At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Lu Bu's knife is really easy to use. After using it, he can directly dump the blame on Yuan Shao and Zhang Yang. These two blamers stand in front of him, so don't be too wonderful.

But if you want to do this again in the future, you have to be more careful.

It is best to pick up the leaks, before you attack, and encourage those princes to do things on their own, make a mess of the place, wipe out the big and small families, and give yourself some room for pain.

You can't turn your back on your face before you secure your position as the supreme under heaven. Turning your face too early and revealing your true face will only make your hard work go to waste.

For someone like Guo, as long as his subordinates think that he is a qualified overlord, it is enough. Having a certain level of basic disk guarantees that he will not overturn is a victory, and the rest will not be mentioned for the time being.

Unite everything that can be united and eliminate what cannot be united. This is the most important thing to do now.

There is no doubt that Xizhong is the type that must be united.

Yuan Shao is the type that must be eradicated.

Don't worry, don't wave, just hold on first.

Chuping three years, Chuping three years.

How long will it take for this centipede of the Han Dynasty to die out naturally?

Can I bear it until that time?

If he had reached that point before that, would he have to go back to Cao Wei's old path?

Ah.

Guo has no feelings, no pain.

Mr. Guo did not stay in Puyang for a long time, but returned to Chenliu soon, and presided over a series of post-war reconstruction work in Chenliu, such as the compensation of officials who died in war, the appointment of new officials and the punishment of officials who failed in duty.

The punishment of dereliction of duty officials is the most important, and those officials who surrender without fighting and bring disasters to the local area must be severely punished.

Those who surrendered honestly could be relieved of some crimes. Those who fled for fear of being punished would do anything to hunt them down and beheaded for dereliction of duty. If they were not serious, their positions would be cut off, and some even demanded compensation.

Such a severe pursuit of responsibility basically hits the local forces in Yanzhou.

Doing this blatantly, and then deploying his own staff, it doesn't look good, and it is easy to make the remaining people fear him, so Guo Peng adopted a more ingenious method.

With great fanfare, he held a memorial service for the county magistrates whose heads had been beheaded by Gao Shun, and wept bitterly, setting them up as role models, and then ruthlessly despised those soft bones who surrendered without a fight.

He vigorously comforted the family members of those officials who died in battle, and even visited the door in person to express condolences, holding the hands of their old mothers and weeping, knelt in front of the old mothers to apologize, and personally delivered relief items.

He also asked Chen Lin to write five articles in memory of dedicated officials, which is called a flower cluster.

Next, is to severely punish those officials who dereliction of duty.

Those who are sent to prison are sent to prison, those who beheaded are beheaded, and those who have their jobs cut off are cut off. Those who want to reduce their crimes have to spend more money to reduce their crimes.

Comparing the two times, the image of a ruler who is sentient, intentional, and rewards and punishments is established, and the behavior of pulling a wave and hitting a wave has also brought good results.

At least the public opinion in Yanzhou condemned those who surrendered without a fight, and praised those who fought to the death to protect the common people of Li.

After such a public opinion was formed, it quickly occupied the high ground of public opinion, condescending, and degraded and attacked any other dissent, which achieved good results.

Chapter 303 Three hundred and two

This wave of public opinion couldn't stop for a while, so someone Guo took this opportunity to quietly complete the foundation for the full implementation of the farming policy.

The people officially began to arrange for the establishment of organizations in Tuntian villages and townships, and began to sow the seeds of their own power on the soil of Yanzhou one by one.

When it takes root and matures, it's time to harvest.

Power never comes from superiors, but from lower-level grassroots, but one thing is very important, that is, when building your own power base, you should not be noticed by your superiors.

At this time, it would be best to think of a way to do a wave of things, so that everything seems to be taken for granted.

Someone Guo stepped onto the stage to show off his acting skills to his heart's content, singing and dancing with great joy, successfully diverting the attention of the public opinion, and when the public opinion subsides, everything has already unfolded and is irreversible.

According to this, someone Guo said that if he has good acting skills, he can really do whatever he wants.

As an old actor who has practiced for more than [-] years, Guo is too confident in his acting skills. He feels that in this era, there are very few people who can play on the same stage as him without falling behind.

Anyway, Yuan Shao is absolutely not.

Although Yuan Shao's acting skills were much better than Yuan Shu's poor acting skills, he was still no match for Guo.

But compared to Gongsun Zan, a scumbag who can't act at all, Yuan Shao's acting skills can still degrade Gongsun Zan.

Both are also warlords in troubled times, and Gongsun Zan's acting skills are really hard to recognize.

Life is like a play, everyone is singing, and if you sing well here, you are the only one who is different, Gongsun Zan, what is the truth in playing, if you don't kill who will you kill?

They didn't act in the play, they simply killed the family of the clan members, they proclaimed themselves Shepherd and Marquis of Youzhou, they declared their ambitions, and they wanted to change a group of people to rule Youzhou.

What are you kidding?

Not only that, but also a large-scale attack on powerful families to search for strategic materials such as food, ordnance, and population, which clearly damages everyone's interests. If you don't do it, who will you do?

So a large group of people launched a counterattack against Gongsun Zan under the banner of clan members, and Gongsun Zan was besieged and beaten.

Xianyu Yin, Xianyufu, Qi Zhou and others from the clan member's old department rose up one after another, announcing that they were at odds with Gongsun Zan, and that they must fight him to the death, otherwise they would not be able to repay the clan member's kindness.

Not only that, they knew that their strength was not enough to defeat Gongsun Zan, so they also united with the Karasuma people, and united with Karasuma Zuo Shan Yu Nanlou and You Shan Yu Qiu Liju to attack Gongsun Zan.

Then, of course, it is necessary to unite with Yuan Shao, unite with Yuan Shao, and carry out a joint attack on Gongsun Zan in various aspects, so that Gongsun Zan can be completely eradicated.

Politically, Gongsun Zan has been completely defeated and besieged on all sides, but in military affairs, Gongsun Zan still has the power to fight.

Of course, in order to maintain the strength of this battle, it is normal to be politically besieged on all sides.

In fact, at this moment, Gongsun Zan had already lost the possibility of competing with Yuan Shao for Hebei. His large-scale plunder of wealthy households and powerful people to accumulate military rations and military supplies had already offended all the local snakes in Youzhou.

That is to say, the "people's heart" of Youzhou has been lost, and the people's heart is no longer on Gongsun Zan's side.

Gongsun Zan is a boat, and the powerful families in Youzhou are water. Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it. This is what he is talking about.

Everyone wants to fuck him, who will die if he doesn't die?

The Titanic will sink to the bottom obediently!

He really should learn acting skills from someone Guo, otherwise it wouldn't be so miserable. Everyone knows that you are hungry and you want to eat, but your eating should be more beautiful and elegant.

Guo has a bigger appetite than Gongsun Zan, but so far he is still full of praise, why?

Good acting, good food.

Yuan Shao placed the main force in Gaoyang County, and went to Gaoyang County to command the army in person, preparing to attack Gongsun Zan with some food and grass he had finally accumulated.

As for Gongsun Zan, the situation was very bad, so Gongsun Zan came up with a solution.

The hopeful qi warlock beside him suggested to him that Ji County did not meet Gongsun Zan's domineering aura, and that Gongsun Zan needed to choose another place to be his base camp.

So Gongsun Zan fell in love with Yi County in Hebei, and built his own stronghold of the king and hegemony in Yi County, which he called Yi Jing.

The heart of disobedience is obvious.

When Yuan Shao led troops to garrison Gaoyang County, he was facing Yi Jing, who had already built a large-scale defensive fortress by Gongsun Zan.

Gongsun Zan deployed the main force here, and he also lived here, defeating Yuan Shao's several attacks with absolute defensive advantages.

Facing Gongsun Zan's defensive superiority, Yuan Shao seemed very helpless.

In Youzhou, the joint army of Xianyufu Xianyuyin and Qi Zhou was progressing smoothly, constantly defeating the attacks of officials arranged by Gongsun Zan, and gradually taking the initiative.

Zou Dan, the prefect of Yuyang installed by Gongsun Zan, was defeated by the coalition army and died. This was the breakthrough point, triggering a bigger chain reaction, and the situation that Gongsun Zan painstakingly maintained began to collapse.

However, Gongsun Zan himself lacked soldiers and horses, and lacked skills in avatars. He was too busy dealing with Yuan Shao, so he could not go out to support them and rescue them from the siege.

As a result, the anti-Gongsun Zan forces in Dai, Guangyang, Shanggu, and Youbeiping counties rose up against Gongsun Zan's rule, causing great trouble to the local officials arranged by Gongsun Zan.

The people of Karasuma had a grudge against Gongsun Zan, and the clan member was still alive, but when the clan member died, the people of Karasuma would naturally not continue to obey Gongsun Zan's rule, and resolutely joined forces with the United Army to fight against Gongsun Zan.

After repeated blows, a lot of bad news came one after another, which made Gongsun Zan very annoyed by repeated blows, and gradually began to refuse to hear the bad news.

At this time, it was the end of autumn in the third year of Chuping.

After the Yanzhou war ended, the Youzhou war also came to an end.

The reason seems simple, because Zhao Qi, the representative of the appeasement envoy sent by the Chang'an court, arrived in Hebei to persuade everyone to stop fighting.

So everyone complied with the imperial court's will, Yuan Shao stopped fighting, Gongsun Zan stopped fighting, and the Youzhou United Army stopped fighting.

But in fact, the reason for the truce is also very simple. Everyone is short of food and soldiers, so they need to go back to prepare food and grass, and grab strong men everywhere.

The United Army needs it, Gongsun Zan needs it, and Yuan Shao needs it too.

The arrival of Zhao Qi gave everyone a good excuse.

The United Army and Yuan Shao could not farm, and needed to negotiate with landowners in counties and counties to collect grain and taxes from them.

But Gongsun Zan let himself go, mobilized troops to seize the fields for farming, and soon accumulated a lot of food.

However, Gongsun Zan was defeated one after another and was short of soldiers. Although he had plenty of food, he could not make progress.

When Yuan Shao learned that Lu Bu was defeated and Zhang Liao had surrendered, he was shocked and immediately led his army back to Yecheng, leaving only a few soldiers under the leadership of Qu Yi to continue guarding against Gongsun Zan.

At the same time, Zhang Yang in Hanoi was also disturbed by the news that Lu Bu was defeated and died, and Zhang Liao surrendered to Guo Peng.

He was very restless in his heart, and he was always worried that Guo Peng would take various means to retaliate against him because of this incident.

So he chose to contact Yuan Shao, and the two uneasy people joined forces to try to fight against the coveted Guo Peng.

Yuan Shao was also very disturbed. He was very worried that Guo Peng would retaliate against him immediately and send troops to the north. On the one hand, he sent Zhang Xi to lead [-] troops to Fanyang County to assist in the defense, and on the other hand, he sent spies to the south to spy on the news. The news of soldiers going north.

Based on this, the counselors under his command analyzed together and believed that Guo Peng needed a lot of time to recover because of the heavy losses in this battle, and he would not go north in a short time.

Chapter 304 Three hundred and three, have you considered the thoughts of us rebellious officials and thieves (repair)

The counselors' analysis was reasonable and fully fit the actual situation, so Yuan Shao was convinced.

With the analysis of the counselors, Yuan Shao felt relieved.

So while sending people to contact Zhang Yang to strengthen bilateral relations and jointly fight against Guo Peng, they also sent people south to contact Liu Biao, hoping to get Liu Biao's help.

Then add food and grass to the [-] garrison in Fanyang County, so that they can defend more with all their heart.

It's not surprising that they are making preparations now, it's normal.

However, Guo Peng did not plan to send troops for the time being because he was busy with farming.

He just sent troops to guard against Yuan Shao and Zhang Yang, continued to build forward bases, built marching roads and military depots, and improved his transportation and mobilization capabilities, without making any more obvious offensive moves.

As a result, there was a short period of peace in the war-torn Yellow River area.

Of course, this is not peace, and this peace is only because everyone is unable to continue to wage war, and objective conditions do not allow it, so no one fights.

There are soldiers and armaments but no food. This battle cannot be fought, so everyone has a tacit understanding to strike together and recuperate.

However, although the real battlefield has temporarily ceased, the political battlefield has never ceased.

After Li Que occupied Chang'an, he tried to reconcile with Kanto, lift the previous state of war, and re-establish the prestige of the court in order to obtain more resources.

As a result, Li Jue sent Ma Rizun, a respected and respected scholar, as the chief envoy and Zhao Qi as the deputy envoy to the Kanto pacification envoy.

They first arrived in Luoyang, where they announced the imperial government's policies to appease people's hearts, making the only remaining households in Luoyang rejoice, thinking that good times are coming.

Then they saw that Guo Peng was fighting Lu Bu, and Yuan Shao was fighting Gongsun Zan. They felt that the situation was not good, and they might die in the rebellion at this time, so they stayed in Luoyang wisely.

After hearing the news that Guo Peng had killed Lu Bu and that Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan had confronted each other, they split up into two groups and advanced.

Zhao Qi went north to Hebei to appease Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, and the Youzhou Allied Army. Ma Rixun set off to Yanzhou to find Guo Peng, then went south to find Tao Qian, and then went to Shouchun to find Yuan Shu.

All in all, it is all kinds of appeasement, various agreements and promises, so that they all obey the orders of the Chang'an court, pay tribute, restore relations, and restore the prestige of the Han Central Committee.

This time period was chosen very cleverly. Everyone needed to rest after the battle, and they were all afraid that the other party would take advantage of it. Therefore, it was undoubtedly the best choice to have imperial envoys intervene.

Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan and the Youzhou Allied Army stopped their troops one after another. Under Zhao Qi's mediation, Hebei restored a short-term peace. Although it was short-lived, it was still peace.

After Yuan Shao chose to reconcile with the Chang'an court for his own benefit, and finally recognized Liu Xie's legal status, Zhao Qi talked with Yuan Shao about the court situation, revealing that their group of scholars were very dissatisfied with the Li Jue Group.

They also made an agreement with Yuan Shao, saying that they wanted to make an appointment to help Liu Xie escape from Chang'an and return to Luoyang. At that time, they hoped that Yuan Shao would go to Luoyang to meet the emperor's car, help the emperor stabilize the situation, and reshape the rule of the Han Central Committee.

At that time, high-ranking officials and rich salary will be left to Yuan Shao to choose.

"Your Majesty wants to return east?"