Liu Xiu slowly tapped the table with his fingers, but his thoughts gradually shifted to the current situation in Jingbei again.
Liu Biao died, and he and Liu Yu also suspected that there was something else hidden in it. He and Liu Yu first targeted the Xiang family and Zhu Yuanzhang of Yangzhou, and then they thought of others.
Nowadays, with the development of the general trend of the world and the constant conflicts between various princes, institutions such as Floating Water House and Black Ice Platform are also well known by various princes. Moreover, it is not just Li Xiang, in fact, all the princes have more or less similar organizations in their hands.
Among these institutions, although Li Xiang's Floating Water Fang is indeed the most powerful in terms of overall strength, in the two southern states of Jing and Yang, Zhu Yuanzhang's Jinyiwei surpassed Floating Water Fang.
After all, floating houses were initially organized in the north, and then expanded to other regions. Jin Yiwei's initial foothold was in the south, and then it began to expand to other places.
Moreover, compared with the development time of Li Xiang's Floating House, the development time of Zhu Yuanzhang's Jinyiwei is not much different.
Therefore, if among the southern princes, who is most likely to engage in such a shameful method, then Jin Yiwei is the most likely.
As for Yu Ji, it was not long after she returned to Jingnan that something like this happened, which is really hard to avoid doubting. Moreover, if something happens to Liu Biao, the Xiang family will definitely be one of the beneficiaries.
However, let's not say that these are just their suspicions without any actual evidence. Even if they have evidence, how can they use it against the other party? In this troubled world, after all, real money and food for soldiers and horses is the most powerful guarantee.
As for within Jingbei, Liu Xiuche is indeed the party with the greatest advantage, and his strength is also the strongest. This time, taking advantage of the opportunity to resist Yuan Shu, Wancheng gathered most of the troops from Jingbei. After Liu Biao's death, Liu Xiu had begun to control and win over these soldiers.
Besides Liu Xiu, there is Liu Yu. After all, Jiangxia is an important town against Jingnan and Jiangdong, and naturally there are not a few troops stationed there.
As for Liu Biao's two sons, to be honest, Liu Yu and Liu Xiu always looked at them like watching a drama. The only opponents for Liu Yu and Liu Xiu were each other.
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Luoyang, Li Xiang has been very busy these days. Wang Meng, Guan Zhong, and Xun Yu waited for Li Xiang's approval on a bunch of things every day. Decisions of all sizes in the five states were still waiting for his decision.
At the same time, Li Xiang was busy helping Emperor Xian of Han expand his harem. When the capital was moved to Luoyang, all the maids in the Chang'an Palace were either dismissed or directly dealt with by Li Xiang. The reason is also very simple, that is, many of the maids were placed by Yang Jian.
Moreover, Li Xiang's reason was not a lie. There were indeed a large number of those palace ladies who were used by Yang Jian to monitor Liu Xie in order to control the palace.
Of course, it was not for the good of Emperor Xian of Han that Li Xiang dismissed these original maids and helped Emperor Xian of Han select a group.
After all, Li Xiang did this to plant a large number of his informants in the palace. Moreover, Li Xiang did much more than Yang Jian did at the beginning. The number of people Li Xiang sent was several times that of Yang Jian!
In addition to these, follow-up matters in the grassland still need to be dealt with. After all, it was the marriage between Li Xiang and Ye Qian Abaoji's adopted daughter. Naturally, it couldn't be done casually, and the process naturally had to be more grand.
After just picking up Xiao Yanyan from the grassland, Li Xiang personally assigned a guard of 5,000 people to go to the grassland to greet her.
However, just today, there are still many things from yesterday that have not been completely dealt with, and today there are new things that are pressing on Li Xiang.
The situation in Qingzhou changed again. Now, Su Qin began to lose control and took the initiative to ask Li Xiang for help.
Perhaps Gongsun Shu also knew that he was helpless under Yuan Shao's attack, so on the surface Gongsun Shu was on guard and looked like he was going to fight to the end.
However, Gongsun Shu's behavior was entirely to confuse Yuan Shao. He himself took advantage of Yuan Shao's lack of attention and fled directly to the north, but he didn't know where his target was!
As soon as Gongsun Shu left, the remaining soldiers of the Gongsun family had their last backbone completely broken. Their morale declined to the extreme. The soldiers had no fighting power and no will to fight.
Even Gongsun Xiong of the Gongsun clan finally chose to burn himself out of hope, let alone those small soldiers.
From this, it can be said that Yuan Shao has completely annexed Gongsun's power without using much effort. Since then, Jizhou, the top among the Han states, has finally achieved unification in the hands of Yuan Shao.
As soon as Yuan Shao unified Jizhou, he ambitiously set his sights on Qingzhou again. The two princes Liu Bei and Dou Jiande of Qingzhou have just experienced a great battle. Now is the time when they are weak and it is a good time to take action. However, any ambitious princes will target the two princes of Qingzhou at this time. .
Therefore, not only Yuan Shao of Jizhou and Chiyou of Yanzhou also set up troops on the border and were ready to go. At the beginning, the Yellow Turbans at their peak could be said to have swept over most of the Han Dynasty. For a while, even the Han Dynasty was in danger, fearing that the situation would develop in the worst direction.
But now, what about today's Yellow Turbans?
Today's Yellow Turbans have not even completely captured Yanzhou. There is also Cao Mengde who is also entrenched in Yanzhou. After successive battles, he only captured one county in Xuzhou.
The power of the Yellow Turbans, which was once so prosperous, has weakened to this point now. How can Chi You be willing to accept this? Now, such an opportunity in Qingzhou was placed in front of Chi You. How could Chi You let go of such an opportunity?
As for Xuzhou Zhao Kuangyin, although he clearly knew that Qingzhou was a great opportunity for expansion, he could not seize this opportunity.
Qingzhou and Xuzhou are indeed bordering each other, so it is natural to send troops from Xuzhou to Qingzhou. But, it doesn't work now.
Previously, Chi You's army aggressively advanced into Xuzhou. Although Zhao Kuangyin finally repelled Chi You with the efforts of Zhao Kuangyin, it also paid the price of a county. And the county captured by Chi You was none other than the Langya Kingdom that was connected to Qingzhou.
Xuzhou has three counties: Donghai, Pengcheng, Langya, Guangling, and Xiapi. Among them, only Langya intersects with Qingzhou. The loss of Langya means that Zhao Kuangyin loses the opportunity to attack Qingzhou.
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