In October of the first year of Yande of Wei and October of the first year of Shu Han orthodoxy, Wu Yi learned of the end of Jingzhou's resistance, Liu Cong surrendered to Guo Peng, and Wei possessed Jingzhou.

The 70,000 troops of Wei attacked Jingzhou in three ways, and the Jingzhou army also had a resistance force of nearly 70,000 troops.

However, except for Huang Zu of Jiangxia County, who resisted with all his might, no army resisted the Wei army, and the Jingzhou army surrendered to the Wei army almost as a whole.

The Wei army, which was fully equipped and strong in combat, occupied Jingzhou without suffering any losses, and all the material and military forces in Jingzhou were all returned to the Wei army, and the Jingzhou ruling group collectively fell to the Wei state, and the Wei army had the ability to launch a military attack on Yizhou almost immediately.

After learning about this, Wu Yi was also stunned, and his brain went blank.

Wu Yi is still like this, not to mention Liu Zhang and other local officials in Yizhou.

A considerable number of Yizhou officials cried when they met each other, and they almost hugged each other and cried together.

Although they did not dare to say it explicitly, a few people began to write to Liu Zhang, asking Liu Zhang to see the situation clearly, give up the emperor's title, and surrender to Guo Peng, so as to avoid disasters and avoid repeating Sun Quan's mistakes.

They said that Sun Quan resisted to the end and was exterminated, and Liu Cong surrendered and was crowned the Marquis of Yi, at this moment, isn't the road in front of Liu Zhang obvious enough?

Of course, the localists were not all capitulators, and there were officials who were loyal to Liu Zhang and were unwilling to make Liu Zhang give up resistance.

Liu Zhang is different from Liu Yan, Liu Yan killed many Yizhou heroes in order to gain a firm foothold, which caused strong dissatisfaction among Yizhou people.

After Liu Zhang ascended the throne, in order to balance the power between Dongzhou and Yizhou people, he promoted a number of local officials in Yizhou, and they still had a grateful mind to Liu Zhang and wanted to do something for him.

For example, Liu Zhang's appointment of Bajun Taishou Yan Yan, Guanghan Taishou Zhang Su, as well as Liu Zhang's chief bookkeeper Huang Quan, and Yizhou engaged in Zhang Ren and Wang Lei.

As Liu Zhang's former officials, these officials promoted by Liu Zhang had an effective duty of loyalty to Liu Zhang, the lord of the mansion, and the natural rules and morals bound them, making them make a decision to resolutely resist.

This is the advantage of Liu Zhang's longer reign than Liu Cong, he can cultivate more former officials, and now he is the emperor and has become the double monarch of this group of people, so this group of people must fight for Liu Zhang's interests, otherwise it will be disqualified in the world.

So when a group of local officials tested Liu Zhang and tried to get him to give up resistance, these Yizhou officials stood on the opposite side of their colleagues and engaged in a fierce debate with the main surrender faction.

They say that Liu Zhang is the last descendant of the Han family, and the last guardian of the Han family with the name of the Han Emperor.

As an official of the Han Dynasty, the people sent by the Lord actually wanted to persuade the emperor to abdicate, surrender to the enemy country, and give up protecting the Han family, can this still be called a Han minister?

A bunch of rebels! Traitor!

The officials of the main battle faction were furious, and they accused the main battle faction of being reckless and reckless, and wanted to destroy millions of lives in the entire Yizhou for their own selfishness.

The two sides faced off fiercely, and neither was willing to take a step back.

Intense fear also swept through Liu Zhang's heart.

Liu Zhang is naturally not a hero, but being able to sit in this position and sit firmly, Liu Zhang, of course, is not a second ancestor who can't see through it.

He knew very well that his foundation was not as stable as he imagined, and in the face of Guo Wei's irreversible trend of dominating the world, his resistance was almost futile.

It is debatable whether to abandon the title of emperor and surrender to Guo Peng.

Whether to resist to the end and be killed like Sun Quan, or to learn from Liu Cong to go to Luoyang to be a Guiyi Marquis, and be an idle Marquis to spend the rest of his life comfortably, these two choices are in front of Liu Zhang, which makes him feel embarrassed.

At the same time, violent disagreements also broke out within the Dongzhou faction, and a considerable number of people strongly demanded an end to the resistance, surrendered to Guo Peng, and conformed to the general trend in order to find a way to survive.

Such voices are getting louder and louder, and there are more and more supporters, gradually overpowering the main battle faction that once had the upper hand.

The world of dynamic equilibrium will never support the continuation of one thing all the time, and it is only a matter of time before the main battle faction falls behind, and it was originally a time that will continue a little later, but now, it has come early.

Not only the civil officials of the Dongzhou faction, but also a large number of wavering people in the military general group, felt that it was pointless to continue to resist, that it was unrealistic to resist the king of a country with the strength of one state, and that continuing to resist could only lead to destruction, and there was no chance of victory.

It's all up to this, can we still counterattack back to Hanzhong and Guanzhong, and divide the world with Wei?

It's impossible to think about.

There is no hope for a counteroffensive, it is futile to hold on, what is the point of continuing to fight?

Wu Yi's mansion was visited by a large number of officials and generals, and it was like a market, but unfortunately, this was not worth being happy about, but it would make Wu Yi not eat and sleep well, he was very worried, and his dark circles were getting heavier day by day.

After all, such a thing cannot be solved in private, and it must be discussed in the open after all.

This time, the boundary between the Dongzhou faction and the Yizhou faction was not so obvious, and the main battle faction and the main surrender faction became the main fighting sides.

The Yizhou faction and the Dongzhou faction have both the main battle faction and the main surrender faction, and the two sides are you and me, and I have you, although there is no trend of convergence for the time being, but this is a matter of time.

However, it is clear that, on the whole, the power of the main surrender faction is much greater than that of the main battle faction for the time being, and it has been so since Guo Peng occupied Guanzhong and Hanzhong.

Guo Peng actually has a very deep understanding of this, so at the battle meeting of the Qinzheng Palace, Guo Peng had no doubt that the people of Yizhou would obey the central government after the war.

Guo Peng disagreed with the concern that there would be unscrupulous people in the Central Plains who would rebel under the banner of restoring the orthodoxy of the Han dynasty by taking advantage of the establishment of the Shu Han dynasty.

He told the officers of the staff what he thought, and let them think along their own lines.

"What is Orthodoxy? Great unification is orthodoxy! Since the first emperor ruled the world, the great unification is the criterion that all the Chinese Miao people agree with in their hearts, Yizhou people think that the Chinese Miao descendants, naturally also agree with the great unification, who can be unified, who is orthodox, and if you want to become orthodox, you must be unified.

If Liu Zhang wants to break the situation, he must go on a Northern Expedition, not only to shout slogans, but also to do something like a real Northern Expedition, so that Yizhou people believe that Liu Zhang can become orthodox.

In this way, Yizhou people will follow him, so the Northern Expedition is his life, that is, he cuts the legitimacy of Yizhou, he needs to make Yizhou people believe and recognize that he is orthodox through the Northern Expedition and victory, and fight for this, if not, he is a thief, an unpopular thief. ”

The staff officers nodded one after another, agreeing very much with what Guo Peng said.

If the Yizhou secessionist regime, or any separatist regime, wants to gain real support and gain a long-term foothold, it must convince the locals that the regime can be unified and legitimate, which is inevitable.

It must not rest on its laurels, it cannot only think of a corner of safety, it must continue to conquer, and constantly try to unify, otherwise, it will inevitably be quickly destroyed.

Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty burned a genetic fragment called the Great Unification for the Huaxia people, and every Chinese Miao descendant identified with the existence of the Great Unification, and longed for and pursued the Great Unification from the bottom of their hearts.

Only a great unification regime can win the hearts of the people, and only a great unification can win the hearts and minds of the people, and only then can it be truly orthodox.

Even if you can't, convince your subordinates and subjects that you can, and make adequate gestures and actions.

And Liu Zhang doesn't have this ability, he can't do it, he can't make people believe that he is orthodox.

So, there will be no fool who responds to him.

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