I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 621: Chief and Deputy Pioneers
In the past nearly ten years, Yecheng has been Liu Jian's political and military location, and also his base camp for dispatching troops and generals. There is absolutely no room for any mistakes.

The problem is that the prominent families and powerful families in Hebei have a complex relationship. Liu Jian's series of reforms in Jizhou can be said to have greatly shaken their foundations and touched their interests.

In the past ten years, two huge rebellions involving prominent families broke out in Jizhou, but both of them were nipped in the cradle by Liu Jian's extraordinary means.

In addition to large-scale rebellions, small-scale rebellions and proxy campaigns by Jizhou wealthy families who commanded bandits to conduct wars occurred from time to time.

Therefore, Jizhou has always needed a strong general who can watch battles and suppress rebellions in the surrounding areas.

And this person was Xu Rong, the confidant general who Liu Jian had conquered when he was the captain of the Yueqi Camp.

Xu Rong has been working diligently to protect Liu Jian's roots in Jizhou over the years.

Only when he was in Yecheng could Liu Jian dare to leave here with peace of mind and fight between the north and the south without worrying about his hometown being looted or rebelling while he was fighting outside.

However, after ten years of stability and development, Jizhou has become more and more stable, and the system established by Liu Jian has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and is accepted by the common people, ordinary powerful people, as well as some local nobles and even noble families.

Although the top leaders have lost their political resources, the booming Jizhou still has huge resources, giving them a better business and expansion environment.

Although their family can no longer dominate, they can do more and more business and foreign trade.

Liu Jian will not allow these people to interfere in politics and become oligarchs, monopolizing the country's resources, but he will not prevent these top families from making money, expanding their family's business, and will not prevent them from living a better life. .

After all, everyone has a better right to live, ordinary people have it, noble families have it, and top nobles have it.There are also prominent families.However, everyone needs a fair environment, or a relatively fair environment.

Now Jizhou is basically on the right track, with fewer rebellions, people's livelihood is stable, and various industries for foreigners in northern Xinjiang are also very stable. A large number of foreigners have entered Hebei to work as corvees, which has also provided a lot for Hebei's industrial construction. manpower, and the cultural penetration of the nation into the outside world is also gradually proceeding, which can be said to be very smooth.

Although there will be some rebellion and resistance during the period, these are within the expectations of Liu Jian, Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others.

In this case, General Xu Rong, who was stationed in Hebei, finally took action as a vanguard.

The city defense of Yecheng was handed over to Yu Ze and Li Damu.

These two people have been with Xu Rong all these years and have been assisting Xu Rong. During the period of suppressing the rebellions in Hebei, the two of them also served as Xu Rong's deputies and have been by Xu Rong's side to deal with all kinds of things. He rebelled and was taught and taught by Xu Rong, which increased his military experience.

As Hebei's top veteran, Xu Rong and Huang Zhong are about the same age, while Yu Ze and Li Damu have made rapid progress under his training.

Therefore, according to Liu Jian's judgment, after leaving Xu Rong, Yecheng would not have any problems under the guard of Yu Ze and Li Damu.

And this time Liu Jian's ultimate goal was not only Guanzhong, but also Liangzhou to the west after arriving in Guanzhong.

Liangzhou was the most painful problem for the Han Dynasty in the past hundred years. If you want the Han Dynasty to prosper, it is absolutely impossible not to put things in order in Liangzhou and the Western Regions.

Xu Rong, who had participated in the counter-insurgency war in Liangzhou under Zhang Wen in the past, must be very familiar with the local situation.

Therefore, he must be taken to Liangzhou as his main figure in defeating the Han Dynasty in Liangzhou and regaining Liangzhou in the future.

After Liu Jian's military order was issued, all ministries were actively mobilizing troops and generals, preparing food, recruiting civilians, and arranging carriages and horses.

Xu Rong, who was the vanguard at the front, hurriedly came to find Liu Jian.

What he meant was that as a frontline pioneer, he was very grateful to Liu Jian for giving him this opportunity. It had always been his dream to go west to Guanzhong again and command Liangzhou. Moreover, Xu Rong was already over middle age and was running towards 50 years old is hard.

Who knows if he will have this opportunity again in the future.

Now, Liu Jian asked him to be the vanguard of this army's western expedition, which obviously gave Xu Rong, who had not played for a long time, a very good opportunity.

This made Xu Rong very grateful.

However, in order to better utilize his abilities in Xizhou, Xu Ronglai asked Liu Jian for two things.

The first thing is to ask Liu Jian not to let Gongsun Zan, the governor of Shangdang, serve as his deputy and serve as deputy vanguard.

After Liu Jian heard this, he wondered: "My brother Bogui is also a fierce general who is good at conquests and is good at using cavalry. If you can let him serve as your deputy vanguard, it can be said to be even more powerful. Why doesn't General Xu want to?" Xu Rong sighed. : "If the general really wants to use me and Mr. Gongsunfu to conquer the west at the same time, then please ask the general to use Mr. Gongsunfu as the main vanguard and Xu as the deputy vanguard. If not, don't let the two of us go to Xizhou together. ."

Liu Jian was so smart. Just by hearing what Xu Rong said, he roughly understood the meaning of his words.

"You think that my brother Bogui's status is too high. If you let him be your deputy, you might not be able to do it, right?"

Xu Rong sighed: "It's okay if you don't listen and use it. I'm afraid that our two generals are at odds, which will affect the war ahead and dampen the spirit of the army."

"As the governor of Shangdang, Mr. Gongsun has an official status of two thousand stones. He is also a disciple of Duke Lu and the senior general's senior brother."

"With such an identity, how can I mobilize him? Besides, I am somewhat aware of Gongsun Bogui's past heroic strategies in western Liaoning. After all, I am from Liaodong, and I know a lot about the Gongsun family."

"He is arrogant by nature and thinks very highly of himself. Although he is capable, he is unwilling to settle for mediocrity. How could such an outstanding person serve as a deputy to someone of my status?"

"In the past, Guan Yunchang served with him in Youzhou. As Yunchang was the most powerful general in Youzhou, Gongsun Bogui was not convinced. It was just because of the general's face and the relationship between the general and Yun Chang that there was no progress. show."

"But it's not necessarily the case here with Xu."

"Although Xu was promoted by the general and made many achievements before coming to Hebei, he mainly focused on defending the city in these years."

"Gongsun Fujun will definitely not be convinced by Xu, so I kindly ask the general to use Xu as the deputy vanguard and Gongsun Bogui as the main vanguard."

Liu Jian raised his hand to block Xu Rong's words.

"Since I said that you should be the vanguard, I have my reasons. However, I did not think carefully enough about Brother Gongsun. At first, I only thought of his level of fighting on the border. , but I never thought that he still had this level of identity relationship and concerns with you, which almost laid hidden dangers, which was my negligence."

"Brother Gongsun is relieved of his position as deputy vanguard. You will be appointed as the main vanguard. I will increase your troops to 1. You will go to Sanhe first. All matters concerning the front army will be handled by you."

"I will lead the central army and I will respond to you later."

Xu Rong couldn't help but be moved when he heard this.

It was obvious that Liu Jian valued himself very much.

He even took the deputy vanguard of his senior brother Gongsun Bogui as soon as he said he would take it, which shows Liu Jian's preference for him.

"The general will do his best to pacify the Three Rivers and lay the foundation for the general to enter Sizhou and Guanzhong."

"However, I would like to ask the general to ask the other two to be his deputies."

"Who?"

"One person is Qu Yi, and the other person is Xu Huang."

"The general knows these two people quite well."

"Na Qu Yi was born in Xiping, Liangzhou, and Xu Huang was born in Hedong."

"They must know the local situation better than we do. With these two people by our side, I believe it will go very smoothly."

Liu Jian admired Xu Rong's vision very much.

Although the performance of these two people is not eye-catching among the generals in Hebei, Liu Jian is very optimistic about their potential.

And Xu Rong wanted to take these two people with him at once, which shows that Xu Rong, a veteran, has excellent vision.

"Since General Xu has already made a request to me, how can I not agree to it? Everything is at the general's request."

"Thank you, General!"

(End of this chapter)