Chapter 722
The next step is to study detailed matters such as how the two parties hand over. Guo Jia doesn't have to worry about these matters, and then a full-time staff will come to negotiate. As long as Guo Jia convinces Cao Cao, it will be done. As long as Cao Cao surrenders, the rest will be trivial matters.
At the banquet, Xun Yu still asked: "Fengxiao, although you no longer confiscate our family's property, do you have to hand over the land?"
Guo Jia said: "This is true. The land must be distributed according to the cap and it is not allowed to be bought and sold privately. Of course, if you have money at home, you can then go overseas where we conquered. Even if you buy the island, there will be no problem. This has been decided long ago, but it has not been implemented yet."
Xiahou Yuan said: "Have your army really conquered a large area of land overseas? Isn't it a fool? Is there really land outside?"
Guo Xi prompted Ha Yixia and said, "General Xiahou, it won't take long to go overseas to conquer. You will understand then; in fact, the territory of our Han Dynasty is actually very small, and there are countless lands and islands outside. And my lord said that our Han Dynasty is not economically, militaryally, and technologically developed, which is really much worse than the Roman Empire. There is also Persia, which is what we often call peace. I was lucky enough to walk to the Persian area, and I really knew a lot of things there. The world is big! It's not something you and I can imagine."
Le Jin said: "Actually, we are quite envious of the generals in your place for how glorious it is to be able to break the territory for the Han people. We all know and yearn for the anchor honors of Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Taishi Ci, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, Tian Chou, Gan Ning, Lu Su and others. They did a good job, especially for the Han people, the Huns, Xianbei and other foreign barbarians, and the Han people were a stable border area. It is really admirable."
Guo Jia said: "General Le, you all have the opportunity to open the territory for the Han people. At present, the army of our army's four overseas conquests ended, which was Ganning and Lusu's army, which had returned to the base on the North and South Islands. There were three large armies to fight overseas. Next, Zhao Yun's army would continue to stand up westward, completely resolve the countries of the Western Regions and then advance tens of thousands of miles westward. And it was even bigger from the sea, and we were also preparing to use the second-way conquest and explore the sea. What we lacked now is the people who led the army to fight."
Liu Fu said: "Wang Xiao, why don't civil servants have nothing to do?"
Guo Jia said: "Yuanying, how could this happen? The territory conquered also requires a large number of talents to manage. Now there is too shortage of manpower. Many of the territory conquered have several or even dozens of large ones in China. This is also impossible. No talent can be managed!"
Cao Cao said: "Wang Xiao, will you not build a vassal state like the Western Regions after you conquer it?"
Guo Jia said: "Prime Minister Cao, the vassal state is too fake, it is easy to have problems. If you cannot maintain long-term stability, rebellion will occur over time; if we don't do that, we will implement absolute rule and directly under the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty; those who dare to resist will resolutely eliminate them and do not want to leave hidden dangers. Our army's foreign conquest policy is the Three Lights Policy. We will resolutely implement killing, burning, and snatching all the nations that dare to resist. Of course, women are left to carry out great national integration."
Dong Zhao snorted coldly and said, "Butchman!"
Guo Jia smiled and said, "If you don't want to be butchers, then send you to educate me. After all, you are all great scholars, and you should have the ability to make those foreign barbarians talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and let them put down their butcher knife."
Le Jin said: "For hundreds of years, haven't the Han Dynasty been talking about benevolence and righteousness with the Xiongnu, Xianbei and other foreign barbarians and other foreign barbarians? The court not only gave women to the barbarians, but also gave money; while those Xiongnu and Xianbei people did not talk about benevolence and morality with the Han Dynasty. If they could fight, they burned, killed, plundered the people on our border, and pretended to surrender after they could fight, and then plunder them again after several years, and then rob the people on the border. This has verified that things that have not worked for hundreds of years have been unworkable, so why should they hold them to them? Now Lu Ning's method is good. He does not talk about benevolence and morality with the foreign barbarians, and speak directly with a sabre, and fight them with blood and kill them. Over the past ten years, the Han people have heard of foreign barbarians invading them."
After hearing this, Guo Jia took a good look at Lejin. It seemed that this kid was good and very appreciative. He should be appreciated by Lu Ning and had a promising future. He had to focus on cultivating it.
Cao Cao thought for a while and said, "Fengxiao, I have a question I want to ask you. You have to answer truthfully and not fool you."
Guo Jia said: "Prime Minister, please tell me that as long as I know, I will answer truthfully."
Cao Cao said: "Fengxiao, is it a special case for me when Lu Ning went overseas this time? In fact, you have planned everything long ago and just waited for me to get in. Is that true?"
After hearing this, Guo Jia smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said very seriously: "Prime Minister Cao, my lord has always opposed civil war. He feels that civil war is like a fight between brothers, and it does not make much sense. He can only consume the strength of the Han people in vain and bring disaster to the Han people. If a civil war is blindly done, it will give the barbarians in the grassland and surrounding areas a chance to develop. By then, the Han people themselves will have their own civil war and consume all their strength. The only thing waiting for the Han people is to be brutal and ruthless butcher knife again by foreign barbarians. So much so that our strength was actually capable of pacifying the world in one fell swoop many years ago, but my lord has always been unintentional to civil war. He just wants to use his own strength to not force other princes to unite and form a new coalition government again. The Prime Minister should believe this."
Cao Cao smiled and said, "Fengxiao, have you not answered my question yet?"
Guo Jia said: "Prime Minister Cao, my lord went to the Japanese island for a moment, and there was no conspiracy at all. Including the counterattack of the Prime Minister's attack, we all decided as soon as we studied and decided. Someone under my lord had wanted to pacify the world first. If my lord was here this time, he might not agree to counterattack. All this is not related to my lord's business."
Cao Cao said: "Fengxiao, is this true? Then your counterattack seems to have been fully prepared, and it is not a temporary dispatch of troops at all."
Guo Jia said: "Prime Minister Cao, tell me the truth. For the potential target of our army, no matter who it is or what unexpected situations, our General Staff Department has formulated various countermeasures many years ago. For us, we don't have to consider countermeasures at all, and we prepared them very early."
Cao Cao said: "Just as you said, but will Lu Ning have any opinions on you if you send troops without asking for instructions?"
Guo Jia smiled and said, "It shouldn't be possible. At most, we just want to ask him to have a meal. Just lose some money."
Cao Cao said: "It's that simple?"
Guo Jia said: "It's that simple. Of course, if there are principled mistakes, it will be punished; the general one is that it cannot be violated, especially the constitution. As long as we are wholeheartedly considering the people, everything is easy to say; our principle of doing things is that the interests of the people are the priority. We only safeguard the interests of the majority of people and will never safeguard the interests of a small number of people. This is a matter of principle."
Chapter completed!