XVIII. This battle is inevitable

Guo Jia replied with a smile: "Yingchuan Yellow Turban thieves have been circulating in Yuzhou for ten years, known as 50,000 soldiers, in fact, it is just a word of mouth from all over Yuzhou, at the beginning of Liu Pi, He Yi led the Yellow Turban remnants to Yingchuan when there were only a few thousand, and thousands of people who are good at fighting are only less than 2,000, and now ten years have passed, the seven counties of Yuzhou are still in the hands of the Hao family, there is no supply of the office, weapons and military supplies are bound to be shortage, the thief army can only rely on looting the township to grab food to make a living, the combat power is probably not as good as before, the main public soldiers are fierce, and this battle will inevitably be victoriousWhy do you need to use a meter? ”

Cao Cao Qi said: "In this case, why is Feng Xiao laughing? ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "I am laughing at Wenruo's compassion, Wenruo's Xun family is the Yingchuan Wang clan, how can I not know the situation of the thief army, let the lord wait for Li Dian and the army of the two Xiahou generals just want to besiege but not attack, and surrender the 50,000 thief army without a fight, so as not to kill more." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Xun Yu sighed, his face was full of melancholy: "Feng Xiao knows me!" These 50,000 thieves have no good fighters at all, and there are only 2,000 people who can fight, plus the armor is worn, the weapons are rusted, and most of the swords and soldiers they hold are farm tools. ”

Cao Cao was moved when he heard this: "Wen Ruo is indeed compassionate. Cao Zhang also secretly admired in his heart when he listened, when Cao Cao slaughtered Xuzhou to avenge his father, he had a previous record, Xun Yu dared to say frankly that he didn't want Cao Cao to kill evil, and this kind of courage and mind were admirable enough.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "With Wenruo's talent, don't you know that this battle is inevitable?" If the lord accepts this group of homeless people, not to mention the Haoqiang of other counties in Yuzhou, he can't explain to the Xun family of Wenruo alone, the seven counties and counties of Yuzhou are plagued by the robbery of the thief army, and the Haoqiang in various places hate this group of homeless people to the bone, if the thief army is contained, how to appease the heart of the Yuzhou family? ”

Guo Jia glanced at Cao Zhang when he said the word 'Shi Clan', Cao Zhang also knew that if he wanted to use the Shi Clan, the thief army must be defeated, not accommodated, the difference between this group of homeless people and the Qingzhou thief army is that the three counties of Qingzhou have been broken, and the powerful landlord has also been killed by the thief army, the powerful landlord is dead, and the cultivated land has become a borderless land.

Although this group of displaced people later moved back to Yanzhou, it was also because Cao Cao sanctioned a group of local heroes who depended on Zhang Miao and turned their arable land into military fields to settle the displaced people, and the Yanzhou Rebellion just gave Cao Cao an opportunity to restrain the local heroes in Yanzhou and cultivate their own power, of course, all this was based on Cao Cao's victory.

But the situation in Yuzhou is different, the local powerful are hiding in the county seat, although they are often plundered of grain, but the land is still the land of the strong, obviously the method of co-opting the three counties of Qingzhou to settle the displaced people is not feasible in Yuzhou, Cao Cao is now going to welcome the Son of Heaven, and he can't withstand the local wealthy clan to come to another Yuzhou rebellion, so he only defeated the displaced people, and settled the hearts of the local wealthy families in Yuzhou.

As soon as the displaced people collapsed, although it will spread in Yuzhou, they are already small remnants, and the wealthy families around the country naturally have the ability to eradicate the troubles, so that Cao Cao can win the support of the local wealthy families in Yuzhou, plus the influence of the Xun Yu Yingchuan family in Yuzhou, it is not difficult to control the ownerless Yuzhou at all.

So in this battle, in order to win the support of the local heroes in Yuzhou, it is necessary to fight, and it is necessary to fight hard, Cao Zhang understood the meaning of Guo Jiayong's family, and at the same time found that although Xun Yu was born in the Wang clan and is also a disciple of the gate valve, he does have a compassionate heart, and is loyal to the Han family.

Xun Yu was silent, Cao Cao said with a smile: "Wen Ruo must not be sad, after this battle, I will send Zhihe to drive the fleeing displaced people to Yanzhou as much as possible, and then issue an order to officials from all over Yanzhou to organize Xiangyong to contain them, and then send them to serve as laborers in the military cantonments in various parts of Yanzhou. ”

Xun Yu immediately made a half-bow to Cao Cao and said, "The lord is wise." "My face looks a lot better.

Cao Zhang's eyes admired Cao Cao's leadership methods, maybe this play was rehearsed by Guo Jia and Cao Cao in advance, Guo Jia pointed out the reality that if he wanted to take Yuzhou, he would kill the homeless, and made a black face, and then Cao Cao emphasized that he tried his best to restrain the escaped homeless people to the boundary of Yanzhou, so as not to let them wander in Yuzhou and be killed by the heroes who hated them to the bone.

Cao Zhang also knew that the Yanzhou military tun was now full of people, and it was simply not capable of absorbing tens of thousands of displaced people, and the so-called exhaustion of personnel was more to sell the displaced people who had flowed into Yanzhou as slaves to a group of emerging local tycoons in Yanzhou who supported Cao Cao.

The collapse of the local forces that supported Zhang Miao will naturally give rise to a new group of forces, the difference is that their forces were originally weak in Yanzhou, and there were no deep-rooted and intertwined entanglements, so these forces were distinguished by families, and would not collude with each other, and the only choice was to rely on Cao Cao, this kind of family is the so-called Han clan, not the Shi clan.

Xun Yu has been running Yanzhou for Cao Cao for many years, so he doesn't know that most of these people have to be sold into slavery, but being a slave in Yanzhou is better than being killed by a local tyrant in Yuzhou, so Cao Cao saying this is already a compromise method, and it also shows Cao Cao's importance to Xun Yu.

Cao Zhang also saw Xun Yu's helplessness, while he had the desire to help the common people, on the other hand, it was difficult to face the reality that the gate valve family had formed, and he felt helpless because he was born in a local family, he wanted to change the status quo, so he would take refuge in Cao Cao, who had no family background, and assisted.

But the rebellion of Zhang Miao and the local clan in Yanzhou also made Xun Yu face up to the influence of the clan in this era, before it was because the powerful people everywhere were expanding their territory, so the rebellion in Yanzhou was just a civil strife, and no one took advantage of it, but now the situation is gradually clear, Yuan Shao occupies Hebei, Yuan Shuhu occupies Huainan, and Liu Beidong occupies Xuzhou.

What's more fatal is that two of these three people are the descendants of the fourth and third princes, and one is a relative of the Han family, which is more acceptable to the local family, so Cao Cao must not repeat the strategy of the Yanzhou Rebellion to fight against the local powerful forces, although Xun Yu has the heart to save these displaced people, but in order to please the Yuzhou clans, including his family, he knows that Cao Cao has no choice.

Thinking of this, Cao Zhang's mind came up with the sentence Cao Cao said:

"Zhang'er, for my father, I also see that the Han family is terminally ill, but I don't want to carry this infamy through the ages, you are very sensible, and your achievements should be above your father, the Han family, if you can help your father, you can help it, if you can't help it, you have to replace it."

I am afraid that the Han family he said is terminally ill is the powerful forces of the world that are intertwined in all parts of the world, and Cao Cao has a deep understanding that the Han family is beyond cure, because the power of the Han family has become a powerful and powerful division in various places, and if you are not careful, you will be in danger of overturning.

Cao Cao's so-called 'if you can help, you can help, if you can't help, you still have to help' can also be seen as a compromise of the power of the world, but he did not compromise with the big clans of Yuan Shao and others, because of Zhang Miao's rebellion, he knew that those Genzheng Miao Hongshi family would not accept him as a eunuch.

So he chose to compromise with the Han people and cooperate with small landlords and small intellectuals, so when he came to Yuzhou, the first thing he did was to beat up the remnants of the Yellow Turbans who gave the powerful people all over Yuzhou a headache, and win their support, so that these local nobles who were not in the climate knew that he Cao Cao was thinking about them and standing with them!

Cao Cao's so-called infamy for the Han family was also afraid of losing the support of scholars from the Han clan, after all, loyalty to the monarch and patriotism were still the mainstream ideas of scholars and doctors at that time.

He said, 'If you want to replace it, Zhang'er, you can replace it', this sentence is to tell Cao Zhang, what he Cao Cao can do is to disintegrate the great family like Yuan Shao, but the Han clan scholars and doctors who support him will naturally become the family gate valve with his success, and how to solve it has to be solved by you Cao Zhang to figure out a way by himself.

For the terminally ill Han family, Xun Yu had no choice, and Cao Cao had no choice.

Guo Jia said: "Use the world, not the world." "It's easy to say, but how do you do it? Is killing a group of homeless people now tantamount to currying favor with the local clan? Cao Zhang sighed secretly in his heart.