006 divide and conquer
Liu Bei looked embarrassed, should this yellow turban thief die, of course he should die, but the problem is that he really wants to kill him, I am afraid that these yellow turban thieves will immediately rebel, if I don't kill him, this person in front of me is only afraid that he will hate me to the bone, and what is even worse is that his subordinates are only afraid that they will also be centrifuged, and they only feel in a dilemma.
However, this embarrassment only took a few seconds, Liu Bei was firm, not to kill this yellow turban thief, he was just a little morally unbearable, at most he just offended the person in front of him, if he killed this yellow turban thief, I was afraid that the other yellow turban thieves in front of him would rebel, and his own life was very likely to be lost, so this choice was really not difficult to make, but he couldn't just refuse directly, he had to think of a better reason. With that, Liu Bei immediately came up with a wonderful reason as soon as he had an idea, and he was able to subdue the military heart of the Yellow Turban Army by the way.
Thinking of this, Liu Bei said to the man: "You said that this person killed your whole family, I asked you if he should kill him." ”
When the man saw Liu Bei asking like this, he only said that Liu Bei wanted to uphold justice for him, and immediately kowtowed: "You should be killed." ”
Liu Bei asked the soldiers around him again: "You say, should this Yellow Turban Army be killed?" ”
Everyone said, "Kill." ”
Liu Bei nodded and said, "I also said that he should be killed." As soon as these words came out, the naked man immediately showed joy, the face of the Yellow Turban Army kneeling on the side was full of despair, his body had begun to tremble, and the Yellow Turban Army around him was also a little commotion, Liu Bei knew that this was a rabbit dead fox and a sad thing. Liu Bei paused for a moment, let this emotion brew for a while, and then said loudly: "But I can't kill him, and I won't allow you to kill him." ”
"Ahh This god turned around, not only the man and the Yellow Turban Army were surprised, but the soldiers around Liu Bei and the Yellow Turban prisoners who sneaked up were also confused, Liu Bei stood up, helped the man up, looked his eyes squarely, and said in a * even divine voice: "If you come to me to report to the official before today, I will do my best to exterminate the thieves and help you avenge your hatred, even if you die in battle, there will be no regrets." But not now, I have given an order that those who descend will not die. Since this person has surrendered, I can't break my word and get fat, if you are dissatisfied, kill me to vent your anger, just let me Liu Bei Liu Xuande have no faith in his words, and I can't break my word and get fat. The righteousness of these words was so awe-inspiring that Liu Bei was so disgusting that he almost vomited.
Trustworthy people are always respectable, although many people think that trustworthy people are brain-dead, especially big people are untrustworthy, this is called machine change, called power scheme. However, it is precisely because of the scarcity of trustworthy people that this quality is so precious, the man who was helped up by Liu Bei had no other way at this moment except to howl and cry, the Yellow Turban Army chicken only kowtowed like eating rice, and shouted loudly: "The villain worships Xuande Gong for his benevolence and righteousness." The yellow turban thieves around them also looked relieved, and they all knelt down and shouted: "The villain waits for Xie Xuandegong's benevolence and righteousness." Even Liu Bei's soldiers are all upright and proud, it seems that morale and loyalty have improved a lot, and Guan Zhang and the others are even more so, Liu Bei secretly gave himself a thumbs up, and his heart said that the performance was really good, and he didn't know that he actually had the potential to be an actor.
Liu Bei first ordered to separate the plundered people from the yellow turban thieves, this is a good part, now the weather is still cold, those who wrap themselves in layers of tightly are naturally robbers, and those who don't even have a piece of clothing on their bodies are naturally robbed. Then Liu Bei ordered to take the household as a unit, and the five households were organized into a team, and a team chief was selected, and the five families were jointly guaranteed to supervise each other. There are 3,380 households of yellow turban thieves, and there are more than 1,500 people who have no homes, totaling more than 13,000 people. There were less than a hundred people who were plundered, and most of them were young women, which was nothing, Liu Bei was just strange, and he didn't know how the man survived.
When the Yellow Turban Thief's household registration was compiled, it was already afternoon, and Liu Bei ordered the soldiers to take turns to eat, but he forgot to give the Yellow Turban Thief food. When the Yellow Turban Thief's household registration was compiled, Liu Bei asked the Yellow Turban Thief again: "The sky is dead, the Yellow Sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is lucky." How many years has it been since the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Jiazi year? ”
Although the yellow turban thief didn't know why Liu Bei asked such an obvious question, he still replied honestly: "It's been five years now. Liu Bei was shocked, the year of Jiazi was 184, and it has been five years, so it is now 188 or 188 plus a year. Saying this, Dong Zhuo was about to enter Beijing, and Liu Bei continued: "Since you have been a thief for five years from the Yellow Turban Rebellion to now, I will punish you to do five years of hard labor to atone for your crimes, and after five years, you will return to good citizens." If you perform well in the middle, you can be commuted, and if you commit adultery, you will be punished for both crimes, and you can accept it? ”
Speaking of this, Liu Bei really pinched a handful of sweat, he said that he was really afraid that these people would turn against him again, fortunately, at this moment, the Yellow Turban Army had no strength if he didn't enter the water and rice for a day, and he was also counted on by the people of Qihu for the future, but he was convinced. In fact, Liu Bei is afraid of beating wolves with a hemp pole, he is certainly afraid of the Yellow Turban rebellion, how can these Yellow Turban troops not be afraid of Liu Bei, this is to take advantage of the night with more than 30 cavalry to rob the camp, in one fell swoop to break more than 20,000 Yellow Turban Army fierce people, no one is afraid.
It is said that this Yellow Turban Army really deserves to be a peasant rebel army, not only with the army's family members, but also with cattle and farm tools. You can turn into a farmer to farm anytime and anywhere, people are nomadic herders, they are good, they are nomadic farming. In the entire military camp, there are not a few war horses, only more than 100, and there are a lot of ploughing cattle, more than 400 heads, which are estimated to have been robbed in private, and they are all cheaper than Liu Bei. Although there are a lot of farm tools, but many of them have been burned out, and they still need to be repaired before they can be used, and there is also some food, Liu Bei let people cook porridge, so that everyone in the Yellow Turban Army can drink a bowl of porridge before the evening, and the people's hearts are a lot more stable now.
When Liu Bei organized the Yellow Turban Army into households, he first moved the outside cattle and farm tools and grain into the county seat, and then asked the soldiers to have a full meal, of course, the food was sent by the Yellow Turban thieves, and the Yellow Turban Army was still camped outside the county according to their respective formations, and only called the hundred household chiefs appointed by Liu Bei into the county seat, and some people asked: "What if the Yellow Turban thieves run away." Liu Bei said: "Don't use suspicious people, don't suspect people." "In fact, the yellow turban thief has neither a leader nor food, where else can he run, Liu Beile pretended to be generous.
He also called Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to discuss how to act in the future, Zhang Fei also returned, the historical Guan Yu is a prince of Jingzhou, and he should have a certain talent for governance, sure enough, as soon as Liu Bei's problem came out, Guan Yu touched his beard and said: "Brother, I think that since ancient times, all the governance of the place is not to encourage farming, if there is no food, even the good people will become bandits, if there is food, you can appease the displaced people, no problem." ”
Liu Bei nodded and said, "Yes, this is to have food in your hands, and you don't panic." That's the truth, Yide, what do you think. Originally, Liu Bei just asked casually, where did he know that Zhang Fei said: "Brother, I think there are too many yellow turban thieves, we have few soldiers, I'm afraid that it is not stable enough, we should recruit more soldiers." ”
Guan Yu said: "What the third brother said is right, it's just that the soldiers gather with food, and in the final analysis, it's still a matter of food." ”
Seeing that these two people said this, Liu Bei knew in his heart, so he asked, "Is our food enough?" ”
"It's not enough, now is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and we have suffered this military disaster, but fortunately, we haven't missed the spring ploughing now, but even if our grain is added to the captured, it is not enough to eat until the autumn harvest." Guan Yu replied.
Liu Bei suddenly lost any good mood, and said in his heart that this crossing is a crossing, first playing with life, and then there is a shortage of food, why can't I be allowed to cross over to which Taiping Tianzi, let me eat, drink and have fun for a lifetime. complained in his heart, and then asked, "What countermeasures can the two virtuous brothers have?" ”
Guan Yu said: "For today's plan, there is only to borrow grain from the big clans in the county, the Cui family in this county is one of the few heroes in the world, thousands of child servants, countless grains and grass, if the Cui family is willing to borrow grain, it can solve our urgent need." ”
When Liu Bei heard the word Cui, his heart moved, and he asked: "What is the relationship between this Cui clan and the Qinghe Cui clan and the Boling Cui clan?" ”
Zhang Fei said: "The Gao Tang Cui clan is one of the branches of the Qinghe Cui clan. ”
Qinghe Cui's family, Liu Bei smiled bitterly, this is one of the five surnames and seven sects, of course, they have not reached the level they later have, but they are also a wealthy family in the world, a family of county wang. If it is an ordinary local tyrant in the countryside, if he dares not to borrow grain, he can still send troops to rob it, and when he encounters this dignified Qinghe Cui clan, he is risking the world's disapproval, after all, he is not Hou Jing's fierce man. Now it's not the Northern and Southern Dynasties, you can kill Wang Xie and everyone cleanly. Shaking his head, Liu Bei said to Zhang Fei: "Yun Chang, Yide, after two days of settling here, let's go to the Cui family to borrow grain, I hope this Cui family can be generous for the sake of these tens of thousands of people." If it is really because of the lack of food that caused the military disaster, so that the place is eroded, it is not easy to think of him Cui's family. ”
"Don't talk about that, go and call me those hundred household chiefs of the Yellow Turban Army." Liu Bei appointed a total of forty hundred household heads, and at this moment ordered someone to call these forty people over, Liu Bei did Guan Yu in the middle, Zhang Fei stood behind Liu Bei and stood with his sword left and right. A group of yellow turban thieves, it should be said that the former yellow turban thieves entered the county seat at this moment, and when they saw Liu Beili kneeling and saluting, they didn't dare to look up. Liu Bei didn't let them get up, but just asked, "Why did you come to invade my border?" ”
The yellow turban thief replied: "Last autumn, Zhang Chun rebelled with Zhang Ju Yuyang and united with Lord Qiu Liju of Wuhuan, just because Youzhou was well prepared, so he bypassed Youzhou and directly attacked the counties and counties of Hebei. Our previous commander was ordered by the thief, so he also sent troops to plunder the surrounding counties. ”
Liu Bei heard the name of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, and immediately reacted, Zhang Chun rebelled with Zhang Ju and Wuhuan Qiu Liju and others. This is a matter of 187 A.D., Zhang Chun led the army to rob Jizhong, killed and protected Wuhuan Captain Gong Qichou, Youbeiping Taishou Liu Zheng, Liaodong Taishou Yangzhong and others, gathered more than 100,000 people, and plundered Youzhou and Jizhou. Zhang Ju proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven, and Zhang Chun proclaimed himself General Mitian and King of Stability. Since this is last autumn, then this year should be 188 AD, and next year will be the era when Dong Zhuo enters Beijing, and the plot of the Three Kingdoms is in full swing.
I heard the yellow turban thief continue: "Just because the general is in trouble outside the Gaotang Dynasty, and the wealth is abundant, the subordinates will sit at the same table and eat together, and there is no simple choice, and many will return." Therefore, knowing that Gao Tang had a lot of money and food, he came to attack. Liu Bei couldn't help but curse secretly when he heard this, it turned out that he did too well in this county order, and the place was rich, so he recruited a thief.