Xuande

Chapter 724

Since the second half of the fourth year of Jian'an, many things Liu Bei has to do have entered the right track.

After the complicated struggle in the first half of the year, while steadily advancing the convening of the first National Government Affairs Conference, Liu Bei also ordered Zhang Rang and Liu Hui to monitor Zheng Tai, Jia Xi and others, and fully control their whereabouts and events. A series of actions to prepare.

In addition, he also began to pay attention to Dong Zhong's actions, because compared to Jian Shuo's attitude, Dong Zhong's attitude was a little ambiguous. It seemed that he didn't care on the surface, but he had other thoughts in private.

For example, he did not inform Liu Bei about Zheng Tai and others.

In this regard, Liu Bei believes that he has not completely passed the test, and needs to further investigate what this guy did.

In addition, Liu Bei focused on promoting the construction of the military region. Under the arrangement of the military department, the major armies took the designated route to the garrison to station, and began to implement Liu Bei's order to fully deter the local area.

Compared with the threats in the north that have been dealt with almost the same, the two states of Yizhou and Jingyang in the south are still worthy of attention.

The counties and vassal states in the south of Yizhou have never been very stable and need the army to deter them.

The two prefectures of Jing and Yang are not yet under the jurisdiction of Liu Bei, and they also need the deterrence of the army.

And it should be said, there are still several threats of a certain scale in Yangzhou, which have not been dealt with. This time Liu Bei sent Guan Yu to lead his troops south, and he also planned to let Guan Yu clean up these two threats.

These two threats, one is the Shanyue forces who refuse to obey the government's control, and the other is the remnants of the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army who are blatantly rebelling.

The Shanyue force is actually equivalent to the Bingzhou bandit group. In simple terms, it can be understood as the southern youth replica of the Bingzhou bandit group.

Zhang Yan and others fought against the government in the Taihang Mountains, and even threatened Luoyang at one time.

In contrast, Yangzhou Shanyue Group is not that big of a threat.

They are not small in scale, but their combat effectiveness and fighting will are relatively low, and they have no ability to threaten the central government, not even the local official forces in Yangzhou.

They seem to be just a group of people who want to live their own happy lives behind closed doors. They don't have much thought about the outside world, and they don't have much ambition. They just don't want to be exploited by the government.

But there are a lot of them, and the more they are exploited by the government, the more people there are, and the more anxious the government is, the more people they have and the stronger their power.

Yangzhou has a lack of population, and now more and more people are fleeing to Shanyue, which is really not a good thing, and this has seriously affected the ruling order of the Han Empire in Yangzhou.

On the other side, the yellow turban army that went south from Xuzhou was also a serious problem for the Yangzhou government.

After this group of people entered Yangzhou, they did not run to Wu County, but to Danyang County, to the mountainous area in the middle of Danyang County.

When Gui Bao, the governor of Yangzhou, received Liu Bei's order to attack the Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Army had already gone all the way south to attack the city, killing officials, powerful people, looting supplies, and cleaning up several counties in the northern part of Danyang County.

And they also sent people everywhere to contact the various forces in Shanyue, trying to form an alliance with the forces in Shanyue to deal with the Yangzhou government army together.

At present, they have settled down in the area north of Yuqian County in Danyang County. Several military attacks were launched, all of which were defeated.

After receiving Liu Bei's order, Gui Bao, the governor of Yangzhou, was very nervous and sent people to join forces with the Danyang County Guard to attack again, but failed again.

Therefore, he was forced to personally lead the army into Yuhang County in September of the fourth year of Jian'an, to observe the situation in person, and then felt that the situation was a bit complicated, so he flinched.

The Yellow Turban Army and Shanyue were mixed together. When the Yellow Turban Army was beaten, Shanyue would help, block roads, cut off traffic, and attack the logistics of the army. It is really difficult for the army to maintain such a situation.

While Gui Bao felt difficult, he also felt unbalanced.

A group of thieves who went south from Xuzhou came to Yangzhou and became Yangzhou's scourge, but Xuzhou was fine. Is this Yangzhou's fault?

Now Yangzhou has spent so much money and food to deal with the loss of soldiers and generals of this group of Yellow Turbans that all the officials died here. Isn't Xuzhou responsible for this disaster?
The more Gui Bao thought about it, the more wronged he felt, and he felt that he could not swallow this breath. In October of the fourth year of Jian'an, he made a statement to the court, saying that he had worked very hard, but the Yellow Turban Army and Shanyue were really hard to deal with, and asked the court to give him some support. food support.

Gui Bao felt that the main reason why he couldn't fight before was "Yangzhou was poor, lacked food and pay, and the soldiers didn't die, so what can I do?" So he asked the imperial court to allocate funds to support Yangzhou.

In addition, Gui Bao also said that if the imperial court has financial difficulties, Xuzhou should be allowed to provide financial support. After all, the Yellow Turban Army came from Xuzhou to Yangzhou. .

This is a natural disaster, not caused by Yangzhou officials and people. Yangzhou officials and people suffered innocently. It is very pitiful. I hope the court will show sympathy.

What Gui Bao said was very tactful, if it was normal, he would have scolded him long ago.

His mother's Xuzhou governor and a few county guards did not act properly, and the yellow turban bandits who fought for several years and were invincible now came to my Yangzhou to show off their power, and it turned out to be a matter of my Yangzhou?
Xuzhou people can't do anything, and it's a disaster for us Yangzhou people. Now Xuzhou doesn't care about anything, and throws the blame to Yangzhou people. Is there such a reason in the world?
This is not only Gui Bao's heartfelt thoughts, but also the thoughts of local officials, officials, and local wealthy households in Yangzhou.

This is a mess made by people from Xuzhou and the Central Plains. They couldn't solve it, so they left the mess to Yangzhou. Is Yangzhou some kind of dirty garbage dump?
Thinking about it this way, Gui Bao didn't want to fight anymore, and Danyang County Sheriff didn't want to fight anymore either. They shrunk the front line to ensure that the city would not be lost, and they didn't care about the rest.

Your court doesn't give money, food, or benefits, so let them do this, they don't look like they will counterattack anyway.

They have to wait for the opinions of the court and the general Liu Bei to see how Liu Bei handles it.

With the passive avoidance of the officers and soldiers, the Yellow Turban Army has indeed stabilized, stopped making troubles, and did not take the initiative to attack. They joined hands with Shanyue to develop mountainous areas, accepted the experience of the Shanyue gang, and reclaimed wasteland everywhere. It looks like it's going to take root here.

Although the Shanyue gang is in the nature of bandits, they also do some work of robbing houses, but they mainly rely on reclaiming wasteland and carrying out agricultural production. The land in the south of the Yangtze River is warm and humid, and the crops are easy to feed. Can eat full stomach.

So they will also teach the Yellow Turban Army some skills to survive in the mountains.

In contrast, the Yellow Turban Army will teach them some spiritual food - for example, teach them the principle that the heaven is dead and Huang Tian should be established, telling them that the Mandate of Heaven representing the Han Empire is dead, and that Huang Tian, ​​representing the Yellow Turban Army, is leading world.

As long as they persevere, they will definitely succeed, overthrow the tyranny of the Han Empire, and realize the prosperity of the Yellow Heaven. The current setbacks are only temporary, and future victories will be permanent.

(End of this chapter)