Chapter 677 The second time to turn the country into home!
Gongsun Zan fled north to Youzhou, and naturally there were people chasing him, but to little avail, as the cavalry's ability to escape was unmatched by other types of soldiers.
The two allies, Lu Bu and Yuan Shao, finally met.
Speaking of it, the two of them are still relatively unfamiliar, or it can be said that all the famous people in the world are relatively unfamiliar with Lu Bu.
People's impression of Lu Bu is that he was a general under the command of Ding Yuan, the former governor of Bingzhou. He was a frontier county warrior who was quite prestigious among the Hu people and soldiers on the border and was known as the Flying General.
Then the biggest impression is that the princes who were loyal to the king fought against Zhang Jiao in Gong County, Ding Yuan was killed, and Lu Bu led his people to flee north directly on the battlefield.
This is a big black spot of Lu Bu.
But because except for a few princes, the rest of the people were equally unclean, not many people brought up this matter.
Later, Lu Bu became the governor of Bingzhou, but his presence in the world was still very low, after all, Bingzhou was poor.
The reason why Lu Bu invested so much money this time was because Yuan Shao wanted to marry him, which was a great honor for Lu Bu.
After the two met, Yuan Shao immediately bowed and said, "Shao thanks Mr. Lu for coming to help!"
Lü Bu was quite proud when he heard this, but he still remembered that the man in front of him was his future in-law, so he bowed and said, "Mr. Benchu, you are really polite. You and I are in-laws. Helping you is like helping myself."
Zhang Liao followed Lu Bu and his mouth twitched when he heard this. He felt that Lu Bu had a low emotional intelligence.
It's true that Yuan Shao was able to win with our help, but you made it sound like his victory was entirely due to us.
Yuan Shao is still in an excited state and doesn't take it seriously. Besides, what can he ask of a border warrior like Lu Bu?
Moreover, the subsequent attack on Youzhou might require the efforts of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry under Lu Bu. This was a relationship that he had gained at the cost of his son's marriage, so he must make good use of it!
The two of them traveled together, and the people of Hebei and the generals of Bingzhou followed behind them.
Recovering the entire territory of Jizhou, then heading south to participate in the Yanqing War, defeating Liu Bei who was in alliance with Gongsun Zan, and even directly conquering Qingzhou, these are all things that need to be done later.
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Zhaocheng.
The Luo family had been following the war between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan. When Luo Zhang heard that Yuan Shao was certain to win, he breathed a sigh of relief.
The relationship between the Luo family and Gongsun Zan is relatively poor. If Gongsun Zan really occupied Jizhou, and if Gongsun Zan, who controlled two states, wanted to fight to the death with the Luo family, then the Luo family would really have to use all their strength.
The Thousand Mile Talisman that can kill the king and the Four Seasons Lord that consumes a lot of luck points, any one of them would make one feel painful to use against Gongsun Zan.
Fortunately, Yuan Shao won, and the relationship between Luo and Yuan Shao was better.
The Yuan family is a typical aristocratic family, but because of this, the more Yuan Shao respects the Luo family, because he believes in the power of big families, and the Luo family is the largest family.
Ever since Yuan Shao took control of Hebei, he had not paid any attention to Zhaocheng, not to mention politically, nor even in terms of business. It seemed that he did not care at all about the existence of such a military force in his own heart.
Even Han Fu, the former governor of Jizhou, could not do this. As the political privileges of the Luo family in the Han court gradually disappeared, he secretly inspected the Luo family's caravans.
This behavior gradually became more common in the Later Han Dynasty, mainly due to changes in the situation.
After the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Luo family led the first transformation of the country into a family. Taking advantage of the favorable conditions of Xiang Yu's enfeoffment and Liu Bang's implementation of the parallel system of counties and kingdoms, the Luo family broke away from the status of a family state, and the family members began to enter other forces. This was unimaginable in the Zhou Dynasty.
But as the Han Dynasty was established for a longer time, especially when it reached the stage of two or three hundred years, the Luo family felt more and more that even the Zhao Kingdom was limiting the Luo family.
The Kingdom of Zhao was an outsider in the world.
The less contact there is, the more deified it is, and the more deified it is, the farther away it is from the world.
The Luo family can be noble but cannot be deified. From the perspective of the family's roots, as long as Ji Zhao has not completely transcended it, the Luo family will always be rooted in the earth.
Ideally, only clay sculptures are deified; people with flesh and blood always have emotions.
When Emperor Li was suppressing the rebellion, Marquis Anyang and Marquis Lu were too respectful to Duke Zhao, which was actually not right at that time.
That's not how you should treat your relatives.
During the Zhou Dynasty, although the rulers of various countries admired the Luo family, they all treated them as human beings. They dared to express dissatisfaction, anger, accusations, and even dared to slaughter them like the First Emperor.
As a result, after entering the Han Dynasty, ministers dared to criticize even the emperor. However, the last time someone openly expressed dissatisfaction was by a county magistrate during the pre-Han period.
Except for Emperor Xiaohui, Emperor Xiaowen and Emperor Xiaowu who treated the Luo family as relatives, even Emperor Xiaoxuan kept silent about the Luo family.
This is called being like a king without being a king!
Ji Zhao suspected that this was the reason why the Luo Han Dynasty had been short of talent for three hundred years.
Because something was wrong, for the entire three hundred years of the Han Dynasty, except for the five sons of the first generation, only Luo Wu Ji and Luo Xiao, two sons born with destiny, had extraordinary talents.
The rest of the disciples are not bad, but they are about the same as Bang Zhou. You have to know that Bang Zhou was a shackle added by God to the Luo family. If they are about the same as Bang Zhou, then there is a problem.
Ji Zhao is a kryptonian who has completed all the levels. He knows that ruling the world will consume the emperor's luck. Year after year, when the emperor's luck is exhausted, the world will either be destroyed by natural disasters or the family line will be extinct.
The Luo family's situation of not ruling the world but sharing the world is like a bug. There will definitely be problems. Which family that shares the world can prosper for a hundred years?
It’s just that the Luo family has never had any problems so far, which makes Ji Zhao a little confused.
Now even when the Lu family of Linzi has problems, they go directly to discuss with Ying Hou. Over the past 300 years, the Han Dynasty has gradually become estranged from Zhaocheng. It's not that they want to be estranged, but they are too uncomfortable.
There is no mention of the last hundred years of the Han Dynasty.
For example, the sons of the Luo family have appeared in Luoyang for several years now, but no prince has come to ask the sons of the Luo family to come out and help.
Only Qiao Wei dared to invite Luo Chu to go to Jiangdong based on his special relationship with the Luo family, the dozens of ancestors with the surname Luo buried in Zhaocheng, and the favor of saving Luo Chu.
This is totally abnormal!
Which promising prince in the world would pass up such a talented person and not seek him out?
Although Liu Bei was in great need of an adviser, he wanted to ask Luo Qi, the eldest son of Marquis Ying, to be his adviser. He never thought of going to Zhaocheng to ask for help from the son of the Luo family.
What he thought deep in his heart was that the young masters of the Luo family in Zhaocheng were all beautiful women, so why would they care about these mundane affairs that were not related to the Luo family?
After three hundred years of observation, it can be seen that the various states of Xia are moving further towards convergence.
It is not feasible to maintain a complete political system in the heartland of the Xia Dynasty.
Only places outside the Western Regions can have this kind of national situation.
The Luo family realized this problem after Emperor Guangwu revived the Han Dynasty, but they never found a good opportunity to change it.
Now is a time of chaos, this is a good opportunity for change.
Luo Shu knelt in front of Luo Zhang with a smile that showed no surprise on his face. "Yuan Shao is a hero of the time, while Gongsun Zan can only be a general. It is quite normal for Yuan Shao to win."
Luo Zhang stroked the teacup in his hand and said, "Yuan Shao has always been showing goodwill to our family. It's time to send our children to give him some rewards.
Today, the most outstanding princes in the world are Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and Cao Cao. Perhaps the common ruler of the world will be born among these three people, so the family should make plans early.
If you don’t make great contributions when you start your business, how can you have a place to stay in the new dynasty?”
The biggest advantage of Luo's is that even if you don't invest in original shares, you can still occupy many shares. There is no other way, the capital is really too strong.
Luo Shu asked softly, "Father, what should we do with Ah Chuan and Ah Qian?"
After Luo Kong's death, the Wushuang Marquisate had no successor and was buried with the decline of the Han court. The current Wushuang Marquisate is in a state of being neither a country nor a state.
The Han court's rule in the Western Regions has completely collapsed, and the one that rules the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains is the Zhongxia Kingdom, so now the Luo family is cooperating with the Zhongxia Kingdom to maintain stability in the Western Regions.
Of the two major branches of the Luo family that remained in the Han court, one was destroyed, and the other was the Yinghou branch, which included Luochuan and Luoqian, as well as Luoqi, who were determined to support and protect the Han Dynasty.
But no matter how Luo Zhang and Luo Shu looked at it, Liu Bei was the one with the lowest chance of accomplishing anything.
There are many people in this world who want to support the Han court, but there are even more people who want the Han court to die!
Luo Zhang sighed, and Luo Shu knew what Luo Zhang wanted to say.
It is said that if one seeks benevolence and obtains it, there is no need to complain.
Just as Luo Kong is asking for death, isn't this also Luo Chuan gambling with his life?
If you seek death and get death, what is there to complain about?
How many direct descendants died when the Luo Kingdom was destroyed?
How many direct descendants of Zhou died on the battlefield for Bang Zhou?
If it weren't for the blood and sacrifice of Marquis Wushuang and Marquis Ying, if it weren't for the blood shed by ancestors like Duke Zhaowuwei and Duke Zhaozhongyi, how could the Luo family sit here?
Luo Zhang asked softly: "Do you think Liu Bei will win or lose?"
Luo Shu shook his head and said, "Gongsun Zan has been defeated. As long as Yuan Shao's army enters the battlefield, Liu Bei will definitely be defeated."
Luo Zhang seemed to be thinking about something, and then asked, "Have all the clansmen from the Wushuang Marquisate in the Western Region returned?"
Luo Shu nodded and said, "I came back with the family caravan, but my aunt is reluctant to come back for the time being, saying that she wants to guard the throne of the Suwang Temple."
Luo Zhang said softly: "Then let her go.
A few days ago, A Qian wrote to me saying that after this battle, A Chuan would fully side with Liu Bei and would let A Qi go to follow Liu Bei.
If Liu Bei fails, Taishan County and Luoying City will definitely return to Yanzhou. It is still unknown what Achuan will do now.
But we should still be prepared, just follow the model of the Wushuang Marquisate in the Western Regions. If things change, we can bring the family members back."
Luo Shu pondered for a moment and then asked, "Father, is there anything you need to tell Ah Chu? According to the current situation, he will become king."
Luo Zhang rubbed his head. No one understood the current situation in the world better than the Luo family.
The history of the Zhou Dynasty has been studied specifically to understand why the situation in the world gradually reached that point. It has been studied thoroughly from the military, political, public opinion, and economic aspects.
No matter how things change, the essence remains the same. We should continue with the current situation and wait until all the princes of the world reach a balance.
The Han court will then usher in the Han Dynasty version of the "Kings of Various Countries" event.
Of course, the Han court might call it "the princes becoming emperors", but in short, at that time, Luo Chu, the governor of Yangzhou and the lord of Jiangdong, would have the only choice to follow suit and become emperor.
This goes against the most basic principle of the Luo family that they are not kings!
Although the Luo family is very free with their children and turns a blind eye to most things, they are not so free as to allow such a principled incident that will destroy the entire family.
Luo Zhang thought about it and could only say helplessly: "This matter is a bit difficult.
Achu and the noble lady of the Qiao family are in love with each other. When the war is over, let him return to Zhaocheng to get married. At that time, you can ask him what he thinks.
Anyway, it’s still a long way to go before I can become the emperor of the world. There are still at least ten years to go!”
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Zhaocheng was located in Jizhou and had been paying attention to the situation, so it learned the news the fastest. The other parties, especially Cao Cao and Liu Bei, were also paying attention to the news of the war in Jizhou.
When he learned that Yuan Shao had won a great victory, Gongsun Zan's White Horse Volunteers were completely wiped out, and he fled back to Youzhou with only less than 10,000 Youzhou cavalry, his reaction was completely different.
Cao Cao was naturally overjoyed. In the past two years, he and Liu Bei had fought and basically won and lost against each other.
Cao Cao, who had a more powerful group of advisers, had led the war to a more favorable position for him several times, but Liu Bei was always able to defeat them with force.
After a few times, not only Cao Cao's advisers, but even the generals saw through it.
This kind of battle involving 20,000 to 30,000 people is the easiest to fight for someone like Liu Bei who has a group of talented generals.
Guan, Zhang, Zhao and Taishi Ci each led several thousand men, and Liu Bei led several thousand more. As long as they paid attention to the terrain and avoided being ambushed, and paid attention to the supply of logistics and food, they would be invincible in field battles.
Cao Cao was fortunate that he also had countless brave generals under his command, including clan generals and heroes who had come to him for surrender over the years, otherwise he really would not have been able to hold on.
Guan Yu, in particular, was like a god of war, commanding the cavalry to advance and retreat with discretion, as if he was a general from a remote county who had commanded cavalry for many years and was also extremely brave.
In the first battle, he killed a general and captured the flag. Although the general he killed was his own general, Cao Cao was still overwhelmed with emotion and regretted that he was not the one who became sworn brothers with Guan Yu.
In Cao’s camp.
Xun Yu analyzed: "If Yuan Shao's army wins a great victory, they must first recover the entire Jizhou, but the speed should be very fast, and with Lu Bu's help, Gongsun Zan will escape directly, so there is no need to worry about a surprise attack.
Yuan Shao must be aware of the urgency of the Yanqing war. My lord, you can write him a letter, asking him to let Yuan Shao's army attack Qingzhou within a month and defeat Liu Bei together. Our army is willing to share Qingzhou with Yuan Shao.
This is the best opportunity. We must obtain Taishan County. Otherwise, in Yanzhou, a place of four battles, we will follow the footsteps of Han and Zheng during the Zhou Dynasty. "
Cao Cao understood the urgency of the matter and immediately said, "I will write a letter to Yuan Benchu to urge him to do something."
Compared to the jubilation in Cao's army, the atmosphere in Liu Bei's army was quite depressing. Everyone looked at each other, having never expected that Gongsun Zan would be defeated so miserably.
Liu Bei still found it hard to believe. He looked at everyone and said, "With such a strong army, it's incredible that they lost, and they lost so badly."
Liu Bei thought to himself that if he could be as powerful as Gongsun Zan, he would be able to crush Yuan Shao to the point of suffocation, not to mention killing him. But how could Gongsun Zan lose?
"Brother, what should we do now?"
what to do?
Liu Bei now felt numb. Of his two allies, Yuan Shu was the strongest on the surface, but he suffered heavy casualties in the battle for Jingzhou. When he attacked Xuzhou, he was flooded and suffered heavy casualties again.
Until now, the battle plan of attacking Cao Cao together with himself has not been completed. Gongsun Zan's strength on paper is stronger than Yuan Shao, but he ended up suffering a great defeat.
Although he was the weakest, he was the only one who could hold off the opposing alliance. Now Liu Bei didn't want to do anything and just wanted to shout, "Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shu have misled me!"
Liu Yan said, "My Lord! Otherwise, withdraw your troops immediately!"
Now it was not just Liu Bei who was confused. The entire senior leaders of Liu Bei's army were all dumbfounded. While fighting, all his allies had been lost, and the enemy was about to gather to attack them.
Who can withstand this!
But Liu Bei was very hesitant. How could he escape?
Yuan Shao and Cao Cao’s target is Qingzhou. Are they going to abandon their foundation?
Just when the atmosphere was tense, Jian Yong suddenly walked in from outside the tent, bowed to Liu Bei and said, "My lord, a relative of yours came to seek refuge, saying that the situation is critical and he has something to advise you."
Same clan?
Liu clan members?
Liu Bei knew that there were too many Liu clan members in the world, but those who knew the situation was critical and still dared to come and surrender at this time were definitely courageous heroes.
So he hurriedly said, "Bring it in quickly!"
A middle-aged man with a rather thin appearance walked into the tent. When he saw Liu Bei, he bowed and said, "Envoy Liu, I am Liu Ye, courtesy name Ziyang, here to see Lord Xuande."
Liu Ye first called Liu Bei "Envoy Lord". This was because Liu Bei was the governor of Qingzhou and he had an official position so he called himself "lower official". Finally, he called him "Lord Xuande", which was a common honorific title for his subordinates. It can be said that it was quite meticulous.
Liu Bei asked Liu Ye to sit down. Liu Bei had a good impression of Liu Ye because of his intelligent face. Liu Bei also liked Liu Ye because he was a relative of the Han Dynasty, which made him feel closer to Liu Bei. So he asked, "Zi Yang, you came to my camp at a critical moment. Do you have anything to teach me?"
Liu Ye's face was serious, and he clasped his fists and said, "Among all the clan members in the world today, Lord Xuande is the backbone of the Han Dynasty, so as soon as I had the chance, I rushed here overnight to help you defeat Cao Cao.
Who knew that there would be changes in the north, and Gongsun Zan would change drastically, so he could only change his thinking to solve the current disaster! "
Although Liu Ye's words were rather arrogant, his expression was very serious, forcing everyone to believe that what he said was true.
Liu Bei immediately asked, "Alas, when Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shu and I formed an alliance, we never expected that before the victory was decided, our allies would be defeated. Now we can only hope to survive.
If Ziyang has any insightful ideas, please let me know!"
Liu Ye asked in a deep voice: "Lord Xuande, I want to ask you now, are you confident that you can resist Yuan Shao's attack on Qingzhou while fighting Cao Cao in Yanzhou?"
Liu Bei was silent for a moment, then he sighed and said, "Yuan Benchu and Cao Mengde are both heroes of the world. They have counselors like rain and generals like clouds under their command, and they also have Lu Bu, the wolf of Bingzhou.
Although I am confident that I am not inferior to anyone, I am afraid that I am no match for this alliance."
Liu Ye continued, "It is a good thing to worry about defeat before worrying about victory.
You must still fight forward bravely on the battlefield, but you must leave a way for yourself.
Then Lord Xuande has to accept the fact that you may fail.
The difference between failures is only whether they are big or small, and after the failure, who gets the fruits of victory!"
Liu Ye's words made Liu Bei even more confused. He felt that he could not understand what Liu Ye said.
Liu Ye didn't keep the secret and continued, "It's very simple.
If you can fight on two fronts and defeat Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, then there will naturally be no follow-up.
But if you lose, Qingzhou will inevitably be lost, but whether it will be lost completely and which part will be lost is completely different.
Should we choose to abandon Taishan County and Yinghou State, or choose to abandon Pingyuan County and several other counties in the north of Qingzhou?
Would it be better if the lost Qingzhou fell into the hands of Cao Cao?
Or would it be better for it to fall into Yuan Shao's hands?"
Liu Ye’s words shocked Liu Bei. Is there anything special about this?
As soon as Liu Ye saw Liu Bei's expression, he knew that he had not thought about this at all. He sighed slightly in his heart and asked, "Lord Xuande, after the defeat, if you lose Qingzhou, have you thought about where you will retreat to?"
Liu Bei didn't have the ability to plan for the big picture, so Liu Ye said directly: "There is only one place you can go, and that is Xuzhou!"
Xuzhou?
Liu Xuande frowned slightly when he thought of the Xuzhou nobles' rejection of him. Liu Ye said directly: "Ye knows that the Xuzhou nobles rejected Lord Xuande before, but that was because they didn't know what position they would get if they came under your command.
When Ye passed by Xuzhou, he heard the head of the Mi family in Donghai County of Xuzhou praising Lord Xuande as a hero of the time, which shows that the heroes of Xuzhou do not exclude you.
If you are willing to treat the heroes of Xuzhou well, why would these heroes welcome you? "
Xuzhou Mi family?
Liu Bei suddenly realized that this was the family that Prince Qi’s fiancée belonged to.
Was Mi's words a hint from Gongzi Qi behind the scenes?
Liu Bei felt that he had grasped some clues to the matter, but Liu Ye dropped another bomb at this time, "Lord Xuande, you seem to be carrying a treasure mountain without knowing it. Looking through Qingzhou, the greatest treasure for my Liu family is Yinghou.
After your defeat, do you want to seek help from Ying Hou?"
Liu Bei hesitated and said, "Marquis Ying gave me a lot of help in the beginning, but it turned out like this. I guess Marquis Ying doesn't welcome me anymore."
Liu Ye rubbed his forehead and said, "Lord Xuande, you absolutely cannot think like that!
Marquis Ying is also a human being, he would also have all kinds of hesitations, wanting to see if you are a descendant of the Liu family worthy of investment, but this battle proves that you are the most trustworthy descendant of the Liu family in the world today.
He will definitely want to help you again!
You should establish a closer relationship with Ying Hou, even closer than everyone around you. This is the kingly way of the Liu family!"
Liu Ye’s words are simply eye-opening!
(End of this chapter)
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