Lu Bu’s Life Simulator

In fact, Lu Bu was not prepared to take action against the princes of the Central Plains so soon. If there was no such thing as Yuan Shu's detainment, Lu Bu's target would actually be Hedong and Bingzhou.

Shanduo represents the complex terrain, usually ten miles a tone, usually the more complicated the terrain, the more difficult it is to unify the language. Lu Bu is a native of Bingzhou, but after he left Jiuyuan, he could communicate with people who could speak Mandarin. Those who can only speak in tongues are mostly difficult to communicate with.

This phenomenon becomes more and more obvious as you go south, and it is much better when you go to Hedong, because the Hedong area is a large plain, and this kind of local language is easy to unify. However, Hedong does not belong to Bingzhou but belongs to Sili.

So in Bingzhou, if Lu Bu wants it, no one will grab it from Lu Bu. After all, Bingzhou has little arable land and its population is dying.

But now, in addition to these two options, Yuan Shu gave Lu Bu another one.

He can attack Nanyang now.

As for why, I have already explained in the previous article that detaining imperial envoys is not a trivial matter. Lu Bu sent envoys to the various princes to make friends with the princes of the Central Plains and ask for some food and grass. After all, the military expenditure alone in Guanzhong is an astonishing amount. Consumption, when the land is plowed next year, Lu Bu has decided to let some people go plowing and come back after the autumn harvest.

After such a toss in Guanzhong, it really needs ample rest time and a large population.

Now Yuan Shu took the initiative to stretch out his face for him to hit. If Lu Bu's concentration was not good enough, he would wake up smiling from his dreams.

The population of Nanyang may be larger than that of Lu Bu's current jurisdiction plus Hedong and Bingzhou. It is impossible for Lu Bu not to want such a piece of fat. In terms of the choice between Nanyang and Hedong, Lu Bu naturally prefers Nanyang of.

But the problem is that this place is easy to attack, but it is difficult to govern.

Nanyang and even the whole of Jingzhou are ravaged by sect thieves, what is sect thieves? It is the family power formed by the local family with the township as the unit. There are not many people, there are more than a thousand people, and there may be only a few hundred people.

But this refers to a single person, and Nanyang is almost all sectarian forces. Yuan Shu was able to win Nanyang because many sectarians wanted to attach to Yuan Shu and took the initiative to seek refuge. Another point is that when Yuan Shu won Nanyang, Sun Jian contributed a lot.

Don't look at the fact that Sun Jian almost died in the hands of Lu Bu at the beginning, but in the process of Yuan Shu conquering Nanyang, Sun Jian contributed a lot. Although Sun Jian is dead now, Yuan Shu's control over Nanyang is not weak. Even if Lu Bu conquers Nanyang, He also needs to deal with the thief's problem.

This is also the reason why Lu Bu hesitated. Compared with the complexity of Nanyang, Bingzhou and Hedong are relatively easy to conquer.

But if Nanyang can get it, many problems that Lu Bu is facing now will be solved.

Bingzhou and Hedong are easy to fight, but the harvest is not much. Nanyang has a lot of harvest but it is troublesome to fight and the distance is too far. There is no way for the two sides to fight together. This is the choice that Lu Bu is currently facing.

You can’t have both. In the long run, Nanyang can be regarded as a springboard between Lu Bu and the Central Plains. Luoyang can also be used, but there is already an open space, and Luoyang is easy to besieged. Like Nanyang.

As for why you didn’t ask Jia Xu about this matter... In fact, I have already asked. Jia Xu gave Lu Bu a detailed analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of fighting Nanyang, Xiabingzhou, and Hedong, but Jia Xu didn’t say how to make the final decision. Lu Bu can judge for himself.

Facing the coming winter, Jia Xu chose to stay at home and not go anywhere.

"Let's fight Nanyang!" After watching the military exercise for two days at the Changmen Pavilion camp, Lu Bu looked at Gao Shun and Li Ru, and said his final decision.

Nanyang has a large population and is also a point of contact with the princes of the Guandong. Lu Bu was going to take Nanyang, and then sent Gao Shun to garrison Nanyang.

"As for how to fight Nanyang, I have some suggestions, my lord, you might as well listen to them." As if guessing that Lu Bu would choose Nanyang in the end, Li Ru looked at Lu Bu and said with a smile.

"Wen You, please tell me!" Lu Bu said solemnly.

"Fight against Nanyang, be fast! Make a quick decision!" Li Ru said in a deep voice.

This is of course, the grain in Guanzhong also has food reserves for disasters in the next year and the next year. Once this battle lasts for a long time, there may be a food crisis in Guanzhong. Li Ru will pay attention to this point, not to mention Lu Bu.

"Secondly, when we send troops this time, our army occupies great righteousness. We should call on the princes of the world to fight against Yuan Shu!" Li Ru looked at Lu Bu and said with a smile: "Although Yuan Shu is powerful, he has made too many enemies and is not good at governing. If you make enemies on all sides, you will definitely lose your base, and the distance between the east and the west is nearly a thousand miles, and it is hard to see from the beginning to the end, so you can recruit Cao Cao and Liu Biao to attack them together."

"Will these two respond to the imperial edict?" Gao Shun asked with a frown. Regardless of Liu Biao, Cao Cao was one of the initiators of the crusade against Dong Zhuo, and now he is helping Lv Bu deal with Yuan Shu, which seems unlikely.

"This is the advantage of coercing the emperor and commanding the princes. Our army is occupying righteousness this time, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shu are close neighbors. If we don't take this opportunity to attack Yuan Shu together and weaken Yuan Shu, there may be no one who will help him if we fight Yuan Shu again in the future. !” Li Ru nodded with a smile.

"It's unlikely that Liu Biao will send troops, but the momentum can draw some of Yuan Shu's troops. Not to mention that Liu Biao himself was promoted by the grand master to become the shepherd of Jingzhou. As a clan member of the Han Dynasty, he can't just sit back and watch Yuan Shu detain the court envoys for no reason. !"

The reason why Lu Bu was so moved by the incident in Nanyang was that apart from his own strength, he was on Lu Bu's side in other aspects. Otherwise, if Lu Bu went to fight Yuan Shu for no reason, even if he won, Nanyang would not be able to defend for a long time, and the other princes would inevitably They will attack in groups.

This is a rare opportunity to justifiably grab the territory. Li Ru obviously guessed that Lu Bu would definitely choose Nanyang in the end, so he had already made preparations to fight Nanyang.

"The last thing is to actually attack Nanyang." Speaking of this, Li Ru couldn't help but pause, and then said: "My lord, there are many thieves in Nanyang, it is not difficult to attack Nanyang, but it is quite difficult to rule Nanyang. The thief is the source."

These sect thieves occupy the place. When Lv Bu is strong, they may be the powerful families in the country, but if Lv Bu leaves, they will turn into bandits and disturb the law and order. It is easy to attack Nanyang, but to govern Nanyang, the problem of the sect thieves alone is enough to cause headaches extremely.

Lu Bu rubbed his temples. It is normal for the sect thieves to be entrenched in troubled times. Even if these sect thieves are subdued, they will be a good source of troops.

But the Nanyang sect thieves are not united, but act independently, like a pool of mud, it is difficult for you to hold them in your hands, which is troublesome.

"How did you say that the clan thieves or the clan were formed?" Lu Bu used to look for the root of the problem, and then see if he could solve the problem of the clan thieves from the root.

Li Ru thought for a while and said, "Actually, the sect thieves are just like the wealthy locals in Guanzhong."

How did the noble family form? Because under normal circumstances, it is difficult for ordinary people to survive in this era dominated by farming, so in the village, everyone needs to help each other. Often in a family, the patriarch holds great power, such as the distribution of cultivated land and the distribution of harvest. .

This is the rudiment of an ordinary wealthy family in the countryside, but it is only a rudimentary form and is not considered a wealthy family. If such a family has a large number of people, it can have a certain right to speak in the village, but it cannot become the flood of clan thieves today.

If you want to become a sect thief, you have to have a very crucial step, that is, how many officials can come out of the family, preferably officials rather than officials.

This is different from the pursuit of high-ranking officials at the top. At the bottom, the officials can help the family, but after becoming an official, they may be transferred to other places.

Therefore, for many rural families, it is more useful to have an official in the family than an official. The family branch serves as the backing to support you to gain a firm foothold in the officialdom. In turn, you have to help the family obtain various benefits, such as high-quality water sources, Preferential policies, tax reductions and exemptions, these are not even used as crimes, and they can fall on one's own family if you fight for them.

Over time, the family accumulated more and more. Taking advantage of the disaster year to annex several lands, a rural wealthy family almost appeared. Of course, this was the beginning.

Later, as some officials retired and returned to their hometowns, small officials should not think about it, but some famous high-ranking officials can basically get the land around the family into their own hands when they are in office. his land and sharecroppers.

Taking the Yuan family as an example, more than 90% of the cultivated land in the Ruyang area belongs to the Yuan family.

Similar is Hongnong Yang's family.

But Nanyang is a bit special. As the place where Liu Xiu started his family back then, there are many honorable families here. Although most of the families have declined, they have more heritage than ordinary families. No subordinate, no unified leader, but intermarriage between each other has lasted for nearly two hundred years.

This is the special feature of Nanyang sect thieves.

People like Yuan Shu can be subdued by their family background, but it will be troublesome for Lu Bu to manage these sect thieves. It is impossible to kill them all. If Nanyang's population can be reduced by half, the remaining half cannot be retained.

The root of aristocratic politics is actually that the resources of the family are in the hands of the patriarch. The patriarch has absolute control over the family resources and has the authority of the emperor in the clan. The members of the family must rely on the patriarch in order to survive.

Is there a way to break it?

Yes, if at this time, the young people in the clan have better choices and more ways to earn survival resources, without the need for Lu Bu to crack down on division, these young people will leave the family themselves, and this so-called aristocratic politics will naturally be dismissed. Easily disintegrated.

but……

Where can I find such resources? Lu Bu couldn't find it. The resource of most people in the farming era was arable land, and this thing has a fixed number. Lu Bu can't change it out of thin air, so it can't change the situation!

He looked at Li Ru.

Li Ru shook his head silently, the two looked at each other, thought of Jia Xu at the same time, seemed to understand the meaning in each other's eyes, and nodded silently...