Chapter 1253: Watching the Fire
Chapter 1253 (Page 1/1)
Sun Ce left Cao Ang's letter on the table. "Take a look."
Guo Jia sat down opposite, put down the feather fan, picked up the letter, read it, and then handed it to Zhang Cheng casually. Zhang Cheng looked at it slowly, put it down for a long time, and said with a wry smile: "This is a weasel giving a chicken a New Year's greeting - I don't have a good heart." ”
Sun Ce snorted. He had that idea too. Is it true that Cao Ang declared that he was willing to give up everything for the people of Yanzhou? Difficult to judge. It stands to reason that no matter how benevolent Cao Ang is, he will not be so benevolent as to be close to a saint, which is unreasonable. Even if he really had a childlike heart, Chen Gong couldn't agree to him doing so. In line with the principle of preparing for the worst, he was more inclined to assume that this was a plan.
Accepting Cao Ang's request is not possible. This will make him suspect of taking advantage of others, unless he also lets Cao Ang serve as the assassin of Yanzhou, otherwise the people of Yanzhou will be grateful to Cao Ang, as long as someone proposes to let Cao Ang serve as the assassin of Yanzhou again, there will definitely be many people who support it. No matter how you deal with it, this will make Cao Ang earn enough reputation and become a hidden danger that cannot be ignored.
It is not okay not to accept Cao Ang's request. It would ruin the reputation he had built up so easily, and he wouldn't be able to stop the outcasts. If Cao Ang deliberately drove the displaced people to Yuzhou, it could also cause harm to Yuzhou. Therefore, the people of Yanzhou will hate him to the bone and fight him to the end.
"What does the general think?"
"Looks like a ploy." Sun Ce said: "Chen Gong? ”
Guo Jia picked up the feather fan again and shook it gently. "It's a bit like thinking you're doing everything, but it's actually extremely pedantic."
Sun Ce's eyes flashed, and his heart was inexplicably a lot more relaxed. He believed that Guo Jia could deal with Chen Gong, so he came to the Military Strategy Office to find Guo Jia for the first time.
"How?"
"Chen Gong did this, which was tantamount to giving the general a problem. If the general responds, he will take advantage of the danger of others. If the general should not, he will not be saved. On the contrary, Cao Ang has gained a reputation of sacrificing himself for the people, and his position in the history of Yanzhou is more stable. ”
Zhang Cheng also said: "That's right, this is really not easy to handle. Even if we don't care about this, we won't be able to save Yanzhou. Most of Nanyang's drug reserves have been consumed, and it is difficult to say whether it can last until the end of the epidemic, not to mention that Yuan Shao may still attack south. We have a huge shortage of medicines, and we can't support Yanzhou at all. ”
Guo Jia shook his hand. "Zhong Hei, you only know one thing, but you don't know the other."
Zhang Cheng hurriedly bowed his hand. "Please also ask for advice on sacrificial wine."
"Outbreaks tend to have strong seasonality. The origin of this epidemic is the loss of cold and warm seasons in autumn and winter, and many displaced people lack food and clothing, and sleep in the cold, which has a certain relationship with the war in spring, but the impact is not great. Now that it is a cold winter, with the distribution of winter clothes in place and the timely supply of food, the possibility of the epidemic spreading again is not very likely. The frail ones have already died, and most of those who survive will not regain their illness in a short period of time, so the epidemic seems to be serious, but in fact it is only the last period, and it will not take long to slow down. ”
Zhang Cheng pondered for a moment. "But the number of deaths every day has remained high, more than 400 every day, close to 500."
"That's right, this situation has been going on for six or seven days, but it won't be long, it will go down soon." Guo Jia walked around and walked to the line chart on the side. "You see, the incidence rate, after maintaining a peak for ten days, has been declining since yesterday. Cure rates, however, are steadily increasing and getting faster. Of course, this is inseparable from the hard work of Master Zhang and others, and it is also the inevitable trend of the epidemic estrus. ”
Zhang Cheng walked to Guo Jia's side, stared at a few line charts for a long time, and patted his forehead. "It's still reasonable to say that the sacrificial wine, I only stared at the picture of the number of deaths, and I didn't combine a few numbers to look at it, and I forgot the whole situation."
"You'll know when you've been through a few pandemics like I did." Guo Jia patted Zhang Cheng's shoulder and sighed softly. "Knowing the world without going out is something that only a saint can do, and for us ordinary people, experience is still very important. There are many things that the saints either don't talk about, or they don't know what they say, and even if they do, they have to be discovered by someone with a heart. ”
Zhang Cheng nodded again and again, admiring Guo Jia. Guo Jia can make military sacrificial wine, not only because Sun Ce trusts him, but even because he is really smart. He had traveled far and wide as a young man, had met too many people, and had many lessons that could not be learned in books, and these experiences were invaluable to these military strategists, most of whom were still weak crowns.
Guo Jia walked back to the desk and sat down again. Chen Gong is a scholar and has no experience in politics before, and this is the first time he has faced such an epidemic. There must be some people under Cao Ang's command who are familiar with the epidemic, but with people like Chen Gong, no one dares to easily cross Chen Gong and speak directly to Cao Ang. Of course, the conditions in Yanzhou are indeed not as good as those in Yuzhou, and their current situation is also more severe than that in Yuzhou. ”
Sun Ce suddenly brightened, and the gloom in his heart disappeared at once. Now that the pandemic is coming to an end, the rest is easy. Since Cao Ang brought Yanzhou to his mouth, there is no reason not to take a bite. The key is how to bite, not only to bite the meat, but also not to get the gas. He thought for a moment, had an idea in his heart, and couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.
"General, what do you think?" Guo Jia said with a grin.
Sun Ce was slightly happy. "Chen Gong's focus is on the name, then I will do the opposite and return the name. Leave the beads in the box, return the beautiful box to Chen Gong, and give it a name of generosity. ”
Guo Jia laughed and shook the feather fan. "What the general said is exactly what I want to say. In this way, I will not rap. ”
Zhang Cheng was inexplicable, his eyes swept over Sun Ce and Guo Jia's faces, and he stopped talking several times. Sun Ce wanted to explain, but Guo Jia stopped him. "Let him think for himself, just think of it as an exercise."
Sun Ce will understand. Zhang Cheng is also a Confucian student, and his thinking is similar to Chen Gong, although he has changed a lot after entering the military planning department, and some mindsets still exist. Letting him crack Chen Gong's strategy is tantamount to letting his own mindset fight, which is of great benefit to him. If he doesn't break it, he doesn't stand up, and if he doesn't break those conventional ideas, he will never be able to become a first-class military strategy.
"Okay, let him think slowly, let's go for a walk." Sun Ce stood up and stretched. These two months have tormented him. It was the first time that he had single-handedly dealt with such a big danger. Cao Ang and Chen Gong had a psychological breakdown, and he was not far from collapse. Now that he knows that the epidemic situation has improved, he can't say how easy it is.
Guo Jia followed Sun Ce out of the water pavilion, walked along the long winding corridor, came to the water pavilion in the middle of the lake, and walked slowly along the corridor. In winter, the lake is cold, even Sun Ce doesn't live here, the three-story water pavilion is very quiet, they don't talk much, and even the waiters don't notice the arrival of Sun Ce and Guo Jia.
"General, Xu Yu has already met Liu He and Xun Chen when he arrives in Xiapi. Xun Chen rejected Yuan Shao's task, Liu He will set off soon, I want to ......" Guo Jia smacked his lips and did not continue, looking at Sun Ce quietly.
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