Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 321 A Conspiracy Is Brewing
Although Ji Han's army attacked in three directions, the burden on the Ji Han court was almost negligible.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first.Since ancient times, military food supply has been the lifeline of the army.Before this era, the ancients conducted long-term practical explorations to solve the problem of military ration supply, and developed several mainstream methods such as long-term transportation, reclamation of military settlements, carrying with the army, and supporting war with war.

Among these methods, long-distance grain transportation is still the most widely used method of grain transportation.

In this era, most armies went to the frontier to fight, and the frontier was in a state of war for a long time, and the scale of agricultural production was small. Only by transporting food and grass from the Central Plains could the needs of large-scale troops be met.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought against the Xiongnu, food was always a big problem, so Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty recruited peasants to transport food, and prepared their own tools. Large families used ox carts, and small families even used people to carry food. The food transport team was mighty. , Inexhaustible in the road, three thousand miles away, and more than 1000 miles closer.During Wang Mang's time, he recruited more than 30 prisoners, armored soldiers, and Ding Nan to transport food and weapons from the Jianghuai area to the north.This kind of long-distance, large-scale, and long-term transportation of grain not only increases the corvee, but the key is that the loss is relatively serious.

Coupled with the food that the peasants eat on the road, the consumption of starting a war is unimaginable and unaffordable.

The second is to store grain in the fields.

In the early days of the Three Kingdoms, the warlords fought in chaos and the people were in dire straits. They were either in war or on their way to war. The food problem was very acute.Yuan Shao in Hebei used to feed his officers and soldiers with mulberries; Yuan Shu in the Jianghuai area used clams as military rations.In the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao defeated the Yellow Turban Army in Runan, Yingchuan, and captured a lot of farm tools and cattle.Habayashi Jianzao only asked Cao Cao to establish a farming system to solve the food problem.Cao Cao adopted his suggestion and appointed him as the captain of tuntian, and appointed Ren Jun as the general of Diannong Zhonglang, who were jointly responsible for tuntian affairs.Zaozhi and Ren Jun recruited common people to reclaim fields around Xuchang and harvested 100 million hu of grain.Later, this practice was extended to all states and counties, and the warehouses in various places were quickly filled with grain.When the Tuntian system made Cao Cao send troops to the four directions, it solved the difficulty of transporting food over long distances, and played an irreplaceable role in Cao Wei's unification of the world.

In the end, war is supported by war.

Although it is said that "soldiers and horses have not moved, food and grass go first", but the delivery speed of food and grass can not keep up with the needs of combat in many cases, especially when carrying out long-distance fast mobile operations of cavalry like Huo Qubing, carrying too much food supplies will affect the army's strength. Movement speed and mobility.Therefore, it is necessary to carry a certain amount of rations with you, and then annihilate the enemy to support the war.

But this method is only used in foreign wars, and it is not suitable for use in civil wars.

It may be that Ji Han's civil and military officials were in a misunderstanding, and did not think of the combat method of "supporting war with war"; or there was no food storage around Liangzhou.Therefore, in their minds, they believed that the consumption of Ma Di launching three wars at the same time must be huge, so big that Ji Han couldn't bear the consumption at all.
But I didn't expect that after the three wars were launched, Ji Han had no side effects other than sending out 11 soldiers and horses.

Ma Di started the war and won it without recruiting a Han people's husband to transport food.

This made the court officials marvel at Ma Di's military capabilities, but also found it unbelievable.

If wars can be waged with such low consumption, wouldn't it mean that an empire can dominate the world as long as it has an army?

Realizing this, they discovered the frightening aspect of the strategy of "supporting war with war" proposed by Ma Su.

This is simply a perpetual motion machine supporting the idea of ​​war madmen dominating the world.

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Chang'an City, House of Minister of the Household Department,
Yang Yi and Fei Yi sat across from each other, and beside them, there was a man who was completely unrecognizable.

This man was very majestic, with red bumps on his face, his original face could no longer be distinguished.

Of course, it doesn't matter who he is.

The important thing is today's guest, Yang Yi.

Fei Yi sighed and said, "Brother Wei, the person standing on the left of His Majesty should be you."

"Even if you can't stand on the left hand of His Majesty, the No.1 standing under the great general Ma Su should still be Wei Gong, you, what a pity."

In the few encounters, Yang Yi has already been deeply impressed by Fei Yi, who is very deep in the city and not expressing his emotions or anger.For this reason, although both of them are frustrated in the political arena, Yang Yi inexplicably rejects Fei Yi, thinking that they are not from the same place.

Yang Yi is outspoken, with all her likes and dislikes on her face. When she sees someone who doesn't like her, she speaks out her faults to the face.

But Fei Yi is different. Fei Yi is the kind of ruthless person who "if you step on him, he will apologize to you in turn on the surface, make you paralyzed, and secretly kill you to pieces when he sees the opportunity", and he talks Often yin and yang are strange, and the details are extremely angry.

Now that Fei Yi had hit her sore spot, Yang Yi, who had always dared to slap the sky and slap the air, was taken aback. She didn't dare to go back directly, but suppressed the depression in her heart for a while, and silently thought about what the guy opposite said.

What was it that made him, who had the chance to win, frustrated one after another?
Originally, he claimed to be the prime minister's successor, even the prime minister himself acquiesced.As a result, the situation took a turn for the worse. First, the position of the prime minister's successor was lost, and then the position of the head of the four major ministers was also lost, and he didn't even become the four major ministers.

This gap is really too big, so big that even though it has been nearly two years, Yang Yi is still brooding about it.

However, two years after the incident, Yang Yi was able to think about the root cause from the perspective of a bystander.

He felt that there were three reasons for his frustration in politics.

The first reason is the sudden demise of the Wei State, which led to a large number of people with family background and connections to join Ji Han, which had a violent impact on the official positions above the court, which in turn led to his being eliminated.

This situation occurred because Ma Di attacked the city too fast, and Wei Guo was instantly destroyed with only 2 people.

Therefore, the fundamental reason is still because of Ma Di.

The second reason also comes from Ma Di.There is no doubt that after a hundred years of being the prime minister, Ma Di is determined to take control of the military, and he, Yang Yi, has always been at odds with Ma Di.The prime minister considered that the Shu Han could only form a joint force if the two men, one civil and one military, had to cooperate sincerely, so he promoted Jiang Wan who had a good relationship with Ma Su.

The third reason is because of Ma Su.

Originally, in the year before the eve of the year (232), the prime minister had already run out of fuel and was about to put his hand into the coffin. At that time, the heir was none other than Yang Yi... I don’t know what tricks Ma Di used. Still alive now.

Yang Yi was not looking forward to the prime minister's death, but somehow felt that she was being targeted by Ma Su from all sides, to the point of death.

But obviously, no matter how angry he is, he is no match for Ma Di now.

Therefore, when she learned that Fei Yi invited him to deal with Ma Su together, Yang Yi agreed without hesitation even though she didn't know what kind of enmity Fei Yi and Ma Di had.

The enemy of the enemy is the friend.

"...Well, let's not talk about this for now..." Yang Yi squirmed her lips, waved her hands, and turned her head to look at the pockmarked man, "This strong man, why did you want to kill Ma Di?"

"Me? My reason for killing him is no less than yours! The reason why I became the ghost I am now is all thanks to Ma Di."

The strong man spoke word by word, although his voice was hoarse, but his tone was extremely firm. Yang Yi noticed that his eyes became very sharp in an instant, and there was a gleam of hatred in him.

So he said lightly: "I think you should reveal your identity and your grievances with Ma Di, otherwise I can't reach a cooperation intention with you."

The strong man nodded, his hoarse voice tried to become normal, "Duke Wei, do you still remember me as an old friend?"

"You? You! You are... Didn't you flee to Jingzhou?"

Yang Yi got up in horror, paled in shock, and hurriedly re-examined the big man's face carefully, this time he vaguely saw a familiar face from the pockmarked face.

Four years ago, he and this person often met. At that time, both of them were working under the prime minister's command, one article and one military.

When the brawny man finished talking about what happened to him in the past few years, Yang Yi was dumbfounded and couldn't believe it.

He didn't expect that there was such an inside story hidden behind the strong man fleeing to Jingzhou back then, and he didn't expect that the old man who couldn't read big characters and a martial artist had become so scheming now.

Yang Yi couldn't speak for a long time, and her heart was full of turmoil.

And Fei Yi, who was posing as a bystander, stretched out his hand and patted Yang Yi's shoulder in a timely manner, and said in a deep voice: "Wei Gong, the three of us can form an alliance...

Yang Yi came back to her senses, shook her head, and looked straight into Fei Yi's eyes, "I can trust him, but what about you, why do you want to kill Ma Di? You have no grudge against him."

"Yes, I really have no direct grievances with him."

Fei Yi nodded: "But someone has a grudge against him, and I was entrusted by him to be loyal to him. I don't know the reason, but can Duke Wei trust me?"

"Who are you entrusted with?"

Yang Yi looked at Fei Yi in surprise, but she didn't expect that Fei Yi, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, would actually do the job of contacting the killer part-time.

"I can't say anything about this person, but please believe me, my determination to deal with Ma Su is no less than yours."

When he said this, the hatred in Fei Yi's eyes was no less than that of Yang Yi or the strong man.If people who don't know the inside story read it, they would think that he and Ma Su had a revenge for taking his wife and killing his father.

Yang Yi nodded and asked, "You don't need to say anything about this person, but you have to tell the benefits you can get from this matter, otherwise. I can't believe you."

The strong man just sat so quietly, not joining in the fun, as if he already knew the benefits Fei Yi could get from this incident.

Fei Yi casually pulled away the tablecloth on the desk, revealing a large pile of yellow and white things underneath, smiled slightly, and said two words, "Fame, profit!"

"1 taels of gold, and the seat of one of the four ministers, I wonder if Duke Wei thinks so?"

"Sigh~~"

What a great handwriting!
Yang Yi was shocked.At the same time, a huge question mark filled his head, almost bursting out of his body.

Who exactly?Want to buy Ma Su's life!

(End of this chapter)