Don't worry about whether Sun Quan plays it fancy or not, but at least on the surface, his approach is impeccable.
Yes, Jiaozhou Shixie was more submissive to Jiangdong, but he was still a prince. Last time Sun Quan asked him to attack Lingling, didn't he stand still from beginning to end?
So, what does Shi Xie’s actions have to do with me, Jiangdong? !
Although Liu Bei knew that Yong Kai's 100,000 stones of military rations were most likely provided by Sun Quan, there was really nothing Liu Bei could do against Sun Quan.
And now Liu Bei really has no time or energy to entangle with Jiangdong. His main purpose now is to suppress the rebellion.
Liu Bei wants to conquer it himself!
But Zhuge Liang, Fazheng, Pang Tong, and Zhang Xi all dissuaded Liu Bei from his idea.
There was a mere rebellion in Nanzhong, and Liu Bei, as the king of Hanzhong, had to personally conquer it. This was unjustifiable and was too embarrassing for the idiot Yong Kai.
To be honest, Yong Kai didn't realize that his rebellion at this critical moment had already aroused public anger.
Originally, everyone was waiting for Liu Bei to come back to discuss how to allocate copper resources and make everyone rich together. What do you, Yong Kai, mean by rebelling now? !
Do you want to monopolize this mineral? !
Do you have the ability to swallow it? !
Not only the aristocratic families in Chengdu, but also the aristocratic families in Ba County and Jiangyang County were all angry.
If you eat alone, you will be beaten by the crowd.
The most important issue now is not how to discuss the distribution of mineral resources with Liu Bei, but how to eliminate the bastard Yong Kai and regain the mineral resources that belong to everyone.
In Chengdu at this time, no one dared to speak for Yong Kai and Meng Huo. Whoever spoke meant that he did not want the profits from the copper mine.
So, Liu Bei said I wanted to put down the rebellion, and the Yizhou family said yes.
Liu Bei said that I did not have enough food and grass, but the Yizhou family said, no problem, we have it.
Liu Bei said that I lacked soldiers, and the Yizhou family said, no problem, we can let our servants join the army.
Liu Bei said that I lacked ordnance, and the Yizhou family said, well, it’s better to ask the King of Hanzhong to find a way for this, and we don’t have it either.
Thanks to the quick response of the aristocratic families, if this is true, then the first thing Liu Bei has to do is to eliminate some of the aristocratic families in Chengdu.
Food and grass are available, soldiers are available, and ordnance. Liu Bei has no shortage of ordnance at all.
Therefore, the most important thing now is people, the generals who lead the army.
Deng Fang, the commander-in-chief of Gajiang, was killed, but fortunately, the successor commander-in-chief of Gajiang was in Chengdu. Now he can be directly appointed and lead the troops into battle.
Zhang Xi took office so quickly and began to gather troops. When the training was mature, they could set off.
But it is obviously not possible to lead the army alone. Zhang Xi cannot command it at all, and he needs auxiliary generals.
Regarding this point, Liu Bei generously told Zhang Xi that he could choose whatever he wanted. Except for those who could not move in key positions, Liu Bei could agree to everyone else.
Of course, Zhang Xi would not be so stupid as to let the second master lead troops from Jingzhou to assist in the battle. The generals Zhang Xi selected were relatively low-level generals.
First of all, it was Yizhou Biejia who engaged Li Hui.
Zhang Xi's reason is that Li Hui is from Jianning County and is familiar with the geography and customs. This time, he must have a local as a guide to counter the rebellion.
In fact, it is because Li Hui is the head of the Li family in Jianning. The Li family is also a major surname in Jianning, and its power is no less than that of the Meng family and the Yong family.
Now that the Meng family and the Yong family have rebelled, Zhang Xi must capture the Jianning Li family, the only one still on Liu Bei's side, and cannot force Li Hui to the opposite side.
Of course, with Li Hui's intelligence, he would not choose to do this.
Secondly, there is Zhang Yi, the defender of Fancheng.
There's no reason for this, it's just Zhang Xi's old subordinates who can use it easily.
The third is Ma Zhong, the leader of Hanchang.
Liu Bei had an impression of this person. He was a good talent, but Liu Bei was curious, how did Zhang Xi know this person? !
Fourth, Fuling ordered Zhang Yi.
Well, there's no way to explain this. Zhang Xi can't say that I'm just trying to make up for the past governor-general's duties.
Fifth, it is Yamen general Wang Ping.
This person...well, this person doesn't even have an impression of Liu Bei.
It was Pang Tong who reminded Liu Bei, and then Liu Bei remembered that during the Battle of Hanzhong when he was confronting Cao Cao, he brought troops to surrender to a common general. After he accepted him, he gave him the position of Yamen General, and later he also gave him the position of General. forget.
Zhang Xi calculated over and over again, and it seemed that he had enough generals, but he still lacked someone to manage logistics. Zhang Xi ran over and asked Zhuge Liang, "Can you lend me your favorite general Ma Di?" !
Zhuge Liang was very surprised. When did Ma Su become his favorite general? !
And if you have to take care of logistics, I have a better candidate here, Yang Yi, who is an expert in this field.
But Zhang Xi doesn't want to. It would be better to choose Ma Su than Yang Yi.
Zhuge Liang had no choice but to call Ma Di.
Ma Su is twenty-nine years old this year. He has been working as an errand under Zhuge Liang and now he is the commander of Chengdu.
Although, Ma Su usually likes to talk about military strategies, but he has never had the opportunity to practice them. He has always been a civil servant. Suddenly, there was an opportunity to join the army, and Ma Su agreed without thinking.
After all, Ma Di had not joined the army in the Prime Minister's Office at this time, and had not yet received Zhuge Liang's attention. It was just because Zhuge Liang had a good relationship with Ma Liang, so Zhuge Liang would occasionally take care of Ma Di.
Everyone knows that Zhuge Liang is selfless to the extreme, and his so-called care is actually limited. The most important thing is to care about Ma Di's daily life. In the officialdom, Ma Di is still just the Chengdu order, which can be seen.
What's more, Liu Bei actually didn't like Ma Di, because Ma Di always liked to talk about military affairs, which was very inconsistent with his position as Chengdu Commander.
Liu Bei hates people who don't seek political advice in their positions. You just handle government affairs well as an order of Chengdu. Why do you always talk about military formations with others when you have nothing to do? !
Therefore, Liu Bei didn't have a good sense of Ma Su, so naturally there would be no one to speak for him and get promoted.
Now Zhang Xi has asked Ma Su to come over. Although he is only responsible for the distribution of grain and grass in the army, for Ma Su, it can be regarded as joining the army, and Ma Su's dream has never been to be a civilian official.
Therefore, Ma Su is actually very grateful to Zhang Xi for his promotion.
As for Zhang Xi, Zhang Xi actually felt that Ma Di was quite unjust.
The injustice is the injustice. Ma Di guarding the street pavilion was really Ma Di's first battlefield.
Yes, Ma Su in history did not follow Zhuge Liang in his southern expedition to quell the Nanzhong rebellion. He had no military record in front of the street guard pavilion. He only talked about military affairs with Zhuge Liang, but never practiced it.
Zhuge Liang should never have sent such a person to take on such an important task of guarding the street pavilion.
Moreover, the historical records of Ma Su's death are actually very vague.
His crime was "violating the moral integrity and acting inappropriately."
But in the military, it is not a big mistake to violate the coach's instructions. In troubled times, there are too many such situations.
Even if a major failure occurs due to violation of the coach's instructions, although one will be held accountable, it is not necessarily a capital offense.
Moreover, there are actually contradictions in historical records about Ma Su's death.
One theory is that he was punished by Zhuge Liang in Hanzhong and killed to apologize. Another theory is that "things passed away in prison".
"Wugu" in this era refers to people who died in prison due to some reasons, such as sudden illness, or other reasons. If Ma Di was really killed by Zhuge Liangming's canonical punishment, then he should not use " The word "things are old".
The terrible thing is that these two completely different rhetorics are both from "Three Kingdoms" and both were written by Chen Shou.
The theory of Zhengdian punishment in the Ming Dynasty comes from "The Biography of Zhuge Liang", while the statement of "things left in prison" comes from "The Biography of Ma Su".
Coupled with some claims that Chen Zhen did not report the knowledge of Ma Di's escape and was dismissed from office by Zhuge Liang, this can easily arouse some imagination. Is Chen Shou deliberately saying something obscure?
In Zhang Xi's previous life, he probably read such an article analyzing the cause of Ma Di's death.
In fact, although Ma Di lost his street pavilion, it was unlikely that he would escape from the battlefield.
Because Chen Zhen knew about Ma Su's escape and helped Ma Su cover it up without reporting it.
If Ma Su really escaped from the battle, the whole army would know about it, and Chen Zhen couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.
So probably Ma Di did escape back to Hanzhong and was imprisoned by Zhuge Liang, but Ma Di probably felt that for his crime, he would not die, and at most he would be dismissed from office and exiled.
But who would have known that after the failure of Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, he took the initiative to accept the blame and take responsibility, and demoted himself to the third level. In this way, Ma Di's guilt would be much greater.
Probably Chen Zhen knew that Zhuge Liang wanted to kill Ma Di to apologize, and couldn't bear the death of his old friend Ma Liang's brother, so Chen Zhen quickly informed Ma Di, and Ma Di escaped from prison and fled, but failed and was finally captured.
This is very embarrassing.
If Ma Di fled, he would definitely not be able to escape to Chengdu. Jiangdong was too far away, and his brother Ma Liang died at the hands of Jiangdong. Therefore, it was probably impossible for Ma Di to escape to Jiangdong. Where else could he go? .
But the problem is that Cao Pi had already proclaimed himself emperor at that time, which meant that Ma Su's escape was considered treason in Ji Han's eyes.
Ma Su is Zhuge Liang's confidant.
Even if Zhuge Liang wanted to kill Ma Di to apologize, he did not want Ma Di to be publicly executed for treason. This would not only make Zhuge Liang lose face, but Ji Han would also lose face.
So he killed Ma Su directly in prison.
This led to the saying that Ma Di was killed by Ming Zhengdian in "The Biography of Zhuge Liang" because he lost the street pavilion, but in "The Biography of Ma Di" it was said that "things have died". On the one hand, Chen Shou was helping Zhuge Liang and Ji Han Covering up ugliness, on the other hand, also implicitly writes the truth.
Of course, this is just a family opinion.
Anyway, there is still a lot of mystery surrounding Ma Di, and the reason why he died in such a vague way is all because Zhuge Liang asked a man with no experience in leading troops to guard the street pavilion. Anyway, Zhang Xi I really can’t figure out what Zhuge Liang was thinking at that time.
Even if Wei Yan and Wu Yi have to attack Longxi and can't leave, you can also ask Gao Xiang to guard the street pavilion and put Ma Di slightly behind in Lueyang. Gao Xiang's ability is not bad, really.
Just the street pavilion is a dead place to hold on for time. If you ask a person with no battle experience to guard such a place, isn't that child's play? !
So, Zhang Xi thinks, take Ma Su with you to Nanzhong to practice for a while, and know that battle formations are not just words. This may give this silly boy a different fate in the future.
Of course, if one day Zhuge Liang still wants to make the northern expedition out of Qishan, Zhang Xi will never agree to let Ma Di guard the street pavilion unless Zhang Xi is not around.
In short, I can help each one, it all depends on whether this kid can hold on.
War is really not a child's play.
(End of chapter)
