Liu Jian sat in the tent, looked at a picture hanging behind him, touched his chin and pondered.

Although Liu Hong is still taking a stern attitude and action to minimize the impact of this matter, there is no doubt that once Pandora's box is opened, it is often not so easy to regain it.

And recently, Liu Jian and Lu Qiang secretly wrote a letter and got a message.

Liu Hong, the son of heaven, became more and more deteriorating, and he got sick at both ends in three days, although they were not very serious, but his body was very weak, and compared with his peers, the emperor's physical fitness was really a big difference.

Although Lu Qiang didn't say it directly, Liu Jian could feel the meaning of his words to some extent.

Lu Qiang is worried that the Son of Heaven will not be able to protect day and night.

In fact, according to this situation, even if Liu Jian does not know the process of history, he can see that Liu Hong's lifespan will indeed not be too long.

As soon as Liu Hong died, Liu Hong's children were still too young, and the Han Dynasty was about to enter a vicious circle of weak monarchs and strong ministers again.

Now that the pastoral system has been opened, it is time to choose a habitat for yourself and concentrate on developing and growing.

He is not Liu Yan, it is impossible to choose those remote states and counties in the southwest, although he can live on the safe side, but the Han Dynasty is not over there for hundreds of years, and the place where the economic center of gravity and development is superior is still north of the Yangtze River, although these places are full of gates and have strong competitiveness......

But if you really have the intention to break down and reunify within 20 or 10 years, then it is not appropriate to choose the states and counties in the southwest, and there are too many differences in background.

Moreover, there is no geographical foundation for a person from a northern border county to get there, and he is bound to rely on the local clans on a large scale - for example, Liu Form in history rode into Jingzhou, without a foundation, and can only rely on Cai, Kuai and other clans, and share military power and human rights with them, and it is difficult to extend the power in Jingzhou.

If you only want to divide one side and be the overlord of the land in a corner of peace, then it is absolutely right to imitate filial piety Liu Yan and Liu Biao, but if you still have the revitalization of the nation in your heart, break and stand up, and do not want to delay for half a century and cause the population of China to be over-consumed because of this war, and want to re-establish a great dynasty, then you must choose to base it on the north of the Yangtze River.

His roots are in Youzhou, but there are three mutual laws in the imperial court, throughout the history of the late Han Dynasty, many shepherds, none of them violated this example, it can be seen that no matter who coerces the Son of Heaven to govern, they will not break this law, perhaps this is also a balance point used by everyone to restrain each other's forces in this huge competition.

In this equilibrium, whoever emerges first will become the target of public criticism.

But after all, Youzhou is the foundation of Liu Jian's family, and it is also the important place where he is now working hard, even if he can't be the pastor of Youzhou in the end, he has to control Youzhou in his sphere of influence.

Therefore, the basic plate of starting by yourself, even if it is not the land of Youzhou, it is bound to be closer to Youzhou.

But no matter where it is, there is a huge obstacle for Liu Jian to gain a foothold in Hebei, and this obstacle is so huge that it is almost suffocating.

That is Yuan Shao.

The strength of the surname Yuan lies not in how many of them are good at fighting, nor in how much they can train soldiers, but because once they are delegated to the local prefectures and counties, the huge influence they have accumulated in the past hundred years will continue to provide them with assistance.

That is to say, the so-called endless life, and the stamina is endless.

In the locality, if you are neighbors with Yuan Shao, it is really an extremely uncomfortable thing.

Imagine that when Yuan Ji and Yuan Shu's mother died, there were 30,000 people who came to mourn for the Yuan family, and these 30,000 people must be upper-class people from all over the Han Dynasty, and behind each of them is a family of considerable size, if the probability that five of the 30,000 people are from the same clan, there are at least 6,000 families.

And these 6,000 families, who are willing to support the Yuan family in the future, even if calculated according to the probability of 50%, it is at least 3,000 families.

Three thousand families support the Yuan family, and each family only needs to squeeze between their teeth, and ten slaves can become an army.

Each family produces five good horses, which is a horse team of more than 10,000.

Each tribe produces a small amount of grain of 100 stone every year, which is the ration of 100,000 troops for a year.

Of course, this is just a probabilistic algorithm, and if it comes to reality, there will be many factors that affect these situations, and some things will not go so smoothly.

In the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao only defeated Yuan Shao militarily, but it was not a victory.

Cao Cao's real victory was because Yuan Shao died, and Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang turned against each other.

If Yuan Shao did not die after the battle of Guandu, and lived for another ten or eight years, Sun Liu in the south would laugh and laugh.

If Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang did not attack each other and have civil strife, it would be difficult for Cao Cao to get rid of Yuan Shao.

And Yuan Shao died, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang turned against each other, and the civil strife was not only in such a situation, it took Cao Cao seven years to pacify Hebei.

Even if Liu Jian now has prestige and is full of martial arts, it is still difficult to cheer up in the face of the huge foundation accumulated by the Yuan family for several generations.

How to break the situation of Yuan Shao as a neighbor?

This is the key to Liu Jian.

Just when Liu Jian was pondering, he suddenly heard someone outside the tent come to report, saying that Huang Zhong had arrived outside the tent.

When he was young, he saw Huang Zhong come to Liu Jian's handsome tent.

"General, you called me?"

Liu Jian smiled and beckoned to Huang Zhong and said, "Hansheng, you come!" ”

After the Battle of the Yellow Turbans, Sun Jian moved the county order, and then Liu Jian introduced him to Yuan Shu, and then Sun Jian resigned and left, and Huang Zhong, who had the same merits as Sun Jian, was also moved by the imperial court to the Zhongmu County Order, but the appointment order had not yet been issued through Shangshutai.

"Han Sheng, are you willing to do this position of Qianshi County Order?" Liu Jian asked Huang Zhongdao with a smile.

Huang Zhong arched his hand and said: "The general asked Huang to do it, Huang will do it, if the general is unwilling to let Huang do it, then Huang will ask Shang Shutai to resign." ”

"Why bother? How can I give you the decision on your future? ”

Huang Zhong shook his head and said: "It's not that Huang deliberately curry favor with the general, but according to the truth, although Huang was born in Nanyang County, he is not from Jingmen, and he wants to be promoted with military merits and is not from six counties. ”

"The general is in Huang, and he will do his best to support and rebuild, Huang has long recognized the general as the main one in his heart, and tied his future honor and disgrace to the general, so if the general Huang does, Huang will do it, and he will never shirk!"

After saying that, he saw Huang Zhong standing up and wanted to make a big salute to Liu Jian, but Liu Jian hurriedly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to stop him.

"Between you and me, it doesn't have to be like this!"

Afterwards, Liu Jian invited Huang Zhong to sit down and said, "Hansheng, it's really not a secret, in fact, this Qianshi County Order has been done, but it took three years to serve a term, which is not worth it for you." ”

"What does the general mean?"

"I want to recommend you to General Dong's pre-military service."

Dong Zhuo?

When Huang Zhong heard this, he was quite surprised.

"Why did the prince let the last official go to serve under General Dong's account?"

Liu Jian patiently explained: "Since the Yellow Turban incident, from today onwards, I am afraid that the wars in Zhuzhou will continue, this time the Yellow Turban, General Dong has not made any meritorious achievements, and the Yuan family of Luoyang is not satisfied with this result, I think they will definitely send General Dong to a larger battlefield, you follow General Dong to conquer, there will be more opportunities to make contributions, and the future will be on a higher level." ”