Chapter 383

After listening to Liu Cong's words, Liu Shang fell into a short contemplation. In troubled times, wealth and danger are sought. Of course he knew this truth, although Liu Cong wrote his name on the edict, Yuzhang was too guarded. But everyone knows that this is just a strategy to stimulate Sun Quan, and it is not true that Liu Shang will be arranged to take office after the war. Liu Cong wants to borrow Liu Xuan's name, and after the recovery of Jiangdong, there may not be such a thing.

But if Liu Shang goes to office now, Liu Cong will naturally not take him down after the war. That's a dignified county! Of course, Liu Shang was impressed. However, Liu Cong also has eyes on the line, this trip is very dangerous! It's strange if it's not dangerous, let's not talk about Sun Ce and Liu Xuan's festival, this Yuzhang has always been Sun Quan's territory, no matter who is sent to block it, it's very dangerous! If you annoy Sun Quan, it is not impossible to kill him on the spot.

"Forget it, this matter is dangerous in Thailand, so let's leave it at that." Liu Cong saw that Liu Shang was a little hesitant, and he was also a little unbearable. Although Liu Shang had many advantages to taking office, such as quickly summoning Liu Xuan's old troops to rebel against Sun Quan, taking over the Jingzhou army from there, and disintegrating the Jiangdong group from within. For Liu Cong's capture of Yangzhou, it can play a role in getting twice the result with half the effort. However, in the past 30 years, the princes' Liu clan has fallen one after another, Liu Xuan's eldest son has also passed away, and Liu Cong does not want to force Liu Shang to go.

However, Liu Shang did not disappoint Liu Cong in the end, after pondering for a while, he raised his head and said to Liu Cong: "Prime Minister, please rest assured, Shang will definitely live up to the trust and arrive in Nanchang smoothly, and then gather his father's old department to stick to Nanchang and wait for help!" ”

"Well, if you'd like to go, that's fine. However, it is not to wait for help, but to take the initiative, you start from Changsha and enter Yuzhang by land, and invite local famous families to gather in each county to let them know about it......"

"The prime minister has a clever plan, and he still acts according to the plan." Liu Shang also secretly admired, although this Liu Cong is not much older than himself, but he has been immersed in politics for a long time, and in response to that sentence, Jiang is still old and spicy. Liu Cong asked him to march eastward by land, and gathered local wealthy clans everywhere he passed, obviously wanting to take this opportunity to win over these people, because Liu Shang had an edict and a seal in his hand. The local noble clan naturally did not dare to slack off, and if Liu Shang was detained when Sun Quan found out that something was wrong, it would not be tantamount to declaring that Sun Quan did not recognize the Xiangyang court. And these wang clans who had contact with Liu Shang and even befriended them were naturally pushed to the opposite side of Sun Quan.

The more people you come into contact with and the more people you know, the safer Liu Shang will be for herself! And Liu Shang's father, Liu Xuan, is Liu Shang's talisman! Liu Miao was originally appointed by the imperial court edict to be the assassin of Yangzhou, and later added him as the general of Yangzhou Mu and Zhenwu. Liu Miao is a distant relative of the royal family of the Han Dynasty (a descendant of Liu Wei, the grandson of Liu Fei, the king of Qi Mourning Hui, and is famous for his cousin Liu Wei who was taken hostage by bandits. Because of its performance is deeply loved by the villagers, it is recommended to be filial piety and worship Langzhong.

Later, he was transferred to the post of governor of Xiayi, but he abandoned his post and fled because he refused the request of the powerful. He was also requisitioned by the state and marched to Jinan, Jinan was the son of the Chang servant, Liu Miao found out that he was corrupt and perverted the law, so he immediately dismissed him. Tao Qiuhong, a plain man, wanted to let Thorn Shi mention him as a Maocai, and Thorn Shi said: "Last year, I already recommended Gongshan (Liu Dai's brother), why do you want to recommend Zhengli (Liu Xian's cousin) now?" Tao Qiuhong said: "If you recommend Gongshan in front and promote Zhengli in the back, this is the so-called driving the two dragons in the long distance and making the horses gallop, isn't this okay!"

In the first year of Xingping, the imperial court ordered Liu Miao to succeed Chen Wen as the assassin of Yangzhou. Originally, the station of Yangzhou Assassin was in Shouchun, but the political situation was chaotic at that time, and the Huainan area was already Yuan Shu's sphere of influence, so Liu Miao had to withdraw to Qu'a (now Danyang City, Jiangsu Province).

At that time, Qu A was the power of Sun Ce's uncle Wu Jing, and because Wu Jing had a good relationship with Yuan Shu, he and Sun Ce's cousin Sun Ben suppressed Liu Xuan and drove Liu Xuan away. After that, Yuan Shu appointed himself as the assassin of Yangzhou, and attacked Zhang Ying and Fan Neng with Wu Jing and Sun Ben. The two sides are inseparable, and they are in a stalemate. Soon, the imperial court added Liu Miao as the general of Yangzhou Mu and Zhenwu, and Liu Miao had tens of thousands.

In the first year of Jian'an, Liu Miao ordered Zhang Ying and Fan Neng to confront Sun Ce's army who came from the east, but they were defeated by Sun Ce's army. Later, Liu Miao led his fellow villager Tai Shi Ci to confront Sun Ce, but he was also defeated due to the scheme, and Tai Shi Ci was captured by Sun Ce and turned to Sun Ce.

After the defeat, Liu Xuan accepted Xu Shao's suggestion and fled to Yuzhang to join Liu Biao, but at that time, after Yuzhang Taishou Zhou Shu died of illness, the position of Taishou was vacant, and Zhuge Xuan (Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Jin's uncle) should have become Taishou with Liu Biao's support, but the Han court ordered Zhu Hao (Zhu Jun's son) to be Taishou, resulting in many conflicts for Yuzhang Taishou, Liu Miao later sent troops to assist Zhu Hao as Taishou, and drove Zhuge Xuan back to Xiangyang Liu Biao. He attacked Zhu Hao's Zhu Rong again, and was defeated by Zhu Rong in the first battle, but soon Liu Xuan collected the army again and defeated Zhu Rong.

Although in the end, Liu Miao was defeated by Sun Ce and died of illness in Yuzhang. But in the eyes of the people of Yangzhou, Liu Yan can be regarded as faithfully carrying out the orders of the imperial court, and even did not hesitate to offend her neighbor Liu Biao. Although Zhu Hao was not saved in the end, Liu Miao himself also lost his life. But at least in Yangzhou, especially in Yuzhang, there is still a certain amount of popularity. Liu Shang just wanted his father to lose here, and now he has Liu Cong's big tree to rely on, and he wants his son to inherit his father's business and rise from Yuzhang and lead the family to prosperity.

Seeing Liu Shang's insistence, Liu Cong couldn't ask for it. Immediately ordered to send several Jinyi guards to follow Liu Shang's left and right, and informed Sha Taishou Liu Pan to answer all the way and send troops to escort the crossing. Although Liu Cong may have predicted the ending of Liu Shang's trip to Yuzhang, he will definitely not keep it if he can divide Jiangdong as much as possible. After all, Cao Cao in the north is also eyeing him now, and Liu Cong doesn't want to fight his family background with Sun Quan!

In this way, with the official robe, the seal ribbon and Liu Cong's encouragement, Liu Shang set off from Xiangyang to Nanchang, and did not even return to Wuchang to say goodbye to his family. Liu Shang is very familiar with the road to Nanchang, he grew up there, and just came to Xiangyang from Nanchang via Changsha a year ago. So soon, Liu Shang appeared in the Yuzhang realm with four brocade guards.

After sending Liu Shang away, Liu Cong's side also began to get busy. Nearly 100,000 sailors of the Eastern Expedition have successively set off from Xiangyang and Jiangling and arrived at Shaxian to complete the assembly. The infantry also mobilized nearly 40,000 men to Changsha. Liu Cong also knew that after Jiangdong Sun Quan experienced the last Chaisang interception, he must have also known that he was about to go east. And as long as his army sets off, Cao Cao in the north will definitely know it at the first time. So there are a few important things to do before you go.

Liu Cong is not worried that Cao Cao will suddenly go south, first of all, Cao Cao's primary target Hanzhong has not been pressed, and Zhang Lu's existence can well buffer Cao Cao's tense confrontation with Liu Cong. In the past year, Cao Cao also continued to use troops, so there was no large army in the Xuchang area.

Intelligence shows that in the second year of Changping, because he saw Cao Cao returning in Nanyang without success, Ma Chao and Han Sui in Xiliang began to move again. Ma Chao borrowed generals from Zhang Lu to attack Qishan in Liangzhou (now east of Lixian County, Gansu). Jiang Xu, the general of Qishan, asked Xiahou Yuan, the general of the escort army stationed in Chang'an, for help, Xiahou Yuan made the general Xu Huang lead 5,000 cavalry as the forward, and marched from Chencang (now Baoji East, Shaanxi) to the narrow road, and escorted the grain and grass to meet in the rear, Xu Huang's army entered Weishui, and Ma Chao's army was defeated without a fight, and retreated in panic.

Xu Huang collected the equipment abandoned by Ma Chaojun along the way, drove straight forward, and the siege of Qishan was resolved. When Han Suitun was in Xianqin (northwest of present-day Qin'an, Gansu), he learned that Xiahou Yuan was preparing to attack and retreated to the direction of Luoyang (northeast of present-day Tianshui, Gansu). Xiahou Yuan waved his army in pursuit, and stopped his troops thirty miles away from Han Sui's army. Han Sui's soldiers were very elite, and Xiahou Yuan was difficult to break through for a while, so he left the generals to guard the baggage, and led his light troops to attack the Qiang of Changli (the name of the water, that is, now Huluhe, Gansu), in order to break the fighting spirit of the Qiang in Han Sui's army.

Sure enough, the Qiang in Han Sui's army decided to know that his home was attacked, and returned one after another, Han Sui did the whole army to rescue Changli, Xiahou Yuan met it on the way, broke it, and Han Sui fled. Xiahou Yuan then marched to defeat the Xingguo (now Qin'anbei, Gansu, Gaoping (now Guyuan, Ningxia) and other minority ethnic groups that were dependent on Ma Chao and Han Sui, and completely wiped out the two forces of Ma Chao and Han Sui in the Liangzhou area.

Subsequently, Xiahou Yuan took advantage of the victory to pursue and attacked Song Jian, who had seized a corner of Liangzhou (now Zhangjiachuan, Gansu). Xiahou Yuan marched from Xingguo (present-day Qin'anbei, Gansu) and attacked Caohan (present-day northeast of Linxia, Gansu). In October, Xiahou Yuan broke through Caohan and killed Song Jian. He also sent Xu Huang and others to attack the Qiang in Huangzhong (now on both sides of the Huangshui River in Qinghai), and all the Qiang surrendered. So he pacified the Longyou District of Liangzhou.

In this way, Xiliang almost no longer had any separatist forces that could threaten Cao Cao. And Ma Chao and Han Sui are nowhere to be found. What Liu Cong had to do was to stabilize Zhang Lu, hoping that Zhang Lu would be able to hold Cao Cao's army for a while, and at the same time ordered Liangzhou to open the door to the Xiliang rout while actively preparing for the war.

Liu Cong also did this in the hope that Liangzhou and Yizhou would be stable and at the same time, they would be able to attract Ma Chao. If he gets Ma Chao again, Cao Cao will be even more jealous, and Liu Cong's expedition will be much calmer!

Of course, Liu Cong's Xiangyang court presented a situation of surrender from all over the world, which also had certain benefits for the division of the Jiangdong group! Liu Cong was not worried that Ma Chao would surrender to Cao Cao. According to Cao Cao's character, Ma Chao's casting must be a dead end! And Zhang Lu in Hanzhong is afraid that he can't miss Ma Chao, even if Ma Chao goes, Zhang Lu will not treat him sincerely. And Ma Chao will not keep to himself!