Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1057 Rare and confused proverbs

  Sometimes, it seems that there are many choices, you can choose this or that, it seems that you can choose, but in fact, there is only one road left.

  Because choosing another path, it is difficult to get through.

   Or, for example, an inappropriate example, like a long-distance relationship. Maybe many other people will say, why not choose to be together, whether it is a man or a woman, you can choose, but can you actually choose?

   Is the most likely consequence of a long-distance relationship that both parties do not understand?

   But still.

  I have to choose the path under my feet, because apart from this one, although there is a road, but I can't walk, just like Fei Qian, who knows that Zhao Shang is actually a person who is following the trend, but he still has to choose.

  Jia Xu bowed his hands to welcome Fei Qian who had returned to the political affairs hall. After waiting for Fei Qian to sit down, he sat down again and said, "... I wonder what position the general gave him?"

   "...to the general's mansion, to work in Taiyuan..." Fei Qian looked at Jia Xu, and said, "...Wenhe, what do you think?"

Jia Xu chuckled twice, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty is so thoughtful, I admire him so much...Zhao Zixie, the Marquis can use his talent..." People often say that he has both ability and political integrity, but Jia Xu only talks about his talent here. The meaning is that everyone can understand.

   Feiqian nodded, and left the topic of Zhao Shang aside. Since a decision has been made, there is no need to fiddle with it over and over again. If this is the case, the staff under him will be at a loss.

After reviewing the writing for a while, Fei Qian put the pen on the wooden stand, pondered for a while, then turned to look at Jia Xu, and asked, "...Wenhe, you must be tired from sitting, why don't you come with me?" How about a walk in the courtyard?"

  Jia Xu also put down the pen in his hand, and said with a smile: "Only... I dare not ask you..."

   Fei Qian laughed, and took the lead to walk outside the hall.

The Han Dynasty has an advantage, which is incomparable to later generations, that is, the land is sparsely populated, and the floor area of ​​the building is basically equal to the usable area, unlike in later generations, the unit house may have a usable area of ​​one or two hundred square meters. area, but the actual property area written on the real estate certificate may only be a few square meters, or even not even a few square meters.

   Therefore, even in Pingyang City, as an important administrative processing center, there is still a small courtyard outside the hall, which can be used as a place for rest.

  Passing through the corridor, there is a small pavilion. There are some green bamboos planted behind the small pavilion, which can be used as a shelter, and can also be used as an ornamental. The attendant came one step earlier, set up the incense burner, spread out the mats, placed some bean dishes, and retreated to the side.

   "...Yesterday Cui Yongyuan delivered the spring accounts, and the number of soldiers purchased in Jizhou increased greatly..." Fei Qian said, "...Wenhe, what do you think of this matter?"

As a business, the profits generated are still quite objective, so Fei Qian has always attached great importance to the development of business, but in addition to the profits of these caravans, there are some other benefits, such as various types of intelligence, explicit, and of course implicit.

For example, the number of soldiers purchased by Jizhou shown in Cui Hou's accounts has a relatively large increase compared to before, and this increase in numbers naturally includes some changes about Jizhou, but the problem is that Fei Qian is not Knowing how to continue to promote, there is still some restraint.

   It is obvious that the increase in the number of soldiers in Jizhou is due to the deepening of local wars. Therefore, Wubao villages in the countryside have to purchase weapons in order to protect themselves in the face of threats. The second also shows that under the continuous mutual wars in Jizhou, the battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan may have had a certain negative impact on Jizhou's economy and production.

Normally, the small peasant economy has occupied a long-term process in feudal society. If there are not too many changes, generally speaking, all kinds of handicrafts and daily necessities around towns will generally maintain an average level, and ironware will naturally No exception, but now Jizhou obviously cannot keep up with the original iron production. Yuan Shao wanted to use soldiers, so the iron weapon workshops in the surrounding villages and towns were mainly provided to Yuan Shao, and some Wubao villages in the surrounding countryside, even if there were blacksmith shops in the villages, they had to forge a large number of weapons in a short time. It is also an impossible thing, so it is necessary to turn to the Cui family caravan that shuttles between Bingzhou and Jizhou...

  Continuing to increase the supply and tightening the supply have their own advantages and disadvantages, so Fei Qian was a little undecided and asked Jia Xu to help plan it.

   "...the place of the Fourth Battle of Jizhou..." Jia Xu rolled his eyes and said, "...it is easy to take, and easy to lose. Junhou is worried, between Yuan Cheqi and General Gongsun..."

   Fei Qian nodded slightly.

Historically, it was not so easy for Yuan Shao to defeat Gongsun Zan. Although there were some natural and man-made disasters, the more important thing is that Yuan Shao's direct subordinate strength was in a gradual process of growth, and eventually surpassed Gongsun Zan. But now, the state of Yuan Shao's surroundings There has been a shift.

The threat of the flanking Black Mountain Army was indirectly helped by Fei Qian, and it was eliminated in sevens and eights. In the next time, Yuan Shao will definitely be able to devote his main energy to the frontline battles, without having to worry about Yecheng like last time. As in the incident, the backyard caught fire, and with the addition of the caravan here in Feiqian, the supplementary armor provided, naturally, whether it is to ask for it from the noble family or directly recruit these peasants and soldiers equipped with armor, the cost will not be reduced relatively. few.

  Under the ebb and flow, Gongsun Zan's disadvantages will become more and more obvious, which may eventually lead to the early qualifying of the original historical results...

  Once Yuan Shao unifies the north ahead of schedule, what will happen?

  The status quo that has been changed in history makes Fei Qian have no bottom line.

It's like a wheel that was originally traveling on the track, accidentally crushed a small stone, then jumped a bit, deviated from the original route, and where this new route will turn, Fei Qian can't predict at all, or it is impossible Use those existing results of later generations to predict.

  In life, the greatest fear is the unknown of the future.

  What will happen in the next second?

All the way here, when I was in battle, I paid more attention to the battle in front of me and the opponent's battle formation, so I didn't think too much about these problems, but now that I am back in Pingyang, when I need to make an overall strategy for the next step. When reasoning and judging, these problems are put in front of you.

  The Three Kingdoms may be completely different, but are you really ready for new unknown changes?

   Or do we want to push the wheel of history back to the original path, and take another look at it for a while?

   This is what Fei Qian hesitates most at the moment.

  Why are the traversers of later generations so decisive, never worrying about gains and losses, and always find the optimal solution immediately when encountering major decisions?

  The larger the family business, the more people involved, and the more cautious the choice must be.

To use a very simple example, why the saying often says that there is no hair on the mouth to do things well? In fact, the fundamental reason is not whether there is hair on the mouth, but because most young people do not have too much burden and can eat enough by themselves. The whole family is not hungry, and they can even reach out to their parents to ask for resources, so when dealing with people, they often follow their own wishes, just asking for a "cool".

After reaching a certain age, starting a family, starting a business, parents getting old, and a child being born, some decisions are no longer a matter of one person, but a matter of the whole family. Under the circumstances, you can't just ask for the word "cool" every day, but more about the word "stable".

  Now Feiqian's family business is more than one or two families? How to use the resources at hand to remove the obstacles of the unknown future is the homework that Fei Qian must complete, and it is also his responsibility.

  Jia Xu somewhat understood, thought for a while, then took a breath, and said, "Could it be that the Lord thinks that General Gongsun might lose quickly?"

Now Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao have their own victories and losses. In fact, the whole is still stalemate. Although Yuan Shao won, he didn't have the strength to go north for a while, and Gongsun Zan lost his white horse, but he still had a lot of soldiers on hand. Horse, the strength is still not small.

"The imperial court has already sent an envoy to Kanto..." Fei Qian said, "Although the Han Dynasty is declining now, we still have to give some face... Yuan Cheqi and General Gongsun must stop fighting for the time being... After the war, General Gongsun's power may gradually fade away. ..."

Although Fei Qian did not give the specific reason for this conclusion, it is actually not difficult to analyze. As the leader of the gentry, Yuan is naturally much better than Gongsun Zan in terms of communication in the gentry circle. It was the period of recuperating and recovering. During this period, Yuan Shao, who was obviously more familiar with the gentry circle and was more likely to get the support of the Hebei gentry, recovered faster and even became stronger. On the other hand, Gongsun Zan...

  So once the two sides stop fighting, it will be the beginning of Gongsun Zan's end.

   Now, for Fei Qian, either continue to provide Jizhou with armaments so that Yuan Shao’s strength can recover and develop faster, or reduce the supply to buy more time for Gongsun Zan...

   How to choose now is naturally a difficult problem.

   As the saying goes, the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Although Gongsun Zan has no connection with him, he is delaying Yuan Shao's hind legs after all, which is tantamount to helping Fei Qian indirectly. In this sense, the longer the war between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao lasts, the more he will naturally Fei Qian is more and more beneficial.

But on the other hand, from a historical point of view, Gongsun Zan is indeed a pig teammate, impulsive and emotional. He has no strategic planners to help him, and he himself has no long-term plans. He was so angry that he killed Liu Yu. If Fei Qian supports Gongsun Zan, there may not be an ideal result, and it is even very likely that Fei Qian himself will be pitted into it. And the most important thing is that if the intensity of assistance is small, whether it will work or not, if the intensity of assistance is large, it will also delay Fiqian's own economic development.

Fei Qian's current mood is extremely contradictory. He really wants history to walk on the track he is familiar with, or to walk for a while longer. An important node, but obtains its own interests, becomes stronger and develops.

  But Fei Qian also knows that history will eventually change, and maybe it will go in a direction that he is completely unfamiliar with. It may not be a bad thing to adapt one day earlier.

  As a counselor, Jia Xu naturally wanted to share Fei Qian's worries. Since Fei Qian raised this question, he had to come up with an answer. Therefore, after Jia Xu pondered for a while, he said: "Your Majesty, the matter of Jizhou...the so-called beyond reach, General Gongsun has never had any contacts, and he made a sudden move, and he didn't believe him... If the Marquis is worried about Yuan Cheqi, there is a plan ..."

   Fei Qian thought for a moment, then nodded, agreeing with Jia Xu's statement, the reality is indeed the case. No matter whether it is now or in the future, if a person suddenly comes to him and keeps saying that he wants to help him, I am afraid that everyone will have three-point doubts in his heart, so how can we cooperate smoothly?

   "Wenhe has any strategy, you might as well tell me." Fei Qian said.

  Jia Xu said: "... If you don't want to be a king, please make Yuan Cheqi a general..."

  Yuan Shao?

  General?

  Of course, Fei Qian knew that his so-called request for approval, basically, the people in the court, unless they were crazy, would not agree.

  The power of the Yuan family has already expanded to the extreme. Wouldn't it further fuel the Yuan family's arrogance by adding another general? What's more, if Yuan Shao got the position of Great General, when the orders of the Sangong and the Great General were contrary, how would these people in the government and the opposition deal with themselves?

  So the general's seal is just a gesture, but Fei Qian did this, didn't he help Yuan Shao from the side?

   Fei Qian frowned slightly, a little puzzled.

"...Junhou," Jia Xu said slowly, "...Junhou came to the table, only saying that the Yuan family has made great achievements in the past, and Yuan Taifu died, so he should make a little compensation... The court is definitely undecided, but Yuan Cheqi is mostly going with the flow, Xinxin But let's do it... Besides, since Yuan Cheqi called himself a Cheqi, he also meant to be a great general..."

The peculiarity of the official position system in the Han Dynasty is that after the local officials submit their names, the person who is commended and recommended can act as an agent for a period of time, waiting for the final decision of the court. With Yuan Shao as a person, once the so-called agent assumes the position, I am afraid that It is difficult to retreat any further, and he must regard himself as a general.

   "... There is a proverb that the one who replaced the Han Dynasty was Tu Gaoye." Jia Xu said softly, "...When this remark comes out, there will be chaos within the Yuan family, and the princes and princes can sit and watch the tigers fight..."

I see!

  Fei Qian came to a sudden, hehe smiled, and said: "...Wenhe is worthy of being unparalleled in intelligence. This plan is no less than a hundred thousand soldiers..."

  (end of this chapter)