In fact, Lu Bu was not prepared to attack the princes of the Central Plains so quickly. If there was no Yuan Shu's arrest, Lu Bu's goal was actually Hedong and Bingzhou. These two places are temporarily unowned, and Bingzhou is barren, with more mountains and less population.

Shan Duo represents the complex terrain, usually one tone per ten li. Usually, the more complex the terrain, the more difficult it is to unify the language. Lu Bu is a native of Bingzhou, but after he left Jiuyuan, he can communicate with people who can speak Mandarin. Those who only speak dialects are often difficult to communicate with.

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

Therefore, if Bingzhou actually wanted Lu Bu, no one would go and **** it from Lu Bu. After all, Bingzhou had less arable land and withered population. The entire Bingzhou counties added up to more than 400,000 people, which was not as much as Xiliang.

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

He can attack Nanyang.

As for why, it has been explained in the previous article. It is not a trivial matter to detain the envoys of the imperial court. Lu Bu sent envoys to the various princes to serve as officials, in order to make friends with the princes of the Central Plains, and at the same time to ask for some food and grass. Consumption, when ploughing the land next year, Lu Bu has decided to let some people go to plough and come back after the autumn harvest.

After such a toss in Guanzhong, it does need sufficient rest time, and it also needs a large number of people.

Now Yuan Shu took the initiative to stretch his face over and let him beat him. If Lu Bu's concentration was not good enough, he would wake up laughing from a dream.

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

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

Nanyang and even the entire Jingzhou are ravaged by sect thieves. What is sect thief? It is a family force formed by a local family with a township as a unit. There are not many people, more than a thousand people, and maybe only a few hundred people.

But this refers to a single person, and Nanyang is almost all sect thief forces. Yuan Shu was able to gain Nanyang, because there were many sect thieves who wanted to rely on Yuan Shu and took the initiative to join. Another point, when Yuan Shu won Nanyang, Sun Jian made a lot of efforts.

Not to mention that Sun Jian was almost killed by Lu Bu in the first battle, but in the process of Yuan Shu's subjugation of 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 conquered Nanyang, He also needs to deal with this thief's problem.

This is also the reason for Lu Bu's hesitation. Compared with the complexity of Nanyang, Bingzhou and Hedong are relatively easy to conquer.

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

Bingzhou and Hedong are easy to fight, but they won't gain much. Nanyang has a lot of gains, but it is troublesome 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 fish and bear’s paw. From a long-term perspective, Nanyang can be regarded as a springboard between Lu Bu and the Central Plains. In fact, Luoyang is also possible, but it is already an open space, and it is easy to be besieged when going to Luoyang. Like Nanyang.

As for why he didn't ask Jia Xu about this matter... In fact, he had already asked. Jia Xu gave Lu Bu a detailed analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of fighting Nanyang, Xiabingzhou, and Hedong, but in the end, Jia Xu did not say how to make a choice. Lu Bu decides for himself.

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

"Fight Nanyang!" After watching the two-day military exercise at the Changmen Pavilion, Lu Bu looked at Gao Shun and Li Ru and said his final decision.

Nanyang has a large population, and it is also a point of contact with the Kanto princes. Lu Bu is ready to take Nanyang, and then sends Gao Shun to guard Nanyang.

"As for how Nanyang should fight, I have some suggestions below. Your lord might as well listen to it." Li Ru looked at Lu Bu and smiled as he seemed to guess that Lu Bu would eventually choose Nanyang.

"Wenyou, please speak!" Lu Bu said solemnly.

"Fight Nanyang, be quick! Quick battle!" Li Ru said solemnly.

This is of course, the grain storage in Guanzhong and the grain reserves for the disaster in the next year and the next year, if this battle takes a long time, there may be a food crisis in Guanzhong.

"Secondly, this time, our army has the righteousness, and we should call on the princes of the world to fight against Yuan Shu!" Li Ru looked at Lu Bu and smiled: "Although Yuan Shu is powerful, he has made too many enemies, and he is not good at governance. If you make enemies on all sides, you will definitely lose your base, and the land and east are nearly a thousand miles away, so it is difficult to care about the head and tail, you can recruit Cao Cao and Liu Biao to attack them together."

"Will these two answer the 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 Lu Bu to deal with Yuan Shu.

"This is the advantage of relying on the Son of Heaven to command the vassals. Our army occupies the righteousness this time, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shu are close to each other. If we don't take this opportunity to join forces to attack Yuan Shu and weaken Yuan Shu, there may be no one who will help him in the next battle with Yuan Shu. !" Li Ru nodded with a smile.

"It is unlikely that Liu Biao will send troops, but he can draw some of Yuan Shu's forces. Not to mention that Liu Biao himself was promoted by the Taishi to become the pastor of Jingzhou, and his identity as a clan of the Han family cannot sit back and watch Yuan Shu detain the court envoys for no reason. !"

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

This was 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 for Nanyang.

"Finally, the actual attack on 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. Thieves are the root cause."

These sect thieves are entrenched in the place. When Lu Bu is strong, they may be the nobles of the country, but if Lu Bu leaves, they will turn into thieves and disturb the security. It is easy to attack Nanyang, but the problem of sect thieves alone is enough to cause headaches in Nanyang. extremely.

Lu Bu rubbed his temples. It was normal for sect thieves to be entrenched in troubled times. Even if these sect thieves were subdued, it would be a good source of troops.

But the Nanyang Sect thieves are not unified.

"How did you say the thief or the clan was formed?" Lu Bu's habit is to find the problem at the root, and then see if the problem of the thief can be solved from the root.

Li Ru thought about it and said: "Actually, the thief is like the local noble family in Guanzhong."

How did the aristocracy form? Because under normal circumstances, it is difficult for ordinary people to survive in this era of 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 harvests. .

This is the prototype of the ordinary noble family in the countryside, but it is only the prototype.

If you want to become a sect thief, you have to have a very crucial step, that is, you can have a few officials in your family, and it is better to be an official rather than an official.

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, with no connections or background, and they cannot exchange resources even if they want.

Therefore, for many rural families, it is more useful to have an official in the family than an official. The family support 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, The preferential treatment of policies and tax reduction and exemption are not even used as criminals, and they can fall on their own family members with a single fight.

As time goes by, the family accumulates more and more. Taking advantage of the disaster years to acquire land several times, a country tycoon almost appears. Of course, this is the first.

Later, with some officials returning home, the small officials should not think about it, but some prestigious high-ranking officials can basically get the property around the family into their own hands when they are in office. his land and tenant farmers.

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

Similar to the Hongnong Yang family.

Nanyang is a bit special. As the place where Liu Xiu started his life, there are many noble families here. Although most of the families are declining, they are more profound than ordinary families. With the accumulation of previous generations, these gangsters are still mutual. They do not belong to each other and do not have a unified leader, but their intermarriage has lasted for nearly two hundred years.

This is the special feature of the Nanyang Sect Bandit.

A person like Yuan Shu could be convinced by his family background, but it would be troublesome for Lu Bu to manage these gangsters, and it would be impossible to kill them all. If the population of Nanyang could be reduced by half, the remaining half could not be kept.

The root of the aristocratic politics is actually that the resources of the family are in the hands of the patriarch~lightnovelpub.net~ The patriarch has absolute control over the family resources, and has the authority like an emperor in the family. The people of the family must depend 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 Lu Bu cracking down on divisions, these young people will leave the clan by themselves, and this so-called wealthy clan politics will naturally be rejected. Easily disintegrated.

but……

Where can I find this resource? Lu Bu couldn't find it. In the farming era, most people's resources were arable land, and there was a certain amount of this thing. If Lu Bu couldn't conjure it out of thin air, it wouldn't change the situation!

He looked at Li Ru.

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

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