Both parties got what they needed, and the negotiations were quickly concluded successfully.
Liu Yi said goodbye and returned to the fleet. Among the things discussed, there were many things that he could not decide. He had to go back and ask Gongsun Du for instructions before he could make a decision. What he had to do was to return to Liaodong as soon as possible and let Gongsun Du get a
Accurate idea.
As soon as Liu Yi got off the boat, Tai Shici couldn't wait to ask: "My lord, what do you mean by your last words?"
"Karasuma Xianbei?" Wang Yu raised his eyebrows and replied casually: "You don't want to go?"
"That's not what I mean. At that time, Zhongshan Prime Minister Zhang Chun colluded with Xianbei to create a rebellion in Wuwan that swept across Hebei and killed countless people in the Central Plains. Although we in Qingzhou are far away, we have also suffered disasters..." Taishi Ci's handsome face
She turned red, obviously worried that Wang Yu would misunderstand.
"In the early days when our Han Dynasty was strong, these people were sending envoys and paying tribute, so we were afraid of offending the court, so we were careful! The emperors of the past dynasties were also kind. When they saw their submission, they would also take advantage of the opportunity to give back to them from time to time.
As the saying goes: Eaters have short mouths and takers have short hands. After so many years, these bastards have benefited from the Central Plains. As a result..."
Taishi Ci pointed to the sky and painted the earth, and he only had to swear to the sky to express his feelings: "My lord, we will fight whoever you say, but our location in Qingzhou..."
"I just said it casually, why are you in such a hurry?" Unexpectedly, Tai Shici had such a big reaction. Wang Yu was also slightly stunned. After thinking about it, he finally understood. He chuckled and said: "I said Ziyi, have you forgotten?
, why are we cleaning up Guan Cheng today?"
"Why?" Taishi Ci scratched his head and subconsciously replied: "Isn't it to suppress bandits?"
"Suppressing bandits is just one of them, the more important thing is to go north to Jizhou and fight side by side with Brother Gongsun." Wang Yu shook his head and reminded again.
"Oh, my lord, do you really want to use sea ships to transport food?" Taishi Ci suddenly realized, "Actually, it's the same as taking the land route. After all, we don't have to worry about food and wages when we reach the end of the land. The sea is rough and the waves take a long time, so it's not as good as
...Huh? Are you worried that the war in Hebei will be unfavorable, so you have a way out?"
Although the military has reached a consensus on Wang Yu's plan to send troops northward, there are still many different opinions on its necessity and specific methods.
Most people are more optimistic about Gongsun Zan. Although Yuan Shao, who has occupied Jizhou, has many soldiers and generals, it is difficult to defeat the Youzhou army that has experienced hundreds of battles. After last year's series of battles with his lord as the core, Baima Yi followed
There is no doubt about their combat power. It is hard to imagine how the Jizhou Army can withstand the attack of thousands of Yi Cong.
Since Youzhou is more advantageous, the lord's reinforcements become the icing on the cake. It would be fine if only one of the generals is sent, but the lord himself leads the team. The necessity of this is indeed questionable.
To take a step back, even if Gongsun Zan is really defeated, it is unknown how effective the lord's reinforcements will be.
The Jizhou Army is not the Yellow Turban Army. This army is well-equipped and well-trained, and there are many fierce generals who can defeat ten thousand enemies. Although the commander may not be of Xu Rong's caliber, there are many heroes in Hebei. Who knows if any of them have been hidden?
Master? Before the Battle of Luoyang, Xu Rong was still unknown?
If the Jizhou Army really defeated the Youzhou Army, would this guest army of about a thousand people be able to turn the tide, even if it was led by the Lord?
Taishi Ci doesn't care about this. Since we are allies, we should fight side by side. As for victory or defeat, how can we know if we don't fight? Only those extremely boring literati like to discuss this before the war. Occasionally, if they are fooled, they will put on a sophisticated look.
Unpredictable posture, making a bunch of excuses when something goes wrong.
He was just surprised that his lord didn't seem to be optimistic about Gongsun Zan, and he was not just unfavorable. He was eager to deal with the threat of Guan Cheng and Liaodong just for the sake of food routes and retreat.
"You can't say you're worried about Brother Bogui," Wang Yu explained with a smile: "We still have to fight the battle, but our family business is not that small now. We can't go back to the past, always putting everything on the line."
"Then why don't you follow Mr. Tian's strategy and sit quietly at home? If General Gongsun turns out to be true...you will ask the army to go north as a response?" Tai Shici thought about it, but still couldn't figure it out.
Wang Yu's strategy of going north for reinforcements is very contradictory. Call him adventurous, but he also actively built a sea channel; call him prudent. He led a light force northward. What kind of prudent person is he?
As the saying goes: The son of a rich man cannot sit down in the palace, and the kind like Yuan Jiujiu is the real prince. The fighting was in full swing under the city of Xiangyang, but he could not sit still in Nanyang; as soon as the warning message from Wuguan passed, he
Anxious to get away.
Of course Taishi Ci despised Yuan Shu's behavior, but he also knew that officials usually behaved that way, and those like his lord were the exception.
"Although Brother Bogui's troops are strong, his foundation is unstable. Once defeated, he will probably be unable to recover. By then, it will be too late for our army to send troops to respond. Qingzhou has just settled down, and now it is time to mobilize troops to reinforce
, maybe before Hebei has decided the winner, our army’s retreat has been blocked..."
To Tai Shici, Wang Yu's theory was a bit unfathomable. If it were Jia Xu or Tian Feng who listened, he would have heard that he was perfunctory. Because he never explained how his thousand cavalry could turn the tide.
, why can't we just send one general to go? That is, Taishi Ci didn't care about these details, so he was allowed to get through.
Jia Xu only thought that Wang Yu was out of temper because he liked to take risks, and Tian Feng was fooled by Wang Yu's excuse of using the opportunity to train troops. None of them knew what Wang Yu was really thinking.
The first battle between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao was the so-called Battle of the Boundary Bridge. In this battle, Gongsun Zan suffered a big loss. This tragedy could have been avoided, as long as Gongsun Zan did not insist on going his own way, and Wang Yu could not pretend to be a magic stick.
Even if you don't know for sure, sending a subordinate will not be able to persuade Gongsun Zan, so you have to go there yourself.
In addition, there is another important factor.
In the Battle of Jieqiao, there is a person Wang Yu has been looking for for a long time who will definitely appear. Wang Yu cannot hope to win this person back by sending a general, so he must go out personally.
Apart from these two factors, it was his turn to be eager to fight.
It's just that the reasons are not clear to outsiders, so he can only make up some specious excuses to fool people.
Realizing that what Wang Yu said was very mysterious, Taishi Ci was straightforward. In line with the principle of not knowing what to do, he clasped his fists and praised: "My lord is sitting in the land of mountains and seas, but he can clearly see thousands of miles away, just like..."
"Okay, Ziyi, this kind of flattery is not suitable for you at all. You gather the navy here, and I will go back to Linzi first and send Wuji to help you. Before heading north, you will meet up with me in Linzi." Wang
Yu knew what Tai Shici was thinking and quickly gave him reassurance.
"That's good." Taishi Ci touched the back of his head, laughed innocently, and suddenly asked: "By the way, my lord, how should we deal with that thief Guan Hai?"
"Yeah." Wang Yu pondered for a moment: "You just said that this person behaved very..."
"Despondency." Tai Shici answered: "Some people who want to surrender say that before the war started, this thief had been trying to persuade Guan Cheng to surrender, and it seemed that he wanted to repent."
Wang Yu nodded: "Indeed, Yuan Zhi also investigated similar information. Before the Battle of Mount Tai, this person also escaped from the battlefield. It seems that he was scared by you."
"Master, do you want to keep this man?" Taishi Ci listened obediently and guessed Wang Yu's thoughts: "This man's martial arts are quite good, and he is more than capable of being a general. It would be a pity to kill him."
"Let him go to Gongming as a deputy general." Now that Xu Huang is the commander-in-chief of the front army, naturally he cannot always take the lead, so it is just right to send him a general. Moreover, the main force under Xu Huang is also a Yellow Turban, so there is room for one
It shouldn't be difficult to manage Hai.
After the discussion was settled, Wang Yu left Tai Shici to reorganize the navy, and took Guoyuan with him to return to Linzi with Qingqi.
He didn't walk very fast on the road. He would stop at various farming sites from time to time to discuss the pros and cons with Guoyuan on the specific situation. Along the way, he found that this highly respected celebrity did have two things in terms of government affairs.
Take the brush.
Relatively speaking, Tian Feng is better at grasping the general direction in government affairs. The government orders proposed by Wang Yu and perfected by Tian Feng are so perfect that it is impossible to find any faults. If you insist on picking, you can only use the government orders.
Look for loopholes in the fundamental spirit.
Guoyuan's skill lies in the details, and his agricultural knowledge is extremely rich. If he were not so elegant, you would know that he is a scholar at a glance. When you see him playing with farm tools and giving instructions on farm work, it is easy to mistake him for an old farmer.
How to dig canals to be more efficient? How much farmland can be irrigated by a canal? How does the style of farm tools affect the efficiency of farming? He talked about it casually, which made the old farmers who had been working in the fields all their lives dumbfounded and raised their thumbs.
, just full of praise.
This was not the end of the story. When passing by coastal counties, Guoyuan also raised the issue of treating saline-alkali land and building embankments on the seashore to prevent sea intrusion and destruction of farmland to Wang Yu.
Only halfway through the journey, Wang Yu knew that he had found a treasure, and then he began to worry about how to place this great talent.
His initial plan was to let Guo Yuan serve as the prefect of Donglai. The farming here was the latest to start, and a capable person was needed to organize it. But after discovering that Guo Yuan's talents were more than that, Wang Yu thought about taking him back to Linzi.
Let him be Tian Feng's deputy and take control of the overall situation together.
As a result, before he could make a final decision, he had already arrived in Linzi City.
Around the New Year, the reconstruction work of Linzi City has already begun.
The main targets of damage when the Yellow Turbans entered the city were government offices and the residences of large households. Ordinary residences were not seriously damaged. Wang Yu's reconstruction principle was to keep everything simple, to protect against wind and rain, and to serve the functions of government offices.
Keeping everything simple will naturally lead to faster speed. During the time when he and Guan Cheng were confronting and fighting, Linzi City had returned to some of its former appearance, and its popularity was only slightly less than before.
Now that he's here, he'll settle down. Wang Yu puts aside his worries for the time being and plans to introduce Guoyuan to Tian Feng and Jia Xu first, and then make arrangements after listening to the opinions of the think tanks. Of course, Guoyuan won't have any objections.
So, after entering the city, the two went straight to the governor's mansion.
When the general walked to the place, he heard a burst of noise in front of him. When he followed the sound, he found a large group of people surrounding the gate of the Governor's Mansion.
Wang Yu was a little confused. According to the principles of Qingzhou's New Deal, politics and law are separated. The governor's office does not accept ordinary civil and criminal cases. Why are there so many people gathered here? Could there be some big trouble?
Full of doubts, he dismounted from a distance and walked forward with Guoyuan. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to register as a member of Piaotian Literature to recommend this work. Your support is