Chapter 3289: If you love to do it, don’t get out of it
Indeed, Cao Pi had reason to be angry about the current situation in Jizhou.
But anger cannot solve the problem, and often only creates more problems.
Many things are often impossible to have the best of both worlds, and at some point they can only make choices.
The result of wanting everything is often that you can't get anything.
Cao Pi has now tasted the consequences of wanting everything.
If he hadn't wanted everything before, then the money and food in Jizhou might not have been so concentrated in the transit camp, the soldiers in counties would not have been so weak, and the resentment of local gentry would not have been so great.
If he didn't want everything, he would first reconcile the relationship between Cui Yan and Chen Qun as much as possible and leave the two in Yecheng to command, on the one hand, he could show the attitude of cooperation in Jizhou and Yuzhou to the outside world. On the other hand, Wei Yan might not be able to gain too much advantage with the joint efforts of Cui Yan and Chen Qun.
Wei Yan was bold and keen in terms of battlefield intuition.
He almost instinctively seized the discord between Jizhou and Yuzhou, and realized the hidden resentment of the gentry in Jizhou towards Cao's army. He immediately began to lure the gentry in Jizhou to become Wei Yan's "friendly army", actively or passively cooperating, covering up Wei Yan's traces.
Chen Qun guessed some of the problems, but he could not explain them explicitly. He could only express it implicitly, reminding Cao Pi that there was a drought in Jizhou and that he should do something, at least express an attitude, and win over these gentry in Jizhou...
Just like when many companies encounter festivals in later generations, they always send out some insignificant welfare products.
Although there are not many, and it is very likely that the intermediary will be beaten by some help, it is at least proved that the company has this mind and employees will be slightly more at ease.
Cao Pi seemed to come up and slam the table, pulling his neck and shouting, "There are not many other people in China, but there are many people, and I like to do it, so I don't want to get out!"
Isn’t this the same as a dairy factory ridiculing the consumer, “No one is short of you”?
So, now there is one missing in Jizhou in the east and one missing in the west, and there are holes everywhere all at once.
Cao Pi angrily expressed his desire to loosen Chen Qun's chain and let him go out to bite... Well, suppress the bandits, but in fact, even if Chen Qun killed all the officials in Jizhou who did not obey orders, would he solve the problem?
Obviously impossible.
It is a very troublesome thing to really solve the problem, so many people are willing to directly solve the people who raise the problem. So Cao Pi is now adding mistakes to the mistakes.
Cao Cao and Fei Qian are like two super-large companies in the Han Dynasty, with thousands of employees or even tens of thousands of people directly involved in millions of families, and indirectly radiating to tens of millions of people.
Then something goes wrong, kill?
Which company has problems? Is it a killer to solve the problem?
Layoffs?
Layouts can only be considered dismissal at most, while murders can be directly physically erased.
What an idiot can come up with a solution?
Now it's like layoffs and layoffs are in blood.
There were many delicious and fun things on a table, but a bug was mixed in.
The correct way is to cry and shout, then pull the tablecloth tightly, which eventually leads to everything on the table falling to the ground and shattering.
Chen Qun delivered those memorials to make Cao Pi understand where the root of the Jizhou problem lies and what is the most critical tool...
The result was obvious. Cao Pi was like the crying and furious child. He didn't listen to what Chen Qun wanted to say, nor did he ask what Chen Qun was going to do. Instead, he grabbed the tablecloth and pulled it down desperately.
In order to prevent the things on the table from falling to pieces, Chen Qun had to agree to lead his troops to encircle and suppress the "Cavals and Bandits".
To send troops, you also need to be prepared.
Before leaving, Chen Qun summoned his child to the front.
Chen Tai is not old, but he is not young either.
Originally, Chen Qun brought Chen Tai to Yecheng, on the one hand, to better take care of and teach Chen Tai, and on the other hand, he also hoped that Chen Tai would have more opportunities to contact Cao Pi...
How to get closer to the relatives of the leader is obviously a science.
Unfortunately, Chen Qun suddenly felt that Chen Tai and Cao Pi were not suitable to get too close.
『Sir, Father…』
Chen Tai stepped forward to greet him.
Chen Qun pointed to the seat beside him and said, "Sit."
Since we cannot get too close to Cao Pi, we must choose another direction and open up another channel.
So what directions and channels are there in Yecheng, or within the Jizhou area, that are worth Chen Qun’s investment?
In the hall, the father and son sat silently.
In the courtyard, the summer sunlight appeared a little brilliant and hot, as if it was about to melt everything.
『Jizhou has a very bad drought...』
Chen Qun sighed softly.
The originally green leaves in the courtyard have now lowered their heads.
Chen Tai did not answer the conversation.
There is no wind, so the air around it is a bit dull.
Although the summer in Jizhou is not as humid and stuffy as in Jiangdong, this windless weather will make people feel that they are blocked by something in their hearts and feel uncomfortable even if they are breathing.
Cao Pi grew up gradually and had some temperaments when he was young, and could be said to be "ignorant" or "childish", but Cao Pi was not an ordinary child.
Moreover, the definition of children in the Han Dynasty was not as outrageous as that of later generations...
Later generations were in their thirties and forties, but in the Han Dynasty, they were still children, and they were not a minority who came out to be the head of the family at the age of twelve or thirteen.
Therefore, Cao Pi lost his composure as a heir and even lost his composure as a successor, which made Chen Qun look down on him even more.
After a long period of silence, Chen Qun looked at Chen Tai.
Chen Tai quickly straightened his waist slightly and was respectful.
"What is a family?"
Chen Qun asked.
Chen Tai thought for a moment, "The aristocratic family is a family that has been passed down from generation to generation. Its family background is prominent and has been of great talent for generations. The family tradition is simple and hereditary title, and the descendants are reproduced and passed down from generation to generation."
Chen Qun asked again without commenting, "What are the gentry?"
Chen Tai was stunned for a moment, "This...ah, the gentry is a family whose career is to study. Although their family is not as prominent as a family, they have also been a scholarly family for generations, and their descendants all value their knowledge. The family style is elegant and passed down from generation to generation."
"So, what are the people?" Chen Qun continued to ask.
"The people are the foundation of the country." Chen Tai replied.
Chen Qun nodded and sighed, "That's how it is."
Chen Qun is knowledgeable, but he is also limited by his own limitations.
What is the root?
In fact, it is the sewer of the city, the root of the forest, and the people who are often overlooked in daily life...
But like Chen Tai, Chen Qun kept the people on his lips, but in fact he couldn't see those people.
Just like when Chen Tai talks about "arist families" and "arists", he can talk freely, but when he talks about "people", he only has a short sentence left.
They usually look upwards.
What do you see when you look upward?
High-rise buildings are lush with branches and leaves.
As for the roots and soil below?
And the sewer that is silted and blocked...
How smelly and dirty that is, will that "fool" go to see it?
Chen Qun doesn't think he is a "fool" and will not let his children be "fool".
"If you have a general trend today, what do you think?" Chen Qun asked again.
"The world's trend?" Chen Tai was silent for a moment. This question was a bit big and I didn't know how to answer it for a while.
Chen Qun looked at Chen Tai and said, "The world is so great, the world is chaotic, but it is nothing more than aristocratic families, gentry, and people..."
Chen Tai suddenly realized, "My father said that now that the aristocratic family is collapsed, the aristocratic family will rise up, and will the people be governed?"
"Of course." Chen Qun nodded, but soon sighed again, "It's just... the prince...
Chen Qun looked around and lowered his voice, "I don't understand this."
Before the fall of Yuan's family, the Han Dynasty was a dynasty of aristocratic families. It can even be said that it was only aristocratic families that could be the leader in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Even in the Records of the Grand Historian, "Aristocratic families" were listed as the top priority.
What? Chen Sheng and Wu Guang?
Yes, Chen Sheng is not from a noble family, but he was finally listed as a "aristories".
Chen Sheng first attacked under the strict rule of the Qin Dynasty and had extraordinary achievements. Later, Chen Sheng established himself as the King of Chu, which was somewhat considered a "king", and the generals he appointed also played a key role in overthrowing the Qin Dynasty. Therefore, Sima Qian praised Chen Sheng, compared him to Shang Tang and Zhou Wu, affirmed his achievements in overthrowing the previous dynasty, and carried Chen Sheng to the "family family".
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The normal "family family" is the kind that Chen Tai answered, "generational soldiers".
Chen Qun's meaning is very close to the path he has taken in history.
Because China is a great agricultural country, before the Han Dynasty, the kingdom composition of the Han Dynasty usually could only be provided by a political elite group of a certain region as the core and the will to form a group. For example, Liu Bang and Liu Xiu had political groups with their regions as the core, and Cao Cao himself was the same.
In the great turmoil in the whole world, the most ordinary people are at most followers of these political elites. In a sense, they are also involved in the changes in national politics, but their influence is really very limited.
In the manor system of Shandong in the Han Dynasty, these ordinary people at the bottom, except for a very few people who were lucky enough to float to the surface, most of the people at the bottom were settled under the surface and could not influence political decision-making in a way that participated. They were just "national people", the people under the rule of the emperor and officials, and various "civilians" composed of various prefixes, such as the people, subjects, the people, the people, the people, the people, the untouchables, and the unruly people...
But China was the first country to realize the importance of the people.
If the saying "The people are the most important, the country is the next, and the king is the least" is only limited to Mencius' ideal, then "water carries a boat, water capsizes the boat", as well as words such as "people's opinion" and "people's hearts" have become the focus of emperors and political elites in all dynasties, and are an important constraint on the political governance of any dynasty. Many institutional practices in Chinese history have also pursued to varying degrees to follow the people's hearts and win the people's hearts.
So it is obvious that China has a preliminary awareness of the "people" or "people", but this awareness also has certain limitations.
This limitation does not mean that there is any difference between good and bad from the Western "citizens", because the Western "citizens" and the Eastern "citizens" are fundamentally different concepts formed by historical developments, and they cannot be simply compared and evaluated by each other.
Chen Qun is the embodiment of this conceptual limitation.
He understood that the collapse of the Han Dynasty was the collapse of aristocratic families. He understood that the Han Dynasty had to return to order at the moment, and could only rely on more gentry families, rather than relying on a separate aristocratic family. Therefore, Chen Qun handed Cao Cao the "Examination System", which was the "Nine-rank Zhongzheng System" in history, but for various reasons, Cao Cao did not effectively promote the "Examination System".
Chen Qun used Wei Yan's incident to deliver memorials from all over the country to Cao Pi. His original idea was to take advantage of this opportunity to promote the alliance of the gentry in Jizhou and consolidate the lower-level gentry in the "Tailing System", so that they could automatically and spontaneously find experience packages like fighting monsters and upgrading, that is, "Bandits" and "Drought".
But it's a pity...
Cao Pi did not appreciate it, or did not understand the key issues at all.
That would be a pity.
Chen Qun was not going to talk to Cao Pi for a second time.
"The system of examining the right people is judged by their qualities. People are divided into high and low, equally divided into up and down, and exam is used as the system to correct the person. Therefore, it is called examining the right people." Chen Qun said slowly, "This system aims to select talented people to serve the purpose of the court. In times of chaos, it is difficult to check the authenticity of filial piety and honest counties, and the talents are directly declining. Therefore, the chiefs of the prefectures and counties are used as examining the talents of the prefectures and counties, and their character, talents, family background, etc., to determine the quality. On the one hand, it can be avoided, and on the other hand, it can be fair."
Chen Tai looked at Chen Qun, "My father..."
"Now the bandits continue to storm the prefectures and counties, and the drought is unsolvable in the land, which is all difficult for the local area." Chen Qun said in a deep voice, "Now, under the order of the prince, he ruled the soldiers of Yecheng, attacked the bandits and Jingping places... Do you know what should you do?"
"This..." Chen Tai seemed to understand a little, but he couldn't fully understand it.
"Cui Jigui is not in Jizhou now." Chen Qun added.
Chen Tai thought for a long time, then suddenly realized, "Ah, the child understands."
Chen Qun nodded, "Then let's go and do your business. As your father... three days later, the army will be launched to attack the thieves!"
Chen Tai took a breath, "After the order, the child will leave."
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While Jizhou was stirred up so much that everyone was thinking about it, the Cao army camp under the slope of Emeiling ushered in the most violent baptism of artillery.
Are the city walls of the Han Dynasty, the city walls of the Tang Dynasty, or the city walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties the same?
Obviously not.
In ancient times, the earliest defense system was fences and trenches, which were used to defend against wild animals. Later, in order to defend against people, the city walls were added. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the city walls were basically formed, with rammed earth as inside and covered with bricks and stones, which became the standard for the city walls of later Chinese feudal dynasties.
However, because the methods of siege are becoming more and more cruel, the city walls have begun to develop horizontally and become thicker. Most of the city walls that can be retained in later generations are the city walls of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The early Han and Tang dynasties, because on the one hand, they were not as thick and strong as the Ming and Qing dynasties, were not much left.
Overall, the strength of the "shield" was determined based on the "spear" at that time. Therefore, when Fei Qian took out the artillery that spanned this dynasty, the city walls set up according to the old defense standards could not be blocked, let alone the camp military camp?
So didn’t Cao’s army know that Fei Qian had artillery?
Actually, I know it.
But the key is that the time left for Cao Cao is too short.
When the news that Shanshan Kingdom was bombarded with artillery and the capital was passed to Shandong, some people thought it was "fake news" created by Fei Qian...
The cannons roared.
Fei Qian only used two copper cannons and bombarded several times in a row, and then made a small gap in the Cao army camp down the slope. Although the village wall would not collapse, the morale of Cao army was obviously falling.
Even though Liu Zhu quickly organized manpower to block the collapsed part of the village wall and barely maintained the front line, the collapse of people's morale was not so easy to fill.
The formation that Fei Qian set out was like a crab, and the two large pliers were cavalry on both wings.
In the thick array in the middle are infantry artillery and baggage, and there are also some cavalry on the back line, just like the thinner feet of crabs.
The mission of infantry is not only for attack, but more for guarding the artillery array.
The duty of a cavalry is to strangle like huge pliers when there is a mistake in the opponent's formation.
This array is simple and straightforward. Whether it is one side or the enemy, you can see it clearly and think it clearly. It will not be like the eight-door golden locks, the nine-curved Yellow River, etc., which makes people confused and confused.
But the problem is that even if Liu Zhu understood it, he had no choice but to stand with his hands and prayed that Cao's reinforcements would come quickly...
At the back of Fei Qian's mid-range, Xu Chu stood aside.
"Go."
Fei Qian nodded slightly.
Xu Chu bowed, then stood up and moved forward with a high spirit.
This is the stage set up by Fei Qian for Xu Chu, and now Xu Chu is about to appear on stage.
A good general is definitely not something that can grow by talking about it on paper, but must be tested by actual combat.
And the Cao Jun camp, which is not big or small at the slope, is Xu Chu's trial site.
Winning will naturally lead to winning, but if the damage is too great or the command is in a mess, you may lose the next chance to go to power, and you will never have a second chance.
With Xu Chu's order, the infantry front gradually advanced forward.
The archer followed the big shield soldiers, fifty steps away from his own line, not far or near. It happened that the archer exerted the maximum power, and he could use volleys or diffuse to support the front-line infantry array at any time.
The war drums roared and the flags roared.
Everyone under the cavalry was full of fighting spirit and was approaching in an orderly manner.
On the other hand, the Cao army soldiers in the camp were pale and trembling.
Even if there are camp trenches and horse-resisting traps, they cannot bring any comfort to these Cao army soldiers, let alone feel no sense of security.
The soldiers of Cao's army felt deeply trapped in an endless swamp. Whether they were moving or not moving, it meant that death would come, sooner or later.
If Liu Zhu had not repeatedly emphasized that he would die if he went out of the camp and fought in the field, and that he would still have the possibility of waiting for reinforcements in the camp, these Cao army soldiers might have collapsed and fled in the previous rounds of artillery attacks.
But this is only temporary. Whether it is Liu Zhu or the Cao army soldiers, they all know this.
Chapter completed!