Xi Zhicai stopped refusing, bowed to Cao Cao, and said seriously: "My lord is still worried about food and grass? I have been thinking hard for many days, and based on all aspects of consideration, I finally have a plan to offer my lord to the lord, in order to completely solve the current food problem for the lord!"

Cao Cao was overjoyed and said excitedly: "Good! Ai Cai! I knew that with your resourcefulness, there will be a way to relieve my worries. Very good! Great! These days, my hair will also turn white. Tell me what the solution is, I'm listening here!"[]

Xi Zhicai looked at Cao Cao with his deep and somewhat shocking eyes and said slowly: "Lord! We are all clear about the situation now. The situation is already very critical. This strategy of my subordinate is also a helpless move. It is really against human relations! Please forgive my subordinates' cruelty and viciousness!"

Cao Cao was a little startled by Xi Zhicai's performance and lowered his head and thought to himself: "This young man with great talent has never said such a solemnly. Even when he recommended ten gold-touching captains to me, his face was naturally relaxed. But what did he do this time? Is there anything more serious in this world than digging people's ancestral graves?"

"Rude and vicious? Why do you need such serious words to describe it?"

Cao Cao hesitated a little and gently let go of Xi Zhicai's hand.

He put his hands behind his back, stood up straight, stared at Xi Zhi suspiciously for a while, but found that he had no eyes to see through other people's thoughts after all.

Take a deep breath and say in a serious tone: "Well! Zhicai, come and listen!"

Xi Zhicai heard Cao Cao's order and replied: "What my subordinates want to say is actually to implement it in two aspects!

First, open up resources, and second, reduce expenditure.

But now the solar term is wrong and we cannot seek farming at all. Therefore, the method of opening up the source is to remove borrowing and purchase. It is only possible to plunder the hostile states and counties that are rich in food and grass. Just like treating Yuan Shu and Gongsun Zan, anyway, we have already tear each other, so our army naturally doesn't have to be polite. We can go directly to him to grab all kinds of food and grass needed."

Seeing Cao Cao nodding in agreement, Xi Zhi stabilized his mind and said in a deeper voice: "I think the most important thing is to save money! The fundamental problem of our army now is that there are too few young and strong people in the population, and most of them are old, young and young. If the lord can agree to make these extra orphans, widows, disabled people, elderly, weak, women, children, etc...."

When he heard Xi Zhicai say this, Cao Cao's whole body seemed to tremble violently. He suddenly straightened his body, which had been trained and looked very strong, staring at Xi Zhicai's thin and pale face.

At this time, he really wanted to see clearly what this young man was thinking, how could so many lawless and inhumane thoughts come up with.

"This is the real boldness. I think the so-called "big things" I did in the countryside back then were like his ideas, it was like playing a game for a child's home!

Is this kid really a person who reads poetry and books? If he hadn't learned about it some time ago, he was indeed talented and was loyal to me. I really couldn't believe that there were such cruel poisonous people in this world! I would even doubt whether some people with ulterior motives were using him to deal with me!"

Cao Cao's face turned a little blue, and his hands, which were holding each other tightly behind him, were trembling slightly.

But then I thought about it carefully: "That's right! There are still four or five months left in the grain silo in Yanzhou. If I don't find a way to solve this problem immediately, I am the one who has lost it. It's better to let me, the wise master who is hard to find in the world, die...

I would rather let the people of the world than let the people of the world down! At most, after this time, I will be better for their descendants. Who would let this be the only way right now?"

Cao Cao was a little nervous, and his always calm voice became a little vibrato.

He spoke, "But! Zhicai! Even if we really remove that part of the people, Yanzhou still has at least one million people, and at most it will save more than a month of food. But how can we solve the remaining three months? If we do this evil thing, if we end up with no food in the end, what's the point of doing it or not?"

Xi Zhicai looked strange, lowered his voice but said more firmly: "Lord, don't you understand? I just saw you suddenly, and I thought you already understood what I mean!"

Cao Cao's face couldn't help but feel a little hot, and he thought to himself: "So Zhicai didn't mean this! It seems that I misunderstood him, really! I just said that he looked weak and literary scholar, how could he be such a cruel butcher? But what does he mean when he started to say that he wanted to forgive his cruelty and viciousness?"

Seeing the lord's puzzled look, Xi Zhicai continued to grit his teeth and said, "What subordinates mean is to make all the excess elderly, weak, women and children into jerky meat to serve as military rations! In this way, even if our army does not plunder food and grass from other states, and saves some in various aspects, it will basically last until next autumn harvest season."

A shocking sentence that seemed to be a rock, shocked Cao Cao, who had always been determined, shivered violently!

He was truly shocked, staring at Xi Zhicai with a little dull look.

Thinking about his teenage years as a young man, he thought he could have killed people without blinking. Just like when he was escaping from Luoyang and killed Lu Boshe's family, his heart was even full of excitement.

Blood never made him feel scared!

Now his mind was turning violently: "Is this Xi Zhicai still a human? He is a devil! 500,000 people, and a total of 500,000 people will be made into jerky by him! Jerky!

Kill him! You must kill him! As long as you kill him, the 500,000 innocent people will not have to die tragically!"

Cao Cao found himself having a strong desire to vomit. The originally blue and white face in front of him suddenly looked a little green under the dim light.

Cao Cao felt his heart beating violently, so intense that it was not enough for his broad chest to jump. It seemed that it wanted to jump out of his chest and leave himself forever.

Xi Zhicai seemed not to feel Cao Cao's excitement, and still spoke in a calm tone, saying to himself: "I think I, Xi Zhicai, have done nothing in the first half of my life! But since my subordinates defected to my lord, they have been trusted by the lord! Every time in the middle of the night, my subordinates want to do their best to repay the lord with meager wisdom.

But now that the lord is suffering from such difficulties, his subordinates are completely helpless, which makes him feel deeply ashamed! Only after thinking about it day and night can he think of a solution, which is also the only feasible way for his subordinates to think of to solve our current crisis.

My subordinates think that instead of letting us be dragged down by these useless wandering old, weak, sick and disabled people and starved to death together, we might as well deal with them. As long as we keep it confidential, we can also get the name of a capable man with good governance.

If this is not the case, people will be scolded as a waste after their defeat, and no one will consider the original poverty and weakness of Yanzhou.

It is extremely helpless for my subordinates to make this bad decision. This is a matter of harming the peace of mind. My subordinates do not want the military advisor to know about it, and the elders Cheng Gong, otherwise they will inevitably strongly oppose it.

But what's the use of just opposing? Can you create a grain of food just by opposing? Can opposition support the millions of hungry people? Will it be of any benefit to the lord's great cause?"

"As long as the lord can survive this crisis, if God gives up any punishment, Xi Zhicai will bear it alone!"

However, Cao Cao's heart was suddenly shaken by Xi Zhicai's words.

But his mind turned completely: "This young master is making plans for my future! In order for Yanzhou to be able to get rid of this predicament, he even suffered the punishment of heaven himself!

Yes, if it weren't for the fact that something was helpless, I wouldn't have thought of this vicious idea! With such a loyal subordinate, what else can I be dissatisfied with!"

Cao Cao said in a heavy tone: "Zhicai, I understand your loyalty! But this fact is too important, and life is still at stake. Let it go for now! Let it go! I have to think clearly. See if there is any other way to imagine!"

Xi Zhicai looked up at Cao Cao's face and knew that his plan was too shocking, which made his lord unable to accept it. It was very likely that he was also full of murderous intentions to him!

But he was still fearless. He stood in front of Cao Cao and bowed and said, "Lord! Those who accomplish great things do not care about minor matters! Please make a decision early and make a plan one day earlier, and Yanzhou will have more hope of stability! The subordinates will leave first."

Cao Cao looked at Xi Zhicai quickly leaving with complex eyes, and his thin back was seen. Then he saw the bright moonlight outside the door, Dian Wei's strong and broad back was constantly patrolling back and forth under the moonlight.

I thought to myself: "Little details! Five hundred thousand lives, is this still the little details in your eyes? What is the big secret in your eyes? Loyalty to your lord? Or to achieve unparalleled achievements? For these things, can you really do anything to do?

Both of them have the same back, whether they are thin or majestic, but these two have this heart that is loyal to me. They can all die for those who are close friends, and those who want to accomplish great things must do, so do they still have to be cruel and vicious!

Dian Wei is a loyal wood and should be trusted absolutely.

One general's success will be halted! This is 500,000! Should I do this? Who can teach me!"

Cao Cao thought hard, and he, who had always been decisive in his life, fell into hesitation and hesitation for the first time in his life.

But once the seeds of evil are sown, they grow rapidly and irresistibly.

People are always unable to resist temptation! What's more, it's a temptation that is extremely beneficial to oneself!
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