As soon as Yonghong returned to Yongchang County, a huge group of men and horses surrounded his carriage.

Lifting the curtain and looking out, Yonghong whispered to the leading figure: "The king, please come in and talk." ”

Without saying a word, the middle-aged man turned over and dismounted, boarded the carriage, lifted the curtain and got in.

"How's it going?"

The king had a somewhat condescending tone, and Yonghong said lightly: "Only the last step is missing." ”

The king forced his eyes to Yonghong, and said undoubtedly: "After the matter is completed, the seven southern counties will belong to me, and you can go to the court to enjoy the glory and wealth." ”

Yonghong nodded slightly, and said to him: "There are many people, the king should take your clan to avoid it for the time being, I want to enter the city to perform a play." ”

Hahaha smiled heartily, and the king left the carriage and rode away with his guards.

The sound of hooves faded away, Yonghong opened the curtain and looked at the direction of the smoke and dust, and said to himself: "Yue Junyi King Gaoding, Gaoding, do you really think that you can rule the land of the Seven Counties?" ”

The willingness of the seven southern counties to join Guo Jia is not Yonghong's own assertion, and there is indeed a lot of voice among the people.

There are two reasons, the first is that Guo Jia said that he is getting stronger, and Guo Jia's official position is Yizhou Mu, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, under the background of the decay of the central government, the management of the frontier ethnic groups is lax, not only the naturalized Xiongnu and Qiangyi gradually out of control, and even the feudal officials of the imperial court are divided and self-reliant, the southern part of Yizhou did nominally benefit from the jurisdiction of the state pastor, but in fact there is no real name, and Guo Jia's strength will make the people of the seven southern counties feel in crisis, they are afraid that Guo Jia will come to conquer them, rather than being conquered, it is better to avoid fighting and surrender directly.

The second reason is that the life of the people in the north of Yizhou is very different from the life of the people in the south, the most intuitive reflection is the grain income, under the rule of Guo Jia, the people use the farming tools designed by Ma Jun, and the water conservancy construction also has the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort, the most appropriate understanding is that with convenient tools, the people in the south cultivate an acre of land, but the people in the north have the energy to cultivate three acres of land, and the income of the people in the south of an acre of land may only be half of the people in the north.

Against this backdrop, the seven southern counties hope to be safe and improve their lives by annexing Guo Jia.

Yonghong's trip to Chengdu is known to everyone in Yongchang County, whether it is the Han people here or the barbarian Yiren, they are all looking forward to it, waiting for Yonghong's return to reply.

When Yonghong's carriage returned, the people rushed up and asked questions.

Yonghong, who walked out of the carriage, pressed his hand to signal the people to be restless, and he walked to the door of the county government and posted a notice first.

This proclamation was issued by the Yizhou government to inform the people of the seven southern counties that they were nominally under Guo Jia's rule.

When this notice was posted, many of the onlookers could not read, so they hurriedly asked those who had read the book what was written on the notice.

A scholar stepped forward and read out the words on the notice one by one, and the crowds of people around him listened quietly.

After the last word was read, the people erupted in earth-shattering cheers.

I couldn't wait to run home, hoping to inform my family of the news as soon as possible.

However, at this time, Yonghong posted another notice.

The joyful faces of the people urged the scholar to read what was written in the notice.

"Three hundred black dogs, black on the chest and above. Collect no less than three buckets of agate. 3,000 broken trees, not less than three zhang ......"

This expropriation order, the name is still Yizhou Mansion, it is Guo Jia.

The first notice was indeed from the hand of the Yizhou Mansion, with the seal of the Yizhou Mansion on it, while the second notice was fabricated by Yonghong, and the forged seal was actually very different.

But when the people read the first notice, they had a preconceived idea, and as soon as the second notice came out, they did not delve into the difference between the seal on that notice and the first.

"The official family wants you to pay these three tributes......

The scholar who read the notice couldn't go on, he was dressed badly, and he looked like a poor and destitute scholar, but he also understood that these three tributes could no longer be described as difficult for a strong man, but the people in the south could not afford to spend them at all.

The tribute of the black dog sounds ridiculous, but it can be understood when it comes back to Emperor Han Ling, Emperor Han Ling likes dogs, and there are many noble dogs in the palace palace where he enjoys, and he likes dogs to the extent that he even makes dogs wear official uniforms and let dogs mate with palace maids...... At that time, flattering officials would loot famous dogs and send them to the palace in order to be promoted to the rank of knight.

Agate as a luxury, must be very rare, three buckets do not sound much, in fact, there can be a few, it has been regarded as a rare treasure, it is conceivable, how can the people of the seven southern counties come up with this kind of luxury that dignitaries will collect?

Broken wood is a local product, and it is indeed not a difficult thing to find, but the broken wood produced locally has never exceeded two zhang, and the official family asks for a broken wood three zhang away, and the people don't even have to think about it to know that they will definitely not be able to hand it over.

The people who were still in joy suddenly fell silent, and then boiled again, some scolded Guo Jia, some sighed, some hesitated, and some even discussed whether to flee with their families.

If they can't pay tribute, they will always be questioned, and the people will naturally tremble.

"Shut up!"

The crowd erupted in rage.

The people followed the prestige and automatically parted a road, and the majestic and rugged young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, his eyes scanned the crowd and reached out to tear it down before the notice.

"Meng Huo! What are you doing? ”

Yonghong's voice was fierce, forcing him to look at the young man with a very high reputation in the local area.

Meng Huo cast a disdainful gaze at Yonghong, turned to face the people, and the barbarian youth who followed Meng Huo stood behind Meng Huo, with only a dozen people, Meng Huo had already shocked everyone.

In the frontier areas where the people's wisdom has not yet been developed, people often have no brains and are only more than fists, and Meng Shu's prestige is established by fists.

There are many people who use their fists to take the position, but they are not necessarily definitely a wicked person, Meng Shu may not be a person who punishes evil and promotes good, but at least he is not a man who bullies the weak and fears the hard.

Meng Huo's chest rose and fell, his anger was monstrous, and he opened his mouth to the people around him: "My seven southern counties are sincerely attached to the state pastor, but what does the state minister do to us? We can't get these things he wants, he is unreasonable, and he may even deliberately find excuses to squeeze us! Are we going to sit back and be slaughtered? Instead of waiting for the Han official to slaughter the people of the south with soldiers and horses, why didn't I strike first? We want to tell everyone that the people of the South are by no means cowardly. ”

The people were very nervous, looking at each other, and after a short silence, some people began to respond to Meng Huo, one and two.

They hoped to return, but it did not mean that they had lost their blood, and many people present elected Meng Huo as the leader and led them to rebel against Guo Jia.

Yonghong, who was watching coldly from the sidelines, turned around silently and left slowly, behind his strange smile, the passionate people waved their fists in support of Meng Huo, like a feast of demons dancing.

When Meng Huo called on the people to form an army with him and march north, far away from the place where the incident occurred, a beautiful and unearthly woman of different races looked at Meng Huo's actions from afar, turned around indifferently, and disappeared into the street.

By August, half a year had passed since the Battle of Yuan Cao began, but the two sides were still facing each other in Guandu.

Guo Jia led the army to Hangu Pass, Yan Yan led 20,000 troops to guard Chang'an, this time out of the Guandong Expedition, Guo Jia will take Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao four generals, a total of 120,000 soldiers and horses.

Coupled with the 20,000 soldiers and horses led by Ma Chaosuo, the investment of the Guanxi forces in the battle of Yuan Cao reached 140,000.

In Hangu Pass, Guo Jia is deploying the marching strategy after sending troops to Hangu Pass.

Ma Chao wants to avenge his father, so he naturally wants to slash Cao Ying.

Therefore, Guo Jia gave him a chance, and after leaving the customs, Ma Chaoke led his troops to go directly to Guandu, even if it was to help Yuan Shao, Guo Jia let him go.

And Guo Jia's own army left 20,000 to Wu Yi in the Sili area, so that he could ensure the transportation of grain and grass in the rear and control the Tiger Prison Pass, and the remaining 100,000 troops followed Guo Jia to smash Xuchang!

The front line of Guandu was handed over to Ma Chao, anyway, this cannon fodder Ma Chao should be willing, and Xuchang was empty at this time.

After the strategy is formulated, Guo Jia is still one time away from really sending troops, and this is the decisive moment of the battle of Guandu.

Standing on top of Hangu Guancheng, Guo Jia stood proudly looking at the southeast and was speechless for a long time.

The sun is setting, and the remnant sun is like blood.

Pang Tong hurriedly climbed the city tower, came behind Guo Jia and whispered: "Lord, the latest news, two months ago, Sun Ce went out alone and was ambushed by the Xu Gong people, Sun Ce was seriously injured, and died a month ago. After Sun Ce's death, his younger brother Sun Quan succeeded Sun Ce in command of Jiangdong before he reached the age of twenty. ”

This may be a shocking news for everyone in the world, but Guo Jia just sighed lightly.

"What did Bo Fu say on his deathbed?"

Facing Guo Jia's back, Pang Tong really couldn't guess what Guo Jia was thinking.

This is great news.

Sun Ce is mighty, as if he is the reincarnation of an overlord, and Sun Quan is not yet twenty, the Jiangdong regime is likely to usher in a turmoil, Guo Jia is concerned about Sun Ce's last words?

Sun Ce summoned the civil and military forces before his death, his words are not a secret, especially the transmission of Tuogu, there can be no concealment, if it is carried out in secret, the people with bad intentions can make a lot of articles, the key is that Sun Ce has a son, and there must be resistance to passing the throne to Sun Quan, so Tuogu must be made public.

To let everyone in Jiangdong know that it was Sun Ce himself who passed the position to Sun Quan, there is nothing to question in this.

To be fair, Pang Tong also has some respect for Sun Ce, and his untimely death does make people sigh.

(To be continued)