Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 148 Cutting Cao's Feather Wings (4)
Jia Xu has also secretly thought about how to prevent the spread of the epidemic within the navy and even the entire army for a long time in private.Of course, using the thirty altars of "Zhuyan wine" to treat those seriously ill patients is a top priority.However, Cao Cao had obviously decided to leave these "Zhuyan wine" to the [-] northern elite infantry for backup.Those [-] northern infantry are Cao Cao's "heart"!Jia Xu knew that it would be difficult for him to persuade Cao Cao to use "Zhu Yanjiu" to save those Jingzhou naval divisions who were not direct descendants of the Cao family.Then, besides this, he really couldn't think of any suitable method of "treating both symptoms and root causes"-perhaps the most critical point is to stabilize the morale of the navy.Therefore, he had no choice but to say softly: "As the saying goes, 'Illness comes like a mountain, and sickness goes like a thread. ''Recruiting famous doctors' are just two ways! The Prime Minister should now advertise the world, offer rewards, and recruit famous doctors. The more the better, this will probably alleviate the epidemic in the army. As for the soldiers who have been infected with diseases, Now we can only follow the advice of Hua Tuo, Gao Zhan and other doctors - 'find one, isolate one, and treat one'. We must let the sailors clearly see all the efforts we have made to treat and rescue them. ..."

"Oh! The epidemic situation in the army is so urgent, why is Master Jia still thinking about 'waiting for peace' and 'recruiting famous doctors'!" Xia Houyuan's heart suddenly burned when he heard it, "Your 'waiting for peace', to put it bluntly The only thing is to let the soldiers sit and wait to die of illness! Your 'recruiting famous doctors', I don't know when and what month you recruited those famous doctors! ——It's all slow and stupid methods..."

Hearing Xia Houyuan's confession, Jia Xu frowned slightly, his face flushed immediately, and his eyes were like ice knives and frost swords, gouging Xia Houyuan's face!
Xia Houyuan suddenly felt a chill coming up from the base of his back and spine. Seeing Jia Xu's increasingly stern face, his whole body trembled, and he murmured that he didn't know what he was justifying.

"Miaocai (Xiahouyuan's word Miaocai) why do you speak so harshly? Why are you so rude to Junshi Jia?" Mao Jie yelled violently and reprimanded Xiahouyuan severely, "Just discuss the matter, you are so armed with a gun and a stick What are you doing? Hurry up and apologize to Junshi Jia."

At this time, Jia Xu didn't even look at Xia Houyuan, slowly picked up a cup on the table beside the couch, took a sip of tea, smiled suddenly, and said faintly: "'Stupid way'? Good, good, good—— General Xiahou must have his own ingenious strategy in his chest? How about this, when you go to offer good advice to Prime Minister Cao later, by the way, I will also bring the golden seal of my "Left Army Division of the Prime Minister's Mansion" to the Prime Minister. Forget it. It fits well on General Xiahou, don’t you think so, Mr. Mao?”

"Master Jia...Yuan...Yuan knew he was wrong..." Xia Houyuan knocked his head on the ground, his face covered with sweat in shock and fear.

Sima Yi sat aside, seeing Mao Jie's face lost, and Jia Xu's serious words, which scared the shit out of Cao's in-law Xia Houyuan, he couldn't help but secretly sighed: Cao Cao is really good at controlling talents!He can make his subordinates "fear relatives but fear estrangement, military and fear literature", and act and judge completely based on the principle of fairness and selflessness, which is really unmatched among the monarchs of all dynasties!If it is another lord, such mediocre lords as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, Jia Xu, Mao Jie and other counselors with foreign surnames, would they dare to lose face and talk seriously to relatives of the same family like Xia Houyuan?
At this time, Cao Chun saw that both Jia Xu and Mao Jie were angry, and hurriedly opened his mouth to save Xia Houyuan: "This, this, Junshi Jia, Lord Mao, General Xiahou's speeches are always very rough, and they are all his scriptures." Don’t worry about the lack of reading! His mood is the same as that of Zihe (Cao Chunzi). Every day he sees those brothers and sons who are alive and well, sick and crooked one by one. It hurts so much!" After speaking, his eye circles were also red, "Thinking of how brave and mighty our northern army swept Jizhou, destroyed Wuhuan, and wiped out Shuofang! Unexpectedly, we came to this land of Jingchu , before a tough battle was fought, he was inexplicably contracted a serious illness all over his body, making it impossible for horses to ride, spears to be lifted, formations to be arrayed, and each one of them looked like 'soft-legged shrimps'."

In the end, he seemed to have touched the soreness in his heart, a majestic and brave general, couldn't help but wept bitterly while hugging his head.

Seeing Cao Chun crying, Xia Houyuan couldn't help but tore off his helmet, hit his forehead on the ground, and cried endlessly.

Mao Jie, Sima Yi and others had no choice but to pull him up and support them, and comforted them with soft words.Jia Xu also expressed his deep understanding on the sick bed, and Xia Houyuan, Cao Chun and others gradually stopped crying.

There was a moment of silence in the tent, and everyone was speechless for a while.Jia Xu already had a bad cold, but just now he heard the two men crying, and couldn't help being disturbed, and after they had almost calmed down, he asked, "How about this, the two generals are very concerned about the prevention and control of the epidemic in the army. If you have any ideas, you can express them frankly in front of everyone. It doesn’t matter, as long as it is beneficial to the prevention and control of the epidemic, you can speak freely about any strategy.”

Sima Yi was secretly startled when he heard Jia Xu's words.This Jia Junshi usually looks unpredictable, but at the critical moment he still has an open and upright style.No wonder a reckless man like Zhang Xiu would submit to him!This kind of master who can "retract and release, tighten and relax" in manipulating people's hearts is really rare.

When Xia Houyuan and Cao Chun heard Jia Xu's question, they raised their heads and looked at each other in surprise——Xia Houyuan coughed and said, "This... this, in fact, it is not impossible to prevent the epidemic from spreading in the army. There is a solution. Yuan remembers that in the second year of Jian'an, a disease broke out in Yanzhou, and it almost spread to the military camps stationed in the state. At that time, the prime minister made a decisive decision and dispatched heavy troops to surround the villages with serious epidemics. They set a few big fires and burned them up, both sick and sick..."

As soon as he said those words, the sleeping tent immediately became dead silent.

"Burn them all, including their illnesses?" Jia Xu's complexion changed, and he suddenly raised his eyes to look at Mao Jie, "Xu remembers that in the second year of Jian'an, Master Mao Jie was Yanzhou Biejia, you...you Did you know there was such a thing?"

Mao Jie let out a long sigh, with a serious expression on his face, he turned his head away and didn't dare to look him in the face - although he didn't open his mouth to answer, it was tantamount to acquiescing that what Xia Houyuan said was the truth.

"This... this... this is really..." Sima Yi also seemed to be startled, and gasped in amazement.He suddenly saw Xia Houyuan and Cao Chun looking over with hidden anger, and said anxiously: "Prime Minister Cao sweeps away the epidemic with iron fists and prevents it before it happens. It is truly a shocking act."

Jia Xu's three major epidemic prevention steps

At this moment, Jia Xu fell into deep thought.This Jingzhou naval division is the most powerful "trump card" that Prime Minister Cao relied on to defeat the enemy during this Southern Expedition. How can it be easily weakened?If we really followed Xia Houyuan's suggestion, if Prime Minister Cao killed the sick soldiers of the Jingzhou Navy, it would be completely equivalent to "cutting his own wings", crossing the south of the Yangtze River, sweeping Yangzhou and other achievements will be in vain!
After slowly thinking clearly, he said slowly: "Why do we have to 'kill them all' in today's situation? Isolate them first, prevent them from infecting others, and then treat them slowly. "

"Oh! Master Jia! These sick sailors are now dying cripples. Keeping them is not only of no benefit to others, but also detrimental to everyone. We have to send heavy troops to guard them and send manpower to take care of them. And recruiting doctors to treat them is a huge expense! If the disease they contract is not cured for a day, it will drag us down for a day. If it goes on like this for a long time, what should we do?" Cao Chun He shook his head again and again and sighed.

Jia Xu listened, pondered for a moment, his eyes sparkled a few times, and sighed deeply: "General Cao's words are certainly reasonable. But, 'The epidemic is merciless, and people must have righteousness'. If you compare your heart to your heart, who would want to suffer from a serious disease?" But what about harming others? Who can guarantee that they will never get sick? "One sick, one killed" seems to come happily, but one day if the knife and ax hang on your own head, General Cao Can you accept it without any doubts?"

Sima Yi listened beside him, gave a soft "hmm" and nodded in sympathy.Mao Jie bowed his head slightly, not saying a word.

Cao Chun was so choked by Jia Xu's words that he rolled his eyes for a while, he hesitated and couldn't answer.

Xia Houyuan glared at Cao Chun, as if he was very dissatisfied with his cowardly appearance, and said angrily: "Cao Chun! Why can't we 'suffer it without doubt'? If I, Xia Houyuan, suffer from this kind of epidemic Disease, you cut off my head with a single knife, and I won't even frown! Junshi Jia, do you think I, Xia Houyuan, is really a bloodthirsty, addicted, ruthless person? Among the 4000 seriously ill patients, only There are three to [-] people from our north! They are all brothers who have fought bloody battles with me, Xia Houyuan! How could I, Xiahouyuan, have the heart to kill them all..." At this point, he burst into tears again, "However, for the sake of For the safety of the entire army, for the success or failure of the Southern Expedition, we can only be "the scorpion venom stings the hand, and the strong man cuts the wrist". Sergeant's safety!"

Jia Xu heard Xia Houyuan's words so stubbornly, but it was not easy to stand up to him for a while, coupled with his chest tightness, upset and restless mood, he really wanted to stay alone to recuperate and adjust his breath, so he said casually: "General Xiahou, You are indeed very urgent to take care of the overall situation, and Xu can understand it. Let's take a moment to take a look at this matter before we talk about it! It is a big deal to kill all these [-] critically ill patients , It’s not a trivial matter, you must not judge rashly.” While he was speaking, he saw Xia Houyuan’s beard and hair standing on end again, staring at him for debate, and thought to himself, it’s really a scholar who meets a soldier, so he can’t make sense!Then he changed a more gentle tone and said, "Of course, you and General Cao Chun's idea of ​​'scorpion venom stings the hand, a strong man cuts the wrist' is not useless. It's just that if you really want to 'catch the big and let go' as you said." Small, take the heavy and discard the light', that should also be done according to the current situation and prudently!"

"So, Junshi Jia doesn't actually object to this general's suggestion at all?" Xia Houyuan caught his words and forced to ask a question.

Jia Xu had no intention of entangled with him at this moment, but still neither nodded in agreement nor shook his head in denial, but replied with a prevarication: "Jia still said the same thing, everything should be done according to the current situation and prudently!"

"Okay! It's fine with Jia Junshi's statement!" Xia Houyuan stood up at once, bowed deeply and said, "It's really presumptuous of me to disturb Jia Junshi's rest today. Let me take my leave here, and ask for Jia Junshi's understanding .”

(End of this chapter)