Wei Yan is okay to fight, and there is no such wisdom in his advice;

Neither can Ma Tan;

The rest are Jiang Wei and Cao Jun.

In terms of vision and intelligence, Wen Taowu is strategic, these two people can be regarded as the leading figures in the Shu army today.

Since Ma Tan didn't say it, Zhuge Liang didn't plan to continue to embarrass him.

He decided to try it out for himself another day.

After Cao Jun left the Prime Minister's Mansion, he came to the fief given by Adou on the second day.

Qingshan Township, Dujiangyan County.

Backed by Qingcheng Mountain, it is also a good place with beautiful wind and water.

There are 500 acres of fertile land at the foot of the mountain, which is the fief of Cao Jun.

Cao Jun was alone, and this fief was handed over to the management of his own soldiers.

The previous battle in the street pavilion was very tragic.

With Zhao Yun's breakthrough, less than 1,200 people came out.

One of them was wounded, and there were even those with mutilated limbs, who could no longer continue to earn a living in the barracks.

A soldier is followed by a family, and if the main labor force in the family is lost, it is tantamount to a catastrophe for a family.

In addition to this, there are pensions for the fallen and so on.

After Cao Jun asked Zhuge Liang for instructions, he incorporated all these wounded soldiers into his own personal army with minor injuries and able-bodied, and let them cultivate their own land on this fertile land to support their old age.

It can be regarded as making up for a piece of heart disease after forgiving Ma Yan.

Cao Jun stayed in the fiefdom for a few days, and suddenly Zhuge Liang summoned him, and hurriedly rode back to Chengdu.

It's still in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Cao Jun waited quietly in the outer hall, and after a long time, Jiang Wei came out of the study with a cautious face.

He glanced at Cao Jun meaningfully, and then retired without saying a word.

Cao Jun sorted out the clues in his heart, so he had to grit his teeth and enter the study.

At this point today, Zhuge Liang must have been suspicious of the suggestions in that volume.

Cao Jun didn't intend to hide it from Zhuge Liang.

Even if the other party can guess that it is him, after being handed over by Ma Yan's hand, there is an extra buffer between the two parties.

It's become less sharp.

What's more, this is also for the good of Shu and Zhuge Liang.

Others will also have a view of the portal, Zhuge Liang should have the foresight to understand his intentions.

In the study, Zhuge Liang was sitting behind the desk, and a brocade silk was spread out on the desk.

"When I was drunk, I picked up the lamp and looked at the sword, and I dreamed of blowing the horn and the battalion."

"Eight hundred miles of fire, fifty strings turn over the outside sound, and the autumn soldiers on the battlefield."

"The horse-made Lu is fast, and the bow is like a thunderbolt."

"But the king of the world, won the name before and after his death. Poor white happens! ”

When he saw Cao Jun coming in, he read it directly to the brocade.

This is a poem that Cao Jun recited indiscriminately after drinking when he faced Xu Huang in the street pavilion, but he didn't expect it to reach Zhuge Liang's ears and was recorded by him with brocade silk.

"Could it be that among the pro-soldiers, there are also Zhuge Liang's eyes and ears?"

Cao Jun glanced up quietly, and saw that Zhuge Liang's face was as usual, and he couldn't see the slightest abnormality, so he had to hold his breath and wait for Zhuge Liang to make a move.

At this time, the popular ones were four-character short fu and ci fu (also known as Han fu), and the more famous ones were Cao Cao's "Short Song Xing" and Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu", and five-character short poems were just beginning to become popular.

His representative works include Cao Zhi's "Seven Steps Poem".

But this song "Breaking the Array" is a word that only existed in the Song Dynasty, with a novel format, strange rhyme, and catchy pronunciation, which had to open Zhuge Liang's eyes.

It is recorded directly on the expensive brocade silk.

"Poetry is a good poem, but the twilight is too heavy, who wrote it?"

Zhuge Liang directly regarded this unappeared Song Ci as a new strange poem, and Cao Jun naturally would not break it.

"When the last general was working as a woodcutter in Qingcheng Mountain, he listened to the recitation of a priest, and he also felt novel, so he wrote it down."

Cao Jun pushed 265, anyway, there are many Taoist priests in Qingcheng Mountain, and I don't believe he will send someone to investigate.

Zhuge Liang pointed to the bamboo slips on the desk again, and asked directly: "This is a suggestion, but what did you do?" ”

Cao Jun's eyelids blinked, and he directly admitted, "It was indeed done by the last general." ”

Even Jiang Wei was called to confront him, and according to the calculation of the elimination method, Zhuge Liang at this time had already guessed that it was him.

Simply admit it directly.

"What do you think is the biggest difficulty facing my army's Northern Expedition?"

"Grain Road!" Cao Jun saw that Zhuge Liang intended to test him, which was exactly what he wanted.

Wearing the aura of a prophet, he has been a human being in two lives, and has experienced the knowledge bombardment of later generations.

In this regard, even Zhuge Liang, Cao Jun made him bow down.

"Since ancient times, the Shu road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, and the grain road is related to the success or failure of my Northern Expedition army, so it ranks first."

"If you play against Cao Zhen, the capital governor of the Wei army, what are your chances of winning?"

"If the situation in the rear is stable and the grain road is worry-free, there will be 8 percent of the end, and the remaining 2 percent will be the right time and place, after all, there are unpredictable storms in the sky, unpredictable changes in the ground, and people will have good and bad luck, and it will be difficult to grasp this matter at the end."

"What if it's Sima Yi?"

"Five-five."

"However, the last general has an advantage over Sima Yi, that Cao Wei is up and down, afraid of the prime minister like a tiger, if the prime minister is there, he will be cautious, step by step, to stick to the main, and after our army's battle line is lengthened, he will be burdened by logistics supplies and grain roads, and if he is slightly unfavorable, he will retreat."

"If the last general goes on the expedition, whether it is Cao Zhen or Sima Yi, he will definitely pull out and attack our army, but this is what the prime minister wants to see the most."

Cao Jun's analysis just scratched Zhuge Liang's itch, and also pointed out the biggest difficulty faced by the Northern Expedition army - the grain road.

If he sat in Hanzhong, dredged the grain routes, and tried his best to ensure the logistics supply of the Northern Expedition army, and the Wei army in front pulled out to attack the Shu army, it undoubtedly greatly increased the chances of victory in the Northern Expedition.

It's just that he Zhuge Liang is burdened by fame and has never enjoyed such convenience.

After Zhuge Liang asked, he was silent for a long time, and did not say a word later, and directly waved his hand to let Cao Jun retreat.

I meditated in my study.

If he continues to command the Northern Expedition, he is still uncertain about the final victory rate.

It can only depend on the right time and place.

If you think differently and take a back seat, this Cao Jun is a good choice.

It's just that if he is in command and his qualifications are a little insufficient, how can a military general led by Wei Yan serve him?

It's a nuisance.

At this time, it was just 2 months before the end of the first Northern Expedition, and it was still far from the next Northern Expedition, so I had to think about it carefully.

But there is no rush either.

After Cao Jun came out of Zhuge Liang's mansion, he also returned to the general's mansion in Chengdu.

This is a mansion that Adou took the initiative to give him after the end of the Northern Expedition, when he saw that Cao Jungui was the general of the expedition to the north, the Marquis of Qingshan, and he still lived in the inn, losing the face of the court.

After that, Cao Jun took the initiative to move around more with other generals and actively build momentum for the Second Northern Expedition.

The following year, he died of illness.

Another Zhang Bao was riding a horse to hunt in a mountain stream, unfortunately fell down the valley, suffered a serious head injury, and died.

The next year, the old general Zhao Yun also left.

According to the family report, when the old general took his last breath, he faced the north, burst into tears, and exhaled "Northern Expedition" three times in a row.

Shuzhong lost three generals in a row, and suddenly there was a sad atmosphere.

However, in the past two years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and there have been bumper harvests every year, and Zhuge Liang has asked people to store excess grain and grass in Hanzhong to prepare for the Northern Expedition later.

In the same year, Cao Rui transferred Sima Cao Xiu to be the governor of Yangzhou, responsible for the defense line of Dongwu.

For a time, the time for the Second Northern Expedition was quietly coming.