When Liu He passed by Yuan Shu's Nanyang, he was warmly received by Yuan Shu. The unscrupulous Liu He informed Yuan Shu of Emperor Xian's plan. Yuan Shu had been waiting for such an opportunity. He wanted to compete with Yuan Shao, and what he lacked now was
A political alliance, and a political alliance that belongs to him, a political alliance headed by him. Although he and Yuan Shao are half-brothers, they have almost reached the point of falling out with each other. But Yuan Shu's current strength is not yet comparable to that of half-brothers.
Yuan Shao competed with each other for hegemony, because most of the heroes in the world relied on Yuan Shao. Since Yuan Shao took over Jizhou, not only his strength has greatly increased, but he is also surrounded by talents.
Yuan Shu was so jealous that he angrily scolded others more than once for preferring to follow his "house slave" (referring to his concubine half-brother Yuan Shao) rather than following him. This time Emperor Xian wanted to return to Luoyang, it was not only a good opportunity for Yuan Shu to show his face in front of the world
, and could also forcibly recruit a powerful political ally, Youzhou Mu Liu Yu. So Yuan Shu detained Liu He and asked Liu He to write a letter to Liu Yu, promising to wait for Liu Yu to lead his troops to come to support Yuan Shu and go to Chang'an together.
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Gongsun Zan knew about this. He knew the Yuan brothers better than Liu Yu. He also knew that Yuan Shu did not really want to go with Liu Yu to welcome Emperor Xian. He must have other plans, so he stepped forward to stop Liu Yu, but Liu Yu refused to listen.
Gongsun Zan currently wanted to develop his ambitions, and he did not want to offend too many people. He was worried that Yuan Shu would know that he had stopped Liu Yu from intervening with him and Emperor Xian and would be angry with him, so he sent his cousin Gongsun Yue to lead more than a thousand cavalry to Yuan Shu.
Good, and secretly asked Yuan Shu to detain Liu He and seize Liu He's troops. He also proposed to form a new alliance with Yuan Shu to fight against Yuan Shu's eldest brother Yuan Shao.
At this time, Yuan Shu sent Sun Jian as the vanguard and set off for Chang'an first. Yuan Shao also always wanted to intervene in the affairs of Yuzhou. He did not want Yuzhou to be occupied by his younger brother Yuan Shu, so he took advantage of the emptiness in Yuzhou at this time while Sun Jian was away.
Zhou Ang, a close confidant, was the governor of Yuzhou and led his troops to attack Yangcheng, where Sun Jian was the governor of Yuzhou.
Sun Jian heard the news and hurried back. He was very emotional: "We, the Guandong Alliance, have raised volunteers together to save the country. Now that the rebels will be wiped out, but there is such a fight within, who can I work with to save the world?"
What about the next day?" After saying that, he looked up to the sky and sighed, tears falling like rain.
Tears were shed, and his old nest could not be disturbed. Now that the matter was over, now that everyone had lost their skin, Sun Jian was not a soft persimmon. He immediately sent his troops back to Yuzhou and turned to attack Zhou Ang.
Yuan Shu sent Gongsun Yue to help Sun Jian attack Zhou Ang. Gongsun Yue was shot by a stray arrow and died. Gongsun Zan said angrily: "The death of my brother was caused by Yuan Shao." So he found a reason for the division to be famous and sent troops to station at Panhe (
Hebei Province) was preparing to retaliate against Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao was shocked and angry, but at this time he did not want to antagonize Gongsun Zan, so he gave the seal of the governor of Bohai County to Gongsun Zan's cousin Gongsun Fan and sent him to Nanpi, hoping to use this to fight Gongsun Zan.
Rebuilding old friendships. Gongsun Fan took over Yuan Shao's seal as Bohai Governor, but immediately betrayed Yuan Shao. He used Bohai troops to assist Gongsun Zan and conquered Qingzhou. The Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army became increasingly powerful and stationed at Jieqiao (the former site is in today's Wei County, Hebei Province).
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At this time, Yuan Shao could no longer bear it. He decided to completely resolve the grievances between them and Gongsun Zan. He also began to station troops towards Panhe and sent general Ju Yi to guard the boundary bridge.
But at all points, Yuan Shao's rear was unstable. The Bailuo tribe of the Black Mountain Army in his territory suddenly led his troops to surround Puyang, the seat of the East County. The Black Mountain Army was not acting alone this time. According to reliable intelligence, the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou
Moving towards Hebei, their goal is to make peace with the Black Mountain Army and strive to annex his Jizhou and the Yanzhou, Qingzhou and other places under his leadership in one fell swoop. If these two bandit armies are allowed to reunite, let alone Yuan Shao's current situation.
If you don't have the strength to compete with him, you will still face the danger of being attacked from both sides.
What Yuan Shao didn't expect was that Cao Cao captured the Black Mountain Army in such a short period of time with only such a small force, so that the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou lost its allies before they even set foot on his territory in Jizhou.
Yuan Shao was the best at doing favors. He immediately dismissed Wang Gong and recommended Cao Cao as the governor of Dongjun. He believed that this move would not only rely on Cao Cao to guard the southern gate of Jizhou, but also use Dongjun as a springboard to expand his power in the future.
It expanded to Qingzhou and Yanzhou south of the Yellow River. If the three states of Ji, Qing, and Yanzhou can be connected together, then the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River will be under his control, Yuan Shao.
Of course, this is a beautiful idea when Yuan Shao doesn't know that Cao Cao suddenly has 50,000 more troops. If Yuan Shao knew that Cao Cao did not kill the Black Mountain Army, but instead recruited so many Black Mountain Army, he might not
I am no longer so optimistic about the future situation.
Of course Cao Cao was very happy when he received Yuan Shao's appointment, because from now on, the two brothers finally have a foothold, and they will flex their muscles on these two territories that belong to their Cao brothers.
Cao Cao drank water first and did not forget the people who dug the springs. He was almost a nouveau riche now. When he came to Dongjun, he only had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but now he suddenly had 50,000 more, which was hard to digest for a while.
So Cao Cao sent Le Jin to Danyang with the newly recruited 10,000 Black Mountain troops. When he went to Puyang, Cao Zhi borrowed 5,000 troops. Now he is giving back 10,000. In doing so, he will also supplement his brother.
To supplement the strength, secondly, you can listen to the video, so that others can't figure out how much strength you have. Cao Cao is a very mature person, and he knows that he needs to keep a low profile now.
Cao Cao was also a man who knew how to govern. After he took office as the governor of Dongjun, the first thing he did was to move the county administration from Puyang to Dongwuyang (today's south of Shenxian County, Shandong). The reason for doing this was firstly because he wanted to protect the people from the Yellow River.
Nan will control the situation and consider the long term. Secondly, he feels that although he has ascended to the position of governor of Dongjun in a clear and correct manner, his foundation in Dongjun is very shallow after all, and Wang Gong is deeply rooted here. Cao Cao considered
It may be difficult to start work in Puyang, so the best way is to move to the county.
While Cao Cao is carrying out drastic "reforms" in Dongjun, Cao Zhi is also making a preliminary sorting out of Danyang County. Cao Zhi does not want to make drastic changes to Danyang like Cao Cao, such as moving the governorate, etc., he still wants to slow down
Advance step by step.
Of course, when Cao Zhi was preparing to work hard in Danyang, the Central Plains tycoons had become increasingly complicated recently, especially the brothers Yuan Shu of Nanyang and Yuan Shao of Jizhou, who were engaged in some overt and covert fighting over Cao Zhi's upcoming appointment as the governor of Danyang.
The story begins before Sun Jian goes to war with Zhou Ang. On this day, the Nanyang Prefecture suddenly welcomed the eldest son of Sun Jian, the governor of Yuzhou—Sun Ce, a young genius and narcissist.