I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 545 Do you want to stand?I want you to kneel down

After listening to Guan Yu's words, Mi Fang stood stunned on her horse for a moment.

He looked at the backs of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei riding forward together, and suddenly recalled what Mi Zhu had specially told him before he came to pick up Liu Jian this time.

If local families in Xuzhou want to take refuge with Liu Jian, they must treat them sincerely and not play any unnecessary tricks. After all, everyone knows Liu Jian's methods of controlling powerful rightists in Hebei.

Since the Mi family has lured Liu Jian to Xuzhou, they should treat him sincerely and don't have other thoughts.

Otherwise, with Liu Jian's strength and wisdom.In the future, if you want to exterminate the various clans in Xuzhou, it will be easy to do so.

After all, countless families have been wiped out by Liu Jian in Hebei over the years.

But now, Zang Ba has touched Liu Jian's evil side.

Zang Ba wanted to join Liu Jian. The biggest mistake he made was that he was the overlord of Kaiyang County in Langya Kingdom. He wanted to use this status to raise prices with Liu Jian.

Zang Ba felt that it would not be so easy for Liu Jian to regain the northern border of Xuzhou without him.

After all, by pacifying the Yellow Turban incident, many Taishan heroes here had greatly increased their power, and they had become local overlords, with well-equipped troops and considerable fighting power.

Mi Fang originally thought that there was nothing wrong with Zang Ba sitting on the ground and raising the price.

As a force, it is natural to want to sell yourself at a good price.

Since it is surrender, then naturally there is some value in wanting to surrender.

However, this is not possible with Liu Jian.

Back then, when Liu Jian had just taken office, he might have felt that it was reasonable to reach a certain exchange of interests and bargain with local forces. After all, at that time, Liu Jian's power was weak and he needed the support of local forces wherever he went. support.

But now, things are different.

Liu Jian was already the most powerful prince in the Han Dynasty.

Liu Jian's own goals and ambitions are lofty. The world he wants is not a world obtained by compromising with local heroes!

What he wants is a strong Han nation, a Han nation that can concentrate its strength to accomplish great things!

The local powerful have no room to bargain with themselves. They only need to follow their own footsteps and do whatever they ask them to do. That's enough!
If they follow themselves, their family will prosper.

Liu Jian will not let them pay in vain, and will definitely benefit them.

But what Liu Jian wanted was absolute command power. The Xuzhou clans had no bargaining power.

This rule needs to be set at the beginning to lay a good foundation so that they will not get used to it later.

This is true for the Mi family in the East China Sea, and it is the same for Zang Ba, the overlord of Kaiyang.

Zang Ba, he placed himself in the wrong position.

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Zang Ba has long known the news that reinforcements from Hebei have arrived in Langya Kingdom.

But Zang Ba didn't know that Liu Jian came in person. He only knew that the general who led his troops was a general from Hebei.

Zang Ba had made up his mind in advance. He asked the Mi family of the East China Sea to lead the Hebei army to station in Linyi County, close to Kaiyang. Then he would recruit elite soldiers and generals under his command to train in Kaiyang, while sending people to Linyi to communicate with the Hebei general. Discuss the matter of surrender.

It was said that he surrendered, but in fact he hoped to use the incident in Xuzhou to invite Liu Jian to an official position.

Although Zang Ba is now the overlord of Kaiyang, he has never had a serious position.

You know, Zang Ba spent so much effort to dominate Kaiyang, monopolize Langya County, and dominate the northern part of Xuzhou, not just to be a bandit.

He wanted to have a serious official position, be officially canonized by the court, and take over the Langya Kingdom legitimately.

Currently, there are only two forces in the Han Dynasty that are officially qualified to appoint Zangba as the prime minister of Langya. One is the imperial court in Chang'an, and the other is Fuyuan General Liu Jian.

In fact, the local officials that could be appointed by the Hebei regime established by Liu Jian were supposed to be targeted at foreigners in northern Xinjiang.

For prefectures and counties like Xuzhou that do not border with foreigners, Liu Jian should not participate in the appointment of local officials, but there are exceptions for everything. It depends on how you explain it.

As long as you think about it, there must be a solution.

Although Zang Ba was powerful in the north of Xuzhou, he had no access to people from the Chang'an court.

This time Liu Jian sent elite troops to Xuzhou, and Zang Ba wanted to take this opportunity to get into Liu Jian's line.

However, Zang Ba was still very arrogant. Even if he wanted to join Liu Jian, he still made up his mind to join the Hebei Legion in glory.

He wanted Liu Jian to take the initiative to invite him because of his power in the northern border of Xuzhou, treat him as an important figure, and appoint him to the official position he wanted.

And he also wanted to maintain his independence.He didn't want to bend his knees and submit to Liu Jian.

He has to earn his official position standing up!
Unfortunately, Zang Ba made the wrong decision, and Liu Jian just wanted him to kneel down.

Zang Ba ordered troops in Kaiyang and was about to let the reinforcements from Hebei know how powerful his troops were. But soon, Mi Fang's envoy hurried over and informed Zang Ba that the reinforcements from Hebei did not plan to station in Linyi County. Instead, they He went to Yangdu County of Langya Kingdom to station troops.

After Zang Ba heard the news, he couldn't help but became furious!
What he was angry about was not that the Hebei Army did not follow his instructions to garrison troops in Linyi. What he was angry about was that the Hebei Army had to go to Yangdu because it was not a good place to station its troops!

The Hebei Army's arrangement is a naked political provocation.

Zang Ba is now a powerful figure in Langya Kingdom. His goal is to become Prime Minister of Langya Kingdom, take over the entire Langya Kingdom and become the overlord of northern Xuzhou.

But, who is in Yangdu City now?
They are the current Langya Prime Minister Lu Fen, and Langya King Liu Rong.

The power of these two people is not enough for Zang Ba to take him seriously, but they are indeed the legitimate rulers of Langya Kingdom!

The main reason why Zang Ba wanted to defect to Hebei was to nominally take over the post of Lu Fen, the Prime Minister of Langya.

However, the Hebei Army rejected his kindness and instead went to Yangdu City to get close to Lu Fen...

Doesn’t this make it clear that you don’t take yourself seriously?
Zang Ba then asked Mi Fang's envoy who was the leader of the Hebei army coming from the sea.

The messenger informed Zang Ba that the commander was Zhang Fei, the general of Jizhou!
Zang Ba immediately sent someone, and Xingye summoned several of his allies to Kaiyang to discuss how to deal with "Zhang Fei"!
Zang Ba's allies were all Taishan tycoons who had expanded their power by pacifying the Yellow Turban bandits. In addition to Zang Ba, there were also Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yin Li, and Chang Xi, each of whom gathered together to form their own style.

Zang Ba then told everyone about Zhang Fei's invasion of Xuzhou.

After saying this, all the heroes in Mount Tai were furious.

"Zhang Fei, a common man, only relied on Liu Jian's advantage to achieve some achievements in the north. He thought he was a famous general, but he didn't take Brother Xuan Gao's good intentions into consideration. It's really hateful!"

Among the generals in Mount Tai, Chang Xi was the oldest.

So Zang Ba asked Chang Xi, "How does Duke Chang think this matter should be handled?"

Chang Xi squinted his eyes, thought for a moment, and whispered: "Since Zhang Fei doesn't value us, how about not surrendering to him, attacking his army, beheading him, and offering it to Yuan Shao?"

Zang Ba shook his head and said: "No! Although we are independent from Qingzhou and have our own climate, we are too close to Liu Jian. Fei is Jian's younger brother. If we kill him, Liu Jian will hate us deeply and swear to destroy us!"

"Tao Qian is too old to serve him. Only by submitting to Liu Jian can we have a bright future."

Chang Xi sighed: "But Liu Jian is far away in Hebei, and Zhang Fei doesn't take us seriously. What can he do?"

Zang Ba also hesitated.

At this time, I heard Yin Li say: "Flying to Langya, there are only a few thousand people. How about joining forces with Mi Fang and planning to capture them. Then they take the flying people with them and take them as hostages. They go to Hebei to ask Liu Jian for credit. Liu Jian sees me waiting there. A power like Xuzhou must rely heavily on us. We can ask Liu Jian to ask the Prime Minister of Langya to join Qingxuzhou County to guard the throne, and then drive his troops south to help Liu Jian. On the one hand, Liu Jian can rely on us, and on the other hand, he can maintain his independence. With military power in hand, you can build your own foundation!"

When Zang Ba heard this, his eyes lit up.

In fact, this is his true purpose!

Historically, Zang Ba and the Taishan generals still maintained their relative independence after defecting to Cao Cao.

When Cao Cao first surrendered to Zang Ba, the two states of Gueqing and Xu were entrusted to Zang Ba. Zang Ba surrendered in name, but in reality he still dominated.

It's no wonder that Cao Cao in history left all matters in the East to Zang Ba to deal with Yuan Shao's move south, and also to relieve the pressure of fighting against Yuan Shao.

Zang Ba in history was indeed very successful. When Yuan and Cao were fighting, he led his troops directly into Qingzhou, killing all sides in Qi, Beihai, and Dong'an counties, and beat Yuan Tan of Qingzhou to the ground.

The relationship between Cao Cao and Zang Ba is obviously that we are all gangsters. I call you big brother to give you face. Don't go too far. You really treat me as your younger brother.

It is precisely because the Taishan generals have strong independence that some of them rebelled repeatedly, such as Chang Xi.

Zhuge Liang said: Cao Cao failed to defeat Changba after five attacks, which shows that Changxi rebelled many times.

But to put it bluntly, it was also because of Yuan Cao's confrontation and Cao Cao did not want to anger the Taishan generals headed by Zang Ba, so Cao Cao tolerated Chang Xi jumping around Xuzhou.

But the Liu Jian of this era was not Cao Cao.

Liu Jian now does not have the difficult situation during the "Confrontation between Yuan and Cao" in history.

Although Liu Jian faced off against Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others, he was by no means at a disadvantage.

Therefore, if Zang Ba and other Taishan generals want to maintain their independence under his command... it is absolutely impossible!

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Zang Ba asked everyone: "How can we capture Zhang Fei?"

Chang Xi immediately said: "This is easy, I can pretend to surrender to Yu Fei!"

(End of this chapter)