What Wang Xuan said is correct. The real difficulty is not to defeat Yuan Shao, but to conquer the three places of Youzhou and Jizhou, and then how to subdue the aristocratic families that have been entrenched in the area for hundreds or thousands of years.
Any person can have three or five friends in ten or twenty years, let alone those from these entrenched aristocratic families.
Wang Xuan didn't know whether the theory that one could understand the whole world through seven people was correct, but he was certain that no one under Liu Bei's command, from the top to the bottom, could escape, and all of them could be persuaded by these aristocratic families.
Who doesn’t have three or five close friends and family relatives?
Take the Guo family of Yingchuan as an example. After hundreds of years of family reproduction, there are hundreds of people in the family tree, and even more people who are not in the family tree. Thousands of people can be found casually, and Guo Jia is
People from the branch of the Guo family in Yingchuan, and they are listed in the genealogy.
Guo Tu, who served under Yuan Shao, was one of the more outstanding disciples of this generation of the Guo family in Yingchuan.
In this era where the concept of family is far stronger than the concept of the country, even if Guo Jia is unwilling to interfere with the family's bad affairs, what about Guo Jia's parents and relatives?
Which branch of the family does not want to return to the main line of the family?
In their opinion, this is the most important thing. With Guo Jia's status under Liu Bei and Guo Jia's contribution, shouldn't he benefit his family in some way?
If you can't do this, then why do you want to be such a big official?
In their view, whether a family is prosperous is always more important than achieving a high position in the court for a while. There is no thousand-year dynasty, only a thousand-year family.
So, if the request comes to Guo Jia, what can Guo Jia do?
in spite of?
Then your reputation in your hometown will be completely ruined, and your wife and children's reputation will also be completely ruined. How can you return home in fine clothes?
It’s no exaggeration to say that if everyone is so heartless towards the family, then what’s the point of the family’s existence?
Therefore, this is tantamount to digging into the foundation of the family. Therefore, if you don't mind attacking Guo Jia in the most unpleasant words, but Guo Jia has nothing to do, how can you in turn bring down the Guo family?
It was precisely because Guo Jia understood this that he had such a pained expression when Wang Xuan mentioned this matter.
Times have changed!
The elders in the family cannot understand, or are simply unwilling to understand. People who hold this old concept and firmly believe that they are right are the most difficult to deal with.
Guo Jia himself understood that it was useless, being caught in the middle was the most difficult thing to do.
In fact, in order to deal with this situation, the initial plan was not to leave Qingzhou so early. It needed to accumulate talents for another two years and completely stabilize the new knowledge system and imperial examination system before expanding the territory.
However, the plan cannot keep up with the rapid changes, which is also forced to do nothing, but things will be more troublesome.
After returning to Ling County, the battle report was finally sent the next day.
Qu Yi returned to Ganling with a complete army of 50,000 troops. Most of the remaining 150,000 troops were captured, and less than 30,000 of them escaped, and the possibility of returning to Ganling was completely eliminated.
The reason for achieving such great results was that Wang Xuan had brought back Zhang Ji's 10,000 cavalry two days ago.
Anyway, with the convenience of the Yellow River waterway, there is not much distance upstream and downstream, so this back-up is specially reserved for collecting prisoners.
In addition, it can also control the passages on all sides of Ganling City, completely blocking the possibility of Yuan Shaojun's escape.
"What should we do with the 50,000 people in Ganling City?" Liu Bei put the mutton into the hot pot several times, and while rinsing it, he looked at Wang Xuan and asked.
"We don't have time to take care of them now. Let's surround them first. We can't deal with the more than 100,000 prisoners now, especially the scattered soldiers, which will cause more serious damage to the place." Wang Xuan didn't even raise his head, picking up the bowl.
Put the lamb tripe with sauce in your mouth and chew it.
"This Jizhou doesn't matter whether others admit it or not. In fact, it already belongs to us. We must protect our own territory well!"
"It's just the three melons and two dates in Ganling City. It doesn't need to be more. Give me ten thousand people, and I promise to capture Ganling City and give it to my brother in a few days." Zhang Fei took a gulp of wine and grinned loudly.
road.
"Good guy." Wang Xuan glanced at Zhang Fei and said, "How are you going to attack the city? Just follow our military code of conduct? Why don't you do it? With such heavy casualties, I can just find any middle-level officer to do it!
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"Why do you still look down on people like that!" Zhang Fei swallowed the meat in his mouth and stared at Wang Xuan with eyes as big as copper bells, "No, isn't it just that attacking the heart is the first priority and attacking the city is the second priority?
I, Lao Zhang, can do it too!"
Liu Bei, Dian Wei, Zhao Yun, and Hua Xiong put down their chopsticks and didn't care about eating. They looked at Zhang Fei with smiles, and their intuition told them that Zhang Fei was about to suffer.
This is not the first time this has happened. However, Zhang Fei always forgets about food and not about fighting.
"Okay, you can, you can." Wang Xuan just asked casually. He didn't mean to test or look down on Zhang Fei, but continued to rinse the duck intestines. But in Zhang Fei's view, it was still
Why don't you look at him with the same disdain as before, but now you have reached the point of ignoring him!
I, Zhang Fei, can't stand this!
The meat no longer tastes good after eating, and the wine loses its energy. Zhang Fei's dark face turned red, and he tried to think of a way to attack his heart.
As long as you are alive, you cannot be looked down upon by others!
Go to the city to shout?
No, Zhang Fei thought to himself, this is a standard process created by Wang Xuan, we can't throw people away... what a joke.
"Think hard" is originally a rhetorical device, describing a person who devotes himself wholeheartedly to using his brain, but when it comes to Zhang Fei, it is shown in real terms.
Staring at the hot pot on the table, not caring about other people's eyes, his eyes widened, his teeth gritted, the veins on his head stretched... he thought with all his strength.
This may be because there are certain differences in the structure of individual brains, and people whose brains are all muscles think this way.
Slowly, his eyes were fixed on the plate of mutton slices. The meat...the meat. The braised pork Wang Xuan made a few days ago hurt the morale of the opponent. Because the meat was fragrant enough, I, Lao Zhang, did the opposite.
That?
If you don't make it smell good, it will make it stink!
"I thought of it!" Zhang Fei was so excited that he was as excited as Ollie. He startled Wang Xuan with his voice, and the meat he held in his hand almost hit his nose.
"What the hell are you..." Wang Xuan was so angry that he glanced at Zhang Fei angrily, "Okay, you say it!"
"Huh, let's do this. I'm not that kind of person. I'll go back to making clay pots and put all the shit in the toilet into the pots."
Wang Xuan almost spit it out, put down his chopsticks angrily and said, "You are such a fucking talent, you are so flavorful, and you even put it in a clay pot. Why, you want to pickle all this shit?"
"Ugh... vomit..." Zhang Fei originally said that Liu Bei, Zhao Yun and others didn't feel anything yet, but when Wang Xuan described it in such a specific way, the scene made them unable to hold back, and several people retched directly.