"Sun, that's interesting!" Li Xiang casually discarded the information in his hand and muttered to himself.
Now Li Xiang has just passed Tongguan and officially entered the land of Guanzhong. Previously, in order to give some people more time to prepare, Li Xiang deliberately stayed in Sizhou for more than half a month, and then found reasons to stay in Hangu Pass and Tongguan for a few days respectively before officially entering Guanzhong.
Speaking of Tongguan and Hangu Pass, the two most powerful passes in the world, since the Yongliang Prefecture was captured, the importance of these two passes has been greatly reduced, mainly because Li Xiang no longer has the need to use these two passes to defend against foreign enemies. , these two levels are within its sphere of influence, and the enemies are basically out of reach.
During this period of time, among the important news coming from Floating Water House, the three most talked about battlefields were Qingzhou, Jingzhou and Yuzhou.
In the whole world, these three places are the only ones where the fighting is going on vigorously, one wave after another.
Qingzhou, there is nothing too exciting here, Liu Bei and Dou Jiande just defend. Of course, they are not qualified to take the initiative at this time.
Speaking of which, Liu Bei and Dou Jiande were always incompatible and attacked each other. However, in recent times, these two former enemies have been forced to cooperate again and again.
The two sides first worked together to kill Guo Wei, the most powerful of the three parties in Qingzhou. After that, if the situation develops normally, what will happen is a drama of two tigers fighting against each other as one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers.
However, these two tigers are actually two sick tigers, which have aroused the covetousness of external forces. There was no other way. With the presence of foreign enemies, these two enemies had to form Liu Dou's second cooperation.
Although Dou Jiande's territory is all in the northern part of Qingzhou, both Yuan Shao and Chi You are temporarily occupying Liu Bei's territory. But it was absolutely impossible for Dou Jiande to turn a blind eye to this war. If Liu Bei is finished, then it will be his turn next.
Of course, although it is essentially for yourself, it is still ostensibly to help, so you still have to ask for the conditions.
At the same time, talents emerged one after another among Dou Jiande's forces, and one after another took advantage of the east wind of the war to rise to power. Among Dou Jiande's elders, only Yun Tianbiao, Shan Xiongxin, Liu Heitai, and Ling Jing still had some say, while the rest were almost squeezed into marginal figures.
Moreover, Su Qin is still planning to attack the remaining senior figures in Dou Jiande's power. However, all this was done quietly in secret, and even many people on Su Qin's side didn't know.
One of the methods is to let a group of generals die gloriously on the battlefield, but this method cannot be used frequently, otherwise others will always notice some clues.
Recently, Su Qin is planning to get Di Qing into contact with Shan Yingying. When you are a girl, you are the age when you first have love. This is the time when you admire heroes the most, and Di Qing can just meet this standard.
The pressure on Su Qin is not small. His recent mission instructions have been issued. After fully grasping Dou Jiande's power, he will use Dou Jiande's power as the basis to intervene in the situation in the three states of Hebei, Yanxu, and slow down the development of the princes in these three states as much as possible.
Of course, if one day the time comes for the princes to unite, especially if this alliance is to target Li Xiang, Su Qin will also ensure that Dou Jiande's forces have enough say in the princes alliance.
To achieve this goal, Dou Jiande's current power is not enough.
If you don't plan for the eternity, you can't plan for a moment; if you don't plan for the overall situation, you can't plan for a region. Although Li Xiang's goal will not be Qingzhou for a long time, Li Xiang still continues to increase his chips and power in Qingzhou.
Although Li Xiang's territory is to the west and east of Qingzhou, this does not mean that the business cannot vigorously operate Qingzhou.
Just imagine, if when Li Xiang attacks Hebei, Yuan Shao puts all his troops into attacking Li Xiang, and at this time Su Qin attacks Jizhou from Qingzhou in the back, what effect will it have?
If as Li Xiang's power increases, the princes of the world unite to fight against Li Xiang, and Su Qin takes advantage of the situation and breaks into the alliance of princes, what will be the effect then?
Perhaps it is difficult for Li Xiang to see results in these batches of investments in the near future, but for the future, these batches of investments are necessary!
In Jingzhou, Liu Xiu and Liu Yu were still stationed in Nanyang as before, fighting against Yuan Shu's army, and the other was still stationed in the important town of Jiangxia to guard against the southern princes.
However, Pang Juan's attack on Nanyang has made no progress for a long time. If it continues without seeing any results for a long time, Yuan Shu himself may waver in his determination to attack Jingbei. Even after fighting for a long time, the army was exhausted. If there are no more results, the army will have to start resting.
With this battle, the reputations of Wu Zhiqi, Deng Xia, and Du Yan on Liu Xiu's side have become more and more famous, and they have been in the limelight recently.
The reason why Liu Xiu made these three people so active was to show off their muscles. On the one hand, it lets Yuan Shu know that Jingbei is not easy to mess with, forcing him to take the initiative to stop his troops. After all, if we continue to consume each other like this, it will not be beneficial to both parties.
Second, show your muscles to all forces in northern Jingbei. Those aristocratic families that have not surrendered to Liu Xiu, and even neutral figures in the military such as Wen Zhong and Huang Zhong, will inevitably choose to favor Liu Xiu when they see Liu Xiu's power.
After all, among the four forces in Jingbei, the one with the strongest strength has the best chance of winning and has the greatest chance of winning in the end.
At this time, Liu Xiu did not want Jingbei to engage in meaningless internal strife anymore, and he wanted to suppress it with great force. As long as he has overwhelming power, Liu Xiu believes that Liu Yu will make the right choice. As for his two nephews, Liu Xiu still didn't take them seriously.
Moreover, the effect of Liu Xiu's move is indeed not small. Although Wen Zhong and Huang Zhong have not yet expressed their stance, Wei Yan, Huo Jun and others have already lined up with Liu Xiu. Among the aristocratic families, the attitudes of many people have changed.
Even the Kuai family, which favored Liu Yu, and the Cai family, which supported Liu Cong, although the overall direction has not changed, some of the family members have also separated out to invest separately.
Anyway, as a family like theirs is already the top power in a state, it is not difficult to find a few young talents in the family. For these people, the continuity of the family is always the most important thing.
What's more, let alone young talents, even a few idiot Liu Xiu would accept it at this time. This represents not only a few talents, but also the goodwill released by these two top aristocratic families in Jingzhou towards him.
