Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2271 First strike, then strike, then strike

  Xu Shu was taken aback.

  After thinking for a while, Xu Shu waved his hand slightly, signaling the servants and guards around the hall to retreat, and then said: "Kong Ming don't want to entertain me..."

  Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and said: "Yuanzhi didn't see the danger, so it's convenient for the eyes?" 』

  Xu Shu frowned, waved his hands and said, "Kong Ming, please speak frankly." 』

  In Xu Shu's heart, he still didn't believe what Zhuge Liang said about the "critical situation", but he was still willing to hear what Zhuge Liang wanted to say.

  On the whole, Xu Shu's ability to govern the country is not bad, and his political points are not low. This can be seen from the prosperous conditions around Chengdu. After all, a prosperous market means that production is orderly and goods are plentiful. On the contrary, if the market is extremely depressed, other production security and so on are of course not much better.

...

  『The importance of Sichuan and Shu is the authority of the Southwest. Zhuge Liang said slowly, "The barbarian people in Nanzhong are tough, there are many big households near Chengdu, and the traffic between Padang and Brazil is rough... As far as the moment is concerned, it seems to be calm, but..."

   Xu Shu still frowned, looked at Zhuge Liang, "Please continue. 』

  Zhuge Liang smiled, "Does Yuan Zhi know about the lord in Guanzhong?" 』

"Guanzhong? 』Xu Shu was startled for a moment.

  Zhuge Liang nodded slightly.

  Xu Shu frowned even tighter.

"If Sichuan and Shu are settled at the beginning, it will be like a person suffering from a serious illness, and it will be better to move than to be still, and peace and comfort should be the most important..." Zhuge Liang looked at Xu Shu and said, "But now in Chengdu, people's livelihood is stable, and commerce is healthy, just like people's health. There is only a hidden disease in the middle...and I don't know whether to wait for it to be triggered, or should it be treated in advance? 』

  『Sichuan and Shu Hidden Diseases? 』Xu Shu pinched his beard, "Kong Ming meant...the big families in Sichuan and Shu colluded with the barbarians?" 』

  『Yuanzhi really knows...』 Zhuge Liang clapped his hands and smiled, 『If that’s the case, why didn’t you do it? 』

Xu Shu sighed and said: "I don't know that in Sichuan and Shu, the big family is running rampant... It's just... this matter will involve a lot of people, and the slightest carelessness will spread to the whole situation... Therefore, stability is the most important thing at the moment... What Kong Ming said" "Crisis", is this the matter? 』

  Zhuge Liang raised a finger, "This is one of them!" 』

"Oh? And I don't know the second is..." Xu Shu asked.

  『Yuan Zhi hasn’t left the house for a long time? Zhuge Liang asked again, "Have you ever been to Shifang?" It can be known who owns the shop in the market place? 』

   "Hiss..." Xu Shu frowned.

  How should I say this?

As early as when they were under Lushan, when several people were discussing with each other, Brother Zhu liked Guan Zhong more, so he also agreed with Guan Zhong's set of models, so it is not surprising that Zhuge Liang would raise this question now and think it is very serious up.

  After being silent for a while, Xu Shu looked at Zhuge Liang and said slowly, "Kong Ming has never been to the barbarian village in the mountains?" 』

  Brother Zhu was also taken aback for a moment, then frowned, "Could it be... Yuanzhi's intention..."

  『How about going together tomorrow? 』Xu Shu smiled and invited.

  Zhuge Liang thought for a while and nodded.

  Early the next morning, Xu Shu took Zhuge Liang from Chengdu, heading west and south.

  For ordinary people who have no highways or other means of transportation, including Nanman, the range of daily activities is basically limited to a hundred miles. Even if it is a market transaction or something, the upper limit is usually three days in the past, and it is generally not to go any more.

  Therefore, after coming out of Chengdu, the first circle, the villages with a limit of a hundred miles, whether they belong to Han people or barbarians, can clearly see the traces of civilization. This kind of civilization includes many aspects, not only in the planning of the wall, the cultivation of the fields, but also in the clothing of the people in the village, the construction of houses, and even the regulation of sanitary conditions, the arrangement of cattle, sheep and livestock, etc. , all seem relatively reasonable, or more in line with the norms of "civilization".

  But on the second circle, that is, the village two hundred miles away, some problems have obviously appeared...

  Especially barbarian villages,

In the eyes of people like Zhuge Liang who are slightly, well, not slightly, obsessive-compulsive, it doesn't look pleasing to the eye. It is refreshing to tear down a village and rebuild it.

Humans and animals live together, chickens and ducks are in the "hall", well, even if it is the "hall", they run amok, even take two steps and there is a "poof", splashing a piece of yellow or black, Comes in dilute or thick solid-liquid mixtures.

Excessive feces and urine, no matter where it is, as long as you feel it, you will squat or stand, popping, peeling, a pile of yellow and white things, and then the child will roll around naked, and even step on it, contaminated with big blood. There is no one to take care of the feces and urine on the half of the body.

The leader of the village stared at Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang and his party like they were guarding against thieves, as if they were afraid that Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang would steal the precious things in their village, even the excrement and urine in the village were precious. Incomparably, even looking at Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang made him feel that something was wrong.

  『Do you still want to look far away? ’ Xu Shu asked when he was back on the road.

  Zhuge Liang was silent for a while, then cupped his hands towards Xu Shu and said, "I blamed Yuan Zhi..."

Except for some dog-meat friends with ulterior motives, most people still follow the law of like flocking together, so Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu are basically on the same level, so when Zhuge Liang said it yesterday, Xu Shu almost reacted up.

   In theory, Xu Shu's movements here are indeed a bit slow.

  Chuanshu seems to have only two words, but it is actually very big, especially not only in the Chengdu Basin, but also in areas with many barbarians such as Badong, Brazil, and Nanzhong Jianning. Among these places, since the Han Dynasty, wrongly, it should have been from the former Qin Dynasty, which basically belonged to that kind of autonomous state, because the transportation is indeed too inconvenient...

  Even if there is a period of strong intervention, it is relatively short-lived, and some follow-up problems are prone to occur, often because some small dirty incidents have caused considerable conflicts.

   To put it bluntly, from the Qin Dynasty to the present Han Dynasty, during the four to five hundred years, the management of the southern barbarians in Sichuan and Sichuan, and the marginal mountainous areas, was the four words "let it go".

  So even if Xu Shu intends to regulate these things now, the difficulty is not ordinary, and it is even more impossible to adopt the Guanzhong model...

  What is Guanzhong?

   Eight hundred miles away, Qinchuan!

  If you run fast, regardless of the consumption of war horses, you can reach Chencang in the west from Tongguan in the east within five days, but what about Sichuan and Shu? If you want to go from Padang to Jianning, even with reasonable arrangements, it will take at least ten days, or even twenty or thirty days to arrive. Although the middle section of the road is relatively easy to walk, but the mountain road at the head and tail...

Theoretically speaking, Xu Shu could be like other officials in the former Qin and Han dynasties. He could send a small official to the gate of the village at random, or he could not send anyone at all, and the matter would be over if he just walked away with the flow of consciousness, but Xu Shu did not do it.

  That's why Zhuge Liang apologized to Xu Shu, that is to say, it was inappropriate for Zhuge Liang to use Guanzhong's model to measure Xu Shu's actions in Sichuan and Shu...

  But what, what should be done is still to be done.

  『Yuanzhi, you must know that you are very quiet and want to move... 』Zhuge Liang said slowly, 『Inside the market... There are many big shops... This is fashionable, if it continues in the past... Tigers and wolves are growing, and they will inevitably fight...』

  Xu Shu nodded, "What can Kong Ming do, you might as well speak up." 』

  Zhuge Liang said slowly: "How about... from the inside to the outside, from the outside to the inside?" 』

  Xu Shu pinched his beard, frowned, and pondered...

  …(д)…

  In the third year of Emperor Huan's Yongshou period in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were household registration statistics. There were more than 10.67 million households nationwide, with a population of more than 56.48 million. According to statistics after Ping Wu, there are about 2.46 million households in the country, with a population of more than 16.16 million, which is less than a quarter of that in the Han Dynasty.

  Of course, the actual situation is not that bad, because there was no serious census at that time, and the data were accumulated from the official registers of Wei, Shu, and Wu.

  There was great chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the population migration was very serious. After that, there were disputes among the Three Kingdoms, which led to a large number of people becoming part of the official and private households, that is, "hidden households", which were not included in the official list.

  If the Western Jin Dynasty can maintain the peace and morals of the 50 or 60 years, and if it is re-checked and counted in detail, it should be able to recover at least a little bit, not to mention catching up with the heyday of the Han Dynasty, but half of the heyday, there is a high probability that it can still be achieved. It's just a pity that from Ping Wu to Chu Wang Sima Wei went to Beijing to kill Yang Jun, the "Eight Kings Rebellion" began, and the common people have just had a peaceful meal for eleven years...

  But no matter what time it is, if you eat too much Taiping meal, there will always be a feeling that you can think about it. If you go hungry for three days, it must be that the buttocks of any level of naizi are not as delicious as a bowl of ordinary rice.

  This is the case in Hanzhong, and so is Zhang Ze.

  Different from history, Hanzhong did not suffer the pain in history during the whole process of belonging to Fei Qian. When Cao Cao and Liu Bei competed for Hanzhong, although it was said that Liu Bei finally occupied Hanzhong, in fact Liu Bei only obtained the land of Hanzhong, and there were less than 30% of the population. 10 to 20% died in the war or fled, and the rest were relocated by Cao Cao.

  So in history, Hanzhong was miserable. Can't even eat enough, still want a hammer?

  But it’s different now. There are people in Hanzhong, such as farming and mulberry, and they haven’t been damaged much because of the war. Even when Hussar General Fei Qian promoted tea consumption, Hanzhong planted tea in the Qinling Mountains and gained a lot of income...

   When you are full, you will be more relaxed.

  Since Zhang Zedou overthrew Liu Dan and then successfully expanded his family territory in Hanzhong, the small thoughts in Zhang Ze's original heart have gradually grown up.

  At first, Zhang Ze was a little scared.

   After being afraid for a long time, I get used to it. So Zhang Ze slowly felt that he shouldn't be so afraid...

  On the one hand, Zhang Ze is inflated, more and more rich and rich, making Zhang Ze feel that he is omnipotent, just like what is often said in later generations that money makes people's souls empty and the body begins to degenerate.

On the other hand, because Zhang Ze is in Hanzhong, separated from Guanzhong by the Qinling Mountains, the area is relatively small, and the things he comes into contact with are also very leisurely. Even Zhang Ze thinks that the world is just this point in front of him. The operation of society is not fully understood. To put it simply, the level of self-awareness cannot keep up with the changes in society, showing a kind of intellectual regression.

  Ego, arrogance, arrogance, when these things gather in Zhang Ze, Zhang Ze naturally loses sight of the future path, thinking that he is still walking in the most correct direction.

Just like the keyboard man on the Internet in later generations, he feels that he can talk about everything, he can talk about everything, point out the country, and then show his own strengths. After Zhang's original fear gradually subsided, he also I feel that I can talk about everything, talk about everything, point out this country to Fei Qian, and then show my ability to manage Hanzhong, saying that everyone else is stupid, only I am arrogant, and I am so arrogant, Fei Qian To actually let an idiot come to find fault with him, so is Fei Qian also an idiot?

  Hanzhong has today’s achievements, and it cannot be separated from itself!

  Zhang thinks so.

So Zhang Ze felt that his prestige in Hanzhong should be very high, and he thought that if something really happened, he could still have some confidence. With the Qinling Mountains as a natural barrier, Feiqian's cavalry can be kept out of the mountain. If something really happens, several passages will be blocked, and Hanzhong will become its own country!

  What Zhang Lu couldn’t do back then, Zhang felt he could!

  And if there is a real tension with the Guanzhong offensive, Zhang still has a plan to draw salary from the bottom...

   Therefore, Zhang Ze feels that it is not false at all.

  The only thing to pay attention to is Huang Quan. Although Huang Quan has been driven all the way to Fangling by Zhang Ze in the past few years, he has deviated from the prosperous place of Hanzhong, but there are still some military schools left over from Huang Cheng's military training in Shangyong next to Fangling. So if Huang Quan and these soldiers join forces, it may not be easy to deal with.

   Therefore, Zhang Ze felt that if there was any trouble, he needed to act first.

  『Come on! ’ Zhang Ze ordered in a cold voice, ‘Send someone to invite Huang Gongheng to come! Just say that there is something important to discuss! 』

  The messenger left.

  Zhang sneered twice. He is going to imprison Huang Quan as soon as Huang Quan arrives. If Huang Quan is sensible and willing to cooperate, then he can keep Huang Quan to see his performance. If Huang Quan is not sensible...

  Hmph, then don't blame someone for being cruel!

  Hanzhong! This is the land of Heaven and the Zhang family. The former Zhang Lu has never done his best, and today someone will inherit the great cause!

  …(;￢￢￢)…

   It is not only Zhang Ze who thinks that he can strike first.

Cao Jun chased Xianbei's **** all the way, and viciously ate a large amount of war dividends. Not only did he recruit the remnant Wuhuan soldiers after Nanlou's death as his younger brother's thugs, he also paid a lot of supplies for Xianbei people, especially war horse.

  All of this made Cao Jun very excited.

   After all, these are real meritorious deeds, without any tricks.

It's just that because of the development of these military operations, it is necessary to follow up on the recovery and attack of Youbei. After all, no matter how stupid Gongsundu is, if he receives these news, he will definitely notice the abnormality. As soon as something happened, Cao Jun's raid turned into a tug of war.

  The tug-of-war of positions means continuous consumption...

   Therefore, we can only act first, before Gongsun Du fully reacts, let’s start with a stick!

   But now there is another problem, the Dingling people who looted in the northern part of Youzhou...

After the Dingling people tested Yuyang, which had been attacked two or three times, they found that Yuyang was not easy to chew on. At least for the Dingling people who were not good at siege, even the dilapidated Yuyang was still like a moat, so they circled around After opening Yuyang, they carried out a sweeping raid on the surrounding areas of Youzhou.

   This also makes the Youzhou area basically completely deserted now.

Starting from the confrontation between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan, and then several battles in Youzhou, it can be said that most of the areas in Youzhou are dilapidated villages, and only some rich and powerful families’ Wubao are still left. But not much. It looks like a bird shivering in the cold wind, panicked, and if there is a slight disturbance, it will immediately flee into the mountains...

  Of course, this is also the reason why Cao Jun didn't see anyone all the way north.

  Only a dead and deserted village can show that a certain place was once a densely populated and prosperous place.

  The longer the scripture walk, the colder Cao Chun's mood became.

  Cao Jun soldiers were preparing to set up camp, while Cao Chun led his people into the deserted village.

  It turns out that there are people here...

  Cao Chun knew this in his heart, and when he was in Youzhou, he also came here, stopped and stationed, and traded some supplies with nearby villages.

   But now, this place has almost become a ghost.

  Twilight has gradually shrouded, and there is a strange red color on the horizon, like a scar, tearing the pain of the sky. There are no people in the abandoned villages, collapsed houses and walls, decayed beams and eaves, broken tiles covered by yellow mud, and some seem to have been burned, standing in the corner in black In the middle, like wild beasts, hiding in the darkness, ready to attack when people are not prepared.

  『…』Cao Chun stood in the village, sighing.

   Is the battle this time correct?

  Cao Chun used to think that victory was the most important thing.

   Kill the enemy bandits and take their heads. Blood stained the yellow sand, shrouded in horse leather.

   This is what Cao Chun believed in when he first went to the battlefield when he was a teenager, but now...

   "General..." Cao Chun's guard whispered beside him.

  Cao Chun came back to his senses, "What's the matter?" 』

  『The generals are gathered...』The guard Cao Chun pointed to the back.

   Only then did Cao Chun realize that there was the faint sound of the generals' drumming in the wind. "Walk! 』

  (end of this chapter)