The situation in Youzhou is actually not much better than that of Jizhou.

The only thing that is better in Youzhou is that there is no large-scale Yellow Turban riot in Youzhou. However, this does not mean that the situation in Youzhou is better than that in Jizhou.

Because Youzhou has always been an external and internal trouble, the alien races outside the Seychelles have never stopped the troubles in Youzhou.

Another thing to say is that Youzhou now means that there is no real political leader.

Youzhou Thorn History, originally Liu Yu, he was in power for about three years, from 180 to 183. It can be said that during the three years that Liu Yu has been in office, the overall situation in Youzhou is still relatively good. He also has high prestige among foreign tribes such as Xianbei, Wuhuan, Fuyu, and Hao, who pay tribute at any time and dare not intrude, and the people sing songs and praise Liu Yu's merits. But unfortunately, he was dismissed because of official business.

Then it was Guo Xun who took over as the assassin of Youzhou. Guo Xun is actually the dragon set in the history of the Three Kingdoms, there is nothing to say. If you really want to say that even if he took office for one year, he made a mess of the situation in Youzhou, increased the taxes of the people, and made the people of Youzhou complain. Then, the Yellow Turban Uprising, he was first killed by the Yellow Turban Army.

The imperial court appointed Liu Yan as the Taishou of Youzhou.

But Liu Yan, who is too guarded in Youzhou, only did one thing in Youzhou, and sent a list to recruit the righteous army to fight against the Yellow Turban Army. Since then, he has been fighting in the army, and basically has not dealt with the internal political affairs of Youzhou.

In this way, the governments of various parts of Youzhou during this period of time are actually equivalent to their own affairs, and there is no unified governance program. It is precisely because of this that many powerful people in the Youzhou area have the opportunity to support their own troops and develop their own forces.

Like Zhang Chun, a native of Yuyang, and Qiu Liju, the leader of Wuhuan in Liaoxi, they took advantage of the lack of political officials in Youzhou to vigorously exert their own forces. After the Yellow Turban Uprising, in order to deal with the rebels in Xiliang, the imperial court specially recruited 3,000 cavalry from Youzhou to Xiliang to suppress it.

The reason why troops were transferred from Youzhou was because the Xiliang rebels were mostly cavalry, while the cavalry of the Han Dynasty was less. The only cavalry was the Bingzhou cavalry and the Xiliang cavalry, and the cavalry in these two places were led by Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo respectively. Dong Zhuo led the Xiliang cavalry to participate in the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army, while Ding Yuan's cavalry, one had to guard against the Huns outside the fortress, and also had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding Jingyi. Therefore, it can only be requisitioned from Youzhou, where there are cavalry, to Xiliang.

At this time, Gongsun Chan already had a certain reputation and prestige in Youzhou, and appointed Gongsun Chan as the governor of the 3,000 cavalry and commanded the 3,000 cavalry.

However, Gongsun Zhan led the army to Jizhong, and Zhang Chun, a native of Yuyang, rebelled in the name of the Yellow Turban and lured Qiu Liju, the leader of Wuhuan in Liaoxi County, to rebel.

Liaoxi is Gongsun Zhan's hometown, and when a fire broke out in the backyard, he resolutely led the army to kill a horse gun and defeated Zhang Chun with 3,000 cavalry. As a result, Gongsun Chan was also named the Cavalry Commander.

Gongsun Zhan also really controlled the 3,000 cavalry because of this, laying the foundation for him to dominate Youzhou in the future.

It was also at this time that Liu Yan had returned to Luoyang with the army and served as the head of the imperial court, so the imperial court appointed the Youzhou Assassin History, but after following the suggestion of Huangfu Song, he did not set up the Assassin History and changed it to the state pastor. Therefore, the pastor of Youzhou was appointed as Liu Yu.

In other words, during this period, the political chief of Youzhou was Liu Yu, the pastor of Youzhou.

However, there are some things that have changed. Even if Liu Yu served as the assassin of Youzhou for three years, but after a year or two, he became the political chief of Youzhou, and the situation was completely different.

At this time, Youzhou is already a poor livelihood for the people, thieves are rampant, and the way he used to govern Youzhou will not work at all at this time.

Therefore, during this time, Liu Yu's governance of Youzhou could not be carried out at all.

What's more, the imperial army suppressed the Yellow Turban Army, which was invisibly equivalent to driving some Yellow Turban remnants to the north, so many Yellow Turban remnants, they were indeed still doing evil in the Youzhou area.

Now the whole situation in Youzhou is roughly like this.

The southern area of Youzhou, the area bordering Jizhou, is relatively a little better. However, the military politics of these regions are actually in the hands of local wealthy families.

The eastern region borders Qingzhou, and from time to time it is harassed by some Yellow Turban bandits. The southwestern region, which is the area around the Taihang Mountains, is no different from the northern region of Jizhou, and is subject to the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro.

In the north, in the northeast, Gongsun Chan is fighting with Zhang Chun, Qiu Liju and other foreign tribes.

Liu Yu, who became the political chief of Youzhou again, sat in Jixian County. Jixian County should be called Jifu at this time, which is the seat of Youzhou Prefecture, located in the southwest of Youbeiping.

Liu Xian actually made some common-sense mistakes. He also thought that the current Youzhou Mansion was in Youbeiping, but in fact, the current Youbeiping was just an ordinary city. It is Gongsun Zhan, he has no garrison in Youbeiping, he is a garrison in Shimen, a vassal country in western Liaoning. It is a castle that belongs to the outside of the gate. In other words, now Gongsun Chan is not in Youzhou at all.

Liu Xian's main purpose in this trip to Youzhou was to get acquainted with Gongsun Zhan, and his batch of cotton clothes was mainly to buy them for Gongsun Zhan.

Because Liu Xian knew that there was a war going on in Youzhou at this time, and in this harsh winter, cotton clothes were important military supplies, and Liu Xian believed that the officers and soldiers in the north would definitely need them.

By selling that batch of cotton clothes to Huangfu Song, Liu Xian knew that the imperial court did not have the thick cotton clothes worn by officers and soldiers in winter. In this way, in this north, there is a huge demand for thick cotton clothing.

The current situation is that the government of Youzhou does not have a strong control over their various places, and they are at most trying to ensure that the county seat of the garrison is not lost, but for some towns and villages outside the city, then they are unable to send officers and soldiers to clean up the thieves in the surrounding areas, so the ordinary villages and towns are often patronized by some thieves, especially those thieves and cavalry.

Huang Zhong had already sent people into Youbeiping to observe, and found that Youbeiping was extremely depressed, and it didn't seem to be a city that could sell hundreds of thousands of thick cotton clothes. According to the spies' report, there are not many garrisons in Youbeiping, about 1,000 people, and the common people are estimated to be only about tens of thousands. It's a little better than Yang's County.

Because the official road was led to Liu Xian's body, he found that Youbeiping was a little wrong with what he expected. Therefore, Huang Zhong did not enter the city at all, and stayed in a town called Xikou Town, which was about twenty or thirty miles away from Youbeiping.

Huang Zhong was indeed very careful, rented a large courtyard, and moved all the goods into it and put it away. Then let the guards of the Liu Mansion caravan take turns to guard the surroundings, and the people from the secret camp were scattered, so that they could always pay attention to the situation around them.

However, on the first night they arrived, they were attacked by thieves, and they almost burned the goods.

This is a combination of people who should be inside and out.

There are not many people in this town, about four or five hundred in total.

Among them, there are indeed a large number of local honest people, some old and some young, who can barely make ends meet.

However, some of them are horse thieves and spies.

Huang Zhong is not from the government, and it is impossible to conduct an interrogation of the people in the entire Xikou Town.

So, at night, the thieves suddenly attacked, and tried to break into the courtyard full of goods and rob them.

In addition, I don't know where a cavalry came out, the number was about four or five hundred. This cavalry, from far and near, had just discovered them in the dark camp, and they entered the town.

Fortunately, Huang Zhong was there, and Huang Zhong guarded the gate alone and killed dozens of horse thieves who rushed over. The direct killing made those horse thieves tremble, and they didn't dare to step forward again, followed Huang Zhongshen's arrow, and shot a horse thief who was suspected to be the leader.

The thieves retreated, but as they did, they set fire to the whole town.

The Liu Fu caravan did have some losses, and twenty or thirty people died. The villagers were killed and wounded, at least more than 100 casualties.

Along the way, after entering the territory of Youzhou, the Liufu caravan actually encountered some horse thieves, but they were all repelled by Huang Zhong and did not cause any losses to the Liufu caravan. But this time, it really made the people of the Liu Mansion caravan see the danger of the merchants.

Liu Xian arrived only three days after the attack on the Liu Mansion caravan.

When he came to Xikou Town, Liu Xian was also taken aback, and hurriedly asked Huang Zhong what happened to them.

After figuring it out, Liu Xian could only appease the emotions of everyone in the Liu Mansion caravan first.

Attacked by horse thieves, there were dead and wounded, and the atmosphere of the entire caravan was a little gloomy.

Liu Xian knew that he couldn't stay here any longer, and who knew if those horse thieves would attack again?

Those horse thieves rode war horses, coming and going like the wind, even if their own people went ten miles forward to reconnoitre, but when they found them, they rushed back to report the news, this is only a matter of one after the other. The caravan itself simply didn't have much time to react.

And those horse thieves are pouring in, no matter how strong Huang Zhong is, he can't completely hold those goods, in case he is really burned by a fire, then Liu Xian's loss will be great.

After understanding the situation clearly, Liu Xian immediately asked the caravan to set off, and first entered Youbeiping City.

There was no obstacle to entering Youbeiping, after all, Liu Xian had an official guide, and Liu Xian's identity was also here. moved out of the name of the Han clan relatives, as well as the name of the righteous son of Ma Guiren of the Plains Palace, and the general of Youbeiping did not embarrass Liu Xian.

What's more, the materials sent by Liu Xian's caravan were indeed the materials they urgently needed.

The right Beiping guard general is a third-rate military general, surnamed Zhou Mingwu. is an unknown general.

Youbeiping is actually a big city in the north, with a population of more than 100,000 at ordinary times, but this city was captured by Zhang Chun, and the people in the city suffered a certain disaster.

Now the officials and guards in various parts of Youzhou have changed a lot, and most of them are not the officials of Liu Yu when he served as the assassin of Youzhou earlier.

In addition, at this time, it can also be said that Gongsun Chan was just beginning to make his fortune. He has a certain prestige in Youzhou, but he has not been able to affect the cities in Youzhou. Therefore, the guards of Youbeiping do not belong to Liu Yu, a person from Youzhou, nor to Gongsun Zhan.

In fact, there is no saying to take sides at this time, because Liu Yu and Gongsun Zhan's political ideas have not yet conflicted.

During this period, whether it was Liu Yu, Gongsun Zhan or the local government officials and guards, they actually wanted to defend the city where they were located and calm the war as soon as possible.

Therefore, during this period, there was not so much dirt in Youzhou and in the official officialdom. At least, on the surface, local governments and officers and soldiers will give Liu Yu, the Youzhou pastor, a certain amount of face, and will reluctantly obey Liu Yu's orders.

What really caused Liu Yu and Gongsun Chan to turn against each other, and finally died in the following years, Gongsun Chan's prestige in Youzhou became higher and higher, and he defeated those rebels. However, he never really defeated Wuhuan and other foreigners outside the pass.

In fact, there are many alien races outside the Guan, and if the aliens from various tribes are united, there will be more than a million soldiers and horses. Once all their tribes are combined and want to attack Youzhou, with the strength of the Youzhou government, they will definitely not be able to resist the enemy.

Under such circumstances, Liu Yucai implemented the Huairou policy, wanting to subdue the alien races outside the border through peace negotiations.

But at this time, two or three years ago, those alien races outside the Guanxi did not see the weakness of the Han Dynasty, so they did not dare to rebel against the Han Dynasty, and still paid tribute to the Han Dynasty as a subordinate nation of the Han Dynasty. But what about now? After the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Han was crumbling. How could those aliens outside the Guanwai who had been obedient to the Han for so long miss this opportunity to get rid of the control of the Han?

Originally, they have always been ambitious, and they have never given up their ambition to occupy the Middle Earth of the Great Han. There are many reasons why he belongs to the Great Han. Of course, the main thing is that the big Han are strong, and they have to bow their heads and submit to the strong.

Now, the Han is weakened, how can they be willing to pay tribute to the Han again?

On the other hand, the corruption of the Han court desperately oppressed and exploited the Han people, and the levy of those foreign clans was also extremely heavy. The people of the Han Dynasty are living in a difficult situation, and they must not have a good time with these foreigners who are attached to the Han Dynasty. This aspect is also a reason that forced them to betray the Han.

In addition, Liu Yu's Huairou policy is difficult to implement, and it will certainly not succeed. Even the vast majority of the generals of the Youzhou military did not approve of Liu Yu's policy.

The world is in turmoil, soldiers seek merit, killing thieves is meritorious service, if they don't have to fight, where can they have military merits?

Whatever the reason, during this period, the Han people did have an inextricable enmity with those foreigners. Therefore, most of the generals in the army agreed with Gongsun Zhan's idea of resolute resistance.

And so it is. When the Han Dynasty is strong, and those alien races outside the Guanxi are powerless to threaten the Han Dynasty, we can indeed talk to them about humanity and adopt a policy of gentleness towards them to naturalize and assimilate them. However, when the Han is weakened, how can this naturalize and assimilate them?

This is not called Huairou, but it is called seeking skin with the tiger and luring the wolf into the house.