Because Li Xiang suddenly agreed to arrange for Guan, Zhang, and Zhao to each lead an army, Wang Yun specially entered the palace to ask what Li Xiang meant. Li Xiang elaborated on his idea of keeping these talents as much as possible, and emphasized that Guan Zhang and Zhao are all top generals second only to Lu Bu, and if they can win their hearts, they will be able to check and balance Lu Bu in the future.

Speaking of the word "checks and balances", Wang Yun immediately understood. It's not that he doesn't know that it is very dangerous for the army to be completely controlled by Lu Bu, but there are no people in the army who can fight with Lu Bu at all, and he reluctantly uses Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, the old generals of Xiliang, but first, they surrendered, and secondly, they are indeed not Lu Bu's opponents, so it has not changed the situation of Lu Bu's family dominance. If Guan Zhang and Zhao can really use it, it will be a good help.

It's just that since Guan Zhang Zhao has to use it, do Liu Bei, Guo Jing, and Xun Yu also use it? Li Xiang thought for a while and said, "As far as I know, Xun Yu is still very loyal to the Han family. Guo Jia and the others are all disabled, so arrange for them to be staff members. As for Liu Bei...... It's too obvious to just don't give him something to do, so let's arrange a position. But it's best not to let him out, just stay in Chang'an City. In addition, these people are all arranged around them in the end, monitoring their every move at any time, in case something happens, it is good to be prepared. ”

Wang Yun nodded approvingly, but still smiled: "The ancients said: There is no doubt about employing people, and there is no need for suspicious people." Now you are suspicious of employing people, and suspicious people are using! ”

After more than a month, Yuan Shao completely defeated Zhang Miao, who was competing with him for Yanzhou, occupied the entire territory of Yanzhou, and then went to the imperial court to ask himself to be a general and a pastor of Jizhou. Jizhou pastor is just that, now he occupies a huge territory in Jizhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou, part of Qingzhou, and part of Bingzhou, and it is no problem to be a Jizhou pastor. However, the general was the highest official position in the military during the Han Dynasty. In charge of the country's soldiers and horses, it has always been a relative of the emperor and the country. Yuan Shao took the initiative to ask for this position, which shows how arrogant he is.

The seal was sent to Chang'an, which immediately caused an uproar in the court. Wang Yun was particularly angry, and strongly ordered him to be reprimanded and ordered to go to Beijing to discuss the crime. If you don't come, send troops to beg for it!

This kind of disposal is too drastic, and it is clearly to force Yuan Shao to reverse. Everyone argued for a long time, Wang Yun asked Li Xiang's opinion again, and finally made a holy decree, Yuan Shao's request for sealing was rejected, but Jizhou Mu was sealed. At the same time, Tian Feng under Yuan Shao was crowned as Youzhou Mu, and Xu Yu was Yanzhou Mu. Kong Rong became the Qingzhou pastor. Then he ordered Lu Bu to annex the state pastor, and send troops to annex the state.

Chang'an's side just lightly issued a holy decree, and dismembered Yuan Shao's territory, which is the power of the imperial court's righteousness. Although Tian Feng and Xu You definitely did not dare to take over the positions of Youzhou Pastor and Yanzhou Pastor, they could also create some rifts between them and make them suspicious of each other.

Lu Bu was very excited after receiving the order, he was originally from Bingzhou, and now he can lead the troops back to his hometown. Naturally, he was extremely pleased. It's just that after he left, Chang'an was empty. You can't leave someone to guard it. So under the instruction of Li Xiang, Wang Yun asked Lü Bu for Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, and asked them to guard Chang'an instead of Lü Bu. These two people have been specifically responsible for the prevention and security of Chang'an, and it is logical to stay at this time. Lu Bu didn't think much about it, so he nodded and agreed.

In fact, there is no shortage of generals under Lu Bu's command, and the most lacking is strategists. It was under Li Xiang's prodding again. Lu Bu personally went to invite Liu Ye and Mao Jue to go with him. Liu Ye is a relative of the Han family, Mao Jue is honest and fair, with the two of them, he is not afraid that Lu Bu will do something out of the ordinary.

Three days later. Lu Bu led the 20,000 Bingzhou soldiers in his headquarters, plus 20,000 Liangzhou iron cavalry, and rolled towards Bingzhou. Lu Bu had just left here, and there was an accident in the south. Sun Ce, the son of Sun Jian, one of the princes of the Eighteen Roads, pledged the jade seal of the country to Yuan Shu, borrowed 3,000 soldiers, and was attacking Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou.

Liu Miao is also a relative of the Han family, originally a Yangzhou assassin, and was stationed in Shouchun. However, after the princes of the Eighteenth Route fought against Dong, most of these princes stood on their own, and Yuan Shu drove Liu Miao out of Yangzhou and could only survive in Qu'a. Unexpectedly, he would not be able to live in peace in Qu'a, and Sun Ce would also have to be self-reliant, and he set his sights on the land of Jiangdong. Liu Miao couldn't resist being beaten, so he could only ask the court for help.

For Yuan Shu and Sun Ce's arrogance, the imperial court headed by Wang Yun was naturally extremely annoyed. But Jiangdong is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, and the imperial court is beyond the reach of the whip. After discussing and discussing, Xun Yu came up with an idea, and ordered Liu Yu to return to Chang'an, so that Sun Ce could inherit Sun Jian's title of Marquis of Wu and lead the land of Jiangdong.

This will suddenly turned Sun Ce into one of the most powerful forces in the world. Sun Ce was originally just a junior general under Yuan Shu, but now he has become a prince on an equal footing with Yuan Shu, how can Yuan Shu give up? When the decree reached Koto, the two families immediately fought. Yuan Shu has a strong family background, Sun Ce himself is brave and good at fighting, and there is no shortage of capable ministers and fierce generals under his command, and the two sides are evenly matched for a while, and they cannot be separated.

Xun Yu's simple plan made the two princes of Jiangdong turn against each other, and he also began to really enter the court. However, Xun Yu is very good at judging the situation and understands that Wang Yun's family is dominant in the current court, so he is also very respectful to Wang Yun, and Yang Biao, Dong Cheng and others are just general friends.

It's just that Xun Yu's strategy is greatly beneficial to the imperial court, but he has offended one person fiercely, that is, Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou. Liu Miao originally asked the imperial court for help, but he did not expect to be removed from his official position as an assassin and returned to Beijing for another appointment. said that he was appointed separately, but in fact, everyone understood that this was to idle him. How does this make him not hate Xun Yu? After returning to Beijing, he tried every means to find trouble with Xun Yu. If it's just Liu Xuan, the key is that he has a super thug under him - Tai Shici!

Li Xiang didn't expect that Xun Yu's plan not only harmed Yuan Shu and Sun Ce, but also made Tai Shici not defect to Sun Ce, but followed Liu Yu to Chang'an. This made Li Xiang very happy, and immediately asked Liu Xie to personally issue an order to give Tai Shici the official position of captain of the city gate, so that he would not follow Liu Xiang to fool around.

Liu Miao has no talent, if he didn't have the identity of a Han clan relative, he wouldn't be able to sit in the high position of the assassin at all. Now that he has no official position and no minions, he can only return to his hometown. Although he felt very aggrieved, he didn't die in the hands of Sun Ce, and it was already a good ending to be able to die a good life.

In addition, there is Yuan Shao, who failed to ask for the title of general, but was divided into authority, which was naturally extremely annoyed. Although he didn't do anything to Tian Feng and Xu You, he didn't let them sit in the position of Youzhou Mu and Yanzhou Mu, and he also gave him the main frustration, Yan Liang and Wen Chou as generals, and sent troops to capture Bingzhou.

Although Lu Bu took the lead in Bingzhou, he was too rigid, and Liu Ye and Mao Jue's strategies were also a little infrustrating, and they could only be defeated and retreated, so they could only ask the court for help.

Lu Bu's request for help from the imperial court could not be ignored, and under the instruction of Li Xiang, Zhao Yun and Tai Shici were sent to him, and a Guo Jia was added. Guo Jia was enough to resist the enemy's frustration, and coupled with the three fierce generals Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, and Tai Shici, he quickly reversed the situation in the annexed states.

After winning the battle on the battlefield, the imperial court was more confident, and another holy decree was issued, reprimanding Yuan Shao for disobeying the emperor's orders, which was a great crime of disobedience. He was robbed of all his official positions, and went to Beijing to be guilty of his own crimes. and if they do not obey, they will take their heads and destroy their whole people.

I don't know if the last four words scared Yuan Shao, and he actually ordered Fu Zhi to withdraw his troops from Bingzhou, and put on a petition for guilt, but I refused to give up the foundation and enter Beijing to bear the guilt.

Although he did it according to the meaning of the holy decree, it was to give face to the court, and Wang Yun and the others didn't want to force Yuan Shaogou to jump off the wall in a hurry, so they didn't pursue it again.

However, the imperial court let Yuan Shao go, perhaps giving Yuan Shao a wrong signal, feeling that the court's previous violentness was just a bluff. Although Cao Cao was destroyed, the person who killed Cao Cao may not be the evil Diao Chan that was rumored. If Diao Chan really has that ability, will he still accept his greatly discounted submission? So after collecting troops from Bingzhou, he actually went to fight Qingzhou again.

Only then did Wang Yun and others understand that the reason why Yuan Shao collected troops from Bingzhou was not to really submit to weakness, but that there was Lu Bu's army in Bingzhou, and the gains of continuing to fight would outweigh the losses, so it was better to eat soft persimmons first, drive away Kong Rong, who had no soldiers and no generals, and annex Qingzhou.

Kong Rong is just a literati, not only can't fight, but he can't even be an official, and he has been in Qingzhou for so long, and he can't recover the entire territory of Qingzhou from the remnants of the Yellow Turban. Now that the strong Yuan Shao's army drove in, he didn't even have a chance to fight back, so he was beaten and could only flee in embarrassment. If Yuan Shao hadn't seen that he was a descendant of Confucius, he deliberately spared his life, but I was afraid that he wouldn't even have a chance to escape.

After escaping from Qingzhou, Kong Rong hurriedly wrote a piece of music and sent it to Chang'an. After Wang Yun heard the report, he came to see Li Xiang without saying a word and asked him to help.

Li Xiang also has no good impression of Yuan Shao, and his current behavior also constitutes the crime of rebellion, so he does not shirk. It's just that when Cao Cao was killed last time, because there was no preparation in advance, after Cao Cao's death, Yanzhou actually let Liu Bei pick up the cheap. Now you can't do that, when Li Xiang makes a move, Wang Yun has to prepare enough officials for him to take over the territory of Ji, You, Yan, and Qingzhou.

Although the overall strength of the Chang'an Imperial Court is not strong, after all, it is the orthodoxy of the imperial court, and countless children of the family gather here, and it is too easy to find some people who are officials. In less than three days, even the 10,000 soldiers and horses escorted by the officials were all ready. So Li Xiang also changed into a military uniform and led these people to the battle.

It's just that when Wang Yun selected officials, he only said that he was preparing for taking over Yuan Shao's territory, and he didn't say that he would set off immediately, so there were countless people competing for this opportunity. But when they set out, they knew that they were going directly with the army, and they would take over one place after they had laid down. This frightened them, and now that Yuan Shao is still strong, what are they going to receive? Even if it's an expedition, you have to prepare some people, right? Isn't it a joke that only 10,000 people were sent, and the leader was still a woman? So while walking, these reserve officials fled, and before they reached Yanzhou, there were even half of them. (To be continued.) )