Outside the city.

Zheng Ping and Liu Bei stood on a high slope, looking at the drama city.

Looking down, the yellow turban thieves outside the drama city and the old and weak women and children who were coerced can be seen at a glance.

"Conspiracy, although Ziyi has probed Zhang Rao's place to hoard grain, with our troops, he can be defeated by luring him to a narrow place."

"But even if the thief Zhang Rao is killed, how should these more than 100,000 people be settled?"

Liu Bei was worried.

I still remember Zheng Ping's words before the expedition in the plains: It is easy to break the yellow scarf, but the difficulty lies in how to place the yellow turban soldiers.

The nine counties of the plain can be resettled, except for Zheng Ping, when the yellow scarves just gathered, they were broken with lightning speed, and more importantly, they reached a consensus with the wealthy businessmen of the nine counties of the plains, so that the soldiers could be dispersed and resettled.

But this Beihai Country not only gathered more than 100,000 people, but Liu Bei also couldn't figure out the attitude of wealthy businessmen.

In the past, in the nine counties of the plains, each county faced a few thousand people with yellow turbans, and more than 10,000 people.

The powerful and wealthy businessmen in the counties didn't want to offend Liu Bei, so they gritted their teeth and could take out some money and grain to place the yellow scarves.

But now more than 100,000 yellow scarves are under the drama city, and the daily cost is astronomical, how can there be enough money and food to settle it?

These wealthy businessmen are all profit-seeking, and if they want to let their own money and grain industry hurt their muscles and bones, they will definitely not be willing to die!

But how can you raise enough money and food without dying hard?

Now that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has just risen, it is not the Qingzhou Yellow Turban that has developed a climate a year later, and its combat effectiveness is not strong.

Breaking the Yellow Turban by pure force is not a difficult task for a well-trained county soldier.

But the key to breaking the thief and soothing the people is in the word Fu.

There is no money and food, even if the more than 100,000 yellow scarves are dropped, after being hungry, they will also rebel again!

"Fujun, before answering your question, I want to ask one more question."

"If the price of relocating hundreds of thousands of people in Qingzhou will make you offend the Taishou, Thorn Shi, and even Haoqiang and Shi clans in neighboring states and counties, are you willing to bear this price?"

Zheng Ping's tone was very quiet.

The hundreds of thousands of yellow scarves in Qingzhou are difficult to settle if they want to rely on Qingzhou's local money and grain alone.

If it is forcibly resettled, it will inevitably cause a lot of losses to the local Haoqiangshi clan in Qingzhou.

However, it is the most stupid decree to let the local Haoqiang clan in Qingzhou break their muscles and bones.

In the past, Wang Mang offended all the people of the Haoqiang clan, so that the whole world rebelled.

Qingzhou is the foothold chosen by Zheng Ping for Liu Bei, and the local Haoqiang clan in Qingzhou cannot be too hostile to Liu Bei.

Therefore, when he was in Pingyuan County, Zheng Ping treated the Haoqiang clan in the way of "attracting and dividing" and "luring them to profit".

Let the Haoqiang clan of Pingyuan County choose whether to support Liu Bei or not.

Similarly, in dealing with the local Haoqiang clan in Qingzhou, Zheng Ping will not adopt such an anachronistic way as "beating local tyrants and dividing the land".

Any decree that does not take into account the characteristics of the times and the specific environment is just an empty theory.

"Fighting local tyrants and dividing the fields" in Qingzhou seems to make sense, but it is actually digging Liu Bei's grave.

Based on Qingzhou, it is inevitable to tie the interests of Qingzhou's local Haoqiang clan with Liu Bei!

Liu Bei didn't answer immediately, but looked at Zheng Ping solemnly: "Conspiracy, let's talk about it in detail." ”

Offending the neighboring Taishou, Thorn Shi, and even Haoqiang and Shi clans, the depth of this is not something that can be easily touched.

Zheng Ping looked at the more than 100,000 yellow scarves outside the drama city, and exhaled slightly: "Fujun, to settle the people, you need money and food." ”

"And now most of the money and grain in Beihai Country are in the hands of the Haoqiang clan in each county."

"But if you want them to use all the money and food to help the people, it won't work."

"I once read the lone book "The Book of Living People", in which there is a good disaster relief strategy, called 'persuasion': that is, to persuade rich households to give money and food to help the victims."

The "Book of Living People" said: If the government apportions money and grain according to the level of households, the rich households will not be motivated. However, if the government comes forward to persuade the rich to give money, the government will send people to buy rice and grain in the harvest land and transport it back to the local area to help the people, and then return the rich family's capital. If the rich are willing to sell it on their own, they will also let it go. If the official does not suppress the price, it will be profitable, and the rich will compete to be the first to traffic. ”

"In this way, we can achieve the goal of 'if you don't persuade it, then its rice will come out of itself'."

"However, this move is very likely to be opposed by officials in neighboring states and counties, who are afraid that too much grain will be exported to the local food shortage, and it will also disrupt the original power structure of the powerful and noble clans in the states and counties."

"To implement this policy, we have to use some tricks to put pressure on the officials of neighboring states and counties, and even use fraud!"

If you use fraud, it means that you will lose your trust.

If you don't break your word, you will offend people!

And the scheming means to exert pressure, even if the other party is smiling on the surface, he will be eager to slaughter Liu Bei in his heart.

This strategy involves Liu Bei's personal honor and disgrace!

For Liu Bei, who has always insisted on implementing "people do not stand without trust", it is a serious challenge!

To put it simply, Zheng Ping's strategy is to resolutely safeguard the interests of the people of Qingzhou and transfer the contradictions outside Qingzhou.

Although this strategy is a bit shameless for other states and counties, for the people of Qingzhou, Liu Bei is the savior of Qingzhou!

Lose the name of a moment and save the people of a state, but you can win the hearts of the people of Qingzhou.

Liu Bei was silent.

Born from a humble background, there is no support from his family background.

Liu Bei has always acted with benevolence, virtue and faithfulness to gain fame, which is Liu Bei's way of life.

Because of benevolence and faithfulness, people who have heard of Liu Bei are willing to help Liu Bei.

But Liu Bei also knows very well that if he doesn't use extraordinary means, how can he resettle these more than 100,000 people who have left their homes?

And that's just the homeless people of the Beihai Kingdom.

Donglai County, Qi State, Optimistic Country, and Jinan Country also have hundreds of thousands of displaced people.

Taking a deep breath, Liu Bei's eyes gradually firmed: "What is personal honor and disgrace compared to whether hundreds of thousands of people can survive?" ”

"Xianmou, when you put forward the Twelve Strategies, I was already mentally prepared."

"As long as you can help the displaced people in Qingzhou build their homes again, even if you offend the Taishou, Thorn Shi, Haoqiang, and Shi clans in neighboring states and counties, it will be worth it."

"Is there a two-way in the world? I just have a clear conscience! ”

Hearing the firmness in Liu Bei's tone, Zheng Ping felt a little more admiration in his heart.

In this day and age, fame is a very important rule of the game.

When the Twelve Strategies Theory was proposed before, Liu Bei was just a Gao Tang Ling and did not have much fame, so personal honor and disgrace were actually not much to lose for Liu Bei.

But now it is different, Liu Bei's reputation is different from the past.

With the increase of fame, whether Liu Bei will implement his original intention, Zheng Ping actually can't accurately determine.

And now, Zheng Ping heard Liu Bei's unchanged original intention!

"The government does not care about personal honor and disgrace, and wholeheartedly serves the people, which is a blessing for the people of Qingzhou."

"In this case, let's use this Zhang Rao's head first to pay tribute to the people of Qingzhou who died because of this war!"

Zheng Ping's eyes when he looked at the Yellow Turban thieves were also three points of contempt.

Threatening the people to attack the city is just a means of indiscriminate use.

Night.

The wind was cold.

Zhang Rao's place of hoarding grain was snored.

Although the three armies did not move the grain and grass first, and this grain and grass was the top priority of the march, these Yellow Turban thieves were not worried that someone would come to rob the grain.

There has always been only yellow scarves robbing grain, how can there be a reason for yellow turbans to be robbed of grain?

Therefore.

When Liu Bei led the crowd into the place where the Yellow Turban was hoarding grain, the leader of the Yellow Turban who stayed behind was stunned.

Since he is a reinforcement who came to save the drama city, why don't you fight Zhang Rao, why do you come to this place to hoard grain?

The leader of the Yellow Turban did not know the art of war, and he was completely unable to take effective countermeasures against the county soldiers who descended from the sky.

"Go and tell Zhang Rao that if you leave another ear, you may be able to spare him a dog's life." Zheng Ping released the Yellow Turban Leader.

If it is a normal march and fighting, the robbery of the camp will burn grain and grass to cause panic.

But now in Qingzhou, grain and grass are more precious than gold, and burning grain and grass is simply a ruin of heaven.

But after inspecting the piles of grain and grass, Liu Bei frowned: "These grains are only eaten by more than 100,000 people for five days, which is too little." ”

Zheng Ping shook his head: "Fujun, Zhang Rao is not so kind. If they really give food to the people, how can the people risk their death to go to the city? ”

"This is just the food that Zhang Rao prepared for the 20,000 young people, only in this way can the 20,000 young people be willing to serve."

"Time is of the essence, and the tactical purpose needs to be changed."

"Try to kill Zhang Rao in a battle tonight, so that there can be a buffer in the time to settle the remaining people."

It is only enough for more than 100,000 people to eat food for five days, if it can't be properly handled, even if Zhang Rao is killed, a new "Qu Shuai" will be elected!

Liu Bei nodded and handed the sword to Zheng Ping: "Xianmou, you can give the order." ”

Zheng Ping did not hesitate.

The generals under his command, whether they are Guan Yu or Tai Shici, all know Zheng Ping's ability.

And Ying Xun of Taishan County also got Ying Shao's instructions to carry out Liu Bei's military orders.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

Zheng Ping spread out the map, and then drew a line with his finger at the location of Zhang Rao's military camp and the place where he was stockpiling grain.

"We have attacked Zhang Rao's place of hoarding grain, and Zhang Rao will definitely drive elite soldiers to grab grain tonight."

"Although the Yellow Turban thieves are a rabble, if the grain and grass are robbed, these thieves will also fight desperately because of the threat of starvation and death."

"Originally, I planned to disperse Zhang Rao's troops in the way that the enemy retreated and I advanced, and the enemy advanced and I retreated, so that he would be exhausted, and then find an opportunity to defeat him."

"But now there is a slight change, so that Zhang Rao must be captured and killed in the first battle."

"The terrain here is narrow and overgrown with dry grass, making it an excellent place to attack with fire."

“.”

Fire and water are the easiest of all the tactics of war to kill and injure the enemy, but they are also the most cruel and easy to leave a calamity.

And because of the fire meter and water meter, it is necessary to consider the time and place, and there are too many factors to consider in the implementation, which is not easy to succeed.

As a result, very few commanders and generals will use fire and water meters.

Zheng Ping didn't prepare to use fire at first, after all, burning a group of yellow scarves to death in a narrow valley was not acceptable to ordinary people.

Killing, and torture, it's completely different!

This is also a different matter from not being in charge of the army.

But now, the fire trick has to be used.

If you can't break through Zhang Rao quickly, it is almost impossible to resettle these more than 100,000 people!

If there is no money and food, how can we talk about resettlement?

After listening to Zheng Ping's entire deployment, whether it was Guan Yu, Tai Shici, or Ying Xun, they couldn't help but gasp.

Even Liu Bei was a little unbearable: "Xianmou, will this be too ruthless?" ”

Zhang Rao wants to come to grab food, at least a few thousand Yellow Turban thieves.

Thousands of Yellow Turban thieves were burned to death in the valley, which hurt the heavens and the peace.

"Do your best, obey the destiny of heaven. Tonight, the prince can be here to pray for rain. Zheng Ping said lightly.

Pray for rain?

Liu Bei was stunned for a moment: "Xianmou, this kind of ghost and god theory-"

Zheng Ping smiled: "Don't worry, I have carefully calculated the celestial phenomena before I came." It rains, and it has nothing to do with manpower. Worshipping the sky and praying for rain is just a means to appease the Yellow Turban thieves. ”

"As long as the plan goes well, Zhang Rao can deeply understand what it means to be ruthless and what the way of heaven is."

Seeing that Zheng Ping was confident and confident, Liu Bei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

And the other side.

Zhang Rao learned that the place where he hoarded grain was attacked by Liu Bei, and Zheng Ping also used Zhang Rao's mutilated ears to satirize, and the whole person was furious.

"Zheng Ping, how dare you humiliate me like this?"

"I'll kill you!"

Thinking that Zheng Ping shot an arrow and directly shot his left ear, the anger in Zhang Rao's heart couldn't be contained.

Why did Zhang Rao ask Kong Rong for his daughter?

The root cause is the grudge against Zheng Ping!

Zhang Rao wanted to humiliate Zheng Ping by insulting Kong Rong's daughter, so that he could avenge this arrow.

It's a pity that this drama city is well defended, even if Zhang Rao borrowed the old and weak women and children to make the city tower guards dare not easily use the city defense equipment, he failed to break through the drama city.

Now, Zheng Ping not only raided the place where he hoarded grain, but also humiliated him, how could Zhang Rao endure it?

"Waste, dare to come to see me!"

Zhang Rao slashed and killed the leader of the yellow turban who came back to report the news, and there was some panic in his heart.

If Zheng Ping burned all the food with a fire, and this drama city could not be broken for the time being, wouldn't everyone have to starve to death?

"Gather everyone, if you don't want to starve to death, immediately go with Ben Qushuai to grab food!"

Zhang Rao spat viciously and dragged the war knife out of the camp.

Hearing that the food was gone, the yellow turbans were also panicked.

More than 5,000 people immediately came, and they wanted to follow Zhang Rao to grab food.

Zhang Rao did not reorganize the army.

For Zhang Rao, five hundred people can barely be restrained.

Five thousand?

That's too troublesome, Zhang Rao's brain can't be turned.

Almost all of these five thousand yellow scarves followed the handsome banner and rushed forward like a swarm.

In this autumn and winter plan, it gets dark early, and the moon is hidden in the clouds.

The Yellow Turbans could only hold torches in their hands, and they hurried through the night, and from a distance, they could see the Yellow Turban thieves moving forward like a fiery snake.

"It's coming!"

Guan Yu and Ying Xun, who were in ambush, were all in their hearts.

There was no need for scouts to inquire more, and the firelight had already revealed the location of the Yellow Turban Thieves.

Seeing that all the Yellow Turbans had entered the valley, they heard a sharp gong sound.

On both sides of the valley, a large number of weed-woven fire baskets were thrown down!

The fire basket meets the dead grass, which strengthens the fire.

In the valley, there are a large number of sulfur, saltpeter, dung stone, etc., and when you encounter a fire basket, the smoke is suddenly everywhere!

(End of chapter)