Chapter 398: Zhang Lu asks for help
Wei Xuan's troops in Liangzhou were only three or four months before and after, and Tai Shici and others took the lead in using troops in Yongzhou before, and it was only seven or eight months before and after.
Not only Liangzhou was initially decided, but the neighboring Yongzhou was also more stable, especially for the disposal of the two largest warlords, Han Sui and Ma Teng, so that Liangzhou not only avoided chaos, but also restricted the Qiang people to a certain extent, and then as long as the imperial court maintained high-pressure troops and gradually built a trade market, the Qiang people and the Han people gradually integrated, and it was possible to continue to use troops to the west to reproduce the glory of the Western Regions in the future.
As expected, Wei Xuan not only sent his confidant Xun You to serve as the assassin of Liangzhou, but also announced that Liangzhou would be exempted from taxes for one year and halved in the next two years.
If such a major event as pacifying Liangzhou is presided over by Liu Xie, the son of the Han Dynasty, and planned by the Han court, what an exciting thing it should be, and you can also take this opportunity to Weijia Hainei!
It's a pity that one wrong step is the wrong step, and at the beginning, under the prodding of Yang Biao and others, he was reluctant to give Wei Xuan a record of Shangshu, the reason was to prevent Wei Xuan from coercing the Son of Heaven to respect himself, but as a result, Wei Xuan and Liu Xie went further and further, and Liu Xie also tried to make up for it, but because Dong Zhuo and Li Dao and others caused him too much shadow, Liu Xie has not been willing to trust Wei Xuan from the bottom of his heart.
As a result, it was supposed to be a big event that the whole country celebrated, but Wei Xuan lightly listed several personnel in Liangzhou with a recital, and then returned to Taiyuan with soldiers and horses.
Regarding Wei Xuan's trip to Taiyuan, Liu Xie initially thought that it was Yuan Shao from Hebei or Zhang Yan from Taihang Mountain peeping into Bingzhou, and he thought that it might be that Sanhu in the north of Bingzhou coveted the land and wealth of the Han Dynasty, and it was understandable that Wei Xuan was going to Bingzhou to prepare for war.
But after a long time, Liu Xie also understood that Wei Xuan was unwilling to meet with him, nor was he willing to repair the Luoyang Palace, which was equivalent to saying that he was unwilling to welcome him, the son of heaven, back to Luoyang.
Although Wei Xuan was not arrogant and unreasonable to the Son of Heaven in person, he regarded the Son of Heaven and the imperial court as dispensable ornaments, which Liu Xie could not bear.
Taiwei Huang Wan gave Liu Xie an idea, no matter what Wei Xuan thought, the credit for pacifying Liangzhou should still be rewarded, which also increases the presence of the following imperial courts, one is to continue to contact the princes of Kwantung, hoping that someone can ascend to the heights and coerce Wei Xuan to welcome the return of the Son of Heaven to the east, and even Chen Bing can play the banner of King Qin on the border The Son of Heaven even moved the idea of leaving Hedong.
However, after counting the heroes of the Kanto region, Liu Xie is inevitably a little desperate, and now it seems that the Yuan brothers can't count on it, and if the Son of Heaven dares to go to these two, they will dare to kill them.
Gongsun Zhan is too far away and has a brutal personality, even inferior to Dong Zhuo and Li Dao. Cao Cao, who was given high hopes by the Son of Heaven, is re-fighting with Lu Bu for control of Yanzhou, and he will not be able to spare time to look west for a while, and Cao Cao and Wei Xuan have a good relationship.
It is okay to let Cao Cao reconcile the contradictions between the following Son of Heaven and Wei Xuan, and it is impossible for Cao Cao to confront Wei Xuan with a clear banner with one eye, at least at this stage.
Among the clan relatives of the Han family, Liu Biao's typical death and not saving the past has been handed over to you to the fullest, and now it is also the object of Wei Xuan's key monitoring, Liu Xie estimated that if he sent an envoy to Liu Biao, he was afraid that he would have to make a detour to Hebei.
Liu Yao was almost made by Yuan Shu and Sun Ce in Yangzhou, and he had no place to stand on it, and he couldn't count on it. Thinking about it, there was only Liu Yan who once proposed to the first emperor to restore the state pastor, and then after he arrived in Yizhou, he cut off the road and became the emperor.
Although he knew that Liu Yan's loyalty to the imperial court was even inferior to Liu Biao, and even less than Wei Xuan, he was the first person to divide among the many princes of the Han Dynasty.
But now, in order to contain Wei Xuan, Liu Xie had to issue an edict to canonize Liu Yan as the Great Sima. He is in charge of Yizhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou and other four southern states.
Of course, this edict was secretly sent to Yizhou without Wei Xuan, but Liu Xie and Huang Wan were not yet confused to the point that they did not let Liu Yandu supervise Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Sili and Merge Prefecture controlled by Wei Xuan.
Otherwise, the news spread, and Wei Xuan might ask the Son of Heaven to visit Liangzhou. When the angel arrived in Chengdu after two months of trekking, Liu Yan had already died of illness, and his youngest son Liu Zhang took care of Yizhou herd.
The angel had no choice but to admit Liu Zhang's status. and said the expectations of the Son of Heaven, disappointed that Liu Zhang was able to control the four southern states as soon as possible to welcome the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang to contribute.
At this time, Liu Zhang was actually in a domestic and foreign predicament, because after Liu Yan arrived in Yizhou, he was squeezed out by the local wealthy families because he did not follow the imperial court, cut off the road, and was squeezed out by the local wealthy families for the sake of secession.
Now that Liu Yan has died suddenly, some people are naturally eager to try, especially Zhang Lu, who guarded Hanzhong, Zhang Lu's grandfather founded the Wudou Rice Sect in the local area, and was very popular among the local people.
When Zhang Lu was injured, the arrogant and domineering Liu Yan actually coerced Zhang Lu to send protons to Chengdu. The world is in turmoil, and it is understandable that Hanzhong is the gateway to Yizhou, but Liu Yan, an old man, heard that Zhang Lu's mother was in good shape, so he asked his mother to go.
These were seven and a half deaths for Zhang Lu, but at that time, the imperial court was Dong Zhuo against the Kwantung Eighteenth Route Alliance, where was there any effort to care about their mutual affairs, and later Li Dao was even more self-conscious.
When the news of Liu Yan's death reached Hanzhong, Zhang Lu was indeed happy for a while, but soon Liu Zhang integrated Yizhou again, and used troops as a great sima, first quelling several rebellious families nearby, and then constantly marching north to Zeng Zeng, aiming directly at Zhang Lu in Hanzhong.
Zhang Lu felt unprecedented pressure in Hanzhong, although because of the Qinling Mountains, he knew about the recent events in Guanzhong and Liangzhou, and knew that Sikong Weixuan controlled the land of the four states of Guanzhong, and controlled the Son of Heaven and the imperial court.
Knowing that the Wei family produced a lot of luxury goods and made a lot of money, especially refined salt, there are a large number of salt wells in Hanzhong, but there is very little refined salt.
If today's Zi and the imperial court promote Liu Zhang, Zhang Lu knew that this would definitely cause Wei Xuan's dissatisfaction, so he thought of asking Wei Xuan for help, and at the same time to win more living space for himself, as long as he took the initiative to move closer to Wei Xuan politically, he could avoid being destroyed by Liu Zhang, at least before the unification of Hebei, I should not take the initiative to attack Hanzhong.
So he sent an envoy to the north to report to Sikong Wei as the Taishou of Hanzhong, complaining about the oppression of himself and the people of Hanzhong by Liu Yan and his son over the years.
and Liu Zhang's desire to attack Hanzhong, hoping that Sikong could lend a helping hand to dissuade Liu Zhang's attack politically, and at the same time help Hanzhong economically.
Of course, Zhang Lu couldn't imagine that after Wei Xuan returned from Liangzhou, he would not be in Luoyang and no longer in Hedong, so it was already autumn when the envoy arrived in Taiyuan.
Receiving Zhang Lu's letter from Wei Xuan was somewhat surprised, because he knew that although Hanzhong was small, Liu Zhang never seemed to have pressed Hanzhong because of geography.
However, in order to limit the climate of Yizhou's secession, it is very necessary to control Hanzhong. Also because of the 400 miles of Qinling, if Zhang Lu is unwilling to take the initiative to hand over Hanzhong, Wei Xuan wants to occupy Hanzhong It will cost military and material resources, so Wei Xuan plans to try to strengthen economic cooperation first, and see if the pump can not carry out a color revolution in Hanzhong.
So Wei Xuan sent Sun Qian, Wei He, and the young Xu Shu as envoys to Hanzhong. The three naturally have different tasks, Sun Qian is in charge of diplomacy, and of course he also promised that Liu Zhang will not be allowed to garrison Hanzhong militarily, and his political boss Kong Weixuan will further recommend higher official positions to the imperial court.
Wei and naturally came to talk about economic cooperation, and the Huns, Xianbei and Wuhuan people cooperation, the treatment of the Hu people is to collect their wool, sheepskin and then process into clothes, a small amount of sold to the Hu people, a large amount of more money in the inland area, in the Wei family driven, Sizhou has many families to join this deep processing process.
But Wei Xuan, having mastered the borders and controlled the trade routes, could easily prop up agents, and by the time the Hu discovered that they had to continue their migration north due to the degradation of the grasslands due to overgrazing.
Wei Xuan and Zhang Lu cooperated with Zhang Lu of course to value the strategic position of Hanzhong Yan and Zhong Xuan, and now Yongzhou's Wudu, Tianshui and Tianshui are all bordering Yizhou, and it is very difficult to attack Yizhou in the south, but Yizhou is very advantageous to go north, which is the reason why Cao Wei's military strength is obviously much stronger than Shu Han in another time and space, but Zhuge Liang can often go on northern expeditions.
Now that Wei Xuan occupies Yongzhou and Liangzhou, if Hanzhong becomes a corner, it can not only restrict Yizhou to the death, but also deter Jingzhou well.
Of course, it is best to be able to form an alliance, if it really can't be done, it can only be taken directly, and starting from the stabilization of Yizhou, Hanzhong must not be assigned to Yizhou in the future, but should be assigned to Yongzhou or the new Liangzhou, which is the same as New China, Hanzhong belongs to Shaanxi instead of Sichuan and Hubei is purely a strategic consideration.
Since he had the intention of military possession, Xu Shu's task was naturally better than that of Sun Qian and Wei He, he wanted to visit the famous rivers and mountains, and he had to personally walk to the Qinling Mountains planned by Wei Xuan to prepare for future military operations.
For Wei Xuan's prophetic prescience, Xu Shu also began to get used to it, since Wei Xuan said that there are several trails from Guanzhong to Qinling, that is, there really is.
Wei Xuan said that there were no excellent military generals in Hanzhong, so naturally there would be none. However, Xu Shu admired Wei Xuan's bold proposal to start from Nanxiang and travel along the Han River to transport the materials of the giant catapult directly to the vicinity of Nanzheng, so he planned to take a special waterway when he returned.
Of course, the people in Hanzhong who can really make Wei Xuan value are not Zhang Lu, but Yan Pu and Yang Song. Yan Pu is a wise man in Hanzhong and Zhang Lu's advisor, and Sun Qian and Xu Shu need to be careful to deal with it.
Yang Song, China's first famous real estate developer, is the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty, is a representative of the local wealthy family, and he has a hobby that is particularly greedy for money.
Wei Xuan sent his younger brother over to discuss business with Yang Song, of course, he still had to win him over, if he could get one of the two, Hanzhong would be Wei Xuan's sooner or later.