The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 519
Under the obstruction of the Henan Group, Cao Pi did not move the capital to Yecheng. If he wanted to use the power of the emperor to go his own way, he was afraid that as soon as he left, the aristocratic families of the Henan Group would dedicate the Luoyang Basin, Yuzhou, and Yanzhou to Zhang Wu.

Now the Henan Group has vested interests in Wei State. If Cao Pi is still willing to cooperate with them, they will certainly try their best to maintain Cao Pi's rule.Although Chu is now powerful, no one can guarantee what will happen in the future. Yuan Shao was so powerful back then that he was defeated by Cao Cao.

With the help of Zang Ba and Sun Guan, Zhang Wu easily took Xuzhou and Qingzhou, but he was unable to continue to attack Yanzhou and Yuzhou for the time being, because he needed to digest so much territory in a short period of time.

After Zhang Liao was taken to Xiangyang, he still refused to surrender, and his attitude was very firm. Even if Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others who had some friendship with Zhang Liao personally persuaded him to surrender, Zhang Liao would not surrender.

Zhang Wu knew that Zhang Liao was not a person like Yu Jin, so he did not force him. He just put him under house arrest until he defeated Cao Pi later.Jiang Qin was like this at the beginning, but after Sun Quan was destroyed, he finally surrendered.

Taking advantage of this truce, Zhang Wu carried out a round of military expansion, mainly the navy, because the navy was still needed for the next battle plan.Moreover, Zhang Wu feels that overseas expansion cannot be stopped. Anyway, the overall situation in China is basically settled. As long as he does not make the mistake of rushing for success and does not give Cao Pi a chance, at most he will spend a little more time.

After the military expansion, Zhang Wu ordered Lu Meng to lead the South China Sea Navy to return to the Yazhou naval base to continue overseas expansion. Now the main targets are the Philippines, Malaysia and other places.

In fact, Zhang Wu also knew that even if he included all those overseas countries into his territory, it would be difficult to manage such a large empire in the future with the transportation and communication conditions of this era.But his main purpose is to spread the seeds and spread the Han civilization, so that those places belonged to China in history.

Even if those countries take advantage of China's weakness in the future and seek independence one after another, after hundreds of years of cultural influence, those countries cannot do without this large circle of Han culture.And maybe after independence, the descendants of the Han nobles who were enfeoffed there would be in power, and they could take it back after China became strong again.

After finally traveling through time, I have to do something with my advanced knowledge.In Zhang Wu's heart, it doesn't matter even if those countries in the South China Sea finally become independent, but there are two places that he must firmly control and try his best to bring them into China's territory forever.

Of these two places, one is the country of Wa and the other is Goryeo.

Half a year later, in 220 A.D., Zhang Wu promulgated the second batch of enfeoffment orders. Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu, Fa Zheng, Kuai Yue, Lu Su, Huang Quan, Lu Xun and other advisers, Gan Ning, Chen Sun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, Lu Meng, Jiang Qin, Zhang Ren, Li Yan, Pang De, Zhou Tai, Yan Yan and other military generals, as well as Zang Ba and Sun Guan who presented Xuzhou and Qingzhou, and the former Wei State who presented the northern counties of Liangzhou The generals were all made marquises by cracking the soil.

Generals such as Gan Ning, Chen Sun, Lu Meng, Jiang Qin, and Zhou Tai all chose overseas territories as their fiefdoms, while Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun chose the grasslands in the north.

Since the Chu army has not yet attacked the grasslands in the north, the generals who chose the northern grasslands as fiefdoms will only be granted the qualifications to establish a marquis state for the time being, and will be awarded the Iron Scroll of Dan Shu. After the big Chu cavalry sweeps across the north, they will be divided manor.

This time, the enfeoffment has a wide range and a large number of personnel, which greatly inspired the Chu army's fighting will.And their great king also said that this world is very big, whether in the north or the south, or the east or the west, there are many, many lands that can be allocated to meritorious people.

Even a person who has been entrusted with a territory can still obtain another title and fief if his descendants make great achievements.

Regardless of their origins, as long as they have made great contributions to the expansion of China's territory, they can be granted the title of lord and establish a country.

The news came out, not to mention what happened to the wealthy families, poor families, and ordinary people in the Chu state, but the aristocratic families and common people who are still under the rule of the Wei state are shocked. Some northern families or Wei state generals and officials have secretly sent people to follow them. The aristocratic families, officials and generals of Chu State contacted.

Although Wei and Chu are hostile, the aristocratic families of both sides are very closely connected.One reason is that many aristocratic families have a marriage relationship, and many aristocratic families follow the principle of not putting all eggs in one basket, and the children of the family all serve different forces.

For example, the Zhuge family, which was deeply trusted and used by Zhang Wu, still has Zhuge Dan as an official in Wei State; and the Henan Group, which is in power in Wei State, also has many families that have sent their children to Chu State to serve as officials.

Another reason is that the commerce and trade of Chu State is very developed. Since Zhang Wu started to print and sell books, the wealthy families from the north and the south began to connect with each other to do business.Up to now, even the Cao family and Xiahou family have many high-ranking and powerful people who have very deep business relationships with the south.

For example, Cao Hong, the general of the Cao family and the hussar general of the Wei State, is a very money-loving and stingy person. His family's caravans often appear in Chengdu, Jingzhou, or Wujun, and even follow the Chu army. navy to trade overseas.There is also Xiahou Mao, an important figure of the Xiahou family, who is also very greedy for money, and his family caravan can even enter and leave Xiangyang freely!

In the spring of 220 A.D., the state of Chu assembled a horse-buying army of [-] in Guanzhong. Wei Yan, the deputy governor of the Chinese army's governor's office, was the commander in chief, Fazheng was the chief of staff, and Pang De, Zhang Ren, Li Yan, Ma Dai, Wu Lan, Wu Yi, Zhang Yi and others attacked Tongguan as generals.

At the same time, Gan Ning, the general of the Chu State and the governor of the five armies, gathered an army of [-] in Xuzhou to attack Yanzhou; Ding Feng, the governor of the right army, gathered [-] troops in Huainan to attack Runan; Gathered an army of [-] in Wancheng to attack Xuchang.

Xu Shu was sent by Zhang Wu to Huainan to coordinate the two armies.

The 40 troops of the Chu army besieged Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Luoyang south of the Yellow River in Wei from the east, west, and south, as if they wanted to defeat Cao Pi in one fell swoop.

For a time, everyone in the Wei Kingdom was terrified, and people in the court were also panic-stricken.

At this time, Jia Xu had died of illness, Cheng Yu was also beheaded by Zhang Wu, Cao Pi could only rely on Sima Yi.

But Sima Yi is also in a dilemma. Now it is the late stage, and the opponent is full of Liushen outfits. The two high ground towers on his side have been demolished, and the opponent's three lines of soldiers have all reached the high ground, and there are still two hanging on his side. The remaining three people haven't bought all the equipment yet!

How to fight this battle!Even if Sima Yi's ability is not weaker than Zhuge Liang, but he is not superhuman. Look at the opponent's lineup, and look around, there are a lot of kings!
I won’t mention this aspect of generals, just look at military advisors, there is Fa Zheng in Guanzhong, Pang Tong in Nanyang, Xu Shu in Huainan, any one of them is more than enough to deal with Sima Yi.

(End of this chapter)