64. News from another battlefield
"If you want to become a generational player, patience is absolutely indispensable. Although the recent battles have been a bit boring, you can't make any moves to leave your post without permission, which is a very serious mistake! Even if it didn't cause any losses, it also affected the state of the soldiers, so that many soldiers began to become scattered, and if this continued, the morale of the army would be scattered! ”
The expression on Li Shushi's face looked very strict, and Xiaoqiang and Zilongchan in front of him were not as relaxed as before, not to mention Zilongchan, who was already blushing at this time, even Xiaoqiang rarely used a more formal expression towards Li Shushi.
Regarding Li Shushi's criticism, these two both expressed an attitude of accepting it with an open mind, after all, even they themselves know how abnormal their behavior is, but the inconsistent psychological gap makes both of them can't help but violate some regulations that they can still abide by on weekdays.
Even, even when Li Shushi decided to give them fifty military sticks, and he was punished in front of everyone on the school field, these two people didn't say much, or wanted to make any excuses.
This made Li Shushi more or less relieved.
There is no way, the situation of Xiaoqiang and Zilongjiang is not an isolated case, in fact, there are many soldiers of the Bingzhou Army who have experienced the previous nervous days and encountered this kind of leisurely days at first glance, they can't help but want to relax their minds, if they are on combat duty, they can be a little better, but even so, at least there were seven cases of desertion during the combat duty time of the soldiers on the side of the Central Army, so that twenty young lives did not fall because of the battlefield fighting, but fell under the law enforcement knife of the military judge, Not only will their families not be able to receive the full amount of pensions, but they will also lose a lot of military family benefits and illusory honors.
It's really more than worth the loss.
Fortunately, the enemy army has turned into a flock of frightened birds after experiencing various traps outside the camp of the state army in the past few days, and has not been able to take this opportunity to organize any decent attack. This allowed the situation to be brought under control in the first place.
Of course, if the enemy really came, maybe the soldiers would not be so slack.
In this way, a drink and a peck have their own destiny.
The punishment ended here, and Li Shushi did not delve into it. On the one hand, such a mistake is enough for people like Lu Bu and Zhao Yun to have a reminder, and there is no need to use more punishments to make them remember, even if Zhao Yun doesn't mind Li Shushi giving him more punishments, but according to his usual appearance, if he is punished more, Li Shushi is also worried about what other people think.
And Li Shushi found that there seemed to be a better way to deal with the incident than to punish it.
It was a letter of intelligence from the Central Plains.
Speaking of which, if it weren't for this piece of information from the Central Plains, Li Shushi would not have found that he hadn't paid attention to the progress of the battle in the Intermediate Court for a long time, after all, the opponent opposite him could not be solved casually. It can even be said that except for a few days when the two sides were rarely quiet because of those traps, barbed wire, and other messy things, the commanders of both sides were probably nervous at other times, constantly making plans and adjusting their plans according to the opponent's reaction.
Although the Puppeteers as a whole did not complete their expected plan, the large forces of the Bingzhou Army were still firmly pinned to the ground. If it weren't for the fact that the attention of the two largest princes in Hebei and the Central Plains was firmly attracted together, when Jingzhou, which was originally bordering the Bingzhou army, also took over the defense, the major forces in other directions also had their own problems, and at most they would only create some small troubles that had nothing to do with the overall situation. I'm afraid Li Shushi will really feel overstretched.
So in this case, as long as no one comes to disturb you. Li Shushi is really not in the mood to care about other people's affairs.
Only this time the situation seems to be slightly different.
"Yuan Shao's idea should be said to be quite good, but it's just ...... Why does this guy like to die so much? ”
Looking at the piece of paper in his hand, Li Shushi really didn't know what to say, after all, Li Shushi had already understood a lot of the content written on it as early as when Yuan Shao first entered Jizhou, but until now Yuan Shao had no intention of solving it, and even contributed to the fact that it has now become an uncontrollable fire. This made Li Shushi really have to doubt Yuan Shao's IQ.
In fact, Li Shushi still has a high opinion of Yuan Shao, and although Yuan Shao's actions over the years have also been improper, they are still commendable on the whole, and several plans have also added a lot of trouble to Li Shushi, just because he always has more opponents who have to be solved. Only then did Li Shushi have the opportunity to solve those troubles one by one.
But even so, when he went all out against the Bingzhou army, even if there were some lucky factors, such as good weather or something, it was still enough to show that Yuan Shao had gathered quite a lot of outstanding people around him.
In fact, whether it is Han Fu or Gongsun Zhan, these very aggrieved princes who perished will definitely agree with Li Shushi's statement.
However, after so many years of observation, Li Shushi also found that there was a fatal problem hidden around Yuan Shao.
Yes, that is a fatal problem, if Yuan Shao's forces are defeated, Li Shushi absolutely believes that the cause of most of them lies in the fatal Achilles heel.
Infighting, party and government.
In fact, they are all the same thing, but the latter is more elegant and more cooked than the former, but in the final analysis, it is still all the way, and even compared to the flamboyance of the former, the latter's obscure means bring greater disasters.
In fact, whether it is infighting, whether it is the party or the government, it stands to reason that as long as there are people, there will inevitably be disputes because of the different interests, ideas and demands, and as a human being, which accounts for almost half of the share of social attributes, looking for allies, so as to form a group to fight monsters, it has become an inevitable choice to brush up bosses and equipment.
And a good monarch is naturally a master in this regard, because if such disputes are well controlled, not only can they survive and develop through competition, but also prevent those subordinates who are not of one heart from playing tricks such as "adding a yellow robe".
As a descendant of the fourth and third dukes, Yuan Shao, who should have received an elite education, should be a master of this way, in fact, as a person who is determined to make some achievements like his father and ancestor under the bureaucratic system of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Shao has indeed developed like this. For example, the half-brother Yuan Shu. It is under Yuan Shao's vertical and horizontal influence that he has always been in a suppressed position in terms of prestige and other aspects, no matter in which plane, he is far earlier than Yuan Shao withdrew from the stage of history.
Of course, there is a side of its own death, but if it is not for the prestige, it is really difficult to match Yuan Shao, and in the history of the other plane, Yuan Shu really has to be called the emperor, I am afraid that no matter how much he ignores the Han Dynasty. Yuan Shu may not be so reckless.
However, it is such a Yuan Shao, but after entering Jizhou, he gradually became a little unable to control the elites from all over the country.
In fact, the struggle between the local faction and the foreign faction in Jizhou is not completely unsolvable, in this undecided situation in the world, the two sides of the contradiction between the existing interests of the contradiction to properly reconcile and guide outward, not only can strengthen their own cohesion, but also can continue to expand their own strength, wait until the world is stable. If we look at the contradictions caused by this division of interests, we will find that because too many interest groups have been involved in the process of reunification, even if some people really want to eat alone, they will be squeezed out by a large number of other small interest groups, and even these small interest groups can be used to solve a certain big guy.
However, Yuan Shao seems to have failed to solve this problem from beginning to end, or his balancing strategy is too balanced, so that both the local faction in Jizhou and those outside believe that they are the one who should control the most powerful voice in Jizhou. And under Yuan Shao's probably intentional indulgence, this kind of infighting has reached a stage where it is almost white-hot.
Anyway, it's really worth complaining about. Throughout the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao relied on the interest group of the Qian Pei faction formed by his own brothers and in-laws, and at most because of Xun Yu's relationship, he was biased towards the Yingru faction in the civil official system; In the early days, Sun Quan completely focused on the Huaisi people, and after knowing that the talents of the Huaisi faction were withering and sitting firmly in Jiangdong, he slowly transferred to the Jiangdong local faction; The same is true of Liu Yan and Liu Bei, who arrived in Yizhou as guests, whether they are Dongzhou scholars. It was not until the late Liu Chan period that the Jingchu people were weak in their succession, which allowed the local people to have a bright future, but the result was that they finally had to surrender in the face of the rolling torrent of unification.
Even if Li Shushi unites more and more forces, the inner circle is still mainly composed of a bad group in the past, and even latecomers like Cheng Yu and Cao Chun are all from before Li Shushi became the master and Shuo. The same can be counted as an outsider.
If it was said that they had no time to fight infighting because of the "mountain" pressed on their heads by the Bingzhou Army, then as the Bingzhou Army was once again entangled by a new "monster", and the Cao Cao Army on the opposite side was also suppressed by them in addition to having an "emperor card" - even though Yuan Shao was a little anxious about not being able to take Cao Cao immediately, but for many people, they were not worried about the final victory, or as a qualified supporting role in the script, Cao Cao's desperate resistance is completely the most normal direction of the script. So in this case, the never-ending hearts of these guys are ready to stir again.
And this time, Yuan Shao didn't know if it was an inadvertent behavior that deepened the gunpowder smell of this battle.
That is Yuan Shao's imprisonment of Tian Feng, who has always been "enshrined" as the chief civil officer in Yuan Shao's army-this incident has also been mentioned before, but I don't know if the follow-up impact of this incident is still expected by Yuan Shao.
As an example set by Yuan Shao back then, Tian Feng has always been conscientious and conscientious for Yuan Shao's hegemony, although secretly everyone is also competing with each other, for the interests of their own side, there is no less than Tian Fengming, who is quite detached, but Tian Feng Yuan Shaojun's position as the chief civil servant is still quite solid, at least no one dares to blatantly propose to Yuan Shao the construction of "substitution".
But who would have thought that Yuan Shao would really push Tian Feng to the end under a series of fueling the troubles.
In other words, even those behind the scenes probably wouldn't have thought that the effect would be so good, after all, they were all used to Tian Feng's savings, and this kind of lonely minister would not affect their private plans, so why bother making additional enemies in unnecessary situations, at most, it was enough to alienate Yuan Shao.
Maybe the successor they chose will need an old minister like Tian Feng to stabilize the situation after they come to power.
It's just that this was what they thought before, when Tian Feng's fall was already a fait accompli, those guys who were so smart that they had no friends immediately noticed that hot but prominent position for the first time.
As a result, the alien faction, which had already become somewhat divided by the heir dispute, became extremely crazy under the temptation of this sudden pie falling from the sky.
Perhaps Yuan Shao intends to change his previous practice. Whether it is the cold treatment of the death of the localist general Yan Liangwenchou, or the suppression of Gao Ran, who still adheres to the localist camp, or the sudden punishment of Tian Feng, the nominal leader of the localists, it shows that the outsiders from the Ruying Nanyang area who followed Yuan Shao to Jizhou accounted for an increasing proportion of Yuan Shao's regime, and the localists who could have fought with them began to become weaker under a series of blows.
But I don't know if I'm in too much of a hurry. In other words, such a move was originally just an immature idea born out of some accident, but in short, because there were so many cakes left after the "Great Purge" that the people who shared the cake became even more crazy, and even did a lot of things in the rear despite the fact that the war was currently being done in the rear that people don't know how to comment.
For example, a certain Xiaotun chief named Xianrong in Xindu reported Xu You's family to ask for bribes, claiming that as long as they were given 500 gold, they would be able to make Xu Youbao Jurong become the deputy commander of the Xindu City Guard. It can be said that just asking for 500 gold is indeed not expensive.
As long as you can get things done.
But since it was reported, it was obvious that the matter was not done - the servant of the Xu You family who was responsible for taking bribes obviously sold the news not only to Xianrong alone, but had no foundation, and his own ability can only be said to be ordinary Xianrong naturally can't compete with those rich guys, not only lost the 500 gold that he had just gotten together, but was also ridiculed by the Xu family as a "poor boy".
The "poor boy" was very angry, and the consequences were very severe.
Yan zhòng arrived at what Cheng dù, for this matter can be said to be like a treasure of the letter to stay. If the prison soldier Meng Dai got the treasure, he immediately imprisoned all the family members who Xu Yu had left in Xindu. Then, before the news reached Guandu, all these people were dealt with.
In fact, compared to Guo Tu, who supported the eldest prince Yuan Tan, although Xu You also competed with Feng Ji, who supported the third prince Yuan Shang, for the position left by Tian Feng after he was imprisoned, Xu You did not show an obvious inclination towards the two most promising sons of the Yuan family who inherited the family business, perhaps compared to betting now, Xu You, who thinks very highly of himself or is unwilling to participate in this troubled water, obviously thinks that even if he does not participate in it, no matter which son succeeds him. He can still continue to enjoy high positions with his own ability.
Therefore, if it is divided according to the camp, Meng Dai, who has a good relationship with Feng Ji, should not be so ruthless, even if Xu Yu's family is really imprisoned, he should be treated well, at least in the end, he was still given some order to be executed by Yuan Shao. Even if there is a chance of reconciliation with Xu You, it will not push him to the opposite side of the three sons and the party.
It's a pity that Meng Dai did it after all, and he did it quickly and thoroughly, it can be said that in addition to Xu You, he basically achieved the "weeding and eradication" of Xu You's family in Jizhou, so that there was no room for change between the two sides.
And what made Meng Dai make up his mind came from Xu Yu in the final analysis - this friend who had been friends with Yuan Shao when he was still a political newcomer can be said to be Yuan Shao's absolutely trusted confidant, plus he is extremely talented, it can be said that he is definitely above the top on weekdays, even if he occasionally makes a few words "Yuan's foundation is planned by me", it is not impossible. Even Tian Feng, who is respected as the head of the civil officials in Jizhou, if he didn't understand Yuan Shao's purpose, Xu You probably wouldn't even maintain his superficial respect, after all, even if it was Tian Feng, he was also a person whose talent was slightly inferior to his Xu You - this is of course quite a high evaluation for Xu You, and the rest of the people such as Feng Ji and Guo Tu are simply "people who do nothing".
It is conceivable that even if Xu Yu did not do it deliberately, it was too easy to offend a large number of people unconsciously, and there were countless people who secretly gritted their teeth and wanted to give him some color.
As a result, Meng Dai, as one of these people, found a good opportunity and solved the problem with lightning speed.
For such a thing, even Yuan Shao felt very embarrassed - you said that Meng Dai was heavily blamed, the people were justified, the Xu family even confessed to the bribery, and the relevant human and physical evidence was even more complete, and there were even some additional black materials, although they could not reach the level of rebellion, but in peacetime, they would definitely let Xu You take off a layer of skin.
But what about the heavy responsibility? Yuan Shao was reluctant, after all, Xu Youna was really a friend of his cloth clothes, and he was indeed a talented subordinate, even if he was indeed a little greedy for money, but Yuan Shao also knew very well that in this kind of competition for domination, the talent that could be used for himself was obviously more useful than morality.
As a result, Yuan Shao finally just reprimanded Xu You's family for asking for bribes and conniving at illegal behavior, although he seemed a little angry and ordered Xu You to introspect behind closed doors and not to see each other, but those who are familiar with Yuan Shao know that it won't be long before Xu You can return to Yuan Shao's side and continue to give advice.
Of course, for the position left by Tian Feng, Xu Yu is indeed no longer qualified to compete for it. (To be continued......)