Chapter 412: Extinguishing the Cold
"King, my Jinyi Wei secret agent has found out, although Liu Bei has entered the Shu Kingdom, but he is not very popular among a series of high-level personnel in the Shu Kingdom, among which the Metropolitan Governor Zhang Ren took the lead against him!"
Listening to Che Wu's report, Cao Xing groped his palms, and the expression on his face was very excited.
In this way, it is not without reason that Liu Bei is not treated by those high-level officials of Shu State.
Some things can't be said to be broken, Liu Bei's resume is indeed a little embarrassing, Liu Bei is bumpy and half of his body has no place to stand, this sentence seems to be on the bright side, indicating that his Liu Bei's life is not good. But it also illustrates a problem from the side, this Liu Bei is ambitious and wants to establish himself as the king, so he will not be honest if he stays under anyone.
And more importantly, every time he works under a person's association, that person will always do something more or less.
Liu Bei first defected to Gongsun Zhan, and when he left Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Zhan perished immediately, and Liu Bei took refuge in Tao Qian, but it didn't take long for him to die again, and before he died, it was actually spread that he wanted to give Xuzhou to Liu Bei's absurd words.
Later, he defected to Lu Bu, but Liu Bei left again, and Lu Bu was destroyed again and took refuge in Cao Cao. Rumors spread, Liu Bei ran away again to join Yuan Shao, but ran away again, and later Yuan Shao was also destroyed.
defected to Liu Biao, but Liu Biao also died, and before he died, rumors spread that Jingzhou would eventually fall into the hands of his Liu Bei.
You must know that the most fearful thing for these kings is nothing more than the power in their hands being frustrated, what kind of joke is this Liu Bei making, every time it makes a storm and people panic. Based on these things, those who are loyal to Shu or have ulterior motives must not allow Liu Bei to gain a foothold in the court of Shu.
But then again, the world is by no means one-sided, it is always multifaceted.
Some people hate Liu Bei, and some people support Liu Bei, Xiang Zhang Song and others are very active, and they immediately became one with Liu Bei, and together they fought against each other in the court of Shu.
Seeing this, Cao Xing had a hint of understanding in his heart, although he didn't know whether it was good or bad to let it go on like this, but he could also understand one thing, that is, Shu was now busy with infighting, and Liu Bei also won a good opportunity for him, taking advantage of this opportunity, he no longer hesitated, and directly sent troops to the west to destroy the Liang Kingdom.
When Cao Xuan invaded Xiliang with a large army, it can be said that this caught Han Sui off guard.
However, when Cao Xuan attacked Liangguo, he also did one thing, that is, he found Ma Teng.
Today's Ma Teng, although he is only in his forties, looks like he has gray temples and gray hair, and it is obvious that the war during this period of time has made him very anxious.
Why did Cao Xing come to him now? Ma Teng's heart is also like a mirror. This is not to blame Cao Xing's ingenuity, but his Ma Teng's life is not good, because if it were not for the support of the Qin State, I am afraid that the Yongguo State would have been destroyed by the Liang State by now.
So as soon as he thought of this, Ma Teng just gathered the generals, pondered for a few days, and finally handed over a letter of surrender to Cao Xuan, and from then on, Yongguo disappeared from this world, and in this world, Yongguo completely joined the Qin State, so that Cao Xing could justifiably start a war with Liangguo.
Han Sui heard that Yongguo had completely surrendered, and he immediately panicked, what kind of joke, in close contact with Qin Guo, it was okay to talk about it usually, but it was really implemented, and he didn't dare to give him a hundred dares.
Although Han Sui's heart was uneasy, but the army of the other Qin State had already pressed up, and he couldn't be indifferent, so Han Sui had no choice, gritted his teeth and faced the army of the Qin State.
As soon as he met with the army of the Qin State, Han Sui felt a lot of pressure.
Han Sui asked himself if they were the best cavalry in Xiliang. He did business in Liangzhou and opened up the road to the Western Regions. made the rapid development of Liangzhou's economy, so that he used a lot of money to build an iron horse, and then incorporated Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Horse, he questioned his army, which is definitely an iron army that sweeps the world.
But the thing that gave him a little headache, even if the quality of every individual soldier of his soldiers and horses was very strong, but other Qin Jun didn't talk so much nonsense with you at all.
Whoever has nothing to do and has to run up to you one-on-one heads-up, that's really stupid.
Anyway, standing three hundred steps away, Qin's arrows were as dense as raindrops, like his cavalry shooting down. In the face of the arrows of the archers, the cavalry could be said to have nowhere to hide.
Finally rushed forward for a distance, and it seemed that it was about to approach the troops of the Qin State, but at this moment, the elite of the Qin army finally dispatched, and at first glance, it was the Shenji Battalion.
If the heavy armor on the cavalry can help them resist some arrow attacks, but in the face of this artifact-like firearm, these armors are like a pile of scrap metal, and the body will only make the body heavy.
Bang bang a few shots, countless Xiliang Iron Cavalry advanced and wailed, and finally fell to the ground weakly.
It can be said that the Qin army was able to eliminate a large army of Han Sui without being killed by a single soldier.
Then the Qin army took the trapped camp as the forward, constantly attacking the city and pulling out the village, and in the face of the trapped camp Those who dared to die, Han Sui's soldiers were completely instigated one by one, and they retreated one after another.
And Han Sui was also completely anxious when he saw this, he could be said to have no advantage on the battlefield, so Han Sui also gritted his teeth and thought of another way, that is, continuous incitement.
As for the process, it is still the same as before, it is wrong here to criticize Qin there with carelessness, it is not right there, Qin State's move is to capture Xiliang, he called on the people of Xiliang not to buy Qin's account, Yongguo and Liang are the most dominant countries in Xiliang, what is he Qin?
After hearing this, some stunned people also deeply agreed, so they resisted the attack of the Qin army with Han Sui's soldiers and horses, and when they first heard the news, Cao Xing's face was very calm, which can be said to be calm and terrifying.
Fa Zheng and Jia Xu, who were standing below, glanced at each other, and it was Fa Zheng who mustered up the courage to ask Cao Xing, how should this matter be resolved, but Cao Xuan just said one word, kill, kill all those who are disobedient and those who are easy to be incited, and hype it up.
After his Qin army invaded the city, the military discipline was strict and would never harass the people, but he would not show mercy to those who dared to resist disobedience.
Therefore, a massacre began again, and countless fresh heads fell to the ground. It's just because after Cao Xing carried out a round of massacres, the people of Xiliang also reflected it.
That's right, this world was originally the world of the Han family, and they were a fusion nation a long time ago, but for various reasons, the Han family declined, and warlords with ulterior motives like Han Sui took advantage of the chaos to rise up, and they were still there to sow discord everywhere, so that these innocent people could help him die, and now others Cao Xing just wanted to reunite and come back, and he was still there morally kidnapped, which was really angry and resentful, and should be killed.
Therefore, the surname Xiliang no longer helped Han Sui to resist the Qin army, and the Qin army was just as they said, the first thing every time they entered the city was to appease the people, once the Qin army dared to harass the people, then it would be severely punished, in this case, the people of Xiliang gradually began to accept the Qin state.
Han Sui completely collapsed, his soldiers and horses couldn't stop the Qin army's soldiers at all, so it took half a year, half a year later, Cao Xuan finally occupied Wuwei, when Cao Xuan stepped on the hall of Wuwei, the people in the palace were trembling there.
And Cao Xuan didn't embarrass these palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, he just asked Han Sui where the old horseman was, and those subordinates could only answer Cao Xing, Han Sui had already fled, it was said that he had fled to the Qiang station, after all, everyone knew that Han Sui had a good relationship with the Qiang people.
In this regard, Cao Xuan didn't say anything, waved his hand, ordered everyone to do what they should do, and then rewarded the three armies.
In just over a year, the two countries of Yongguo and Liangguo were destroyed successively.
And Cao Xing also completely occupied the northwest, and Cao Cao showed a trend of Longtan tiger.
However, just when Cao Cao had just recovered Xiliang, there was also exciting news from Youzhou, and Gongsun Du of Youzhou could no longer hold on and was ready to surrender.
Cao Xuan did not hesitate, and directly granted it to the local general Xu Shu, and accepted the surrender of Yan State on his behalf.
Xu Shu was arranged there by Cao Xuan a long time ago, Cao Xuan originally thought that if he wanted to recover Yan Kingdom, he might have to wait for three or five years, but he never expected that Xu Shu was so angry, and in less than two years, he helped him completely pacify Yan Kingdom.
Xu Shuping's methods of going to Yongguo are a little peculiar, not by simple force, but by economic suppression.
Anyway, in Xu Shu's jurisdiction, his territory can be said to be fully bordered by Yan State, and he is constantly doing business with Yan State, and there are also Zhen family, as well as Liu Wan and other businessmen to assist, so Yan Guo's economy completely collapsed.
Seeing that the people under him were displaced, constantly scattered, bandits were rampant, and even some of the ministers in his palace were hungry, and the prince of Yan, Sun Du, saw that the general trend was gone and unstoppable, so he finally surrendered to Cao Xing.
It can be said that now the north has all been included in Cao Xing's command. There are only four countries left in the Central Plains, namely Qin, Wei, Shu and Wu.
Cao Cao fought the Battle of Chibi, and Cao Xing also recovered Xiliang, during this period, the four countries had a good rest and recuperation, preparing for war.
However, although the situation in the world is calm on the surface, in fact, there is still an undercurrent in it.
Among them, the performance of Shu is the most violent, after all, there is a Liu Bei, and wherever Liu Bei goes, the king will be born, which seems to have become the norm.
A cadre of officials headed by Zhang Ren Dadu Governor was very opposed to Liu Bei's existence anyway, and Liu Bei may have this for self-protection, or maybe he had other purposes, and he also began to entangle a group of forces in the court of Shu.
Now, many ministers of Shu have begun to stand in line, after all, Liu Bei has the benefits of Liu Bei, Zhang Ren has the benefits of Zhang Ren, as for their Shu King Liu Zhang, he also sees this phenomenon in his eyes, but he does not interfere much.
First of all, Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, is not a very assertive person, but he is not a complete fool, and he also knows the way of the emperor and the art of balance.
It is based on this that Liu Zhang takes it for granted that if he wants to sit firmly in the position of the king of Shu, then he must let the two groups of people below fight each other to the point of balance.
Liu Zhang's self-righteous actions also laid a series of banes for the Shu State, and he wantonly appointed Liu Bei, so that Liu Bei had the qualifications to fight against Zhang Ren, and in this way, the civil and military officials of the Shu State had a clear warp and weft, and began a competition.
In a flash, three years have passed, and in these three years, no matter which country in the Central Plains, it has experienced war a few days ago, and it must recuperate to recover.
The two great powers of Qin and Wei were basically formed, and during these three years, Cao and Cao Cao both chose the same strategy, that is, to firmly advocate the ideas of Legalism. Governing the country according to law.
Under the control of the law, people's livelihood has gradually stabilized, everything is carried out in a steady and orderly manner, people's livelihood has been restored, and productivity has also developed rapidly.
As for being like Shu, although there are also many people of insight in Shu, who want to adopt the legal system and constantly enhance the strength of Shu, because only when Shu has the strength can they be safe, such as Zhuge Liang and others.
However, even if Zhuge Liang has this heart, but now he does not have this strength, the reason is only because Zhuge Liang is now just a strategist under Liu Bei, although Liu Bei is saying that the official is getting bigger and bigger, and the control of civil officials is getting stronger and stronger, but then again, it has not yet reached the time when Zhuge Liang is in charge, so it is still very difficult for Zhuge Liang to implement this series of policies, as for Liu Bei, he is also busy with intrigue now, where is the time to take care of these things.
Therefore, in these years, the Shu State has been in a state of stagnation, and only a small number of people are advising Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, every day, to persuade Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, to make a quick move, if he doesn't make a move, sooner or later he will be annexed by the Qin State that is eyeing the north.
However, Liu Zhang thinks that his achievements are not bad over the years, the two groups of people below are in full swing, and he is also suitable for being in the middle of the house, this kind of day makes him feel very comfortable, and at the same time makes him feel a little proud, he can not care about anything like King Chuzhuang, and then be a prosperous monarch, this is simply a good thing, a great thing.
Therefore, Liu Zhang did not read any of the bitter exhortations of the people below, and he was eating, drinking, and having fun there all day long, and Shu was also in a stalemate.
Originally, it was okay compared to the Wu side of the Shu Kingdom, but in the past few years, there has been a big thing on the Wu side.