Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 182

Just after Guo Jia said the theory of "seven wins and seven defeats", everyone who was affected only had a little thought in their hearts, just like when ordering dinner, they were hesitating between fried chicken and kebabs. .

As for Ji Zao's soldiers, as well as human-made laborers, their attributes and morale also fluctuated at this time, but they are still in the normal range. It is nothing more than the difference between good and bad conditions today.

However, it was these trivial thoughts and fluctuations that came together to make the outcome tilt towards Cao Cao!

This kind of insignificance does not originate from the influence of an individual, and there is another name, that is "general trend", or... Luck!
Guo Jiagang relied on the saying of "seven wins and seven defeats" to activate his own "Qi Zuo" and "ghost plot". After inheriting "Book of Heaven Volume [-]: Luck", Guo Jiagang also awakened. A great strategy - the general trend.

Different from its literal meaning, a more accurate name should be... the general trend is "driven" by me!
The effect is to "drive away" the general trend, or "luck", by guiding factors that appear to be very weak individually to produce seemingly insignificant changes.

Of course, this kind of "driving" is not unlimited. First, it must be guided to create a "height difference." For example, Guo Jia's seven wins and seven defeats summarized what he believed was "higher" between Cao Cao and Bai Tu. Such an angry Luck will be drawn towards Cao Cao.

In other words, you must find the opponent's weakness. After all, this weakness is something you don't have, or even your own strength, and it can only take effect if both directions are within the effective range.

The impact of this flow of luck is also limited. For example, workers transporting food in Huainan will "occasionally" complain in their hearts when they are hot and tired. Guo Jia only made this possibility possible , further expanded.

It was just a complaint. After all, Bai Tu was doing "relief with work" and saved their lives when they were about to despair. It was impossible to directly rebel. At most, their subjective initiative would be reduced and their efficiency would be reduced...

And it can only be activated once per year against "each opponent" - the "opponent" is judged based on independent luck. For example, Bai Tu's side already has only one independent luck, and for example, Jingzhou, Liu Biao and Huang Zu The luck of the two, faintly separated, can be counted as two opponents.

Therefore, when Guo Jia opened his mouth, he immediately counted seven.

Other things, such as the mountains becoming more chaotic and the war horses being acclimatized, are still reasonable and caused changes.

But... they said that Lu Bu and Sun Ce wanted to separate from Bai Tu, and also said that Bai Tu was just a woman with "no sense"?

First of all, Lu Bu and Sun Ce have no objection at all now. If there are a hundred futures, the possibility of the two "anti-white" is "zero". If there are a million futures, there may be a future of "anti-white" Appeared, but... such a weak possibility was not something Guo Jianeng could induce at all.

As for Bai Tu's statement about "women's kindness", it is even more ridiculous.

Perhaps in the eyes of Cao Cao, Xun Yu, and many people...even in the eyes of Lu Kang, Yu Fan and other Bai Tu's subordinates, what Guo Jia said does make sense.

However, this does not mean that this is the case!

In the view of Guo Jia and Xun Yu, Bai Tu's behavior was that he "only saw the suffering of the people in front of him" and then overreacted to it, even missing the opportunity to save the world because of it. The real hero is "for the future" "To better benefit the people", we will not act irrationally because of the suffering of the few people in front of us...

Just like the death of Pan Zhang - in the eyes of Guo Jia and Xun Yu, that guy did deserve to die, but... if he had to pay the price of military morale instability, it would be better to keep him to continue serving.

Of course, at least unlike Liu Zhang and Yuan Shu, Guo Jia and Xun Yu seemed to regret Bai Tu's "short-sightedness", but they recognized Bai Tu's correctness in their hearts. Guo Jia usually targeted Bai Tu just because The anger caused by the drama about Zhicai was not really about treating Bai Tu as a villain or a scum.

But is Bai Tu actually "short-sighted"?

Obviously not. Whether it was executing Pan Zhang or not being spared if he surrendered, Bai Tu knew the price he would pay before taking action.

It's just that in Bai Tu's basic world view, what he did was normal. A thousand, eight hundred years later, it would be unreasonable to make other choices.

Even though the times are different, both of them belong to the bottom line that Bai Tu cannot surrender to - a bottom line that is even lower than marrying just one wife!
However, Guo Jia attributed this to "can only see the benevolence of the woman in front of me", which is not in line with the actual situation...

In the end, Guo Jia only succeeded in five of his seven wins and seven defeats, and also suffered two backlashes.

Like other luck-based abilities, Guo Jia's "General Trend" also consumes his own lifespan, and the backlash consumes even more when it fails to activate - most of the owners of "Book of Luck" are short-lived ghosts.

Historically, before the Battle of Guandu, Guo Jia offered the saying "ten wins and ten losses" to Cao Cao, who was seriously lacking in confidence, and listed Cao Cao's advantages over Yuan Shao.

In many aspects, it is also suspected of being far-fetched, but... after the announcement of ten victories and ten defeats, Yuan Shao and all his counselors really seemed to have their heads lowered. They made stupid moves one after another. Not only Yuan Shao himself executed Qu Yi and Tian Feng were imprisoned, and their counselors actually hindered each other in order to compete with each other.

Yuan Shao did not agree with the simple model when the flying dragon was riding in the face, and took Xudu directly, insisting on defeating Cao Cao head-on; Xu You secretly defected to Cao Cao because his family was sentenced for breaking the law; not to mention Feng Ji, Shen Pei, Xin Ping, Guo Tu... It turned out that our own people plotted and framed each other.

In the end, Yuan Shao, whose population and cultivated land was almost twice that of Cao Cao, and who had enough troops and food supplies - equivalent to a GDP two or three times higher than Cao Cao, and a larger proportion of the military industry, actually lost to Cao Cao in the end!

Afterwards, Guo Jia also became a "miracle" all the way. Not only did he predict that Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang's brothers would fight against each other after Yuan Shao's death, he even predicted that Sun Ce would be "light and unprepared...Assassins ambush, and one person can kill the enemy." He concluded that Sun Ce did not pay attention to him at ordinary times. Protect yourself, and kill many powerful people in Jiangdong, maybe you will be killed by an assassin someday.

But in the end, Guo Jia also died of illness on the way back to Xudu after Cao Cao completely defeated the Yuan family...

Guo Jia from the Chengji World was more direct. At this time, she fed Cao Cao seven mouthfuls and swallowed five of them.

Every successful milk is aimed at the "general trend" - it is also because Guo Jia has too little experience now. Thinking about it carefully, the milk targeted at "many people" has been successful, but the targeted ones have to be given to Lu Bu, Sun Ce, Bai Tu, etc. Cao Cao squirted out the human targeted wisdom milk...

Obviously, this kind of "milk" that is too targeted has higher requirements for success, because it is easier to make mistakes in judgment.

It is precisely because successful milk is aimed at the "general trend" that Baitu now doesn't feel like being "dropped" (fog) at all. It was only discovered a few days later that... the efficiency of rear grain transportation was reduced by 20%. , the troops under his command are slightly afraid of fighting, and the disaster in Shanyue shows signs of intensifying!
The reason why he noticed it so quickly was because of Bai Tu’s official inspection system.

Similar to the "KPI assessment" system that was hated by many people in later generations, Bai Tu strictly ordered the officials to reduce all kinds of exaggerated adjectives in the evaluation and forced to list the data. Bai Tu must be able to intuitively see their political achievements every ten days.

For example, now in Huainan, the counties and counties along the grain road have added "grain transportation efficiency" to the assessment...

However, in the latest round of assessments, Bai Tu found that the performance of officials responsible for transporting grain in Huainan counties had collectively declined.

When Bai Tu wanted to investigate the reason, he discovered...it wasn't that one person was holding him back, but that everyone had a role to play.

In this way, it does not appear that anyone is particularly bad, but that everyone is not good at it!
"The food road from Jiangdong to Shouchun to carry out operations in the Central Plains is indeed too long..." Bai Tu said with some regret.

Precisely because the collective performance had declined, Bai Tu felt that the problem lay in his own decision-making.

However, there is nothing good that Baitu can do about this. Cao Cao and Liu Bei definitely don't have any extra food to lend to themselves, especially the former... he won't borrow even if he can!
We had to start from our subjective wishes and hire more Shouchun people locally to take on the job of transporting food. In this way... they would be more motivated.

Because many Shouchun people had been robbed of their food reserves before, the disaster relief efforts are now the greatest, and a lot of laborers have been provided under the work-for-relief program.

Especially in Shouchun City, except for some aristocratic families who had enough servants to save themselves, many others were on the verge of destruction. Fortunately, Bai Tu's relief food was delivered in time and they moved south.

As for the countryside...it's actually better!
Small chaos lives in the city, big chaos lives in the countryside, the ancients sincerely do not deceive me.

The Wu Fort built by the clans in the countryside had previously become the best means of self-defense against the insurgents. In addition, Bai Tu's reinforcements were fast enough, so the losses were smaller than expected.

After all, those rebels were undisciplined and uncommanded. Most of them consisted of dozens or hundreds of generals colluding with each other. They could not gather too many troops to attack the key points, so Wu Bao played a big role.

What Cao Cao did in Xuzhou before also served as a reminder to everyone. Now there is also a trend of building Uburg in the Central Plains and Huainan.

Bai Tu had also told Lu Lingqi before that Wu Fort was the product of mutual distrust between the army and the people, and this distrust was not caused by any one party alone, and was not all motivated by ambition to fight against the government...

Under Bai Tu's order, many of the victims who were moving south in Shouchun were hired as food transporters on the spot, taking on the task of transporting food from the north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Huaihe River.

At the same time, the frequency and intensity of the "war team's" propaganda were also increased to boost the fighting spirit and morale of the troops and restore their self-confidence.

As for the chaos in Shanyue... Gao Shun's KPI has soared recently. It obviously only gave him more opportunities to make meritorious deeds and only consumed more food. It was not a big problem and Bai Tu didn't care too much.

To a certain extent, Baitu's "KPI assessment" can be said to be the natural enemy of Guo Jia's "general trend".

If we do not directly use various data representing efficiency to speak, the subtle influence promoted by Guo Jia only focuses on one place, and it is difficult to find problems.

And once left unchecked, the losses will further expand...

(End of this chapter)