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Chapter 660 Within the four realms, among the heaven and earth!
Looking at the defeated army, Cao Cao felt like crying without tears.

If the Xiliang army hadn't been busy escaping for their lives, they would have really fallen here this time.

It took a lot of effort to accumulate some wealth in Yanzhou, but in the end, it was lost on the way to victory.

The disgraced Xiahou Dun rode his horse over and asked the equally embarrassed Cao Cao, "Brother, do you want to return to Yanzhou?"

After Cao Cao's pursuit failed, his overheated brain was extremely clear. He quickly sorted out the situation in his mind, and then turned his attention to Luoyang.

He held Xiahou Dun's arm and said in a deep voice: "Yuan Rang, although the Xiliang generals are victorious, they will definitely not dare to stay in Shandong, for fear that they will occupy the west of Hangu Pass.

Yuan Shao returned to Jizhou to face Gongsun Zan, and it was impossible to escape within a short period of time.

Bu Cai and other generals of the imperial army have no ambitions, and they travel around Henan but do nothing. Isn't this Luoyang, Henan, which God gave me to Cao Cao?
If you don't take it from God, you will be blamed instead!
Isn't this what the ancient sages said?
Although you are injured now, my brother wants you to take five thousand troops to occupy Luoyang and then control Henan. Yuanrang, are you willing to take on this important task? "

This is indeed an important task!

Luoyang is the land of eight passes, including Hangu Pass, which leads to Guandong, and Dahe Ferry, which leads to Hanoi. This means that Luoyang has to bear pressure from all aspects.

Yanzhou Chenliu County is in the hands of Cao Cao, but it still has to face the pressure of Guanzhong, Hedong, Hanoi, Nanyang, and Yingchuan at the same time.

Cao Cao did not dare to entrust such an important task to anyone except clan brothers such as the Xiahou family and the Cao family.

Xiahou Dun held Cao Cao's hand and said, "Brother has entrusted you with a great responsibility, how dare you disobey me?

Ran Dun had a word.

Luoyang is prosperous, the most prosperous in the world, and it has been the imperial capital for hundreds of years. It is the target of public criticism. If Luoyang is occupied, won't my brother worry about attracting the princes of the world to attack? "

When Cao Cao saw Xiahou Dun's words, he was completely relieved and said with emotion: "Yuan Rang, I am very pleased that you have such knowledge.

As you said, the military equipment is not in our hands, so Luoyang cannot be defended for a long time, otherwise it will be in vain, surrounded by enemies on all sides, and ultimately defeated.

So my brother asked you to guard Luoyang, not to run this place, but to relocate!

To the east of Luoyang are the revolving gates of Chenggao, Yiluo Exchange, and the criss-crossing passes of Xingyang Hulao. Zhang Jiao garrisoned people there and formed his own kingdom.

I want you to migrate the people east of Xingyang to Xingyang, and even to the west of Xingyang, that is, Yanzhou, to enrich your heritage.

Leaving Henan vacant can also be used as a lure. If someone wants to occupy Luoyang in the future, our army can march westward to plunder its gold and silver and relocate its people. Wouldn't it be wonderful? "

Cao Cao's words made the eyes of everyone around him shine. The previous failure had long been forgotten. In order to cope with the Xiliang Army's offensive, isn't it normal for the people to relocate?
This Luoyang is a treasure house. Even though the Taiping Army and Dong Zhuo Army took so long to conquer it, they are still far from completely removing the oil and water.

Not to mention the population of the entire Henan County, we don’t know how much tax revenue those wealthy households alone can bring. If Henan County can really be moved to Yanzhou, the number of households in Yanzhou may even reach the level of Yizhou, becoming second only to Jingzhou and The existence of Jizhou.

Xiahou Dun immediately agreed, and Cao Cao appointed Xiahou Dun as the governor of Henan County. He himself declared himself the shepherd of Yanzhou and returned to Yanzhou.

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Two flowers bloomed, each expressing a branch, saying that Li Jue and Guo Si saw that Xu Rong really won, so he laughed, and the pressure in his heart suddenly dissipated. Si survived in the hands of these two people.

Li Jue and Guo Si completely distrusted these officials and nobles because of Dong Zhuo's affairs. They treated these people like cattle and horses and humiliated them wantonly. However, they still knew that Emperor Liu Xie was still very useful.

The two men immediately used the name of the emperor to confer county marquisships on them, and also conferred heavy titles on themselves as generals. Then they took the ministers and officials all the way west, preparing to go to Chang'an to reestablish the imperial court.

Some people saw this scene, so they secretly said to the two: "Although the emperor is cowardly, he is orthodox in the world after all, and the courtiers who are loyal to the Han Dynasty still recognize the emperor.

The two generals are the generals of the princes who were personally conferred by the emperor. Isn't it ridiculous that the princes of Guandong acted as governors, prefects, governors, and generals without the emperor's orders?
If the two generals treat the emperor respectfully and then use the emperor's name to command the world, then those who disobey are traitors, while the two generals are loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty. "

When the two of them heard this, they felt it was very reasonable. Yes, we have an emperor in our hands, and we are also the princes and generals with heavy titles conferred by the formal process. We are the serious officers and soldiers!

Those Guandong princes all have self-appointed official positions, and they established themselves before the Han Dynasty was destroyed. Isn't this a rebellion?
Because it was useful to Li Jue and Guo Si, Liu Xie's living standard became better.

Zhang Ji did not want to mix with Li Jue and Guo Si, so he fled to Hongnong County and stopped moving forward. So many Xiliang troops poured into Guanzhong all of a sudden. Of course, the Guanzhong gentry were a little nervous, for fear that these Xiliang troops would manipulate Guanzhong. The soldiers looted and massacred.

Why are the nobles looking for the Ming Lord?

Because the nobles generally want to survive, and the Ming Lord has a brain and understands what cooperation means. Only when they meet the Ming Lord can the nobles survive and fight for power.

What the nobles are most afraid of encountering are those warlords who are muddle along without any brains. They may be killed at any time. This kind of warlords just want to die together.

The problem is that the warlord wants to die at will, but the nobles are not willing to die with him!
Li Jue and Guo Si looked like this to the Guanzhong gentry. Killing the Guanzhong gentry would do no good to Li Jue and Guo Si, but Li Jue and Guo Si would probably do such a thing.

The news of Luo Kong's request for heavenly punishment has not yet reached Guanzhong, so the Guanzhong nobles do not know.

Li Jue and Guo Si saw Dong Zhuo being punished to death by heaven in front of the battle, and they were frightened. Before, they only dared to rob but not kill in Luoyang, and they naturally did not dare to enter Guanzhong.

Seeing that these Xiliang troops only wanted property, the Guanzhong nobles breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that these Xiliang generals could still communicate with each other.

After the Chang'an court was established with the Xiliang army as its will, Li Jue and Guo Si immediately appointed officials in an attempt to ease the relationship between themselves and the princes of the world, and to test whether the emperor was useful.

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Liangzhou.

After Dong Zhuo led the army to leave here, Liangzhou has become a little more desolate. Dong Zhuo was once the biggest warlord in Liangzhou, but he was not the only warlord.After Dong Zhuo went to the Central Plains, he actually gave up Liangzhou temporarily to a certain extent. With the news of Dong Zhuo’s defeat, especially after Li Jue and Guo Si established the Chang’an court, the Liangzhou warlords suddenly had a different heart .

Li Jue and Guo Si stayed in Sanfu, which was located in a remote place. Although it was far inferior to Luoyang, it was still much more prosperous than Liangzhou. So neither of them wanted to return to Liangzhou, so they conferred the title of Liangzhou warlord on the title of Marquis. They were also named generals, Ma Teng and Han Sui.

Ma Tenghan then saw that the imperial court was willing to recognize the status of the two separate regimes, and that this was the orthodox Han emperor's canonization, so he readily accepted the order and established a separate regime in Liangzhou.

When Dong Zhuo went to the Central Plains, he took many young people from Liangzhou with him, and he continued to recruit them. He directly benefited Ma Teng and Han Sui, and they went to the Qiang tribe.

In the eyes of the Han people, the Qiang people and the Hu people are different. Just as most people call the Luo family in Zhaocheng the Zhou people, the status of the Qiang people is quite special. Although they are not Han people, they are not considered barbarians. Compared with the Western Regions, the Qiang people are not barbarians. The status of people is still higher, and they are objects that can be united in the war.

Ma Teng has Qiang ancestry and has not been discriminated against because of this. Therefore, after the two learned that Dong Zhuo had died in Luoyang, they not only took over Dong Zhuo's soldiers, but also took over his Qiang allies.

It can be said that Dong Zhuo fell and Ma Han was full!

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From Liangzhou to the west, ever since Luo Kong led his army into the Central Plains and encountered disadvantages, earth-shaking changes have taken place in the Western Regions.

Nearly half of the elites in the entire Western Region were transferred by Luokong. The chaos in the Western Region did not start from the Hu people, but from the Wusun Kingdom and the Dayuandong Kingdom.

After Luokong left the Western Regions and entered Liangzhou, the nobles of Wusun and Dawan directly abolished the original Liu clan princes and established a new country.

These two countries were basically composed of pure Han people at the beginning. Of course, after more than 200 years of development, they are no longer pure Han people. Even if they are Han people, they are very different from the Han people in the Central Plains. A lot of changes have been avoided.

Dawan changed its name to Xixia, which means the Xia in the far west of the world, and Wusun changed its name to Zhongxia, which means the Xia in the world. From the names, it can be seen that there is a disagreement between the two sides.

After the establishment of the state, Xixia started the unification plan of the original Dawan Kingdom, tearing up all the agreements signed between the original Dawan East Kingdom, the Western Regions Protectorate and Dawan Kingdom. Years have passed, and this goal has not been achieved, and the war is still going on.

Compared with the Xixia Kingdom, the journey of the Zhongxia Kingdom was very smooth. The King of Zhongxia was an outstanding person, and not just an ordinary person. When Luo Kong suppressed him in the Western Regions, he was completely suppressed.

Now that Luo Kong has left, the King of Zhongxia will immediately rise.

Starting from the Yishui River Valley, relying on the advantages of population, technology, horses, and fertile land, they marched eastward. Those small countries in the Western Regions surrendered directly. The king of Zhongxia canonized the original outer vassal kings as princes in accordance with tradition.

Those larger countries were still kings, but they had to pay tribute to the King of Zhongxia. In just a few years, the Zhongxia Kingdom roughly ruled the entire northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, about three thousand miles from east to west, and various ethnic groups increased. There are 150 million people standing up. If all the people are soldiers, there will be [-] people who can control the strings!
A country of this level has no problem guarding the Western Regions. Those barbarians wandering on the grasslands and deserts fought with the Zhongxia Kingdom several times, but they did not get any benefits.

Of course, by this point, the Han Dynasty's rule in the entire Western Regions had completely collapsed, especially the Western Regions Protectorate had completely ceased to exist in name only.

In the entire northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, the only country that still exists independently is the Wushuang Hou Kingdom.

The King of Zhongxia was a devout Buddhist and had infinite admiration for King Su, Emperor Tianshi. The first thing he did after ascending the throne was to worship at the Temple of King Su in the Wushuang Kingdom.

The politics in the Western Regions are completely different from those in the Central Plains. People here basically have no regional discrimination and are completely different from the local mutual assistance in the Central Plains.

The Western Regions played with the opinions of various religious factions, and all nobles had religious identities at the same time. For example, the left prime minister of Zhongxia Kingdom was a Taoist great master.

After unifying the entire northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, the King of Zhongxia began to confer Buddha, Bodhisattva, Vajra and other fruition statuses on the unparalleled princes of the past dynasties.

In the end, this move aroused the dissatisfaction of the Taoists in the country. Although the King of Zhongxia believed in Buddhism, he had no brains, so he gave the Taoist immortal status to the unparalleled princes. He himself began to practice Buddhism and Taoism in front of outsiders. The Taoist great master was also appointed as the left prime minister.

The expansion of the power of the Zhongxia Kingdom made both Ma Teng and Han Sui fearful, especially after the King of Zhongxia moved the capital from the original Yishui River Valley to the Dunhuang area near Liangzhou.

What does it mean?
The heart of the King of Zhongxia is known to everyone on the road!
Isn't this just preparing to knock the pass and enter the Central Plains?
But in fact, this is Ma Teng and Han Sui's unfounded worries. The two men's military capabilities are not bad, but their political abilities are too low, and they cannot understand the current situation at all.

The King of Zhongxia indeed had this idea. After all, as one of the kings of the Xia Kingdoms, who didn't want to enter the Central Plains and aspire for the throne?

Didn’t Liaodong Yan State think so too?
But the King of Zhongxia knew too well that he did not have this ability at all. The rise of Zhongxia was too fast. The internal problems were in a mess, the distribution of various interests, and the contradictions between the various parties were so great that it was unimaginable.It will explode if you are not careful.

If we enter the Central Plains now, it would be okay to win all the time. After all, victory in the war can cover up most of the problems. But as long as there is one defeat, this seemingly large and strong country will fall apart in an instant.

Not only the entire northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, but the King of Zhongxia even suspected that he would die on the way if he could not even return to the Yishui River Valley.

Therefore, before the internal integration is completed, the King of Zhongxia will never attack Liangzhou, and Ma Teng and Han Sui's defenses are useless.

As for Wushuang Hou Kingdom, it is currently controlled by Luo Kong's mother.

The temple army has been completely transformed into a guard army. As the ruler of the entire northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the King of Zhongxia raised the level of King Su's temple to the highest level.

The King of Zhongxia called on temples and Taoist temples throughout the Western Regions to pay tribute to the temple on time every year to maintain the operation of King Su's temple and the operation of the temple army.

This approach is equivalent to making the temple high priest the supreme leader of temples and Taoist temples in the Western Regions to a certain extent. It is a very magical design.

The Wushuang Marquis did not express any opinion on this, which is a good thing and can help the Wushuang Marquis relieve the pressure.

Everyone thought that the Temple Army was independent and was only close to the Wushuang Kingdom for some reasons.

In fact, this legion is always in the hands of Wushuanghou, and no matter what happens, it will not change.

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The people of the Western Region always respect the heavens and gods. In an area of ​​[-] miles and a radius of [-] miles, there are thousands of Buddhist temples and thousands of Taoist temples. Incense is burned everywhere. They do not distinguish between the Han people, and they do not differentiate between men and women. The two religions worshiped together and prayed to the people of the Central Plains. As if they were in a kingdom of gods, they were very surprised. The feeling of a foreign land never ceased in them. From Dunhuang three thousand miles to the temple of Wushuang Suwang in Zhongxia, this Buddhist path Crown, worship Su Wang, the Great Heavenly Lord, worship Su Wang, the Great Heavenly Lord, and then realize that the Western Regions are one heart with the Central Plains. ——"Book of the Later Han·Biographies of the Western Regions"

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