The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 370
There is an idiom that describes people who are greedy and insatiable, that is "Long Wang Shu".The literal meaning is that after obtaining Longyou, he still wants to capture Xishu. Now Cao Cao wants to get Longwangshu, because Zhang Wu is already very difficult to deal with. If he is allowed to completely obtain Yizhou, he will really be unable to rule him!

In this era, there are two roads from Hanzhong to Yizhou, one road is the Jinniu Road between Micang Mountain and Minshan Mountains.

According to legend, during the Warring States Period, the State of Qin wanted to conquer the State of Shu, but the roads were difficult to navigate due to the thousands of miles of Guanshan Mountains, so the King of Qin conceived a plan and lied that he had a stone ox that could pull out gold at night.The king of Qin expressed his willingness to give it to the king of Shu, but he had to carry it by himself.The king of Shu was overjoyed, so he ordered Wu Ding to open the way and transport stone cattle to Shu, which became the laughing stock of the world.

The greedy king of Shu didn't wait for the stone ox that could pull out the gold, but instead welcomed the army of Qin, drove straight along the golden bull road opened by the king himself, and destroyed the kingdom of Shu.

Taking Jinniu Road to enter Shu has to pass through a series of passes and dangerous mountains such as Jiameng Pass and Jianmen Pass, but it is relatively close to Chengdu.

The other road is Micang Road, named after crossing Micang Mountain, a branch of Daba Mountain.Starting from Nanzheng, Hanzhong, and Chenggu, there are roads leading to the northern section of Micang Road, and then crossing Baling Mountain to the Bajiang Valley in the south, then go southeast to Shangliang through Yuquan and Guanba, and pass through Dongyu along the Nanjiang River After arriving in Bazhong, go southwest to Chengdu via Langzhong and Mianyang, and go southeast to Jiangzhou.

This road is relatively far away, and the Bazhong area is relatively remote. At this time, it is not the main traffic line between Sichuan and Shaanxi. There is no large-scale repair and construction of the plank road. It is very narrow, winding, and steep, and it cannot be compared with the Jinniu Road.

If Cao Cao's 30 troops wanted to take the Micang Road, they had to build the road first, otherwise the soldiers would have to carry food on their backs, and then break through the Daba Mountain barrier and enter the hinterland of Yizhou before the food was exhausted, otherwise they would all starve to death.

Therefore, if Cao Jun wanted to attack Yizhou from Hanzhong, he could only take the Golden Bull Road and attack Jiameng Pass.

Of course, in addition to these two roads, there is also a very dangerous small road that can secretly reach Chengdu, which is the ancient Yinping road that Deng Ai walked in history.Starting from Longnan, we arrived at Yinping County, crossed Motianling to Qingxi, then turned southwest to Fujiang River, and went down the river to Chengdu.But this road is too difficult, and it is impossible to dispatch a large army. Zhang Wu is not Liu Zhang, and it is impossible to give Cao Cao a chance to attack Chengdu.

Although Cao Cao has basically pacified Hanzhong, it does not mean that he can fight. First of all, he has to inquire about information, explore routes, mobilize food and grass, etc., and make preparations first, and the army needs to be repaired for a period of time.

Cao Cao fought Zhang Wu many times, and it can be said that he didn't take advantage of it every time, so Cao Cao didn't dare to fight Zhang Wu like he did with Zhang Lu.

At this time, Zhang Wu was busy dealing with the big and small things in Yizhou. The surrendered Yizhou army needed to be reorganized, the newly recruited Yizhou civil and military officials needed to determine new positions, and the soldiers who accompanied him on the expedition needed to be rewarded and so on.

Of course, there are more troublesome things, such as knowing the situation of officials in various counties and counties, the situation of economic income, the situation of aristocratic families in various places, and so on.

After Liu Zhang surrendered, he was named General Zhenwei by Zhang Wu, and he was ordered to pack his luggage and take a boat with his family to Xiangyang to settle down.

The rest of the civil and military officials are all employed. Of course, Zhang Song, Fazheng, Meng Da, Li Yan and others who first took refuge in him must be reused. There are also some people who are familiar with Zhang Wu who have good character and talent. , such as Yan Yan, Zhang Ren, Huang Quan and others.Now Zhang Wu began to consciously separate the local government from the military and the government. The prefect no longer has the right to lead the army, but is only responsible for political affairs, while the leading generals are not allowed to interfere in local political affairs.

The captains in charge of guarding the counties and counties were appointed by the Cheqi General Mansion. The guards of large counties or important passes were of higher rank, generally partial generals or miscellaneous generals.All armies, officers, and generals are under the unified jurisdiction of the Chariot General's Mansion. Except for the authorized commander of the front army, no one is allowed to mobilize troops or start wars without authorization.

At present, there are two people authorized, one is Pang Tong, the military adviser Jijiu, who is currently guarding Fancheng with Guan Yu and others, guarding against the Cao army in the direction of Wancheng in the north, and has the right to take military actions according to the actual situation.Pang Tong has decision-making power, but Guan Yu will be the general commander.

The other is Zhuge Liang, the general of the Zuojun division, who guarded Jianye with Zhao Yun, Ding Feng, Lu Meng and others to guard against Cao's army north of the river, and also had the right to take military actions according to the actual situation.Among them, Zhuge Liang has the decision-making power, Zhao Yun is the general of the infantry, and Ding Feng is the general of the navy.

Based on this situation, many people speculated that the next authorized front army commander might be General Xu Shu of the Right Army Division.

Zhang Wu knew that Cao Cao had already acquired Hanzhong, and Hanzhong had been the gateway to Yizhou since ancient times, so the most important thing at present was to beware of Cao Cao taking the opportunity to attack Yizhou, because Zhang Wu knew that Cao Cao also wanted to acquire Yizhou, and now he was the first to get there. He must be very upset.

Therefore, after Zhang Wu finished handling the major issues, he handed over all the political affairs of Yizhou to Zhang Song, and asked him to temporarily take a group of officials from Yizhou to maintain the operation of Yizhou. swap.

Now guarding the Micang Road is Yizhou General Pang Yi, this guy is a speculator, he puts his own and his family's interests first, he is not loyal to the Han Dynasty, he is not loyal to Liu Zhang, and he will not put the interests of the people first.

Pang Yi was kind to Liu Yan in his early years.When Liu Yan entered Shu, he left his eldest son Liu Fan and his second son Liu Dan in the capital. Later, Liu Fan and Ma Teng conspired to get rid of the powerful minister Li Jue. Unfortunately, the incident leaked out and both Liu Fan and Liu Dan were killed.

Pang Yi spent money to rescue and protect several of Liu Yan's grandsons to enter Shu, and then stayed under Liu Yan to serve.

Later, Pang Yi married his daughter to Liu Zhang's eldest son as his wife, and was entrusted by Liu Zhang with military power to fight against Zhang Lu.After Pang Yi became the prefect of Brazil, he was proud of his merits and self-respect, and secretly recruited trilogy. He was suspected by Liu Zhang and wanted to betray Liu Zhang and make himself a prince, but he was dissuaded later.

Now that Zhang Wu is in charge of Yizhou, of course Pang Yi knew that he could not be Zhang Wu's opponent by virtue of himself, so he happily surrendered. He was transferred back to Chengdu to take up a post, and he was not allowed to guard Brazil.

Because Pang Yi is too good at fighting, Liu Zhang sent Pang Yi to attack Zhang Lu many times, but he was defeated by Zhang Lu many times.What if Cao Cao advances from Micang Road?He can't even beat Zhang Lu, and it is even more impossible to be Cao Cao's opponent now.

Opportunists like Pang Yi, of course, dare not confront Zhang Wu. He is a ruthless man who even wiped out Sun Quan. The number of Cao Jun who died in his hands is 10,000+, and his family is now developing in Yizhou. Unable to seek refuge with Cao Cao.

The general trend of the world now is different from that of the past. Back then, there were so many princes, and anyone who occupied any county could become a prince.But now there are only two great princes in the world, one in the south and one in the north. If you think about rebellion and self-reliance, you are courting death.

As compensation to Pang Yi, Zhang Wu gave the Pang family certain preferential policies in business. At the same time, when Zhang Wu ordered Liu Zhang to leave Chengdu, he left his eldest son Liu Xun in Chengdu, because Liu Xun was Pang Yi's son-in-law.

Although Cao's army was unlikely to attack through the Micang Road, Zhang Wu still sent Huang Zhong, Yan Yan, and Lu Xun to defend Brazil with [-] troops.

(End of this chapter)