After killing Zhang Jin and directly controlling Cangwu County, Zhao Yun sent the appointment proposal against Lai Gong and Wu Ju to Liu Bei in Chengdu in October.

Zhao Yun himself is not in a hurry to leave. He can spend another month in the local area to comfort the place and wait for Liu Bei's reply, so that Lai Gong and Wu Judu can do their own jobs. It is not too late for Zhao Yun to withdraw.

Zhao Yun knew very well that Liu Bei's army had a large-scale invasion of the counties in Jiaozhou, but as long as he obtained Cangwu County, it would basically be considered as "the profit of the South China Sea".

Because the Lingqu-Lijiang route is within Cangwu, if you get this place, the Wuling defense line will be broken. There is no danger to defend in other places, and the fertile land is within the range that the troops can quickly reach. Even if there is any problem, it will be much easier to come next time.

Although the military operation was over, Zhao Yun did not rush to withdraw his troops, and did not even send a messenger to inform Gan Ning and Zhou Tai, who were guarding Baqiu and Yiling.

This is also what Liu Bei agreed to and Li Su left before taking care of it, in order to confuse other princes, hoping to create the illusion that "Liu Bei's army has no threat at present." In order to act realistically in diplomacy, it is necessary to fight the time difference, and even the irrelevant self-represented people will be deceived.

Anyway, no matter whether Zhao Yun returns to the army or not, Gan Ning and Zhou Tai must be careful and careful to guard against Liu Biao and Yuan Shu and Sun Jian respectively. Since General Fu Bo is the same as not, why tell me?

Therefore, even in the middle of winter this year, even if the princes in the northern region pay attention to the war in Jingnan, they will mistakenly think that Zhao Yun is trapped in the quagmire and is trapped by miasma. It is normal for humans to use troops to Lingnan in winter and the normal operation of military tactics.

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While Zhao Yun recovered Cangwu, he also pulled his sight back to the north.

Li Su left Changsha in June and returned to Chengdu. At the same time as Li Su set out, the aide of the late Yan King Liu Yu, Liu Ye, who was the leader of Youzhou, also brought some of the property and funds given to him by Li Su, information from the south, and a bunch of "Heroes" written by Wang Can, and went north to Wanluo.

Carefully passed through Nanyang, controlled by Yuan Shu, Liu Ye arrived around Luoyang in early July and went to Henan Yin Zhu Ye's territory for a brief renovation.

When Liu Ye passed through Nanyang, some information and documents were inevitably passed through Wuguan Road and doing business, and Lantian was transmitted to Chang'an.

After arriving in Luoyang, although Hangu Pass was still in danger, because the private business travelers did not completely disappear, the same content gradually penetrated into the defense zone of the magistrate of Hongnong County and the general of Zhendong General Duan Wei.

(Note: The General Zhendong of this period in history was Zhang Ji. Zhang Ji briefly stationed in Hua** in 193, and was later moved back to Lantian and Wuguan Road. Duan Wei was originally suspicious of this period because Dong Zhuo's official position was higher than that of Li Jue and Guo Si. In this book, because Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew defended Chen Cang and made up for the lack of Dong Yue and Fan Chou's killing, Duan Wei continued to guard Huayin and should be granted the general Zhendong)

In mid-July, the Chang'an court, Yuan Shao, Hebei, and Cao Cao, Yanzhou, learned several important information almost from one side:

Liu Bei's army used troops in Jingnan this year. The latest official reason was that "Jiaozhou Governor Zhang Jin, who was a lie-out of Li Jue and Guo Si, obeyed Chang'an's traitors' orders and seized Jingnan with the traitors of the emperor.

The King of Hanzhong was the brother of the royal family, Liu Biao, and he used General Fubo Zhao Yun as the main force to launch several armies to fight fiercely with the bandits. However, due to the heat and miasma, the epidemic prevailed in the army and suffered heavy casualties. General Fubo Zhao Yun himself could not afford to get sick, so the King of Hanzhong had to send another famous general to replace him."

When Yuan Shao heard this news, he was gloating and felt that his great cause of supporting King Liu He of Yan to wipe out the world had fewer obstacles, and several major competitors had weakened. Then he led 200,000 main forces, slowly broke through Gongsun Zan's Yishui defense line and entered the boundary of Youzhou.

Cao Cao had no reaction, so he continued to fight Zang Ba after hearing this. Yuan Shu was busy dealing with Huang Shao and He Yi. Both of them were eager to deal with the internal chaos.

Sun Ce had no time to pay attention. His father had just died for a month or two, so it would be great if he could stabilize the former subordinates of the General Polu.

Because Sun Ce was young, he had no chance of succeeding to the title of Yangzhou Governor, even if it was a false reputation, the seriousness of the Han court had not yet fallen to the point where a young man, who was twenty, became a provincial governor.

Therefore, Sun Ce tried his best to be the prefect of Danyang, his cousin's uncle Wu Jing was the prefect of Wu County, and Zhou Yu's uncle Zhou Shang was the prefect of Lujiang. In other words, Sun Ce has not yet fully grasped the official status of Yangzhou, so he can only win three counties and be appointed as the prefect of three prefects, and govern the territory as the prefect.

Relying on kinship and charity, Zhou Shang became the prefect of Lujiang, which was equivalent to Zhou Yu actually controlling Lujiang, and his uncle would not betray his sister and nephew, so he stabilized the situation. This year, he might not even have the spare force to pursue Wang Lang. It would be good if the counties within him did not rebel.

The five major princes in Guandong were all busy, but the Chang'an court had to pay attention to Liu Bei.

After Duan Wei received the information, he did not neglect it. He submitted it to Chang'an within five days according to normal channels. As Li Jue and Guo Si knew, the court stipulated that it was once every five days, so as long as the military information news was not very urgently related to the central government, it could also be reported every five days. Duan Wei obviously felt that this was not very important, and reported it according to the rhythm of official business.

The daily memorials and unimportant government affairs of the Chang'an court were finally summarized to the Shangshu Lingshi Sun Rui.

Shi Sun Rui was a co-conspirator of Wang Yun's execution of Dong Zhuo, but when Wang Yun caused trouble, he drew a clear line and drew better. Li Jue and Guo Si came and still held a high position. Last year, he became a Grand Secretary and crossed a bridge. Now he is the Minister of State, which is nominally more proud than Wang Yun's time.

He knew that although Li Jue was cunning, he didn't study much and was not interested in daily work, so he only took major issues and reported them to Li Jue.

General Li Jue of the chess and cavalry checked it for a while, and recalled and thought about it, and asked his subordinates to transfer Zhang Ji, General of Zhenxi, to compare it, and then summoned General Xuanyi, Jia Xu to discuss it.

Jia Xu was still in Chen Cang last year and worked with Zhang Ji to prevent Liu Bei. However, as Liu Bei began to calm down from the beginning of winter last year, there was no news for a long time. Li Jue was also afraid that Jia Xu would get too close to Zhang Ji, and would do something about "clearing the king" and "being inferior to superiors" in the future, so he was worried and brought Jia Xu back to Chang'an and gave General Xuanyi a miscellaneous general number to him as a counselor at any time.

Li Jue originally wanted to give Jia Xu the positions of nine ministers or even three ministers in the court, but Jia Xu tried to politely declined. The excuse was that he was not familiar with government affairs and did not want to work more, so he could only come up with ideas occasionally and did not want to be bound by daily work, so he only had a general who represented treatment. In fact, it was just like Xiao He and Cao Shen didn't want a name back then, because he was afraid of hatred and always wanted to leave a way out.

Although Jia Xu in this life had committed serious crimes against the Han Dynasty and could not have been pardoned by the Han family who served the king, there were not so many warlords in the world who did not have the surname Liu.

As long as the evil deeds are not very obvious, even if the pseudo-official period in Chang'an is over, he will still be able to make a living when he comes to other warlords who are not surnamed Liu.

When Jia Xu arrived at the General's Mansion of the Cheqi General, Li Jue sent a maid to treat him with wine, then took out Duan Wei and Zhang Ji's report, and asked: "Wenhe, is Liu Bei still our number one enemy now? Since last year, because Fan Chou died in battle, the court was as if he was facing a great enemy, so he was wary of his northern expedition. Now he dared not use troops or attacked the rebellious ministers. If he went on, his prestige would be gone.

I heard that Sun Jian from Jiangdong was under the name of "The Yangzhou counties obey Chang'an, and attacking Yangzhou was to cut off Chang'an's arms." Yuan Shu detained Ma Ribao and regarded it as a puppet seal, which was all appropriate.

Since Liu Yu's death last month, Yuan Shao's pretext to support Liu He as the King of Yan, he ordered Qing Ji You to rebel, only requesting the King of Yan and ignoring the imperial edict of the court. He heard that he had conspired to support Liu Yu before the death of Taishi Dong, and did not respect the will of Chang'an. Liu Yu was strong and broad in nature, so he did not let Yuan Shao succeed. Now that Liu He was young and incompetent, Yuan Shao was already in trouble at any time.

Only Cao Cao has focused on attacking the Yellow Turbans and not invading the Han Counties and counties, and still respects us. If this continues, the princes will become more and more eager to move. We must kill some unjust thieves to establish their authority!”

Li Jue drank wine and no longer cared about etiquette. He criticized the attitude of the princes in the world towards Chang'an in one breath and expressed his hidden worries.

In the past six months, for the Chang'an court, there has been one of the most dangerous changes in the world, that is, the matter of "striving for the thieves and serving the king". It has deteriorated from "striving for the king directly to attacking Chang'an" in the Dong Zhuo era to "beating those local officials who are still listening to Chang'an is also a form of serving the king."

This is so fatal that it directly caused the Chang'an court's value to shrink sharply. The two driving forces that started this mode were Liu Bei and Sun Jian.

Another danger is that the death of Liu Yu has greatly increased the possibility of Yuan Shao "establishing a new central government".

Chang'an must show its muscles! Kill the chicken to scare the monkey! Li Jue has never been so urgent to launch an invasion to establish his authority.

Unfortunately, Jia Xu was calm. Although Jia Xu had never expected this step and did not want to see it, he knew it was difficult for Li Jue to expand to the outside world.

He had to persuade him in a roundabout way: "The General of the Cheqi and Cavalry, everyone sees the current situation of the Chang'an court. If you want to send troops, you will only attack Zhu Yan, the Yin of Henan, and regain Luoyang. You will go out to Wuguan to attack Yuan Shu in the southeast, Chencang and Liu Bei in the southwest, Longshan in the northwest, and Ma Teng in the northwest.

Wanluo is a place where four battles are fought. If it is worth fighting the Grand Tutor back then, he would not give up. If he goes now, he will lose his gains in the future and lose his troops in vain, the blow to the prestige of the court will probably be even greater than the gains he had when he regained it."

Li Jue waved his hand and stopped Jia Xu from changing the topic: "What you mean is that if I want to establish my authority, either hit Liu Bei or Han Sui?"

Jia Xu sighed: "These two are not easy to fight. The road to Shu is difficult. Last year, tens of thousands of soldiers were cut off from Yangping Pass. Dong Yue and Fan Chou were awarded the title. I personally experienced it. Han Sui... I have been ready to move recently. If he really dares to take advantage of the autumn harvest, it would be okay to destroy it, but I am afraid that he will not be able to do his best.

Liangzhou is too remote, and the enemy is defeated and flees far away, and cannot catch up at all. Moreover, if there are too many troops to kill and chase them too far, what if Liu Bei has the opportunity to take advantage of the situation?”

Li Jue narrowed his eyes and showed a hint of ruthlessness: "Wenhe, do you think Liu Bei is sincere in the Northern Expedition, or is he robbing territory under the name of Northern Expedition? Liu Yu's death inspired me.

Liu Yu was sincerely loyal to the Han Dynasty and refused to usurp the throne, so he was always loyal and unyielding. However, his cowardly son Liu He soon became greedy for wealth and was at will at will at the mercy of Yuan Shao.

Liu He also ran away from Chang'an at the beginning, and we have seen him. When he first came out of seclusion, he colluded with Yuan Shu and acted inappropriately, causing trouble for his father and Gongsun Zan. The situation in the world is now like this. Those Han clans who guarded the foreign townsmen would probably want to expand their territory under the banner of opposing us?

I want to see that Liu Bei has changed. He is now eager to rescue His Majesty. He is like Yuan Shao and Liu He, expanding under the name of anti-Chang'an! What he did in Jingnan and Jiaozhou is not enough to show his ambition? I don't believe that he beat Zhang Jin because of the casual decree we wrote to Zhang Jin!"

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Chapter completed!