At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 490. 490 From then on, the Huns are no longer in trouble

Guo Peng treated the heads of all the prominent figures in the Southern Huns with lime, and sent them to Hongnong together with the heads of Guiyi Shanyu to ask for rewards from the court.

The reason is to clear up the century-old border troubles for the imperial court, and the Xiongnu will no longer be troubled by them.

The Hongnong Court is now Guo Peng's cash machine. Whatever Guo Peng wants, they will do. So Guo Peng attached the list of prefects and county magistrates he wants to appoint, and the Hongnong Court will agree if they don't agree.

Otherwise, someone from Guo can send troops to the north to attack the Southern Huns, and he can still conquer Hongnong in the south.

The more than [-] and [-] soldiers of the Southern Huns are not Guo Peng's opponents, let alone other people?

The battle was resolved in one month, and until the end of November, Wei General Cao Xiu arrived at Jilusai, the westernmost side of Shuofang County, to reset the defenders.

Xu Huang's troops were ordered to cross the wasteland and arrived at the desolate and dilapidated Sanfeng County, completing the exploration and recovery of Shuofang County.

At the same time, Cao Ren also led [-] soldiers and horses to successfully capture Yanmen and Dingxiang counties, beheaded nearly [-] miscellaneous barbarians, captured more than [-] people, and captured more than [-] livestock.

Then Cao Ren followed Guo Peng's order to kill the old and the weak. The young and strong men were assigned as coolies, and the young and strong women were included in the Han nationality, recorded in the household registration, and brought into the mainland.

Xia Houyuan also conquered Yunzhong County according to the established plan, beheaded more than [-] people of various ethnic groups, captured more than [-] people, and captured more than [-] livestock. He also followed Guo Peng's orders.

During the entire military operation, intimidated by Guo Peng's mighty military power, all the organized Xianbei retreated from the Wei army, and fled within the range of Yanmen County and Yunzhong County.

The terrified Xianbei people scouted the Wei army from a long distance, and then ran north desperately, not daring to confront the Wei army at all, for fear of a war and being swept away by the Wei army, it would be bloody bad luck.

Wei Jun wiped out the miscellaneous people who illegally occupied the land in the territory, freed up the living space, and prepared to redeploy the defense according to Guo Peng's order.

These lands may be desolate, with barren soil, or even deserts. They cannot grow food, cannot immigrate and live, and have no economic value. However, the occupation of land should not only be based on economic value, but also military and political value.

With these seemingly desolate lands, it is equivalent to having a strategic buffer zone.

The enemy's invasion would have to cross the buffer zone, instead of directly entering economic zones and densely populated areas to wreak havoc, and moreover, they would have to bear the risk of lengthening logistical supply lines and being cut off.

This is another sense of keeping the enemy out of the country without compromising the country's population or disrupting the production order, which can indirectly reduce a large number of war losses. Encounters are cheaper.

We can't just rely on the Great Wall for defense, but go out of the Great Wall, expand the control area to the grassland, and build a mobile Great Wall.

The area outside the Great Wall will be built as the second Great Wall, and the economic zone and densely populated area south of the Great Wall will be used as a logistics base, and reliable transportation routes will be built to supply supplies and support operations ahead. Dense areas will be preserved.

It is much easier to destroy than to build.

On November 27th of the third year of Xingping, Guo Peng led his army back to Taiyuan County, ending this seemingly sudden war.

Bingzhou was completely brought under the rule of Guo Peng.

The five prefectures of Yunzhong, Wuyuan, Dingxiang, Yanmen, and Shuofang have been gradually occupied by the Southern Huns, Karasuma, and miscellaneous Huns of various ethnic groups since the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Today, it has exceeded a Jiazi.

Guo Peng will put Bingzhou back under the strict control of the government, reset the prefect and garrison of the nine counties of Bingzhou, and still use Zang Hong as the governor of Bingzhou to organize reconstruction and economic construction.

With more than [-] captured Xiongnu, Karasuma, and Zahu Qingzhuang as labor force, construction was carried out slowly, and the pattern of villages, counties and counties was similar to that of inland counties.

Because without the intervention of powerful landlords and gentry, Guo Peng's control over Bingzhou is all-round, and he can easily carry out his will to the end. With the 50 million captured livestock as his confidence, Guo Peng officially assigned the task to Zang Hong asked Zang Hong to start preparations for the horse administration and raise horses in Bingzhou.

In the past, Guo Peng bought horses from Karasuma people, and then transported them to the Central Plains. The good ones were kept for himself to fight, and the ones that were close were used for transportation, and the ones that were close were sold to Yuan Shu, Liu Biao and Jiangdong people. , earn high profits, very bad.

This time, Guo Peng no longer needs to continue to spend a lot of money to buy horses from Karasuma people, but can run his own horse farm.

There is a vast grassland for raising horses. Guo Peng plans to train a large number of cavalry in Bingzhou to prepare for his subsequent advances in Guanzhong, Kanxi and Liangzhou, as well as the Northern Expedition to Xianbei.

Raising horses in the north, training the navy in the south, and working hard to store food and grass in the fields, Guo Peng's war preparations never stopped for a moment. He worked hard and fought endlessly.

Possessing this advantage is still not the end of Guo Peng, and the construction of Bingzhou will take time, because it has been severely damaged and it is relatively difficult to restore.

Compared with Bingzhou, Youzhou is relatively well preserved in all aspects. He also started his business in Youzhou and is more familiar with the situation in Youzhou.

So the next step is to target the Xianbei people in Yanbian, Youzhou.

The situation in Youzhou is quite special.

His rule over Youzhou was more of a nominal one, using Youzhou's local tyrants as the governor of Youzhou. On the surface, he held great power, but in fact it was the union of many powerful families.

Yuan Shao won the cooperation of some people, Guo Peng eliminated that part of people, and the remaining half survived well, and he made a great contribution to "mastering" Youzhou. He was rewarded by Guo Peng and continued to live. their days.

There are a lot of tyrants like Mi and Li with more than [-] people in Youzhou, and the Xianyu he appointed is a large tycoon with [-] people.

Big and small, there are more than 100 people in total, and the number of people in their hands is more than twice the number of self-cultivating farmers on the government register.

Don't underestimate the population of Youzhou. During the melee in the Central Plains after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo Rebellion, nearly one million people fled from the Hebei area of ​​the Central Plains to Youzhou for refuge.

Although some of them returned later, hundreds of thousands of them still stayed in Youzhou, which greatly expanded the population of Youzhou.

A considerable part of this part of the population turned to the local tyrants in Youzhou to survive, and the power of the local tyrants in Youzhou increased greatly. Gongsundu, who occupied Liaodong and became king himself, was one of the biggest beneficiaries of this wave of immigration.

So Youzhou's problem is really not small.

Guo Peng actually maintained his influence and part of his control over Zhuo County, Shanggu County, Dai County, and Guangyang County.

Shanggu Commandery and Dai Commandery still have a considerable part of Nanlou's forces, while Guangyang County mainly relies on the Xianyu clan's power to control it. After all, he has no advantage at all, except for Zhuo County.

chapter 491 .490 a world of fission

In Zhuojun, Guo Peng used Du Xi as the prefect, and Wei Guo Zhenbei General Zhang Fei served as the garrison of Zhuojun, with a garrison of [-] troops, and his control over Zhuojun was still in place.

Thanks to the efforts of Du Xi and the rural grassroots government, Zhuojun's farmland has also developed well. Now Zhuojun has stockpiled a considerable part of grain and grass, and the roads have been repaired relatively well. It will not be too big for the attack on Gongsundu in the future. question.

Attacking Bingzhou is easy to solve, the reason is easy to find, and there is no need to worry about anything, because Bingzhou is mainly composed of foreign forces, Guo Peng is tantamount to expelling the barbarians and restoring the Han land, which makes sense.

Youzhou is different, purely military means will not work, Guo Peng needs to use political means to weaken the strength of these powerful clans.

But political means need military means as an excuse. For Youzhou, there are two excuses that can be used.

One is Xianbei, and the other is Gongsun Du who claims to be the Marquis of Liaodong Pingzhou.

With Gongsun Du's presence, Guo Peng is still very happy.

He is ambitious, and his heart of disobedience is obvious. As long as he declares it a little, he can immediately define Gongsun Du as a traitor of a big man, label him a traitor, and then attack him logically.

The Xianbei people are similar, Xianbei does not submit to the Han Dynasty, and is hostile to the Han Dynasty. When to crusade against Xianbei, it is a matter of one sentence, and there is no need for a righteous name.

With the two excuses of Gongsundu and Xianbei people, Guo Peng was able to mobilize troops in Youzhou conveniently.

This is the same as when Qiu Liju was killed in order to avenge Nanlou. With that excuse, Guo Peng ordered Xianyufu to organize Youzhou soldiers and Nanlou to attack Qiu Liju together, completely annihilating Qiu Liju's power .

This time, Guo Peng's goal was to use the pretext of attacking Gongsundu or the Xianbei people to recruit Youzhou soldiers to fight, and to call on Youzhou tyrants to contribute. While eliminating the threat, it could also consume Youzhou tyrants' power.

Along the way, he could easily kill some Hu people who were not long-sighted in the Liaodong vassal state.

Destroy the enemy and weaken the strength of the tyrants and the gentry, and no one will have the excuse to be qualified and able to prevent himself from ascending to the position of supreme under heaven.

The Duke of Wei can soon be upgraded to the Kingdom of Wei, or even the Empire of Wei.

Guo Peng's heart was burning.

And at this time, Cheng Yu sent someone to deliver a letter, telling Guo Peng what happened when Guo Peng crusade against the Xiongnu in Bingzhou.

First of all, of course, what happened to Hongnong.

Duan Yan and Zhang Ji used terror and military oppression to subdue the scholars, killed some exposed royalists, and completely took the initiative.

So when Guo Peng arrived in Taiyuan County, in early September, they started.

They issued an imperial edict to the outside world, saying that the emperor felt that Duan Yan and Zhang Jili had contributed to protecting the Han Dynasty during Yuan Shu's rebellion, and thought that Duan Yan and Zhang Ji had saved the emperor's carriage and had contributed to saving the emperor. The emperor was very moved, so It was decided to reward Duan Yao and Zhang Ji.

The Son of Heaven promoted Zhang Ji to be the Duke, titled "Yong".

Then the Son of Heaven promoted Duan Yan to be the Duke, titled "Yu", and quasi-feuded the state to establish the Duke of Yu, and became the king of the Duke of Yu.

The establishment of Yong State and Yu State divided the land of Guanzhong into two parts. Emperor Han only retained a piece of land near Hongnong City in name, but in fact this land was also divided by Zhang Ji and Duan Yan.

The Son of Heaven has nothing left, only a name left, the name of a thousand-tested lark.

When Hongnong Chaotang learned of this, there was still a storm.

Many scholars could not accept this situation. They could not accept this situation, which was no different from flipping the table, completely abandoning the interests and inner feelings of the gentry.

Two older veterans couldn't control their emotions. They desperately tried to hit Duan Yan and Zhang Ji with the wat board in their hands.

Zhang Ji was born as a military general, so these scholars could not resist, so Zhang Ji drew his sword and went forward, stabbing one person to death, hacking another person to death, and blood spattered the court.

Then Duan Yan called the guards to enter the court hall, arrested the 22 courtiers who jumped out to oppose, pushed them all out of the gate of the palace, and beheaded them on the spot, and arrested their family members and wiped them out.

The Liangzhou soldiers of the brigade scattered out, broke into the mansions of these courtiers, arrested their wives, children, parents and concubines, and arrested their clansmen, killing their families and clansmen together.

More than 600 people were killed in one day.

The bloody political cleansing scared the courage of all the remaining courtiers, and no one dared to resist anymore. The Shang Shutai, who was shocked by the steel knife, immediately passed this resolution, making Zhang Ji and Duan Wei the two of them. The order was officially announced to the world.

However, after killing so many people in one breath, Zhang Ji and Duan Yan felt that there was indeed a lot of resistance in doing so. There were so many opponents in the court they tamed, not to mention other warlord forces. .

The two immediately felt that what Jia Xu said before was very reasonable, and the people of the world would definitely resist. For their own safety, Zhang Ji and Duan Yan immediately took out the countermeasures and announced them to the public without hesitation.

Liu Zhang, the Mu of Yizhou, was granted the title of King of Shu, and Yizhou was allowed to be the fiefdom to establish the Kingdom of Shu.

Liu Biao, the Mu of Jingzhou and the general of Zhennan, was granted the title of King of Chu, and Jingzhou was granted the fiefdom to establish the Kingdom of Chu.

Liu Yao, the general of Yangzhou Mu and Zhenwu, was named King of Yue, and Yuzhang County and Kuaiji County were allowed to be fiefs to establish the Kingdom of Yue.

Xuzhou Mu and Annan General Tao Qian were named Xugong, and Xuzhou counties were allowed to be feudal lands to establish Xugong.

General Sun Ce of Fenwu was granted the title of Duke Wu, and Wu Jun and Danyang Commanderies were allowed to be fiefs to establish the Duke of Wu.

Pull everyone into the water together, no one is clean, and no one should say anything about anyone, unless you are really a loyal minister of the big man, and you have nothing to do with power, fame and fortune.

The news that was enough to shock the world was released when there were no opposing forces in the Hongnong court, and a large number of order cavalry scattered out. As they scattered, the world also faintly fell apart.

From body to soul, all-round split.

Yang Biao didn't live in Hongnong City, but lived in the suburbs, so he got the news a little later. When he got the news, he was eating porridge under Yang Xiu's service.

In the past few days, his spirit has improved a little, and he is waiting to recover his body to get out of bed and walk, but he didn't eat a few mouthfuls of porridge, and the shocking news came.

Hearing the news, Yang Biao was stunned on the spot, Yang Xiu was taken aback, let go of his hand, the bowl fell to the ground and broke, and the steaming porridge spilled all over the floor.

Duan Yan and Zhang Ji wanted to be promoted to the title of Duke, and they wanted to establish a country and become the king like Guo Peng. Some people opposed it. Zhang Ji and Duan Ji were very angry and killed 22 courtiers in one go. More than 600 people were recruited, and by the way, it was announced that the world would be sealed off.

In the past, Guo Peng was only cautiously sealed, and people in the world have conflicting feelings.

On the one hand, Guo Peng has a good reputation, and Guo Peng's military achievements are too great, so he can indeed be sealed, but he feels that there is no precedent, it is inappropriate, and his emotions are very contradictory.

But since Guo Peng has accepted it, they have no way to object. It doesn't hurt to talk to Guo Peng, and none of his subordinates object. Look at this matter as hot news.

It is a new thing to think that someone established a state and became a king in the Han Empire, so I don't comment on it.

Not so now.

Zhang Ji's Yong Kingdom, Duan Yan's Yu Duke, Tao Qian's Xu Duke, Sun Ce's Wu Duke, Liu Yao's Yue Kingdom, Liu Biao's Chu Kingdom, Liu Zhang's Shu Kingdom, and Guo Peng's Wei Duke.

Eight countries!Eight countries!

Eight countries stand side by side!

The world is split.

Chapter 492

Knowing that such a thing happened, as a traditional scholar who insisted on taking the central line, Yang Biao's emotional outburst was not incomprehensible.

This kind of behavior is not only challenging the bottom line of the interests of scholars, but also challenging their bottom line of emotion.

"What the hell are Zhang Ji and Duan Yan going to do! What are they going to do———!!"

Yang Biao's canthus cracked, and he shouted so loudly.

Then suddenly his whole body twitched, his neck twitched, his complexion became red and purple, and white froth oozed from the corner of his mouth.

"Father! Father! Father!!! Come! Call the doctor! Come call the doctor!!"

Yang Xiu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. Looking at his father who was twitching all over, he only knew to ask his servants to call the doctor, but he didn't know what to do.

Not long after, Yang Biao died.