The military camp was busy in the morning, and it seemed to be even busier today. Liu Xuande got up early, counted the grain, unloaded the grain from the car, piled it in one place, and put aside many pockets, utensils and other things.

The low table in the Chinese army's tent was also moved out by Liu Bei and placed in front of the grain mountain. Liu Bei paid great attention to this. He walked to the low table and frowned and looked at it. He felt that it was crooked, so he straightened it up.

satisfy.

While Liu Bei was busy, Guan Yu came over with Li Mengxi and Xiao Brick.

He and Guan Yu, Liu Bei nodded and said good morning.

Seeing Li Mengxi, Liu Bei waved to Li Mengxi, "Xi'er!" Liu Bei's eyes lit up, and it seemed that Liu Bei gained confidence after seeing Li Mengxi.

Li Mengxi walked over and walked to the short table. Li Mengxi looked up at the pile of grain bags as high as a person's height. Li Mengxi had no idea how much grain there was.

"Mr. Xuande, do you want to share the food today?" Li Mengxi turned around and asked.

Guan Yu may not know what sharing grain means, but Liu Bei does.

"That's right." Liu Bei nodded solemnly.

"There are 1,800 captives. If everyone wants to leave, is half a month's worth of food enough for each person?" Li Mengxi asked again.

Liu Bei hesitated, "If everyone leaves, it may not be enough."

Li Mengxi fell silent.

Imitating the demobilization method of our army in the previous life is indeed the most brilliant way to deal with prisoners, but if the food is not enough.

Isn't it true that those who walk a hundred steps are half ninety?

Li Mengxi was thinking hard, staring at Liangshan in a daze, and half a step behind Li Mengxi, Liu Bei was following him. At this time, if the situation was that the enemy army was approaching the city, and it was changed to Zhuge Kongming ascending the tower to watch the enemy, Liu Bei would follow him.

Not inconsistent at all.

After a while, Li Mengxi thought of a solution that was not a solution.

Li Mengxi turned around, looked up at Liu Bei, and asked, "Prisoners captured in Youzhou are mostly from Youzhou. So, if we leave this place, how many days will it take for the captives to return home?"

Liu Bei didn't know why Li Mengxi asked such a question, but he thought about it briefly and replied, "There have been many natural disasters in various places, and there are many refugees in various places. Even in our Zhuo County, there are many people who have fled to foreign enemies and become yellow turbans.

Xi'er asked me how many days it would take to return home from here, um... It's only half a day away from Zhuozhou County, and two days from Fanyang County, which is a little further away from Zhuozhou. If you cross a county, it takes seven days. If you cross a state,

More than a month."

Liu Bei answered.

As a person who knew nothing about the geography, transportation, counties and distribution of counties in the Han Dynasty, Li Mengxi had already made some calculations after receiving Liu Bei's reply.

Li Mengxi nodded and pondered, "Even if the food is not enough, we may use conspiracy methods."

Liu Bei hurriedly asked, "What is the method of conspiracy?"

“When a prisoner returns to his hometown, he must receive half a month’s rations before he can return home. He can only be given five days’ worth of food, and then he is allowed to receive five days’ worth of food and return home.

In this way, although there are rations, but the rations are insufficient, although I release the prisoners, it seems that the Yellow Turbans can return home, but because of the lack of food, the journey is long and they are afraid of starving to death halfway. I predict that the Yellow Turbans will abandon their homes and follow me.

"

"Although Duke Xuande gave him food, he did not waste it. Although Huang Turban did not take the food away with him, he was grateful to Duke Xuande for his kindness.

In this way, the grain of money has not been wasted, and Duke Xuande can win the hearts of the people."

Li Mengxi presented his strategy.

Li Mengxi even somewhat praised his own intelligence.

The key to this conspiracy is to make mistakes and make mistakes.

Although the Yellow Turbans were promised money to return home, they were not given enough, and it was far from enough.

In this way, it seems that the Yellow Turban captives have a choice to return home, but in fact, this choice is almost impossible.

Li Mengxi was complacent about his conspiracy. He looked up at Liu Bei, only to find that Liu Bei was looking at him with a complicated expression and hesitated to speak.

Li Mengxi felt something was wrong.

"Xi'er," Liu Bei sighed, glanced at Li Mengxi with complicated eyes, and said seriously, "I treat others with humility, and others will treat me with humility.

Nowadays, the world is in chaos, and countless people have left their homes and separated from their loved ones.

A gentleman has the beauty of adulthood.

Wouldn't it be nice if a little food could help the captives of more than a thousand people return home, and then they could live in peace of mind and stop being thieves?

The human heart is like a torch, and hypocrisy and truth are in the human heart.”

"As for what Meng Xi said, it's just a matter of fact, just to gain fame and reputation, don't do it with disdain!"

Liu Bei shook his head and flatly rejected Li Mengxi's plan.

Li Mengxi was stunned, and then stunned. After he realized what he was doing, Li Mengxi sighed with emotion, put his hands together and bowed to Liu Bei, "It's because of someone's poor thinking. Please forgive me, Mr. Xuande."

Liu Bei naturally wouldn't blame Li Mengxi or anything.

Li Mengxi lamented that Liu Bei's magnanimity was truly superior to his own.

Fortunately, there are still laws for future generations to follow. Fortunately, there are still visions that are two thousand years ahead of the times. Unfortunately, they still say that they can learn from our army.

However, for the prisoners of the National Army captured by our army during the War of Liberation, it all depended on the prisoners' personal wishes. If they were willing, they would be welcomed by Chiang Kai-shek, but if they were not willing, they would be given demobilization and travel expenses.

I would like to ask, at this time, our army has some conspiracy, or some unscrupulous plan. Although the plan is to give you severance pay, it is not enough, so you are afraid that you will not have enough money to go back, so you have to stay.

Is there such a thing?

Nothing!

The severance pay paid by our army is full and full of sincerity.

What's wrong is that you want to learn from our army. What have you learned? You are obviously a great man, but you have gone too far and become a scheming strategist. It is simply a disgrace to your status as a successor.

Li Mengxi suddenly felt ashamed.

Fortunately, Liu Bei did not follow this plan.

As the saying goes, the people have a reputation in their hearts, and it is also said that the eyes of the people are sharp. If you think you can manipulate the people, you will eventually end up in a cocoon.

Although feeling guilty, Li Mengxi deeply admired Liu Bei.

Liu Xuande is magnanimous and broad-minded, and he is indeed a man who achieves great things.

Realizing that he had made a mistake, Li Mengxi abandoned his previous strategy and proposed another strategy, "If there is not enough food, wait until you return to Zhuozhou to raise food and distribute it to the prisoners."

"Yeah!" Liu Bei smiled and nodded at Li Mengxi, "This method is very good!"

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AD 184, the seventh year of Guanghe reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, on the 26th morning of April, the rebel army returned to Zhuozhou, halfway up the road.

In the morning, the Yellow Turban prisoners had a good meal, and then they were driven by the village warriors to the center of the camp.

In the middle, there is a place where grain bags are piled up like a mountain. Behind the low table, Liu Xuande is sitting behind the low table. The military advisor Li Mengxi and his younger brother Li Zhuan are playing on the grain mountain.

Behind Liu Bei, Guan and Zhang stood on the left and right with soldiers in armor, looking solemn.

The prisoners were driven in, and at some point they looked at each other and whispered.

Seeing that everyone in the Yellow Turbans had arrived, Liu Bei, who was a few steps behind and dressed in coarse linen but had an extraordinary bearing, was sitting upright. He glanced at the Yellow Turbans and spoke immediately, "Everyone, please listen to me!

Natural disasters continue, fields are harvested, and livelihoods are cut off. I have no choice but to fight in order to survive. I know that!

You are all good people, why bother being thieves?

I know that being a thief is definitely not your intention, and now the Yellow Turban incident is over.

I am summoning all of you here to ask you. If anyone is willing to follow our army, be prepared to sweep away the enemy and greet them.

If you don't want to join the army, your previous sins will not be corrected. Our army will give you half a month's food and allow you to return home.

I wonder what you all think?"

Liu Bei finished speaking and looked at the Yellow Turban prisoners.
Chapter completed!