After Liu Yan's death, Yizhou was eventually succeeded by his fourth son Liu Zhang, but Liu Zhang was not a strong monarch, after he became the pastor of Yizhou, Yizhou was in turmoil ~ chaos, and the outside was also extremely bad.

At that time, internally, Zhang Lu was independent, and he confronted Liu Zhang in Hanzhong; Zhao Wei rebelled and almost succeeded; Pang Xi also prepared to rebel after Zhao Wei's death, but was eventually stopped. Externally, Liu Biao and Cao Cao both expressed enough "goodwill" to Liu Zhang.

[Liu Zhang's position]

After Liu Yan's death, Liu Zhang eventually succeeded him.

At that time, although Liu Yan had lost his eldest son Liu Fan and second son Liu Dan, in addition to Liu Zhang, there was also Liu Mao who had been following Liu Yan, Liu Mao was Liu Yan's third son and Liu Zhang's elder brother.

Liu Mao is the only one of Liu Yan's four sons who followed Liu Yan to Yizhou, and stayed in Yizhou longer than Liu Zhang, or his brother, from these two points, Liu Mao is undoubtedly closer to the position of Yizhou Mu than Liu Zhang, and the possibility of Liu Yan choosing Liu Mao is also relatively large.

As a result, Liu Zhang became the pastor of Yizhou, why?

According to the existing materials, it is not because Liu Zhang is loved by Liu Yan more, but because those powerful figures in Yizhou fully support Liu Zhang.

And why do you support Liu Zhang? Because Liu Zhang's personality is gentle and benevolent, if he doesn't listen to it, he is a little cowardly and easy to control.

Among them, Zhao Wei, the leader of the local group in Yizhou, was represented by those local Yizhou people who experienced the Liu Yan era at that time, and no longer hoped for the emergence of a second Yizhou pastor as strong as Liu Yan, and Zhao Wei, who was faintly the leader, was even more in his own small calculations and wanted to use Liu Zhang as a puppet.

As for the Dongzhou Group, although there is no clear record in the existing materials whether they support Liu Zhang, who doesn't want to have a boss who is easy to talk to, if Liu Zhang is the boss, they will at least be freer, and don't forget, Liu Zhang and Pang Xi are in-laws.

So Liu Zhang was destined not to be an excellent leader from the beginning, but it was precisely because of this that Liu Zhang was able to become Yizhou Mu.

In the first year of Xingping (194), Zhao Wei, an important official in Yizhou, and others saw that Liu Zhang had a gentle temperament, so they jointly asked for Liu Zhang to be named the assassin of Yizhou, and the imperial court issued an edict to seal Liu Zhang as the envoy of the supervising army, and concurrently served as the pastor of Yizhou, inheriting the position of his father Liu Yan, in addition, the imperial court also appointed Zhao Yun as the general of Zhengdong Zhonglang.

However, there is another record in "Heroes", saying that Liu Zhang was the assassin of Yizhou after Liu Yan's death, and the Chang'an court worshiped Yingchuan Hu Mao as the assassin history.

In this way, Yizhou ushered in the era of Liu Zhang.

But in history, Liu Zhang was not a very courageous leader, on the contrary, after he became the pastor of Yizhou, he and his Yizhou became a delicious and edible meal in the eyes of others, and openly and secretly, wolves have surrounded Liu Zhang.

[Pang Xi who didn't turn it in]

We know that the four most important figures under Liu Yan are Dong Fu, Zhao Wei, Zhang Lu and Pang Xi.

In the era of Liu Zhang, Dong Fu had faded out of the Yizhou group, but the other three were still in power, Zhao Wei and Pang Xi were the second and third people in the Yizhou group, Zhao Wei was the leader of the local faction in Yizhou, Pang Xi was the leader of the Dongzhou faction, and Zhang Lu controlled Hanzhong County, the northern barrier of Yizhou.

But the result? Zhang Lu was forced to rebel by Liu Zhang, separated Hanzhong for independence, and became a mortal enemy with Liu Zhang, and Zhao Wei and the Yizhou local faction launched a rebellion together, and was finally suppressed by the Dongzhou soldiers, Zhao Yun also died in Huangquan, of which only Liu Zhang's in-law Pang Xi did not rebel.

Strictly speaking, only Pang Xi did not become a rebel.

After Liu Biao's attempt to Yizhou failed and Zhang Lu betrayed, Liu Zhang led Zhao Wei and Pang Xi to the east and the north, respectively, to resist Liu Biao and Zhang Lu, and Liu Zhang trusted them very much at the beginning.

Especially for Pang Xi, Pang Xi's daughter Pang Shi married Liu Zhang's eldest son Liu Xun as his wife, the two are in-laws, and Liu Zhang's children were also rescued from Chang'an by Pang Xi, so Liu Zhang is very good to Pang Xi, after Pang Xi failed to defeat Zhang Lu several times, he still supported him as always, and let him serve as the Brazilian Taishou.

The two also gradually estranged themselves after Pang Xi became the Brazilian Taishou, and finally had a very unpleasant quarrel.

In history, Pang Xi himself was also a very successful speculator, he helped Liu Yan's family in the most difficult moment in Chang'an, and finally the whole family defected to Liu Yan, and won the trust of Liu Yan and later Liu Zhang, but regrettably, Liu Zhang's trust in Pang Xi did not make Pang Xi more loyal, but he began to become a little arrogant, self-respecting, and gradually even Liu Zhang did not pay attention to it.

In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Pang Xi had just become the Brazilian Taishou, out of the need to expand his own strength, he sent Cheng Ji, the magistrate of Hanchang County, to begin to recruit a large number of people in the county to form their own private armies, and the people were fierce and strong, and in the Qin and Han dynasties, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was to use the power of the people to pacify Guanzhong.

At this time, some people took this opportunity to say bad things about framing Pang Xi in front of Liu Zhang, thinking that Pang Xi wanted to betray Liu Zhang, and Liu Zhang began to secretly suspect Pang Xi.

In the sixth year of Jian'an (201), Zhao Wei's rebellion was quelled, and Zhao Wei was also killed in Jiangzhou.

But Cheng Ji disagreed with this matter, he replied: "The recruitment of troops in the county was not originally for rebellion, although some people slandered, the key is to be sincere, if you are afraid, you will have a bad heart, this is not what I want to hear." ”

Cheng Ji also warned his son Cheng Yu: "I have received the grace of the state pastor, and I should do my best for the state pastor." You are a county official, you should serve the Taishou, don't have dissent because of me! ”

Pang Xi sent someone to inform Cheng Ji: "Your son is in the county and does not obey Taishou's orders, then your family will suffer disaster!" ”

Cheng Ji replied: "In the past, Le Yang was a general, and he drank the soup made by his son, which is not because of the kindness of father and son, but because of righteousness. Now even if you boil my son into soup, I will drink it. ”

Without the support of Cheng Ji and his troops, Pang Xi was powerless to fight Liu Zhang, so he had to abandon the idea of secession and instead apologize to Liu Zhang, who eventually forgave him.

Cheng Ji's persistence saved Yizhou from a possible military disaster, and his actions were soon known to Liu Zhang, who promoted Cheng Yi to Jiangyang Taishou to show his merits.

Although Pang Xi eventually went to the road of independence without secession, it was impossible for his relationship with Liu Zhang to return to the past, and Liu Zhang had to tolerate Pang Xi out of the need to confront Zhang Lu.