People in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hu and Han respected together

Chapter 411: The way to break the situation, advance both by water and land

Qingzhou, plain!
At this time, the imperial army entered Pingyuan City one after another. The leader was riding a tall horse with a proud expression on his face. He was none other than Qu Yi.

Li Yao promised to let him return to the plains in glory, and Li Yao kept his promise. At this time, Li Yao was sitting in a carriage and entering the city under the escort of the army.

Inside the carriage, Li Yao sat upright, frowning and deep in thought.

News came from the Guanzhong court that Liu Biao's two sons in Jingzhou, Liu Qi and Liu Cong, were in a quarrel and each asked Li Yao to make the decision.

There are really rabbits competing for the family property, and the tiger is invited to come to the house to do the notarization. This will eat up the two rabbits and their family property, which is disrespectful to the tiger's status.

However, Li Yao only annexed the Central Plains this year, and if he wants to plan Jingzhou again, it will have to be next year at least.

So what Li Yao meant was to ignore them and let them bite each other. When they were really exhausted, it was time for the tigers to hunt.

The current situation in Jingzhou has reminded Li Yao that the position of heir should be decided early.

Just like Liu Biao, he is obviously over 50 years old. While he likes his eldest son, he is also extremely doting on his younger son. The key is that Mrs. Cai is blowing pillows in his ears every day.

If placed in the original time and space, he would have lived for ten years, but now, perhaps he was frightened by Cao Cao, or he died prematurely out of fear and guilt for Liu Bei.

Brothers turned against each other, killed each other, and made such a joke that they would not be at peace even after they died.

Thinking of this, Li Yao couldn't help but shook his head:

"Jingzhou is easy to get, but Jianghuai is difficult to cross..."

Jingzhou is already in Li Yao's pocket, but the Cao family south of the Huai River, the Sun family south of the Jiang River, and Liu Bei, who is inconspicuous but cannot be underestimated, Li Yao feels that they will definitely unite. Together, this will be difficult to handle.

If you guard the river, you must guard the Huai River. These places are densely covered with water networks. If they are monolithic, even if you occupy most of the world, it will not be easy to eat them up.

If Li Yao is willing to wait, he can ignore Jianghuai for the time being and integrate and govern the ten states that he has already obtained. In the future, he can directly crush Jianghuai with his absolute population advantage and economic advantage.

But Li Yao doesn't want to wait that long. Ten years, 20 years, he will be 40 or 50 years old. He is not Sima Yi. He has to do more things in his prime.

Li Yao sighed and said:
"If they take the initiative to make the Northern Expedition, allowing me to eliminate their effective forces, and then move south in one fell swoop, no one will be able to stop them..."

"It's a pity that I can't control their will, but I have to find a way to let them follow my rhythm and not let me be carried away by their rhythm!"

Thinking of this, Li Yao closed his eyes and thought of the situation in the world.

If it was difficult to cross the Jianghuai River, we would find another way. Cao Cao fought the Battle of Chibi in the east of the Yangtze River, and Liu Bei fought the Battle of Yiling in the east of the Yangtze River. They all had one thing in common. The battle started in Jingzhou.

That's right, Jingzhou, Li Yao opened his eyes, and a gleam of light flashed in them. After taking Jingzhou, the navy force he cultivated in Yizhou can go directly down the south of the Yangtze River.

At this time, it has only been three years since Sun Ce conquered Jiangdong. Even Zhou Yu probably did not have a strong enough navy. He used the navy in Yizhou as his foundation and at the same time recruited some navy in Jingzhou that were willing to surrender. As an auxiliary, when the water and land advance simultaneously, with me on the upper reaches and Cao Sun and Liu on the lower reaches, we will surely be invincible and unfavorable.

Li Yao had an idea, smiled softly, and murmured:
"Gan Ning, Yan Yan, Gao Shun, Zhang Ren, perform well and don't let me down!"

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Jingzhou!Liu Qi and Liu Cong asked Li Yao for help many times, hoping to gain the power to overwhelm the other person, but at this time Li Yao could not care about them.

Therefore, every time, Li Yao sent someone to refuse with righteous words, and said that this was Jingzhou's internal matter. He only asked Jingzhou to continue to be loyal to the court and did not interfere with who should serve as the governor of Jingzhou.

Li Yao himself didn't believe this hypocritical rhetoric, but Liu Qi, Liu Cong, or Cai Mao and the Cai family behind Liu Cong, they believed it.

While feeling disappointed, they also seemed to have lost some kind of restraint. What started as a small fight gradually turned into a fierce battle. Although they did not get help from Li Yao, they did get Li Yao's promise.

In other words, whoever can defeat his brother will become the new Lord of Jingzhou.

Jingnan and Jingbei are gradually involved in this struggle...

Time flies by in a blink of an eye, it is the sixth year of Xingping, 200 AD!
Guanzhong, Chang'an, above the court!

Li Yao faced the emperor and the ministers and openly expressed his gratitude to the emperor and said loudly:

"Since Liu Jingsheng's death, Liu Jingsheng's sons, Liu Qi and Liu Cong, have been fighting over and over for the position of Jingzhou Shepherd. So far, there has been no result..."

"I remember that Liu Jingsheng was a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. He was loyal to the court throughout his life and never acted rebelliously. The court was very tolerant of this, but they became more and more excessive..."

"The people of Jingzhou are displaced, have no food to eat, no clothes to wear, and wars are happening. The people are in dire straits. I would like to lead the troops to stop this dispute, resolve the grievances between brothers, and save the people of Jingzhou to avoid more tragedies!"

Liu Xie was also eighteen years old. The older he grew, the more desperate he became. Now everyone in the court belonged to Li Yao. What he said could not leave the palace, let alone the court.

Facing Li Yao, who actually controlled the military, government, finance and people of the world, there was no room for resistance. He lowered his head and said:
"Just do whatever Aiqing wants to do, I'm sure..."

Li Yao smiled slightly, it was just a formality, but seeing that Liu Xie was still obedient, then the power transition could be completed smoothly in the future, and there would be no such bad things as repeated changes of emperors or regicide in the street.

He saluted and said:

"Your Majesty is wise!"

After the dynasty was over, the Chancellor's desk!
The strategic planning and troop deployment that need to be done have been arranged long ago. Now Li Yao is standing here and just says one thing:
"Yuan'er, look at Cao Pi, Cao Cao's son, who is about the same age as you. Now he has occupied Jianghuai to fight against me. Sun Jian's son, Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Quan, is only four or five years older and has already established prestige. , take real power..."

"What I ask of you is not just to not lose to them, I hope you have the talent to far surpass them!"

Li Yuan has now followed Li Yao, handling government affairs in the court and reviewing soldiers in the army. Although he is a spectator, he has also benefited a lot.

After hearing this, he said firmly:
"Kids, remember!"

Li Yao nodded with satisfaction, and then started talking about business:
"This capture of Jingzhou, with swords against Cao, Sun, and Liu, is the last battle to unify the world. You also come with me, observe carefully, and ponder carefully!"

Li Yuan's eyes lit up when he heard this. He had long wanted to go to the battlefield. Even though he had been left in Guanzhong to study in the past few years, he still couldn't erase his wild nature from the northwest grasslands. He responded loudly:

"Follow the order!"

(End of this chapter)