In the past nearly ten years, Yecheng, as Liu Jian's political and military location, is also the base camp for his troop deployment, and there is absolutely no room for any mistakes.

The problem is that Hebei's Wang clan and Haoqiang are complex, and Liu Jian's series of rectifications in Jizhou can be said to have greatly shaken their foundation and touched their interests.

In the past ten years, two huge rebellions broke out in Jizhou, but they were both strangled in the cradle by Liu Jian with extraordinary means.

In addition to large-scale rebellions, small-scale rebellions and proxy conquests planted by the wealthy clans in Jizhou to command bandits have occurred from time to time.

Therefore, Jizhou has always needed a fierce general who can watch the battle and suppress the rebellion in the surrounding area.

And this person is Xu Rong, the confidant general that Liu Jian subdued when he was the captain of the Yue Cavalry Battalion.

Xu Rong has been working hard to protect Liu Jian's roots in Jizhou all these years.

Only when he is in Yecheng can Liu Jian dare to leave here with peace of mind, fighting between the north and the south, without worrying that his hometown will be ripped out or rebelled in the nest when he is fighting outside.

However, after ten years of stability and development, Jizhou has become more and more stable, and the system established by Liu Jian has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and has been accepted by the vast number of Li people, ordinary Haoqiang, and even the Wang clan in some places.

And those top valves, although they have lost their political resources, but the booming Jizhou, there are still huge resources to give them a better business and expansion environment.

Although their family can no longer dominate one side, they can do more and more business and foreign trade.

Liu Jian will not allow these people to interfere in politics and become oligarchs and monopolize the country's resources, but it will not prevent these top families from making money, expanding their own family business, and not preventing them from living a better life.

After all, everyone has a better right to survive, ordinary Li Shu has, Hanmen Shi has it, and there are top valve Yuehe. There are also wang clans. However, everyone needs a level playing field, or a relatively level playing field.

Now Jizhou has basically stepped into the right track, the rebellion has become less and less, the people's livelihood is stable, and the industries of foreign nationalities in northern Xinjiang are also very stable, a large number of foreign people have entered Hebei to serve as conscripts, and a lot of manpower has been provided for Hebei's industrial construction, and the cultural penetration of the ethnic group into the outside world is also gradually going on, which can be said to be very smooth.

Although there will be some rebellion and resistance during the period, these are all expected by Liu Jian, Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others.

In this case, Xu Rong, the general guarding Hebei, finally came out as the vanguard of the front.

And the city defense of Yecheng was handed over to Yu Ze and Li Damu.

These two people have been by Xu Rong's side all these years, and have been doing the work of assisting Xu Rong, during the period of quelling rebellions in Hebei, the two of them have also been Xu Rong's deputies, and have been following Xu Rong's side to deal with various rebellions, and have been taught and taught by Xu Rong, increasing their military experience.

As the first veteran of Hebei, Xu Rong and Huang Zhong are the same age, while Yu Ze and Li Damu have made rapid progress under his training.

Therefore, according to Liu Jian's judgment, after leaving Xu Rong, Yecheng will not have any problems under the guard of Yu Ze and Li Damu.

And this time Liu Jian's ultimate goal is not only Guanzhong, but also Liangzhou in the west.

Liangzhou is the most painful root of the disease in the Han Dynasty for a hundred years, if you want the Han Dynasty to prosper, if you don't sort out the affairs of Liangzhou and the Western Regions, it will definitely not work.

And Xu Rong, who participated in the Liangzhou counterinsurgency war under Zhang Wen in the past, must be very familiar with the local situation.

So you must take him to Liangzhou, as the main figure in Pinghan in Liangzhou and the recovery of Liangzhou in the future.

After Liu Jian's military order was issued, all ministries were actively dispatching troops, preparing food, recruiting people's husbands, and arranging carriages and horses.

As the pioneer of the front, Xu Rong came in a hurry to find Liu Jian.

What he means is that as a pioneer in the front, he is very grateful to Liu Jian for giving him this opportunity, it has always been his dream to be able to go west to Guanzhong again and point to Liangzhou, and Xu Rong is already middle-aged, and he is working hard at the age of fifty.

Who knows if he will have this opportunity in the future.

Now, Liu Jian has made him the vanguard of this army's westward expedition, which obviously gives Xu Rong, who has not played for a long time, a very good opportunity.

This made Xu Rong's heart very grateful.

However, in order to better exert his abilities in Xizhou, Xu Ronglai asked Liu Jian for two things.

The first thing is to ask Liu Jian not to let Sun Zhan, who is too shou gong of the party, be his deputy and serve as the deputy vanguard.

After Liu Jian heard this, he said curiously: "My brother Bo Jue is also a fierce general who is good at conquest and good at using cavalry, if you can let him serve as your deputy vanguard, it can be said that he is like a tiger with wings, why is General Xu unwilling?" ”

Xu Rong sighed: "If the general really wants to use me and Gongsun Fujun to go west at the same time, then ask the general to take Gongsun Fujun as the main vanguard and Xu as the deputy vanguard, if not, don't let the two of us go to Xizhou together." ”

Liu Jian is so smart, just listening to Xu Rong say this, he probably understood the meaning of his words.

"Do you think that my brother's status is too high, and if you let him be your deputy, I am afraid that you will not listen to it, right?"

Xu Rong sighed: "It's okay if you don't listen to it, I'm afraid that the two of us will be at odds with the generals, and when the time comes, it will affect the battle ahead and frustrate the morale of the army." ”

"Gongsun Fujun, as the Taishou of the Shangdang, is an official of two thousand stones, and he is also a disciple of Lu Gong and the senior brother of the general."

"With such an identity, how can I mobilize him? Besides, I know a little about Gongsun Boqi's courage in western Liaoning, after all, I am from Liaodong, and I know a little about the people of their Gongsun family. ”

"He is arrogant by nature, he thinks very highly of himself, although he is capable, but he is not willing to be bland, how can such a person be a deputy to a person of my status?"

"In the past, Guan Yunchang served in Youzhou with him, and Yun Chang was the first fierce general in Youzhou, and Gongsun Boqi was not very convinced, but because of the face of the general, and the relationship between the general and Yun Chang, it was not revealed."

"But it's not necessarily true that in Xu's case."

"Although Xu was supported by the general, and he also made many achievements before coming to Hebei, he has mainly defended the city over the years."

"Gongsun Fujun will definitely not be convinced by Xu, so I implore the general to take Xu as the deputy vanguard and make Gongsun Boqi the main vanguard."

Liu Jian raised his hand and blocked Xu Rong's words.

"Since I said that I take you as the vanguard, then I naturally have my reasons, but the matter of Brother Gongsun is indeed not thoughtful enough, I only thought of his level of fighting on the border at the beginning, but I never thought that there is still this layer of identity relationship and concerns between him and you, and I almost buried a hidden danger, which is my negligence."

"Brother Gongsun's position as the deputy vanguard is dismissed, and you will be the vanguard, I will increase your troops to 10,000, and you will go to Sanhe first, and the affairs of the front army will be handled by you."

"I will lead the Chinese army, and then I will answer you."

When Xu Rong heard this, he couldn't help but be moved.

Obviously, Liu Jian values himself very much.

Even his senior brother Gongsun Bojue's deputy pioneer, he said that he would take it if he won it, which shows Liu Jian's preference for himself.

"The last general will do his best to pacify the land of Sanhe for the general, and lay the foundation for the general to enter Sizhou and Guanzhong."

"However, the last general still wants to ask the general and ask the other two to be his deputies."

"Who?"

"One person is Koji Yi, and one person is Xu Huang."

"These two people, the last general still knows each other quite well."

"Then Liyi was born in Xiping, Liangzhou, and Xu Huang was born in Hedong."

"They must know more about the local situation than we do, and with these two people by the side of the last general, the last general believes that it will be very smooth."

For Xu Rong's vision, Liu Jian admires it very much.

Although the performance of these two people among the generals in Hebei is not eye-catching, when it comes to potential, Liu Jian is very optimistic about them.

And Xu Rong wanted to take all these two people with him at once, which shows that Xu Rong, a veteran, has an excellent vision.

"Since General Xu has already made a request to me, how can I not agree to you? Everything was requested by the general. ”

"General Xie!"

(End of chapter)