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Li Su, Guan Yu and others went to Yandao and Jiangyang to prepare for the southern expedition, and they couldn't figure it out in two months.

Dong Zhuo's operation of "disgusting you under the pretense of being airborne officials under the pretense of the holy decree" against Liu Bei's camp has not yet fully coped with the past - Xun You has only been dealt with, but he has only managed to infiltrate Yizhou. Therefore, let's move our eyes to the secluded place and see how the current Liaodong Taishou Mizhu will deal with Gongsun Du, who has come all the way to Liaodong to take up his post.

Because of the long distance in Liaodong and the continuous wars in the Central Plains, when Gongsun Du arrived in Jizhou, it was a month and a half later than Xun You's arrival in Chengdu, and he only walked to the area of Pingyuan County in July, and then crossed Bohai County to the north, and was about to enter the bitter cold land.

But before entering the Bohai Sea, Gongsun Du had to spend ten days and half a month to avoid the big battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan.

It has been five months since Han Fu and Qiao Mao got out, and the reshuffle of forces in the Kanto region has further accelerated.

First of all, because Gongsun Zhan's power was much weaker than that of the same period in history, many of the starting forces that Gongsun Zhan had originally accumulated were taken away by Liu Bei.

Therefore, as early as the first half of the year, when Gongsun Chan took the initiative to attack the south, he failed to take the three counties that Gongsun Chan wanted to divide to Liu Bei, Tian Kai, and Shan Jing in the original history (Pingyuan, Jibei, and Le'an, of which Jibei belongs to Yanzhou, so originally Gongsun Chan sealed the single scripture as the history of the Yanzhou Thorn, Le'an belonged to Qingzhou, and Gongsun Chan sealed Tian Kai as the history of the Qingzhou Thorn).

The absence of Pingyuan, Le'an, and Jibei means that Gongsun Zhan's southward advance only took Yuan Shao's original nest Bohai County. Yuan Shao had more foundation than the same period in history, and the recovery was faster, and the battle of the Boundary Bridge, which was supposed to take place until winter, also took place in early autumn in early July, but the location was no longer the Boundary Bridge.

The depth of Gongsun Zhan's attack was more than 300 li, and the battlefield retreated more than 300 miles downstream along the Baigou River, and finally a big battle broke out between the two armies on both sides of the Baigou River in the western suburbs of Nanpi in Bohai County.

The main force of Yuan Shaojun's army led by Lu Yi, with the first camp as the core, unsurprisingly hit the "variegated horse Yicong" on the bank of the Baigou River (because Liu Bei and Zhao Yun took too many white horses, Gongsun Zan couldn't find enough solid-colored war horses, so his righteousness was no longer entangled in the color of the coat)

This means that the stage of Yuan Shao's hasty retreat and partial resistance ended more than four months ahead of schedule. The armies of Yuan and Gongsun are about to enter the stage of stalemate in strength.

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The outbreak of the Battle of Nanpi caused Gongsun Du to delay his stay in Pingyuan County for several days, and he was a little impatient to wait.

His hundreds of relatives and guards also spent a lot of money on eating horses and chewing along the way. Gongsun Du pondered another way to Liaodong - from Pingyuan County to Qingzhou in the east, and find a sea ship near Donglai to cross the strait to Liaodong.

It's a pity that this road was not completed, and it encountered a large wave of war on the southern front - a large wave of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans broke out again, not only Donglai could not go, but the Yellow Turbans also went crazy to Yanzhou in the east.

Gongsun Du, who judged the situation, immediately retracted to the plain with a good sense of the times, because the plain was on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban would not deliberately cross the Yellow River for the time being to plunder, and the north bank was still safe for the time being.

As a result, within a few days, Gongsun Du heard a powerful piece of news with his own ears: Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, personally led his descendants to Jibei County on the other side of Pingyuan County to fight with the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. Then Liu Dai was actually killed by the Yellow Turban Thieves in the chaos of the army, and Yanzhou suddenly became a state of separate warfare without a history of assassination.

Fortunately, Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei County, who presided over the frontal battlefield of Jibei County, expressed his support for Cao Cao, the Taishou of Dongjun, to temporarily take the position of assassinating the history and lead everyone to fight against the Yellow Turban Army flowing from Qingzhou. With Bao Xin's support, Cao Cao finally realized the transition from a "county-level cadre" to a "executive deputy state-level cadre". In fact, it has only been four or five months since Cao Cao became the Taishou of Shangdong County.

But the nonsense is that Cao Cao, who has just been promoted, is actually not very strong in combat.

After Cao Cao took over the work, he immediately fought a bloody battle with the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans on the front line of Jibei County. Although today's Cao Cao's troops are stronger than the same period in history, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has been weakened by about 20% because of Liu Bei's beating three years ago, and the thief leader of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban has also evolved into Zang Ba, Sun Guan and others, and merged with the Taishan thieves.

But in the face of Zang Ba's first battle, Cao Cao still fought bloody, the striker suffered serious losses, and Cao Cao himself was almost forced into a desperate situation by Zang Ba, but the degree was not as miserable as the same period in history. Fortunately, Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, sacrificed himself to save others at the expense of himself, so he saved Cao Cao and died in battle.

Cao Cao, with the belief of avenging Bao Xin, fought bloodily for several days in this extremely angry situation, and finally killed Zang Ba, recovered the two counties of Jibei and Dongping, and drove the Qingzhou Yellow Turban's sphere of influence in Yanzhou back to Taishan County.

Then Cao Cao asked the whole army to hang filial piety and mourn for the tool brothers. After Bao Xin completed the task of "helping Cao Cao to become a deputy state-level cadre", he received a boxed lunch and withdrew from the stage of history.

However, because of this series of coincidental and accidental butterfly effects, Cao Cao made a poisonous oath in front of Bao Xinling that one day he must kill Zang Ba, Sun Guan and other thieves to take revenge, and pay tribute to the spirit of good brothers in the sky.

Of course, Cao Cao's poisonous oath can be listened to, and it may not be taken seriously - when Cao Ang and Dian Wei died in history, Cao Cao didn't hate Zhang Xiu like anything, but later when the battle with Yuan Shaoguandu reached its worst, I heard that Zhang Xiu was willing to vote, and it was not a fart to put down the shelf to say "don't go to your heart".

Whether he really wants to kill Zang Ba Sun Guan in the end depends on whether Cao Cao has been forced to join forces with his old enemies in this life.

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The details of all this have nothing to do with Gongsun Du.

It was only in the process of Yuan and Cao's respective rise that he was blocked by chance on the way to Liaodong. Since you don't dare to cross the Yellow River south and turn to Donglai, then wait slowly.

During the waiting period, Gongsun Du was also inquiring about the news, on the one hand, he was looking for local merchants to collect all the information on Liaodong, and wanted to know "If we take the holy decree of the imperial court to take over the Taishou of Liaodong, will there be great resistance."

Because the scale of the Mi family's official merchant fleet is still very large, it is necessary to inquire a little about "whether the current Liaodong Taishou Mizhu has won the hearts of the people in the local area".

The replies that Gongsun Du got were all "Mifu Jun'en allowed the people to borrow grain and cattle to participate in the official tun all the year round, and he did not force the people to repay the loan on time, and he was willing to give grace, and the interest was not too high, so he was really a rare benevolent and righteous gentleman."

To put it bluntly, hundreds of thousands of people feel that Mi Zhu's "government-run low-loan shark with an interest rate of less than 50% a year is too guarded" is too beloved, and it is too secure to follow Mi Zhu to open up wasteland.

In addition, Gongsun Du also roughly learned a few data: when Liu Bei Ping Zhang Chun, the population of the four counties in Liaodong was only 350,000. Later, when Liu Bei and Mizhu handed over, the population of Liaodong had risen by more than 100,000, with 4780,000, and the extra were all Donglai and Beihai refugees who immigrated to Tuntian by Liu Bei at that time, and they were all people wrapped in Qingzhou Yellow Turbans.

And now, with Mi Zhu as the Taishou for two and a half years, and Qingzhou's yellow scarves have not been extinguished for a long time, so Mi Zhu continues to provide 50,000 or 60,000 displaced people every year, and now the total population of the four counties in eastern Liaodong has reached 600,000, and the government-run loan tuntian is also in full swing.

I heard that even Lelang County has been greatly developed, and there are already 20,000 families planting rice between the Hunshui and the Han River in the south of Lelang County. (Hunshui is the Taedong River, so this Obibang-gun is the land between Pyongyang and Seoul)

In order to fill their stomachs as soon as possible, the immigrants in the first two years planted Qingzhou leeks and Qingzhou green onions to adapt to the local climate, and drank miso soup made of leeks and green onions every day.

After inquiring about these news, Gongsun Du knew that the possibility of him seizing power by peaceful handover or "encircling Mizhu's subordinate officials to get closer to him" was basically gone.

The only one who is likely to win over is at most Xu Rong, the former townsman and the official of the same dynasty, who has been a captain on several sides, and he is not sure about this, and it depends on what price Gongsun Du can promise.

So, Gongsun Du finally secretly thought: "Yuan Shao and Cao Cao don't seem to have any intention of doing the 'inbred and long-range attack' is not a cost-effective deal, and they are still on the defensive at the moment, and they will not take a chest for me." There is no way, I can only find a way to exchange songs with Gongsun Zhan, although he is the Gongsun clan of Liaoxi and I am the Gongsun clan of Liaodong, not a family, but there is almost a drama in the set.

If I had promised that after I became the Taishou of Liaodong, I would take out part of the Liaodong troops, money and grain to support him in attacking Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Zhan, who was eager to expand his power and military resources, would have agreed. After all, I still have the Holy Decree in hand, and he doesn't need to send too many troops, he slightly helped me with one or two thousand troops, and managed to surprise and kill Mi Zhu, and everyone else can use the Holy Decree to surrender. This is a small profit, and the road is not far, Gongsun Chan will not be unclear. ”

After making up his mind, Gongsun Du took a few hundred relatives and guards, and quickly passed through Bohai County, which had just finished the battle, and entered the actual control area of Gongsun Zhan near Zhangwu County, more than 100 miles north of Nanpi County.

Gongsun Zhan's patrol cavalry found Gongsun Du and was about to surround and torture him, but Gongsun Du took the initiative to show goodwill: "I am the imperial court's Qinfeng Liaodong Taishou Gongsun Du, and I have a generous gift to give to your prince." Doesn't he want to just send thousands of troops in exchange for a four-county county in Liaodong that is well aligned with him? ”

In order to prove himself, Gongsun Du did not hesitate to show the holy decree to the patrol officer. In fact, he also made up his mind that "if Gongsun Chan is hostile, he will flee back to the area controlled by Yuan Shao to unite with Yuan Shao".

The patrol cavalry officer really didn't dare to act rashly, and after some communication, he took Gongsun Du to accept Gongsun Zhan's personal reception.

"Isn't this Shengji Virtuous Brother! You and I are of the same clan, why be polite, come from afar, I should take care of it. ”

"Brother Bogui is generous and benevolent, well-known at home, and the foolish brother is ordered by the imperial court to do nothing, so he comes to be like-minded."

The two of them are obviously related by blood, but they look like biological brothers with their shoulders on their backs.