Yuan Shao was quite happy that Gong Qi Chou's negative example suddenly appeared, and he quickly proposed a specific strategy to combat rebellion:

"General, in my opinion, since the Wuhuan Captain Gong Qi Chou is already in danger, and he is indeed unaware of the secret collusion between Wuhuan in Yuyang and Zhang Chun, a crime of misunderstanding is inevitable. We might as well report to the court and blame Gong Qi Chou for the previous crimes of Wuhuan in Youzhou and the lack of money and food allocated by the imperial court.

For the Wuhuan and Xianbei who were thieves, we should conduct military suppression while secretly preaching the reasons for owing wages in the past two years as much as possible, and transfer the Wuhuan people's resentment towards the court to those who deceived their superiors and concealed their subordinates as represented by Gong Qi Chou."

Li Su was below, and after hearing Yuan Shao's words, he almost had an illusion: Are you actually Yuan Shao? If you don't look at your handsome face and only hear the sound, I would have thought you were saying to Wang Wu, "You are doing a small hu of food, and you can use it for your head." What about that guy!

It's vicious. Isn't this a plan that Cao Cao thought of? He pushed the guilt of the court's wages to a dead man, giving both sides a step. Although this dead man might have been loyal to the court before his death, he might have tried hard to resist when he was attacked by the Wuhuan people, and died of fighting...

But I have to admit that although this trick is morally despicable when cutting the mess with a quick knife, it is indeed effective in calming down the situation.

"When Yuan Shao was young, his IQ was quite high? Did he repeatedly make a fool of himself before and after the Battle of Guandu in history, but because his life was about to end, he was demented?" Li Su couldn't help but have such a thought in his heart, and he suddenly felt that whether it was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he could not fully believe in the characterization of those celebrities.

There is a biggest problem with history books and legends, that is, one likes to "set the final conclusion", that is, to judge a person's ability by using a person's final peak achievement or a crime.

History books are too concise and cannot see the growth of a talent.

If you just want to know what kind of person this person is, what he did, and how to evaluate history, it is okay to read historical books. It is not that the history books do not want to be detailed, but that there are too many people to remember, and you must cherish your words like gold, and you can only use the "ultimate form" of this person to characterize it.

Just like the glorious Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang wrote "Intellect 100" when he appeared, and Zhao Yun wrote "Martial Power 98" when he appeared.

However, since you have traveled through time and dealing with these living people, it is better to have no books than to believe in books.

Just like many newbies, they used the conclusion that "Xu Rong defeated Cao Cao and Sun Jian one after another when the princes attacked Dong" to attract attention.

Please, people will grow. War and military literacy require practical experience.

At the beginning of the fight against Dong, the Western Liang army had been fighting the Qiang Rebellion for many years and had been fighting for 20 years. The princes of Guandong were all new recruits who were about to start the war. Even if the generals had experience, the grassroots officer command system did not have any experience.

Xu Rong defeated Cao Cao and Sun Jian, who had just debuted for a few years. It can only be said that he is indeed stronger than Cao Sun in his 30s. He is a famous general of a generation, but it may not be unprecedented.

Similarly, when Yuan Shao was in his sixties, he had many tricks of Alzheimer's disease when he was in his forties, it does not mean that he had Alzheimer's disease when he was in his forties.

Li Su listened carefully and observed secretly, and couldn't help but be more alert to Yuan Shao.

You can't be deceived by the literary image specially created to highlight the characteristics of the characters! You are facing a group of real people!

Be more steady and more careful, and hide in the dark and observe carefully.

...

Afterwards, Yuan Shao briefly talked about a few implementation strategies, and asked Li Su and Ju Su a few questions to add some materials to improve his plan.

Li Su and Ju Su were not qualified to listen to this kind of discussion in the classroom, but because Yuan Shao had frontline situations from time to time, they could make an exception and show their faces for a while.

He Jin nodded repeatedly when he heard this.

Even Li Su was a little surprised: If He Jin really did what Yuan Shao did, then Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun’s rebellion would not have been delayed for nearly two years, right? With such a clear execution ability, Zhang Chun should have been destroyed at most at midnight a year?

My own butterfly effect shouldn't be that great, right?

The things we did before would only affect small figures of Liu Bei, Ju Su, and Zhang He at most, and would not affect senior officials like Yuan Shao and He Jin.

Just when Li Su was suspicious, he finally suddenly heard a suspected stupid move from Yuan Shao at the execution level.

It turned out that when Yuan Shao talked about "what officials should be laid off and which officials can be retained", Cao Cao raised different opinions, which led to the subsequent debate.

Cao Cao retorted: "Benchu! Even if the method of using both slaughter and suppression is feasible, the abolition of officials in this way may leave the Hu people with the impression that the Han Dynasty's administration is chaotic and the rewards and punishments are unknown, and the Hu people will increasingly despise our Han Dynasty.

For example, if you put all the blame on the Wuhuan Chief Gong Qi Chou and others, what about Youzhou Governor Tao Qian? Tao Qian was already responsible for supervising the entire Youzhou and was Gong Qi Chou's boss. If he announced that Gong Qi Chou had made a move to fill the military salary of the Wuhuan divisions for two consecutive years, Tao Qian was unaware of it, did not care about it, and the court would not punish him, wouldn't the Hu people think the court was stupid?

But if the governor Tao Qian was punished together, the impact would be great. I am afraid that the entire officialdom of Youzhou would be shocked, just like the shock of Jizhou when Jia Cong replaced Wang Fen. People's hearts would be even more chaotic at that time, and a second Zhang Chun would inevitably appear!"

After hearing this question, Yuan Shao had to restrain himself a little.

His rewards and punishments are actually selfish. Tao Qian is a famous scholar in Qingliu after all, and is well-known all over the world. Nowadays, Yuan Shao and Tao Qian have not had any evil. When he was looking for scapegoats in the local area, he also wanted to focus on finding grassroots and eunuchsmen as scapegoats, and did not want to affect the famous scholar in Qingliu.

After all, the famous scholars of Qingliu are Yuan Shao’s basic foundation.

Moreover, the questions raised by Cao Cao are indeed serious. If you want to shirk responsibility, Tao Qian, the current governor of Youzhou, is a hurdle that cannot be avoided. If you don’t deal with it, you can’t be responsible, and if you deal with it, you will be panic.

When Yuan Shao thought of the trouble, he couldn't help but stand up on his own and paced back and forth, as if there was no one around, regardless of He Jin's still sitting there.

He Jin didn't blame Yuan Shao for being rude and just waited patiently for Yuan Shao to think quietly.

When Li Su secretly peeked at this scene, he had to sigh that the signs of the three emperors of the four generations were easy to use. He Jin clearly had a much higher official position than Yuan Shao, but he still respected Yuan Shao so much.

After walking around for a while, Yuan Shao finally came up with a suggestion similar to that in history: "This matter is not something that cannot be avoided. At worst, I will pursue Gong Qichong's will and ask for it two or three months later. Now that Youzhou is in chaos, Tao Qian's position is indeed not easy to move. He also needs to deploy the county to defend itself and stabilize the position first.

It is the end of February now, and I think it would be better to let Tao Qian make meritorious service and work till April. Then let Taiwei Zhang Wen transfer him to the front of the Liangzhou army. Didn’t Taiwei Zhang always say that he would call generals in Youzhou and lead Wuhuan cavalry to Liangzhou to quell the Qiang Rebellion and fight against Beigong Boyu?

The captain who led the cavalry, he ordered Gongsun Zan, but he still lacked a sufficiently famous military officer. I think it would be better to let Tao Qian be the military officer of Zhang Taiwei at that time, and would not mention his merits and demerits, and would quietly transfer him from Youzhou. Then, we will publicly deal with the dereliction of duty officials in Youzhou to avoid influencing too many people in panic.

And this method has another advantage, that is, it can transfer the three thousand Liaodong Wuhuan cavalry that Gongsun Zan has collected from Youzhou. Even if there is no sign of thieves in Liaodong, we cannot expect to rely on Liaodong Wuhuan to pacify Yuyang Wuhuan, because after all, they are all Wuhuan, and they are all together, so that the Wuhuan people will attack each other. Maybe it will only make more and more followers."

Li Su secretly listened to this view next to him and thought to himself: It's a bit like the original trajectory of history is getting closer...

Could it be that Yuan Shao's strategy was always open high and ended low. At the beginning, the grand strategy was very talked about, but at the executive level, he was all kinds of "respecting one's own life when doing big things, and forgetting one's life when seeing small profits". His moves were distorted?

However, Li Su remembers that in history, Tao Qian, the governor of Youzhou, did take office in about 185 (the former governor of Youzhou, Guo Xun, was killed by the Yellow Turban Army in 184), and then was transferred by Zhang Wen as the Pingqiang Army in 187.

There is no fixed level for joining the army, and the key is who joining the army. Because Zhang Wen is the Grand Marshal, finding a governor to join the army is not considered a humiliation.

To give the simplest example, Zhuge Liang's military service in later generations was Ma Su, but Ma Su's status in Shu Han was not low during his lifetime because his target of staff was the prime minister.

Cao Cao heard that he was about to transfer Tao Qianleng to the side, but he did not refute it. At present, this seems to be the best way to stabilize people's hearts. The key is to find a successor who is much more prestigious than Tao Qian.

However, if you want to transfer Tao Qian and Wuhuan from Liaodong, it will inevitably lead to further emptiness of Youzhou's military power.

Cao Cao was a guy who had always believed that "peace is maintained by struggle, peace will survive; peace will perish through compromise." He felt that this would make it even more difficult to be gentle.

So he once again sincerely discussed: "At first, your plan can calm people's hearts, but it will inevitably lead to the empty military preparations of Youzhou for a period of time, temporarily showing the enemy as weak, making it more difficult to implement subsequent softness."

As soon as Cao Cao said this, not only Yuan Shao fell into deep thought again, but one of the three people in the hall became a little nervous.

That person is Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was most worried that "there was a short-term vacuum period of Youzhou's military power in the process of implementing Yuan Shao's plan," because his hometown was in Zhuo County!

Any small profit that could be sacrificed in the court was considered by Liu Bei, who was a living person with flesh and blood, or his relatives, or his fellow countrymen.

Liu Bei endured it again and again, and almost made arguing.

But Li Su was quick-witted and quickly pulled Liu Bei's hand, and used a super low volume that was so low that only he and Liu Bei could hear, even Ju Su couldn't hear:

"Brother, don't be impatient! I know what you are worried about. Now is not the time to speak. Anyway, you have to resign from your official position and go back to organize the township hero to protect yourself. Let's talk later."

Liu Bei took two deep breaths, and then temporarily suppressed the impulse to persuade him.

Who made him just a county lieutenant now? He wouldn't listen to those big names, he just showed his attitude.
Chapter completed!