Taiyuan County, Jinyang Hou Mansion, Wei Xuan is entertaining Zhang Song from Yizhou, who came from afar. Wei Zheng, the assassin of Bingzhou, are all generals, the military department Shangshu Xi Zhicai, the Zhendong general, the left attendant of the military department Jia Xu, the general of the Che Cavalry Mansion, the right attendant Guo Jia of the military department, the general of the army Zhao Yun, Taiyuan Taishou Xin Ping, and the record of the military law are all present.

Zhang Song came as Liu Zhang's envoy for peace, and it stands to reason that he does not need to be accompanied by so many high-level officials of the Weixuan Group, and what Wei Xuan wants is naturally the Yizhou scholars represented by Zhang Song.

Zhang Song is a typical southerner, short stature, ugly appearance, often ridiculed in Yizhou, originally thought that when he arrived in Taiyuan, he would be ridiculed by Wei Xuan, who came from Gaomen, but did not expect Wei Xuan not only did not treat him slowly because of his appearance, but was very enthusiastic, not only exaggerating Song's talent, but also calling the civil and military under his command to accompany him.

After three rounds of drinking, Wei Xuan glanced at Fa Zheng and then said to Zhang Song: "Ziqiao has come from afar to work hard, and the demands of the Yizhou Mu and the Yizhou Shi clan will be known. In order to reassure Liu Yizhou and reassure the people of Yizhou, Ben decided to send Fa Xiaozhi to follow his son Qiao into Shu. Zhang Song was even more surprised when he heard this, because he had already seen part of Wei Xuan's strength along the way, to be honest, they thought that Wei Xuan was so easy to speak, and they didn't mean to condemn Liu Zhang's disrespect to the imperial court and Wei Xuan's disrespect, but they were ready to send people into Shu.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Song still felt that there might be another purpose besides Wei Xuan. However, he couldn't say it directly, so he also looked at Fazheng, who got up from his seat and said with a smile: "In the future, I will have to give Zhang Beijia a lot of advice." Zhang Song hurriedly got up and returned the salute: "Sikong is eloquent and strategic, and the French army must be full of economy, how dare Song advise, Song knows a little about the customs of Yizhou and is willing to be a guide." Wei Xuan nodded, Zhang Song did not reject Fa Zheng's entry into Shu is a good start, whether Fa Zheng can persuade Zhang Song along the way, how much information can he get when he arrives in Yizhou, and whether he can mess up Yizhou from the inside.

The next day, at the south gate of Jinyang, Wei Xuan rode on the snow and walked out of Jinyang slowly with Zhang Song and Fa Zheng people of the opposite sex.

This moved Zhang Song again, and they thought of Wei Xuan's send-off and sent it out for thirty miles. The team that sent people stopped slowly, Zhang Song also got out of the car, walked a few steps briskly to the front of Wei Xuan's war horse, and when Wei Xuan got off the horse, he took out a silk silk-like thing from his arms and handed it to Wei Xuan, saying: "Sikong is so courteous and loose, Song can't be repaid, and occasionally get a map, I hope it can help Sikong." Wei Xuanyan was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly jumped down from the horse to help Zhang Song and said with a smile: "Zi Qiao is a famous man in Shu, what you can see must be a good thing." Thank you here. After speaking, he took a few bowls of wine from the attendant next to him and handed them to Zhang Song and Fa Zheng respectively, and then raised them up and drank them first, and said with a smile: "Persuade you to have a glass of wine, this time Ziqiao is an ancient!" Zhang Song also drank the tears in the corners of his eyes, and bowed down again: "Stay and stay, let go." With that, he turned around and strode back to his car, and then set off on his journey.

Looking at the team that was gradually moving away, Wei Xuan opened the silk silk given to him by Zhang Song, and sure enough, it was a map - "Topographic Map of Xishu".

This was obviously not drawn at random, but Zhang Song or more people spent a lot of effort to draw it, and Zhang Song was able to give it to Wei Xuan before leaving, which showed that he already had a mind.

From the map, you can clearly see the whole picture of Yizhou. The nine counties of Yizhou are vast and vast, and the territory is vast.

Under the jurisdiction of Shu County, Qianwei County, Qiqi County, Yueshan County, Yizhou County, Yongchang County, of which Yizhou County is the county with the same name as Yizhou.

When Zhang Song presented the map, there were more than a dozen counties in Yizhou, and the reason was that Yizhou also included the three subject states of the southwest barbarians, and these three subject countries and counties were almost equal to the level, so when Zhang Song presented the map, the total number of counties was as many as a dozen.

Later, Liu Zhang succeeded to the throne, and in order to strengthen the power to resist the north, Zitong County under the rule of Yizhou County was upgraded to a county, and Ba County was divided into three, divided into Brazil County, Badong County and Ba County, so that Yizhou had fifteen counties.

In the past, Liu Yan served as the pastor of Yizhou, although there were only nine counties under his jurisdiction, he still managed a large area of land, and there was no harassment from the Yellow Turban Army, and the population was quite dense.

It's a pity that Liu Yan occupied Yizhou, although the territory was large, but it was not worthy of the name. Not to mention that Liu Zhang's occupation of Hanzhong did not listen to Liu Yan's orders, the three vassal states of the southwest barbarians often attacked Yizhou, which made Liu Yan very annoyed.

Although Liu Yan hated the barbarians, he could not exterminate the barbarians, because the barbarians lived in the mountains and forests all the year round, and there were many mosquitoes, insects and beasts in the deep mountains and old forests.

Compared with Liu Yan, Zhang Lu controls a county in Hanzhong, although the territory is not as large as Liu Yan, the overall strength is not weaker than Liu Yan, because Liu Yan controls many counties, but not all counties obey Liu Yan's orders, but only nominally obey Liu Yan's dispatch.

In addition, Liu Yan must also consider the local control, and must station a certain number of troops in each county to deter the scheming clans, and many fetters make it impossible for Liu Yan's forces to be gathered together.

Zhang Lu confronted Liu Yan and Liu Zhang with the strength of a county, and after Zhang Lu returned to Weixuan, Liu Zhang could only remain silent, and under the pressure of the Yizhou wealthy family, he took the initiative to send Zhang Song to make friends.

Liu Zhang is weak, which is the root of Zhang Song and the Yizhou Hao family's two hearts. However, Liu Zhang still wants to save face, and when Wei Xuan first took over Hanzhong, he published a wide range of articles to denounce Wei Xuan and support his face.

Liu Zhang's denunciation of Wei Xuan is naturally still the usual set of rhetoric, he has no court, ignores the law of the country, and is a traitor to the country.

That's true, but if you think about it, isn't that true of their father and son? At that time, after Wei Xuan got the news, he was not to be outdone, and sent a document to denounce Liu Zhang, saying that he killed the court envoys in the name of the royal family, occupied Yizhou and stood on his own, and wanted to turn Yizhou into a world.

However, Liu Zhang and Wei Xuan did not send troops, and chose to fight a war of words in a painless way. This is also the reason why Zhang Song was able to go to Jinyang later.

Although Wei Xuan was very polite to Zhang Song, he never thought of living in peace with Liu Zhang, because the temporary suspension of Bingge was a strategy set by Wei Xuan and Xi Zhicai, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Xun You.

…… Chengdu, in the inner hall of Jiafu, in the study, Jia Long sat on the main seat, and two middle-aged people in black robes sat below.

"Jia Gong, Wei Xuan annihilated Han Sui and the Qiang army, morale is flourishing, Zhang Lu complied and returned to obedience, and should immediately send troops to attack Chengdu, there is a way to be repeated, and then declined, and then exhausted, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable the situation will be for Wei Xuan, and Liu Zhang's losses can be quickly recovered. When Liu Zhang's strength recovered, it would be a little difficult to attack Chengdu. The person who spoke was sitting on the left side, his name was Li Yuan, the word was Boming, and he was a descendant of the Li family in Yizhou.

This person has a Chinese face, three short beards under the chin, and a pair of bright eyes, revealing a shrewd bearing.

At the beginning, Zhao Wei led the troops to exterminate the Li family, but Li Yuan escaped because he had something to do when he went out. The Li family was wiped out, and Li Yuan hated Liu Yan to the core, and wished that Wei Xuan would immediately lead his troops into Chengdu and crush Liu Zhang's bones to ashes to vent the hatred in his heart.

When Jia Long heard this, he sneered twice and said: "Bo Ming, Wei Xuan has the initiative, whether to attack Chengdu or not, there are arrangements, now we ask Wei Xuan to attack Chengdu and kill Liu Zhang, not that we order Wei Xuan to attack Chengdu." Besides, Liu Zhang had just sent Zhang Ziqiao to Luoyang to sue for peace, and Wei Xuan would definitely find out the situation in Yizhou. Li Yuan snorted and said, "With our help, it can be guaranteed, what is he afraid of?" Jia Long sighed slightly and said: "Of course Wei Xuan is not afraid of Liu Zhang, back then, he dared to garrison Kong Ling with more than 10,000 people, and dared to attack Dong Zhuo when the soldiers and horses were almost the same, how could such a person be afraid of a Yizhou." But he was afraid that we would be too strong to control, so he had to rest his army and wait until the autumn harvest had passed. At this time, the middle-aged man sitting on the right side spoke, he stroked his short beard under his chin, and said: "In this way, Wei Xuan also regards my Yizhou clan as a jackal, tiger and leopard, and wants to exterminate us. If Wei Xuan invades Yizhou, it will be tantamount to luring a wolf into the house, and I am afraid that it will be the second Liu Yan. "This person's name is Cui He, and he is the head of the Cui family in Yizhou.

When Jia Long heard this, his face showed disdain, and he said lightly: "Master Cui, Wei Xuan occupies the land of Sizhou, defeated Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, and Han Sui, and the dominant side doesn't even care about the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, how can it be at the mercy of the Yizhou clan." The so-called obedient prosper, the rebel perishes, Wei Xuan enters Yizhou, and the big clan is willing to return to the natural benefits of obedience, and if he is unwilling to submit, Wei Xuan will not be held accountable. But if you do something contrary to Wei Xuan's interests, it will definitely be a combination of swords and axes, and there will be no mercy. Look at how nourishing Yingchuan and the Wei family are doing now, and then look at how the khans of Han Sui and the Southern Xiongnu are doing now? ”

"Wei Xuan's promise to me is that he will not do anything to cross the river and tear down the bridge, but the premise is that the Yizhou clan shall not disturb the stability of Yizhou, raise prices and other things that affect Yizhou. I watch Wei Xuan, I have the qualifications of the male lord, it is worth following, my Jia family has been tied to Wei Xuan, and I am willing to use it for him, as for you? The choice is yours. After saying that, Jia Long stopped talking.

Cui He sighed and said, "The situation is stronger than people, what can it do!" It doesn't matter what he remembers, but I heard that he openly sells wire-bound books in Luo'an, and the officials who are appointed and dismissed are not recommended but selected from Luoyang Academy through the assessment, which is very unfavorable to our wealthy families. Li Yuan's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "Wei Xuan wants to rise, this may not be our opportunity." I might as well obey him first, and after a long time in the future, it will be impossible for him to run to the extent to govern Yizhou by himself. Hearing this, everyone nodded, Wei Xuan was born in the wealthy clan in Hedong, and it was impossible to really kill the wealthy clan, for the stability of Yizhou, and for the sake of the people of other states and counties, it was impossible to say that after a period of time, Wei Xuan would let the local area go.