When Liu Cheng received the letter and learned that it was written to him by Jia Xu, he seemed very surprised.
He did not expect that Jia Xu, an old salty fish who he had used some means to force him to work, would actually take the initiative to send someone to deliver a letter to him.
However, later I felt it was reasonable.
After all, Jia Xu took the initiative to go to Chang'an to meet Dong Zhuo and give Dong Zhuo advice because of the Liangzhou incident.
At this time, it is normal to send yourself a letter again.
Liu Cheng paid great attention to the letter sent by Jia Xu.
Because he knew Jia Xu too well.
This is a person who does not speak easily under normal circumstances, gives advice to others, and is very smart about his own plans.
However, as soon as you open your mouth and come up with an idea, it will definitely be extraordinary.
It can often achieve surprising results.
In history, whether he easily started the rebellion, or secretly helped Liu Xie, or helped Zhang Xiu fight, and then followed Cao Cao to put down the rebellion between Han Sui and Ma Chao, or he played an extremely important role in confirming Cao Cao's successor.
big effect.
At this time, the matter involved Liangzhou, and Jia Xu took the initiative to send someone to deliver a letter. It must be something unusual.
Liu Cheng came to the room, opened the letter and read it.
His expression changed as he read the letter.
The letter was very long, and Liu Cheng read it slowly. It took a while before Liu Cheng finally finished reading it.
After reading it, Liu Cheng put it on the desk next to him, and sat here, looking at the plate of lush garlic in front of him, thinking about things motionlessly.
After doing this for a while, he withdrew his gaze, picked up Jia Xu's relatively thick letter, and continued to read...
For half a day, Liu Chengdu did not leave the house...
The sunlight slanted to the west, and some sunlight passed through the small square hole left high on the west wall and fell on the ground at Liu Cheng's feet, forming a circular light spot.
At the same time, a beam of light shone out from the house.
In the light pillar, there are many tiny dust and other things that are usually not easy to detect, flying in it.
Liu Cheng, who was deep in thought, looked up and saw this beam of light.
It had been a long time since he had looked at life in such detail. He came out of his meditation, put aside all his things for the time being, and looked at this beam of light carefully.
After looking at it for a while, I stretched out my hand to dance against the light beam a few times, and then blew into the light beam. Things that were originally relatively calm, such as dust and small fibers, immediately began to dance.
After playing around for a while, Liu Cheng felt that he was in a good mood.
Sometimes, the happiness of adults is also very simple.
He poured a cup of tea, drank it slowly, and continued to think about things.
The letter Jia Xu sent him was a bit thick and had a lot of words.
It was different from what Liu Cheng thought, that Jia Xu came up and gave him some clever advice.
In his letters, Jia Xu spent a lot of time talking about Liangzhou, the Qiang people, the Han people in Liangzhou, the relationship with the Qiang people, and why Liangzhou was prone to frequent wars.
According to what Jia Xu said in his letters, ever since Guangwu Zhongxing, the imperial court has been full of talk about abandoning Liangzhou, regarding Liangzhou as a burden.
However, although this kind of voice exists, it is not mainstream after all.
Because many people can see clearly that if Liangzhou is abandoned, it will benefit the foreign races.
Moreover, the battles and various struggles between the Han Dynasty and the foreign tribes in the northwest will not disappear just because they voluntarily abandon Liangzhou.
On the contrary, the land in Guanzhong will become a new battlefield because of concessions.
This is not good.
For hundreds of years, Liangzhou has never been peaceful.
After all, there is not only the Hu-Han conflict here, but also various other conflicts. In addition, it is too far away from Luoyang, the center of the rule, and some are beyond reach, so various wars have never stopped.
After Jia Xu and Liu Cheng introduced this, they said that the root cause of the turmoil in Liangzhou was the irreconcilable conflict between the Hu people who were herding and the Han people who were farming.
Different lifestyles and means of acquiring wealth have created natural conflicts between Han people and Hu people.
Next are the officials who govern Liangzhou.
Most of the officials who came to govern Liangzhou had a sense of superiority after arriving in Liangzhou.
They look down on Liangzhou people.
Not only the Hu people in Liangzhou, but also the Han people in Liangzhou, they also looked down upon them.
If you have a sense of superiority in your heart, you will naturally not do well when it comes to governance and the like.
Under the influence of the mentality of not treating Liangzhou as a human being, various forms of exploitation began.
The situation here in Liangzhou is complicated, and various relationships are mixed together. With these officials sent by the imperial court, they do all kinds of things that do not treat people as human beings, which further aggravates and intensifies the conflicts here.
As a result, there has been no complete stability here for more than a hundred years.
In addition to these, there is another more important reason, which is that some people in the military deliberately let things go.
The army has to fight.
When we are pioneering and enterprising, the military can play the greatest role, and it is also easiest to get promoted and make a fortune.
However, the Eastern Han Dynasty had long since lost the ambition to expand abroad, nor the ability to do so.
Mainly due to financial constraints.
If the financial situation can be tolerated, the dead Emperor Ling will not sell his official position in various ways, and will also come up with discounts and promotions to find ways to collect money.
The military has no way to forge ahead and fight no wars, which means that the military and the military have much less say, as well as the ways to obtain military merit and promotion.
In order not to completely lose this self-reserved land, in the past, when renovating Liangzhou and fighting against the Liangzhou Qiang people, they would often hold back secretly.
In this way, they will not be further reduced...
In addition, Jia Xu also told Liu Cheng about Sanming in Liangzhou in his letter.
The so-called Sanming of Liangzhou are Huangfu Gui, Zhang Huan and Duan Xi.
The three of them are all outstanding military strategists in dealing with Liangzhou in modern times.
Because the names of the three of them all have the character "明" in their names, and they were all famous for their achievements in controlling the Qiang, they were called the "Three Brights of Liangzhou" at the time.
In their hands, the Qiang people in Liangzhou were beaten miserably.
Jia Xu did not go into too many details about the battle between Sanming and Qiang in Liangzhou.
In the eyes of Jia Xu and people of this era, no matter how fierce the Qiang people were, the Han Dynasty was still very confident in sending troops to defeat these people.
Mainly talking to Liu Cheng about the differences in the attitudes of these three people towards the Qiang people.
Huangfu Gui and Zhang Huan advocated relatively mild methods to solve the Qiang rebellion.
That is to say, after the Qiang people were defeated, some Qiang people were moved away from their original place using strong methods.
They moved to areas with a large number of Han people and forced them to change their lifestyle from herding to farming.
This method is indeed good, but it takes too long and requires a lot of money.
The Han court was short of money.
It is precisely because of this that the policies implemented by the two cannot be implemented all the time.
The Qiang rebellion in Liangzhou has never been resolved.
Later, Duan Xi took action and promised Emperor Ling that the Qiang rebellion would be quelled within three years.
Duan Xi's method was completely different from that of Huangfu Gui and Zhang Huan. They were to pacify, while Duan Xi was to suppress.
If you can't solve the problem, solve the people who created the problem.
Aren’t you Qiang people always in turmoil?
Then why don’t I just kill you all?
Wouldn't this stop you from making trouble?
Duan Xi's method was indeed effective. In more than a year, relying on some soldiers and horses at hand, local soldiers and horses in Liangzhou, and Huangzhong Yi Cong, the Qiang people were swept away.
Killed and captured many people.
All the Qiang people have become honest.
They all expressed their surrender and surrender.
The Qiang were the first to be eliminated in the North, and they were the most severely beaten.
After being defeated, Duan Xi returned home in triumph, bringing with him a large number of cattle, horses and livestock, as well as more than 10,000 Qiang prisoners...
After this battle, Duan Xi became famous.
After returning to Chang'an, he thought he could obtain corresponding status and treatment.
In the end, just like Huangfu Gui and Zhang Huan before, they found that those groups in Guandong didn't let them play at all.
People like me who were born and raised in Liangzhou are not looked down upon by others.
Faced with this situation, Huangfu Gui's approach was to actively seek help from the Kanto scholar-bureaucrat group and make various gestures of goodwill.
Others don't really buy it yet.
Zhang Huan may have seen Huangfu Gui's fate, so the relationship became a bit ambiguous, and the relationship between the eunuch and the Guandong Group seemed unstable.
As for Duan Xi, after he came back, he acted even more decisively and completely fell in love with the eunuch group.
The ending was not good, Duan Xi was poisoned and killed in prison by the cruel official Yang Qi.
Although these generals who led the army were like this, the treatment of those Huangzhong Yi Cong and others who had fought in Liangzhou before was even worse.
If the Han Dynasty continues to grow stronger, even if Duan Xi dies, with the deterrence of his previous attacks, Liangzhou will not cause much commotion.
But it happened that the big man had something going on, and it was a big deal.
The Yellow Turban Uprising swept the world.
The big man instantly became a mess.
As a result, the Qiang people could not stay idle.
Start taking the opportunity to cause trouble.
At the beginning, there were not many people rioting, only sporadic ones.
But later, Huang Zhongyi joined them, and after they started an incident together, everything became different.
Soon it began to sweep Liangzhou.
Then, Han Sui and Bian Zhang, who were well-known Han heroes in Liangzhou, were detained by the rebels and were quickly elected as leaders by the rebels.
The two began to lead the war in Liangzhou.
At this time, the rebellion in Liangzhou was different from before.
Previous rebellions were basically initiated by the Qiang people and led by the Qiang people.
But now, with the large wave of people killed by Duan Xi before, the Qiang people are no longer as strong as before.
Huangzhong Yi Cong and Liangzhou local powerful people began to join in and do things together.
Moreover, the powerful Han people were allowed to take the lead.
The war soon spread towards Guanzhong.
So the court was panicked.
Surprised, he quickly dispatched Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo and others who had made great contributions in wiping out the Yellow Turbans to come over and put down the rebellion.
Huangfu Song was the son of Huangfu Gui.
Before Huangfu Gui, he tried his best to rely on the Kanto Group and kept putting his hot face on his cold butt. Finally, it paid off.
These inheritances were returned to his son.
However, this time, Huangfu Song and others, who had just wiped out the Yellow Turbans and whose soldiers had received a lot of training, failed to be as devastating as the Liangzhou Sanming before when facing the Liangzhou rebels.
Instead, they encountered obstacles at every turn and suffered defeats one after another.
If there hadn't been a meteor shower later, which caused the donkeys and horses in Liangzhou to bray wildly, and Han Sui and others were greatly surprised by this vision from the sky and decided to evacuate overnight, I'm afraid it would be hard to say what the outcome would be.
But the result was like this. In the subsequent pursuit, Huangfu Song and others were beaten and lost their troops and fled in a hurry.
Among the several troops, only Dong Zhuo managed to retreat with his entire army.
Under the support of his peers, Dong Zhuo received great awards after the war.
This time, the suppression of the Liangzhou rebellion was a failure compared with the previous ones.
Didn't even get in.
From then on, Liangzhou basically belonged to people like Han Sui and Ma Teng.
As for Bian Zhang, it has been taken away by Han Sui...
Why is it so difficult to counter the rebellion this time?
The reason is that Huang Zhongyi joined these people who were good at fighting, and Han Sui, Bian Zhang and other powerful Han people also joined them.
This is no longer just a rebellion caused by the Qiang people.
The combat effectiveness and influence are much stronger than before.
Under this situation, it can be said that the influence of the Han Dynasty court in Liangzhou is very small.
Han Sui, Ma Teng and others have actually separatized Liangzhou.
Historically, it was not until Cao Cao sent troops to protect the pass, attack Liangzhou, and use various means to solve the problems of Han Sui and Ma Teng that the problems in Liangzhou were generally solved.
But the problem in Liangzhou has not been fundamentally solved.
It is still treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.
After the Sima family conquered Wei and established the Jin Dynasty, these things expanded and became particularly powerful...
In this letter, Jia Xu told Liu Cheng a lot of things.
At the same time, it was also emphasized that if the Liangzhou problem is not solved, the Liangzhou problem will continue to exist.
It has lasted for hundreds of years, causing the big man to bleed continuously. If it is not solved now, Liu Cheng will also suffer from it in the future.
As a result, the Liangzhou problem continues to exist.
As for how to solve the problem in Liangzhou, Jia Xu did not give clear suggestions in the letter.
I just say that the situation is changing rapidly. Others are not here and don't know the specific situation, so I won't give any random suggestions.
Liu Cheng, Uncle Liu, is more experienced and methodical in governing local areas and resolving conflicts...
When he started planning for Liangzhou, Liu Chenggong had already made a very detailed investigation of the situation here in Liangzhou.
Got a lot of understanding.
Now, with this letter from Jia Xu, Liu Cheng knew this in more detail.
Some of the thoughts in his mind changed.
It is not difficult to capture Liangzhou. What is difficult is how to prevent another rebellion in Liangzhou...
After Liu Cheng thought here for a while, he asked Xun Yu, who was staying at Aotou Pass, to come over quickly...
