Chapter Twenty-Six: Carrots and Sticks

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou was furious and clamored to destroy the Wuhu tribe. Guo Youzhi and Fei Yi both came out to dissuade them. At this time, Fei Yi grabbed the conversation and said:

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, the Wuhu people have multiplied until now, at least 300,000 to 500,000, scattered in 7 counties, and most of them live in the jungle. The Wuhu people have the habit of nesting, and the tribes are scattered in the dense forest, and it will take time to find them, and it will take them to completely exterminate them, and there is no one who has not thought about it for a year and a half. ”

"So what?"

"The army has been here for a year and a half, and presumably the reinforcements of Soochow have arrived in Lingnan. Besides, these Wuhu people are so brave and ruthless, they don't value the lives of the enemy, they don't cherish their own lives, and they are all fierce and not afraid of death when they fight, although our army is strong, there will be a lot of losses.

It is unwise to waste time and military power for the innocent. Besides, killing hundreds of thousands of people like this is really, really ......"

"It's really brutal and unkind, isn't it, it's really comparable to Bai Qi, right?" Liu Hou shouted loudly and said everything that Fei Yi didn't dare to say.

"The subordinates don't dare." Fei Yi hurriedly bowed down and saluted, sighing in his heart, this prince is still too young to do things without thinking about the consequences.

"Bang!" Liu Hou sat down on the chair with his buttocks, smashed his fist on the desk, and said, "Do you just watch the tragedy in the world like this, and we don't care if it is staged on this land every day?" You are also the ones who read the books of the sages, so how can you bear it? ”

"Your Highness, of course you have to take care of this matter, but you must think long-term, and you must not be impulsive, so as not to lose a big one because of a small one." Fei Yi said.

"How to think in the long run? Do you have a good plan? Liu Hou asked.

"In fact, the policy used against the barbarians in Nanzhong was very good before, dividing the land, persuading the peasants, confined them to the land, running schools, establishing new practices, and educating the people, so that they could gradually change their bad customs. Add to that the construction of hospitals, roads, mines, and commerce, and we can improve people's livelihoods.

In this way, after a few decades, there will be no more Wuhu barbarians, and the seven counties of Yulin will be no different from the Han land. Fei Yi said.

"Decades to wait? How many more children and the elderly will be eaten? Can you bear to watch these poor people being eaten? Liu Houdao.

"This ......" Fei Yi was also a little speechless.

"Your Highness, although it has been a little longer, there is really no other better way at the moment. Originally, according to the original plan, we bypassed Bushan County and tried to enter Nanhai County as much as possible. However, now that we encounter this matter, we can first send troops to take down Bushan County and control the entire Yulin County in our hands.

Leave a part of the troops to stabilize the situation in Yulin, and then send a capable general to stay as the Taishou of Yulin County, and slowly deal with this matter. We still have to march according to plan, and we can't delay here for too long. Guo Youzhi interjected.

"Who can be the Taishou?" Liu Houdao said that he has no extra people available at all now.

The most idle was Zhu Bao, who led 20,000 horses, and Liu Hou arranged for him to do the work of escorting grain and grass to protect the smooth flow of logistics routes. However, Liu Hou didn't trust him, and it was impossible to put him on his own retreat and be a guard.

"Zhu Bao's 20,000 horses can be transferred out of 10,000 as garrison troops. As for Taishou...... Or you can only play the court and ask the emperor to send someone over. Guo Youzhi also ran out of ideas.

"Otherwise, let me stay for the first time and deal with Yu Lin's affairs for the time being, and then hand it over to him when the imperial court sends officials, so that it can be safe." Fei Yi took the initiative to ask.

"How can this work, how can the army be separated from Mr. Fei, Mr. Fei, you stay, there are so many large and small affairs in the army, who will handle it, you must know that the key is to fully guarantee this expedition, and we can't let other things affect our plan to attack Lingnan."

Fei Yi and Guo Youzhi both rolled their eyes, at this time, what will you say to go all out to ensure the expedition, just now when you were furious, why didn't you say this when you wanted to leave a large army to clear the Wuhu barbarians?

Fei Yi is usually quiet, but his role in Liu Hou's army is indeed very large, and many things have to be arranged by him, without him, Liu Hou's army will definitely not be in order, and it will not be able to operate so efficiently.

"I can only ask the actor to work hard for the time being and help take over these trivial matters." Fei Yi bowed to Guo Youzhi.

"It's okay, it's okay." Guo Youzhi.

Guo Youzhi usually focuses on military strategy, and he manages a lot of internal affairs, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't know this, he is an all-rounder, and he has no problem handling these affairs.

"Even so, we won't be able to eliminate this bad habit of the Wuhu clan in a short time, alas!" Liu Hou still can't let go of this matter.

Fei Yi and Guo Youzhi looked at each other, and also frowned and thought of countermeasures. After a while, Guo Youzhi said:

"Perhaps, we can make some fuss about this tribe that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has eliminated this time."

"Oh, Mr. Guo, do you have a way? Come on. Liu Hou asked eagerly.

"Well, let me think about it, I captured a little bit of inspiration, but I haven't figured out exactly what to do, let me think about it first." Guo Youzhi paced in the big tent as he spoke.

After a long time, Guo Youzhi stopped his steps and said to Liu Hou and Fei Yi: "I thought of a way, which is to find some local barbarians and let them spread it everywhere, saying that this tribe was punished by heaven because of cannibalism, and the Emperor of Heaven sent a thunder punishment to wipe out the entire tribe."

The barbarians are superstitious, and they must be afraid of this, and maybe they can change this bad habit of cannibalism in the short term. What's more, this method kills two birds with one stone. ”

Guo Yuzhi didn't say how to kill two birds with one stone, but Liu Hou and Fei Yi both understood that the other thing was to cover up the prince's murder and extermination. Although this incident cannot be said to be Liu Hou's fault, it will definitely have an impact on his reputation.

"This method is good, the barbarians are superstitious, and it is indeed a good way to use the theory of ghosts and gods to make them afraid. It's just that we have to clean up the tail of the hand, and the tribe will be burned, causing it to be destroyed by thunder and fire. In addition, the surviving old and weak women and children ......"

Fei Yi didn't say the rest of the words, obviously he wanted to kill people after destroying the corpse and destroying the traces, but this was in conflict with the sage book he read, he was a humble gentleman, and he couldn't say such a black word.

"Forget it, send them to the Peach Blossom Mining Area, and let them spend the rest of their lives there." Liu Hou waved his hand. He can't kill these old and weak women and children. As long as they are sent to the Peach Blossom Mining Area, which is hundreds of miles away from here, and there are mountains and forests, if there is no accident, I believe that it is impossible for them to return to Yulin County in this life.

Liu Hou pondered for a while, he thought of religion, thought of a lot of myths and legends, he knew that general religion is a carrot in one hand and a stick in the other, so the effect of preaching is better.

Carrots are heaven, and general religion preaches that people who believe in religion or do things according to doctrine can go to heaven and get eternal happiness. The stick is hell, and if you do something evil, you will be punished, and you will go to hell.

With these two sharp weapons, religious theory can be considered perfect, and so that proselytization will not be disadvantaged. If there is only one of them, the missionary effect will be greatly reduced.

What Liu Hou thinks about is that now that the stick is there, the Emperor of Heaven will send down divine punishment and exterminate the clan. But carrots are not there yet, so we have to think of an incentive. Coercion alone and no inducement will not work.

So, Liu Hou told Mr. Fei and Mr. Guo about this idea, and the three of them got together and began to make up stories.

This story is based on the framework of Dong Yong's burial of his father in the story of twenty-four filial piety, and slightly changed: there is a young man named Dong Yong in the Wuhu tribe, his father died of illness, and according to the customs of the clan, the meat should be distributed to the clansmen to eat.

Dong Yong felt that this was not even as good as livestock: "The sheep still knows the principles of heaven, and kneels down to kiss its mother before eating milk, why does the world not see it at all, but reward the mother's meat?" So, he didn't want his father to be eaten, and wanted to bury his father properly.

But his family had no money and no rice, and he wanted to bury his father but had no coffin, so he was sad and cried for a while, and Tai Baixing was moved by his filial piety, and came down to him and said, "The head of the village must hire a long-term worker." You can borrow money and work in his house to pay off your debts. ”

So, he sold himself to the head of the family, exchanged it for seven taels or four dollars of silver, bought rice to buy a coffin, bought incense and candles, and invited a Taoist priest to open a dojo, and at the same time killed a cow and distributed the beef to the clansmen to top human flesh.

Then, the seven fairies in the sky were also moved by his filial piety and went down to earth to marry him privately. Since then, the two have lived happily together. A hundred years later, the two ascended to heaven and became two stars hanging in the sky forever.

Liu Hou changed a story of joys and sorrows into a fairy tale with a happy ending, although such a story is very naïve, but for the ancients, I believe it will have a good edifying effect.

The three of you said a word, and I discussed in two words to refine the story to make the whole plot fuller, and at the same time to make it vernacular, making it easy to understand and easy to spread.

After that, they continued to make up a story about the tribe punished by heaven, to the effect that this tribe ate the eldest son who had just been born, which was very cruel, barbaric, and bloody, and the emperor of heaven was furious when he knew about it, and sent the thunder princess to send down the divine thunder, and all the people who had eaten people were hacked to death, and finally the heavenly fire was sent down to burn the entire tribe.

In order to spread these two stories quickly, Liu Hou found some Wuhu people who could speak well, trained them to be called storytellers, and asked them to tell stories in various tribes. There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and Liu Hou gave them a good reward, and they were all happy to do this errand. In this day and age, there is very little entertainment, and the art form of storytelling is bound to be popular.

Of course, things can't be made too obvious, and these storytellers can't just tell two stories, they can talk about other stories, and they can't mix these two stories in between, and unwittingly spread some ideology.

In addition, Liu Hou also plans to find the chiefs and wizards of various tribes and ask them to cooperate with this propaganda, if they do not cooperate, or do not approve of the prohibition of cannibalism, Liu Hou does not mind sending them a "thunder punishment". However, he has no time to do this now, so he can only leave it to the future Taishou to do.

After the discussion, the next day, Liu Hou ordered Zhao Yun to bring 5,000 rattan armor troops and 2,000 musketeers, march quickly, occupy Bushan City in the shortest possible time, and strive to include Yulin County in the bag as much as possible.

Let's not mention that Liu Hou is here to be the savior, at this time, outside the cell where Liu Feng is being held in Chengdu Heavenly Prison, an uninvited guest wrapped in a black robe came.

In the last battle of Jingzhou, Guan Gong was defeated and asked Liu Feng and Meng Da for help many times, but the two refused to send troops to rescue Guan Gong. Later, Liu Hou sent Zhao Yun to save Guan Gong and keep Jingzhou safe. Meng Da knew that if he didn't save Guan Gong, he would definitely have no good fruit to eat, so he surrendered to Cao Wei.

Later, Meng Da and Xu Huang also persuaded Liu Feng to surrender to Cao Wei, but Liu Feng refused to surrender and was finally captured by Liu Bei and returned to Chengdu. Since Guan Gong did not die, Liu Bei did not kill him this time, but just imprisoned him until now. (In history, due to the death of Guan Gong in battle, Liu Bei was furious and killed Liu Feng.) ）

"Is that you?" Liu Feng said in surprise when he saw the person who came and lifted the black cloth on his head.

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