"The third point." Li Mengxi scratched his head and continued.

"General Guan. I wonder if our army has military rules and regulations for the distribution of rations?"

Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu. Guan Yu frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and answered, "Military law, yes."

"Our military rule is to receive rations once every seven days."

"Is there any strict order when dividing porridge?" Li Mengxi asked again.

"Suppose there is a person who is very tall and powerful.

Every time the meal was served, he relied on his courage and official status to scoop up all the thick porridge.

The rest of the people were left with nothing but gruel.

People who are accomplices dare not speak out if they dare to be angry."

"If it goes like this day by day, the small gaps will accumulate over time, and it will become a deep hatred."

"Wait for one day, it will be cold and freezing, and the night will be dark and windy,

The soldiers were suffering from cold and hunger, and the soldiers were filled with thick porridge as usual. The people in the same group were angry and started fighting with them. In the quarrel, if one of them failed to restrain himself, they would draw their swords at each other."

"Then," Li Mengxi paused suddenly, looked directly at Guan Yu and Liu Bei, and said eloquently, "After the soldiers killed Shi Chang by mistake, they were afraid of being punished, so they simply did not do anything and fled overnight."

"This is one person. He can escape all night long."

"If there happens to be a clever person among them, think again, if you just run away, you may be caught up in a moment. So you have a plan, secretly set fire to the army's fodder, wait for chaos in the camp, and escape calmly to ensure that you are safe.

.

How can we not be in danger if the army's food and grass are burned?"

"What if, among these people, there happens to be someone who is bolder than others and is ruthless.

They burned grain and grass, took advantage of the chaos, rushed into the commander's tent, beheaded the commander, and then defected to the enemy.

Well, even if there are a hundred thousand troops, because of Kazuo's anger, he teleports and is wiped out."

Li Mengxi spoke calmly and told a terrifying possibility.

Liu Bei was shocked. Who was the military commander referring to? Isn't he Liu Xuande?

Liu Bei's expression was solemn. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Our army... shouldn't have such a villain, right?"

"Nothing?"

"Hahahaha!" Li Mengxi raised his head and laughed when he heard this, shaking his head while laughing.

"The way of military affairs is very dangerous. Even if we have all the preparations, we are still not perfect. How can we trust that people's hearts are infallible?"

"Gong Xuande said that there should be no great evil people in our army. Then, I asked Mr. Xuande, our army has more than a thousand soldiers. These more than a thousand people mean that there are no great evil people in our army. Then, our army is all honorable men.

Huh?"

"...I'm afraid that's not the case." Liu Bei hesitated.

"Even if you are not a gentleman, and you have committed a small evil by swallowing a spoonful of thick porridge, do you think that among the thousands of soldiers, none of you can do it?" Li Mengxi said with a smile on his face.

Liu Bei lowered his head and fell silent.

Li Mengxi continued to talk, his eyes were calm, focusing on the jumping flames of the campfire, and slowly said, "When we were setting up the field in Zhuozhou, we discussed that we would have to set up a urn for each person. What were our concerns at that time?

Isn't it just that we are afraid of eating the same thing, one is less than the other is more, and it is difficult to be fair.

Don't worry about being few, but not being even.

Don’t worry about lack of food, but you can’t bear to have someone take food from your mouth!

In order to seek stability, we set up farming in Zhuozhou, one man per jar."

"In Zhuozhou, one person can have a jar, but in our army, if one person has a jar, everyone will be dragged down.

Therefore, in the army, it is inevitable that ten people will work together."

"Currently, our army only has food and salary, not military pay. Rations are the most important thing."

"Therefore, I am worried about the fact that when sharing the porridge with others, we are afraid that we will not be able to share it equally, that there will be strong and powerful people who will prey on the weak, and that we are afraid that the leader of the group will rob the subordinates.

What’s even more worrying is that if there are thousands of soldiers in the army, but one person can’t stand it, he can bring disaster to the whole army.”

"This is the third point."

After Li Mengxi finished speaking, he felt like drinking water.

I was thirsty all day long, and at night the porridge was so thick that I still didn’t drink much water.

He looked around with his eyes to see if there was any water to drink.

In the past, Liu Bei and Guan Yu would have noticed his little moves and would have asked.

Now, Liu Bei and Guan Yu were in a preoccupied state, with their brows furrowed and unable to let go. They had no time to care about Li Mengxi.

Guan Yu frowned, and Liu Bei frowned.

After a while, Guan Yu frowned and said, "This is why we must strictly order the entire army. Anyone who dares to serve too much thick porridge at every meal will be killed without mercy!"

Guan Yu said in a domineering deep voice.

Li Mengxi smiled, "This is exactly what I thought. People are unreliable. Only the law is as solid as iron and stone."

Here, Liu Bei also thought of a countermeasure to solve the unfair distribution of porridge.

Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu and Li Mengxi, and said leisurely, "I also have a plan. I can make the cooks who make porridge, supervise them, and finally make rice."

Liu Bei's voice was not loud.

But, after saying this.

Li Mengxi suddenly turned his head and looked, his eyes widened in surprise.

The reason was that Li Mengxi was surprised.

Because the solution proposed by Liu Bei is ten times better than Guan Yu's method and the method Li Mengxi thought of!

What method did Guan Yu think of?

Guan Yu's idea was to strictly prohibit anyone from deliberately serving too much thick porridge.

Li Mengxi thought for a long time, and the solution he came up with was technical.

In his opinion, the size of the urn in the army was different, and how much water the cooks added to each meal depended on their personal control.

In this way, sometimes there is too much porridge, and after dividing it into a round, there is still some leftover, but sometimes there is too little porridge, and there is not enough to divide it.

The technical difficulty of dividing porridge lies here.

The solution that Li Mengxi thought of was to unify weights and measures, so that all porridge cooking pots in the army would be made exactly the same size.

Then, mark the scale in the urn, add water to the level of the scale each time, and add a certain amount of water each time.

Then, make a uniform cup and put grains in it for each meal so that the cup is exactly full.

In this way, if the porridge is quantified and the water is quantified, the porridge can be cooked just enough. Just like a rice cooker, adding water according to the scale can accurately cook a quantified amount of porridge.

Then, the spoons used to divide the porridge were also the same, and it was just right. Two spoons were full for each person, and the rice was divided into ten people.

But, when Liu Bei came up with the strategy of dividing the porridge.

Li Mengxi suddenly remembered that he had seen this story about dividing porridge before when he was reading.

Dividing porridge is a distribution issue, not a technical issue.

The optimal strategy for dividing porridge developed by sociologists is to let the person making the porridge serve the porridge last.

Li Mengxi didn't even remember that Liu Bei actually came up with this best strategy that countless people had argued about!

Liu Xuande is actually so good.

The level of this strategy is ten times higher than that of Guan Yu and Li Mengxi combined.

"Xuan De Gong's strategy of dividing porridge is so wonderful!" Li Mengxi sighed.

Sure enough, there is no ordinary person who can leave his name in history.

Li Mengxi remembered.

It seems that when it comes to handling relationships between people, Liu Xuande can always perform at a very high level.

Looking back, when he first distributed demobilization rations to the Yellow Turban prisoners, Li Mengxi was afraid that there would not be enough food. At that time, Li Mengxi's idea was to give them, but not enough.

It takes half a month for the captives to return home, so they deliberately only give them three days of food.

In this way, you can earn all your face.

First, if you are willing to give food to the captives, the Yellow Turban captives will definitely be grateful.

Secondly, three days of food was not enough for the journey home. The Yellow Turban captives were wary and knew that they would not be able to return home with just a little food.

It seems like there is a choice, but in fact there is no choice.

The only option for prisoners is to stay with the rebels.

Then, the food was not wasted at all, the people's hearts were won, and the captives took refuge, which was the best of all three.

At that time, Li Mengxi was still complacent about this strategy.

However, Liu Xuande criticized him and said, "If you treat others with kindness, they will treat me with kindness!" He was determined not to use Li Mengxi's deceitful tactics.

Now, today's method of dividing porridge shows Liu Xuande's level again.
Chapter completed!