The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 473 Luo Gongqi hinted at the plague, Cao Mengde was arrogant and disdainful

When Cao Cao saw Luo Yuan asking about things in his army, he couldn't help but wonder if Luo Yuan knew something?
Otherwise why would you ask if you are in the army?

Of course it’s not good!

Cao Cao was actually very anxious. Problems kept arising among the soldiers in the army. More and more soldiers were suffering from acclimatization problems, and the weather was hot, so more and more soldiers were getting sick.

But how could I tell Luo Yuan about this?

Cao Cao thought for a moment and said, "Everything is fine, you don't need to ask."

Luo Yuan sighed and said, "Jiang Ling did gather a group of people, but I don't know if they are your soldiers. However, since those people have joined Jiang Ling, they are my people."

"Do you dare to rob my people?" Cao Cao said angrily
This time he was really angry and wanted to kill someone, but the person facing him was Luo Yuan, who didn't care whether he was angry or not.

Cao Cao was angry but couldn't scare Luo Yuan.

Luo Yuan smiled and said, "Don't pretend with me. Your army is full of patients now. Do you think I don't know? Have you solved the problem of acclimatization? Have you solved the problem of diarrhea among the soldiers? We haven't even started fighting with Jiangdong yet, but there are thousands of patients in your army now. You thought that hundreds of people were dying every day, but the speed of increase is increasing, right?"

Cao Cao drew his sword and placed it in front of Luo Yuan: "You have planted a spy in my army."

Luo Yuan didn't even look at Cao Cao's sword, but Xu Shu was very interested. He picked it up and examined it. After looking at it, he said to Luo Yuan: "My lord, this is the Yitian sword you mentioned."

"Ah, let's take a look at it."

Luo Yuan immediately became interested. It turned out to be the Sword of Yitian. This sword was really too famous. After all, who could compete with it if Yitian was not out?

Cao Cao also had a Qinggang sword, but because Luo Yuan and Zhao Yun did not snatch Cao Cao's sword, both swords were in Cao Cao's hands.

The Qinggang Sword has always been held by Xiahou En, and Cao Cao's own sword is the Yitian Sword.

Sword-forging technology was definitely high-tech at that time. Luo Yuan made steel in Jiangling, and the output of steel definitely surpassed all the forces. However, the quality of Jiangling's steel was still not as good as that of Cao Cao's Yitian Sword.

This sword is full of willfulness and elasticity.

"What great steel!" Luo Yuan sighed as he felt the coolness coming from the Sword of the Heavenly Sword.

No matter how famous the sword is, in Luo Yuan's eyes it is just a steel sword. The sword is not important, but the technique of breaking the sword is very useful.

There was a lot of steel in Jiangling, but the quality was still much worse than that of later steel, mainly due to problems with craftsmanship.

Cao Cao stared: "Gong Qi, do you think that the Heavenly Sword is just a piece of good steel?"

Cao Cao was very dissatisfied. The names Yitian Qingguang were all given by him. This sword is a killing weapon, but he named it himself, so it has a sense of literary talent.

The meaning should be different.

As Cao Cao's sword, Yitian Sword also represents his power. But in Luo Yuan's mouth, is it just a piece of steel?
Luo Yuan smiled and said, "If it's not good steel, then what else can it be?"

"The sword is a gentleman's weapon!"

Seeing Cao Cao about to make a long speech, Luo Yuan hurriedly said, "Meng De, stop talking about swords. I am not interested. I am interested in how this steel is made. Forget it. You won't understand even if I tell you. Tell me about your army. There are many sick people in your army. Xu Shu and I were discussing this matter just now."

"I seduce my soldiers.'

"Seducing, bullshit, they came here voluntarily. Now let's talk about your army's illness. Those deserters are not important."

"How can it not be important? I think it is very important. Any soldier who escapes from the barracks should be beheaded." Only in this way can Cao Cao feel comfortable. He is a military strategist and knows very well the impact of deserters on the army, and deserters are contagious.

If there is no severe punishment, once one deserter appears, there will be countless deserters in a short time. This time, thousands of people escaped at once. If he doesn't kill these deserters, how can he lead the army?

After hearing what Luo Yuan said, Cao Cao knew that Luo Yuan was planning to make a deal with him, protecting those deserters, and acting like a businessman.

Sometimes Cao Cao felt that Luo Yuan was not like a lord but more like a businessman who wanted to resolve everything through transactions and negotiations.

This made Cao Cao despise Luo Yuan, thinking he had no moral integrity and was shameless.

Businessman's face!

Luo Yuan sighed and looked at Cao Cao like an idiot: "I can return the people to you, but aren't you afraid that your army of more than 800,000 will collapse?"

Cao Cao stared at Meng De, not knowing what Luo Yuan meant for a moment. After thinking about it, Cao Cao still felt that the army was more important.

Although he didn't believe Luo Yuan's words, what if?
"What do you mean?" Cao Cao looked at his sword, Yitian. If you don't explain clearly, I will kill you. He will do it himself.

"It's easy to deal with the problem of acclimatization. The problem is the sanitation in your army." Luo Yuan said, "There are so many new patients in your army every day. Don't you think it might be a plague?"

Cao Cao couldn't stand it anymore, his face changed drastically, and he looked at Luo Yuan suspiciously. He weighed it in his mind and said, "You want to disrupt the morale of my army."

"I'm talking nonsense. If I wasn't kind by nature, I wouldn't have told you this." Luo Yuan was really speechless about Cao Cao's suspicion.

I've never met such a suspicious person.

There are not enough sick people in Cao Cao's army. So many people are right next to Jiangling. To know whether there are any sick people in the army, just look at the reactions of the soldiers.

Even if Cao Cao forbade the soldiers to discuss matters, the soldiers could still really not discuss matters.

The sanitary conditions in Cao Cao's army were terrible. Soldiers would urinate and defecate wherever they wanted, or just dump them into the Yangtze River after cleaning up. This was not a problem.

But the problem was that Cao Cao's military camp was very large, with a frontage of more than ten kilometers. The feces dumped into the river would immediately be carried downstream by the river. The military camps downstream still took water from the Yangtze River for cooking, and then flushed the garbage into the Yangtze River.

Such a cycle!

It would be strange if there were no patients in the army. At that time, the soldiers were thirsty and drank water from the wild. There was no habit of drinking boiled water in the army.

Dozens of people eat and live together, so there is no need to worry about taking a shower or anything like that.

There are also many mosquitoes along the Yangtze River. Various objective conditions have led to the continuous appearance of patients in Cao Cao's army. There are only a few thousand people now, but it won't be long before the disease is spread everywhere through the spread of mosquitoes and drinking water.

Luo Yuan wanted to help Cao Cao solve the hygiene problem, not only for Cao Cao, but also for Jiangling.

A few thousand deserters are nothing compared to a possible plague.

"Meng De, I want to help you, but you have your eyes fixed on those thousands of people. Are you sure you're not making a mistake?" Luo Yuan's kind-hearted face was met with a donkey's liver and lungs.

Cao Mengde, you don’t know what a good person is.

"Haha, we have our own doctors in the army, why do you worry about that? Are you trying to seduce my soldiers by helping me? You won't succeed this time." Cao Cao said. "I have been through many battles, how could I not know how to prevent the plague?"

(End of this chapter)