Bang! Thundered!

The thunder rolled, and the raindrops the size of beans fell from the sky, slightly dispelling some of the heat that had lasted for more than a month.

Ji Ping stood in front of the window, looking at the pouring rain outside, holding a roll of notes in his hand, which was the news from all over the Shadow Division.

He is now in Gaocheng County, Bohai County, about half a month ago to pacify the thieves here, and now he is guarding this line to prevent the invasion of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, Gongsun Zan is not ready for a big war at present, first raided the homes of the powerful in several places, requisitioned a lot of people, and there are a steady stream of grain, grass and horses from Youzhou.

This is the prelude to the coming storm.

Qingzhou Yellow Turbans are pouring into Bohai County in small groups, Ji Ping and Zhang He have encountered four small groups of Yellow Turban Army, all of which are very difficult, but under the command of Zhang He, the losses are not large, and the soldiers are slowly adapting to the Yellow Turban Army's style of play.

However, the military strength of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban is one thing, and the infiltration of the power of Taiping Dao has given Ji Ping a headache, all the way over, the Shadow Division has found a lot of Taiping Dao worship places in Bohai County, worshipping the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu, as well as Zhonghuang Taiyi, there are already many people who have become believers in Taiping Dao, chanting scriptures every day.

This is no longer forced by life, but a fanatical belief, this is the biggest problem to defeat the Yellow Turban, if it is violently exterminated, only the wildflowers will not be burned, and the spring breeze will blow and grow.

In fact, the teachings of Taiping Tao are good, guiding people to goodness, pursuing equality for all, and the world is peaceful. But its essence is still religion, there is no systematic and perfect statecraft, it is maintained by faith, and it lacks rationality. It's just killing officials and killing the rich, and there is no so-called equality in essence. Because the hierarchy of status in religion is obvious, it is necessary to worship God. What great sages and good teachers are worshipped, where does equality come from.

What's more, the teachings of the Taiping Dao or the Yellow Turban Army are also relatively narrow and extreme, rejecting other beliefs and gathering hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers, where they pass, the people who are not the Yellow Turbans will also be plundered. reluctantly joined the yellow scarf and became a "thief", rolling bigger and bigger, and the banditry was surging.

For Qingxu's 300,000 yellow scarves, Ji Ping currently has no strength to exterminate or surrender, he is thinking about the future, and has been planning with Li Ru for a long time, and he can only adopt two strategies at present.

One strategy is to let Lu Mao agree, with the help of Gongsun Zhan's power. In Qingzhou, he managed several counties or a county, just like Liu Bei in history, and appointed a county commander or county guard, and took root in Qingzhou on this basis. Light the spark, militarily defend against the Yellow Turban, and protect the people. Economically develop agriculture and appease and recruit displaced people. Let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and slowly peel off the cocoon from the foundation. Eliminate the basis for the growth of the Yellow Turban Army.

The basis of this strategy is military strength, and in order to establish a pure land in Qingzhou, it is necessary to have sufficient defense and strike forces in order to protect agricultural development and protect the stability of one side.

With Zhang He and Li Ru here, with the cooperation of one article and one martial arts, Ji Ping believes that there is no problem in the military, of course, if Lu Mao can be left behind, it will naturally be better.

This strategy is guarded, and it is relatively slow, so Ji Ping and Li Ru also developed another strategy.

It is to let Shi Ah and the Shadow Division begin to infiltrate the Yellow Turban Army, understand the inside story of the Yellow Turban Army and Taiping Dao, look for generals who can be appeased, and even control a certain military force to secretly divide the Yellow Turbans.

The strategy of the Yellow Turban Army can only be like this at present, Ji Ping rubbed the note in his hand, judging from the news that has come in recent days, in addition to the confrontation between Gongsun Chan and the Yellow Turban Army in front of him, other forces have also taken a lot of action with the competition between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan.

The first news is that Dong Zhuo of Guanzhong sent Dahonglu Han Rong, Shaofu Yin Xun, Zhijin Wu Hu Mu Ban, Wu Xun, who will be a master craftsman, and Wang Gui, the captain of Yue Cai, out of the customs to appease the various princes in Guandong, but Hu Mu Ban, Wang Gui, and Wu Xun were chopped by Yuan Shao, and Yin Xun was chopped by Yuan Shu.

When Ji Ping received this information, his first reaction was that Dong Zhuo was delivering food.

Han Rong, Yin Xun, Hu Muban, Wu Xun, and Wang Gui are all famous people, but at this time, the Kwantung princes who are red-eyed still don't care what celebrities he is. However, there are also Dong Zhuo's methods, most of these five people are Dong Zhuo's political enemies, Dong Zhuo was afraid of killing and ruining his reputation, so he killed people with the help of the knives of the Kwantung princes, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone, not only in addition to political enemies, but also to protect his reputation, but also to ruin the reputation of the enemy, the same as Liu Biao killed You Heng by the hand of Huang Zu.

The second news came from Yecheng, the Montenegrin army launched more than 100,000 people to attack Yuan Shao many times, but the results were not obvious, and even fell behind, Yuan Shao had a group of strategists under him, as well as Yan Liang, Wen Chou and other generals, and the tactics and combat effectiveness were above the Montenegrin army.

The third news came from Nanyang, Gongsun Zhan's younger brother Gongsun Yue died.

More than two months ago, Yuan Shu sent people to ask Liu Yu to send troops, Gongsun Zan preemptively sent his younger brother Gongsun Yue to bring a thousand cavalry south to form an alliance with Yuan Shu, and the result was that Yuan Shao's faction appointed Yuzhou Assassin Shi Zhou Ang captured Yuzhou Zhishu Yangcheng, Yuan Shu sent Gongsun Yue to assist his troops to attack Zhou Ang, unfortunately Gongsun Yue was killed by a stray arrow in the siege.

According to Li Ru's analysis, Gongsun Yue's death may have the shadow of Yuan Shu, but in any case, Gongsun Yue was killed by the Yuzhou assassin appointed by Yuan Shao, and the relationship between Gongsun Chan and Yuan Shao would further deteriorate, and Gongsun Chan also had a reason to attack Yuan Shao in an all-round way.

However, at present, Gongsun Chan has not received the news of Gongsun Yue's death in battle, and the news of Ji Ping's Shadow Division is from the training carrier pigeons, which is much faster than other channels.

It seems that the decisive battle between Gongsun Chan and Yuan Shao is not far off, as long as the Qingxu Yellow Turban is defeated, I am afraid that Gongsun Chan will immediately start a war with Yuan Shao.

The fourth news came from Jingzhou, which shocked Ji Ping, and as expected, Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian died!

More than a month ago, Sun Jian, the assassin of Yuzhou appointed by Yuan Shu, was fighting against Hu Zhen in Luoyang, but the old Chaoyang City was taken away by Zhou Ang, so Sun Jian immediately withdrew his troops from Luoyang, and was going to attack Yangcheng, but when Liu Biao pacified the six counties of Jingzhou and sent Huang Zutun to fight Fancheng and Deng County in Nanyang County, Yuan Shu ordered Sun Jian to attack Liu Biao and seize Jingzhou.

Sun Jian is also worthy of being the Jiangdong Tiger, almost invincible, after leading his troops south. First defeated Huang Zu between Fancheng and Deng County, and then pursued all the way. Cross the Han River until the soldiers come to the city of Xiangyang.

Xiangyang Antarctic Lake Hunan Province. The north controls Guanluo, dominates the Hanshang, is the middle line of the north and south of the Han Dynasty, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Liu Biao does not come out of the city, and Sun Jiantun soldiers under the city.

Liu Biao sent Huang Zu to go south of the city at night to mobilize soldiers in the six counties, Huang Zu returned with his troops, went out of the city to fight Sun Jian again, and was defeated by Sun Jian again. Flee to Da Hyeon Mountain outside the city of Xiangyang.

Sun Jian led his troops in pursuit, but was ambushed during the pursuit, and Huang Zu's ambush soldiers fired a hidden arrow from the bamboo forest, Sun Jian was killed by an arrow, and a generation of generals fell at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, which made Ji Ping sigh.

Sun Jian's death was also a big loss to Yuan Shu's forces, and he lost a sharp knife.

The fifth message is. After Sun Jian withdrew his troops from Luoyang, Dong Zhuo sent Hu Zhen, Li Dao, and Guo Yan to the south, and the troops went out of Taigu and Xuanyuan Pass, and plundered the area around Yingchuan.

Zhu Jun is in Zhongmu. Formed an alliance with the Tang side, and sent letters to various states and counties, calling on the princes to crusade against Dong Zhuo again.

The sixth piece of news is finally good news. Hedong County had a bumper harvest of wheat, and Tuntian had achieved initial results. The people of Hedong rejoiced.

There is also a seventh piece of good news, Yuan Shao originally sent Han Fu and Xun Chen to the party to ask Xun You to return the grain. As a result, he met Xun Yu and other Xun clansmen who went north, Xun Yu originally took refuge in Han Fu, and when he met Han Fu here, he naturally had no reason to go to Jizhou, so he stayed in Shangdang.

The party is too guarded by Xun You and thoughtful, now that the Xun family is in the party, Xun You is afraid that Ji Ping will be too careful, so he sent someone to send a letter to Ji Ping, whether to reveal Ji Ping's identity and leave Xun Yu.

Ji Ping was overjoyed after receiving the news, Xun Yu is the famous Wang Zuozhicai, this is a fool knows, he immediately appointed Xun Yu as the Sinong Zhonglang General, stationed in Anyi, fully presided over the agriculture and tax money valley of Hedong, Shangdang, Hanoi, Xihe, Taiyuan counties.

As for Xun Yu's third brother Xun Yan, Ji Ping appointed him as the son of the country to sacrifice wine, and asked him to temporarily manage the affairs of the Hedong Library and the schools in several counties and counties, on the one hand, sorting out the massive books collected when retreating from Luoyang at that time, and on the other hand, establishing academies in various counties and counties to recruit teachers and students.

Although he rejects the monopoly of the family, the Yingchuan Xun family is different from the ordinary family, whether it is family style, loyalty or reputation, it is very good, and there is no abuse of power during the reign of the Xun family in history, which can be said to have done his best.

On the one hand, Ji Ping wants to suppress ambitious families and local heroes, but he can't last long, and on the other hand, he wants to reuse a family like the Xun family, showing his other attitude, which is to fight ambitions, reuse loyalty, and combine hardness and softness.

He also has a plan, which is to invisibly divide the power of the family, such as the power of the Ruying family, Xun, Chen, Han, Zhong, and Guo are originally one, protecting each other, but he appeased the Xun family, but ignored the others, and pushed them to vote for the princes, which invisibly dispersed their forces, and they could be controlled one by one in the future.

The same is true for the Jizhou family, otherwise if the Ruying family and the Jizhou family are all thrown under him, he will really have a headache.

As for Han Fu and Xun Chen, the two went to Shangdang to ask for food, and with Xun You's means, they couldn't get it back, Han Fu sent Yuan Shao to harm him, so he simply stayed in Shangdang with a dead face and didn't go back to Jizhou anymore, as for Xun Chen, he went back to Jizhou alone, and Xun You couldn't keep it.

Although Xun Chen was dissatisfied with Yuan Shao, he came on Yuan Shao's orders, even if he didn't want to return the food, he still had to go back to restore his life, which was his insistence, that is, the demeanor of celebrities, just like Xu Shu, as for Han Fu's demeanor...... I was scared away by timidity.

In addition, Gongsun Chan ordered Yuan Shu to detain Liu Yu's son Liu He, as well as the soldiers and horses sent by Liu Yu, Ji Ping estimated that Liu Yu should have also received the news, and the contradiction between Gongsun Chan and Liu Yu was completely stimulated.

Ji Ping was hesitating, whether to secretly go to Youzhou to meet Liu Yu and win Liu Yu's support, this was a very important move for him to lay out the north, and this was also an important reason why he had to take the risk to come to Jizhou.

Liu Yu must come forward there, otherwise Liu Yu will not believe his identity at all, but there is also a risk in this, if Liu Yu supports him, the former waste of heaven, it will naturally be a good thing, and half of Youzhou is basically under his control, but if Liu Yu does not support it, it will be more troublesome.

Ji Ping pondered for a long time, and felt that according to Liu Yu's character, it was still worth taking a risk. (To be continued......)