Cao Cao brazenly attacked Zhao, and the Central Plains went to war again.

With this kind of God-given opportunity, Jiangdong naturally would not give up and began to organize an attack on Shu.

If you simply talk about strategic value, Shu is not the top for Wu State, at least it is far from Nanyang and Huaisi.

But Shu is very important to Guanzhong, it is not only a big granary, but also the first stop in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

It is not important whether there is Shu in the state of Wu, but it is very important that there is no Shu in Guanzhong, and it is very important that the northern powers do not have Shu.

But it is not easy to attack Shu.

It is a natural place, located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, surrounded by mountains, and there are many dangerous passes that cannot be opened.

Wu has Yiling in hand, and Shu cannot be attacked, but the upper reaches of Yiling are even more rugged and difficult, and Wu cannot enter.

Only attacking Shu from Hanzhong is the easiest.

Zhang Lu has not achieved anything in attacking Shu for many years, Liu Yan is still relatively capable, and now there is a powerful Wu State to attack Shu, so naturally he can't ask for it.

As for what is in my heart, if I think about it, I also know that there is only one Shu land, and it is impossible to divide it between two families.

At the beginning, the Qin State and the Chu State divided the Shu land, and in the last day of the war, the Qin State completely occupied the Shu land, and the state of Chu began to fall after that.

Wu and Han China used each other, and both wanted to occupy Shuzhong alone.

However, when Zhang Lu led the Hanzhong army to attack Shu, the Wu army, which had previously said that they would attack together, did not move and did not cooperate with the actions of the Hanzhong Kingdom at all.

Zhang Lu, who was already inferior to Shu State, was beaten back to Hanzhong fiercely, and he was angry and angry that Luo Chu was not trustworthy.

As for why Wu did not send troops, the reasons are quite complicated, and it is related to the situation in Shu.

……

Chengdu, the capital of Shu Kingdom.

Except for the Chengdu Plain, most of the land of Shu was in the mountains, where many barbarians lived and many Han people who were forced to migrate to the mountains by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

These barbarians were called Southwest Yi in the Han Dynasty, and once had quite a brilliant record, when the Han Dynasty army was defeated here and the whole army was annihilated, which indirectly contributed to the coming to power of the Emperor Er, which led to the Battle of Jingjing.

During the reign of Emperor Er, the Han Dynasty was strong in martial arts, and all the barbarians around him were beaten by him, including the Southwest Yi, and even established a rule for a short time, but these were actually never under the rule of the central power.

A very simple reason, after climbing the mountain road for more than ten hours, just to go to a village with only a dozen households to collect taxes and levy soldiers, it will only drag down the imperial finances, and the fetters are forced to be fetters, not that the ancient people were stupid and did not understand the benefits of changing the land and returning to the stream, and did not understand that it was difficult for local officials to guarantee loyalty.

Since Liu Yan entered Yizhou, Southwest Yi has always been one of his confidants, constantly impacting the imperial court's rule over the southwest.

After the collapse of the imperial court's authority, Yizhou had to deal with these southwestern Yi issues safely and alone.

Liu Yan still has a lot of means, and during the years he guarded Yizhou, the southwest Yi of Yizhou was in a state of suppression.

But now he was running out of control.

Because everything in this world rises and falls like a tide.

Ji Zhao is unfair.

But the real sky is fair to all things, it is fair to give outstanding people of every race, and it is fair to let every race bloom its own brilliance on the world stage.

It's not just the Han people who will be talented, in the mouth of the Han people, these people are barbarians, and in the eyes of the sky, they are all their own people.

There was a rather outstanding figure in the southwest Yizhong, who was able to gather many Yiren tribes in the southwest to invade Yizhou together.

This made Liu Yan difficult.

In the palace of the King of Shu, Liu Yan paced, and said with some concern: "How can this be good, the Yiren attack, our army will naturally have to resist, but then Wu and Zhang Lu are also going to invade Yizhou, how can they win the three-front battle?" ”

In the past, Yizhou was not in charge, but now Zhang Song, the minister of Shu, came out and said: "The minister thinks that the king's worries are superfluous, how can Zhang Lu be compared with you?"

Wu Guo doesn't need to worry, it is Gongzi Chu who controls Wu State, he is from the Luo clan, and there is a bottom line that will never be broken, that is, he will never attack the same sect of Zhuxia with the barbarians.

As long as the king leads the army to attack the Yiren, and then sends someone to inform Gongzi Chu, then Gongzi Chu will definitely not follow Zhang Lu to attack our Shu Kingdom.

If Gongzi Chu dared to violate this iron law, then Zhaocheng would not forgive him. ”

Zhang Song's expression was very serious.

Liu Yan was a little skeptical, for him, this was a major social matter, and he was not willing to take the slightest risk.

Seeing this, Zhang Song directly took a fierce medicine and said: "King, what is there to hesitate about, even if Gongzi Chu really dares to come, it is impossible to break through Yizhou's defense in a short time, and you have time to arrange the next things."

If he really doesn't come, won't he make a lot of money?

When the interruption continues, it will be chaotic! ”

Liu Yan gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Ziqiao, just do what you say, and go to Nanjun to inform Gongzi Chu and Yizhou that they are going to fight to the death with Southwest Yi."

If Wu dares to come, even if the two fronts are against the enemy, our Shu State will not be afraid.

The widow general personally led a large army to conquer the southwest and stabilize southern Xinjiang. ”

Liu Yan led the army of Shu out of Chengdu, and sent envoys along the Yangtze River to Jiangling.

The moment I received Liu Yan's message.

Luo Chu's eyes burst out with an extremely bright light, and almost instantly, he knew that there were masters in the Shu Kingdom, and asked the envoy with a soft smile, "I don't know who asked the envoy to come and inform him of this?" ”

The envoy was naturally one of the Shu sergeant clans, and when he heard this, he immediately puffed up his chest and said proudly: "Back to Wu Gong, the proposer is the crown of my Yizhou Shi clan, Zhang Song and Zhang Ziqiao, and I am the minister of Shu." ”

Zhang Song.

Luo Chu suddenly realized that he had heard the name of this person, after all, the Zhang family was a big family in Shuzhong, and Zhang Song's elder brother was Yizhou Beijia at the beginning, and later Zhang Song did Yizhou Beijia, and Zhang's status in Yizhou was quite high.

And Zhang Song is quite famous, and now it seems that it really deserves his reputation, just this plan can be said to have directly hit Luo Chu's seven inches.

The moral bottom line of Luo's is very flexible, but this just means that Luo's has an insurmountable bottom line.

This bottom line falls into the hands of talented people, just like Zhang Song now, who can use a lot of strategies.

But Luo Chu was not unhappy.

just smiled slightly and said: "Please also tell the King of Shu and Zhang Xiang a word, the royal road is not partial, Xia Yi is not two-sided, I hope that the King of Shu can win the victory, if you use the Qing to suppress the Yi people, and do something that makes the relatives painful and the enemies happy, don't blame the prince for being polite." ”

He just smiled slightly, but with a chill in his heart.

The envoy shuddered and hurriedly left here, and after listening to the conversation, the ministers of Wu Guo looked at each other, they actually did not agree with giving up the attack on Yizhou.

What is the conflict between you Liu Yan fighting barbarians and us fighting you?

It's called taking advantage of your illness to kill you.

What kind of morality is there about fighting such a thing?

When I kill you Liu Yan, it's just a matter of southwest, can you still be my opponent of Wu Guo?

Luo Chu raised his eyes and glanced at everyone, and then said slowly: "The gentleman has something to do, and he has not done something, if Liu Yan really goes to conquer the southwest Yi, our army will not move, and then attack after the battle in Shuzhong is over."

This public has made up his mind, and you don't need to persuade him again. ”

Luo Chu's voice was full of undoubtedness, an attitude he rarely showed.

In the eyes of the subjects of the state of Wu, Luo Chu was a person who was good at admonishment, but now he was like cold steel.

In the face of Luo Chu in this state, everyone naturally accepted his orders, and the current Wu State is dominated by Luo Chu after all.

Seeing that everyone had left the palace, Luo Chu frowned slightly, and then sighed.

In today's Wu State, he is considered a conservative, and as Wu gradually becomes stronger, there are more and more radicals.

There are also some second-generation radicals among the six surnames of Wu Jun who once supported him, such as Lu Xun of the Lu family, who has made a bold statement to see the heroes of the world.

Now that his prestige is high, he can suppress it for a short time, and if the entire Wu State is a radical faction in the future, then even Luo Chu will not be able to change the strategic direction of the Wu State.

……

It is said that after the envoy of Shu brought Luo Chu's words back to Shu, Liu Yan learned that Luo Chu would no longer attack Shu as Zhang Song expected, and he was immediately overjoyed, and laughed loudly: "Ziqiao is really capable, if Wu doesn't make a move, this time my Shu will be fine."

These Yi people do not live in the mountains, and they dare to gather and enter our Shu Kingdom, they really eat the gall of the bear's heart and leopard, and it is time for them to feel the strength of the former Central Plains Heavenly Soldiers. ”

Zhang Song has a strange plan, not only knows how to manage politics, but is also a good hand in strategy, and immediately said: "King, there are many miasma poisons in the southwest mountains, if we fight in those mountains, our army is very likely to fall into an ambush, or give birth to a plague.

Besides, those Yi people hunt in the mountains all day long, and they are the best at mountain warfare, and they are extremely flexible, so our army is probably not an opponent.

The minister thought that if we could lure the enemy deep and make the Yi people enter the plain, then our army would be able to defeat the enemy easily. ”

Liu Yan pondered for a while, feeling that what Zhang Song said made some sense.

But he thought for a while and said: "Ziqiao, if you let the Yi people enter the plain, it will definitely cause harm to the land of our Shu country, the widow has heard that hurting people in the enemy country is the best in the war, but now our army has taken the initiative to let the Yi people enter, is it inappropriate?" ”

Zhang Song almost wanted to scold his mother when he heard it, and took the initiative to put it in the pocket array and had to let the other party in, can this be the same?

If you don't understand, don't talk too much.

With so many dissatisfied thoughts in his heart, Zhang Song's slightly sloppy face did not show it, but showed an expression that he was in control of everything and comforted: "King."

What you said makes sense, but I think that as long as you can greatly annihilate the Yiren, a small loss is worth it.

I can't bear to let the child catch the wolf.

If you don't release the bait, how can the fish take the bait?

The king is the master, and he must understand this truth. ”

Liu Yan was still a little hesitant, Zhang Song directly made a ruthless statement, and said in a deep voice: "King, if the army enters the mountains and suffers losses with the Yi people, then not only the Wu State, but even Zhang Lu in Hanzhong will not be able to stop it."

Think again. ”

As soon as these words came out, Liu Yan immediately agreed to Zhang Song's method, for Shu State, he could still distinguish which was more important.

Zhang Song was ordered to walk out of the big tent, smelling the smell of horse manure coming from nowhere, as well as the smell of cooking rice with poor cooking skills, he was in a very complicated mood, and said secretly: "Liu Yan is really not the British master, his son Liu Zhang, even more unsuccessful, I'm afraid I can't even defend Chengdu, my skills in this life, do I have to waste in Shu?" ”

Thinking of this, Zhang Song was a little sad, he had great ambitions and wanted to make some achievements, but he was stumbling here, which was really embarrassing.

Zhang Song thought as he walked, "I'm afraid that the time for the Liu family to protect the state will not last long, who should we look for as the future lord?"

Wu Guo?

Gongzi Chu is indeed a good lord, but his son is not the heir of the Wu State, this is a big problem, can the Shu sergeant clan get a high enough status when he arrives in the Wu State?

Can I enter Wu Guozhong and become one of the decision-makers? ”

Zhang Song thought about it, he didn't know who to choose, if there are so many people worthy of serving today, it's really hard to find.

Liu Yan didn't know that because of his slight crotch pulling, the first minister under his command was ready to abandon him and go to others.

……

This war between Shu and Southwest Yi was not eye-catching, and even in the eyes of the Central Plains princes, it was just a small fight.

But for Shu, this is crucial.

Especially for Liu Yan, this is even about his future historical evaluation.

He has been promoted step by step in his life, with no mistakes or major achievements, and he will be a mediocre official in the history books, and he may not even be able to get into the history books, but will only record a sentence in other people's biographies and mention it.

So when he had the opportunity to be king, he did not hesitate to be king, and a person who was called king would definitely be recorded in the history books.

But the evaluation in the history books, then you need to fight for it.

Luo's history is very important, which is divided into internal and external skills, and fighting barbarians is a typical external skill, which is basically capitalized and close-up.

Now that there is this opportunity, Liu Yan will certainly not miss it.

Then he fell ill.

The sudden epidemic swept the armies of both sides, and Liu Yan wanted to return to Chengdu, but he felt his physical condition, and it was too late at all, so he could only let Zhang Song preside over the next battle in a half-asleep and half-awake state.

He was treated by a healer in the army, but he was too old to survive, and before he died, he decided to leave some words that could be recorded in the history books for later.

So he gathered all the people together, and spoke before them the words which he had thought in his heart for a long time.

Looking at the different expressions on the faces of the ministers, Liu Yan was a little happy, and even the pain in his body was alleviated a little, and the reactions of these people proved that these words were really good.

After explaining the inheritance of Shu again, Liu Yan died suddenly in one night.

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Liu Yanzong's relatives and nobles, rarely famous, Zhuo Ran in the Liu family, when the Ling Emperor, heard that Yizhou has the spirit of the son of heaven, so he slyly said to release Yizhou, since the benefit, the subjects are salty and harmonious, Shu is rich, quite prosperous, Yan is often happy.

The princes and kings, Yan also belonged to it, and he was suspicious, and Yan said: "The alliance of the white horse, not Liu and the king, I am the emperor who is the emperor who is the king of the world, and it is suitable for the king, how can the thieves have bad intentions?" ”

Then Shu was used as the number, and the establishment was widowed.

In Jian'an, the plague was indeed, and he still did not retreat, and the minister of Yizhou said: "King Su said: 'The royal road is not partial, and Xia Yi is not two-sided', my life is as light as a feather, and the summer is heavier than Mount Tai." ”

Then, Shuzhong all served white funeral. ——"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Liu Yan, Liu Biao, Liu Yu, Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zhan, and the Biography of Sun Zhan"

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