Overlord!

Chapter 121 The World Situation
In February of Yangchun, Sun Ce received good news from the front. Wang Lang, the former governor of Kuaiji, was in a desperate situation in an isolated city.Sun Ce did not harm him because of his elegance.

Of course, this former Kuaiji prefect was appointed by the court after all.His submission is of extremely important legal significance to Sun Ce, so even if Sun Ce did not harm him, he still sent envoys to question him to prove the legitimacy of his occupation of Kuaiji.

The emissary was the former prefect of Wujun, the protagonist who spread like wildfire, Sheng Xian, a famous scholar in the world, he took Sun Ce's oral message, "Ask Wang Lang, the rebel former prefect of Kuaiji: Lang received the state's favor and became an official. Resist the soldiers and endure? The army conquered, spared the barbarians, did not sweep the screen, regrouped the party, and settled in the county. The king was punished far away, and the soldiers did not understand. The cloud was captured, and the concubine used the fraud to use the whole leader. Deer or not, with the form of the right."

It is right to say that it is right for Wang Lang to say that you resist Master Wang, right?
This is of course nonsense.The army captured him, with a knife on his neck, how dare he say he was right?

This is to ask Wang Lang to write a confession to demonstrate the justice of Sun Ce's occupation of Kuaiji.Sun Lang is the teacher of the king, who is punishing the people and punishing crimes.

Wang Lang also completely resigned to his fate, claiming to be a prisoner, and replied to Sheng Xian: "Lang used his talents, mistakenly stole the court's private interests, accepted the title and refused to let him go, and used the crime net. Seeing the conquest before, he was afraid of death and would not be spared. Because of governing people, he entrusted his life After a while, the soldiers were forced, and the fear was drawn to the north. The follower suffered from illness and almost died. Lang was in a state of confusion, and claimed to be a captive. In the midst of death, he was ordered to serve as a servant. The crime is minor and the crime is serious, and death is more than a crime. Shen Xuan is on the martingale, kicks his feet into a stumbling block, and he listens to the sound, and the things are ordered."

Mistakenly stealing private affairs from the imperial court, and refused to let him be honored, the crime is minor and serious, and he deserves to die.This is the characterization Wang Lang gave himself, and of course it is also to rectify Sun Ce's name, so as to demonstrate the justice of Sun Ce's occupation of Kuaiji.

Following the surrender of Wang Lang and the surrender of Zhan Qiang, all the mountains and heroes in the south of Kuaiji were wiped out. Sun Ce won tens of thousands of men and women. a county!

This is the first time that the Han Dynasty officially established counties in Fujian since Qin Shihuang Nanping Baiyue.

Of course, when Sun Ce was considering whether to build a new Jian'an County or Wuxing County, the princes of the world were not idle, and they expanded their territories one after another.

The first to bear the brunt was Cao Cao, the number one military strategist at the end of the Han Dynasty, who was rated as the best in the world by Chen Shou.

There will always be people in later generations who question Cao Cao's military capabilities.Because he is romantic by nature and always loves waves, so he lost a lot of battles and felt that Emperor Wu of Wei was not worthy of the title of military strategist.

That's entirely because I haven't faced Wei Wudi before, so I can't personally experience the terrifying oppression he brings.

Last year, while Sun Ce was fighting in Yangzhou and sweeping Jiangdong, Cao Cao was also killing the Quartet in Yanzhou.

Leading the army to attack Lv Bu, Lv Bu and Zhang Miao collapsed. Lv Bu was defeated repeatedly and could hardly breathe under Cao Cao's soldiers. In the end, he ran away in despair and returned to Liu Bei in Xuzhou.

Cao Cao was concerned about the strength of Xuzhou, so instead of chasing and killing Lu Bu, he returned to attack Zhang Miao in the west, and immediately defeated the brothers Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao. .

It took only a little more than a year for Cao Cao to send troops from the three counties and regain the entire territory of the 78 counties in Yanzhou.In terms of military exploits, it is not even much worse than Han Xin's collection of 72 cities in Qi.

What's even more frightening is that he completely conquered Yanzhou in December last year, and began to expand his forces to the southwestern Yuzhou area in February this year. He Man and other ministries each have tens of thousands of soldiers.Cao Cao led his troops to attack, defeated all the Yellow Turbans, and took a large area of ​​Yuzhou.

Only with Sun Ce's difficulty in defeating Kuaiji can he personally feel Cao Cao's terrifying military strength.He fights day and night, is omnipotent, and no one can stop his soldiers. Wherever he goes, the enemy can only collapse and be brought into his control.It took only a few months to occupy one or two counties.

At this time, the Central Plains had entered the stage where the world's heroes competed for the throne. While Cao Cao was expanding his power, Yuan Shu in Huainan also began to dispatch troops, raise food and grass, and prepare to send troops to attack Liu Bei in Xuzhou.

And Liu Bei's command is not empty, not just Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, and Sun Qian, as said in the novel.

In fact, as a state shepherd, how could he not have talents under his command?

In Sun Cecai's land of the three counties, there are countless heroes under his command, fierce generals are like clouds, and advisers are like rain.

Under Liu Bei's command at the moment, there are also a lot of talents.Regarding the scene of Yuan Shu's attack on Xuzhou, Chen Qun, his counselor, had long asserted: "Yuan Shu is still strong, and Xuzhou is now in the east, and he must fight with him. If Lu Bu attacks the general, even if the general wins Xuzhou, nothing will happen."

Sun Ce didn't know what Liu Bei thought about the counselor's suggestion. Anyway, he still prepared his army and went south to Guangling to compete with Yuan Shu.

The flames of war in Guangling soon spread to Wu County on the other side of the river. Numerous refugees brought their families with them, and a large number of them took refuge in Jiangnan.

The governor of Guangling appointed by Sun Ce, the Sima of the other division of the navy, and the former thief Zhou Zhang were like a fish in water in Guangling. He recruited tens of thousands of people, including refugees, bandits, rebels and even scholars. Ships were sent from Jiangdu, Guangling and Dongling Pavilion to Dantu County in Wu County.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and a large number of northern people were exiled to the south of the Yangtze River. This sentence in the history books is by no means simply that hundreds of thousands of people moved to the south of the Yangtze River easily.

Instead, countless families were displaced every year, and then batch after batch, they joined Sun Ce's command, enriching Sun Ce's strength and population.Every time tens of thousands of people flow in, continuously increasing the population size and development level of the entire Jiangdong.

With so many refugees going south, Pan Zhang and Tai Shici have already successfully formed the Beifu army. All the ministries have recruited a lot of bravery. Countless heroes, such as Langya Xu Sheng, Guangling Zhang Nan, Xiapi Xiongxing, Qin Yi, etc. should be selected.

Especially Zhang Nan, who was supposed to be Liu Bei's general, should have followed him all the way, from Xuzhou to Yuzhou, from Yuzhou to Jingzhou, and finally to Shu.But now his life trajectory has obviously changed a lot.

However, although there are so many vassals and famous generals fighting and expanding territories, Sun Ce has no energy to pay more attention at the moment.

With Jiangdong preliminarily leveled, Sun Ce's top priority at the moment is to take a macro view of the world and set his own strategy for the world.

This is a decisive event related to the success or failure of the entire power.

Because of the failure of the strategic national policy, Yuan Shu looked around the world, failed to see the situation clearly, but blindly proclaimed himself emperor, so he fell apart in one fell swoop, and quickly became a deceitful generation that everyone can step on from the number one prince in the world. .

As for Lu Bu and Ma Chao, they are even more cunning and repetitive, only looking at profit.Therefore, Chen Shou commented: From ancient times to the present, there has never been such a thing as this without destruction.

Throughout Lu Bu's life, all stages can be accurately summarized in a few words.They are the birth of flying generals, the battle for Yanzhou, the situation in Xuzhou, the tiger's footsteps in Jianghuai, and the defeat in Xiapi.

With such a talent bestowed by heaven, it rises like a shooting star and withers like a short-lived epiphyllum.

He helped Yuan Shu beat Liu Bei in a blink of an eye, and in a blink of an eye he helped Cao Cao beat Yuan Shu, and then helped Yuan Shu beat Cao Cao and Liu Bei beat Yuan Shu.

This set was stupid enough, and in the end he was able to bounce back and forth between Cao Cao and Yuan Shu again and again, sending a daughter, taking it back and sending it back, and the cycle went on and on.

If he can win the world, the sky will have no eyes, and there will be no one in the Central Plains.

Of course, Liu Bei don't laugh at Lu Bu, he is the same, before Longzhong, he didn't know what his strategy was.

Only Cao Cao clearly confirmed his own strategic plan: "A soldier who fights righteously wins, defends the position to gain wealth, and should serve the emperor so that he will not be a subject, cultivate farming and planting, and raise military resources. If this is the case, the career of overlord can be achieved."

Such a superhero is supposed to rule the north.

And if Sun Ce wants to unify the world, he must also have a strategy to plan the world. Otherwise, after taking down the three counties in Jiangdong, what will everyone continue to do?Like most of the princes, separatist rule of land, entrenched in the southeast?
Or like Zhu Yuanzhang, build high walls, accumulate food widely, and slowly become king?
Or even like Cao Cao, coercing the emperor to order the princes?
So as soon as he learned of Wang Lang's surrender, Sun Ce immediately convened ministers and conspirators to discuss a strategy to calm the world and build a long-lasting merit.

Since this discussion will determine the direction of the entire force, Sun Ce only summoned a few people who have the right to participate in confidential matters.

They are Zhang Zhao, the long history and general of the Fujun Zhonglang, Zhang Hong, the general of the military adviser, Xu Kun, the captain of Danyang, Zhu Zhi, the prefect of Wujun, Lu Fan, the prime minister of Danyang County, and Cao Weiteng, the Kuaiji meritorious officer who Sun Ce trusted.

The position of meritorious Cao is extremely important. It is precisely because Mao Jie presented Cao Cao with two strategies of "serving the emperor with orders but not ministers" and "garrisoning fields with livestock and military resources". Cao Cao respected his words and turned them into shogunate meritorious service Cao.

The shogunate, that is, the government office set up in the tent, is the most trusted and private place for a general to discuss.

After everyone arrived, Wei Teng was also the first to speak, saying: "Now that the Han Dynasty is in danger, and there are disturbances in all directions, the Ming Dynasty thinks of Huanwen's contribution. Since we have benefited from the patronage, we should design a long-term plan to prosper Great cause, it is difficult to save the time. I think that now that the Ming government has established Jiangdong, it should follow the example of Qi and Jin in the past, and become a foreign vassal of the court. The royal family has been peaceful, and the princes will pay tribute. Then according to the Yangtze River, we will fight for power and virtue, punish To get rid of the filth and assist the Han Dynasty, it will definitely make the hegemony no less than that of Huan and Wen."

Hearing this, among the people present, some nodded and some shook their heads.

Today, the Han Dynasty is just like the Zhou royal family. In the past, Dao Ling was late in Zhou Dynasty, and Qi and Jin prospered at the same time; Qi Huan Gong and Jin Wen Gong both had hegemony, and they dominated the princes and paid tribute to the king.

This is naturally enough for ordinary scholars.Serving one side's overlords and princes is enough to achieve success and leave a name in history.

So Xu Kun immediately objected, saying: "Today, the son is in Luoyang City, riding thorns and thorns, leaning against the walls. At that time, the tribute from the prefectures and counties did not arrive, and Luoyang was short of food. What about the royal family?"

Wei Teng has a completely different view on this point, saying: "Who in the world dares to offend the emperor when he returns to Luoyang? With the dignity of the emperor, he can command the world. As long as he recovers his vitality in time, he will surely send troops to wipe out the Xiliang army. As long as the emperor If you don’t act rashly, the world will be at peace. Who dares to risk the displeasure of the world and plunder the tribute money and food from the prefectures and counties?”

This is true, after being hunted down by Li Jue and Guo Si for several months, although the emperor was temporarily unable to take revenge, he pretended to have a truce with them, but he never intended to let them go.

The intelligence quotient in the Xiliang army, the life-saving master, Jia Xu was the first to run away, chose to return his seal, bid farewell to Li Jue's army, and took refuge in the Xiliang army without any stains, and performed well when the emperor returned to the east. Not only did he not attack the emperor, but the general Duan Yan, who offered to provide food, was in the army.

And after Cao Cao led the emperor to Xudu, the first major thing this new court did was to avenge the Xiliang army.Cao Cao acted as Sikong, picked a soft persimmon in the Xiliang army, and personally attacked Zhang Xiu, that is, Zhang Ji's unit who had worked hard in the process of chasing and killing the emperor.

But the problem is that because Sun Ce's attack on Kuaiji was greatly advanced, it is only February 196, and Cao Cao has not had time to move the emperor from Luoyang to Xuchang.

For quite a long time, the emperor was still in the city of Luoyang. Although the local area was in ruins and all the officials were covered with thorns, according to the walls, even officials below the Shangshu had to go to the wild to dig wild vegetables to eat. It was indeed the time when Emperor Liu was most like an emperor.

There are no powerful officials in the court, the emperor has his own army, and the entire national policy is determined by the emperor.

If you don't look at the appearance of Lingchi, the county of Hanzhou, the emperor finally has the appearance of a king.

Even Liu Biao, the shepherd of Jingzhou, had surrendered. Under the persuasion of the court envoys, he sent troops into Luoyang to help the court build palaces and cities.Taxes and tributes from Jingzhou also began to be transported to Luoyang City.

Since Sun Ce brought forward the time for unifying Jiangdong, under the influence of this variable, Jiangdong ministers also had Wei Teng's supporters.

Zhu Zhi rubbed his chin with his hand and said, "What Wei Gongcao said is reasonable. Jingzhou has already donated Fu, if Jiangdong can also send envoys to pay tribute, and give the emperor money and grain. Then the emperor will have all the Jiangnan to send Fu, and rebuild Huben , Habayashi, nothing to worry about. It may even be impossible to build a new fifth school of the Southern Army."

Before the Great Han Dynasty, there were two forbidden armies, the Southern Army and the Northern Army, but at the critical moment when Zhu Lu seized power, the Southern Army chose to help Zhu Lu, while the Northern Army chose to help the noble princes of the Han Dynasty, so the Southern Army was directly eradicated.Then the Imperial Army of the Han Dynasty has always been the Seventh School of the Northern Army and later merged into the Fifth School of the Northern Army.

So Zhu Zhi said that the fifth school of the Southern Army made everyone laugh.

The imperial court got all the money from the south of the Yangtze River. The Jiangnan mentioned was not the Jiangnan of later generations, but the entire south of the Yangtze River.

After all, Liu Yan, Liu Biao, and Liu Yao, the three state shepherds originally arranged by the imperial court in the south of the Yangtze River, were all relatives of the Han Dynasty, and they were all outstanding in ability, strength, and strategy.

Except for Liu Yao who was defeated by Sun Ce, the other Yizhou and Jingzhou were still in the hands of Liu's clan.

Both Jingzhou and Yangzhou lost tribute, and there is a high probability that Yizhou will also trick and lose tribute to Luoyang.

The emperor of that day was tantamount to using the south of the Yangtze River to send money and form a southern army.

Not to mention that like the Shence Army, the world's vassals and towns can't breathe, but at least it shouldn't be difficult to expand Liu Xie's 8000 tigers to a scale of [-], [-], or even [-] people.

If this step can be achieved, it will not be so easy for Cao Cao to move the capital to Xudu if he wants to control the emperor.

(End of this chapter)