Three Kingdoms

The person coming from Jingzhou is Liu Pan.

Liu Pan was sent here urgently by Liao Hua.

Liao Hua of Wuguan has always been busy since he became the guard general of Wuguan, focusing on defense and organizing the refugees. But on this day, outside Wuguan City, Liu Pan, who was flying the Jingzhou flag, was seen among the refugees. After cross-examination, he learned that he was looking for Hussar on behalf of Liu Biao, so he did not dare to delay and sent someone to report in a hurry.

When Fei Qian returned to the General's Mansion and saw Liu Pan again, some memories came to mind.

When he left Jingzhou, officially entered the stage of history, and began to compete with guys like big men, Liu Pan was undoubtedly the first little boss he met in the early stages of Feiqian, the experience pack.

Experience package, uh, Liu Pan's beard and hair were disheveled, his armor was crooked, and his clothes were in a mess. Fei Qian didn't see any of the domineering look of the past in his prostrate figure, but only saw the panic and nervousness that could not be concealed in his expression.

Historically, where did Liu Pan go after the fall of Liu Biao?

Fei Qian thought for a moment, but couldn't remember. Generally speaking, Liu Pan is like the hozen on the tree called Liu Biao. When the tree falls, it naturally loses its living space...

Seeing Liu Pan, Fei Qian couldn't help but think of Liu Biao.

In fact, from a certain perspective, Fei Qian couldn't say he disliked Liu Biao. Such a great achievement, he takes the credit himself and blames his subordinates. This method is not only used by Liu Biao. Many people in later generations have played it better, more covertly, and worse than Liu Biao.

But there is no doubt that Liu Biao's abilities did not match his own ambitions. In some aspects, Liu Biao did not even have the means of the Han Dynasty emperor. There were not a few emperors of the Han Dynasty who pretended to be crazy and acted foolishly when faced with power, and secretly plotted the final comeback. Although Liu Biao did well before Jingzhou, it seems that he still did not break out of the old pattern and create a new world. It's a car overturn...

"Back then, a certain student was studying under Lushan Mountain, and he and Liu Jingzhou were as close as one family..." Fei Qian asked Liu Pan to sit down and said with a smile, with a kind of kindness, "Although Captain Liu belongs to Jingzhou, Next, there is no need to meet someone outside..."

The four words "as close as one family" are not exaggerated by Fei Qian. After all, from the perspective of the twists and turns of gentry marriage, Fei Qian and Liu Biao actually have a relationship similar to "seven aunts and eight aunts". of.

Liu Pan's eyes lit up and he kept saying yes. He even mentioned that when he met Fei Qian, he felt that Fei Qian was a leader among people, destined to be extraordinary and so on. He was throwing rainbow farts around for free...

Fei Qian raised his head and smiled, seemingly very happy because of Liu Pan's flattery.

When Liu Pan saw this, he loudly declared how much the nobles in Jingzhou admired Fei Qian, and how Fei Qian had made great achievements in the north and south campaigns, how admirable he was, etc...

The atmosphere was extremely harmonious for a while.

After wildly praising Fei Qian for a while, Liu Pan suddenly became lonely and lamented, "It's a pity, it's a pity. If Qiao was riding in Jingzhou, the Cao thieves would not be so rampant..."

Fei Qian naturally asked about the current situation in Jingzhou.

Liu Pan quickly introduced the situation in Jingzhou in detail and said: "Now Cao's army is approaching Xiangyang. However, except for the defection of the Cai family, the Jingzhou nobles are afraid of their own troops and have to deal with it. Cao's army cannot be controlled. The hussar general can come out later." Wuguan, of course, are all lined up on the left side of the road, with baskets and pots of food to welcome..."

Fei Qian smiled, he hadn't seen him in the past few years, and Liu Pan seemed to have made some progress in his knowledge. He seemed a little moved and asked Liu Pan: "How many generals does Cao's army have now?" 』

Liu Pan was overjoyed and replied: "The Cao thieves claimed to have a hundred thousand people, but in fact they did not get half of them. They had to defend each city separately. Under Xiangyang, there are only a few thousand..."

Fei Qian asked again: "How powerful is Cao's army?" 』

Liu Pan glanced at Fei Qian and said: "Although he is a little brave, he can't stop the thunderous cavalry..."

When Liu Pan said this, he knelt on the ground again, patted his chest and said, "If the Hussars want to enter Jingzhou, my foreign ministers are willing to be the pioneers!" It doesn’t take a month to defeat the Cao thieves! 』

Fei Qian laughed loudly, then suppressed his smile, "When did you ever say you wanted to enter Jingzhou?" 』

Liu Pan was stunned for a moment, and then he kowtowed on the wooden floor, "For Qiusi's sake..."

"Get up and talk!" Fei Qian interrupted Liu Pan's words in a deep voice.

Liu Pan was stunned, and then fell limply to the ground like a deflated water bag.

This...this is completely different from what Liu Pan expected...

Fei Qian's smile remained the same, but the atmosphere had changed. "Liu Xiaowei, who do you think this person is?" With just a few words, you want to trick someone into sending troops? 』

Liu Pan shivered and kowtowed.

"What's going on in Jingzhou?" Fei Qian asked in a deep voice, "You still haven't been honest enough to recruit me!" 』

Liu Pan kowtowed repeatedly, and then told the actual situation one by one...

After hearing this, Fei Qian nodded slightly and then waved. "I already know, you go down and rest first..."

Liu Pan was still waiting to say something, but the guards on the side had already stepped forward, picked up Liu Pan and left. Liu Pan struggled for a while, but soon gave up and left in frustration.

"It's ridiculous..." Fei Qian pinched his beard, "People in Jingzhou actually think that someone is an arrogant and ignorant person..."

This strategic arrangement is of course due to Liu Biao's instruction, but equally, it may also be the advice of some people to Liu Biao...

However, this strategy was in the wrong direction from the beginning.

Or it can be said that there is malice behind this strategy.

Since the Northern Expedition to Merge the Prefecture, Fei Qian has basically been victorious in battles and conquered in all attacks. Now he controls half of the Han Dynasty, and has the powerful Bingliang cavalry in his hands. He has gained the chancery of Xijing, and the official with two thousand stones is Fei Qian. It can be decided in one word. Such power will naturally make people who don’t know Fei Qian very well think that Fei Qian is somewhat arrogant...

After all, Fei Qian has the right to be arrogant, right?

At the same time, isn’t it the same for the people who were in the cold before?

Pang Tong walked out from behind the screen, sat down on one side, shook his head and sighed: "I never thought...sigh..." Pang Tong was somewhat emotional. When he was in Jingzhou, the people in Jingzhou were like the boss, the boss, the boss, and the boss. Three's situation has not changed much after so many years.

Nanyang County, Imperial Township, the pride of the Han Dynasty, in the eyes of these people, aren't the people in other places just little red guys? Shouldn't we just obey orders?

Fei Qian pinched the beard on his chin and said, "I suddenly thought of something..."

Pang Tong looked over.

"Back then...Yuan Gongli destroyed the Imperial Township..." Fei Qian frowned and sorted out his thoughts, "Was it intentional?" 』

"ah? ha? Pang Tong opened his eyes wide, "Did Yuan Jiujiu do this intentionally?" 』

Fei Qian nodded.

Although many people in later generations said that Yuan Shu was seeking death, even Fei Qian thought so at the beginning. Of course, Yuan Shu was indeed seeking death, but looking back now, Fei Qian felt that there might be some original Fei Qian in it. Hidden something he had overlooked.

"What's the meaning of this statement?" Pang Tong couldn't understand.

Fei Qian said slowly: "Shi"! 』

"scholar? Pang Tong repeated.

Fei Qian nodded.

Of course, if strictly speaking, the term "gentlemen" should be from a later date. After all, some people believe that only after the ninth-grade Zhongzheng system can the word "gentry family" be called "gentry family".

But historical events are not isolated, nor can they be metaphysically understood.

Before the nine-level Zhongzheng system was formally established in history, it had actually been implemented in some places. For example, after Cao Cao conquered Jingzhou, he asked Han Song to rate the scholars in Jingzhou and recruit them based on their talents. The difference between this and the later Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System was simply that it was not institutionalized.

In fact, Chen Qun was not the first to create the nine-grade Zhongzheng system in the Han Dynasty, and Chen Qun was not the only one to propose similar concepts such as grade levels.

The real meaning of this system is to turn the civil debate that began in the late Eastern Han Dynasty into a national system. In other words, under the methods of Yuedan Criticism and other means, the talents, conduct, and status of the world's scholars are determined by those highly influential celebrities, not the imperial court. Over time, the authority of the imperial power and the central government was naturally divided.

Because of the comments of super celebrities, scholars can have fame and status, and official positions are a matter of course. So everyone goes to join the circle of scholar-bureaucrats and interact with celebrities. What do these people do all day long? It is certainly not as originally expected by the emperor to pay attention to the economy and people's livelihood, to patrol the sky and protect the people.

The emperors of the Han Dynasty, including Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, who some people think is relatively stupid, actually realized this problem very early. The disaster of party supervision also suppressed this mutual flattery of scholars, but when the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, the emperor and the eunuchs We can only give in to the scholar-bureaucrats. After all, the Yellow Turban Army, a force from the lowest level, was the most terrifying to the emperor. However, in the process of suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising, the power of the scholar-bureaucrats was legitimately further strengthened.

Therefore, it is not accurate to say that the gentry and aristocratic families came into being only after the emergence of the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng system, because this itself was one of the fundamental reasons for the chaos in the late Han Dynasty!

The noble families in these places, under such circumstances, have a strong resistance to centralization. This is also a problem Fei Qian must face.

This is also the problem faced by Cao, Liu, and Sun in history.

So, the first one to encounter this problem was obviously not Cao Liusun, but Yuan Shu, who was the first to master Nanyang!

After all, he is the father of the Three Kingdoms...

What did Yuan Shu do then?

At that time, the scale of the Yellow Turban Rebellion probably shocked the gentry families everywhere. Therefore, these noble and arrogant gentry officials were also extremely scared behind their backs. However, these good talkers, when faced with the military, did not They are familiar with and good at it, so in order to survive in troubled times, they need to find a military leader to help them maintain order. After all, although these guys have extraordinary economic and political power and have some potential for military development, in troubled times, they still feel insecure when facing thieves everywhere.

These noble families need an agent who can stabilize order.

At this time, the difference between the two Yuan brothers and Cao Cao was reflected. Also in troubled times, he formed an alliance and held together to keep warm. For a long time, Cao Cao only managed to get along with one Yanzhou shepherd. The appeal of Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao is much greater than that of Cao Cao, because the Yuan family is the top scholar-bureaucrat family in the Han Dynasty.

Compared with the Yuan brothers, Cao Cao also has his own advantages. That is the composition of Cao Cao's group. There are wealthy families from poor families and wealthy families from famous families. This structure, on the one hand, allows Cao Cao to take advantage of the influence of scholar-bureaucrats, such as Xun, Chen, Zhong and others of the Yingchuan celebrity group, to continuously expand his base. On the other hand, Cao Cao relies on the support of wealthy families from poor families without being completely overwhelmed by the scholar-bureaucrats. The group can even try to keep beating and taming them. Although Cao Cao was once collectively abandoned by the Yanzhou scholar-bureaucrats, he finally survived, which in turn strengthened the cohesion between Cao Cao and the Yingchuan gentry.

The first to be eliminated was Yuan Shu.

So the question Fei Qian raises now is whether Yuan Shu passively followed the crowd and was abandoned by the noble group because he tried to commit suicide, or whether Yuan Shu committed suicide is not actually the key. The key is that Yuan Shu and these nobles could not agree on the opinions in the process. Was it abandoned because conflicts intensified?

Pang Tong frowned and pinched his fat chin. He didn't know whether it hurt, or he felt a little horrified by Fei Qian's statement, and he sucked in cold air.

Fei Qian tapped his fingers lightly on the table, "The Yellow Turban Rebellion... these people are also afraid... so they will definitely find someone to maintain the place... The Yuan brothers are like this, Cao Mengde is like this, Liu Jingsheng is like this... 』

Fei Qian smiled and said, "It's the Sanfu of Guanzhong, isn't it so?" 』

Pang Tong was silent, because Fei Qian was telling the truth.

Just like these natives who still stay in Jingzhou...

Now, was Liu Biao forced by the situation, under attack from the north and the south, to seek cooperation with Fei Qian, or was it driven intentionally or unintentionally by the Jingzhou nobles? On the surface, it looked like Liu Biao's coup to attack Cao Cao, but in fact it was Are the Jingzhou nobles ready to abandon Liu Biao and find another way out?

Placed in front of Fei Qian was a stick.

This root battle was brought by Liu Pan. It originally belonged to Liu Biao and Jingzhou Mu. To a certain extent, the festival represents authority, so it actually means that Fei Qian can use this festival to go to Jingzhou to do something. Such behavior may be what the natives of Jingzhou want. .

"This is the strategy of using tigers to drive away wolves..." Pang Tong touched his chin, obviously dissatisfied, "These people regard us as tigers and wolves..."

There are some truths and some lies in what Liu Pan said, but one thing is beyond doubt, that is, these nobles in Jingzhou look down on both Cao Cao and Fei Qian.

Don't listen to what Liu Pan said about "eating the milk in the pot". The specific situation must be analyzed in detail.

The military groups of Cao Cao and Fei Qian both had a strong sense of poverty. Of course, Cao Cao still has the aura of a eunuch, and compared to these celebrities who claim to be noble, he is naturally more "stinky".

And what about Feiqian?

Maybe better than Cao Cao, but it's just the difference between a "tiger" and a "wolf"...

Compared with Fei Qian and Cao Cao, which one does Liu Biao belong to?

Liu Biao was the governor of Jingzhou appointed at that time when Dong Zhuo was under the control. This is somewhat similar to Fei Qian. The Fei Zhonglang back then also came from the time of Dong Zhuo.

The reason why the big guys in Jingzhou are willing to accept Liu Biao is mainly because Yuan Shu next to him is too strong. Many nobles who opposed Yuan Shu have been eliminated. This will inevitably make the people in Jingzhou feel that Yuan Shu is unsafe. If Yuan Shu is allowed to control Jingzhou, the independence and related interests of various local snakes in Jingzhou will definitely be greatly threatened. Liu Biao was an airborne cadre and became the governor of Jingzhou. He had no choice but to speak for the interests of Jingzhou.

But now, Liu Biao, the spokesperson, is obviously not qualified.

"Therefore, if Liu Jingsheng wants to control Jingzhou, the Cai family will inevitably fight..." Fei Qian said slowly, "From the Cai family's point of view, Liu Jingsheng is just the manager of the manor. Now he wants to seize the master's property, how can he sit idly by and ignore it?" 』

Agent...

In the minds of these guys, Liu Biao is the spokesperson of Jingzhou, and more broadly, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and even himself, aren't they the spokespersons of these guys?

Fei Qian sneered.

Fei Qian could roughly guess Liu Biao's thoughts without asking Pang Tong specifically. If he could compete with Cao Cao from the beginning, Liu Pan would not appear here. Liu Pan came with a sword, which meant that Liu Biao had reached the last critical moment, a step in death to survive.

That's right, dying to survive.

Because Liu Biao was not sure whether Fei Qian would send troops, it would be best if he could send troops in time. If he failed to send troops, or if he sent troops but did not arrive in time, then after all, his eldest son Liu Qi was here with Fei Qian. If Liu Biao could not protect Liu Cong, then To some extent, this leaves Liu Qi, a member of his own family, with a chance to make a comeback...

This festival is actually reserved for Liu Qi.

And behind Liu Biao's plan, stood the figures of the natives of Jingzhou.

Fei Qian is not the only one who knows about Cao Cao's high debt situation. Many of the Jingzhou natives who live next door to Cao Cao must also know it. So if Jingzhou falls into the hands of Cao Cao, Jingzhou's wealth will inevitably appear. Will be sucked a lot of blood by Cao Cao...

This is naturally a situation that the Jingzhou natives do not want to see.

That's why Liu Pan said that Cai was a traitor. From a certain perspective, this was indeed the case.

In comparison, the option of Feiqian is much better. Because Fei Qian's base is in Guanzhong and Jingzhou is far away, whether it is strategically arranged or based on the actual situation, Fei Qian cannot invest too much attention and troops in Jingzhou. To a certain extent, Autonomy for Jingzhou people is more in line with the interests of all parties.

"Shi Yuan..." Fei Qian turned around and asked, "Will Duke Pang De move to Wancheng?" 』

Pang Tong nodded and said: "It has been moved... My lord's intention is..." Seeing the approaching war, some Pang and Huang families who were close to Fei Qian had already moved to Wancheng to avoid the disaster.

Fei Qian chuckled, "Well, let's use some means..."