On February 2, the dragon raises its head.
Towards the end of the year, the world was in chaos. It was not until the eve of the New Year that all forces finally settled down. No matter what the officials thought, ordinary people finally had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief.
Rich or not, go home to celebrate the New Year.
Nowadays, the princes of all parties involved in the uprising have a tacit agreement to withdraw their troops and make a truce before the New Year, and let their soldiers go home to reunite with their families.
Even those who have no chance to go home will ensure that they have a down-to-earth New Year's Eve dinner in the military camp, stay up late together, and pray for peace every year.
The thinking of ordinary people is actually far less complicated than that of scholar-bureaucrats and courtiers. It is nothing more than food and clothing.
In the first month of the year, the world is peaceful. It has to be said that whether it is Lin Bian in Luoyang, Liu Yu in Youzhou, or Liu Bei and Huang Yueying in Jingzhou, they all attach great importance to the New Year.
The etiquette and sacrifices in various places are done in a stylish way. According to Liang Sicheng, this is a way to increase the sense of national identity. If anyone dares to start a war at this time, he is afraid that his own power will be destroyed without an attack, and his backbone will be shattered. The angry people broke it.
There are countless celebrations organized voluntarily by the people. Regardless of any deep hatred before the New Year, you still have to say hello when you meet during the New Year. This is the merit of etiquette education.
This incident was an eye-opener for all the team members in this world. The world is always as peaceful as the Chinese New Year, so why bother fighting?
In the first month of the first month, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty Liu Xie granted a general amnesty to the world, and a series of rewards for the world were spread from Luoyang City.
Liu Bei was made the governor of Jingzhou, Cai Mao of the Jin Dynasty was made the first-class marquis and the general who led the expedition to the south, Zhuge Liang was made the governor of Jingzhou, and Huang Yueying was made the second-class imperial concubine.
Guo Jia was made the governor of Bingzhou, and Zhao Yun was made general of Bingzhou.
Guan Yu was made governor of Yuzhou, and Zhang Fei was made general of Yuzhou.
Yuan Shao of the Jin Dynasty was the governor of Qingzhou, and Yan Gang was the governor of Jizhou.
Jin Gongsun Zan was made the third-class Duke, and Xi Zhicai was granted the title of Governor of You.
As a relative of the emperor, Liu Yu also had two great achievements in pacifying the foreign tribes in the border area. The imperial court gave him several awards, but his official position was not changed. If he was promoted again, he would probably be transferred to the center of the imperial court. Lin Biao was not that stupid. To touch the brow of this feudal official.
From a practical point of view, the court's actions only justified all the controls that had become established facts, and did not make any extraordinary canonization or transfer.
This is what Lin Biao calls sweet dates.
The princes from all walks of life happily obeyed the edict, and for a time the people of the world were united and peaceful.
February is here in the blink of an eye, and the weather is already getting warmer. Especially in Yangzhou and Jingzhou, the temperature has picked up significantly. However, it is already cold in the north, especially in Bingzhou and Youzhou. It is said that it is still snowing.
The city of Xuzhou is actually not bad, but the weather here is always hot and cold day by day, causing ordinary people to wear whatever they want on the streets.
Those who wear light clothes wear single clothes and trousers, and some people even wear a blouse outside to prevent wind.
Those who are afraid of the cold should still wear cotton-padded jackets.
People in single clothes and people in cotton-padded jackets pass each other on the long street. They always look at each other and then silently despise each other for being stupid.
Dress randomly in February and August, even so.
Xuzhou City, the capital of Xuzhou, is somewhat different from other state capitals, mainly in several aspects.
First of all, Xuzhou is a strategic hub. The size of the city is second only to Luoyang, and even larger than Yizhou City and Youzhou City. There is an endless stream of merchants coming and going, and the population of the city is even more terrifying. In terms of the city's solidity and defense, The number of soldiers in the city should be ranked among the top three in the world.
Secondly, the geographical location of Xuzhou City is very magical. It is almost in the center of Xuzhou and not far from Jingzhou and Qingzhou.
Thirdly, Xuzhou City is located in a plain area, and there are only a handful of mountains and rivers in Xuzhou. This means that on the one hand, there are almost no natural dangers to defend here, and there is a wide open space as far as the eye can see, which is most suitable for cavalry operations. On the other hand, The area of cultivated land here is sufficient, and the people's happiness is obviously much higher than that in other states and counties.
Excluding Yangzhou, this is the second granary in the world.
The fourth is that Xuzhou is located due east of China. It does not need to be guarded in all directions like other states. It even builds eight passes like Luoyang to resist the enemy. It only needs to deploy troops in the front direction for defense. At once, the soldiers can be utilized to the maximum extent. , without the need to divide troops everywhere.
In short, Xuzhou is such a delicious food that makes countless people covet it. It can be regarded as a rare "paradise".
After the death of Tao Qian, the governor of Qingzhou, Yuan Shao of Qingzhou and Liu Bei of Nanyang unanimously chose to send troops to Xuzhou from the north and south sides respectively.
This also led to the continuous shrinking of Xuzhou's territory in a practical sense.
But Xuzhou City is still the same Xuzhou City.
After a month of repairs, the two princes, who had already tasted some benefits, once again chose to send troops together on February 2nd and continued to march towards the central Xuzhou City, constantly encroaching on Xuzhou's territory.
The city of Xuzhou is actually in a state of looseness outside and tightness inside.
Not long after the death of Governor Tao Qian, the whole city was still enveloped in a gloomy atmosphere, which was however diluted by the joy and peace of the New Year.
Tao Qian is a good official.
Not the kind of good official who knows how to maneuver and seek promotion in the officialdom in the general sense, but a good official in the true sense.
Rather than saying he is a good official, it is more appropriate to say he is a good person.
In the fifth year of Zhongping (188 years in history), the Yellow Turban Uprising occurred in Xuzhou. Tao Qian was appointed as the governor of Xuzhou, defeated the Yellow Turban Army, and implemented farming to restore production.
Xuzhou loved this chief official very much.
Therefore, Qi Zhen actually felt quite resentful about Tao Qian being killed by Lin Biao.
Qi Zhen always has some subjective attitudes towards these historical or game characters.
Like Lin Biao, who only considers problems and people from the perspective of the general trend of the world, it's not that Qi Zhen doesn't understand the reason, but it's really difficult for him to do it by himself.
Maybe Qi Zhen lost here.
At this time, Qi Zhenzheng and Wang Jianguo were discussing the next strategy in a hotel room in Xuzhou City.
The New Year celebration may be extremely important to the people in this world, but to outsiders like the team, it is just an ordinary day with no special meaning.
After parting ways with Lin Bian and Liang Sicheng from Luoyang, the two headed eastward to the city of Xuzhou.
They chatted a lot along the way, mainly focusing on reviewing the team from the beginning of the game to the end of the Luoyang incident.
After chatting and communicating with Wang Jianguo, Qi Zhen was somewhat impressed by him.
Wang Jianguo is a soldier, but his thinking is not as straightforward as that of ordinary soldiers. Instead, he can help Qi Zhen analyze problems from a war perspective in many places. Many things make Qi Zhen feel enlightened.
For example, in the war in Nanyang, if he was the chief officer commanding the attack on Nanyang, then if he wanted to attack Yuan Shu, the first thing he had to consider was Liu Biao's attitude.
If he had not been angry with Liu Biao beforehand, then he would not have rashly sent mercenaries to Nanyang no matter how close he was to Liu Biao or Cai Mao. This was not a matter of distance.
Even if it were him, he would definitely give Liu Biao some jurisdiction over subordinate counties after the war in exchange for his stable position in Nanyang.
Again, raising troops was not something recognized by the imperial court, so moving Nanyang would be equivalent to moving Liu Biao's private property.
Yuan Shu is still nominally under the jurisdiction of Liu Biao. Even if the two are estranged, Huang Yueying and Qi Zhen can only be the knife that Liu Biao borrows to kill, but cannot be the hand holding the knife.
The reason why he was able to occupy Nanyang so smoothly and form a huge force that attracted the attention of people all over the world means that Huang Yueying must have reached an agreement with Liu Sha long ago.
It's just that Qi Zhen couldn't see this because it was dark under the lamp.
In addition, the same principle applies to responding to Yuan Shao's call to go to Luoyang to form an alliance.
You must know that the governor of Nanyang at that time was not Yuan Shu, and he did not have a close relationship with Yuan Shao. He just went away beating gongs and drums. Where did they put Liu Biao and Cai Mao?
Similar things include what Qi Zhen did in Youzhou, as well as his views and actions towards Gongsun Zan, Liu Guan, Zhang Zhao and others, which were all too subjective and included personal tendencies and emotions, and it was difficult to escape from his own views on them. If you act according to the stereotype, you will lose completely.
The only person Qi Zhen did not make a mistake in judgment was Sun Jian.
And it was precisely because Sun Jian had always shown his character and behavior consistently that he died so aggrieved.
This is human nature.
The two also talked about many other topics, and Qi Zhen was actually somewhat interested in Wang Jianguo's past.
Qi Zhen expressed full curiosity about how this man became such a soldier who looked different on the outside.
Except for Liang Sicheng, he had not fully understood either Lin Bian or Wang Jianguo.
Not to mention Tang Yi and He Shanshan who are already dead.
However, regarding this point, Wang Jianguo said ruthlessly that he would not tell Qi Zhen. In the future, if the two of them were familiar enough to sit together and get drunk, he could have a drunken conversation with Qi Zhen as accompaniment to the wine.
After the two arrived in Xuzhou City, they began to collect information independently. Without soldiers following them, the two of them were like two scouts, blending into the chaotic and complicated situation in Xuzhou.
With Qi Zhen's Sharingan, collecting information is much easier than when Wang Jianguo was a scout. After these days of investigation, the two of them soon obtained enough information to guide their actions, and they are currently summarizing it. , ready to officially start taking action.
The actions of the two men in Xuzhou would not attract the attention of all parties. Their purpose was to quietly stir up chaos among all parties and buy time for Lin Biao in Luoyang.
