Since the second half of the fourth year of Jian'an, many things that Liu Bei has to do have become regular.

After a complicated struggle in the first half of the year, Liu Bei steadily pushed forward the convening of the first national government affairs conference, and at the same time also instructed Zhang Rang and Liu Hui to monitor Zheng Tai, Jia Xi and others, and comprehensively control their whereabouts and a series of operational preparations.

In addition, he also began to pay attention to Dong Chong's actions, because compared with Jian Shuo's attitude, Dong Chong's attitude is still a little ambiguous, and it seems that he doesn't care on the surface, but he has some other thoughts in private.

For example, he didn't inform Liu Bei about Zheng Tai and others.

In this regard, Liu Bei believes that he has not completely passed the test, and needs to further investigate what this guy has done.

Under the arrangement of the military department, the major armies took the demarcated route to the garrison and stationed there, and began to carry out Liu Bei's orders and launch an all-round deterrent against the localities.

Compared with the threats that have been dealt with in the north, Yizhou and Jingyang in the south are still worth paying attention to.

Several counties and subject states in the southern part of Yizhou have always been unstable and need to be deterred by the army.

Jingyang Prefecture is not yet under Liu Bei's jurisdiction, and it also needs the deterrence of the army.

And it should be said or not, there are still a few threats of a certain scale in Yangzhou, which have not been dealt with, this time Liu Bei sent Guan Yu to lead his troops south, and there is also a plan for Guan Yu to clean up these two major threats.

These two major threats are the Shanyue forces that are not subject to the control of the government, and the other is the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in Xuzhou, which are blatantly rebellious.

The Shanyue force is actually equivalent to the Bingzhou Mountain Bandit Group, which can be understood as a replica of the southern youth of the Bingzhou Mountain Bandit Group.

Zhang Yan and others claimed the king and hegemony in the Taihang Mountains against the government, and even threatened Luoyang for a time, the momentum was huge, and the world was shocked, the court was at a loss, and the army was defeated, so they had to use their official positions to win them over, and they lost their dignity.

In comparison, Yangzhou Shanyue Group is not so threatening.

Their scale is not small, but their combat effectiveness and will to fight are relatively thin, and they have no ability to threaten the central government, and they cannot even threaten the local official forces in Yangzhou.

They seem to be just a group of people who want to live their own happy life behind closed doors, they don't have much idea about the outside world, they don't have too big ambitions, they just don't want to be exploited by the government.

But their number is large, and the more they are exploited by the government, the more people there are, the more anxious the government is, and the more people they are, the stronger their power.

Yangzhou was already short of population, and now more and more people are defecting to Shanyue, which is really not a good thing, which also seriously affects the ruling order of the Han Empire in Yangzhou.

On the other hand, the Yellow Turban Army that went south from Xuzhou was also a big problem for the Yangzhou government.

After this group of people entered Yangzhou, they did not run to Wu County, but ran to Danyang County, to the mountainous area in the middle of Danyang County.

By the time Yangzhou Assassin Shi Guibao received Liu Bei's order to attack the Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Army had already gone all the way south to attack the city, killing officials, heroes, looting supplies, and cleaning up the misery of several counties in the north of Danyang County.

And they also sent people everywhere to contact all the forces in Shanyue, trying to reach an alliance with the Shanyue forces and deal with the Yangzhou officials and troops together.

At present, they settled down in the area north of Yuqian County in Danyang County, and defended according to the danger, and in the mountains and wilderness, they were in the company of the local Shanyue, and seemed to be on good terms with several of the Shanyue forces, and the two sides had some contacts, and the Danyang County Guard launched several military attacks, all of which were defeated.

After receiving Liu Bei's order, Yangzhou Assassin Shi Gui Bao was very nervous and sent people to attack once with the Danyang County Guard, but failed again.

Therefore, he was forced to personally lead the army into Yuhang County in September of the fourth year of Jian'an, personally observe the situation, and then felt that the situation was quite complicated, so he had the heart of retreat.

The Yellow Turban Army and Shanyue were mixed together, and when the Yellow Turban Army was beaten, Shanyue would help, block roads, cut off traffic, and attack the logistics of the officers and soldiers, making it difficult for the officers and troops to maintain themselves in the face of such a situation.

While Gui Bao felt difficult, he felt unbalanced in his heart.

A group of thieves who went south from Xuzhou arrived in Yangzhou and became a disaster in Yangzhou, but Xuzhou did nothing at all, is this Yangzhou's mistake?

Now Yangzhou has spent money and food in order to deal with this group of Yellow Turban Army, how many officials have died here, this matter is a disaster, is Xuzhou not responsible?

The more Gui Bao thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and he felt that he couldn't swallow this breath, so he made a statement to the court in October of the fourth year of Jian'an, saying that he had worked hard, but the Yellow Turban Army and Shanyue were in collusion, which was really difficult to deal with, and asked the court to give him a certain amount of food and salary support.

Gui Bao felt that the main reason why he couldn't fight before was that Yangzhou was poor, lacking food and salary, and the soldiers didn't need to die, so he asked the imperial court to allocate funds to support Yangzhou.

In addition, Gui Bao also said that if the imperial court is in financial difficulties, Xuzhou should be asked to provide financial support, after all, the Yellow Turban Army came from Xuzhou to Yangzhou, and at that time, Xuzhou's assassination history was unfavorable, so that the thieves fled to Yangzhou, and they were not local thieves in Yangzhou.

This is a catastrophe from heaven, not caused by the officials and people of Yangzhou, who are innocent and pitiful, and hope that the court will be sympathetic.

Gui Bao's words are still very tactful, if it was normal, he would have scolded him a long time ago.

His mother's Xuzhou assassin history and a few county guards are not good people, and the bad things they have done, the Yellow Turban thieves who have been fighting for several years and can't be wiped out are now running to my Yangzhou to show off their might, and it has actually become a matter of my Yangzhou?

Xuzhou people can't do anything to bring disaster to our Yangzhou people, now Xuzhou wipes their butts and doesn't care about anything, is there such a reason to throw the pot to Yangzhou people?

This is not only Gui Bao's heartfelt words, but also the thoughts of local officials, officials, and local bigwigs in Yangzhou.

This is a bad thing made by the people of Xuzhou and the Central Plains, they can't solve it, so they throw the mess to Yangzhou, is Yangzhou a dirty garbage heap?

Thinking about it like this, Gui Bao didn't want to fight, and the Danyang County Guard didn't want to fight either, they contracted the front to ensure that the city was not lost, and the rest, they didn't care, they were rotten.

Your court doesn't give money, food, or benefits, so let them do this, they don't look like they're going to counterattack anyway.

They had to wait for the opinions of the imperial court and the general Liu Bei to see what kind of treatment Liu Bei had on his side.

With the passive avoidance of the war by the officers and troops, the Yellow Turban Army did settle down, stopped making trouble, did not take the initiative to attack, joined hands with Shanyue to develop the mountainous area, accepted the experience of the Shanyue gang, reclaimed wasteland everywhere, cultivated the land, and put on the appearance of wanting to take root here.

Although the Shanyue gang is in the nature of mountain bandits, they will also do some work of robbing houses and houses, but they mainly rely on reclaiming wasteland and carrying out agricultural production to make a living, the land south of the Yangtze River is warm and humid, the crops are easy to feed, and there is no government exploitation during the harvest, so they can barely eat enough.

So they will also teach the Yellow Turbans some skills to survive in the mountains.

On the other hand, the Yellow Turban Army will teach them some spiritual food - for example, teach them the truth that the sky is dead and the Yellow Sky should stand, tell them that the Mandate of Heaven representing the Han Empire is dead, and the Yellow Sky representing the Yellow Turban Army is dominating the world.

As long as they persist, they will definitely succeed, they will definitely be able to overthrow the tyranny of the Han Empire and achieve the prosperity of the Yellow Heaven, the current setbacks are only temporary, and the future victories are permanent.

(End of chapter)