Volume 2 The Rise of Jingzhou Chapter 465 - Cao Mengde's Sword

How Jujube is treated, Liu Xie doesn't want to comment too much, because he can't say anything more.

Obviously, he has a lot of benefits, but he can't help but be held down by the other party.

In this life, I did it earlier, and I hope that I will do better, but the final result is that my Tuntian is just a mixed blessing.

And the Tuntian of Zao Yi and others has already made a good reputation, and he finally succeeded....

What qualifications does Liu Xie have to say more about this situation?

He has now asked people to inquire in many ways, and he has only learned more about this jujube.

This guy joined when Cao Mengde Chen Liu's troops were raised, and he can be said to be one of Cao Mengde's subordinates.

However, what made Liu Xie feel a little surprised was that he thought that this jujube was just a little-known guy, and he thought that this guy was just that.

Or that this guy is also an unknown person, and then he luckily became Cao Mengde's confidant.

He wondered if he could get a chance to get involved.

But I didn't expect that this guy was not as simple as he imagined, jujube... Fame is heavy!

Even in the early days, Yuan Shao had heard of his reputation, and even used many methods to tempt him in order to get him.

From Liu Xie's point of view, those methods that he can think of, those methods that are open and secret, Yuan Shao has already used them for himself.

And he is much more ruthless and generous than himself.

But unfortunately, people are not only Cao Mengde's henchmen, but they are also truly loyal to Cao Mengde.

This can be described as a worship of him to the extreme.... The kind that won't leave anything!

In the end, after knowing these things, Liu Xie was not good at what to say, and even directly dispelled his own thoughts.

However, although he couldn't get him, Liu Xie's curiosity about him became more and more serious.

From all kinds of news, he also knows a lot....

Knowing that this jujube is not only a person who can only tuntian, he is also a real... Good Minister!

In the Battle of Yanzhou, Cao Mengde almost cut off all hope, and his last bit of hope was not so much the opportunity left by God.

It's better to say that his loyal people have done their best to leave him the foundation of his life.

Xun Yu, who went out of the city alone to persuade Guo Gong to go back, Cheng Yu, who lost great virtue and turned the living into preserved meat, never won any battles in his life, and finally kept the land of the last three counties, and then opened the farmland to cut off the Shouchun water...

Of course, among them, there is also the one who led the people to repair the city wall and saved Dong'a's jujube with his life....

Not only for defense, but even in the later period, he directly gathered a lot of grain and grass from Dong'a to supply the soldiers of the army that Cao Cao had just brought back.

relieved him of mortal danger ....

To be honest, this is much easier to accept than Cheng Yu's fleshiness.

Of course, in addition to these, he also has a lot of credits behind him, and the most important thing is that he successfully won the Qingzhou Yellow Turban under Cao Mengde's operation...

In the end, this battle made Cao Mengde famous in one fell swoop, and won 300,000 soldiers, and there were millions of people.

Of course, Liu Xie looked at the battle report and felt that the million was really a bit empty.

He had also taken down a lot of thieves and made them his own laborers, and he knew all too well what was going on.

It's all mixed up, so which of the old and the young doesn't count?

Unless it's too special, aren't they all soldiers?

But in the end, these two or three hundred thousand people will definitely not be less.

At that time, Cao Mengde had not yet risen completely, and the sudden addition of these hundreds of thousands of people was not a leap of strength in the game.

That's a real hundreds of thousands of mouths!

Eating, drinking, and Lazar every day, if one is not careful, it is enough to drag down a force, even if it is Liu Xie, who was the same as the nouveau riche at the beginning.

After the Chang'an ambush, those thieves joined, and this time became overstretched.

What's more, Cao Mengde, who makes a living by robbing tombs?

He couldn't carry a box directly at this time, and in the end, he had no choice but to transfer a small number of elites to form the world-famous but notorious Qingzhou soldiers under his command.

And then at the same time began their real attempt to Tian ....

At the beginning, Cao Mengde did not use Liu Xie's method at the beginning, but used to calculate the cow and lose the grain!

To put it simply, the cattle were distributed directly to the tenant farmers, and then the amount of cattle received by the local people was used to harvest their grain and grass.

There are a lot of things in this, such as how much they pay, and how much they pay if they don't lease cattle, and Liu Xie didn't find out how much.

But I have to say that Liu Xie saw the shadow of the "contract system" from this.

For a while, it made him a little delusional, not knowing who he and that Cao Cao were from the future...

However, this method was not implemented for too long, because Zao only found that the problem here was more serious, that is, this method made the people under Cao Mengde's rule feel good, and it was not so urgent.

But there is a problem with this method of calculating cattle and losing valleys, that is, they are not very good at treating their forces!

This point was also discovered by Liu Xie later.

In order to prove that he and Cao Mengde were not the same kind of people, he wanted to use a more gentle method to get the people of other princes and Tuntian guests under his rule.

And then a relatively more lenient approach was used to govern these things.

Even now, Liu Xie is using this method to win over the people.

He did get a reputation of "benevolence", and then let many people tell him that he was a real benevolent monarch, and even made him praised by many hermits and officials in the court.

But... Aside from these false names, Liu Xie's hair is almost white.

Because he forgot another word, and that is the human heart!

First, even if you throw away all the people's hearts, if you encounter that bumper harvest year, you may be able to fool those people into paying more.

They get a lot, and they naturally don't have such a big opinion.

After coming and going, the pacification and pacification will pass.

But if there is any disaster, those who have a little bit of disaster will try their best to exaggerate their problems.

To put it simply, don't even want to collect a grain of food, if you take it, it's like some kind of stupid and cool official wants to force them to death.

Coupled with Liu Xie's reputation, the people below did not dare to persecute too much.

And the most important thing is that Liu Xie is too good to them, they will indeed be grateful to Dade, but the consequence of being grateful to Dade is not that they will return it to Liu Xie tenfold and hundredfold.

None of you is a true gentleman with high morals, who is not surviving in troubled times?

So, gratitude is gratitude, but this to the mouth of the food... That's not a slight!

Confucius once said that only this can know etiquette, but how can this human nature be summed up in such a simple sentence.

It's the same for the people and everyone else.

They know that morality can keep their heads held high, but if they can make life better for themselves and their families, they don't mind letting themselves suffer any infamy.

What's more, is there anyone who will really insult them.

Living, living better, and living more comfortably is the day that every ordinary person wants, and this is the greatest wish in their hearts.

Because of this, Liu Xie's Tuntian has been experiencing all kinds of problems.

There are officials who are greedy and greedy.

There are people who are sprinkling and rolling, and they are as little as possible to conceal the report.

There are poor people who cry for their fathers and mothers, and tell about their sorrows.

In short, as long as they can get more out of themselves, they will try to get out of it as hard as they can.

In this case, even Liu Xie could only cry out in vain in the end, because he held himself too high.

The means and promises he used to win hearts and minds have finally become his shackles, and he even knows that a group of people are waiting to see his jokes.

As long as they are ruthless again, then they will let those spies who are ambushed in various counties under their rule talk about their "tyrant behavior" and how he Liu Xie deceived them.

And then when they are in their hands, they are so harsh on them that they incite the people under their rule to rebel and attack.

Even, Liu Xie was wondering if among the officials under his rule also had their manpower secretly cooperating.

deliberately made the people feel that this big man was still so rotten.

This is the reason why Liu Xie only dared to be ruthless to officials for so many years, but he did not dare to be too strict with the people.

And the problems encountered by Liu Xie, in fact, Cao Mengde also encountered them.

Even in the process of his game of calculating cattle and losing grains, these problems occurred more seriously.

For a time, Cao Mengde's grain and grass could not be supplied.

And Zao only stood up directly at this time and solved this problem for Cao Mengde.

He directly put forward a reason that no one could refute, and it was also the most upright reason.

That is....

"It's good for the people to count cattle and lose grain, but it's not good for Cao Gong, if Cao Gong's power has problems because of this.

Then in the future, there will be another war disaster in this place, and these people will not want to have a good life!

Everyone knows the truth of cold lips and teeth. ”

Until now, Liu Xie didn't know whether he was talking about the people or other people.

However, this is not important, because in the days to come, Zao only left Cao Mengde with a solution to these problems.

And it is also a method that belongs to his Cao Mengde's side alone.....