Chapter 967

Cao Cao is a hero who likes to take the initiative.

He has been restrained by Zhang Yu for many times. This time, he has planned to take the initiative.

Cao Cao studied the map and began to write and draw on it.

After thinking about it all night, Cao Cao went to rest very late.

With mature ideas, Cao Cao called Cheng Yu, Xun Yu and man Pang.

"Now that our troops are strong, we can concentrate our superior forces. I plan to continue to attack Jizhou and wipe out the yuan family in Jizhou. Now the yuan army has been recovering and recruiting troops. We can't give them too much time, otherwise we will pay a big price in the future."

Cao Cao had made up his mind in his tone. After thinking for a while, man Pang said, "my Lord, the yuan Group has recovered a little after cultivation, and it can't fight down very quickly. If Zhang Yu drags his feet at this time, there will be unexpected situations. My subordinates think that sun CE should cooperate in Jiangdong."

Cao Cao thought for a while and asked sun CE to cooperate. That's to give advantage. Sun CE didn't want the other party to cooperate.

"We can't help sun CE recapture the Poyang Lake area. I'm afraid we can't afford what they want." Said Cao Cao.

Cheng Yu said, "my Lord, it's impossible to ask sun CE to cooperate with us. They may not want to see us develop. It is absolutely what sun CE wants to see for the three parties to maintain a balance. "

"But there must be a lot of problems inside sun CE. Why don't we send someone to talk about it? It's autumn now. We're not prepared enough. We won't fight until after the spring of next year."

Cao Cao nodded silently, playing with the teacup.

Then he took a sip of tea and said: "whether sun CE can cooperate or not, this war will be fought. Our total territory is equivalent to three states, but Zhang Yuming has only four states. With a large number of overseas regions, we will be left behind sooner or later."

The contrast of strength is very obvious. In the territory, Zhang Yu already has enough advantages.

Considering the territory, Zhang Yu's territory is already larger than theirs, the population is larger than theirs, and the talents will soon surpass them.

After all, if Zhang Yu's power can be integrated, he will be far away from them in the future.

Seeing that Cao Cao has made such a great determination, they can only provide Cao Cao with plans and suggestions.

Xun Yu said: "Lord, it's obviously impossible for us to support the war of five or six hundred thousand troops with our current money and grain. We still have half a year to prepare and the autumn harvest is also in progress, but the gap will be large."

Xun Yu was a good hand in governing internal affairs, but he could not produce a lot of money and food out of thin air.

"Any suggestions?" Cao Cao frowned and asked.

Xun Yu said: "it is no longer appropriate to raise money from the aristocratic family. Otherwise, they will definitely ask the eldest son to give up training civilian talents. They will also create difficulties in many ways, but they can raise money from other aspects."

Cao Cao was silent, drinking tea, waiting for Xun's answer.

Xun Yu was silent for a long time before he said: "the conventional means is to collect taxes in advance, and to collect taxes in advance next year. This will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the people, but it can still be accepted. The unconventional way is to seize some people's property."

It's hard for Xun Jian to put forward some unconventional methods, but it's obviously impossible for him to put forward more excessive methods.

After thinking for a while, Cao Cao said, "it's a good way to tax in advance, but it will certainly arouse the enemy's vigilance. According to Zhang Yu's vigilance, I'm afraid we will guess our purpose. Is there any way to make Zhang Yu less concerned?"

People are in trouble again. They should prepare in advance and definitely collect money in advance, otherwise nothing can be done.

However, if Zhang Yu and the yuan family make preparations in advance.

But Cheng Yu said: "today, with the grand strategy, we can no longer cheat our opponents. No matter who it is, we can only cheat them tactically. We are ready to increase our forces. This is normal practice, as long as we can cheat our opponents tactically."

"Even if the time, strength and scale of the attack can make the enemy make wrong judgments, so, Lord, we should make preparations now, regardless of what Zhang Yu and Yuan Jia will think."

Cheng Yu's analysis made Cao Cao suddenly open up, so he said, "well, Xun Yu, you are ready to tax as soon as possible."

The reason why Zhang Yu can raise taxes is that his tax rate is not very high, and the territory he controls is rich, so the impact of tax increase is not very great.

However, Cao Cao's original tax rate was much higher, so they could not continue to raise taxes. Instead of raising taxes, they used the method of levying taxes in advance.

This kind of practice will certainly cause the people's dissatisfaction, but Cao Cao did not exercise any tyranny, and occasionally raising taxes once or twice will not cause any trouble.

After Cao Cao's decision, he asked Xun Jian to go down to prepare first.

After Xun Yu left, Cao Cao said, "Xun Yu is too upright. There are many unconventional ways. What can we do?"

Man Pang said: "Lord, some families with half hearted can beat and release the wind of liquidation. Some people will cooperate."

This is blackmail. There are soldiers in hand. Blackmail a few aristocratic families. It's nothing.

Cao Cao agreed immediately. Then Cao Cao said, "there is a lot of wealth buried underground. At the beginning, Dong Zhuo dug up hundreds of millions of family assets. We might as well learn from them."

Cheng Yu and man Pang look at each other for a while, then speechless, Cao Cao is going to steal the tomb.

If Zhang Yu knew this, it would be no surprise. Cao Cao was the commander of the school, who specially sent troops to steal tombs.

Cao Cao has planned to fight a big war and needs a lot of money. Cheng Yu and man Pang have no objection to it. Anyway, Cao Cao does not dare to steal their family. Even Cao Cao, who has a master now, will not move.

Otherwise, if they dig their ancestral graves, the aristocratic family will not all take revenge on him and turn to the enemy one after another.

Cheng Yu also proposes to secretly borrow money from some well connected aristocratic families, and even develop some cities like Zhang Yu to sell them to aristocratic families.

After that, when they went to war, Cao Cao should fight against the local aristocratic families, collect and scrape their wealth, and make up for his own deficit.

Cao Cao didn't dare to do this before, but now he can't care. Anyway, he doesn't move those families who support him. For other families, Cao Cao also plans to change his strategy and fight against them.

After a long discussion, Cao Cao let them go back.

Immediately, Cao Cao began a new round of preparation.

At the beginning, Zhang Yu received the news and felt very normal, because he was also doing such things.

He only increased the number of troops by tens of thousands, but the training of the militia went up to a higher level. At the same time, he also strengthened the second line defense forces.

Most importantly, Zhang Yu trained Fusang's army on a large scale and recruited 200000 soldiers directly.

For this purpose, Zhang Yu directly reduced one third of the tribute to Fusang queen and asked her to agree to recruit Fusang people.