Chapter 64 Give Lu Bu the King
Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and seemed to have guessed Guo Jia's intention.
"Talk about it in detail!"
Guo Jia nodded and said, "Lu Bu is so powerful that he has many soldiers and concentrated troops. If he wants to defeat Lu Bu, he can only divide his troops. For example, although the land where the lord is located is wide, the total population is only three million. The Yongliang area is sparsely populated and the resources are not abundant, so it is useless to manage it. After being moved by Lu Bu to the people in Yuzhou, it is also a desolate place."
"Sili and Yanzhou have experienced wars and are not rich in population. Now the most densely populated Han Dynasty is the three prefectures of Hebei. Therefore, Jia's strategy is to occupy the three prefectures of Hebei, with the natural danger of the Yellow River as the boundary, and to govern the river from Lu Bu. The land where the lord currently occupied is transferred to Lu Bu. In this way, if Lu Bu's territory expands, he will be divided into troops to garrison. At that time, contact the southern princes and they will find an opportunity to defeat Lu Bu one by one."
As soon as this strategy was released, the ministers sneered and made various comments.
Cao Cao also frowned and thought in various ways.
Guo Jia continued: "Now after the Yuan family's internal struggle, it is no longer as good as before. The lord has a thunderbolt chariot, and it is no problem to conquer cities and territories. As long as Lu Bu can stabilize it, I believe that it will take less than a year to take over Jizhou and then the entire three prefectures of Hebei."
Cao Cao nodded and said, "It is indeed a good strategy, but how can we stabilize Lu Bu?"
Guo Jia said: "The lord can ask Your Majesty to issue an order to give Lu Bu the king, so that he can have the power to form a court and make him a court official. In this way, it will take a lot of time for Lu Bu to reorganize the regime. Moreover, the lord can also reveal to Lu Bu the intention of ceding the southern part of the Yellow River to him. In this way, it is not difficult to get along with Lu Bu."
"When we take over Jizhou, we will migrate all the people under our rule. Although the territory is given, it is a blank space. In this way, Lu Bu's troops will be dispersed and there will be a chance to make a breakthrough in the future."
"Yes!" Cao Cao kept his head and felt that this plan was good.
The ministers also made noises and made various comments.
The main thing is that not everyone wants to move.
At this moment, one person stood up and knelt straight in front of Cao Cao: "Report to the Prime Minister, you must not be granted the title of Lu Bu as king! Emperor Gaozu once had a legacy, and those who are not surnamed Liu should not be king. Prime Minister must not violate the ancestral teachings!"
As soon as this said, Cao Cao's face suddenly became cold.
This Xun Yu always uses the set of Emperor Gaozu to suppress others, which makes him annoyed.
Emperor Gaozu has been dead for hundreds of years, and it is useless.
Who said that a king would not be granted the title of King without the surname Liu? At that time, Liu Bang himself conferred eight kings of different surnames.
However, for the sake of the Liu family, Liu Bang killed all the other eight kings of different surnames.
For example, the greatest hero, King Han Xin of Chu, died very miserably.
Of course, Cao Cao did not agree with Liu Bang's ancestral teachings.
But Xun Yu was an important official under his command, but Cao Cao was not able to scold him in person.
Cao Cao had no choice but to look at the other ministers.
After a moment, Jia Xu said, "Wen Ruo's words are wrong. Forty years ago, Tan Shihuai's soldiers invaded our great Han Dynasty, and no one could stop him. Emperor Heng gave Tan Shihuai the title of King of the time and promised to marry a princess. It's just that Tan Shihuai himself did not accept it and insisted on invading our great Han Dynasty. If Tan Shihuai had not died early, I was afraid that my great Han Dynasty would have been ruled by foreign races long ago."
"The teachings of Emperor Gaozu have been broken. Now that the Han Dynasty is in danger, it has to use extraordinary measures. Only by giving Lu Bu the king can Lu Bu's ambitions be stabilized. Otherwise, if Lu Bu's troops invade in the future, we will be prisoners under the ranks."
"This!" Xun Yu stopped.
Seeing that Xun Yu was speechless, Jia Xu clasped his fists and said to Cao Cao: "Report to the Prime Minister, it is indeed necessary to migrate the population, but it cannot be moved all of them. You have to leave the old and the weak to Lu Bu to consume Lu Bu's financial and material resources. If Lu Bu doesn't care, he will lose the people's hearts. It is easy to build a lot of difficulties and destroy it."
"Hahahaha!" Cao Cao couldn't help but laugh: "Okay, let's use this plan to deal with Lu Bu. After the prime minister stabilizes the north in the future, he will reorganize his troops and go south!"
Seeing that Cao Cao made the decision, Xun Yu had no choice but to leave angrily.
Cao Cao couldn't help but shake his head. Xun Yu was really a thing of the past.
When Liu Bei was designed to assassinate Lu Bu, Xun Yu offered his plan.
The plan of alienation did not kill Lu Bu, and he also adopted the plan of driving tigers and swallowing wolfs, allowing Yuan Shu to fight with Lu Bu and Liu Bei.
As a result, he still failed to kill Lu Bu.
Previously, the five parties jointly attacked Lu and granted Liu Biao the title of king, but Xun Yu did not object.
After all, Liu Biao himself was a relative of the Han Dynasty, so it was impossible to be named a king.
As a result, Lu Bu was so powerful that he was unimaginable.
You know, there are countless arrows shot from the city every day.
Not to mention attacking Lu, it would be nice not to be counterattacked.
Now, Xun Yu, who had lost face, could not accept Lu Bu as king?
But if Cao Cao didn't make Lu Bu the king, he really couldn't guarantee that Lu Bu would not lead his troops to attack him.
Since he could build a thunder chariot, how could Lu Bu not build it?
After thinking about it this way, Cao Cao was very scared.
Now he has just been defeated and his troops are far from enough, so Yagen can't defend it.
He truly witnessed the strength of Lu Bujun.
Yes, it's just like one to make a hundred, and everyone is so fierce.
In this regard, Lu Bu also has complete confidence.
That's why he didn't care about the war in Pengcheng.
First of all, his soldiers have no worries about food and clothing, and they are trained every day. In terms of the individual physical fitness of soldiers, they are far superior to other various magists.
Moreover, the soldiers under the command of other magistrates have no military pay. It would be nice to have food to eat, and they also want military pay.
It can be said that Yagen has nothing except for winning a battle. Moreover, most of these rewards are generals, and ordinary soldiers can eat better at most. The rewards are not as good as them.
Let’s look at Lu Bu’s subordinates not only have military pay, but also very high. As long as you save some money, one person’s military pay can support the whole family.
In addition, Lu Bu's army also has military ranks and military merit system.
In other words, as long as you make contributions, you can be promoted.
The sergeant, the chief of the centurion, the commander of the thousand men, the general, the general, the general.
It can be said that as long as you can make contributions, even if you are the most ordinary soldier, you can be promoted to the position of general as a high-ranking minister.
In the civil officials series, Lu Bu dared not use poor families too much.
And in the army, it is completely Lu Bu's one-man show.
Whoever dares to object will be welcomed by Lu Bu's iron-blooded suppression.
It is precisely because of such a military system that everyone under Lu Bu wants to make meritorious contributions. When fighting, it is simply fearless of death.
Because even if he dies, he is a martyr, and the descendant of the martyr Lu Bu will be raised until he is an adult.
It can be said that the soldiers' worries are greatly exempted.
Moreover, not only can you get merits when fighting, but you can accumulate merits even in daily training and various tasks.
It can be said that every soldier has the opportunity to be promoted.
Not only that, Lu Bu also passed on a sentence.
A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier.
This sentence made all soldiers regard it as a faith.
In other words, whether it is physical or psychological quality, the soldiers under Lu Bu's command far surpassed other princes.
In addition to Lu Bu's various new military equipment and clothing, Lu Bu's soldiers did not say that one should be a hundred, but one should be a ten is completely easy.
Therefore, even if the number of people fights ten times, Lu Bu's army has no reason to be afraid of retreating at all.
Whether it was the Battle of Japan or the news obtained since the siege of Xuzhou, Lu Bu was convinced of this.
Therefore, Lu Bu brought only two thousand soldiers and horses, gathered three thousand defenders in Huailing, with a total of five thousand soldiers and horses against Liu Bei's 20,000 troops.
As for Liu Biao's army that detoured through other cities, Lu Bu ignored it at all.
He believed that before the catapult, all the princes could not conquer the city of Xuzhou.
When Liu Bei got the news that Lu Bu came to Huailing, he suddenly became panicked.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!