Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 600: General Suppressing Wei

"Ask for the best, and get the middle" can be said to be the best portrayal of Chu State in the eight years of Chu Li.

Originally, Bai Tu wanted to completely wipe out the Wei navy, launch an all-out plan to stir up the seafood peninsula and the tribes in the north that were enslaved by the Wei clan. At the same time, he wanted to use the advantages of maritime transport to capture Yecheng in a surprise attack, and create a brand name of "Marquis of Chu'an and Wei"... …

However, it is obviously not so successful!
Among the three goals, only the first one has a high degree of completion - the Wei navy was indeed beaten to a pulp, and even the shipyards were mostly "cleaned up", and the Chu state achieved complete control of the Bohai Sea.

Regarding the other two goals, with the current achievements of the Enlightenment Department, it is not difficult to launch foreigners to besiege the Wei State, which they are already gnashing their teeth on.

However... the degree of infiltration of the Ministry of Enlightenment among the top leaders of each tribe is not high enough to ensure complete control. In order to avoid pure ethnic conflicts and unnecessary innocent casualties, Bai Tu did not take this step.

In pursuit of one's own liberation, dying in a heroic battle with the Wei clan is a worthy death, but in order to vent one's anger, fighting to the death with the Han people in the north is too unjust...

The main ones are the fried seafood peninsula and Samhan, Fuyu, Goguryeo in the north, Xianbei and Wuhuan in the east. The level of civilization is lower than Bai Tu expected, and it is still pure slavery.

If you want to safely mobilize these forces, you need to "enlighten" more senior tribes or pull up the bottom of the tribe, just like the overseas natives. In short, you cannot let the leader as a slave owner "willfully do whatever you want", otherwise it will be activated. It's just the Northern Yi invasion, not enough to add chaos.

Now that the Wei clan has no time to look after themselves, many of these tribes have fallen into civil strife.

After all, after the direct "foreign enemy" disappears, the guy who talks about Chu Xue is very annoying in the eyes of the slave owners.

The State of Chu is naturally on the side of Chu Xue supporters. There is no need to send troops directly. It only needs some generals and equipment. The current situation is not bad.

But before the actual integration is completed, Chu will not really use this potential power.

In addition, in terms of landing warfare, there was no hope of reaching Yecheng, but the capture of Nanpi, an important northern town, was enough for the Chu State.

The strong wall of Nanpi, coupled with the powerful artillery of Chu that has been mounted on the wall, and the blood transfusions of Bohai Port and Yanci Port, even if the southern soldiers are not good at fighting in the north, especially in the winter, it will be difficult for Wei to remove these A "nail" that has been driven in!
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the State of Chu officially announced that Marquis Anwei had taken office in Nanpi, and... Yu Jin was also "sent" back to Jinling at this time.

"Foreign officials will be punished for their crimes and will pay their respects to the King of Chu."

Sure enough, Yu Jin only surrendered on the battlefield, but did not take refuge.

And even if he surrenders to... this kind of general who has the obvious label of Cao Wei, and even his family is in Yecheng, he talks about surrendering in vain, and Baitu doesn't dare to reuse him.

So after Yu Jin came to Jinling, Bai Tu only met him symbolically.

"I don't want to be polite to the general. In Nanpi, the general surrendered to Chu at the right time, which reduced the casualties of the soldiers on both sides. What's the crime?"

"I failed to repay the kindness of your Majesty, and I failed to guard the territory and bring peace to the people. I dare not be praised by the King of Chu."

It can be seen from the title that Yu Jin still considers himself Wei Chen.

"I know that you and the King of Wei had the kindness of knowing each other, and the defense of the territory is indeed not very good, but if you fail to pacify the people...if you fail to pacify the people, then it is your fault for not surrendering earlier." Bai Tu was not modest, nor did he Not very polite.

After all, he also knew that it was obviously impossible to completely subjugate him just by capturing him.

As expected... Yu Jin just wanted Bai Tu to allow him to "retire from old age and return home" for the sake of reducing the casualties of the Chu army.

"Well, although it did not change the situation of the war, General Yu's last order was indeed full of humanistic care. In the past, the resistance to the heavenly soldiers was only for their own masters..."

Bai Tu did not refuse this, but...

"It's not impossible for General Yu to want to retire in Jinling, but there are also procedures for aging..."

Although Xia Houyuan might be able to help him a little, Bai Tu was still very considerate and made Yu Jin the general of the Wei Dynasty without having to lead troops or be awarded the title of general of the season.

Since he came to Jinling, Yu Jin could choose not to receive salary, but his official position must have been forcibly sealed, and... the publicity reached Nanpi.

In this way, Nanpi theoretically became the "An Weihou" Cao Pi and the "Suppressing Wei General" Yu Jinzai, but in fact Yu Jin would not leave Jinling, and Cao Pi was only a mascot with a little independent initiative.

Although everyone knows that the so-called An Weihou is just a puppet of the Chu State, in addition to the convenience in name, it also gives the northern nobles a chance to stand up again.

The aristocratic family that was originally worried that the Chu Kingdom would bring the southern nobles to the north would overly squeeze the living environment of the northern nobles had another consideration besides "holding together to defend".

Of course, this is only for the "conservative" part of the aristocratic family. As for the part that has transformed into a "family", no gentle means can conquer it.

However, the method of destruction is also very particular. It can be the external iron fist of the Chu State, or it can be internal strife among the northern nobles. As far as Bai Tu knows, after the Bohai War and the subsequent Bohai Rim Battle, the northern The new aristocratic power has been extremely severely traumatized!

Like the Xun family in Yingchuan, Xun Yu has always been firmly on the side of Wei State, or the king of Wei, and tried his best to suppress the factions within the Xun family. However, under Wei Ting's wolf-raising strategy, the Xun family inevitably split. A portion of the radicals...even a large portion!
Originally, because the aristocratic sects "grabbed for meat" too quickly, the original aristocratic sects also shrank at an accelerated pace. However, after the Bohai War, this situation was reversed.

Nowadays, the clans are much more aggressive than the clans in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in history. The relationship with other aristocratic families, even the factions of the original aristocratic families, is by no means tacit, especially after the crazy expansion in the past two years. The powerful factions are even more exposed...

The Battle of Bohai also caused internal changes among the northern gentry, and the powerful factions began to be suppressed.

For example, the Xun family's suppression relied on the power of the Wei court to get closer to the King of Wei. Some aristocratic families began to have private contact with the Chu State and combined with the power of the Chu State to suppress the sects!
This is exactly what Chu wants to achieve - to identify "enemies" more accurately. In this way, not only will there be fewer enemies, but the "digestion" of Wei in the future will also be faster and smoother.

Although Yu Jin was helpless with Bai Tu's reward, he had no room to refuse. The only thing he could refuse was not to receive salary, so... he moved in with Xia Houyuan.

And after the weather has completely reached the depths of winter in the twelfth lunar month, Bohai Nanpi has also calmed down, and Bai Tu... or the focus of the world has been concentrated on Longxi!

(End of this chapter)