"Zhoudu sent people to search our most populous city?" Liu Xu looked at the latest information in his hand, doubts in his eyes.
"My lord, can you show me?" Zhuge Liang on the side said proactively. After the defense work of Luoyang Palace was completely handed over to King Li Tianwang of Tota, Zhuge Liang followed Liu Xu to the White Elephant World.
It's just that Zhuge Liang has been running around these days and rarely follows Liu Xu. It just so happened that today, Zhuge Liang came to report to Liu Xu, and the information from the other side happened to be sent over.
"Lord? Is this information accurate?" Zhuge Liang asked seriously after reading the information.
The intelligence was written very briefly, and the content was a bit strange. It said that Zhoudu had sent thousands of spies and ordered them to spread out to explore the surrounding cities with large population gatherings.
But these spies were only allowed to explore the news, and they were not ordered to carry out any sabotage operations. Since the core order was to come back alive after exploring the information, Liu Xu also seemed a little confused after seeing the news. He didn't know what the other party wanted. What to do.
When he heard Zhuge Liang's question, he immediately smiled and said, "There is definitely no problem with the information. After all, this is the news from Liu Bang!"
Well, Liu Bang was also in Zhoudu at this time, and his official position was getting bigger and bigger, and he was now the head of the intelligence department of Zhoudu.
After being abandoned by the Moon King in the hinterland, Liu Bang held Zhou's only elite force in his hands. Faced with the siege of a large number of troops, he showed extremely superb command skills and forcibly led more than 10,000 troops. About 1,000 people came back, many of whom were from high castes, which naturally made these nobles grateful to Liu Bang.
Secondly, Liu Bang's skills and personal charm in making friends once again showed amazing results. Almost all of these nobles became Liu Bang's friends, and some even took the initiative to become Liu Bang's subordinates.
For example, the second son of the Shui family, as a favorable competitor for the head of the Shui family, actually voluntarily gave up his inheritance rights. After he came back, he followed Liu Bang and stayed with Liu Bang longer than at home. To Liu Bang He also praised Liu Bang with his mouth open and with his mouth closed. If someone spoke ill of Liu Bang behind his back, he would immediately send someone to kill him in the street.
There are many high-caste nobles like this, and Emperor Zhou naturally took a high look at Liu Bang, and then entrusted Liu Bang with important responsibilities.
In fact, Emperor Zhou originally wanted to cross the river and burn the bridge, and then killed Liu Bang after he was done. After all, he was a low caste, how could he stand with the noble nobles.
However, as the Zhou Dynasty only had one capital left in Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Zhou finally understood the truth, that is, it was absolutely impossible to use the useless nobles around him. He had to use those who were truly capable.
Although these people may rebel in the future and pollute the upper castes, if they are not used, their family may have no future.
As soon as he used it, Emperor Zhou discovered that Liu Bang was really a treasure, because any thorny problem could be solved in Liu Bang's hands.
The first is the problem of order and disorder brought about by the explosion of population in Zhoudu. At its worst, hundreds of fights would occur on the streets every day. Even the nobles in the court would fight directly in front of the Emperor Zhou. Within a month, there would be several fights. Thousands of people lost their lives, but the Emperor of Zhou was completely unable to deal with these situations and did not know how to deal with them. He watched as the population of Zhou capital was about to kill each other.
Emperor Zhou finally handed over the task to Liu Bang in a desperate manner. As a result, Liu Bang just arranged a team of captains holding five-color sticks, and then beheaded a nobleman in the street, which immediately restored order in the entire Zhou capital.
Of course, the most important thing is that Liu Bang properly divided the living order and hierarchy, handled the conflicts between these nobles in an orderly manner, and handed over a lot of work to the lowest nobles so that they could obtain the basic resources to survive. , and finally the whole week was smoothly sorted out, eliminating too much trouble.
What we faced next was the food problem in Zhoudu. As the population exploded, there was not enough food, and the nobles were reluctant to show off their posture. One bite would waste ten bites, and almost all the strange beasts around were killed. , so that everyone in Zhoudu will soon starve to death.
Then Liu Bang came up with an unprecedented method of directly asking the enemy for food, and it actually succeeded. At the same time, he ordered that all the food should be eaten by the princes first, and the food wasted by the princes and not eaten would be given to the nobles. The nobles would then give it to the nobles after wasting it. Dust clan.
This gave the big nobles a lot of face and kept the lower-class nobles from going hungry, successfully solving the food crisis in Zhou Capital.
At the same time, Liu Bang also helped Emperor Zhou innovate some systems, helping him to more firmly grasp the power of the entire country.
The occurrence of these things made Emperor Zhou increasingly reluctant to kill Liu Bang, and he had to use him more and more. After all, this was the first time Emperor Zhou had encountered such a talented person who was good at solving problems. How could he kill him? It fell.
And in the eyes of Emperor Zhou, no matter how powerful Liu Bang was, in the final analysis he was just a pariah, and it was impossible for him to gain the true allegiance of the high-caste nobles.
And no matter how many things he has done now, he has offended many people. In the future, as long as he says a word, many people will help him kill Liu Bang, so Liu Bang is living very safely now. Even secret operations such as exploring population gathering places, It was also completely handed over to Liu Bang.
Naturally, Liu Bang reported it to Liu Xu as soon as he changed hands. As for the purpose behind this action, Liu Bang didn't know.
After learning that this secret was actually discovered by the great ancestor Liu Bang, Zhuge Liang looked slightly strange, and finally sighed, "It seems like Zhou Capital is planning to launch a raid on our population gathering place!"
"Prime Minister, are you so sure that the purpose of the other party's investigation is to conduct a raid?" Liu Xu asked doubtfully. After all, there was no hint of action in this information from beginning to end.
"Yes, I am not only sure that the other party is launching a surprise attack, but I am also sure that the purpose of doing this is to lure you out, my lord!" Zhuge Liang said.
"Why do you see it?" Liu Xu asked quickly.
"Because if they want to force you out, my lord, this is the only way they can do it!" Zhuge Liang said, "If the opponent wants to regain their lost territory, they should look for strategic points around the capital of Zhou. If they want to plunder the population, they should look for distance." nearest population centers, rather than directly exploring which city has the largest population.”
"But they just did this. Naturally, they have only one purpose. They use these people as hostages to force the lord to come forward so that they can find opportunities to kill the lord!"
(End of chapter)
