Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

As long as he always holds this point, Zhou Yu will never pose any threat to He Jin.

In a simple sentence, it is:

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"Gongjin, you don't want the emperor to know what happened between you and Mrs. Zhang?"

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"The emperor is not in a good mood recently, if you don't know what to do..."

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Hehe laughed strangely in his heart, thinking of such a scene, He Jin couldn't help trembling all over his body.

Zhou Yu, who perfectly fits the three elements of ability, common goal and easy control, is almost a perfect pawn for He Jin, which can hinder Zhang Yan without any possibility of backlash against He Jin.

That's right, it's just a hindrance.

As one of the witnesses who witnessed the rise of Zhang Yan with his own eyes, He Jin naturally would not think that relying on supporting a Zhou Yu to stand up and fight against the opponent, he would be able to destroy Zhang Yan's official career and even pull the opponent from the current throne of power. .

Not only because Zhang Yan's adoptive father, Zhang Rang, is the key person who sells officials and controls the world's official positions, but also because in He Jin's eyes, it is almost impossible for such a young man who has not yet reached his peak to be against someone like Chaoyang Gao. Hanging, Zhang Yan, who is almost in full swing, poses no threat.

Chapter 55 Disgusting people are still very good at it

According to He Jin's thinking, as long as the opponent can impose certain restrictions on Zhang Yan, it will be a matter of completely recouping his capital for him to get involved.

Although there is something in my heart that I can't see Zhou Yu, but He Jin thinks that as long as the other party is not a fool, after some help from him, he can fill Zhang Yan with some troubles. Still no problem.

Indeed, as a great general of a big man, He Jin can't give the other party a place with real power like a prefect... After all, he can't manage this place as a general, but as long as he wants to, he can recommend a military position to the other party. Then let the other party go to the northern nomads such as the Huns and Xianbei to brush up their prestige and military exploits, which is almost three-fingered snails, which is sure.

When the other party has accumulated a lot of military exploits and obtained enough troops, he will take advantage of the reason that the ethnic minorities in Yangzhou area refuse to accept education and rampant rebellion, and directly send the other party back to his hometown in Yangzhou, and let him be in Zhang Yan's territory. Another army was launched to suppress the bandits...

In this way, even if these two people can't reach the state where the Liu Zongshi and the White Horse General in the north are in a state of being like fire and water, dragging each other's legs in the open and in the dark, but they just disgust Zhang Yan, so that Zhang Yan has no time to distract and interfere with the situation in Luoyang. It must be very easy.

Think about it, if he, Zhou Yu, really became a general with an independent army and was stationed in Yangzhou to suppress the bandits, then he and his soldiers would definitely have to eat and sleep before the [-] mountains around Yangzhou were destroyed. Bar?

Since we have to eat and sleep, where will the military food come from, and where will the military salary come from?

To put it bluntly, who should arrange the accommodation of the army?

It's not him Zhang Yan, the prefect of Lujiang!

If He Jin remembers correctly, among the six counties in Yangzhou, Yuzhang County and Kuaiji County in the south occupy half the size of the entire Yangzhou...but in terms of population and economic strength, this The two counties are called counties, rather than ordinary county towns. They have neither people nor food. They are as desolate as deep mountains and rainforests, and they cannot support any troops at all.

As for the four counties in the north of Yangzhou, Jiujiang County and Danyang County are the hardest-hit areas in Shanyue, and the area around Wu County is flooded with merchants, and merchant families control and manipulate politics. It is more difficult to get money from them than to kill them.

Just two years ago when the Great Han was plagued by the plague, many businessmen in Wu County had embezzled the relief supplies from the Great Han, and then sold them to the affected people layer by layer, defrauding the king by exposing the country to wealth.

If you really want to talk about it, if Zhou Yu wants to get food and military supplies from Yangzhou, or even supplements from the army, Zhang Yan will wait to be lying on his body and sucking blood fiercely.

Spending his own money and people's power to support a bunch of troops that don't belong to him, He Jin doesn't believe that the other party is really a warm water Bodhisattva character, and can be indifferent to such things.

Besides, even if you don't care, how can you let others sleep soundly in the place where you lie on the couch? The former childhood sweetheart who proposed to his wife brought a lot of troops to station beside him. Zhang Yan, you will be disgusted no matter what, right?

Even if you take ten thousand steps back, your Lujiang prefect is stricter than yourself, and you are really willing to live in peace with General Zhou Yu... But because of your relationship, he will not give you any good looks, at most you will only develop into Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan's dislike for each other is nothing more than that.

As long as he, Zhou Yu, is still stirring up wind and rain in Yangzhou as a force independent of Zhang Yan, then Zhang Yan's reputation will inevitably be affected, and the people will subconsciously think about and discuss this matter.

So if he wants to keep his reputation from being destroyed by the other party, the easiest way for Zhang Yan is to drive the other party out of his territory——

It is an appropriate way to help the other party destroy Shanyue to complete the task, or to let the other party make no progress and lose his official position.

But is Shanyue really that easy to destroy?

Of course not.

If Shanyue was really so easy to wipe out, how could the big man see the whole Yangzhou out of control for a long time, not in his own hands.

And if Shanyue cannot be wiped out in a short period of time, how about adding chaos to Zhou Yu and causing him to be dismissed by the emperor?

Digging holes for the other party, collecting evidence, and jointly signing a letter with officials in Yangzhou... These also take time.

When Zhang Yan really takes care of Zhou Yu, then Luoyang's throne might be replaced by Sancha!

Where is the chance for Zhang Yan to intervene!

Calculating his own gains and losses in his mind, He Jin found that promoting Zhou Yu and helping him suppress the Xiongnu only required a very small cost, and even achieved results within half a year. The investment can be said to be quite low.

But it is this small investment that can kill two birds with one stone. It not only slows down the pace of Zhang Yan's development, but also deters the Huns, making up for the emptiness of the border caused by mobilizing the northern Liangzhou-Bingzhou defense line. Live those Huns, so that they dare not act rashly.

After all, if the other party really made a large-scale deduction, he, a general, would definitely be detained for dereliction of duty, which is not a big trouble.

Oh, by the way, it can even brush up Cao Cao's favor, making Cao Cao think that he really takes the people of the big Han into consideration.

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How could it be possible... just a bunch of assholes.

The corners of the mouth began to rise uncontrollably. After thinking that he had made a boundless plan, He Jin suddenly felt that the recent pressure was greatly reduced. Not only did he not feel the insomnia before, but he even felt a little hungry.

He suddenly wanted to go out and eat something casually.

He just remembered that he was at a critical moment recently, and He Jin, who didn't want to have any accidents, rubbed his stomach with regret, then stood up and moved around, and then sat back in front of the desk that belonged to him.

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"Hey, it's just a pity. That Zhang Yan is a talent, but it's a pity that he can't be used by me."

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Silently muttering in his heart, in fact, He Jin already knew clearly what Zhang Yan did in Lujiang these days.

After all, whether as Zhang Rang's biggest political enemy in his life, or as a benefactor who once recruited Zhang Rang, He Jin has enough reasons to pay attention to him.

In fact, that's exactly what he did.

During the six months when the other party went south to Lujiang County, Yangzhou, whether it was farming, suppressing bandits or some other things, even the establishment of the large library that has been making a lot of noise in the Central Plains recently, He Jin sent people to find out clearly.

As for the confrontation between Zhang Yan and him, He Jin really felt very sorry.

It's a pity that the other party can't be used by him, and it's also a pity that the ten permanent servants, who have already withered talents, have found another person who can be a reliable helper before they die.

Politics has always been ruthless. Since you can't get it yourself, reasonable restrictions or even destruction are a very good choice.

Even if he is just a butcher, He Jin has always been very clear about this.

Chapter 56 Liangzhou

"General, general! There is news from the imperial city!"

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In the middle of winter, on the northern border of the Han Dynasty, a huge military camp stretching for tens of miles was standing on the hillside against the wind and snow.

This barracks is different from Luoyang's Forbidden Army or the local officials' army. It has a huge area and accommodates far more people than the other two. Not to mention, even the atmosphere in the barracks is extremely chilling.

At first glance, the expressions of every soldier in the barracks may not be serious, but the fierceness between the brows is beyond the imagination of ordinary people who have never seen blood.

Perhaps Jian Shuo, the commander of the Xiyuan Imperial Army in Luoyang, or the experienced soldiers under Sun Jian, the prefect of Changsha County, can barely compete with the opponent in terms of military quality, but if it is compared with the number of people, it is not true. A small Changsha County may not even have such a large number of soldiers in the entire Jingzhou and one state.

And the soldiers in this barracks, according to a rough estimate, have at least 10,000+ soldiers.

As for the local legions in various parts of the Han Dynasty, it is completely the opposite. There are a total of 10 people in all, and they may be able to compare with this army in terms of quantity, but when it comes to the quality of the army, it may not be as good as flattery.

This is the Liangzhou Army, one of the three major armies on the northern border of the Han Dynasty.

While the total number of soldiers in the army exceeds 20, there is also a cavalry team with a total number of about 8000——

That's right, it was the Xiliang iron cavalry that shocked the Western Regions and the Huns, and it was also the only four remaining elite cavalry troops in the entire Han Dynasty with more than a thousand soldiers.

In addition to them, the remaining three cavalry units are the Bingzhou wolf cavalry located in the central part of the Han Dynasty, the Baima Yicong under the command of the White Horse General in the northeast of the Han Dynasty, and the Forbidden Army located in the West Garden of Luoyang. cavalry unit.

Just to put it bluntly, among these few, the first three are from the three states in the northern border, and they may still be able to compete with each other, and the cavalry in the West Garden may be in the ranks of ordinary local troops. In front of him, he can still show off his prestige, but in front of these three big brothers, he is only worthy of carrying shoes.

This is true whether it is the quality of individual soldiers, combat awareness and combat experience, or even the gap in the number of troops.

In front of the frontier cavalry with a total number of nearly 3, Jian Shuo's 2 West Garden Forbidden Army was really easily manipulated by the opponent like a toy.

You must know that although it is already the middle of winter at this moment, in the hinterland of Dahan, such as Jiangdong and Jingzhou, although it is not warm as spring, at the very least, it is like the one who has recently become famous and has some rumors in the northern border. In the territory of the backbone general, there are still many people who go to work in the fields every day, trying their best to contribute their last effort to the next year's harvest.

Even if there is a satellite imaging system at this time, the soldiers on these borders must still be able to see their colleagues in the distance practicing hard.

In contrast, the northern border at this moment is different from the southern border. It has already looked like the sky is freezing. The common people, let alone farming, under such cold wind and heavy snow, they even walked out of their own houses. It is a very painful thing at home, and it may even cause you to lose your life.

This point applies to these frontier troops as well as to the Liangzhou Army.

The cold weather means that people will lose body temperature quickly, and a large amount of food supplements are needed to ensure their own heat.

But even so, under the strict military orders, the long-standing sense of responsibility and the hatred of foreign enemies, there are still groups of soldiers coming out of the warm sheepskin tents, or fighting in the camp. To patrol, or to replace those who had been on duty outside the camp an hour or two ago—

There is no way, the weather is cold, and the food is not so abundant, so people always have to help each other to get through the difficulties together.

And when the returned soldiers calm down with the help of the bonfire, they will set off again to replace the previous colleagues.

Just like what the other party did a few hours ago.

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This is the frontier army. Under the influence of the harsh environment, they have a sense of teamwork and a sense of honor that is difficult for the army in the hinterland of the Han Dynasty. The "hard work and hard work" of the ordinary local army is like eating and drinking for them. common.

The army cast in such an environment is something that Pei Yuanshao, Xu Huang and others can't reproduce through a lot of training:

In other words, this is an army as solid as steel and as sharp as a sword they dream of.

Such troops can be found everywhere in the northern border of the Great Han Dynasty.

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The screen turns back again, not far from the barracks, about a few miles away, a towering, thick city wall that can't be seen at a glance stands there as if separating the world, giving While these soldiers were confident, they also made their hearts extremely firm after patrolling and watching again and again.

That wall was something they had to guard, it was their supply point when they went north to fight, it was a barrier to protect their safety, and it was something to protect the lives of the big men behind them.

There is the Great Wall, a great achievement that cannot be ignored in ancient China and even in the history of the entire world, and it is also one of the greatest buildings in the world today.

This is the Great Wall.

To the west of the Great Wall is Liangzhou.

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Here, behind these Liangzhou legions, the direction they are defending is Liangzhou, which is the most marginal and remote border province in the entire Han Dynasty.

Perhaps when the Western Regions Protectorate was still there, Liangzhou could only rank second, but now that the Western Regions are lost, here is a well-deserved number one, even if the remoteness of Bingzhou and Youzhou is not comparable to here Compare.