Chapter 104: Chaos Resumes
When they were together before, Pei Qing didn't feel that Liu Ning had anything, but felt a little resentful because she was cheated by her, but when she left Chang'an later, she didn't know why she missed her more and more.
Every time he thought of the delicate facial features, the crooked eyebrows that laughed because he had pitted himself, he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.
Of course, in addition to Liu Ning, he sometimes unconsciously thinks of Cai Zhaoji, this is the first girl he has known since he came to this world to be famous and talented in later generations, but he also knows that since he agreed to Liu Ning's marriage, I am afraid that there is no possibility between him and Zhaoji, after all, as Cai Yong's daughter, how can she be a concubine with others? Even if the eldest woman is a princess, I'm afraid Cai Yong won't let her daughter suffer this grievance, right?
In fact, Cai Yong also mentioned such a thing, saying that if Pei Qing was not the princess's fiancé, but also a good match for her daughter Zhaoji, she never said it again.
"I, Pei Qing, am also incompetent enough, I actually watched my fiancée fall into Chang'an and had nothing to do, this is really a bit embarrassing, some people can abandon their wives in order to escape for their lives, but I can't do this step after all, this is not only because she is a princess, as a man, I should guard my family so that they can live safely and comfortably, but I didn't do it."
Pei Qing's heart was very bitter, and he secretly made up his mind that when the current matter was almost dealt with, he would find a way to go to Chang'an and bring Liu Ning and the others back.
Not long after, I heard Xie Lingyun coming, saying that there was something important waiting for him to make a decision.
"Lingyun, what happened?" Seeing Xie Lingyun coming in, Pei Qing hurriedly put aside those thoughts and focused on what was in front of him, as the master of one party, even if he had something in his heart, he couldn't let others see it, because this would not only be useless, but would bring them nervousness.
Xie Lingyun hurriedly bowed down and said: "Lord, here's the thing, the lower officials heard that not long ago the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army invaded Yanzhou and killed Liu Dai, the Yanzhou Assassin Liu Dai, Liu Dai's general Bao Xin and others decided to welcome Cao Cao as the Yanzhou Assassin after discussion, but Bao Xin himself was unfortunately killed in the process of fighting with the Yellow Turban Army, and then Cao Cao led the crowd to fight against the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army in the month of October, Cao Cao changed the previous practice of frontal combat, and frequently attacked and harassed the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, the Yellow Turban Army was annoyed and had to keep retreating, at this time its leader Sima Ju, Xu He and others because Cao Cao had destroyed the temple in Jibei, which was somewhat similar to the Huang Taiyi Dao in a religion believed in by the Yellow Turban Army, and mistakenly thought that they were also fellow believers, so they wrote a letter to advise Cao Cao, saying that the luck of the Han family was exhausted, and the world would be attributed to the Yellow Turban, so that Cao Cao would not fight against the Mandate of Heaven. ”
"The Han family will return to the Yellow Turban? What do they think? But if you talk about it, I'm actually a Yellow Turban starter, I don't know if I can use this to fool them, this is a huge force, not to mention being able to train an army, even if it is used to tuntian, it can also provide me with a large amount of military rations every year. ”
Pei Qing listened to Xie Lingyun's words, and suddenly had some thoughts, and then he motioned for Xie Lingyun to continue.
I saw Xie Lingyun continue: "Cao Cao took the opportunity to surrender to them, Sima Ju and Xu He were ready to surrender, so they found other leaders to discuss, but a small half of them disagreed, and then the two sides fell out because of this matter, Sima Ju and Xu He and more than ten other leaders, and Qingzhou Yellow Turban 560,000 people surrendered to Cao Cao, while the other part of some ran to the coast and mountains and forests as thieves, and some of the about 200,000 people actually came through Yanzhou to my Yuzhou, their purpose was to take refuge in the lord, I wonder if the lord wants to take them in? ”
Pei Qing thought for a while and said: "Well, we also started from the Yellow Turban, these people used to be your brother Paoze, if they are willing to join us, of course we welcome them, but the premise is that they are willing to be loyal to me, and they must accept my rules, otherwise, even if I care about their old relationship with you, the military law will not tolerate them." ”
"This is natural, in fact, even if they are under Cao Cao's command, they must abide by the rules, not to mention that this Cao Cao is actually not a member of the Zhonghuang Taiyi Sect, so I think Cao Cao is just using them, and after surrendering, they will know that things are by no means as simple as they imagined, so the lord can send people to recruit these Yellow Turban Army, but it is necessary to send authoritative and capable generals to recruit, which can not only strictly rectify them, but also not arouse their suspicion, And such a general is better to be an old general of my Yellow Turban Army. ”
"I understand, since this is the case, then let my brother Yuan Shaoxian go for a trip, it just so happens that I am now the assassin of Yuzhou, and we should also go to the county to take office."
"But we are actually only occupying a Yingchuan now, except for Chen Guo's Chen Wang Liu Chong and Chen Guoxiang Luo Jun sent envoys to celebrate, his counties, countries and counties have not expressed the slightest expression to the lord, if the lord goes to the county like this, I am afraid it will cause resistance from local officials and gentry, in fact, it is not impossible, we just need to let the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army sack these places, and then we go to the rescue, they will definitely be respectful to us, grateful to Dade......"
"This matter must not be done, so that although I can get some fame, but the people will suffer from the disaster of swords and soldiers because of my personal reputation, because of my personal prestige and let the people suffer this great calamity, I really can't bear it, in fact, there is no need to worry about this matter, it doesn't matter if the local officials and gentry are not satisfied, I only need to exercise the power of impeachment, remove them from their official positions, and naturally I can easily control the situation, so that these officials who loot the people's fat and ointment are unlucky, and let the people live and work in peace and contentment, which is exactly what I want."
So Pei Qing decided, Li Su was the Taishou of Yingchuan, Xu Rong was the Taishou of Nanyang, and each left 10,000 defenders to guard against Zhang Miao in the north, Yuan Shu in the east and the Xiliang Army in the west, both of whom were generals from the Xiliang Army, and their own abilities were also greatly improved, and they were comparable to peerless famous generals, and there was no problem at all with the surrender of the troops leading the Xiliang Army.
Chen Zhi was originally just a civilian, Pei Qing not only let him lead the troops independently and entrusted him with important tasks, but also directly made him a lieutenant, which of course made him grateful, and secretly decided that he must work hard in the future to repay Pei Qing's kindness.
At the same time, Pei Qing also expressed Pei Yuanshao as Pei Xiang, responsible for recruiting the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and responsible for organizing and training the army in the Qingzhou Army and recruiting Tuntian households, on the one hand, to make friends with Tao Qian as much as possible, and on the other hand, to prepare for the new Yanzhou assassin Cao Cao.
Pei Qing led more than 20,000 troops who originally belonged to Yingchuan and 2,500 people from Zhang Chao to Qiaoxian to take up the post of Assassin of Yuzhou, on the one hand, to show his might, and on the other hand, to prepare for war with Yuan Shu.
In fact, among these princes in the Kwantung region, Pei Qing was most annoyed by Yuan Shu, Li Dao Guo Yan made a mess, and he was the closest, but he didn't support at all, but competed with Liu Biao for Nanyang, that's all, he actually detained Ma Riyan, the son of Liu Yu, who was holding the festival to comfort the Kwantung princes, Liu He, the son of Liu Yu who moved troops to Liu Yu in Youzhou on the order of the Son of Heaven, this is really hateful, in this case, if he doesn't teach him a lesson, then he is not Pei Qing.
Of course, on the other hand, the reason is that Yuan Shu, now as the Taishou of Runan, does not take his own Yuzhou assassin history in his eyes at all, and he also wants to control the entire Yuzhou, which is absolutely intolerable to Pei Qing, so whether it is because of the affairs of Yuzhou, or because of the evil breath of not going to Guanzhong to help that day, a battle with Yuan Shu is inevitable.
Although Yuan Shubing is well-fed, Pei Qing is not afraid now, whether it is Li Su or Xu Rong, they are now the top commanders in the world, although their troops are relatively small, but they are enough to defend themselves.
And Pei Qing is surrounded by Zhou Cang, Yin Kaishan, Xie Yingdeng, Fan Lin, Deng Dang, Zheng Chang and other first-class generals and Zhang Chao, Xun You These top military divisions, the most important thing is that Yuan Shu does not have such elite cavalry as Xiliang soldiers, nor does he have so many powerful generals as Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou, and the number that his famous generals can hand over is only a Ji Ling, let alone a military advisor like Jia Xu, who does not bully him in this situation?