In September of the second year of Jian'an, with Yuan Shao's illness and death, Jizhou counties were all reduced, and Jizhou was placed under the rule of Zhang Liao, the Duke of Jin.

Zhang Liao took Yuan Ji as the Taishou of Wei County, Tian Feng as the Taishou of Julu, and the rest of the counties were also drafted by Xun Yu as officials, and quickly took office and controlled Hebei.

Cao Cao heard the news of Yuan Shao's defeat in Yanzhou, and immediately knew that Zhang Liao was not dead, and he set up a spirit to worship Yuan Shao, playing the son of heaven to chase Yuan Shao as the Marquis of Wei, and Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan as the general of the chariot, while accusing Zhang Liao of harboring evil intentions, inciting the rebellious people to subvert the society, and raising an unrighteous army, and killing the loyal minister and righteous Yuan Shao.

This was the first time Cao Cao openly opened fire on Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao's response was very direct, he did not shirk anything, nor did he let Li Ru be a scapegoat, but straightforwardly took the matter of Luoyang, and said bluntly: Loyal to the imperial court for several years, asking for merit, let alone overstepping, but was murdered by the faint monarch and the ministers, and almost died, he must repay his kindness and revenge. Now it is considered two Qings, if the Kanto region is entangled again, it will directly raise troops to crusade.

Zhang Liao's straightforward answer caused an uproar in the world, and many celebrities and Confucian scholars in the Kanto region rebuked Zhang Liao bitterly, but there were also many people who thought that Zhang Liao was not hypocritical, happy to take revenge, and was a hero.

And Zhang Liao's answer was completely unexpected by Cao Cao, making him and Cheng Yu's prepared back move suddenly stuck, like a fish in the throat, extremely depressed.

Their strength is not as good as Zhang Liao, this time Zhang Liao pacified Hebei with lightning speed, which made them even more worried, and they were going to take a roundabout strategy to hit Zhang Liao in righteousness and fame, but they didn't want Zhang Liao to admit it directly, and they overbearingly pulled the battle back to the strength competition, so that they didn't dare to accept it anymore.

What they didn't know was that after this incident, Xun Yu's subordinates were more loyal to Zhang Liao.

Because Xun Yu and others all knew that the Luoyang plan was operated by Li Ru alone without Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao did not know in advance, and life and death were uncertain at the time of the incident, but Zhang Liao now took the matter for Li Ru, not only Li Ru was grateful, but Xun Yu and others were also quite moved.

How can a lord who does not hesitate to serve his subordinates with fame not make them faithfully assist?

And Zhang Liao didn't care about the people who accused him in the Kanto, anyway, they were all opposites, and sooner or later they had to fight over, and they cared about what they thought.

If Cao Cao knew that he was self-defeating, I am afraid he would be even more depressed.

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Many people in Kwantung knew that Zhang Liao, the Duke of Jin, was not dead, but the news did not reach Liangzhou, because the road and news channels from Kanto to Liangzhou had already been cut off by Zhang Liao this month.

Ma Teng, Han Sui and others still received the news about Zhang Liao's death in Lujiang a month ago, and they didn't know anything about the pacification of Yuan Shao in Hebei.

In just this month, the streets and alleys of Liangzhou unconsciously began to sing a nursery rhyme:

In two or three years, the beginning of Jian'an, and the rest of the slaughter;

Sigh Chu Han, fold the well wall, and jump into the pass with one horse;

Rubbing Fuyao, Mingqi Mountain, Qin Qi swallowed Han.

When this nursery rhyme was first sung, no one paid attention to it, but as it became more and more widely sung, it set off a ripple in Liangzhou, which was already fighting openly and secretly, and the undercurrent was turbulent.

Today's Liangzhou has three forces, Han Sui, Ma Teng, and Song Jian.

Han Sui's real name is Han Yue, the word is about the word, a native of Jincheng, once a county official, quite famous, the first year of Zhongping went to Beijing to handle official business, the general He Jin heard his name for a long time, and met with him, Han Yue persuaded He Jin to kill the eunuch, He Jin did not listen, Han Yue asked to return Liangzhou.

In November of the first year of Zhongping, the Qiang Beigong Boyu rebelled, took the then Liangzhou overseer engaged in Bian Yun and Liangzhou engaged in Han Yue as hostages, coerced Bian Zhang and Han Sui to join the gang, and elected Bian Zhang as the leader, Bian Yun changed his name to Bian Zhang, and Han Yue was officially renamed Han Sui at this time.

In the fourth year of Zhongping, Han Sui killed Bian Zhang, Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou, supported more than 100,000 troops, marched to surround Longxi, Longxi Taishou Li Xiangru, Jiuquan Taishou Huang Yananti, plus the Hanyang Kingdom, all of which were in peace with Han Sui. At the same time, Sima and Ma Teng, who assassinated Shi Geng in Liangzhou, also rebelled with troops, Geng was killed, and Han Sui, Ma Teng and others jointly promoted the kingdom and plundered the Sanfu region.

In November of the fifth year of Zhongping, the kingdom besieged Chencang, and was abolished by Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo Dabai, Han Sui and others, and coerced Yan Zhong, a famous scholar in Liangzhou, to serve as the leader, Yan Zhong died of resentment, Han Sui and others gradually fought for power and profit, and then attacked and killed each other, and the forces continued to be divided.

In the second year of the first peace, Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an and invited Han Sui and Ma Teng to jointly plan an attack on the Shandong generals. Seeing the chaos in the world, the two also wanted to rely on Dong Zhuo to raise troops, but before they arrived in Chang'an, Dong Zhuo was killed by Wang Yun and Lu Bu.

In June of the third year of the first peace, Han Sui and Ma Teng led the crowd to Chang'an, at this time Li Dao and Guo Yan controlled the imperial court, appointed Han Sui as the general of Zhenxi, and sent back Jincheng County of Liangzhou.

In the first year of Xingping, a plague broke out in Guanzhong, and Zhang Liao, the general of Zhengdong and Qingzhou Mu, conquered Guanzhong, and fought with Li Dao and Guo Yan, and Ma Teng assisted Li Guo and was defeated by Zhang Liao.

Soon Zhang Liao sent Huang Zhong, Xu Rong, and Zhang He to conquer Guanzhong and beat Ma Teng back to Liangzhou.

As the Kanto region gradually stabilized, Ma Teng had to unite with Han Sui, and the two became brothers with different surnames, Ma Tengtun soldiers in the three counties of Hanyang, Anding, and Wudu in the east of Liangzhou, and Han Sui Tun soldiers in the western part of Liangzhou, Jincheng, Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang counties.

In addition to Ma Teng and Han Sui, there is another person named Song Jian.

Song Jian was born in the "Liangzhou Yicong", belonged to the Han people who volunteered to join the army, and had a high prestige among the Qiang and Hu people.

In the first year of Zhongping, Song Jian followed the kingdom to raise troops, and based on his hometown of Caohan, he formed an army of tens of thousands of Han, Qiang, and Hu hybrids, and constantly expanded to the four realms, becoming a force second only to Ma Teng and Han Sui.

The terrain of Caohan is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Song Jian's elite soldiers are tens of thousands, and the combat power is super strong, so that Ma Teng and Han Sui are also quite jealous, but Song Jian did not compete with Ma Teng and Han Sui, and there is no intention of plotting Guanzhong, not long after he launched a rebellion, he proclaimed himself the king of Heshou Ping Han in Caohan, and changed the year name, set up hundreds of officials, and was the first to claim the title of honor among the heroes.

At that time, the Central Plains was constantly fighting and fighting, and few people would notice Song Jian, who was far away in the west stealing the number to entertain himself.

The appearance of the Liangzhou rumor made the situation in Liangzhou weird, Song Jian was still hiding in his small kingdom and was at ease, but Ma Teng and Han Sui had their own thoughts.

At that time, people were very reverent of nursery rhymes and prophecies, which originated from the prevalence of prophecy since the Qin and Han dynasties, especially since the Later Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu had raised troops with Fu Rui Tu, and after ascending the throne, he admired the belief in prophecy and weft, "announcing the prophecy in the world", employing people to govern and make decisions on various major issues, all of which must be decided by the weft, and the interpretation of the Confucian classics should even be on par with the weft, which is known as the inner classic, and its status is higher than the subset of the scriptures. The phenomenon of the three princes changing the lights because of various disasters stems from this.

Liangzhou is located on the border, barbarism is better than civilization, and the Wei Wei is more prevalent, most people are convinced, including Han Sui.