This is also the reason why Cao Zhi is eager to return to Liyang. Liyang is the capital of Yangzhou and is rich in materials. Through Mi Heng's large-scale purchase of saltpeter and other mineral materials last time, merchants who smelled the profits are already paying attention to these things.
After all, it is a capitalless business. All you need to do is send people to dig and collect in the mountains. This time Cao Zhi went back and planned to train several suppliers to provide him with gunpowder raw materials, and provide Cao Zhi with various gunpowder raw materials in different categories, forming a
Supply chain, so that you will not be afraid of losing the supply of raw materials in the future.
Early the next morning, before the dew had dried and the bird had not gotten up, Cao Zhi came to say goodbye to Lu Kang. At the same time, he asked Chen Wen for leave and went home to visit his relatives in Liyang, the seat of the state capital.
Of course Chen Wen approved the leave and gave Cao Zhi permission to divide his troops and garrison Danyang. After Cao Zhi left, Danyang only had 2,000 soldiers garrisoned by Ni Heng and Deng Ai. One thousand of these 2,000 soldiers and horses was still with Cao Zhi.
The battle of Congshan and the soldiers who captured Danyang. Chen Wen was worried that Danyang's defense was weak. Now that Cao Zhi's soldiers and horses are strong, he can divide his troops to garrison them.
Cao Zhi immediately divided his troops into three thousand, led by Xu Chu, and headed for Danyang. He waited until he succeeded Ren Hongchang and accepted the appointment of Danyang's governor before heading to Danyang.
Chen Wen also wanted to go back with Cao Zhi, but Lu Kang couldn't hold Cao Zhi back, and there were still many reasons to hold his old boss back. After Lu Kang and Qiao Xuan's bombardment, Chen Wen could only stay with them.
Talk about a few days.
Cao Zhi was so angry that after arranging the division of troops, he said goodbye in the morning and set off in the afternoon.
Lu Kang originally planned to mention Cao Zhi's withdrawal from Chaohu when he was leaving, but he refused and was in a hurry to leave.
Lu Kang still found an opportunity when he was seeing them off together. Lu Kang, Chen Wen, and Qiao Xuan accompanied Cao Zhi all the way to the south gate. Outside the south gate, Lu Kang took advantage of Chen Wen and Qiao Xuan to chat and joke.
Cao Zhi said meaningfully: "Nephew Cao Xian, you are a man of great talent. I have thought deeply about your "Eight Strategies for Controlling Barbarians" in the past few days. It is indeed thought-provoking, but you are about to leave for Danyang.
You don't have time to take care of the experiment in Chaohu. Do you think this will work? I'll let Jun'er carry it out for you. I guarantee that he will thoroughly understand the essence of your "Eight Strategies to Control Barbarians" and will never waste this matter."
Lu Kang thought about these words for a long time and said them after careful consideration. Cao Zhi actually admired many of Lu Kang's qualities and learned a lot of useful things from this contact between Wancheng and Lu Kang. But
Nowadays, Cao Zhi no longer has the final say in what happened in Chaohu. This matter affects the future lives of tens of thousands of barbarians.
Cao Zhi could only pretend to be stupid and refused Lu Kang's proposal on the grounds that the "Eight Strategies to Control Barbarians" had just been implemented.
When Lu Kang saw that Cao Zhi was not giving him any face, Lu Kang felt his teeth itched with hatred, but he couldn't get angry on the spot, so he could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.
But Lu Kang was not a soft persimmon after all. When Cao Zhi was leisurely returning to Liyang to embrace his wife, he also made a tough move and sent Lu Jun to lead 5,000 troops to surround Chaohu.
Seeing that chaos is about to break out in Lujiang again, Chang'an is even more chaotic at this time. Before the end of this year, since Cao Zhi left Xiwu, Dong Zhuo was killed, and the Xiliang army collapsed, the soldiers and people of Chang'an only lived in peace for a few months, and the war
Send again.
Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou led hundreds of thousands of troops and divided them into four groups to attack Chang'an. Most of these troops were Dong Zhuo's old troops. Some of them fled and scattered, but were collected by Li Jue and Guo Si.
, there were more than 100,000 when they arrived in Chang'an. With such powerful troops and horses, Li Jue and others were immediately confident and led his troops to take Chang'an. Lu Bu once again showed his bravery and lack of strategy and was defeated by Li and others.
, Chang'an fell. The Xiliang army looted Chang'an again. Wang Yun, who had just killed Cai Wenji's father Cai Yong, jumped over the city wall and killed Cheng Ren.
At this point, what Cao Zhi did in Yinwu has become a nonsense. Li Jue and Guo Si, who invaded Chang'an, also thought that everything hidden in Yinwu had entered Chang'an. When the Xiliang soldiers robbed them, they still got a share.
Qing Shi and Shi, Li Jue and Guo Si were also planning to kill Emperor Xian to avenge Dong Zhuo.
At this time, another important figure in the history of the Three Kingdoms, Jia Xu, appeared. Jia Xu was known as the "poisonous man" in history. This man was full of ingenuity and had endless strategies. He is now Li Jue's counselor, and he invaded Chang'an to protect himself.
He came up with the idea on behalf of Li Jue. In the third year of Chuping, Dong Zhuo and Wu Zai were killed. Li Jue and Guo Si sent envoys to Chang'an to ask for mercy. Wang Yun was an upright person and did not agree. Li Jue and others were even more frightened.
They planned to disband and flee back to their hometowns. In order to protect themselves, Jia Xu stepped forward to stop them and said to Li Jue and others: "I heard that Chang'an was discussing the plan to kill all the people in Liangzhou, but the kings abandoned everyone and went alone.
, that is, a pavilion chief can restrain the king. It is better to lead the people to the west, gather the troops where they are, attack Chang'an, and avenge Dong Gong. Fortunately, it will be helpful and serve the country to conquer the world. If it is not successful, it will not be behind."
The meaning of Jia Xu's words is very clear. You two have disbanded the army and want to go back to the northwest. You two can't go without the army. Any pavilion chief on the road can arrest you and bring you to justice. What are you doing?
You are looking for death. You can only pack up the old troops, fight back to Chang'an, and avenge Grand Master Dong! You succeeded in killing Dong Taishi! You serve the country and command the world. This is exactly the same as serving the emperor and ordering the princes, and holding the emperor to order the princes. They are the same words and have the same meaning.
What Jia Xu meant was that he wanted Li Jue and Guo Si to fight back to Chang'an. If they succeed, you can hold the emperor as a treasure and command the world. If you don't succeed, it won't be too late to leave. Jia Xu's thoughts at the time were *
And his selfish thoughts*, he himself is Dong Zhuo's old subordinate, he is a scholar, and he has left Li Jue's protection. In this era of war and chaos, how long can he survive? So he has to make Li Jue and others reunite, so that he can
settle down.
Li Jue and Guo Si made sense when they heard what Jia Xu said! Why should we run back now? Yes, there is nothing left if we run back now. Why should we disarm now, go back in despair, and fight back!
Li Jue and Guo Si went back and met Zhang Ji and Fan Chou along the way. Then Chang'an became a mess. After the Xiliang army returned to Chang'an, they disrupted the country, the people, and massacred the ministers. This was Jia Xugan
However, Jia Xu's words brought endless disasters to the people and plunged the Eastern Han Dynasty into chaos again.
At that time, Jia Xu might have thought that he had done something wrong. So Li Jue, Guo Si and others wanted to make Jia Xu a marquis because of his merits, but Jia Xu refused. Jia Xu told Li Jue and others to give them advice.
It was such a small matter, and he was determined not to be a marquis.
So Li Jue and Guo Bang worshiped Jia Xu as the minister, Pu She, and became a high official. Jia Xu said, "Look, I have no reputation and no face. How can I deserve to be such a high official?"
It was not appropriate to come down. It was not appropriate and he did not accept the reward. This made Li Jue and Guo Si trust, respect, worship and fear him. Later Jia named him Zuo Fengyi.