All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 350 How can I be depressed and live under someone else for so long~~~
"Cheng Yu, a native of Dong'e, courtesy name Zhongde, greets the general."

In Luoyang, in the general's mansion, Chen Ran greeted happily, "Sir, no need to be polite, please take a seat."

At the same time, subtitles passed by his eyes.

'I met Cheng Yu, a character in the novel. He is very intelligent and capable. However, he is too pragmatic and likes to make meat jerky. He is one of Cao Cao's important advisers.'

'Note: You can modify two of the words.'

Compared to Jia Xu, Cheng Yu is a truly ruthless person.

When he was working under Cao Cao, the army was not getting enough food and he even had to make "meat jerky" to solve the problem.

If Jia Xu's morality is only in the single digits, then Cheng Yu's morality is definitely negative.

"Morality? What is morality? Surviving in troubled times is the greatest morality!"

Chen Ran changed "Cao Cao's subordinates" to "Chen Ran's subordinates" without hesitation.

"Zhongde." After examining Cheng Yu's abilities, Chen Ran went straight to the point, "Are you willing to work for me to end the chaos and bring peace to the people of the world?"

Cheng Yu immediately stood up and saluted towards Chen Ran, "I am willing to serve you at my service!"

Chen Ran stepped forward and helped him up. "With Zhongde's help, we are like a tiger with wings~"

Nice words don’t cost any money, so just say them.

You wouldn't say, 'You have a bad character. From now on, follow me and cultivate yourself and be a good person~~~' and so on.

Even if it is a world of novels, it is also a world in endless parallel time and space, and the people here are all normal people, not NPCs.

Chen Ran set up a talent recruitment hall in Luoyang City and removed the tax checkpoints on various roads to make it easier for talents from all over the world to join him.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, although the aristocratic families, big and small, were not as terrifying as those in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

However, it has already formed a monopoly and is about to move towards a caste system.

Just like Huang Chao killed all the aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty, the aristocratic families in the late Han Dynasty were actually killed by the Five Barbarians, which prevented China from falling into the abyss of the caste system.

The aristocratic families monopolized the path to advancement, and ordinary people had almost no chance to get ahead.

It was impossible for Chen Ran to endorse the aristocratic families, so he set up a talent recruitment hall, which did not ask about background but only talent. Naturally, it attracted a large number of talented people with no future to join him.

Many talented people had applied before, and Chen Ran accepted most of them after assessment.

Cheng Yu was the first person qualified to activate the subtitles. Chen Ran also looked at him differently and arranged him to be a military strategist and temporarily serve as Jia Xu's deputy.

Well, when Jia Xu and Cheng Yu form a partnership, they can really use any tricks.

Right now Chen Ran has something that needs them to do.

"The Xiliang Legions in various parts of Guanzhong must be allowed to fight among themselves as soon as possible."

Faced with the question, Jia Xu and Cheng Yu looked at each other.

After a moment, Jia Xu, with a smile on his face, gestured to Cheng Yu to go first.

"My Lord." Cheng Yu did not hesitate to say, "We just need to speed up the migration of the people in Guanzhong."

When Dong Zhuo took the imperial court and the emperor to Chang'an, he did not take the local people with him because of Chen Ran's opposition. He only took away the royal family and the families of ministers.

This time, Chen Ran brought back the emperor and the court, but demanded that the people in Guanzhong be relocated.

The reason is simple. During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, people all over the world suffered huge losses.

Natural disasters and man-made calamities, wars were rampant, famine and epidemics almost destroyed the entire Han Dynasty.

The original population was in the tens of millions, but only six or seven out of ten have been reduced to this level.

Population has become the most important resource.

Rather than letting these people die in the internecine struggle among the warlords of the Xiliang Army, it would be better to take them away and resettle them, and distribute land for military settlement.

"Without people, there will be no manpower, and without logistics, there will be no food." Cheng Yu was eager to show off, and he used his ultimate move right away: "In a year at most, the Xiliang army, which has eaten up all the military rations, will have to eat itself."

The "eating oneself" mentioned here is not an adjective.

"As expected of Cheng Rouju, he cut off the firewood from the very beginning. Without the people of Qian to grow crops and produce food, the warriors of the Xiliang Army will starve to death."

Chen Ran nodded, expressing his approval of this move.

He looked towards Jia Xu, "What do you think, Wenhe?"

"Zhongde's plan is good." Jia Xu complimented him first, and then said, "It's just that it will take a long time and the effect will be slow. And if a large number of people are taken away, the Xiliang army will not just watch helplessly and do nothing."

Chen Ran nodded, indicating his agreement. "If you have any ideas, please tell me."

"Let them fight first." Jia Xu said, "As long as they start fighting, they will naturally have no time to pay attention to other things."

"By the time we were tired of fighting, all the food and people were gone."

To the south of Guanzhong is the Qinling Mountains in Hanzhong, making it extremely difficult to go south.

To the west was the territory of the Qiang people. Not to mention the complex and difficult terrain, the Qiang people were also very poor and could not support the Xiliang Army.

The northwest is their hometown of Liangzhou, but Ma Teng, Han Sui and others will not allow them to go back.

To the north is the Hetao area, where various grassland tribes can fight or move.

As for the east, Chen Ran is blocking it.

Once they ran out of food and men, the Xiliang army would have nowhere to escape.

Cheng Yu asked curiously, "Mr. Wenhe, how can we make the Xiliang army fight among themselves?"

"Hahaha~~~"

Jia Xu stroked his beard and smiled, "Of course he is the emperor."

Chen Ran was also laughing. This was his excuse to use the emperor to control the princes.

"The emperor issued an edict to confer titles on several Xiliang generals and gave them some benefits and titles, which would naturally cause dissatisfaction among others."

"For example, Chang'an City is now controlled by Li Jue, so we can ask the emperor to issue an edict to appoint Guo Si as the prefect of Chang'an."

Sow discord, kill three men with two peaches, fish in troubled waters, etc.

Whatever you say, it's just to create disharmony and make them fight among themselves. Moreover, Li Ru is dead, Jia Xu has run to Chen Ran's side, the Xiliang army still has combat effectiveness, but it has lost its brains, so internal fighting is inevitable.

"very good."

Chen Ran stood up and instructed, "Let the two gentlemen handle this matter."

"Here~~~"

Chen Ran was also very busy at work, so he went to the military camp outside the city.

What was brought back from Guanzhong this time was not only the emperor and the court, but also tens of thousands of troops from the southern and northern armies.

Chen Ran had not been able to swallow it all before, and he had always been shocked by it.

Now, all the last elite troops of the Han Dynasty belong to him.

When he arrived, it was time for lunch.

In the Han Dynasty, people could only eat two meals a day, and only the wealthy and powerful could afford three meals a day.

Chen Ran attached great importance to the army and provided three meals a day for all his soldiers, thus gaining the support of the troops.

Among the three meals, only the lunch meal had meat, which was extremely rare in the chaotic times at the end of the Han Dynasty. The soldiers and horses of other countries were already thankful to have enough food to eat.

Chen Ran inspected the military camp and had lunch with the soldiers.

There was meat, but each person only ate half a pressed duck, or a lamb, or a piece of pork.

It's more of a meaning, there is almost no food to eat unless there is a big war.

After all, even if Chen Ran gave a lot of meat as a reward, the number of soldiers under his command was even greater, and it would not be enough if they ate as much as they wanted.

'Cheng Yu's modification has been completed, and rewards are now being issued.'

'Note: 100,000 catties of meat jerky will be distributed.'

Chen Ran'(o>ェ<)'

This reward was truly amazing and left him speechless.

He won’t eat it anyway!

Jia Xu and Cheng Yu joined forces, and the generals of the Western Liang army were manipulated without knowing it.

The first to start the war were Li Cui and Guo Si.

When Guo Si happily came to Chang'an City with the emperor's edict and asked Li Cui to get out, Li Cui responded with a strong bow and crossbow, and the two sides immediately started fighting.

Later, Duan Wei, Hu Zhen, Yang Ding, Xu Rong and others joined in, and the fighting became more and more bloodthirsty.

It can be said that except for Zhang Ji's troops in Wancheng, the rest of the Xiliang army were involved in this fratricidal melee.

As for Zhang Ji, Chen Ran used him as cannon fodder to resist Liu Biao in the south.

Chen Ran's action plan was to attack Guanzhong first, then the northwest, then Sichuan, and only then would he send troops to the Central Plains of Hebei.

The areas of Jingxiang and Jiangdong in the south were placed last.

Although the land area in the south is large, it is actually not highly developed and the population is insufficient.

Speaking of population, the speed of migrating people from Guanzhong accelerated again. Lu Bu, who was arranged to garrison in Hongnong, now had nowhere to fight, and his daily routine was to take care of the people.

This made Lu Bu very depressed, but there was nothing he could do about it. The pressure from his sworn brother was too strong, and he dared not think of rebelling.

In fact, he also thought about starting his own business, but he had no money.

When following Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo supplied the money and food.

When I was with my sworn brother, he provided me with money and food.

At most, he only has enough money and food for one month. Without it, his troops would probably disperse immediately.

But he was unwilling to work for his sworn brother for the rest of his life, and was depressed about it, drinking all day to drown his sorrows.

Until one day, a guest from the east visited him.

Looking at the young guest, Lu Bu was sure that he had never seen this person before. "Sir, who is it?"

"My name is Xun Yu, and I am currently serving as the military commander of Cao Gong." The young man smiled and said, "Greetings, General."

"Lord Cao? Cao Mengde?"

"Exactly."

Hearing this, Lu Bu immediately showed contempt.

He is a person who cannot control his inner emotions.

Cao Cao has no territory now and is living in his good friend's territory. He has only a few thousand soldiers under his command and can be described as weak.

Xun Yu was unhappy, but he didn't show it. "General, I came here to give Cao Gong a gift."

After that, he presented a batch of gold and jewelry.

Lu Bu liked it very much and became much more polite. "Okay, okay."

Xun Yu took the opportunity to say, "General, you are a rare talent. How can you be depressed and serve others for a long time? Why don't you start your own business?"

Lu Bu was very happy. These words really touched his heart. "I also want to start a business, but unfortunately I don't have the strength."

He believed in the fighting power of himself and his Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, but he had no money or food.

"General." Xun Yu flattered for a few words, then changed the subject, "Have you ever thought about serving the emperor to punish the disloyal?"

Lu Bu, who was originally happy, suddenly frowned. "Are you thinking that I should betray my brother? This is absolutely impossible! No need to say anything more!"

Although his tone was stern, Xun Yu could tell that he was not sincere.

He smiled and changed the subject to chat.

This visit is just a preliminary test, and we will have to wait for the right time for future events.

After all, if one wants to get the emperor away from under Chen Ran’s nose, the only chance is this servant of the four surnames!

(End of this chapter)