Three Kingdoms: Madam, I am a decent person

Chapter 712 Liu Ye’s Talent as a Commander

Zhang Sui could only take Yanshi and his personal soldiers to a place near the camp.

Zhang Sui found some wood and made a wooden board to use as a drawing board.

After that, he took the Saeki paper and nailed it to the board.

Zhang Sui used a dagger to cut a piece of wooden stick into the shape of a pencil. Then he looked at the Changli city wall from afar and began to draw.

All the personal soldiers gathered around Zhang Sui, their eyes shining.

As Zhang Sui's personal soldiers, they had witnessed Zhang Sui's ridiculous behavior.

Many of them were also rewarded with Zhang Sui's "Spring and Autumn Annals" and "Zuo Zhuan".

At this time, they were all guessing what kind of "masterpiece" Zhang Sui would paint.

There was something strange in the eyes of Yanshi under her mask.

This great general is sometimes quite absurd.

At this time, is he going to paint the kind of portrait that would make people extremely hot?
The two of them had done this countless times before, and the general left behind many portraits that made her unable to stop.

Zhang Sui looked at everyone's excited expressions and just smiled.

This group of people!
I really think I am the only one who can draw that kind of thing.

Drawing that kind of thing is just a feeling and a hobby.

During these years of traveling through time, through constant painting and under the influence of women like Cai Yan, Huang Yueying, and Yuan Mi, he had already learned more advanced painting skills.

What he wanted to do this time was to draw a map of the entire battlefield of Changli.

Many of the civil and military officials under his command were extremely talented and had everything they could wish for.

Ordinary rewards simply cannot satisfy them.

Therefore, in the past few years, he has been thinking of a peculiar way of rewarding people——

Famous on bamboo and silk.

He planned to follow the example of the later Khan Li Shimin and build another Lingyan Pavilion after eliminating Cao Cao.

The Lingyan Pavilion is filled with those who have helped him the most and have made the most outstanding contributions.

These people all have a scene of becoming famous.

He painted this famous scene himself, which was considered to be his due.

Of course, other necessary material rewards should also be given.

However, it was a great favor that he came to paint it himself.

Well, if he really does something a little excessive in the future, these people won't have anything to point fingers at him.

Zhang Sui thought about it the day he killed Yuan Shao.

Now he was living in the late Han Dynasty, and he relied on the identities of Ding Yuan, the governor of Bingzhou, Tian Feng, the governor of Xuzhou, Cai Yong, the great scholar, and the Yuan family, which had three generations of officials.

Although his body also came from a peasant family.

However, it has already been covered with the banner of aristocratic family.

It is obviously unrealistic to want to get rid of the aristocratic families.

If you take too big a step, you'll hurt yourself.

All he could do was to change the situation as much as possible in every detail while he was alive.

For example, he had successfully introduced the imperial examination system.

The former corvée conscription has been successfully transformed into today's small-scale paid recruitment.

For example, he had previously introduced the military farming system and the work point system, so that the people under his rule could solve the basic problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and there were no refugees.

Later, when the right opportunity came, he would find ways to take advantage of the small population and the need to encourage production, and thus slowly try to introduce models such as the household contract system for land and the coexistence of aristocratic families.

As for after his death——

He couldn't think that far.

It just depends on fate.

After being a prince for so long, he found that many things were no longer under human control.

Especially not controlled by him alone.

The aristocratic families and civil and military officials under his command will push him forward for their own interests.

He felt like a warship sailing on the sea.

The entire environment is the main body of the warship.

The aristocratic families and civil and military ministers were the rowers on the warships.

He was just a helmsman. The warship was not moving forward under his control.

As the helmsman, he controls the rudder and maintains the general direction of the warship.

As a helmsman, it is unrealistic to want to make the warship jump.

Even if we unite the rowing sailors, we can't do it.

Some things can only be accelerated but cannot be skipped directly.

Apart from enjoying himself to the fullest, all he could do was to find ways to improve the cognition of the lower-class people.

Zhang Sui even suspected that after his death, the policies he introduced would slowly return to their original state under the track of the wheel of history.

Just like Cao Ang had clearly escaped the tragic end of the Battle of Wancheng, but still died today.

He died in the small place of Jiguan.

However, this was not something he could worry about.

He now believes more in "do your best and leave the rest to fate."

He has always liked the words of a top scholar named Zheng Banqiao during the Qing Dynasty: "It is rare for a person to be confused."

Zhang Sui stayed in the military camp outside Changli City for three days.

On the morning of the fourth day, Zhang Sui was still sleeping in the tent. When Yan Shi hid under the quilt to help him wake up, the voice of the personal guards came from outside, saying, "My lord, Liu Junshi asks you to come over immediately."

"Enemy reinforcements have arrived."

"The enemy commander, Gongsun Gong, requests a meeting with you, my lord."

Zhang Sui hurriedly lifted Yan Shi up, and the two of them quickly put on their armor.

While helping Zhang Sui put on his clothes, Yanshi said with a smile, "This Gongsun Gong, this is the first time I've seen him too!"

"I wonder what kind of person he is compared to you, General?"

Zhang Sui smiled but said nothing.

He admitted that Gongsun Gong was a genius.

But, compared to myself——

He just thought it was a little ridiculous.

Liaodong is just a small place, even though he attaches great importance to it.

No matter how evil the son of a county governor is, he cannot compare to a prince like him.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Sui could only think of one person who could be compared to him, and that was——

Cao Cao.

Zhang Sui also helped Yanshi put on her armor and face mask, and then took her straight to the general's tent.

In the commander's tent, Liu Ye had already gathered with the generals.

At this time, Liu Ye and all the generals were sitting around a sand table explaining the siege tactics in detail.

When Zhang Sui arrived, all the generals just bowed and continued to listen.

Zhang Sui stood beside Liu Ye, listening to Liu Ye's incessant talk and nodding continuously.

Ok, Ok!

Before traveling through time, he thought that during the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, many famous generals under Cao Cao did not display their due talents.

Although historical books repeatedly emphasize that Cao Cao recruited talented people and only selected them based on their talents.

But if you really study the arrangements made in history books about the famous generals under Cao Cao, you will find that these are all glorifications of Cao Cao by historians.

In fact, Cao Cao has never been a broad-minded person.

Cao Cao made a strict distinction among the talents under his command: relatives and outsiders.

Cao Cao spared no resources to give the greatest rewards to his clan generals.

Generals from other families were promoted in name only but demoted in reality, and many of them never got to show their strengths until their death.

Zhang Sui thought that there were three most obvious people among them: Chen Deng, Zhang Liao and Liu Ye.

Liu Ye clearly possesses talents comparable to Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang.

However, Cao Cao was afraid that he was a true relative of the Han royal family, and his idea was: I won't use him as a strategist even if I keep him by my side, but I won't let him leave and become a threat to my side.

Therefore, what people in later generations talked about most about Liu Ye was not his talent as a commander or a strategic figure, but his invention of the Thunderbolt Chariot.

At this moment, listening to Liu Ye's "strategic maneuvers", Zhang Sui smiled and poured him a cup of tea.

Liu Ye didn't notice that it was Zhang Sui. He took it, drank the cup, and then continued explaining.

(End of this chapter)