Jizhou, Guantao County.

In the Han Dynasty, there were four princesses who were named Princess Guantao. Later, Cao Pi also named a son as the king of Guantao, but Guantao County is only a small county, and the people are not rich, these royal children will naturally not stay in Guantao County honestly, and some have not even come to Guantao.

In front of the gate of Guantao County, thousands of homeless people gathered, all of whom were attacked by cavalry from nearby villages, lost their homes and fields, and had to gather in the nearby county town to find some food.

There are more and more displaced people, and there are already black pressure displaced people gathered in front of the gate of Guantao County, and the displaced people drag their families with their mouths, making the city gate noisy. There were no more than 300 defenders in the county, and in the face of more and more displaced people, the county commander had to order the city gate to be closed and no one was allowed to enter the city.

The gates were closed, the people could not enter the city, and the crowd gradually became frenzied, and the sounds of curses and complaints continued to sound. However, facing the city walls of Guantao County. But there is still nothing to be done.

In the crowd, a young man wiped the mud on his legs and looked around carefully.

Finally, the young man had a goal in mind, stood up, and immediately came up.

"Brother, where are you from?" The young man asked with a Hebei accent.

"I'm from Chaoxi Village, and I've walked more than sixty miles! The village was burned down by horse thieves, and the fields were destroyed, and I wanted to come to the county seat to join my relatives, but I didn't expect the county lord to close the city gate and couldn't enter...... Hey, I don't know where the horse thief came from! ”

"It seems that the county lord is not going to open the city gate. I didn't bring anything to eat either, and it looks like I'm going to be hungry tonight. The young man sighed, then raised his head, and then said, "If the county lord doesn't open the city gate, we can't wait forever!" ”

"What's so rare about this, if the county lord doesn't open the city gate, let's go to the county seat, won't the Taishou also open the city gate?"

"It's hard to say." The young man shook his head, and then said, "By the way, I heard that the grain has been opened in Bingzhou, and the gold in and out of the Huguan has also been exempted. I'm going to try my luck in Bingzhou, it's better than starving here! ”

"Brother, Bingzhou is far from here, if you encounter horse thieves again. What to do? ”

"Don't worry, those horse thieves don't kill people, don't be afraid when you encounter them, there are many fewer people in Jizhou than in Jizhou, maybe you can get a few acres of thin fields now, it's better than in Jizhou." The young man said optimistically.

……

Soon a word spread among the displaced people, and the state had opened a warehouse to release grain to help the victims, and even the gold in and out of the Huguan was exempted.

When many people heard the news, they immediately began to move towards the western state of Merge, hoping to find a way to survive.

The news of the horse thief's infestation spread to the county seat, and soon, the county official reported it to the county town, and then, the county immediately chased down the horse thief and reported it to Yecheng at the same time.

The mobility of the cavalry was already strong, coming and going like the wind, and the number of cavalry per share was not much, most of them were four or five hundred, and four or five hundred people were constantly moving, so it was difficult to catch traces at all. Not to mention extermination. So in the past month, many soldiers have been sent out, but not a single horse thief has been caught.

The news of the horse thieves was quickly reported to Cao Shuang, at the beginning, Cao Shuang didn't care too much, now the Wei State is in crisis, at this time someone came out to take advantage of the fire to rob, it is normal to gather people to make trouble, and there are only a few horse thieves, not to be afraid, the county will send some soldiers and horses, and it will be exterminated.

But soon, Cao Shuang noticed something unusual, and the emergency reports from various counties in Cao Shuang's hands had already formed a hill on the table. And the documents from all over the world are still coming every day.

Cao Shuang finally realized the seriousness of the situation, most of Jizhou was attacked, and the displaced people were all over the four fields, and many homeless people became thieves, blocking the road and robbing them, causing a very serious public security problem.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Shuang received another news, and the Huguan in Bingzhou was opened, and a camp had been built in the Guan, a porridge factory had been opened, and even the Lijin in Huguan had been exempted, and many people had lost their homes and turned to Bingzhou.

Cao Shuang is no matter how stupid he is, he can see it. Eighty percent of these horse thieves were sent by Adou.

After hearing the news, Cao Shuang was going to set up cards on the road to prevent the people from going to Bingzhou, but he was persuaded by Biqiu Jian. Biqiu Jian believes that instead of solving the trouble, setting up cards at various levels will cause greater trouble.

The people's fields, villages, and houses have been destroyed, and they have lost their place to live, if they are allowed to stay in Jizhou, they will be left in the grass at the least, and they will gather people to rebel at the worst, reproducing the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the year. And once that happens, Jizhou will be troubled internally and externally, and the Wei State will perish.

Subsequently, Biqiu Jian then suggested to Cao Shuang that it was better to take advantage of this opportunity to recruit displaced people, the strong ones were soldiers, and the old and weak were garrisons, and the Tuntian military camp was newly established, which could prevent horse thieves from attacking and harassing, and secondly, it could also stabilize the supply of grain and grass.

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Qingzhou.

Today's Donglai Dagang has begun to take shape, and Jiangdong has also mobilized a part of the sailors to be stationed in Donglai.

The news that Jizhou was attacked by horse thieves was soon placed on Sima Yi's table.

"Hehehe. It's good that you Liu Adou actually used this trick. Sima Yi grinned.

"General, even if this horse thief was sent by that Liu Chan, it can't hurt the foundation of Wei at all, it just causes some trouble to Cao Shuang. Besides, I heard that Cao Shuang took this opportunity to expand the army again, and also built the Tuntian military camp. Wei expanded its army, and it will be more difficult for us to attack in the future. It's just that Liu Chan lifted a stone to hit himself in the foot, and it also affected us! Zhuge Dan said with an unhappy face.

"Public vacation, you only know one thing, you don't know the other! Liu Chan sent cavalry to attack Jizhou, causing the displaced people to rise in all directions. But I chose this time, you must know that now is the time for farming, presumably in winter, Jizhou's grain and grass will be halved! Sima Yi explained.

"What's the matter, in the past, Yuan Benchu dominated the four states, all of them were raised by the grain of Jizhou, and there is a surplus, and now just Jizhou is a place, that is, the grain and grass are halved, and the Jizhou army is also raised, and as far as I know, Jizhou can have a lot of grain and grass left over the years, and it is difficult to move the foundation of Wei State with only one year's harvest." Zhuge Dan continued.

"Sabbatical, you're wrong again. The most powerful part of Liu Chan's move is that it shook the hearts of the Wei people, he Liu Adou opened the pot pass and recruited displaced people, these refugees are all the people of Jizhou, and the Jizhou army, isn't it also from the people? The relatives of the sergeant all defected to Liu Chan, if the war started later, would the soldiers still be willing to fight to the death? Besides, the country is people-oriented, if even the people are gone, what kind of country is the country! ”

Sima Yi paused in his voice, and then said: "Cao Shuang, it is a good way to recruit soldiers from the homeless people and form a Tuntian military camp. But just imagine, ordinary people, living a peaceful and stable life, who wants to be a soldier and fight? You must know that being a soldier is to fight with your life, and if you are not careful, you can lose your life. As for the Tuntian barracks...... The days of the Tuntian soldiers, others don't know, don't you Zang Ai still don't know? The Tuntian soldiers are like caged birds, very bitter, and often hungry, and the people originally had their own land. Who wants to be a Tuntian soldier? Cao Shuang's move seems to be clever, but in fact, it is only a symptom rather than a cure! Recruiting soldiers? Establish Tuntian? Hehehe...... In my opinion, after those displaced people heard the news, I am afraid that they will run to the state faster. ”

"My lord, what should we do now?" Zhuge Dan asked.

"Now, I'm going to help that Liu Adou."

"What do you mean by ......"

"I'm going to send a navy out to attack the salt farms along the coast of Jizhou, so that Wei has no salt to use. The soldiers don't eat salt, how can they have the strength to fight! Sima Yi paused, and then said: "Gongxiu, the officials who are now friendly with me in the DPRK and China are all generals in the north, and they are not familiar with water warfare, and the generals in the navy are also from Jiangdong. You must have seen these days that those Jiangdong generals are obedient to me on the outside, but in fact they are obedient to me, so how can I control the navy! Therefore, among the water army, there must be our own people! ”

"It's a pity, my generals in the north are not familiar with water warfare, and it is very difficult to be placed in the naval army. Now is the right time to take advantage of this opportunity to insert some henchmen and generals into it, and at the same time, I can also familiarize them with water warfare and accumulate some military merits, even if I completely control the navy army in the future, it will be beneficial. ”

……

Three days later, the Jiangdong Navy sent warships to attack the Jizhou salt field.

Naturally, the salt works along the coast of Jizhou cannot be heavily guarded like the naval army camp, although the salt and iron are sold by officials, and the salt works are all government-run, but there are only a few soldiers guarding the salt works.

It is precisely because of this that the Jiangdong Naval Division attacked the Jizhou Salt Field, and there was no need to dispatch any large-scale naval divisions, nor how many high-level generals were dispatched, at most they only sent some middle-level generals, and it was precisely in this way that it was easier for Sima Yi to insert people into the naval army.

Food and salt are necessities of life, people will starve to death without food to eat, people will get sick if they don't eat salt, and they will have no strength, especially for people who do manual work, the importance of salt is self-evident. And the salt preservation process is not better than grain, compared to grain, salt is more difficult to preserve, Jizhou is a lot of grain, but there is not much salt, the Dongwu Navy attacked the salt field, and Cao Shuang suddenly realized the urgent need.

At the same time, as Sima Yi expected, after hearing that Cao Shuang was going to recruit troops and establish a large camp in Tuntian, the displaced people immediately fled in the direction of Bingzhou like crazy.