17. The prologue to the Great Melee in Hebei

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"Big brother, the question you raised is actually not too difficult to decide, and I happened to be reading a story in an ancient book recently, which may help big brother make a more favorable choice in this matter."

"Oh~ Brother Yue, you know to read more books recently, which is good. Although we relied on military merit to get to where we are today, if we don't read more books, we won't be able to integrate into that circle after all. Just like your eldest brother and me, if it weren't for the fact that I studied with Lu Gong as a teacher for a while, do you think that old father-in-law of mine would take a fancy to me, a poor boy from a concubine? ”

Although Gongsun Chan became famous because of his military talent, it cannot be denied that Gongsun Chan is not the kind of old man who has not read, and it can even be said that compared to Liu Bei, who is not very fond of reading but is very similar to his ancestor Liu Bang, who belongs to the kind of storage that has skills even if he does not learn, Gongsun Chan is much stronger than Liu Bei in terms of knowledge.

I have to say that, in fact, the overall cultural level of the bureaucratic system of the Eastern Han Dynasty may be the highest in the entire Chinese feudal society, because from the emperor to the lower-level officers, if you don't read some books, you are embarrassed to come out to meet people and greet colleagues, even if it is a former diehard such as Lu Meng, who finally "changed the evil and returned to the right", and was also influenced by the "emperor" Sun Quan, other generals such as Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu can also be qualified for the position of civil official. Generals like Zhang Jaw often invited outstanding Confucian students to give lectures in the military camp, and recommended outstanding talents to the country.

It can be said that if it were not too far behind in popularity, perhaps the cultural level of the Eastern Han Dynasty would have reached a fairly high level.

Therefore, Gongsun Chan will definitely encourage and praise his clan brother for being willing to study, instead of desperately instilling some "reading is useless" and then let his family children train their muscles, because this is definitely not in line with the impact of the social environment.

"The lesson of the eldest brother is that the younger brother originally felt that reading was not of much use, and it was better to practice more strength to better help the eldest brother. But during this time, helping the eldest brother deal with local government affairs has only appeared, and it is really not possible not to study. ”

"Yes, yes, it's really 'the book is used to hate less', and sure enough, the lesson in the eldest brother's ordinary words is reasonable."

Seeing that Gongsun Yue was praised, Gongsun Fan was not far behind, and his face showed a look of "I also feel deeply".

"It's good that you know that, but don't just talk about it, don't do it on a whim, you have to be persistent to learn more from books. Okay, you're all older, so you don't need me to nag anymore. Brother Yue, you can tell me what you think, and let Brother Wei take a look at your recent books. ”

"Yes, brother. My brother recently studied ancient books and had a lot of insights into what Fan Ju said about King Qin Zhaoxiang. We are located in Youzhou, although the place is not as rich as the hinterland of the Central Plains, but we can also avoid making enemies everywhere. In the past, Fan Ju presented the strategy of 'distant friendship and close attack' to the King of Qin, which must be excellent for us today. ”

"Yes, it looks like you've read the book, so let's go on."

"The most difficult and tricky enemy we have now, and in the foreseeable future, is Yuan Shao, Yuan Benchu, who still considers himself the leader of the alliance. Although there is a feeling of raising the ambition of others and destroying their own prestige, we cannot compare with each other in terms of fame and appeal to the family. Although our Baima Yicong can be called a rare and invincible army, the Jizhou soldiers under the command of Yuan Shaojun have followed the old general Huangfu to fight in the northwest for many years, and have accumulated rich experience, and the most important thing is that they do not lack experience in fighting with various cavalry, so we do not have an overwhelming advantage over the other side in this regard. Moreover, we do not have a good relationship with the Karasuma and Xianbei tribes, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be shaken by their possessions, and they will cause us some more difficult problems at unexpected times or places. ”

"Brother Yue, you are really destroying our ambition. That Yuan Benchu was just a cunning annihilator who was good at arguing in the court and taking advantage of his tongue, but if you want to command the battle, how can you be our eldest brother's opponent! Even if Yuan Shao is a little famous, if he wants to compete for the world, he still has to rely on his ability on horseback, instead of shouting a few words and giving a few gifts. ”

Gongsun Fan doesn't seem to agree with Gongsun Yue's point of view, of course, it can't be ruled out that this is an act to curry favor with Gongsun Zhan, after all, now under the command of Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Yue, who leads the white horse Yicong, is more important than Gongsun Fan, the "deputy general" who has no real power, although Gongsun Fan does not have the ambition to replace Gongsun Zhan, but at least the ambition to become the first person under his command is not small.

"Is Yuan Benchu really as unbearable as you say? Even if this person really can't be compared with the eldest brother, Tian Yuanhao and Xu Ziyuan are all resourceful people. Okay, even if you don't know the abilities of these people, you won't know the skills of Yan Gongji, Wen Boming, and Gao Jingdi. Even if the eldest brother can deal with one or two, what about three or four? ”

"Since you said that Yuan Shao so powerfully, then let's just stop fighting and surrender directly!"

"Humph! Although Yuan Benchu's strength is indeed very strong on the surface, we are not without opportunities! ”

Gongsun Yue faced Gongsun Fan's reproach, but he showed a lot of self-confidence, and the dazzling look that exuded because of self-confidence immediately reflected Gongsun Fan on the side as rude and unbearable.

No matter what Gongsun Yue can say, at least with what he said just now, he has successfully won a city, and as long as there are no big mistakes in the future, then his status in Gongsun Zhan's heart will not decline.

On the contrary, if Gongsun Fan, who is an opponent, can't show any new abilities, it may affect his existing position in Gongsun Zhan's army. After all, even if Gongsun Chan is just the concubine of the Gongsun family in Youbeiping, his current status has made him the most desired "star" of the Gongsun family. And Gongsun Fan Neng has a great status today, and Cheng DΓΉ still relies on his friendly attitude towards Gongsun Chan when he was young. In fact, he didn't know how many young people from the Gongsun family were waiting to step on his "corpse" behind him, and he knew that the abilities of those people would definitely not be worse than Gongsun Fan.

Therefore, the current Gongsun Yue can no longer care about Gongsun Fan's mood for the time being, and even because he saw the encouraging eyes of his eldest brother Gongsun Zhan, he explained his views to Gongsun Zhan.

"Yuan Benchu is the enemy in front of him, and Yuan Highway is a figure who is far away from the world, although it seems that our alliance with Yuan Highway will not bring any benefits in a short period of time, but compared with Yuan Benchu, a close neighbor who is destined to become an enemy, Yuan Highway is a better object. And Yuan Benchu and Yuan Highway as a famous family. The two most outstanding people of the Yuan clan still have disputes between each other and their concubines, and Yuan Highway's intention to form an alliance with us should still be sincere, and even because Nanyang is a little far away from Jizhou, Yuan Highway cannot effectively cover the influence here, in order to limit Yuan Benchu's exhibition momentum, he must give us some help, no matter how little, it is not Yuan Benchu can give us help. ”

"This is the Wei people's Fan Ju's 'long-distance and close-range attack' strategy. Not bad, well thought. ”

"But eldest brother, this time Yuan Benchu invited us to share the matter of Jizhou...... It's not like we can't join forces. ”

"According to you, Yuan Benchu should also regard me as the biggest enemy of unifying Hebei, so can he really cooperate with us? And don't you think there's something wrong with those rumors? I think Yuan Benchu should have a very detailed plan on his side. ”

"What the eldest brother said is very true, but if we can get the land of Jizhou, where the land is fertile and talented, it will be a great help for us, and now it is an unprecedented opportunity. In addition, although the coalition forces have essentially disbanded, nominally they are not, so if we don't have a particularly good excuse, our attack on the alliance leader will cause us some trouble. ”

"That's not bad, although I think it's a constraint to focus on things like that. That's it, I'll leave this matter to you to do, Xianbei now has signs of civil strife, and the Karasuma people are no longer in the climate, it is the best opportunity for us to show our strength, we have suffered enough in Biansai, but those gate valve families have never put our hard work in their eyes, and it's time to change, I want to make 'White Horse Yicong' become the real number one army in the world! ”

Obviously, Gongsun Chan still prefers straight battles to intrigue and intrigues, perhaps in his opinion, this is in line with the true character of the Northland boy, although the brain plasma content in his brain should be above the average of all species in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but he doesn't like to use or is too lazy to use this excuse, but he is afraid that even a god will directly make a 36oΒ° forward action.

Because of the rumors that gradually spread from Jizhou to the surrounding areas, Han Fu's situation seems to have become worse.

Except for Yuan Shao, who secretly looked for Gongsun Chan and didn't know what he was planning, other forces seemed to have various reactions.

For example, the Youzhou Mu Liu Yu children's shoes who have always been resentful of the Emperor Symmetry incident.

"Han Fu conspired to welcome the new emperor and stand on his own? Although I did hear a lot of news about the change of Hangeun Festival because of the loss of his beloved general, no matter how you look at it, it feels like a conspiracy. But considering what he did before and the news that his surname has changed drastically, I am afraid that such news will be accepted by many people. ”

Looking at the information in his hand, Liu Yu closed his eyes and shook his head, and then pressed his right temple with his right hand a few times, as if he wanted to use this method to make himself more sober. After all, since Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, one thing after another has been born, which not only makes people dizzy, but also makes people unable to grasp the benefits and losses well.

"Han Wenjie followed the Yuan brothers to roast his father on the fire, but now he ended up like this, which is really gratifying."

However, unlike Liu Yu, who felt that his energy was gradually not enough, his son Liu He seemed to be very excited, and he was obviously also dissatisfied with what Yuan Shao and others had done at the beginning - even if that behavior was successful, as Liu Yu's most important son, the glorious profession of "prince" hanging on his head could be said to be a sure thing.

"Seeing that it is no longer possible to overthrow Dong Zhuo, do you plan to expand your strength locally? What is the difference between this look and those red eyebrows? The ambitions of the Yuan brothers have been gradually exposed, and the once hard-hearted Tao Gongzu now seems to be a different person, and it seems that maybe when our father and son will be involved in this chaos. ”

"Father, haven't we been caught up in this tide now? Not to mention the actions of the Yuan brothers before, let's just say that now, the contradiction between Gongsun Bogui and his father is getting bigger and bigger, if it weren't for Liu Taishou to act on his behalf, I'm afraid that Gongsun Bogui would have been unable to hold back and embarrass his father. I know that my father is a wise and loyal minister, but now that the troubled times have come, I have to protect myself. ”

"I am the pastor of Youzhou of the Han Dynasty appointed by the first emperor, and it is my duty to guard Youzhou for His Majesty. As for other places, they are not within my authority, and if I interfere in these places, I will overstep my authority and be disloyal to Your Majesty. However, it is not a good thing to let careerists such as Yuan Benchu and Gongsun Bogui grow up lightly, maybe they should be given some 'gifts', but in this way, I am afraid that it will suffer the people of Jizhou. Ay...... How long has it been since the Yellow Turban Disaster, and there are still so many corrupt officials and cool officials, and the people of Jizhou also got some Ansheng when Jia Mengjian was making a history of assassination......"

In Liu Yu's opinion, the former Jizhou Assassin Jia Cong, who made the Jiaozhou military and civilians praise, should be the one who has helped the people the most among the previous assassins in Jizhou in the past few years. Others, if it weren't for the fact that although he is a good person like Huangfu Song, he is better at fighting than at resuming production, not to mention that he is in office with the Ten Standing Servants and the same water and fire to contain each other, in addition to training a group of elite soldiers and strong generals for Jizhou, it is commendable to let Emperor Liu Hong reduce Jizhou's taxes. Others, such as Wang Fen and Han Fu, either had a lot of tossing and turning in office, or they connived at the Jizhou gate valve family, and there was often a resurgence of small-scale peasant uprisings.

It's just that the short career of Jizhou Assassin took too much energy on Jia Cong, so that after Liu Hong's death, He Jin transferred him to the post of General Duliao, and he died in office not long after, which made the people in the area where he once served shed a few tears.

"What is Father going to do?"

"There are more than a few careerists in this world, such as Yuan Benchu and Gongsun Bogui, but others have not been given a good opportunity to ignite and burst out the ambitions in their chests. In that case, let me fill the boiling water with a few more handfuls of firewood under the boiling water, which has begun to heat up, and boil the water in the kettle even more. ”

Seeing the uncertain look on his father's face, Liu He wisely did not continue to ask his father about the specific methods of this matter, but chose to quietly bow to his father and leave his father's study.

He knew that his father, who was tormented by his heart, needed nothing more than a lonely environment at this time.

So, it didn't take long for the princes around Jizhou to appear in the hands of a letter drafted by Liu Yu.

"Youzhou Mu Liu Yu would like to tell you with great righteousness: the rebel minister Jizhou assassinated Shi Han Fu and bullied the heavens and the earth, destroyed the country and bullied the king; ……; greedy for profit and forgetting righteousness, cruelty to the people; Wolves are unkind, and sins are accumulated; ……; Now, in the name of righteousness, we will gather volunteers and vow to sweep away China and kill the murderers. Wangxing righteous teachers, venting public anger; Help the royal family and save the people. The text is said to be carried out! ”

The content of the article is roughly like this, anyway, it will become Han Fu's sin to change the text of the crusade against Dong Zhuo, after all, except for the fact that he did not have the opportunity to stay in the dragon bed at night, the rest of the charges are not too much even if they are added to Han Fu's body - who can say that his body is clean enough, even if you can pat your chest and say that your body is absolutely clean, it cannot guarantee that your wife and children, your secretary and even the porter are also pure like Zhang Ohua; Similarly, even if you can sweep everything around you cleanly, there is no guarantee that there will be no problems with your subordinates, subordinate officials, or those county commanders or even village chiefs in the areas under your jurisdiction. And these can be your problems - whenever you need to.

Therefore, when this article appeared on the desks of Li Shushi, the governor of Yanzhou, Liu Dai, the Taishou Gongsun Zan of Youbeiping, Liu Bei, Liu Bei, Yuan Shao, the Taishou of Bohai, and Zhang Miao of Chen Liu, the biggest problem was not how many of the crimes in this article, Han Fu, but Liu Yu used his prestige to give these people a perfect excuse.

Let them have an excuse to send troops to Jizhou and occupy it after the matter settles down.

Of course, what is more important is that such an article also eliminates the possibility of Han Fu dedicating Jizhou to a certain person and retreating from the core of this turmoil, because if you choose to take in, even if it is only to exile this heinous Han Fu, then you are likely to be formed again by Liu Yu under the same pretext to form an encirclement and suppression alliance, and the princes who seem to have succeeded at that time but are already a little exhausted may not necessarily get the final fruits of victory.

In other words, as soon as this article comes out, no matter how many "careerists" will jump out, at least Han Fu can be said to be dead.

Although it is impossible to know exactly what the expressions of those who receive or hear the news of the text will have, it is undoubtedly certain that compared with Jingzhou, where only two tigers compete, or more accurately, the Nanyang-Nanjun line, the ups and downs of Hebei are undoubtedly much more complicated, and I am afraid that they will be much more cruel.

Of course, what Liu Yu may not know is that someone, one of the "careerists" in his mind, is scratching his head for another thing. For him, compared to the problem in Jizhou, the matter in his hand made him feel more headache and difficult to choose. (To be continued.)