Looking at the army of lost soldiers and generals, Cao Cao almost wanted to cry without tears.

If it weren't for the Xiliang Army being busy running for their lives, this time it would have really been planted here.

finally accumulated some family funds in Yanzhou, but it turned out to be lost on the way to victory.

The disgraced Xiahou came over and asked Cao Cao, who was also embarrassed, "Brother, do you want to return to Yanzhou?" ”

Cao Cao's overheated brain was extremely sober after the failure of the pursuit, and he quickly sorted out the situation in his mind, and then set his eyes on Luoyang.

He grabbed Xiahou Dun's arm and said in a deep voice: "Yuan Rang, although the generals of Xiliang won, they will definitely not dare to stay in Shandong, I am afraid that they will occupy the west of Hangu Pass."

Yuan Shao returned to Jizhou to face Gongsun Zhan, and it was impossible to get out in a short time.

Bu Cai and other generals of the forbidden army have no great ambitions, and they swim in Henan but have nothing to do, isn't this the Luoyang of Henan that God gave me Cao Cao?

Heaven gives the Buddha to take it, but suffers the blame!

Isn't this what the ancient sages said?

Although there is some damage now, but Brother Wei wants you to ride 5,000 steps, occupy Luoyang, and then control Henan, is Yuan so willing to take on this heavy responsibility? ”

That's a lot of work!

Luoyang is the land of eight passes, the Hangu Pass leading to the eastern part of the Kanto, and the big river ferry to Hanoi, which means that Luoyang has to bear pressure from all sides.

Yanzhou Chenliu County was in Cao Cao's hands, but it still had to face pressure from Guanzhong, Hedong, Hanoi, Nanyang, and Yingchuan at the same time.

Such a heavy task, except for the clan brothers of the Xiahou clan and the Cao clan, Cao Cao did not dare to hand it over to anyone.

Xiahou shook Cao Cao's hand and said, "Brother entrusted him with a great responsibility, how dare he disobey?"

Randen has a word.

Luoyang is prosperous, the crown in the world, and it is the vast imperial capital of a hundred years, which is the target of the public, if it occupies Luoyang, isn't the brother worried about attracting the princes of the world to attack? ”

Cao Cao saw Xiahou Dun's words, but he completely relieved his heart, and said with emotion: "Yuan Rang, you have such insight, I am very pleased to be a brother."

As Ling said, the county tools are not in our hands, so Luoyang cannot be defended for a long time, otherwise it will be wasted, enemies on all sides, and finally defeated.

So for my brother, I asked you to guard Luoyang, not to run here, but to let you relocate!

To the east of Luoyang, it is the Chenggao revolving gate, Yiluo exchange, Xingyang Tiger Prison criss-cross the pass, Zhang Jiao stationed the people there, and became a kingdom by itself.

I want you to migrate the people east of Xingyang to Xingyang, and even to the west of Xingyang, that is, Yanzhou, to enrich the heritage.

Vacant Henan, can also be used as a lure, in the future, if anyone wants to occupy Luoyang, our army can go west to plunder its gold and silver, and migrate its people, isn't it beautiful? ”

Cao Cao's words lit up in the eyes of the people around him, the previous defeat had long been thrown out of the clouds, in order to deal with the offensive of the Xiliang army, isn't it normal to move the people?

This Luoyang is a treasure house, don't look at the Taiping Army and Dong Zhuojun for so long, it is still far from completely scraping the oil and water.

Not to mention the population of the entire Henan County, those rich households alone do not know how much tax they can bring, if they can really move Henan County to Yanzhou, the number of households in Yanzhou may even reach the level of Yizhou, becoming second only to Jingzhou and Jizhou.

Xiahoudun immediately responded, and Cao Cao appointed Xiahoudun as the Taishou of Henan County, and he himself presented himself as the pastor of Yanzhou and returned to Yanzhou.

……

Two flowers bloom and one branch each, saying that Li Dao Guo Yan saw that Xu Rong really won, so he laughed, and the pressure in his heart suddenly dissipated, and the little emperor Liu Xie and the ministers lamented in their hearts, knowing that they still had to survive in the hands of Li Dao and Guo Yan.

Li Dao and Guo Yan have completely distrusted these ministers and scholars because of Dong Zhuo's affairs, treating these people like cattle and horses, and wantonly bullying them, but the two of them still know that Emperor Liu Xie is still very useful.

These two immediately used the name of the emperor to make the two county marquis, and canonized the heavy number of generals for themselves, and then took the ministers and officials all the way to the west, preparing to go to Chang'an to re-establish the imperial court.

Some people saw this scene, so they secretly said to the two: "Although the emperor is cowardly, after all, he is the orthodoxy of the world, and those courtiers who are loyal to the Han family still recognize the emperor."

The two generals were the princely generals who were canonized by the emperor himself, and the princes of Kwantung took the initiative to be assassins, taishou, state pastors, and generals without the emperor's orders, isn't this ridiculous?

If the two generals treat the emperor respectfully, and then use the emperor's name to command the world, then those who do not obey are traitors, and the two generals are loyal ministers of the Han family. ”

As soon as the two of them heard this, they felt very reasonable, yes, we have the emperor in our hands, or the princes and heavy generals who were canonized by the regular process, and we are the serious officers and soldiers!

Those Kwantung princes are all self-appointed official positions, and the Han family has not yet perished and stood on its own, what is this not a rebellion?

Because it was useful to Li Dao and Guo Yan, Liu Xie's living standard became a little better.

Zhang Ji was unwilling to mix with Li Dao Guo Yan, so he fled to Hongnong County and did not move forward, Guanzhong suddenly poured into so many Xiliang troops, of course the Guan sergeant clan was a little nervous, for fear that these Xiliang troops would plunder in Guanzhong and kill.

Why do the scholars look for the master?

Because the scholars generally have to survive, the Ming Lord has brains and knows what cooperation is, and only when they meet the Ming Lord, the Shi clan can survive and compete for power.

What the scholars are most afraid of encountering are those warlords who have no brains to get by, and they can't tell when they will be killed, and this kind of warlord is completely with the intention of dying together.

The problem is that the warlord wants to die at will, and the scholars are not willing to die with him!

In the eyes of the Guan Sergeant Clan, this is the case, and killing the Guan Sergeant Clan is not good for Li Dao Guo Yan, but Li Dao Guo Yan is likely to do this kind of thing.

The news of Luo Kong's request for heavenly punishment has not yet reached Guanzhong, so the Guan Sergeant clan does not know.

Li Dao Guo Yan saw Dong Zhuo being punished by heaven and died in front of the battle, and he had already been frightened, he only dared to loot and not kill people in Luoyang before, and naturally he didn't dare to kill people when he entered the pass.

Seeing that these Xiliang soldiers only need money, the Guan Sergeant clan breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that these Xiliang generals can still communicate.

The establishment of the Chang'an Imperial Court with the Xiliang Army as the complete will, Li Dao Guo Yan immediately became an official, trying to ease the relationship between himself and the princes of the world, and by the way, to test whether the emperor had any effect.

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Liangzhou.

Since Dong Zhuo led the army to leave here, Liangzhou has been a little more desolate, Dong Zhuo used to be the biggest warlord in Liangzhou, but he was not the only warlord.

After Dong Zhuo went to the Central Plains, in fact, to a certain extent, he temporarily gave up Liangzhou, and with the news of Dong Zhuo's defeat, especially after Li Dao Guo Yan established the Chang'an court, the Liangzhou warlords suddenly had different intentions.

Li Wei Guo Yan stayed in Sanfu, which is located in a remote area, although it is far less than Luoyang in the world, but it is still much more prosperous than Liangzhou, so the two of them were unwilling to return to Liangzhou, so they canonized the warlord of Liangzhou as a liehou, and also named a general, it was Ma Teng and Han Sui.

Ma Teng Han then saw that the imperial court was willing to recognize the status of the two, and this was the canonization of the orthodox Han emperor, so he gladly accepted the order and divided it in Liangzhou.

When Dong Zhuo went to the Central Plains, he took a lot of Liangzhou young and strong people, and they were still recruiting, which directly cheapened Ma Teng and Han Sui, and the two went to the Qiang tribe.

In the eyes of the Han people, the Qiang and the Hu people are different, just as most people call the Zhaocheng Luo clan the Zhou people, the status of the Qiang people is still quite special, although they are not Han people, but they are not barbarians, they are higher than the status of the people of the Western Regions, and they belong to the objects that can be united front.

Ma Teng had Qiang blood and was not discriminated against because of this, so after the two learned that Dong Zhuo had died in Luoyang, they not only took over Dong Zhuo's soldiers, but also his Qiang allies.

It can be said that Dong Zhuo fell, and Ma Han was full!

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Further west from Liangzhou, from the beginning when Luokong led the army into the Central Plains and encountered unfavorable conditions, earth-shaking changes took place in the Western Regions.

Nearly half of the elites in the entire Western Regions were transferred by Luokong, and the chaos in the Western Regions did not start from the Hu people, but from the Wusun Kingdom and the Dawan Eastern Kingdom.

Luo Kongqian left the Western Regions and entered Liangzhou, and the nobles of Wusun and Dawan directly abolished the original princes of the Liu family and established a new state.

These two countries were basically composed of pure Han people in the beginning, of course, after more than two hundred years of development, they are no longer pure Han people, even if they are Han people, they are also very different from the Han people in the Central Plains, after all, even the Wushuang Marquis has inevitably undergone a lot of changes.

Dawan changed his name to Xixia, that is, Zhuxia in the extreme west of the world, and Wusun changed his name to Zhongxia, that is, Zhuxia in the world, and it can be seen from the name that the two sides are not dealing with each other.

After the establishment of the Western Xia, the unification plan of the original Dawan Kingdom began, and the original Dawan East Kingdom, the Western Regions Protectorate and the Dawan Kingdom signed all agreements, and the goal of the Western Xia lord was to unify the entire basin within three years, but three years have passed, this goal has not been achieved, and it is still in chaos.

Compared with the Western Xia Kingdom, the journey of the Central Xia Kingdom is very smooth, the King of Zhongxia is a personal masterpiece, and he is not an ordinary person, Luo Kong suppressed him in the Western Regions at the beginning, and completely suppressed him.

Now as soon as Luo Kong left, the king of Zhongxia suddenly rose.

Starting from the Yishui River Valley, with the advantages of population, technology, horses, and fertile land, all the way to the east, those small countries in the Western Regions surrendered directly, and the king of Zhongxia canonized the original foreign vassal kings as lieves according to tradition.

In just a few years, the Zhongxia Kingdom roughly ruled the entire northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, about 3,000 miles from east to west, and there were 1.5 million people from various ethnic groups combined.

A country of this level has no problem guarding the Western Regions at all, and those Hu people who wander in the grassland desert have fought several times in the Zhongxia Kingdom, but they have not reaped any benefits.

Of course, to this extent, the rule of the Han court in the entire Western Regions has completely collapsed, especially the Western Regions Protectorate has completely existed in name only.

In the entire northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, the only country that still exists independently is the Wushuang Marquis.

The King of Zhongxia was a devout Buddhist, and he had infinite worship for Emperor Suwang, and the first thing he did after ascending the throne was to go to the Temple of Suwang in the Wushuang Marquis Kingdom to worship.

The politics in the Western Regions are completely different from those in the Central Plains, and the people here basically have no regional discrimination, which is completely different from the local mutual assistance in the Central Plains.

The Western Regions played the various religious claims, and all the nobles had religious identities at the same time, such as the Zuo Xiang of the Zhongxia Kingdom was a Taoist Dazhenren.

After unifying the entire northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the king of Zhongxia began to canonize Buddha, Bodhisattva, King Kong and other fruit positions to the unequaled marquis of the past dynasties.

In the end, this move caused the dissatisfaction of the Taoists in the country, although the king of Zhongxia believed in Buddhism, but his brain was not pumped, so he gave the Wushuang Marquis of the past dynasties a Taoist immortal fruit position, and he himself began to practice Buddhism and Taoism in front of outsiders, and also appointed the Taoist Dazhen as the left minister.

The expansion of the strength of the Zhongxia Kingdom made Ma Teng Han Sui very afraid, especially after the Zhongxia King moved the capital from the original Yishui River Valley to the Dunhuang area near Liangzhou.

What does that mean?

The heart of the king of Zhongxia is known to passers-by!

Isn't this just preparing to knock on the customs and enter the Central Plains?

But in fact, this is Ma Teng Han Sui's worries, these two people's military ability is not bad, but their political ability is too low, and they can't see the current situation at all.

The king of Zhongxia did have such an idea, after all, as one of the lords of the Zhuxia countries, who didn't have the intention of entering the Central Plains to win the championship?

Didn't Liaodong Yanguo think the same way?

But the king of Zhongxia knew too well that he didn't have this ability at all, the rise of the Zhongxia Kingdom was too fast, the internal problems were messy, the distribution of various interests, and the contradictions between all parties were unimaginable. If you're not careful, you'll explode.

If you enter the Central Plains now, it is okay to win all the time, after all, the victory of the war can cover up most of the problems, but as long as one defeat is required, the current large and strong country will collapse in an instant.

Not only the entire northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, but the King of Zhongxia even suspected that he would die halfway if he couldn't even go back to the Yishui River Valley.

Therefore, before the internal integration is completed, the King of Zhongxia will definitely not attack Liangzhou, and Ma Teng Han Sui's defense is useless.

As for the Wushuang Marquis, it is currently in the hands of Luo Kong's mother.

The temple army has been completely transformed into a guard army, and the king of Zhongxia, as the ruler of the entire northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, has raised the level of the Suwang Temple to the highest level.

The king of Zhongxia called on the temples and Taoist temples all over the Western Regions to pay tribute to the temple on time every year to maintain the operation of the Suwang Temple and the operation of the temple army.

This practice is tantamount to making the temple high priest the supreme leader of the temples and Taoist temples in the Western Regions to a certain extent, which is a very magical design.

The Peerless Marquis didn't say anything about it, which was a good thing and could help the Peerless Marquis reduce the pressure.

Everyone thought that the Temple Army was independent, but for some reason they were closer to the Peerless Marquis.

In fact, this legion is always in the hands of the Peerless Marquis, and no matter what happens, it will not change.

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The people of the Western Regions, respect the gods of the heavens, three thousand miles of territory, five thousand miles of radius, there are thousands of Buddhist temples, Taoist temples are also thousands, incense is burned everywhere, not the people of the Han land, not the difference between men and women, but the two religions worship together, all pray for the people of the Central Plains to enter it, if in the kingdom of God, very surprised, the sense of foreign land, endlessly, from Dunhuang three thousand miles to the Wushuang Suwang Temple in Zhongxia, the crown of this Buddhism, worship the Emperor of Suwang, worship the Emperor of Suwang, worship the Emperor of Suwang, and feel that the Western Regions is the same as the Central Plains. - The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of the Western Regions

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