Among the three important ministers of the Yizhou group left by Liu Yan, except for Liu Zhang's son and daughter Pang Xi, who did not rebel, Zhang Lu and Zhao Wei finally chose to confront Liu Zhang, Zhang Lu seized Hanzhong and became independent, and Zhao Wei was defeated and killed.

[Zhang Lu who was forced to rebel]

Zhang Lu was one of the core figures under Liu Yan's command, the northern barrier of Yizhou, and when Liu Yan was alive, Zhang Lu placed his family in Yizhou to show his obedience to Liu Yan.

But after Liu Yan's death, Liu Zhang's personality was cowardly and not majestic, so Zhang Lu also thought that Liu Zhang was confused and was very disobedient to Liu Zhang.

At that time, Zhang Lu was not recognized by the imperial court, and was still nominally a thief, but in fact he had established a separatist force in the Hanzhong region of politics ~ religion ~ integration ~ unity, and his strength should not be underestimated.

Liu Zhang was very angry with Zhang Lu's attitude towards him, so he killed Zhang Lu's mother and younger brother in Yizhou on the grounds that Zhang Lu did not obey him, making Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang turn against each other and become a pair of mortal enemies.

Since Hanzhong County, which Zhang Lu occupies, is the gateway to Yizhou, the geographical location is very important, and Hanzhong County itself is also a large county, which is impossible for Liu Zhang to give up.

Therefore, in order to eliminate Zhang Lu, Liu Zhang sent Pang Xi, the No. 3 person in Yizhou at that time, and he crusaded against Zhang Lu many times, but Zhang Lu and Shen Mi, Lou Fa, Gan Ning and others are not a heavyweight at all, he has been entrenched in Hanzhong for a long time, won the hearts of the people, and has long been unique, and the manpower, material resources, and financial resources he has are incomparable with Shen, Lou, Gan and others who temporarily revolted.

On the other hand, Pang Xi's own military level is not very outstanding, although he attacked Hanzhong many times, he was basically repelled by Zhang Lu, and Liu Zhang's army achieved few results.

In this case, in order to limit Zhang Lu's further development, in the sixth year of Jian'an (201), Liu Zhang divided Ba County and Dianjiang above the county into Brazil County. At that time, most of Zhang Lu's army was subordinate to that area, so Liu Zhang simply appointed Pang Xi as the Brazilian Taishou and asked him to defend against Zhang Lu.

Pang Xi's battle with Zhang Lu was still not smooth after he became the Brazilian Taishou, and even allowed Zhang Lu to capture Brazil County for a time.

Zhang Lu was eventually able to break free from Liu Zhang's control and gain independence in the Hanzhong region, while instead threatening Liu Zhang's rule in Yizhou. Zhang Lu's betrayal can be said to be Liu Zhang's self-inflicted blame and a very incompetent performance.

【Failed Zhao Wei】

Zhao Wei was the number two person within the Yizhou Group at that time, the leader of the Yizhou local group, and his reputation and status were only second only to Liu Zhang. As mentioned earlier, Zhao Wei was a Brazilian from Yizhou, and strictly from Ba County, Yizhou at that time.

Zhao Wei was one of the first people to follow Liu Yan into Yizhou, one of the absolute core figures in the Yizhou group, and he made political investments in Liu Yan when he became the pastor of Yizhou, and eventually became a great success.

After Liu Yan's death, Zhao Wei, who was under one person and above 10,000 people in Yizhou, had already begun to have other ideas.

This can be seen from the fact that after Liu Yan's death, Zhao Wei chose Liu Zhang, who had a gentle and cowardly personality, instead of Liu Mao, and recommended Liu Zhang to the imperial court as the assassin of Yizhou, rather than the pastor of Yizhou.

Zhao Wei wanted to make Liu Zhang a puppet from the beginning, and let himself really control Yizhou.

But people are not as good as heaven, and the Chang'an court did not adopt the opinions of Zhao Wei, the ministers of Yizhou, and directly let Liu Zhang completely inherit Liu Yan's position, become the envoy of Yizhou's pastor and supervisor, and nominally completely possess the military and political power of Yizhou.

He also appointed Zhao Wei as the general of Zhengdong Zhonglang, sent him to lead the army to crusade against Liu Biao, and combined with Li Guo's court to add a holiday to Liu Biao, and supervised the appointment of Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Jiaozhou.

The appointment of the imperial court directly ruined Zhao Wei's puppet plan, and the power of Yizhou Mu was not at all comparable to that of a state dominated by supervision, and Zhao Wei had to temporarily stop and wait for the opportunity to come again.

After Zhao Wei suppressed the rebellion of Shen Mi, Lou Fa, Gan Ning and others, in order to deter and guard against Liu Biao, Liu Zhang asked him to garrison Yu Quren, which allowed Zhao Wei to leave Chengdu, which can be said to give him space to move freely.

But what really gave Zhao Wei the confidence to prepare for the rebellion was the intensification of the contradictions between the Dongzhou people and the Yizhou natives.

After Liu Zhang came to power, his prestige was far inferior to Liu Yan, and the people of Dongzhou began to take the opportunity to oppress the local people of Yizhou, bullying and tyranny, and the influence on the people was very bad, but Liu Zhang himself could not stop it, and the people of Yizhou were very complaining about Liu Zhang, and the local scholars in Yizhou no longer trusted Liu Zhang and had the idea of betrayal.

Later, Liu Zhang sent Zhao Wei to mediate the conflict between the Dongzhou people and the Yizhou natives, so that the matter was temporarily alleviated.

But Zhao Wei has also won the trust of Liu Zhang and local people in Yizhou.

After Liu Zhang became the pastor of Yizhou, Zhao Wei was no longer able to turn him into his puppet at that time, so he secretly decided to rebel and remove Liu Zhang from controlling Yizhou. And Zhao Wei himself is also very popular in Yizhou, and Liu Zhang is very important and has handed over all the power to him. So, Zhao Wei used Liu Zhang's trust to win over the local scholars, landlords and some soldiers in Yizhou who were dissatisfied with Liu Zhang, on the one hand, and colluded with the local clans in Yizhou, and on the other hand, he bribed Jingzhou officials through property to reduce external forces.

As for Liu Zhang and the Dongzhou people, they were the targets of Zhao Wei and the local group in Yizhou.

Zhao Wei had made all the preparations, and at that time Pang Xi and Zhang Lu were facing each other in the north, so he decisively waved his army and launched a rebellion.

In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Zhao Yun rebelled, turned his troops to attack Liu Zhang, Shu responded in many places, Shu County, Guanghan, and Qianwei all betrayed Liu Zhang to respond to Zhao Wei, and the rebels once besieged Liu Zhang in Chengdu.

And Liu Zhang and the people of Dongzhou are also doing their best in the face of this moment of life and death. At that time, Liu Zhang was stubborn in Chengdu, and the people of Dongzhou were afraid of the retaliation and killing of the Yizhou people, so they all worked together to fight to the death for Liu Zhang, and finally succeeded in repelling Zhao Wei's rebels.

After Zhao Wei failed to attack Liu Zhang, he fled to Jiangzhou, and the Dongzhou soldiers also pursued him, and Zhao Wei's subordinate generals Pang Le and Li Yi betrayed Zhao Wei and killed him after the victory was hopeless, and Zhao Wei's rebellion was put down.

Zhao Wei's preparations before the rebellion could not but be said to be insufficient, and even the timing of his rebellion was just right, but no one expected that the phrase "strong dragons do not suppress the head snake" is not suitable for Bashu at all, a small snake from outside actually abused the local head dragon, and those local tyrants in Yizhou can't even deal with foreign refugees, who would have thought about this!

To say that the Bashu people are "civil war laymen", judging from Zhao Wei's defeat, is not too much at all.

Zhao Wei's failure is not only his personal failure, but also the failure of the entire Yizhou local group.