January of the second year of Yongjia.
After Gou Xi's troops withdrew from Beihai County, Liu Yu led the Donglai Army to occupy most of Beihai County, but all the materials in each city had been transferred and burned.
Liu Yu's tens of thousands of troops did not have food supplies and could not support their plan to continue marching westward to Linzi, so they had to suspend the collection of food and grass supplies.
When Liu Yu finally completed the preparation of supplies and food, he planned to take advantage of Linzi's weak military strength and take Linzi directly.
Gou Xi, the general who conquered the east, had already put down the Yanzhou refugee riot, and then returned to Linzi. The speed of this wave of march and rapid battle far exceeded Liu Yu's imagination.
Moreover, Gou Xi took advantage of the victory to return and announced that he was going to lead the army to the east and annihilate the bandit leader Liu Yu who had occupied Beihai and Donglai.
Regarding the aggressive Gou Xi, Liu Yu couldn't wait to think twice before acting. Oh, it can't be said to be thinking twice before acting.
When Liu Yu was once again ready to defend, he discovered that Gou Xi's previous clamor was simply a false shot, attracting Liu Yu's attention and allowing the Donglai Army to fully prepare for Gou Xi's attack in Beihai County and had no time to attack westward. Linzi.
By this time, nearly a month had passed.
At this time, it is the time for spring plowing, and even ordinary soldiers have to go home or to the military camp.
Spring, March.
Fortunately, Liu Yu did not lead the Donglai Army to advance, but stationed himself in Pingshou City.
Because at this time Liu Yu had realized that the social characteristics of the Western Jin Dynasty could not be easily changed by him alone.
At this time, the power of the aristocratic family was huge. Without the support of these people, or the support of some of them, it would be difficult to obtain and consolidate the fruits of victory.
Historically, even if Zu Ti was strong enough to defeat Jiehu in the north, he would still need the support of the Henan aristocratic dock master to be able to hold on. When Zu Ti died of illness and Zu Yue's ability was not enough to convince the crowd, he would lose the powerful support of the Henan dock master. , which was also one of the reasons for its collapse soon afterwards.
Qingzhou's strength is dominated by the three prefectures of Qi, Le'an, and Beihai. Now Gou Xi reuses soldiers from Hanmen and Yanzhou. Without the support of the Qingzhou family, he can no longer take care of Qingzhou and Yanzhou. Therefore, this ability They had no choice but to withdraw from Beihai County, which was undefendable.
Liu Yu urgently needed to find a way to get the support of these local powerful people.
As the saying goes, "a horse bone costs a thousand gold." In order to recruit a thousand-mile horse, it doesn't matter if one thousand dollars buys a horse bone. Moreover, although the powerful men in Beihai County are not considered a thousand-mile horse, they are much stronger than horse bones.
Therefore, in February, Liu Yu convened various powerful families in Pingshou City, the seat of Beihai County, to discuss the alliance oath. Ju Xian, who had been forced by Liu Yu to ride a tiger, occupied the honorable position as a nominal envoy to serve Liu. Pre-site endorsement.
As long as there is no imperial edict from Luoyang announcing that Ju Xian has corrected the edict, then he is a serious messenger of the scepter.
In this oath, the positions of Beihai Commandery, Beihai County Governor, Biejia, Duwei, Duyou, Cao Shi, Commander, etc. were conferred by Liu Yu and awarded to various powerful families in Beihai. He also awarded the titles to the heads of each family. He assumed the position of supervisor of the soldiers of Beihai County, and recognized the legality of the powerful households' land occupation from the official position law.
As a result, the situation of Beihai County being ruled by the people of Beihai County was almost created. In an instant, the powerful people of Beihai County in the entire oath meeting were as if they had been beaten to death.
You know, although these powerful men in Qingzhou are all deep-rooted local bullies, they have not been used much since the Wei and Jin Dynasties after the Yellow Turban Qingzhou soldiers surrendered to Cao Cao at the end of the Han Dynasty.
During the "Eight Kings Rebellion", few powerful Qingzhou families served as prominent figures in the Sima Yue camp. Even after the Yongjia Rebellion in history, when northern families migrated south on a large scale, the proportion of these Qingzhou families traveling south was also very small. Otherwise, it would be impossible for there to be very few families with their ancestral home in Qingzhou during the two hundred years of the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties.
Such a large-scale appointment of officials in the county simply made them overjoyed. In this way, in addition to the top-ranking families, other powerful families could add a lot of qualifications to their families when evaluating officials.
Of course, there is no such thing as pie in the sky.
The reason why Liu Yu granted the governance of Beihai County to these local powerful men was because the powerful men needed to send troops, money and food to support the army under Liu Yu's command. As for the name, of course it was because the heads of each clan were already conscripted county soldiers to supervise and protect them.
Different from recruiting soldiers where the imperial court provides money and food, these suzerain supervisors are county soldiers who need to provide their own soldiers, food, clothes, and even auxiliary soldiers.
These suzerains supervised and protected various feudal lords, large and small, and provided support with force and manpower in exchange for the political power granted to them by Liu Yu.
Most of the Qingzhou powerful men agreed without hesitation, because compared with Gou Xi's full-scale squeeze, Liu Yu's approach of throwing away governance rights in exchange for support was undoubtedly a huge victory.
In this way, these powerful men gained the right to govern openly, and Liu Yu obtained soldiers and material support. This situation almost seemed like a win-win situation.
In fact, it is the court and the government that suffer the most from this practice, which will almost bring disgrace to the court.
Moreover, Liu Yu's modified version of the suzerain supervisory system was almost the template for the Western Zhou Dynasty's feudal system.
As long as the younger brothers from each family follow the boss and I kill people, the seats at each hall will be assigned to you.
Liu Yu's behavior is reversing the course of history, which will make each family more powerful. Unless there is strong power to subdue these people, it will be difficult to cultivate waves of careerists.
After all, this kind of suzerain guardian can gain powerful support in a short period of time and rapidly expand its strength, but it is a chronic poison. When one day Liu Yu's military and political group cannot continue to expand, and these big and small lords cannot eat fresh flesh and blood, It is very likely that there will be another turmoil for various interests.
However, Liu envisioned that I am the only one in the world who knows that in the coming troubled times, it will be difficult to even be a human being. How can I have any leisure time? Thinking about it, it would be nice to be able to live a few more years for myself now.
This is like someone saying that drinking alcohol can cause cancer.
Please, boss.
My question now is not whether it can cause cancer, but whether I can live to the age of getting cancer.
