Chapter 181: The General Trend
Just after Guo Jia finished saying the theory of "seven wins and seven defeats", everyone who was affected only had a little idea in their hearts, just like hovering between fried chicken and skewers when ordering dinner.
As for the Ji Zao soldiers, as well as the labor workers who synthesize manpower, at this time, the attributes and morale have also fluctuated, but they are still in the normal category, and it is nothing more than the difference between today's state and whether it is good or bad.
However, it was these trivial ideas and fluctuations that came together to make the victory and defeat begin to favor Cao Cao!
This insignificance does not originate from the influence of a certain individual, and there is also a name, that is, "general trend", or ...... Luck!
Guo Jiagang used the saying of "seven wins and seven defeats" to launch another major strategy that he awakened after inheriting "Heavenly Book Volume II: Luck" - the general trend.
Contrary to its literal meaning, a more accurate name would be...... The general trend is "driven" by me!
The effect is to "drive" the general trend, or "luck", by guiding seemingly insignificant changes to individual factors that seem to be very weak.
Of course, this kind of "drive" is not unlimited, first of all, it must first guide the "height difference", such as Guo Jia's seven wins and seven defeats, which summarizes the place where he thinks Cao Cao is "higher" than Bai Tu, so that luck will be sucked into Cao Cao.
In other words, it is necessary to find the opponent's weakness, after all, the weakness is something that you do not have, or even your own strengths, and both sides can only be effective within the effective range.
For example, the laborers who transported grain in Huainan did complain "occasionally" when they were hot and tired, and Guo Jia only made this possibility further expanded.
It's just a complaint, after all, Bai Tu is "working for relief", and when they were about to despair, he saved their lives, and it is impossible to directly expose the uprising, at most the subjective initiative is reduced and the efficiency is reduced......
And for "each opponent" every year, it can only be launched once a year - the judgment of "opponents" is based on independent luck, for example, on the Baitu side, there is already only one independent luck, and the luck of Jingzhou, Liu Biao and Huang Zu, faintly separated, can be counted as two opponents.
Therefore, when Guo Jia opened his mouth, he directly counted seven.
Others, such as the chaos of the mountains and the unaccustomed war horses, are also quite reasonable, causing changes.
But...... said that Lu Bu and Sun Ce wanted to separate from Bai Tu, and that Bai Tu was just the benevolence of a "knowledgeless" woman?
First of all, Lu Bu and Sun Ce, now there is no opposition at all, if there are a hundred futures, the possibility of the two of them being "anti-white" is "zero", if there are a million kinds of futures, maybe there will be an "anti-white" future, but ...... Such a faint possibility is not something that Guo Jia can induce at all.
As for Baitu's statement of "the kindness of a woman", it is even more ridiculous.
Maybe in Cao Cao, in Xun Yu, in many people...... Even in the eyes of Lu Kang, Yu Chuan and other Bai Tu's subordinates, what Guo Jia said did make sense.
However, this does not mean that this is the case!
In Guo Jia and Xun Yu's view, Bai Tu's behavior is "only seeing the suffering of the people in front of him", and then overreacting to it, and even missing the opportunity to save the world because of this, and the real hero is "for the better benefit of the people in the future", and will not act irrationally because of the suffering of the few people in front of him......
It's like Pan Zhang's death - in the eyes of Guo Jia and Xun Yu, that guy really deserves to die, but ...... If you want to pay the price of military turmoil for this, it is better to keep him to serve.
Of course, at least unlike Liu Zhang and Yuan Shu, it seems that Guo Jia and Xun Yu, although they regret Bai Tu's "short-sightedness", but they recognize the correctness of Bai Tu in their hearts.
But is the white picture actually "short-sighted"?
Obviously not, whether it is to execute Pan Zhang, or to be pardoned in the event of surrender, Bai Tu knew the price to be paid for doing so before he took action.
It's just that in Bai Tu's basic worldview, what he does is a normal thing, and after 1,800 years, it is unreasonable to make other choices.
Even if the times are different, both of these belong to the bottom line that Bai Tu can't succumb to - more than marrying only one wife!
And Guo Jia attributed this to "only seeing the kindness of the woman in front of her", which is not in line with the actual situation......
In the end, Guo Jia's seven wins and seven defeats only succeeded in five of them, and he also suffered two counterattacks.
Like other Qi Luck abilities, Guo Jia's "General Trend" also consumes his own lifespan, and when he fails to launch, the cost of backlash is even greater - most of the owners of the "Book of Fortune" are short-lived ghosts.
In history, before the Battle of Guandu, Guo Jia presented Cao Cao, who was seriously lacking in confidence, the saying of "ten wins and ten defeats", and counted Cao Cao's advantages over Yuan Shao.
In many ways, there is also a suspicion of far-fetchedness, but it is just ...... After the announcement of ten victories and ten defeats, Yuan Shao and his strategists really seemed to be lowered, and they made one after another tricks, not only did Yuan Shao execute Lu Yi and detain Tian Feng, but also his strategists actually pulled each other's hind legs in order to compete with each other.
Yuan Shao did not agree to the simple mode and took Xu Du directly when he was of the flying dragon, and he had to defeat Cao Cao head-on; Xu You was sentenced because his family broke the law, so he secretly defected to Cao Cao; Not to mention Feng Ji, Trial, Xin Commentary, Guo Tu...... actually their own people calculated and framed each other.
In the end, the population and arable land were almost twice that of Cao Cao, and there were enough soldiers and food - equivalent to a GDP two or three times higher than Cao Cao's, and Yuan Shao, who accounted for a larger proportion of the military industry, was finally defeated by Cao Cao!
After that, Guo Jia also "god milk" all the way, not only predicted that after Yuan Shao's death, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang's brothers would be on the wall, but even predicted that Sun Ce was "light and unprepared...... The assassin is up, and the enemy is the ear of one person", believing that Sun Ce usually does not pay attention to protecting himself, and he has killed many heroes in Jiangdong, maybe he will be killed by the assassin one day.
However, in the end, Guo Jia also died of illness on the way back to Xudu after Cao Cao completely defeated the Yuan clan......
Guo Jia in the world of Chengji has a more direct ability, and at this time, he took seven mouthfuls of milk from Cao Cao, and swallowed five mouthfuls.
Every successful sip of milk is aimed at the "general trend" - it is also that Guo Jia has too little experience now, and if you think about it carefully, the milk for "many people" has been successful, but Cao Cao has squirted out the targeted milk for Lu Bu, Sun Ce, Bai Tu and others......
Obviously, this kind of "milk" that is too targeted wants to succeed, and the requirements are higher, because it is easier to make mistakes.
It is precisely because the successful milk is aimed at the "general trend" that Baitu now does not feel like he has been "lowered" (fog) at all, and he only found out a few days later...... The efficiency of grain transportation in the rear has been reduced by 20%, the troops under his command are slightly afraid of battle, and the disaster of Shanyue is showing signs of intensifying!
The reason why he noticed it so quickly was because of Baitu's official inspection system.
Similar to the "KPI assessment" system that many people hated in later generations, Bai Tu strictly ordered the officials to reduce all kinds of exaggerated adjectives in the evaluation, and forced the data to be listed, so that Bai Tu could intuitively see their political achievements every ten years.
For example, now in Huainan, the counties and counties that pass through the grain road have added "grain transportation efficiency" to the assessment category......
However, in the latest round of assessment, Bai Tu found that the officials in charge of transporting grain in Huainan counties had collectively declined in their political performance.
When Bai Tu wanted to investigate the reason, he found ...... It's not that one person is holding back, it's that everyone has a part.
In this way, it doesn't seem that anyone is doing anything particularly bad, but that everyone is not very good!
"Transporting grain from Jiangdong to Shouchun and conducting operations against the Central Plains, the grain route is indeed too long......" Bai Tu said with some regret.
It is precisely because of the decline in collective political performance that Bai Tu feels that the problem lies in his own decision-making.
However, Bai Tu didn't have a good way to deal with this, Cao Cao and Liu Bei definitely didn't have any extra food to lend to themselves, especially the former...... If you can borrow it, you won't borrow it!
I had to start from my subjective will, and hire more Shouchun people on the spot to take up the work of transporting grain, so as to ...... They'll also be more motivated.
Because many Shouchun people have been looted of their grain stocks before, so now the disaster relief efforts are the largest, and a lot of laborers are provided under the relief of work.
Especially in Shouchun City, except for some wealthy families with enough servants to save themselves, many others are on the verge of family ruin, but fortunately, Baitu's relief food was delivered in time and they moved south.
As for the countryside...... It's better!
Small chaos in the city, big chaos in the countryside, the ancients did not deceive me.
The Wu fort built by the clan in the countryside has become the best means of self-defense against the rebels before, and with Baitu's reinforcements fast enough, the losses are smaller than expected.
After all, those chaotic soldiers had no discipline and no command, and most of them were dozens or hundreds of generals colluding with each other, and they could not gather too many troops to focus on attacking the fortifications, so Wu Bao played a big role.
What Cao Cao did in Xuzhou before was also a wake-up call for everyone, and now there is also a trend of building Wu Fort in the Central Plains and Huainan.
Bai Tu also told Lu Lingqi before that Wubao is the product of mutual distrust between the military and the people, and this distrust is not caused by one party alone, and it is not all out of ambition to fight against the government......
Under Bai Tu's orders, many of the victims who were moving south in Shouchun were hired as grain carriers on the spot, undertaking the task of transporting grain from the north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Huai River.
At the same time, it also increased the frequency and intensity of the propaganda of the "persuasion team" to boost the fighting spirit and morale of the army and restore their self-confidence.
As for the issue of the chaos in the mountains...... Recently, Gao Shun's KPI has soared, obviously it just gave him more opportunities to make meritorious contributions, just to consume more food, the problem is not big, and Bai Tu didn't care too much.
To a certain extent, Baitu's "KPI assessment" can be said to be the natural enemy of Guo Jia's "general trend".
If it weren't for the direct use of various data representing efficiency, the subtle impact promoted by Guo Jia would only focus on a certain place, and it would be difficult to find the problem.
And if left unchecked, the losses will be further amplified......