Chapter 297 Xuzhou’s follow-up arrangements
It was not beyond Yang Ji’s expectation that the Xuzhou family blamed Zuo Rong and Que Xuan for the mutiny.
It can only be said that this is bound to happen. Who told these two people to really take action on the night of the mutiny?
Otherwise, how could it be possible that only tens of thousands of private soldiers led by Zuo Rong and Que Xuan were involved that night?
It’s not because many aristocratic families in Xuzhou only verbally supported the mutiny and provided some supplies, but no one came out.
So this is also the main reason why Tao Qian can't be too sure about the Xuzhou family, because he can't find the key evidence.
The Xuzhou family put all the responsibility on Ruo Rong and Que Xuan, as well as Zhang Kai, who was easy to take the bait.
Although Tao Qian could skip the stage of collecting evidence and go directly to the Xuzhou family to settle the matter.
However, if the Xuzhou family is really pushed into a hurry, maybe the Xuzhou family will really start a rebellion.
For Tao Qian, who commanded 30,000 Danyang elites, the rebellion started by the Xuzhou family could be easily extinguished.
But what then? Tao Qian put an end to the Xuzhou family's desperate counterattack, but what about the Xuzhou people who were implicated?
Having been dealing with the Xuzhou Aristocratic Family for so long, Tao Qian knew very well what operations the Xuzhou Aristocratic Family would perform in a desperate counterattack.
Coercing the people to attack Tao Qian's army is nothing more than instinct for the Xuzhou family.
It’s impossible for Tao Qian to implicate the people of Xuzhou just to vent his anger, right?
What's more, I don't know how those aristocratic families who control the power of public opinion will publicize Tao Qian's attack on the people.
Fortunately, when Tao Qian went to settle accounts with the Xuzhou family, Liu Bei was with him.
Arrest people directly according to the laws promulgated by Feng Gao. If there is resistance, they will be killed on the spot.
Tao Qian's original goal of luring Yuan Shu into Xuzhou to kill the Xuzhou family was not achieved, but Liu Bei entered Xuzhou from Fenggao.
But there is no difference whether it is Yuan Shu or Liu Bei. After all, the laws that Yuan Shu is enforcing now are also the laws promulgated by Feng Gao.
"It seems that the aristocratic families that have been passed down to this day have a strong sense of crisis." Yang Ji shook his head and said.
Although this mutiny ended in an anticlimax and was finally formed after layers of misdirection by aristocratic families from the prefecture and county next door to Xuzhou.
However, how can a family that has been passed down to this day not have any sense of crisis and just move forward according to the designs of other families?
The only thing I can say is "good people don't live long, and disasters last for thousands of years."
"If their sense of crisis had not been strong, these disasters would not have been passed down to this day." Li You sighed.
Aristocratic families, like what Yang Ji said has been a scourge for thousands of years. Perhaps in the pioneering aristocratic era, the ancestors of these aristocratic families also expanded the living space of the Chinese nation and contributed to Chinese civilization. The sages who passed the tiles.
However, when the pioneering era of the nobility is gone and the era of the rise of all peoples is about to usher in, these aristocratic families that rest on their past achievements will become a scourge that hinders the progress of the times.
"So, does Duke Xuande want to come to me to discuss how to solve the Xuzhou family's problem?" Yang Ji asked Liu Bei.
"Well, I don't want to let the Xuzhou family go and let them continue to take root in Xuzhou." Liu Bei sighed.
How could he not know what kind of obstacles the existence of the noble family would cause to their grand cause?
It’s just that in this era, 80% or even 90% of the elites come from aristocratic families, while the remaining more than half come from humble and powerful families, and only a few come from the lower classes.
After all, in this era when all people have not yet received knowledge and enlightenment, if you want to do great things, aristocratic families are an obstacle that cannot be bypassed.
The people at the bottom have already tried their best to make a living, so how can they have time to refine and enrich their spiritual will?
How can any outstanding person who can break out from the bottom rely on hard work instead of talent?
When the people at the bottom can obtain the wealth and status they deserve through their own hard work, will it be called Datong.
As for now? Let’s talk about how to solve the problem of powerful families.
Faced with Liu Bei's problem, Yang Ji thought for a while and said: "I can't solve this problem. Mr. Xuande, you have to go to Zichuan. He should have a solution.
Although it cannot be said completely Solving the problem of the aristocratic family's dominance, at least it can separate the aristocratic family from most of the lower class people and allow the aristocratic family to lift the restrictions on the lower class people. "Zichuan? Is he ready?" He asked with a frown.
"I can't say that I'm ready. I can only say that I have an idea, but the time for execution is not yet mature and the conditions are not yet in place." Yang Ji spread his hands and said helplessly.
"Is this so..." Liu Bei pondered for a while, shook his head and said, "As long as there is a solution."
What Liu Bei fears most is that there is no solution. Now that Chen Xi has a solution, there is no need to worry. All he has to do is wait for the time Chen Xi is waiting for.
【Isn’t the time and condition ripe yet? It seems to be a nationwide layout.
Is the time node for the closure of the layout after unification? 】Li You thought secretly in his heart.
"Since the family's problem cannot be solved for the time being, can you always find a way to solve the Xuzhou Group Army's problem?" Liu Bei looked at Yang Ji and asked seriously.
Yang Ji has already avoided the family's problem just now. Now he can't leave the army's problem to Chen Xi, right?
"Just break up the organization and reorganize it. It just so happens that the Taishan Army under your rule, Mr. Xuande... well, it can't be called the Taishan Army anymore, just..." Yang Ji was a little stuck.
The initial army under Liu Bei was recruited in Taishan County, so there is nothing wrong with calling it Taishan Army.
However, as the size of Liu Bei's army grew larger and larger, the sources of soldiers also spread across two states, three counties and even the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty.
It would be a bit inappropriate to call him Taishan Army again... No, it is not a bit inappropriate anymore, but simply inappropriate.
"Why don't you, Mr. Xuande, give your army a name first?" Yang Ji said to Liu Bei.
"Name, what name? Isn't the army under my command the Han Army?" Liu Bei looked at Yang Ji and said.
"...Okay, you are the lord and you have the final say." Yang Ji gave up discussing changing the name of the army with Liu Bei.
Yang Ji resumed the previous topic, "Reorganize the Xuzhou Group Army's organization, then select officers at all levels from the Taishan Group Army, raise them by half a level and then transfer them to the Xuzhou Army."
"But, if this happens, won't it cause the Xuzhou Group Army's combat effectiveness to decline?" Liu Bei said with some worry.
Liu Bei never considered that selecting junior generals from the Taishan Headquarters Army would lead to a decrease in the combat effectiveness of the Headquarters Army.
I really thought that Yang Ji and Yu Jin's two years of large-scale military training, preparations for war, and selection of reserve officers had not yielded any results.
What's more, selecting and recruiting officers at all levels from the Taishan Headquarters Group Army to join the Xuzhou Group Army will also allow them to better control this group army. Liu Bei still has this consideration.
What really worries Liu Bei is the disorganization of the Xuzhou Group Army and the decline in combat effectiveness after reorganization. As mentioned before, after the war in the north resumes, Yuan Shao will almost certainly involve Liu Bei.
When they were involved in the northern war, it was inevitable for the Xuzhou Group Army to participate in the war.
It is not necessarily to participate in the northern war situation, it is more likely to participate in the southern war situation.
Once the war between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan in the north begins, the war in the southern states will not start even if they don't want to.
After the war between the three northern princes begins, there will almost certainly be a winner, and the winner will completely control the northern states.
If the princes of the southern states do not want to be annexed by the overlords competed for by the northern war, then they must start to expand their power, or merger is also an option.
In short, the times are about to run rampant again, and in the next time, the Han Dynasty will be an era of wars everywhere.
If they want to avoid the tragic scene of Han Dynasty wars all over the country, Liu Bei and the others must end the northern war in a short time.
At the same time, obtain the status of overlord-level princes, allowing those princes who want to expand their power to consider whether they can withstand Liu Bei's attack.
Liu Bei didn't know when the war in the north would start, but Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan had already begun to prepare various materials for the war.
If this war is about to start, if the Xuzhou Army is disbanded and reorganized, the recovery of the Xuzhou Army's combat effectiveness may not be able to keep up with the start of the war.
Yang Ji looked at Liu Bei who looked worried and said: "Xuan De Gong, I know what you are worried about, but you don't need to worry about this problem.
Things like dispersion and reorganization will definitely lead to a decline in combat effectiveness within a period of time, but the Xuzhou Group Army is at best a partial army in our battle order. "
"They are not needed in the northern war. Their role is to guard Xuzhou while we are busy with the northern war. " Yang Ji said to Liu Bei seriously.
"Ziyu is right. The most important thing for us now is to firmly control the military power of Xuzhou in our own hands, and then we can implement our various political orders in Xuzhou. .
Xuan Degong, what we need to do most now is to completely take Xuzhou into our hands, and military power is the key to this.
It is very important to completely grasp Xuzhou. It is so important that it affects whether we can successfully end the war in the north and win the war in the north. "Li You said very solemnly from the side.
"This...how do you say this?" Liu Bei looked quite surprised. After all, the absence of Xuzhou did not affect their victory in the war going north.
How did taking Xuzhou affect their victory in the northern war? Could it be that Li You was deceiving him?
"Mr. Xuande, you have forgotten that Yuan Gongli and Yuan Benchu are from the same family." Li You said to Liu Bei quietly.
"Yes, we don't know what Yuan Gongli thinks, but the Yuan family in Runan definitely hopes that the two forces will merge into one." Yang Ji also sighed.
Although Yuan Shu handed over his power to Sun Ce, who said Yuan Shu couldn't get things back from Sun Ce.
After all, it has been so long, and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have not yet resolved the opposition to them within Yuzhou. It will be easy for Yuan Shu to regain power.
"But... didn't we have an agreement with Yuan Gongli?" Liu Bei said with a shocked look.
"We have an agreement with Yuan Jiujiu, but we have no agreement with the Runan Yuan family.
It would be fine if Yuan Jiujiu completely controls the Runan Yuan family. After all, Yuan Jiujiu There is still a lot of room for maneuver in the estrangement between him and Yuan Benchu.
But sometimes, even the head of the family has to obey the family's decision." Li You shook his head.
"What's more, the conflict between Yuan Gongli and Yuan Benchu is just a conflict between these two people, and it is not without a solution." Yang Ji said softly next to him.
"Is this so..." Liu Bei sighed. He and Yuan Shu were relatively easy to talk to.
However, Liu Bei only hesitated for a moment and quickly regained his energy.
"Mr. .
The transferred airborne officers at all levels must have certain supporters in the Xuzhou Army, otherwise it will be difficult to control the entire Xuzhou Group Army in a short period of time.
"Well..." Liu Bei pondered for a while and said: "Leave this matter to me. Then we will select it together with the officers at all levels.
It just so happens that there were many soldiers in the previous battles. After they have made military exploits, they can just be transferred to the Xuzhou Army Group as low-level officers."
Liu Bei remembered that many of the Taishan soldiers who followed him had made military exploits in previous times. This time. Just reward them together.
"In this case, this matter will be left to Xuande Gong to handle." Yang Ji nodded.
“Oh, by the way, when Duke Xuande comes to select soldiers, remember to try to select some orphans or soldiers with brothers.
These soldiers who will be transferred to Xuzhou may not be able to return home in a short time. "Yang Ji reminded Liu Bei.
"Uh...? Liu Bei paused for a moment before realizing what Yang Ji was reminding him, "Don't worry, we have many soldiers in Mount Tai. It's not difficult to mobilize three to five thousand soldiers without worrying about the soldiers and low-level officers at home." "
After settling the matter with the Xuzhou Army, Liu Bei lay on the old man's bed and thought about what else he had not said.
"By the way, there is one more thing. How should the official's matter be resolved? "Liu Bei remembered something that was closely related to the Xuzhou family.
" Let me talk about this matter. Li You took over the conversation and said, "Before entering Xuzhou, Zichuan had already told me how to solve the problem." ”
"Oh, what did Zichuan say?" Liu Bei's eyes lit up. Sure enough, Chen Xi had never let him down.
"Some officials who were recruited through the recruitment order were transferred from Qingzhou and Yanzhou, while the officials from Xuzhou were transferred to Qingzhou." Li You said with a little surprise.
"This method is very good!" Liu Bei's eyes lit up. Chen Xi's plan not only restricted the Xuzhou family, but also transferred the new group between Qingzhou and Yanzhou officials to Xuzhou.
As for the Xuzhou Family not agreeing to do this?
Hmph, then they also have to control the military power in Xuzhou. Without military power, the Xuzhou family can do well.
No wonder Yang Ji and Li You both suggested to take control of the military power in Xuzhou first before talking about other things. This is a chain of events.
"Then, Xuzhou will be handed over to Wenru for a while. Tomorrow I will take Ziyu back to Fenggao to make preparations." Liu Bei said to Li You.
“No.” Li You agreed.
(End of this chapter)