Chapter 1139: Chapter 567: The Battle of Guandu (1)(2)
Guo Jia and Xun You were shocked, but after hesitation, they did not persuade them. (www
Cao Cao was also moved for a while, but then he said with a wry smile: "I failed to hide that incident at the beginning, which made me lose a lot of popularity. If I repeat the same trick this time, I am afraid that Yuan Shao will not be defeated, but something will happen to me on the rear.
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The method is feasible, but it is a pity that Cao Cao today is not the vigorous Cao Cao he was back then, and he does not dare to do such things again.
"Is there any other way?" Cao Cao sighed, then opened his eyes and looked at Guo Jia, Xun You, and Cheng Yu expectantly, and said.[
"Alas." Guo Jia sighed, then stood up and came to Zhongying, raised his fist towards Cao Cao and said: "Ming Gong may ask for help from those wealthy families, so that Xun Yu of Xudu can be comforted and get some food to tide him over.
crisis."
In the Han Dynasty, aristocratic families were rampant, and most of them were wealthy. Even after wars, many wealthy families still survived and even developed.
Cao Cao had no food, but the wealthy families were extremely rich.
If Cao Cao had a good relationship with the wealthy families, this amount of food would of course not matter, and the wealthy families would automatically provide it to Cao Cao. But the problem was that Cao Cao was meritocratic and favored poor families, which aroused the nerves of some wealthy families.
As a result, many aristocratic families had their hearts set on Hebei. Naturally, no one was willing to lend a helping hand to Cao Cao.
And Guo Jia is a representative figure among the poor families. He had no choice but to propose this strategy to Cao Cao. After all, if he wanted to appease those wealthy families, he would have to give up a lot of interests.
The aristocratic family will become even stronger, and trouble will continue.
Cao Cao's expression also changed when he heard this, and he didn't want to do that. There are two completely different concepts between giving priority to a poor family and relying on a wealthy family.
Relying on a poor family will definitely increase the lord's power. Relying on a wealthy family will definitely reduce the lord's power.
In Cao Cao's view, reusing talents from poor families is the right way. Compromising with those wealthy families would be unethical.
But the urgent food problem at hand forced Cao Cao into a corner. If he continued to insist on not compromising with the aristocratic families, he would not be able to obtain food from the aristocratic families.
Without food, Guandu will be lost, Cao's army will be defeated, and Cao's family will eventually be defeated. This urgent issue at hand is really too serious.
After struggling for a while, Cao Cao said unwillingly: "Okay. Immediately order Xun Yu to appease the aristocratic families in the Central Plains, collect as much grain as possible, and transport it to Guandu."
This order is tantamount to bowing to the powerful families. Cao Cao has been strong all his life, promoting people from poor families based on their talents. But now he wants to compromise with the powerful families.
This was no ordinary blow. As soon as these words were spoken, Cao Cao seemed to have exhausted all his strength and became extremely weak.
"Promise." Guo Jia promised after hearing the words.
From beginning to end, Xun You said nothing. His heart was not here, but in the south.
Cao's army was short of food not because of Xun Yu. Xun Yu would not do such stupid things. On the one hand, he might expose himself. On the other hand, Yuan Shao's march south would also be of no benefit to Liu Feng.
Therefore, if this order continues, Xun You believes that his uncle will definitely try his best to collect grain and supply it to Guandu.[
But the problem is that even if Guandu can barely maintain its current status, it cannot afford to live in Yuan Shao at a low-end.
How could his uncle Xun Yu and Liu Feng from the south believe that Cao Cao could defeat Yuan Shao in such a situation?
Because Xun You felt that if some God-given opportunity did not appear in this war, Cao Cao would not have a great chance of winning.