At the end of the first month of the first year of Chuping, Gao Shun led Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Cheng Wu and others to Yecheng, Wei County, Jizhou, and took up the post of pastor of Jizhou; Zhao Xiong was appointed as the Taishou of Xinxing County and was stationed in Taoyuanbao, and Ma Gui took his wife and children to Jizhou together; Gao Shun adopted Xi Zhicai's suggestion and planned to gradually transfer the management center from Taoyuan Fort to Yecheng.

Yecheng is closer to the Sili area, which makes it easier to understand the information of the anti-Dong Alliance.

When Gao Shun arrived, Gongsun Zhan and Liu Bei had already left with their troops, and the remaining officers and soldiers were also screened, the strong continued to serve in the army, and the weak were forced to disarm and return to the field.

After learning about the situation in Jizhou, Gao Shun first met with the military and political officials left behind by Liu Yu, the former pastor of Jizhou.

More than 20 people, including Min Chun, Li Li, Zhu Bo and Geng Wu, are all elites of major families in Jizhou.

Due to Gao Shun's strong strength, and in the past few years, the price of grain has been continuously raised, so that the Jizhou clan has benefited a lot, and gradually eased the tension with the Jizhou clan, after the former state pastor Liu Yu was promoted to the great Sima, there were only more than 10 Cao, officials and other people who left privately, and more than 20 people chose to stay in their posts, Gao Shun was quite satisfied with this.

Subsequently, Gao Shun made adjustments to the personnel, and Guo Tu was still the other driver to fully handle the government affairs of Jizhou; He Min Chun was appointed to join the army in the general's mansion to assist Xi Zhicai in giving advice, focusing more on military aspects; Ma Gui was appointed as the Taishou of Wei County; Li Li, Geng Wu and others were transferred to the Taishou Mansion of Wei County to assist Ma Gui in handling local affairs; The governors, the main officials, and the vacant officials were all served by the high-ranking civil and military officials brought by Gao Shun.

Gao Shun's adjustment is because he values the talent, loyalty, and courage of people such as Jubei, Min Chun, Li Li, and Geng Wu, all of whom are famous in history.

After the adjustment was completed, the trial immediately took a step forward and suggested: "Envoy Jun, Yanzhou, Yuzhou and other prefectures and counties will raise troops to fight against Dong Xiangguo, and there will be continuous military disasters, so that the people will flee and grain production will be reduced, and local agricultural production will be seriously affected, and Yuzhou, Yanzhou and other places are large grain-producing states, and grain prices will continue to rise. ”

Trial, the word is south, Jizhou Wei County Yin'an (now Qingfeng North, Hebei) people, upright, deep strategy.

At this time, the trial had not yet worshiped Gao Shun as the lord, so he called Gao Shun as an envoy as a subordinate; Now the Gaoshun forces have a close relationship with the imperial court, and Dong Zhuo is the prime minister appointed by the imperial court, so the judge is called Dong Xiangguo.

Gao Shun checked the attributes of the trial, intelligence 94, politics 81, commander 76, lower than Cheng Li, Tian Feng and Fu Zhu and others, better than Guo Tu, is already a very rare wise man, no wonder he became one of Yuan Shao's four great strategists; Gao Shun was very happy in his heart, and three of Yuan Shao's four major strategists were brought in by him, which greatly weakened Yuan Shao's strength.

Gao Shun understood that such a suggestion represented the interests of his family and the Jizhou clan; He said: "Zhengnan's suggestion is very timely, but this matter should not be rushed, it is better to wait and see for a while." ”

Although Gao Shun said so, he arranged for Guo Tu and Li Qiang to send people to strictly guard the state border and prevent grain from leaving the country.

Xi Zhicai suggested that Hanoi County be temporarily included in the jurisdiction of Jizhou, which Gao Shun accepted, and explained to Li Qiang and Guo Tu to strengthen military and political ties with Hanoi County.

Gao Shun is not short of money and food, the next is to build a large number of construction, one is to build a road connecting Youzhou, Bingzhou and Qingzhou, it was not his territory before, he is not good at interfering in the place, now, he can build according to his intentions, which can not only increase the income of the local people, but also facilitate the mobilization of the army, baggage transportation, etc.; The second is to build wharves along the river and build water conservancy to facilitate irrigation and shipping.

This is what the local government and officials are most willing to do, and it immediately received strong support from officials in the state.

In the following period, Gao Shun developed Jizhou's industry and commerce, and at the same time, he and Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Shen Pei and others paid attention to the situation of sour dates and the imperial court.

Since Hanoi County was under the jurisdiction of Gao Shun and was garrisoned by Chu Yan with troops, the communication with the imperial court was unimpeded.

Xuzhou Don't drive Zhao Yu to discuss the alliance with Qingzhou Mufang Liang, Fang Liang couldn't make the decision, so he sent him to Yecheng, and Gao Shun finally decided.

At the end of February, Zhao Yu and his entourage arrived in Yecheng.

Zhao Yu and others were arranged to go to the state house, and Gao Shun held a special military meeting for this purpose.

Gao Shun didn't want to intervene in the situation in the Central Plains too early, and he guessed that Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei had left Wei County and had no place to stay, with their personal relationship with Tao Qian, they would definitely be accepted by Tao Qian, and there was no external pressure in Xuzhou in a short time, so Gao Shun didn't want to form an alliance with Xuzhou.

Li Qiang's point of view is that there are 50,000 cavalry in Qingzhou, and the veteran general Huang Zhong is in Taishan County, which can rush to the aid of the Quartet and threaten Yanzhou, and Langya County has 5,000 cavalry, which can rush to Xuzhou at any time.

The point of view of Xi Zhicai, Ma Gui and others is to continue to wait and see, Dong Zhuo has not made a move yet, so it is not appropriate to act too early.

Now the number of princes of sour jujube is gradually increasing, but they drink freely day and night, and there is no trace of attacking Luoyang; Gao Shun understood in his heart, but he didn't tell everyone.

Among them, Guo Jia has the most ghost eyes, and put forward a bold idea to Gao Shun, according to the development of the situation, he can unite with Dong Zhuo, surround the princes' coalition army in Suojube, and wipe them out, then the world can be determined.

Li Qiang and Ma Gui were very tempted by this, if this is the case, they can occupy the Central Plains in advance, and after that, they only need to deal with the surrounding small forces slowly.

Xi Zhicai immediately retorted: "Haha, that will be the enemy of the world, how different is it from Dong Zhuo?" At present, the imperial court should be forced to fight with the Kwantung coalition army, and we only need to reap the profits; As for Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, he will definitely stop paying taxes to the imperial court after that, and become an independent force of his own, if he forms an alliance with him now, it will affect the relationship between the lord and the imperial court, so I suggest that you do not form an alliance with it openly, but help each other secretly. ”

Xi Zhicai's point of view is to support Dong Zhuo to eliminate the princes, and finally come forward to defeat Dong Zhuo, clean up the mess, hold the righteousness in his hands, and occupy the moral high ground.

The judge was a little unconvinced in his heart when Gao Shun appointed such a young military advisor to sacrifice wine, so he asked rhetorically: "How to force Dong Xiangguo to fight hard with the Kwantung Coalition Army?" There are many old generals in the imperial court, can't you see the intention of the envoy? ”

Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "Haha, this matter is easy, just order the Hou Tun soldiers of Guangnian to settle down, and the soldiers of the army to be high slaves, if Dong Xiangguo intends to avoid the coalition forces of the Kwantung princes, he can seize the Sanfu region at any time and control the fortresses such as Hangu, how can Dong Xiangguo not be afraid?" ”

Everyone thought that if Hangu Pass was seized, Luoyang would be completely surrounded by Gaoshun's forces, and the assets of the three counties around Luoyang would not be enough to support the consumption of the imperial army; Therefore, Xi Zhicai asserted that Dong Zhuo would not dare to be an enemy of Gao Shun.

The wise man's thinking is not much different, and Li Ru has already thought of Xi Zhicai's thoughts.

Everyone couldn't discuss it, so they had to continue to wait and see.

No, at the beginning of March, Gao Shun received a holy decree appointed by the imperial court as a chariot general, and made Yongzhou the jurisdiction of the chariot general, requiring Gao Shun to send Yongzhou pastors, and send officials and officers and soldiers to strengthen the rule and management of Yongzhou.

Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and others were very annoyed, this completely disrupted their plans, Zhang Yang's more than 40,000 cavalry had just withdrawn, how to deal with it next?