At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Cai Wan is the daughter of Cai Yong, the only super-rank official who ranks among the three princes in the dynasty, so her status is naturally unchallenged.

Zhao Yun's status was higher than that of Zhang Zhao and Xin Pi, so Zhao Yun's daughter, Zhao Kelan, was the first to enter the mansion.

Next, Zhang Zhao and Simpi's daughters entered the mansion together to show that they were equal in status.

Because of Guo Jin's high status, the status of the three promised to him will naturally not be as low as ordinary concubines.

The three daughters all have their own natal forces behind them, and they themselves represent a power group. The real power they hold is not comparable to that of Cai Yong, the mascot.

At the end of June in the tenth year of Yande, in midsummer, three women with impeccable backgrounds, personal qualifications, and talents entered Guo Jin's mansion and became Guo Jin's concubine, thus blocking the world's people for a long time. mouth.

After all, human words are terrifying, and three people become tigers. Even the royal family cannot but be concerned about the power of human words.

The crown prince has few heirs. If he does not take concubines and has more children, it would be considered irresponsible to outsiders, but the crown prince will definitely not be blamed for the main responsibility. The crown princess Cai Wan is the main responsible person.

At that time, Cai Wan will face enormous moral pressure.

So next, Guo Jin's task is to do his best to get these three beauties pregnant and increase the number of his offspring. In this way, the world will be completely at ease, and Cai Wan will have no moral burden up.

For Guo Jin, this is naturally painful and joyful.

During this period of time, apart from the matter of giving Guo Jin Zhang Luo a concubine, Guo Peng was still paying more attention to another matter.

In April, news came from Jiaozhou that Jiaozhou Mu Zhang Jin ordered the arrest of Jiaozhi prefect Shi Xie while he was ill, and sent him to prison for punishment. The situation in Jiaozhou was unstable.

Now, a month has passed, and the situation in Jiaozhou seems to be even more unstable. The two sides are almost fighting each other, and the war is imminent. The civil war in Jiaozhou seems inevitable.

In the fourth year of Yu Yande in Jiaozhou, under the leadership of Zhang Jin, he chose to abandon the Han Empire and join the big family of the Wei Empire.

At that time, Guo Peng was facing a situation of internal and external troubles, and he gave the greatest kindness and tolerance to Jiaozhou's refuge.

He made Zhang Jin the Jiaozhou Shepherd of the Wei Empire, the only state shepherd of the Wei Empire, and promised that the troops and officials of the Wei Empire would not enter Jiaozhou for three years.

He only has nominal jurisdiction over Jiaozhou, but in fact he does not interfere with any government affairs or daily life of Jiaozhou, and entrusts Zhang Jin with everything.

Of course, the root cause is that Jiaozhou is too barbaric, so barren that Guo Peng can’t even arouse much interest, let it be free——

The southern part of Jingzhou and the southern part of Yangzhou have not yet been developed, and he has no spare energy to develop Jiaozhou.

No one has no money or special products, and considering the financial situation of the Wei Empire, which has no spare power, Guo can only do this.

Jiaozhou is indeed not the main conflict, so we can let it go.

Three years later, the Wei Empire got rid of internal and external troubles and entered a period of great construction. Guo Peng also entered the peak period of regaining imperial power and becoming a complete emperor, and still had no spare power to manage Jiaozhou.

So at that time, Guo Peng only ordered Zhu Ling, the governor of Jiangling Camp, to send an officer to lead an army of hundreds of people to symbolically enter Jiaozhou and occupy Jiaozhou to show that the Wei Empire's possession of Jiaozhou was not vain.

In this regard, Zhang Jin agreed.

And Zhang Jin's friend Xu Jing was reused by Guo Peng at that time. Xu Jing wrote to Zhang Jin to comfort him and tell him not to worry, so Zhang Jin did not take any measures to rebound.

In other words, his subordinates have no intention of competing with the Central Plains. They are not completely ignorant of the poverty of Jiaozhou and the prosperity of the Central Plains.

Therefore, during this period, Jiaozhou and the Wei Empire were quite harmonious.

Chapter 1348 One thousand 250 Bashi Xie thinks Zhang Jin is a stick

Before the internal sorting is completed, the contradiction between Jiaozhou and the central government will always be a secondary contradiction.

For Guo, who can clearly distinguish the primary and secondary contradictions, Jiaozhou can be resolved at the end.

So at that time, Guo Peng had no intention of getting involved in Jiaozhou at all, but let Zhu Ling and Zhang Liao continue to lead troops to open up new territories in the four counties of Jingnan and southern Yangzhou, and develop the land in the south of the Yangtze River.

During this period, Guo Peng got some information about Jiaozhou in bits and pieces.

For example, Zhang Jin's health is not very good, he is often sick, and his energy is low, and he often expresses the idea of ​​wanting to pass on the status and power of Jiaozhou pastor to his son.

But his prestige is not high enough, he doesn't get along well with the generals under his command, and there are often conflicts and disputes. It is only because the emperor Guo Peng appoints him to be the shepherd of Jiaozhou, so it is difficult for him to achieve his ideas.

At the beginning, when Guo Peng had not gone south to invade Jingzhou and Liu Biao had not died, Liu Biao had had ambitions for Jiaozhou and wanted to occupy Jiaozhou, so he had a bad relationship with Zhang Jin.

The two sides have fought for two or three years. Zhang Jin's strength and Jiaozhou's war potential are far inferior to those of Liu Biao and Jingzhou, who have [-] armored troops. Moreover, they are not very good at fighting, which has brought great losses to the army and people of Jiaozhou. .

Although Liu Biao failed to succeed, Zhang Jin was also resented by the generals and local power factions——

This is of course, because what Zhang Jin fought was the power of the local real power faction.

What is the level of development in Jiaozhou and what is the level of development in Jingzhou? Do you have no idea?

Zhang Jin really did not. Before the pressure of the Guowei Empire poured on Jingzhou, Zhang Jin and Liu Biao's generals fought for years, fighting constantly, with more losses than victories. However, due to traffic and other factors, Liu Biao was still unable to expand the results of the battle.

Later, when the Wei Empire was established, Liu Biao felt the pressure and had to turn north. He never harassed Jiaozhou again until he died of illness and the Jingzhou regime fell.

The Wei Empire took control of Jingzhou, and the strong pressure was directly on Zhang Jin's face.

Zhang Jin compared the strength of the two sides and felt a deep sense of crisis, so he took the initiative to surrender, which was considered to have lifted the crisis in Jiaozhou, thereby gaining a certain prestige and securing the position of Jiaozhou pastor.

But this is not the end. Zhang Jin likes religion and literature. He gets along well with scribes on weekdays, but has a bad relationship with the generals.

When he was in poor health and began to think about his future affairs, he realized that a group of scribbling scribes could not help his son secure his position as Jiaozhou pastor.

First of all, Guo Peng's side may not be able to make sense. It is hard to say whether the Wei Central forces are still willing to allow Jiaozhou to be named and actually independent.

And Jiaozhou is not without people who are expected by everyone.

Shi Xie, the prefect of Jiaozhi, was the one whom everyone hoped for.

Shi Xie's ancestor was a native of Lu State in Yuzhou and a northerner. During the Xinmang Rebellion, he went south to Jiaozhou to survive in order to avoid disaster.

After several generations of development, Shi Xie's father's generation became a well-known tycoon in Jiaozhou, possessing a lot of wealth, land, and population. At that time, Shi Xie's father was the prefect of Rinan County.

In Shi Xie's generation, the Shi family went up to a higher level. Under Zhang Jin's command, Shi Xie and his three brothers all served as prefects, and Jiaozhou only had seven counties in total.

It can be said that more than half of Jiaozhou is in the hands of Shijia.

Zhang Jin was full of a sense of crisis.

Because he wanted to pass on the status to his son, and worried that after his death, Guo Peng would abandon his son and appoint Shi Xie as the shepherd of Jiaozhou because of concerns about the power of the Shi family. Therefore, he was often worried about this and thought hard about solutions.

Later, he probably came up with some ideas, and since then he has taken the initiative to get close to the generals, often giving preferential treatment to some leading generals from local or other places, and bestowing some money, treasures, etc., which is really true. Got the favor of some generals.

These generals began to walk around with Zhang Jin and win over each other. Zhang Jin also used his power to seek some benefits for them, thus gradually gathering a group of subordinates who were more loyal to him.

With these people who do not belong to the traditional sphere of influence of the Shi family as his basic board, Zhang Jin felt confident and courageous, and felt that he was necessary and capable to start paving the way for his son's successor status.

Although Jiaozhou is wild, but here, their father and son can be the emperor of the soil.

Although the Central Plains is prosperous, in the Central Plains, their father and son can only be dependent on others, a fish on the chopping board.

I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail.

Zhang Jin chose the place where his family took root, and he didn't want to return to the north. He made frequent moves and wrote to his good friend in the capital, Xu Jing, Minister of Rites, asking him to run and operate on his behalf so that his family could stay in Jiaozhou for a long time.

Zhang Jin's various behaviors have aroused the attention and concern of local powerful scholars in Jiaozhou.

Zhang Jin is the leader of the airborne, the owner of power, and the scholar family is the local snake entrenched in one side, the uncrowned king of Jiaozhou. There is a fundamental contradiction between the interests of the two parties, and it is impossible to reconcile.

Not to mention that the Shi family respected Zhang Jin on the surface and did not have any conflicts with Zhang Jin on the surface, but in fact it is definitely not that simple.

Of the seven counties, the prefects of the four counties are all scholars. The scholars are the real uncrowned kings, and their actual power is no less than that of Zhang Jin.

The scholar family was very worried when they learned that Zhang Jin had asked someone to run on his behalf in the central government to help him fight for the right to hereditary Jiaozhou pastoral care.

They feel that Zhang Jin has already begun to devote himself to the localization of the Zhang family. If he is given more time, with the power of Jiaozhou Mu, the process of localization of the Zhang family will definitely be greatly accelerated.

At that time, the Shi family must be a thorn in the flesh of the Zhang family, and it will be quickly pulled out, and the Zhang family will have the support of the central government. Unless the Shi family rebels, there will be no life.

And the rebellion...

Can it beat the Central Army of Wei State?

The elites of the Shi family gathered together and expressed that Zhang Jin's idea of ​​inheriting Jiaozhou pastoral status must not be allowed to succeed.

So they proposed to send people to Luoyang Central to find people to run around, preaching that Zhang Jin wanted to inherit Jiaozhou's pastoral status in preparation for the separatist side, but in fact he wanted to rebel.

Shi Xie said that the Shi family must draw a clear line with Zhang Jin. Zhang Jin wants to inherit the Jiaozhou pastor, but they cannot do so. They must resolutely support the Jiaozhou governor sent by the central government. Invasion of central power.

The scholar family must always be a local tyrant obediently, and never aspire to the highest power in Jiaozhou.

Shi Xie saw clearly that the Wei Empire was unable to take care of Jiaozhou for the time being, and what he wanted was for Jiaozhou to remain stable, just like it is now.

Zhang Jin's desire to hereditary Jiaozhou Mu is too naive. He simply wants to separate the regime, and Emperor Wei will definitely not agree.

However, if the scholars expressed their firm support for the governor of Jiaozhou sent by the central government, they would be completely different from Zhang Jin, and the scholars would appear to understand that righteousness is harmless to humans and animals.

After all, the Shi family is a local snake, no matter who the chief sent is, as long as they are willing to live in harmony with the Shi family and protect the interests of the Shi family, then the Shi family doesn't mind who is the governor of Jiaozhou.

Moreover, Shi Xie never felt that the Shi family had the power to separate one side in the era when the Wei Empire dominated the world.

Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue back then, was strong enough, had a high prestige, and was far stronger than the current Jiaozhou region. What happened?

Didn't Nanyue Kingdom still become Jiaozhou?

Therefore, the Shi family led by Shi Xie didn't want to be the leader on the surface at all. He knew that he could not compete with the central government, so he just wanted to safeguard his existing interests with peace of mind.

This is something that Zhang Jin can't do and can't accept.

Zhang Jin is also sick and dizzy, and he doesn't think about Wei Tianzi sweeping away the Quartet and pacifying the eight wastelands. What a talented and generous person, the most annoying person must be the separatist regime, and you, the Jiaozhou pastor, actually told him clearly-I want to separatist regime , please agree.

Are you out of your mind?

Shi Xie couldn't help feeling very amused, thinking that Zhang Jin was a stick.

Chapter 1349 One thousand two hundred and fifty nine, good guy, Liu Guanzhang is in your mouth three knots

At the beginning of the ninth year of Yande, Shi Xie's envoy and Zhang Jin's envoy were both in Luoyang at the same time.

At that time, Guo Peng had not launched the Qingzhang Land Action, and was still in the brewing stage. He was very surprised when he suddenly heard that Jiaozhou Shepherd Zhang Jin asked his son Zhang Wen to be the next Jiaozhou Shepherd.

Is Zhang Jin's head broken?

His reaction was the same as Shi Xie's.

He felt that Zhang Jin's above table was discussing with him - I want to separate the regime, can you promise me?

You ask me the status of this unified emperor who wants to be separated?

Even if Jiaozhou is barren, even if Jiaozhou is poor and can't recover the cost of the war, but do you think I will care about the cost in order to maintain the integrity of the territory or something?

Why do you think the three armies I set up in Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Yizhou have not retreated so far?

Good guy, Liu Guanzhang crossed history and dimensions and made a three-way alliance in your mouth.

That's weird.

very strange.

He felt that no one should ask him for this position so firmly.

It has been nine years since Yande, and he has been emperor for nine years. So many things that have happened in so many years, can't Zhang Jin understand what kind of person he is?

Then he received a letter from Shi Xie, the prefect of Jiaozhi.

Shi Xie said that he was aware of what Zhang Jin, the pastor of Jiaozhou, made a statement, but he strongly disapproved of Zhang Jin's behavior. He believed that Zhang Jin was abolishing the public for personal reasons, so he would resolutely support the next governor of Jiaozhou sent by the central government. .

Take a look, what is time awareness?

It is not completely unreasonable for people to be local snakes for several generations. At least they know that they share the ruling power with the central government and know that Guo Peng will not allow the next state shepherd to appear.

And what about Zhang Jin?

He actually wanted to be hereditary Jiaozhou pastor.

The gap between people is reflected in this place.

At that time, Guo Peng was very dissatisfied with Zhang Jin and was very angry.

But on second thought, he took into account Jiaozhou's advantageous geographical location.

That is a piece of land directly facing the South China Sea.

Although it is barren now, it is very meaningful to select certain places as the sea outlets for the construction of the sea, so as to develop commercial trade and colonial plunder in the South China Sea and Southeast Asia.

For example, the sea trade route with the Roman Empire.

For example, in the future enfeoffment plans, princes will go to sea from here, going to Southeast Asia and South Asia, or even Australia.