Chapter 288: One moves the whole body

Dong Chu doesn’t understand Guo Si, but it does not mean that no one knows Guo Si.

Among the entourages, the one who knows Guo Si the most is Li Ru, followed by Hua Xiong and Xu Rong, who is also very familiar with Li Guo and the two.

This is a very calm person who can always keep a calm mind when encountering panic.

The combination of Li Jue and Guo Si does not seem to be scary. Both of them are not very capable, but Li Jue is bold and Guo Si is calm. After the two are combined, there are changes that cannot be calculated by one plus one equals two.

Dong Qi burned Gucheng and almost burned Li Jue to death in the fire.

It was Guo Si who insisted on dividing the troops into two groups and responding from the front and back, allowing Li Jie to escape. Even when Guo Yuan was pursuing, he even placed an ambush. If Dong Qi had not arrived with his support, Guo Si would have been killed by Guo Si on the bank of the river.

Sili is in chaos and turmoil.

Because of his son's affairs, Ma Teng broke up with Li Guo and attacked Sili.

Due to Dong Zhuo's encirclement and suppression of Ma Teng, Ma Teng's military strength was far less powerful than in history. It was already Ma Teng's limit to assembled 50,000 or 60,000 troops from Wuwei. The number of troops Li and Guo in Sili was as high as 100,000. The strength of the two sides was too great. Even with Zhang Miao's help, he would probably not be able to withstand the attacks of Li and Guo.

Dong Qi did not want Sili to be calm.

On the contrary, a Sili who had been in chaos for several years seemed to be more in his interests.

So Li Ru designed to disperse the forces of Li and Guo, so that they could not attack Ma Teng and Zhang Miao wholeheartedly.

The best way is to add an opponent to Li Guo.

Liu Yan of Yizhou seems to be a good enemy. As long as Li Guo's troops enter Hanzhong, they will inevitably be entangled with Zhang Lu and Su Gu. Just as Dong Qi does not need a stable Sili, Li Ru believes that the turbulent Hanzhong is more conducive to Dong Qi's future plans. Dong Qi needs Song Guo to open a county gate, while Li Ru plans for a longer-term plan.

The person Guo Si fears most in his life is his wife.

He was originally from humility, and his wife gave him great help.

Guo Si has two men and three women, and the most loved one is this daughter who married Zhang Nan.

Otherwise, Guo Si would not have sent Zhang Nan and his wife to Weinan, a place where there are almost no dangers and life is pretty good.

The daughter was raped and killed by a famous gentleman, and the son-in-law was made into a human pig.

It must be a heavy blow to Guo Si, who values ​​face very much.

Even if Guo Si is willing to calm down, his wife will not tolerate it. She will inevitably divide the troops to chase Dong Qi, and will never stop until death.

In this way, the pressure on Ma Teng and Zhang Miao will be reduced accordingly.

As long as some provocation is given appropriately, the war will continue in the Sili in Liangzhou and a large number of refugees will migrate to Hexi.

This is extremely beneficial to the immigration policy formulated by Dong Qi earlier.

As early as the Yongshou period of Emperor Huan, about thirty-five years ago, the Luoyang imperial court once conducted a demographic statistics.

Except for Shuofang and the Western Regions, the Han Dynasty had a total population of about 50 million.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Emperor Liu Xie of Han ascended the throne, and Zheng Tai made a statistics in the first two years of evaluation, which is of course very general.

Yangzhou has 5 million, Jingzhou has 5.5 million, and Yizhou has a population of more than 7 million.

During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the population of the three states did not decrease significantly due to the war.

But the population of Kanto states is relatively reduced.

The total population of the twelve states is about 31 million.

The population of Sanfu area is 2.3 million, while the population of Liangzhou is 1.1 million. At first glance, the population of Liangzhou is not small. But if you think about it carefully, the area of ​​Liangzhou is several times larger than that of Sanfu area, but the population is much smaller.

The land is vast and sparsely populated, which is an overview of Liangzhou.

If the two places are in turmoil, then the first choice of people living in these two areas is Hexi and Shuofang.

Therefore, even if the land of the Three Assisters was not in chaos, it must now become turbulent.

Dong Chu did not agree with this.

In his opinion, it was a bit too much for him to make millions of people unstable because of his own affairs.

But Li Ru said: "As soon as my father dies, the world will inevitably become turbulent. The ambitions of the princes are revealed, and sooner or later a great war will break out. The land of the Three Guards is the foundation for me to gain a foothold. Although the lord makes him turbulent, he can protect his vitality. If chaos really arises and human life is like a straw dog, I am afraid that the three Guards and Liangzhou will be in no ten."

This reason was not very sufficient, but Dong Chu still agreed.

To divide Li and Guo’s troops is the first step; to intensify the conflict between the gentry and Li and Guo is the second step; to turmoil in the three places is the third step.

Dong Qi stood at the mouth of Nanshan Valley, with four snow ghosts crawling at his feet, and the lion-maned beast standing beside him.

On the mountain road, there were cars and horses moving slowly.

The mountain road is rugged and bumpy, which is quite inconvenient to the elderly.

Therefore, Dong Qi designed a warm tent similar to a sedan chair, and ordered five hundred surrendered soldiers to divide into three teams to carry the warm tent in turn. In fact, it was to set up a cowhide tent on a large wooden board, lay a thick cushion, and 64 people carried a warm tent, which could free up chariots and horses to load supplies, and it could also prevent the elderly from the trouble of bumps.

Especially Dong Yuan, who just gave birth to a child, is in a weak state.

Having such a warm tent saves a lot of hardship. At the same time, Dong Qi also made someone create more than a dozen mountain sedan chairs, and two people carry one person, which can also save bumps and watch the scenery along the way. When you are tired, you go into the warm tent to rest and sleep.

This made the two old gentlemen Cai Yong and Liu Hong happy.

Sitting in the mountain sedan chair, the two of them chatted and joking from time to time, enjoying the beautiful scenery in the mountains, which dispelled a lot of worries.

Li Ru and Dong Lu, Hua Xiong and Guo Yong, stood behind Dong Qi.

He looked up at the sky and Dong Qi suddenly asked, "Have Song Guo's men entered Hanzhong?"

"According to the horse exploration report, in the early morning yesterday, Song Guo's troops had already entered from Ziwu Valley and were preparing to attack Xicheng."

"What about Chang'an?"

"Guo Si personally led 30,000 troops to Zheng County yesterday."

Li Ru smiled, "Even if they arrived at Ziwu Valley, they would not have expected that we would choose the most steepest road and abandon the flat road from Hanzhong. At that time, Guo Si and his men entered Hanzhong... Hehe, Hanzhong will become lively."

Dong Qi nodded and turned around and said to Xu Rong: "I will order the entire army to speed up, and it is extremely important to pass through the Nanshan Valley before dark... Brother-in-law, have you ever sent someone to Zhangye to send a letter, asking them to try to open the Mobei Pass?"

"Someone has been sent!"

"Okay, when we enter Nanshan, we will be isolated from the world. I just hope that Shuofang's situation will not be too bad, and Gong Ming will not let me down!"

These words were a bit weak.

Yes, if something big happened, I wonder what Xu Huang and the others would react?

People's hearts are separated from their belly. Although Xu Huang once expressed his loyalty, Dong Qi did not know much about him.

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At the end of July of the third year of Chuping, with Dong Zhuo's death, the princes of Kanto gradually showed their ambitions.

Yuan Shao sent a general to recruit troops to Yanmen County, and joined forces with the Cui family in Xihe to capture Wuyuan and occupy the fertile land of thousands of miles of Hedong.

Cao Cao captured Luoyang and occupied Yangdi.

This connected Yanzhou and Yuzhou together. The Yellow Turban bandits in Qingzhou became more and more serious. After Qingzhou Mu Gong Jing failed to suppress the bandits in succession, he had no choice but to ask Cao Cao for help. Such a request hit Cao Cao's thoughts.

The death of Qin Jie, the governor of Yangzhou, suddenly became turbulent in the prefectures and counties that were originally the most stable.

Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, and Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, both stared at such a fertile land in Yangzhou.

At the same time, Li Jue coerced the Han emperor to arrive in Chang'an and proclaimed himself a general.

He sent his general Yang Feng to resist the Zhangma coalition army, and at the same time submitted a memorial to Emperor Han Liu Xie, asking Liu Yao, the prefect of Guangling, to be the governor of Yangzhou.

Liu Yao was also a relative of the Han Dynasty. His ancestors were King Xiao of Qi and Hou Mouping.

Uncle Liu Chong once served as the Grand Marshal. He was young and intelligent and always wise.

After Zhang Chao, the former prefect of Guangling, died in the battle of the princes of Guandong, Dong Zhuo appointed Liu Yao as the prefect of Guangling.

This is also a signal that Dong Zhuo sent to the people of the world.

Don’t doubt me anymore. I don’t want to usurp the Han Dynasty. Look, isn’t I appointing the Han Dynasty’s relatives one by one and serving as a senior official of the court?

Unfortunately, not many people cared about this signal from Dong Zhuo.

Li Jue appointed Liu Yao as the governor of Yangzhou in the name of Emperor Han, which immediately aroused Tao Qian's dissatisfaction.

Liu Yao was also very smart. After receiving the appointment, he immediately took office. However, the first thing he did after taking office was not to stabilize the situation in Yangzhou.

Zhou Xin, the prefect of Danyang, Kuai Liang, other families in Yangzhou, and Huang Zhong, the captain of the western Yangzhou, were all confidants of Qin Jie.

After Liu Yao took office, he immediately asked his confidant Zhang Ying to take over the position of Western Captain and appointed Huang Zhong as the commander of Lujiang.

Lujiang is the foundation of the Lu family of Jiangdong clan.

Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang, naturally would not be willing to hand over the troops of this county to an outsider to control it...

Huang Zhong was also a very arrogant person. He stayed in Yangzhou just to repay Qin Jie's kindness for his grace.

How could he be so cowardly now? In anger, he returned to Wujun and hung a seal and sealed gold, and worked with the former governor to work as a literary officer to leave Yangzhou. As for where to go? No one knows... Liu Yao naturally wouldn't care about the place where a lieutenant went.

After taking over the power of the army and horses in Yangzhou, Liu Yao then dismissed Kuai Liang and Zhou Xin and appointed Xu Jing, a famous scholar in Runan, to be the prefect of Danyang.

Zhou Xin was furious and refused to admit Liu Yao's appointment. He did not want to be attacked by Liu Yao's general Chen Heng. He defeated Danyang County and took his family to Liu Biao in Jingzhou. At the same time, the former Danyang Order Zhou Zhi left with Zhou Xin. Liu Biao accepted Zhou Xin and appointed him as the prefect of Wuling, and Zhou Zhi was appointed as the Youyang Order.

At this point, the appointments of officials from various places were all from the state governors.

The officials appointed by Li Jue in the name of the court became extremely embarrassed.
Chapter completed!