In the first few days when Cao Cao was shocked to hear that Suiyang had fallen and Xiahou Dun was seriously injured, he was in an extremely uncool state and could not listen to anything others said to him.
At that time, all he could think about was fighting to the death with Yuan Shu and Lu Bu at the same time, and he must take revenge.
However, when Xia Houyuan escaped with all his strength, Cao Cao quickly calmed down a lot.
Perhaps this is the biggest difference between him and Liu Bei - even if someone really kills Cao Cao's brother, he still has to calm down after the initial wave of anger.
The ninth day of September was the sixth day after Xiahou Dun returned and the fourth day after Xiahou Yuan's safety was confirmed.
Cao Cao, who had just hurried back to Xudu the night before, managed to sleep through the pain of a headache. Early the next morning, he summoned his closest officials to Sikong Mansion to discuss how to deal with Lu Bu.
Before Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others arrived, Cao Yuan Sima Lang took the lead and could not bear it. While helping him prepare the documents, he whispered: "Sikong is tired from the journey. He just came back from the front line of Chen County. He still needs to rest more." Okay, the most important thing to avoid when you have a headache is fatigue..."
Cao Cao waved his hands impatiently: "The heartache has not gone away, and I can't sleep even if I go to bed! Instead, I am getting more and more tortured by the headache. It's better to discuss the business first, maybe the condition can get better! You go and get a few more futons. Come, I can lean on you when discussing matters."
After a while, Xun Yu, Xun You, and Guo Jia arrived one after another.
Of Cao Cao's four current advisers, only Cheng Yu was unable to attend today's meeting. However, Cheng Yu also wrote a memorandum and stated some of his opinions.
Lu Bu has always been greedy. Last year, he asked to be the shepherd of Xuzhou, but he couldn't get it. If you really have no choice, the worst possible thing is to give him the position of state pastor, or even promote him to the rank of general of the four directions. In this case, maybe he will give up after the court gives him a way out.
Considering that before Yuan Cao started the war, the total population of Yuan Shu's territory was still around 4 million, it is not surprising that hundreds of thousands fled to Guangling.
Liu Bei, who was relocated to Guangling County, and Zhuge Jin, who was in Wuhu, were given two months of very stable opportunities for peaceful development.
Fortunately, within two months, Cao Cao was unable to besiege Chen County and Ku County, which were guarded by tens of thousands of Yuan troops. Therefore, the Chen County battlefield should have been a stalemate from early September to November.
Even if Cao Cao sends a private envoy to contact him and the other princes don't know about it, Lu Bu himself will despise Cao Cao even more because of this, which is not conducive to subsequent establishment of rules.
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Although the total amount of pollution is the same, if it is placed upstream, both upstream and downstream will be polluted. If it is placed downstream, most of the pollution areas will be avoided.
No matter how high his IQ is, Cheng Yu can't resist this kind of hard-fought battle where he can defeat ten people with one force.
"Indeed, Lu Bu and Boning don't know each other at all. What hatred can they have? Lu Bu and Yang Biao have no friendship at all. This is Lu Bu's fig leaf. If I try to give him a chance, he should I can stop it..." Cao Cao thought to himself.
After hearing such depressing words, Cao Cao couldn't help but feel the pain in his head getting worse. He had to take the futon and put it on his side, leaning on the couch:
Historically, Yuan Shu lost hundreds of thousands to nearly a million people every year during the three years after he proclaimed himself emperor and died.
Liu Bei wanted to ask Zhuge Liang what he thought about this, whether it was good or bad for us, and whether there was anything we could do.
After hearing Xun You point this out, Cao Cao finally calmed down and was willing to seriously consider this suggestion.
Moreover, Cao Cao and Yuan Shu were fighting a tug-of-war in Chen County. There was a war in the northwest of Yuan Shu's territory. The population must have given priority to running to the southeast in order to avoid the war.
Since the end of last year, after Cao Cao stabilized the situation in Xudu, he felt that there was also a lack of resourceful people on the eastern front, so he sent Cheng Yu from the imperial official to the prefect of Jiyin County, which was also responsible for assisting Lu Bu in the defense.
When Cao Cao saw that everyone had arrived, he placed Cheng Yu's memorial and Lu Bujun's memorandum on his desk, and then asked Xun Yu and the other three what they thought:
In the end, at worst, Man Boning was charged with being ignorant of what was going on, using torture more often due to greed for merit, and thus bending the law for personal gain. He was temporarily removed from his official position and given a slight punishment. Then find a few school officials and cruel officials who were specifically responsible for the Yang Biao case, and put the blame on them, saying that Boning was also deceived by them.
However, the application scenario of the gill net that Zhuge Jin thought of is still too simple. It cannot be copied to other production environments, and it cannot be promoted on a large scale. It is too restricted by the factor of "tide fluctuations in canal estuaries".
And Liu Bei also happened to receive the news from the front on this day——
Perhaps more than half of the three million people who disappeared in history were killed, starved to death in exile, or died accidentally. But now, as long as Liu Bei and Zhuge Jin do a good job of receiving them in Guangling, Yuzhang, and Danyang, comfort the people, and give the newly arrived immigrants a bite to eat.
The biggest problem now is that all this is the deduction of our own counselors, and there is no response from Lu Bu. And it is difficult for the court to send envoys to Lu Bu now, because the status of the court is there, and they can only convey the decree after it is confirmed, not negotiate terms.
"What kind of person is Lu Bu? How could he really care about Man Boning's life and death? Ming Gong also said just now that Lu Bu is greedy and ignorant. This must be Chen Gong's excuse for Lu Bu.
Along the Yangtze River in the south, the number of people is smaller. There is only one wave every few days, but whenever they appear, they are basically more than a thousand people, and they need to be assembled into a private fleet before they can take action.
"Since ancient times, I have never heard of people withdrawing their troops after raising the banner of 'clearing the emperor's side'. Isn't this also a situation of fight to the death? How can Lu Bu be so shameless, and can he withdraw his troops after clearing the emperor's side?"
In Xuyi and Huaiyin, the situation was the most serious. Almost every day, hundreds to thousands of people under Yuan Shu's rule fled down the Huaihe River to Liu Bei's territory.
However, to appease so many fleeing people, Guangling's current grain production capacity alone is still far from enough.
Therefore, Cao Cao calculated that if Qiao Rui and Li Feng expected to use one county to collect grain to sustain their respective armies of 20,000 to 30,000 men, they would only be able to carry them until winter at most, before they would run out of food and collapse.
But Cao Cao is also very tolerant. He will not be eager to retaliate immediately like Liu Bei if he has a grudge. He can focus on dealing with another enemy first. He can record it in the account for the time being and settle the general ledger later.
Xun Yu and Guo Jia looked at each other, and then Xun Yu spoke first to set the tone: "Sikong, although our army is inspired by the righteousness of the court and the soldiers are serving their lives, the current battle with the rebel Yuan Shu has become a life-or-death situation.
Moreover, Gaoshun attacked the city too quickly and was able to break the city with force in just a few days. He still had to cross the Mangdang Mountain and was unable to carry heavy siege weapons, so he had to build a flying ladder and hit the wood on the spot without using any fancy strategies.
Zhuge Liang was very conscious of being prepared for danger in times of peace, so in the past two months he persuaded Liu Bei to strengthen the polder consolidation and irrigation management in Sheyangze.
This time Lu Bu succeeded in the sneak attack on Suiyang, and Cheng Yu cannot be blamed. On the one hand, there was indeed nothing wrong with Jiyin County where Cheng Yu himself was stationed. The accident was with Liang County next door to the south.
It’s almost impossible to settle the deal in one round because you’ll definitely have to bargain. If you negotiate once, the peace talks will be successful after forty days; if you negotiate twice, it will take two months.
Cao Cao asked back while scanning the other counselors with his eyes. Guo Jia met Cao Cao's eyes and echoed, adding:
"Ming Gong, when the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu were in chaos, after Emperor Xiaojing killed Chao Cuo, he also went to Wu King Liu Bi to declare an edict to persuade him to retreat. Although Liu Bi did not retreat, it was enough to show the world that the world was in chaos. In Wu but not in Emperor Xiaojing.
I believe that even if they lend usury to the displaced people who are about to starve to death, and let them pay high rents to repay their debts in the next few years, it is considered a benevolent government for them.
After hearing this, Cao Cao more or less believed that the Lu Bu matter could be resolved peacefully.
It's just that Zhuge Liang doesn't have many population sources such as Yinhu and Shanyue, so the results are not as obvious and fast as his elder brother's.
It's a pity that the two sides are fighting like this, and I don't know when Chen Deng will come.
The timing of Cao Cao's attack this year was just after the autumn harvest and before the autumn grain had been put into storage. Therefore, Cao Cao's attacking army in Chen County was able to outsource the grain to the enemy and eat the wheat and millet that had just been harvested.
As long as he is willing to retreat and attack Yuan Shu together with our army, these false titles are negotiable, and Lu Bu will not really die for Yuan Shu. "
After allowing the Shanyue people to accept his rule, it was easier to detect the Han people hiding in the mountains.
Of course Cao Cao is a vengeful person. After what happened this time, he also knew that he would kill Lu Bu sooner or later.
After these efforts are completed, and Lu Bu is given an official position, Lu Bu will most likely withdraw. But I can't guarantee whether he will immediately switch sides and attack Yuan Shu. Maybe he will have to give Xu Guan a more generous offer. "
In order to protect Runan, the foundation of the Yuan family, Yuan Shu must defend Chen County at all costs. Both the enemy and our armies have lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Chen. Once one side gives up, all previous efforts will be wasted and the army will be defeated.
After avoiding the pollution of river water in mountainous areas, Zhuge Jin could teach the Shanyue people to use the extra labor force to cultivate tea trees in the terraced fields in the mountainous areas, or plant some yam.
Zhuge Liang wanted to continue to dig deeper with Huang Yueying to develop a universal gill net that was not restricted by geographical environment. Even if the unit yield of this general-purpose gill net was lower, it could at least expand the scale of the industry.
Liu Bei is still staying in Guangling, which happens to be downstream of Yuan Shu's territory. For the refugees, floating down the river is the most labor-saving way to immigrate. It is easier than going upstream and then crossing Tongbai Mountain to Liu Biao's Jingzhou. Therefore, in the process of Yuan Shu's demise in history, Liu Biao was the one who gained the most in terms of population, but now it has naturally become Liu Bei.
One day in early September, Zhuge Liang finally got some ideas and made a new version of the test product, ready to show off to Liu Bei.
However, since August, Guangling County has gradually begun to feel the trend of people gradually moving eastward in the areas occupied by Yuan Shu in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.
Although Lu Bu is hateful, at this critical moment, the main thing to do to Lu Bu is to appease him. Since he has issued the "Qing Jun Side" message, there may be room for negotiation. "
Otherwise, once Lu Bu spreads the word, it will be too low-priced, which will seriously damage the prestige of the court and cause other princes to have unrest.
The words are divided into two parts.
However, Qiaorui and Li Feng did not have much grain in stock. They only had time to collect local grain from Chen County and Ku County and put it into storage. The food in the other six counties of Chenjun was occupied by Cao Cao before they had time to concentrate.
Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and Lu Bu fought in the three prefectures of Yan, Yu and Xu throughout August and the first half of September in the second year of Jian'an.
He also said that Gu was taking advantage of the opportunity to eliminate Yuan Shu's party and eliminate dissidents in the DPRK! It's really ridiculous that a person with no political opinions like Lu Bu would think of such an excuse. Haha, this must be Chen Gongtai's work! "
If this trend continues, if the movement continues for a whole year, hundreds of thousands of people may flee to Liu Bei's jurisdiction under Yuan Shu's rule.
Seeing Cao Cao sighing, Xun You, who had never spoken just now, reminded him in a low voice:
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However, Cao Cao still couldn't accept the conditions mentioned in Lu Bu's letter. He sighed painfully: "Have you all read the appeal? Lu Bu actually said that he was seeking justice for Yang Biao! To support Kong Rong and other loyal ministers who returned to the east!
Zhuge Jin used the two months of completely peaceful development in Danyang to further reorganize and exploit the copper mines in Tongling and the Dexing copper mines in Poyang.
By the twelfth lunar month at the latest, if Yuan Shu can no longer send reinforcements to Chen County to relieve Qiao Rui and Li Feng from the siege, then the two of them will have no choice but to surrender, or go out of the city to fight to the death and try to break out. If they continue to hold on, they will starve to death.
If you go to Tongling for smelting, the sewage will eventually be discharged directly into the Yangtze River, and it won't matter if it flows to the sea. The huge flow of the Yangtze River is enough to dilute everything. In Poyang, it may cause a large amount of sewage to be discharged into Pengli Ze. The bottom layer of Pengli Ze has poor fluidity and is easy to accumulate.
For example, by lending life-saving grains and seed grains to the newly arrived poor people in exchange for them becoming farmers, at least hundreds of thousands more people can survive.
At the same time, Zhuge Jin also directly built a copper, silver, and gold heavy metal smelting plant in Tongling, Spring Valley County, which was definitely a large-scale copper, silver, and gold heavy metal smelting plant in this era.
While Zhuge Jin was farming in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhuge Liang was doing similar things in the north of the Yangtze River.
If the communication is smooth, the crisis may be resolved within a month or two - at that time, one or two months was very fast. Normally, the envoy would need to go back and forth from Xiapi to Xudu once a month. Of course, Lu Bu himself is now in Suiyang and not in Xiapi, which saves both parties one-third of the journey. It would take about twenty days for one round of communication.
Cao Cao thought about it and expressed his concerns. As expected, Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others also found it difficult - this matter would definitely be done sooner or later, but it was hard to say how long the trial process would be.
It is probably because the Yangtze River is more difficult to navigate, and there are certain mountainous areas on both sides of the river, unlike the Huaihe River, which is flat and can be docked everywhere. Ordinary people with only small fishing boats dare not take the Yangtze River to escape for fear of capsizing their boats.
So the best thing now is to wait for Lu Bu to take the initiative to send someone to Xudu, such as sending Chen Deng. In this way, Cao Cao could figure out what the opponent wanted, how high the price was, and how he would be willing to withdraw his troops and turn around. At the same time, Cao Cao was able to fully maintain the majesty of the court.
After taking both factors into consideration, Cao Cao decided that he and Cao Hong would continue to besiege Chen County. Cao Ren and Xia Houyuan closely guarded Lu Bu and defended in Liangdi, waiting for negotiations. They first stabilized Lu Bu and prevented Lu Bu from attacking again, and then slowly negotiated.
The real purpose of the memorial was to cover up Lu Bu's secret collusion with Yuan Shu, making it appear that he came to the army on his own initiative and had no secret collusion with Yuan Shu. Therefore, as long as the imperial court expresses its position a little, recognizes his reason for sending troops, and gives Lu Bu a way out, he can go along with the flow.
If there were originally abandoned fields that could be planted, they were divided into fields and cultivated directly. Yuzhang was originally a large and sparsely populated area. In later generations, even if the entire Jiangxi Province could support two million farmers, there would definitely be enough land for farming. It was just a question of the quality of the land.
"Ming Gong, although Lu Bu mentioned this in his letter, but looking at the details, for Yang Biao's imprisonment and other public cases in the court, the main blame is on the 'cruel official Man Chong'. If you really want to reconcile, Ming Gong can still make a big move Fang Fang admitted that he was unaware of it for a moment and was deceived by his subordinates..."
"Can Gu really kill Man Boning in order to make Lu Bu retreat?" Cao Cao rarely lost his patience and rudely interrupted Xun You's analysis, "Then who else in the world will sincerely join Gu and sacrifice his life for Gu in the future! Emperor Xiaojing is the emperor, and killing Chao Cuo will disappoint all the wise men in the world, let alone now!"
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In just one or two months, Zhuge Jin used both soft and hard tactics to identify at least more than 10,000 hidden Han households with a population of about 70,000 to 80,000 people, and relocated them to the Penglize Plain and the lower plains of the Ganjiang River.
This does not require Liu Bei's efforts and can be achieved entirely by relying on natural geographical conditions.
Although the copper mine in Poyang County is much larger than the copper mine in Tongling, Zhuge Jin also insisted that the Shanyue people use Po water to transport the copper ore out, and smelt it uniformly in Tongling. At most, the ore mining and transportation links should be provided to the local people in Poyang. The Shanyue people share slightly more profits.
Utilizing the surplus Sangotsu labor force, the mountainous roads and waterways needed for the copper mine were finally completely renovated. The dangerous shoals and reefs in mountainous rivers have also been dealt with, ensuring that copper ore and copper materials can be continuously transported at low cost in the future.
Three years later, the total population of the entire Lianghuai River dropped from about four million to more than one million, and it went from "well-prepared troops and food supplies" to "deserted population." Later, when Cao and Sun fought against each other, they were torn between Ruxu, Hefei, and Shouchun, causing Huainan to become a semi-no man's land.
Xun You also knew that asking Cao Cao to kill his own people must be a bit unethical, so he didn't rush to defend himself. After quietly waiting for Cao Cao to vent, he continued in a more detached and neutral manner:
The fields around Penglize are easily affected by floods and droughts, so the polders should be further dredged and stockpiling increased. For any new polders built, the government has announced that no rent will be collected at all within five years, and it will be halved in six to ten years.
However, after thinking about it, he still felt that this matter was uncertain.
"We should be polite, fair, and filial. There is no need to be restrained. Today, you can speak freely and express your opinions. Don't worry about letting go of hatred. Tell me, how should we deal with Lu Bu's invasion? And how should we fight the subsequent battle against Chen County?"
On the one hand, he is thinking of ways to build a new sea-going ship, trying to try the method his elder brother taught him, which is to go to offshore islands to dig out struvite and transport it back to be used as fertilizer and to control saline-alkali land.
When Chen Jun's two groups are completely finished, Cao Cao can at least eliminate Yuan Shu's fifty thousand men. This is definitely not a small sum. If he attacks Yuan Shu next year, he will be able to destroy everything.
This is also done to protect the water resources in the Po River Basin. After all, the pollution caused by such a large-scale copper mine is not small when it is smelted into copper. Copper smelting is a highly polluting industry. Although the ancients did not care about it and could not avoid it, pollution in the upper reaches of mountainous rivers must be avoided.
And by observing whether Lu Bu continues to attack with force, we can also see whether Lu Bu is sincere in negotiating.
At each location at the north and south mouth of the Hangou Canal, gill nets are laid across the entire river bottom. Large stones are used as counterweights, and thick diabolo tubes are used as floats on top. A lot of migratory fish can be harvested every day. fish.
It's about the war between Cao Cao and Lu Bu, but it didn't happen in time as the Zhuge brothers expected before the war. Lu Bu quickly changed sides after reaping enough benefits again. But Cao Cao and Lu Bu were in a stalemate because the negotiations were not going well.
Finally, Zhuge Liang also set his sights on the fixed bottom-dwelling gillnet fishing method invented by his elder brother last year - Zhuge Jin's fishing method, which is now very popular in Guangling and Huaiyin counties.
