Chapter 643: Sitting on the Mountain and Watching the Tiger
When it comes to the influence of the wang clans in the world and the powerful in the world, as well as the scope of influence, the wang clans and ministers in the court do occupy the largest head in the world.
Compared with the strength of these people, the Qingliu led by Xun You, Liu Biao and others is indeed a lot worse, however, most of these Qingliu scholars are hard working and insightful, but they are not inferior to the Wang clan ministers in terms of resourcefulness.
Xun You, the leader of the Qingliu family, and others are far superior to Wang Yun and others in terms of strategy.
In this regard, their guess was basically correct, at least much farther than Wang Yun and the others had to see.
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Li Dao and Guo Yan are now quelling the rebellion in Guanzhong, and they just defeated another rebel army yesterday and beheaded 5,000 people, and they took the opportunity of quelling this rebellion to loot in Guanzhong.
And among the 5,000 heads they killed, more than 2,000 heads were actually made up of the heads of ordinary Li Shu civilians.
That is, when Li Dao and Guo Yan were in a state of strength, Wang Yun's letter secretly arrived in Li Dao's hands.
It stands to reason that with Wang Yun's current status, he personally wrote a letter to Li Dao, which can be regarded as giving Li Dao a lot of face.
But Li Wei didn't take Wang Yun's letter seriously.
After all, people from Xiliang are different from the people of the Central Plains in terms of thinking, and they don't disdain to do such things as climbing to the high-ranking family.
Li Wei read Wang Yun's letter slowly, and then handed the letter over in front of Guo Yan, and then casually picked up the short knife in his hand and cut the sheep that had been being barbecued in front of him.
Guo Yan picked up the silk and looked at it carefully, but he didn't see two lines, so he rubbed the silk ball in his hand and threw it into the fire opposite.
"Wang Yun is really funny! He actually asked our brothers to hand over all the goods and food in their hands to the court, and then as if this had never happened, they would say that they would intercede for us and prevent the court from condemning us for this, what crime do we have? ”
"For the sake of the Han Dynasty, our brothers conscientiously fought in Guanzhong, and the soldiers of the three armies fought bloodily to keep Wang Yun and the current status of the emperor in Beijing."
"Then the old puppet now actually asks us to hand over all the income over the years, and hand it over to the imperial court to build an army? Why didn't he sell all the family business and ancestral property of his Taiyuan Wang family to the imperial court to expand the army? ”
Li Wei took a big bite of the mutton, and said with a sneer: "This is the temperament of the Central Plains people!" Once something happens, the first thing to sacrifice is us Xiliang people, and their so-called reason is nothing more than anything, in order to maintain orthodoxy, in order to maintain the current emperor, in order to maintain the situation in the world. ”
"But what have these orthodox people done for this world? Are they willing to sacrifice their own interests to defend this world and this emperor? ”
"Whew!"
Guo Yan narrowed his eyes, and he slowly stood up, but the aisle was planted a little to the left, and it was obvious that it was the old injury caused by Huang Zhong's arrow hitting his toe.
"Childish, then according to your meaning, we won't listen to that Wang Yun this time?"
"Hehe, Brother Guo, if you feel that you can't go in your heart, then you can send your half to Chang'an and give it to the Son of Heaven to see if the Son of Heaven will be grateful to you for this offering."
Guo Yan listened to Li Wei's words, and his face turned red.
"Hey, what's that for what you're talking about! Our brothers should advance and retreat together, how can I alone offer the truth to Chang'an without you moving? Besides, I can't bear it. ”
"Wang Yun's old puppet moved his mouth, and he wanted to pay our income over the years, phew, delusional! What can the court do to us? Now Liu Jian has won the Hanwu Pass! He can send troops to Chang'an at any time, does Wang Yun dare to do something to us at this time? Isn't he afraid that we will overthrow the imperial court? ”
Li Dao laughed: "That's right! What to do or what to do! ”
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It has been a while since Wang Yun's letter was delivered to Li Wei, but Li Dao and Guo Yan are still taking care of themselves to quell the rebellion in the local area, and they have no memory of the court's requirements at all, and they even ignore Wang Yun's private letters.
The attitude and behavior of the two of them can be said to have hit the sore spot of the princes of the Wang clan in the DPRK.
Wang Yun, who is a native of Bingzhou, saw that Li Dao and Guo Yan didn't take him seriously, so he immediately got up and scolded him, eager to swallow these two Xiliang thieves equally.
But scolding is scolding, and Wang Yun now knows that he can't do anything to the two of them, otherwise the court will completely lose its barrier.
In desperation, the DPRK and China began to discuss the incident again.
In the end, Han Rong, who was born in a famous family in Yingchuan, gave Wang Yun and Yang Biao an idea.
It's a final thought.
"It's just that today's matter, it is very unfavorable to the imperial court, Yuan Shao did not take Hangu Pass last time, and now it has been blocked by Liu Jian in the east, now in this situation, we can only completely tend to Yuan Shao, and can not exercise the responsibility of balance, Yuan Ben was originally the lord of the fourth world and the three princes, and now although the power is vast, but in terms of politics and local interests, he is still in the same boat with our ministers and the world's nobles...... Now, we can only let Yuan Shao enter Beijing to govern. ”
Wang Yun didn't speak when he heard this.
In fact, in terms of some political interests, the leaders of the ministers of the court and Yuan Shao have indeed always been the same, but many of Yuan Shao's rebellious behaviors made the Son of Heaven feel displeased, so in response to the huge local power of the Yuan family, the attitude of the ministers of the court and the central government has always been to use him to balance Liu Jian.
Even if Yuan Shao is allowed to enter the court, Wang Yun's attitude is to hope that Yuan Shao can fight with Liu Jian, and finally find a way to drive Liu Jian away, and then let Yuan Shao enter the capital.
But if at this time, Yuan Shao is allowed to directly enter the capital, then, with Yuan Shao's current power and political influence, Wang Yun and others must take Yuan Shao's head in the future.
Although Yuan Shao has repeatedly done wrong things over the years, and his title of model in the world has been gradually stripped away by Liu Jian's design, he is undoubtedly still the overlord of the south, and he has countless elite soldiers and fierce generals.
Once he enters the court and presides over the government, it will inevitably be different from Dong Zhuo, after all, Yuan Shao has also received the support of the vast number of noble families in the south, and it will naturally be difficult for Wang Yun and them to share power with Yuan Shao at that time, at most they can only be Yuan Shao's little brother.
Seeing that Wang Yun pursed his lips and didn't speak, looking very unwilling, Yang Biao persuaded on the side: "Zishi, so far, we have nothing to do, Li Dao and Guo Yan are narrow-minded people who don't learn and don't know how to do it, they can't see the current situation at all, and we can't rely on these two people at all." ”
"And Liu Jian has already defeated Benchu before, in fact, I don't think it will be any good for us to let Benchu enter Beijing at this time, but let Benchu enter Beijing, at most, we are willing to be vassals and hand over the power to him, but if Liu Jian is allowed to enter the capital, we will not have a good life at all."
"In fact, everyone has seen it over the years, and in terms of the intensity of the implementation of the new policy, Liu Jian is much better than Dong Zhuo."
"Now that we have encouraged the Son of Heaven to abolish the New Deal, Liu Jian must hate us deeply in his heart, if he goes to Chang'an, he will not stop fighting with us."
"So this matter depends on how it is compared, anyway, compared to letting Ben Chu enter the capital, it is a hundred times stronger than letting Liu Jian enter the capital."
When Wang Yun heard this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
After thinking about it for a long time, he said, "That's all there is to it." ”
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Wang Yun's contact with Li Dao and Guo Yan had no effect, and Li Dao and Guo Yan were still going their own way, desperately killing traitors in the Guanzhong area, and then looting supplies.
And Li Dao and Guo Yan's behavior can be regarded as completely annoying the people of Guanzhong!
Originally, their affairs were more or less concealed by the imperial court, but it would not cause too much influence on public opinion.
Now their behavior has been ruthlessly opened by Liu Jian, and Liu Jian is very ruthless, he went to the imperial court, and the incident of Li Dao and Guo Yan's crimes was spread all over the world.
Moreover, this public opinion has not weakened, and the members of the school government under Liu Jian are trying their best to expand the impact of this incident in various states and counties.
Now there is a very high demand among the people, that is, the imperial court should severely punish these two Xiliang thieves who are troubled places.
They intercepted and killed ordinary people, hoarded weapons, grain and grass, and arrogantly held themselves.
It can almost be seen that there is a rebellion intention, but the court has not punished them, what is this?
Could it be that the officials in the imperial court had some collusion with Li Dao and Guo Yan?
Could it be that the huge wealth plundered by Li Dao and Guo Yan among the people was also distributed to those high-ranking families in the imperial court?
For a while, all kinds of public opinion was boiling, and the wealthy families in Sizhou and Yongzhou didn't even dare to have too much contact with the ministers in the court.
Previously, Liu Jian defeated Yuan Shao for a while, which had already made the high-ranking families of Sizhou and Yongzhou see Liu Jian's strength.
Many of the Valves who wanted to resist the new policy and didn't want Liu Jian to enter Chang'an have now begun to secretly and quietly stop.
They had also secretly contacted the ministers in the imperial court before, and secretly sent people to support Yuan Shao with grain, grass and ordnance.
But now they didn't dare to act, many people even withdrew, and many people had even begun to flatter Liu Jian.
This is the manifestation of hard power.
Liu Jian inflicted heavy losses on Yuan Shao in the first battle of Hangu Pass, which made many forces in Sizhou and Guanzhong begin to realize his strength.
Even if Liu Jian's new policy will have a huge impact on many noble families, it is better than being found out by Liu Jian in the future that they secretly oppose him and directly give them a raid to exterminate the clan.
Before considering interests, we must also think about life first.
Now whether it is military or public opinion, the wind direction of the entire Guanzhong and Sizhou is tilting towards Liu Jian.
The imperial court is not capable, at least for the time being, to be able to solve the two scourges of Li Dao and Guo Yan.
Seeing that public opinion was developing more and more, the imperial court couldn't sit still, and they began to secretly send people to contact Yuan Shao.
Now Yuan Shao is still stationed in Luoshui, and after his last defeat, he returned to Luoshui, where he recruited troops and horses, and at the same time sent reinforcements from Jingzhou and Yuzhou in the rear to support.
In addition, he also sent people to Koto. Cao Cao was asked to immediately send troops north to support him.
But these are only the arrangements of the later stage, although the current Yuan Shao has the foundation to continue the war, but the two defeats in the early stage have made his army lose its sharpness, even if he can re-recruit people to fight Liu Jian.
But the current Southern Army no longer has too much morale to support them and Liu Jian to continue to compete for power.
Now for Yuan Shao, there is another key matter.
That is, he does not have enough war horses to continue to compete with Liu Jian.
If it was in his southern territory, south of the Yangtze River, there were mountains and forests, cities, and rivers everywhere, and Yuan Shao was not afraid that Liu Jian's cavalry would pose a huge threat to his army.
But now the crux of the matter is that the land of Guanzhong is full of plain battlefields, and almost all cavalry can take the initiative.
But in terms of cavalry, their own side is really too bad, and they are completely incapable of competing with the Hebei army.
And the key issue is still on the war horse.
Yuan Shao still doesn't have a good war horse channel to buy high-quality war horses to compete with Liu Jian.
If there were no high-quality war horses equipped with his cavalry, he would have been at a disadvantage when he competed with Liu Jian on the battlefield in the Guanzhong Plain.
And it was at this time that the incident between Li Dao and Guo Yan began to ferment greatly in the entire Sizhou and Yongzhou.
Yuan Shao naturally knew the news.
In Chang'an, Wang Yun and Yang Biao sent a letter to Yuan Shao at the same time, hoping to welcome Yuan Shao into Chang'an.
At the same time, they said that after Yuan Shao entered Chang'an, they would jointly elect Yuan Shao as the prime minister and let Yuan Shao take over Dong Zhuo's position to preside over the government.
After Yuan Shao got the news, his ambition and ambition were ignited again.
If he can enter Chang'an, with the imperial court and his own troops, even if he can't compete with Liu Jian in the battle of the plains, he believes that with the double bonus of politics and military, defense can still be done.
If Liu Jian really sent troops to attack Chang'an desperately, he Yuan Shao called on the world's wang clans to jointly suppress Liu Jian in the name of the imperial court, and he would do his best to bring down Liu Jian no matter what.
Moreover, Yuan Shao suddenly had an idea, if he could enter Chang'an, he would join forces with Wang Yun and others to secretly kill Li Dao and Guo Yan, and collect the Xiliang soldiers and horses in their hands.
The Xiliang soldiers are not the most important thing for Yuan Shao, the key is that Li Dao and Guo Yan have a large number of Xiliang war horses in their hands, which can supply Yuan Shao to configure the army.
As long as he could equip his cavalry with the war horses of Li Dao and Guo Yan, and with a little practice, he believed that he would not let Liu Jian take the initiative on the plain battlefield so easily.
Therefore, this march into Chang'an is a godsend for Yuan Shao, whether it is his military strength or his political influence, it will reach its peak, and he can even push the Yuan family to a height comparable to imperial power.
So, Yuan Shao secretly conspired with Wang Yun and others to prepare to start marching into Chang'an.
But now that Hangu Pass is controlled by Liu Jian, the only way for Yuan Shao to be able to enter Chang'an is to start marching to Chang'an from Wuguan.
But in fact, this is one of Jia Xu's strategies, he has been waiting to push the imperial court to the edge through Li Dao and Guo Yan, so that the imperial court will compromise with Yuan Shao in desperation, and introduce Yuan Shao into Chang'an, using Yuan Shao's military power and the political power of the imperial court itself to create a supreme power belonging to the world's noble clans.
Liu Jian, of course, it is impossible to give them a chance.
What he has been waiting for is the cooperation between the imperial court and Yuan Shao this time.
Yuan Shao wants to enter Chang'an through Wuguan, Liu Jian will not have extra actions, and he doesn't need to have extra actions, because naturally some people don't want Yuan Shao to enter Chang'an.
All Liu Jian had to do was to reveal the news to Li Dao and Guo Yan, and that would be enough for him.
Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, this is the highest mystery of war.
(End of chapter)