Yuan Shao's Jingzhou area was Hunan, Hubei and Nanyang City in Henan Province. He owned two provinces and one city, but it was not enough. After taking Liu Biao, the governor of Yuzhou, as a vassal, he was preparing to open up to Yanzhou in the north, and Yangzhou in the east and Xuzhou in the east. At the same time, he extended his tentacles to Jiaozhou in the south.

Jiaozhou in the south is the later Guangdong, Guangxi and Yue-North South, occupied by the Jiaozhou governor Tu Xie. Because Yuan Shao's tentacles were stretched too long, threatening the Tujia's rule over Jiaozhou. Tu Xie believed in the idea of ​​the counselor Cheng Bing and adopted the strategy of getting along from a distance and attacking nearby. He sent envoys to the court in Yecheng to show goodwill, and also sent envoys to Chengdu to make goodwill with Yizhou governor Liu Yan, and sent envoys to Jiangdong to get along with Yangzhou governor Yuan Shu, Sun Ce, Zhu Hao and others. At the same time, they sent troops to drive out Lai Gong and Wu Ju. At this time, Lai Gong was in disagreement with Wu Ju's prefect who took office at the same time. He was forced back to his hometown Lingling by Wu Ju. After Wu Ju's general Lai Gong was forced to leave, he sent envoys to express his kindness to Tu Xie. Tu Xie later accused Wu Ju of the rule of Cangwu.

Lu Bu stared at the territory map of the Han Dynasty and felt aroused his affection for Tu Xie, because Jiaozhi County, which had served as the prefect before, was clearly the Yue-South North and South in later generations, and the entire county was outside the boundary line of later generations.

The book secretly states that since Tu Xie once ruled part of the Vietnamese territory, some Vietnamese historians also regarded Shi Xie as the monarch of Vietnam and called Shi Xie the "King of Shi". According to legend, when Linyi State invaded Jiaozhou in the late Jin Dynasty, the people of Linyi excavated Shi Xie's tomb. Seeing his face as if he was alive, they were shocked and re-enclosed his tomb. The Vietnamese therefore regarded it as a god and established a temple to serve him. They called it "King of Shi Wang".

When Lu Bu remembered the self-defense counterattack in later generations, he couldn't help but sigh. A good Jiaozhi County was abandoned by the unfilial descendants of later generations. It became a paradise for those monkeys, allowing many of us good men to shed their blood there.

After sending an envoy to grant Tu Xie the title of Jiaozhou Governor and General Zhennan, Lu Bu also wrote a letter to Tu Xie himself. He hoped that he would continue to open up the borders of the Han Dynasty and promised to set up the territory opened by Tu Xie into a county, and grant Tu Xie the title of prince, and enjoy the taxes of Annan County for generations.

Guo Jia disagreed with Lu Bu's letter: "Lord, Tu Xie was a Confucian scholar. When he was young, he studied "Zuo Shi Chunqiu" with Liu Ziqi from Yingchuan. Later, he personally wrote "Spring and Autumn Annals", "Gongyang Annals", and "Guliang Annals" to spread to the world. Cheng Bing, his most trusted adviser, was also a Confucian scholar. Cheng Bing, first followed Zheng Xuan, and later went to Jiaozhou to take refuge in the north. During this period, he studied the righteousness of the Five Classics with Liu Xi, so he was a member of the Five Classics and was appointed as the chief historian by Shi Xie. Jiaozhou, where the Confucian scholar was the leader, was not enterprising. The lord had high hopes for him and was inevitably disappointed."

Lu Bu laughed and asked someone to send the letter to Tu Xie. After reading Lu Bu's letter, Tu Xie and Cheng Bing looked south, sighed at the same time: "What's the use of a wild land?"

When Lu Bu learned that Tu Xie was not interested in making progress, he lamented that Guo Jia was wise to recognize people, but he still hoped that the governor of Jiaozhou Bu Zhi and general of Jiaozhou, whom he trained, would complete the mission for him. Judging from the current process, this mission will be at least fifteen years later.

Because of Yuan Shao's arrogantness, Tu Xie was alert and joined forces with Lu Bu to curb Yuan Shao's development. Lu Bu's strategy of fighting far and near attacks was initially realized. Going forward, the suggestion of all the advisers of the Military Council, Lu Bu instructed the Yecheng court to send envoys to Yizhou to make friends with Liu Yan, the governor of Yizhou, and jointly curb Yuan Shao's power expansion.

Liu Yan was a descendant of King Gong of Han. As a royal family in the Han Dynasty, he was appointed as the Zhonglang. He served as the magistrate of Luoyang, the governor of Jizhou, the prefect of Nanyang, Zongzheng, Taichang and other officials. In the fifth year of Zhongping of Emperor Ling of Han (188), when the government declined and the world was in chaos, Liu Yan proposed a major suggestion to the court that influenced the history of the Three Kingdoms, namely, the royal family and important officials were the governors of the state, and the prefect was superior to the governors in the localities, and monopolized the power to stabilize the people. The court adopted this suggestion, but the result was the formation of separatist warlords in various places. After taking office, the provincial governors, including Liu Yan, were basically no longer controlled by the court.

At that time, the governor of Yizhou, Que Jian, gathered major events in Yizhou, and greed became a trend. Liu Yan, who originally wanted to lead Jiaozhou to avoid disaster, changed his request to the court to be the governor of Yizhou because he heard that Yizhou had the aura of the emperor. So Liu Yan was fenced by the Marquis of Yangcheng and went to Yizhou to rectify the administration. Before Liu Yan arrived, Que Jian had been killed by the Yellow Turban thief Ma Xiang, but Ma Xiang, who had just become emperor for a few days, was defeated by Jia Long, an army in Yizhou. Jia Long then welcomed Liu Yan into Yizhou, and the capital was set in Mianzhu. Liu Yan then sent Zhang Lu, the leader of the "Five Dou Rice Road", to Hanzhong together with Sima Zhang Xiu, another unit, to attack Su Gu, the prefect of Hanzhong. After Zhang Lu gained power in Hanzhong, he killed Zhang Xiu, cut off traffic, and killed Han envoys, and the Liu and Zhang families made a grudge. Liu Yan interrupted their contact with the central court based on the grounds that the rice thieves were used to block traffic.

Liu Yan further attacked local tyrants and consolidated his own power, so Yizhou was in a semi-super state. When the princes of the world attacked Dong Zhuo, Liu Yan refused to send troops and defended Baozhou. Ren Qi, the prefect of Jianwei, and Jia Long, who had made contributions to quelling the rebellion, rose up to oppose Liu Yan, but was defeated and killed by Liu Yan. Under the chaos in the Central Plains, tens of thousands of refugees entered Yizhou in Nanyang and Sanfu, and Liu Yan was all incorporated, called the "Dongzhou Army". Although this military force caused many civil troubles, it also became the decisive force for Liu Zhang to quell the civil strife of Zhao Yu after he succeeded.

After Liu Yan was strong in his army, he had a strange thought. He remembered what he heard about "Yizhou has the aura of the emperor", so he built a carriage and carriage and wanted to be emperor. At this time, the imperial edict from the Yecheng court arrived, so Liu Yan naturally ignored it.

However, Liu Yan was nearly 70 years old and did not know how to love himself. He loved Zhang Lu's charming mother. He fought day and night. Finally, he was seriously ill. He had to make an emperor. He asked Dong Zhuo to send his son Liu Zhang from Luoyang to Yizhou from Luoyang. Originally, Liu Zhang was considered a hostage in Luoyang, but Dong Zhuo refused to send him back to Liu Zhang, so Liu Yan gave him 200,000 stones of grain to Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo was willing to release him.

When Lu Bu received a secret security from Chengdu, he thought to himself that if Liu Yan had not been seriously ill, he might have become a traitor who had become emperor earlier than Yuan Shu. This Liu Yan, named Liu Han's royal family, was actually a traitor of the rioters. If he had not proposed the state and pastoral system, there would have been so many separatist.

Since Lu Bu was the chief minister of the Yecheng court, he naturally had to maintain the majesty of the Yecheng court. If he wanted to use troops to Western Shu, Western Shu was far away, with Sili Dong Zhuo and Hanzhong Zhang Lu, which was beyond the reach. He could only allow Liu Yan and his son to temporarily be guarding their households in Western Shu.

But Lu Bu took this opportunity to take advantage of the papermaking and printing technology, which has been continuously improved for more than a year, and has already matured public opinion. He printed the news on the Dahan Dynasty and spread it everywhere, revealing the evil and evil figures that Liu Yan wanted to be emperor.

The biggest purpose of Lu Bu doing this was to let people see the ugliness of the Liu Han royal family and to prepare public opinion for their future abolishing the privileges of the Liu Han royal family. The news that Liu Yan wanted to become emperor stimulated the Empress Dowager He Lian and the Emperor Liu Bian. They issued an edict to investigate the Liu Han royal family in various places. This was just in his mind, Lu Bu investigated the children of the royal family in Jizhou, Bingzhou, Shuozhou and Qingzhou. At the meeting of the Qing and righteousness of the people, the report of the Han royal family was also investigated. Many counties and states were abolished and renamed to be counties with normal tax payments.

In the newspaper of the Han Dynasty, Lu Bu specially praised Liu Yu, Liu Bei, Liu Ye and other friendly or neutral forces in the Han royal family, in order to win over them, and not to offend them at the least. However, against those Han royal families who were rampant and opposed Lu Bu, Lu Bu followed the imperial edict of Emperor Liu Bian, and swept them away with the autumn wind to sweep away the fallen leaves.

Zhang Lu and Lu Bu in Hanzhong never considered that he would be loyal to the Yecheng court from beginning to end. Instead, he sent envoys to the prefect of Jincheng Han Sui and the prefect of Wuwei Ma Tengchu, and asked them to launch troops to attack Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu, whose courtesy name is Gongqi, is said to be the tenth-generation grandson of Zhang Liang, the Marquis of Liu of the Western Han Dynasty, and the grandson of Zhang Ling, the founder of Taoism in Wudoumi. After Zhang Ling died, his son Zhang Heng was the leader. His mother liked health care, "had a young man" and "also possessed ghosts" and went to the family of Liu Yan, the governor of Yizhou. Zhang Lu was actually the mistress of Liu Yan through his special relationship with Liu Yan. In 191 AD, that is, in the year of Lu Bu, Liu Yan appointed Zhang Lu as the governor of Yi Sima, and led troops to attack Su Gu, the prefect of Hanzhong. After Zhang Xiu killed Su Gu, Zhang Lu killed Zhang Xiu and seized his troops.

Lu Bu's actions in Hebei will not affect the situation in the southwest, which will develop the same as history.

Two or three years later, after Liu Yan's death, his son Liu Zhang was appointed as a decree. Zhang Lu did not obey his orders and killed Lu's mother's family. Zhang Lu then seized Hanzhong. He followed Zhang Xiu's teachings and called himself "Shijun". Those who came to learn Taoism were called "Ghost Soldiers". After receiving the trust of the Taoism, they called "Shenjiu" and led the subordinates. Many of them were "Shenjiu" and did not place senior officials, but used them to manage local government affairs. Inherited the teachings of his ancestors, taught the people honestly and not cheated, and made the patients surrender themselves. Those who violated the law three times, and if they committed again, they would be punished.

;If it is a minor mistake, then one should practice a hundred steps to atone for sins. According to the Monthly Order, massacres are prohibited when all things grow in spring and summer, and alcohol is prohibited. He also founded Yishe, put Yishe in it, and offered free food for passers-by to feed people, and claimed that too much would offend ghosts and gods and get sick. Guanzhong was in chaos, and many people fled to the relatively stable Hanzhong area. For example, Guanxi people fled from Ziwu Valley to Hanzhong from the Ziwu Valley, and Zhang Lu also received the support of Bayi heads Du Bian, Pu Hu, Yuan Yue and others, and became a major force in the west.

Han Sui and Ma Teng, who were hoped by Lu Bu, are now fighting for territory and are on guard against each other. Although they received the imperial edict from the Yecheng court, no one raised an army to deal with Zhang Lu. The local emperor of Western Shu Liu Yan was old and seriously ill. Although he was very dissatisfied with Zhang Lu, he did not raise troops to attack Zhang Lu because of Zhang Lu's mother's service. Zhang Lu then dominated Hanzhong safely. (To be continued)
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