"The Biography of Gongsun Zan in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty": "Zan relies on his talents, does not care for the people, forgets the good, and will repay him, and the name of the good man in the state will be harmed by the law", "Xiangben Lide, Weicheng Yanbei." Benevolence can negotiate and be loyal to defend the country. Bo Shu, martial arts fierce. There is no end to the good, and it is difficult to merge. Xu Fang is consumed, and he is really humble. ”

Roughly speaking, it is said that Gongsun Zan is brave and unscrupulous, narrow-minded, and self-serving, unwilling to listen to the opinions of others, and is definitely unqualified to be the leader of one party.

This seems to be the basic impression of many people in later generations of Gongsun Zhan.

It seems that Gongsun Chan is not very strong!

Subconsciously, I guess many people will think so.

However, don't underestimate the roles of those who play soy sauce in history, and there are definitely no mediocre people who can leave their names in the vast history.

The reason why they ended up becoming the soy sauce party was because the people who were born in the same era as them were too demonic: Cao Cao and Liu Bei...... All of them are eloquent!

Gongsun Chan is like this, he has fought for half a lifetime, killed half a lifetime, he has done a lot of right things, and he has also done a lot of wrong things, and the battlefield of great achievements and white bones has illuminated his life.

Regardless of his merits and demerits, his achievements and role are still indelible.

Youzhou, as the northernmost place of the Han Dynasty, because it is adjacent to various ethnic minorities in the north, the story of Youzhou is inseparable from the imperial court and the separation and integration with foreign races.

For the successive rulers of the Han Empire, Youzhou was undoubtedly one of the most troublesome parts of the country, because it had the most chaotic and complex forces.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the two main ethnic minorities related to Youzhou were Wuhuan and Xianbei.

These two ethnic groups are the descendants of an ethnic minority called "Donghu" during the Yin Shang period.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu led troops to eliminate Donghu in Maodun, and it is said that the remaining people of Donghu fled to "Wuhuan Mountain" and "Xianbei Mountain" respectively, and since then they have multiplied, and they also took their respective mountains as their clan names, and the Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes were born.

During the Western Han Dynasty, some Wuhuan people began to move inward.

However, after all, the foreign race is a wolf ambition.

Although these Wuhuan people who migrated inward were protected by the Han Dynasty for a long time, they did not really thank the Han Dynasty for the help they gave, and the Wuhuan people in the three counties were the most powerful, often leading other small migrating tribes to participate in the robbery of the counties and counties, and even colluding with the rebel parties to launch rebellions.

However, due to the decline of the empire's dominance at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were unable to take care of the nonsense of these Wuhuan people, so they were quite unscrupulous.

Of course, Wuhuan is not always like this, among the Wuhuan people who moved inward, a large part of them were also conscripted as soldiers by the Han Dynasty, they were generally stationed in various border guards in Youzhou, scattered in many troops, and were often sent to resist the invasion of Wuhuan or Xianbei people.

Therefore, it can be said that by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wuhuan people were still in an extremely fragmented state of division, some of them stayed in their homeland outside the Saiwai, and later integrated into the Xianbei people, and the other part moved inward, scattered in the counties and counties of Youzhou, some robbed the Han Dynasty with others, and some protected the Han Dynasty with others.

Xianbei's situation is much better than Wuhuan, after the decline of the Northern Xiongnu, Xianbei occupied the original Xiongnu's hometown, after Wuhuan moved inward, Xianbei occupied their land again, and the Xianbei people gradually became stronger.

Soon after, Xianbei appeared a majestic monarch Tan Shi Huai.

He unified the originally scattered tribes of Xianbei and pushed Xianbei's strength to the peak.

After the death of Tan Shi Huai, his son and Lian led Xianbei fell into a semi-split state again, although Tan Shi Huai's grandson Bu Dugen succeeded to the throne, but his other grandson Fu Luo Han supported the army and dominated one side, and the originally weak Kebineng tribe gradually became stronger.

The first iconic representative of the Han Dynasty was Gongsun Zhan.

He was originally a small Lang official who was filial and honest, and gradually mixed into the position of the county magistrate of Zhuo County.

At that time, there was a rebellion of Han Sui and Bian Zhang in Liangzhou, and the imperial court was ready to levy 3,000 Wuhuan Tu cavalry in Youzhou, led by Gongsun Zhan to Liangzhou to quell the rebellion.

As soon as Gongsun Zhan and the 3,000-strong assault cavalry army marched to Jixian County, a rebellion broke out against Zhang Chun, the Taishou of Yuyang, and the one who gave Zhang Chun strong support was Qiu Liju, the leader of Wuhuan in Liaoxi.

Gongsun Chan carried out a crusade on the spot, but in the end, the number was not enough, and he was young and frivolous, which led to a great victory at the same time, he mistakenly fell into the enemy's plan and was imprisoned.

Faced with such a situation, the imperial court had to appoint Liu Yu of the clan as the pastor of Youzhou, responsible for resolving the Youzhou issue in a peaceful way.

Liu Yu served as the assassin of Youzhou in his early years, and he was very prestigious here, and the Wuhuan people, Xianbei people, Fuyu people, and filthy people all gave him face.

As soon as Liu Yu arrived, he immediately started negotiations with Wu Huan, saying that as long as he immediately stopped cooperating with Zhang Chun and others, the imperial court would not investigate Wu Huan's participation in the rebellion. Qiu Liju, the leader of Wuhuan in Liaoxi, and Su Fuyan, the leader of Wuhuan in Liaodong, were overjoyed and immediately took people home.

At the same time, Liu Yu set a heavy reward for Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, and the two people who lost Wu Huan's support were simply killed, and the rebellion was put down.

However, because Gongsun Zhan was the main battle, and Liu Yu was the main peace, the two had great differences of opinion, plus one was rigid and one was soft, and they didn't match at all, so they hated each other.

This laid a great foreshadowing for the troubled times that followed, and foreign forces interfered with the political situation of the empire for the first time.

The final result of the contradiction between Liu Yu and Gongsun Chan was Liu Yu's defeat.

Liu Yu, who had the support of Wuhuan and Xianbei and other foreign tribes, gathered an army of 100,000, but was defeated by Gongsun Zhan, who had temporarily gathered a thousand horsemen.

One of the reasons is that Gongsun Chan got a letter from Gongsun Ji, and more importantly, Liu Yu is gentle by nature, and he asked the troops not to be too cruel and to beat Gongsun Chan, but they must be beaten "gently".

Second, most of Liu Yu's soldiers were not accustomed to war, and Liu Yu issued a military order not to harass the people, and he could not attack for a long time.

Gongsun Zhan then recruited more than 1,000 elite soldiers, set fire to the wind, and took advantage of the situation to enter Liu Yu's barracks, and Liu Yu was defeated.

Gongsun Zhan framed Liu Yu and Yuan Shao to seek the title of emperor, and coerced his subordinates to behead Liu Yu and his wife and children in Jishi. Liu Yu's head was robbed and buried on the road by Liu Yu's old subordinate Tail Dun.

After Gongsun Zhan killed Liu Yu, he got the entire Youzhou, and he became more and more arrogant, dispassionate to the people, and remembered his mistakes.

Liu Yu of the Lord and faction was destroyed, and Wuhuan and Xianbei, who had helped Liu Yu, began to panic, and Gongsun Zhan must be the next person to deal with, so they began to find ways to protect themselves.

At this time, Qiu Liju, the leader of Wuhuan in Liaoxi, had died, and his godson Badun succeeded him. He knew how to use the local separatist forces of the Han Dynasty to achieve his own goals.

He made peace with Yuan Shao, and with Yuan Shao's help, he began to nominally govern Wuhuan in the other two counties, so that Wuhuan was unified to a certain extent.

And Yuan Shao was also able to get the support of a Wuhuan cavalry in the case of the defeat of Gongsun Zhan.