At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

It was the time when Le Jin and Man Chong teamed up to win the war against the Jin people in Yizhou.

At the end of the third year of Yande, Le Jin began to plan to launch a war against the large number of people living in Sanba. After Fazheng's persuasion, he decided to narrow the scope of the attack and split up the people, accepting some and destroying others.

The part that was wiped out suffered heavy losses in the previous war to pacify Yizhou, and the part that will be accepted is the group of people who did not participate in Liu Zhang's side and chose to be neutral.

Fazheng personally went out to ask these tribes to surrender to the Wei Empire, join the Wei Army, and together crusade against the Wei people who had once opposed the Wei Empire.

Some people accepted Fazheng's conditions, joined the Wei army, and became part of the Wei empire, but some refused to accept it, and were included in the attack range of the Wei army.

After the war began, Le Jin led an army of [-] into the settlement of the Cong people in Sanba. With the guidance and help of some Cong people, the Wei army made rapid progress.

Wei Jun used the powerful weapon of fierce fire and oil tanks to destroy all the obstacles set up by the Jin people, and burned the mountains and forests to offset the mountain combat advantages of the Jin people. I also thought that the gods came down to earth.

The Wei army itself also showed extremely powerful combat effectiveness, annihilating several Jin tribes that intervened in the resistance.

Faced with such a situation, a large number of people quickly collapsed, crying and surrendering to Le Jin.

But there were still some who refused to surrender, so they were surrounded by the Wei army commanded by Le Jin, burned them with fierce fire, and finally wiped them all out. The whole battle process lasted for more than a month.

The rest of the people realized that the Wei army could not resist the powerful force, and they surrendered one after another, willing to obey the arrangement of the Wei people, so they stopped resisting, and only hoped that the Wei army would not continue to attack.

After confirming the victory of the war, Le Jin was very happy to submit a form to Guo Peng, informing him of the war here.

Guo Peng was also very happy, and ordered to reward Le Jin and the generals in Shuzhong, give them money and land, and tax reduction and exemption benefits, and give Le Jin the title of title and an increase in food, and then ordered that all the people in Sanba be moved out of Sanba. land of Ba.

Guo Peng formally issued an edict, announcing that the entire group of people would be relocated to Guanzhong, so that they would settle near Chang'an.

Give land, houses, and the necessary living materials needed to settle down, and exempt them from the initial tax for three years. They are allowed to live with Han people and marry Han people.

Learn to speak Chinese, learn Chinese characters, advocate wearing Han clothes, and live in the way of Han people.

Facing the powerful force of the Wei army, the Jin people were completely conquered and did not dare to disobey the order of Wei Tianzi Guo Peng, so they dragged their families away from the place where their ancestors lived, and were arranged to move into Guanzhong as a whole.

Leaving the mountains and forests and familiar places, the threat of the people will no longer exist, and you can rule according to the normal method of governance.

If they are not allowed to leave this ancestral land where the terrain is dangerous and the traffic is blocked, they will rebel sooner or later, so someone from Guo must take one step at a time and eliminate the threat of the people in one go.

In order to further clamp down on the Zong people and make them completely surrender, Guo Peng also ordered Le Jin to recruit [-] elite soldiers from the Zong people group to join the army to supplement the number of the army in central Shu.

Le Jin expressed his understanding, so while relocating the population, he recruited soldiers from the ren.

This will not only expand the fighting power of the Wei army, but their families are still in Guanzhong. Under the control of the Wei people, with hostages, the soldiers of the Wei people naturally dare not make trouble.

After the valiant Ji people were conquered by the Wei Empire, the scholars and powerful men from all over the central Sichuan had fully realized the irresistible force of the Wei army.

Facing this crushing level of force, no matter what small thoughts they had, they put them away.

Then obediently cooperated with the Wei army to transfer grain and grass, recruited strong men, repaired roads, and in order to earn impression points, they also took out grain, grass and money to help the army in large quantities.

The Wei army also showed strong discipline during the march, never disturbing the people, never fighting for looting, never demolishing houses and looting the people, and the reputation of the king's army quickly spread throughout Shu.

This kind of reputation allowed the rule of the Wei regime to take root in Shuzhong.

At this time, the Wei army successively quelled banditry, pacified the barbarians in the counties and countries, and pacified the scorpion people in the Sanba land, and hit the local conservative and separatist forces in sevens and eights. The land in the middle of Shu finally appeared. A unified atmosphere.

Under such a premise, Manchong began to accelerate the Shu Road repair project.

This time, the repair of the Shu road does not only represent the road to Shu, but also includes all the roads in the middle of Shu, including the road to Shu.

Manchong not only wanted to build roads in the Qinling Mountains, but also in the Sichuan Basin, so that the roads would extend in all directions, so that the Wei army could mobilize the manpower and material resources of Shuzhong to attack Nanzhong.

Guo Peng's desire for power made him intolerable that the places that were set up as counties were actually managed by local tyrants, and he could not collect taxes himself.

This is a provocation against him by local forces.

Nanzhong is definitely within the extreme wall of the empire, and it also has rich mineral resources and well salt resources. Someone Guo is coveting this, and it is impossible not to take it.

The current move is to prepare for the attack on Nanzhong. The Wei army has been fighting around in the middle of Shu for more than a year, and finally wiped out the separatist forces in various places. Next, it is time to harvest.

Using the manpower and material resources in the middle of Shu, and completing the first unprecedented military-civilian cooperation with the Wei army, the rule of the Wei Empire penetrated into the grassroots of the countryside and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Sooner or later, these remnants of noble and powerful forces in central Shu will be swept into the dustbin of history by someone like Guo.

Just like the gentry forces and powerful forces in Nanjun and Nanyang counties.

The local separatist forces they represent are natural enemies of Guo.

Of course, they may not know it yet.

Time moved forward to April of the fourth year of Yande.

Mr. Guo is still completing his tasks step by step.

build roads.

Build roads in Guanxi, Yizhou, Liaodong, Western Regions, and Yangzhou.

Various repairs, various investments, and various promotions of large-scale project construction.

Then support the war between Yizhou and Yangzhou, and promote the immigration plan, silently increase the supply of paper, and continuously increase the proportion of paper used in government affairs.

Slowly, bit by bit, from Luoyang to the localities, a subtle and silent change was carried out on the entire Wei Empire.

Mr. Guo is waiting for the moment when quantitative changes accumulate until qualitative changes occur.

He hoped that the process would be as fast as possible, the faster the process, the more time he would have.

During this waiting process, Cao Cao, Cheng Yu and Tian Feng had another conflict.

The conflict was still very big and intense, which made Guo feel that he had another chance.

Chapter 984 Nine hundred 94 Tian Feng Feels Maliciousness From Cheng Yu Several Times

This time, the cause of what happened among these powerful bigwigs was the Cui Qu case provoked by someone Guo.

In June of the second year of Yande, Guo Peng ordered some members of the cabinet led by Cao Cao to connect with the Ministry of Industry led by Tian Feng to discuss the possibility of building a canal from Jiangnan to Luoyang.

Cao Cao and Tian Feng had doubts at the beginning, thinking that Guo Peng was a bit too aggressive in doing this. Now that various major projects across the country have been launched, it is a bit too forceful to carry out such a large project.

And the finances can't keep up.

Then Guo Peng took out his eight-year statistics on the time of spring and winter.

According to the vertical comparison, Guo Peng told Cao Cao and Tian Feng that the weather is gradually getting colder, and the spring and winter times in Yande's second year have significantly fluctuated compared with the data eight years ago.

Every year spring comes later than the previous year, and winter comes earlier every year.

This means that for so many years, the time from spring to winter has been shortened, which means that the time for food to grow will become shorter and shorter.

This trend has not changed for eight years, which proves that the situation is likely to continue to deteriorate in the future.

The temperature will get lower and lower, and the grain production in Hebei and the Central Plains will experience a sharp drop.

There is a significant relationship between food production and cold weather.

This kind of statement made Cao Cao and Tian Feng stunned. In their cognition, such knowledge was very vague and unsystematic. They only knew that the cold weather would freeze the food to death.

But what Guo Peng said sounded very reasonable, although they didn't know whether to believe it or not, but Guo Peng only asked them to discuss the possibility and come out with a charter, so they followed suit. Done.

At that time, the relationship between Cao Cao and Tian Feng was relatively harmonious. After more than three months of hard work, the two initially discussed a possible plan.

The preliminary plan is to use the method of the Northern Expedition of the Sun Wu regime.

That is to say, use Ruxu water from the Yangtze River to enter Chaohu Lake, then enter Shishui from Chaohu Lake, then enter Feishui, enter Huaihe River along Feishui River, enter Yingshui River from Huaihe River, and go all the way to the vicinity of Xu County, Yuzhou.

In this way, more than half of the journey can basically be completed.

Cao Cao and Tian Feng sent officials from the cabinet and the Ministry of Industry to the south of Jiangdong to conduct on-the-spot investigations along the planned route, and preliminarily determined that such a plan was worth adopting.

Make full use of natural waterways, reduce labor costs, widen and dredge the Ruxu Water, Shi Water, Fei Water and Ying Water to varying degrees, and build a canal from the Yangtze River Basin to the Yellow River Basin.

This plan was approved by Guo Peng, and then Guo Peng asked Cao Cao and Tian Feng to continue to add details to this plan.

For example, how to widen and dredge the natural river, how to connect Shishui and Feishui, how to divert part of the Yingshui River and connect it to the waterway leading to Luoyang, so that it can truly become a usable canal that can transport a large amount of grain and fodder waterway.

At that time, Cao Cao and Tian Feng really didn't expect that Guo Peng would really want to build a grand canal, to communicate with the north and the south, and to take precautions for things that couldn't be seen right now.

This is an unimaginably large project.

Once it is really going to be built, from Yangzhou to Yuzhou to Yanzhou to Sili, the Grand Canal that connects the four states does not know how much manpower and material resources will be mobilized, and how many years it will take to complete the repairs.

Is it really meaningful to engage in such a huge project?

It is possible to use these waterways directly, and there is no need to widen them, right?

Tian Feng wrote such an idea into a playlist and handed it to Guo Peng. Guo Peng decreed to reprimand Tian Feng, saying he was short-sighted.

Once the grain harvest fails, is it just a local failure?

It must be a bad harvest in the entire Central Plains and Hebei, or even a bad harvest at the North China level. What role can a canal with insufficient transport capacity play?

What about land transportation, whose transport capacity is far less than that of water transportation?

Can the speed of transportation keep up with the consumption speed of food everywhere?

We must start planning for the worst now!

Build the canal and increase the amount of grain stored in various places, making it a practice to regard grain storage as the top priority of the country.

Guo Peng said that if a country wants to be stable, it must be prepared to ensure the whole year's ration supply for the population of the whole country in the extreme situation of crop failure.

If this preparation is not achieved, the foundation of the country will not be supported. Once a real disaster strikes, it will definitely cause millions or even tens of millions of hungry people!

At least 20 years, and as long as 30 years, at that time, maybe we are still alive, but we have to face such a tragedy!

Cao Cao and Tian Feng were so frightened that they didn't know whether Guo Peng was a prophet or crazy.

Guo Peng didn't intend to reason with them, and directly ordered Tian Feng to work with Cao Cao to complete the matter, otherwise he would be severely punished.

Tian Feng had no choice but to continue to send people to join hands with Cao Cao to conduct detailed local inspections and repairs of the plan to find the real feasibility.

How to choose the starting point, how to widen the river, repair supporting facilities, recruit local people, how to connect various waterways to form a complete transport capacity and so on.

As soon as this matter was done, it took three years in Yande, and it was not settled when the Cui Qu case broke out.

When the Cui Qu case was discovered, Guo Peng was furious, and the courtiers were panicked. Both Cao Cao and Tian Feng were unable to escape from the vortex at the center of the major case. How could they continue to work like this?

Fortunately, after more than a month, the big case was put to rest. Cao Cao and Tian Feng escaped the danger without much impact.

But the crux of the problem is not here, but the relationship between the two.

Once, Tian Feng and Cao Cao were both relatives of the royal family, and their relationship was pretty good.

Tian Feng hoped that Cao Cao could let Cao Lan take care of Tian Rou more, so that Tian Rou would not be bullied, so he got very close to Cao Cao regardless of whether Cao Cao was eunuch or not.

But in the Cui Qu case, because of the hot spot of the Cui family, Cao Cao took Cui Qu as a model when he fought back against the anti-commercial tax group, and he found out Cui Qu, a super cancer, and implicated countless people at once. , such as Tian Feng.

Tian Feng is Cui Qu's chief leader and Cui Yan's son and daughter in-law. While he is close to Cao Cao, as a scholar, he also has a family circle of scholars, and he is also very close to Cui Yan, who is also from Jizhou. .

The Cui family was almost wiped out by Guo Peng who was in a rage. As an important person, Tian Feng certainly didn't hide from it, and was implicated and hit to a certain extent.

Not only was he held accountable by the emperor, he lost face in front of his subordinates, his reputation was greatly damaged, and he also offended Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu is Tian Feng's boss and has a great desire for power. He has never had a good look at Tian Feng, so he didn't engage Tian Feng because of Tian Rou's face.

As a result, Tian Feng's subordinates actually made Cheng Yu lose face, his face was swollen, and it is said that he was reprimanded by the emperor. One can imagine how angry he was.

In the more than a year since the end of the Cui Qu case, Tian Feng felt the malice from Cheng Yu several times.

Cheng Yu's malice and suppression of him were no longer normal, but a special concern.

Cheng Yu always pays special attention to the official affairs of the Ministry of Industry, and especially likes to strictly review the economic expenditure of the Ministry of Industry.

Whenever the Ministry of Industry asks how much money it needs to do something, Cheng Yu always pays close attention and conducts an extremely detailed review, and personally sends his cronies to watch over the Ministry of Industry.

No matter what the Ministry of Industry was going to do, Cheng Yu always had to get the audit results from Cao Cao as soon as possible, and then get his own money plan from the Ministry of Industry, tracking it from beginning to end.

He stared wide-eyed to see if the Ministry of Industry had tampered with various payment issues.

It seems that Cheng Yu is not preventing the Ministry of Industry from letting the Ministry of Industry play tricks, but is hoping that the Ministry of Industry will play tricks and find problems from it, so that he can use Guo Peng's severe punishment measures against corrupt officials to severely hit Tian Feng.

He tried to abolish the Tian Feng family in one go, so as to ensure that his status would not be affected.

Obviously, Cheng Yu seemed to have understood the previous incident as Tian Feng and Cui Yan joining forces to develop their own power in Shangshutai, thereby opposing him and replacing his political plan.

It can be said that Cheng Yu has already regarded Tian Feng as an enemy.

He doesn't regard Tian Feng as a simple subordinate at all, but regards Tian Feng as an enemy who can compete with him for power and an enemy that must be eliminated.

In order to deal with Tian Feng, Cheng Yu felt that his power was not enough and his chances of winning were not great, so he even took the initiative to ease the relationship with Cao Cao and take the initiative to make friends with Cao Cao, even though Cao Cao was the one who turned the switch on the explosion of the Cui Qu case.

But in Cheng Yu's view, it seems that Cao Cao is not as hateful as Tian Feng.