Chapter 438

Cao Cao's army did not all evacuate Baishui Pass at once, he himself returned to Xuchang with 50,000 elite soldiers, leaving Xu Huang and Xu Chu to help the leader Xiahou Yuan rectify the surrender army in Hanzhong before evacuating to Chang'an for a temporary stay. And Hanzhong also left a whole army of 50,000. Of course, Zhang Lu's clansmen and subordinates all returned to Xuchang with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao, who returned to Xuchang, didn't bother with the battle between Liu Cong and Sun Quan in the south, but began to claim the title of king and emperor. It was December when he returned to Xuchang, and after the New Year, Cao Cao moved to Yecheng in March, and proclaimed himself the king of Wei in Yecheng, and set the capital of Ye.

When the news reached Xiangyang, Liu Cong's officials also strongly persuaded Liu Cong to take the position. The title of the city is ready-made, King of Chu! However, he was rejected by Liu Cong, and not only that, but Liu Cong took this opportunity to ask his subordinates to write an essay against Cao Cao. Although the king of Wei in the city accepts the canonization of the imperial court, it is completely different from claiming to be the king of Wei! Cao Cao just wanted to get rid of the constraints of the Han court, while Liu Cong's text was to put himself on the moral high ground.

Cao Cao didn't care about Lu Wen, he knew that Liu Cong was just trying to find a reason to crusade against him in the future. Today's Xiangyang court is actually Liu Cong's, and it makes no difference whether Liu Cong claims to be the king or not. In the next few years, Cao Cao will consolidate his rule, and Liu Cong will also need to subdue the hearts of the people in Jiangdong, and large-scale conflicts will almost be impossible.

At this point, Cao Cao believes that he and Liu Cong should have a tacit understanding after so many years in the team. Including Liu Cong's Western Expedition, Cao Cao's Eastern Expedition, and then Cao Cao's Pingxi Liang Liu Cong's Jiangdong, both of them have quite a tacit understanding!

Liu Cong did not rush to claim the throne, but did not relax his control over the government, Gan Ning, Liu Pan and others because they had no worries in the future, after four months, Zhongyue took Shaoxing, and completely wiped out the Sun family in Huiji County. Xu Ming got Sun Quan and his family as he wished! Lu Meng was captured, Lu Su was nowhere to be found, and it is said that he went to sea by boat!

Liu Cong originally promised Qiao Fang that after capturing Sun Quan, he would hand him over to her to deal with. But in order not to touch Da Qiao's wound again, Liu Cong satisfied Xu Ming, thinking that Xu Ming would not be polite to the Sun family. And the Gu family, represented by Gu Yong, a wealthy family in Jiangdong, also expressed their loyalty to Liu Congxiang's court for the first time. Liu Cong's goal is to unify China, so naturally he will not be Gu Yong, not to mention that most of Zhu Zhi's Zhu family has returned to the imperial court, only the old stubborn Zhu Zhi is still in Jianye Prison, and it is useless for Zhu Li to persuade him many times.

The capture of Shaoxing meant the collapse of the Jiangdong Group and the complete wreck of the Sun family. The Jiaozhou that Buqi had worked hard to build a few years ago was returned to the imperial court under Liu Cong's edict. Lu Xun recommended He Qi to Liu Cong as the assassin of Jiaozhou.

In this way, Yizhou, Liangzhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Jiaozhou are in the thirteen states of the ancient Han Dynasty, although Liu Cong only occupies Sizhou (Liangzhou belongs to Yizhou), but Yizhou, Jingzhou and Yangzhou are very broad, and since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Central Plains and Hebei have experienced several wars, and the population is far less than that of Jingzhou and Yizhou. Therefore, in terms of the total number of population, although Liu Cong is at a disadvantage, there is not much difference.

Population means labor, it means soldiers. Coupled with the natural Yangtze River, Liu Cong has enough capital to stand with Cao Cao. Therefore, after pacifying Jiangdong, Liu Cong also focused on internal affairs for the first time. In Liu Cong's view, Cao Cao is dying of old age. He will definitely not take the initiative to go south, as long as he has been fighting hard all these years, just waiting for Cao Cao to die, the north will inevitably be in chaos. At that time, it will be the time for him to go north to the Central Plains and win the world.

Of course, before that, it was still necessary to maintain relative pressure on Cao Cao, so the deployment of troops was very particular. And as the Pan under control became bigger and bigger, there were more and more civil and military officials under his command. There are also more and more factions in Ping, not Liu Zhang in Yizhou, Sun Quan's old ministry in Yangzhou, Liu Bei's old ministry and the northern generals, as well as Ma Chao and others.

In order to balance the forces of all parties and control the situation to the greatest extent, Liu Cong redeployed the state officials and garrison generals. Among them, the camps of Chaisang and Jiangxia naval forces became irrelevant because of the fall of Sun Quan in Jiangdong. Instead, there are the water village and the Jianye water village.

In terms of personnel, Wei Yan, Guan Ning, Guan Yu, and Liu Pan are the four generals on the left and right, with gold seals and purple ribbons, and they are listed in Shangqing. Among them, Wei Yan was the governor of Hanzhong, with 80,000 troops, stationed in Sichuanzhong, as the main force for attack and defense on the Western Front. Assistants include Zhang Ren, Han Dang, Xu Sheng, Pang Tong, and Gu Yong. Gan Ning was the governor of Jianye, with jurisdiction over Jianye Water Village, Wuxian Infantry Battalion, and 70,000 land and water infantry, as the core of the Eastern Front against Cao Cao. The garrisons included Jiang Qin, Pang De, Chen Wu, and Xu Shu.

Guan Yu was in the center, replacing Wen Ping as the commander of Xinye County, and at the same time commanding the Fancheng infantry battalion and the Xinye front line infantry cavalry totaling nearly 100,000, as the main force to defend Xiangyang and the middle road to resist Cao Cao, including Huang Zhong, Yu Ban, Dong Xi, and Zhou Cang.

Liu Pan led the Changsha Taishou, and at the same time, the Changsha Infantry Battalion replaced Jiangling as the main infantry training base. Changsha maintains a scale of 30,000 infantry, which can provide timely support in case of war, and can also deter Jiaozhou to the greatest extent. Lu Xun led the Lujiang River to be too thin, and the Wet Whisker Water Village replaced Chai Sang and Sha Xian as the training base of the navy. Wen Ping, Ma Chao and others all entered the court as officials. Wen was hired as the court lieutenant, and Ma Chao was the commander of the cavalry battalion led by the guard captain.

In this way, three opposing amphibious infantry battalions were basically formed, Wei Yan and Ma Chao. The three of Gan Ning became the three fulcrums and supported the entire defense line against the Northern Wei Dynasty. The soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of these three people are different from the local county soldiers and county soldiers, they are relatively concentrated, and the grain and grass are uniformly deployed from all over the country by the imperial court. And the county guards in various places were not interfered with by the generals.

At the same time, in terms of civil officials, a large number of civil officials of the Yizhou and Jingzhou departments were transferred to Yangzhou, while the new officials recommended by the original Sun Quan's subordinates and the major families in Jiangdong were transferred to Yizhou. The factions are intertwined.

The days without war are happy, and Liu Cong is accompanied by beautiful women. Especially the arrival of Er Qiao made Cai Lin finally realize that Liu Cong, as the strongest man in this era, could not only spoil himself as a woman, nor could he not let other women not have children, if he annoyed Liu Cong, it would not be good. Therefore, when the two sides were cultivating their own internal skills, Liu Cong's heirs gradually increased. Among them, there is the credit of Er Qiao.

The two gave birth to an heir for Liu Cong but had no name, and Liu Cong could only temporarily wronged the two and wait until the day he ascended the throne. I think that the two of them are not coming for the concubines, but for the harem concubines! Spring went to autumn, and Zhang Zhao resigned after the hearts of the people in Jiangdong gradually became attached. Liu Cong did not forget this hero and let him enter Xiangyang to replace Xu Jing.

Lu Xun became the new Yangzhou thorn history. At the same time, in order to strengthen the rule of Jiaozhou, Liu Cong divided Jiaozhou into two and set up Guangzhou and Jiaozhou. Among them, Guangzhou has jurisdiction over six counties: Nanhai, Cangwu, Yulin, Gaoliang, Gaoxing, and Guilin, and the administrative office is located in Panyu. He Qi is the history of the Guangzhou Thorn. The Jiaozhou administrative office was moved to Longbian (now Hanoi), and Buqi was still the history of Jiaozhou, and an infantry battalion was set up in the South China Sea, and 20,000 long snake infantry were used to maintain the rule of the two states. Huang Zu's son Huang Shot was the general of Fubian and the commander of the battalion.

In June of the fifth year of Changping (217), Cao Cao proclaimed himself emperor in Yecheng, and the country name was Wei. Since then, Cao Cao has officially and completely broken with the Han Dynasty. Of course, Liu Cong sent a crusade as usual. This time, however, an attack order was also given to the generals who comforted the front, asking to move the line as far forward as possible, and to expand the territory of one county after another.

With such an order, Guan Yu naturally understood that the lord was to give an explanation to the people of the world, and at the same time let the people of the world not forget that the world was a big man, and it didn't matter if he could achieve remarkable achievements. But Wei Yan didn't think so, he had coveted Hanzhong for a long time, and Liu Cong promoted him to be the governor of Hanzhong, but Hanzhong was occupied by Xiahou Yuan, so he was naturally very unhappy.

And the civil officials in Xiangyang began to force the palace. Liu Xie, the son of heaven, had long expected this day, and through his observations over the years, he gradually discovered that Liu Cong was not thin on the Han family, especially Liu Shang, who really became a county guard. And Liu Zhang's life as a tomb is quite chic. Liu Xie thought of Chan Rang, after all, he was not much different in age from Liu Cong, and the city has been known as a brother for more than ten years. If he takes the initiative to concede, he will not embarrass Liu Cong if he wants to come.

Regarding His Majesty's decision of the Emperor, Xu Jing applauded and shouted at His Majesty's wisdom. Zhuge Liang, Xun Yu, Zhang Zhao and others were silent. Zhang Zhao and Xun Yu are loyal supporters of the Han court, but Xun Yu knows that Liu Xie, the emperor, is in name only, and he does not want to forge ahead, and now Cao Cao has been called the emperor, if he has been relying on Liu Xie, I am afraid that there will never be a day when China will be unified.

Zhuge Liang has always sighed at Liu Cong's courage. Although Izumi has been doing his best to assist Liu Cong, he really didn't expect that his cousin would achieve such great achievements in just over ten years. Although there is a difference between the two points of Xiongtu and Zhuge Liang's three points in the world. But what Liu Cong did show the talent of an emperor. Especially in the situation where the strength is obviously inferior to Cao Cao, it shows that the sneak attack on Xuchang robbed the Son of Heaven. Then Cao Cao pacified Xiliang's immaculate eastward look, and quickly marched to occupy Jiangdong.

The world is the world of the Han family, but it is not the world of Liu Xie, Zhuge Liang seems to have accepted this point of view, especially what the Son of Heaven did after he arrived in Xiangyang, so that Zhuge Liang and other civil officials had to pin their hopes for the unification of China on Liu Cong.

It is Liu Cong's dream to be the emperor, and this is an era of the jungle. If you don't stand up and control the government, you may not be able to tolerate yourself if you want to change the emperor in the future. And the longer the peace lasts, the more people under him may forget what they have done. Therefore, it is necessary to fight. Of course, Liu Xie said that Zen concessions, and Liu Cong naturally wanted to back down. This is also to gag the mouths of the people of the world. However, Liu Cong is not worried about the world's crossroads, first of all, Cao Cao is the emperor first, and secondly, he is also a relative of the Han family, and the master of high merit is the first hero of the Han family today!