Chapter 38 Chang'an Anmin

Since Hanzhong tackled key problems, there are six ways to follow:

1. Meridian Road: The valley is more than 600 miles long, which is the easternmost passage of the Qinling Mountains, and the mountain is high and the road is dangerous; (From this, I know that there is a big bug in the previous article, it is too easy to cross the Meridian Valley to take Chang'an, because I didn't know what kind of road the Meridian Valley was at that time)

2. Yan Luo Road: The valley is more than 400 miles long, which is the passage in the middle of the Qinling Mountains, and the road is very rugged;

3. Baoshui Road: The valley is 500 miles long, which is the passage of the western part of the Qinling Mountains, and the road is built along the Baoshui and Xieshui river valleys, and the troops are difficult to move;

Fourth, the Qinling West Dasanguan: in order to bypass the main road of the Qinling Mountains to the west of the Guanzhong, the road is relatively flat, about 1,100 miles;

5. Qinling Dongwu Pass: In order to bypass the passage of Qinling East into Guanzhong, the road is far away, about 1,300 miles;

6. Qishan in the west of the Qinling Mountains: It is a circuitous route on the western route, which is far away, but relatively flat, which is conducive to the movement of large corps and supply transportation; However, you must first go to Longyou and then enter Guanzhong from Longyou.

This time, our army went out of the pass, and the left general Ma Chao's army went out of Qishan (correction: I made a mistake in the previous article, Ma Chao was named the hussar general a year later in the first year of Zhangwu. Liu Bei was crowned in the twenty-fourth year of Emperor Jian'an (July), and was named the king of Hanzhong, Guan Yu was the former general, Ma Chao was the left general: Zhang Fei was the right general, and Huang Zhong was the right

Later General), although these two roads are far, they are the most straight, each leading an elite army of 15,000 people. But if you count the people, logistics, there are fifty or sixty thousand, the war is logistics, we are not the Huns, we are here to win the hearts of the people, it is impossible to live by burning, killing and looting, and if you can supplement it in the locality, you can supplement it, and if you can't supplement it, you can't grab it.

I am not afraid of insufficient troops, but I am afraid of troops under the fortified city, so I focus on attacking the heart, focusing on field battles, and focusing on surrender. This is also the meaning of Kong Ming and Fa Zheng's legacy.

Although Kong Ming doesn't like Wei Yan, I still insist on him being the vanguard, in fact, with Wei Yan's martial arts, momentum, and thinking about the battle situation, there is no one more suitable than him, of course, Wei Yan also has shortcomings, one is to compete for merit, the other is to boast, in some places, he is very similar to the second uncle, but I will never coax him like Kong Ming is used to the second uncle, otherwise even if he seeks temporary peace, it will sow evil consequences. But that's after the war, and for now, as long as he wins the battle for me.

Huang Zhong, Huang Quan, Cheng Ji, Guan Ping, Mi Fang, Zhou Cang, Jiang Wei generals marched with the army, although the veteran Huang Zhong is old and strong, but I am afraid that he will be injured in the chaos of the army, after all, people are old and do not take their muscles and bones as their ability, such an old general, the value of his banner is not less than his own. Huang Hansheng's official position is that of a general, second only to Xu Jing, Guan Yu, Ma Chao and Zhang Fei, and even the fourth uncle Zhao Yun cannot be compared with him. In the battle to kill Xiahou Yuan, he cooperated with Fa Zheng tacitly, made great contributions, broke through the middle line, and Cao's army was defeated. In this battle, he actually wanted to take the lead with Wei Yan, so I had to say: "Old general, let's give the credit to the young people." ”

Wei Yan's vanguard troops made very rapid progress, when I left Guanzhong, he had already arrived in Chencang, when I arrived in Chencang, he entered Wugong and Huaili, and in a blink of an eye he joined Zhao Yun's receiving troops in Xianyang, and after a simple supply, he immediately did not stop, and went north to Xinping and stability.

As I have analyzed, due to the propaganda that had been done in advance, the cities were frightened by my cultural attack and military intimidation, and many of the defenders had abandoned the cities and fled before they could fight. This battle is not like war, it is almost like a chase race. There are many infantry in the Shu army, and it is natural that the Wei soldiers who have horses will not be able to catch up. At the beginning, Wei Yan wrote in the letters to me that he had attacked a certain city and how many beheadings he had beheaded, but later he had all occupied a certain city and gained such a city, and even the word of war was lost.

Kong Ming and I have long focused on civil affairs. Although we knew that this Northern Expedition might go smoothly, it was beyond our imagination that it had gone so far. Fortunately, there were more civil officials brought from Shuzhong Hanzhong, and they were very busy with each city, ranking and reassuring the people, opening warehouses and releasing grain, maintaining the ground, and electing subordinate officials. When I met with Zhao Yun in Chang'an, there were already nearly 100,000 soldiers, the military was mighty, and the north looked at the wind and fell. The defenders of Tongguan in the east were shocked three times a day and did not dare to go out of the pass again.

But I know that these victories are only temporary, and once Cao Wei turns his hand around, their attacks will be terrifying. And what I am more worried about is that when I came to Chang'an, many of my subordinates became complacent, and even thought that now that they had won the three states of Yong, Liang, and Yi, it had become a strong Qin trend, and sweeping the Central Plains was just around the corner. Some people began to persuade him, wanting his sick father to ascend to the throne and rush to the sick.

I was so angry that I scolded the minister who persuaded me to enter. Are they stupid or stupid, if the situation is really so good, will Mr. Kong Ming be so tired that his eyes are bloodshot, and even his cheekbones are protruding?

Qin, since Mu Gong broke Xirong, more than 20 monarchs have worked hard, expanded the territory and opened up the territory, and there are Shang Ying's changes to the law, and finally become the cause of the king, the soldiers are strong and strong, the famous generals are like clouds, the grain and grass are like mountains, and then the Central Plains countries are divided, and only then dare to send troops to the east, and we have just arrived in Chang'an, even the north has not been pacified, and the Central Plains is operated by the Cao family, it is already solid as gold, far beyond the alliance of the six countries, at this time it is complacent, and it is worth it!

I summoned hundreds of officials, put a hard stop to this terrible ideological sprout, and asked them to carefully understand the actual situation in Guanzhong, go to the people's homes, and see what should be done most now.

After decades of war and killing, the people of Guanzhong were left behind, and Cao Cao forcibly moved from Wudu and other places to supplement the people of the Sanfu land, and the barbarians were in a mess, and the fertile land in various places was barren, the population was cut off, and the people were miserable. Our work will be extremely numerous:

We were busy summoning local officials, registering the population, gathering civilians hidden in the mountains, distributing fields to the newly arrived poor people, organizing spring planting, arranging seeds......

We were busy, reading the battle reports on the front, studying the movements of all sides, mediating local disputes, suppressing covert riots, arranging personnel, and implementing logistics......

This is a time when it is hectic and critical to the extreme, and if you don't consolidate Chang'an in advance, you will lose it after you get it. What is the most important thing in the world? It's people, it's people, it's people! I will always remember the story that Mr. Shui Jing taught me about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there is no one, no people's heart, nothing can be done.

Guan Yu's defeat at Jingzhou, although painful, was not without effect, and the battle of Fancheng in Xiangyang attracted Cao Cao's full attention, so that he pointed his troops south to protect Xuchang, which bought time for the consolidation of Chang'an. However, Chang'an has been wandering in the cracks of the war, and Zhao Yun and others are mostly military generals, although some measures have been taken to be close to the people, but in my opinion, the internal affairs work is far from enough. What's more, the more counties are occupied, and the more things need to be done.

These days, I am so busy that there is no day or night, and I have to deal with government affairs as soon as the morning dawns, and I can't close my eyes until the fixed shift. I know I'm not a smart person, but I have two things to recognize, one is to listen and understand, and the other is to be diligent to make up for my shortcomings. I don't miss any opportunity to learn, anyone can be my teacher, and the handling of any incident is the best learning process. Kong Ming didn't instruct me on how to do it, and in many cases, he just quietly and gently pointed me on the right track. This made the officials greatly admire the ability and energy of me, a young master who was not yet an adult. I carefully record what I do every day, then analyze, refine, find the best and fastest solution, and then promote it. For example, some of the relocated families from Wudu and other places thought that I might move them back, and they were always uneasy, so I asked people to help them build houses, send ploughing cattle, and build water wheels, so as to dispel their doubts; In some places, there is no grain at all, I asked people to urgently transfer grain from Hanzhong to plant, and even organized the planting of a lot of barnyard weeds, although the yield of this thing is low, but not much use of management, farming time does not wait for people, people are wrong when people, the land is wrong for a year, after a rain, do not rush to plant, this land will be barren in vain.

At the same time, military discipline in the armed forces has been strengthened, and incidents that disturb the people are strictly prohibited. Because of the concern about "Cao Cao struck the wheat field and replaced the three armies with Su, I even deliberately got a knife engraved with a beard to kill this kind of person who disturbed and hurt the people, and named it "Cao Cao's beard", but after thinking about it, first, I was afraid of arousing Cao Pi's anger, second, it seemed that I did not respect the dead and had no education, and third, I was afraid that I would not be able to do it for a while, but I would give Cao Cao a name, so forget it. At this time, Jiang Wan, who was named Fufeng Taishou, sent a human head, the original owner of this thing was a chief under Zhao Zilong, because he entered the house at night, he was detained by Jiang Wan. Speaking of which, this Jiang Wan is really bold, he doesn't know if I have a relationship with Zhao Zilong? I thought about it, but I sacrificed my dearest fourth uncle, and salted the man's head in lime, and Pegasus passed it to all the counties and countries.