Chapter 385 The True Situation in Yizhou
Although in Yizhou, Liu Xin does not need too many generals for the time being, after all, Liu Xin's early plan is basically farming, waiting for Emperor Han Ling to drive the crane to the west before starting his next plan, but then again, Liu Xin is ready to take the barbarians in the south of Yizhou no matter what he says, first, to take back the southern Yizhou that fell into the hands of the barbarians, and secondly, it is also for the soldiers of the barbarians, after all, although the soldiers of the barbarians are not high, their personal combat power is good, and their physical fitness is also very good. Therefore, Liu Xin hoped to intensify the training of barbarian soldiers and train an elite army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although on a large-scale battlefield, it is still necessary to rely on the largest number of ordinary soldiers, but a unit that can be called an elite army has a very large impact on the war situation, and it is also the real morale of the entire army. Therefore, the morale of the troops will inevitably plummet.
Therefore, the major princes in the Three Kingdoms period were all working hard to build their own elite troops, from the earliest Gongsun Zhan Baima Yicong, Ju Yi's first Dengxian dead soldiers, to Dong Zhuo's Bingzhou Iron Cavalry in Luoyang. Dong Zhuo's Flying Bear Army, then Cao Cao's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Qingzhou Army, and even the most poor Liu Zhang's subordinates have a barely elite Dongzhou soldier.
Therefore, Liu Xin felt that no matter what, he still had to make an elite army of his own as the core of the Yizhou army.
Of course, these are all later words, and now Liu Xin only has a rough idea, how to prepare this elite army, Liu Xin can only say that he hasn't even thought about the name...
Liu Xin chatted with Dong Fu for a while, mainly studying the situation in Yizhou, after all, Dong Fu has lived in Yizhou for decades, and he is also one of the best people in Yizhou, so he knows the situation in Yizhou well, so Liu Xin learned a lot of news from Dong Fu.
First of all, the current Yizhou family is a wealthy family, nominally by the Zhang family of Shu County, that is, Zhang Su's family as the leader of the Yizhou family, but in the final analysis, this is just a decoration, no one really takes the Zhang family of Shu County seriously, after all, the family of Yizhou can be said to be a bright and dark fight, on the surface everyone is harmonious, but in fact, they stab each other for their own interests, the most important thing is that Yizhou is originally dominated by mountains and mountains, and the plain area is also around Chengdu City, There are not many places that can build a city, so there are very few places that can be divided by the wealthy families in Yizhou, so there are many conflicts of interest, and the Zhang family of Shu County, which occupies Chengdu City, has naturally become the target of envy and hatred of the wealthy families of Yizhou, so many wealthy families want to find an opportunity to kill the Zhang family of Shu County and replace the Zhang family of Shu County.
Therefore, the Zhang family of Shu County can only keep slapping the swollen face and filling the fat man, in order to maintain their status in the Yizhou family, they have been funding some of the wealthy families around themselves, hoping to establish a small alliance with these wealthy families, Dong Fu located in Mianzhu, Guanghan was also attracted by the Zhang family of Shu County, because Guanghan Mianzhu and Chengdu of Shu County are not far away, so Dong Fu also agreed to form an alliance with the Zhang family of Shu County, so the Zhang family of Shu County has always been the leader of the Yizhou family on the surface.
Of course, people's minds have changed, and now according to Dong Fu's knowledge, the life of the Zhang family in Shu County is getting more and more difficult, because many wealthy families in Yizhou are cutting off trade with the Zhang family in Shu County, resulting in the business of the Zhang family in Shu County becoming more and more unable to continue, after all, the Zhang family of Shu County is located in the hinterland of Yizhou, which is equivalent to being wrapped in the middle by other Yizhou family giants, and now the business of the Zhang family in Shu County is weakened a little bit, in order to maintain some basic business needs, The editor of the Zhang family in Shu County was able to send a caravan to leave Yizhou to go to Liangzhou or Hanzhong, and no matter how bad it was, he would go to Jingzhou to buy and sell goods, which led to a great increase in the commercial cost of the Zhang family in Shu County.
After all, the agriculture in Yizhou is not developed, and it can even be described as poor, after all, there is no suitable land for cultivation, so they can only rely on all kinds of special trade for commercial activities to obtain enough funds to maintain the stability of their own family, so now the business activities of the Zhang family in Shu County are becoming more and more difficult, which also leads to the more and more dangerous position of the Zhang family in Yizhou. According to Dong Fu's speculation, the Zhang family of Shu County will only be able to hand over his position as the leader of the Yizhou family in a few years.
Hearing this, Liu Xin finally understood why Zhang Su at that time chose to take refuge in himself so decisively, it turned out that the Zhang family of Shu County had also fallen into a dangerous situation, and because the geographical location of the Zhang family in Shu County was really not ideal, it was surrounded in a corner by other Yizhou family giants, and it was impossible to break and stand up, as for breaking out of the encirclement, it was simply a fool's dream.
Fortunately, Liu Xin's sudden appearance made the Zhang family of Shu County see hope, especially after Liu Xin held a successful auction, which made the Zhang family of Shu County even more confident and strengthened their confidence to follow Liu Xin, of course, Zhang Su was also thinking about his future.
However, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Zhang family of Shu County has been the leader of the Yizhou family for decades, so the Zhang family of Shu County still has several caravans that are among the best in the Yizhou area, and has several trade routes exclusive to the Zhang family of Shu County, and the Zhang family of Shu County has always mastered the business dealings with the Jingzhou family, which is an advantage that other Yizhou family giants do not have, which is also the reason why the Zhang family of Shu County has been able to survive until now.
However, the continuation of life should also be in accordance with the Basic Law, according to Dong Fu's understanding, now the caravans of the Zhang family in Shu County have also had internal problems, and many important people in the caravan have chosen to leave, and the reasons are also messy, some people say that they want to improve their treatment and the Zhang family of Shu County can not be satisfied, some people say that they are old and frail and want to retire, some people say that they want to go out and break through by themselves, of course, to put it bluntly, it is still those Yizhou family giants who want to find an opportunity to carve up the Zhang family in Shu County have recruited those important people in the caravan, In order to maintain the stability and normal operation of the caravan, the Zhang family of Shu County had to use money to stabilize the impetuous caravan, which made the situation worse and worse, and the form of the Zhang family in Shu County became less and less optimistic.
Therefore, Dong Fudu heard that the Zhang family of Shu County was ready to divide the family, and sent a clan to Jiaozhou to expand the business, although the Jiaozhou area is poor and backward, and the economy is lacking, the population is insufficient, and there are poisonous snakes and beasts everywhere, but there are still business opportunities in Jiaozhou, and it is easy to circle a suitable piece of land as the base of the family, and the tax in Jiaozhou is not high, after all, the emperor of Jiaozhou is far away, or Emperor Han Ling does not care about the taxes of Jiaozhou now, After all, the shabby place in Jiaozhou can't pay much money in a year, and the money of Jiaozhou officials alone may not be enough.
Therefore, the Zhang family of Shu County will want to go to Jiaozhou to try their luck, and the history of Jiaozhou's assassination, or directly the scholar's family of the Emperor of the soil, has a very good relationship with the Zhang family of Shu County, after all, the Zhang family of Shu County also has a caravan that specializes in running Jiaozhou, sending some goods from the Central Plains to Jiaozhou, you must know that only the Zhang family of Shu County in Yizhou will send a caravan to trade in the entire Jiaozhou, even if it is the four counties of Jingnan that are close to Jiaozhou, there is no caravan that will go to Jiaozhou for trade all year round, As for the wealthy families in the Yizhou area who are willing to go to Jiaozhou for trade, it is better, after all, from Yizhou to Jiaozhou in the south, you have to go through the deep mountains and old forests. Where there are not only a large number of poisonous snakes and beasts, but also the miasma that kills people in the invisible, and there are barbarians entrenched in it, if you are not careful, the caravan will be wiped out, and the people and money will be empty, so the caravans of those wealthy families in Yizhou do not dare to go to Jiaozhou for trade.
Therefore, the Zhang family of Shu County can be regarded as leaving a back road for themselves invisibly, in case the Zhang family of Shu County can't stay in Yizhou, then the Zhang family of Shu County can really only go to Jiaozhou, waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback.
However, Liu Xin was very happy to learn the news, after all, for Liu Xin, Jiaozhou is Liu Xin's next important target, after all, the poor Jiaozhou is a treasure land in Liu Xin's view, and it is also a good place for the construction of ocean-going ships in the future, and it is also an important port for ocean-going navigation, so Jiaozhou is a piece of land that Liu Xin must take as soon as possible.
So when Liu Xin learned that the Zhang family of Shu County had a relationship in Jiaozhou, he knew that it would be much more convenient for him to take Jiaozhou in the future, after all, although Jiaozhou is now said to be a state of the Han Dynasty, but in Liu Xin's view, or for most of the Han people, Jiaozhou is more like a subject country of the Han Dynasty, nominally belonging to the territory of the Han Dynasty, but in fact it has always been in a state of regional autonomy and is completely an independent small kingdom.
And Jiaozhou is really a poor mountain and bad water, after all, there are basically no talents in the Jiaozhou area, just like in some games about the Three Kingdoms, the Jiaozhou area is also the family of the Shi family, and then there are no other scribes and generals, especially like Liu Xin in the dark glory of the Three Kingdoms played before crossing into this world, the three main cities of Jiaozhou, Hepu, Nanhai, and Jiaozhi three places, each has only one member of the Shi family responsible for defending the city, and often a military general with tens of thousands of troops, Let Liu Xin be powerless to complain...
And this Shi family is indeed a legendary family from a certain point of view, and Shi Xie, the head of the Shi family, is also a character.
Shixie's character Weiyan, a native of Cangwu Guangxin, was a warlord who seized the Jiaozhou area during the Three Kingdoms period in the late Han Dynasty, and later belonged to Sun Quan of Eastern Wu and was added as a general of Zuo by Sun Quan; After that, he was moved to the general of Wei because of the merits of the Yonghong of the wealthy clan of Yizhou, and the marquis of Fenglong, and Shixie was also regarded as a more famous scribe in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his works include "Shixie Collection", "Spring and Autumn Scripture Note", "Ram Note", "Guliang Note" and passed on to the world.
Moreover, the Shi family was also the most powerful local force in Jiaozhou at that time, Shi Xie himself was Jiaozhi Taishou, the actual Jiaozhou Thorn History, and his younger brother Shiyi was Hepu Taishou; The second brother Huang You, is the nine true guards; The third brother Shiwu is the Taishou of the South China Sea, so most of the area of Jiaozhou is under the control of the Shi family, and some people even call Jiaozhou the four counties of the Shi family, which shows the strong influence of the Shi family in Jiaozhou.
So in Liu Xin's view, it's time for him to change the status quo of Jiaozhou, after all, Jiaozhou is not the Jiaozhou of the scholars, but the Jiaozhou of the Han Dynasty... Of course, the big man here refers to Liu Xin's big man...
Therefore, Liu Xin has decided to make a fuss with the help of the Zhang family of Shu County in Jiaozhou, so as to go to Jiaozhou to find trouble with the Shi family, after all, the prestige of the Shi family in Jiaozhou is too high, Liu Xin feels that if the prestige of the Shi family cannot be suppressed and control Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou is likely to start a rebellion because of the Shi family, just like in history, the Shi family suddenly chose to rebel, and the people of Jiaozhou responded en masse, it was effortless, and the Shi family rebelled successfully.
Therefore, Liu Xin felt that if he wanted to master the Jiaozhou region, he had to attack the Shi family and make the Shi family lose their influence on Jiaozhou, so as to prevent and control the sudden rebellion in Jiaozhou.
However, Liu Xin also knows that this is not a simple matter, after all, the Shi family has been operating in Jiaozhou for hundreds of years, and the status of the Shi family in Jiaozhou is higher than that of the Nanyue Wang Wei He (that is, Zhao Tuo), according to historical records, the family members of the Shi family have bells and chimes when they enter and exit, equipped with prestige, the flute is preached, the car is full of roads, and there are often dozens of Shamen (that is, small monks) sandwiched in the chariots and horses to burn incense, and their wives and concubines are all in small cars equipped with curtains, and the children have soldiers riding horses behind them, It can be seen that the members of the Shi family at that time were distinguished and prominent, and they were shocked by the local ethnic minorities in Jiaozhou.
However, when he broke into the bridge, he naturally went straight, and Liu Xin felt that it was a big deal to find a reason to move all the family members of the Shi family out of Jiaozhou after taking control of Yizhou.
After Liu Xin thought about how to deal with the scholars in Jiaozhou, Dong Fu told Liu Xin one more thing, that is, the barbarian movement in the southern region of Yizhou.
According to Dong Fu's introduction and Liu Xin's own understanding, the southern region of Yizhou has now fallen under the control of the barbarians, but these barbarians in the southern area of Yizhou have lived together with the Han people for a long time, so they have not expelled and persecuted the local Han people, and they still live together in harmony, but they maintain a disregard for the Han officials, so the local Han officials are basically in a state of complete transparency, and the barbarians don't take these Han officials seriously at all. As for the Han decree implemented, it was still treated as a piece of waste paper.
And the Han court also said that it was laissez-faire, after all, as long as these barbarians in the south of Yizhou did not rebel, there would be no big problem, anyway, the situation in the south of Yizhou was similar to that of the Jiaozhou region, and the taxes received all year round were not enough to pay the local officials, so as long as the southern part of Yizhou still belonged to the territory of the Han Dynasty, there was nothing to say.
However, recently Dong Fu heard a bad news, the barbarians in the south of Yizhou have changed, the barbarian tribes that were originally separate began to merge little by little, and have formed several large tribes from the original dozens of small and medium-sized tribes, and there have been several frictions between each other, and there is a posture of armed annexation, and the barbarians in Yizhou have also responded to the situation of the barbarians in the south of Yizhou, and several barbarians in Ba County of Shu County have begun to go south and join these large barbarian tribes.
That's right, these barbarian tribes that were originally independent have now begun to merge and annex each other, and they have the potential to establish a barbarian state, which is not good news for Liu Xin.
After all, dozens of separate barbarian tribes are far less threatening than a unified barbarian country, even if the number of the former is several times that of the latter, it is a small problem for Liu Xin, as long as he finds the opportunity to break through each one.
But a unified barbarian country, that is a big problem, this is like those Huns in the north of the Han Dynasty, a unified Xiongnu tribe brought great trouble to the Han, and also forced the Han to sign an unequal treaty, but when the Xiongnu tribe was broken by the Han and divided into two tribes, there were various contradictions within the Xiongnu, the two Xiongnu tribes fought each other, and the weaker side often sought the help of the Han, Although the combined strength of the two Xiongnu tribes seems to be more than the previously unified Xiongnu tribes, the threat of these two separated Xiongnu tribes to the Han Dynasty has been greatly reduced, and it can even be said that it is not worth mentioning.
The strength of a unified country lies in the fact that the country will not be affected by civil strife. Just like the alliance of the eighteenth road princes to defeat Dong Zhuo, even if the total strength of the eighteenth road princes is more than Dong Zhuo, and the overall quantity and quality of the generals are much higher than Dong Zhuo, but the eighteenth road princes alliance army fights separately, in order to preserve their own strength and all kinds of strokes and soy sauce, so the combat effectiveness exerted is far inferior to Dong Zhuo, if Dong Zhuo did not admit it in the end, otherwise Liu Xin felt that Dong Zhuo really had a chance to directly break the eighteenth road princes' alliance.
And the same is true of those barbarian tribes in the south of Yizhou, originally these barbarian tribes that fought separately had conflicts with each other for various reasons, and they have always been hostile to each other and friction, so for the Han, the situation in the south of Yizhou is not bad, after all, it will not threaten the rule of the Han over the Yizhou region.
But if the barbarians in the south of Yizhou complete the unification and form a barbarian state, it will be a big trouble for the Han Dynasty, or for Liu Xin now, after all, according to the characteristics of the barbarian people, they will soon be able to make up a huge army, which will be a disaster for the Yizhou region, after all, the officers and troops in the Yizhou area are not only scattered, but also because of the terrain, the speed of mutual support in each region has been limited. Moreover, the overall number of Yizhou's officers and troops is relatively small, and how to fight with this unified barbarian country is at an absolute disadvantage.
ps:Chapter 2 is updated with fate.。。。