Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 409 Preparing for the Northern Expedition
From Xihan to Dayun Valley for more than [-] miles, the two burning kings of Qiang had just planned the rebellion with the envoys of Cao Wei, and were still recruiting troops and mobilizing many Qiang tribes to rebel, when they were raided by Shen Chen for [-] miles. Slay the two major Qiang kings.

The news quickly spread among the Qiang tribes, and all the Qiang people were shaken for a while, and none of the Qiang people in Liangzhou dared to look up to Shen Chen's prestige, and his reputation naturally spread far and wide in Xiliang.

Afterwards, Shen Chen divided Jincheng County, Longyou County, Tianshui County, Wudu County and other Daqiangdi tribes, each allocated grassland, and planned them into small and medium-sized tribes. County school, Bashu sent scholars to Liangzhou to recruit the children of Qiang and Han to study.

Mr. Shen Chen who is willing to teach is also given great preferential treatment. For example, there will be extra points when entering the imperial examination, and even those who perform well can skip the imperial examination directly and be recruited by the court as an official. Therefore, there are so many followers. , even many aristocratic families in Liangzhou are willing to sign up.

However, Xiliang has a strong folk culture and is a very good source of soldiers. Shen Chen also recruited soldiers from the Qiang Han, and the disciples appointed mid-level officers in the army to serve as ideological and political work. train.

At this moment, in the Liangzhou Mufu Mansion in Jixian County, Tianshui County, Shen Chen sat at the head seat, and the senior civil officials and generals of Tianshui County gathered on the left and right below, such as Zhao Yun, Pang De, Deng Zhi, Pang Hao and others, and there was a special one, He is a general.

The ban!

In the history of Yu Jin, he died of grief and anger at this time because of Cao Pi's humiliation. Although he is not dead yet, he is extremely haggard, as if he has aged 20 years, like an old man in his eighties, with a vicissitudes of life, gray beard, and frequent meetings on weekdays. He lowered his eyebrows and looked down, without saying a word.

Shen Chen looked around at the crowd and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, if your Majesty wants to prosper Yan Han three times and crusade against Cao Wei, we must launch the Northern Expedition and attack the Kanto from three sides. Our responsibility is to attack Chang'an from Yongliang and Hanzhong. Hanzhong is responsible for food and grass, Liangzhou Send troops first to take the land of Sanfu, and then step by step, break through Chang'an, and return to the old capital."

Everyone looked up at him.

Shen Chen continued: "So if you want to fulfill Your Majesty's long-cherished wish, you must mobilize your troops and don't slack off. There are [-] soldiers in Liangzhou and [-] in Hanzhong. This is not enough. I want a hundred thousand troops to attack Chang'an. The great man wants all nations to come to court, and hundreds of races to worship. There are many Qiang people in Liangzhou, if they can’t be treated equally, how can they be subdued? Therefore, I want to recruit Qiang soldiers and train them to be strong soldiers. I will leave this matter to the general. manage."

Yu Jin was taken aback for a moment, and quickly said: "Jin is a surrendered general, how dare you take on this important task, please think twice."

"If you can train soldiers, you can take on this task."

Shen Chen looked at him and said.

Yu Jin said in shame, "I'm just a surrendered general, what face do I have?"

Shen Chen looked around and said, "Everyone should clearly understand their own situation and the class interests they represent. Prefect Pang, what is your background?"

Pang Hao said: "I am a child of a poor family. I have some land in my family. After my father passed away, my mother did not give birth. She waited for the enemy who killed my grandfather. This incident caused a sensation in Liangzhou. You should all know."

"good."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "Prefect Pang is a child of a poor family, so he was able to study and finally become an official when his father died and his mother was not involved in childbirth. But General Yu was born at the bottom of Guizhou, so why did he become the former general of Cao Wei? ?”

"why?"

someone asked.

"Because General Yu has to work hard and spend ten times and a hundred times harder than poor families, aristocratic families, and powerful people to be able to occupy a high position."

Shen Chen looked around the crowd and said: "Throughout history, heroes and heroes are often used as epics, but there are very few allusions to the head of Guizhou and common people as epics. However, the common people in Qianshou have no way to rise up, even if they finally rise up, they will eventually become powerful families and step on the heads of the common people in Qianshou."

"Well"

Everyone look at me, I look at you, I don't understand why Shen Chen said these things.

Pang De then asked: "Yes, I was also born in the head of Guizhou. Although Shou Chenggong was born after General Fubo, he was poor in his early years, so we have to work hard to be promoted. What's the matter?"

Shen Chen said: "Yes, it has a lot to do with it. What I want to tell General Yu is that you can only be promoted if you work hard. But in the eyes of the rich and powerful, you are still just General Qianshou. Family business? So I hope General Yu can understand why I am fighting for, and now I want to know, why did General Yu fight for Cao Wei in the first place?"

Yu Jin said nonchalantly: "It's because I worked for Lord Bao at the time. Before the Lord died, he entrusted us all to the king of Wei, so he has been working for the king of Wei ever since."

"Ah."

Shen Chen said: "This is where everyone's short-sightedness lies. The general only knows to obey the orders from above, but he doesn't know why he is fighting. When I build a new army in Liangzhou, I have to let the soldiers know what they are fighting for. If even The general himself doesn’t know, so what should we do?”

Pang Hao asked: "Please tell the governor, what should we fight for?"

"Mencius said, the people are the most important, and the king is the least. The people are the foundation of the country. If there are no people, how can there be families, dignitaries, officials, generals, powerful families, ministers, and emperors?"

Shen Chen looked at them and said: "The people in Qianshou are all Han people, but the generals of Cao and Wei obeyed the orders of the Cao thieves and slaughtered Xuzhou. enemy, otherwise how could Cao Cao have a foothold?"

Yu Jin fell silent.

Shen Chen continued: "I think that the people are the foundation of a country. The main ethnic group in my Han Dynasty is the Han people, and the Han people should embrace all rivers. In the national system dominated by the Han people, the rest of the ethnic groups can be accommodated so that everyone can learn something. Habitat. The country is one, and everyone works hard together, regardless of you and me, so that we can unite as one and build a strong country. General Yu is good at training soldiers, so I let him train soldiers, but I let him train soldiers Before, what I wanted to tell him was that you were also from the head of Guizhou, and you were recruited by your fellow villager Bao Xin to enlist in the army. You have made many military exploits and you are here today. But you forgot who you used to be. , massacring the common people, is this something an upright person should do? Now that you are being trained as a soldier, it is a chance for you to reform yourselves, don’t make mistakes again and again, remember that you were once a commoner!”

Yu Jin lowered his head in shame.

Shen Chen looked at him and said, "Now, General Yu understands why he will fight in the future?"

Yu Jin said dully, "Fight for the people."

"good."

Shen Chen nodded: "You may still not understand why you have to fight for the people, but I don't need you to figure it out, you just need to know this. The people are the root and your origin. If you even abandon your own origin, how are you different from a beast?"

"Yes."

Yu Jin lowered his head in response.

Shen Chen looked around the crowd again and said: "Liangzhou has repeatedly rebelled, because it is too far away from the central court, and the local aristocratic families have many misconducts, such as Wuwei Yanjun, Zhangye Heluan, Jiuquan Huanghua, and Jincheng Quyan are all from rich families. The ancestors of the Huang family in Jiuquan used to be Huang Ba, the prime minister of the early Han Dynasty, but now they rebelled against the court and became self-reliant, so where is Pang De banned?"

"The end is here!"

Pound stood up.

Yu Jin had no choice but to stand up and cup his hands, saying, "The end is here."

"I want to form an army and recruit elite soldiers from all counties. Pang De will be the general and Yu Jin will be the deputy general. The family is in turmoil, and you two must form a new army within a year to destroy it!"

"Yes!"

Both of them bowed their hands.

Shen Chen nodded, seeing that Yu Jin still seemed to be struggling, and said with a smile: "I know what General Yu is worried about."

Say clap your hands.

After a while, a man, a woman and a child walked out of the side courtyard.

Both men and women were in their [-]s and [-]s, and the child was about eleven or twelve years old. When he saw Yu Jin, he immediately became emotional.

"Father!"

Yu Gui stepped forward to pay homage to the ground.

Yu Jin was also emotional, went up and hugged his son, and said happily, "Guier."

Shen Chen smiled and said: "Fortunately, Cao Pi still has human nature. He didn't embarrass the family members of the descendants, and no one was watching. I ordered the general's family to be taken out of Luoyang and sent to Nanyang without prior notice. to blame."

Yu Jin was born in the head of Guizhou at the bottom, and he only had one son, Yu Gui. Historically, after Yu Jin died, Yu Gui inherited his title, and Yu's family basically had no sense of presence in the Cao Wei Group.

Now because of Yu Jin's surrender, the life of Yu's family is even more embarrassing.Although Cao Pi did not punish them, he was blinded and suppressed, and Yu Gui also felt very uneasy, so he accepted Shen Chen's arrangement as a spy in Luoyang and went to Nanyang smoothly.

The process was so simple and smooth that it was unimaginable. Because of Yu Jin's surrender, the Yu family was very low-key and did not dare to go out or have too many interactions with others. They were afraid of Cao Pi's questioning, so they stayed in the mansion for a long time.

All you need is to find a night for the family of three to get on the carriage going south, and just like that, enter Nanyang territory from the road of Dabie Mountain. There are almost no obstacles in the process. There are spies arranged by Shen Chen along the way. Later, Cao Pi knew about it.

After seeing his son's family, Yu Jin's hanging heart was finally relieved, and he bowed his hands to Shen Chen earnestly and said, "Great Governor, from now on, Jin will be at the command of the Governor."

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "You are familiar with the battles of Cao Wei's soldiers and horses. If you want to make meritorious deeds and do something for future generations and the people of Li, then you must not slack off."

"only!"

Yu Jin is sincerely convinced.

In fact, he was born as the head of Guizhou. In the past, he really had to use all means to climb up to gain Cao Cao's trust.

That's why he doesn't care what status he used to be, as long as he can get the status, that's enough.

Climbing up from the bottom is far more difficult than that of aristocratic families.So he needs to work harder to help Cao Wei in exchange for power.Even Cao Cao ordered him to slaughter the same low-level people.

This is the class that betrays itself, and wants to be promoted to a higher class by suppressing its own class.

But even if he climbed up like this, for the aristocratic family, he is still only from the bottom, and he will never look down on him, just like Cao Pi only ridicules him, but not the respect he has dedicated to Cao Wei for so many years.

Therefore, he is an outlier to the lower class, and he is also an outlier to the aristocratic family.

He is not happy on both sides, only his family will always be his biggest weakness, even if he chooses to surrender because he is greedy for life and fear of death, he will still worry about his son's situation in Cao Wei's side.

Now that Yu Gui has been sent over, and Yu Jin is a veteran general in the army, Shen Chen's people-oriented arguments may not be able to convince him, but as long as his family can be by his side, then naturally everything Shen Chen says is right, just listen to it up.

Shen Chen didn't need Yu Jin to have such a high level of awareness to understand what he said, but some words had to be said in place. Now that he had arranged his work, he looked around and said, "Everyone, if a country wants to prosper, it cannot do without the support of the people. Some people here are local government officials, and some are generals. Your Majesty loves the people like a son, and builds the world with benevolence and righteousness. You must cherish this hard-won reputation, and I hope you will work hard to govern Liangzhou well."

"only!"

Everyone should be.

Now Shen Chen has been in Xiliang for more than half a year.

Qiang and Han's policy of equal treatment is in full swing.

There are certainly contradictions showing up, but these are solvable issues.

As long as the enthusiasm of the Qiang people can be mobilized, even in the main body of the Qiang people in Liangzhou, they are still willing to accept the rule of the Han people.

But now there are still some problems, that is, the local aristocratic families in Liangzhou.

When Liu Bei occupied Xiliang, he enforced his policy of suppressing local tyrants and supporting the people at the bottom.

Just like what was done in Jingzhou and Yizhou, many local tyrants fled to Wuwei, Zhangye and other counties in the north, and even launched a rebellion to occupy these places.

So now Liu Bei's occupied area, that is, the four counties of Longyou, are mostly Yizhou officials serving as local officials, and the number of local tyrants is relatively small.

Shen Chen planned to train the new recruits, first take Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang and other places to operate, and get rid of the rebellious aristocratic families in Wuwei, Zhangye and other places, as well as the officials of Cao Wei in Jiuquan Dunhuang, to see the training effect.

He sent Deng Ai and Jiang Wei to protect the Qiang school lieutenant to maintain the stability of the Qiang people in Jincheng and other places, and also to prepare for the attack on Wuwei County.

Shen Chen didn't intend to go to these small matters in person, he still has two other problems.

One is Qiangdi in Anding County and Beidi County.

The second is cavalry training.

The manufacture of stirrups, horseshoes, and saddle-handed ironware is already running at full capacity.

Next month, Shen Chen plans to take the nearly [-] cavalry currently owned by the Liu Bei Group to Hanzhong directly, change into new equipment, and gallop around the Hanzhong Plain to let the cavalry get used to it first.

This can be regarded as secret training.

The main reason is that the spies from Cao Wei's side will get these military secrets in the first place. After all, Cao Wei has Bingzhou and Youzhou, and the cavalry will only be more or less than Liu Bei's group.

Therefore, it is also necessary to carry out confidentiality work, and take the cavalry to Hanzhong to check the training effect.

As for the Qiang Di issue in Anding County and Beidi County.

Shen Chen decided to hand it over to Zhao Yun.

One and a half years have passed since the three-year campaign against Wei set in the second year of Zhang Wu.

Now he is still solving the problems of the grain road in Hanzhong and the rear of Liangzhou.

Although many things have not been resolved, at least the problems are on the way to be resolved, and now is the time to actively prepare for the Northern Expedition.

　It's not that I want water, one is to have a transitional plot.The second is that the issue of food roads in Hanzhong and the stability of the Xiliang rear are indeed there, and the protagonist must also solve them. I haven't written such a detailed one. If I write more carefully, I can fill up more than a dozen chapters.I try to speed up the progress and start the Northern Expedition earlier.

　　
　
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