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Chapter 262 The Family's Rules of Survival
Huan Wen really thought about it in detail. He could see that Liu Yan's ambition was not only to separate the regime, but also the capital of the Han Dynasty to establish a country.So maybe there is something in it that he can benefit from?

The aristocratic family will not have true loyalty to a certain regime, they are only loyal to the interests of the family, so whoever can give them better development, they will show their loyalty to whom.This is the core that will not change after the emergence of the aristocratic family. What Huan Wen needs to weigh is whether the Huan family will gain more benefits in the Eastern Jin Dynasty or the greater benefits from the Han Dynasty.

The [-] cavalry army set off again, and they had been notified before they set off. Once the battle started this time, it would be a high-intensity battle.

The so-called high intensity does not simply refer to the tragic degree of the war, but more generally refers to the time of the entire war, the area affected, the combatants, and many other aspects.

Li Kuang said before that the high-intensity battle that can last up to seven days is limited by horses rather than people.

After Huan Wen got the explanation, he also found it reasonable. People can rely on their will to persevere, but horses lose weight to a certain extent and are no longer suitable for riding and fighting. Both cattle and sheep need to be fattened.Too much fat is not a good thing for people, but for animals, it is a guarantee of physical fitness. Regardless of adding more meat, the physical strength of the war horse itself comes from the consumption of fat.

Some war horses are relatively rough, and there is no problem in how to raise them. For example, Hu people use more pony horses, but they can only be used as light horses, and the quality is definitely not the same as excellent.

"The problem of the Han army is the same as ours. The search for better war horses has formed a constraint."

"Quantity cannot be compared, only quality can only be relied on!"

The problem arises here. The treatment of war horses by agricultural people and the treatment of war horses by nomadic people are two different starting points, resulting in different development ideas.

The movement of tens of thousands of war horses stepping together will not be small, and war horses of this scale will never be able to achieve any stealth. It is difficult for them to avoid being discovered while they are in action. Battles between scouts happen every day.

You can often see such a scene, the ten or so cavalry around the army confront almost the same number of enemy troops, and the two sides are chasing or fighting under the nose of the army.

Huan Wen is very concerned about the battles of the scouts of the Han army. After all, scouts can reflect the quality of an army. Can act as a scout.

"The battle damage ratio is very good, reaching one to eight."

"That's why Wen dared to attack alone!"

They were less than thirty miles away from the enemy army they found, and they were heading straight for the train.

The terrain here is relatively flat. Although there are mountains, the mountains are not high in elevation and do not form mountains.Such a terrain is at best a Tibetan, and Huan Wen would not be so stupid as to use cavalry to chase the enemy into the mountains.

If Niudao were to be considered at the national level, he would really be considered a nobody, but if he were in Lanling County, he should be well-known.He is the Dianxiao of Lanling County and also serves as the captain of the army. The so-called Dianxiao is actually a supervisory officer who is not in the ninth rank. Joining the army is a kind of staff, depending on who he assists, he belongs to the rank of officer.

The captain of a county had a high status in the Han Dynasty or Cao Wei Dynasty, but after the Jin Dynasty, it was a lower-middle official position. But don't forget that this is in Shijie Zhao State. nation.

Niudu is a mixed blood of Di people and Qiang people. In fact, it should be called Tie Fuzhong in this way. After all, Tie Fu also has mixed blood in addition to being called "son-in-law" or "son-in-law of Han race" these days.

"Already here?"

"Yes."

"Come straight?"

"Yes."

Niu Du didn't know what to say.Yes, he was ordered to intercept a Han army that had infiltrated, and he clearly knew the number and targets, and he also knew that once he made contributions in this situation, he would be prosperous.

In order to make a fortune, Niu Du used all his contacts, including his family's private soldiers, to assemble an army of about 5000 people.But his army is only used as a bait to attract the Han army to create opportunities for higher figures.

That big man is called Wang Ji, don't get me wrong, it's not the Wang Ji who was born in Qucheng, Donglai during the Cao Wei period, and his nickname was Boyu, but the Wang Ji who came from the Wang family of Qinghe.Wang Ji is one of Shi Zun's trusted generals, and he is still related to Wang Luan.

Qinghe belongs to Jizhou, which is a place where many big families, aristocratic families, and powerful families were born, but that will happen later.

Aristocratic families or aristocratic families only appeared in relatives before, because Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu relied on a wealthy family to become emperor. The Eastern Han Dynasty actually belonged to the politics of aristocratic families, so of course there were aristocratic families, such as the Deng Yu family who directly helped Liu Xiu become emperor, Geng Yan The Yuan family, the Liang Tong family, the Dou Rong family, the Ma Yuan family and the Yin family, but only the Yuan family can be called a powerful family.That's right, it is the Yuan family of four generations and three generations, the family of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and the rest are just aristocratic families.

The real formation of aristocratic families and clans started from the period of the Five Hushuanghua (also known as the Southern and Northern Dynasties), and then appeared in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Only the rise of means that can be imagined or unexpected can have the scenery behind.

There are currently many aristocratic families active in the south of the Yangtze River, headed by the four families of Yu, Huan, Wang, and Xie. The central principle is headed by Zhang, Wang, and Guo.

If you look at the list of official positions of Zhao State in Shijie, you will be surprised to find that no matter in the Shi Le era or the Shi Hu era, the official positions occupied by the three families of Zhang, Wang, and Guo approached two-thirds of the entire Shijie State of Zhao. degree.

What I have to say is that the Wang family on the Eastern Jin side and the Wang family on the Shijie Zhao side actually belong to the same clan.

In fact, it was a problem left over from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, the world was divided into three parts, and each family would send its children to serve under a certain prince. According to the family's own statement, it was a split bet.In this way, no matter which prince succeeds in the end, there will always be a branch of the family that can develop. It will not be like the whole family betting on one prince.

"Really?" Wang Ji looked quite majestic, maybe he was worried about what caused insomnia, he had big bags and dark circles under the eyes: "Always pay attention to the movement." After a short pause, he seemed to think of something and added: "Let Niu Du...abandon those people who have been summoned when necessary."

At this time, the Jin people in the entire Shijie Zhao country need to worry. Shihu is really crazy, and he listened to the nonsense of a monk. The most absurd thing is that he really started to clean the Jin people.

To be honest, if Shi Hu is only cleaning the lower-level Jin people, many Jin people with official status actually have an indifferent attitude. After all, since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, most aristocratic families have never treated non-gentry people... such as mud legs. Those people look at them as human beings, at least they don't feel that those guys are the same people as themselves.

【The Heavenly King is crazy, and Shi Xuan is also crazy. 】Wang Ji's family is very big, big enough to know what is going to happen, and it is time to start doing what Cao Wei, Sun Wu, and Liu Shu have done: 【The Wang family has today's foundation. Because you are on the right team. 】

That's right, the Wang family has been standing in teams and investing separately since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The previous main clan was not theirs. They were the highest-ranked branch after the family branched out, and they became Wang's. main house.

Now is really the time to take sides again, not only because there are signs of instability in the Central Plains again, but also because Shi Hu comprehensively persecutes the lower and middle class Jin people, and also begins to guard against and harm the upper class Jin people.

[Ran Min's family has already taken refuge in the past.Ran Min has controlled several important passes, at least able to form a separatist situation for decades? 】Wang Ji looked at the documents on the case table, and one of them was spread out, which wrote some deeds about Liu Yan: 【Liu Yan has not responded to the 'Three Kings Alliance' so far, which is really strange. 】

Because Liu Yan didn't give any response, the Three Kings Alliance has become a joke. For such a matter, Ran Min sent his important ministers to leave the customs. They are on their way to find Liu Yan.

No matter what is written in the call to action, in fact Liu Yan has now become the key core. It is Liu Yan who is leading the army to fight the main force of the Zhao army in Shijie. Most people will only focus on Liu Yan first.

More realistically, the encirclement and suppression has already created a de facto gap. Deng Heng in the direction of Yanzhou has been defeated.

Only when a new battle is over, those who pay attention to the dynamics will come to a conclusion, that is what Wang Ji's family is waiting for, the difference is that they are loyal to Shi Zun, and Shi Zun's fief Pengcheng is too close to the battlefield, and there The Han army's invasion of Pengcheng was tantamount to forcing the Wang family from a bystander to an actual participant.

[Liu Yan confronted Wang Luan head-to-head with a weak force. After several small-scale trials, the Han army was indeed elite enough. 】Wang Ji's eyes turned to the wall next to him, where a map of mountains and rivers hung.He simply walked over, his eyes constantly moving around Donghai County: [[-] versus [-], what gave Liu Yan such confidence?Is it the Jin Army, or...]

Unlike those who don’t know the facts, the generals of Zhao State in Shijie still pay more attention to the Jin army, because they know that if the Jin army is really incompetent, then the place where repeated wars broke out will not be in the north of the Yangtze River, but in the north of the Yangtze River. In the south of the Yangtze River.

[No, although the Yu family is powerful, since Yu Liang, it is impossible for the Yu family to devote all their efforts to the Northern Expedition again. 】Wang Ji moved his gaze again, 【Look at the result, and then decide whether to send the family's children to serve Liu Yan! 】

(End of this chapter)