When He Jin heard the news from Jizhou for the first time, he was naturally furious.

But after he calmed down, he immediately knew that this battle could not be fought.

Wang Fen and others coerced, after all, it was his nephew Liu Bian.

If he led troops to encircle and suppress Wang Fen, no matter what the victory or defeat was, it would be unfavorable for him He Jin.

If Wang Fen is defeated, at the last moment, Wang Fen will be angry and coerced Liu Bian, and Liu Fen's life will be worried.

But if Wang Fen hadn't been defeated, the court he established, the little emperor Liu Xie, would have become a laughing stock, and he would be embarrassed by He Jin.

He Jin wanted to delay, but he couldn't, Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song and other ministers played, and He Jin, as the regent, must also listen to the opinions of these civil and military officials.

The most important thing is that Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song are in Luoyang, and they each have tens of thousands of soldiers, even if He Jin plus Dong Zhuo and others, there are also some soldiers and horses.

can be compared with Lu Zhihuang and Fu Song, and they are also evenly matched.

As a last resort, He Jin could only agree to the crusade against Wang Fen in the end, but Chong Huangfu Song told him that he must ensure the life of his nephew Liu Fen!

In this way, Huangfu Song took the order and left, recklessly 30,000 troops, and went to Jizhou to crusade against Wang Fen.

And at the same time, at the beginning of October 184.

Xiliang Beigong Boyu rebelled.

Originally, it was the Qiang people in Xiliang who rebelled, and Li Wenhou, the leader of the Qiang people, originally had the intention to respond to Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Uprising, but the Yellow Turban Uprising failed too quickly, and when the news was transmitted back to Xiliang, Li Wenhou had not had time to rebel.

However, Li Wenhou has already united with Beigong Boyu, and at this time he will not rebel, and he will not be able to rebel, and he will have to send arrows on the string, and it just so happens that at this time, the emperor of the imperial court died, and two little emperors suddenly appeared in the Central Plains.

Li Wenhou knew that this was an opportunity, an opportunity given to them by God, so he united with Beigong Boyu to directly capture Bian Yun, who was engaged in Liangzhou at the time, and Liangzhou was engaged in Han Yue, who was a hostage.

The rebellion of Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu directly launched more than 100,000 Qiang people, and Liangzhou Assassin Shi Zuochang immediately sent his general Gai Xun to lead the army to attack.

Gai Xun mobilized Xiliang soldiers and horses to garrison the county seat, which was quite strong, Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu These Qiang people only had cavalry, no siege equipment, and could not carry out a quick attack on Gai Xun's city, and in a short time, they did not defeat Gai Xun.

So they turned to attack the county, and they directly defeated Jincheng County and killed Chen Yi, the Taishou of Jincheng County.

This makes things out of control.

After killing the Taishou of Jincheng County, Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu directly coerced Bian Yun and Han Yue to join them, and supported Bian Yun as the leader.

Bian Yun and Han Yue knew that if they didn't agree, they would die, so it was better to join them.

Since then, Bian Yun changed his name to Bian Zhang, and Han Yue changed his name to Han Sui.

Started to make trouble in Xiliang.

When the news reached Liu Zheng's hands, it was already November.

At this time, Liu Zheng heard about the rebellion in Xiliang, and Liu Zheng didn't care too much about the uprising of Bian Zhang and Han Sui, on the contrary, he also felt that the uprising of these people at this time was also a disguised help for Liu Zheng.

Because only in this way will the Han court be busy, so that Liu Zheng's existence will be slowly forgotten.

There are things in Xiliang and Jizhou, which is enough for the Han court to be busy.

Liu Zheng can take advantage of this time to develop his own power with peace of mind.

Coincidentally, Liu Zheng at this time really encountered some trouble.

The caravan that they had just formed in the previous month of Mingyue Cottage was robbed by water thieves when they set sail for commercial trade for the first time.

Yuan Zhou took Su Fei and Huang Zhong to sail together, and after arriving in Changsha, Su Fei and Huang Zhong left Su Fei and Huang Zhong in Changsha City to establish a stronghold, while Yuan Zhou returned to Yichun from Changsha City with a full load of goods, intending to go to Yuzhang County, sell these goods, carry out the first commercial transaction, and obtain the first profit.

Who knows, when Yuan Zhou and their fleet had just left the Yichun boundary and arrived at the waters of Poyang Lake, they were taken by a group of water thieves and directly snatched the goods.

If Yuan Zhou hadn't been alert and begged for mercy directly, he would have lost his own life.

When Yuan Zhou returned to Liu Zheng's Mingyue Cottage from Yuzhang County in embarrassment, Liu Zheng was immediately furious when he heard the news.

He himself is now a thief-like figure, but he has been robbed by others, this is said. It's not that he will lose face.

At that moment, Liu Zheng planned to lead people to exterminate this group of water thieves.

But after thinking about it, he didn't even know who this group of water thieves was, where the lair was, and how many men and horses he had.

It would do no good to rush to battle them.

So Liu Zheng, who calmed down, began to prepare for how to deal with these water thieves and wipe out this group of water thieves.

If this group of water thieves is not eliminated, there will be endless troubles for Liu Zheng, after all, if he wants to do business, he must use the two large places of Poyang Lake and Dongting Waters, and these water thieves haunt here all year round.

If Liu Zheng's caravan passed through here, it would inevitably be disrupted by these water thieves, who often haunted these waters, plundering the goods of merchant ships.

If Liu Zheng's fleet is robbed by them a few more times, I am afraid that if he wants to make money through business, he will not be able to make money, and even his own principal will be lost.

Therefore, the top priority is to eradicate these water thieves.

He called back Su Fei and Huang Zhong, who were heading to Changsha.

Then he summoned his men to him, intending to discuss a useful countermeasure.

After Liu Zheng informed the generals that his fleet had been plundered by water thieves, he immediately shocked the generals.

The most excited was Zhou Cang, who was short-tempered, and immediately spoke after Liu Zheng finished speaking.

"How can this be reasonable, someone dares to attack our idea, it's just too ignorant of us, Qu Shuai, give me 3,000 soldiers and horses, no, as long as 1,000 men and horses, I will kill all these water thieves!"

Zhou Cang was so short-tempered, he thought about going for revenge as soon as he heard the news, just like Liu Zheng who heard the news for the first time.

However, Xu Huang thought farther than Zhou Cang, and immediately dissuaded Zhou Cang.

"Brother Zhou Cang, do you know what strength those water thieves have, and who are their surnames? How many centaurs are there? Where is the nest? ”

Xu Huang's words made Zhou Cang stunned for a moment, and immediately shook his head.

"I don't know?"

"Since you don't know anything, who do you take the soldiers and horses to seek revenge on, and who are you going to exterminate?"

"I can't control so much, I just need to know where they have robbed our merchant ships, and they are looking for people to play the merchant ships, and pass by there, I don't believe that I can't attract those people here, as long as they appear, I can catch them all!"