Li Zheng and Xi Zhicai talked, and shifted the topic from the Xiongnu in the north to the general trend of the Central Plains.

Li Zheng also has a copy of Qiao Mao's edict.

Although Li Zheng has not bubbled in the Central Plains, he is a big man after all, holding a strong soldier and sitting in Liangzhou. Qiao Mao is not blind, so naturally he will not ignore Li Zheng's cunning.

Because of this, the situation on the border between Liangzhou and Sanfu is a little tense.

Dong Zhuo's generals Li Dao and Guo Yan stationed 80,000 troops in Chencang as a precaution.

Because of this incident, the great cause of recruiting displaced people has been hindered to a certain extent, and the scene of swarming is no longer the same as before. However, in the past few months, the population dug from Sanfu has exceeded 500,000, and although the situation is tense, it is also a long stream, and there are still some homeless people who sneak to Liangzhou every day.

Moreover, the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of dollars is also a big project, and Xun Yan, who is specifically responsible for this matter, is busy. For the time being, Liangzhou's demand for population is no longer so urgent.

So Li Zheng ignored Dong Zhuo's actions, and only asked Zhang Shan to strengthen his precautions to avoid accidents.

You can ignore the text, but the news of the Central Plains is related to the general trend of the world, but you can't ignore it.

In the past few months, the information that has been coming from the Central Plains has opened Li Zheng's eyes.

Since Qiao Mao issued the text, the first person to engage Dong Zhuo was Changsha Taishou Sun Jian.

This person had already led his troops from Changsha a few years ago, when Dong Zhuo was in charge of the government and abolished the Son of Heaven. This road can be described as huge, and before he has confronted Dong Zhuo, he bulldozed two important ministers of the court!

They are Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou, and Zhang Zhi, the Taishou of Nanyang.

Judging from intelligence, there are two reasons for Wang Rui's death. First, he had a dislike with Sun Jian in his early years. Second, there is Wuling Taishou Cao Yin as a hindrance.

That Wang Rui learned that Dong Zhuo had abolished the Son of Heaven and was also ready to raise an army to fight, but he made a bold statement that he would kill Wuling Taishou Cao Yin's sacrificial flag before raising troops.

Wuling is under the rule of Jingzhou, and Cao Yin is too guarded, and he doesn't take Wang Rui in his eyes at all, so that Wang Rui has this remark.

That Cao Yin was afraid that Wang Rui would kill him, so he counted Wang Rui's various crimes and issued it to Sun Jian, asking Sun Jian to kill Wang Rui.

"That Qiao Mao set a precedent for precedent, Cao Yin also followed suit, Sun Jian took the chicken feather as a sword, and announced a personal vendetta, which is really interesting." Li Zheng said with a smile.

Xi Zhicai bowed slightly: "The Han family has lost its prestige, and the princes everywhere don't take the court in their eyes!" ”

Sun Jian forced Wang Rui to kill, marched all the way north, arrived in Nanyang, and killed Taishou Zhang Zhi. The reason was that Zhang Zhi did not provide Sun Jian with grain and grass.

"It's not clear what Zhang died."

Li Zheng said: "Sun Jian killed Wang Rui, and it can be said that there was a reason for the incident. But to kill Zhang Zhi, the reason is far-fetched. Zhang Shi is not Sun Jian's subordinate, and he has no obligation to provide grain and grass. Zhang Zhi died, and Yuan Shu occupied Nanyang, the reason for which is quite worthy of scrutiny. ”

"Hehe, Sun Jian is just a knife operator, Yuan Shu is the mastermind behind the scenes." Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "Sun Jian seems to be a member of the Yuan family, without the support of the Yuan family, how could Sun Jian come to this point in just a few years?" ”

Li Zheng nodded: "That's true." Sun Jian killed Zhang Shi with his front foot, and Yuan's foot occupied Nanyang after his surgery, which was too ugly. Besides, that Sun Jian is just a Changsha Taishou, even if he has some family assets, it is impossible to recruit 100,000 soldiers and horses in a short time, and without the support of the Yuan family behind him, it is simply delusional. ”

Sun Jian killed Zhang Shi and recruited troops and horses, but in just one month, he had to recruit 100,000 soldiers and horses, and then stationed troops in Luyang and looked north to Luoyang!

At the beginning of February, Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo had their first confrontation.

Because Sun Jian sent troops to Luyang and threatened Luoyang, Dong Zhuo sent the general Hu Zhen to lead 10,000 elite cavalry out of Taigu Pass and attack Sun Jian by surprise. At that time, Sun Jian was training outside the city, but he was calm when he saw this, and the soldiers under his command did not panic when they saw that the main general was like this. Seeing that there was no opportunity to take advantage of, Hu Zhen withdrew his troops.

"It can be seen from here that Sun Jian is indeed a general." Li Zheng said with a smile: "In that situation, I can make the most perfect response, this opportunity to respond to the enemy, I'm afraid few people can match Sun Jian." ”

"That's true." Xi Zhicai thought so: "In that case, I am afraid that the first thing that ordinary generals think of is to enter the city, which will cause chaos and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of." ”

After Hu Zhen retreated, Sun Jian led his troops north, but in the area of Liangdong, he was defeated. The 100,000-strong army was almost wiped out, and if it weren't for Sun Jian's cleverness, I am afraid that he would have died on the battlefield.

It was Xu Rong who gave him a fiasco.

Youzhou Xuansu people, Dong Zhuo's Zhonglang general, Xu Rong.

At the same time, Yuan Shao called himself a general of chariots and cavalry, and joined forces with Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuangtun to Hanoi, threatening Luoyang from north to south. Kong Lingtun troops Yingchuan, echoing Sun Jian, threatened Luoyang from south to north. Liu Dai, Zhang Miao, Qiao Mao, Yuan Yi, Bao Xin and Cao Cao stationed troops to threaten Luoyang from east to west.

Han Futun Bingye City, for the North Road logistics. Yuan Shutun soldiers in Nanyang, for the east and south road logistics.

In the land of the four battles in Luoyang, although there were surrounding groups to protect them, they greatly dispersed Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses, weakening Dong Zhuo's strength on another level. So Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, coerced the Son of Heaven and millions of people in Luoyang, and moved the capital to Chang'an!

Li Zheng's intelligence ends here.

Now in March, Liangzhou is too far away from the Central Plains, and the information for February has just arrived.

However, even if there is no intelligence, Li Zheng also knows that after this defeat, Sun Jian will not be decadent and depressed, but will rise up, and then he will fight again and again, and enter Luoyang.

And the so-called Kwantung Alliance will also change internally, and even kill each other and finally go their separate ways, embarking on the road of competing for world dominance.

"Mr. Zhicai,"

Li Zheng considered the situation in the Central Plains, and suddenly said, "Do you think I can give Dong Zhuo some support?" ”

In Li Zheng's opinion, he himself and Dong Zhuo are no different, and even Dong Zhuo has a slight connection with the Han family, but Li Zheng does not take the Han family in his eyes at all.

Of course, the idea of supporting Dong Zhuo was not born because he was similar to Dong Zhuo. It's because Li Zheng feels that the more chaotic the Central Plains, the greater the benefits to him.

At least, before he has solved the hidden dangers in the north, and before he intervenes in the affairs of the Central Plains, it is better that the Central Plains does not have a strong prince's rise. And Dong Zhuo's role lies in this.

As long as Dong Zhuo is alive, as long as Dong Zhuo is strong enough, the princes of the Central Plains will not dare to blatantly annex each other, and they must unite to prevent Dong Zhuo from sending troops to the east, so as not to expose flaws and give Dong Zhuo a chance when they compete for territory with each other.

When Xi Zhicai heard this, he thought about it carefully and said, "It's feasible." However, this degree still needs to be mastered. ”

"It's nature." Li Zheng said with a smile: "Let Dong Zhuowei force the princes of Kwantung, but not let Dong Zhuowei force me to Liangzhou." ”

At that moment, Li Zheng discussed with Xi Zhicai and made a crude decision.

Contact Dong Zhuo first and give some support in terms of grain and grass. Even Li Zheng wanted to sell some of the obsolete equipment that his army had replaced to Dong Zhuo.

In this way, there are two benefits.

First, in terms of the displaced people, at least Dong Zhuo can relax a little.

Second, Dong Zhuo looted the essence of Luoyang, Chang'an, and the entire Sili and Henan Yin, and he didn't know how many real gold treasures he held in his hands, so he just exchanged some of them. And books. That is the embodiment of the inheritance of civilization, and if it is destroyed in the war, it is a pity. In addition, Liangzhou has universal education, and there is also an extreme shortage of books.

Of course, Li Zheng felt that he had to discuss with Xun You and others and come up with a specific charter before it could be implemented

In mid-March, Zhou Lin was ordered to take a caravan and 5,000 spiny pigs out of the Dongying Pass of Baishui River. Han Ju, the big head of the Han clan, led 10,000 Xiongnu elite horsemen to meet him outside the pass, and escorted the caravan and 5,000 thorny pigs to the Han clan's land.

But halfway through, he was attacked by the 20,000 elite horsemen of the Lan clan and the Su Bu clan.

In the chaos, 5,000 echinoderm pigs died or scattered, and half of them were lost. Fortunately, not far from the Han clan's land, the Han clan's army came to help, so they repelled 20,000 soldiers and horses, and brought the caravan and the remaining echinoderm pigs back to the Han clan's land.

Although he won in the end, it also made Han's bones thunderous!

Not only did they lose the soldiers and horses and the spiny pigs, but more importantly, the provocation of the Lan clan and the Xu Bu clan against the Han clan! This area is the territory of the Han clan, and the Lan clan and the Xu Bu clan actually led the army to attack, and they simply didn't take the Han clan seriously.

Many important figures of the Han clan clamored for revenge, and wanted to give the Lan clan and the Subu clan a little color.

However, after all, the Han clan is the head of the clan, and he is clear-minded, knowing that with the Han clan and the Lan clan and the Xu Bu clan as enemies, they will not be able to take advantage of it at all, so he pressed it for the time being, but instead summoned Zhou Lin and questioned him.

Han's Guduhou has reason to believe that it was Zhou Lin, these Han people, who spread the news of trading with them, that caused the current situation.

Zhou Lin did not refute in the face of questioning, admitting that it was probably the negligence of himself and others that the Lan family and the Xu Bu family got the news and promised to compensate them.

This made Han's bones a little confused, but since there were still benefits, he didn't take it for nothing, so he greeted him with a smile.

At the end of March, another batch of 5,000 echinoderm pigs was transported to the Han clan as 'compensation'.

This time, the Han clan was well prepared, and perhaps the Lan clan and the Xu Bu clan also knew that the Han clan was well guarded, so there were no accidents on the road, and they arrived at the Han clan's land safely.

But that night, when Han's bones were completely defenseless, they were attacked again.

The number of people in this attack was even larger, with 40,000 cavalry, which almost cut the Han clan in half, so that the Han clan not only lost many men and horses, but even the five thousand thorny pigs that had just been transported were almost lost!

This time, no matter how much Han Shi could bear it, he couldn't help it.

So the next day, he ordered a few big households, led tens of thousands of elite horsemen, and marched north to retaliate and attack more than a dozen tribes to which the Lan clan belonged!