Chapter 243 Zhuge Liang: Are you teaching me to do things?
Chapter 243 Zhuge Liang: Are you teaching me how to do things?
"It's not that dangerous." Zhuge Liang looked at Ma Su with a smile: "But it is difficult for Wang Ping to gain Lu Xun's trust, difficult to be reused by Soochow, and even less likely to be in charge of an army alone. If Youchang just wants him to pass on something valuable
information, it’s still feasible.”
"..."
The matter had reached this point and was irreversible. Ma Su simply put away his worries and said instead: "Prime Minister, in the next period of time, I, Ji Han, will face a very serious situation."
Zhuge Liang nodded slightly but said nothing.
Indeed, after the Shu Han captured the military capital and the two counties of Yinping in Longnan two and a half years ago, they recently acquired five new counties in Longyou, bringing the entire seven counties in Longyou under their control.
Coupled with the previously captured four tribes of Xiqiang (approximately equivalent to the territory and size of four counties) and eight counties in Liangzhou, the number of various affairs suddenly doubled, which was terrifying to death.
Just re-dividing all the territories under his jurisdiction into administrative areas, arranging officials to take office, and straightening out the situation in various places made Zhuge Liang very busy.
Previously, Zhuge Liang had divided the seven counties of Nanzhong from Yizhou and established them as Yunzhou. During this period, he also merged the seven counties of Longyou and about 11 counties of the Eastern Qiang in four parts into one place and established it as Qinzhou.
; The eight counties of Liangzhou remain unchanged and are still called Liangzhou.
In this way, Ji Han's territory has evolved from one state with a total of 13 counties when Zhuge Liang took over in the first year of Jianxing (223) to the current four states with a total of 42 counties. The territory has expanded four times.
As for the current total population, it has not been calculated yet, but Zhuge Liang has an approximation in his mind, and it is equivalent to the approximation provided by Ma Di.
The population of Jihan is currently about 3.5 million, and there are more than 280,000 soldiers and horses.
Although the four states combined had a population of just over three million, which was far less than the five million people Liu Yan and his son had when they controlled Shu, Zhuge Liang was already very satisfied.
Ji Han's rapid rise began because he promoted Ma Di from Jieting.
Compared with Ji Han, Cao Wei currently owns eight states including You, Ji, Qing, Xu, Yu, Yan, and Yong, and also occupies the northern areas of Yangzhou and Jingzhou. It has seventy-four counties under its jurisdiction and a population of about 600.
There are about 10,000 troops, and another 4 to 50 million troops.
Sun Wu owned three states, thirty-two counties, a population of about three million, and two hundred thousand troops.
Of the fifteen states in the world, Wei has eight, Shu has four, and Wu has three.
In this way, the comparison of the national strength of the three kingdoms is as follows: Cao Wei's population is 6 million > Ji Han's population is 3.5 million > Sun Wu's is 3 million;
Troop strength: Cao Wei 500,000 > Ji Han 280,000 > Sun Wu 200,000.
Among the Three Kingdoms, Wei is still the strongest; Ji Han bucked the trend and advanced from the last to second; Sun Wu was at the bottom.
The current overall strength of Ji Han and Sun Wu combined has surpassed Cao Wei. If the Shu-Wu alliance does not collapse, Cao Wei will be cannibalized by the two families sooner or later.
In other words, Cao Wei will eventually be cannibalized by the three families, because there is still a great desert lord in the north named Kebineng. Kebineng has 100,000 cavalry under his command and is eyeing the northern part of the Wei Kingdom.
Four years ago, Cao Wei was not afraid of Kirby. Because at that time, the Wei State had 50,000 elite cavalry, and another 50,000 cavalry reserves. As long as there was a need, the Wei State could instantly raise 100,000 cavalry. However,
Now, Wei's elite cavalry has been almost completely lost in the battle against the Shu and Han. The number of newly formed cavalry is small and their combat effectiveness is average. In this way, Kirby's cavalry advantage has been highlighted.
Judging from the current situation, as long as the Shu Han people do not commit suicide and are no longer stabbed in the back by Soochow, this solid foundation is enough for Liu Chan to be the emperor safely until his death.
Therefore, although he spent more and more time working on state affairs every day and his body was getting worse, Zhuge Liang's spirit was high-spirited, strong and cheerful, and there was no longer the decadence and anxiety he had when he took over the Shu Han nine years ago.
Recently, Zhuge Liang has gradually realized the dangers of having to do everything himself, and is trying to delegate power to his subordinates little by little.
In terms of people's livelihood and government affairs, Zhuge Liang had previously arranged for Jiang Wan to be the governor of Liangzhou; after the division of Qinzhou (that is, the seven counties of Longyou plus four tribes of Qiang people), Wu Yi was promoted to the governor of Qinzhou; Yang Yi, governor of Hanzhong, and Fei
Yi was supervising all affairs in Yizhou under the guidance of the Prime Minister's Office, while Dong Yun went to Yunzhou (i.e., the seven counties of Nanzhong).
In terms of military affairs, Zhuge Liang currently has two favorite successors. The first is Ma Su, and the second is Jiang Wei.
As for Zhao Yun, Chen Dao, Wei Yan, Deng Zhi, Xiang Chong, Zong Yu, Hu Ji, Li Hui, Zhang Yi, Ma Zhong, Ma Dai, Zhang Biao, Yan Yu, Huo Ge, Liao Hua, including Wang who is currently undercover in Soochow.
All equal generals are generals, not handsome men.
These generals do not even include the four major generals under Ma Su, as well as Fei Yao, Dai Ling, Qu Yi, Qu Bu and others who stayed in Liangzhou to surrender.
In fact, for a long time, even Zhuge Liang himself believed that the talents of the Shu Han were withering and that there were not many people worthy of big posts. However, when he decided to let some power go, he suddenly discovered that the actual situation was not actually the case.
There are still many generals in the Shu Han Dynasty.
It's just that in the past, the country was too poor, the people were too few, and the military strength was insufficient. In addition, he was too capable of fighting, almost omnipotent, and pushed himself to the top, so he gave him the illusion that "the talents of Shu Han could not reach his standards."
Looking back now, Zhuge Liang couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, feeling that his previous demands were too high.
What made his concept change quietly was Ma Su's war talent.
This made Zhuge Liang realize that not everyone in this world can be as omnipotent as him. He can be a general or a minister, he can rule a country when he dismounts, and he can conquer the world when he is mounted.
Most talents are usually very strong in one specialty and very short in other areas. This is the normal state of talents in the world.
Take Ma Su, for example, who is very powerful in battles. Once he mounts his horse, he can win and is almost invincible; but after he dismounts... he will only worm his way into the crowd of women.
If Ma Su was allowed to govern the country and handle government affairs, his methods would be unbelievably rough, and the country would inevitably collapse quickly.
This can be seen from Ma Su's original advocacy of increasing grain production, increasing population and building roads.
These three things are now being managed by Zhuge Liang and are being maintained with great difficulty, facing the risk of losing control at any time.
In the past year, road construction projects have been intermittent, and long-term work stoppages are the norm. Twenty thousand migrant workers have nothing to do all day long, but they get paid every penny and eat a lot of food. The reason for the work stoppage is that the road is being built too fast and there is no volcanic ash.
Already.
How spectacular is the scene of 20,000 people carrying shovels looking for volcanic ash like locusts? Ma Su must have never seen it.
But Zhuge Liang has seen it.
The surge in the Shuhan population and the influx of people of all ethnic groups have also caused severe challenges to public security and people's livelihood in various places.
It is not enough for the people to give him just one mouthful of food.
When the problem of food is solved, people want to wear better clothes, live in better houses, own more fields, marry more wives and concubines, receive better education, pursue a more comfortable quality of life, and yearn for a better life.
High life goals...
In any era, people's desires are endless and need to be controlled by humans. They cannot be allowed to grow wildly.
However, Ma Su ignored all these and ran away without knowing the secret to increasing grain production.
God knows how many times this increased the workload for Zhuge Liang!
The two generals and ministers stood in front of the wind at the city gate of Chengdu, looking at the clouds rolling in the sky, each thinking.
After a long time, Ma Su suddenly said: "Prime Minister, I feel that the "Chu Shi Biao" is somewhat out of date. Should it be changed?"
Are you teaching me how to write an article?... Zhuge Liang looked sideways, quite surprised: "Oh, how to change it? You Chang, please tell me."
Zhuge Liang thought that "Chu Shi Biao" was still very good. It was his proud work, a work handed down from generation to generation, and a work of painstaking efforts!
I didn't expect to be picked on by Ma Su today.
Zhuge Liang looked straight at Ma Su, wanting to see if the latter could tell one thing, two three, or not. If he could really get to the point, it would not be impossible to change the "Shi Shi Biao".
When it comes to making articles, he considers himself to be very humble.
Ma Su said with a serious face: "In the past, the Prime Minister once said: The late Emperor's business was not half completed when the middle road collapsed. Today, it has fallen three points. Yizhou is exhausted. This is the time when the survival of the sincerity is in danger..."
"I think, based on the current situation, it should be changed to: The late emperor spent his entire budget before starting his business. Fortunately, I have lived up to my trust and tried to turn the tide. Today I will score three points. Yizhou is as solid as iron. This sincere sweep
At the time of Qing Liuhe..."
"..."
Zhuge Liang looked at Ma Su with a calm expression, and held back a few moments before he burst out laughing. He paused and spat: "Boring, extremely boring."
After that, he walked away.
After coming down from the tower, from an angle that Ma Di couldn't see, Zhuge Liang raised the corners of his mouth slightly and walked away briskly.
…
Jiangling, Jingzhou, the residence of the great general of the State of Wu.
Lu Xun, who was working at his desk, soon saw a piece of intelligence marked in red.
He quickly took out the bamboo slips, spread them out on the table, and looked at them carefully.
According to the intelligence system markings of the Wu State, those marked in blue on the bamboo slips are intelligence from the State of Wei, and those marked in red are information from the State of Shu.
Although Jiangling borders Shu, due to their former alliance, the intelligence sent by subordinates is usually in blue, which means that intelligence from Wei is rarely in red.
However, recently, after Wu State adjusted its foreign strategy, there was suddenly more information coming from Shu State. The above content also surprised Lu Xun, who was amazed at the strong national power of Shu Han.
As the highest military officer of Wu State and the first person on the front line of Shu, Lu Xun has recently been particularly concerned about the intelligence of Shu Han.
Because the Shu Kingdom has quietly turned from an "ally" to an enemy of the Wu Kingdom.
What will be written in this thick piece of information in front of you?
Soon, Lu Xun put down the bamboo slips and frowned in thought.
This is the latest information sent back by the spies of the State of Wu from Shu. It was a day ago, and the content is about Wang Ping, the general of Wei and Shu.
Thirteen years after Wang Ping abandoned Wei and went to Shu, he was demoted to a commoner by Zhuge Liang for dereliction of duty. Now he has gone down the river to the Kingdom of Wu.
There is nothing suspicious about the content of this message.
What really made Lu Xun suspicious was that Wang Ping chose to come to Soochow.
According to the current strength and strong upward momentum of Shu Han, it is far better for Wang Ping to invest in Wu than to stay in Shu and wait for a comeback.
In other words, Wang Ping's purpose of coming to Soochow is not as simple as "moving people to work".
At the end of the information, Wang Ping's residence in Jiangling and the industry he was engaged in were also noted.
Gangneung Fisherman.
This is unreasonable!
If Wang Ping really wanted to make a living by fishing, wouldn't he be able to fish in Shu?
If Wang Ping wanted to defect to Wu and Lu Xun, shouldn't he come to see him as soon as possible?!
You, an illiterate warrior, actually imitated Jiang Ziya and went fishing?
Do you want me to come and invite you in person?
I won't go until my head is secure!...Lu Xun sneered.
Just as he was thinking about it, his own soldiers knocked on the door and came in, saying: "General, the envoy from Wei wants to see you."
