Cheng Wu, Zhang Liao, Gao Ran and others, all young people, received Gao Shun's order, they were all very excited, there was no suppression by the old people, and Gao Shun did not limit their time to complete the task, they could play at will.

For the poor, what is lacking is not ability, but lack of opportunities, and every opportunity to display their talents is precious and cannot be lost.

They all regard this as a training and a rare opportunity for the lord Gao Shun to do it, if they do a bad job, it will be difficult to gain the trust and attention of the lord in the future.

Afterwards, Gao Shun and Xi Zhicai respectively conducted face-to-face inspections of Cheng Wu and Zhang Liao, and the two answered each other fluently, which made Gao Shun and Xi Zhicai more satisfied, and let them take office with confidence.

In particular, Cheng Wu, when he was recovering the southern territory of Beidi County and Anding County, had close contact with Qianghu, and was very familiar with their combat effectiveness and mobility; At present, only in the northern part of Beidi County and Anding County, there are more than 400,000 Qiang people left, and nearly 100,000 Huns, the pressure is very great, Cheng Wu is cautious, and adopts policies such as advancing city by city, uniting the Xiongnu Youxian Wang Department and uniting the Yongzhou Hao clan, so that Gao Shun is greatly relieved.

Xi Zhicai also suggested that Bo Weiqi, the former lord of Beidi County, who was familiar with Qianghu, should serve as Cheng Wu's alternate driver, and Min Chun, who was upright, should serve as Cheng Wu's governor; The remaining officials were transferred by Gao Shun.

Because Wei Qi and Cheng Wu have cooperated, they cooperate well; I am also very relieved of Min Chun's noble character; Gao passed the appointment by the way.

In order to protect the safety of Cheng Wu and Zhang Liao, Gao Shun equipped the two of them with a strong escort, two parts of the senior infantry and four parts of the primary infantry, as well as one part of the senior cavalry and five parts of the junior cavalry, by the two senior generals Ren Jun Sima with these system officers and soldiers as escorts, to ensure that they are safe.

Each part is five tuns, which is equivalent to adding 3,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry to the two men.

Next, Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and others discussed with Gao Shun how to fight back against Dong Zhuo's calculations, and they must be punished, otherwise, it will be difficult to deal with the hatred in their hearts, and it is easy for Dong Zhuo to have a fluke heart.

Gao Shun asked rhetorically: "What is the best plan for Zhicai?" ”

"My lord, this is not simple, first of all, limit the amount of Dong Zhuo exchanging population for food, the amount is 100,000 per year, and the maximum is not more than 200,000; second, let the Marquis of Guangping Fangliang announce that he would stop paying taxes to the imperial court; third, to have the imperial court remove all officials of the alliance from their official positions; If the lord has any other requirements, he can add them as well. ”

Gao Shun asked rhetorically: "If the princes of the Huimeng are dismissed from their official positions, and the state and county officials in other places are forced to protect themselves and no longer support the crusade against Dong Zhuo, won't the Huimeng be dispersed in a hurry?" How to achieve the purpose of making them fight each other's consumption? ”

Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "Haha, lord, things have to be analyzed from two aspects, other state and county officials do not participate in the alliance, but Dong Zhuo is far away from them, and the allied forces are close at hand and are under the most direct threat, so they will still secretly fund the allied forces in order to protect themselves; The officials who have participated in the alliance have no way to retreat, so they can only go all the way to the dark and fight hard with Dong Zhuo, otherwise how can they survive themselves? ”

Gao Shun nodded, and agreed with Xi Zhicai's statement, there are two sides to everything, if the current dozen or so princes are removed, his road to unifying the Central Plains will be much easier.

However, Gao Shun also vetoed Xi Zhicai's first two opinions, and now he can exchange the population for food, which is to hope that Dong Zhuo will reduce killings and save one more people; As for asking Qingzhou to stop paying taxes to the imperial court, Gao Shun doesn't plan to do so for the time being, otherwise, what qualifications will he have to crusade against the princes of the world in the future?

Xi Zhicai's opinion was vetoed, but he couldn't be dissatisfied, Gao Shun wanted to govern the world with benevolence, which was not right or wrong, but he felt that it was not suitable to participate in the Central Plains hegemony if he was too benevolent, so he asked rhetorically: "What is the good plan of the lord?" ”

Gao Shun did not directly answer Xi Zhicai's words, but looked at Guo Jia and asked rhetorically, "What is Feng Xiao's opinion?" ”

Guo Jia said: "My lord, if the imperial court is asked to remove the official positions of the princes who participated in the alliance, it will force the state and county officials who did not participate in the alliance to stand in line, and those officials who did not participate in the alliance, if they do not participate in the alliance, and they cannot get the protection of the imperial court, they can only be forced to join the alliance, which will detonate the Central Plains hegemony in advance, and will make the strength of the alliance stronger, if so, we must strengthen the support for the court and Dong Zhuo; There is also a question to consider, that is, if we persecute Dong Zhuo too much, will we let Dong Zhuo and the allies join forces to deal with the lord? Therefore, Jia suggested that Tao Qian must be wooed, let him fall to the lord, and win over the Taishou of the surrounding counties of Xuzhou, Qingzhou and Jizhou to provide them with assistance. ”

This made Gao Shun very difficult, if he provided help to the Taishou of the surrounding counties, it would break his promise not to interfere in the situation in the Central Plains, so that Dong Zhuo and the princes could not fight with peace of mind.

As for the alliance princes and Dong Zhuo's alliance, Gao Shun was not worried, and now Dong Zhuo was their biggest enemy.

In the end, everyone decided to let Qingzhou Mufangliang provide covert protection for Xuzhou, and strengthen Qingzhou's military strength, and send Tai Shici to lead 10,000 cavalry to strengthen Qingzhou, and the official position was promoted to Zhonglang General, stationed in Langya County, instead of transferring Zang Ba and others to leave the vacancy, in this way, Tai Shici led 15,000 cavalry to be stationed in Langya County, mainly facing Xuzhou; Huang Zhong led 15,000 cavalry, stationed in Taishan County, mainly facing Yanzhou, Yu Ban and Wu'an each led 10,000 cavalry, stationed in Jinan, and the other 10,000 cavalry were stationed in various counties and as Fang Liang's escort.

Tai Shi Ci is a native of Qingzhou, he joined the lord's power for such a short time, and he was promoted to the position of Zhonglang general without making an inch, and he was very grateful to Gao Shun's appointment, and secretly determined that he would never live up to the trust of the lord.

Gao Shun personally set up a banquet to entertain Zhao Yu in Xuzhou, and wrote the letter to Fang Liang and Tao Qian respectively to Zhao Yu, Zhao Yu was very satisfied with the content of the letter and Gao Shun's arrangement, and happily returned to Xuzhou to make a difference; And when passing through Jinan, he handed over a letter written by Gao Shun to Fang Liang, and communicated and negotiated with Fang Liang on the details.

This move stabilized the uneasy hearts of Tao Qian and the people in Xuzhou.

Subsequently, Gao Shun sent an envoy to Luoyang to ask for Jia Xu, which was a good policy established by Gao Shun a few years ago.

Gao Shun is the most uneasy about Jia Xu, and he will never let him go unpunished, otherwise he doesn't know how many uncontrollable incidents he will create in the future; Controlling Jia Xu is equivalent to one less scourge, which can reduce the casualties of millions of people, which is a very cost-effective move.

Gao Shun's order greatly puzzled Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and others; But then he was relieved, Gao Shun has a hidden intelligence agency, which can find out a lot of secret things in the country, otherwise, he would not have learned about the two of them and kidnapped them to Taoyuan Fort.

It is very convenient and fast to travel from Wei County to Luoyang and pass through Hanoi County.

Dong Zhuo and Li Ru were seen through by Gao Shun because of their strategy, and sent envoys to question, their expressions were a little embarrassed.

Regarding Gao Shun's suggestion that the imperial court be exempted from the official positions of the princes who participated in the alliance, Dong Zhuo and Li Ru had long seen Ni Duan, and now Gao Shun reminded him that he immediately understood the strangeness of it, so he immediately adopted this suggestion.

However, they were confused about Gao Shun's request for Jia Xu, what was Gao Shun's purpose? Did you deliberately let them go? So that they can fight with the Kwantung coalition forces in peace.

Since they couldn't figure it out, Dong Zhuo and Li Ru acquiesced to this fact.

Li Ru knew that Jia Xu was serving as a lieutenant and was serving in the Niu Auxiliary Army with Li Dao and Guo Yan; For a school captain, Dong Zhuo didn't take it to heart, and immediately sent someone to Chang'an to pick up Jia Xu and hand it over to the champion Hou to deal with.

As for Jia Xu himself, it is even more like a cloud, even if he is wise and demonic, he still doesn't know why.

The trial successfully completed the task, returned from the capital, and told the story of the capital, Dong Zhuo and Li Ru were very cooperative, and Gao Shun was very happy.

For Jia Xu's arrival, Gao Shun set up a banquet to entertain him, accompanied by dignitaries from both the General's Mansion and the State Pastor, and appointed Jia Xuzan as the head of the General's Mansion at the banquet, accompanying him as an advisor.

Everything is ready, and next, you just need to watch the battle between Dong Zhuo and the Kwantung Coalition Army with peace of mind.