Talking to a smart brother like Zhuge Liang is so effortless.

Even one thing, Zhuge Liang didn't expect it.

But as soon as Zhuge Jin opened his mouth, he dialed two or three points out of ten, Zhuge Liang could instantly make up the remaining seven or eight points of content, and the brain made up very accurately.

Zhuge Jin can also save a lot of nonsense and directly explain the tasks that his younger brother needs to complete in the next stage:

"Now that we have the two chips in our hands that make Liu Shu lose face and make Yuan Shu take risks. Before you hit your chips, there are a few things you need to do to get the most out of your chips:

First of all, we have to make sure that before Liu Miao can no longer serve as the pastor of Yangzhou, there is a successor worthy of our trust, who happens to make a little contribution to the imperial court in Yangzhou affairs.

The merit of Pingyuzhang in front of him is not enough, because this military merit is regarded as the establishment of our Zhuge family to the outside world.

In this way, he can give His Majesty an excuse to put this person on the top when Liu Miao leaves his post - at present, it seems that this candidate is only the most suitable candidate for Yangzhou Assassin Shi Xuandegong.

This credit doesn't need to be too big, anyway, it's just a starting point, it all depends on Liu Xuan, as long as you play better than Liu Xuan. I took a look around, and at present, the only good meritorious objects are the six counties in the south of Danyang bordering Yuzhang, that is, the territory of the handsome Zulang of Jing County.

Because among the princes of Yangzhou, Sun Ce is still difficult to deal with, and once the Duke of Xuande is stuck with Sun Ce at this time, then his own foundation Guangling will fall into the void again, which will attract Yuan Shu's attack.

Removing Sun Ce, others such as Wang Lang and others all respect the imperial court and Liu Xuan, the Yangzhou pastor. It seems that only Zu Lang, who is handsome in Shanyue, is a relatively optional soft persimmon.

After this year's spring farming, Sun Ce will definitely do it, looking for soft persimmons to deal with, most of it is Wang Lang, we persuaded Xuande Gong, while Sun Ce and Wang Lang are fighting, and when they lack skills, Xuande Gong and us will join forces to pacify Zu Lang.

When the time comes, Xuande Gong will send troops, and our Yuzhang County will help Xuande Gong provide military rations nearby. After the fight, the credit nominally belonged to Xuande Gong, so that he could go to the imperial court to ask for merit and promotion, but in fact, the governance of the six counties in the south of Danyang could be handed over to our Zhuge family.

After all, between Xuandegong's Guangling territory and the six counties in the south of Danyang, there are still several counties separated by Sun Ce, and it is difficult for Xuandegong to govern this enclave. But we happen to be bordering it, so wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?

Once this step is achieved, we can push Liu Miao to step down, Yuan Shu to rebel, and Xuande Gong to be promoted from Yangzhou to state pastor. Cao Cao had no excuse to obstruct it. ”

Zhuge Jin told the story eloquently, and explained the main line layout path of the next step to his younger brother clearly.

Zhuge Liang listened very carefully, and he didn't find any problems, everything was very reasonable: Xuande Gong gained fame, and Zhuge family gained real benefits.

Moreover, Zhuge Liang also thought of an additional layer of deep meaning:

The above-mentioned appearance of benefit distribution can make Cao Cao more at ease with the Zhuge family - because the eldest brother had already told him how he hinted to Cao Cao that he was selling his "official desire" character when he went to Xudu last year, so as to let Cao Cao let him go.

The more greedy the Zhuge family was on the surface and occupied the power of the six counties in the south of Danyang, the more Cao Cao felt that it was possible to pull the Zhuge family from Liu Bei in the future, and the more he dared to give Liu Bei an official position.

If the Zhuge family and Liu Bei were very close to the outside world, Cao Cao would be more afraid of this union, and it would be easier to stumble when he was crowned an official in the name of the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, this "power-hungry" double-reed drama is best played until you have to tear your face with Cao Cao.

This is an ideal situation, and if you really can't do it, it's best to delay as much as possible, so that you can borrow the name of the court for a while more and reap more benefits.

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"So, the eldest brother needs me to go to Xuande Gong to make an envoy in the near future and explain the above truth to Xuande Gong first? Let Xuande Gong also try to cooperate with this plan and adjust the follow-up deployment? ”

After listening to the eldest brother's plan, Zhuge Liang naturally came to the purpose of the eldest brother and took the initiative to make his words clear.

Zhuge Jin was not polite to his younger brother, and nodded directly: "This is one of the most important missions, but since you have gone all, you must do a few more things by the way, and there are still some things to prepare before leaving."

Didn't I say it, before I left last year, I promised Xuande Gong and Chen Changwen some other things, which was about Guangling's water control, and you should take care of Chen Changwen's inappropriate incurable diseases by the way.

So before leaving, it's best to briefly figure out and practice the water conservancy remediation method I taught you, and try your hand at the polder dredging treatment here in Chaisang. I have calculated that when spring farming is busy, it is too late for Guangling. Spring ploughing begins in mid-February and is expected to be busy until mid-March.

From the end of March to mid-April, from nearly a month to the time of relatively idle farming, followed by a busy summer. Therefore, you need to arrive in Guangling in early March, first take advantage of the last ten days and half a month of spring busyness, inspect and understand the situation, plan, and start organizing the people in late March, and get things done within a month.

Going backwards in this way, you will be leaving at the end of February, and I can give you about ten days to deal with the affairs of the county. In addition to the polder dredging practice just mentioned, you have to do two things in ten days:

First, you have to make a clear count of how many men and horses we have captured and surrendered after the end of the battle with Zhenrong, and select those who are suitable to stay and continue to serve as soldiers, and re-send those who are weak or have poor character and discipline to return to the peasants. If it is not available to the die-hard monks, it will be classified as a hard labor camp.

If the number is less than 5,000, we will use the Danyang soldiers that Xuande Gong lent us to make up for it, and when you go to Guangling, you will take these 5,000 people to escort you, and by the way, you will return the soldiers borrowed by Xuande Gong. ”

Zhuge Liang hurriedly took out a pen and wrote down the details of the handling of the eldest brother.

Liu Bei borrowed 4,000 Danyang soldiers from the Zhuge family to start his family and conquered Yuzhang County. also asked Chen Zhi to bring 300 white soldiers to Zhuge Jin as bodyguards.

The reputation of the Zhuge family is obviously better than that of Sun Ce, and Sun Ce will not pay it back after he started with Yuan Shubing, and the Zhuge family will pay it back.

However, Bai Yubing is Liu Bei's bodyguard to Zhuge Jin, this is a private gift, and he must not be brought back when he returns it, and Zhuge Jin also has to consider his personal safety.

There were many casualties among the Danyang soldiers in the previous battles, and it was impossible to restore all the soldiers who came.

In the end, the result of the compromise was to let the soldiers supplement according to their origins: Zhenrong had traveled to the three counties, and the county soldiers he coerced were all from Guangling Danyang Yuzhang. Now that Guangling is in the hands of Liu Bei, letting the Guangling soldiers return to their hometowns can be regarded as maximizing morale and combat power.

Moreover, it was 4,003 at the beginning, and now it is 5,000, and even if the more than 700 people are interest, it can be regarded as making up for the "decline in the quality of the troops", which is very reasonable.

Zhuge Liang wrote down this matter, and then drew inferences: "The eldest brother just said that there are a few things for me to deal with, so in addition to this one, it should be the one I just mentioned, write a letter to Pang Tong and them, and ask them to come to Yuzhang to be officials?" Give them the county order and the county cao to practice their hands? ”

(Note: Pang Tong was just nineteen years old, and he had not yet taken the word "Shiyuan", so he was named)

Zhuge Jin nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, another task is this." You have been in Jingzhou for a year and a half, in addition to Pang Tong, what other young talents have you made who have not yet reached the crown or are in their early twenties?

I also thought about it, if you are twenty-five years old, or even a young person, a talented person, you will not be able to look down on the border county order to start. Even if they want to start from the county order, it is estimated that they will go to Xu Du to seek officials. Therefore, the objects we want to win over can only be people under the age of twenty-five. ”

Zhuge Liang thought for a while: "Except for Pang Tong, I only know Pang Shanmin, and there are some children of the Cai family of the Kuai family, but the Cai family of the Kuai family is not talented, and there is nothing worth wooing." Oh yes, there is also a Runan Meng Jian Meng Gongwei, a few years older than me and Pang Tong, but not more than twenty-five, and his talent is acceptable. ”

Zhuge Jin touched his beard, it seems that Xu Shu and Shi Tao have not gone to Xiangyang yet, not to mention Cui Jun, who is from Hebei.

Therefore, the so-called "Zhuge Four Friends" in later generations, in fact, only one Meng Jian arrived in Xiangyang, after all, it is only 197 years now, which is a full decade earlier than Zhuge came out of the mountain in history.

Zhuge Jin had no choice but to retreat: "Then write a letter to Meng Jianye, if you can pull it, you can pull it, I may start with the county order of the big county." ”

After Zhuge Liang wrote it down, while searching for his memory, he couldn't help but show a look of shame, hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "In addition to the two of them, can I write another private letter, and ask Tang Guang to send it to ...... at that time."

Zhuge Jin: "Who do you want to write to?" ”

Zhuge Liang: "Write to Huang Gongjia...... The eldest brother didn't know that I was able to get away from Jingzhou last year, and squeezed Liu Jingzhou at the banquet before leaving, and asked him to allow me to take Xingba with me, which actually borrowed the power of Huang Gong and the little lady of the Huang family.

I made a promise to the little lady of the Huang family at that time, although no third party knew, but a gentleman in the world, no faith and no ......"

When Zhuge Jin heard this, he immediately laughed: "Do you want to get married, hahaha, how old is the little lady of the Huang family!" ”

Zhuge Liang: "It was only thirteen when it happened last year, and now it has turned to fourteen, and it will be in time for next year...... If it is decided first, or if Huang Gong can be invited to Yuzhang to be an official, it is okay. ”

Zhuge Jin is still very helpful to his younger brother, and he just sighed when he heard this:

"But Huang Gong is Liu Jingzhou's brother-in-law after all, and his status is transcendent. When I came to our Yuzhang, I could only convince my uncle to give him a county at most, which was the limit.

If he still doesn't like it, this matter has to be stopped, which can be regarded as showing the sincerity of my Zhuge family. Presumably, after hearing about it, the little lady of the Huang family will also be grateful to you for keeping your promise. ”

The rank of the county is not high, according to the Han system, it is only 600 stones, which is not as good as the county orders of Nanchang and Chaisang, the two big counties, and the rank can receive 1,000 stones.

But after all, the county guard is the deputy of the county guard, and if he can hold the real power, it is still very good. At the beginning, Zhuge Jin's father, Zhuge Jue, only did Taishan County before he died.

Zhuge Liang was very grateful, and hurriedly said that he would do it immediately.

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After being pressed by his brother, Zhuge Liang was also very diligent for more than ten days, and he didn't dare to touch the fish again.

It took two days to write a sincere letter to all the talented people in Jingzhou he knew, urging people to come to Yuzhang to become officials.

Then, he began to rectify the reorganization of the army after the war, and resettled the prisoners of war obtained after the collapse of the Zhenrong into different categories.

Of course, there must be many grassroots generals, officers and gongcao to help handle the specific work, and Zhuge Liang just grasps the overall situation and ensures that everyone is as fair as possible.

According to statistics, there were as many as 19,000 soldiers who were directly captured and surrendered by Guan Yu in the large camps in Zhenrong, and later the two partial divisions that were released to plunder villages and towns were intercepted, and more than 3,000 were captured and surrendered.

Therefore, in the main battlefield of Chaisang, the enemy army of 35,600 killed, wounded and scattered more than 13,000, and a total of 22,000 people needed follow-up treatment.

In the south, Haiduan and Nanchang captured another four or five thousand people.

After Zhuge Liang carefully selected, he eliminated half of those who were too weak, and eliminated those who were too old to be farmers, and finally screened them again for military discipline.

It was found that among the 27,000 people, about two-thirds of those who had served as county soldiers could pass the screening and continue to be retained.

Even if the county soldiers were screened out, they were all too old, and they were too tired from the battles in the past few years, and their follow-up was weak.

At most, only 30% of the militia can pass the screening, and the shortcomings are also varied, and there is everything.

This screening standard is basically similar to that of Cao Cao who selected Qingzhou soldiers from more than 100,000 Yellow Turban men after Cao Cao destroyed the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, and the requirements for character and discipline are higher than those of Qingzhou soldiers.

(Note: At that time, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban was known as two or three hundred thousand people, and the one was the old and weak women and children, and the men were more than 100,000)

Seventeen-year-old Zhuge Liang is not yet able to come up with a creative move in terms of military selection, and there are answers that can be copied in front of him, so why not copy it. Just practice by doing, first familiarize yourself with the basic skills.

It is a pity that there were very few county soldiers among the captives, only 4,000 people, and the remaining 23,000 were either militia or monks.

In the final screening results, 3,000 county soldiers were retained, 6,000 militia were retained, and more than 1,000 reformed monks and soldiers who repented and resolutely stated that they no longer believed in Buddhism.

The Yuzhang army originally had a total strength of about 14,000 people - before the decisive battle of Chaisang, there were 12,000 on the main battlefield of Chaisang, and there were still 2,000 in Yongxiu County.

During the previous decisive battle, all the losses added up to one or two thousand, and some wounded soldiers had to retire. In the follow-up pursuit battles, all the losses added up to nearly 1,000 people, after all, Yuzhang has a large area, the environment is complex, and there are many non-combat attrition in the pursuit of the mountain march.

Therefore, after deducting losses and supplements, the total strength of the army finally reached 23,000 men.

Among them, 5,000 people were to be divided, including more than 3,000 Guangling county soldiers and 1,7800 Danyang soldiers, who were to be brought back by Zhuge Liang and returned to Liu Bei.

After returning the 5,000, Yuzhang County actually had 18,000 remaining combat troops.

Compared with the remaining Han population of about 600,000 in Yuzhang County, the pressure on raising troops is not great, and Yuzhang is geographically closed, and 10,008 troops are enough to hold the key point of access to the Yangtze River and Lake Mouth.

(Note: At the peak of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population of Yuzhang County was claimed to be 1.6 million, but now there are only more than 600,000 people left, and according to estimates, there are about 800,000 people in the mountainous areas, out of the control of the government, without paying taxes and not serving.)

These 800,000 include the Han people who have fled, the hermits, and the people who were originally from the Shanyue tribe, and the proportion of these two parts is about 55. ）

After all this, Zhuge Liang can be regarded as having a heavy burden on his shoulders. As long as he makes up for his experience in water conservancy application at the end, he can take the troops that he wants to return to the other party and go to Liu Bei as an envoy.

However, Zhuge Jin also wrote a letter to Liu Bei, saying that Guan Yu still needed to stay in Yuzhang for a while to help him train the newly captured army, so as not to leave hidden dangers in loyalty and military discipline.

Considering that the five thousand soldiers were all returned, leaving Guan Yu to practice the remaining eighteen thousand, Liu Bei would not mind.

Anyway, Liu Bei will also borrow Zhuge Jin's second brother to temporarily deal with those jobs that require intelligence and political value.

It is also reasonable for Zhuge Jin to borrow Liu Bei's second brother to temporarily deal with those jobs that require force value and commander value.