The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 428

Back then when I followed Liu Tao to fight against the rebels, that kind of surprise attack is still fresh in my memory.But also because of that time, I understood that Liu Tao is a disciple of the Xian family, a special existence, and that level of surprise attack is just a routine operation.

Because of this, I don't want to be an enemy of this kind of person, it's too troublesome.

It's just that he accepts Sima Fang's suggestion and has actually controlled the four south counties of Jingzhou. At the same time, he is planning to continue encroaching on the four north counties of Jingzhou. If he succeeds, then Liu Biao will be his puppet.

At the same time, they could go further east and attack Yuzhang County. Sima Fang did not recommend going south. Even if Jiaozhou was defeated, it would be meaningless because the population there was too small.Not only can't feedback, but also needs constant support, which is a hindrance.

Now he is similar to Shi Xie, serving as the prefect of Changsha himself, and then taking his nephew Sun Ben as the prefect of Wuling, Sun Ben's younger brother Sun Fu as the prefect of Lingling, and Wu Jing as the prefect of Guiyang.The prefect of Nansi County is either his Sun family or a relative of the Sun family.

The most important thing was Sima Fang's help. Not to mention the gentry and gentry of the four southern counties, the gentry of the four northern counties also vaguely expressed their goodwill to him.Sun Jian couldn't extricate himself from the temptation of calling himself king or emperor.

At the same time, the main reason why he couldn't join Liu Tao's command was that he treated the gentry very harshly.At least after the spread of those measures under his rule, his reputation among the scholars in the world is not very good.

Sun Jian was able to gain a firm foothold in the four southern counties because of the support of the scholars. It can even be said that his power was largely supported by the help of the scholars.Once you get too close to Liu Tao, it is very likely that you will get back to your original shape overnight.

This was the result he didn't want to see, and he didn't want to accept!

So even if he hesitated for a moment, in the end his attitude was still very firm.Liu Tao didn't know what happened to him in Changsha, and felt that he was alienated from him a lot, and it was meaningless to continue the chat, so he could only say goodbye after a few pleasantries.

"That guy Sun Jian, what's going on?" Liu Tao had to say something casually when he left.

"He has come here on behalf of Jingzhou Shepherd Liu Biao, and he has already explained a lot of things." Guo Jia thought for a while and replied.

"I didn't expect that even Jiangdong Tigers couldn't escape their desire for power." Chen Gong beside him joked.

Haven't escaped?Liu Tao thought for a while, could it be that in history, when Sun Jian got the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom, he really had thoughts that he shouldn't have?But it is not surprising that the Sun family has been officials in Wu for generations, and it is said that they are descendants of Sun Tzu.Sun Wu was from the state of Qi, and later became a Wu minister. In Sun's genes, perhaps he did not regard himself as a Han minister... It is not impossible.

At least, since Sun Jian took the lead, Sun Ce began to separate Jiangdong, and Sun Quan became the emperor directly.The country name is actually 'Wu'. Is it because the main political center is in Wu, or the country name 'Chu' is easy to attract hatred, or it has been fighting the Yue people for a long time, so the country name 'Yue' is denied... ...or, is there a deeper reason?

Sometimes history is like this. The deeper you dig, the more things you didn't notice before will be discovered.

In the past, when Liu Tao looked at the Three Kingdoms, he only looked at the period of the Three Kingdoms at the end of Han Dynasty.But jumping out of the period of the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, and continuing to trace upwards, it seems that we can see more and different scenery.

"People have their own aspirations, and there is no way to be friends, so we are destined to meet each other on the battlefield in the future." Liu Tao said casually, although he didn't want to fight a civil war as a national war, but there are no two days and no two kings, I just hope They don't want to claim the emperor rashly, so at least there is still the possibility of becoming friends after the war.

Obviously, external expansion is the correct way for a nation to develop. Why is everyone obsessed with this small fish pond in the Central Plains?

Probably the reason is also understandable. It is nothing more than that the south of the Yangtze River is a wild area, full of undeveloped forests, and there are also a large number of mountains and mountains distributed among them.The land is vast and sparsely populated, and it feels that there is no value for development, and it is very difficult to survive.

To the east is the sea, anyway, before there is no way to sail across the ocean, the coast is the end of the world; Needless to say, to the north, the colder the winter, the era when there is no cotton, the winter will definitely freeze to death, and there is no way to survive; As far as Central Asia and West Asia, most of them are desert terrain, which is not suitable for survival.

Perhaps in the eyes of people of this era, the most suitable place for Chinese people to live is the Central Plains, the two-river civilization area.Or, only by establishing a country here can China be considered orthodox, and the population itself is not large, so naturally there is no need to explore and colonize outside.

"So the first thing to solve is the population problem..." Liu Tao murmured, Huaxia, which has fed fourteen or even 15 billion people in later generations, now only needs to feed less than 5000 million people. It is said that the population data on the surface is [-].

In later generations, 5000 million people, that is, the combined population of the three municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.If the attrition caused by the Yellow Turban Rebellion is included, the combined population of Beijing and Shanghai is about the same.

With this population, not to mention going out to colonize, the development of Jiangnan is a problem.If you count the follow-up civil wars among all parties, even if a new regime is established, it will take 40 or even 5000 years to reproduce and restore the population base of [-] million.

In my lifetime, I might be able to bully Buyeo, Goguryeo, and Samhan, or even go to Tsushima Island and go to Kyushu Island for fun.It may be difficult to go all the way west to the Roman Empire, at most it is to open up trade routes.

Liu Tao looked at the magic tower deep in his consciousness, unfortunately, this is a magic tower.If it is a main city of the game, it would be nice to be able to recruit soldiers once a week. If it is a human city, even if there are soldiers like farmers, even if there are only 25 to [-] soldiers a week, the problem of insufficient population can be supplemented by continuous recruitment.

"Deran, I haven't seen you for a few years!" At the beginning of the conversation, a person stepped forward to say hello, and that was Liu Bei, Liu Tao's elder brother.

"Brother Xuande, I haven't seen you for many years!" Liu Tao smiled slightly at him, "Where is the high school now?"

"There's no such thing as a high degree. When I arrived in Youbeiping, under Gongsun Zan's command, I became a Sima of a certain department." Liu Bei laughed at himself, "At first, Liu Inspector (Liu Yan) invited me to Yizhou, but at that time I was already the magistrate of Anxi County. , and didn’t follow.”

As a result, the follow-up supervisor came to ask for bribes, but he didn't have any money, so he whipped him thirty times angrily, and then left with a seal.

During this period, he ran around the world, served under Wu Qiuyi's command, and served as the magistrate of Xiami County for a while. The local clan and gentry were powerful, and he had no real power, so he resigned angrily.The governor, Gong Jingxicai, transferred him to Gaotang Ling, but within a few days of taking office, the remnants of the Yellow Turban broke through Gaotang County and had to leave again, and finally went to Gongsun Zan's command to beg for food.

It's not that he doesn't want to be stable, it's just that the news keeps coming that this brother who was not as good as him in the past has not only become a disciple of the Immortal Clan, but also a general of Yulin Zhonglang with a rank of two thousand stones, or the prefect of Yunzhong , General Zhenbei's...

Compared with him, my grades are nothing at all, so I feel aggrieved and can't do anything well.

When we meet again, the world is already in chaos. A certain person is already Bingzhou Mu, Zhengbei General, Pinghou, and he is still a Sima of a certain department.As far as the current situation is concerned, I don't know where he will go in the end. It really makes him envious and helpless.

"If it's uncomfortable over there, why don't you come to Bingzhou?" Liu Tao said with a smile, "You are my elder brother, no matter what, I won't treat you badly."

In the past, he was joking like this on the surface, but in fact he hoped that Liu Bei would not come over, so as not to be poached.Now he is calmer, or more open-minded, probably because his identity is different, and his mentality is also different...

Chapter 429 The Current Situation of the Clans and Kings of the Han Dynasty

After saying these words calmly, Liu Tao also felt a lot more relaxed.I don't know when it started, but there is no need to take Liu Bei too seriously.

"Now Youzhou Mu is very supportive to me, and I am so grateful for his support, I dare not abandon him." Liu Bei sighed, "If I can't get along in Youzhou in the future, I have to go to Bingzhou to bother Deran. I don’t ask for a high official or generous salary, but I just ask for a meal.”

So it turned out that Liu Yu began to focus on training Liu Bei... Maybe because he is a Han family clan relative and a classmate of Gongsun Zan, and being caught in the middle can just lubricate the relationship between the two parties.

Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan, one is a dove, the other is a hawk, and their attitudes towards Hu people are just the opposite.In history, Gongsun Zan even killed Liu Yu and became the shepherd of Youzhou himself, but it is estimated to be difficult now, after all, it is no different from open rebellion.

It should be said that the current situation has, on the contrary, curbed some of Gongsun Zan's bad thoughts.However, being the prefect of Youbeiping under Liu Yu's command, it is certain that he will feel aggrieved.In fact, he is also pushing Liu Bei, otherwise Liu Bei would not appear in front of Liu Yu.

Gongsun Zan's idea is also very simple, let Liu Bei replace Liu Yu, so there will be no problems.

At that time, he is Liu Bei's subordinate in name, but in fact we are two princes, and even Liu Bei can be emptied by him.The two worked together to defeat the three counties in Hebei. Looking at the situation in the world, the two had already agreed in private.

Liu Bei's reluctance to go to Bingzhou is actually his hope that he can take advantage of this opportunity to give it a go!

Liu Tao also probably guessed that Liu Yu might want to train Liu Bei as his heir... But if he remembered correctly, Liu Yu had a son Liu He, and he remembered that he was serving as a servant in the court, but he was not clear about what happened after that.

It is better to say that there are more hostages than being an official in the court.Not only Liu He, Liu Yan's eldest son Liu Fan and second son Liu Dan also stayed in the court to serve, but later died in the hands of Li Jue and others.As for whether Liu He is dead or not?Liu Tao was a little curious, anyway, he should not be by Liu Yu's side, otherwise he would not support Liu Bei as the heir.

Liu Bei did not accept his solicitation, and Liu Tao was not too entangled.I ran to chat with several clans, and the princes of the alliance were obviously divided into two camps according to their different positions.

The clan members of the Han Dynasty who came here in person spontaneously gathered together.And those who represent the clan of the Han Dynasty, or only represent themselves, gather on the other side.In fact, Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai and Chen Gong considered this result very early on.

So let Cao Cao act separately, just to understand what the group of people over there think.

"Uncle, that was just now..." Liu Chong came over, and he took the initiative to contact this powerful clan.

After all, the clansmen who came over were actually him, Liu Tao, and one Liu Dai.The problem is that Yanzhou, where Liu Dai is located, should be in a three-legged state. As a Yanzhou shepherd, Liu Dai only controls the two counties of Dongjun and Jiyin.

Although Liu Chong, who only controls Chen Guo, is not qualified to talk about others, he still looks down on Liu Dai.On the contrary, Liu Tao, who has already occupied Bingzhou and brought thousands of elite soldiers to the alliance, is more worthy of wooing.

"Liu Bei, whose name is Xuande, is my elder brother. Now under Gongsun Zan's command, he is the Sima of another department." Liu Tao said with a smile, "Speaking of which, I haven't seen him for five years, so I went to say hello."

"So that's how it is." Liu Chong smiled. Although he belonged to the clan, he actually served under Gongsun Zan's command.With such an existence, Liu Chong felt that it might be possible to get in touch with, but there was no need for a deep friendship, mainly because he didn't want to have multiple uncles.

After a pause, he changed the subject: "This meeting is said to be a gathering of the clan...I didn't expect that only the three of us would come here."

"Kong Rong should have sincerely come here to replace the King of Beihai, but the few soldiers under his command can't be counted on. The rest of you clearly represent one clan, but actually represent yourself. Especially the neighbor of Duke Zhao (Liu Chong's name), He is probably coveting you too!" Liu Tao heard this, and briefly helped to analyze it, and looked at Yuan Shu in the distance.

"Last year, he tried to cross the border several times, but I beat him back. It's just that his territory is larger than mine, and Runan County is the old nest of the Yuan family. My little country of Chen can only rely on King Liang Be careful." Liu Chong sighed.