Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 76 Entrusted with an important task
Can I just sit and watch?
Um, for the sake of his own head, Wang Hou didn't say these words, but stood up helplessly from the futon, also with four fingers side by side, thumbs up in the standard salute posture, and walked to the middle corridor.

"Prime Minister, the lower officials are originally Cangcao. It is not reasonable for the lower officials to speak out about military and state affairs. However, since the prime minister asked, the lower officials have no choice but to speak. If there is anything wrong, please forgive me!"

There are so many people staring at him now, the insurance must be bought first!Sure enough, after listening to his words, Cao Cao slapped impatiently.

"Words are innocent, but words are fine!"

"Prime Minister, in fact, the most important thing to ask is not your ministers, but yourself. You and Yuan Shao have a good relationship with each other. You used to be inseparable from each other in the town of Xingxia. You know Yuan Gong's temper best. If the prime minister is Yuan Gong, he Will you take advantage of the time when the prime minister dispatches troops to defeat Lu Bu, whom he hates, and get rid of Xudu, or wait for you, an old friend, to come back, relying on the absolute superiority of the troops from the four states of Hebei, the generous and tragic soldiers of Yanzhao, and the war horses from the north to defeat you dignifiedly? "

As soon as these words came out, Xun Yu, who had raised doubts just now, obviously frowned, but Cao Cao's expression was slightly relieved.

"Moreover, Mr. Yuan is not as good as the prime minister. Under Mr. Yuan's command, Tian Fengjushou was born in Jizhou, Xin Pingguo Tu was born in Yingchuan, and Xu You from Nanyang. They are mutually exclusive, fighting for power and profit, and the autumn harvest is approaching. , Hebei is far away, even if Yuan Gong intends to go straight to Xudu, he will not be able to unify his subordinates in less than half a year. If Lu Zei can be defeated within six months, the north will have no worries!"

Wang Hou held his head high and talked eloquently, but the second half of the sentence made Cao Cao's originally indifferent face become surprised. He opened his mouth to ask, but he swallowed the words again. nodded.

Fortunately, Cao Cao didn't ask. Wang Hou's words are purely because he understands this period of history and knows what has happened. The biggest advantage of the traversers, but in this era, the conflicts between the factions under his command belong to the highest military faction of the faction. Confidentiality, such as the conflicts between Wang Hou and a lot of high-ranking officials and dignitaries such as the chief minister, the servant, and the head of the state, but it is only limited to this faction, and no one will deliberately pass it on. If Cao Cao asked how to find out about Yuan Shao Wang Hou really couldn't answer the contradictions under his command.

"The meaning of the truth is determined! Thief Lv is capricious, arrogant, disrespectful of the court, disobedient and disrespectful, and even colluded with the rebel Yuan Shu to attack Xiaopei, who was appointed by the court to be the shepherd of Yuzhou Liu Xuande. It is quite a crusade on behalf of the emperor!"

"Former general Xia Houdun, Changshui school Wei Lejin, and you led three thousand troops from the Bafu, and another ten thousand soldiers from Qingzhou were recruited as vanguards to meet Liu Bei's defeated army first and recapture Xiaopei! Stop Lu Bu's westward advance! "

"The last will obey!"

Xiahou Dun and Le Jin, who was named, were all happy on the face, clasped their fists and promised, on the other hand, Xun Yu's brows were tightly wrinkled, although the current situation is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. With Zhangxiu Lu Bu in the southwest, Cao Cao's power is even more difficult to compete with the huge Yuan Shao Group in the north. Even if he fights with Lu Bu, he has no choice but to launch!But what surprised him was that Wang Hou had such a great influence on Cao Cao!After consulting Wang Hou's opinion, Cao Cao had already made up his mind without discussing with anyone.

And the surprises were not limited to these, Cao Cao immediately brought Wang Hou out after accepting his fate as the vanguard general.

"Cangcao Wang Hou! You immediately allocated [-] shi of grain from Taicang to supply Xiahou Dun's vanguard army as armaments. In addition, the truth grants you the right to recruit civilians from various counties and counties. After preparing the vanguard army rations, set off from Xuchang immediately, and collect this year's autumn grain along the way. Stationed in Xiao County! Supplying the frontline army, there must be no mistakes!"

"Prime Minister, the lower official is just a cavalier. Local expropriation and population transfer are the authority of the Zhongshuling..."

"Tune Cao Hongjie to be your deputy! Captain Zhao Yun from Cangtun will accompany you! Get down!"

This is another troublesome thing to offend people. After suffering a lot, Wang Hou wanted to postpone it sadly, but Cao Cao had already issued the order without question, and by the way, he also arranged for his two old partners, Cao Hongjie and Zhao Yun. Now, with Cao Xiaoniu as the supervisor, he shouldn't try to be lazy, he can only hug his fists helplessly.

"The next officer listens to the order!"

At any rate, take Zhao Yun out and put him neither in Xudu nor on the front line for the time being. He can also guard against Liu Daer's collusion for the time being, and the military deployment, recruitment of soldiers, etc. will not be a small warehouse for him. It's time for Cao to be concerned, and he had no choice but to accept the order. Wang Hou said goodbye knowingly and left the meeting hall.

But he went out of the door with a worried face, but he didn't pay attention. Xun Yu lost his mind a little bit, his eyes followed him out of the door, and then stayed in the direction where he disappeared, until Cao Cao thoughtfully clicked his name, Only then did he suddenly come back to his senses, and hurriedly stood up.

"Xun Lingzhong, Cheng Shangshu! After the real minister's expedition to Xuzhou, I have to trouble the two of you to take care of the big and small things in Xudu!"

"Subordinate to obey!"

Holding his fists, Xun Yu responded dully, staying behind and resigning to his fate. It seems that Cao Cao's trust in him is still the same as before, but just as Wang Hou said just now, the recruitment of local civilians and the distribution of military rations originally belonged to him. Now Cao Cao stripped off the authority of Shu Ling and gave it to Wang Hou, but after all, Xun Yu still had a lump in his heart.

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It hurts to be idle every day, and this time it will be retribution, An Sheng's life is over!

In this era, the efficiency of Cao Cao's affairs is still very high. After all, in the era of warlord separatism, if it was as procrastinating as in the Han Dynasty, it would have been eliminated long ago!

As soon as this Wang Hou came out of the prime minister's mansion, Xiahou Dun came to his home. After half a year of Wang Hou's reform in his home court, Taicang's efficiency has also improved a lot. The Shijun rations were allocated from each sub-warehouse and stored directly in the empty warehouses from T18 to NO.[-].

The civilian husbands of the vanguard army don’t need Wang Hou to worry about it. Seventy to eighty percent of the battlefields are fighting soy sauce these years. The extra [-] Qingzhou soldiers are probably the coolies for this transportation. When the Qingzhou soldiers are recruited After arriving in Xudu, they will be responsible for the transportation.

But here Wang Hou was more thoughtful, he pulled Xiahoudun to check the delivery on the spot, filled a warehouse and put a seal on it, and handed it over to Xiahoudun's personal soldiers to guard it personally, so as to avoid any mistakes and find it later. Come on his head.

He was exhausted from all the tossing around this day. Mr. Cao's temporary emergency meeting was held at around [-]:[-] noon. After the grain was delivered that day, it was almost [-]:[-] am when he returned home in the evening. Fortunately, Xiahou Dun accompanied him. Otherwise, according to the night ban law of this era, he would not be able to leave Taicang, and could only deal with it here for one night.

However, there was no safety when he returned to the mansion, and just now when the door opened, Wang Fu looked helpless, and Cao Hongjie, who was used to going to bed early but stayed up until midnight with red eyes, had already burst out excitedly.

"Are you going out again!"

"Hey, hey, talk! What are you shaking? Open your eyes!!!"

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The ostentation is even bigger now. In addition to his own 500 plays, he also added Zhao Yun's [-] grain troops, [-] people with a clear medium-sized armor, carrying big halberds, and marching in formation on the official road flying in the loess. momentum.

It's just that he was wandering in the carriage with the excited monkey-like Cao Hongjie, but Wang Hou was frowning.

Cao Cao ordered him to replace Xun Yu to open up grain roads in advance and provide military rations. This is definitely a promotion for him. It can be regarded as directly participating in Cao Cao's military operations. Although he is not on the front line of fighting on horseback, he is still on his own. He has become an indispensable member of Cao's group, and his importance is not the same as before.

However, this is really not a good job. Almost all the self-cultivating farmers have been forced to go bankrupt by the fierce war and the turbulent current situation these years. Shuling Xun Yu's errand, because he himself is a member of the great clan of Yanzhou, and he was mainly responsible for communicating with the clan clan of the local clan before.

Perhaps it was because he was too dependent on Xun Yu. This time, Cao Cao intended to replace him with Wang Hou, to slightly reduce Xun Yu's weight in the entire Cao Group. Small people go to recruit, these local wealthy families may not give this face!
How can we make the local rice worms sell their face?Holding the mustache on his chin, Wang Hou frowned as the carriage swayed.

"Master! Yingyin is ahead! Are you going to visit Yingyin County in the city?"

While Wang Hou was thinking, outside the door, the voice of Wang Congge who knew the knock on the door suddenly rang out again, and he suddenly came back to his senses, but Wang Hou vetoed in a hasty voice.

"Don't enter the city anymore! Continue along the official road and go straight to Liang Guo!"

"Little obedience!"

Wang Congge's side was easy to dismiss, but Cao Hongjie, a small construction worker, was not easy to dismiss. She immediately widened her eyes and asked hurriedly: "Didn't the prime minister order us to collect this autumn's grain tax along the way as military rations? Shouldn't the food in Benliang, Yingchuan and Chenliu counties not be expropriated?"

"Jie'er, if an arrow hits your forehead and comes out from the back of your head, but you don't die, do you know why?"

"Ah? Why!"

This is talking about expropriation of food!Unexpectedly, archery was involved again, Cao Hongjie's small face was full of confusion, and he asked in astonishment, who knew that Wang Hou had a row of thighs, and hummed meanly: "Because you have no brains!"

"Go to hell! Talk about business! You can bully me!"

"You don't like to hear that you have no brains. From Yingchuan County to Liu Bei's Peiguo, it is a full [-] miles. When it is transported to the front line, one stone and a half of three stones of grain will be consumed on the road. That's all. I don't understand, when you get married, the family will be defeated!"

"Besides, there are less than 3 Lu Bu in Xuzhou, and they belong to several local forces. The real Lv Bu headquarters in Xiapi City only has more than 190 people. The crusade against him needs a quick battle, and the mobilization of troops must not be too many. I predict that at most It is the [-] elite soldiers under Bafu's command, [-] people, and the war must be ended within three months. In three months, one hundred thousand shi is more than enough food! And Liang Guo has [-] million mu of cedar, and ten requisitions are enough to pay for this. It's war!"

This is also the countermeasure that Wang Hou thought about just now. According to the usual practice, Cao Cao will spend one month to recruit soldiers and horses. The army will travel 45 miles a day, and it will take [-] days to reach the edge of Liang Guo and Pei Guo, so leave it to him. The time is only [-] days!If the entire two and a half prefectures were tossing around, Cao Cao might not be able to prepare the food when he arrived at the front line, so in a Northeast dialect, it would be a disaster for one place!
Moreover, it is the end of July and the beginning of August, and his family's wheat fields have just matured. These days, Wang Fu is still struggling to organize the harvesting in various villages!The Chenliu area in Yingchuan is also just preparing to harvest the autumn grain, and if there is a delay here, the grain will not be harvested. It is better to march for more than ten days. When they arrive in Liang State, they will be able to harvest half of the harvest, and the harvested wheat will be used as military rations. Pull away!
People are forced out. Wang Hou, who had never been in the operation department before crossing, was also forced to come up with such a meticulous plan. After some explanations, Cao Hongjie was a little brainless, but After reacting for a long time, the girl came to her senses, her little face was flushed, and she punched Wang Hou angrily.

"Who wants to marry you, a piece of trash! Dreaming!"

"Hey! This time the prime minister has blatantly accepted his fate! I am the chief official! You are the deputy! How dare you openly beat the chief official! You have turned against you! You are owed again, aren't you?"

Grinning his teeth and covering his weakness, Wang Hou took the feather arrow again, deliberately put on a fierce face, pulled out the thin hemp rope hidden in the drawer of the carriage, and swayed wildly with his teeth and claws.

Seeing that thing, Cao Hongjie's little face flushed immediately, the last time he went out, because of this thing he was often bullied by him!Heart palpitations, the little girl pinched her waist and her big eyes widened again, and she yelled aggressively: "How dare you!!!"

"parking!"

Suddenly being pinched to her weakness, the girl's little face suddenly collapsed again, she lowered her head sadly and held up her slaps together to beg for forgiveness.

"Oops! I'm wrong, can't I!"

This time the carriage was much thicker, but it didn't cut off the noise of fighting as if no one else was around!Hearing the thumping sound, Zhao Yun, who was riding next to the carriage, shook his head, thinking depressedly.

Lao Tzu is wise and powerful, why did he follow such an absurd lord?
But looking at Ms. Cao's appearance, she is not too resistant, why don't you try it with Ruan'er when you go back?

What a man!Unbeknownst to Wang Hou, Chang Shan Zhao Zilong had already started to turn bad under his influence!

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Even though the war was imminent, he still had to live with a smile on his face. During the fight, he drove for more than ten days in a row. On the way, if he encountered a county town, he would enter the city and spend the night. If he couldn’t meet him, he would simply camp in the wild. After getting into the caravan career that future generations dream of, and having survived twelve days of eating and drinking, Suiyang City, the main city of the Liang Kingdom, finally appeared before Wang Hou's eyes.

At the time of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the city relied on its own strength to resist the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms by hundreds of thousands of Wu and Chu rebels for several months. Up to now, mottled arrow marks can still be seen on the top of the city covered with rammed earth and bricks. .

It's just that this time Wang Hou didn't have the heart to think about the past. He was still facing the difficulty of how to mobilize the nobles of the Liang Kingdom and obtain food and labor from them. After staying at the post house, Wang Hou was already busy. .

It's just that he was busy neither visiting Liang Guoxiang Zou Chang, nor begging his grandpa to sue his grandma, running from Liang Guoda's family, but extending his hand to Cao Hongjie first.

"Let's compile the "Clan Records". Didn't the families from all over the country also report the list of filial piety and integrity this year? Give me the one from Liang Guo!"

"What are you doing!"

Rubbing her red wrist, the girl asked angrily again.

(End of this chapter)