Chapter 98: The Quartet Situation

Marrying a wife is very cumbersome, but marrying a concubine is much simpler. Just look through the history to find out. After all, wife and concubine were completely two concepts at this time.

The date is set on the eight day of May. There is nothing to say about the reason for choosing this date. After all, you don't want to think about speed when marrying according to Chen Xi's identity. Unless you don't plan to be ceremonial, but this is obviously impossible. Things that violate the common rules are a last resort, and Chen Xi will not do it unless he absolutely has to.

The speed of processing government affairs was getting faster and faster. Similarly, Taishan's soldiers have not stopped training until now. They will try to do a battle next year. Although the plan is set for the next year, but Guo Jia added more variables. Chen Xi is really hard to say anything about it. Coupled with a series of chaos next year, Chen Xi began to make more preparations.

"Zhao Yun, are you sure we have a population of 860,000 now?" Chen Xi was shocked when he saw Zhao Yun's thorough investigation of the population. Unknowingly, Taishan has become one of the top ten most populous county in Han Dynasty. Although it is far less than Nanyang county, Runan county, and Chen county (Chenliu). It can be counted as a big counties, if there is no mistakes.

"I ran from town to town," Zhao Yun said with a smile, using facts to convince Chen Xi.

"Okay. Raising 50,000 soldiers won't cause any problems in the short term." Chen Xi breathed a sigh of relief. As long as his hands are fast enough, the 50,000 soldiers can beat the Yellow Turbans in one month and it is estimated that there will be no big problem.

To be honest, Chen Xi envied Yuan Shu's prodigal son. If Liu Bei had a power like Yuan Shu, why would he need such a sloppy plan. Nanyang county has a population of 2.4 million, Runan county had a population of 2.1 million, and Chen county has a population of 500,000. The rest of Yuzhou has a population of 1 million. So, there is really no need to suffer when swallowing such a large population of one or two million Yellow Turbans. Chen Xi is really envious of Yuan Shu!

"Are we really going to attack Qingzhou next year?"

"Yes. According to the intelligence from the north, Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao ​​are both preparing for war. It is estimated that the two sides will have conflicts when the weather starts to warm up in the spring of next year. And once Yuan Shao ​​vacates his hands from the north, Qingzhou will be his next target." Chen Xi supported his head with his hands, and said coldly, "If we don't want to be targeted by Yuan Shao, we can only turn everything into an established fact as soon as possible, so that he has no chance to interfere with us."

"What about Dong Zhuo? I don't believe that after Dong Zhuo spent so much effort, now that the situation is hard to see the results, he will remain indifferent." Zhao Yun pointed out what Lu Su had wanted to say.

"Dong Zhuo's life is ending soon." Chen Xi smiled and took out the information from Chang'an and handed it to Zhao Yun and Lu Su. "Look at it. I think you can see it with your ability."

Lu Su and Zhao Yun browsed through it roughly. After browsing through it, they glanced at each other and said in unison, "Beauty's plan!"

Then Zhao Yun smiled and said, "I think if you sell the 36 strategies book, it will probably be worth ten thousand gold. At least I may not have noticed this kind of details before, but now these things are more noticeable. On the contrary, it has been refined and simplified too much that it can just be use directly. Although the workarounds are not very good, it is probably more than enough to deal with ordinary generals."

"Zhao Yun, don't even think about it. This kind of book is a family heirloom in anyone else. Chen Xi is very generous to willing let us borrow it. As for selling, it is impossible. The military books have not been sold since ancient times." Lu Su directly extinguished Zhao Yun's delusion.

Lu Su understands the subtlety of this book very well. It is different from Sun Tzu's Art of War, which is used to train top commanders. This book is entirely used to train the backbone of the army in large quantities. You don't need to think for yourself. You just need to be able to make analogies. You can then hold your own.

Relying on the thirty-six strategies, you may not be able to teach top commanders, but you can mass produce those quasi-first generals who are not too good, but are not easily taken advantage of.

If you use Sun Tzu's art of war to teach, 90% of the people who are taught will be mediocre, and the remaining ones are the elite. This is the difference. It is obvious that Chen Xi hopes that the generals can guard against ordinary strategies. As for those strategies that are completely invisible, there are naturally professional people to deal with it.

"Yeah, this book is not going to be sold. This book is mainly used for fishing. I don't know how the Lu family studied this book. You must know that although this book cannot be used to cultivate top commanders, if it is read by a wise man, a lot of things will be figure out." Chen Xi smiled and said, "Don't talk about this book anymore. Let's continue to talk about Dong Zhuo's problem. I guess it will not take long for him to be kill by Wang Yun."

"Alas, it's a pity that Li Ru's plan finally fell because of this point." Lu Su sighed and said, "He can definitely see it with his wit. But now that he doesn't say anything, he has given up on everything. It's a pity."

Literary ministers sympathy and literary minsters hate exist at all times. Lu Su is one of the literary ministers who admires Li Ru very much.

"Hmph. For the chaotic thieves, it's not a pity to die!" Zhao Yun said disdainfully.

"The situation is almost like that." Chen Xi said as he sorted out the documents. "What we have to do now is to step up the purchase of grain. The previous summer grains and autumn grains have all been harvested. Before April, all we have to do is to purchase grains!"

In Yanzhou, Chenliu and Cao Cao are struggling to go through this cold winter. Although he has the support of his family, Cao Cao, who have insufficient money and food, has had a much harder life than Liu Bei now. Even if Xun Yu plans in many ways, he has no way to relieve Cao Cao's embarrassment so the situation has not been stabilized. The Cao family didn't have the idea of ​​investing in Chenliu anymore.

Because of this, although Cao Cao won Chenliu in 191 AD, he did not have the chance to take off. Fortunately, as long as he survived this winter, the Tuntian system of Zao Yi could bloom and bear fruit. Just because they were two months late, they did not catch up and the seeds of tragedy had been planted.

Looking back at Yuan Shu in Yuzhou. Yuan Shu had a very moist life since childhood. He was sitting on an central state. After learning that Sun Jian was killed by Liu Biao, Yuan Shu decisively took in Sun Jian's wives and children, plus Nanyang county. Yuan Shu felt that it was necessary to clean up Yuan Yi and show Liu Biao some color. He was unhappy with what happened to Sun Jian. It was his business to fight against Sun Jian, but Liu Biao cut it off. Since you intervene, Yuan Shu has made up his mind to fight with Liu Biao and take revenge for Sun Jian.

As for the jade seal, Yuan Shu knew that this thing was in Sun Ce's hands, but no matter how much he wanted it, he could not open his mouth. The family's arrogance would not allow him to do such a shameful thing. Robbing from Sun Jian is a war between the warlords, but against women and children who are weak, Yuan Shu can't do it.

Because of this, Yuan Shu had to use the heart-warming method hoping to gain the approval of the Sun family, and be given the jade seal. In Yuan Shu's opinion, the Sun family, who had no ability to take revenge at all, had to rely on him.

Chen Xi made people pay more attention to Yuan Shu. Until, there is only one important piece of information. Zhou Yu joined Yuan Shu's forces. To be precise, Zhou Yu went to his find brother. It is estimated that Zhou Yu will be able to ignite Sun Ce ambition in a while.