Chapter 51: Jia Xu's Arguments
In November, Jia Xu returned to Chang'an, and the position of governor of Xiliang had been removed by Jia Xu. For Jia Xu, he prefers the position of Shangshuling. Advertising-free site.
First, come to be leisurely, second, come to be closer to Liu Xie, don’t look at the Guandong area. The governor of Yizhou has almost become a local emperor. However, in this Guanzhong, Liu Xie has basically sorted it out, separated the military and political affairs, and the omnipresent supervision of the Tingwei Mansion, as well as the Hu Ben Guard. The governor of Yizhou has completely dispersed. It is far less leisurely than the official position in Chang'an. After all, he has a criminal record. After leaving Liu Xie for a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will secretly give Liu Xie eye drops.
For Jia Xu, no matter how big the power is, it is empty. Liu Xie’s trust is to ensure that Jia Xu can continue to be a wealthy and idle person without any worries, and it is also the fundamental reason for ensuring that the Jia family can continue to develop silently.
It is precisely because of this very unique attitude that Jia Xu has never attached much importance to the power among his hands.
Xiliang has developed very well, and the animal husbandry industry has already been on the right track according to Liu Xie's idea. As long as the governor of Xiliang continues to develop steadily according to the books he left behind, there will be no big problems.
In order to avoid Jia Xu's lazy cancer attack, he just found someone to replace him. For the new governor of Xiliang, Liu Xie investigated the root of the new governor of Xiliang.
The result was very satisfied. The new governor of Xiliang was named Zhang Ji. At the earliest, the court even held the control of Li Jue and Guo Si, and was the magistrate of Xinfeng County. He served as an official for three years and was quite famous. He was also the county town that had been implemented most thoroughly after Liu Xie took office. He was considered a poor family.
When Jia Xu went to Xiliang, he asked Liu Xie for Zhang Ji and was the prefect of Longxi for several months. Now, thinking about it, Jia Xu had already thought about his plans for today at that time.
Although he was known as a poisoner in later generations, Jia Xu's plan was still very harmonious when he was with his own people. Hello, I, hello everyone.
Zhang has both ability and qualifications. He also has no bad experience. He agrees with the current philosophy of employing people. All he needs is a platform to exert his own value. Jia Xu just wants to live a leisurely life. When he has nothing to do, he gives advice to Liu Xie to check for shortcomings and fill in the gaps. He can gain Liu Xie's trust and not be too tired.
After this deployment, Zhang Ji was valued by the court and was able to use his talents. He would naturally be grateful to Jia Xu who promoted him, and invisibly established a future connection for Jia Xu. Jia Xu also achieved his wish, be trusted by the emperor, and would not be too tired. Hello, I, Hello, everyone.
Thinking of Jia Xu's pretty rich smiling face, a fox couldn't help but appear in Liu Xie's mind, well, fat fox.
However, as Guo Jia went to Shuzhong to plan, Liu Xie did feel that he needed a top strategist like Jia Xu. After all, although he formed a department dedicated to intelligence analysis and deducing the situation strategy to give advice to him and help him consider all possible aspects, he did not have the chief of staff like Jia Xu who could be classified and summarized. Liu Xie would still feel tired. He did not want to devote himself to the work like Zhuge Liang.
He has lost the ability to trust others and does not want to take out all his limited energy to deal with these intrigues.
Jia Xu's return has indeed made Liu Xie's nervousness a lot recently. For this reason, Liu Xie no longer pursued Jia Xu's attitude of being extremely irresponsible to his work and being a mediocre official.
"Although our dynasty has had a good harvest in the past two years, we are not able to fight on both sides. Yuan Gaolu cannot be taken in a short time. I think that Shuzhong should still be the priority at present." After sorting out the recent incident, Jia Xu expressed his suggestions.
"I think that if Yuan Gaolu really refuses to return the jade seal, he can directly call on all the heroes in the world to fight against him." Liu Xie frowned and looked at Jia Xu. In his plan, it would not take too much force to attack Yuan Shu.
"Your Majesty is in good faith. Of course, this approach is feasible, but the primary and secondary must be clear." Jia Xu said solemnly.
"What is the primary and secondary?" Liu Xie raised his eyebrows and looked at Jia Xu.
"Simply put, once you decide to conquer Yuan Shu, it is natural to destroy Yuan Shu, but it must be guaranteed that the court has gained the most from it." Jia Xu smiled and said, "It is not only occupying the territory, but also people's hearts."
Liu Xie leaned on the recliner, the literal meaning is not difficult to understand. Once the court decides to attack Yuan Shu, after finally destroying Yuan Shu, the court will gain the greatest benefits.
But what are the benefits?
Population? Territory?
These are naturally included, but they are not just these. The most important thing is prestige. To show the prestige of the court and let people all over the world know the strength of the court. In other words, the final purpose is not just to pick peaches. In this battle, the court's performance was also the most eye-catching and worthy of the court's gains.
If you just want to pick peaches, there are many conspiracies, but if you want to expose your power, it will become a bit unrealistic for the court to send troops to Yuan Shu while planning Shu.
But if we say that the plan for Shuzhong is withdrawn, it is equivalent to invalidating all previous deployments. If we want to plan Shuzhong next time, there is not as good time as now.
"According to what Fengxiao said, it will take at least two years to deploy troops in Shu. " Liu Xie smiled bitterly, two years or conservative estimates.
Then the question arises. What if Yuan Shu can’t think about it and proclaims himself emperor in the meantime?
According to Jia Xu's words, if you want to show the prestige of the court to deal with Yuan Shu, Liu Xie had to deal with it with all his energy. In this battle, the court had to invest all his energy, while Shu was involved in nearly 50,000 troops. Now, after Liu Xie's command, after departing from the waste and preserving the celestial areas, not counting the Hu Ben Guards of each county, there were only 110,000 troops and horses. There were garrisons in the Western Regions, and Xiliang wanted to shock the Qiang and Hu, and also stationed a lot of troops, Hetao also had garrisons, and some important levels. Now the court can call only 30,000 troops and horses at the height.
These soldiers can still fight Yuan Shu if they want to fight, but they will definitely not be able to fight the effect Jia Xu wants.
It is a dilemma to fight Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu has to worry about him becoming madly emperor, but if he gives up Shu for the time being, it is a rare opportunity. If he misses this opportunity, no matter how unbearable Liu Zhang is, when he integrates a group of his own forces, he will spend more time and energy to take down Shu.
Moreover, Shuzhong is also a granary. If the transportation problem can be solved, Shuzhong will bring a lot of benefits to Liu Xie.
Jia Xu naturally also heard Liu Xie's hesitation, which was also the embarrassment of Liu Xie's identity. If he was an ordinary prince, then Jia Xu would definitely suggest going to Shu first and then Xu to draw Yuan Shu. After all, Yuan Shu became emperor, which was a loss of the court's face. For the princes, the longer Yuan Shu became emperor, the greater the benefits.
However, once Yuan Shu became emperor, he would never sit idly by. There was no day or day, and there was no two kings in the country. Once he was emperor, he would not only fight, but also fight beautifully.
Looking at Yuan Shu, although Tao Qian was defeated by Cao Cao, whether Cao Cao or Liu Bei or even the Sun family, which had just begun to flourish, according to Jia Xu's analysis of intelligence, they were not a good deal of fuel. And once the war started, Sun Ce was not hard to say, but Liu Bei and Cao Cao were worried that there was no place to develop. These two families would definitely participate in the war. And if Liu Bei didn't say that, Cao Cao wanted troops and generals and generals. Not to mention letting them overwhelm the power of the court, he was similar to that of the court, and it was also an irrelevant matter for the court.
"It's not difficult." After thinking for a while, Jia Xu said: "If Yuan Shu had already been elected as emperor at this time, he would have no good advice and could only gather all the troops in his hands to attack. However, at this time, Yuan Shu was only holding the jade seal and had not yet been elected as emperor. There was some room for maneuver among them, and His Majesty could delay it."
"Oh?" Liu Xie's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he smiled bitterly: "I don't guarantee that I can hold it back for two years or even longer."
"I need the help of the Grand Tutor in this matter." Jia Xu said with a smile.
"Yang Biao?" Liu Xie frowned. No matter what, Liu Xie could not really ignore the in-laws relationship between Yang Biao and Yuan Shu.
"Yes." Jia Xu smiled and said, "Your Majesty can make the Grand Tutor come forward to negotiate with Yuan Shu, but you don't have to force it too much, otherwise it will be easy to backfire. At the same time, in Wuguan and Yiqueguan areas, Your Majesty can station troops appropriately, but not too much, and make a move to start a war at any time, but don't tell the world for the time being, and even in public opinion, don't exaggerate too much, so that Yuan Shu can see the court's determination to start a war, but he can't let Yuan Shu think that the court has prepared to take action at all costs. Your Majesty can appropriately express the illusion that the Qiang people in Xiliang and cannot free up too much power to use troops in Guandong."
Jia Xu knew that Liu Xie had a complete organization specifically targeting public opinion. Not to mention the specific infiltration of the Kanto region, but it was useful in the end, using public opinion to create illusions.
Liu Xie nodded. There was a point in the middle. It was necessary to make Yuan Shu worried that Liu Xie would take action, but it would not force Yuan Shu to jump over the wall. The degree of determination must be in place.
"Then, you can continue to send people to Shouchun and ask Yuan Shu to return the jade seal, but the words should be as intense as possible." Jia Xu said with a smile.
"So what to say?" Liu Xie said in confusion.
Although he was desperate in the military, he wanted to show his powerlessness in the east, but he had to speak fiercely in diplomacy.
Liu Xie thought about it and understood that if it was once or twice, it would definitely give Yuan Shu the illusion that he might start a war at any time, but after a long time, he could only speak, that was that he was strong on the outside and had sex on the inside. He seemed tough, but in fact he felt a bit harsh on the inside.
"Old fox!" Liu Xie looked at Jia Xu and said with a smile.
"Your Majesty praised you." Jia Xu bowed slightly and accepted Liu Xie's praise calmly.
"Wenhe's coming back this time has made me feel much more relaxed. If there is nothing important, I will have some other things to do with me later. I will ask Wenhe for advice."
Chapter completed!