After Yuan Shao spread the story of this battle all over Youzhou through various means, countless people and soldiers in Youzhou felt unbelievable about it, and there were rumors throughout Youzhou. However, in the face of this situation, Gongsun Chan did not stand up to refute the rumors, nor did he prevent the incident from happening.

This was already within Yuan Shao's expectations, with Gongsun Zhan's arrogance, he did it, how could he hide it? This is also what Yuan Shao is most pleased about. It's not terrible to do this kind of cold-blooded thing, as long as you can find a plausible reason, and then you don't admit it, the result will not be good. Didn't Cao Cao often do this kind of thing, and the result was still unharmed.

But if you are speechless, you are speechless, Gongsun Zhan is not to say that he made a fortune with righteousness, and he is extremely arrogant, even if Tian Yu and others desperately dissuade him, this thing refuses to even say a soft word, and has no intention of "refuting rumors", and allows the situation to develop.

For this situation, can Yuan Shao be vigorously promoted? Gongsun Zan let him slaughter like this, how could he not make Yuan Shao happy.

Under the continuous spread of Yuan Shao, there was an uneasy and impetuous atmosphere in the entire Youzhou, and Da Yan was dissatisfied with Gongsun Zhan from the civil and military officials to the soldiers and the common people.

It doesn't make people feel much bad to do something bad with a person who gives people a very bad feeling, but a person who is extremely decent on the surface can easily cause public anger when he does something bad. This kind of anger, which contains being deceived, is now spreading all over Youzhou. The faith in the hearts of countless soldiers has collapsed, coupled with the current weak situation of the Yan State, there is still the powerful Zhao State outside, and many officers and soldiers in the army have different intentions.

And Gongsun Chan knew that the soldiers under his command were secretly changing, but he did not take any action. Despite the daily advice of Tian Yu and others, this guy only drank and practiced martial arts, rode horses and hunted, and even ignored the court affairs and immersed himself in his own world.

The situation in Youzhou soon became known to the princes of the world, and everyone was disdainful of Gongsun Zhan's behavior.

You said that you either stick to your heroic image and fight to the end with Yuan Shao. In this way, the soldiers and people of Youzhou can still be angry, unite and fight to the death, and gather the strength of the entire Youzhou to support it for a year and a half. In the end, you are defeated, and you are also a tragic hero, at least you can leave a good name.

Or, you're just going to be a downright and unscrupulous bad guy. As long as you do enough superficial work, with your prestige and image all the time, as well as your control of Youzhou, it is not easy to hide from these ignorant soldiers and people. It's a big deal to kill two to calm down the people's grievances for the dead ghosts, and then they can still mix.

But if you do something bad, you don't deserve to be a bad person, isn't that death?

The morale of the army and the people are lost, and there are only forty or fifty thousand capable troops in his hands, and Gongsun Chan is already a dead man in the eyes of the princes of the world.

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In the southern part of the Nanban, this is the fringe area of Yizhou, bordering the southwestern states.

Once upon a time, this place has been a barren land for hundreds of years, with steep mountains, complex terrain, and no one else. However, after Zhuge Liang's plan to open up the trade routes of the Southern Barbarians was approved by Yuan Shu, this area, which had not been visited by many people for thousands of years, began to undergo a huge transformation.

There is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need to suspect people, Yuan Shu has done this more thoroughly than Cao Cao. Because he has a certain understanding of the personalities and "deeds" of these well-known figures, coupled with his own monarchical talent to be able to distinguish loyalty and treachery, Yuan Shu directly handed over the matter of Nanban trade to Zhuge Liang alone, and no one has the right to interfere. Even the affairs of the southwestern countries, Zhuge Liang has the absolute right to deal with them, except for some major decisions that need to be reported to Lu Su, it can be said that Zhuge Liang is already a complete official.

The official rank is really only nine grades, but it controls the territory of no less than any state, and Yuan Shu's love for it has broken through the sky.

With a stroke of Zhuge Liang's pen, the moats were hollowed out, and the area was filled with huge bombardment and explosions every day. In this world, gunpowder is not very powerful in battle, but it is not ambiguous in the slightest.

While planning the construction of the road, Zhuge Liang drew a circle in a valley on the border in the southwest, from which a huge city rose from the ground and was named "Anning", the meaning of which is self-evident.

The southwestern countries are not so much the countries, but in fact they are similar to the Japanese people on Yingzhou, occupying a small county town and having thousands or tens of thousands of people can call themselves countries. And there are many tribes mixed in it, large and small, about thousands, known as the hundred barbarians.

The Han Dynasty had conquered these places, and strictly speaking, this area was actually under the administration of the Han Dynasty.

However, because the local people in this area are not civilized at all, they are even much worse than the Xiongnu and the Wa, and they are basically still in the barbaric era, and only a small number of them still have the ancient language that has been passed down in the same vein as the Han people, and the others are all immature languages of their own. Words are even more scarce. Therefore, not to mention education, because there are too many languages, it is extremely troublesome to communicate in the local area, and three translations are basically required.

For these "natives" in such a remote and complex area, with different languages and cultures, the cost of education is too great. You can't send someone to teach these local people how to speak Chinese little by little. With so many people, it costs a lot of resources for the Great Han, and this place is remote and has no control value, so no one has paid much attention to this area for so many years sandwiched between Guishan and the Great Han.

Therefore, sometimes it is a kind of "luck" to be too backward, and no one has ever looked at this place, but it has been stable for thousands of years. However, history is constantly moving forward, and when the national strength of the big countries around us develops to a certain point, it is natural to set their eyes here, just like today's Da Chu.

At the beginning of Yuan Shu's order, the families who had tasted the sweetness in Yizhou and Zhu Yizhou flocked to this place like sharks that smelled blood.

Too complicated? With the army of Da Chu in town, who dares to come nonsense on the surface? What's more, I really think that the family is a good stubble! Which family does not have private soldiers, as few as dozens, as many as hundreds or thousands, even if the weapons are not sophisticated, but compared to these backward tribes, it is completely crushing. It's good if the families don't forcibly occupy and plunder these "countries", but you still dare to do it?

Too many countries, too many languages, too much to manage? That's right! The families themselves are not monolithic, large and small, plus the powerful in various places, the number is even more than these countries, and it is enough to lay a family for one point. These families are worried that the territory is too small, the country is too little, there is no way, although there is a lot of porridge, but there are even more monks. A group that can faintly control an empire and carve up this small place is completely overkill, and it can't be spread out at all. If it weren't for Yuan Shu's suppression, these families might have fought for territory a long time ago. After all, big families like the Lu family and the Xun family control more than a dozen small countries and tribes with one hand, and their appetites are surprisingly big.

Too backward and too ignorant? Not a problem. There are many talented people in the family, and so many officials have been eliminated by Yuan Shu, they are already idle, and they are a hundred willing to contribute to the family. For them, the interests of the family are everything, far greater than the state. It's a big deal to recruit more scribes, after the popularization of papermaking and printing, Da Chu is literate. And the ignorance of these people can also be understood as "innocence", they don't understand anything, just like a blank sheet of paper and let them wave ink, which is completely suitable for cultivating family foundation. A little brainwashing is a bunch of diehards.

I don't want to know, after thinking about it, Yuan Shu really feels that these "tumors" of the family are completely misplaced treasures! Foreign aggression and indoctrination should not be too strong.

In other words, the predecessor of the family was the vassal state, which dates back to the Xia and Shang periods, and they were born for external expansion and education, which is their duty. However, it was only after the idea of great unification was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that the rulers made these families "unemployed" in order to pursue dictatorship and national unity, and then slowly changed from pillars to moths.