Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

You can say that Emperor Ling of Han is fatuous, but you cannot say that Emperor Ling of Han is dishonest!
The political skills of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty are undoubtedly among the best among the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty. From a puppet emperor to holding great power, he also completely manipulated all the eunuchs, relatives, and scholars in the court. , the means are not unscrupulous.

However, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was also a notoriously mediocre man. Not to mention selling his official position openly and honestly, he also openly compared the eunuchs Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong to his parents in an unprecedented way.

So today's Han Dynasty is like a crumbling high-rise building. While Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was tearing down the few remaining cornerstones of the high-rise building, he used his body to maintain the high-rise building from collapsing.

As soon as today's emperor Liu Hong dies and his posthumous title is Emperor Han Ling, all the conflicts suppressed by Emperor Han Ling will explode in an instant.

However, the current emperor Liu Hong has not died yet, and it is not the time for rebellious officials and traitors to show up. Whoever shows up will be beaten!

Liu Yan chewed the words "slowly becoming king" back and forth and asked.

"However, time has not waited for me. The emperor is not yet thirty, and he is still in his prime. Even if it is slow, how can he be slower than the emperor? How can he delay the arrival of the next Yizhou Mu?"

This is undoubtedly Liu Yan's concern.

It can be said that Liu Yan never wanted to leave Yizhou.

But Emperor Liu Hong was too young, so young that Liu Yan despaired of him. Emperor Liu Hong ascended the throne at the age of ten, and now he has been the emperor for nearly twenty years before he was thirty.

Although almost every emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty did not live long, who can accurately predict how long the emperor Liu Hong will live?

If the emperor Liu Hong could live to be seventy years old, Liu Yan would have been buried and turned into clay long ago.

I can’t survive it!
The age gap made Liu Yan completely unconfident that he could outlive Liu Hong.

What's more, it is true that the Zhoumu policy was adopted by Emperor Liu Hong, but Emperor Liu Hong always likes to change orders every day. No one knows whether Emperor Liu Hong will cancel the Zhoumu policy with a random order, or whether it will not take long for Liu Yan to be replaced. This Yizhou animal husbandry was replaced.

This feeling that he might lose his power at any time made Liu Yan panic, otherwise Liu Yan would not have been so instigated by Li Ji's letter that he couldn't stop.

"Father, Mr. Zikun also mentioned this in detail, please listen to me."

Liu Zhang saw the change in Liu Yan's expression and said quickly.

"Mr. Zikun mentioned that while delaying the title of king, respecting the imperial court, and maintaining the status of a minister, the key point is to cut off the connection with the imperial court, and then form the fact that Yizhou still respects the imperial court on the surface, but is not controlled by the imperial court at all. ”

"Now, even if the emperor understands that Yizhou has disloyal intentions, as long as he maintains his apparent obedience and uses money to win over the ten regular servants, the emperor will definitely not go to war to attack Yizhou."

When Liu Yan heard this, his eyes lit up and he felt that this method had great potential.

“How do I cut off contact?”

Liu Yan asked about the key point. This excuse was particularly important. It needed to be sufficient to convince Emperor Liu Hong to a certain extent, maintain Emperor Liu Hong's face, and free Yizhou from the control of the imperial court without letting Emperor Liu Hong. face was damaged.

Only in this way can the court recognize him by holding his nose, and will not directly define Yizhou as a rebellious minister and traitor for the time being.

"Hanzhong!"

Liu Zhang opened his mouth and said a place name.

"The road from Yizhou to Guanzhong must pass through Hanzhong. At the same time, this is also the only way for money, grain and taxes from Yizhou to be sent to the court. As long as there is a rebellion in Hanzhong, the connection between Yizhou and the court will be cut off."

"Therefore, Mr. Zikun suggested that his father's confidants secretly controlled Hanzhong, and then set off a rebellion to separate Hanzhong."

"With the dangerous terrain of Hanzhong, it is easy to exclude Liangzhou from foreign affairs. If the imperial court wants to quell the rebellion, it can only use the troops of Yizhou. When will the rebellion in Hanzhong be truly quelled? Isn't it my father who has the final say?"

As soon as he said this, Liu Yan couldn't help but stood up suddenly, and then quickly walked to the map hanging on the side of the secret room and looked at it.

The terrain of Hanzhong County, located in the northernmost part of Yizhou, is very unique. It is completely adjacent to Sili. However, the junction of the two is completely blocked by the Qinling Mountains. The only passage between it and Sili is named Ziwu Road. The narrow plank road, and Ziwu Pass is also set up on this plank road.

But as long as there is a rebellion in Hanzhong and the Ziwu Road is blocked, the connection between Yizhou and the imperial court can almost be cut off.

As for the difficulty of crossing the Qinling Mountains from other directions, it is almost impossible.

As a result, if Sili wanted to intervene in Hanzhong County, he could only enter from the Liangzhou side, but it was still very difficult, and it was difficult to use a large number of troops due to the terrain.

It can be said that Hanzhong County can be regarded as the gateway to Yizhou. Whoever controls Hanzhong County will determine whether Yizhou opens or closes.

"Wonderful! Indescribably wonderful!!!"

Liu Yan became more and more excited as he watched. He felt that this method really spoke to his heart and almost completely matched his thoughts.

And as long as Hanzhong County is allowed to rebel and nominally escape the control of Yizhou, then Yizhou can also be effectively separated from the control of the imperial court. At that time, if Hanzhong County slowly delays time, Liu Yan can sit quietly in Yizhou and wait for the right time.

To advance, we can wait for the great changes in the world, leave Hanzhong, occupy the horse breeding land of Liangzhou in the north, and then enter Guanzhong to take the Sili, using Yizhou as the granary and Liangzhou as the source of war horses and soldiers, occupying all the geographical advantages of ancient Qin, and sweeping the world. in an instant;
Retreat, even if the emperor Liu Hong stands firm, then Liu Yan can actually break the soil in Shu and become the king, enjoy wealth and honor for the rest of his life, and don't have to worry about being recalled to the court from Yizhou at any time, and his life is in jeopardy!
Although Liu Yan's tactical ability in military matters is inferior, Liu Yan's political level and strategic vision are undoubtedly quite brilliant.

There was no need for Liu Zhang to say anything. After some consideration, Liu Yan understood how powerful this plan was.

It not only controlled the lifeline of the imperial court, but also preserved a bit of the face of Emperor Liu Hong, preventing Emperor Liu Hong from directly turning his back and suppressing the rebellion, and actually made Yizhou completely belong to Liu Yan.

"I didn't expect Mr. Zikun to be a loyal man. He really came up with a clever plan..."

Liu Yan said with some emotion and then asked. "Zhang'er, does Mr. Zikun really have no intention of joining his father?"

Liu Zhang bowed his hand and quickly told Li Ji's excuse for refusing, indicating that Li Ji wanted Liu Bei and Liu Yan to become each other's Overlord of Chu and Emperor Gaozu of Han.

When Liu Yan heard this, he unconsciously twirled his beard with one hand and said proudly.

"The overlord of Chu can show off his bravery for a moment, but how can he compare with Emperor Gaozu who occupied all the land in the Bashu Pass? When the time comes, if I can compete with him, I will undoubtedly defeat Xuande's nephew."

This confident tone made Liu Zhang couldn't help but get excited.

At that time, I... No, isn't Gu Gu the prince?
"Zhang'er, seeing as Mr. Zikun has made this clever plan for his father, if he can capture Mr. Zikun in the future, he will be treated with great courtesy." Liu Yan said proudly.

"Yes."

Liu Zhang couldn't hide his excitement and spoke.

……

But what Liu Yan and his son didn't know was that they were eyeing the world and the throne, while Li Ji was simply eyeing Yizhou's food, intending to defraud it.

Even the strategy Li Ji provided to Liu Yan and his son was actually Liu Yan's own idea in the original trajectory, but Li Ji beautified and decorated it and sold it to Liu Yan for use.

Selling Liu Yan's future plans to the current Liu Yan, Li Ji earned 600,000 dan of grain as intermediary fees, which can only be said to be the conscience of a man.

Only the nine-character mantra of "accumulate grain widely, build walls high, and slowly become king" is quite valuable.

But just as Li Ji said to Liu Zhang, with the unique terrain of Yizhou, it almost naturally has the advantages of "gathering grain widely" and "building high walls". It doesn't make any difference whether you say it or not. It's just that Used to fool Liu Yan and his son.

And as Wujun is about to embark on the road of rapid development, it will inevitably gradually attract the attention of people all over the world. Under this situation, Li Ji can't wait to put up a target to attract the attention of Emperor Liu Hong and the court.

Yizhou is undoubtedly the best target.

And according to Li Ji's prediction, when the imperial court realizes that Yizhou is about to be completely out of control and Liu Yan is likely to be disobedient, the next step is to restrain Liu Yan, and Liu Biao will also be designated as Jingzhou Mu. It was used to block Yizhou's route out of Shu from the south.

This is not speculation, but inevitable!
The terrain of Yizhou is destined to be easy to defend and difficult to attack when facing foreign enemies, but it is also extremely difficult to get out of Shu, with only two routes to choose from.

Either go north out of Hanzhong, or go south out of Bajun and enter Jingzhou.

The difficulty of leaving Hanzhong is actually not low at all!

Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei spent their lives explaining that Beichu seemed beautiful, but in fact the difficulty was almost hellish.

However, the relationship between Jingzhou and Yizhou is extremely subtle, and it is extremely difficult for both sides to attack the other.

This is why once the Jingzhou owned by the Shu Han in the original trajectory was lost, half of his life was almost lost, and half of the dream of reviving the Han Dynasty was shattered.

While Jingzhou was still in the hands of the Shu Han, Guan Yu was able to fight all the way north and Boss Cao almost wanted to move the capital.

But after losing Jingzhou, Zhuge Liang never had the idea of ​​attacking Jingzhou. It can be seen that the difficulty of attacking Jingzhou in Yizhou made Zhuge Liang frown when he saw it;
At the same time, Jingzhou's attack on Yizhou is almost impossible to achieve, whether Liu Bei was invited to enter Sichuan in the first place, or Soochow never thought about entering Sichuan on his own initiative.

Now all Liu Yan was thinking about was cutting off the connection with the imperial court and not letting the imperial court send people in, but he didn't see any hidden dangers that he couldn't get out of.

Waiting for the right time?

For Li Ji, that time is not far away; it's just that Liu Yan doesn't have the geographical advantage to compete for the time, and Liu Yan doesn't have much life left to worry about.

After Liu Yan and the emperor Liu Hong left, Yizhou was left to Liu Zhang to guard, and Li Ji felt relieved.

During the short period of contact with Liu Zhang, Li Ji also had a basic evaluation of Liu Zhang: the dog who keeps the household! (End of chapter)