To solve this problem, either reduce the opponent's military strength or increase your own military strength.
There is no excuse for reducing the opponent's strength for a while, and it is not feasible in a hurry.
In this case, the only option is to increase the strength of our own side.
Chen Yuan thought for a moment: "Mr. Chuqi, can Nanyang afford the food and fodder for 15,000 troops in a short period of time?"
Qin Jie was stunned by Chen Yuanwen.
What's the meaning?
Where did the fifteen thousand troops come from?
However, Qin Jie was a smart man after all, and he immediately reacted: "Zichu, do you want to recall the scattered ten thousand soldiers and horses?"
At first, there were about 30,000 soldiers in Nanyang County, but Qin Jie disbanded 25,000, leaving only 5,000.
Ten thousand of them were recruited by Nanyang's tycoons to form a corps, and the remaining more than ten thousand were scattered among the people.
If we wanted to recall them, we could probably recall nearly ten thousand people.
Qin Jie nodded: "Based on Nanyang's treasury, there is still enough food and grass to support 15,000 people in a short period of time. However, it will only last for three months at most. If the time is longer, it will be difficult for the treasury to support it."
Chen Yuan smiled: "Three months is enough."
Wei Yan listened impatiently. As a leader, who doesn't want to have more troops, the better?
However, according to Chen Yuan's wishes, if these ten thousand soldiers and horses are recalled, they will be disbanded in the future.
Wei Yan couldn't help but said: "Sir, can these ten thousand troops not be disbanded in the future?"
Chen Yuan looked at Wei Yan: "Chang Wen, why don't you dismiss me to provide food and grass?"
Wei Yan was silent for a moment.
How could he, a county lieutenant, get the food and grass? All the food and grass were provided by the prefect's mansion.
However, Wei Yan was still unwilling to give in: "Sir, can you ask the state government to provide grain and grass? I heard that my farming in Jingzhou has achieved remarkable results this year, and I have harvested a lot of grain."
Chen Yuan waved his hand: "Chang Wen, although the state government has collected a lot of grain this year, there are other uses for this food. It is impossible for all of it to be used on the army. Therefore, the state government cannot come up with excess food."
Seeing Chen Yuan rejecting him, Wei Yan couldn't help but feel a little sad.
"However, there is no way to keep these ten thousand soldiers and horses."
Wei Yan immediately cheered up: "Sir, what you said is true."
"Of course, we don't have food, but there are people who do."
Wei Yan was a smart man and immediately understood what Chen Yuan meant.
"Sir, are you talking about the powerful Nanyang?"
"Yes, Nanyang's powerful people have been in Nanyang for more than two hundred years. Food is not a problem for them. If you want to raise an army, the solution to the problem of food and grass lies with these powerful people."
Of course Chen Yuan will not disband these soldiers anymore. Nanyang will definitely become a strategic location in the next step. How can a mere five thousand soldiers and horses be used?
Fifteen thousand is just enough. According to Chen Yuan's plan, it is best to station about 30,000 troops in Nanyang. Once there is a change in Luoyang, Wei Yan can be the vanguard and lead an army of 20,000 to march straight in to occupy the favorable terrain and position.
, waiting for the arrival of Liu Bei's army.
Hearing what Chen Yuan said, Wei Yan's eyes showed a cold light.
"Military advisor, my subordinates are asking for orders to defeat this Nanyang tycoon."
Chen Yuan's face suddenly turned dark.
"Chang Wen, don't be so reckless as to kill innocent people and powerful people under your rule. If word spreads, will my lord's reputation be lost?"
There are two biggest difficulties in dealing with these powerful men.
One is that they are powerful and not weaker than the government.
The other is that they control public opinion and the right to speak.
If you don't have sufficient excuses and reasons, let alone massacre them, even with a slight suppression, these powerful people will describe you as a heinous person.
If Wei Yan really did what he did, I'm afraid there would be different voices even within Jingzhou.
Wei Yan's face suddenly turned red. At this time, Wei Yan was still a little younger after all, so the thought of rolling up his sleeves and just doing it was still very unsightly.
Still rather reckless.
Wei Yan was also excited and realized at this time that he knew he had said something stupid.
But I didn't care much about it. After all, Chen Yuan had been his teacher, and it was nothing to make a fool of himself in front of the teacher.
Qin Jie would not underestimate Wei Yan just because of this.
Wei Yan immediately said: "Military advisor, Yan is being reckless. Please tell me what to do."
Chen Yuan, however, kept it secret: "Don't say it, don't say it. You will know when the time comes."
Next, Chen Yuan asked Qin Jie and Wei Yan to recall all the scattered county soldiers, and asked Wei Yan to conduct restorative training on them and integrate them into the Nanyang County soldiers as soon as possible.
The current Nanyang County soldiers are no longer the same as when Qin Jie led them.
Because Wei Yan was in charge.
Wei Yan's training methods are all Jingzhou's latest military training methods, and they are completely different from the previous ones.
Therefore, after those soldiers are recalled, they must undergo retraining before they can integrate into today's county soldiers.
Of course, they are not without their advantages. The advantage is that they have seen blood and are veterans.
As long as you can withstand the new training, you will soon become an elite soldier.
Fortunately, when Qin Jie dismissed these soldiers, the roster was still there, so it would not be difficult to find people based on the roster.
Qin Jie and Wei Yan were responsible for this matter, so Chen Yuan didn't have to worry about it at all.
If he still can't do this well, Wei Yan can go back to Xiangyang and continue studying.
What does Chen Yuan want to do? What he wants to do is to meet the powerful men of Nanyang.
It is unrealistic to completely eradicate the Nanyang tyrants.
What Chen Yuan is doing now is to subdue them, then slowly move them out, take over all the land and population they left behind, and slowly eliminate their influence.
Therefore, Chen Yuan wants to test it out to see if there is anyone among them who can cooperate.
To put it bluntly, I just want to find some people who are more obedient and aware of current affairs.
Chen Yuanzhen didn't believe that Nanyang Haoqiang was monolithic, so there was no conflict between them.
This is of course impossible.
Internal fighting is one of our Chinese traditions.
No, it is not a Chinese tradition, but a tradition of all mankind.
Infighting has always existed since the birth of mankind. It existed in the past, exists now, and will definitely exist in the future.
It is independent of human will.
The reason is very simple, that is, everyone is an independent individual and has his own thoughts and ideas.
In this case, there will inevitably be conflicts and struggles.
This is the case at all times and in all countries.
Even in the most critical moments, this struggle will not stop.
However, internal strife cannot be eliminated, but it can be transformed.
Internal contradictions can be transformed into external contradictions.
Anyone who is good at doing this will inevitably become a leader, and a relatively outstanding leader.
One of the essential skills of a leader is to reverse conflicts within his own group and not let infighting become an obstacle to the development of the group.
In terms of grading by solving internal conflicts, leaders can be divided into three levels.
The first level is a mediocre leader who not only cannot resolve internal conflicts, but also intensifies them. Needless to say, the fate of such a group is that it will definitely collapse.
The second level is a mediocre leader who can resolve internal conflicts, but cannot turn them into a driving force for the group's strength. A group led by such a leader can only maintain the group at best, but cannot allow the group to continue to grow.
The third is that outstanding leaders can not only resolve internal conflicts, but also turn internal conflicts into one of the powerful driving forces of the group, thereby making the group they lead become stronger and stronger.
Of course, there is another level, which can be called a great man.
In their eyes, internal and external struggles are the same. No matter what kind of struggle it is, in their hands, it is resolved lightly and becomes difficult and invisible.
At all times and in all countries, there are very few people who can reach this level.
Both Taizu and Chengzu can be considered.
The first level is the kings who destroyed the country, the second level is the kings who maintained the country, and the third level is generally the kings who founded the country and the kings who revived the country.
The level of great man is already beyond the ordinary founding kings and resurgence kings, and is a unique existence.
Chen Yuan wanted to meet the powerful people in Nanyang for a while, and many powerful people in Nanyang also wanted to meet Chen Yuan.
To be honest, Nanyang's powerful men were wary of Liu Bei.
It is true that Liu Bei is from the clan, but he is from Zhuojun, it should be said that he is from Hebei.
People from Nanyang don't have a good impression of people from Hebei.
The struggle between Nanyang and Hebei has lasted for two hundred years, and it still has not stopped. However, due to the rise of the powerful powers in Shandong and Kansai, there has been some relaxation between the two.
Regarding the struggles of many powerful men in the Eastern Han Dynasty, I have already explained it clearly before, so I won’t go into details here. (Of course, I’m sure not many people have read those chapters.)
In fact, throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty and even the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was these powerful men who dominated the entire country.
The reason why heroes came together in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was because they supported their agents.
In the end, the world was divided into three parts, that is, many powerful powers temporarily reached a fragile balance.
The powerful powers in the Wei state are mainly Hebei powerful, Yingru powerful and Qiaojun Cao family and Xiahou family, with some Guanxi powerful vassals.
The Wu Kingdom is mainly dominated by the powerful powers of Huainan and Jiangdong, and the powerful Wu Kingdom has a higher status than the powerful powers of the Wei Kingdom. Most of the Sun family's military strength relies on the development of these powerful powers.
This is also why the Wu Kingdom sometimes appears to be a lousy fighter.
The reason is very simple. For the powerful, they follow the Sun family's orders to fight. If it is beneficial, they will naturally rush to the front. If there is no benefit, they will definitely retreat.
On the Shu Han side, there are mainly powerful people from Jingzhou and Yizhou, and of course there are also some powerful people from Guanxi and Hebei.
Among them, Jingzhou's powerful ones naturally include Nanyang's powerful ones, the most powerful one.
This can be seen from the talents under Liu Bei's command. There are many people in Nanyang, and the powerful people in Hebei are actually the people of Liu Bei's Yuan Cong department. To say they are powerful is a bit flattering, and at most they are small and medium-sized landowners.
The establishment of the Three Kingdoms actually means that these powerful powers have temporarily reached a balance. No one can defeat anyone, so that's the only way to go.
So from the perspective of power, Liu Bei did inherit the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty. After all, Emperor Guangwu also relied on the power of Nanyang and Hebei to dominate the world.
At this time, Nanyang's powerful people gathered in Deng's house and were discussing matters.
What was being discussed was Chen Yuan's intention.
Deng Xilong sat on the main seat: "My lords, I have summoned you all here this time. I think you all know what is going on. Please tell me your opinions."
The old god Deng Xilong is here. As the head of the Deng family in Nanyang, Deng Xilong is naturally as stable as Mount Tai.
He firmly believed that no one could touch their Nanyang Deng family.
The reason is that the ancestor of the Deng family, Deng Yugong, is the leader of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, and the reason is that the Deng family has made great contributions to the court.
Even today, there is nothing that can be done to the Deng family.
Just kidding, once the imperial court dares to touch the Deng family, it will definitely cause panic among the powerful and meritorious families in the world.
The Deng family is a flag. As long as the imperial court is still there, the Deng family's flag will never fall.
In a sense, the Deng family can be regarded as parting ways with the country.
However, although the Deng family is not afraid, it is not just the Deng family that is powerful in Nanyang, there are other people as well. Others do not have the confidence of the Deng family.
Especially for some small and medium-sized powerful landowners, the court's deterrent effect is still very strong.
Therefore, as the leader of Nanyang's tycoons, he naturally has the obligation to feel relieved for these people.
Because these people can cheer for the Deng family and charge into battle.
Otherwise, if something happened, the Deng family would just take matters into their own hands. Wouldn't it be too unfair?
The Deng family now has the mentality of a powerful alliance leader.
Wu Han, Zhu You, Liu Long, Ren Guang, Cen Peng, Ma Cheng, Ma Wu, Chen Jun, Jia Fu, Du Mao and Deng Yu, the Nanyang people among the twenty-eight generals in Yuntai, total
There are eleven people.
Therefore, the Wu family, the Zhu family, the Liu family, the Ren family and the other ten families are also not in a hurry. Don't ask, asking means your ancestors are awesome.
The Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai was a sign set by Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty. As long as the imperial court was there and they did not do anything to rebel, they would be as stable as Mount Tai.
But there are not only eleven of them in Nanyang, but also others.
These people don't have much confidence.
Because they knew what they were doing. Not only did they violate the orders and policies of the Prefecture, but they also committed many illegal things.
It's okay if they don't take it seriously, but if they do, they won't have the strength to fight against the prefect's mansion.
The five thousand county soldiers are not just for fun, especially since these five thousand county soldiers are all veterans who have suppressed the Yellow Turbans, and their strength is obvious to all.
In addition to being powerful, there is another force in Nanyang that is also very troublesome.
That is the royal relatives.
The land of Nanyang produced four queens in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Today the emperor's queen, Queen He, is also from Nanyang.
In other words, the hometown of General He Jin is also in Nanyang, and the He family is now also trembling in Nanyang.
No, at this powerful gathering in Nanyang, He Miao, the representative of the He family, was present.
Logically speaking, He Miao is now Henan Yin and should not be in Nanyang.
However, He Miao returned to his hometown to pay homage to his father this time.
In fact, He Miao was not born to He Zhen. He had a red nature, but later his mother remarried He Zhen, and he was changed to He Miao.
He Miao had always been at odds with He Jin, and this time he returned to Nanyang to worship He Zhen. There is a story in this.