At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

There are two reasons.

First, Yuan Shu will not allow Guo Peng to attack Xuzhou.

Second, Hebei has not yet been completely pacified, and Guo Peng will focus on Hebei in the next few years, not the Central Plains.

So to sum up, Tao Qian can safely hoard food and grass to recruit soldiers, prepare to eliminate the Mi family at the right time, and pull out the cancer in Xuzhou. Then, as for whether Qingzhou and Yanzhou should take advantage of the trend, that is the question that Tao Qian should think about up.

Does Tao Qian want to die in Xuzhou, or is he making further progress?

Tao Qian is old and strong. He has just lived his whole life. Although he is old now, he doesn't seem to want to be so silent.

After the meeting, Chen Deng calmly returned to his home and found his father, Chen Gui.

"Father, Tao Gongzu still wanted to be an enemy of Guo Zifeng, and he accepted it."

"yes."

The father and son looked at each other with the same smile on their faces.

The same treacherous and sly smile.

"Tao Gongzu is really old-fashioned? He is 62 years old, half of his body is buried in the ground, and he still wants to be an enemy of Guo Zifeng. Isn't this digging his own grave?"

Chen Gui was very emotional, and said: "Yuan Benchu ​​was born in the family of the fourth generation and the third lord, and all the old officials of the Yuan family in Hebei can be used by the Yuan family. Just like this, he was defeated by Guo Zifeng and ended up dead. Tao Gongzu Do you think you are stronger than Yuan Benchu?"

Chen Deng laughed mockingly.

"Father, it seems that Guo Zifeng is the strongest prince now. With the two states of Qing and Yan in his hands, plus the three states of Hebei, the thirteen states of Han Dynasty, and the five states in Guo Zifeng's hands, Guo Zifeng's momentum has been achieved, but Tao Gongzu sees it. If you don't know the situation and want to be an enemy of Guo Zifeng, our family can't follow Tao Gongzu to death."

"That's natural."

Chen Gui nodded and smiled: "No matter what Tao Gongzu wants to do, the survival of our Chen family comes first. If Tao Gongzu becomes an enemy of Guo Zifeng, he will seek his own death. We must not help each other. Yuanlong, you have to find a way Let Guo Zifeng know that our hearts are with him."

Chen Deng thought for a while, then nodded and smiled.

"The son understands what the father means."

Tao Qian is already an old man who can't keep up with the times, but he hasn't realized that the world is gradually going to chaos. In troubled times, the strong are respected, and Guo Zifeng has proved that he is an absolute strong.

Facing an absolute strong man, what can you do if you have been an official for 40 years?

It might be better to say that your 40 years of official career is not as good as Guo Zifeng's four years of progress.

In just four years, Guo Zifeng has occupied Yanzhou and the three states of Hebei one after another by virtue of Qingzhou. This ability is amazing no matter how you look at it.

I don't know where I can go in the future.

But this does not prevent the Chen family from choosing Guo Peng to join him.

Because Chen Gui really hated Yuan Shu.

This guy who likes to use indiscriminate means, he uses all kinds of means, kidnapping, assassination, robbery, like a bandit, not aboveboard at all.

I really don't know how the Runan Yuan family, who has four generations and three generations, cultivated such a son!

Chapter 366 Five Liu Yan is critically ill

Chen Gui thought, no matter what, he must establish contact with Guo Peng.

From the bottom of his heart, Chen Gui didn't think that Guo Peng, who had already occupied the land of five states, was willing to live under Yuan Shu.

After defeating Yuan Shao just now, Guo Peng should be ambitious and full of fighting spirit.

Some people think that Yuan Shu is the number one in the world now, it is definitely Yuan Shu, it will not be anyone else, and there is no one in the world who can compete with Yuan Shu.

But Chen Gui felt that the person who could compete with Yuan Shu was beside Yuan Shu.

If Yuan Shu really had evil intentions, would Guo Peng follow him all the way to the dark side?

It is said that Xun Yu, who was born in the Xun family of Yingchuan, became an official beside Guo Peng and was very trusted by Guo Peng.

Perhaps, there is no certainty that something interesting will happen in the future.

There is indeed a little trouble on Tao Qian's side, a little problem, but for Guo Peng who has been in Xuzhou for many years, Tao Qian is just a small problem, not a big deal at all.

Compared with Tao Qian, the Southern Huns and Liu Biao were more threatening.

In March of the first year of Xingping, envoys sent by Jia Xu arrived in Jingzhou and Taiyuan County of Bingzhou one after another.

In Jingzhou, the envoys of the imperial court named Liu Biao the general of Zhennan, which strengthened Liu Biao's authority and reputation, and gave Liu Biao the righteous name to counter Yuan Shu and Guo Peng.

Liu Biao was very clear about the imperial envoy's intentions. He knew exactly what Li Jue and Jia Xu's gang were up to, and it was nothing more than Guo Peng and Yuan Shu's affairs.

But I have to say that Liu Biao was also very worried.

Guo Peng destroyed Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu Group dominated Hebei and the Central Plains, and the threat increased greatly. Liu Biao lost his northern allies, panicked, and worried about what more Yuan Shu would do.

For example, after Liu Yao is eliminated, he will definitely go south to attack Jingzhou with Guo Peng to avenge Sun Jian's murder.

Liu Biao still had a good idea in his heart, knowing that he could not make peace with Yuan Shu, and Guo Peng might not pay attention to him, so he knew very well that he had to get close to the Chang'an court, form an alliance with the Chang'an court, and use their righteous name to fight against the Yuan Shu Group .

Now the situation in the world has changed, and it has gradually evolved into the Guandong Group headed by Yuan Shu against the Chang'an court headed by the Liangzhou Army.

On the surface, the Guandong Group followed the orders of the Chang'an court, but in fact they despised the orders of the Chang'an court. The Chang'an court could not control the few bigwigs of the Kanto group. Therefore, the Chang'an court had to choose foreign aid to contain the Guandong group. Otherwise, Yuan Shu would send troops to Guanzhong to destroy it took them.

With Guo Peng's fierceness, this is not impossible.

Liu Biao naturally had no opinion on accepting the imperial court's appointment, and he accepted it decisively, but Liu Biao was hesitant about whether to obey the order of the Chang'an imperial court and send troops to help Liu Yao counter Yuan Shu.

So Liu Biao also summoned his subordinates to discuss the matter.

Among Liu Biao's subordinates, there are four people who are the most resourceful and powerful.

They are Kuaiyue and Kuailiang, sons of the Kuai clan in Xiangyang, a big clan in Jingzhou.

And Cai Mao, the son of the Cai family in Xiangyang, a wealthy family in Jingzhou.

The last one is the nightmare of the Sun family who killed Sun Jian back then, Huang Zu, the son of the Jiangxia Huang clan, who was also a big clan in Jingzhou.

However, Huang Zu guarded Jiangxia all the year round and did not often serve as military counselors. Liu Biao was often accompanied by Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang and Cai Mao.

When Liu Biao went south to Jingzhou, he rode alone to Jingzhou. That is to say, Liu Biao didn't have a basic board around him, only the reputation of eight chefs.

He himself was relatively bachelor, and by chance, Dong Zhuo appointed him as the governor of Jingzhou, and he took office in a hurry. If it weren't for the help of Kuai and Cai, he wouldn't even be able to come to Jingzhou.

The first pot of gold he came to Jingzhou was also saved with the help of the Kuai family and the Cai family. He wiped out the thieves who occupied many places in Jingzhou at that time, established the first army, and then with the help of these two families Only by occupying Xiangyang and Jiangling can they be regarded as gaining a firm foothold.

For this reason, he also married Cai's daughter who contributed the most money as his stepwife.

Liu Biao's Jingzhou Group is such a special existence. The people in power are all locals, and most of the soldiers are locals.

He doesn't have his own generals like Cao Cao, he doesn't have Zang Ba and Cao Bao like Tao Qian, he doesn't have Lu Su, Zhou Yu, Lu Meng and Tai Shici like Sun Quan, and he doesn't have Dongzhou soldiers like Liu Yan and his son.

He has no high-level officials in Jingzhou who are not from Jingzhou to help him, so Liu Biao needs to rely on Cai and Kuai when encountering problems.

It's the same now, Liu Biao asked Kuailiang, Kuaiyue and Cai Mao about this matter very worriedly, asking if he wanted to help the Chang'an court against the Yuan Shu Group, and really sent troops.

Cai and Kuai also attached great importance to this kind of matter.

A careless confrontation with the strongest vassal group, regardless of life or death, this kind of thing is extremely risky no matter how you look at it.

"The court in Chang'an just wanted to kill people with a knife. They were very worried that after Yuan Shao's fall, Yuan Shu would send troops to the west to attack Guanzhong, so they hoped that we and Liu Yao would restrain Yuan Shu. We fought with Yuan Shu, and they would reap the benefits. "

Kuai Yue was quite disdainful about this: "How can there be such a good thing in the world? Minggong, the position can be taken over, and the sending of troops is still avoided. Yuan Shu's momentum is too strong, we still continue to wait and see.

Liu Biao still trusted Kuai Yue, and Liu Biao also attached great importance to his opinions.

At the beginning, Kuai Yue was also an official in the capital, and he was an official under He Jin's command. He tried his best to dissuade He Jin from recruiting Dong Zhuo to the capital, but He Jin refused to listen. , fled back to Jingzhou, and escaped unharmed.

And Kuai Liang also has a similar opinion.

"The strategy of borrowing a knife to kill people is fine if you use it once, but if you use it more times, it's no longer a strategy."

Kuai Liang was referring to what happened to Sun Jian back then, but Liu Biao remained silent.

To be honest, it's not that Liu Biao doesn't want to go north and expand his power, it's just that there are too many obstacles in every aspect, and he has to.

If there is a way, Liu Biao will not refuse.

Cai Mao looked at the silent Liu Biao, and suddenly said: "Ming Gong, some time ago, there was news from Yizhou that Liu Junlang was critically ill, and the situation was very bad. The people of Yizhou were discussing who should be the governor of Yizhou. Mu's successor, isn't this the time for us to enter Yizhou?"

Liu Yan is critically ill?

Liu Biao stared.

Two years ago, Liu Yan made the emperor's crown and the emperor's carriage in Yizhou. Liu Biao once went to the imperial court to play Liu Yan.

However, at that time Liu Yan sent Zhang Lu to kill Su Gu, the former prefect of Hanzhong, and occupy Hanzhong, cutting off the road from Guanzhong to Yizhou.

But the court at that time was already Dong Zhuo's court, and Dong Zhuo's court would not pay attention to this kind of thing. Instead, Liu Yan's son Liu Zhang was sent to Shu to inquire about the situation. As a result, Liu Zhang was left behind by Liu Yan and never went back.

Of course, Dong Zhuo's mind is not in Yizhou, but in Kanto.

It is true that the world was in chaos before Shu was in chaos, and the world was already in peace before Shu was in peace.

chapter 367

The traffic situation in Shu is so bad that the central government of all dynasties has always been incapable of controlling Shu.

It has not been a day or two since Liu Biao coveted Yizhou, and he really wanted to occupy the treasure land of Yizhou, but Liu Yan was indeed not easy to deal with.

But last year, Liu Yan's eldest son and second son who stayed in the court participated in the plan for Ma Teng and Han Sui to attack Li Jue. After Li Jue defeated, he executed Liu Yan's eldest son and second son. I can't afford to be sick.

Now Liu Yan is critically ill, and he is about to die. No matter who inherits Liu Yan's position, Shu will be in chaos for a while. Isn't this a good time to make troubles?

So Liu Biao immediately put aside the matter of going to war with Yuan Shu, and began to think about how to do things in Yizhou.

Of course, before doing anything, make sure that Liu Yan is really dead, and then find a way to do something.

Liu Biao's energy was concentrated on this aspect, and he ignored Jia Xu and the Chang'an court.

But on the other hand, Yu Fuluo, who was in Taiyuan County, was very interested in Jia Xu's edict.

In the edict, Jia Xu not only promised to give Ufulo a lot of money, food, cloth and women.

Not only that, but he also promised Yu Fuluo that as long as Guo Peng’s power in Bingzhou could be defeated, and he would go further south to occupy Hanoi, he would immediately order Yu Fuluo to be the Shanyu of the Southern Huns and allow Yu Fuluo to return to the Southern Huns to succeed him. .

Jia Xu also said that in order to help Yu Fuluo defeat Guo Peng's forces in Bingzhou, he also sent troops to assist Yu Fuluo to prevent him from fighting alone and ensure his victory.

Yang Feng, who was originally a general of the Baibo army, and later defected to Li Jue after the death of the leader Guo Tai, followed Li Jue's order and led [-] troops back to Baibo Valley to appease Han Siam, Li Le, Hu Cai and others, and combined [-] troops The rest of us, come and help Yu Fuluo.

The Southern Xiongnu moved to the mainland from the Western Han Dynasty, and the Eastern Han Dynasty went further. Until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they had already occupied many counties in the Yellow River Basin.

In the entire Bingzhou, only Shangdang County was under the control of Guo Peng. The rest were either controlled by local clans or controlled by Yu Fuluo and the Baibo army. Further north was Shanyuting of the Southern Huns, and the surrounding counties were all controlled by the Southern Huns.

Although Yu Fuluo is not the Shanyu of the Southern Huns and cannot use all the power of the Southern Huns, the joint Baibo Army is entrenched in Xihe County and Taiyuan County, and there are tens of thousands of Yu Fuluo and Baibo Army's coalition forces. The momentum is not small .

At the beginning, Yu Fuluo was not allowed to return to the Southern Huns, so he had no choice but to make a living by plundering and plundering people everywhere in Hebei.

When Guo Peng went south from Shanggu County to Luoyang, he happened to bump into a cavalry of the Southern Huns to plunder the local people. The Huns forged a grudge.

This time Guo Peng entered Hebei without entering Yu Fuluo's sphere of influence at the beginning, and Yu Fuluo didn't respond.

But when Guo Peng ordered Zang Hong and Zhang Yan to enter Shangdang County and occupy it, and then began to spy on the situation in other counties of Bingzhou, Yu Fuluo became vigilant.

Guo Peng has a grudge against him, this is very certain in Fuluo.

Now it seems that Guo Peng is also an enemy, not a friend. In this case, it is better to join forces with the Chang'an court to attack Guo Peng.

Anyway, this can be regarded as following the order of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and it is justified. Afterwards, he can regain the status of the Southern Huns Shanyu, so why not do it?

So Yu Fuluo began intensive preparations for the war.

Under the coordination of Yang Feng, the two armies of Baibo Army and Yu Fuluo Army jointly mobilized troops and horses, prepared dry food, and ready to go south to show Guo Peng some color.

Such a large-scale movement was naturally detected by Zang Hong and Zhang Yan. In April of the first year of Xingping, Zang Hong and Zhang Yan conveyed this information to Guo Peng.

At that time, Guo Peng was immersed in the joy that Cao Lan and Mi Zhen each gave birth to a son for him.

Conceived in October, Cao Lan and Mi Zhen each gave birth to a son in March of the first year of Xingping, only a few days apart.

Overjoyed, Guo Peng invited his family to have a feast together, and then named his two sons A Jian and A Kang respectively.

Counting these two, 29-year-old Guo Peng is the father of four children, all of whom are sons.

For men at this time, this is undoubtedly a very face-saving thing.