Chapter 485
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Chapter 485: Confrontation?
A barrage of questions came crashing down.
Guo Jia had certainly heard of Lu Yang, the head of the civil officials.
Meeting him today, he indeed lived up to his reputation.
Guo Jia had just finished speaking and hadn’t even caught his breath when Lu Yang had already laid out the clear costs of implementing this plan.
At this moment, Guo Jia also harbored some thoughts. He spoke directly.
“Compared to a grain transport mission that might still face risks and continue for 2 to 3 months, a large-scale population transfer, while costly and labor-intensive in the short term, and potentially resulting in casualties, could be completed in at most a month.”
“This is because White Horse City and Wild Horse City can serve as transit points for rest along the way, and the mammoth can clear the path ahead.”
“Once the transfer is successful, our Myriad World Civilization’s cavalry forces will no longer be exhausted by grain transport, effectively freeing them up.”
“At that time, given their equipment advantage and excellent training, even against larger numbers of grassland cavalry, a little strategic planning should ensure victory.”
“As for the three temporarily abandoned cities, once spring arrives next year and the ice and snow melt, with Your Majesty’s command, a large army can press in.”
“What defensive capabilities do a mere group of grassland cavalry have? It would be effortless for our Myriad World Civilization’s siege forces to retake the three grassland cities!”
“Without dwelling on the necessary casualties, this strategy of ‘retreating to advance’ is also a good one.”
Lu Yang’s heart sank upon hearing this.
As mentioned before, while he was skilled in managing political affairs, he had little knowledge of military matters.
However, this issue undoubtedly involved enormous political concerns.
In terms of political affairs, as Luo Ji’s assistant official, Lu Yang had no intention of backing down even half a step.
“Then, Master Guo, how would you appease the dissatisfaction of 200,000 people in the three grassland cities during the transfer?”
“How would they be resettled after the transfer?”
“Also, how would the significant consumption and loss of resources for our Myriad World Civilization, caused by such a large undertaking, be calculated?”
“And after large expenditures of resources, leading to a deficit, and subsequent resource shortages and imbalanced distribution, how would the impact on the various cities, departments, and factories within the civilization be handled?”
“What if some emergency occurs and emergency resources cannot be allocated?!”
Just voicing these matters made Lu Yang’s liver ache.
These military fellows only thought about fighting all day, completely disregarding the difficulties of their internal political affairs!
And that was indeed the case. Guo Jia’s second method was entirely from a military perspective.
After all, while he possessed high intelligence, his intelligence was applied to military matters.
Just as Lu Yang couldn’t instantly deduce that the grassland cavalry wouldn’t be able to defend cities, or grasp the brilliance of this ‘retreating to advance’ military strategy, Guo Jia wasn’t adept at political affairs either.
That’s why Luo Ji had already found a more reliable city lord to manage West Plains City, while Guo Jia had been transferred by Luo Ji to Mirror City and appointed as the Chief of General Staff for the military.
Thus, Guo Jia was essentially a military strategist, while Lu Yang was a civil administrator.
Both were highly intelligent individuals, but each excelled in different fields.
You couldn’t ask a military strategist to handle political affairs, nor could you ask a civil administrator to lead an army into battle.
Guo Jia’s method, for the military, was undoubtedly an excellent strategy. But for Lu Yang and his colleagues, it was a nightmare.
If they proceeded with this, the war might be won, but the internal administration and production of Myriad World Civilization would collapse!
Now, facing Lu Yang’s relentless questioning, Guo Jia chuckled inwardly, then spoke with an innocent expression.
“How to appease and resettle 200,000 people? And how to calculate the resource consumption and output within the civilization, and how to maintain the various departments and factories? Aren’t these questions for your political affairs department to consider?”
“I, we…”
Looking at the innocent-faced Guo Jia, Lu Yang almost fainted from anger.
Yes, these matters were indeed within their scope of work. But this mess was stirred up by those rascals in the military!
Seeing Lu Yang quite upset, Luo Ji quickly urged him to sit down, drink some water, and compose himself.
This young Guo Jia, after a few years, had certainly learned some tricks, hadn’t he?
As the saying goes, “old people become cunning,” but this young man wasn’t even 30 yet, was he?
Now, he already acted like a seasoned official.
He used to be bullied by Luo Ji, and now it was his turn to bully others.
Compared to him, the less experienced Lu Yang, despite his excellent work ability, was certainly no match for Guo Jia.
Meanwhile, that fellow Zhou Yi was also just sitting there observing quietly, clearly behaving himself in front of ‘senior’ Guo Jia.
“Enough!”
Luo Ji waved his hand in exasperation, then glared at Guo Jia in annoyance.
He knew Guo Jia had no ill intent.
With Guo Jia’s intellect, even if he wasn’t skilled in political affairs, he surely knew that all the food, equipment, and machinery used by their military came from internal development.
So, at most, he was just being a little mischievous, wanting to test the abilities of Lu Yang, the newly appointed head of civil officials.
Therefore, Luo Ji didn’t bother to pursue it further.
Back to the main topic.
Luo Ji was definitely not going to use that second method.
As emperor, he couldn’t just focus on military matters, and he had to consider the overall situation.
The development of the civilization was also very important.
Winning the war against the grassland people but collapsing the entire internal administration of Myriad World Civilization, leaving behind a mess, wouldn’t that be disastrous?
As for the first method, Luo Ji had no immediate plans to decide. That method could only be considered a last resort.
Since things had already reached this point, a day or two wouldn’t make a difference.
“All of you, go back and think it over carefully!”
While signaling Guo Jia and the others to withdraw, Luo Ji felt he also needed to think things through.
Just as he was pondering, the head of the Armament Production Department outside the hall requested an audience.
Their request reminded Luo Ji of something.
He quickly went to the outer audience hall to see.
It was indeed about that matter.
“Your Majesty, the large number of sleds you previously ordered your humble servant to manufacture have now been completed.”
“You’ve worked hard.”
That’s right, what Luo Ji had previously ordered was the production of sleds.
When the blizzard was raging fiercely, he wasn’t a devil; he couldn’t really send people out into the blizzard to cut trees and make sleds, as they’d simply be blown away.
So, the task of transporting grain was given to Hill and her team.
It also served as an opportunity to test them.
Afterward, when the issues on the grasslands arose, considering the special environment of the grasslands and the fact that the blizzard had stopped, Luo Ji then ordered the production of sleds.
