As soon as Liu Ze's plan to march to Jiaozhou was proposed, it immediately suffered from the unanimous opposition of almost all the strategists, so Jiaozhou is one of the thirteen states in the world, but it is located in a wilderness, sparsely populated, and there is almost no great strategic value.

In this regard, Liu Ze has long planned that although Jiaozhou is remote, Jiaozhou has a vast area, rich products, and the problem of sparse population can be solved by immigration, and the most important thing is that Liu Ze urgently needs an outlet to the sea to open up a trade channel with Rome. After the interruption of the Silk Road on land, what Liu Ze has always wanted to open up is the Silk Road on the sea. Although Xuzhou is also close to the sea, if you go to the sea from Xuzhou, you need to detour the entire East China Sea and South China Sea, and the voyage is too far, and Jiaozhou is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, which is very suitable. Whatever we rely on to fight a war naturally depends on money, and without a huge economic foundation, it is very difficult to win the final victory in the war. Since Dong Zhuo, the Central Plains region has fallen into a long-term melee, the land is barren and the population has decreased sharply, there is no military source if there is no one, there is no tax if there is no one, and the long and huge war needs a steady stream of money to maintain, and the people are exploited to extract military spending, which can only be killed and fished, so Liu Ze thought of the road of foreign trade.

Originally, Liu Ze was born in the economy, before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he gathered the wealth of the rich and rivaled the country, and the way to obtain such a huge wealth was mainly from foreign trade, so Liu Ze urgently needed to occupy Jiaozhou to open up the Maritime Silk Road and recreate the former Jin Yuan Empire.

There is a deposit of the intelligence agency of the Golden Eagle Guard. Although Liu Ze has not personally experienced Jiaozhou, he also has a clear understanding of the situation in Jiaozhou, with the current strength and strength of Jiaozhou, the Jing army does not need to send more soldiers and horses over at all, as long as 100,000 horses, it is enough to sweep the entire Jiaozhou, compared with Yizhou, which has the danger of mountains and rivers, and Jiangdong, which is covered with dense water networks, it can be said that it is easy to take Jiaozhou. What's more, Jiaozhou can be taken lightly, and it will not delay a lot of time, after pacifying Jiaozhou. Draw out troops and horses. You can still continue to compete for hegemony in the Central Plains.

In the end, Liu Ze persuaded the strategists, and everyone unanimously agreed to march into the state first.

Coincidentally, the book was not written, just when Liu Ze dispatched troops and prepared to march to Jiaozhou. Cangwu Taishou Wu Ju sent a distress document.

Dong Zhuo created a time when the world was in turmoil. Jiaozhou, as a happy land, has not been peaceful. Zhu Fu, the assassin of Jiaozhou appointed by the court, was killed by the thieves, and Jiaozhou fell into chaos. At that time, the court lost the right to rule the whole world of the Central Plains, not to mention the remote Jiaozhou. The political situation in Jiaozhou has entered a semi-vacuum.

At this time, the Jiaozhi scholars took advantage of the situation and stepped onto the political stage of Jiaozhou.

The Shi family was not originally the indigenous force of Jiaozhou, and when the former Han Dynasty was reckless, the ancestors of the Shi family migrated from Ludi, where Confucius was born, to Jiaozhou, and spread out to Shi Xie's generation, and the Shi family was already one of the best families in Jiaozhou. Shi Xie traveled to the Central Plains when he was young, worshiped the Confucian master Liu Ziqi as his teacher, was intelligent and diligent, and soon got the reuse of the court. Shi Xie is very strategic, after Dong Zhuo's rebellion, he thinks that the world will be divided, in order to prevent others from getting involved in Jiaozhou, Shi Xie began to recruit troops and horses to expand his strength on the one hand, on the other hand, he went to the court, and recommended his younger brother to serve as Shi Yi as the Taishou of Hepu County, Shi Huangyou as the Taishou of Jiuzhen, and Shiwu as the Taishou of the South China Sea. At the beginning of that year, the court was exiled in Guanluo, and no one cared whether Shixie's performance reached the hands of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, as long as it was on the table, it meant that the court was already approved. The other counties were not satisfied, it was easy to do, and Shixie sent troops to escort his three younger brothers to take office, and those who did not accept it were killed.

The Shi family is like the emperor of the soil in Jiaozhou, and the Shixie brothers serve as the county guards together, and they are in charge of the politics of a state. When they go in and out, they ring bells and chimes, prepare dignified instruments, preach with flutes, ride all over the road, and often have dozens of sand gates sandwiched in the crowd of chariots and horses to burn incense. Their wives and concubines rode in chariots with drapes, and their sons were followed by soldiers on horseback, and their nobility at that time impressed the local barbarian Yi tribe, and even the former Nanyue prince and lieutenant could not be compared with him.

In order to prevent others from getting involved in Jiaozhou, Shixie instructed Ou Jing to assassinate Zhang Jin, the assassin of Jiaozhou sent by the court. After hearing the news, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao thought that the opportunity had come, and he had always coveted Jiaozhou, so he sent Lai Gong to assassinate Jiaozhou and take over Zhang Jin's position, and at the same time sent Wu Ju to be the Taishou of Cangwu, replacing the recently deceased Taishou Shi Huang, and strongly intervened in Jiaozhou.

This move, of course, caused Shixie's dissatisfaction, and the two sides met each other in arms, and the conflict continued. Wu Juwu was born as a general, martial arts and bravery, dealt with problems simply and rudely, responded to Shixie's provocations, and advocated a strong counterattack. However, Lai Gong advocated that peace was precious, and wanted to negotiate with Shixie to strive for a peaceful solution to the Jiaozhou issue.

Wu Ju was very dissatisfied with Lai Gong, and relied on the military power in his hands to drive Lai Gong back to Lingling. After Lai Gong returned to Jingzhou, he complained to Liu Biao, but was reprimanded by Liu Biao and died of anger. Liu Biao sent Lai Gong and Wu Ju into Jiaozhou, just to control the overall situation of Jiaozhou, and he didn't want to make peace with the Shi family at all. Wu Ju got Liu Biao's strong support in Cangwu, to soldiers to soldiers, to money to money, Wu Ju quickly gained a foothold in Cangwu, and began to expand to the south, in the first two or three years, Wu Ju successively captured Yulin County, Hepu County and Nanhai County many county seats, the Shijia army was defeated and retreated, lost their divisions and lost their land.

But by the time Jian'an was five years old, Liu Biao was still in Jingzhou and could not protect himself, how could he still have spare money to support Wu Ju, and Wu Ju's offensive momentum decreased sharply. After all, the Shi family has been running Jiaozhou for 200 years, and there is a rich family background there, and Wu Ju, a nouveau riche who relies on external support, has been exposed in his true form after losing foreign aid, and has begun to go downhill.

From the sixth year of Jian'an, the Shi family began to regain the lost territory, and the large territories of Yulin County, Hepu County, and Nanhai County returned to the control of the Shi family. In April of the seventh year of Jian'an, more than 60,000 troops of Shixie, Shihuangyou, and Shiwu attacked Cangwu County from the three directions of Yulin, Hepu, and the southwest and east of the South China Sea, and began the counteroffensive and liquidation of Wu Ju.

Wu Ju couldn't resist the enemy, retreated to Guangxin, and handed over a distress document to Liu Ze in Changsha.

Originally, Wu Ju was sent to Jiaozhou by Liu Biao, he was a subordinate of Liu Biao, and now Liu Biao has long been destroyed, it stands to reason that he and Liu Ze have no subordinate relationship, Wu Ju was in a hurry at this time and went to the doctor, regardless of whether Liu Ze sent troops to rescue him, an urgent document was quickly transmitted to Linxiang City with 600 miles. (To be continued......)