In the first year of Xingping (399 years of the Han calendar, 194 AD), the first day of the fourth month, the beginning of summer. In Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Xu Zi, who has always liked to judge people, Xu Shao and Xu Jing brothers, sat lonely in the house, listening to the boring chirping of summer cicadas.

Two months ago, when today's son was thirteen years old and came of age, he was honored in Canadian dollars, and the era name was changed to the first year of Xingping. Xingping Xingping, although the year name says Xingping, but the world is becoming more and more chaotic.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Xu brothers fled all the way south, discarded all their family wealth, and finally went out to Liu Biao to eat. Although Liu Biao attaches great importance to cultural people, the two brothers have no good skills except for evaluating others according to their own likes and dislikes. Evaluating others is not a means of making a living, life in troubled times is as cheap as grass, no matter if you are a hero, no matter how proud you are, if you don't shoot the sycophants of the local princes, then - killing you is not negotiable. In this way, these two Xu brothers, who had pacified countless heroes, were left out in the cold, and there were few cars and horses in front of the door, and they were no longer in the old days.

"Sun Ce captured Huiji, Liu Bei blocked Qingzhou, and Cao Cao began to attack Zhang Ji in the west", Xu Jing suddenly came out of nowhere.

Xu Shao nodded and echoed: "The south, it's going to be chaos."

The year before last, that is, in the summer and April of the third year of Chuping (192), Wang Yun separated Lu Bu and booby-trapped Dong Zhuo, and the people of Chang'an raised the city to carnival, singing and dancing. The Han dynasty finally returned to the hands of Wenchen.

When this political situation changes significantly. At the critical moment, Wang Yun, who was concerned about the safety of the imperial court, lacked the ability to respond. After killing Dong Zhuo, he thought that there would be no more trouble, so he was proud of his achievements, and he often lacked and pleasant contact with courtiers. At that time, Cai Yong heard that Dong Zhuo had been killed, and only "sighed" in front of Wang Yun sitting down, Wang Yun regarded him as Zhuo's party, so he killed Cai Yong.

In addition, to Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Dong Zhuo. The princes of the old department, such as Li Dao and Guo Yan, who had heavy troops, were contemptuous and dismissive, and there were not many soldiers and horses in his hands, but he fantasized about disarming them and thoroughly implementing the rule of the imperial court.

It's just that this idea is enough, but Wang Yun opened it. I went the wrong way from the beginning. At that time, Liu Bei's house had a mountain stacked green glass lamp, this oil lamp had more than 20 wicks, lit at night, the house was as bright as day. And Cao Cao has a 10,000-bird platform, on which you can insert twelve candles (candles only entered our country in the Qing Dynasty, the earliest known as foreign wax, Qingzhou has developed the whaling industry in recent years, and candles have become popular). Wang Yun is a person who loves to read, and he heard that these two people have such treasures, so that they can continue to study and work after dark, so as the identity of the great situ, he asked the two to offer these treasures, so as to test the hearts of the two.

After Cao Cao received the letter, he did not hesitate to offer Wanniaotai. Liu Bei Zehao. Unceremoniously refuted Wang Yun, saying: The glass lamp is my private property, and the law of Qingzhou guarantees the right of individuals to own private property. Originally, with your authority, if you beg me with kind words, it is nothing for me to give you a glass lamp. However, Your Excellency has asked me for it like this, and I must not leave a bad precedent for Qingzhou - not to give it.

Liu Bei's arrogant and rude letter completely severed the connection between the imperial court and the four prefectures of Qingdao, Hebei, You, and You. Subsequently, Liu Bei hastily ended Sun Ce's trial with a quick knife and released him to Jiangdong. At the same time, Liu Bei also allowed the original subordinates of the Sun family, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, and Han Dang, to return to Sun Ce. However, Liu Bei detained Zhou Yu on the pretext that he already had a military position in Qingzhou.

Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, and Han Dang lived in Qingzhou for two years, and with Liu Bei's acquiescence, they had already purchased land in Langxie and Donglai. After that, in order to completely return Zhou Yu to his heart, Liu Bei allowed Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, and Han Dang to take away their Qingzhou family. Subsequently, at Zhou Yu's insistence, Liu Bei agreed to continue the agreement between Qingzhou and Sun Jian, and to send Wenchen to help Sun Ce manage logistics and internal affairs. Soon after, Zhang Zhao replaced Chen Qun as the Xinlang Evil Taishou, and he was stationed in Lianyungang, assisted by Lu Yi and Liu Huai, to raise funds for Sun Ce's army.

Zhou Yu's move is equivalent to using himself as Sun Ce. In exchange for Liu Bei's support, he arranged a steady stream of logistics for him in the future.

The family members and old pawns of the Sun family were all in Yuan Shu, after Sun Ce was freed, he was the first to live in Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu used Sun Ce's force, and his power gradually moved eastward, and finally invaded Yangzhou and settled in Shouchun. Shouchun Taishou Chen Yu (Chen Deng's younger brother) was forced to flee and settle down with his brother.

Previously, he had made a wish to let Sun Ce be the Taishou of Jiujiang, but not long after, Yuan Shu appointed Chen Ji to the Taishou of Jiujiang. Later, Yuan Shu was preparing to attack Xuzhou, in order to raise army food, he opened his mouth to ask Lu Kang, the Taishou of Lujiang, to borrow 30,000 pieces of grain and rice, but Lu Kang refused, Yuan Shu was very resentful, so he sent Sun Ce to fight Lu Kang, and promised: Capture Lujiang and let Sun Ce be the Taishou of Lujiang. Sun Ce sent troops to capture Lujiang smoothly, and sent people to report to Yuan Shu, while he waited for the appointment. Unexpectedly, Yuan Shu broke his trust again, ordered Sun Ce to triumph, and sent his confidant Liu Xun to be the Taishou of Lujiang. Sun Ce had no choice but to sigh in the sky, and from then on he did not believe in Yuan Shu, and decided to look for an opportunity and find another way out.

Initially, the imperial court had sent Liu Miao to serve as the assassin of Yangzhou, and he was located in Shouchun, and after Shouchun was occupied by Yuan Shu, Liu Miao led his troops to cross the river and occupy Qu'a. and expelled Wu Jing (Danyang Taishou, Sun Jian's uncle) and Sun Ben (Danyang Duwei, Sun Ce's cousin) of the Sun family. Sun Ce then volunteered and asked to attack Liu Xuan. Yuan Shu approved and returned more than 1,000 people from Sun Jian's old department. Sun Ce led his troops eastward and joined Wu Jing and Sun Ben of the Sun family in Liyang, with five or six thousand people under his command. At Wujiang, Sun Ce was received by the Qingzhou fleet sent by Zhang Zhao, crossed the river and defeated Fan Neng and Yu El, who were guarding Jiangjin, and landed at Moling. Subsequently, Sun Ce accepted Liu Bei's suggestion and rested in Moling for the winter.

Seeing Sun Ce so well-behaved and obedient, Liu Bei was overjoyed, and with his connivance, the Qingzhou loach boats continued to enter the Yangtze River from the sea, and went up the river along the river, bringing a large amount of grain, grass and ordnance to Sun Ce. At the same time, these sailors defeated Zhang Ying, who was stationed at Danglikou, and cleared the way for shipping. Of course, these moves, as well as grain, grass and ordnance, were not free, and Liu Bei had to go to Shicheng (now Ma'anshan), a small town next to Moling, and Qiantang (now Hangzhou), a port near the sea. The quid pro quo was to provide Sun Ce with 600,000 stone of free grain, 10,000 bows, and 500,000 arrows for fifteen years every year. 10,000 sets of armor for a period of 3 years.

After Sun Ce received a large amount of grain and grass supplements, he accepted Liu Bei's suggestion to implement the strategy of no tax on agriculture and equality of all ethnic groups in Moling, and in the winter of that year, a large number of mountain tribes heard the news and began to settle in the plains, and some strong farmers directly joined Sun Ce's army, and Sun Ce's power expanded rapidly.

Due to the mutual recognition of Sun Ce and Qingzhou's titles, and the existence of the primogeniture law in Qingzhou, with the support of Liu Bei, a large number of second sons and young sons in Qingzhou rushed to Moling by boat after obtaining the qualification of meritorious people and benefiting the people, and under the unified distribution of Zhang Zhao, they went to various parts of Danyang County to manage internal affairs. As a result, Sun Cebing captured the entire county of Danyang without blood.

In February of the fifth year of Chuping (the first year of Xingping), Liu Huaishuai 4,000 cavalry came to support Sun Ce, and Sun Ce, who was armed to the teeth, completely handed over the defense of Moling to the Qingzhou mercenaries. Subsequently, after gaining the support of Gu Yong, the suzerain of the Gu clan of Wu County, Sun Ce began to attack the powerful Yan Baihu of Wu County.

With the support of the Qingzhou naval army, Sun Ce adopted Liu Hun's frog jumping tactics and landed behind enemy lines without stopping, Yan Baihu could not support it, and he was defeated in more than ten days. Sun Ce took advantage of the situation to advance to Huiji and expelled Huiji Taishou Wang Lang.

So far, Sun Ce has only been in the army for two months, and Wu County Huiji has been in the bag.

Under Liu Bei's mediation, Sun Ce had already begun to contact the Lu clan and the Zhu clan of the wealthy clans of Wu County before defeating Wang Lang. At this moment, Lu Kang and Lu Ji had surrendered to Sun Ce, and Zhu Huan expressed his support for the whole family. At the same time, in Jiujiang, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, and Chen Wu lived in the village, ready to welcome Sun Ce's arrival.

After talking about Sun Ce and Liu Bei's recent actions, the words are divided into two ends, and let's talk about the dynamics of Chang'an City:

After Wang Yun ran into a wall with Liu Bei, he originally wanted to pick up the soft bullying of persimmons, and first let the obedient Cao Cao disarm, but he didn't expect to send a messenger to express this meaning, Cao Cao immediately turned his face, put the messenger under house arrest, and cut off contact with the imperial court.

Previously, Cai Yong's killing made Dong Zhuo's subordinate generals quite frightened. Wang Yun's bigger mistake was to underestimate the strength of Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou soldiers, and failed to issue an amnesty and make appropriate arrangements in time. At that time, the rumor of "Xi Zhu Liangzhou people" had been widely circulated. The soldiers of Liangzhou were very afraid,

At a loss, he sent someone to Chang'an to ask for amnesty. Wang Yun still refused to allow it at this time. Li Dao and the others were frightened and wanted to disband and return to their hometowns.

At this time, Jia Xu, the captain of the school, offered a plan to Li Dao and others: "If the princes abandon the army and go alone, then the chief of the pavilion can restrain the king, it is better to take the lead and go west, attack Chang'an, and avenge Dong Gong." Doing things, serving the country to uphold the world; If it doesn't fit, it's not too late to go."

Jia Xu, a native of Wuwei in Liangzhou, was known for his resourcefulness in the army, and his proposal was immediately agreed to by Li Dao and Guo Yan. So, they led thousands of troops, morning and night westward, while walking while collecting troops, close to Chang'an, there were more than 100,000 soldiers, and with Zhuo's old generals Fan Chou, Li Meng and so on to besiege Chang'an City.

The walls of Chang'an were high and thick, and it was not easy to take them, but the soldiers in Lü Bu's army (the minority army of Shu) rebelled and led Li Dao and Guo Yan into the city. Wang Yun also looked down on Lu Bu before, and only treated him as a swordsman. And Lu Bu relied on his great merit and thought that Wang Yun despised him. After Lu Bu was defeated, regardless of Wang Yun's life and death, he went straight to Wuguan and defected to Yuan Shu.

Lu Bu's red rabbit horse sprayed away like a flame, the iron cavalry of the Xiliang soldiers ravaged wantonly in Chang'an City, tens of thousands of people died, the rebels forced to the outside of the palace, Wang Situ helped the Son of Heaven to go to the Xuanping Gate, Li Dao and others threw down their weapons, kowtowed outside the palace gate, and the mountain shouted long live.

The young man asked: "What do you want to do?" ”

Answer: "The ministers avenge Dong Taishi, and they dare not make trouble." ”

The Son of Heaven was very surprised, and turned around and asked Lord Situ Wang: "What is the crime of Master Dong?" ”

Wang Yun suddenly froze, sighed, and walked down the Xuanping Gate.

As the sun waned, the Xuanping Gate slowly opened, and Wang Yun walked out of the palace alone, squinting his eyes, and stretched out his waist towards the setting sun.

Xiliang soldiers raised their swords and chopped Wang Yun into meat paste.

After that, the Xiliang soldiers controlled the government, Li Dao was the general of the chariot cavalry, and the commander was the lieutenant; Guo Yan was the rear general; Fan Chou is the right general; Zhang Ji is the general of Zhendong, and he is a marquis. Dai, Bian, and Chou sat in Chang'an, and Zhang Ji went out of Tun Hongnong to guard against Cao Cao and Liu Bei.

Wang Yun was good at court politics, which angered Liu Bei and Cao Cao, and both of them cut off news from the imperial court. However, Wang Yun got up too fast and fell faster. Without waiting for Lu Zhi to persuade Liu Bei to succeed, the Xiliang soldiers had already entered Beijing. However, at this time, the imperial court and government decrees could no longer leave the gate of Chang'an.

In April of this year, after a year of preparation, Zheng Qi, the defender of Gucheng, made a surprise attack and captured Hangu Pass. Remorseful, Cao Cao then set out from Hangu Pass and marched to Hongnong to fight Zhang Ji.

This is what Xu Jing just said. Although the Xu brothers are not talented in governing the country, they are like sensitive rats and have a special sense of danger, and they actually feel that great turmoil is coming from this little bit.

"Into Shu?" Xu Jing asked.

"Into Shu, this is the best way at the moment." Xu Shao replied.

Shu County, now seems to be the place with the least turmoil. Previously, in the Chang'an turmoil, Liu Yan's eldest son and second son Liu Fan Liu Dan were killed, and Liu Yan died of illness in heartache. Zhao Wei, a subordinate official, supported his youngest son Liu Zhang, and according to the imperial court system, local officials should have been appointed by the imperial court, so there was civil strife in Shu County. However, Liu Yan's prestige in Shu County was very high, and the authority of the Son of Heaven was dim, so the rebellion was put down before it began, and the rebel general Gan Ning, the governor of Ba County, fled to Jingzhou and defected to Liu Biao with Lou Fa and Shen Mi.

Liu Yan created the post of the governor of the Han Dynasty, and his son Liu Zhang was indeed a descendant of the separation, and he became the first prince to take over his father's position in the later period of the Han Dynasty.

At present, in the west of Jingzhou, Liu Zhang, in the name of chasing the rebel generals, worships Zhao Wei as the general of the expedition to the east, and is preparing to attack Liu Biao. The north was already a battlefield, and Zhang Ji was at war with Cao Cao. In the east, once Sun Ce captured Yangzhou, the next target of attack would definitely not be Xuzhou Tao Qian, who was allied with Liu Bei. Because, the relationship between Tao Qian and Liu Bei is even more intimate than Sun Ce, and Liu Bei will definitely not allow Sun Ce to push his power under the nose of Qingzhou. Then, Sun Ce has only one possibility: to attack Jingzhou.

In February of that year, that is, the day of the emperor's Yuanfu, Liu Bei ordered the blockade of Qingzhou, and foreign merchants were only allowed to trade in border cities and ports. At first, everyone thought that this was Liu Bei's disguised request for the Qingzhou caravan guards who went out to help Sun Ce fight. In the same month, the plague began in Changsha and gradually spread to the south, but at this time, people did not notice it.

After the closure of Qingzhou, the flames of war on three sides of Jingzhou were about to burn, and in this case, the Xu brothers planned to move to refuge. Taking stock of the surrounding counties, Shu County seems to be the only option.

"It is rumored that in Chang'an City, Li Dao and Guo Yan began to fight for power, and the two of them divided the city and defended it, attacking constantly, and thieves were rampant in the city, and they were captured and plundered during the day. The children also took the lead in invading the people. At this moment, there are 500,000 valleys in the city, 200,000 beans and wheat, cannibalism, white bones, and stinking roads. Xu Shao said thoughtfully.

Xu Jing echoed and said: "Cao Cao is going west at this time, I am afraid he wants to open the road to Chang'an. Liu Bei was the largest prince in the north, but because he was restrained by the Xiongnu and Karasuma, his troops could not be transferred, so he could only watch Cao Cao advance westward. ”

"Zheng Qi is good at guarding, if he doesn't have Liu Bei's permission, how can he attack Hangu Pass without authorization? Although Cao Cao advanced westward, Hangu Pass was preemptively controlled by Liu Bei. With Hangu Pass in hand, Liu Bei let Cao Cao live, he will live, let him die, as long as he ties the pocket of Hangu Pass, Cao's army has no food and grass supply, and it will collapse within a few days. Outside the door, Jingzhou celebrity Yi Ji said as he walked, and stepped into the house.

The Xu brothers' family wealth was lost, and they were unhappy in Jingzhou, and the men were all served by young people in the clan. These people are looking forward to a good way out every day, and they have been thinking about Jingzhou celebrities for a long time, and they have not been hindered by anything, and they just heard Xu Jing's last words.

Xu Jing frowned unhappily and retorted: "In the past few years, Liu Qingzhou's troops in Youzhou have mainly dealt with Karasuma, Jizhou's troops have dealt with the Xiongnu, and Qingzhou's financial resources are supporting Sun Ce, even if Zheng Qi has guarded Hangu Pass, what ability does Liu Qingzhou have to support Zheng Qi?" ”

Yi Ji smiled lightly and replied: "I'm afraid the two of you don't know, according to the report of the Jingzhou caravan that just returned, Liu Bei recruited the Jizhou New Army Hurricane Legion (cavalry), the Rainstorm Legion (crossbow army), and the Lightning Legion (cavalry), plus the Taishan Rock Legion (infantry), the Bingzhou Gushan Legion (infantry) and the Guards Legion, a total of 90,000 soldiers and auxiliary sergeants, entered Yecheng in March, ready to personally conquer the Xiongnu and completely solve the problem of henchmen. Once Xuande Gong was victorious, his army of hundreds of thousands was assembled, how could Cao Cao dare to fight. ”

Xu Shao asked in surprise: "Gathering troops in March, it is now April, could it be that Liu Qingzhou has entered the West River?" ”

Yi shook his head: "Liu Qingzhou was intercepted by his subordinates Fu Shou and Gao Tanglong in Yecheng, and asked him to cancel his personal conquest, and let his subordinates fight this battle." At present, the Qingzhou Senate is arguing over this matter, and Qingzhou has turned the world upside down. ”

Xu Jing sneered and said: "The military situation is like fire, the Senate is still discussing endlessly, and everyone knows the noise, how can the Huns not be guarded?" Liu Qingzhou is cocooning himself, this assault has lost its suddenness, it is difficult for him to ride a tiger, right? ”

Yi replied: "Some people also questioned the Senate for this, but Liu Qingzhou defended the Senate by saying: Compared with the power without supervision, the Senate has guarded against the unlimited expansion of the power of officials and protected the people from evil officials; Reduced corruption** and made the most rational use of social resources. Therefore, the rights of the Senate must be respected.

Furthermore, the denser the grass, the easier it is to cut. I am worried that the main force of the Huns is not easy to find, if this delay can allow the main force of the Huns to gather, the Senate will be of great merit. ”