"Sir, what do you think I should do next?" Wang Yu neither admitted nor denied what Guan Zhong said, but asked rhetorically.
"The general is already doing the next thing, which is to unite with the three kings and capture Hebei first."
Among all the forces in the world today, the imperial court is definitely the most powerful party. If the power of three of the four towns had not been restrained by border affairs, then how could the Three Kings and Tianshi Dao be so rampant now?
As the weak ones, the first thing they should do is of course join forces to defeat the most powerful party. Otherwise, they will only be defeated one by one by the most powerful party and will not have a chance to stand up.
And this is the so-called Three Kings of Lian.
At the same time, among the many forces excluding the imperial court, King Su's side is the weakest, which means that Wang Yu's side is the weakest.
Therefore, while relatively weak parties unite with each other to fight against the most powerful party, as the weakest party, they also have to improve their own strength.
Otherwise, once they join forces and kill the strongest party, the next thing to do is to devour each other, and the most likely person to be devoured first is the weakest party.
Therefore, this is the importance of attacking Hebei at this stage.
"Sir, you must also know that Yu suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Zhenjun general. How easy is it to attack Hebei!"
Attacking Hebei requires real troops and horses. Otherwise, even if it can be defeated, it will not have enough ability to occupy it. Forcibly occupying it but not having enough troops to garrison it will only leave hidden dangers for yourself.
After that defeat, it was obvious that Wang Yu had lost this capital.
"Does the general know about the Cao Gang?" Of course, Guan Zhong had already thought of a countermeasure to the dilemma Wang Yu was facing now.
"Caobang!" After mentioning this name that had disappeared for nearly 200 years, Wang Yu seemed to have a skylight opened in his heart!
As the name suggests, Caobang is related to water transportation. This organization once controlled more than 80% of the river transportation in the world. At its peak, it had hundreds of thousands of strong men. To be more precise, at its peak, the gang had 700,000 members.
The members of the Cao Gang are single in composition. They are mainly young and middle-aged male boat workers who have no property, and also absorb some lower-level scholars.
Moreover, this gang is well-organized, with cruel laws, family laws, and loyalty to maintain the seriousness of the system.
It has even developed to a paramilitary level. The semaphores, code words and gang rules reflect the paramilitary deployment of the Caobang.
Such a gang, if placed in any court, would probably become a serious problem.
However, even if it is possible to realize that this organization has developed into a serious threat, it must not be easy to force them. Otherwise, once these hundreds of thousands of people start a rebellion, even if they are finally wiped out, what will happen to the Great Cang? In all respects, it was a huge blow.
Therefore, in the view of Emperor Da Cang at that time, force was definitely not enough, and he could only find ways to kill people with soft knives.
It was precisely based on this point that the imperial court decisively opened up sea transportation as Caobang already controlled a large amount of river transportation, and used this to attack the role of Caobang.
However, once the sea transportation opens, Caobang's interests will naturally be affected. At that time, Da Cang had decided to use soft knives to kill people and boil frogs in warm water to solve the Caobang's problem. Therefore, in order to temporarily stabilize the Caobang, he simply gave them a sweet date while beating them with a stick. Using official position and power to confuse some people's eyes.
Although his own interests were affected, Caojun never thought of doing anything irrational because of this. Although Caobang has hundreds of thousands of strong men, once chaos breaks out, it will definitely be a huge trouble for Da Cang.
Yes, although the imperial army, border army, government army, and Cao Gang can cause huge trouble to Da Cang, they will definitely be suppressed in the end. Unless they were forced into a situation where they could no longer retreat, they would never have the guts to openly rebel against the imperial court.
What's more, such an important gang has complex internal forces and a mixed bag. Even if some people want to go crazy, it depends on whether others can follow them!
Therefore, the court has given them a sweet date, and these people must settle down.
After that, the imperial court spent two generations of emperors and decades using various complex relationships within the Caogang to create conflicts and connect the dots.
The final result was that Caogang, which had once made the imperial court extremely fearful and had grown to its peak, collapsed overnight.
More than half of the top officials lost their jobs, and most of the remaining half defected to the imperial court, which eventually evolved into today's official canal.
And only the last few have split into countless small forces. They can only drink a sip of soup behind the official canal. It is difficult to form a monopoly on the canal transport in the vast sky, let alone The grand occasion of the Caobang's peak period was recreated.
"Seven Dragon Gang!" Wang Yu slowly spit out a name!
Although Guan Zhong mentioned the Caobang, what he wanted to say was not the Caobang itself. After all, it had disappeared for a long time, and it was long gone. Even though there are many that have been passed down to this day, apart from the incense and love that can be reluctantly hung on, there is no longer any relationship.
The real reason why Guan Zhong mentioned Caobang was to provide Wang Yu with an idea.
At that time, the remaining forces of the Cao Gang were dispersed into countless forces. Today, after such a long time, some have disappeared in the long river of history, and some have transformed to this day. In addition to river transportation, most of them have also begun to involve rivers. Other businesses on the Internet have also evolved into some of the gangs today.
Among these forces, the Seven Dragon Gang is a pretty typical example.
Henan Road and Hebei Road, just by hearing these names, you will know that there is a big river that separates the north and the south. This is the main activity range of the Qijiao Gang, and it is also the clear path pointed out to Wang Yu by Guan Zhong.
The Qijiao Gang is not a big martial arts sect between Henan Dao and Hebei Dao. On the surface, the strongest of the seven gang leaders is only an innate peak. However, in terms of quantity but not quality, this gang can be called It's terrifying, with nearly 30,000 members.
Except for gangs of this nature, it is quite impressive to be able to grow a gang to such a size in terms of numbers!
And if the Seven Dragon Gang can be brought under its control, it will indeed be able to help Wang Yu solve his current problems to a great extent.
