Chapter 27 A good strategy must also be well executed
Yuan Shao was quite happy that such a negative example of Gongqi Chou suddenly appeared, and he hurriedly proposed a specific counterinsurgency strategy to He Jin:
"General, in my opinion, since Captain Gong Qihou of Wuhuan is already more than lucky, and he is indeed unaware of Yuyang Wuhuan's secret collusion with Zhang Chun, a crime of negligence is inevitable. Let's just go to the court and blame the previous arrears of the Wuhuan of the various departments in Youzhou and the lack of money and food allocated by the imperial court to Gong Qichou.
For the Wuhuan and Xianbei thieves, we must attack by force, and at the same time secretly preach the reasons for the arrears in the previous two years as much as possible, and transfer the Wuhuan people's grievances against the court to the deceitful and subordinate represented by Gongqi Chou. ”
Li Su was below, and after listening to Yuan Shao's words, he almost hallucinated: Are you actually Yuan Shao? If I didn't look at your handsome face and only listen to the voice, I thought you were telling Wang Gao, "You are going to share the grain, and you will use the head of the person on your neck!"
Vicious, isn't this a strategy that Cao Cao came up with? Blame the sins of the court's arrears on a dead man, and give both sides a step. Although this dead man may have been loyal to the imperial court before his death, when he was raided by the Wuhuan people, he may have tried to resist and died in battle......
But I have to admit that when cutting through the chaos with a quick knife, although this kind of trick is a little morally despicable, it is indeed effective in calming down the situation.
"Yuan Shao's IQ was actually quite high when he was young? Could it be that before and after the Battle of Guandu in history, he repeatedly made stupid moves, just because his life was at the end of his life and Alzheimer's? Li Su couldn't help but have such a thought in his heart, and suddenly felt that whether it was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he couldn't fully believe the characterization of those celebrities.
History books and romances, there is one of the biggest problems, that is, they like to "close the coffin", that is, to judge a person's ability by their ultimate peak achievements or peak crimes.
The history books are too brief to see the growth of a talent.
If it's just to know what kind of person this person is, what he has done, and how to evaluate history, it's no problem to read history books. It's not that the history books don't want to be written in detail, but there are too many people to remember, and words must be cherished like gold, and they can only be characterized by the "ultimate form" of this person.
Just like playing the glorious Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang wrote "Intelligence 100" when he appeared, and Zhao Yun wrote "Force 98" when he appeared.
However, since it is a time traveler to deal with these living people, it is better to believe in books than to have no books.
is like a lot of Xiaobai, taking a conclusion that "when the princes were fighting Dong, Xu Rong defeated Cao Cao and Sun Jian successively", he made a conclusion that "so Xu Rong is the first military god of the Three Kingdoms" to attract attention.
Please, people grow. War and military literacy need to be piled up with actual combat experience.
At the beginning of the campaign against Dong, the Xiliang Army was a mature military machine that had been fighting against the Qiang Rebellion for 20 years. And the Kwantung princes are all recruits who have just started the war, and even if the generals have experience, the command system of grassroots officers has no experience.
Xu Rong defeated Cao Cao and Sun Jian, who had just debuted for a few years, and it can only be said that he is indeed stronger than Cao Sun in his 30s, and he is considered a generation of famous generals, but it may not be unprecedented.
In the same way, when Yuan Shao was in his sixties, Alzheimer's coma came out one after another, which does not mean that he was already senile when he was in his forties.
Li Su listened carefully, observed secretly, and couldn't help but be a little more wary of Yuan Shao.
You can't be deceived by the literary images created to highlight the characteristics of the characters! I'm dealing with a real group of people!
It's better to be steady, a little more reluctant, and hide in the dark to observe carefully.
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Subsequently, Yuan Shao said a few implementation strategies in a casual manner, and during the period, he also asked Li Suhe a few questions and supplemented some materials to improve his plan.
Li Su and Fu Zhu were originally not qualified to listen to this kind of discussion, but it was only because Yuan Shao had front-line situations that they needed to learn from them from time to time, so they could make an exception and show their faces for a while.
He Jin nodded again and again when he heard this.
Even Li Su was a little strange: If He Jin really did what Yuan Shao did, then I'm afraid that Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's rebellion would not be delayed for nearly two years, right? According to such a clear execution, at most a year and a half, Zhang Chun should be destroyed?
Your own butterfly effect shouldn't be so big, right?
The things we did before only affected small people at the level of Liu Bei, Fu Zhu, and Zhang He, at most, and would not affect high-level people like Yuan Shao and He Jin.
Just when Li Suhu was suspicious, he finally suddenly heard a suspicious stupid move by Yuan Shao at the execution level.
It turned out that when Yuan Shao talked about "which officials should be dismissed and which officials can be retained", Cao Cao put forward different opinions, which led to the subsequent controversy.
I only heard Cao Cao retort: "Prime! Even though the method of appeasement and suppression you mentioned is feasible, I am afraid that such a dismissal of officials will give the Hu people the impression that the governance of our Han officials is chaotic and the rewards and punishments are unknown, which will cause the Hu people to despise our Han people more and more.
For example, you put the responsibility on Captain Gong Qichou and others of Wuhuan, what about Youzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian? Tao Qian was already responsible for supervising the entire Youzhou, and was the boss of Gong Qi Chou, if it was announced to the public that Gong Qi Chou would have filled his own pockets with the military salaries given by the imperial court to the Wuhuan departments for two consecutive years, but Tao Qian did not know about it, nor did he ignore it, and the court did not punish him, wouldn't the Hu people feel that the court was mediocre?
But if you even stab Shi Taoqian and punish him, the impact will be great, I am afraid that the entire officialdom in Jizhou will be shaken, just like when Jia Cong replaced Wang Fen, when the people's hearts will be even more chaotic, it is inevitable that there will be a second Zhang Chun! ”
Yuan Shao listened to this question, and he had to restrain a little.
His rewards and punishments are actually selfish. Tao Qian is a famous man in the Qing Dynasty and well-known in the world. Today's Yuan Shao and Tao Qian are not at odds, and when he is looking for a local scapegoat, he also wants to focus on finding people who are reckless and eunuchs to be scapegoats, and he doesn't want to affect Qingliu celebrities.
After all, Qingliu celebrities are Yuan Shao's basic plate.
And the problem raised by Cao Cao is indeed grim, if you want to shirk the responsibility, the current Youzhou assassin Shi Taoqian is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed. If you don't deal with it, you can't hold it accountable, and if you deal with it, people will be panicked.
Yuan Shao thought of the trouble, and couldn't help but stand up on his own, pacing back and forth, if there was no one around, no matter how He Jin was still sitting there.
And He Jin didn't blame Yuan Shao for being rude for hanging out, so patiently waiting for Yuan Shao to think quietly.
Li Su secretly spied on this scene, and had to sigh that the signboard of the fourth and third princes was so easy to use, He Jin obviously had a much higher official position than Yuan Shao, and he still respected Yuan Shao so much.
After shopping for a while, Yuan Shao finally came up with a suggestion similar to history: "This matter is not unavoidable. It's a big deal, pursue the will of Gong Qichou, and ask for it two or three months later. Now that there is a new chaos in Youzhou, Tao Qian's position is indeed not suitable to be moved lightly, and he also needs to deploy various counties to defend themselves and stabilize their positions first.
It's already the end of February now, and I think it's better to let Tao Qian make meritorious contributions and work until April. Then let Taiwei Zhang Wen transfer him to the front of the Liangzhou army - didn't Taiwei Zhang always say that he would order a general in Youzhou and lead Wuhuan to ride to Liangzhou to quell the chaos and ask for Beigong Boyu?
The captain who led the cavalry, he ordered Gongsun Zhan, but there has been a lack of a sufficiently prestigious member of the army, I think it is better to let Tao Qian serve as Captain Zhang's army at that time, and he will not mention his merits and demerits, so he will be quietly transferred out of Youzhou. Then, let's openly deal with those officials who are derelict in their duties in Youzhou, so as not to implicate too many people in panic.
And this method also has an advantage, that is, it can transfer the three thousand Liaodong Wuhuan cavalry that Gongsun Zhan has already raised from Youzhou - even if there is no sign of a thief in Liaodong Wuhuan at present, we can't expect to rely on Liaodong Wuhuan to go to Pingyuyang Wuhuan, because they are all Wuhuan after all, and they are all Wuhuan after all, and they are all in the same breath, so that the Wuhuan people can attack each other, maybe it will only make more and more thieves. ”
Li Su secretly listened to this point of view next to him, and secretly thought in his heart: It's a bit like the original trajectory of history......
Could it be that Yuan Shao's strategy is to start high and go low, at the beginning of the grand strategy talked very well, but when he reached the executive level, he "did big things and spared his life, and forgot his life when he saw small profits", and his moves were out of shape?
However, Li Su remembered that in history, Tao Qian, the assassin of Youzhou, did take office around 185 (the previous Youzhou assassin Guo Xun was killed by the Yellow Turban Army in 184), and then was transferred by Zhang Wen as a Pingqiang in 187.
There is no definite level for this kind of position in the army, and the key depends on who joins the army. Because Zhang Wen is a lieutenant, it is not an insult to find a assassin to join the army.
To give the simplest example, Zhuge Liang's army in later generations was Ma Tan, but Ma Tan's status in Shu Han was not low during his lifetime, because his staff object was the prime minister.
Cao Cao heard that he was going to transfer Tao Qian coldly, but he didn't refute it, at present, it seems that this is the best way to stabilize people's hearts, the key is to find a successor who is much more prestigious than Tao Qian.
However, if you want to transfer Tao Qian and Liaodong Wuhuan away, it will inevitably lead to a further emptiness of Youzhou's armed forces.
Cao Cao is a guy who has always believed that "peace is survival if you seek peace through struggle, and peace is death if you seek peace through compromise", and he felt that in this way, it would be more difficult for Huairou to be peaceful.
So he once again discussed sincerely: "At the beginning, your plan can calm people's hearts, but it will inevitably lead to the emptiness of Youzhou's armament for a period of time, temporarily show the enemy weakness, and make it more difficult to implement Huairou in the future." ”
As soon as Cao Cao's words came out, not only did Yuan Shao fall into deep thought again, but even one of the three people in the hall became a little nervous.
That person was Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was most worried that "in the process of implementing Yuan Shao's plan, it would lead to a short and empty vacuum period in Youzhou's military strength", because his hometown was in Zhuo County!
In the eyes of the court, any small interests that can be replaced by sacrifices, in Liu Bei's view, are flesh-and-blood living people, or his relatives, or his fellow villagers.
Liu Bei endured it again and again, and almost had to defend himself.
But Li Su was quick-eyed, and secretly pulled Liu Bei's hand, and comforted him with an ultra-low volume that was so low that only he and Liu Bei could hear it, and even frustrated teaching couldn't hear it:
"Big brother, don't be impatient! I know what you're worried about, now is not the time to speak, anyway, you have to abandon your official position and go back to organize the township to protect yourself, and wait until the end to speak. ”
Liu Bei took two deep breaths, and only then did he temporarily suppress the urge to admonish.
Who made him only a county lieutenant now! I won't listen to those big guys, it's just a gesture.
As soon as Liu Bei calmed down, Yuan Shao finally seemed to figure out how to solve the problem mentioned by Cao Cao, and threw out a plan again.