Three Kingdoms

Jia Xu sipped the yahuazi, patted her belly, and spread it out with satisfaction, "You are better, look at how much beef you can't finish..." He picked up another piece of beef and wanted to put it in his mouth, but just now, As soon as he raised his head and opened his mouth, he let out a loud belch, and reluctantly put the meat back on the plate with a look of pity on his face.

Li Ru had already finished eating, and was sipping tea while reading a scroll of letters. When he heard Jia Xu's words, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, "Wen and you can take back whatever you can't finish later." "

"Why take it back? I won't be able to eat it for a while, so what if someone sees it and wants to tell me whether I can share it or not? Why bother with that trouble? Well, you are still in the mood to read. The mess outside is all because of you. Right?" Jia Xu said casually.

"Yeah." Li Ru agreed with his nose, saying that he didn't need to answer such a meaningless question.

Jia Xuba pointed his fingers and said: "First, ruin Dong Zhongying's reputation, then spread some rumors about monopolizing power and disorderly government, then divide and win over Dong Zhongying's generals, and finally make a high-profile appearance to turn the tide... I say, you are like this Is it really okay to follow them?"

"What's the problem?" Li Ru lowered his head to read the letter and answered casually, "I just plan to do it according to their routine."

Jia Xu was stunned, blinked, and said doubtfully: "That's not right... Then your only way is to take the path of dominance... Why did you give up the kingly way? When did you change your mind?"

Li Ru did not answer directly, did not raise his head, and asked casually: "Wen He, you are good at military formation planning. Why don't you try it if I ask a question?"

"Performing martial arts formations?" Jia Xu became interested, and even came out with official words, "You can draw the line!"

"Haha, Wenhe, you have an army of 10,000 composed of local braves and bandits... Well, there are insufficient equipment, insufficient horses, and insufficient food and grass..."

Jia Xu's face turned dark when he heard Li Ru's shortcomings, "What else do you have shortcomings for?"

"No, listen carefully - Wen He, you have ten thousand..." Li Ru continued calmly.

"Ten thousand rabble...I know, what next?" Jia Xu said half-heartedly as he really couldn't muster any enthusiasm for the "rabble" that had no fighting power.

Li Ru continued, "Trapped in a small town, there are about 10,000 reinforcements..." and glanced at Jia Xu, "...it's also a mob..." and instantly saw Jia Xu spreading down a little further.

"The opponent is - 400,000 county soldiers from various places and the central imperial army... The ultimate goal is to win a complete victory and defeat the enemy army in one night!"

Jia Xu was speechless, and after a while he pointed at Li Ru: "Are you kidding me? How can this formation defeat the enemy?" - Li Ru, are you kidding me? Can a 20,000-strong mob defeat 400,000 regular soldiers? Even if you wait in line and don't resist, you will cut people's heads casually, and the knife will be blunt!

Quantity will change qualitatively when it reaches a certain level, let alone 20,000 versus 400,000. Even if two people versus forty people can only escape, how can they defeat the enemy? I also asked that within one night, every one of my gang members could transform!

Li Ru handed the letter in his hand over and motioned for you to read it yourself.

Jia Xu took it and looked at the logo first, and couldn't help but blurt out: "Guangwu Emperor's Note? How did you get it? Ah, you robbed Taiku?"

Li Ru said calmly: "There is no need to rob it, I just ordered it to be delivered."

Jia Xu glanced at ten lines, finished reading in a blink of an eye, and said in disbelief: "This is simply - it is simply unbelievable and extremely ridiculous! Look here -"

Jia Xu pointed to a line of words in the slip, obviously feeling unbelievable about the description in the slip. I saw it written in the book - "There are meteors falling into the camp at night, and clouds like broken mountains during the day. They fall when the camp is in place and scatter less than the ground level. All the officials and soldiers are tired of lying down." Will this description feel familiar to future generations when they read this passage?

Li Ru said: "Then how do you think you can win between 20,000 and 400,000 overnight? In the end, only 3,000 of the 400,000 troops were left!"

"This-" Jia Xu was also speechless.

Li Ru pointed at the letters piled up like a hill beside him and said: "I have always been puzzled by the inexplicable failure two hundred years ago. It was obviously a good situation, but how could it fail in such an instant? Ever since I read and retrieved these letters, the more I read them, the more palpitated I became. There may be a side of this world that you and I cannot know."

Li Ru frowned, tapped his head with his fingers, and said, "The king's path takes a long time! What should we do if such a situation occurs again during this period?"

"So you chose the shorter-term path of domination? But if you do this, the difficulties you will face will not increase at all!"

"Then do you think it is easier to face these difficulties or this situation?" Li Ru pointed at the slip in Jia Xu's hand and said.

"Hiss..." Jia Xu also started to have a headache, "Let's choose the path of dominance - if the records in the book are true, it is really inexplicable..."

It can be said that the IQs of Li Ru and Jia Xu are both at the top level of the contemporary era, so they have more things to consider. For example, as Li Ru worries, it is of course best to follow the kingly path, because the kingly path is almost to force others with force. , one step at a time, with a solid foundation. Even if there are partial failures, it doesn’t matter. The final overall situation will be the general trend, and no one can resist it. However, the only disadvantage is that the initial preparation requires too much time. The deeper it is, the faster it will be in the final push; domineering is a path towards harming the enemy and feeding oneself, constantly weakening and embezzling hostile forces, making oneself expand rapidly, and suppressing conflicts with one victory after another before the conflict breaks out, but in the direction of If you are not careful when you finally succeed, internal and external conflicts will burst out, causing you to collapse as quickly as ice and snow melting.

Originally, Li Ru was basically following the royal line when he helped Dong Zhuo in Xiliang. He built the Xiliang Corps into an extremely strong, complete pyramid structure from top to bottom, with Xiliang's local hard-clad soldiers as the main skeleton, and the addition of surrender. The Qiang and Hu people are auxiliary soldiers, layer upon layer. If a Xiliang soldier at each level dies during the war, the sergeant at the next level will automatically be promoted as a replacement, ensuring that military orders are implemented consistently and have super execution ability.

However, after arriving in Luoyang, when Li Ru retrieved the books in the imperial treasury to understand Xin Xin's doubts, he realized that the longer time passed, the more likely he was to encounter variables, especially when the variables were beyond imagination. when outside.

What Li Ru and Jia Xu were talking about is one of the few mysteries in history that is difficult to solve. It is also a variable in the Han Dynasty and an inexplicable turning point. It is a pity that this great pioneer failed to successfully transform.

This great pioneer was named Wang Mang.

It was the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and more than 150 years had passed since the founding of the Western Han Dynasty. When Wang Mang was born, his family, the Wang family, was already the leading family of relatives. His aunt was the queen, and his uncles took turns to be chief ministers. The worst-off people in the family were either generals or marquises, both of them. dignitary.

At that time, Wang Mang devoted himself to studying and lived a simple life. He was completely different from other yamen who indulged in sex, arrogance and lewdness, and committed all kinds of evil. After the death of his father and brother, he supported his mother and widowed sister-in-law by himself, raised his brother's orphans, took care of his elders and uncles internally, and made friends with celebrities and wise men externally. In this way, he soon attracted the attention of the entire imperial court. Wang Mang's reputation It's getting bigger day by day.

Later, when Wang Mang was in his 20s, he was elected to the court as an official because of his reputation as a virtuous man. After becoming an official, Wang Mang did not become arrogant. Instead, he became more humble and simple. He was simply a model representative. He often took out his salary and property and distributed it to the poor and the wise. Therefore, his official position was getting higher and higher, and his reputation was getting bigger and bigger. Both the government and the public praised Wang Mang as a role model in the world. He had a firm grasp on the public opinion of Qingliu and the public opinion of Baiding people.

Is this kind of foundation stable and solid enough, and is the foundation deep enough?

In the first year of AD, Wang Mang was granted the title of Duke of Anhan, and he has monopolized power ever since. He rewarded nobles and officials, supported widows and orphans, and showed kindness to common people and scholars. All social classes were grateful to him.

He took the lead in living a simple life. It is recorded that he donated millions of money and thirty acres of land to help the poor people near Kyoto. All officials in the court followed his footsteps. The next year when there was a severe drought across the country, Wang Mang led more than 200 officials to donate their land and houses to the victims, and at the same time built free houses so that they could live in peace. In the Han Dynasty, rent-free houses were achieved!

For achieving this, the world called Wang Mang the saint of the world and worshiped him. From then on, all roads were opened and all obstacles were stepped on by him.

In the eighth year of AD, Wang Mang successfully accepted the abdication of Emperor Ruziying, proclaimed himself emperor, and changed the country's name to a new one. The government and the public cheered for this, and almost no one opposed it. It stands to reason that Wang Mang has properly implemented the road of kingship. With such a solid foundation and his supporters from the government and the public to the fields, there should be a perfect ending. However, history seems to be a joke...

Wang Mang subsequently introduced a series of new policies, some of which are very interesting:

The implementation of state-owned land - land is no longer private and all is nationalized. Does it feel familiar to you?

Does the redistribution of farmland - confiscating land from large landowners and giving it to landless peasants according to their needs - feel a little more familiar?

Freeze the slavery system - a big step directly across the feudal serfdom system society, this, haha...

Currency centralization - local governments no longer have the right to issue currency, and it is uniformly printed and issued by the central government...

Government intervention in the economy - the government participates in formulating price guidance, and establishes a monopoly system for state-owned enterprises such as salt and iron...

Well, there are some details that I won’t list in detail, but just the above ones, do you feel an unusually friendly feeling after reading them? Think about it, it was at the end of the Western Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Christian era, when Jesus was just a big kid...