0461: Liu Bei's crisis
As Li Yi got older and his prestige grew, everyone's awe of Li Yi became heavier⊥ it seemed that even if they were formal in the past, Lu Bu and others would sometimes talk and laugh with Li Yi. But now, even in private, their attitude is very respectful.
So in the face of Li Yi's strict orders now, where do they have any other ideas? Naturally, I tried to carry it out. Of course, this does not mean that Lu Bu and others are too awe-inspiring for Li Yi and dare not put forward their opinions to Li Yi, once Li Yi implements tyranny like Dong Zhuo, they will definitely fight to the death.
It's just a pity that Li Yi has not only given them the opportunity to admonish, but even some things that they can't understand or figure out have proved Li Yi's correctness with the passage of time. This situation not only made Lu Bu and others, but even people such as Zhang Meng and Zang Hong who had learned from others, also have the idea that they just didn't understand, not that Li Yi's orders were wrong.
It's like this time, although they don't understand why Li Yi is so rusty about Dong Zhuo's new money, since they don't understand, they subconsciously think that it is their own problem.
And Li Yi's subordinates are all like this, not to mention the people in those places. Similarly, the local people did not understand the reason for Li Yi's order. But over the years, Li Yi has already become a wise man who cannot make mistakes in their hearts⊥ as if Li Yi led people to control locust plagues in the past, or vigorously managed the sanitary environment in the local area.
Although the people at that time did not understand why Li Yi did this, when there were no more locust plagues and plagues in the state over the years, they realized how correct Li Yi's decision was. Of course, Li Yi asked the shadow department to secretly take the initiative to incite the people and make them worship him.
So now, the people accepted Li Yi's order very quickly, after all, they didn't like to use new money, not to mention that Li Yi's punishment for violators was terrifying just by listening to it. As for the people who already have new money, they can only reluctantly accept it, after all, compared with being reduced to slavery, it seems that it is not a big deal to lose some money.
In less than half a month, the entire territory under Li Yi's rule was completely devoid of Dong Zhuo's new money, and all of it was collected and concentrated by Li Yi for trading with Zhang Yan. Of course, because of Li Yi's order, when making transactions, old money is mixed with new money.
Although the person in charge of trading on Zhang Yan's side was not undiscovered, on the one hand, he was advised by Zhen Yan and Zhang Yan, and on the other hand, there were many styles of copper coins in this era. Although the quality of Dong Zhuo's newly minted coins was indeed a little outrageous, they just silently accepted the new coins and went back to Zhen Yan and others to decide.
After all, in case they raised objections and ended up annoying Li Yi, and eventually caused the original good transaction to be blocked, Li Yi's side was just missing a place to make money, but if they went back, they would definitely be executed immediately by Zhang Yan. Especially now that it is still in the midst of war, Zhang Yan's demand for war horses is very high.
At the same time, Yanzhou East County.
"Alas, I wanted to raise troops together with the original Cao to crusade against Dong Thief, but now that it continues like this, I don't know when I will be able to eradicate Dong Thief Kuang Fu Han Clan" Cao Cao sighed.
"As long as Cao Fujun is willing to send troops to help my lord sweep away the rebellious party, when the time comes, my lord will bring the soldiers of Ji, Qing, He, and Youzhou, plus the cooperation of Cao Fujun and other monarchs, he will definitely be able to break through Chang'an and produce Dong thieves, and return my Han to a peaceful world" Xun Yu said in a deep voice when he heard this.
"Sweep up the chaos?" Hearing this, Cao Cao suddenly showed a smile full of mockery, "Who is the chaotic party?" Li Bingzhou, who was personally sealed by the imperial court? Liu Youzhou? Or Liu Qingzhou?! ”
Speaking of this, Cao Cao stood up abruptly and glared at Xun Yu angrily, "The world is shocked by the fact that the original trick seized Ranzhou, although Cao and the original are old friends, but it is impossible to do that thing to help the Xun family Wen Ruo is a child of the Xun family, instead of persuading Cao here, it is better to go back and persuade the original well, let him take the court as the priority and the world as the priority."
After speaking, Cao Cao left directly with a black face, and seeing this, Chen Gong and Cheng Yu on the side went up in a row, but when they walked to the general, Cheng Yu suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at Xun Yu and said, "Although the words of my lord are a little ugly, but they are also true, Wen Ruo is a great talent in the world, I don't think I don't understand the impact of Yuan Che riding Ranzhou on the situation in the world."
Hearing Cheng Yu's words, Xun Yu nodded, but he didn't speak, not because he didn't want to say it, but because he didn't know what to say. From his own point of view, he agreed with Cao Cao's words, but as Yuan Shao's envoy, what could he do about it except for silence?
Seeing this, Cheng Yu suddenly smiled and asked, "Yu heard that Wen Ruo just took refuge in Yuan Che not long ago, right?" ”
"Not bad." Xun Yu nodded in response.
"Although my lord is only a county guard of Dongjun now, whether it is talent or ambition, Yu doesn't think it will be worse than that Yuan Che." Cheng Yu looked at Xun Yu and said with a smile, then made a gesture and left directly.
And looking at the back of Cheng Yu leaving, Xun Yu silently thought in his heart, "Cao Mengde"
On the same day, Xun Yu left, and did not try to persuade Cao Cao to do anything, perhaps because he didn't like Yuan Shao's behavior of seizing Ranzhou for selfish desires from the bottom of his heart, right? However, although he left Puyang, he did not leave immediately, but stayed for a long time in several counties in Dongjun all the way.
Subsequently, he wrote a letter and ordered Xun Yu to be sent to Xun You, who stayed in Yingchuan, and then set off to return to Jizhou.
At the same time, at the end of June, Yuan Shao led an army of 60,000 to Leling, Pingyuan County, and immediately launched an offensive against Leling.
"Hmph, Yuan Shao doesn't seem to take us seriously at all!" Tai Shi Ci snorted coldly.
"Ziyi, I think it's better to ask the lord for help." Wang Xuan looked at the Yuan army's formation outside the city, and proposed with a worried expression.
In his opinion, although there are more than 10,000 soldiers in Leling City now, they are all urgently mobilized and recruited from other places, and they are far inferior to Yuan's army in terms of combat effectiveness and experience, let alone six times worse than the troops.
"No! Now General Zhang is in a stalemate with the enemy in the plains, while the lord is guarding the Yanzhou coalition army in Yinyang, and there are no extra troops to recruit. When Tai Shici heard Wang Xuan's words, he refused directly without thinking about it.
Then, looking at Wang Xuan's worried appearance, Tai Shici suddenly smiled and said, "Shuzhi, don't worry, with me, even if Yuan Shao's troops are doubled, they won't be able to capture Leling!" ”
"I hope so" Wang Yu replied speechlessly, he really didn't know where Tai Shici's confidence came from, but at the moment, it seemed that he could only believe it.