Chapter 240: The Domino Effect

Wancheng is the seat of Nanyang County, the reason why it is called Wancheng, because it is surrounded by mountains on three sides in the west, north and east, and its topography is a basin with high on all sides and low in the middle, which is like a bowl when it is narrowed.

The people here are outstanding, Zhuge Liang, Huang Zhong and Zhang Zhongjing are all from Nanyang. The land here is fertile and the products are abundant, and the Chu State set up Wancheng here to use it as a base for hegemony in the Central Plains.

There was once a great battle here, called the Battle of Wancheng, also known as the "Battle of Shuishui", which was a battle between two major warlords, Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu. The cause turned out to be Cao Cao's bad habit of loving women.

Legend has it that Cao Cao likes the husband of a woman very much, and has the habit of collecting beautiful young women, some people say that he begged Yuan Shao for Yuan Shao's daughter-in-law Zhen Mi, killing Lu Bu Zhan Mink Chan, Zhan Wancheng to occupy the Zou family, and destroying Dongwu to seize the big and small Qiao. Of course, this is likely to be a slander against him by later generations, and with his eloquence, he will definitely not make these heavy decisions because of women.

It is very likely that his seizure of those women was a "trophy" that was incidentally looted after the victory of the war. After winning a battle, it is not difficult to understand the mentality of taking possession of the enemy's wife and concubine, in addition to physically # physically destroying the enemy, and continuing to enjoy the pleasure of victory mentally.

Zhen Mi didn't take advantage of it, he gave his son Cao Pi the first shot to grab it, and Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao didn't take advantage of it, because he lost the battle of Chibi. Diao Chan's whereabouts are unknown, there are many legends, some say that he fell into the hands of Cao Cao, some say that he was killed by Guan Gong, and some say that he was laughed at by Guan Gong, anyway, it is not accurate.

However, Cao Cao's occupation of Mrs. Zou, the widow of Zhang Xiu's uncle Zhang Ji, was true. In the second year of Jian'an (197 AD), Zhang Xiu was forced to surrender under the coercion of Cao Cao's army. Originally, this matter was fine, but at this time, Cao Cao's good wife made the mistake again.

Cao Cao heard that Mrs. Zou was very beautiful, so he forcibly occupied her, which made Zhang Xiu feel very angry, after all, it was his uncle's widow, and Cao Cao did this, which was a great insult to him and his uncle. In addition, Cao Cao sent gold and silver to Zhang Xiu's subordinates, and after Zhang Xiu learned about it, he was even more unhappy, so after Jia Xu's persuasion, he decided to turn back.

In this battle, Zhang Xiu attacked Cao Ying, and finally won the victory, Cao Cao's losses were very heavy, the eldest son Cao Ang, nephew Cao Anmin, and the general Dian Wei were all killed by Zhang Xiu.

The scale of this battle was not large, and it failed to change the situation in the north, but for the Cao family, the impact was extremely far-reaching.

Cao Ang is Cao Cao's eldest son and the natural heir, if there is no such battle, Cao Ang is not dead, and there may not be the strict internal friction of the subsequent battle for succession. History may not be like that, so sometimes a beautiful woman can change history.

From Fancheng to Wancheng, there are several small counties along the way, and the most famous small town is Xinye, which is where Liu Bei once struggled. However, these small counties can be completely ignored, even Xinye is no exception, the Shu army of 200,000 horses and horses are crossing the border, and those county orders have long been frightened and scattered, one by one with three classes of officials to run outside the city, kneeling to welcome the arrival of the heavenly army.

Those who know the times are handsome, not to mention that in this era of warlord melee, people can't tell which side represents justice and which side represents the evil forces, in this case, it becomes understandable to surrender to the strong or the dominant side at the moment.

What's more, Liu Hou has been deliberately preaching the orthodox status of the Han family to the world, and preaching that Cao Wei is a traitor who usurped the country.

They are officials, and they all know that the emperor has fled to Chang'an, they have become abandoned pawns, and besides, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the fall of the Wei State is imminent, who doesn't want to seize this opportunity to change to a better boss? Even if you can't keep this official position and glory, at least save this little life first.

For the surrender of these people, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong were of course not polite, and immediately sent men and horses to take over these county towns one by one, anyway, they had an army of 200,000, and each county sent five # hundred # people to garrison it had no impact on the army at all.

As for those officials who surrendered, Pang Tong thought that they could still be allowed to hold their original official positions, and the reason why they were dealt with in this way was that there were not so many civilian officials in the Shu army who could be used in these irrelevant places for the time being; Second, it is also for the officials of other cities to see, so that they know that as long as they surrender in time, they can still retain their original official positions, and there is no impact on their rich and prosperous future.

On the one hand, the jade is burned under the resistance, and on the other hand, if you surrender, you can continue to be an official and continue to enjoy the life of a superior person, and those "smart people" naturally know how to choose. In this way, it will be easy for the Shu army to recover other territories of Wei in the future.

Will these officials rebel like Zhang Xiu? Of course not, Liu Hou didn't occupy their women or the women of their elders like Cao Cao, let alone harm their interests, it was not the same in which country he became an official, but changing the name of the country and changing the emperor had no effect on them at all, and they had reasons to rebel.

What's more, the people of the Shu Han court are not fools, and every city has a garrison, who dares to rebel is not looking for death? In the current Shu Han territory, civil affairs officials and garrison generals are separated, and the two sides cannot interfere in each other's affairs, and it is basically impossible for civil affairs officials to rebel.

In addition to the cause of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there was a very important reason for the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty because the officials on the pastoral side at that time could control a certain army, and countless large and small warlords suddenly appeared in the whole world overnight.

At that time, the local officials were all grasped by the military and the government, so they were called feudal officials, Liu Hou was a later generation, of course, he knew the disadvantages of this system, how could he still use these backward management methods. Therefore, now this system has been gradually abandoned on the territory of Shu Han, and the management method of separating the military and government has been implemented.

Pang Tong reported this treatment of the surrendered officials to Liu Hou, and Liu Hou convened the advisers to discuss. Sima Yi and the three stinkers agreed with Pang Tong's policy, believing that it would help to quickly recover the Central Plains homeland and should be vigorously promoted.

Sima Yi also pointed out that as long as Xuchang was captured, the Wei court would exist in name only, and at that time, as long as an edict was issued, it was believed that most of the counties in Wei would fall to the wind. Hearing this, Liu Hou was overjoyed, and he was also worried that in the future, he would be like that Three Kingdoms game, and he would attack city by city.

Even if you have an extremely sharp firearms unit, attacking a city is as simple as an outing, but with so many counties and counties in the world, when will you fight? Now when I heard Sima Yi say this, I was stunned, it turned out that I didn't need to fight one by one, as long as I captured the capital or got the emperor, I could do it all at once.

No wonder Sima Yi has been instigating himself to attack Xuchang as much as possible, it turns out that Xuchang is like the first card of a domino, as long as this one is overturned, the following dominoes will fall one by one, what a refreshing thing.