When Liu Yan woke up, the sky was almost white.

He looked at Liu Zhang, who was asleep on his bed, and felt a little comforted in his heart, no matter what, his son was still pure filial piety.

It's just that... Now it's not the era when I was young, pure filial piety and generosity are not compliments in this troubled era.

Liu Yan couldn't help but recall the scenes of his own entry into Yizhou.

He came to Yizhou according to the advice of Dong Fu and Zhao Wei of Taicang, became the pastor of Yizhou, and began to prepare for the troubled times.

He first relied on the local snake Jia Long to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army in Yizhou at that time, and boldly used Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu to kill Hanzhong Taishou Sugu to cut off the imperial court, and then incorporated the displaced people to establish the Dongzhou Army, mastering the military strength, and then using the Dongzhou Army to kill more than ten people such as Wang Xian and Li Quan, who were powerful in the state, and grasped the local real power.

After feeling the threat, Shu Zhonghao forced Ren Qi to guard Ren Qi for the county and Jia Long, who welcomed him into Shu, rebelled successively, he sat in Mianzhu, and killed the two of them one by one with gold silk and Qiang soldiers, which barely sat in the position of Yizhou Mu.

Many ignorant people think that if they get an official position, hold an official seal, and occupy a state or county, they will occupy the entire state or county.

Where is it so simple?

You have to determine your own rule county by county, county by county, and even town by village, and even one household and one person to win the hearts of the people.

If you take a seal, you can determine the rule by getting a city, and Your Majesty in Chang'an City would have been killed a long time ago.

At this point, Ma Qiang thinks the same as him, with the troops and ordnance in Ma Qiang's hands now, if he is desperate, he can directly fight Chang'an, destroy Dong Niu, and then announce the change of dynasty.

But what about after that? This is not a game, it will be over when the fight is over, and there is not enough official team in hand, and there is no way to establish a solid grassroots rule, and it is impossible to sort out new production relations and benefit distribution, that is, Li Zicheng, who is more than 1,000 years ahead of schedule.

You must know that when the Northeast was seized in the early stage, the Red Central Committee mobilized more than 20,000 cadres to work in the Northeast, otherwise no matter how strong Lin Sanhu was, he would not have been able to change his soldiers and horses from 100,000 to 300,000 in two months, and then to more than 1 million two years later.

If Ma Qiang could have 20,000 qualified officials in his hands now, he would dare to start the all-out war mode.

The same is true for Liu Yan, over the years, he has continued to win people's hearts, cultivate henchmen, and slowly control most of Yizhou, but there are still too many people who disagree with him, feeling that he is too harsh on Yizhou Haoqiang, and the fire in Mianzhu, he believes that someone burned it to him.

Sky Thunder? No way! Yizhou has the spirit of the son of heaven, even if it should not be in himself, it should be in his own heirs, how can there be a thunderbolt?

No way... Mianzhu is no longer suitable for governance.

The reason why Liu Yan regarded Mianzhu as a place of governance was because Mianzhu was backed by Qiangdi, and he could invite reinforcements to help at any time, but Mianzhu was still too remote and not suitable for Yizhou.

Liu Yan felt his body, and a weakness that he had never felt before came to his heart, and at the same time he felt that something was wrong with his back.

Liu Yan slowly touched his back and found that there was a hard tumor on his back, and his face turned black.

Dzongrene!

Since ancient times, dorsal gangrene has almost been equivalent to an incurable disease, and the most famous person who died from this disease was Fan Zeng.

Is it true that he is dying?

Could it be that the fire in Mianzhu is really a curse??

Liu Yan's age is not young, and through the Five Bucket Rice Sect, he knows better that there is no way to live forever in this world, otherwise Zhang Lu should still have a father in the world.

Now that he only has Liu Zhang as the heir, he must use his last breath to pave the way for Liu Zhang.

Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, Liu Yan's last bit of life is all about how to give their children a more stable country.

Yizhou, a total of 12 counties, 118 counties, the population at its peak of nearly 8 million, although now after many wars, but because of the Sili, Nanyang and other places of the population of many fled to Yizhou, so that the population of Yizhou is still nearly 7 million, the main counties of the population are Yongchang, Ba, Shu and Guanghan four counties.

Yongchang is the western part of Yunnan Province and the eastern part of Myanmar in later generations, where many barbarians gather, and the location of the three counties of Bashu and Guanghan is near the Chengdu Plain.

It can be said that if you master these three counties, you will master most of Yizhou.

Liu Yan's command is divided into two factions, one is the Yizhou faction represented by Zhao Wei, and the other is the Dongzhou faction dominated by foreign heroes.

However, unlike the Yizhou faction that has been united, the Dongzhou faction has not yet built a strong alliance of interests with each other because its sources are too scattered, so the Dongzhou faction does not have a leader who can convince the public, or in other words, Liu Yan, who is also an outsider, is their leader.

What Liu Yan has to do now is to slowly transition the Dongzhou faction to Liu Zhang, and at the same time prepare for internal and external turmoil after his death.

The struggle for power between the Yizhou faction and the Dongzhou faction is the same as the dispute between the Jizhou faction and the Nanyang and Yingchuan factions under Yuan Shao.

Therefore, to control the Dongzhou faction, the core is two words - grant the field!

Move to Chengdu!

Chengdu, which is the land of abundance, with endless fields, as long as the displaced people from Dongzhou are placed there, and then assisted by Pang Xi, who has become a son and daughter of Liu Zhang, Yizhou will be able to be kept in the future.

As for Zhao Wei, who followed him all the way in the past, Liu Yan has decided to gradually drive him away from the political center.

Liu Yan didn't believe that his son could play such a difficult political skill as balancing the two factions, he could only let Liu Zhang take the road of supporting the outside and pressing the inside, although this would make the people of Yizhou uneven and difficult to forge ahead, but it was the way to best guarantee Liu Zhang's status.

As for the outside, Liu Yan is not most worried about Dong Niu and others in the north, in his opinion, after Dong Zhuo's death, everything Dong Niu and others have done is to survive, and they will definitely be captured and killed in the future, what he is worried about is his fellow clan, one of the eight horses, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao.

After Dong Zhuo's death, Liu Biao was not idle, and sent a lot of gold and jade to Chang'an to pay tribute, and then exchanged it for the official positions of Jingzhou Mu, Zhennan General, and Chengwu Marquis, and had the right to open the mansion.

After Liu Biao drove away Yuan, he repaired his armaments internally, persuaded farmers to cultivate mulberry, and at the same time appeased Jingnan and found a way to become a real Jingzhou pastor.

Liu Yan believed that as long as he died, Liu Biao, a brother of the same clan, would definitely send troops to attack Yizhou.

And to deal with Liu Biao, the strength of the Dongzhou Army must not be used, but the strength of the Yizhou faction should be consumed.

After thinking about it, Liu Yan took his last breath and acted.