Xun Yu was very puzzled by Guo Jia's statement. Although Xun Yu and Xun You successfully proved their loyalty to Liu Ming with their performance in the missing person notice incident and were able to enter Liu Ming's circle of absolute confidants. However,
, Xun Yu and Xun You still don’t know about secrets like Yang Feng and Yu Du, which will definitely cause great trouble.
Therefore, Xun Yu did not understand Guo Jia's statement. If it was not to eliminate Cao Cao and eliminate potential threats, then why send troops to attack Cao Cao?
Xun Yu frowned and asked Guo Jia: "As a filial piety, I have to carry a hundred thousand armor and provide food for thousands of miles. The expenses for internal and external expenses are only for the guests. Bows and arrows are consumed, which costs thousands of gold every day. If we send troops aimlessly,
It's just a waste of people and money. However, if we are aiming to destroy Cao Cao in one fell swoop, this is extremely inconsistent with our previously formulated strategy of keeping a low profile and biding our time. Cao Cao's demise
, will only make the people of the world pay more attention to our rise, and thus unite more to guard against us and attack us. And we have even exhausted the last elite troops at the border. Then how can we face the princes of the world?
A group of people rose up to attack him. If we were not to defeat Cao Cao in one fell swoop and eliminate the cause of Cao Cao's disaster before it happened, we were just to expand the area.
If we want to gain some territory and achieve some results, then it would be even more meaningless to send troops like this. Now we dominate Jizhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and the three states. There is also unlimited land outside Liaodong to use. We are not short of territory now.
, but lack of a large population and grassroots officials to manage a large population. Now the management of our own territory is somewhat stretched.
What's the point of expanding the territory of Qingzhou? And those false names of victory and defeat, apart from making the people of the world more wary of us, are of no use to us. Besides, if we send troops at this time,
It will also allow Ma Chao and Yuan Shu around Cao Cao to benefit from it. It is really unwise to use our efforts to support the development of others. I wonder if we take filial piety seriously?"
Guo Jia felt a little stuck all of a sudden. This was not because Guo Jia felt wronged. It was because Guo Jia couldn't make it clear about Yang Feng and Yu Du.
You must know that in Guo Jia's plan, if Liu Ming assists Ma Chao to replace Cao Cao after sending troops, and then Liu Ming calmly retreats, then Liu Ming will definitely suffer a big loss, and other princes will also suffer.
It must be thought that Ma Chao can restrain Liu Ming and relax. However, in fact, Liu Ming was able to use Yang Feng, Yu Du and a large amount of subsequent assistance to evade Ma Chao and make Ma Chao
Chao became Liu Ming's puppet. In this way, the disadvantages that Xun Yu was worried about would of course disappear. But Liu Ming would quietly expand the scope of his territory and the number of people under his jurisdiction, and could thus break through
The two-pronged clampdown brought about by the alliance between Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo can definitely be said to be a coup. However, it cannot be said clearly in today's military meeting, and Guo Jia is also panicking.
Therefore, Guo Jia's eyes were spinning, thinking about how to perfect the solution to achieve the goal without telling the actual situation.
Xun Yu and Guo Jiadi had a very good relationship since childhood. At this time, Xun Yu saw that Guo Jia was still unwilling to give up.
Sir, there is really no need for us to get involved in the war at this time. Let Cao Cao, Ma Chao, and Yuan Shu kill each other and consume their strength. Let us seize the opportunity to repair at this time.
Keep growing and recuperating. When our strength recovers and our army expands to one million, they should be exhausted. If we attack bravely then, wouldn't it be possible to decide the country in one battle? Killing Cao Cao and destroying Dong Zhuo is like exaggerating corruption.
Those who are ordinary people are even less important. Wherever our military flags are heading, they will surely fall in the wind. When the time comes, the world will be unified and the people will less suffer from wars. Wouldn't it be wonderful!"
Guo Jia secretly smiled bitterly and said in his heart: If it were not for the purpose of supporting Ma Chao, a puppet power, your plan would of course be the best.
At this moment, someone outside the door loudly reported: "For your information, Mr. Taiwei, we have an urgent report to the border 800 miles away."
Everyone in the room was stunned. What could Bian Guan do now?
Liu Ming quickly said: "Submit it."
Dian Wei went out in person and gave the official document to Liu Ming.
Liu Ming took a deep breath after reading the letter. Then, Liu Ming smiled helplessly and said: "Everyone, it seems that we don't need to discuss the issue of sending troops to attack Cao Cao. We have winter sports."
None of the counselors present understood what Liu Ming was talking about. But after Liu Ming circulated the official document to everyone, everyone understood.
It turned out that Liu Ming offered a reward to Dong Zhuo outside the Great Wall, causing a large number of young men from the Xianbei tribes to die and become disabled. This was a huge blow to the Xianbei tribes. Although Liu Ming followed the original agreement and
Compensation was made for the number of dead and disabled people, but Liu Ming compensated only cloth. Although these cloths have always been valuable among the Xianbei tribes, they can only be avoided.
It was cold, but it could not be used as food and drink. However, the Xianbei tribes sent troops when the grass was lush, and a large number of young people died and were disabled. The Xianbei tribes neither fattened their cattle and horses in time nor had time to stock up in large quantities.
of forage. And because they were defeated by Dong Zhuo, they failed to grab the expected food and wealth. This made it really difficult for the Xianbei tribes to survive when the winter snow came.
And just at this time, the border guard changed its coach again. Lu Bu went west to Rome, and the border guard was replaced by Zhao Yun. This made the Xianbei tribe restless.
Although when Lu Bu was guarding the border, he accepted property and opened casinos, which caused a lot of harm to the honest Xianbei people. However, Lu Bu was a man with strong martial arts skills and an outsider. Lu Bu knew the habits of the people outside the Great Wall. The people outside the Great Wall respected the strong.
, only the strong can win their friendship, and after gaining their respect, as long as you respect him too and make them think you are a friend, they will have no regrets about anything you ask them to do.
Therefore, when Lu Bu was guarding the border, he often invited the tribal leaders to drinks, banquets, and hunting. Every time they got together, Lu Bu took the opportunity to show off his martial prowess. Therefore, there was no leader of the Xianbei tribe who did not
Lu Bu is a hero and a friend.
Moreover, Lu Bu will definitely seize the opportunity to severely punish those tribes that offend even slightly, so as to show the power of military power. Therefore, no Xianbei tribe would even think of becoming an enemy of a terrifying guy like Lu Bu.
As for Lu Bu's gambling establishments, they gave the tribal leaders a little entertainment in the boring grassland life. In addition, Lu Bu also gave the leaders some small gifts from time to time, and let them have fun in the gambling establishments from time to time.
Therefore, among all the Xianbei tribes, no one resented Lu Bu because of gambling. Anyone who lost something would be attributed by the tribal leaders to this person's bad luck. Aren't there still wins?
Therefore, when Lu Bu was guarding the border, even if the Xianbei tribes suffered such heavy losses, none of the tribes resented Lu Bu for offering such a bonus. On the contrary, after losing, they felt sorry for Lu Bu and had no shame in taking the compensation.
When Lu Bu followed Liu Ming's order and paid all the compensation to those tribes, those tribes were even more grateful to Lu Bu for this.
However, after Lu Bu left, Zhao Yun took over Lu Bu's job. Although Zhao Yun was upright and selfless, dedicated to the people, and did not treat the ethnic groups outside the Great Wall any differently from his own nation. However, Zhao Yun did not have Lu Bu's frivolous attitude and did not often treat people outside the Great Wall.
They would not entertain those tribal leaders, let alone attack those Xianbei tribes just to show force.
Zhao Yun did not close all the casinos run by Lu Bu because of Lu Bu's face. Of course, the most important thing is that Youzhou did not explicitly prohibit gambling, as long as Lu Bu did not break the law or discipline.
Zhao Yun just gave him face. But in this way, Zhao Yun would not let those casinos deliberately lose some to those tribal leaders from time to time.
As a result, the tribal leaders who often lost money were all jealous of the loss. They were extremely dissatisfied with Zhao Yun, thinking that Zhao Yun was cheating and that was why they all lost money. Moreover, this also reminded them of the difficult survival of each tribe.
It was also caused by Liu Ming and others. Therefore, the leaders and elders of these Xianbei tribes all gathered together to prepare for a tribal alliance meeting to discuss how to hunt this winter so as to improve the lives of each tribe.
Faced with this large-scale action by the Xianbei tribes, Zhao Yun, who was training the border troops, also got some news.
Although Zhao Yun has no way of knowing the exact reality and purpose of this kind of tribal alliance meeting, Zhao Yun will never think that they are just a simple year-end gathering. However, without any basis, Zhao Yun is afraid of intensifying the conflict and adding unnecessary trouble to his lord.
Trouble. Therefore, Zhao Yun just sent a person to ask them what they were doing, and prepared to remind them to stop these people outside the Great Wall from doing anything irrational.
However, after receiving Zhao Yun's inquiry, the tribal leaders felt that Zhao Yun's question was extremely funny. It is the tradition of the tribal alliance to hunt in winter. What is there to ask? So these leaders asked Zhao Yun
He wrote back and told Zhao Yun that if he wanted to know what they were planning to do, Zhao Yun could come here to listen, but only Zhao Yun was allowed to come alone.