Although there has always been a saying that Cao Cao was a courtier of the Han Dynasty until his death, in the "Let the County Self-Ming Benzhi Order", Cao Cao also said that he only wanted to be a "general of the expedition to the west".

In the fifteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao experienced the defeat of Chibi and wrote the "Decree of the Counties to Clarify the Chronicles", but in the eighteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao entered the Duke of Wei and took the first step in usurping the Han Dynasty.

The original Cao Cao, although it was said that he re-established the post of prime minister and took the prime minister himself, in essence, has not yet departed from the political pattern of the two Han Dynasty and the four hundred years.

The Han Dynasty had prime ministers, but later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty abolished the prime minister system in order to strengthen centralized power.

Therefore, Cao Cao's re-establishment of the prime minister, although he had the intention of monopolizing power, it really can't be said to be an arrogant move.

But the matter of sealing the public is a bit unusual.

This is half a foot breaking through the bottom line, testing the reaction of the world's great families and forces from all sides.

Since Liu Bang pacified the world, he made an agreement with the ministers that "if it is not Liu Buwang, it is not a meritorious, and those who violate this will be punished by the world".

Therefore, for more than 400 years, there were few dukes in the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu had at the beginning of the founding of the country in order to show modesty, saying that his sons were still far from the princes of the Western Han Dynasty, so he gave his son the title of duke, but soon also under the reminder of the courtiers, corrected this mistake.

Since the Han Dynasty, there has been only one person who has not been surnamed Liu and has been recognized - Duke An Han and Wang Mang.

As for the bunch of "dukes" sealed by Wang Mang in order to win people's hearts after Wang Mang established a new dynasty, the current people don't recognize it anyway.

And now Cao Cao has been promoted to the Duke of Wei. The heart of the wolf is obvious.

It is precisely because of this that Cao Cao is also cautious about his own move.

After all, five years ago, he had just experienced the defeat of Chibi, and at the beginning of the year, he went south to crusade against Sun Quan, although he gained face, but the benefit was that he did not get such a rash title of Duke of Wei, and at the same time he also founded the capital in Yecheng, which was very risky in itself.

In addition, the family is not all white-eyed wolves, and the four hundred years of inheritance of the Han Dynasty have also made many family members identify with the Han to a certain height, even if Cao Cao rectified a group of such family families in the first two years, but what are the real thoughts of these people, will they oppose their own crown, Cao Cao has no bottom in his heart.

In this case, Cao Cao would not easily leave Yecheng and lead his troops to recruit other places.

If there is another defeat in Chibi during the personal conquest, then Cao Cao, the Duke of Wei, will really become the second Wang Mang.

As long as Cao Cao doesn't come in person, then relying on Yongzhou soldiers and horses and a Xiahou Yuan, Zhuge Liang really has a way.

The way is to form an alliance with Zhang Lu.

Yes, Zhuge Liang wanted to send someone to form an alliance with Zhang Lu, so that he could first stand up to Xiahou Yuan in that place in Hanzhong, and buy time for his side to capture Chengdu.

As long as Chengdu is captured, the army that supports Xiangcun is not to be feared, and Liu Bei can also transfer troops to the north to reinforce Huo Jun in Jiameng Pass, and is optimistic about the gateway to Yizhou.

If the opportunity is better, I can't say that I can still win Hanzhong. In that case, Cao Cao came in person, I'm afraid it won't help.

So, after discussing with Zhang Xi, Zhuge Liang turned his head and went to discuss with Liu Bei, asking Liu Bei to send someone to Hanzhong to form a good alliance with Zhang Lu and discuss an alliance with each other.

Zhang Lu was not a man of great talent, and the pattern of the whole person was one acre and three points of land in Hanzhong, and it would be better if he could instigate a little more land to the south.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang's suggestion to Liu Bei was to hand over part of the Yizhou land north of Jiameng Pass to Zhang Lu in exchange for Zhang Lu's alliance.

Anyway, these lands are not under Liu Bei's control now, so it is good to hand them over to Zhang Lu for safekeeping for the time being.

After Liu Bei's side captured Chengdu and pacified Yizhou, he would free up his hands and find an opportunity to clean up Zhang Lu, and these lands would naturally come back.

Liu Bei happily obeyed, and sent Jian Yong as his envoy to Hanzhong to argue with Zhang Lu.

And he continued to be in Luocheng, preparing for the siege of Chengdu.

As for Zhang Xi. After leaving Zhuge Liang's camp, he couldn't wait to return to his camp and read the letter from Sun Shangxiang.

In these years, the transmission of letters was inconvenient, the bamboo slips were too bulky, and the silk silk was too expensive, even if it was an eldest lady like Sun Shangxiang, the letters written were also silk books, and she didn't dare to write too many words.

Sun Shangxiang first reported her safety to Zhang Xi, and then told Zhang Xi that she gave birth to a daughter in the mansion in Jiangling City, and she had not been able to choose a name yet, so Zhang Xi quickly picked up her name and told her.

Between the words, Zhang Xi could feel that Sun Shangxiang was still a little aggrieved, probably because he felt pity because he couldn't give birth to a son. This is not a preference for sons, but due to the limitations of this era, men are eligible to inherit the family business.

Zhang Xi hurriedly found a silk silk and replied to Sun Shangxiang, on the one hand, he comforted Sun Shangxiang, saying that his daughter was a little padded jacket, and he liked it very much, and on the other hand, he racked his brains to name his daughter.

No matter how he named his daughter as an incompetent star, can he continue to replace it with numbers Zhang Xi pondered for a long time, read countless books, and finally gave his daughter a name that was quite a bit of the past.

Zhang Xuan.

Warm, warm.

What Zhang Xi wants to express is that her daughter is a little padded jacket, warm and intimate.

Moreover, now is a troubled time, even if it is a rich and noble family, it is only to solve the problem of food and clothing, Zhang Xi also hopes that his daughter will not have to worry about hunger and cold in this life.

This name, anyway, Zhang Xi thought it was very good, wrote a letter to tell Sun Shangxiang, and by the way, he also showed off with Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang and others.

Zhuge Liang just smiled and didn't speak, but Zhang Fei clapped his hands and said yes.

said that it was better than his daughter's name, one word, easy to remember.

At this time, Zhang Xi remembered that Zhang Fei had two daughters, one named Zhang Xingcai and the other named Zhang Xingyi. Zhang Xi really wondered when he knew, could it be that he had crossed into a world of shame?!

After all, Guan Yu's daughters are all called Guan Yinping, aren't they.

Of course, this is not an important place, the important thing is that the star color is also returned, and the star memory is not, including the silver screen, in fact, they are all small characters, the same as Sun Ren's character Shangxiang.

What is the real name of Guan Yu's daughter, what is the real name of Zhang Fei's daughter, in fact, neither of them told anyone, according to the rules of this era, the name of the daughter's family can only be known by the husband.

Therefore, Zhang Xi, the person who shouts his daughter's name "Xuan" everywhere, really doesn't understand etiquette.

Zhuge Liang smiled and didn't say anything, that was to be polite, Zhang Xi of the province was embarrassed, and Zhang Fei was probably reminding himself euphemistically, hurry up and give his daughter a small word, so that it is convenient to call it so.

After realizing that he had made another big joke, Zhang Xi wrote another letter to Sun Shangxiang sullenly, expressing his depression towards Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei, and then asked Sun Shangxiang to give his daughter a small character.

Since Zhang Xi, whose name is his father, has taken it, then the small character will be left to Sun Shangxiang.

During the ten days of his stay in Luocheng, Zhang Xi spent such trivial matters.

After resting, Liu Bei raised his troops again, led an army of 100,000, and set off for Chengdu.

It is said that it is an army of 100,000, but in fact, it is only 70,000 or 80,000.

Zhuge Liang took the Jingzhou soldiers who entered Sichuan, that is, more than 30,000 people, and although Liu Bei had an army of 60,000 at the beginning, he suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in the siege of Ruocheng, and some guards had to be arranged along the way, and reinforcements were sent in the direction of Jiameng Pass, so now Liu Bei has 70,000 or 80,000 people in his hands, known as 100,000.

Liu Bei still has a conscience and does not claim to be 200,000. Even if he claims it, it is estimated that Liu Zhang does not believe it.

If there were really 200,000 troops coming to the city, he, Liu Zhang, would never make any resistance, and directly surrendered the city.

Now in the city of Chengdu, Liu Zhang still has about 30,000 defenders.

Among them, 10,000 are the troops directly controlled by Liu Zhang, and the other 20,000 are the troops of the Yizhou Haoqiang family in Chengdu City.

Liu Zhang gasped for this.

When Liu Bei started his army from Jiameng Pass, when he asked these people for money and people, they said that there was no money and no one.

There was no way, Liu Zhang had no choice but to reluctantly gather 50,000 troops from the garrison in Chengdu and hand them over to Zhang Ren and other five generals to block the attack.

But when Liu Bei arrived in Fucheng, Liu Zhang had no soldiers, and then asked these families for help, and these families actually put together an army of 30,000 at one time to go to Mianzhuguan to support.

When Liu Bei arrived in Mianzhu, the gang began to pick and pull together more than 10,000 people, and asked Liu Zhang to sneak attack Jiameng Pass.

Now Liu Bei has arrived in Yucheng, these guys. There are still 20,000 people in their hands?!

These are 20,000 soldiers, not 20,000 people!!

In other words, these families, under Liu Zhang's nose, have 60,000 soldiers, and these are not necessarily all of their family background.

Liu Zhang's heart is cold when he thinks about it. In his heyday, there were only 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers stationed in Chengdu and surrounding counties, and there were so many people in this group of families.

The key is that these people are still talking about Pang Xi, Li Yi and other Dongzhou people who are unstable all day long, now think about it, who is the real unstable person? !

Liu Zhang's father and son, but they are also the Shu land that outsiders entered, this group of Shu families. Really, Liu Zhang suddenly understood why his father was going to kill people ruthlessly.

But things have come to this point, and Liu Zhang has no choice.

Outside is Liu Beijun's soldiers coming to the city, if Liu Zhang doesn't want to be captured like this, and has a glimmer of hope for a turnaround, then he must cooperate with these Shu families.

Therefore, Liu Zhang could only pinch his nose, endure these things, and then pretend to continue to make friends with these people and arrange for their soldiers to guard the city.

In addition, it is to repair a book, taking advantage of the fact that Liu Bei has not completely encircled Chengdu, he detoured north, entered the boundary of Hanzhong, contacted Zhang Lu, and went out of Hanzhong, went to Longyou, and contacted Xiahou Yuan.

Indeed, Liu Zhang did not want to sit still.

Liu Zhang's idea is very understandable, now I can't help it, but Cao Cao definitely has a way.

Introduce Cao Cao into Shuzhong, let Liu Bei and Cao Cao's army fight, trap Chengdu by himself, and contain Liu Bei's rear.

If you are lucky, Cao Cao and Liu Bei will both lose, and you can reclean up the old rivers and mountains.

If you are unlucky, it is just that Yizhou was obtained by Cao Cao, and you can keep your wealth after all.

But Liu Bei, a treacherous man, doesn't want to get Yizhou when he dies.

(End of chapter)