Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2465 Zhongshan Changshan, Hebei Zhen Family

Hebei is Yuan Shao’s sphere of influence!
Among Hebei and Jizhou, Bohai was the place where Yuan Shao started out.

Although, for a long time, after Yuan Shao took control of the entire Jizhou, he moved his political center away from here.

However, as the Jin army's sphere of influence became larger and larger, if they continued to use Yecheng as their political center, then Yecheng would be too close to Sizhou.

Once the Jin army really planned to take over Hebei, it was very likely that the Jin cavalry would directly reach Yecheng overnight. Therefore, given the strength of the Jin army, continuing to use Yecheng as the political center was not a good choice.

A political center that may face the attack of powerful enemies at any time cannot be stable.

It was for this reason that Yuan Shao later moved the political center back to Bohai. After all, this was where he started his career. He had gained the entire Jizhou from the position of governor of Bohai. Bohai had the foundation to take on this important task.

Although Bohai is located next to Qingzhou, for the Han Dynasty, Yecheng also has disadvantages compared to the Jin Dynasty.

However, the concepts between the two are completely different.

The threat posed by the Jin Dynasty to Yecheng and the threat posed by the Han Dynasty to Bohai are two completely different things.

If the political center continued to be placed in Yecheng, Yuan Shao would not be able to withstand the threat of the Jin Dynasty to Yecheng. However, Yuan Shao would not take the threat posed by Qinghan to Bohai seriously, but he would definitely not be on high alert.

At that time, Qing Han had just been established and had not even unified Qingzhou. There was also Dou Jiande next to him. What was there to be afraid of Yuan Shao?

Furthermore, judging from the identities and positions of the forces around them, Qinghan was not in a position to take action against them.

Liu Bei re-established Qing Han and gave him a talisman, but in a sense, wasn't it also a kind of confinement?
After years of operation, and given that Bohai had a strong foundation, it was certainly impossible for Yuan Shao to just choose a place to be the prefect given his status at the time.

As the most powerful family in the Han Dynasty, the Yuan family raised many prominent figures, whether it was Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu, and the places where the Yuan family arranged for them to start their careers were all first-class treasures of the Han Dynasty.

Especially Runan, where Yuan Shu was originally located, is the base of the entire Yuan family. The manpower and material resources that such a county can provide can compare to many states.

Although Yuan Shao's Bohai was not as good as Yuan Shu's Runan, the overall ranking of this county was also among the best in the Han Dynasty.

With a good foundation and the Yuan family's many years of operation, it has now completely replaced the original Yecheng.

If Yuan Xi continued to stay in Bohai, he would have no chance of winning against his brother Yuan Tan.

In Bohai, with the help of Yuan Xi, Yuan Tan has already gained the upper hand.

In the final analysis, the advantage that Yuan Tan, the eldest son, brought him was too great. If Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi did not have this status advantage, Yuan Xi and Yuan Sheng, the mainstays of the old Yuan family, would not have stood directly by Yuan Tan's side from the beginning.

If Yuan Xi wanted to have a chance of survival, he could only leave Bohai in time and firmly grasp the remaining strength. Although Yuan Xi himself was reluctant to leave Bohai, the representatives of the noble families under him all stood up to express their support for this decision. Even he could not stand on the side of all the people under his command who were against him.

With the support of these people, he had the strength to compete with Yuan Tan. Without their support, he, the second oldest brother with the least presence among the three brothers, would never get his turn unless the eldest brother died like the third brother.

In fact, Shen Pei was worthy of being a famous strategist in Hebei. He was very crucial to Yuan Xi. If Yuan Xi had withdrawn later, he would not have been able to fight for the two counties.

At that time, Yuan Tan was just busy devouring the flesh left after Gao Huan's death, so he temporarily had no time to deal with Yuan Xi. After he completed this task, neither he nor his subordinates would let this brother go.

No matter whether it was him or the people under him, they would not allow Jizhou to continue to split.

Therefore, Yuan Xi left at the right time.

Moreover, because they left in time, they were able to control Zhongshan and Changshan very smoothly.

The reason for choosing to control these two places is naturally not a random choice.

These two places can only be said to be average among all the counties in Jizhou. Even if they are not the worst counties, they are definitely not among the top ones.

However, these two counties have a certain mass base for Yuan Xi.

Zhongshan is where the Zhen family, a big family in Hebei, is located, and the Zhen family is the family behind Yuan Xi's wife.

At the beginning, Yuan Xi, as the second oldest, had no hope at all as they had not yet been involved in the affairs between the three brothers.

But as Yuan Xi stood up, they saw hope, and they finally couldn't help but get involved in this matter. At this time, even if they wanted to get off this pirate ship, it was too late.

In the fight for the throne, there won't be so many fence-sitters. There are still some unspoken rules among everyone, and the people in power will not allow these people to be fence-sitters, no matter if they are the winner or the loser.

After all, if they show support for this kind of fence-sitter, who will decide your choice in the future? I'm afraid that everyone who comes to your side has already made a second set of preparations.

But no matter what, with the help of the Zhen family, a big family in Hebei, Yuan Xi was able to control Zhongshan for a short period of time.

As for Changshan, it was because he had served as the prefect of Changshan for a long time at the beginning.

Yuan Shao liked to assign his sons or nephews to guard the four directions for him. In the original history, the four states in Hebei were guarded by his three sons and nephew Gao Gan respectively.

In this life, although Yuan Shao's sphere of influence was far less than that in his original historical trajectory, he still did not change his old habits and sent his sons to serve as prefects in various places to help him strengthen his rule over them.

And this experience of having had this period of time also helped him control Changshan.