Chapter Ninety-Eight: Wine (4000)
When the entire Chenliu was captured, not only Cao Cao moved from Xuchang to Pengcheng.
Even some families have already gone to Jingzhou.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, the land of the Central Plains was ravaged in turns, that is, Jingzhou, Jizhou and other places were not looted for various reasons.
Therefore, Jingzhou has always been the first choice for families to escape disasters.
First of all, because the Yangtze River is separated, and secondly, because there is a lot of water in the south and good horses in the north, the army in the north will be greatly reduced in combat effectiveness when it arrives in the south.
Among them, Yingchuan's family was originally looted by Li Dao Guo Yan's troops at the beginning, so they were either involved in Jizhou or moved to Jingzhou.
When Cao Cao took charge of Yanzhou, these Yingchuan families took a breath.
But I didn't expect that it was only a few years, and I would face another military disaster.
Among them, Guo Jia was among them, and Guo Jia had a vision when he was young.
He knew that the Han family would not last long, so he went north to find Yuan Shao.
But after seeing Yuan Shao, he was very disappointed, Yuan Shao was scheming and indecisive, which made Guo Jia see it clearly.
Therefore, Guo Jia lived in seclusion in Yingchuan and always wanted to wait for his master.
But I didn't expect to wait for the Ming Lord, but to wait for the war.
At this moment, a soldier came to Guo Jia's seclusion with a letter and handed the letter to Guo Jia.
After Guo Jia looked at it, he went in the direction of Xuzhou.
When Guo Jia walked out of the mansion, he found that the streets were already full of families who were ready to escape the disaster.
These people used horse-drawn carts to carry away money, grain, and precious belongings, which stretched for dozens of miles.
As for the local people, they can only stay where they are, and they need to continue farming for these soldiers.
And they have no way to run at all, this kind of world can still eat as a serf under these families.
But if he ran out, no one knew about the side of the road where he would starve to death.
Looking at the endless convoy in front of him, Guo Jia couldn't help but sigh.
The letter in his arms was a letter from his friend Xi Zhicai.
Xi Zhicai said that if today's son is brutal and does not show benevolence in the world, he summoned Guo Jia to assist the Ming lord Cao Cao.
Guo Jia, as a wealthy family in Yingchuan, naturally knew Cao Cao.
Looking at the endless convoy in front of him, Guo Jia thought for a moment and then headed towards Xuzhou.
In Guo Jia's view, although today's son is invincible, he lacks stamina.
Although there are four states of Si, Yong, and Liang, they are vast and sparsely populated, and although the four states are combined, they are only the population of one state and one state of other states.
And most importantly, the Son of Heaven does not show benevolence.
This benevolence is naturally the attitude towards the wealthy families and scholars, and this world has always been determined by the class of scholars since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
And the Son of Heaven bullied people like pigs and dogs, which was extremely stupid in Guo Jia's opinion.
Whoever in this world has the power of the army in times of war, when he settles down, he will use soldiers to govern the country.
Therefore, even if the country is changed again, the families are still those families.
It is the warlord hegemony, and it is also to win the support of the major families, because with the support of the family, there are talents to use.
Since ancient times, it can even be said that whoever supports the family more will be able to gain a greater advantage in this situation, get more resources, and lay the foundation for victory.
And the Son of Heaven actually gave up his head and was heavy, if the Son of Heaven is willing to treat the family well, in exchange for the family to be attached, how easy is it to take the world?
It's a pity that the Son of Heaven offended this class to death, and it is destined to be impossible to achieve great things at all.
Although it may be a few states, the families in the places where they are located are scattered.
These families will not disappear, they will flee to other places like the current situation in Yingchuan.
Therefore, the more places occupied by the imperial court, the more severe the resistance faced by the imperial court.
The more talent is needed, and then the imperial court is like a splendid palace built with syrup.
It may seem gorgeous, but with a little bit of force, the castle will collapse.
The path taken by the Son of Heaven is like walking a road that is getting narrower and narrower, and when it comes to the end, it is destined to be impassable.
Because of this reason, Guo Jia believes that although today's son is brave, he has no strategy.
In Guo Jia's view, Cao Cao, who is a virtuous and virtuous man, is the master.
"Your Majesty, this is the list of the Chen Liushi clan and the common people, money and grain and taxes."
Liu Bei held the letter to Lin Mu, and Lin Mu picked up the money and grain taxes and looked at it.
No wonder Cao Cao raised troops in Chenliu, there are hundreds of thousands of people in this county.
These are still registered people, and I don't know how many people are not.
"Label the people, and punish the law severely, no matter who commits the crime, he will be guilty of the same crime as the people."
Lin Mu put down the bamboo slip in his hand, and then instructed Liu Bei.
Everywhere you go, there will be different laws, and some laws will be contrary to the laws of the imperial court.
And this law is an important basis for seeing who controls the local area.
Now that Chen Liu is completely occupied by the imperial court, it is natural for the imperial court to send people to bring Chen Liu under his rule.
It's just that there aren't so many talents now, so Liu Bei is allowed to do these things by himself, and after he gets on the road, he will hand them over to the officials who come to take over.
After Liu Bei got the order, he was ready to go out to handle it, but after hesitating for a moment, he still spoke.
"Your Majesty, maybe Your Majesty can be honest and virtuous, and the family doesn't have to be so harsh......"
Lin Mu raised his head and looked at Liu Bei, and he didn't say anything but watched.
Liu Bei suddenly broke out in a cold sweat in his heart, and hurriedly fell to the ground.
Seeing Liu Bei like this, Lin Mu said after a while.
"Let's go down."
Liu Bei hurriedly gave a salute and walked out.
No one would understand why Lin Mu treated the family like this, because in their opinion, it was a matter of course that the family had special preferential treatment.
Even in the laws of the Han Dynasty, it was stipulated that there was a certain amount of preferential treatment for the nobles of the family, and they could pay money in exchange for reducing their criminal responsibility or even not pursuing their criminal responsibility.
But when Lin Mu found out, he changed all these laws.
Even the nobles who broke the law and the common people were also guilty.
Because in Lin Mu's view, even the law distinguishes between nobles and commoners, then these nobles will be even more unscrupulous.
There may be a distinction between high and low positions, but there is no difference between high and low people.
Therefore, even if the third prince killed a refugee for no reason, he should also be punished.
Because of this, the family secretly scolded Lin Mu, not the Son of Heaven, but a cool official.
Lin Mu doesn't have time to talk nonsense with these local wealthy families, according to my law, you will live, if you don't follow this, then die.
It's as simple as that, it's up to him whether he lives or dies.
And even if they wanted to leave, Lin Mu would not stop them, but the items they brought with them when they left had to be valued.
If it exceeds a certain value, you need to pay a certain tax before you can go.
Xiangyi is just a city, but it has been dealt with in three days.
The army continued to march and stayed from Chen to Liang.
Liang Guo was originally the feudal state of Peng Yue, the king of Liang with a different surname in the early Han Dynasty, but later Peng Yue was killed by Empress Lu, and Liang was also deposed, and in March of the same year, Liu Bang established Liang State again, and rewarded Liang State to his fifth son Liu Hui.
So far, this Liang country has been passed down in this way, and the capital city in the Liang country is Juyang, which is also the later Shangqiu.
After hundreds of years of construction, Juyang is wide and large.
Moreover, there is a moat outside the city that surrounds the city, that is, this moat is four or five meters wide, plus the walls of Juyang City, it is really difficult to overcome.
In the later Tang Dynasty, An Qingxu, the son of An Lushan, led 130,000 troops to attack Juyang, but was defended by Juyang Taishou Zhang Xun with 6,000 troops.
It is enough to see how strong this Juyang is.
Moreover, in this Juyang City, there is also a literature and a martial arts, and the two of them are here to strengthen the city wall day and night to prevent the imperial army.
Under Juyang City, Lin Mu and Liu Bei's three brothers flanked to the bottom of Juyang City.
Liu Bei pointed to Juyang as a forest and said.
"Your Majesty, the guard in this Juyang City is the city guarded by Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan's brother, this person is very good at shooting, Your Majesty should be careful."
Liu Bei looked at Juyang in the distance, his face showed a trace of solemnity, and then continued.
"In addition to Xiahou Yuan, there is another person named Cheng Yu, who is extremely ruthless and poisonous."
This Juyang City is already surrounded by a moat, and if it is attacked, it is impossible to even get close to this Juyang City without filling this moat.
And how a great army is, the Lord will play a big role.
Just like in the army of the Son of Heaven, many people have even begun to learn how the Son of Heaven makes axes.
Xiahou Yuan is good at shooting, and Xiahou Yuan's army must also be good at shooting.
With a large number of archers, to defend such a city, this terrain advantage is too great.
No matter how strong the Son of Heaven is, it is impossible for him to jump five or six meters to the edge of the city wall.
Therefore, in Liu Bei's view, this Juyang cannot be attacked, and once it is attacked, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and it may not be able to be captured.
Generally, when faced with such a fortified city, it is either fenced or tacticed.
But in this city, neither Xiahou Yuan nor Cheng Yu are good at stubble.
Lin Mu didn't expect that it was Cheng Yu and Xiahou Yuan who were guarding this Juyang.
Especially Cheng Yu, this person is not only very ruthless, but also makes good jerky.
This person often spares no choice in his calculations, does not care about his own safety, and often puts himself at risk.
"Don't worry, just let the soldiers prepare to attack the city."
Lin Mu waved his hand and motioned for Liu Bei to go down and prepare.
"Your Majesty must be careful, Your Majesty is the son of a great man, and you must not be in danger because you are in a hurry."
Lin Mu rode forward, looked at this Juyang City and laughed.
"Just because this Juyang City is also worthy of being called a dangerous place? So what am I? ”
Liu Bei stepped forward and wanted to persuade Lin Mu, but Lin Mu said again.
"Command to camp and attack the city tomorrow!"
Liu Bei had no choice but to retreat.
On the way back to the camp, Zhang Fei glanced back at the trees that were looking at Juyang City.
"Big brother, how is Your Majesty preparing to attack the city, why didn't I see it."
Before Liu Bei could answer, Guan Yu said.
"What can you see? Drinking less alcohol is the truth. ”
At this time, Zhang Fei had not been educated by Lu Bu, so he was extremely fond of drinking.
But because of the brotherhood, Liu Bei and Guan Yu can only continue to persuade them, but they can't really do anything.
After the three returned to the camp, Liu Bei began to send orders to set up camp, and when the camp was set up, Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Fei saw that the eldest brother and the second brother had something to do, and no one took care of him, so he came to the quartermaster department alone......
Liu Bei had just finished arranging the camp, and then made another round to see if there were any omissions.
Since ancient times, fighting a war has been about making fewer mistakes than others, and if there is a slight mistake, the enemy will seize the opportunity to defeat it in one fell swoop.
For example, the Battle of Yiling, or the Battle of Chibi.
The former was just camping in the forest, and Lu Xun seized the opportunity.
The latter was even more unlucky, and the change in wind direction on the Yangtze River made Cao Cao defeated.
After inspecting the circle, no omissions were found, and just when Liu Bei was preparing to work, a soldier ran over to Liu Bei.
"General Liu, Your Majesty invites you over."
"Do you know what's going on?"
"It seems to have something to do with General Zhang."
Liu Bei's heart was about to pinch after hearing this, this Zhang Fei is very good in terms of force and righteousness, and the only drawback is that he is drunk and causes trouble.
Liu Bei asked his soldiers to look for Guan Yu, and hurriedly rushed towards Lin Mu's big tent.
As soon as he arrived at the big tent, he found that Zhang Fei was already in the tent, but Zhang Fei fell to the ground unconscious with the smell of alcohol.
On Zhang Fei's side, more than a dozen wine jars fell crookedly to the side.
Liu Bei secretly said that it was not good, I am afraid that Zhang Fei was drunk and collided with the Son of Heaven.
He often said to Zhang Fei, don't lose etiquette in front of the Son of Heaven, usually Zhang Fei has always done well, why is he drunk here today.
Liu Bei saluted Lin Mu, but he didn't know what to say.
"Your Majesty......"
At this moment, Guan Yu had already come to the big tent, and when he saw the appearance of Zhang Fei and Liu Bei, Guan Yu also hurriedly bowed to the ground.
"Your Majesty, if my third brother collides with Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to surrender."
Lin Mu smiled and asked Liu Bei to take Zhang Fei away.
"It's okay, I still invited Yide to eat today's wine, don't blame Yide when you go back."
Liu Bei hurriedly said yes, and then dragged Zhang Fei to his camp with Guan Yu.
When the time came to night, Liu Bei and Guan Yu looked at Zhang Fei, who was sleeping like a dead pig on the bed, and sighed.
Although Lin Mu said not to blame Zhang Fei, who knows what Lin Mu thought in his heart?
Liu Bei once saw Lin Mu moody with his own eyes, just like forbidden.
One second he was still saying that if he surrendered, he seemed to be very generous when he joined the army, and the next second he said that if he didn't obey, he would be killed.
Fortunately, Yu Ban is a person who knows the current affairs very well, and Liu Bei chose to surrender as soon as he opened his mouth.
The soldier lit the oil lamp, Guan Yu saw that Zhang Fei couldn't sleep, and took out the spring and autumn to read.
When it was just dawn the next day, Zhang Fei had some reaction.
Zhang Fei rolled over, lay on the edge of the bed and vomited.
Guan Yu and Liu Bei wanted to step forward, but they hated that iron could not become steel, and it was really uncomfortable to see Zhang Fei, so they brought a jar of water and handed it to Zhang Fei.
After a few mouthfuls of water, and then spit it out again, Zhang Fei was a little better.
Liu Bei pointed at Zhang Fei.
"Third brother, you ......"
But he didn't expect Liu Bei to speak yet, Zhang Fei said.
"I don't drink anymore."
"Huh?"
After Liu Bei and Guan Yu glanced at each other, they were a little surprised.
"What the hell did you do yesterday?"