In the lobby, almost everyone from Pingyang and Hedong counties was filled to capacity.
Liu Fu sat among these gentry disciples and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
At first, he thought that there were not many nobles coming to Pingyang, but he was wrong...
Unexpectedly, there were so many other descendants of the noble clan coming!
The Pei family, the Wang family, and other noble families who had cooperated with Fei Qian early and had children living in Chang'an or holding certain positions in the Husband's office, almost all sent their children to express their cooperative attitude.
And as required, he handed over most, or at least half, of his private soldiers.
On the contrary, families like the Liu family, who sit in a well and watch the sky in Jie County, don't have many people coming.
What exactly is this for?
Liu Fu was very confused, but soon his attention was attracted by Sima Yi.
Sima Yi sat in the chief position under Xun Chen and talked eloquently.
"In the past, there was a talk about the ten victories in Shandong, but now that Yi is in disgrace, we can only briefly talk about the victory or defeat in Guanzhong."
Sima Yi wore a Gebu robe. Apart from the crown, the only decoration on his body was a simple horned dragon jade hanging on his belt, which made him look simple and capable.
Some people rely on external objects to set off their appearance, while some people don’t need external objects as a decoration at all.
Sima Yi was full of energy, like a sharp long sword, but when it was faintly unsheathed, it emitted a little bit of cold light.
"The victory in Guanzhong should be divided into five characters: village, people, horses, weapons and training!"
"Everyone knows that food and grass are the most important thing in war, but they don't know that in Guanzhong, Hezhuang has defeated Santun. This is the victory of Zhuang!"
"The power of one person is small, but the power of the people is great. Although Shandong has learned from the master's farming, its form has not captured its soul. It is scattered and inconsistent, repetitive and redundant. Although there are many people in Shandong, the number of households is more than
In Guanzhong, it is like a mule or donkey driving a car, the lengths are different, the strength is uneven, the movement is based on different intentions, and the movement is without strategy, it only increases consumption and cannot be used."
Naturally, wars are fought for money and food.
A country without reserves would not even dare to go to war.
Liu Fu naturally understood these principles, but he did not expect that what Sima Yi said at the beginning was very "straightforward", even a little...
how to say?
Perhaps many times before, starting from the Spring and Autumn Period, it was customary to express how just, how benevolent, and forced to fight during battles. But now Sima Yi has not said a word that these are Gao Da.
The words above, but the first one describes the primary condition for combat, "money and food".
This made Liu Fu feel a little surprised, but he also felt a vigorous and fresh vitality. Because Liu Fu knew that in this world, whoever is right, who is just and who is moral will definitely win... King Zhou
When defeating Zhou, the winner will be a prince, and the loser will be a bandit. Whoever wins will be the king of Zhou, and whoever loses will be the king of Zhou.
In the past, the big man was secretive, but in fact everyone knew it. Now Sima Yi did not talk about moral words, but started talking about practical matters. This surprised Liu Fu, but after thinking about it carefully, he seemed to think that he should have done it in the first place.
That's true.
Moreover, the word "zhuang" spoken by Sima Yi also gave Liu Fu a lot of insights.
Everyone has a manor, regardless of whether it is in Shandong, Shanxi, or outside the Guanzhong. The gentry system is probably established in their own manor. However, the manor is different in size, and the system is different. Feiqian's current economic model is more like a cooperative large manor system.
There are specialized workshops and full-time workers, and each labor force engaged in them is relatively more in line with the needs of social division of labor.
The Liu family also has a manor, but Liu Fu knows that the items produced in the Liu family's manor are not comparable to the items produced by the Husband. Many times, people in Jie County have no choice, or the Liu family
Liu's products will be chosen only if the ones produced in the manor are cheaper.
No matter what item it is, it has a cost, and most of Huiqi's products, especially agricultural supplies, are of high quality and low price. However, if Liu wants to make the same quality as Huaqi, the cost will be higher than that of Huaqi.
The cost of riding is high, and even if the price is the same as the items produced by Hussar, you will still lose one piece if you sell one. Therefore, over the years, most of the items and tools in Liu's Manor have finally become the unified standard of Hussar...
"Hezhuang is better than Santun..." Liu Fu nodded and repeated in a low voice.
In the lobby, Sima Yi's words continued...
"Two. People win."
Sima Yi raised his hands slightly, "It's important to be able to unite, not to have many. Unity is what Yanhuang won, and Barbarian defeated. Everyone has his own role, and if everyone does their best, they can naturally win. Shandong
In this land, people's hearts are divided, and each has his or her own ambitions. It is difficult to control them, so they are divided into groups. Now, with a combined attack, we should be victorious..."
"Third, the horse wins."
"Fourth..."
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Chang'an.
Huqifu Yamen.
"She County surrendered."
Pang Tong said to Fei Zhen calmly.
Pang Tong calmly placed the three-color flag on the sand table, pulled it down from Shexian County, and replaced it with a Cao family's flag.
"ah?"
Feizhen's eyes widened.
"No, this..." Fei Zhen looked at the small three-color flag that was thrown aside, "Uncle Shi Yuan, why..."
Pang Tong smiled slightly, "What do you think I should do?"
Feizhen pointed at Shexian County, "This...this is a lost land! Uncle Shi Yuan, how come you are so...seemingly unconcerned?"
"Why should you care?" Pang Tong glanced at Fei Zhen and pointed at the sand table, "As a general, you should not have "women's kindness"...Does the Crown Prince know what "women's kindness" is?"
Feizhen nodded and said, "This is what the Marquis of Huaiyin said. He said that when King Xiang saw people, he was respectful and kind, and his words were vomiting. When people were sick, they cried and shared food and drink. When the people performed meritorious services, they were awarded the title of nobility.
, can't bear to give, this is the so-called benevolence of a woman. It often expresses a kind heart, and it means being indecisive in dealing with things, giving small favors and small favors, without understanding the overall meaning."
"Then what is the difference between a woman's benevolence and a man's benevolence?" Pang Tongyi asked while looking at the sand table, "The prince will go to Tongguan in a few days. What to do then, but you have to think carefully about it."
"A woman is so benevolent that she dare not kill?" Fei Zhen asked, "If you hesitate and miss a good opportunity, it will be like not killing Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty at the Hongmen Banquet..."
Pang Tong smiled and said, "It is benevolent not to kill. Haha, this is what the Confucian said... Young Master, may I ask if there are women who kill people?"
Feizhen frowned and said, "Women also kill people. Why does Uncle Shi Yuan ask like this?"
"In this case, why is it said that women do not kill people?" Pang Tong asked, "What's more, during the Hongmen Banquet, Xiang Yu acted like a man. If Fan Zeng's words were followed, disaster would be imminent."
"Ah?" Feizhen rolled her eyes a few times and couldn't figure it out, so she simply raised her hands and said, "Uncle Shi Yuan, please give me some advice."
"The benevolence of a woman is that she doesn't know the importance and is stingy with rewards. It has nothing to do with whether she dares to kill people or not." Pang Tong said slowly, "Some time ago, someone asked the prince, if Cao Mengde is captured, what will the prince do? The prince said if
If they don't want to surrender, they push them and kill them. This statement is wrong. Just like Xiang Yu's Hongmen, whether to kill or not to kill is not decided by Xiang Yu, but by Gaozu and current events."
"If Gaozu's people are against him and his soldiers are scattered, there is no harm in killing him..." Pang Tong said with a smile, "However, at the time of Hongmen, Gaozu had 100,000 people, and the coalition of princes was only three or four times that of Gaozu. How could Xiang Yu dare to kill him?"
Gaozu?』
A common sense in political struggles is that no army leader can be killed casually. If the army is large and loyal, don't even think about it. Even if you can defeat it, don't even think about it. Why? In troubled times, there are many warlords. Which one do you want to kill?
After the leader is killed, his brothers will come to settle accounts with you. War is inevitable. If you fight one of them and both of you lose, a fisherman will come out and harvest the remaining blood of both.
During the Hongmen Banquet, the number of Liu Bang's troops was 100,000, and the 100,000 were basically pure troops following Liu Bang, while the coalition forces of the princes only had about 400,000, and they were nominally under Xiang Yu's deployment. To destroy Qin, other coalition forces would follow, but when fighting Liu Bang, the princes only
I don't care about you, I even hope that you two will fight. Anyway, the Qin Dynasty has fallen. Now it is time to divide the cake. There is more monk than porridge, and one less person counts.
In history, the only prince that Cao Cao actually killed directly after defeating him was Lu Bu. Because at that time, Lu Bu did not have many soldiers and horses, and even his generals were distraught. Killing him would only have benefits but no risks, so Lu Bu
Dead.
Even in later generations, Bald Qiang often held Hongmen banquets and killed celebrities very smoothly, but when he met a teacher, he got stuck. Was it the "benevolence of a woman" that Bald Qiang did? No, Xiang Yu killed Han Wang Cheng, and Emperor Yi was also very good.
He was decisive, but he didn't dare to kill Liu Bang when he encountered an army. Those who would be killed either didn't have a gun or couldn't hold the gun firmly...
"Everything in the future will be inferred from its antecedents..." Pang Tong said with a smile, "Just like someone said that he knew that Shexian County would be defeated. There are one, two, three and four principles. Is it also very effective? Xiang Yuzhi
What you want can only be achieved by killing the great ancestor. Then what the prince wants can be achieved by killing Cao Mengde alone?"
"This..." Fei Zhen frowned. He seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to fully understand.
What happened before the Hongmen Banquet?
Xiang Yu defeated the Qin army in the Battle of Julu, and directly surpassed King Huai of Chu, surrendered to Zhang Han and named him king. This made other warlords see the benefits of following Xiang Yu, so they gathered under Xiang Yu in an attempt to gain more
There are many benefits, so the "Emerging Generals Group" headed by Xiang Yu, aiming to replace the old kings of the Seven Kingdoms, was formally established.
Liu Bang captured Guanzhong and had the intention of dominating Guanzhong, so it immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of all the "emerging generals groups". Xiang Yu also found an excuse to eliminate Liu Bang, but before preparing for a sneak attack, Xiang Bo leaked the secret...
After Liu Bang knew Xiang Yu's plan, how could he make a sneak attack? Although the coalition forces were large in number, they were relatively loose, and Liu Bang was the prince with the largest number of soldiers. Even if Xiang Yu could destroy Liu Bang, the losses would definitely be huge. After Xiang Yu's losses were too large,
, will definitely not be conducive to Xiang Yu's future usurpation of the throne, and will not be able to deter other princes, so the military struggle can only be transformed into a political struggle.
So when Liu Bang stated that he would obey Xiang Yu and become the boss, he was already out of danger.
The Hongmen Banquet is just about Xiang Yu beating Liu Bang, but he will not actually take action, and it is impossible to do it. Because what does Xiang Yu want? It is to usurp the throne of King Huai of Chu, become the boss himself, and then enfeoff the princes and divide the princely states into seven
More, in order to make the princes weaker, so that they can eliminate the princes step by step in the future, and finally unify the world.
So what are the prerequisites for achieving the above goals? First of all, this emerging group of generals must support Xiang Yu in usurping the throne and enfeoffing.
So how to get the emerging military generals group to agree and support it? Give corresponding benefits to the princes.
Conferring Zhang Han as king would allow the rising generals group to see benefits, but what about killing Liu Bang?
Everyone also knows that Liu Bang is not guilty, and at the Hongmen Banquet Liu Bang wanted to join the emerging generals group, and took the land in Guanzhong as a pledge of surrender. Killing heroes without guilt will definitely put everyone in danger. If so, the alliance collapses,
The enfeoffment failed and Xiang Yu was doomed.
And judging from what happened after the Hongmen Banquet, Xiang Yu did the right thing.
The emerging military general group was stabilized. Xiang Yu successfully enfeoffed the eighteen princes and became the overlord of Western Chu. The fat meat that Liu Bang had eaten was knocked out and re-divided. At the same time, he was exiled to Bashu, and his army was reduced from one hundred thousand to
Thirty thousand. The old system of the Seven Kingdoms has completely collapsed and entered the era of division of princes. The world form of "all princes are weak, Western Chu is strong" created by Xiang Yu has taken shape, laying the foundation for unification. This result shows that without killing Liu Bang
It is correct. As for Xiang Yu's subsequent failure, it is another issue, and it has nothing to do with the choice of killing or not killing Liu Bang at the Hongmen Banquet...
Pang Tong used Xiang Yu's incident as an example and told Fei Zhen, and then asked: "Young Master, how serious is the loss of Shexian County? What is the core between the East and the West? What is the current dispute between the East and the West?
?Is it land, counties, population, or something else? Gaozu sacrificed Guanzhong, was it a loss or a gain? Xiang Yu gained Guanzhong, why did he lose again? What is Guanzhong in the past like today? What if the young master is
If you can understand this point clearly, you will be able to defeat countless beetles in the world, and you will be the best in controlling them..."
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Taihang Xingnankou.
More than ten miles away from the Xingshan Road in Taihang, in a place surrounded by mountains and rivers, Cao Jun's camps stood up in a row.
The fence walls mixed with wood and mud and stone were erected high, and the trenches outside the camp were also widened and deepened. Inside and outside the camp, people were busy working, and some soldiers and craftsmen were also participating in the work.
From time to time, a military school would yell something loudly, just to ask these labor soldiers to speed up.
In the distance, a convoy of carriages, horses and baggage was slowly walking along the river.
On the riverside, the pack horses and mules that had arrived at the camp were being sweated by the soldiers and washed off the mud and dust on their bodies. In the upstream area of these mules and horses, there were also many leading soldiers fetching water.
Walking staggeringly with a bucket of water.
In the camp, smoke was already rising.
The army in front of me is the Hanoi Army led by Xiahou Yuan, Zhao Yan and others.
Starting from Hanoi, we headed all the way to Taihang Mountain.
When they set off, they were very impressive, but when they approached the Taihang Mountains, they slowed down. There was a continuous stream of scouts sent out, but the speed of travel slowed down again and again, and they even stopped altogether when they reached the mountain pass.
The whole army set up camp and built the camp, as if they were building a permanent military stronghold here in Taihangxing.
Of course, everyone in Cao's army knew that this war was launched to deal with Fei Qian, but since they started to take action, they had to use great force and speed to kill Shangdang directly in one go, and then solve the problem with lightning speed.
How can we delay here?
It's hard to beat the Huguan, so just surround it and see how long the Huguan can hold up!
On the way, you can also go around its rear and attack Taiyuan or Hedong, completely disrupting Fei Qian's rear. Let's see how Fei Qian faces such a mess in the end!
Now that we are camping at Taihangxing, wouldn't we be handing over the initiative? If Fei Qian gets the news and sends troops out to intercept, wouldn't all the previous efforts be wasted?
In fact, it is very simple. Although a single military branch has its own goals, it still has to serve the overall strategy...
In the Chinese army tent in the camp, all the generals and generals have basically arrived, but the main seats are empty, and Xia Houyuan is not seen. Inside the Chinese army tent, which is not too big, the atmosphere is somewhat depressing, and everyone is in low spirits.
While chatting, the topic was inseparable from the next evolution of the situation and the next specific move.
Zhao Yan sat on one side and said nothing. Even if others asked him, he just smiled and said that everything was decided by Xia Houyuan. Others could not ask anything, so they stopped communicating with Zhao Yan.
Instead, make your own guesses.
They say everything, but no one is sure. What is the purpose of Xia Houyuan stationed here?
When the voices of discussion gradually became uncontrollable, I heard soldiers outside the Chinese army's tent shouting, "General Zhenxi is here!"
All the military commanders and generals who were sitting on their horses stood up hurriedly, and suddenly the soldiers and armors in the tent clashed with each other, making a clanging sound.
Xia Houyuan strode forward, went straight to the top, turned around and sat down, then waved his hand, "Without courtesy, sit down!"
Everyone sat down and looked at Xia Houyuan eagerly.
Xia Houyuan did not speak immediately, but glanced back and forth. After a while, he smiled and said loudly: "The Prime Minister has taken Luoyang!"
"Oh! The Prime Minister is so powerful!"
"This is great!"
"So worry-free!"
"..."
For a moment, it was like a thousand waves, and everyone was delighted.
Hanoi and Sili face each other across the river. Going south from Taihangxing, crossing the river is directly towards Hulao Pass. When Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang, he cleverly used the Jindu River to play with Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi.
Between the palms of your hands.
Xiahou Yuan sent Zhao Yan to the front, on the one hand to attract the attention of Luoyang and other parties, and on the other hand to protect Cao Cao's flanks. After all, Xia Houyuan did not have many cavalry, and they must be placed in the most important position.
He easily jumped into the enemy formation, but was pinned down by soldiers and the like.
Now that Luoyang was conquered, it was equivalent to opening the way to Chang'an.
That's right, it's just a passage, not a portal.
The gateway is Hangu Pass and Tongguan Pass.
Although the victory over Luoyang is indeed exciting news, after the excitement, it is not actually a big victory. Because the Yang family is really too weak. There are many reasons for the Yang family's weakness, but no matter
No matter which one, it will not allow it to receive mercy or immunity from harm.
Between countries, weakness is the biggest sin.
When everyone had finished talking, Xia Houyuan nodded, and then said in a deep voice, "Now that the emperor has issued an edict, the Fei family has ulterior motives and intends to divide the Han Dynasty. People and gods will be angry, and the world will fight against it! If you want to end the world's strife, you must fight in Chang'an! If you want,
To capture Chang'an, we must capture Hedong! If we want to capture Hedong, we must capture Shangdang! Now that the Prime Minister is taking the lead in capturing Luoyang, we will naturally capture Shangdang and defeat Hedong decisively! A good man must have a big heart and an awe-inspiring spirit, and he will naturally be the leader.
Sheji, fight for the world and the common people!"
Those present at the military academy have been somewhat depressed since they were suppressed by Fei Qian. Now that they are so aroused by Xia Houyuan, plus most of them are related to the Cao family and the Xiahou family, it is a mess.
They all stood up, either raising their arms and shouting, or beating their chests to fight, with great momentum.
Xia Houyuan smiled, obviously satisfied with his men's exciting performance. After everyone cheered for a while, he said in a deep voice: "Everyone, listen to the order!"
All the military academies stood in silence.
"Today we will take inventory of the equipment, and tomorrow we will march to Taihang at Mao hour! Capture Gaoping and attack Huguan! Share the emperor's worries and accomplish great things!"
