At the beginning of the meeting, Wang Cang confidently asked Cao Cao to continue his eastward advance, considering that his rear army was coming at the same time, and it should be there in another three or five days; And Gongsun Du's base camp is in Xiangping, Liaodong County, even if the Yuan brothers gallop over without sleep, Gongsun Du made a decision on the spot, decided to help, ordered troops to come, and waited until he was under Liucheng, how could it take ten days. At that time, the Cao family's 20,000 troops, plus the Karasuma strong cavalry that they had subdued and coerced, would face no more than 30,000 Liaodong soldiers, and the chances of victory would still be quite large.

But he didn't expect that before the battle of White Wolf Mountain, Gongsun Du had already sent soldiers and horses, and now more than 10,000 people have arrived in Yangle. Just like the argument put forward by Xiahou Lian and their opposition to the immediate march of the army just now, now that the Cao army is tired, that is, the tens of thousands of karsuma in Liucheng have not really been subdued, even a military idiot like Wang Zhongxuan can figure it out with his toes, and the chances of victory for the self-army are really slim.

So, it's Hongfu who should hurry up and send an order to go to Yangle and Xiangping to solve the current crisis.

Shi Xun frowned and glanced at him, and said in his heart, why did I make such a bad friend as you?

So did he accept Cao Cao's hint or not, and did he receive the envoy's life? In Shi Xun's view, if he can't negotiate with the Gongsun clan and reach a settlement, then the possibility of the opponent's army taking advantage of the situation is quite great, and if he is not careful, the Cao army may suffer a crushing defeat, and when the time comes, let alone annex Liaodong, it will be difficult to keep the results of Liaoxi and Youbeiping. And if Cao Cao folds in the chaos, the whole world will be overturned in an instant.

If you go to Liaodong by yourself, you may have to worry about your life, but if you don't go. The Cao family couldn't send a more suitable person. Above the battle array. It's still dangerous. Let's not mention that Guan Jing wants to abandon his selfishness, his own life is always in his own hands.

So he sighed in his heart. But he still bowed his hand to Cao Cao: "If Gongsun wants to marquis, he can marquis." ”

Gongsun Du was originally born as a small official in Xuansu County, because his age and young name were exactly the same as the son of Xuansu Taishou Gongsun Chen, so he was protected by Gongsun Chen, not only for him to extend his education, but also for him to marry a wife, and pave the way to enter the office. Later, Xu Rong of Gongsun Du in the same county was the general of Zhonglang under Dong Zhuo, that is, he recommended Gongsun Du to serve as the Taishou of Liaodong, and wanted to drive a nail into the middle of the Kwantung princes - although this nail was a little farther away.

Gongsun Du was in Liaodong, receiving Xuansu in the north and Liaodong in the west. Attack Goguryeo in the east and Karasuma in the west. The power soon swelled. He even once sent a boat division south, seized Donglai County, and set up a camp - later Cao Jun broke Yuan Tan and followed the sea table, and chased Shi Liuyi from his camp state. According to historical records, he once discussed with his cronies, "When you want to be with Zhuqing Tu Wang'er", you want to cut off the king. Although those words have not been revealed in these years, and Gongsun Du has not really claimed the king, he still usurped the honor guard of the Son of Heaven, and called himself Pingzhou Mu and Liaodong Marquis.

The marquis of the Eastern Han Dynasty was mainly divided into two types: the marquis of liehou and the marquis of Guannei, the former had a food eup, the latter did not, and the liehou was divided into three levels according to the size of the food eup, the county marquis, the pavilion marquis and the township marquis. That is to say, if Gongsun Du is a marquis, the highest is a county marquis, and he takes "Liaodong" as the name, which is the name of the county rather than the name of the county - only the princes and kings are established by the county, and the Han system is not a king with a different surname. The disobedience of Gongsun Du can be seen from this.

So before Yuan and Cao contended, Cao Cao, in order to restrain Gongsun Du, also hoped that he would stab the Yuan family in the back, and specially sent an envoy to announce his order, worship him as Pingzhou Mu, General Wuwei, and seal Yongning Township, but Gongsun Du sneered at the title of Xianghou. Now it is Xun who said: "Gongsun wants to marquis, but he can marquis." "It means that if you want to stabilize him, you must first agree to some of his conditions, and I can't run away empty-handed—the implication is that I am willing to go on orders.

Cao Cao frowned and said, "Ande makes his marquis?" "How can you change a Liaodong County to Liaodong Kingdom and give him a person with a different surname? Shi Xun shook his head and said, "No need, you can just take Xiangping Houzhi." "You give him another level of promotion, and make him the Marquis of Xiangping County. His base camp is in Xiangping, thinking that he must be happy - in fact, in the original history, after Gongsun Kang killed the head of the second Yuan to offer, Cao Cao was named the Marquis of Xiangping, but this detail was not remembered by Xun - we can't destroy the imperial court system, but we can give Gongsun the highest reward within the scope of the system.

Cao Cao nodded: "Yes." "I can agree to this condition—" When will Hongsuke be feasible? ”

Shi Xun said, "It's urgent, please be ordered to ask for ......" He almost blurted out, "Please be ordered to ask General Sun for help"...... That is also a famous sentence in "The Biography of Zhuge Liang", I remember it best. Fortunately, he reacted in time and changed his words: "Please be ordered to make Liao-the edict is completed, the seal is completed, and the honor can be done." ”

Cao Cao said that the edict is easy to do, and I have a lot of blanks with me, so that Wang Zhongxuan waved his pen and crowned Gongsun Du as the Marquis of Xiangping, it will not take a quarter of an hour, the question is that the seal of the marquis, where can I touch it? Most of the official seals and seals of these years are metal, and they are carved and then cast, and the problem is that there are no craftsmen in the army now.

Shixun frowned and thought about it, so let's search the treasury and see if the Karasuma nobles have a good collection of jade.

As a result, a search, there are really a lot of good things - the Northeast region was originally the main production area of Xiuyu, Karasuma has been in the plug for a long time, influenced by the Han people's love for jade, but also for its beauty, there are no less than hundreds of good jade in the library. So Shixun chose a piece of pale yellow Xiuyu with a sufficient amount of it, and found a jade carver from the captured Han people—since the Karasuma nobles were good jade, there was naturally no shortage of jade craftsmen—and asked him to carve a seal as quickly as possible. But it's a pity that this carved turtle button is lifelike, but it can't be engraved - Karasuma-sama doesn't need it.

As a result, Xun had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and become a Feng woman again - the time interval of this "re-work" is quite long, more than 1,800 years......

In his previous life, he loved literature and history, not only reading history books, but also traditional skills such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and music. They are also involved in the fact that they can make a sound when playing the piano. Playing chess will swing. However, in terms of calligraphy and painting, I can barely be a primary school student - I once learned seal carving with a teacher for a few months, imitating nearly 100 Han seals, I hope this skill has not been completely unfamiliar.

He first found a few pieces of inferior jade to find the feeling, and as expected, all of them were carved badly. Seeing that time waits for no one, I had to grit my teeth and pick up the jade seal to fight. When the engraving is finished, put it on the paper, and then look at it - it is uneven. It is not upright, even if it is buried in the ground for 1,800 years, and later generations excavate it, no one believes that this is a Han seal...... Even if you are in a hurry in these years, most of them are stronger than this seal, and they may be a little stronger than the seals that canonized the head of the Guanxi army when Emperor Xian fled to Luoyang, and those seals that are purely Mengshi......

Forget it, that's it, I can't care about it so much.

The official seals of the Han Dynasty were mainly metal casts, but occasionally jade seals were also used. It can be said that the prime minister occasionally got a good jade, and he took it as the seal of the Marquis of Xiangping. It seems that he attaches great importance to Gongsun Du.

Taking advantage of the fact that Xun was sweating profusely, Cao Cao found someone to paint a lance and decorate it with a tail—there is always no shortage of fur in the beard—and made a temporary scepter. So Shi Xun held the scepter in his hand, carried the edict and Hou Yin, and under the escort of twenty "tiger and leopard riders", he went out of the east gate of Liucheng and went straight to Yangle.

- This time the light cavalry attacked Karasuma, and the troops were all in the regular army, and the generals could carry the troops, but the civil officials could not bring them, so the subordinates of the family were all in the rear army. The only acquaintance that Shixun brought was Zhuge Liang, dressed as a small official and drove a car for an angel.

First arrived in Yangle, Gongsun Du's general Han Zhong had already entered the city, and when he heard the news, he personally went out of the city to greet him - after all, the Gongsun family had not really torn their faces with the court, and the angels had arrived, so they could not fail to pay attention to etiquette. Shi Xun deliberately asked Han Zhong with a straight face: "General Qing is stationed in Yangle, what do you mean?" ”

Han Zhong replied, "To prevent Karasuma." ”

In fact, Gongsun Du sent him over, that is, he heard that Cao Jun had entered the right Beiping, because the distance was far away, the report was unknown, and he did not know that it was blocked by the big water, so he was afraid that Cao Cao would chase the second Yuan to his own head, so he sent troops to help guard Yangle.

The imperial court divided Youzhou into Youzhou and Pingzhou, with Yuan Shao as Youzhou Mu and Gongsun Du as Pingzhou Mu, of which Pingzhou includes Liaoxi, Liaodong, Xuansu, Lelang four counties and Liaodong vassal countries. However, Gongsun Du was not able to control the whole of Pingzhou, in the east, his power had just extended into Lelang, and had not yet been able to annex it, and in the west, it stopped at Yangle. Most of the western Liaoxi counties west of Yangle are the places where Karasuma Louban and the Badun Department are stationed in the pastorals, and there are also Su Muyan in the territory of the subject countries of Liaoxi.

In the past few years, Gongsun Du has been fighting Goguryeo in the east, so he hasn't paid much attention to the western front - it's not that he doesn't want to subdue Karasuma, but if he really takes the entire territory of Liaoxi, he will inevitably border the Yuan clan. The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family are deep-rooted, even if they are defeated by Cao Cao, Gongsun Du still feels that his own strength may not be enough to compete with him, it is better to take Goguryeo first, annex Lelang, and gather for a few more years. Karasuma is right between himself and Yuan's forces, which can be used as a buffer.

This is also the reason why he heard that Yuan Cao fought again, and Cao's army basically annexed Youzhou, and after waving his army to the east, he hurriedly sent Han Zhong to help defend Yangle - this is the western border of the Gongsun family's forces.

It was Xuncai Zhiyangle, and when he looked at the city, he immediately understood the other party's intentions. First of all, when Gongsun Du sent his troops, the battle of White Wolf Mountain had not yet broken out, even if he sent troops to report the purpose of the attack, it was not the Cao army that he wanted to fight, but Karasuma - the Cao army was still far away; Secondly, looking at the layout of the city, it is purely for defense, and there is no intention of attacking.

Therefore, Xun secretly breathed a long sigh of relief, and said that it was okay. After listening to Han Zhong's answer, he became more down-to-earth - it was clear that Han Zhong's power was limited, and in the face of the situation on the front line that had completely changed, he did not dare to use troops against the Cao family, but had to send someone to report to Gongsun Du and ask for the next step. Han Zhong's answer was very tactful, which showed that he had no bottom in his heart.

So Shi Xun continued to ask: "Wang Shi pursued Yuan's second rebellion to this point-Qing can see it?" ”

I saw that the muscles on Han Zhong's face trembled slightly, and then replied: "They came to vote poorly, and they didn't know that they were chased by the king's master, and they have gone to Xiangping to see my lord." (To be continued......)