Dong Zhuo was very cautious about the envoys sent, for fear that the envoys would collude with Gao Shun, and after many communications with Li Ru, he chose Taichang Ma Riyan.

Gao Shun and others were very polite to Ma Riyan and held a grand reception banquet.

Not in a hurry to talk about business, Ma Riyan proposed to take a look around, Gao Shun readily agreed, transferred a high-ranking cavalry from his guard as an escort, and issued an order that he could visit anywhere in Jizhou, and no one was allowed to stop him.

When I entered Hanoi County from Ma Ri Pan, I saw a big gap between the situation and Henan, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the farmland was full of green crops, and children playing were seen on the roadside at the entrance of the village from time to time.

The counties are very prosperous, and the people live a stable, comfortable and prosperous life.

Yecheng is full of people and caravans.

Walking all the way, the scenery is similar, which makes Ma Riyan's heart moved, the champion Hou is too good at managing the place, it is simply a reappearance of the prosperous era.

He wanted to go to more places and see if all of them were like that.

Along with Ma Riyan was Wang Yun's eldest son, Wang Gai.

When he was in the capital, he was already familiar with Wang Yun's letter, and at this time, in Gao Shun's study, he wrote it silently.

Wang Yun hoped to befriend Gao Shun, thinking that he was a foreign aid and jointly dealt with Dong Zhuo, Gao Shun read the letter and destroyed it in person.

Gao Shun didn't want to make wedding dresses for others, and now was not the time to get rid of Dong Zhuo, which was not in his interests, so he replied to Wang Gai that the foreign ministers had no right to interfere in the internal affairs of the court.

If Dong Zhuo is removed, now he should become the target of the princes, Gao Shun also hopes that Dong Zhuo will continue to be in front for a few years to buy him time for development.

And Gao Shun wanted to befriend Wang Yun at the beginning, but Wang Yun didn't pay attention to him and fooled him once, and after that, Gao Shun no longer deliberately befriended the Wang family.

Wang Gai was very disappointed.

Gao Shun first asked him if there was a maid named Diao Chan in the house, but Wang Gai denied it; Gao Shun did not give up, and asked if there was a maid surnamed Ren, but Wang Gai still denied it; Gao Shun was disappointed; Wang Gai was very puzzled, and he didn't know why Gao Shun asked this.

A month later, Ma Riyan returned to Yecheng and was shocked by the wealth of Jizhou, far beyond his imagination.

The day before leaving, at the farewell banquet, Ma Riyan pretended to ask Gao Shun a few words, why he wanted to garrison Dongjun, why he wanted to increase the garrison in Yanzhou, etc.

Gao Shun defended one by one.

Ma Riyan pretended to be suddenly enlightened and agreed with Gao Shun's explanation, as long as Gao Shun didn't want the soldiers to go south, he would go back to make a difference.

The chaos in the Central Plains not only made Dong Zhuo pay attention to it, but the other princes also went all out, trying to enhance their own strength in order to protect themselves.

The first to reach an alliance intention were Xuzhou and Jingzhou.

Xuzhou and Jingzhou are relatively independent, relatively wealthy, and relatively stable, Tao Qian and Liu Biao have basically completed their control of the state, and now they only seek to protect themselves.

Because Xuzhou and Jingzhou both had conflicts with Yuan Shu in Yangzhou, and the two of them were far away and had no interest disputes, they were the first to join forces to deal with Yuan Shu together.

and hoped to expel Yuan Shu from Jiangbei, and the two families each occupied a county in Yangzhou Jiangbei; The two families were very enthusiastic about the rich Huai River valley, and Yuan Shu was occupied by force, which was not justified and did not get the approval of the imperial court; And Liu Biao and Tao Qian both received the holy order of the imperial court to attack Yuan Shu, and their attack on Yuan Shu was justified.

Liu Biao ordered Jiangxia to defend Huang Zu to attack Lujiang County, and Tao Qian ordered Xu Sheng to lead Liu Bei to repel Sun Jian's troops and attack Jiujiang County.

Liu Biao garrisoned heavy troops in Fancheng to prevent Dong Zhuo's army from suddenly moving south; Tao Qian has Qingzhou stationed in Lu State, and Gongsun Zan stationed in Pei County, safe and worry-free; All the two of them need to do is stabilize the precinct.

Now the most difficult thing is Yuan Shao and others in Yuzhou, the cavalry is no more than 6,000, and they are not the opponents of Lu Bu and the Liangzhou cavalry at all, so they can only live in the city and defend it, and let them plunder outside the city.

Although they are united and united with the outside world, they are also wary of each other.

If you don't bring in external forces, you won't be able to hold out for too long, after all, Dong Zhuo relies on the power of the imperial court to deal with the three warlords in Yuzhou.

They sent personnel to contact Tao Qian and Liu Biao, hoping that they would join the anti-Dong Alliance, but Tao Qian and Liu Biao did not accept the invitation for the time being for their own safety.

The people in Yuzhou were very disappointed.

Yuan Shao had the cheekiness to contact Yuan Shu in Yangzhou, hoping that he would send troops north, even if he did not directly participate in the war against Dong Zhuo, he could protect the back road of the Allied forces from being taken advantage of by Dong Zhuo.

Yuan Shu has always had opinions about Yuan Shao, how could he come to the rescue? He now occupies the land of a state, and his strength is much stronger than Yuan Shao, and he looks down on Yuan Shao even more, and he can't wait to get rid of Yuan Shao with the help of Dong Zhuo's hand, so that he can monopolize the resources of the Yuan family; And now he is being attacked from both sides by Liu Biao and Tao Qian, and his life is not easy, and he has no power to go north.

In the end, Yuan Shao and others sent people to Qingzhou, hoping to get help from Qingzhou, but Fang Liang did not dare to be the master, so he sent the envoy to Jizhou.

For the envoys of Yuan Shao and others, Gao Shun was still warmly entertained.

Gao Shun still refused on the grounds of not interfering in the affairs of the Central Plains.

This was a disappointment to the envoy.

However, Gao Shun was very enthusiastic about trade, and any supplies needed by the allies could be purchased from Jizhou; For the place of trading, you can choose to trade in Lu, and then return to Yuzhou via Xuzhou.

The envoy was very satisfied with Gao Shun's promise and immediately returned from the Cangting ferry.

At present, the materials that are most in demand in Yuzhou are war horses, weapons and equipment, and food; The trade with Jizhou was a timely rain for Yuan Shao and others.

Yuan Shao received support from Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and even Xuzhou and Yangzhou scholars, but he lacked all kinds of money, but a large amount of supplies.

Especially the war horses, now Youzhou, Bingzhou, Liangzhou and Sanfu are all under the control of Gao Shun, the war horses cannot enter the Central Plains, they can't buy war horses with money, and now all the warlords' war horses in the Central Plains can't be replenished if they are lost.

For the sale of war horses, Xi Zhicai and others strongly objected, but Gao Shun didn't care, because most of the horses he sold were low-grade horses, and only a few were medium war horses, and the price was high, which was more profitable than doing other trades.

Gao Shun believes that the cavalry formed with these war horses is not even as good as the junior cavalry, how can it become an obstacle to his unification of the Central Plains?

Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others each purchased 5,000 war horses, hoping to form a powerful cavalry to compete with Dong Zhuo.

The deal went very smoothly and both parties were happy.

Seeing this situation, Tao Qian and Yuan Shu both sent envoys to contact Gao Shun, hoping to trade a sufficient number of war horses from Jizhou, and Gao Shun was not afraid to meet their requirements one by one, as long as there was money.

Especially Yuan Shu, because the jurisdiction is not in contact with Qingzhou, for the sake of safety, the trading location was selected in the south, Gao Shun directly doubled the price, and Yuan Shu's envoy still accepted it painfully.

The Central Plains region, which was very rich before, had a large population, and sufficient soldiers, the two sides fought a protracted war, and with Liu Dai's precedent, all the princes would take out all their belongings to resist, and the war was very tragic, but it would not end in a short time.

Ma Riyan returned to the capital and reported to Dong Zhuo and Li Ru that Gao Shun had no intention of going south, just to ensure the safety of the trade route.

Dong Zhuo was relieved, and he could give it a go with the princes of the Central Plains.

Li Ru did not want to attack immediately, this confrontation situation in the Central Plains was very beneficial to them, if they were defeated or defeated, they would lose their use value, and confrontation was the best choice, which could buy him more time.