Cao Cao's mood was very complicated, but whether it was Xun Yu, Xi Zhicai or Guo Jia, they couldn't understand Liu's move of going to Luoyang to work and lose money regardless of Jizhou.

After Liu Cun plotted to capture Bohai County and Taishan County before, everyone thought that this was the prelude to Liu Cun's expansion of power, and the strategists, including Xun Yu, had clearly predicted that Liu Cun's next target to occupy must be Jizhou.

But now, as the pastor of Jizhou, Liu Cun ignored Yuan Shao's occupation of most of Jizhou, but in the name of the general of the chariot cavalry, he called on the princes of the world to work together to rebuild the abandoned abandoned capital Luoyang, and took the lead in spending a huge amount of precious money and manpower and material resources on the restoration of the old capital, which not only broke the prophecy of Xun Yu and others, but also made Xun Yu and others shout "I can't understand".

The inference of the military advisor Xi Zhicai is very representative: "The ruined capital Luoyang has become a dead place, and what Liu Zijian can get here is only a ruin with Luoyang as the center within a radius of 300 miles." ”

"It is separated by a river to the north, and from west to east are Hedong County occupied by Zhang Yang and Hanoi County occupied by Yuan Shao; The west of Luoyang starts from Michi, and it is most of Hongnong County occupied by Yang Feng, a general under Dong Zhuo in the past; In the south, Zhang Ji occupied Nanyang and Wuguan, not only blocking Luoyang's southward road, but also attacking Luoyang north at any time; To the east, in the area east of the Tiger Prison, is the army of Lu Bu, which is as difficult to control as a fierce tiger! ”

"These people from all directions, as long as any of them are restless all the way, it will make Liu Zijian, who spent a lot of money to repair Luoyang, sleep!"

Secondly, Liu Zijian has given up the position of Qingzhou pastor to Liu Ye, who is also a relative of the Han family. In addition to the false title of Jizhou pastor, he held it. There is only the general of the Che Cavalry who was sealed by the Chang'an Imperial Court. Now in the name of the general of the chariot cavalry, he sent nearly 10,000 troops and tens of thousands of people to Luoyang to repair the abandoned capital, no matter how you look at it, it is a righteous act of loyalty to the emperor and the imperial court, and it is indeed in line with Liu Zijian's style! ”

"After several fierce battles for power, Chang'an's population has doubled and food is extremely scarce, if Liu Zijian can restore Luoyang and restore the land cultivation in the surrounding three counties. Whether it is for the emperor and courtiers, or for Li Dao and his party, and even for the Han world, it is a great help. ”

However, for Liu Zijian himself, all this seems to have no tangible benefits except for showing virtue and loyalty, and the only thing worth looking forward to is to wait for the opportunity to move and send troops to Chang'an to rescue the Son of Heaven. Then he coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes to ...... But judging from the current situation, it is extremely difficult for Liu Zijian to do this! ”

Cao Cao thought so. He pondered it repeatedly, weighed it again and again, and made the worst assumptions, but he still couldn't see the far-reaching intentions of Liu Cun's move, and finally could only accept the analysis of Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia:

No matter how strong the Qingzhou naval army is, without the support and coordination of the land infantry army, Liu Cun cannot echo Qingzhou across the Hebei and Yan'er Prefectures, unless Liu Cun really dares to start a war with Jizhou or Yanzhou.

But this is unlikely.

If Liu Cun really wanted to annex Ji and Yan Erzhou, he should have done it long ago before Ji and Yan Erzhou were recovered by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, and there was no need to go near and far, and he would be cocooned by Luoyang, the waste capital surrounded on all sides, and he would have to spend huge manpower and material resources to work for the Han Dynasty in the twilight of the West Mountain!

Cao Cao and his subordinate Wen Wu came to the final conclusion:

Liu Zijian's move is indeed loyal to the Han Emperor and the Han court, even if he has hidden ambitions, it is also a matter of the future, at least for three or five years, Jizhou and Yanzhou do not need to worry about this!

Due to the rapid progress of Yuan Shu's conquest of Yuzhou, he took the entire Yuzhou before the first heavy snow fell in late November, and also recruited the Yellow Turban Army of the Five Roads entrenched in western and southern Henan, and the number of troops under his command soared to 150,000.

Cao Cao and his subordinate Wenwu were deeply shocked, and no longer had the energy to delve into Liu Cun's far-reaching intentions in entering Luoyang, even if Liu Cun was ambitious and premeditated, it was a matter of the future, Cao Cao and his subordinate Wenwu had to concentrate on dealing with the threat of Yuzhou Yuan Shu, and immediately thought of Liu Biao of Jingzhou, who had a grudge against Yuan Shu.

What made Cao Cao bitter was that Yuan Shao, who had no worries, used means such as bribery and differentiation to join forces with the Xiongnu in the Fuluo Department, and won two great victories in early and mid-December respectively, killing more than half of the more than 100,000 Black Mountain Yellow Turbans and escaping far into the mountains.

After the pacification of the west of Jizhou, Yuan Shao quickly incorporated the more than 60,000 Yellow Turban troops under his command into his subordinate units, and all of them went to Dangyin (now Tangyin, Henan) and Dongwuyang (now Shen County, Shandong) across the river from Yanzhou to organize and exercise, and the total strength under his command soared to 130,000 horses.

The powerful people from all over Jizhou responded to Yuan Shao's call, and they not only helped Yuan Shao successfully overcome the difficulties of lack of food in winter, but also raised a huge amount of funds for Yuan Shao, bought batches of new weapons and armor from Qingzhou, and equipped all the new departments, which made Cao Cao and his subordinates frightened, and they were deeply afraid that the Yuan brothers would join forces again to carry out a north-south attack on Yanzhou.

At this moment, something happened that made Cao Cao extremely sad but helpless: Chen Gong, who had a straightforward personality and was resourceful, finally ran away in anger after Cao Cao killed Bian Rang, who refused to use his talent and often made sarcastic remarks!

Bian Rang, who had just returned to seclusion from the post of Jiujiang Taishou, was Chen Liuren, who was erudite and eloquent since he was a child, and could write articles, and once wrote "Zhang Huafu", which was famous for a while, and was a close friend of Chen Gong for many years, and he was also a proud disciple of the great Confucian Cai Yong. Cao Cao was furious and killed Bian Rang, which not only made Chen Gong deviate from morality, but also made Yanzhou and Yuzhou literati and celebrities feel deeply cold, and even Zheng Xuan, Bing Yuan and other celebrities in the world who were far away in Langya also angrily denounced this, and as a result, even Cao Cao's crime of assassinating Dong Zhuo and accidentally killing his friend Lu Bohao's family on the way to escape was also turned out and whipped by angry celebrities.

It was too late for Cao Cao to calm down, just as Cao Cao sighed in the face of Xun Yu and others' blame afterwards: a big mistake was made, and there was no regret!

What Cao Cao didn't expect was that Chen Gong, who left him, did not defect to Liu Cun, who loved talents and cherished talents, nor did he belong to Yuan Shao, the representative of the family's gate valve, but rushed straight to Chen Liu, and went to Chen Liu, who was in a corner of peace, to guard Zhang Miao, and then secretly went to Zhongmou, and secretly met with Lu Bu, who was confused and didn't know where to go.

Chen Gong's move greatly angered Cao Cao, and since then the bane of the two of them being hostile to each other and fighting each other has been planted!

Liu Cun, who rushed to Luoyang to inspect the resettlement of the displaced people, did not care about Cao Cao's every move, Liu Cun and his henchmen have always been vigilant against Cao Cao and the Yuan brothers, but in the short term, the restlessness of the Yuan brothers is more in line with the interests of Qingzhou.

First of all, the growth of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu will not have any substantial pressure on Qingzhou, but Qingzhou will be able to obtain huge profits from the Yuan brothers' reckless military force, better accumulate strength, and wait for a sudden blow!

Relatively speaking, the strength of Jizhou and Yuzhou was definitely a huge threat to the rising Cao Cao, and thus ended the good situation of continuous population inflow into Yanzhou, which was undoubtedly the most painful thing for Cao Cao, who was bent on increasing the population and making every effort to reclaim the land to grow food.

Secondly, selling weapons and equipment to Yuan Shao was helpless for Liu Cun, but the benefits outweighed the disadvantages for the entire huge plan.

Yuan Shao's strength will inevitably stop Gongsun Zhan's army from going south, forcing Gongsun Chan and Liu Yu to fight each other for their own interests, once a war breaks out in Youzhou, it will be an endless ending, in the end, no matter who wins, Yuan Shao, who is eyeing Youzhou, will definitely become the yellow finch behind the praying mantis.

Once Yuan Shao moved north, the best time for Liu Cun to launch a large-scale attack on Yuan Shao would come. (To be continued......)

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