The moon stars are scarce, the black magpie flies south, and the Yecheng Tongque Terrace.

Just after going out of Liu Qian's dormitory, Zhang Chong came here.

It has been two years since the completion of Tongque Terrace, and it has also become a place for the garrison of the Taishan Army, the martial arts, and the sacrificial service.

But in the bleak cold night, Zhang Chong was draped in a big hat, and he felt like walking on thin ice when he climbed high and looked into the distance.

Now Zhang Chong is twenty-four, he was only seventeen years old when he came, and now seven years have passed.

At this time, he was also like the people of this era, with a beard under his chin, and his behavior did not show a trace of the appearance of later generations.

Not only that, at this time, he is the lord of the northern land, the head of tens of millions of people, and his every move has a decisive impact on the world, which is terrifying.

So even if he still wears the linen clothes and plain shoes he wore when he struggled to show that everything is the same, there is still no change.

Even when this sackcloth is set against the backdrop of all the luxurious and splendid splendors around it, it shows a certain supreme power.

Because only the highest power can do whatever he wants, and others, no matter how rich they are, they still have to be disciplined by the rules of superiority and inferiority.

Therefore, Zhang Chong only saw respect from the people around him, and there was no closeness like brothers in the past.

He became a god, not a brother.

Zhang Chong, of course, understands that those who make such a foundation as him in any era will be sacred. It's simply not something he can change.

Therefore, sometimes Zhang Chong may be in a trance, feeling that his experience in the future life is just a dream.

He is like a drop of vermilion dissolved in this era, and he was assimilated all at once.

He seems to be constantly changing, but it seems that the world will always continue to maintain its existing inertia.

Zhang Chong sometimes asks himself, what has he brought to the world?

Is it to make a group of people better, or to make this world more dead?

And every time he asks the end, Zhang Chong's answer to himself is always the one:

"I have brought a path to the world that has never been before."

Perhaps only this last ideal became Zhang Chong's last insistence, so that he would not fall into addiction in the praise of merit and virtue around him.

Yes, it's so hard to keep your heart open.

He can do it in the midst of hardship and hardship, and he can also do it in the world, because he can be firm when he sees despair all over the land.

But what about now? What if he couldn't see misery anymore? Can he still believe it?

At this moment, even if he only came to this Tongque Platform to take a look at it temporarily, he was already hugging each other.

Looking down from him, the hundreds of steps of His Majesty stood full of feather iron armor, and the cold light shone on their armor, full of slaughter.

And Zhang Chong didn't need to look back, he knew that behind him, there were all kinds of high-crowned and majestic disciples, and people with blue and purple ribbons, all of whom were walking in the Taiji Hall and making suggestions for Zhang Chong.

So when Zhang Chong is now, no matter where he looks, he can't see the truth of this world, because there will always be someone to decorate him.

And even if he Zhang Chongzhen's micro-service visits to the people privately, and he also saw the so-called true appearance, he would secretly wonder if all this was designed, and then have other plans.

In short, Zhang Chong at this time is no longer able to believe by seeing.

So if that belief was believed in the past because he saw misery, then now, Zhang Chong can only believe because he believes.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Chong's current thinking and examination are inevitably a bit beyond the top leaders of the Taishan Army.

For example, this time the Eastern Expedition to Liaodong was the result of his efforts to disagree.

Originally, at the same time as the letter from the north, Yuzhou in the south also sent a military report, saying that Yuan Shao, who had already occupied most of Runan, Yingchuan, Chen, and Peiguo, suddenly set off a Yellow Turban Uprising in the territory.

Yes, that's right, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out again on the territory of Yuzhou.

At that time, these disciples asked for troops from the Taishan Army, which was also the descendant of Taiping Dao, and repeatedly asked Heifu stationed in the Heji area to flank Yuan Shao together.

Heifu couldn't break it, so he hurriedly wrote the situation to Yecheng.

At that time, all the subordinates and privy secretaries, including Du Man, did not take the affairs of the north seriously.

Because this kind of attack on the customs is everywhere in this dynasty, although it is uncomfortable, it is also the problem of ringworm and scabies.

If there is any difference, it is that in the past, the Wuhuan people entered the Kou and now Hu and Han join the Kou together, which is not a big deal.

And compared with this, Yuan Shao in the south is a heart problem.

This gentleman really deserves to be the most capable among the only remaining clansmen of the Yuan clan now, and he can jump up even if he is wanted by the Luoyang court, which is really amazing.

Therefore, at that time, Du Man and others regarded Cao Cao in Qingzhou and Yuan Shao in Yuzhou as the biggest enemies of the Taishan army in the Central Plains, and believed that once the two sides were united, it would be the biggest enemy outside their Taishan army.

And just when these people attached great importance to the Yellow Turban Incident in Yuzhou, Zhang Chong unexpectedly attached importance to such a remote corner of Liaodong, and even opened three joint military meetings with the Privy Council for this purpose.

This puzzled the ministers, couldn't the king see the trend of the alliance of the hostile forces in the Central Plains?

Originally, it was simply for the sake of deep entrenchment, but now that the summer ploughing has ended, Hebei has enough civilian power to launch a military operation.

At this time, he didn't first support the Yellow Turban in Yuzhou and attack Yuan Shao, but went to Liaodong first?

As a result, they did not understand Zhang Chong's decision.

In addition to Zhang Chong's core think tanks and armed forces, even the people at the bottom of the Qianshou do not understand.

Recently, the internal guard of the flying army reported a ballad to Zhang Chong, which reads:

"My brother conquered Hebei and died under the green mountains. Now I have opened the ditch, and I have trapped people on the embankment. Fang is in chaos today, only I am Hebei Ning. Giving up his family to go to Liaodong, there is no way to protect his body. If I give up one hectare of land, I will have to report it for three generations. Grieved to hurt my wife, and looked at my family's old age. The son is honest and unfilial, and he is a ghost in a foreign land. Please sacrifice Bai Wan at home and lead my lonely soul back. ”

At that time, when Dong Zhao sent Zhang Chong this ballad, he said that it must have been done by the remnants of the powerful and powerful people lurking in Hebei, and said that he would find out.

Of course, Zhang Chong did not doubt Dong Zhao's judgment, because such a ballad could only be made by the children of those families. But what he saw more was that the reason why this ballad could spread so quickly was that it reflected a certain public opinion.

In other words, the fabricator of this ballad keenly saw a change in the current state of mind of Hebei Qianshou, so that grievances accumulated.

As the song says, the Taishan army gave them a inheritance of inheritance, but the price of this inheritance is too heavy.

As soon as the elder brother was killed in battle, the younger brother was dragged to dig a ditch. And now that I heard that the court is going to fight the bitter cold Liaodong, it will be even more dead and alive.

Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, even Hebei can feel colder than in the past, and now it is inexplicably going to Liaodong, which is further north, isn't it colder?

Although the expedition is now in late summer, who knows if it will be finished before winter? Therefore, it is normal for the people to have grievances.

And Zhang Chong also understands that behind this trend change is the contradiction of the duality of the family and the country.

For people in Zhang Chong's time, the family and the country were often the same. As the saying goes: "There is no country without a home." "As I said, modern is a society where the family and the country are isomorphic.

But for people in this era, this is not the case at all. Home is home, country is country, sometimes consistent, but often most of the time it is contradictory.

In the case of Qianshou in Hebei, it is their duty to guard the township, because this is their home. But what does going to Liaodong have to do with them?

And this contradiction will become more and more serious after the collapse of the Han Dynasty.

The capitals of Guizhou are survived by the protection of strongmen in various places, so the strongmen in each state are kind to the people under their rule, and as long as this kind of kindness is long, the leaders of Qianzhou in various places will only see their masters, not the world.

In this way, people's hearts are scattered, and the world is naturally its own master.

For example, Cao Cao in Qingzhou is like this.

Before Cao Cao came, the people of Qingzhou were in chaos and suffered a military disaster. However, Cao Cao pacified the other princes, stabilized the situation in Qingzhou, and provided the people with an environment for production and life.

The people who should have died in the rebellion were naturally grateful to Cao Cao, because he was the one who lived himself.

At this time, when the Taishan army attacked Qingzhou again, the resistance it faced was particularly great, because Cao Cao had won the hearts of the people of Qingzhou, and the people everywhere recognized him as his master, so he naturally worked hard.

At that time, even if your Taishan army is from Qingzhou and has a deep relationship with the people of Qingzhou, everyone still regards you as an enemy.

Therefore, this is also the reason why many subordinates advised Zhang Chong to calm the world as soon as possible.

Because the later the people's hearts settle down, not only are it becoming more and more difficult to fight in various places, but even the people of Hebei are not very willing to die for the Taishan army.

The reason is simple? Isn't it good to split up? What are the benefits of unification for us Hebei people?

You said above that you want to give justice to the world, so it can't be that they Hebei people shed their blood, and give justice to Qingzhou people and Yanzhou people.

This is not in line with human feelings.

Therefore, whether it is the above ballad or Guan Yu's battle in Qingzhou, it is more and more a reflection of a certain centrifugal trend in the world.

If the Taishan Army really can't win the world as soon as possible, then the split scene of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period will reappear.

It is precisely because of this concern that many of the disciples of the Taishan Army are so nervous.

They don't want Zhang Chong to go his own way and ruin the current good situation. However, Zhang Chong's correctness and authority for a long time made them dare not insist.

Therefore, the preparations for the invasion of Liaodong began in an awkward way.

It is precisely the double incomprehension of the core brothers and the people under their rule that makes a resolute person like Zhang Chong hesitate.

This is also the reason why he climbed the Tongque Terrace late at night.

He wanted to think carefully in the quietest place to see if it was right to cut Liaodong.

First of all, Zhang Chong knows its power better than everyone in the world today about the trend of a certain Hu-Han convergence in Liaodong.

Because since ancient times, the Northeast has been a fertile ground for the Hu-Han confluence regime.

Zhang Chong of course understands the reasons why people such as Du Man, He Kui, Zhuge Jue and others ignore Liaodong now, after all, from ancient times to the present, they have only heard of the shock of the northern country, and have not heard of the Northeast Snow Plain's move of entering the Central Plains.

Even if it is as strong as the Wuhuan people, isn't it also a dog of the Han people? Driving for the Han Chinese?

Therefore, since ancient times, the people of the Central Plains have not paid attention to the northeast, and they are indifferent to which ethnic groups there are and what is happening.

But only Zhang Chong understands that this kind of has not been long since ancient times, and it may be another hundred years, and Murong Xianbei will go south to the Central Plains and establish Sanyan. After that, such as Tuoba Xianbei and Yuwen Xianbei will also go south to establish the Zhu Wei and Northern Zhou regimes, and finally unify the north.

Later, the Khitan, Jin, and Qing people even sang and sang on the stage, and went south from the northeast to the Central Plains one after another, and became the biggest external pressure on the Han regime.

It can be said that for 4,000 years, one-third of the time has been dominated by the Northeast. Knowing this, who can be indifferent to the Northeast?

Therefore, Zhang Chong knew very well that Tu Yuan Shao was for the sake of the near future, while Tu Liaodong was for the consideration of Chinese civilization.

Of course Zhang Chong knows which is more important.

Originally, Zhang Chong didn't plan to give much priority to Liaodong affairs, after all, the future is the future, and people still have to solve the immediate problems first.

But as the trend of the Hu-Han confluence in eastern Liaodong appeared, he understood that he could not wait.

This is because, once the Hu-Han confluence begins to emerge in the northeast, a dynamic regime will quickly emerge.

This is also determined by the geography of the eastern Liaodong region, where there are three kinds of economies distributed on this small plain.

They are the Han regime engaged in agricultural economy in the Liao River Valley, then the prudent fishing and hunting economy in the Changbai Mountain area, and finally the Xianbei people and Wuhuan people engaged in the nomadic economy in the Xianbei Mountain area in the west.

Originally, these three were against each other in the past, so I couldn't see the result. However, once the three are combined, it will give birth to a military regime that will swallow the world.

Those prudent people who lived in the bitter cold land of the north were good soldiers of the first class, they endured hardships and dared to fight, and their shooting skills were unparalleled. If it is equipped with the equipment and formation of the Han people, plus the war horses of the nomads, then who in the world can compete with it?

Therefore, Zhang Chong wanted to strike first, take advantage of its development, and take Liaodong in one fell swoop.

At that time, the military potential of this region that could have threatened the Central Plains could be used by him, and as a result, it would be able to speed up the time to seize the world.

But these ideas are too much beyond the cognition of this era, and Zhang Chong can't explain more.

He could only use Liaodong as an excuse to threaten the rear of the flank, and take advantage of its lack of momentum to solve it, so as to promote this war against Liaodong.

In this way, Zhang Chong thought about it for a long time in Tongquetai, and also thought a lot, and finally decided to conquer Liaodong in person.

The reason why he chose to go to the army in person was that he felt that he could win more quickly by commanding the army.

He did not object to Duman's judgment of the current situation, on the contrary, he agreed very much, so he also knew that the matter of conquering Liaodong had to be done quickly, and it was best to solve it this autumn.

On the other hand, Zhang Chong still wanted to complete the layout of the entire Liaodong region through this campaign, he needed to absorb these Wuhuan and Su Shen warriors, and also interrupt the rise of Goguryeo further east.

In short, this attack on Liaodong is not only a military battle, but also a political battle, and Zhang Chong needs to be there in person to better grasp it.

In this way, on this night, Zhang Chong alone made this decision that would affect the trend of the next hundreds of years.

The battle of Liaodong is ready to fly.

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