Chapter 161: 50,000 young men enter Jingzhou

As mentioned last time, Sun Quan was perfunctory on the surface of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, but secretly arranged a 50,000 undercover plan according to Lu Xun's strategy. At the same time, he also adopted the opinions of some ministers and sent people to secretly communicate with Wei to discuss cooperation against Shu.

And at this time in Jingzhou, the entire Shu army and the entire bureaucratic system in Jingzhou have all been mobilized, and they are all preparing for one thing with all their might, that is, war, Liu Hou has issued a war mobilization order, and everyone is busy day and night.

The army has strengthened its training, the factories of the "Ministry of Industry" have been fully operational, and the firearms assembly factories in Jingzhou have also been working day and night, producing all kinds of war materials, and the baggage teams have been constantly transporting all kinds of war materials produced from all parts of the country to Jingzhou.

Even Liu Hou changed his lazy appearance in the past, and went to various units every once in a while to inspect, inspect, and care about the lives of the soldiers.

Everyone has a feeling that the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, they know that a new round of war is coming, because of the absolute confidence in the Shu army, there is no phenomenon of people fleeing near Jingzhou, but many merchants have heard the wind, have carried food, iron, clothing and other war-related materials, arrived in Jingzhou, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity of the war to make a profit.

Some of these merchants were even from Wei and Wu, and they reached Jingzhou in pursuit of profits, and Liu Hou knew this, but he welcomed the gathering of merchants from all over the world in Jingzhou. He wished that these merchants would smuggle all kinds of supplies to Jingzhou, and the arrival of these merchants would greatly reduce the logistical pressure on the Shu army.

Sima Yi has already driven away the Xianbei Kebineng tribe in Koubian, and led his troops back to Xiangyang, regardless of whether these Xianbei people are really Koubian, or invited by Wei to act, anyway, Wei is stealing chickens and rice this time.

At this time, Sima Yi didn't have time to regret, and the Wei court didn't have time to punish Sima Yi, because everyone realized that Shu was about to renew the Northern Expedition, and Cao Pi had no choice but to order Sima Yi to continue to guard Xiangyang.

As soon as Sima Yi returned to Xiangyang, he received a letter from Liu Hou, which was a letter of persuasion, the meaning of the letter was to ask Sima Yi to recognize the form, to know the current affairs as Junjie, and to surrender quickly, otherwise he would fall into a situation from which he would never recover.

Of course, the letter also said a lot of big truths, or old-fashioned propaganda of the orthodox status of the Han family, condemning Cao Wei as a traitor who held the throne, these are all clichés, there is not much novelty, many people will not care about this rhetoric, but Liu Hou still wrote it, sometimes it is necessary to put on a high posture.

The main thing is the threat of the red fruit at the beginning and the subsequent lure. In the letter, Liu Hou pointed out that the Wei army would be vulnerable under the full force of the Shu army, and called on Sima Yi to stop making unnecessary resistance. At the same time, Liu Hou promised that as long as Sima Yi surrendered with more than 200,000 troops of Wei, he would be crowned a high-ranking official in Shu.

It is one thing to actively prepare for war, but none of these verbal wars are missing. Although Liu Hou also felt that this kind of thing had little effect, if he could really surrender without a fight, it would be trouble-free, not only could Wei lose half of its army, but Shu also gained more than 200,000 young and middle-aged laborers, and it could also avoid the destruction of lives in a big war.

This is tantamount to winning the second six # # lottery, even if the letter has no effect, it doesn't take much effort to write a letter, why not? Therefore, Liu Hou personally wrote this letter and sent someone to Sima Yi.

After receiving this letter, Sima Yi was really annoyed, the person who knows the times is Junjie, and of course he Sima Yi is Junjie. He also felt the strength of Shu, and deep down in his heart, he also thought that the one who won the world in the future would be the little emperor of Shu.

At the same time, he also knew that now was the best time to take refuge in the little emperor of Shu, because there were 200,000 troops and Xiangyang City as a vote. missed this opportunity, although the little emperor of Shu would also accept him, but the importance of himself Cheng Dù would definitely drop greatly.

However, he still has a lot of things that he can't let go of in Wei State, his family and his family are rooted in Wei State, and he is also in a high position in Wei State, these things cannot be given up for a while.

Even if he is as wise as Sima Yi, he hesitates in the face of such a choice involving the interests of the family and his personal future. He had a clear understanding of the military strength of Shu and Wei, and was also pessimistic about the future of Wei.

However, at the same time, he also had a trace of luck, especially after Wei got the firearms manufacturing technology, he believed that as long as there was enough time, the military strength of Wei and Shu still had hope of leveling, and he hoped that after Wei's firearms troops were fully equipped, he would compete with the little emperor of Shu with his own ingenuity.

In this way, he did not have to bear the name of treason, and at the same time, he could further control the army of Wei through the guò war, and become a surviving like Cao Cao back then. Cao Cao could never have imagined that he had blackmailed the Son of Heaven to order the princes to give a bad start to later generations.

Why didn't he consider whether future generations would do the same and one day coerce the son of heaven of the Cao family to order the princes?

The cycle of retribution in the Heavenly Dao is unpleasant, and those who do bad things must think about whether they will one day repay themselves or their descendants for doing this bad thing. Don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself, your own way of treating others, your attitude, if others treat you like this, are you willing?

Therefore, unscrupulous heroes like Cao Cao and Cao Pi, no matter how much they have achieved, without the support of benevolence, those achievements are like castles in the air and castles piled up with sand by the sea, which cannot withstand the wind and waves, and will come to naught if they are not careful.

Morality may seem pedantic in later generations, but sometimes it can have unexpected effects, especially in feudal societies, when the implementation of benevolent government and the spread of benevolence often have a good effect on social rule.

It is precisely in recognition of this that Liu Hou often learns from Liu Bei's benevolence, righteousness and morality, and often preaches some great truths in front of his subordinates. As the supreme commander of a country, he naturally bears the responsibility of guiding the social atmosphere, especially in the Three Kingdoms era when etiquette and law collapsed and morality declined, Liu Hou had the responsibility to rebuild the social moral system.

As the so-called upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, Liu Hou, as the top beam, has to be upright at the top to set an example for the people below, which is also the reason why the minister of Shu feels that this little emperor is becoming more and more like an emperor.

Sima Yi continued to contradict and entangle there, and the corresponding thing was that Liu Hou in Jingzhou finally saw the young man sent by Dongwu. Originally, Liu Hou had little confidence in Guo Youzhi's strategy, and was skeptical of Dongwu's willingness to send Qingzhuang to himself. However, it didn't take long for him to see the first batch of young men sent by the Dongwu people.

The young and strong people of Eastern Wu were sent over one after another, more than a few thousand people in a group, and less than a thousand people also came together in a group, and for more than ten days, people continued to rush to Jingzhou to report to the Shu army.

Officials at all levels in Jingzhou have become even busier, and so many people have come in at once, and the workload to receive and settle them will definitely not be small. Not to mention anything else, just their eating, drinking, and lazing are a big problem, and accommodation is even more difficult.

Jingzhou is a very prosperous commercial city, the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu and even some Fanbang countries have a lot of merchants doing business here, and there are countless people who buy houses and open shops, that is to say, the city itself has a high population density, it is already very crowded, plus the garrison, the Hong army, the city is almost one after another, this time another 50,000 people come in, it is really not easy to settle.

Guo Youzhi, Deng Zhi, Buqi and other capable ministers were busy with a group of cadres all day long, and Rao was that they were all bull-level figures with outstanding abilities, and they were also overwhelmed by the heavy task of mobilizing, preparing and placing these 50,000 young men and women of Eastern Wu before the war.

At first, there were not many people who came, and they tried their best to place these young people in the city, but later, more and more people came, and the city could not be placed at all.

The key is that these young and strong people are all from Eastern Wu, and if they make trouble in the city, it will be unimaginable, and it is much safer to be placed outside the city than in the city.

Liu Hou thought about it, if these 50,000 people started an incident in the city, and the Eastern Wu army would "cross the river in white clothes" again, so that Jingzhou would probably not be able to protect it, and his little emperor's head was estimated to be very dangerous. Although this is very unlikely, Liu Hou, who has always been cautious, still adopted Deng Zhi's construction and relocated all the Eastern Wu Qingzhuang to the outside of the city.

Liu Hou is the emperor, and it is just a matter of one sentence for him to ask people to relocate, but the people below are about to break their legs. The first thing to solve is the accommodation problem, which is easy to say and difficult to say.

Because these Dongwu young men will also have to move around in the future, they will continue to transport their war materials to the front line as the troops advance, that is to say, they will have no fixed residence, so there is no point in building a fixed house for them to live in, and the best solution is tents.

As a result, Guo Youzhi and others had no choice but to transfer a large number of tents in the army for the temporary use of these 50,000 Dongwu youths. There are many troops stationed in and out of Jingzhou, and most of them use military camps made of fixed houses, but there is no need to worry that they will not have a place to live. However, they didn't want to live in the military camp in Jingzhou all the time, they were going to go on the Northern Expedition.

In the case of the Northern Expedition, there must be tents, otherwise where will the march be located halfway? Do you sleep in the open air when you set up camp? Therefore, after the tents in the army were transferred, the direct consequence was that the Northern Expedition, which had been prepared, was postponed.

After preparing for the Northern Expedition for so long, the departure day was forcibly blocked by a small tent, if Sima Yi knew such a dramatic result, I don't know if he would be grateful to the people of Dongwu.

The tent of the Shu army was made by Liu Hou after recalling some tent styles in later generations, combined with a variety of advanced designs of later generations, and had the characteristics of lightweight, sturdy, windproof, rainproof, and easy to disassemble and assemble. With so many advantages, it is naturally more difficult to produce.

Although the "Ministry of Industry" has advanced production equipment, first-class production organization and management mode, the number of unstable production is too large, and the number of production workers is insufficient, and it is difficult to produce enough military tents in a short period of time. As a result, Liu Hou had no choice but to suspend the pace of the Northern Expedition and continue to wait.