long been depleted. Zi Qian knows that when Zi Xiu mobilized three armies to enter Jing, where did the food, grass and weapons come from?"

Zhang Wu has never cared about national politics, and naturally he has never cared about money and food issues: "My son-in-law doesn't know."

"It was a spontaneous donation from the people of the four prefectures of Hebei, You, Yan and Henan. Before the new tax law, I had never thought that a humble man in the head of Guizhou could be willing to starve himself but support the imperial court in using troops."

"These are troubled times, and it is in the new tax law that they see the hope of survival. They practice benevolent policies alone and usually have no effect, but they help them in times of difficulty."

"According to your conception, the new tax law does not actually apply. Re-dividing the land so that the people can hope to survive is the real benevolence. It is better to implement the military system of dividing land to benefit the military. Of course, this will not last long Otherwise, even if the world is peaceful, a large number of top nobles will be born, and they will fall into the disaster of the aristocratic families in the late Han Dynasty."

Zhang Wu's eyes suddenly lit up.

Cao Cao's words are eloquent and eloquent, but they can be boiled down to only ten words.

——To govern troubled times with great benevolence. Popular interests drive it away.

(End of this chapter)