Meals should be eaten one bite at a time, and things should be done one by one. Ma Riyan, Huangfu Song and Ding Gong have been in government for a long time, and they know that it is not appropriate to persuade them at this time. Now, as long as Yuan Shu is allowed to understand the attitude of the scholars and bureaucrats in the Chang'an court towards the settlement of the Gyeonggi crisis, and as long as the army of Dong can be temporarily transferred and shelved from this intensifying contradiction within the imperial court, and instead concentrate on suppressing the rebellion, this matter will eventually take an unpredictable turn with the gradual continuation of time and the ever-changing situation.

Whether it is a scholar or a warrior of the Han Dynasty, no one wants to destroy this society on which they depend. For example, now, when the scourge of ant thieves in Qingzhou endangered the safety of the Han Dynasty, the warriors and scholars who were on the opposite side immediately gave up the fight, just like the traitors and the party members of the year, when the catastrophe was coming, everyone put aside each other's grudges without hesitation, and worked together to kill the huge threat that endangered their own survival.

The turning point to save the Han will inevitably appear with the pacification of the Qingzhou ant thieves.

Ma Riyan said: "Since you keep saying that you respect the Son of Heaven and are loyal to the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven wants you to send the taxes to the Dasi Nong Mansion, are you willing?" ”

Yuan Shu smiled: "Of course I am willing, but I can't take it out now." Since December last year, I have been fighting against Dong. It's been five months now, how much do you think I'm going to spend? Also, I am about to reorganize the army to go to Yanqing and Xu Sanzhou to quell the rebellion, my army, Sun Jian's army, Yuzhou's army, as well as the army of the Hussar General and Gongsun Zan in Northern Xinjiang, tens of thousands of troops need food and baggage, how much grain do you say I want to prepare? Please three of you will play back to Your Majesty, the minister is indeed powerless."

Ma Riyan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Then let's do it, don't block the road to Wuguan, you get out of the way, so that the rich people in the gate can come to Nanyang to buy grain, okay?" ”

Yuan Shu faced the aggressive eyes of Ma Riyan and the three of them. Hesitantly said, "You know, Yuan Shao has been fighting with me for the inheritance of the head of the family recently......

"Okay, I'll fix it for you." Ma Riyan said angrily, "I will stay with Yizhen and lobby around for you." Yuanxiong immediately returned to Beijing with your recital and your copy of the letter that had been written all over the world, and asked His Majesty for a letter of commendation for you. In this way, you should be sure that you will inherit the head of the family, right? ”

Yuan Shu smiled slightly, and said with satisfaction: "As soon as the Son of Heaven's holy decree arrives, I will immediately get out of the way." ”

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At about the same time that Yuan Shu received the holy decree, Li Yi, who was stationed in Xiangcheng, also received the holy decree.

The Son of Heaven worshiped Li Yi and led the military with the rank of hussar general.

In the Han Dynasty, generals have always been served by relatives, and Li Yi is not a relative, and he can only lead concurrently according to the law. Now that the Son of Heaven is young, Dong Zhuo is in charge, and worshipping Li Yi as the acting general is obviously Dong Zhuo who wants to win over Li Yi. It has nothing to do with the favor of the Son of Heaven.

The general was in charge of the Quartet expedition, so the Son of Heaven specially issued an order, taking into account the current situation of the Han Dynasty, to order Li Yi to take charge of the military affairs of the seven prefectures of Sili, Bing, You, Hebei, Yan, Qing, and Xu, as well as the Liaodong Metropolitan Protectorate and the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and quickly quell the Gyeonggi crisis and the ant thief rebellion.

Li Yi received the holy decree and began to plan intensively. The reason why he was so eager to go to Yuyanqing and Xu Sizhou to suppress the rebellion was not that he really intended to help the princes of these places, but for the population of these places.

As a reborn. Li Yi is very aware of the rebellion in these places. By the time the local princes were free to suppress the bandits, at least seven out of ten men would die. The reason why the population of the Han Dynasty, which peaked at more than 60 million in just a few decades, slipped to only more than 10 million people, is in addition to the casualties caused by the mutual conquest between the princes. The proliferation of rebellions in various parts of the country is also an important reason. These princes born and raised in the Eastern Han Dynasty have no people in their hearts at all, they treat the people as ants, as livestock, and loot **** at will. One by one, they all took human life very lightly. Killing at every turn is slaughter.

Li Yi knows very well that it is difficult for him to change the concept of these people, and he cannot stop their behavior. Therefore, he can only do everything possible to reduce the civilian casualties caused by these acts. His plan was to use grain to open the way after going to these states, persuade the rebellious people as much as possible, and move them to the north.

In fact, in today's northern Xinjiang, because of a series of advanced agricultural technologies exchanged by Li Yi through the summoning system, the production capacity has been fundamentally changed.

With a population of just over 15 million square kilometers of land, the scarcity of the population is evident. This is simply less dense than the population density of later Canada. Canada's 10 million square kilometers of land still have a population of more than 35 million.

According to the private statistics of the Li Chamber of Commerce, there are about 40 million people in the Central Plains and the ten states in the south at this moment. Li Yi hopes that through his own efforts, at least five million people will be relocated to northern Xinjiang, and there is no upper limit, the more the better.

Therefore, Li Yi was very happy after seeing Yuan Shu's essay and reply. He decided to agree to Yuan Shu's conditions, and immediately discussed with Yuan Shu specific checks and balances and joint troops to quell the rebellion, and strived to form a counterinsurgency army with Yuan Shu to Xuzhou to quell the rebellion before the beginning of July.

However, Li Yi felt that it was estimated that it would be very difficult to negotiate peace with Yuan Shao, because the differences between the two sides were too great, and it was impossible for Yuan Shao to give up his rights, so Li Yi asked Mu Guiying, who stayed in Youzhou, and Xu Da, who stayed in Youzhou, to discuss a way as soon as possible, taking advantage of the opportunity of Yuan Shao's endless struggle with the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro and the shortage of food and grass, to take the initiative to attack and hit Yuan Shao hard, so as to kill him the best, so as not to leave endless disasters in the future.

Li Yi sent Guo Jia to Luoyang and did everything possible to persuade Zhu Jun, using Zhu Jun's prestige to first settle the matter of tripartite checks and balances, so that it was possible to send troops to Xuzhou.

In addition, he also decided to organize manpower to go to Yuzhou and Jingzhou to buy grain, help the displaced people, and help Zhu Jun stabilize Henan Yin.

Li Yi wrote a letter to Zhang Yan, ordering him to immediately send people to Montenegro to contact the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, and try his best to persuade Bai Huanyu and others to lead their troops down the mountain. Of course, it is a good thing to be willing to be cared for, and it doesn't matter if you are not willing to be cared for, they can go to Changshan, Zhongshan, Julu and Tuntian in the four counties of Zhao in Jizhou, as long as they do not cause trouble to the Han Dynasty, some things will be talked about in the future.

Li Yi said: "If the army of Bai Huanyu Yu and others crosses the Yellow River and joins the Yellow Turban armies such as Sima Ju and Xu He in Yanzhou and Qingzhou, the Central Plains will inevitably be in chaos, and it will not be a matter of one or two days before this riot is pacified." ”

In the end, Li Yi wrote a letter to Dong Zhuo, asking him to let Zhang Xiu, Xu Rong and others collect their troops and return to Luoyang according to the previous agreement between the two parties. Li Yi felt that the strength of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian had been greatly weakened, and if Zhang Xiu, Xu Rong and others were allowed to continue to attack Sun Jian and Yuan Shu, his goal would probably be difficult to achieve.

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Hanoi, Huai Thanh.

In the quiet study, Yuan Shao looked at the map on the desk and pondered.

The Qingzhou ant thief riot had long been expected by him, but the scale and spread of the ant thief riot far exceeded his imagination, and the result completely disrupted his plan to woo Dong.

Yuan Shao originally planned to force the hussar general Li Yi to join forces with himself to capture Luoyang in April, and then re-establish the vassal king as the emperor and Zhongxing Sheji.

However, this strategy failed miserably with the defeat of Xingyang, the riot of ant thieves, Dong Zhuo's retreat to Chang'an, and Han Fu, Qiao Mao, Zhang Miao and others were forced to betray the alliance due to the situation.

Now that the crisis in northern Xinjiang is gradually easing, Li Yi has gradually taken control of the initiative, even with the princess's supervision, the emperor's edict and Liu Yu's order, he can't force him to bow to the Dong army.

Without the help of the Northern Xinjiang Army, it would be impossible to achieve the goal of fighting Dong by relying on the strength of the Dong army alone, as evidenced by the failures of Yuan Shu, Sun Jian, Kong Ling and others.

Once Dong Zhuo and Li Yi grasped enough advantages and initiative, they would suffer from the Dong army, but the little advantage they had just gained was instantly destroyed with the rapid spread of the ant thief riot.

The ant thief riot became more and more severe, which not only severely dealt a blow to the strength and morale of Dong Dajun, but also pushed Dong Zhuo and Li Yi into the predicament again. Now, no matter how hard Dong Zhuo and Li Yi try, they can't stabilize the situation in Gyeonggi.

The ant thief riots in the four prefectures of Yanqing and Xu have formed a huge scale, and if they are allowed to rage and are not pacified, the first will be the destruction of lives, the barren fields, and then the disaster of the displaced people. Millions, if not tens of millions, of displaced people are like locusts, and wherever they go, they will be wiped out and riots will erupt one after another.

Naturally, the small land of Gyeonggi is not immune to this wave of displaced people. Gyeonggi is in turmoil, various states and counties are in chaos, and Sheji is only one step away from defeat.

Yuan Shao sighed softly, and his eyes were fixed on Heyang City on the map. Wang Kuang, Han Hao and others 10,000 Hanoi troops were stationed here, unable to move.

As early as when Yuan Shu, Sun Jian and others launched a rapid attack on Luoyang, Zhu Jun sent several letters urging Yuan Shao to concentrate his forces and cross the river to attack at all costs, so as to contain the forces of the Xiliang army in the Yin territory of Henan, and to respond to the attack of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian in the south of Luoyang, and take the opportunity to occupy Luoyang, but Yuan Shao was forced by the grim situation in Hanoi County to delay and give up such a good opportunity in vain.

Yuan Shao wanted to enter Luoyang, so he later acquiesced to Qiao Mao, Zhang Miao, and Kong Ling's money and food assistance to Zhu Jun. He didn't want to see the homeless people in Luoyang become a disaster, and he didn't want to see the palaces and cemeteries in Luoyang become ruins.

Luoyang has become a ruin, not only a question of how much money will be spent to rebuild in the future, but also a matter of the people of the world who have lost their loyalty and hope to the Han Dynasty.

The capital is the symbol of Han Zuo, the capital is gone, and Han Zuo exists in name only, which is an unbearable blow to the people of the world, and the blow to the Han Guozuo is even more devastating.

If Yuan Shao can advance to Luoyang, his reputation and prestige will reach the peak, not to mention inheriting the head of the family of Yuan Valve, even if he proposes to re-establish the vassal king as the emperor to take charge of state affairs, it is estimated that no one will dare to object. (To be continued.) )

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