"These aristocratic families that have lasted for thousands of years should not be underestimated. After this incident, Yuan Zhang would not be able to continue to rush his troops south in a short period of time." In the temporary general's mansion in Duji Province, Luo Shiji looked at the map with many new labels behind Li You and said, and saw that there were red dots symbolizing the rebel army everywhere in Henan Province on the map.

"Although Yuan Zhang's army has far better combat power than the army of the King of Qi and can take down the King of Qi and many ministers in one fell swoop, they lacked officials to govern the local government. His troops could control the prefectures and counties at most, but they were powerless to do anything to the countryside." Li You's tone was also a little regretful. This was also his problem. Although the scholars under his command were several times more than Yuan Zhang, those people were deeply harmed by the legacy of the Wei Dynasty for many years and had little ability to govern and deal with things. They had no skills in corruption and bribery, and the party and the party were all self-evident, so he could only re-select and train talents. Now he maintained the Jiangnan West Road, Huainan Road, Lingnan Road, the newly recovered Dugi Road, and the Gyeonggi Road, and several prefectures and counties in Gyeonggi Road are all somewhat stretched, let alone Henan Road, which is occupied by aristocratic families.

This is also an important reason why he is unwilling to launch a large-scale decisive battle with Yuan Zhang. Even if he can win Henan Road, he will have to spend a lot of effort to resist the counterattack of the aristocratic families. It would be better to let them fight Yuan Zhang first. No matter who wins and loses in this battle, both will be defeated. At that time, he can reap the benefits of the fisherman.

With these buffering times, on the one hand, he can completely turn Duji Province into his own, and on the other hand, he can cultivate enough talents to control the Henan Province after the chaos. Now, major cities in Jiazhou, Huainan Province, and Lingnan Province have begun to build new schools to teach various theories such as Legalism, mathematics, and Gezhi. Due to time reasons, the faculty of these schools is still very weak, but as long as the model of the imperial examination does not change, it will grow sooner or later, and more talents will be cultivated for Li You to choose.

On the other hand, Yuan Zhang had no choice. First, the debate between China and the barbarians is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Any literati with some backbone will not work hard for the Beiyuan Yuan. What's more, those Northern Yuan nobles have always looked down on literati. Even if they were in the imperial examination, they were bullied by a hundred yuan nobles. Few people who could do their best. Many scholars who Yuan Zhang had worked hard to gather could not stand the bullying and left with their seals. Second, he had decisively dealt with the backbone of the aristocratic families before. Although he shocked Henan Road in a short time, in the long run, the children of the aristocratic families who escaped by chance would definitely not forget their hatred and would try their best to cause trouble for him.

It was precisely because of this consideration and the opportunity provided by Wang Xun that Li You drew elite personnel from the army to control the many rebels of Henan Road. These people will play a greater role in the future than finding a Myanmar war in a long time. They will upset Henan Road and make Yuan Zhang tired of dealing with it.

"Master Taiwei, these soldiers must be in our hands in the end. If they fall into the hands of others, it may be very unfavorable to the recovery of Henan Road in the future." Luo Shiji reminded that most of these rebels have close ties with the aristocratic families and must be handled carefully to avoid backlash at that time.

"Wang Xun knows the right measure." Li You learned from the conversation with this old fox that he seemed to have seen the current situation clearly. He would try his best to provide convenience for these rebels, but he would never dare to compete for command. "After the army recovered Henan Road, they would summon these soldiers to re-train, and would never let them become private troops of a certain family."

The Jiazhou Army's military training method is not just about training these people's martial arts and battle formations. It has also greatly improved the military discipline and military power structure. As these people learn more and more, it will not be easy to return to the original habit of the world. If they want to maintain the previous methods, they will not be able to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. When they meet Yuan Zhang's troops on the battlefield, they will have no chance of winning. Even if someone has such a thought at the beginning, they will gradually disappear under the siege and interception of the Northern Yuan army.

"The greatest function of these rebels now is not to kill many northern barbarians and recover many prefectures and counties, but to constantly mobilize the Northern barbarians stationed everywhere, making them exhausted and unable to digest Henan Road." Li You pointed to Shi Huaiyi's mountain village and said, "For example, here, Xuzhou is sent to the west. There are not many Xuzhou defenders who will definitely ask for help from nearby Songzhou, Haizhou, and Yanzhou. Before their army reaches the rebels, they can retreat back to the mountains and attack Yanzhou north from the mountains. Those Northern barbarians cannot walk on the mountain road, so they can only go around a big circle and go back to defend Yanzhou. After repeated attempts, even the iron-killed army should be dragged down. At that time, the army can wait and slowly deal with the fallen guys."

"Today, go thirty, kill fifty tomorrow, accumulate more than 100,000 troops, how long can it last?" Luo Shiji kept nodding in agreement, "What's more, without the army garrison, how could the wealthy families in Xuzhou, Songzhou and Yanzhou be willing to endure the exploitation of the Northern Barbarians? At that time, even these prefectures will be in chaos."

These are the tasks of the Black Ice Platform. I believe Sima Cuo will do a good job of encouraging those people to die. These rebels are just sparks scattered on the land of Henan Road, but they will always form a prairie fire. When Yuan Zhang's 100,000 troops were exhausted, it will be the day when Li You will lead the army north again to fight him.

Of course, this method is not available there. If Wang Xun had not taken out his old capital, it would not be so easy for Li You to successfully invade these rebels. If Wang Xun had not provided support in various aspects such as food and grass supply, these rebels would sooner or later become bandits who robbed their families, and would have such combat effectiveness.

"Since General Luo has already understood the key points, I can feel at ease to leave this matter to you." Li You returned and sat down, "This Taiwei decided not to return to Jiazhou, leaving 30,000 troops and General Pan here, and General Zhou assisted you, so you stare at Yuan Zhang again and cooperate with these rebels to disrupt Henan Road."

If Yuan Zhang gathers a large army in the future to prepare to encircle and suppress the rebels, Luo Shiji can lead Pan Feng and Zhou Bofu to make a large-scale attack to see if he dares to continue to encircle and suppress them. If the dean takes the initiative, these rebels can also harass his retreat. Luo Shiji will definitely have no problem dealing with these matters.
Chapter completed!