The sun rises from the east again and again, sets from the west, the moon is full and the moon is missing, the stars are moving, and in the blink of an eye, three years have passed since the coup d'état directed and acted by Kang Peng, and it is already the tenth year that Kang Peng came to this era - July of the ninth year of Chuping, in these three years, a lot of things happened around Kang Peng, first of all, at the end of the sixth year of Chuping, Dong's mother died at an advanced age, Kang Peng cried, when Dong's mother was dying, she once held Kang Peng's hand and asked Kang Peng to care more about her most beloved eldest grandson Dong Yi, Kang Peng tearfully agreedLater, Kang Peng also spoke his mind, and suppressed Cai Wenji's arrogant personality many times, so that Princess Anyang and Dong Yi's mother and son lived a happy life for a period of time. Then Wen Lu added another daughter to Kang Peng, and Kang Peng's wives gave birth to five children to Kang Peng, making Kang Peng's children reach double digits, and also making the stingy Kang Peng secretly lament that the family expenses were too large.

In terms of civil affairs, Kang Peng first carried out administrative reform in imitation of the political system of the Ming Dynasty, first abolished the official position of prime minister that Dong Boss had forcibly set up for Emperor Xian, and set up six departments: the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Punishment, each performing its own duties, under the command of the cabinet, and the cabinet directly obeyed Kang Peng's orders, which greatly strengthened Kang Peng's control over centralized power. After Hua Xin married Li Ru's widow, Hua Xin's position in Dong Zhuojun's army soared like a rocket, and in just two years, he was promoted to the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, and concurrently served as the secretary of the household department and the Ministry of Industry, and became the general person in charge of Dong Zhuojun's rear affairs. Because the Restorationist Party was wiped out by Kang Peng in that coup, Kang Peng's political reform did not encounter any resistance from conservatives, and the reform went very smoothly, and the cabinet became the prototype of the later parliament, laying the foundation for a constitutional monarchy. In terms of grain production, it is a good news, in the three years Dong Zhuojun ruled the area year after year, Dong Zhuojun no longer has a shortage of military food, not to mention, and Kang Peng in the southwest to develop iron ore and coal mines, in order to reduce the pressure of road transportation, Kang Peng ordered the local to plant corn, potatoes and peppers, who knows that in the high mountains and cold areas of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, because of the high ultraviolet and cold reasons, one of the soil seeds has mutated and evolved into new seeds, temporarily solving the hidden worries of seed degradation, This gives Kangpeng enough time to develop maritime technology and look for other good varieties overseas. Education, infrastructure and mineral extraction are also making good progress, but these are expensive and slow projects, and only three years have laid a good foundation.

The first telegraph powered by zinc sulfate battery was finally completed in October of the sixth year of Chuping with the joint efforts of Kang Peng and Huang Yueying, when the original telegraph sent the first telegram, Kang Peng was so excited that he burst into tears, and now only Kang Peng knows the importance of this invention, but when the first telegraph line between Chang'an and Xianyang was built half a year later, the situation in Xianyang was reported to Chang'an and accepted Chang'an's instructions, and the Han Dynasty understood the power of the telegraph, especially the shrewd merchants of Sanzhou fell into a state of madness, Including Chang'an Ai and Ma Du, who are like brothers, fought openly and secretly in order to seize the civil construction rights of telegraph lines, but the generator has not yet been invented, and the telegraph machine is completely driven by sulfuric acid batteries, Kang Peng can only build three telegraph lines leading to Xiangyang, Jianye and Yecheng respectively, and the telegraph construction is first used for the army, but under the strong demand of the businessmen in the three states, Kang Peng modified the use of telegraph lines and allowed the people to use telegraph lines at ultra-high prices. It's just that the military has absolute priority and makes a big profit from it. From then on, although Kang Peng was in Chang'an, he was able to contact Dong Zhuojun's three major army corps in the country within two hours, understand the situation and command the troops, which greatly consolidated Kang Peng's command of the army.

For Kang Peng's former sworn enemies, Kang Peng promulgated the Shilin Protection Law to appease, clearly stipulating that the land and property of Shilin were protected by Dong Zhuojun, and allowing the Shi clan to open and purchase land in Dong Zhuojun's newly occupied area, hire tenant farmers to farm, allow the Shi clan to do business, invest in industry and commerce, serve in politics and even enter the cabinet, and added a clause in the article according to Kang Peng's meaning, after the Han Dynasty was pacified, the Shi clan was allowed to participate in Dong Zhuojun's overseas expansion and seize land and slaves, although this article now seems far away, Kang Peng ordered that this article should never be amended in the future. Gave so many benefits, the corresponding Kang Peng canceled the privilege of the scholar clan to pay less tax and not pay taxes, and must pay taxes to the state according to the law, usually the scholar clan was panicked under the rule of Dong Zhuojun's iron bowl, and the day was not safe, so he dared to deal with Kang Peng about what the scholar clan did not pay taxes, under the leadership of the Yong and Liang Sanzhou scholars who first benefited from Dong Zhuojun's expansion, they obediently paid taxes according to the regulations, paid grain on errands, and accepted Dong Zhuojun's legal protection and enjoyed the right to share the fruits of victory. This enabled Kang Peng to effectively alleviate the antagonism between the Shi clan and Dong Zhuojun, and laid a solid legal foundation for future overseas expansion.

The first step was to impose a strict economic blockade on Cao Cao's army and Liu Bei's army, not allowing a grain of grain, a piece of cloth and a pound of iron to flow into the area ruled by Cao's and Liu Bei's allied army, but instructed merchants to buy strategic materials for Cao Cao's army and Liu Bei's military and civilian use in currency, and when Cao Cao and Liu Bei understood Kang Peng's sinister intentions and took protective measures, it was too late, Dong Zhuojun has swept away the strategic materials on Liu Bei and Cao Cao's territory with his good monetary reputation, leaving Cao Cao and Liu Bei with a bunch of currencies that can no longer be used freely, these are not counted, the insidious Kang Peng also instructed Dong Zhuo's three major army corps to send small troops to destroy the grain fields and mineral deposits of the Cao-Liu coalition army, delay the economic development of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, contain the main force of Cao Cao and Liu Bei's army with a large army, and harass the grain base and mining base of the Cao-Liu coalition army with a small group of cavalry that walks like the wind. Cao Cao's army and Liu Beijun, who lacked horses, could not defend the east and the west, and were helpless to take Dong Zhuojun's destruction tactics on the plain-dominated Qing, Xu and Yuzhou terrain, coupled with Cao Cao's failure to understand the principle of seed degradation, and the seeds bought at a high price in his hands were seriously degraded, and in the autumn harvest of the eighth year of Chuping, the grain production in Qingzhou and Xuzhou was reduced by more than half, and Yuzhou, which was close to Ma Chao's corps, was even more miserable, and the grain particles west of Runan were not harvested, and the output of the east of Runan to Wuping was reduced by two-thirds. As a result, Liu Bei's Yuzhou troops could not be self-sufficient in military rations and had to rely on Xuzhou, which was also very short of food, which greatly weakened the vitality of Liu Bei's army.

Production damage is serious, food is scarce, the army has to consume a lot of food, Cao Cao and Liu Bei ruled the territory of the people have no food and clothing, it is difficult to survive, Kang Peng took the opportunity to play the people's card, promised that as long as the people of the three states of Qingxuyu and Yu moved to their own territory, they would be given food, farm tools, seeds, fields and other things, or they could be arranged to engage in industry, under the direct dispatch of the major armies of Dong Zhuo's army, the people of the three states of Qingxu and Yu fled seriously, which fundamentally weakened the population base of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and the population of the three states of Qingxu and Yu decreased sharply, Especially in Qingzhou, where the population was greatly reduced during the Yellow Turban Uprising, the population was sharply reduced from 3 million in the last years of Emperor Shun to less than 800,000, which made Cao Cao's military replenishment stretched. Liu Bei's situation was not much better, a few years ago, the bitter battle with Yuan Shu made the Huainan area barren, the rich Xuzhou economy collapsed, Liu Bei only put together 200,000 troops, Zhang Fei's army and Tai Shici's army were stationed in Hefei and Runan, and Dong Zhuo's Jingzhou army and Jiangnan army confronted.

In order to break Dong Zhuojun's blockade, Cao Cao and Liu Bei can be said to have exhausted all kinds of means, first buying materials from smugglers at high prices, but Dong Zhuojun hanged hundreds of smugglers at one time and confiscated all their property, and after strictly controlling the circulation of materials in the border areas with the assistance of monopoly merchants, the smuggling activities on the land route quickly disappeared. On the sea route, Dong Zhuojun's world's largest naval army wantonly looted and blocked Liu Beijun's commercial routes, and from time to time harassed and destroyed Liu Beijun's coastal areas, making it difficult for Liu Beijun to establish an alliance with Yamatai, let alone exchange materials. It is worth mentioning that Cai Mao's performance at sea is the most eye-catching, and the number of merchant ships in Xuzhou robbed by the fleet he led was far higher than that of Gan Ning, who was born as a water thief, which made Gan Ning greatly admire Cai Mao's pirate talent, and in less than two years, the few remaining merchant ships in Xuzhou have not dared to go to sea, and the sea has completely become the world of Dong Zhuojun's navy.

To break Dong Zhuojun's economic blockade, shipping and smuggling are just auxiliary means, not to mention that these two auxiliary means were blocked by Dong Zhuojun, and the most powerful means are only one way to go, as Kang Peng expected, after Zhuge Liang returned to Xuzhou, he proposed to Liu Bei to attack instead of defending, to fight and not give Dong Zhuojun a chance to breathe, and to create a safe rear for Liu Beijun, then Liu Bei will not be surrounded by enemies on three sides, and there is no hidden danger of stable soldiers and food supply bases; However, Zhuge Liang's military defeat in Jizhou greatly disappointed Liu Bei and Zhuge Xuan, especially the strategy proposed by Zhuge Xuan was the opposite of that of his nephew, and he wanted Liu Beijun to take advantage of Dong Zhuojun's time to digest the newly occupied area to consolidate internal affairs, accumulate strength, and then unite Cao Cao's army to fight a decisive battle with Dong Zhuo's army.

Zhuge Xuan and Zhuge Liang's uncle and nephew each have their own reasons, Liu Bei is difficult to decide, but Dong Zhuojun's economic blockade came, Zhuge Liang's strategy immediately prevailed, in December of the sixth year of the first peace, Liu Bei took the opportunity of Dong's mother death Kang Peng could not be separated, Zhuge Liang joined the army, and personally led the 120,000 army south to the south, trying to seize Jiangnan. To the north, Cao Cao also took this opportunity to march out of the Tang Dynasty in an attempt to respond to Liu Beijun's actions.

Liu Bei's choice of Jiangnan as the breakthrough point is far-sighted, although Jingzhou, another target, is richer than Jiangnan, but the road is far away, the supply line is very easy to be harassed by Dong Zhuojun's iron cavalry, and there is a danger of being dumplings by Dong Zhuojun's Jiangnan Army and Jingzhou Army, and going south to Jiangnan does not have these concerns, and Dong Zhuojun has not been established in Jiangnan for a long time, and the people's hearts are not attached, which is conducive to Liu Bei, who is good at buying people's hearts, to play his specialty. If he can conquer the south of the Yangtze River, Liu Beijun will not only be able to gain huge strategic depth, but also monopolize the overseas routes of the Han Dynasty, obtain and strive for overseas support, and then go southwest by land, and there will be Jiaozhou scholars who have not surrendered to Dong Zhuojun can contact and obtain the support of the scholars.

Liu Bei's abacus played very well, Zhuge Liang was also full of confidence that no one in the world was his opponent, and even used tricks to defeat Dong Zhuo's army, but unfortunately Zhuge Liang met his destined opponent here - Sima Yi, when Kang Peng received the news, the first order was to push his other son Sima Yi to the front line, and he was also appointed to join the army, specifically for him to deal with Zhuge Liang. And Cao Cao's army in the north was forced to withdraw without going far, Tian Feng suggested that Dong Chong send Pang De to Gaotang to adopt the tactics of holding on to the wall and clearing the wilderness, and never allowed Pang De to fight, and sent Zhang Liao and Xu Huang to cross the Yellow River south and storm Dongjun, Dong Er, who had no idea at all, of course obeyed his words, Cao Cao did not expect that Tian Feng was so bold as to dare to ignore the rear of Dong Zhuo's army and outflank his rear, and besieged Gaotang City for less than half a month, Cao Cao received the news that Zhang Liao and Xu Huang's army had defeated the defenders of Dongjun, Cao Cao had to withdraw obediently, and the threat to the north of Dong Zhuo's army was easily solved.

Sima Yi's first use of troops, Pang Tong and Dong Zhuojun didn't think much of him, thinking that he was just a stinky yellow-haired child who came up by climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, and let Sima Yi participate in major events in the army, and only gave Sima Yi a cavalry of 3,000 people - on the surface, it seemed that Sima Yi was asked to lead the strongest cavalry in the Cold War, but the rivers south of the Yangtze River were crisscrossed, and the cavalry did not have much effect. But Sima Yi and Pang Tong and others argued, just quietly waiting for the opportunity, when Lu Su and Pang Tong led the main force of Dong Zhuojun and Liu Beijun stalemate, Sima Yi led the iron cavalry to suddenly cross the Yangtze River, and attacked Liu Bei's granary where the Wuxu Dock was located, although Zhuge Liang reacted quickly and sent troops back to help, Sima Yi fell short, but disrupted Liu Beijun's army deployment, Lu Su and Pang Tong did not let go of this opportunity, and attacked Liu Beijun's weak position after the transfer of troops, Liu Beijun's position was divided by Dong Zhuojun's army, and there was nothing to be done, had to return to the army. When Liu Bei's army withdrew, all the generals of Dong Zhuojun shouted to pursue, but Sima Yi resolutely objected, thinking that Zhuge Liang was treacherous, Liu Bei had been using troops for a long time, and must have left an ambush on the retreat road. Afterwards, it also confirmed Sima Yi's foresight, Liu Beijun actually buried an ambush on the west side of Chaohu Lake, and prepared to dig the lake, if Dong Zhuojun pursued, Liu Beijun dug the lake and released water, the consequences were unimaginable.

After this battle, Sima Yi became famous, and then Liu Beijun, who jumped over the wall in the seventh year of Chuping and the eighth year of Chuping, attacked Jiangnan three times in a row, but Sima Yi used the Yangtze River to stick to the tactics to exhaust Liu Bei's strength and military rations, and was forced to withdraw his troops. However, Sima Yi's turtle tactics also aroused the strong dissatisfaction of Dong Zhuojun's generals, who believed that Dong Zhuojun, who was invincible in the world, should not use conservative tactics to hold on, and should take the initiative to attack and fight Liu Beijun to the death.

On the tenth day of July in the ninth year of Chuping, Kang Peng, who was far away in Chang'an, received an urgent telegram from Jiangnan, Kang Peng did not dare to slack off, and immediately recruited Jia Xu and others to discuss, when Jia Xu came in, Kang Peng split his head and covered his face and said: "Wenhe, Ziyu, everyone, Jiangnan emergency telegram, Liu Bei Xiaoer came to Hefei five days ago and led the Tai Shi Ci army to the south, it seems that the big-eared thief wants to fight Jiangnan again." ”

"The big-eared thief dog jumped off the wall in a hurry." Jia Xu said contemptuously: "Yuzhou and Huainan have been continuously destroyed by our army, most of the counties and counties will have no harvest this year, and there is a shortage of grain in the big-eared thief army, so we have to fight the idea of our army's granary in the south of the Yangtze River." ”

"King, after three years of adjustment, our army is now strong and strong, with sufficient grain and grass, and complete armaments." Xu Jing suggested: "It's time for the king to personally conquer and put down Cao Liu's rebels in one fell swoop." ”

"Lord Xu has a point." Jia Xu also echoed: "After three years of economic blockade and destruction, the people's livelihood in the three prefectures of Qingxu, Henan and Henan has withered, and the army and civilians have no food, and it is time for our army to unify China." Hua Xin just smiled and didn't speak, Kang Peng was in person, he was the boss of the rear, Hua Xin didn't dare to make Kang Peng feel that he was in the mood to be the boss of the rear.

Kang Peng did not agree immediately, but after thinking for a long time, he said: "Although there is a shortage of food in the big-eared thief army, there is still some grain and grass. Speaking of this, Kang Peng raised his head and said: "Give Lu Su an order, let him continue to hold on, he must drag Liu Bei down, and not let Liu Bei cross the Yangtze River by half a step." ”

Kang Peng's personal soldier who was responsible for transmitting the telegram hurriedly agreed, and Kang Peng stopped him again, "Wait, plus one for Sima Yi, tell Sima Yi that in the past two years, he has served as a member of the army and Zhuge Liang has served as a member of the army four times, and our army has lost 34,110 soldiers, and he only eliminated 25,293 people in Liu Beijun, and Gu doesn't want him to interest, this time, at least he has to get the capital back for Gu." ”