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When the "Haoyue" sent by Li Sheng brought back the two brothers Kong Shen and Kong Heng who were rescued in Xuchang, he also brought back the news that Cao Cao was about to march south. For this news, in addition to a long sigh of relief, Li Sheng couldn't help but feel a little nervous in his heart: Cao Cao's prestige was shocking to his ears even in later generations. Now that he is finally going to face Cao Cao, although he already knows in history that Cao Cao lost this battle after all, and he has been fully prepared for the arrival of this day since a few years ago, but when it comes to the end, Li Sheng still has some doubts.

He knows that there is no self in history, but the current self has been changing little by little to form the basis of history. Will this lead to a difference between the results of Chibi and history? Li Sheng didn't know this, he only knew that all the chess pieces that had been arranged before had to move from now on. "Let Cao Cao's forces suffer a much greater defeat than in history." That's what he's really for.

Everything went according to plan. Because he was in the dark and was not noticed by many people, with his own plan, the plan to attack Cao Cao has not gone wrong so far.

For the two children who were rescued, Li Sheng listened to "Haoyue" give a brief explanation of their situation, and immediately made arrangements: the elder Kong Shen was arranged to be a little scholar by his side, and the young Kong Heng was handed over by him to his wife, so that he could be with his four-year-old son and become his son's companion. This is a very normal thing, although as far as Li Sheng is concerned, saving them is just to use their reputation as descendants of Confucius, so as to be able to attack Cao Cao from other aspects, but when he finds that these two children are still very promising for cultivation, Li Sheng naturally has to plan for his future.

Cultivating one's own next generation and letting them grow up is a major event related to oneself in a hundred years. Although he is still young at the moment, since he even has a son, things must be directly on track.

Son Mingbin is the eldest son born by Zhong'er four years ago, and is also Li Sheng's first child, according to etiquette, this eldest son is destined to inherit Li Sheng's position in the future. Before this, because Li Sheng had always been on guard, there was no relevant news from his wives. Only after Bin was born, there was good news one after another. Now that Bin is four years old, it is the time to start enlightenment, as the eldest son, Li Sheng, who has been deeply influenced by this era, naturally has a lot of thoughts about him.

"Haoyue" is ostensibly a special operations organization under the intelligence manager Luo Zhao, but in fact it is directly controlled by Li Sheng. This is a very secret organization in Li Sheng's army, and there are only four people who can assign them tasks: Li Sheng, Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang, and Luo Zhao, and there will never be more than eight people in Li Sheng's army who have heard of this organization, and they are all Li Sheng's cronies and generals. The establishment of this organization is actually to solve some things that are needed and inconvenient to deal with on Li Sheng's side, such as solving Kong Rong's problem this time, and the "kidnapping" of Deng Ai's mother and son two years ago. In Pang Tong's words, this "Haoyue" is dedicated to helping Li Sheng perform some "whimsical" tasks, and it is Li Sheng's personal "toy".

After Li Sheng thought about the news of the meeting, he didn't tell too many people. Just as the matter of "Haoyue" can only be managed by four people, including Luo Zhao, the news of Cao Cao's southern expedition Li Sheng is going to only tell a few of them to know.

"Cao Cao is coming." At the tea party in the afternoon of the same day, Li Sheng said the news lightly. He had completely calmed down his mood, and just quietly tasted the tea there, watching them develop.

"What ...... you say?" Pang Tong suddenly heard the news, and couldn't help but spit out the tea he was about to swallow in one gulp, and sprayed it on Luo Zhao, who was sitting opposite him, making Luo Zhao feel embarrassed and annoyed while opening his mouth wide.

"When?" On the surface, Kong Ming seemed to be the calmest among the crowd, but Li Sheng still saw his surprise at this time from his widening eyes.

"Just ......!" Li Sheng looked at Pang Tongyi's eyes and shook his head slightly. He replied only by the way, the real action was the slight shaking of the head: "What a pity, that good sip of tea." ”

After seven years of development, tea, grain, aquatic products and silk have become one of the most distinctive products in Changsha County. The vigorous development of these four major industries has made Changsha more and more prosperous. Although on the surface, Changsha's prosperity is still below Xiangyang, in fact, as early as two years ago, Changsha has become the most prosperous commercial city in the whole of Jingzhou, and its prosperity has surpassed Xiangyang.

In the case of a general increase in the output of tea, it has become a very normal thing for Li Shengfu, who is the ruler of the entire Changsha, to have a good Hunan tea and Xianzhi. Of course, in the case of continuous good tea, top good tea is still relatively rare. It was Li Sheng who felt sorry for Pang Tong's waste. You know, even Li Sheng himself is reluctant to brew this superb tea, if it weren't for this important matter to discuss with these four people today, he wouldn't have the kindness to let out the deliciousness of this decision. Good tea is good tea, which is definitely to make the pores completely relaxed and the body and mind comfortable.

Li Sheng didn't say anything about these, he just looked at the people in front of him carefully, looking at Kong Ming's obsessive intoxication, Pang Tong's regret full of pity and Luo Zhao's embarrassment of water, smiled strangely and nodded slightly.

It's really hard to talk about things when you're covered in water, but the things at hand are important, and everyone can't say much, so they can only force themselves to be calm.

"So the plan is about to begin?" Pang Tong first probed.

The so-called "plan" refers to the various strategies that Li Sheng has been doing all these years on how to deal with Cao Cao. In Li Sheng's army, in addition to the things they were responsible for, Kong Ming was generally responsible for strategic planning, Pang Tong was responsible for how to implement tactics under strategic objectives, and Li Sheng himself was engaged in formulating his first step in the struggle for world domination step by step -- how to use Cao Cao's southern expedition to achieve the maximum of his own goals.

"The family background is solid, and it is enough to compete for the world."

"Build high walls, gather grain, and slow down to become king."

"First take Jingjiao as the profit, and then take Yiliang as the foundation, capture Guanzhong to become a strong Qin, and make the armor soldiers take over the world."

With these three sentences, Li Sheng has formulated a strategic line for himself. Although only the last sentence of these three sentences is the real strategic direction, without the first two points as a basis, it is obviously unrealistic to want to get Jing Jiao from the beginning. Li Sheng and everyone understood this very well, so they spent seven years constantly enriching Changsha's potential power. Today's Changsha is very different from seven years ago, not to mention the prosperity of Changsha, in terms of the population of Changsha County alone, the base of 2.38 million is enough to be comparable to any state in the north. This is what Li Sheng is proud of, and it is also where he believes that he can participate in the next big battle. Regardless of the territory, just talking about the potential for the development of the army, what Li Sheng has now is almost the same as Sun Quan in Jiangdong.

Most of the goals set in the past have now been achieved. Today's Li Shengjun has 1,000 cavalry, 30,000 infantry, 10,000 Shanyue soldiers and 20,000 sailors in Changsha, a total of 60,000 soldiers and horses. If you add the 3,000 cavalry led by Zhao Yun of Wudang and the 20,000 bandits hidden in Wei Yan of Runan, then the force that Li Sheng can control will be 80,000 and the Jiangdong Army itself is not much different.

Of course, these are all the troops that they actually possess, and they are added to those people that Li Sheng secretly trained. As for these news, except for those cronies and high-ranking officials and generals in Li Sheng's own hands, no one else is clear. At Liu Biao, the lord of Jingzhou, Li Sheng was still the good old man who was too guarded, and although he had 3,000 soldiers and horses, he was a person who did not do anything in the world for several years, and only ensured the safety of Changsha by virtue of some luck and some means -- under the clean-up of "Haoyue" and the protection of Yan Hu and Ye Tao, all the information and information about Changsha that Liu Biao obtained were deliberately created by Li Sheng. For the truth of Changsha, not too many people in the world know.

The family foundation is finally solid, and it is time to compete for the world. The victory in the first battle of Dongting at the beginning of the year brought more confidence to Li Sheng. He knew what the strength of his troops was, and what the methods of his generals were. The fact that a new army can draw with a battle-hardened veteran army and use its superiority in weapons to drive them away is a victory in itself.

Since the strength is not weak, there is more certainty in dealing with Cao Cao's army, which is about to go south. I think that at the beginning, the Sun-Liu coalition army only used 40,000 soldiers and horses to deal with Cao Cao, but now with myself, this force may reach 80,000. Li Sheng planned well: at the time of Chibi, he used 40,000 soldiers and horses to participate in the battle, used 10,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city, and then used 10,000 soldiers and horses to sweep the entire Jingnan. This is not a whimsical thing, because Li Sheng has long been secretly infiltrating Jingnan's territory, Li Sheng has already controlled the vast majority of Jingnan's power. With the help of these secret strengths, to seize the city, that is, as soon as the soldiers and horses arrive, someone will open the door and respond, which can be said to be a tight time.

Li Sheng never doubted that his side would be able to achieve the final victory in the confrontation with Cao Cao. Because he knew that Cao Cao's timing for this southern expedition was not too good: how could he have just finished the battle of Wuhuan in the north last year, and sent troops to the south this year? Even if the expedition to Wuhuan didn't consume much of his strength. But the continuous fighting will also make it more difficult for the people under his leadership. According to the information Li Sheng received from Runan, it seems that even among the Mintun where Cao Cao was able to maintain the supply of grain and grass, many people kept fleeing because they could not endure the high grain taxes they had to pay every year. In the past two years, the thief army in Runan has expanded so rapidly, and the reason is also related to this.

The water towns in the south are not places where the iron horses of the north can set foot, and not many of the forces and people in the south are willing to accept the rule of Cao Cao in the north, and the climate in the south is not something that the northerners can adapt to. Cao Cao was so anxious that he had to fight the right war at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and with the wrong people. There is nothing wrong with wanting reunification, but if the timing of reunification is wrong, then everything may backfire. This point, both Li Sheng and Long Feng have already seen clearly.

Cao Cao's failure in this southern expedition was certain, and how to make him suffer greater losses in the defeat in order to weaken the strength of this force in the north to the greatest extent was something that Li Sheng needed to consider.

History has its fixed trajectory, and if someone who already knows the trajectory of history deliberately changes it, then he will still follow its original trajectory.

In this world, the only person who can deliberately change the trajectory of history is Li Sheng, who does not belong to this historical period, but Li Sheng, who knows that he has this ability, does not plan to change history too much. In his opinion, there are things that have to happen because it is good for him, and there are things that have to be stopped, which are useless to him. Although it is really a cold-blooded act to sit back and watch something tragic happen, as a monarch and a person who plays politics, it is necessary to control the emotions with reason and seek the best interests for himself. The pursuit of profit maximization is not only a goal that businessmen need to achieve, but also politicians and military personnel will do the same at certain times.

"Under great power, those who have no power can only be used as pawns." Li Sheng quickly understood this. Although he didn't like it very much, in order to achieve a certain purpose, he had to become cold-blooded like this.

Li Sheng's plan is based on making the most of the original history. Although with Li Sheng's current strength, he can completely set aside Liu Bei's forces and secretly use some means to make Liu Beijun die directly in the hands of Cao Cao, but Li Sheng did not intend to do so, he planned to let Liu Bei also join the plan of this alliance, so that the two alliances in the original history became three. This is an insurance policy, because in Li Sheng's plan, history has been changed a little. Although from Li Sheng's own point of view, such a change will not directly affect the fundamentals of history, who knows what the final butterfly effect will be? In order to have a greater certainty of solving Cao Cao and preparing for his future development, Li Sheng naturally planned to bring Liu Bei in and support Liu Bei's rights in Jiangxia in the future. He planned to directly let Liu Bei deal with Sun Quan, and let Liu Bei be an important force for himself to guard against Sun Quan in the future.

Now tell Liu Bei about Cao Cao's going south, Li Sheng doesn't plan to do this. Instead, he decided to forcefully block news about it. He planned to let Liu Bei still fall into that situation of fleeing with the people. Due to the information he had in Xuchang, Li Sheng combined his memory of this situation in history and understood that Cao Cao's vanguard troops were not many. Although it is a very famous tiger and leopard horseman, it is impossible to completely annihilate Liu Beijun with such a small number of men and horses to pursue Liu Beijun, who can be hidden among hundreds of thousands of people.

Li Sheng plans to make some famous bridges in history happen: such as the Nachanghan Slope, such as the Dangyang Bridge. Although Zhao Yun is now in his own army, Li Sheng is still prepared to let Zhao Yun show his strength in Changhanpo. On the one hand, this is to let Zhao Yun return Liu Bei's favor, so that he can better work for himself in the future; On the one hand, it is to make a name for himself on the battlefield, so that the whole world knows the strength of his army and the benevolence of helping the people, so that his alliance with Sun Quan's side will have a better guarantee in the future. This is a big deal, Li Sheng doesn't want Zhao Yun to go alone, he plans to let Zhao Yun bring all the cavalry that he has trained for several years. To test the power of his cavalry through a duel with the tiger and leopard cavalry is also one of Li Sheng's purposes.

"Let Liu Beijun suffer losses because of Cao Cao's sudden southward advance, and let him suffer losses if he is caught off guard, and at the same time use our strength to help Liu Bei reduce some losses. Not only to sell a good one to Liu Bei, but also to reduce some troubles for our development. This is a very important thing for us. For the first step of his plan, Li Sheng explained it to Pang Tong and Kong Ming.

Of course, Long Feng is not stupid, and they can also see at a glance where the must lies: "All alliances must be based on themselves." It is very necessary to appropriately weaken other forces when conditions permit, and to use their own forces to fill the gaps after this weakening. Although he may become Liu Bei's ally in the future, he is not just two families after all. In this changeable and troubled world, no one knows whether today's allies will be the enemies of tomorrow. Regarding Li Sheng's suggestion, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong both agreed with each other.

"You can let Zhao Yun start preparing. Wudang is still some distance from Xinye, and I want Haoyue to transfer a team of people over to strengthen the intelligence of Xinye. Regarding Pang Tong's temptation, Li Sheng nodded and said.

"And what about Gangneung?" Pang Tong still agrees with Li Sheng's idea, and he also believes that the initial plan must be more cautious, but it cannot be blindly cautious, and it is still necessary to carry out some bold actions when conditions permit. As he believes, when the first step of the plan is executed, the second step of the Gangneung strategy can also be carried out at the same time. "It seems that we should also inform Su Fei to further step up the infiltration of the Jiangling Naval Army." Pang Tong's eyes flashed with a sharp light.

"Gangneung Naval Army? That's to get in touch. But don't rush it, after all, we still have a few months to prepare. I don't want to take all of the Gangneung Naval Army, get some of the elite parts, and I'm very satisfied with a relatively big improvement in our strength. In terms of quantity, Cao Cao still has to leave some, otherwise this battle will not be able to be fought. Li Sheng touched his beardless smooth chin under his chin and said with a smile.

Just one day after the last Dongting Water Battle, the fleet with the banner of the Jiangxia Navy came to Changsha all the way, and the general led by it was Su Fei, the number one person under Huang Zu. Li Sheng was not prepared for Su Fei's arrival, he just hurriedly found Su Fei's friend Gan Ning, and after learning some information about Su Fei, he handed Su Fei directly to Gan Ning to entertain. I don't know what Gan Ning said to Su Fei in the end, then Su Fei would actually run to his allegiance and automatically offer a credit: "If the lord can trust me, then I have a way to get half of the strength of the Jiangling Navy for the lord and lay the foundation for the lord's future development." ”

When he said this, Su Fei's eyes were aimed directly at Li Sheng's face. "The lord chooses the minister, and the minister chooses the lord." The thing that Su Fei said was something that could only be done if the lord gave absolute trust to his courtiers, and judging from Su Fei's current allegiance to Li Sheng just now, it seemed a little too impulsive to say so. In fact, he just wanted to see Li Sheng's true temperament because of this. Although he was moved by what his friend Gan Ning said, he still planned to observe it with his own eyes. He wanted to see what kind of ability and mind this young Taishou could convince his friends had.

"No problem." Li Sheng agreed with a smile, "Actually, I'm also very greedy for those things in the Jiangling Water Army." What's more, you were introduced by General Gan Ning. General Gan Ning is a fair and honest man, and I am sure his friends must be like him. In most cases, there is nothing wrong with the gathering of like and the division of people by groups. Li Sheng said, but his eyes turned to Gan Ning. He agreed to Su Fei's request, but not because he believed in Su Fei at once, but because he unreservedly believed in Gan Ning, the general of the navy under him.

Hearing Li Sheng say this, Su Fei still didn't understand Li Sheng's consciousness. For him not believing in himself immediately, Su Fei's face was gloomy at first, and then he became cheerful again. After all, Li Sheng's decision to do so was a very normal one. If he really believed in himself unreservedly by virtue of his allegiance to him, then he was a fool, a fool who would certainly give up his inheritance to others. After all, in this troubled world, it is indispensable to guard against people.

So, Su Fei went to Jiangling, and with the financial resources provided to him by Li Sheng, he helped him to fix the relationship between Cai Mao and others, as well as the past connections of Yang Xu and Zheng Ping, and came to Jiangling's navy, and soon relied on his superb communication skills to encircle a group of very capable people in the navy. Su Fei wooed them and constantly instilled in them some bad words about Cao Cao Li Sheng's good words, although they were all said with the help of Gan Ning's words, but because Gan Ning was originally a famous person on the Yangtze River, such words were particularly convincing. After ten days and a half months, Su Fei's influence in the Jiangling Navy has expanded more and more, and he has become one of the most popular generals among the junior officers.

Such success made Li Sheng have deep expectations that the goal that Su Fei said could be achieved.

Through history, he knew that in the battle of Chibi mentioned above, although Cao Cao was defeated, his own strength was not hit, and the warships burned by Dongwu were completely warships that originally belonged to the Jiangling Navy in Jingzhou, that is to say, the biggest blow in the Battle of Chibi was the forces of Jingzhou. The warships of Jiangling died overnight and were completely destroyed, which made the Jiangdong Army have no opponents on the Yangtze River for the next few decades, and they almost came and went as they wanted. Even later, when Guan Yu was in shock, he could only passively use the beacon tower to prevent the attack of Jiangdong, because Jingzhou did not have a naval army.

This is definitely unfair, especially for Li Sheng, who is ready to make Jingzhou his own territory. As a posterity, since he already knew that the outcome would be like this, he intended to change it.

"Draw the most elite part of the Jingzhou Jiangling Naval Army to your side." That's what he was going to do. Originally, he planned to rely on his own strength to build a new type of water army, but it was too troublesome to do it all over again. Building a botnet is a time-consuming task. Since there is now a new way to obtain the elite of the navy army from Gangneung, why don't you do it directly. Rather than cheapening Cao Cao first, and then being wiped out by Jiangdong in the back, it is better to hold it directly into his own hands, so that he and Jingzhou can save such a force.

"I understand." Pang Tong nodded heavily. As for Li Sheng's thoughts, how could a person as highly intelligent as him and Kong Ming not know. Of course, they knew Li Sheng's intentions, and very much agreed with Li Sheng's preparations for this and what he deliberately let go: as long as part of the reason for the Jiangling naval army was to make up for Cao Cao's shortcomings on the water, this was necessary, otherwise how could they induce the suspicious Cao Cao to go south with confidence. A decisive battle with Cao Cao on land is definitely looking for death. And to lure Cao Cao to this water and fight Cao Cao with a naval army is to let Cao Cao find death - this point will be understood by anyone with a little brain.

"The reorganization of the army should begin. Cao Cao's southern expedition has been booked, and because someone in Jingzhou has contacted Cao Cao, I think they will also know the news soon. In this situation where Liu Biao is seriously ill and does not know when he will die, I am afraid that the energy of those people in Jingzhou is focused on how to fight for power and profit, and I am afraid that the control of our four counties in Jingnan will be relaxed for a while. In fact, they are not afraid that our side will be out of their control at all, as long as Cao Cao can ensure that he is strong, the forces on Jingnan's side are not enough to compete with Cao Cao. This may be what most of them think, but it is a time for us to take advantage of. In these three months, we really need to integrate the strength at hand to deal with Cao Cao's southern expedition. Kong Ming said with a smile. If Pang Tong is good at thinking about the strategic layout from the small and big from the specific everything, then Kong Ming's habit is to consider whether that step in the strategy is a little ugly from the perspective of the whole situation. As it was said later, Kong Ming was a cautious person, and his prudence was undoubtedly an irreplaceable treasure for Li Sheng, who was still in the middle of weak development. Li Sheng has absolute trust in Kong Ming, and this trust is the first among all his subordinates. Because of the advice Kong Ming gave him, even if it really didn't work, it would definitely not let him suffer much loss.

"Well, it's really time to be done." Li Sheng nodded, and a slightly grateful smile appeared on his face: "Kong Ming doesn't need to say much to explain to me. Things have obviously reached this point, if we don't let go of our hands and do it, I'm afraid that our previous efforts will be in vain. As for the affairs in Jingzhou, don't say that they are all busy fighting for power and profit and don't have the heart to care about us, even if they have this mind, we have a reasonable reason -- in order to guard against the attack of the Jiangdong army, how can our original three or five thousand men and horses be enough. ”

"That's just as well." Kong Ming smiled slightly, but said no more.

Looking at Kong Ming's smile, Li Sheng only felt that there seemed to be some kind of pressure in his heart that suddenly loosened, and some excited looks appeared on his face: "Some of them are busy down there." From now on, not only our army will have to be integrated, but even some of our original scattered businesses, such as trading houses, will also be integrated and recycled. As for the industries that could not be disclosed before, they should also be gradually broken down. We're going to go from the backstage to the front of the house, and a lot of things have to be formal. Li Sheng smiled, and quickly sent some aspects directly down and sent them to several people. Obviously, he had planned this for a long time.

Ready to go. Soon after the wind blew in Xuchang, a torrential rain caused by this wind soon brewed in the south, which was gradually becoming sweltering.