[Comprehensive] Number of Merry

In the fourth year of Jian'an in history, before the Battle of Guandu, there was another debate within the Cao Cao Group on whether to resist Yuan.Kong Rong, a famous scholar, objected to fighting against Yuan Shao. He believed that "Yuan Shao has a vast territory and a strong army. He has counselors such as Tian Feng and Xu You who advise him, and loyal ministers such as Shen Pei and Feng Ji work for him. Yan Liang and Wen Chou are brave and lead the army for him. I'm afraid it will be difficult to win."Xun Yu, who once stayed under Yuan Shao's tent for a period of time and strongly advocated resisting Yuan, refuted this one by one:

"Although Yuan Shao's army is numerous but the laws are not cleared up, Tian Fenggang has committed crimes, Xu You is greedy and undisciplined, and has no plan for trial and appointment, and he is decisive in his own way. These two people take care of the rear. If Xu You's family violates the law, they will definitely not let it go. If you don't let them go, Xu You will definitely rebel. As for Yan Liang and Wen Chou, they are nothing but brave men, and they can be captured in a single battle!"

Like every time before, Xun Yu's words were once again fulfilled in the Battle of Guandu.

Tian Feng, who "just committed a crime", was ordered by Yuan Shao to resist Yuan Shao's conquest of Cao Cao, and was killed by Yuan Shao after the Battle of Guandu. Pei and Fengji were taken into custody, so Xu You rebelled against Yuan Shao angrily, and set up a plan for Cao Cao to attack Wuchao, the grain station of Yuan Shao's army.Yan Liang rebelled and was beheaded by Guan Yu. Wen Chou was defeated by Cao Cao and died.

So far, all the judgments made by Xun Yu before the war have come true, and none of them has been wronged. Everything clearly seems to have happened before his eyes.

This is the ability of a super-first-rate counselor. He truly predicts things like a god, and the winner wins first.

Cao Cao, who unified the north, commented on him as "my son-in-law", Sima Yi, who established the Jin Dynasty regime, commented on him, "After more than a hundred years of arrest, he has not been as talented as Xun Lingjun", Wang Dao, who founded the Eastern Jin Dynasty, commented on him, "Xun Wenruo, the most heroic person ".These three top politicians who were closest to him and who knew the most about his deeds all gave him the highest evaluation. It can be seen that historians have no water in their evaluation of the chief adviser and hero under Cao Cao's account.

According to Sun Tzu's Art of War, wise rulers and capable generals can use resourceful people as spies, and they will surely accomplish great things.

This was true for Yi Yin, Jiang Shang, and Zhang Liang, and it was also true for Xun Yu.

Ordinary people who work as spies on the enemy side are limited by their intellect and often cannot come to accurate conclusions, just like a blind man touches an elephant, and comes up with a ridiculous answer that the elephant looks like a radish, a cattail fan, a pillar, or a straw rope.It is different for people with extraordinary talents. As long as they see and feel with their own eyes, they will be able to see the whole picture of things clearly, and see clearly the strengths and weaknesses of the other party.

Therefore, Xun Yu, who was once attached to Yuan Shao, could make an extremely accurate judgment on Yuan Shao and the courtiers under Yuan Shao's tent, and predicted the outcome of the war without any mistakes before the battle of Guandu.

Xun Yu had been to Jingzhou and met Liu Biao in Luoyang, but he had never met Wang Lang in Nanyang, so he could not observe with his own eyes.

In fact, he knew very well in his heart that unless he was facing a lord of the mean, he had to judge for himself in order to get an accurate conclusion, especially when facing a genius-type lord, he had to see, feel, and judge by himself, and he must not rely on ordinary people. decision based on speech.Because ordinary people can only see her brilliance, but they can't understand where her brilliance is, and to what extent she is so good, the information sent back must be missing the point.

But Xun Yu had no choice.There is a lot of waste to be done here in Yanzhou, and all the initial creations, he really can't get away from it, so he can only carefully sift through the intelligence sent back by the spies, and pick out the evaluations of Xun You, Guo Jia, Zhao Yan, Pei Qian and others on each other, gradually in his mind Put together a heroic, talented young leader image.

He is Xun Yu after all.Even though the conditions were limited and he couldn't get the first-hand information to make the most accurate judgment, he was still sure about the most important point, which was the judgment that Wang Lang hated protracted wars and tried to calm the troubled times with a quick knife. .

In fact, he still has a lot of ideas in his mind, such as forming an alliance with Sun Ce or Yuan Shu, restraining Jingzhou from Yuzhang in the south, and attacking Jiangxia County led by Huang Zu.Huang Zu's talent is mediocre, so he may not be able to defend it, and Liu Jingsheng has no general who can stand alone, which can force Wang Lang to divide his troops and return to help.The Son of Heaven is also a double-edged sword. If it is used well, it can achieve the achievements of Qi Huan, Jin Wen and even Zhou Gong.

However, these are all strategies that need to be adapted to the current situation and combined with the changing situation. Xun Yu suppressed it and did not say anything, but focused on the Yanzhou affairs in front of him.

Before an opportunity arises, one must make all preparations to meet the opportunity, so as to be able to seize the opportunity, he knows this very well.

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"Poetry" said: "The surging Jianghan, the history of the southern country."

Regardless of entering Shu from Guanzhong or entering Guan from Shuzhong, Hanzhong County, which is the barrier in the north of Yizhou, is the only way to pass.As early as the Warring States period, Qin, Shu, and Chu fought several times around the Hanzhong area.

During the Chuping period, Yizhou Mu Liu Yan took Zhang Lu, the leader of the Five Dou Rice Road, as his governor and Sima, and lived in Hanzhong.After Zhang Lu entered Hanzhong, following Liu Yan's wishes, he destroyed three plank roads from Guanzhong across the Qinling Mountains to Hanzhong: Baoxie, Tangluo, and Ziwu.In this way, it becomes very difficult to attack Guanzhong through Hanzhong.

After Wang Lang captured Shuzhong, he did not immediately take action against Zhang Lu, who was watching the fire from the other side and occupying Hanzhong. Instead, he accepted Zhang Lu's request to surrender and allowed him to stay in Hanzhong as the northern barrier of Shuzhong, buffering and occupying Guanzhong. The relationship between Li Jue and Guo Si.

The relationship between Jingzhou and Guanzhong has always been delicate.First of all, Liu Biao was appointed by Dong Zhuo as the governor of Jingzhou, so he was in harmony with the princes of Shandong. Liu Biao formed an alliance and tried to use Liu Biao to restrain Liu Yan in Yizhou, and rewarded Liu Biao very generously.

After Liu Yanfa died of back gangrene and Jing and Yilian became one, the situation inevitably changed.To put it simply, it is from the original mutual benefit and evenly matched to the conflict of interests, one ebbs and another.Under this new situation, the original alliance was naturally invalidated, and the relationship between the two parties suddenly became tense.Considering that the Son of Heaven is still in the hands of Li Jue and Guo Si, and the pressure is too tight, which may make this generation jump over the wall, Wang Lang left Zhang Lu to create the illusion that his own troops are insufficient and his control over the middle of Shu is weak, and he also takes advantage of the difficult roads in the Qinling Mountains The advantage of blocking the news, further fraud.

Judging from the news from Chang'an's secret work and the reactions of Li Jue and Guo Si, this strategy seems to have worked.

At the beginning of the second year of Xingping, Li Jue, Guo Si, and Fan Chou boasted about each other's contributions, competed for power, and wanted to fight many times.Fan Chou was about to go out of the Guandong and asked Li Jue to increase his troops. Li Jue was always afraid of Fan Chou's bravery and could win the hearts of the people.So the generals became more suspicious of each other.

Guo Si suspected that Li Jue wanted to poison him, so he and Li Jue fought each other. They fought for months and killed tens of thousands.Li Jue asked Jia Xu to be General Xuanyi to help him.The emperor sent envoys to make peace, but failed.

In March of the same year, Anxi generals Yang Ding and Guo Si hijacked the emperor, but Li Jue took the initiative and hijacked the emperor to his camp.Guo Si then hijacked the minister who came to persuade him to make peace, and continued to fight Li Jue.Li Jue neglected the emperor a lot, and the emperor dared not speak out, so he appointed Li Jue as the great Sima, ranking above the three princes.

In June, Li Jue's general Yang Feng led his troops to defect.Zhang Ji, the Zhendong general guarding Hongnong Shan County, came from Shan County to persuade peace, and wanted to take the emperor to Hongnong.Li Jue and Guo Si reconciled.

In July, the emperor left Chang'an and returned to the east. Li Jue led troops out of Tunzuo Feng Yichiyang, Zhang Ji, Guo Si, and former Dong Zhuo's subordinates Yang Ding, Yang Feng, and Dong Cheng all returned east with the emperor's chariot, and there were frequent disputes along the way.

In August, Guo Si wanted to rob the emperor and return to Chang'an, but his plan was revealed, and Guo Si abandoned his army and fled to Nanshan.

In October, Li Jue and Guo Si regretted letting the emperor go back east, and joined forces to pursue the emperor.Soon, Zhang Ji fell out with Yang Feng, Dong Cheng and others, so he led his army back and joined forces with Li Jue and Guo Si.

In December, the emperor arrived at Hongnong, was chased by Li Jue and others, and fought with Yang Feng and Dong Cheng, who were guarding the emperor, at the east stream of Hongnong.Yang Feng and Dong Cheng's army were defeated, hundreds of officials and soldiers were killed and injured, and the emperor fled to Caoyang, in a panic.

This is a highly summarized chronology of major events in the second year of Xingping. The actual situation is far more complicated than this, and it is enough to discourage any forces that want to take advantage of the fire.The reason is also very simple.

The Son of Heaven is always surrounded by the Liangzhou army, the capriciousness of Li Jue, Guo Si, Yang Feng and others, and the unpredictable minds of Zhang Ji, Yang Ding, Dong Cheng and others are huge uncertain factors.In case something happens to the Son of Heaven during this period, the princes involved in sending troops to the rescue are really speechless, and jumping into the Yellow River will not even try to clear up their suspicions.

The three forces closest to the emperor, Yuan Shao of Jizhou, once had a plan to abolish the emperor and change the clan Liu Yu to be the emperor. Adopted a wait-and-see attitude.The troops of the governors of Hedong and Hanoi were limited, and there were no outstanding talents around them to help plan, so they adopted a more passive method, sending envoys to offer rice, grain, silk and other things when the emperor was close to their territory, but they did not dare to send out soldiers, lest they would cause trouble around the emperor. Dong Cheng, Yang Feng and others are wary.

The rest are Jingzhou and Yizhou, which border both Guanzhong and Sili.Hanzhong County in the north of Yizhou and Guanzhong faced each other across the Qinling Mountains, but the plank road was destroyed and the transportation was inconvenient; Nanyang County in the north of Jingzhou was adjacent to Sili, and there was a flat river to Luoyang.

For a moment, the eyes of the whole world focused on Nanyang.

The author has something to say: the end of the Han Dynasty will end next week, and a new chapter will be entered [A Hundred Schools of Thought].

"The combination of disputes in the Spring and Autumn period of about 300 years is like spring water melting the river ice, breaking the suffocation and closure of the classical federal kingdom era, iron tools appearing, commerce is active, Ida brakes are shaken, the authority of the emperor is weakened, and new landlords and scholars emerge. The life state of the whole society is greatly activated. As a result, the old system collapsed, the old culture was destroyed, the lowly civilian slaves like earthen pots became restless like thunder, the high mountains collapsed, and the deep valleys rose into towering mountains !"

"Entering the Warring States period, this kind of dispute finally evolved into a big battle, and a thorough competition for the survival of the strong began. The weak will perish, and the backward will be beaten. It has become an iron-blooded reality with almost no buffer. A thorough reform, a thorough refreshment, and becoming The imminent way of survival of every country. The resulting competition for talents is naked and fierce. The incompetent and mediocre are abandoned, the faint-hearted monarchs are killed, celebrities and talents become the treasures of the world, and the wise and heroic lords become the most popular heroes. Great talents come forth in large numbers, great talents are like clouds, and heroes are born one after another. All branches of civilization of the Chinese nation have been involved in this comprehensive and thorough competition! Economics, politics, military affairs, culture, all fields of social life, are in The most brilliant brilliance comes out of this kind of great struggle. The scale of the war is the largest, the economic reform is the most thorough, the power struggle is the most brutal, the cultural contention is the most intense, the fate of the people is the most closely related to the fate of the country, and the miracles are created the most. There are the most great men... All of these are incomparable and even unimaginable in the later era."

——Preface to The Great Qin Empire by Sun Haohui

The length of the third volume is relatively short, it is no longer about planning and participating in the torrent of history, but more about experiencing the most free-spirited and vibrant golden age in Chinese history, and accepting the most brilliant and brilliant schools of thought Baptism of thought.

The time is probably chosen in the middle of the Warring States period, when the overlord of the Wei State declined, the Qin State rose suddenly, and the Qi State gradually became hegemonic.

During this period, the main characters of each genre are as follows:

[Confucianism] Mencius

【Taoism】Zhuangzi, Yang Zhu

【Legalism】Shang Yang, Shen Buhai, Shen Dao

【Mohism】Mozi

[Military strategists] Pang Juan, Sun Bin

【Yin Yang】Zou Yan