Chapter 352: The Kanto Rebellion
Taiwei participated in the Hongnong rebellion, although the imperial court immediately asked Wei Xuan to go south to discuss how to deal with it, the general Wei Xuan did not come to Anyi to see the driver, which was beyond everyone's expectations. Because according to the practice of political struggle, the winning side will generally control the power of the imperial court and chase after the other side.
And this time the battle was actually about the power of the imperial court, and the battle between Taiwei Lu Shangshu and a general who held the power of the local military and government was thrilling and life-and-death in the eyes of many people. However, after receiving the emperor's edict, Xuanzi, the general of the chariot cavalry, did not participate in the handling of the Taiwei Yang Biao on the grounds that the border was unstable.
But then Wei Xuan sent someone to send a recital. The chapter is not to impeach Yang Biao or ask the imperial court to exterminate the Hongnong Yang family, but about the local personnel arrangements after Yang Biao leaves office! This also shows Wei Xuan's self-confidence!
The young Han general suggested that the imperial court set up Yongzhou as a buffer zone between Sili and Liangzhou, and directly recommended Zhong Xuan to guard Guanzhong for the Yongzhou Assassin Town. At the same time, Wei Ning is Jing Zhaoyin. Then it was suggested that the imperial court should set up a new division and a school captain to use the Sanhe ???????????????? Plus Hongnong, Nanyang and Yingchuan Gongwei Luoyang. In this way, the territory controlled by Wei Xuan is basically divided into three major blocks, and the state, Yongzhou and Sili. It also stripped Nanyang from Jingzhou and Yingchuan from Yuzhou. In the future, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao want to occupy these two, and the place will not have a good name.
Wei Xuan did not promote the new lieutenant of Si Li, before Dong Zhuo was defeated and retreated to Chang'an, he was promoted by Yuan Shao as the captain of Si Li, originally Yuan Shao was to drag his feet, but Wei Xuanshui pushed the boat down the river and directly put the base of the group of heroes and deer in Si Li.
Later, Sun Gan went to Chang'an to meet the Son of Heaven on behalf of Wei Xuan, and Li Dao also admitted it. In other words, he Wei Xuan has always been the commander of the school. Although Chang'an also set up a new Sili school captain later, people in Chang'an could not manage Sanhe, and with Li Dao and Guo Yan withdrawing from the court, all the right to speak fell into the hands of Wei Xuan, and Wei Xuan did not need to specifically explain the fact that he was a Sili school captain, on the contrary, Wei Xuan was able to list the Guanzhong region as a separate state, and Zhong Xuan, who was recognized by both the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, was a great concession at this time. It is also the kindness released by Wei Xuan.
Everyone understands that Wei Xuan is using the new structure and the right to appoint and remove officials to exchange Yang Biao's disposal rights with the Son of Heaven. The meaning is obvious, I can respect the Son of Heaven and the imperial court's treatment of Yang Biao, but the Son of Heaven must also agree with his expression. If one of them is rejected, he will take his soldiers and horses to Anyi, and even go to Chang'an to personally arrest the Taiwei who rebelled in Shandong. Fortunately, the history of Yongzhou is Zhong Xuan that everyone can accept.
Under the auspices of Zhu Jun, Huang Wan and others, the Son of Heaven and the Han court fully agreed to Wei Xuan's proposal. and reaffirmed the legitimacy of Shi Weizheng and Wei Xuan, the commander of the state.
However, the matter was far from over, as the Son of Heaven and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu arrived in Hedong, the news of the victory and defeat of the battle between Wei Xuan and the Xiliang Army represented by Li Dao and others finally reached the Kanto region, and reached the ears of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Tao Qian, Lu Bu and Yuan Shu. These people really had mixed feelings after learning the news.
Everyone is mentally prepared for Wei Xuan to be able to defeat Li Dao and others, after all, Dong Zhuo couldn't stop Wei Xuan back then, not to mention that Wei Xuan served to annihilate Yu Fuluo, expel the Southern Xiongnu, occupy Nanyang, and his strength has doubled several times. And Li Dao and others only partially inherited Dong Zhuo's Xiliang, and even Lu Bu, the leader of the Bingzhou Army, fled.
But everyone was not mentally prepared enough for the speed of Wei Xuan's comprehensive defeat of the Xiliang army and the consequences of Wei Xuan's victory. In the eyes of the Guandong heroes, Luoyang is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, there are two natural dangers, Hangu Pass and Tongguan, and the combat capability of the Xiliang Army is also beyond the general army of the Han Dynasty.
Especially the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao once did not admit that he was the son of today, but now that Wei Xuan's strength is so strong, he will definitely return to Luoyang with the Son of Heaven, so his situation will be very embarrassing. After all, blatantly rebelling against the imperial court will inevitably lose the support of the people, and it will also make many scholars turn their backs on themselves.
Therefore, after Yuan Shuo got the news, he immediately convened an emergency meeting, gathered all the think tanks and generals together, and in any case, he wanted to seize as much territory as possible and strengthen his own strength before the return of the Son of Heaven, so as to create a fait accompli, Gongsun Zhan, who was entrenched in Youzhou, and the Yellow Turbans and the Black Mountain Army, who occupied most of the land in Qingzhou, were Yuan ???????????????? There are three issues that need to be addressed urgently.
Of course, the most important thing is to solve the contradiction with Gongsun Zhan. The relationship between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan is actually similar to that between Gongsun Chan and Liu Yu at the beginning, and the two sides have fought many times to the point where they are incompatible or have no self. Facing such a fierce opponent, he naturally didn't want Wei Xuan and Sun Jian to sweep Guanzhong and Liangzhou.
On the other hand, because Wei Xuan occupied Bingzhou early and blocked the road to the west of Taihang Mountain, Yuan Shao's original unification of Hebei can only unify Youji first. It is intentional that the degree of righteousness between Gongsun Chan and Yuan Shao is becoming more and more intense.
And Yuan Shu scolded Wei Xuan, because Wei Xuan had used the jade seal of the country to defraud him of more than a million stones of grain, and Yuan Shu also went further than the third prince before agreeing to exchange. Now that Wei Xuan wants to welcome the Son of Heaven to Luoyang, what is the use of him holding this heirloom jade seal? Therefore, Yuan Shu also immediately held a meeting to discuss after getting the news, preparing to first ask for a return to Peiguo from the money, and then use troops against Liang and Chen, the first department first occupied Yuzhou, and then went south to occupy Yangzhou. Then go west and occupy Jingzhou, so that you can occupy half of the country and fight against the Han held hostage by Wei Xuan. Or before the Son of Heaven returned to Luoyang, he threw out the jade seal of the country and proclaimed himself emperor on the grounds that the whereabouts of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty were unknown and the world was divided. Therefore, Yuan Shu's desire for Yangzhou and Jingzhou became extremely strong.
The most unbelievable thing is Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, he really didn't expect that only half a year after the war in Nanyang ended, Wei Xuan was eager to go west, and succeeded in one fell swoop. He finally understood that it was not wrong to lose to Wei Xuan, who could easily defeat the Xiliang Army.
With the news that came the edict of the imperial court, Nanyang was demolished for two, and most of Nanyang would belong to the division in the future. Although Liu Biao has never controlled Nanyang, he was so stubbornly carved out of Jingzhou territory, Liu Biao's heart was actually uncomfortable. So much so that he was not polite to the angels who came to deliver the holy decree. Liu Biao naturally pretended not to hear the hope expressed by the Son of Heaven through the angel that he could live more and support the Son of Heaven for the imperial court.
However, it seems that the calm Kwantung Military Department is really like this, but fortunately, Wei Xuan has Jinyi Wei to collect intelligence in various places. Although Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were at odds, this time the two of them seemed to have the same mind, that is, to prevent the Son of Heaven from returning to the east, and if they couldn't stop it, they would weaken Wei Xuan's military power as much as possible to gain time for their own development and growth. Therefore, the Kwantung heroes began to contact each other again, and a battle was brewing that was bigger than the original crusade against Dong Zhuo. The reason is also ready-made, that is, the Son of Heaven is controlled by Wei Xuan, and they want to clear the king's side. It is necessary to crusade against the dictatorship of Wei Xuan.
After Wei Xuan received the information, he did not dare to take it lightly, and returned to Luoyang directly from Taiyuan, and then began a new deployment of troops, dispatching Zhang Liao, the main force guarding the pass, from Chang'an to Luoyang, while Zhao Yun also entered Henan, and Zhang Ji was deployed between Tongguan and Hangu Pass.
Although Wei Xuan was ready for someone to come and grab the sky, Wei Xuan did not plan to move the Son of Heaven from Hedong to Henan within the year. He must be prepared to face Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and the Kwantung coalition forces of Yanzhou and Xuzhou at the same time.
And just when the princes of Kwantung were speculating about when the Son of Heaven would return to Luoyang, Yuan Shao went to war with Gongsun Chan again, and Cao Cao also ???????????????? Eyeing Tao Qian's Xuzhou.
There is also a reason why Cao Cao is eyeing Xuzhou. First of all, the north of Yanzhou is Jizhou, which is occupied by his boss Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan are in a stalemate in the east, but Yuan Shao has already expressed Yuan Tan as the history of Qingzhou, and Yuzhou in the south is divided by Wei Xuan, Lu Bu and Yuan Shu, especially Yuan Shu and Lu Bu are allies.
In Xuzhou to the east, Tao Qian turned his face because he was fighting with Yuan Shu for the ownership of Peiguo. So the current Tao Qian is the weakest prince around Cao Cao. Cao Cao thought about it and decided to pinch the soft persimmon first.
In the face of Cao Cao's coercion, Tao Qian's west Lu Bu and Yuan Shu were not good people, and most of Yangzhou's Jiangdong was occupied by Sun Ce and his uncle Wu Jing, although Yuan Shu had the support of Lu Bu, but still wanted to take Xuzhou first and then turn to deal with Wei Xuan or Yuan Shao.
As a result, Tao Qian and Liu Bei became a force that was remembered, or Xuzhou was remembered by many people.
Tao Qian, who was forced to be anxious, also began to unite with Liu Bei to bite. It just so happened that at this time, Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, a former lieutenant, returned to his hometown of Qiaoxian and passed through Xuzhou, and dozens of cars of all sizes were very busy with gold and silver treasures, envying others. Tao Qian got the news, so Tao Qian sent his subordinate Zhang Yan to pretend to be a bandit and ransack Cao Song's team.
If you want to say that this Zhang Yan is also a and character, as a thief, you can rob money, but he didn't even let go of Cao Song's family, and directly slashed and killed on the spot. After killing people, he went to the sheep farm with dozens of carts of property.
But there was still a lucky person in Cao Song's team, he was the first to be knocked unconscious in the fight, and when Zhang Yan and the others left, he fled but woke up slowly.
When he ran to Dongjun to tell Cao Cao the bloody facts, Cao Cao was really grief-stricken. And the strategist Cheng Yu immediately decided to persuade Cao Cao to take this opportunity to send troops to Xuzhou.
Cao Cao is also worthy of a generation of heroes, and he is thinking that the opportunity to annex Guan Xuzhou will have the capital to get rid of Yuan Shao and even compete with Yuan Shao. Cao Cao quickly mobilized the counties and counties of Yanzhou to sharpen their knives and prepare to take Xuzhou in one fell swoop.
At this time, in the eyes of the Kwantung princes, the aged Tao Qian and the so-called Liu Bei must not be able to stop any of the other enemies in the west, so it is necessary to occupy Xuzhou as soon as possible.