Chen Liu, in the Spring and Autumn Period, was Liuyi, first belonged to Zheng Guo, and then was obtained by Chen Guo, so it has its name; In the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's 'Yuan Hunt', Jichuan County was moved to Chenliu County, so it was renamed Chenliu County and belonged to Yanzhou.

Chenliu County is located in the key chong, and the land is fertile, rich in products, the population is large, has always been an important city in Yanzhou, the current little emperor Liu Xie before the enthronement is the king of Chenliu, which shows the status of Chenliu County in the minds of the country's rulers; Now this has become the focus of the world, since Cao Cao raised the banner of crusading against Dong Zhuo, the princes of various towns in the eastern part of the country have come here to meet the alliance, for a time the soldiers and horses gathered, overwhelming, the joint camp is dozens of miles long, and the momentum is extremely huge.

In the first year of Yonghan, in the spring and February, there were a total of eighteen princes from various towns in the Kanto region who came to meet the alliance, and they were:

The first town, the later general Nanyang Taishou Yuan Shu

The second town, Jizhou Thorn Shi Han Fu

The third town, Yuzhou Thorn Shikong

The fourth town, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai

The fifth town, Hanoi County Taishou Wang Kuang

In the sixth town, Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao

The seventh town, Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao

The eighth town, Shanyang is too guarded by Yuan

The ninth town, Jibei Xiang Baoxin

The tenth town, Beihai Taishou Kongrong

The eleventh town, Guangling is too guarded by Zhang Chao

The twelfth town, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian

The thirteenth town, Xiliang is too shou Ma Teng

The fourteenth town, Beiping Taishou Gongsun Zhan

The fifteenth town, and the state of the assassin history Zhang Yang

The sixteenth town, Wucheng Hou Changsha guarded Sun Jian

The seventeenth town, Hou Bohai of Qi Township, guarded Yuan Shao

The eighteenth town, the initiator of the alliance, Cao Cao

Among these princes, there are powerful and domineering, there are also indiscriminate and indiscriminate, there are loyal ministers of the Han family who are bent on begging for thieves for the country, there are also speculators who come to fish in troubled waters, and there are some ambitious heroes who are also mixed in.

Because the road is far, so it is the last to arrive, this time to ask for Dong, Zhang Yang can be said to be desperate, with 25,000 soldiers and horses in the state, Xiao Yi also expanded the 'Xuanjia Army' totaling 5,000 people, all brought out from Yanmen, a total of 30,000 troops, and well-equipped, well-trained, and experienced the baptism of the Hungarian War, rich combat experience, in the princes of all walks of life can be described as a veritable strength.

As soon as the army arrived, the first thing to set up camp was to set up, but Xiao Yi did not join forces with Zhang Yang, but chose a separate place to camp and built his own Chinese army tent.

On this expedition, Xiao Yi brought out all the elites of the Xuanjia Army, and Yanmen Pass left Zhang Zhuan, Yang and two people to garrison, and now the Huns are fighting endlessly, and they are unable to attack south in the short term, with the ability of their two brothers, it is enough to protect the safety of one side.

"Lord Qiqi, General Cao sent someone to send fat cattle and wine to reward the army, and attached a letter, please lead in person!" A pro-soldier quickly ran into the big tent of the Chinese army, his face was full of excitement, it seems that the **** supplies should be very rich.

Although the two armies are close at hand, but in any case, Xiao Yi is also Zhang Yang's subordinate, if Cao Cao comes to visit directly, there will be a suspicion of digging people in the corner, so it will have an adverse impact on the princes' alliance that has just begun, but if it is to take the opportunity of **** to send a handwritten letter, it is due etiquette, there will be no suspicion, and Xiao Yi can be sure that with Cao Cao's character of doing things without leakage, he must also send cattle and wine to other princes, including Zhang Yang, this is the wrist of the traitor!

Xiao and Cao conspired together in Luoyang, and on the night Emperor Ling died, it was Cao Cao who galloped out of the city overnight, mobilized Xiao Yi's troops and horses, and occupied the palace, which suppressed the 'Ten Standing Servants' and supported the Young Emperor.

Xiao Yat looks modest on the outside, but he is actually an extremely proud person in his heart, which is also a common characteristic of all the traversal clans, because in the eyes of the traverser, except for himself, everyone around him is actually living in the illusion, and it is inevitable that there will be that kind of self-centered worldview, and other people, including the emperor and the general, will be regarded as a dream bubble like grass mustard, but some people are different, even one of their figures can set off stormy waves in the long river of history, of course, such characters in this era, there are only a handful, And Cao Cao is ranked first!

Cao Cao's letter is very simple, one is to greet Xiao Yi, there is a lot of love in his words, and then he states the current trend, as well as some of his own analysis of the current situation, many of which coincide with Xiao Yi's own vision, it seems that the two really have a heart!

There is no rhetoric in the letter to solicit and buy, but it is full of a kind of care for the younger generation of the elderly, think about it, Cao Cao is nearly twenty years older than Xiao Yi, it seems that he really sees Xiao Yi as a talented junior with a common language; Moisturizing things silently, maybe this is the highest level of getting close to a person!

"Cao Gong has a heart!" After reading it, Xiao Yi casually threw the letter into the brazier of the big tent, and suddenly a puff of green smoke rose, fluttering and misty, leaving no trace is a good habit, it must be maintained!

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In the evening of the same day, the princes from all walks of life gathered together and held a grand banquet, the venue of the banquet was in Cao Cao's camp, on the one hand, everyone contacted their feelings, discussed the strategy of crusading against Dong Zhuo, and one more important thing was to elect the alliance leader!

"Later General Nanyang Taishou, Yuan Shu ...... Arrive! ”

"Beiping Taishou, Gongsun Zhan...... Arrive! ”

"Wucheng Hou Changsha Taishou, Sun Jian...... Arrive! At the door of the big tent, there was a special master of ceremonies singing the names of the princes who came to meet the alliance, and pulling out one at random, all of them were big people on the powerful side.

Xiao Yi came with Zhang Yang as a general, and when they walked to the big tent, something big happened;

"Hussar general, and state assassin history, Zhang Yang...... Arrive! ”

"Yanmen guard, point army Sima, Xiao Yi...... Arrive! ”

"Wow! ......" Although it was just a small roll call, it caused a small sensation among the participating princes, because it meant that Cao Cao treated Xiao Yi and other princes on an equal footing.

For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the big tent, and there were disdainful people, such as Beihai Taishou Kong Rong, etc., these scholars and celebrities have always paid the most attention to their identity, and they were very high, and when they heard that they were compared with a small 'Dianjun Sima', their faces were suddenly full of warm anger, but they held their own identities, so they did not attack on the spot.

There are also some smart people who choose to keep silent, such as Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu brothers, and Beiping Taishou Gongsun Zan and others, the former and the two were in Luoyang City when they had learned Xiao Yi's power, they know deeply that this 'ghost-faced Xiao Lang' is who he is, and how much ability he has;

Finally, there is another jealous person, that is, Zhang Yang, who walked in front of Xiao Yi, he was already a little dissatisfied with the division of troops and going to the village, and now Cao Cao values Xiao Yi so much, so where will he put his dignified history of merging with the state? It's really a big tail!

For the first time, Zhang Yang had the idea of throwing off this disobedient tail and going into battle lightly, leaving a small military Sima, will the old man's sky fall?

The banquet before the conquest is naturally full of heroic game, the bonfire in the big tent is full of fat pigs, roast sheep, and the wine of the big altar is placed aside, and there are special soldiers under the tent to cut the barbecue for everyone, and then put it in the tray, even the knife to cut the meat is presented, this heroic way of eating, and then set off the iron-blooded atmosphere in the barracks, even the weakest people will become generous and fierce here.

Picnic in the military camp, Xiao Yi is naturally no stranger, maybe Cao Cao took special care of it, the attendant gave him the fattest leg of mutton, the golden meat is full of dripping fat, looking at it has an appetite, Xiao Yi skillfully cut the barbecue with a knife, while starting to check the princes in the big tent, many of them He has been famous for a long time, this time he has seen a real person.

Kong Rong, who is full of books, is said to be a direct descendant of Confucius, no wonder he is so arrogant......

Tao Qian, who has a good face, is really a kind elder, so you can get close to him in the future;

Yuan Shao is worthy of being a child of the family of the 'Fourth World and Three Dukes', and he talks well on this occasion, and he is easy to deal with, at least not a little stronger than his straw bale brother Yuan Shu......

After a toast with Cao Cao, Xiao Yi's gaze naturally turned to the back of Sun Zhan, the Taishou Gonggong of Beiping, because there was a figure standing there that made him full of interest, Liu Bei!

It's not how sharp Xiao Yi's eyes are, nor how words are engraved on Liu Bei's head, but Xiao Yi still recognizes him at once, Liu Bei, you can't be wrong, because those big ears that are far beyond ordinary people are really not ordinary!

"Big-eared blessings, that's where they come from!" Touching his thin little earlobe, Xiao Yi smiled dumbly, it seems that his face is unlucky.

Liu Bei can appear here but it took a lot of hard work, in Jixian County after he got the Liang family's financial support, immediately used all his strength, first got a small official position in the plain order, and then began to recruit troops, accumulate grass and hoard grain, and finally pulled up a team of more than 1,000 people, although it was weaker, but it was his own team is not, and then he mixed into the team of Sun Zan, the Taishou Gongsun of Beiping, through the relationship between classmates, and finally came to Chen Liu to participate in the princes' alliance, but with his official position and strength, He could only participate as a small general, but even so, Liu Bei was very pleased!

In a sense, this alliance is a gathering of princes to divide the world, no matter what status, as long as they can enter this big tent, it is equivalent to having a ticket to participate in the partition, and those local forces that are free from this alliance will also lose the qualification to compete for the world at the same time.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Now that the Han family is in decline, the traitor Dong Zhuo abolished the Son of Heaven and killed the minister, which made people and gods angry. After three rounds of drinking, Cao Cao, as the host, took the lead in standing up and talked about the necessity of this meeting, which can be regarded as unifying his thoughts.

"It is incumbent upon Kuang to help the Han family!" The princes attending the meeting suddenly roared in unison, anyway, this kind of political slogan that does not require money is not shouted in vain. As for whether it will do it, only the ghost knows.

"Good! You are all loyal ministers and good generals of the Han Dynasty, but the snake is not headless, if you want to support the Han family and crusade against the Dong thief, we still need to elect an alliance leader, and the unified order is! Cao Cao still has the same style, and the conversation changed sharply and went straight to the point.

"Wow! …… Brush! There was a murmur in the tent, and then there was an eerie silence, and there was no sound except the crackling of the campfire!

The crusade against Dong Zhuo is actually a political gamble, since these princes can come to the alliance, they have naturally figured out the powerful relationship a long time ago, even if they are more reckless, they must have been analyzed in detail by the strategists around them; Now that the Han family is in decline, Dong Zhuo is autocratic, and the purpose of the princes to crusade against Dong Zhuo is not for the Han family, but to snatch the power in Dong Zhuo's hands and seize it in their own hands, and these people will definitely grasp it tighter and more desperately!

As the leader of the princes, once the success of the courtship, not only the reputation, rights, prestige, can all be taken as their own, but also have a legitimate binding force on the princes of all towns in the world, becoming the first person in the world to be genuine, with these capitals, the worst can also be the marquis and worship the prime minister, ranking the third duke, if the mandate of heaven is changed, it is a step further, and it is not impossible to ascend to the ninth five!

Let's ask, such power, such temptation, the big position of the leader of the alliance, who doesn't want to do it?

But there is only one seat, although everyone wants to, but there are only a handful of qualified, capable, and ambitious people to sit on it, and who will end up spending it?

Since ancient times, China has had the tradition of the alliance of princes, since the beginning of Qi Huangong's 'nine princes, one Kuang world', there is a set of special systems for the election of the alliance leader, to put it simply: meritorious merit, meritorious merit!

The word "merit" nominally refers to the princes' contributions to the country, and secretly refers to hard power.

Whoever has the big fist is the well-deserved boss, this is the method of electing the leader of the alliance when the ancient princes met the alliance, simple, direct, reasonable, and most importantly, effective!

At this time, another question arises, what if the princes of the alliance are almost in strength and no one can occupy an overwhelming advantage?

Then I have to show everyone's titles and official positions, and see who has the highest grade and the oldest seniority, then who is the leader of the alliance; However, the alliance leader elected in this way often has a low prestige, not only the people below are not convinced, but the one sitting on the seat of the alliance leader will also be very uncomfortable, without strong strength as a backing, no matter how good the position is, it will not be stable!

Now that the princes of the Eighteen Roads have gathered together, is it about merit? Or is it about the lord?