In the valley on the outskirts of Xiangping, the villagers can live freely and freely, but for the "big people" in Xiangping City, the world is so complicated, or they have too many things to think about.

"Did that Bogu send someone over again?"

"Yes, according to the name of the prime minister, Bogu has not much time, and he is worried about the establishment of an heir."

"Do you know which of his sons is going to be his successor?"

"Bogu originally had three sons, the eldest son Nanwu died young, and his concubine had no children to inherit the throne. The remaining two sons, according to the people of Youju and Bogu, who were actually generals, were the younger Baqi, who was brave but not filial, and had a lot of complaints against us, and often drank and spoke wildly, wanting to bring us to the gate of his pill capital. The youngest son, Iyim, was wise and capable, and when he helped the king to govern the region, he hired officials according to his talents, and even peasants and slaves could become the courtiers of the Yim if they were talented, so this younger son was supported by the courtiers. ”

"Since that's called something...... One by one, (Yiyimo) yes, yes, Yiyimo, Yiyimo, these Goguryeo names are really awkward. Since the ministers all belong to the youngest son of Bergu, why should they consult with me, an irrelevant outsider? ”

"Isn't it because Bogu shows respect for my Liaodong?"

"Humph! It's just nonsense, do you really believe that, they say that! ”

"Of course not, of course not, but since Goguryeo is using this matter to test us, if we don't 'reply', this is really a bit sorry for such a good opportunity, and my subordinates are really a little unwilling. So there are some transgressions. ”

"Hmph, I still know that I have transgressed, okay, my brain is not confused, since I am not confused, then I should know what I should do. I shouldn't have done anything. ”

"Yes, the subordinates will be optimistic about those Goguryeo people, and they will not give them the opportunity to make small moves again."

"Good. This time is actually a good opportunity, but it's a pity that the current situation is not quite right, if not, the little Goguryeo would dare to play Yang Fengyin with me, is it really my Gongsun Du is soft persimmon pinched casually! ”

Goguryeo, a vassal power entrenched in the northeast of the Han Dynasty, is not an exaggeration to call it a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. The territory was mainly concentrated in the eastern part of present-day Jilin Province and the northeastern part of Liaoning Province in China, and when their power expanded, they could also extend their tentacles to the northeastern part of North Korea to compete with the tribes of the Hui and the Tsuki, or to fight the Wofu people in the east, but in general, they still preferred to expand in areas that were already fully exploited in the west and south.

Goguryeo is said to be a "different race" of the Buyeo people, which means that their ancestors were at least closely related to the Buyeo people, and it can be considered that this is an alien regime established by the Buyeo tribe.

And because of that. What is certain is that Goguryeo was not the ancestor of the Goryeo Dynasty that was later established by Wang Jian, and there was no inheritance relationship between the two sides. When Goguryeo and later the Goryeo Kingdom were inherited to the Tang Dynasty, they were finally destroyed by the Tang Dynasty due to repeated expansions of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the territory was completely annexed by Silla, and the royal blood is not known where it went.

As for Wang Jian, whether the ancestor is the Taiyuan Wang clan or other clans from the Central Plains, it is completely different from the ancestors of Goguryeo. It's like the Shu Han regime established by Liu Bei, and people can still count it as a dynasty that continued the bloodline of the Han Dynasty. However, it is clear that the Han State established by Liu Yuan and the Later Han Dynasty established by Liu Zhiyuan will not be regarded as a continuation of the Han Dynasty.

Similarly, the Mughal Empire in India was founded by Babur, a descendant of Timur, who claimed to be a descendant of Genghis Khan's golden family, and would historiography see it as a continuation of the Mongol Empire?

Goguryeo was born between the white mountains and black waters, so naturally he would not have much interest in those undulating mountains and dense primeval forests, so although Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu chose to attach himself after ascending the throne, and jumped from the title of being demoted to a marquis by Wang Mang. But it did not make the Goguryeo people feel the favor given by the Han people, but like other foreign tribes on the border, they continued to adopt a policy of encroachment on the border of the Han Dynasty, attacking the border soldiers today, looting the border people tomorrow, and burning and looting the day after tomorrow.

It can be said that if nothing else happens, perhaps a hundred years later, the Liaodong Peninsula will be completely owned by it.

There is no need to wait until the Northern Wei Dynasty to accomplish this feat.

Yes, this so-called "change" is Gongsun Du, a careerist who is now located on the border of the Han Dynasty and cannot be completely regarded as a separatist force who wants to become the "King of Liaodong".

Speaking of which, there is still a little relationship between Gongsun Du and Li Shushi, of course, this so-called relationship is not any relationship between the two.

When Dong Zhuo was in charge of the dynasty, he was quite dissatisfied with the continuous attacks of Goguryeo in the northeast against the Han Dynasty, although the Liaodong County in the northeast was too far away for him and was really out of reach, but this did not mean that he didn't want to solve this problem, especially after the previous Liaodong Taishou Yang was killed in the rebellion of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, this position has been vacant, so Dong Zhuo specifically sought suitable candidates from the civil and military officials in the court for this matter, hoping that they could recommend capable people to solve this problem, and the scope of this solicitation, Obviously, it also includes Li Shushi, who has a deferential attitude towards the emperor behind Dong Zhuo.

Li Shushi, who was in Bingzhou, naturally couldn't manage Liaodong, which was thousands of miles away, and he didn't need to participate in this kind of thing, but he didn't know if it was the inertia of history, although Xu Rong was taken to Jinyang by Li Shushi in the Luoyang turmoil caused by He Jin's death, far away from Luoyang's political circle, but Gongsun Du still found this old general who had a friendship with him.

Although he was born in Liaodong, Gongsun Du followed his father to settle in Xuansu County at a very young age, and became a county official there, and married a wife under the sponsorship of Gongsun Chen, the Taishou of Xuansu County, and was raised as "Youdao". That is, a virtuous person has entered the official career, and it can be said that Gongsun Du is completely rooted in Xuansu County, just like Han Sui.

Although Li Shushi is not well-known in Shilin, he can also be regarded as an important minister of the dynasty as a state pastor on the side of the shepherd, not to mention that behind Li Shushi is Lu Zhi, who served as the pastor of Shuozhou at that time, which can be regarded as a well-known figure in Shilin. As long as Li Shushi can recommend him to Lu Zhi and get Lu Zhi's recommendation, the matter of defending Liaodong can be said to be a certainty.

With Lu Zhi's prestige and Li Shushi's strength, coupled with Lu Zhi's strength, Dong Zhuo will definitely not be embarrassed by the opportunity to defend Liaodong, these two good and bad people can be regarded as important ministers of the DPRK and the central government who give him some kind of support in politics.

In fact, there is no need for Lu Zhi to come out at all, and a Li Shushi has already easily handled this qiē.

Anyway, for Li Shushi, although Gongsun Du is not a well-known figure, he has been able to divide three generations in Liaodong for more than 50 years. Obviously, they still have some skills, at least whether it is Goguryeo and Buyeo in the north, or Xianbei in the northwest, or the Karasuma people in the west, they have not been able to let this separatist regime collapse, but they are living a very nourishing life.

It is estimated that if it hadn't encountered a certain dead ant with bad luck, perhaps this regime would have lasted for quite some time.

All in all, in the tradition of the Han Dynasty. Between Li Shushi and Gongsun Du, it can be regarded as a friendship of recommendation. There is such a little bit of relationship - of course, this relationship is like a thin piece of paper in front of the princes competing for hegemony, and it will be broken when stabbed.

Over time, whether it is Li Shushi in Bingzhou or Gongsun Du in Liaodong, they have probably left this matter behind them, and it has become an insignificant episode in their lives that does not cause any ripples at all.

Although it is said that Gongsun Du is a careerist. He is a separatist and a separatist prince, but he has to admit that he is a very capable person.

Gongsun Du's family background is not good, and he was born in Xuansu, and he has to rely on Xuansu's sympathy for Gongsun Chen, who is the same age as his own child who died early, to get the opportunity to be recommended and study. Until now, he must rely on Li Shushi, who is a heavy minister in the eyes of most scholars, but he is also a "minister", to get the position of Liaodong Taishou, one can imagine what kind of discrimination he was subjected to when he returned to Liaodong.

And the representative of this is Gongsun Zhao, who was born in the Liaodong vassal state of Xiangping Ling at the time, and actually recruited Gongsun Kang, the son of Gongsun Du, as the head of the district, which is really contemptuous and a slap in the face.

In the face of this situation, Gongsun Du's choice is not fundamentally different from Li Shushi's, or it is no different from the choice of many heroes in the Three Kingdoms, that is, to raise the butcher's knife and order the heads of the people under his rule to roll, and once wipe out those powerful places, whether it is to issue decrees or arrange political affairs, it will become easy and smooth.

Of course, Dong Zhuo and Sun Ce also have such policies, but the effect obtained by Gongsun Du seems to be completely different.

The reason why this situation occurs, Dong Zhuo needless to say, his background determines that the scholars in the whole world except for a few people who do not have too much ambition, but anyone who has the slightest ambition in his career will be dissatisfied with his existence.

After all, the scholars have struggled with the eunuchs for so many years, shed blood and sacrificed for so many years, but they were stolen by a low-status warlord leader, and they were still powerful on their heads, which is really unbearable.

As for Sun Ce, it can only be said that this person's personality is too rigid, he really has Sun Jian's legacy, and he is too confident in his martial arts to the point of being conceited, and the result is very similar to his father, which can be said to be almost repeating his father's gains and losses.

Of course, Sun Ce's death is somewhat strange in terms of timing, so we also have the right to wonder if there are some shadows of other people behind this, after all, Cao Cao was already very strict in the face of Yuan Shao's pressure at that time, and he really couldn't withstand another tiger coming out from behind, even if it was just selling a cute in the border place, it could make people feel uneasy and involve the already insufficient troops.

On the other hand, Gongsun Du killed those heroes who did evil, although he offended many people, but because Liaodong was isolated overseas, coupled with Gongsun Du's small officials' background, it was like Liu Jingsheng who rode into Jingzhou alone, and soon stabilized the situation in Liaodong.

The internal problems of Liaodong have been solved, but the problems in the surrounding areas seem to be more intractable than those inside.

As mentioned before, not only are there many alien races such as Karasuma, Xianbei, Goguryeo, Buyeo, Wofu, and Huiqi around Liaodong, but there are also fierce border people entrenched in the border Toyama area.

Among them, he was the first to attack Liaodong under the rule of Gongsun Du. It is this King of Goguryeo, Bogu, who has been coveting the Han for a long time and constantly encroaching on it.

Speaking of which, this Bogu's life is also full of ups and downs - he once killed the county commander of Daifang County in the south of Lelang County, plundered the wife and children of the Taishou of Lelang County, and I don't know how much he did to burn and loot the rest, but finally caused the dissatisfaction of the Luoyang Imperial Court, and was beaten by Geng Lin, the Taishou of Xuansu County, and hundreds of people died. has to belong to Liaodong, which can be said to be a lot more honest.

Later, he asked to be attached to Xuansu County, probably because he felt that Liaodong was too strong to gnaw, or it was safer to encroach on Xuansu County.

However, in general, a battle with hundreds of casualties probably hurt Goguryeo's vitality, so that this Bogu has not made much action for more than ten years, and this kind of thing is a kind of torture for the border people, but for the central power, this loss is really a drop in the bucket and completely disdainful.

knew that Gongsun Du had come to this Liaodong County. Then the butcher's knife lifted the human head and rolled.

I don't know if it's because those powerful remnants who were killed ran to Bogu to ask to be the leading party, or if they felt that after killing these countless powerful people in the county, Liaodong's strength had fallen to the lowest point in history, so there was an opportunity, anyway, at that time, the king of Goguryeo, Bogu, probably saw the dawn of Goguryeo's re-embarking on the road of expansion.

But whether it is really the dawn or not can only be known after fighting.

In fact, throughout Gongsun Du's war against hostile forces, he rarely came to the front line of the war, compared to the kind of battlefield fighting that licked the blood of the knife, he obviously preferred to sit in the back to win thousands of miles away, just like the recognized ancestor Gongsun Hong of Liaodong Gongsun became a respected Confucian leader of the world. Instead of a group of martial artists like the Gongsun clan in Liaoxi who took Gongsun He as their ancestor.

But only in this counterattack against Goguryeo, Gongsun Du rarely took the lead. Together with Gongsun Mo, who was a general of his clan, and his subordinates Liu Yi, Yang Yi, Zhang Chang, Han Zhong and other major support forces, he led the soldiers in the county and the strong recruits selected from the slaves who were confiscated from the county to meet the challenge from Goguryeo.

As a result, this battle can be called without suspense.

Just as halfway through the battle of Muye, the slaves of the Shang Dynasty turned against each other, and the Han slaves who were coerced by Goguryeo saw that the newly arrived Taishou in Liaodong not only took the lead, but also seemed to have some ability, and Gongsun Du's loud promise in front of the battle made them moved. Finally, these people stabbed their weapons into the bodies of the Buyeo soldiers in Goguryeo beside them.

Even if there were not many people who did this at first, as long as these Han slaves paddled the water, it was enough to change the situation on the battlefield, and after this battle, Goguryeo not only lost more than a thousand elite Han slaves. Moreover, he lost more than a thousand of his country's elites, and it can be said that Bogu suffered a more tragic defeat than the last defeat given to him by Geng Lin.

In the face of power, Goguryeo once again remembered its responsibility as a vassal state, so after some negotiations, Goguryeo not only became a vassal state of Gongsun Du instead of the Han court, but also had to send troops to support Gongsun Du's purge of the "rich mountain bandits".

And Gongsun Du, who incorporated this strong contingent of border people, finally had the confidence to promote his rule in the Liaodong region.

even once stretched out its tentacles to Qingzhou across the sea.

Although this operation failed because of the barrier of the vast sea - this is Gongsun Du's statement, as for the specifics, I am afraid that only the heart of the person concerned knows best, but I have to admit that after Gongsun Du repelled the attack of Goguryeo, he made Liaodong Karasuma suffer a big loss in him, and he no longer dared to make a big attack, and Xianbei also did not have the ability to invade the south on a large scale because of Li Shushi, and for a while, Gongsun Du's Liaodong really became a paradise in the troubled times.

Now, when Pegu felt that his body had decayed and his life was coming to an end, he had to inform Gongsun Du about the issue of the heir, and it may be difficult for Gongsun Du to meddle in the internal affairs of Goguryeo, but as the suzerain of Goguryeo, Gongsun Du has the power to determine the legitimacy of the next generation of Goguryeo heirs who are subject to the country.

This is the prestige that Gongsun Du has after nearly ten years of hard work in this acre of three-point land in Liaodong.

"But ......" After a deep groan, Gongsun Du asked in a slightly hesitant tone: "What happened to the Karasuma people and Xianbei people in the west recently, I always feel that the atmosphere on the Xianbei people's side is not quite right recently." ”

"My lord. His subordinates had heard that because Gongsun Chan had quietly retreated, Yuan Shao did not seem to intend to fully fulfill the rewards he had promised to those aliens, and for this matter, the greedy Xianbei and Karasuma people were said to have made a very unpleasant fuss. ”

"It's serious...... No, this can't be, what kind of person Yuan Benchu is. How could he give up the opportunity to win over these powerful 'thugs' for the sake of a small profit, not to mention that Yuan Benchu was not so strong that even without those Hu people, he could get Cheng Dù in the world, maybe he still had some spare strength to deal with Cao Mengde in the south, but he was still a little stretched in terms of troops to deal with Li Shushi in the west. No, there must be some shady deal in this! ”

"So what kind of deal does the lord think this is?"

"Well, I don't think it's good, who knows what the greedy aliens are interested in, but from the information I've received from the merchants during this time, it seems that these aliens are quite interested in raiding people. It seems that it has exceeded their usual preference for wealth and gold beads, but they have never been soft on killing people, which is really incomprehensible. ”

"The lord doesn't need to worry, as long as these Hu people don't set foot in our Liaodong. But even if they set foot in Liaodong, we won't worry, as long as the lord is there, we will dare to eat as many as they come! ”

It's a pity that it didn't take long for such bold words to become a bitter and fragrant Xiang that had to be swallowed by himself.

Since Gongsun Du became the ruler of Liaodong, the Xianbei people, who had always been very restrained, began to assemble on the fertile grasslands in the northeastern and western parts of Liao. And at the same time as the Xianbei people gathered. The Karasuma people of the Liaodong vassal states also seemed to have withdrawn from the front line against Gongsun Zhan, and their attitude was also quite unfriendly. Without the slightest pause, the Karasuma army of the Liaodong vassal country was also stationed on the border of Liaodong County, and the sound of sharpening knives was constantly heard in the camp.

"Lord, according to reliable information, this time it should be Xianbei's Shan Yu Qianman who led the Xianbei army, and he was followed by Miga, the Xianbei Lord in the east. As well as the eastern marshals Suli and Que Ji, as well as Murong Yan of the Murong Department, Duan Mohe of the Duan Department, and countless other middle and lower tribes, the total strength is estimated to be at least 100,000! ”

Whether it is Qianman and Qianman, it can be regarded as an all-star lineup. is still that huge number, all of which made Gongsun Du feel drenched in a cold sweat, such a huge force is obviously not something that Liaodong can resist, even if the three counties of Liaodong Xuansu, Liaodong and Lelang together are probably only about 150,000 households and more than 700,000 people, plus those powerful slaves will not be much more than this number, at most it is 50,000 or 60,000 more, after all, it is Liaodong located on the border.

Such a number of people, even if one is drawn according to ten, the troops that can be gathered are only 80,000 people, and compared to Xuansu County, Lelang is too far away from Xiangping, and the relationship is not close, the population there is basically difficult to use for Gongsun Du, at most it is to provide some materials, and then give 3,000 troops who are barely filling the façade, and it is better to use the money and food in the treasury to go to the mountains to find those good shooters and Wofu people, at least in terms of combat effectiveness.

Of course, if it is a general mobilization, then Liaodong will be able to piece together an army of 150,000, but that Su zhì ...... It's better not to think too much, and such a large army is also a great burden on production and food and grass consumption, if the Xianbei people just train their assembly ability, it doesn't take much, two or three times can make the Gongsun regime fall into the rhythm of collapse.

However, this may not be the most disturbing.

"My lord, according to the report of the sentinel, there seem to be tens of thousands of Hun soldiers in the enemy formation, but it seems to be different from the Hun army we are familiar with, but it is difficult to distinguish for a while."

"Huns! Could it be that Li Shushi and Xianbei have reconciled with the Xianbei Royal Court? ! (To be continued......)