Liu Jian's words shocked Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

As Liu Jian's most powerful person, there are three people that Liu Jian trusts the most.

There is no doubt that it is Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.

The status of these three people in Liu Jian's heart is incomparable, or in other words, there will never be anyone else.

Now Liu Bei has become the pastor of Xiqingzhou, leading Han Dang, Gao Shun and others to sit on one side and take charge alone, he partnered with Liu Yu, and completely shared the pressure in the east of Jizhou for Liu Jian.

Although Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were both generals in the past, they were in the stage of accumulating strength for Liu Jian at that time, and their main purpose was to improve their ability and prestige.

But now, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have reached a certain height in terms of ability and prestige.

In fact, the current Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also desperately hope to be reused by Liu Jian, and are sent out to fight for Liu Jian and pacify the Quartet, instead of just following Liu Jian's side as a general.

But what I didn't expect was that this opportunity would come so quickly.

Guan Yu said: "As long as my brother believes in us, my two brothers will be the elder brother's long-term death force, and if the two thieves of the Zhang family are not pacified, we will not return to Jizhou to see my brother!" ”

Liu Jian stretched out his hand and patted Guan Yu's shoulder:

"Good brother, don't give yourself such a big burden, since you and my brothers have vowed to jointly support the Han family and save the common people, then we should work together to overcome the dangers and obstacles, if there are difficulties, our brothers will discuss and solve it together, don't say anything that will not be returned!"

Speaking of this, Liu Jian looked at Zhang Fei again, stretched out his hand and took the hands of the two of them, and said: "Thirty years later, when we are all over half a hundred years old, entering the age of the elderly, and reminiscing about the past, what I want to see is that brothers and friends are all alive, everyone sits around and talks about half a life's work!" When you sing about wine, life is geometric! ”

Rao is a tough guy like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and after listening to Liu Jian's words, he couldn't help but be very moved in his heart.

has been a brother for so many years, every time I listen to Liu Jian, I still have that fiery feeling in my heart.

"Brother, the two Zhang United Qiu Liju, and recruit soldiers and horses in Youzhou, it seems to be powerful, but in fact it is just a plate of scattered sand, if I wait for the two brothers to go, within three months, I will bring two heads and dedicate them to my brother."

Liu Jian looked at Guan Yu appreciatively and said, "Yun Chang, I believe that you do have such a ability, but I don't want you to end this war so quickly, what I hope is to peel off the cocoon and become gradual." ”

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at each other in surprise.

"Why did my brother say that?"

Liu Jian patiently asked the two of them: "Two virtuous brothers, since the fight against our brothers to join the office, one of the two of you is the governor of Liaodong, and the other is Sima in the state, it can be said that they are both in the border county to establish military merits, and they have only come to this day, the land of seclusion has been the state of the northern herdsmen of the Han family since ancient times, with frequent wars, fierce folk customs, and many people in the border tun, there are also many people who do not return to the king, but in the eyes of the two virtuous brothers, the political situation in Youzhou and the trend of the right are compared with the Central Plains? ”

Zhang Fei used to be in Bingzhou, but he started from Qu Junhou, although there were many fights, but he did not pay attention to the people's livelihood and government affairs in the border counties.

However, Guan Yu, who served as a martial artist under Liu Yu and later became the governor of Liaodong, was different.

In addition to his military exploits, Guan Yu's understanding of officialdom and the political situation in the north and local forces is much higher than that of Zhang Fei.

At that moment, I listened to Guan Yu say slowly: "Guan was originally a person from Hedong, the land of three rivers is close to Luoyang, and the deep roots of the forces of all ethnic groups can be described as the crown of the world, but Guan has been in Youzhou for several years, but he feels that the atmosphere in Hedong is comparable to the counties in Youzhou, and even in some places, Youzhou is far beyond Hedong. ”

According to the imagination of ordinary people, Youzhou is a border county, similar to Liangzhou in the west of the Han Dynasty, far away from the center, and the situation should be simpler and purer than the Central Plains.

After all, the number of families in the Central Plains is far from being comparable to Youzhou, and the political interests of families and families are also the most numerous and complete.

In a land like a border county, the water should be clearer and not so turbid, after all, the political resources here are much less than those in the Central Plains.

But in fact, this is not the case.

Because of the proximity of Guan Yu's Hedong County to Sili, in Guan Yu's view, the interpersonal exchanges between people in his hometown and the entanglement of interests between families were the most complicated and among the best in the Han Dynasty.

But as a result, after he arrived in Youzhou, Guan Yu found that compared with the counties of Youzhou, the political complexity of Hedong County can be regarded as a small thing.

In fact, there are many records in history for this complex situation in Youzhou.

When the three-mutual law was established, it was to prevent the state and county from being in harmony with each other, and it was a system of marriages and people from the two states were not allowed to supervise each other, but it was difficult to select officials, because the officials who were selected were intertwined with each other, and the family relationship was too complicated.

Among them, the governors of the two prefectures of Youyou and Hebei have not been filled for a long time, and the election of the three prefectures has been uncertain for more than a month.

The complexity of Youzhou is similar to that of Jizhou.

In fact, the reason why this situation occurs among the border counties is because although Youzhou is a border county, it is too close to Jizhou.

Its territory is not the same as that of Liangzhou, which is also a border county.

In the land of Liangzhou, Han and Qiang are mixed, and it is far away from the center, and the people are fierce, and the penetration of the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty is relatively limited.

However, the land of Youzhou, a flat river, and the distance from Jizhou is too close, and it is most infiltrated by the nepotism between the scholars and scholars of the Han Dynasty.

Although the border counties lacked the personnel policy and scripture of the Central Plains as the hub of interests, there was one thing in the Youzhou area, but it had become a huge chain of interests that even the Central Plains people could not reach.

That is interracial diplomacy and border wars.

Youzhou is a very sensitive place, and Youzhou and Bingzhou bear the heavy responsibility of guarding against the most powerful enemy in the north of the Han Dynasty.

The major families of the border counties gradually rose in the foreign wars, colluded with each other, and the families gradually grew stronger in the nourishment of the war, and because of the existence of foreign races, the central government of the Han Dynasty also had some scruples and dependence on the big clans of these border counties.

After all, the situation in the north is simply too complicated.

In the north of Youzhou, there are not only Xianbei, who are enemies of the Han Dynasty all the year round, but also the Southern Xiongnu royal court and Wuhuan who are attached to the Han Dynasty but always rebel from time to time.

Of course, if you look further to the northeast, there are Goguryeo and Rulou, although these states have no threat to the Han Dynasty, but they are very close to Youzhou, and the distance between Liaodong County and Goguryeo and Rulou can be said to be a stone's throw away.

Because of this, most of the trade between Goguryeo and Zhulou and the interior of the Han Dynasty also passed through the local families of Youzhou, resulting in close exchanges between the local families of Youzhou and the countries in the northeast, and became an intermediate force to maintain the communication between the Han Dynasty and its neighbors.

……

After some analysis by Liu Jian, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others, Guan and Zhang probably understood what Liu Jian was going to do for Youzhou.

"As a clansman, I am also a local in Youzhou, this crusade against Erzhang is absolutely impossible just to kill Erzhang and recover Youzhou for the purpose, these things are too simple!"

"My hometown in Youzhou, since I have to recover my hometown, I must integrate the power of the township, take the township as the cornerstone, and do something really beneficial to the country!"

Guan Yu said: "Youzhou Zhuhao has been fighting for many years in military exploits, related to each other, and the power is gradually huge, and in the affairs of Xianbei, Xiongnu and Wuhuan, they also have the most beneficial way to deal with the interests of their own family, and do not take the interests of the court first, and the history of the past dynasties, the county guard, in order to be able to accumulate meritorious deeds in the border county, has always taken their own advantages from the two phases, so that they gradually become bigger, dominating the frontier, such as the two major Gongsun clans in Liaodong and Liaoxi, and the Zhang clan who are now rebelling in Yuyang County, They all rely on the strength they have accumulated over the years in the border counties, and dare to do things that ordinary people dare not do......"

After a pause, Guan Yu sighed: "Even when Liu Bo'an was the assassin in Youzhou, there were many constraints, and the weakness of this restraint is very different from that of the Central Plains...... After all, it's a matter of alien races, and once there is a change, it will be a shocking event! No ruler would dare to take risks lightly. ”

Liu Jian said with a smile: "I know what Yun Chang said in my heart, and my Zhuojun Liu clan also belongs to the newly rising military achievements in Youzhou over the years...... Hebei Business Association, over the years has also attracted a lot of Youzhou Gaomen to join, for Youzhou local Haoyou's interests are complex, I didn't know before, now the heart is clear. ”

"But it is precisely because of this that I can reintegrate the power of Youzhou, after all, this is a strategic place for the Han Dynasty to extend and expand to the north in the future, and all the discordant forces that affect my plan to expand the territory must disappear! Either Huairou is co-opted, or cleaned up! ”

By the time Liu Jian finished speaking, the boat the three brothers were on had already arrived on the north bank of the Yellow River and was approaching the ferry.

The boatmen drove the boat to the edge of the ferry and ordered the ropes to be tied.

"My lord! Captain, Lieutenant...... We're here! ”

The soldier respectfully asked the three men to disembark, but on the boat, all three of them sat in their same places and did not move.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at Liu Jian opposite them in surprise.

"My lord! Captain, Lieutenant...... It's here! ”

The soldier spoke again.

The three of them still didn't respond.

After a long time, Fang saw Liu Jian and smiled: "Two virtuous brothers, get off the boat." ”

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei stood up with Liu Jian and walked towards the shore with him.

There was another pavilion on the shore, where soldiers had already placed braziers for Liu Jian and prepared hot soup.

Liu Jian walked over, picked up the hot soup and blew it, then took a few sips, and suddenly felt that his body was extremely warm, and the chill of returning by boat disappeared in an instant.

"Brother!"

Zhang Fei came quickly, sat beside Liu Jian, and looked at him in surprise.

"Listening to my brother's aptitude, it seems that he wants to expand his territory?"

Liu Jian drank and said, "Yes!" Who stipulates that the border of the Han Dynasty must be Youzhou and Bingzhou, and the grassland Hu people have repeatedly offended me, can't we wait for him to offend? Which rule? ”

Guan Yu said in a deep voice: "Where does my brother want to expand the soil?" ”

"Sanhan, Goguryeo, Rulou, Buyeo, Xianbei Grassland, Jiankun, Ding Ling...... If you want to expand the territory, there are more places! ”

Guan Yu said: "It's just that those lands are all barbaric lands, and they are ......."

Liu Jian said with a smile: "Compared with Middle Earth, those places are indeed barbaric, but it does not mean that those lands have no value, as long as there is a population and resources, it can be used by our Han people, but the ancestors have never mastered the method of controlling these alien races and absorbing resources, but they have repeatedly violated the border and formed a state of stubbornness, which really outweighs the loss!" ”

"Yun Chang, Yide, we were born as Han people, we have to look into the distance, do you want to be a general who keeps fighting civil wars in my Han people's own land for the rest of your life? Don't you want to surpass the Changping Martyr Hou and the Champion Hou, go down in history, and sing the praises for future generations? ”

"If you don't want to...... I think! ”

(End of chapter)