In two days, the participants carefully sorted out the situation in the Han Dynasty from the three princes of the imperial court to the county guards. In addition to Li Dao, Guo Yan, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, Lu Bu, Gongsun Du, Liu Biao, Liu Yan These giants are taken as the main objects of analysis, Liu Bei, Sun Jian, Ma Teng, Han Sui, these seemingly inconspicuous figures are also listed as the focus of attention, and Tao Qian, Fan Chou, Duan Xuan, Zhang Yang, Kong Rong, Liu Xuan, Yan Baihu, Shi Xie, Zhang Lu and other small and medium-sized forces are also not falling.

Through such a name-by-name analysis, some figures who are not usually taken seriously finally attracted the attention of the participants this time, such as Liu Bei and Sun Jian's plot movements have become one of the hot topics of discussion, although they cannot be ranked with the importance of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, but they also surpass several warlords in Guanzhong.

Soon, the meeting reached the fifth day, that is, the last stage, to study and formulate the strategic plan for Youzhou in the next three to five years.

Liu He presided over the meeting and said: "In the first four days, we spent two days analyzing past battles and another two days analyzing our opponents, which is equivalent to a process of knowing ourselves and knowing our opponents, and the purpose is to pave the way and serve the topics for the next three days. From today onwards, we will work together to study and formulate the development strategy of Youzhou in the next few years, and before we formally discuss it, I would like to discuss the word strategy with you. ”

"Needless to say, the word strategy was first proposed by me, and in the past two years, it has gradually begun to circulate in various armies and upper echelons in Youzhou, but what is the specific meaning and meaning? My understanding and view is that strategy is a plan and strategy that guides the overall situation, and has the characteristics of overall situation, foresight, direction, and confrontation, and once it is formulated, it will affect the long-term, so we must be cautious! ”

"Today, we are discussing the future strategy of Youzhou, which is a matter of life and death, so we must take into account all the difficulties and threats, and not only formulate a set of basic plans. There are also two sets of preparatory scenarios. ”

Liu He's words were simple and simple, and there were no particularly difficult and ambiguous sentences, and all the participants understood it clearly, and then they all frowned and thought about it.

"Childe, dare to ask how far you want to go?" Liu Hui asked implicitly.

Liu He replied with a serious face: "Revive the Han Dynasty, benefit the people, spread the power of the country in the four seas, and let the Han Dynasty become the head of all nations and the master of all nations!" ”

"My generation is willing to swear to follow the son to the death and achieve great things for all generations!" Zhao Yun immediately expressed his position.

The rest of the generals looked longing. They all expressed their desire to follow in Liu He's footsteps and spread the prestige of the Han Dynasty to the world.

Liu He made his attitude and determination clear, and everyone had the goal and direction to strive for, and the next step was to work together in the direction of this goal step by step.

After two days of repeated deliberations and debates, the Youzhou strategic plan approved by Liu He was finally released.

This plan can be summed up as follows: First, we will continue to curb and weaken the power of the powerful men who occupy a large amount of land, gradually collect more than 70 percent of the land in the prefecture, redistribute it to ordinary peasant households for cultivation according to the population of each county, and resolutely prevent and put an end to land annexation. Actively promote the military and civilian tuns. The state has increased grain production year by year, built grain reserves, established a grain price protection mechanism, and improved the government's disaster relief measures.

Second. Vigorously develop all kinds of handicraft manufacturing and mining excavation, improve the social status of handicraft manufacturing workers, protect the exclusive rights of handicraft manufacturers, and implement the ownership of minerals by the government. Establishment of mineral industry associations. We will provide limited support for commercial operations, establish various commercial norms, and resolutely crack down on industry monopolies and hoarding. Encourage businesses to go out of Youzhou for development.

Third, it is necessary to gradually develop cultural and educational undertakings, and eventually realize a four-level cultural and educational system of national Taixue, state universities, county-run middle schools, and township-run primary schools. Among them, the school-run schools at the county level are senior high schools, and the school-run schools at the county level are junior high schools. In the future, the students selected by the state Yenching University will mainly be selected from the county schools, and some of the students who have completed their studies will enter the county and township levels to serve as clerks, some will enter the army, and some will enter Taixue to continue their studies. Half of the expenses required for schools at all levels shall be borne by the government at the same level, and the remaining half shall be borne by the township where the students are located, and half shall be borne by the families of the students.

Fourth, we should continue to follow the road of building a crack army and a strong army, proceed from the actual bearing capacity of the state, and build a capable, combat-friendly, and loyal army, and we must obey the command of the command office in all wars. The level of the training regiment was raised, the scale of the training regiment was expanded, and two martial arts academies were established to train grassroots officers urgently needed by the army and to train middle and high-level generals. Improve the functions of the Command Office, enrich the strength of each division, and select and transfer middle-level generals with outstanding ability from all armies to serve as counselors and planners.

Although this plan has few words and does not seem to be very clever and complicated, it is already rare in Liu He's era. It is already a great progress for people to realize the importance of strategic planning, not to mention that such a development plan involving the five core industries of agriculture, industry, commerce, culture and education, and military has been far ahead of the forces of all parties.

With this strategic plan, in the future, the development of Youzhou will not be a situation of taking care of one or the other, and it is not easy to have the problem of people dying and changing political reforms.

On the last day, Liu He presided over the discussion of Youzhou's military strategy.

Liu He said: "Military action is always to serve political affairs, and Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud of 'going to the army to fight and plot', and if we can achieve our goals by means of non-war, then we should try to avoid the use of force." However, with the current situation of the Han Dynasty, we are reasoning with others with empty words, and no one will listen to us, so the necessary war must be fought, and it must be fought resolutely and thoroughly! So, who do we hit next? To what extent? When we beat others, what should we do when other forces join forces to beat us? These are the key points of today's discussion! ”

After some thought, Guo Jia first spoke: "Personally, I think that the first thing that Youzhou needs to solve next is Gongsun's strength, and the other three directions can temporarily maintain the status quo. Although Liaodong has been under the jurisdiction of Youzhou since the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty, because the land of Liaodong is far away in the northeast of the Han Dynasty and nearly a thousand miles away from Jicheng, rebellions and local forces often occur. If Gongsun is not resolved, then Youzhou's land and sea will always be threatened. ”

Although Gongsun Du had certain merits in stabilizing the situation in Liaodong, his ambition was even greater than that of Gongsun Zhan, in a vain attempt to occupy the vast territory north and east of Liaodong and split the land and seal the king. When Youzhou was invaded by Gongsun Zhan and Yuan Shao, Gongsun Du also sent soldiers and horses to help in the battle. Therefore, attacking Gongsun Du is not only our strategic need, but we are also famous and can get the support of the people! ”

After discussion, everyone unanimously agreed to first solve the Gongsun degree in the northeast of Youzhou, which can not only relieve the hidden danger of the back, but also provide Youzhou with great strategic depth, increase the population of nearly two million and a lot of arable land, as well as various mineral resources and war horses.

Guo Jia went on to say: "Now, there are several main problems in front of us. First. When is the most appropriate time to launch a crusade against Gongsun Du's power? Second, how many troops should we send? Third, if there is a great change in Chang'an when our troops are dispatched, or Luoyang is under major threat, or if the hostile forces join forces to attack Youzhou again, how should we respond? Fourth, will our army mainly march by land, or will it mainly attack by sea, or will it be parallel by land and water? ”

Throw a series of questions to everyone. Guo Jia sat down and stared at the topographic map in front of him, and fell into deep thought again.

Although Guo Jia is Liu He's first think tank, he is now influenced by Liu He and likes to brainstorm and listen to different voices and suggestions. In this way, I can improve my own plans and plans.

Tian Chou, who had been to Liaodong several times when he was a teenager, said: "I have been to Liaodong several times, and I am familiar with the terrain along the road, and I think that the Wuhuan tribe and Liaodong Xianbei along the road when attacking Gongsun Du from the land are the greatest threat, and because the road is long and difficult to travel." Logistics will become very difficult. The land of Liaodong will become extremely cold after late autumn, and our soldiers may not be able to adapt to the cold environment, so I recommend sending troops in spring and summer. At the end of August, they will occupy the cities of Yangle, Liucheng and Changli, and be able to hold on until the arrival of reinforcements next year. ”

Yuyang Taishou Weidun, who had been fighting against the Xianbei and Wuhuan people for a long time, said: "The Xianbei of Liaoxi has always refused to obey the discipline of the Han Dynasty, and often colluded with the Xianbei people of Liaodong and harmed the people of our Han people, so we can't expect our army to be harassed and attacked by them when we crusade against Gongsun Du. These Hu people are the most greedy and ferocious, and they will definitely set their sights on our army's logistics and baggage teams, so logistics and transportation will definitely be very difficult and dangerous. ”

Tai Shici, who once traveled by sea from Donglai to Liaodong to avoid trouble, said: "I once traveled to Liaodong by sea, and later arrived at Yongnu by sea with General Xianyu Minghui and Han Zhi, so I have some understanding of the situation in the Bohai Sea. Personally, I think that before our army is not fully prepared, it is not appropriate to rashly send troops to Liaodong, and the preparation of our army must first focus on the naval division! Our army should pretend to be on land, so that Gongsun Du thought that the army was about to attack Liaodong, and forced him to set up the main force on the side of the Wuwu Mountains of Liaodong, and when the sailors of the Liao army had a large number of troop carriers, they sent a strange army to go ashore from near Liaoshui and penetrate directly into the heart of Liaodong! ”

Tai Shici has been staying in Jizhou for several years, and did not participate in the later defense of Jicheng, nor did he fight head-on with Gongsun Dujun, but with Tian Chou's introduction just now and watching the situation map of the Liaodong region, he actually came up with such a clever plan to attack the east and west, which immediately made others look up to it a lot.

Xu Huang, who had never spoken, suddenly said: "To deal with Gongsun Du, it is necessary to take a military strike, but can it be possible to divide or chaos within it first by infiltrating and dividing?" If Liaodong is internally unstable, then the resistance that our army will encounter at that time will be weakened, and the time for sending troops will be shortened, so that we can quickly return to reinforcements and avoid falling into the dilemma of multi-front operations. ”

Zhao Yun agreed with Xu Huang's proposition and reminded everyone: "Since the last time we defeated Kebineng in Youzhou, we have not been invaded by the Hu people in the north for several years, but Kebineng has not disappeared, but has continued to expand and grow from north to west in the past few years. If when we send troops to attack Liaodong, Yuan Shao secretly joins forces with Kebineng to launch an attack from the western front of Youzhou, we will face the dilemma of insufficient combat strength on both fronts! What is even more alarming is that if Yanzhou Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's forces in Jizhou join forces at that time and launch another attack in Jizhou, then it will be more difficult for us to deal with it. ”

"During this period, it is not ruled out that there will be drastic changes in Chang'an, or that Luoyang will be attacked by many forces!" Zhang He added.

Liu He, who has been listening carefully to everyone's opinions, said in a deep voice: "Let's see if this is feasible, we will launch a feint attack on Gongsun Du in Liaodong in the spring and summer of next year at the latest, which can not only force Gongsun Du to put the main force of defense on the front line of Fuli, so that he will not care about our sailors, but also test the real reaction of all parties." If all parties do not think so, then we will draw troops to really fight Liaodong, if all parties take the opportunity to attack Youzhou, then we will immediately turn to the defense, so that the invading enemy will be bloody! ”

Guo Jiazan said: "This plan is wonderful! It can create an illusion for the forces of all sides, as if we are deliberately luring them to come and touch the nails under the guise of sending troops to Liaodong. If they don't come, we will really send troops to fight Liaodong; If they come, after touching the nail once, I believe that they will not dare to touch it a second time in the future, and we can still calmly send troops to Liaodong, which is nothing more than waiting for one more year. ”

After deciding on the strategy of sending troops to Liaodong, Tian Chou raised a new question: "Recently, I received some news from the south that Cao Cao is reorganizing his troops and horses, and it seems that after the autumn grain harvest, there is a possibility that the troops will be sent to Xuzhou. How do we deal with this? ”

Liu He said: "Now that Liu Bei has gone to Xuzhou, it is estimated that Tao Qian also saw Cao Cao's ambition and wanted Liu Bei to help him defend Xuzhou, let them fight first, and then we will make plans." ”

Xian Yufu asked: "Qingzhou Tian Kai is now lonely and difficult to speak, should we take the opportunity to send troops to cut it off?" ”

Liu He shook his head: "The direction of Jizhou will maintain the status quo for the time being, and Qingzhou is a pool of muddy water, so it is not suitable to set foot in." (To be continued......)