- What did you do when you came to the state?

Not to mention the doubts in Geng Wu's heart, Xian Yufu didn't feel strange about Geng Wu's appearance. However, Xian Yufu did not intend to study Geng Wu's purpose. He came to the state this time because he had more important things.

Youzhou is located in the northernmost part of the Han Dynasty, surrounded by Xianbei and mixed Hu. The conflict between Hu and Han can be said to have been continuous since ancient times. If you want to be a state and county official in such a place where Hu and Han live together, and the people's and military conditions are extremely complicated, the requirements for the ability of officials can be described as extremely high.

In the fourth year of Zhongping [187], Zhang Chun, the former prime minister of Zhongshan, Zhang Ju, the former Taishan Taishou, allied with Lord Wuhuan and launched a rebellion in Youzhou. Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's rebel army had strong combat power, and in a series of battles, they successively killed and protected Wuhuan Captain Ji Chou, Youbeiping Taishou Liu Zheng, Liaodong Taishou Yangzhong, etc., and the troops reached more than 100,000, once hit the two prefectures of Qingdao and Hebei, and broke through the Qinghe River and the plain.

In the face of such a crisis, the imperial court at that time thought about it, and the best person it could think of was Liu Yu, who served as the assassin of Youzhou and was Zongzheng at that time.

The so-called Zongzheng is one of the nine Qings. His duty is to master the name book of the imperial family, distinguish their status as concubines or their kinship with the emperor in blood, and release the genealogy of princes with the same surname every year.

During Liu Yu's past tenure in Youzhou Assassin History, due to his proper handling of things, he had high prestige among foreign tribes such as Xianbei, Wuhuan, Fuyu, and Hao, so that these northern barbarians could pay tribute at any time and did not dare to intrude, so that the people of the northern region sang songs and praised Liu Yu's merits. Without this qualification, Liu Yu would not have been the best candidate to pacify Youzhou in the eyes of the imperial court.

Although he was ordered to be in danger, Liu Yu was still completely fearless, resolutely drove lightly, and quickly rushed to the north. As soon as he entered Jicheng, which was located on the front line, he issued a decree and took over the overall situation of Youzhou.

On the one hand, the new governor Liu Yu streamlined the troops. increase the combat effectiveness of the army; On the one hand, the people of the counties that suffered from the war were exempted from paying taxes that year to appease the people. He also sent a special envoy to tell Karasuma-sama that King Cra and others would be lenient and could be exempted from responsibility for their past crimes, on the condition that they surrender to the Han in a timely manner. At last. Liu Yu also offered a reward for the wanted Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, promising that as long as these two people were ambushed, the rest of the people who were held hostage would not be asked.

As soon as Liu Yu's announcement was announced, it immediately caused a sensation among the Karasuma and Zahu rebels. At this time, the famous general of Youzhou, Gongsun Zhan, the commander of the cavalry, led his "White Horse Yicong" and three thousand knights to defeat Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju's troops many times. Seeing that the momentum was not good, many rebel soldiers immediately left the rebel ranks and surrendered to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan are one article and one martial arts. Take a two-pronged approach to combat the rebel forces in Youzhou. In this way, the rebellion of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, who had shocked the world and threatened the Hebei region, quickly calmed down under the coercion of Liu Yu and Gongsun Zhan. Because of these merits, Liu Yu was specially sent by Emperor Ling of Han to send an envoy to promote him to the position of Tai Lieutenant. He was also named "Marquis of Rongqiu".

However, no matter how good Liu Yu is in the north, he is. But it can't change the trend of the decline of the Han dynasty.

Since the north is four or five thousand miles away from the capital of Luoyang, it will take a month or two for the changes in Luoyang to reach Youzhou. Therefore, a series of major events in the imperial court that took place in the six years of Zhongping. Although Liu Yu, who is in Youzhou, is a high powerhouse, he can't do anything.

Faced with a series of changes that occurred after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, Liu Yu was first dumbfounded, and then helpless. And when the Kwantung princes used the change of throne as an excuse for their own selfishness. After setting off a full-scale civil war in the empire, Liu Yu could not agree with these chaotic acts in essence due to the sensitivity of the Han family's clan status, and it was difficult to openly oppose the unanimous attitude of the people in the world, so he had to say nothing.

It is difficult to speak on the matter of imperial succession, which does not mean that Liu Yu also cares about other things. Xian Yufu came to Jinyang this time to meet the new ruler of Bingzhou and coordinate the attitude of Youzhou and Bingzhou towards Beidi Zahu.

Due to the distance from Luoyang and Chang'an, Xian Yufu did not know that Zhang Qi had obtained the official position of the assassin of Bingzhou when he set off for Jinyang. However, for Liu Yu, the Youzhou Mu who is still above Jiuqing and can be ranked with the Three Dukes, there is no difference whether the arrogance is 1,000 stones or 600 stones. After Xian Yufu learned the latest news of the appointment and dismissal of his official position, he only needed to change his title.

The Great Han is now facing terrible civil strife. Due to the turmoil, the 400 million yuan border army military expenditure, which was originally subsidized by Qingzhou and Jizhou every year, was also interrupted a year ago. However, even so, Liu Yu was barely able to survive by encouraging the opening of wasteland, the opening of the Hu market in Shanggu, and the development of the salt and iron industry in Yuyang.

Liu Yu couldn't meddle in the internal troubles of the Han Dynasty, so he focused his main energy on solving the external troubles of the Han Dynasty. To the north of the Han Dynasty, there was a Xianbei tribe with a population of one million, and to the east, Karasuma had a total population of about 300,000. These Donghu barbarian tribes have been plaguing the borders of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years.

From Youzhou to Bingzhou, and then to Liangzhou further west, every year there are always poor barbarians who only have one life left, in order to obtain the necessary materials for life, they take risks and go south to plunder the goods of the Han people.

When the Han dynasty was strong, the border army of the Han Dynasty often went out of the Great Wall to sweep the nomads in the border areas to reduce the barbarians who dared to go south to commit crimes. However, now that the Han state is weakening day by day, how to let the Zahu barbarians in the border area stay honest and not make trouble when there is a shortage of money and food has become a very headache.

On the issue of dealing with Xianbei and Zahu in the north, Liu Yu, the pastor of Youzhou, and Gongsun Zhan, a general of Fenwu who had a heavy army in the north, had diametrically opposite opinions. Liu Yu advocated treating Zahu equally, sending officials to teach them how to farm, and co-opting the upper echelons of Zahu so that they could gradually assimilate them.

Gongsun Chan is a general who is quite hostile to Zahu. Every time he fought against Zahu, Gongsun Chan always took his subordinates' "White Horse Righteous Servants" to take the lead and fight to the death. Because Gongsun Chan was ruthless to the Hu people and never showed mercy, the Hu people in the north can be said to hate Gongsun Chan to the core, but they are afraid of him like a tiger. So much so that many Zahu tribes, while making the arrow target look like Gongsun Zan to vent their anger, also privately spread the saying "nowhere to go, but avoid white horses".

Liu Yu admired Gongsun Zhan's talent and achievements. In his plan, there was originally to be a Han who was going to be a villain to suppress Zahu. In this way, Liu Yu was able to easily win over those tribes who were afraid of the Han army, slowly bring them under his rule, and finally convert them into Han people.

However, Gongsun Chan was very dissatisfied with Liu Yu's gentle policy. In Gongsun Zhan's eyes, a dead miscellaneous beard is a good miscellaneous beard. Therefore, when Liu Yu was gentle with the subdued Zahu tribe, Gongsun Zhan privately sent people to intercept and kill the envoys of the Zahu tribe and plunder the goods that Liu Yu rewarded Zahu.

Gongsun Zhan's behavior caused considerable trouble in the implementation of Liu Yu's policy. Liu Yu approached Gongsun Chan many times to explain his policy, hoping that Gongsun Chan, who had a high reputation in the northern borderlands, would cooperate. But Gongsun Chan didn't think much of Liu Yu's thoughts.

has been in the north for most of his life, and Gongsun Zhan's temperament towards those barbarians could not be clearer. Liu Yu's gentle behavior, even if he can subdue them for a while, but in the future after Liu Yu leaves Youzhou, the barbarians will still say the opposite. Seeing profit and forgetting righteousness, fearing power but not virtue, is a true portrayal of the barbarians in the world.

The ideas and policies of the two towards the northern barbarians were completely incompatible, which made the relationship between the two sides extremely stiff. Moreover, Gongsun Zhan relied on the fact that he had more than 10,000 cavalry soldiers in his hands, and behaved very disrespectfully to Liu Yu, and was unwilling to keep peace with Beidi Zahu according to Liu Yu's request.

Liu Yu has a good temperament, but he is not a good man with no temper, and he also kills those stubborn miscellaneous beards. The human life in his hands must be calculated in tens of thousands, to say the least. If it weren't for Wei You, a famous scholar in the north, who kept persuading the two to make peace, I was afraid that the two sides would immediately turn against each other.

Now the relationship between Liu Yu and Gongsun Chan is quite stiff, although Liu Yu did not have a direct conflict with Gongsun Chan in view of the need to suppress the barbarians in the Northland, but he could not effectively mobilize Gongsun Zhan's troops. At this time, the news of Zhang Mad annexing large counties one after another in the annexation of the state came, and Liu Yu had a headache, so he sent Xian Yufu to visit Zhang Mad to test whether he could cooperate with Zhang Mad in the affairs of the northern barbarians.

Although Zhang Qi was born in the Yellow Turban Army, for Liu Yu, this is not a problem. Liu Yu is a relative of the Han family and knows a lot about Zhang Jiao's rebellion. In Liu Yu's eyes, although Zhang Jiao's crime is unforgivable, it is also excusable. And since Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was able to recruit an arrogant army, Liu Yu treated him as a serious official of the Han Dynasty, but it was not unavoidable.

What, to say that insolence is rebellion?

It is true that he was born in the Yellow Turban, and it is not impossible to say that he is a rebel with this self-righteous person who has been in the state over the years. But in Liu Yu's eyes, Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao, who ignore the authority of the Son of Heaven, go their own way, and fight for all the authority that originally belonged to the Son of Heaven, are the biggest rebellion in the Han Dynasty at the moment!

If it is possible, Liu Yu also plans to use the prestige of the arrogant in the north to suppress the high-flying Gongsun Zhan. Gongsun Zhan's main fame comes from his achievements against the Northland Zahu. If compared with Zhang Qi, Zhang Qi has defeated the Xianbei King and Lian and suppressed the strong people of Xianbei in the west. has an arrogant and fierce record as a comparison, in contrast, Gongsun Zhan's record is a little out of reach.

Gongsun Zhan's arrogance was not so arrogant, and Liu Yu was able to think of ways to suppress him. Liu Yu can subdue him, he is a good general of a big man.

As for cooperating with Insolence, will the Insolence Department take the opportunity to sit big?

According to Liu Yu's understanding, the relationship between Taiping Dao and scholars was completely broken as early as six years ago in the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Without the help of scholars, even if the arrogant department prospered for a while, it would not be able to achieve sustainable development.

Moreover, now that the power of Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao is extremely huge, it is not a big deal to let Zhang Zhuo grow a little stronger for the time being. (To be continued......)