Well, let's think about it again and see if we can find a way to have the same or similar effect without having to bear the stigma. Wait, Guo Jia's head suddenly flashed, this time, the fundamental problem, in fact, lies in the fact that the grain officer himself is innocent, the grain officer is obviously listening to your Guo Jia's orders, so he deducted the grain and did not let the soldiers eat, but you finally cut off the head of the grain officer because of this, which is definitely much more excessive than crossing the river and demolishing the bridge. But what if the grain officer himself has a problem, and he is not innocent?

Although Guo Jia also knows that in this era, there are still many good officials and many clean officials, but can the hands and feet be clean when dealing with the economic lifeline of these times all day long? Even if you don't dare to mess around in the army, there should always be all kinds of small problems. Those who are a little timid and honest will keep the good ones for themselves and the bad ones for others. If you are a little slippery, whoever has given him money in private, he will give a little more to someone, or give someone a good one. If you are a little more shrewd, you will exchange coarse grain for refined grain, and the huge amount of grain and grass in the army will be exchanged for a little bit, which is completely a drop in the bucket, and the coarse grain will be mixed into the refined grain, and it will hardly be discovered, as long as it is not too excessive, it is impossible for the soldiers to eat it, if Guo Jia himself is a grain officer, he may use such a means. Of course, there are also those who are bold, that is, they directly steal military rations and sell them.

Regardless of whether you are bold or cowardly, eating and taking cards is a kind of corruption, a kind of abuse of power for personal gain, and a kind of corruption and bribery. If you want to add sin, there is no excuse, not to mention that there are problems to be picked. How many people in this world are really clean? Including Xun Yu. He didn't dare to pat his chest to ensure his complete innocence. If it's just for yourself, it's fine, but for the benefit of your own family. Is it possible not to use power for personal gain?

Compared with "the beginning", Cao Cao's matter was on the verge of coming, and he had no choice but to do so. Now Guo Jia, Sun Ce's support of grain and grass has not yet arrived, that is to say, he still has relatively enough time to prepare, as long as a little guidance and instructions, set off a wave of anti-corruption in the military camp among the people, and then deliberately send some undercover agents to pick out some problems of the grain officer, so that the grain official will become the focus of public opinion and the center of contradictions. And so it goes. If Guo Jia kills the grain official in the future, not only will he not be talked about, but he will even be able to win the hearts of the people.

Cao Cao's problem was that it was too sudden, there was obviously no warning at all, everyone still thought that this grain officer was good, and this grain officer had never made the soldiers hungry, but as a result, suddenly such a thing came, and suddenly the supply of grain and grass was reduced to a range that everyone could see. And is it normal to do this kind of thing at a sensitive time when the military rations are about to run out? Is it possible? Is the grain officer crazy?

Normal corrupt officials should know that they must not mess around in this situation, and if they want to steal, they must steal when there is enough grain and grass. If you want to be short of two pounds, it should only be a little less, and it should not be too obvious and not be discovered. Only a fool would suddenly steal a lot of food when he was short of food. And can a fool be a grain officer? Guo Jia can't make up another one. This person has indirect psychosis and is a crime of passion. Will anyone believe it in this day and age?

So, now there is such a long time to use as a foreshadowing. Guo Jia wants to be righteous and bright, and it is not easy to kill a small grain official as a matter of course? !

Wait a minute! And so on and so forth! Really have to wait a little longer! Guo Jia suddenly found that he seemed to have been thinking in the wrong direction, and he seemed to have ignored a very important fundamental issue. That's why kill the grain officer? Is there any inevitable connection between Cao Cao's killing of the grain official and Cao Cao's eventual victory?

Well, it is undeniable that the use of grain officials has had the effect of delaying time, so that the grain and grass that could only be supported for three or five days ended up supporting seven or eight days. But don't forget, people are not machines, and when the soldiers are short of food, hungry, and full of resentment, they simply have no fighting spirit and no combat effectiveness.

According to Guo Jia's understanding of Cao Cao, in such a state, Cao Cao will definitely not consume troops in vain. That is to say, during this period of time when they couldn't eat enough, the soldiers must have all stayed in the camp to fight the autumn breeze and did not go to attack the city, of course, with the current battle situation, Yuan Shu would never dare to take the initiative to attack him. So even if the camp was full of limp soldiers, it wouldn't be too much of a problem.

However, in this way, the use of grain officials and borrowing the heads of grain officials can play any role other than delaying time? Not only did it not have a beneficial effect, but it even had side effects, because not only did it make the soldiers hungry and unhappy, but during the time when the soldiers were starving, there was no effective attack at all, so what was it that wasn't wasting food in vain?! Therefore, it is better to let the soldiers have enough to eat and continue to insist on the siege.

Could it be that this city has some kind of special setting, as long as it lasts for a long time, no matter how much progress it makes, it will be broken directly? Weathered, huh?

As for what is said in the romance, after Cao Cao killed the grain officer and resolved the grievances of the soldiers, the next day, he sent an order to the generals of each battalion: "If you don't break the city within three days, you will be beheaded!" Then, Cao personally went to the city and supervised the army to move earth and stones, and fill in the trenches. The arrows and stones on the city were like rain, and two of the generals avoided and returned, and the sword was cut down under the city, and then they dismounted to pick up the soil and fill the pit. As a result, all the soldiers and soldiers moved forward, and the military prestige was greatly boosted. The city could not resist the enemy, Cao soldiers rushed to the city first, cut the pass and locked, and the brigade swarmed in...... In the end, Li Feng, Chen Ji, Le Qiang, and Liang Gang were all captured alive and beheaded in front of the city, and the war was won.

How do you feel when you see this? I'm going, it's definitely the same as Guo Jia thought, Cao Cao's final victory has a Mao relationship with the grain cutting officer! Cao Cao killed the grain official, and in the original words, it was just "the beginning of the settlement of public grievances". What really inspires the morale of the army is that Cao Cao set a three-day time limit, and personally went to the battlefield to supervise the battle, and filled the pit with soil, so that the army's prestige was greatly boosted and the battle was won! It's definitely not because of any such reason. In that case, why didn't Cao Cao do it in the first place? Why do you have to turn such a corner and borrow the head of some grain officer? This would not only make Cao Cao infamous, but would also increase the risk of war a lot. In the case of insufficient food and grass, the more you persist until the end, the more dangerous it is. Could it be that Cao Cao studied psychology, first aroused public anger, and then suddenly killed the substitute ghosts, so that the public anger that had already been aroused could not explode, so he could only turn to the enemy? Not to mention whether this kind of thing is reliable or not, isn't Cao Cao afraid of self-defeating?

So Guo Jia has always thought in the wrong direction, the reason for Cao Cao's real victory is not as simple as killing the grain officer, Cao Cao used the grain officer to delay time, there must be a special intention, this is the point. Did you survive these days, and reinforcements will arrive? After surviving these days, the grain and grass will come? Or will it survive these few days, and the enemy will collapse first? (To be continued......)