Just when Xiliang was in chaos, Gongsun Zan also encountered trouble in Youzhou.
The Youzhou Yellow Turban suddenly made a comeback, which was something no one expected.
The most important thing is that Gongsun Zan happened to have no soldiers in his hands.
Don't look at it. Last year, he commanded tens of thousands of troops and worked with Liu Bei and Zou Jing to defeat Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju's rebellion.
But as I said before, the only standing army in the Eastern Han Empire was the Central Northern Army.
Now add another southern army.
The establishment of local county soldiers depends on the financial situation of each county.
In addition to the necessity of having county soldiers at the border, relatively safe places in the hinterland of the Eastern Han Dynasty, such as Jizhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou and other places, had very few county soldiers.
Therefore, after Gongsun Zan finished the war, his troops were quickly disbanded. Although he was rich, he could not afford to support so many people.
In the past two years, he has been doing very well doing business with Wuhuan, Xianbei. He has also been the governor of Youzhou, and he has traded with the barbarians. He has made a lot of money from liquor and grain. He has also sold horses from the north to the Central Plains.
Already hundreds of millions.
As a result, when money and power were combined, and he was about to reach the peak of his life, the Yellow Turbans of Youzhou resurrected, which dealt a huge blow to Gongsun Zan. Not only did he destroy his business chain, but even the goods stored in various places were robbed.
This made the hot-tempered Gongsun Zan furious. Before the imperial edict arrived, he had already started spending money to recruit troops in Zhuo County. After all, he was also the governor of Youzhou and had the responsibility of guarding the territory.
At the beginning of January, Gongsun Zan had borrowed 10,000 cavalry from Xianbei's Murong tribe and recruited 30,000 infantry by himself. It happened that the imperial edict had also been issued.
Gongsun Zan was promoted to the general of the Liao Dynasty, with a silver seal and green title, and a rank of two thousand stones. He officially entered the ranks of two thousand stone officials and ordered him to put down the rebellion in Youzhou.
Gongsun Zan was a blessing in disguise. Although the business chain was destroyed, the goods were robbed, and a lot of money was lost.
But he didn't expect to be promoted. This made Gongsun Zan very happy and ordered his soldiers to go out.
Unlike Liangzhou officials who could only defend themselves, Youzhou had no foreign invasion after all, and the eastern Xianbei was living a good life. Unlike the central Xianbei, which was mired in war in Bingzhou, there was no intention to go south.
Wuhuan was seriously injured last year, and Qiu Liju had to sacrifice Zhang Chunzhang and surrender to the court before the end of the road. He probably doesn't have the courage to rebel now.
Therefore, what Gongsun Zan wants to fight is actually only the more than 100,000 Yellow Turbans in Youzhou. Gongsun Zan is still very confident in the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turbans.
However, Gongsun Zan's new appointee, Tian Yu, who was 18 years old this year, persuaded him not to make great efforts to suppress the rebellion.
This made Gongsun Zan feel strange, so he asked the reason.
Tian Yu said: "What is rare but easy to lose is the time; what is when the time comes but does not turn around is the opportunity. Therefore, the sage always moves in accordance with the time, and the wise man will act according to the opportunity. Today, the general encountered a rare luck and took the opportunity that is easy to solve.
, but if you don’t take care of your luck and don’t take advantage of opportunities, how can you enjoy a great reputation?”
The meaning of this sentence is that opportunities are rare. If Gongsun Zan extinguishes the Yellow Turbans now, then the court will probably not pay attention to it. It is better to let the Yellow Turbans go unchecked and let them grow and develop, and then eliminate them when they reach a certain level, and the credit will be greater.
Translated into words that everyone in later generations will understand, it is to support the bandits and respect themselves. After all, Youzhou is no longer as chaotic as it was in previous years, and all the forces are considered stable. Apart from the Yellow Turbans, Gongsun Zan no longer has any enemies.
If you want to achieve meritorious service, although the current Yellow Turbans are indeed good, the problem is that if they are wiped out easily, the court will feel that this is not a big deal, so they will not give too much credit.
Gongsun Zan was deeply convinced by Tian Yu's words, so he held his troops back and wrote a memorial exaggerating the strength of the Yellow Turbans in Youzhou while stationing troops to wait and see what would happen.
The Youzhou Yellow Turbans were temporarily blocked in Guangyang County, and Shanggu County was the territory of the Wuhuan people. The Yellow Turbans could not go south, so they had to go east and attack Liaoxi County. For a time, Youzhou was full of wars and wars.
However, if the situation in Youzhou is still under Gongsun Zan's control, then the situation in Jiaozhou is very bad.
At the time of Emperor He's census, the entire population of Jiaozhou was only 800,000.
However, the census at that time only counted Han people, not ethnic minorities.
Jiaozhou is Guangdong and Guangxi in later generations.
At that time, the population of Nanman in Jiaozhou reached one to two million, and they were actually the masters in Jiaozhou.
As a result, the imperial court decreed that the newly appointed governor of Jiaozhou, Zhang Jin, had to collect taxes, which caused the Southern Barbarians to rebel. They killed the governors from various places and gathered hundreds of thousands of people to rebel.
Although the current South Vietnamese barbarian leaders are not Samoko, they are all brave men. They have caused a bloody storm in Jiaozhou and hunted down Han people everywhere, not only in Jiaozhou but also in Jingzhou.
Jingzhou was Hunan and Hubei in later generations. Hubei was pretty good. Hunan's geographical location at that time was already very remote, including Wuling, Lingling, Guiyang and other counties south of Jingzhou, which were later Jishou in Xiangxi, Huaihua in Yongzhou, and Shaoyang in Loudi.
In the Han Dynasty, it was considered a land of barbarians.
Riots also broke out in these places, causing fighting in Jiaozhou and the south of Jingzhou soon, and chaos everywhere.
Yuan Shu, the new governor of Changsha, was heartbroken because he encountered this incident just a few months after he took office. He was almost crying without tears.
But who gave Yuan Shu a good father?
Under this situation, the Yuan family stepped in and the imperial court urgently appointed Yuan Shu as the right general and allowed him to mobilize troops from Jingzhou to put down the rebellion.
Jingzhou was actually in a mess at that time. Liu Biao was appointed to Jingzhou by Dong Zhuo in the first year of Chuping, that is, in 190, and he is not the governor of Jingzhou at all now.
Today's Jingzhou governor is called Wang Rui, and he does not fully control Jingzhou. The factional forces are rampant in various places. Barbarians and local powerful people disobey the king's orders. Separation of local regions is a common thing. Wang Rui has no ability to put down the rebellion.
Originally, Yuan Shu was the governor of Changsha. Logically speaking, although he was not a subordinate of Wang Rui, he was controlled by Wang Rui during the war.
As a result, the imperial court issued a decree and Yuan Shu was promoted to the right general, a proper general. Wang Rui could only follow Yuan Shu and act as a subordinate to Yuan Shu.
However, Wang Rui is one of those people who looks down on others. He was very rude to Sun Jian because of his vulgarity, and was later killed by Sun Jian. This shows that he has no objection to serving as Yuan Shu's subordinate.
After all, Yuan Shu's background was much nobler. He was the fourth and third son of the Yuan family in Runan, and he was famous in the world.
Yuan Shu had the support of the Yuan family and quickly mobilized a large army.
And they are not ordinary troops, they are elite soldiers.
Jingzhou is not far from Yuzhou. Yuan Shu is the direct son of the Yuan family, so he received much greater help than Yuan Shao. The Yuan family of Runan, which dominated Yuzhou, provided money and manpower, and immediately gathered tens of thousands of troops for Yuan Shu, temporarily stabilizing the situation.
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However, not long after, Ou Xing, Zhou Dynasty, Guo Shi and others who were supposed to have rebelled in 187 also rebelled because they could not stand the exploitation of the imperial court, and Jingzhou was in flames of war.
By February of the sixth year of Zhongping, Yuan Shu faced rebellions in various places and could no longer suppress them. He could only resist them and had to write frantically to the court asking for help.
At the same time, the situation in Liangzhou is not optimistic. Han Sui's army has been besieging the city for more than a month. Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo's troops have just arrived in Chang'an. They are temporarily in a rest stage and have not yet entered Liangzhou. Therefore, Ji County is also in danger.
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And when Liangzhou, Youzhou, Jiaozhou and Jingzhou were in chaos, Taichang Liu Yan quietly walked into the palace on this day.