If the place where Jiang Yu is, the Qiang people are bargaining according to their old habits and seeking to sell their lives at a good price, then for Cheng Yu, the trouble is not just about the price.

Most of the time in history, when money can be used to solve problems, there is no big problem.

Unfortunately, when money can be used to solve problems, the rulers would rather give money to outsiders and foreigners than give their own "mud legs".

It is better to post a document than to pay.

The reason is that I am afraid that "mud legs" will develop a lazy habit.

They are afraid!

Therefore, it is better to subsidize large investors than to pay money directly.

The Han Dynasty may have been the beginning of these many unspoken rules.

Some examples can be found in the Han Dynasty, whether it is good or bad.

For example, "marriage".

The Han Dynasty was not the beginning of "marriage marriage", but it was the theoretical basis for the "marriage marriage" and even "traitor" of the great unification dynasty in later generations.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the Huns adopted the "Grievance + Annual Coins" strategy, and gave away a large amount of silk, grain, gold and silver every year, trying to relieve border troubles through economic means. All of these expenditures for external peace were borne by farmers of the Han Dynasty. When Chao Cuo proposed the "Political Precious Grain" to try to suggest reducing the burden on farmers, he was strongly opposed by vested interest groups.

This practice of "rather than give foreign invaders" eventually led to the Red Eyebrow Green Forest Uprising in the late Western Han Dynasty. When Wang Mang reorganized, the land annexation across the country had reached the point where "the rich were all over the fields, and the poor were not in a place to stand".

The Eastern Han Dynasty obviously did not improve much because of this.

During the Song Dynasty, 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 pieces of silk were sent to the Liao Kingdom every year, and then even expanded to the Western Xia Dynasty, they had to pay for money. It seemed that they spent money to buy peace, but in fact all the expenses were transferred to ordinary people of the Song Dynasty, such as the additional income of "Ding Shi Money" and "He Buying Shi Money". During the uprising, the slogan he shouted was "Abolish Hua Shi Gang and reduce Ding Money", but the Song Dynasty would rather transfer the Western army that originally defended the Jin Kingdom to suppress it than give up eating this piece of fat that had been eating for many years.

Finally, during the Jingkang period, the female family members of the ruling class were regarded as flesh by the Jin soldiers, crying and shouting shame, have they ever thought that it was the bitter fruit they planted?

Obviously not.

Because when the braid is facing, the knees bent to the outside world have reached its peak...

This tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years does not disappear just because the braid falls down.

On the one hand, the interests of the ruling class are solidified. They understand that the root of all their privileges comes from the exploitation of internal people, so vested interest groups would rather cede external interests than maintain internal privileges.

On the other hand, the path dependence caused by the incompetence and low governance capabilities of the descendants of the second generation and subsequent ruling class after the death of the feudal dynasty. These descendants of the ruling class, who are called elites, are actually waste, are more accustomed to maintaining superficial stability through wealth transfer rather than conducting fundamental institutional reforms.

Once this inertial practice is noticed by the people and lost its original sense of trust at the grassroots level, any normal or abnormal policies of all ruling classes will be interpreted as a means of exploitation.

As the saying goes, "It is impossible to gain resentment from the people, but if you want the people to not rebel, it is impossible to obtain."

This is the problem Cheng Yu is facing now.

During the first period of Cao's attack on Guanzhong, using military pay and rewards and other means was enough to stimulate the morale of the soldiers. But now, no matter how high Cheng Yu shouted, how round the cake was, or even if he had real money and paid it to the soldiers, he would not have any good results.

The soldiers of Cao's army still took the money, but they turned around and scolded, saying that they were playing tricks to deceive them to death...

Once distrust arises, it is difficult to eliminate.

The Cao army fought in the battle of Guanzhong. Even the new recruits who have been recruited now learned about the situation of the previous war from some channels. After Cao's army entered Hanoi County, military academies at all levels desperately urged forward according to the orders issued by Cheng Yu. The auxiliary soldiers from the back were forced to carry their armor and dry food and rush forward. They carried dozens of kilograms of pounds on their body, and had to rush on their way, and there was no rest. And with the low morale, there must be only a lot of complaints.

Fortunately, there was no external cause before. Now I have encountered Jiang Jie's troops. They cannot move forward, and they cannot move backward. Veterans bullied the new recruits, and their resentment was like a compressed spring, constantly accumulating and constantly squeezing.

The key is that there are still some military academy non-commissioned officers, and their children are sighing, "Why are the soldiers of the Cao army so resentful now? Can't they be more positive and positive?"

Now when Cheng Yu was planning to cut more trees, build a baggage frame, and use it to form a moving wooden shield wall to resist Jiang Jie's cavalry, the resentment that had accumulated inadvertently broke out...

When resentment is about to erupt, there are actually some signs.

For example, when camping, digging trenches, trenches, and cutting down trees as deer forts, these soldiers of the Cao army were exhausted and had to do hard work continuously. Naturally, everyone was scolding Liantian.

But no one cares.

Whether it is a military academy, a non-commissioned officer, or a minor official in the army, they all think this is not a big problem. Anyway, aren’t you still scolded in the Central Plains of Shandong? It’s like you don’t bite if you have too many lice.

Usually, if the noise is so great, the military academy's non-commissioned officer can only use one move to represent the Han Dynasty and the prime minister to deal with the person who scolds the most. Anyway, these screams and scoldings cannot disturb the purity of the boss.

Cheng Yu himself should also know these situations, but he also didn't care much about this issue.

It was far from the bottom layer, and although I could hear the sound, I couldn't hear clearly what was chirping under the stone slab.

He felt that he had more important problems to think about and solve.

As for other things, they are not so urgent and important.

After all, I have been here like this for so many years, and after a while, what can I do?

The night gradually faded, and Cao Junying was silent in the darkness.

The lights on the guarded walls of the camp were blown by the night wind, making a sound of whimpering.

In the big tent, Cheng Yu stood upright, with his hands behind his back, his eyes slowly patrolling the hanging map, as if he was planning something, but some things would not be as he wished.

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In the Cao army's barracks, in the second half of the night, they became relatively lazy on duty.

The soldiers on duty in the first half of the night can sleep a bad sleep in the second half of the night, while the soldiers on duty in the second half of the night can only take a nap in the early morning. Even if there are regulations to sleep until early, what...

One is noisy.

No one will deliberately create a "quiet" environment for soldiers on duty in the second half of the night to ensure their sleep quality.

Another reason is that premature sausage is not unlimited.

If the soldiers are willing to give a few small sums of money, the team will be happy to take out some private treasures and make some special "delicious food". Most of the time when they are early, they are in the canteen mode of big pot rice. If they go late, there will be no water for shabu shabu.

So basically, the soldiers on duty in the second half of the night all went half asleep and even found a corner to sleep in some places.

Normally, military academy non-commissioned officers patrol the post every two hours, but in fact, very few can really do this. If the boss didn’t have any special assignments or had a message to check, middle and lower-level military academy non-commissioned officers could be lazy.

Under such circumstances, most of the people on duty in the second half of the night were recruits from the Cao army. After several veterans wandered around for two rounds, they walked around and hid in that corner to sleep.

The new recruits of Cao's army were out of control and were too lazy to continue patrolling. Instead, they stopped at some positions on the left of the village gate, either sitting or leaning against each other. Some were dozing with spears, while others tilted their heads back to back. Everyone looked exhausted and didn't even want to chat and laugh and make fun of each other.

In the darkness, footsteps suddenly came.

The soldiers on duty at the camp gate were alarmed and looked up. As the fire swayed, they saw a whole team of Cao's soldiers coming towards the camp gate.

The guards shouted loudly: "What are you doing?!"

The other soldiers around him who were half asleep and half awake were also alarmed, but when they opened their eyes and saw the same line of Cao's army flag, they couldn't help but relax. Some people opened their mouths and yawned, and tears squeezed out from the corners of their eyes.

The man who walked up to him was stern, and the man who took the lead squeezed out a few words, "Assign the order. The whistle detective."

Every day, many sentry detectives will be sent out in Cao's camp, and a team of sentry will be released every two hours. After all, mastering the changes in the battlefield and checking the surrounding movements and the basic operations of such as mastering the basic operations of the battlefield, as long as you are a more decent military general, you can probably do a very good job, not to mention a commander who is good at intelligence like Cheng Yu.

But it seems...

A group of whistles came out not long ago, why did another group come?

But the soldiers on duty were not sure. After all, the great man had no watches and mobile phones to use for timekeeping. Maybe they were sleeping and glaring, and time passed unknowingly?

Therefore, although I felt strange, the soldiers guarding the camp gate did not say anything, but just reached out to the custom, "Where is the token of the flag?"

There are two types of certificates required to go out of the camp.

One is a flag, which represents the authorization for the performance of official duties, and the other is a token, which represents the basis for checking entry and exit of the camp.

The team of soldiers gradually walked into the place where the soldiers on guard the camp gate, and suddenly whistled, two or three people rushed forward, not only grasping the arm of the soldiers on guard, but also holding the throat of the soldiers on guard, making him unable to shout.

The sudden change scared the other soldiers around him almost jumped up.

Some people were also alarmed above the village wall and looked down.

The fire swayed, and the captain who led the leader gritted his teeth and said, "Stop talking nonsense! Open the camp gate! Think about the little military salary I received and the rat meat I ate! Is it worth it? I just ask if you are worth it?!"

"What do you...what do you want to do?" asked the guards with difficulty.

"What if I don't do it..." said the leader, "Everyone is a miserable person! You and I started to fight, but I was injured and disabled, but I couldn't get a pension! I didn't make things difficult for you. I came here because I saw your military academy and didn't come! You all think about it, you are on duty here, they are sleeping in bed! If something happens, you will beat you to death, and they don't have to resist at all. Is it worth it?!"

The soldiers on duty stared at each other and did not speak. The soldiers who were excluded from the camp gate to serve as posts in the second half of the night were silent after hearing these words.

Several soldiers walked out behind the leader, and went up to drag the latch of the camp, unzipped the latch of the fixed camp door, and pushed out a crack.

"Even if I starve to death in the mountains, I will be better than eating these rat meat! If you believe me, just follow me and you can stutter in a whole stutter!"

The leader was a hunter in the mountains. He was recruited. He had no desire for war. He was bullied in Cao's army and had long wanted to run away. He also connected some fellow villagers one after another. After several days of investigation, he found that in the second half of the night, the non-commissioned officers on duty at the gate of the camp would go to bed, so he seized the opportunity to come. Anyway, he was always looking for life in death, and he was in a situation where he would fight for his life if he had a disagreement.

The soldiers on duty at the camp gate were either recruits or deputy positions, and those who were serious were no longer able to make decisions. When they saw such a scene, either I glared at you or you glared at me. They didn't say anything for a long time, and no one did anything. They watched these people pull the camp gate open a crack and then came out one after another.

When the recruits in the camp saw these people running out of the camp, several of them ran down, "Heroes, take us with you! This bad days are really enough!"

The leader was about to leave, and nodded, "If you are willing to follow, just follow!"

Several more people followed, and in a blink of an eye, some of the Cao army soldiers who were advancing left at the camp gate actually walked away.

The leader dragged the clamped deputy guarding the camp gate and squeezed out of the camp gate. After walking a few more steps, he said offense and pushed the deputy director of the camp gate and walked forward quickly. In a blink of an eye, he disappeared in the darkness.

Although the deputy on duty at the camp gate regained his freedom, he looked around and turned his eyes twice, his face turned pale and said to the closer soldiers who were following him, "Let's go! Stay here, there's no good fruit! Don't go in the same direction as them! We have to find another way!"

The deputy on duty knew that this incident broke out and he didn't know whether the chief officer would be unlucky, but as a deputy, he was held hostage at the camp gate and could not escape any matter!

So after thinking about it, the deputy on duty simply ran away with the last few soldiers!

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To be continued...