Chapter 212: Heading North (I)
No matter where Zheng Xuan, Bing Yuan and even the entire Langya Academy go, Liu Cun no longer cares, he invested huge manpower and financial resources to build the Langya Academy, which is second to none in the Han Dynasty, for many reasons, but the main purpose is to gather popularity for himself and create his own political influence.
At the beginning, Liu Cun's original intention of opening Langya Agricultural Business College was to promote the spread of science and technology, to enhance his own strength, and to cultivate construction talents from all walks of life, but there was no clear political purpose.
It wasn't until two years ago that Liu Cun finally saw the nature of the feudal ruling class gradually exposed in Langya Academy, and a large number of elites of the landlord class and agents of the powerful and powerful lords gathered in it, which was completely different from Liu Cun's expectations, and gradually drifted away and began to move towards confrontation.
Disillusioned, Liu Cun decisively promoted the fruitful and increasingly influential Langya Agricultural Business School to a higher level, vigorously cultivated new talents who were loyal to himself, resisted public opinion, withstood secular pressure, and absorbed batches of young new talents into the political power at all levels.
Liu Cun has achieved huge benefits in this move.
The reputation of Langya Agricultural Business School and its attraction to talents from all over the world have increased exponentially, and Liu Cun has not only ensured his dominance and right to speak, but also won the heartfelt support of the general public and the world's poor scholars.
Today, the former Langya Agricultural Business School has been upgraded to a larger, more complete disciplines, more influential Jinan University, this loyal to Liu Cun University, gradually showed great political potential and appeal, began to embark on the track of rapid development, outstanding talents from various fields have been able to fully meet Liu Cun's needs.
Under such circumstances, the Langya Academy, which gathers the so-called famous scholars of the Han Dynasty and the great Confucianism of the world, is no longer important to Liu Cun. If only they had come to their senses in time. Change course and sincerely return. Liu Cun will still accept and reuse them with open arms, and if they resist and stubbornly, Liu Cun will completely abandon them, or even suppress them mercilessly.
On the morning of the next day, Liu Cun, who had returned to Jinan, slept for only two hours, and then had a secret discussion with his henchmen who had been waiting for a long time, and analyzed and predicted the dynamics of the princes and the wars that were going on one after another, and soon found out that after Cao Cao withdrew his troops. Tao Qian of Xuzhou, Wu Jing of Yangzhou, and Yuan Shu of Huainan immediately stopped a series of movements, and Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and most of Yuzhou were incredibly calm.
"The secret report sent back for several days said that Lord Tao Qian's health is deteriorating, and it is estimated that it will not be long before it, Lord Mi Zhu received an urgent call from Lord Tao Qian to rush to Xiapi the day before yesterday, and he should have been by Lord Tao Qian's side at this time." Lu Jiu, the intelligence chief of the Qingzhou military and political group, broke the silence.
Liu Cun realized something, and raised his eyes to look at Gongsun Pei, Zhao Rong, Guan Ning, Cangci, Xu Yi and Guo Yuan and other strategists sitting on the left side.
Zhao Rong coughed lightly and said his prediction: "After Cao Mengde had to go back to the division to rescue the lair, Xuzhou would no longer be under pressure from the enemy on many sides, and the princes of Yangzhou and Yuzhou, who wanted to take advantage of the fire, naturally quieted down. It is estimated that now they are all looking at Xiapi, hoping that Lord Tao Gongzu will die soon......"
"Hmph. As long as Lord Tao Gongzu dies, the leaderless major families and forces in Xuzhou will inevitably break out into a civil war, not to mention anything else, just say that Zang Ba, who has 40,000 troops to guard the line from Yinping to Fuyang (now south of Zaozhuang, Shandong), has already secretly communicated with Cao Mengde, and the reason why there was no change when Cao Mengde's army pressed the border was entirely because the two divisions of our army were behind him, which made him timid and afraid! ”
"If Lord Tao Gongzu dies, Zang Ba and the army led by him will definitely be exposed, maybe take advantage of the chaos to suddenly burst out, attack Cao Bao's 50,000 rabble and then capture Pengcheng, I have to guard against it!"
"Jumping clown, why be afraid?"
Guan Ning smiled coldly: "If such a situation occurs, I'm afraid our army will have to unite with Lord Mi Zhu's army to take back Pengcheng." After several years of training, this world-renowned celebrity no longer has the pedantry and short-sightedness of a great Han literati.
Everyone reacted quickly, Liu Cun nodded, and asked Gongsun Pei: "Speaking of which, Lord Tao Gongzu's health has risen to the height of the safety of my Han world, at least before we take Jizhou, Lord Tao must not die!" ”
Liu Cun's undisguised straightforward language stunned everyone, and then a low laugh sounded.
Gongsun Pei couldn't help but smile: "Not only can't you die, but you have to live well, and the longer you live, the better." ”
Guo Yuan immediately raised his hand and saluted: "My lord, my subordinates are willing to immediately lead the famous doctors of the medical school to Xiapi." ”
Without waiting for Liu Cun to speak, Guan Ning had already said what Liu Cun wanted to say: "You can't go to Xiapi, as my liaison envoy between Qingzhou and the imperial court, you have to rush to Luoyang as soon as possible......"
"Chang'an's Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou and other forces have moved from infighting to splitting, maybe there is already a fight at this moment, you must rush to Luoyang as soon as possible, and work together with Cheng Yu, Mao Jue, Cui Yan, Gongsun Fang, Xu Sheng, General Guan Hai and others, and quickly unite with General Yang Feng stationed in Hangu Pass to start the rescue plan!"
"If necessary, you can send troops to Tongguan without hesitation, and smoothly take the emperor and the Chinese military officials back to Luoyang, and there must be no mistakes in this trip!" Therefore, I will go to Xiapi, I am familiar with all the gate valve families in Xuzhou. ”
Everyone felt that Guan Ning was the best candidate to go to Xiapi, and Liu Cun also felt that Guan Ning was the most suitable to go to Xuzhou, not only to calm Taoqian's heart, but also to mediate calmly between the major forces.
Gongsun Pei added: "In order to ensure the health of Lord Tao Gongzu, my subordinates suggested that it is best to invite Mr. Hua Tuohua from Luoyang Medical Center to go in person, most of the doctors of Jinan Medical College, including the dean of Jinan Medical College, Lord Wu Pu, have not returned to treat the plague in Yizhou, and there are only a few doctors left in Jinan." ”
Liu Cun immediately understood what Gongsun Pei meant, and it was the safest to ask the divine doctor Hua Tuo to take a trip to Xiapi.
Now, Tao Qian's life and death is not only related to the next strategic issue of seeking Xuzhou, but also involves the ongoing major strategy of seeking Jizhou, before defeating Yuan Shao and completely taking Jizhou, Tao Qian must not die, otherwise he will fall into a crisis of two-sided or even multi-sided warfare.
Seeing this, Zhao Rong suggested again: "At this moment, the battle situation in Youzhou has reached a critical moment, and after General Gongsun Bogui besieged Fanyang City in accordance with the advice of the lord, he immediately mobilized 50,000 horsemen and soldiers to divide into three routes to launch a comprehensive sweep of the entire Youzhou, and repeatedly sent letters requesting the lord to go north to meet and conclude a formal covenant. ”
The civil and military forces who had reached a consensus echoed one after another, and Liu Cun, who had long wanted to go north to Jizhou to appease Gongsun Zhan, and then quietly traveled westward but had another great wish, immediately decided to leave early tomorrow morning.
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