June of the second year of Yongjia.

Liu Yu led 10,000 infantry and cavalry to seize Dongpingling, Jinan County. The officials and powerful officials in various counties surrendered one after another. Of course, many were loyal to the Jin Dynasty and were unwilling to surrender. However, under the attack of Liu Yu's troops, they were all pacified in less than half a month.

At this point, except for Changguang County, the entire Qingzhou has been under Liu Yu's command.

Of course, in cities like Linzi, Liu Yu's control is still very weak. People who truly master most of the strength of Qingzhou are still those powerful families of all sizes.

It’s not that Liu Yu doesn’t want to control these powers, but that even if Liu Yu is willing to control them, he is still powerless.

He did not have enough officials in his hands. Even if he sent all his subordinates out as county officials, he would not be able to truly control local power.

There are not many trustworthy teams in the entire Donglai Army, and the number of officials he can dispatch is even more limited.

Moreover, as a local official, you also need to have subordinates of assistants, and these people need to be used to complete a series of trivial matters such as government affairs, litigation, governance, and taxation.

In this case, the most basic condition for subordinates of the assistant is to recognize the text and make words clear. Nowadays, the real scholars in the Western Jin Dynasty are basically powerful families.

Even if it is the "poor family" mentioned by the people at that time, it is still relative to the high gentry families.

For ordinary people in counties, these so-called "poor families" are all bullies in counties and townships.

Of course, even if Liu Yu cannot fully control the power of local counties now, he will not care too much. As long as he can control the tens of thousands of troops in his hands and maintain a military deterrence against the powerful people in various places, there is no need to worry at all.

After all, even in the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, most places were in a state of imperial power not going to the countryside, and now it was in the Western Jin Dynasty before the Middle Ages.

Moreover, from the historical trajectory, these Qingzhou powerful men had very poor ability to do things. Otherwise, during the Jin Dynasty, they were controlled by the Hu Han forces such as Cao Yi, Shi Le, Duan Bu, Murong and others, so that by the Sui and Tang dynasties of the Second Empire, most of the well-known families in Qingzhou were no longer those of the powerful families in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but became the Hebei families migrating with Murong and Tuoba Zhuhu.

As a kind of cooperation, with the cooperation of these local families and powerful families, Liu Yu would not have to worry too much about the food of tens of thousands of soldiers. After all, these lords of all sizes who have seized local power dare not neglect. Even if the exploitation of ordinary people is even worse under the rule, Liu Yu would be powerless. After all, it is the most important thing to survive at this time. As for how they live, not many people have cared about it.

Just after Liu Yu led his army to conquer Jinan County, he immediately stepped up the recruitment of troops and prepared for his troops, because he now had Sima Yue, the King of East China Sea with tens of thousands of central troops in the south, and Ding Shao, the governor of Jizhou, who was across the river in the north.

As long as King Sima Yue of Donghai wants to attack him, Liu Yu will be attacked by King Sima Yue of Donghai and Jizhou Governor Ding Shao at any time.

As long as Jinan County, which controls the river water, is lost, there will be no more dangerous mountains and rivers in Qingzhou.

This is also one of the reasons why Qingzhou, an ancient Chinese population and wealthy people have appeared, but has hardly ever gone to the world for thousands of years.

There are almost no dangers in the core area of ​​Qingzhou, and the fault tolerance rate is too low. As long as you lose, you will be directly attacked by the enemy and taken away in one wave.

However, just when Liu Yu launched a large military campaign and expanded his army to as many as 50,000 and was preparing to deal with the subsequent attack of King Sima Yue of Donghai, he did not wait for King Sima Yue of Donghai, but waited for the envoy of King Sima Yue of Donghai.

This envoy was a man from the Yang clan of Taishan County, and his name was Yang Xianzhi.

When he learned that Sima Yue sent an envoy not only to target him, but even to win over Liu Yu, he immediately held a banquet in Dongpingling City to receive the envoy.

When Liu Yu heard this name, he knew that Yang Xianzhi, who was born in the Taishan Goat family, was mostly a believer who believed in the Taoist Taoist Tao, or the person who named him was a believer of the Taoist Taoist Taoist, because in the various names of the Jin Dynasty, the people who had the words "zhi" and "ling" basically believed in the Taoist Taoist Taoist Taoist Taoist.

Moreover, the Taishan Goat family is a famous top-grade high-ranking sect today. Since the Han Dynasty, it has frequently appeared in two thousand stone officials, and by the Western Jin Dynasty, it has reached the peak of the family's momentum. The great governor Yang Hu, the great governor of Wu, the wife of Sima Shi, and the queen of Emperor Hui of Jin, Yang Xianrong, all came from this Taishan Goat family.

Sure enough, when Liu Zhou saw this Yang Xianzhi, he felt that this old man was very different from the people he had seen before. During the meal, he instantly killed a group of Qingzhou local beggars, and various Qing talks and discussions about Xuangao frequently appeared.

Of course, Liu Yu basically couldn't understand most of the words that the old man surnamed Yang said.

It is said that when he came to Qingzhou from Yanzhou, he was full of dust, but his tall crown and sleeves were not messy at all. With the properly maintained beard, he really had the temperament of a famous scholar in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Anyway, I compared the old guys from the Qingzhou gentry who were accompanying him. In terms of temperament, this old man named Yang Xianzhi was the only leader.

Even Ju Xian, who was held by Liu Yu, was not enough to see Yang Xianzhi in front of him. Even after seeing Yang Xianzhi, Ju Xian showed a look of looking up.

Seeing this, Liu Yu couldn't help but laugh. These aristocratic families ranked one by one, and the top-grade clear stream and the lower-grade turbid stream every day, as if everything in the world could be solved in their clear talks and Taoism.

But when the Huhu invaded and the Yongjia Rebellion, none of these top-ranked celebrities could fight. Instead, they were better at internal fighting between each other. Even if there were people with kindness and ambitions in the north to fight against the Central Plains, as long as they gained military merits and threatened them, they would be corrupted by their various tricks of pulling their backs.

Liu Yu couldn't understand this group of sour words that were innocent and talkative. When he saw that his subordinates looked convinced, he felt even more depressed.

Moreover, the banquet was full of drinking and chatting for so long, the old man named Yang Xianzhi seemed to have forgotten the task assigned to him by Sima Yue, the King of Donghai, and did not mention the purpose of this visit.

Liu Yu was too lazy to continue watching these people flatter each other and asked directly.

"Mr. Yang Gong, I'm here this time, I wonder what orders I have brought to the Grand Tutor?"

Since he had not broken up with Sima Yue, the King of East China Sea, Liu Yu respectfully called Sima Yue, the "Eight Kings Stumbling Sticker", and called him the tutor.

Yang Xianzhi had a great conversation with a group of newly-received fans next to him, but was interrupted by Liu Yu. His face was a little unhappy, as if he had only remembered his true purpose here and spoke.

"Sima Yuanchao heard that Donglai Liu Jixing was extremely wise and brave, and the young man was determined to attack Gou Xi this time. Although Gou Xi was tyrannical, it was really inappropriate to have no orders from the capital of Taiwan Province."

Yang Xianzhi said that he was called Sima Yue's character "天天" and looked respectful and said with a stroke of his beard.
Chapter completed!