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The Chang'an court in the entire February and March of the fourth year of Zhangwu was mainly busy with two things: one was to rectify civil affairs and internal affairs, and the other was to sort out historical issues and let all officials learn to unify political thoughts.

Some of the officials who have low ideological awareness at first thoughts thought the emperor made a big deal, and the prime minister also did a big deal without any reason.

Now, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan have turned against each other, and it will turn into a thousand-year-old opportunity for a full-scale war at any time! If you don’t take the opportunity to focus all your energy on war, you will still work on internal unified thinking and improve your level of awareness? Is this a great opportunity to refuse to leave the foundation and give up the best?

But later as they learned in depth, they gradually realized that first of all, they did not give up militarily, and His Majesty and the Prime Minister had already made arrangements.

Secondly, it was precisely because of the fact that Yuan Shao had left such a big mess to the puppet dynasty of Guandong that the Zhengshuo court in Guanxi should be encouraged and take the opportunity to strengthen internal unity.

After learning, the civil servants and military generals who had no political awareness but were also simple and honest, just shouted a few slogans and continued to be loyal.

But those who were originally more active, had more thoughts, had curved intestines, occasionally flashed ambition assumptions in their minds, and did not take orthodoxy seriously. After studying at the reading club, they realized a problem in their minds:

If the orthodox is destroyed, the person who replaces the orthodox will fall into great instability. Even if Yuan Shao succeeds in usurping the Han Dynasty, he will be usurped by his descendants Cao Cao and usurped them from each other.

If Yuan Shao had not taken office, his family had lived a good life in the fourth generation and the third generation of his family, and it would have been possible that if the sixty-three emperors were passed on like this, the Han Dynasty would not treat their Yuan family unfairly.

But he got to power, and his younger brother Yuan Shu was also on the road of usurpation. What was the result? The Yuan family was probably gone. Cao Cao helped Yuan Tan to usurpation, and Cao Cao's descendants would probably not have a good end in the future. Therefore, even if he was alive, he would stand at the top, and his descendants would be extinct faster after his death.

What's more, even if the original Han Dynasty sometimes had a "crazy monarch" and sometimes he would treat his ministers badly without understanding right and wrong. Liu Bei, the current orthodox emperor of the Han Dynasty, was also a kind person. He also designed so many new goodwill measures to loosen the fear of his ministers, so everyone should have confidence.

(Note: These cognitions are certainly not truth, but also maintain feudal rule. However, in the era of the empire, in the environment of social productive production relations at that time, production could be organized for social order and stable social order. If the ministers can believe these, it would be a good thing for the world.)

These cognitions were pointed out in the hearts of most active court officials, and after seeing the living and bloody negative teaching materials next door, combined with theory, the hearts of course became more stable.

Everyone also realized that although Li Sikong was appointed as prime minister, he seemed to have nothing to do for three months, so he just took a bath every day and held a meeting occasionally to discuss his reading experience with everyone. But the prime minister is worth it, and what he does is really a great cause for thousands of years.

They are not taking a bath every day, they are pretending to take a bath, actually thinking about plans for a long time, modifying historical and political philosophy works, and passing on classic values ​​from generation to generation.

Don't delay serious business.

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While Liu Bei's camp was busy learning from Yuan Shao's autopsy report, as the family of the victim of the autopsy report on Guandong, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan did not have any intention of learning from the chaos after his father's death.

Because Liu Bei's actions to improve the court officials' ideological awareness were not secret, but were widely publicized, so the learning experience and measures there were actually quickly spread to the ears of the two Yuan through detailed works.

These people not only did not take it as a warning, but instead breathed a sigh of relief: Liu Bei, a hypocrite who was falsely benevolent and righteous, did not fight over when our brothers were ill, but instead mourned the dead ghost father and carried out ideological and political work.

Just in time! Without Liu Bei's threat in a short period of time, these two brothers must quickly decide the outcome! Even if they completely beat the dog's brain, they will be willing to do so!

Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan knew very well that Liu Bei had temporarily put the unity of thoughts and integration of the internal system, but it would not continue like this. How long can you learn? One or two months? At most three months! Once the time passed, Liu Bei would still call him.

Then take advantage of these two months to see life and death among brothers! After one falls, the other can integrate Cao Cao against Liu Bei with all his strength!

In early February, the work of forming cliques between the two sides was completed, and then they moved from local conflict to full-scale war.

First, Pingyuan County under the jurisdiction of Yuan Tan, the governor of Qingzhou, was located north of the Yellow River, and the local prefect Liu Wan seemed to be intimate with Yuan Shang, and he also had many relationships with local civil servants and other local groups in Hebei, so Yuan Shang was instigated to rebel.

He also gave a large amount of food and supplies that Yuan Tan had hoarded at the eastern front of the Yellow River to Yuan Shang, which eliminated Yuan Shang's worries on the eastern front.

Because the plain turned against each other, Qingzhou and Jizhou were equivalent to confronting each other across the Yellow River. Yuan Tan was pulled out on the bridgehead on the north bank of the Yellow River. If he wanted to cross the Yellow River to attack, it would be much more difficult than to advance the plain area.

However, Yuan Tan had loyal and righteous people at least. Guan Tong, a general from Donglai who was guarding Yuan Tan's family, was ordered to lead his army to Qi County and Jinan County to counterattack the plains. However, Wang Xiu, a former governor of Qingzhou, was not afraid of war, and secretly went to the plains under the protection of Guan Tong.

Wang Xiu blamed Yuan Tan for his kindness to everyone, and also said that the deposed elders and established young people to cause chaos, which was beneficial. A military strike combined with political win-win, actually convinced some officials from the prefect Liu Wan to kill Liu Wan and return to Yuan Tan.

All kinds of operations are almost the same as before the Battle of Guandu in history, a series of Hanoi officials such as Zhang Yang, Yang Chou, and Guan Gu killed the master and the other ones and threw the other ones (Yang Chou killed Zhang Yang and surrendered to Cao, and Guan Gu killed Yang Chou and Yuan)

While Yuan Shang wanted to poach Yuan Tan, Yuan Tan would definitely not be idle either. However, Yuan Tan was not very attractive to local officials in Jizhou, and could not attract local power figures at the county prefecture level to surrender.

Who made Jizhou currently in charge of daily administrative and logistics scheduling? Shen Pei is from Wei County and a representative of local civil servants and aristocratic families in Jizhou. Shen Pei is determined to support Yuan Shang, who represents the interests of Jizhou, and Yuan Tan, even a prefect, will not rebel.

Throughout February, three or four envoys from Yuan Tan who sent gold and silver to give official positions were killed by the prefects, and the heads were sent to Yuan Shang and Shen Pei.

After suffering a loss, Yuan Tan changed his course and realized that it was impossible for him to win over local officials in Jizhou. What he should win over was the important officials of the imperial center, rather than the local power faction.

Because many of the central officials are not natives from Jizhou and have no interest in Jizhou, they are more likely to be in love with Yuan Tan, who represents the other faction.

Fortunately, Yuan Shang's basic foundation was not stable. At the end of February and early March, with Yuan Shang further leaning towards the interests of the locals in order to unite the locals, two consecutive waves of important officials from other places under Yuan Shao's official sects ran away and defected to Yuan Tan and Cao Cao.

Xu You, who was ranked third Duke, defected to his old friend Cao Cao and was willing to lead Cao Cao. Although Xu You was distrustful by Yuan Shao after the Battle of Hanoi and was undermined, his title of third Duke was still there and Yuan Shao was not taken away. This was fatal, which led to the unstable heart of Liu and the center of the court.

Of course, Xu You's resignation is definitely not a waste of money. It is estimated that Cao Cao made a lot of profits in the past or two months. For example, the promise to Xu You to continue to be the three officials of real power in the future, and to give countless gold, silver and treasures, which made Xu You, who was despised, finally completely surrender to Cao.

In addition to Xu You, Guo Tu, who served as the Minister of State before Yuan Shao's death, also waited for an opportunity to surrender to Yuan Tan because of conflicts with Shen Pei and the Jizhou faction.

There is also Kong Rong, who once worked in Beihai County, Qingzhou. It was not because he had conflicts with the people of Jizhou. He felt that as a descendant of Confucius, he could not stand with the evil people who were deposed and established as a young man.

Moreover, Yuan Shang's previous actions of luring some county prefects in Qingzhou also made Kong Rong very dissatisfied. In addition, after Wang Xiu brought Pingyuan County back, he ventured into the court and divided the courts everywhere to persuade the court officials to surrender. Kong Rong, a moral mascot, was not valued by Yuan Shang, and no one monitored and guarded him, so Wang Xiu persuaded surrender and ran away.

Kong Rong's departure did not have any military or logistical strength attack on Yuan Shang, but only made Yuan Shang more passive in ideological disputes and the distinction between righteousness, because all the moral role models left.

Fortunately, Yuan Shang also realized that it was wrong to only focus on real profit but not on major titles, so he distributed some resources to remedy it in time. First of all, he needed to establish some moral models again, so he relied on Cui Yan, a famous scholar represented by local scholars in Jizhou, and promoted Cui Yan from an ordinary deputy county-level official to a Shizhong, replacing the vacancy after Guo Tu escaped.

He then rewarded Hua Xin, the "moral gentleman" represented by the fence-leading school, and let Cui Yan and Hua Xin be responsible for stabilizing the hearts of Chinese officials in the court.

At this point, the two brothers poached each other and exposed their internal shortcomings were finally done, and the rest was a real battle.

In early March, Yuan Tan gathered 150,000 troops, including his own Qingzhou soldiers of 80,000, and Cao Cao supported his elite troops of 70,000.

There were repeated tug-of-war between Yanjin, Baima, and Liyang on the south bank of the Yellow River, and Liyang on the north bank of the Yellow River, fighting several wars of attrition. After trying to break through the Yellow River, he rushed straight from Liyang to Yecheng and took down his third brother.

This battle situation is almost a replica of the Battle of Guandu in history, which should have happened this year. It is nothing more than the confrontation between Yuan and Cao and the Yuan family has been divided. Half of them follow Cao Cao and fight the remaining half of the Yuan family.

I can only say that the geographical situation in Hebei is like this. When I want to kill the other party’s crux of the heart, I can only cross the river from Henan to Liyang, so no matter who will command the battle, the battlefield will be chosen the same.

The generals of both sides have become Cao Cao's generals with Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, Le Jin, Cao Xiu, and Xiahou Shang, while Yuan Shang mainly consisted of Zhang He and Gao Lan.

Yuan Shang seemed to lack generals, but because his father died early and did not kill Tian Feng before his death, Yuan Shang was in disguise and was able to compromise and ask Tian Feng to serve as the Li Yang Army Supervisor and urge Zhang He to fight. The most trusted Shen Pei, who was the most trusted, was still staying in Yecheng to preside over the overall defense.

Yuan Shang had thought about counterattack at first and took the initiative to suppress Yanjin, but soon found that Cao Cao and his elder brother had a strong strength far surpassed him after joining forces, so he gave up and defended Li Yang to the death.

After Yuan Tan and Cao's army withstood the first wave, they launched a counterattack. Zhang He and Gao Lan only persisted until mid-March, and the Liyang defense line gradually disappeared.

At this time, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were already ready to move.
Chapter completed!