Chapter 74: Entrusted with a Heavy Task
Shall I sit and watch?
Well, for the sake of his own head, Wang Hou didn't say this sentence, but stood up from the futon helplessly, also with four fingers side by side, and walked to the middle corridor with his thumbs up in the standard salute posture.
"Prime Minister, the lower official was originally Cangcao, and the military affairs are not as reasonable as the official to speak, but since the prime minister asked, the lower official has to say, but if there is anything wrong, please forgive the prime minister!"
There are a lot of stares at him now, and the insurance has to be bought first! Sure enough, listening to his words, Cao Cao slapped him impatiently.
"Words are not guilty, but words are okay!"
"Prime Minister, in fact, the most important thing to ask is not the subordinates, but yourself, you and Yuan Shao Yuan Gong are good, once a Xingxia Township, inseparable, you know Yuan Gong's temper best, if the Prime Minister is Yuan Gong, he will take advantage of the Prime Minister to go out to pacify the Lu Bu he dislikes in addition to sending troops to Xu Du, or wait for your old friend to come back, relying on the absolute superiority of the troops of the four states of Hebei, Yan Zhao's generous and sad warriors and the war horses in the north will defeat you in a dignified manner?"
As soon as these words came out, Xun Yu's brows, who had just raised the question, were obviously twisted, but Cao Cao's expression was slightly soothed.
"And Yuan Gong is a little inferior to the prime minister, under the command of Yuan Gong, Tian Feng was born in Jizhou, Xin Ping Guo Tu was born in Yingchuan, and Xu Yu in Nanyang, Feng Ji, mutual exclusion, power and profit, more than fighting, and close to the autumn harvest, Hebei is far away, even if Yuan Gong has the heart to go straight to Xu Du, there is no small half a year can not unify the caliber of his subordinates, on the other hand, under the command of the prime minister, all the people are united, all the ministers support, if the prime minister goes out, such as the arm commands, so the minister thinks that as long as the Lu thief can be defeated within three months to six months, the north is worry-free!"
Wang Hou talked eloquently with his head held high, but the second half of the words made Cao Cao's originally indifferent face become surprised, and he opened his mouth to ask, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed again, and nodded emphatically.
Fortunately, Cao Cao didn't ask, Wang Hou came this completely because he knew this history, knew what had happened, the biggest advantage of the traverser, but in this era, the struggles and contradictions between the factions under his command belong to the top military secrets of the faction, for example, now Wang Hou has contradictions with a large number of high-ranking officials and dignitaries such as Dasi Nong, Taifu, Guozhang, etc., but it is limited to this faction, no one will deliberately spread it, if Cao Cao asks how to find out the contradictions under Yuan Shao's command, Wang Hou really can't answer.
"The intention of the original phase is decided! Lu thief is capricious, arrogant, has no eyes for the court, disobeys orders, and even colludes with Yuan Shu to rebel thieves, and attacks the court to pro-seal Yuzhou Mu Liu Xuande's Xiaopei, which is a blatant rebellion and a heinous man! This is quite a generation of the Son of Heaven to crusade against it! ”
"Former general Xiahoudun, Changshui Captain Lejin, you and the two led 3,000 soldiers and horses from the Bafu, and another 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers were recruited as the vanguard, first to respond to Liu Bei's defeated army, and recapture Xiaopei! Curb Lu Bu's westward advance! ”
"The last general obeys!"
Xiahoudun and Le Jin, who was named, were all happy on the face, hugged their fists and agreed, on the other hand, Xun Yu's brows were even more tightly wrinkled, although the current situation is like a boat sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat If you can't sweep Zhang Xiu and Lu Bu in the east and southwest as soon as possible, Cao Cao's forces are even more difficult to compete with the huge Yuan Shao group in the north, and Lu Bu is also ready to fight! To his surprise, Wang Hou's influence on Cao Cao was so great! After consulting Wang Hou's opinion, Cao Cao didn't discuss it with anyone anymore, and he had already made up his mind.
And the accident is not only these, after accepting the order of the vanguard general, Cao Cao took Wang Hou out again.
"Cangcao Wang Hou! You immediately transferred 20,000 stone of grain from Taicang to supply the Xiahoudun vanguard army to make armaments, and the other minister gave you the right to requisition the people of various counties and counties, and immediately set off from Xuchang after preparing the vanguard army rations, and collected this autumn grain along the way, and settled in Xiao County! Supply the front-line army, there must be no mistakes! ”
"Prime Minister, the lower officials are just a cangcao, local expropriation, population allocation, is the authority of the Zhongshu Order......"
"Tune Cao Hongjie as your deputy! Cangtun Captain Zhao Yun accompanies him! Go down! ”
This is another troublesome matter that offends people, bitterly, Wang Hou is sad and wants to postpone his mouth, but Cao Cao has already given an order that cannot be ignored, and by the way, he also arranged Cao Hongjie and Zhao Yun, the two old partners, to him, with Cao Xiaoniu supervising the work, he didn't want to be lazy, he could only helplessly hug his fists.
"Obey orders!"
Anyway, take Zhao Yun out, for the time being, neither in Xu Du, nor on the front line, for the time being, he can also guard against Liu Da'er's hookup, and the next military arrangement, requisition and deployment of soldiers, etc., is not what he should care about as a small Cangcao, so he had no choice but to receive the order, Wang Hou is Zhiquer said goodbye and withdrew from the meeting hall.
However, he went out of the door with a worried face, but he didn't pay attention to it, Xun Yu actually lost his mind a little, his eyes followed him out of the door, and stayed in the direction where he disappeared, until Cao Cao groaned and called his name, then suddenly came back to his senses and stood up quickly.
"Xun Lingzhong, Cheng Shangshu! After the prime minister's expedition to Xuzhou, the big and small things of Xu Du had to be bothered by the two of them! ”
"The subordinate obeys!"
Holding his fist, Xun Yu replied in a dull manner, staying behind to accept him and Cheng Yu, it seems that Cao Cao's trust in him is still the same as always, but as Wang Hou said just now, recruiting local people and transporting military rations originally belonged to his authority in the book, but now Cao Cao has stripped it out and given it to Wang Hou, after all, it still has a pimple in Xun Yu's heart.
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The eggs that are idle every day hurt, this time they have been retributed, and the birthday of peace is over!
In this era, the efficiency of Cao Cao's work is still very high, after all, the era of warlord separation, no matter how long it dragged out like the Han Dynasty, it would have been eliminated long ago!
This Wang Hou just came out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and then Xiahou Dun came to the door, his home Taicang, after a small half a year of Wang Hou's reform, Taicang's efficiency has also improved a lot, immediately according to the booklet to allocate grain, 10,000 stone military grain from each sub-warehouse, directly in the T-16 to 18 empty warehouse.
The people of the vanguard army don't need Wang Hou to worry about it, in this year's war, seventy or eighty percent of the battlefield is soy sauce, and the additional 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers are estimated to be the coolies who do this transportation, and after the Qingzhou soldiers are recruited to Xudu, they will be responsible for the transportation.
However, Wang Hou here has an extra heart, and pulled Xiahoudun to accept and deliver on the spot, and filled a warehouse and directly pasted a seal, and handed it over to Xiahoudun's personal soldiers to take care of him.
He was tired of tossing this day, Mr. Cao's temporary emergency meeting was held around noon, and after the grain was delivered that day, it was almost one o'clock in the morning when he went home at night, and fortunately Xiahoudun accompanied him together, otherwise according to the night ban decree of this era, he would not be able to get out of Taicang, so he could only deal with it here for one night.
However, when he returned to the house, he didn't have a good life, and he just opened the door, Wang Fu looked helpless, and Cao Hongjie, who was used to going to bed early but stayed up until midnight, had already come out excitedly.
"Are you going out again?"
"Hey, hey, talk! What are you dangling? Open your eyes!! ”
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The pomp and circumstance are now bigger, in addition to their own 100 parts, they also added Zhao Yun's 400 grain troops, 500 medium-sized armor with clear water, carrying halberds, marching in formation on the official road where the loess is flying, which is quite imposing.
It's just that he was dangling in the carriage with Cao Hongjie, who was like a monkey excitedly, but Wang Hou frowned.
Cao Cao ordered him to replace Xun Yu to open up the grain route in advance and supply military rations, which can definitely be regarded as promoting him, after all, in Xu Du to see Taicang, no matter how good he is, he is still a dispensable little person, but the supply of military rations, this can also be regarded as directly participating in Cao Cao's military operations, although it is not a horse to fight and charge into the front line, but it is still a stand-alone and an indispensable member of the Cao Group, and the importance is not the same as before.
However, this is really not a good errand, these years the yeoman farmers have almost been forced to go bankrupt by the fierce war and the turbulent situation, if you want to recruit the people, you can only be seconded with the local family of Yanzhou, the reason why this is the errand of the Zhongshu Ling Xun Yu, because he is a member of the Yanzhou gate valve, and he was mainly responsible for communicating with the local scholar gate valve before.
Maybe it's because he relies on Xun Yu too much, this time Cao Cao intends to replace him with Wang Hou, slightly reducing Xun Yu's weight in the entire Cao Group, Wang Hou himself is a few pounds and a few taels He knows too well, in exchange for him, a small person with a humble position to recruit, these local wealthy families may not give this face!
How can you let these rice worms in the local area sell their face? Pinching the mustache that grew out of his chin, Wang Hou is brows tightened as the carriage swayed.
"Sir! The front is Yingyin! Will you visit Yingyin County in the city? ”
Just as Wang Hou was thinking, outside the door, Wang Congge, who knew that he was knocking on the door, suddenly sounded again, and suddenly came back to his senses, but Wang Hou vetoed in a hurried voice.
"No more in town! Continue along the official road and go straight to Liangguo! ”
"Little obedience!"
Wang Congge is easy to dismiss, but Cao Hongjie, a small construction worker, is not easy to dismiss, she immediately stared at her with big eyes, and asked hurriedly: "Didn't the prime minister order the two of us to collect this autumn's grain tax along the way as military rations?" Going straight to Liang State, won't the grain of Yingchuan County and Chenliu County be levied? ”
"Jie'er, if an arrow hits you in the head and comes out of the back of your head, but you don't die, do you know why?"
"Huh? Why! ”
This is talking about the expropriation of grain! Leng Buding pulled on the archery again, Cao Hongjie's little face was suddenly full of confusion, and he asked in astonishment, who knew that Wang Hou's goods were a row of thighs, and he snorted cheaply: "Because you have no brains!" ”
"Die! Let's get down to business! Net can bully me! ”
"You don't like to listen to it if you don't have a brain, from Yingchuan County to Liu Bei's Peiguo, it is a full 800 miles, and when it is transported to the front line, one and a half stones of grain will be consumed on the road, and this account is not understood, and when you get married, the family will be defeated!"
"Besides, Xuzhou Lu Bu has less than 20,000 people, and it belongs to several local forces, and there are only more than 10,000 people in Lu Bu's headquarters in Picheng, and he needs to fight quickly, and the army must not be mobilized much, I estimate that at most, it is 30,000 elite soldiers under the command of the overlord, 30,000 people, and the war must be ended within three months, and three months, 100,000 stone grain is more than enough! And Liang Guo has 1.9 million mu of registered land, and one out of ten levies is enough to pay for this war! ”
This is also the countermeasure that Wang Hou thought about just now, according to the custom, Cao Cao will spend a month to recruit soldiers and horses, the army will travel sixty miles a day, and it will take fifteen days to drive to the edge of Liang and Pei, so the time left for him is only forty-five days! If more than a dozen counties in the entire two and a half states are tossed, Cao Cao may not be able to prepare the grain when he reaches the front line, so in a northeastern dialect, it can be a disaster in one place!
And now it is the end of July and the beginning of August, and his family's wheat field has just matured, and Wang Fu is still preparing to organize the harvest in various villages in the past few days! Yingchuan Chenliu area has also just been preparing to harvest autumn grain, and it is better to travel for more than ten days here, when they arrive in Liangguo, they can harvest halfway, and the wheat they cut down will be used as military food and pulled away!
People are forced out, Wang Hou, who has never entered the operation department before the crossing, was also forced to come up with such a careful plan, and after some explanation, Cao Hongjie, who listened to it, was a little brainy, but it took a long time to react, this girl reacted, her little face turned red, and she slapped Wang Hou angrily.
"Who's going to marry you scrap! Dream! ”
"Hey! This time, the prime minister openly accepted his fate! This officer! It's the chief! You're the deputy! Dare to openly beat the chief officer! It's back to you! It's tied up again, isn't it? ”
bared his teeth and covered his weakness, and then Wang Hou took the chicken feather order arrow again, deliberately pretending to be fierce and vicious, and put out the fine hemp rope hidden in the drawer of the carriage, swaying with his teeth and claws.
Looking at that thing, Cao Hongjie's little face suddenly turned red, the last time he went out, because this thing was not less bullied by him! In the palpitations, this little girl pinched her small waist and her big eyes widened again, and she shouted violently: "You dare to !! ”
"Stop!"
was pinched to the weakness all of a sudden, and this girl's little face suddenly collapsed again, and she lowered her little brain sadly and held up the slap with her to forgive.
"Oops! Am I wrong? ”
This time, the carriage was thickened a lot, but it didn't isolate the noise of no one around! Zhao Yun, who was riding a horse next to the carriage, shook his head and thought depressedly.
Lao Tzu is wise and martial, why did he follow such a ridiculous lord?
But looking at Miss Cao's appearance, she is not too resistant, why don't you go back and try it with Ruan'er?
What a man after all! Without Wang Hou knowing, Changshan Zhao Zilong has already begun to deteriorate under his influence!
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Although the war is imminent, but also have to live with a smile, in the midst of the fighting, rushed for more than ten days, halfway is to meet the county seat then into the city for the night, if you can't meet it, simply camp in the field, Wang Hou also lived the dream of the future generations of RV career, survived twelve days of wind and food camping, the main city of Liang Suiyang City, is finally revealed in front of Wang Hou's eyes.
When Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, this city relied on its own strength to resist the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms hundreds of thousands of Wu and Chu rebels for several months, until now, the head of the rammed earth brick can still see mottled traces of arrows.
It's just that this time Wang Hou didn't have the heart to be nostalgic, and he was still facing the difficulty of how to mobilize the Liang Guoshi clan and get food and strong labor from them, so he stayed in the post house, and Wang Hou had already started to get busy.
It's just that he was busy neither to visit Zou Chang, the prime minister of Liang Guo, nor to ask his grandfather to tell his grandmother to run from one to another Liang Guoda's family, but first stretched out his hand to Cao Hongjie.
"Let's compile the "Clan Chronicles", didn't the families from all over the country report this year's list of filial piety and honesty together? Give me Liang's! ”。
"What are you going to do?"
Rubbing her reddened wrists, the girl asked angrily again.