After Xu Yin discussed with Zuo Ci, Xu Yin thought for a moment and suddenly threw a gold medal at him with the word "Nine Heavens" written on it.
"What is this?" Zuo Ci asked curiously.
Xu Yin took out the Huangtian Taiping Order again, and the flag was filled with brilliant colors.
"The Huangtian Peace Order?! It's actually in your hands!"
He stared closely at Xu Yin's face and said: "You are the assassin who is wanted all over the world, and you also killed Yuan Shao of the Yuan clan in Guandong! It seems that you are also proficient in the method of transformation."
Xu Yin said: "Yes, it is Xu. I want to establish a new destiny for the world. I think this is the opportunity, so I established Jiutian in order to restore peace to the troubled times."
Zuo Ci looked at the Jiutian gold medal and laughed, "Are you trying to win me over to join?"
"Yes, in these troubled times, or even in the last days, even people outside the world should actively join the world to save the world. Immortal Zuo must have awakened from this."
He looked at the Nine Heavens Gold Medal in his hand and nodded slightly, "The Pindao Association will contact people of the same Taoism to realize the great cause of unifying the world.
However, who can rule the world today?"
Xu Yin pointed to the north, "There are people in the north, and it's time for a test."
"Okay! Pindao will go with you!"
After Xu Yin roped Zuo Ci into joining Jiutian, a war had broken out in Jizhou that would determine the general trend of the world.
Lu Bu led his army to assist Jushou and other Jizhou nobles in fighting, and ran wildly on the road with high fighting spirit.
However, deep in the sea of consciousness, a true spirit lingers around its origin, quietly sensing this person's strong fighting spirit, and showing a burst of joy.
The true spirit said to itself: "This powerful human being should belong to the Shura world! Accept my gift, and you will definitely become a powerful Shura King!"
In the distance, dark clouds were pressing down on the city, and the 60,000 elite soldiers of Jizhou were fighting fiercely in the wilderness with Gongsun Zan's 50,000 elite cavalry and the Black Mountain Army's 100,000 troops.
Soon, Lu Bu's Bingzhou fine cavalry joined the battle and resisted Gongsun Zan's white horse Yi Cong!
During this battle, the two armies fought fiercely, and corpses littered the fields.
The armies in Jizhou had just experienced internal fighting, and the soldiers were exhausted and morale was low.
The two sides fought for several days, and the Jizhou army was defeated. Jushou and other prominent Jizhou noble families all preferred death to surrender.
When Lu Bu was in crisis, he continuously erupted into the universe within the sea of consciousness. With each eruption, the true spirit of Shura pollutes its origin even more deeply.
Although he was invincible on the battlefield for a while and Baima Yicong was repeatedly defeated by him, the murderous intention in his heart became more and more out of his control. He finally realized that something was wrong and led his army to abandon the fighting Jizhou Army and fled south.
This directly led to the defeat of the Jizhou gentry coalition, and countless people were killed.
Gongsun Zan successfully took over Xindu and continued to send people to recruit the major noble families in Jizhou to surrender. Those who did not cooperate with him were killed.
At the same time, due to a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people, the hostility in Jizhou became entangled. Creatures from the Shura realm appeared one after another and slaughtered all parties.
This situation occurred not only in Jizhou, but also in various places. The major princes who were attacking each other also had to exterminate the Shura realm monsters that appeared in their territories from time to time.
Liu Bei's successful suppression of the rebellion by Yan Rou and others in Youzhou had also spread to Gongsun Zan.
He greatly praised Liu Bei, calling him his brother, and referring to him as Youzhou Mu, replacing Gongsun Zan in guarding the rear to deal with foreign invasions.
Gongsun Zan planned to completely control Jizhou and Qingzhou, and then officially move south to strive for world hegemony.
At this time, Cao Cao, who was originally an ally with Yuan Shu, encountered a powerful enemy in the north, so he had to send troops to the north and to the south to form an alliance with Yuan Shu's old ally Sun Jian.
However, Sun Jian ignored him and still formed an alliance with Liu Biao of Jingzhou to attack Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was in the center of the Central Plains where the Four Wars were taking place, and he had no choice but to do anything.
At this time, Lu Bu led his army to surrender. He ignored the grudges of his former enemy and accepted him. He divided the land of three counties for him and ordered Lu Bu to garrison in the north to resist Gongsun Zan's invasion.
Then he went south and fought against the coalition forces of Liu Biao and Sun Jian in Nanyang.
At this time, Sun Jian sent his son Sun Ce south to Jiangdong to conquer the Jiangdong gentry.
Sun Ce formed an alliance with Zhou Yu, a member of the Lujiang gentry, and led thousands of elite troops into Jiangdong to conduct successive conquests.
Lu Su, a nobleman from the east of the Yangtze River, saw the majesty of his army and felt fearful. It happened that Zhou Yu came to borrow grain. Lu Su had three granaries and lent two of them to Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu succeeded in his conquest and was greatly grateful for his kindness. He recommended Lu Su to Sun Ce's shogunate, which gradually opened the prelude to the alliance between the Sun family and the Jiangdong gentry.
The Central Plains and the South were at loggerheads. Gongsun Zan of Jizhou, Hebei Province was busy convincing the gentry of Jizhou states to support him in proclaiming the emperor, while he went south to fight Lu Bu.
At this time, Youzhou ushered in a period of stability and peaceful development after the great chaos.
After Liu Bei took charge of Youzhou as a pastoralist, he vigorously developed internal affairs and took advantage of the season of suppressing the civil strife in Youzhou to take over the power of the wealthy families and liberate the population of Uburg.
Adopt Xu Yin's policy, reform the land and return it to local people, reward production, abolish the poll tax, divide people into acres, promote agriculture and industry, promote official education, appoint poor families, and implement the government army system.
Due to a large number of vacant fields, vast land and sparsely populated areas, coupled with the melee in the south, people were in dire straits.
Xu Yin used the strength of the Lianghuai Chamber of Commerce to transport a large number of refugees northward by sea to fill up Youzhou. In three years, it absorbed a total of more than two million people, which greatly made up for the disadvantage of Youzhou's small population.
In terms of appointing bureaucrats, because the Youzhou gentry suffered heavy setbacks and were successively attacked by Gongsun Zan, they are now very weak.
Without arousing the vigilance of the nobles in other states, Liu Bei implemented a mixed system of examination and evaluation.
For the local noble families who still have a certain degree of influence, a small number of outstanding talents will be recruited into the shogunate. At the same time, for other wealthy families and poor families, an assessment system will be used to select talents.
At the beginning, policy selection was used, and then it was gradually expanded through official schools, and gradually introduced four major disciplines, namely mathematics, literature, agriculture, and military science, to attract talents. However, this requires a long process, and it takes more than ten years to achieve success.
At the same time, business was developed, using papermaking technology, salt and iron minerals, and the wealth of the nobles in Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Henan southward. The strength developed rapidly, the people's livelihood was peaceful, and the army was strong.
Without the attention of major local princes, it gradually grew into a very powerful force.
After gaining strength, they then marched north to conquer Wuwan and Xianbei. Following Kong Ming's plan, they attacked the enemy and attacked their hearts at the same time, so that the foreign tribes no longer dared to continue going south.
The large tribes were beaten to pieces, and some scattered tribes even entered the pass, took refuge with Liu Bei, and served him wholeheartedly.
Combined with the tough border people and elite government soldiers, and with the support of the nomadic cavalry, they suppressed the rebellions in various parts of Liaodong, wiped out the powerful, united with the good nobles, and collected a large number of soldiers and horses.
Then they entered the grassland, captured the Yinshan Mountains, developed agriculture and animal husbandry, and absorbed the nomadic population.
At this time, Liu Bei had more than 50,000 cavalry in hand, and even the infantry was not short of horses.
A large number of noble officers in the army are government soldiers, and they prepare their own food, grass and weapons to join the army. Military expenses are not as heavy as during the Gongsun Zan period, and it does not affect people's livelihood.
Liu Bei was a low-key person, and he was a fellow villager and sect member of Gongsun Zan, so he always had great trust. His power gradually took shape under the secret development, and he was just waiting for the world to change...