In the valley on the outskirts of Xiangping, the villagers can live freely and leisurely, but for the "big men" in Xiangping City, the world is so complicated, or they need to think
There are too many things.【,
"Did that Bogu send someone over again?"
"Yes, according to what Youju, whose name is Dajia, is actually the prime minister, Bogu's time is running out and he is worried about establishing an heir."
"Do you know which of his sons Bogu plans to appoint as his successor?"
"Bogu originally had three sons. The eldest son, Nanwu, died early, and his concubine had no children to inherit the throne. The remaining two sons, according to the words of Youju and Bogu's subordinate named Zhushushi, a general, were slightly
The older Ba Qi is brave but not filial. He also complains a lot about us. He often makes arrogant remarks after drinking and wants to rope us in.
It is above the gate of Wandu City. And Bogu's youngest son Yiyimo is smart and virtuous. When he helps the king govern the place, he appoints officials according to their talents. Even farmers and slaves can become Yiyimo if they are talented.
He is a minister of Yi Mo, so this younger son is supported by all the ministers."
"Since what is that called... one by one, (Yi Yi Mo) yes, yes, Yi Yi Mo, Yi Yi Mo, the names of these Goguryeo people are really hard to pronounce. Since all the officials are interested in Yi Bogu's youngest son, why bother looking for me?
Let’s discuss this with an unrelated outsider.”
"Isn't it because Bogu showed respect for me, Liaodong?"
"Huh! It's just nonsense. Do you really believe it when they say this?"
"Of course not, of course not, but since Goguryeo is testing us with this matter, if we don't 'reply', we would be really sorry for such a good opportunity, and my subordinates are really not willing to do so. So some
It’s transgressed.”
"Humph, I still know that I have overstepped my bounds. OK, I'm not confused. Since I'm not confused, I should know what I should do and what I shouldn't do."
"Yes, my subordinates will be optimistic about those Goguryeo people and will not give them any chance to make trouble."
"Very good. This time is actually a good opportunity, but it's a pity that the current situation is not quite right. If it weren't for this, little Goguryeo would dare to play tricks with me. Do you really think that I, Gongsun Du, is a soft persimmon?"
Goguryeo, a subsidiary power entrenched in the northeast of the Han Dynasty, is not an exaggeration to call it a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. Its territory is mainly concentrated in the eastern part of Jilin Province and the northeastern part of Liaoning Province in China. In addition, when the power expands, it can also extend its tentacles to
north
In the northeastern part of Korea, they could compete with the Hao, Hao and other tribes there, or have a war of words with the Woju people in the east. However, in general, they still prefer the western and southern areas.
Expansion of places that are already fully developed.
Goguryeo is called a "different species" of the Buyeo people, which means that their ancestors are at least closely related to the Buyeo people. It can be considered that this is an alien regime established by the Buyeo tribe.
Because of this, it can be determined that Goguryeo was not the ancestor of the Goryeo Dynasty that was later established by Wang Jian, and there was no inheritance relationship between the two parties. When Goguryeo and later the Goryeo Kingdom were passed down to the Tang Dynasty, they had repeatedly attacked the Central Plains Dynasty.
It expanded and was eventually destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, and its territory was completely annexed by Silla. As for the royal bloodline, it is unknown where it ended up.
As for Wang Jian, no matter whether his ancestor is the Wang family of Taiyuan or another clan from the Central Plains, he is completely different from the ancestors of Goguryeo. Just like the Shu Han regime established by Liu Bei, people can still regard it as a continuation of the Han Dynasty.
Dynasties with the origin of the Han Dynasty. However, the Han Dynasty established by Liu Yuan and the Later Han Dynasty established by Liu Zhiyuan obviously would not be regarded as the continuation of the Han Dynasty.
Similarly, the Mughal Empire in India was founded by Babur, a descendant of Timur, who claimed to be a descendant of Genghis Khan's golden family. Will historians regard it as a continuation of the Mongol Empire?
Goguryeo was born between white mountains and black waters, so naturally it would not have much interest in those undulating mountains and dense primeval forests. Therefore, although Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu chose to rely on him after he ascended the throne, and he was promoted from the title of marquis, which was originally demoted by Wang Mang.
However, when they arrived at Wangjue, the Goguryeo people did not appreciate the favor given by the Han people. Instead, like other foreign tribes on the border, they continued to treat
The Han Dynasty adopted a cannibalization policy on its borders. Today it attacked border soldiers, tomorrow it plundered border residents, and the day after tomorrow they burned, killed and looted. From the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, although the Eastern Han government occasionally carried out punitive expeditions against it, it did not extinguish its greed at all.
, on the contrary, it intensified, causing Xuantu County and Lelang County in the northeastern frontier to lose a large amount of land, and Liaodong County also suffered from increasingly fierce encroachment.
It can be said that if there are no other changes, perhaps a hundred years later, the Liaodong Peninsula will be completely owned by it.
There was no need to wait until the Northern Wei Dynasty when he had no intention of looking eastward to accomplish this feat.
Yes, this so-called "accident" is the careerist Gongsun Du who is currently located in the border fortress of the Han Dynasty and is not yet completely considered a separatist force. He wants to become the "King of Liaodong".
Speaking of which, Gongsun Du and Li Shushi have some relationship, but of course this so-called relationship is not that they are relatives.
When Dong Zhuo came to power, he was very dissatisfied with the constant harassment of the Han Dynasty by Goguryeo in the northeast. Although the Liaodong County in the northeast was too far away for him and out of reach, this did not mean that he
I don’t want to solve this problem, especially when the previous governor of Liaodong, Yang Zhongzai, Zhang Chun,
This position has been vacant since Zhang Ju was killed in the rebellion, so Dong Zhuo specifically sought suitable candidates for this matter from the civil and military officials in the court, hoping that they could recommend capable people to solve this problem, and the scope of this solicitation was obviously
This also includes Li Shushi, who showed a deferential attitude towards the emperor behind Dong Zhuo.
Li Shushi, who was in Bingzhou, naturally had no control over Liaodong, which was thousands of miles away. He originally had no need to participate in this kind of thing, but he didn't know if it was the inertia of history. Although Xu Rong's death in Luoyang caused by He Jin
During the turmoil, he was brought to Jinyang by Li Shushi, away from the political circle of Luoyang, but Gongsun Du still found this old general with whom he had a hometown friendship.
It is said that they have fellow countrymen, but it is just Gongsun Du's claim. Although he was born in Liaodong, Gongsun Du followed his father to settle in Xuantu County at a very young age, where he also became a county official and the prefect of Xuantu County.
With the support of Gongsun Yu, he married a wife and was promoted as "Youdao". That is to say, a virtuous person entered the official career. It can be said that Gongsun Du was completely rooted in Xuantu County, just like Han Sui.
Although Li Shushi was not well-known among the scholars, the Zhou Mu who was a pastor could be regarded as an important official in the court. What's more, behind Li Shushi was Lu Zhi, who was the Shuozhou Mu at the time.
He can be regarded as a well-known figure. As long as Li Shushi can recommend him to Lu Zhi and obtains Lu Zhi's recommendation, the defense of Liaodong can be said to be a certainty.
With Lu Zhi's reputation, Li Shushi and Lu Zhi's strength, Dong Zhuo would never embarrass these two important ministers in the DPRK who at least supported him politically to some extent if they had the chance to defend Liaodong.
In fact, there was no need for Lu Zhi to take action at all, Li Shushi could easily handle it all.
Anyway, for Li Shushi, although Gongsundu was not a very famous figure, he was able to rule Liaodong for more than three generations for more than fifty years. He obviously still had some abilities, at least whether it was Goguryeo and Fuyu in the north or the northwest.
Xianbei, or the Wuwan people in the West, could not let this separatist regime collapse, but lived a very prosperous life.
It is estimated that if it were not for encountering a certain dead ant with unlucky luck, perhaps this regime could continue to last for quite some time.
All in all, according to the tradition of the Han Dynasty, Li Shushi and Gongsun Du had a recommendation relationship. There was such a little relationship - of course, this relationship was like a thin piece of paper in the face of the feudal princes competing for hegemony.
Just break.
Over time, both Li Shushi in Bingzhou and Gongsun Du in Liaodong have probably put this matter behind them, and it has become an insignificant episode in their lives that has no ripples at all.
Although Gongsundu is said to be a careerist, a separatist, and a separatist prince, we have to admit that he is a very capable person.
Gongsun Du came from a poor family and was a minor official in Xuantu. He had to rely on the sympathy of Gongsun Yu, the prefect of Xuantu, because he was the same age as his own child who died young, so that he could be recommended and study abroad. Now he has to rely on Li Shushi.
Only a guy who was considered an important minister but a "sycophant" in the eyes of most scholars could get the position of governor of Liaodong. One can imagine how much discrimination he received when he returned to Liaodong.
The representative of this was Gongsun Zhao, who was born in the Liaodong vassal state and was the commander of Xiangping at that time. He actually conquered Gongsun Du's son Gongsun Kang as a mere district commander. Such behavior was really contemptuous and a slap in the face.
Faced with this situation, Gongsun Du's choice is not fundamentally different from Li Shushi, or it is no different from the choices of many heroes in the Three Kingdoms, which is to raise the butcher's knife to make the heads of those under his rule roll, and wipe out those powerful places in one day.
If you are powerful, whether you are promulgating laws or arranging political affairs, it will become easier and smoother.
Of course, Dong Zhuo and Sun Ce also adopted such policies, but the effects achieved by Gongsun Du seemed completely different.
The reason for this situation, needless to say, Dong Zhuo's origin determined that all the nobles in the world, except for a few who did not have much ambition, would be dissatisfied with his existence if they had even a little bit of career ambition.
After all, the nobles had been fighting against the eunuchs for so many years, and had shed blood and sacrificed for so many years, but a lowly warlord leader had stolen the fruits of victory and lorded it over them. It was really intolerable.
As for Sun Ce, I can only say that he has an overly stubborn personality, which is really the legacy of Sun Jian. He is also overconfident in his martial arts to the point of arrogance. The result is very similar to his father. It can be said that he almost repeated his father's behavior.
merits and demerits.
Of course, the timing of Sun Ce's death is somewhat strange, so we also have the right to wonder if there are other people behind it. After all, Cao Cao was already under severe pressure from Yuan Shao at that time, and he really couldn't withstand the pressure behind it.
The emergence of a ferocious tiger, even if it is just being cute at the border, can make people feel uneasy and involve the already insufficient military strength.
On the other hand, Gongsun Du had offended many people by killing those powerful men who had done evil. However, because Liaodong was isolated overseas, and because Gongsun Du was a small official with a good background, he was like Liu Jingsheng who rode into Jingzhou alone, and he quickly became stable.
The situation in Liaodong.
Liaodong's internal problems have been solved, but the peripheral problems seem to be more troublesome than the internal problems.
As mentioned before, not only are Liaodong surrounded by many foreign ethnic groups such as Karasuma, Xianbei, Goguryeo, Fuyu, Woju, Huiqi, etc., but there are also tough border residents entrenched in the Fushan area on the border.
Among them, the first to attack Liaodong under the rule of Gongsun Du was Bogu, the king of Goguryeo, who had been coveting the Han Dynasty for a long time and was constantly encroaching on it.
Speaking of which, Bogu's life was full of ups and downs - he once killed the county magistrate of Daifang County in the south of Lelang County, robbed the wife and children of the prefect of Lelang County, and other things like burning, killing and looting are unknown.
After doing so much, he finally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Luoyang court. He was beaten up by Geng Lin, the prefect of Xuantu County, and hundreds of people died. He had to belong to Liaodong, which can be said to be quite honest.
Later, he requested to annex Xuantu County, probably because he felt that Liaodong was too strong to be conquered, so it would be safer to encroach on Xuantu County.
But in general, a battle in which hundreds of people were killed probably damaged Goguryeo's vitality, so that in the following ten years, Bogu did not do much.
It is a kind of torture, but for the central government, this loss is really a drop in the bucket and is completely dismissed.
Knowing that Gongsun Du had arrived in Liaodong County, he raised his butcher's knife and rolled the heads.
I don’t know whether it was because the remnants of the executed powerful people came to Bo Gu and asked to be the leader, or because they felt that after killing these countless powerful people in the county, Liaodong’s strength had dropped to its lowest point in history, so there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. Anyway, at that time
At that time, Bogu, the king of Goguryeo, probably saw the dawn of Goguryeo embarking on the road of expansion again.
But whether it is really the dawn of light still needs to be fought to know.
In fact, throughout Gongsundu's wars against hostile forces, he rarely went to the front line of the war in person. Compared to the kind of battlefield fighting where the knife tip licks blood, he obviously preferred to sit in the rear and defend decisively thousands of miles away, just like Liaodong
Gongsun Hong, the recognized ancestor of the Gongsun family, became a Confucian leader respected by the world, rather than the group of warriors like the Gongsun family in western Liaoning who had Gongsun He as their ancestor.
But in this counterattack against Goguryeo, Gongsundu rarely took the lead. Together with his fellow general Gongsun Mo, as well as his subordinates Liu Yi, Yang Yi, Zhang Chang, Han Zhong and other major supporting forces, they led the soldiers and servants in the county to be seized.
The strong recruits selected from the slaves obtained by the powerful men in the county formed a team to jointly face the challenge from Goguryeo.
As a result, this battle can be said to be without any suspense.
Just as the slaves of the Shang Dynasty turned against each other in the middle of the Battle of Muye, the slaves of the Han people who were coerced by Goguryeo saw that the new governor of Liaodong not only led the way, but also seemed to be somewhat capable, plus Gongsun Du Yu
The loud promises made in front of the battle tempted them. Finally, these people stabbed their weapons into the bodies of the Goguryeo Buyeo soldiers around them.
Even if there were not many people who did this at first, as long as these Han slaves paddled, it was enough to change the situation on the battlefield. After this battle, Goguryeo not only lost more than a thousand strong Han slaves.
With the rest of the country's elite, it can be said that Bogu suffered a more tragic defeat than the one Geng Lin gave him last time.
In the face of power, Goguryeo once again remembered its responsibility as a vassal state, so after some negotiations, Goguryeo not only became a vassal state of Gongsun Du instead of the Han Dynasty, but also had to send troops to support Gongsun Du in his attack on the "rich mountain bandits"
Cleanup operation.
Gongsun Du, who had recruited this powerful team of border residents, finally had the confidence to promote his rule in the Liaodong region.
At one point, it even extended its tentacles to Qingzhou across the sea.
Although this operation failed due to the obstruction of the vast sea - this is Gongsun Du's statement. As for the specific details, I'm afraid only the person involved knows best, but it has to be admitted that Gongsun Du repelled the Goguryeo army.
After the attack, again
Liaodong Wuwan suffered a small loss from him and no longer dared to invade on a large scale. Xianbei also lost the ability to invade the south on a large scale because of Li Shushi. For a while, Gongsundu's Liaodong was seriously
It has become a paradise in troubled times.
Now, when Bo Gu feels that his body has decayed and his life is coming to an end, he has to inform Gongsun Du about the issue of the successor. Maybe it is difficult for Gongsun Du to intervene in the internal affairs of Goguryeo, but as the suzerain of Goguryeo, Gongsun Du
Has the power to determine the legality of the next generation successor of Goguryeo as a vassal state to ascend the throne.
This is the power Gongsundu has in this three-acre land in Liaodong after nearly ten years of hard work.
"But..." After pondering for a while, Gongsun Du asked in a slightly hesitant tone: "What's going on with the Wuwan and Xianbei people in the west recently? I always feel that the atmosphere there recently is not quite right.
.”
"My lord, my subordinates have heard that because Gongsun Zan quietly retreated, Yuan Shao does not seem to intend to fully honor the rewards he promised to those foreigners. For this matter, the greedy Xianbei and Wuwan people are said to be very unhappy."
"Seriously... No, this is impossible. What kind of person is Yuan Benchu? How could he give up the opportunity to win over these powerful 'thugs' just for a small benefit? Not to mention that Yuan Benchu doesn't have any
So strong that even if there is no
Those barbarians can also conquer the world. Maybe they still have some strength to deal with Cao Mengde in the south, but they are still a little short of strength to deal with Li Shushi in the west. No, there must be some ulterior deal here!
"
"Then what kind of deal do you think this is, my lord?"
"Well, I don't think it's good either. Who knows what those greedy aliens are interested in, but judging from the information I got from businessmen during this period, these aliens seem to be quite interested in plundering the population.
It seems that they have surpassed their usual preference for money, silk, gold and beads, but they are not merciless when killing people, which is really hard to understand."
"My lord, there is no need to worry, as long as these barbarians do not set foot in our Liaodong. But even if they set foot in our Liaodong, we will not worry. As long as my lord is here, we will eat as many as they come!"
It's a pity that such heroic words soon turned into bitter and fragrant words that had to be swallowed by themselves.
The Xianbei people, who had been very restrained since Gongsun Du took control of Liaodong, began to gather on the fertile grasslands in the northeastern and eastern parts of Liaodong. At the same time as the Xianbei people gathered, the Wuwan people of the Liaodong vassal state also seemed to have withdrawn from the front line against Gongsun Zan.
When they came back, their attitude was also quite unfriendly. Without any pause, the Karasuma army from the Liaodong vassal country also stationed itself at the border of Liaodong County, and the sound of sharpening knives could be heard constantly from the camp.
"My lord, according to reliable information, the person leading the Xianbei army this time should be Shanyu Qianman of Xianbei, followed by the Eastern Xianbei Lord Mika. As well as the Eastern Commander Su Li, Que Ji, and Murong Yan of the Murong Division.
There are countless other middle and lower tribes in Duan Mo River in Duan tribe, and the total military strength is estimated to be at least one hundred thousand!"
No matter Qian Man or the lineup around Qian Man, they can be regarded as all-stars. Still the huge numbers make Gongsundu feel cold sweat all over. Such a huge force is obviously not something that only Liaodong can withstand. Even the three counties of Liaodong
Xuantu
, Liaodong and Lelang together probably only have about 150,000 households with a population of more than 700,000. In addition, the number of slaves raised by those powerful people will not be much more than this number, at most, it will be 50,000 or 60,000 more.
After all, the appearance of the person is that of Liaodong, which is located on the frontier.
With such a population, even if one is drawn from ten, the number of troops that can be gathered is only 80,000. Moreover, compared with Xuantu County, Lelang is too far away from Xiangping, and the relationship is not close.
The population is basically difficult to
The most Gongsun Du could do was to provide some supplies and then give 3,000 troops who could barely fill up the appearance. He might as well use the money and food in the treasury to go into the mountains to find those Haoqiang and Woju people who are good at shooting. At least
More reliable in combat effectiveness.
Of course, if it is a general mobilization, then Liaodong can also piece together an army of 150,000, but that quality... it is better not to think too much, and such a huge army is also a huge burden on production and food consumption. If Xianbei
People just train their ability to assemble, and it doesn't take much. Just two or three times can bring Gongsun's regime into a state of collapse.
However, this may not be the most disturbing thing.
"My lord, according to the sentry reports, there seem to be tens of thousands of Huns soldiers in the enemy formation, but they seem to be different from the Huns army we are familiar with. It is just difficult to tell for a while."
"Huns! Did Li Shushi of Bingzhou reconcile with the Xianbei royal court?!" (To be continued...)