The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 261 Zhuge Liang Enters Sichuan

Chengdu, State Shepherd's Mansion.

After discussing with his advisers, Liu Zhang was deeply worried about the future of Yizhou, so he sent Zhang Song as an envoy to Yangping Pass to listen to Wei Gong (Cheng Yuanzhi) and see if he could continue to build Yizhou in this era. The owner of one-third of an acre of land.

The timing was very coincidental. At this time, the soldiers of the Northern Army were pointing directly at Yangping Pass, and Cheng Yuanzhi was racking his brains on how to conquer Hanzhong.

The arrival of Zhang Song, the envoy from Chuanzhong, immediately attracted his attention, and he went out of the camp to greet him in person.

Zhang Song was greatly moved by the high standard of reception and the week of etiquette.

As soon as they met, Cheng Yuanzhi almost vomited out the overnight meal.

As rumored, Zhang Songguo was ugly in both his ways and his personality.

The height is less than five feet, the forehead is narrow, the head is pointed, the bridge of the nose is flat, the teeth are exposed, and the speech is like a bronze bell.

Seeing his appearance, all the soldiers in the army looked sideways, showing contempt.

Seeing Zhang Song, Cheng Yuanzhi immediately had a strong sense of superiority over his appearance, and at the same time thought of the five famous ugly men of this era: Cao Cao, Mi Heng, Le Jin, Pang Tong, and Zhang Song.

Fortunately, Cheng Yuanzhi knew Zhang Song's background well, and did not neglect him because of his ugliness.

Zhang Song's personality can be summed up in one sentence: "His appearance is not good, but his talent is extraordinary;

Cheng Yuanzhi said enthusiastically: "It's a great honor for Ziqiao to come from afar (Note: Yongnian is actually confused with Romance, and Yongnian is actually the name of another famous official in Sichuan, Peng Yi). I hope you can give me more advice!"

Hearing this, Zhang Song looked terrified, waved his hands again and again and said: "Don't dare, dare not, Song is the last generation in Shu, how dare he throw an ax in front of Duke Wei."

After exchanging pleasantries, Cheng Yuanzhi welcomed Zhang Song into the camp and asked about his intentions.

Zhang Song then truthfully told Liu Zhang's entrustment.

During the meeting, the host was humble and courteous, and the scene was extremely harmonious.

Cheng Yuanzhi generously agreed to Liu Zhang's request, promising that as long as Liu Zhang was willing to come and surrender, he would be made the lord of Yizhou forever.

Zhang Song was so moved that he immediately patted his chest and promised: After returning, he must persuade Liu Zhang to lead the state to surrender.

Cheng Yuanzhi was overjoyed and hosted a banquet in honor of Zhang Song.After the banquet, he personally sent Zhang Song out of the barracks, giving him enough face.

Such an act of respect for the virtuous and virtuous corporals puzzled the civil and military officers and soldiers of the Northern Army.

Yang Xiu on the side couldn't stand it any longer, and asked, "Don't drive me to Yizhou, why is Duke Wei so polite?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone nodded their heads one after another. This is what they wanted to ask.

It's nothing more than that everyone looks down on Zhang Song and dismisses him. In this era of judging people by appearance, Zhang Song's appearance is really uncomfortable.

In the current situation where the Beijun family dominates, even Liu Zhang, who is the lord of Yizhou, will not escape the end of being wiped out if he does not choose. , Qu intended to make friends.

Cheng Yuanzhi looked around the crowd and said with a slight smile, "Everyone, don't judge a person by his appearance, this person has great talent!"

Hearing what Cheng Yuanzhi said, although everyone didn't think so, and didn't think that Zhang Song would have any "big talent", but they stopped entangled in this matter and started discussing Liu Zhang's situation in Yizhou.

To understand Liu Zhang's situation in Yizhou, we must first understand the rule of his father Liu Yan in Yizhou.

Liu Yan is the descendant of King Lu Gong of the Han Dynasty, and he is of the same clan as Liu Bei, the queen of Zhongshan King Jing, and both belong to the lineage of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Yanben was an official in the Han court. With the original intention of "the world will be in chaos, and he wants to protect himself", he proposed the policy of "abolishing history and establishing animal husbandry", and asked to be a shepherd in the remote Jiaozhou.The so-called "state responsibility" began from then on.

However, before Liu Yan’s trip to Jiaozhou could take place, Dong Fu, the servant, discovered in the prophecy that "the capital will be in chaos, and Yizhou will have the spirit of the emperor", and he said Liu Yan based on this.

Liu Yan then asked Liu Honggai, who was then Emperor of the Han Dynasty, to go out to Mu Yizhou. It happened that Xi Jian, the governor of Yizhou at that time, had a lot of big things to do, and his greed was prevalent.Liu Hong took Liu Yan as the envoy of the supervising army and led Yizhou Mu to Yizhou to punish Xi Jian.

When Liu Yan went to Yizhou, there were two main people who followed him. In addition to Dong Fu, who dedicated "Yizhou has the emperor's spirit", there was another Yizhou native, Zhao Wei.

Because of the poor road traffic, Liu Yan and his party took a lot of trouble to enter Shu, and they were delayed in Jingzhou for a while. During this period, the horse minister broke out in Mianzhu, Yizhou, and the Zhao Yu rebellion. The former governor of Yizhou, Xi Jian, was also involved in this riot. Killed.

All of a sudden, Liu Yan's task in entering Sichuan changed from "putting Xi Jian to justice" to "putting down Ma Xiang and the Chaos of Zhao Yu".

But Liu Yan still failed to catch up with the counter-insurgency and showed his skills.The riot was finally suppressed by Jia Long, who worked in Yizhou.

After Jia Longping's rebellion, officials were selected to welcome Liu Yan to take up the post of Yizhou Mu.

At the beginning of Liu Yan's entry into Shu, he set off on the advice of people from Yizhou.After arriving in Yizhou, he also began to rule in Yizhou under the welcome of Yizhou tyrants.

This shows that the local tyrants in Yizhou are not particularly powerful, and they need to cooperate with Liu Yan, a well-meaning person from the Han court, to jointly govern Yizhou.

At this stage, the local tyrants in Yizhou basically welcomed Liu Yan.

The situation when Liu Yan first entered Shu was the same as Liu Biao encountered when he first entered Jingzhou. They all relied on the local aristocratic families to secure their seats.However, subtleties make a difference.

Liu Biao relied on the Jingzhou clan to rule, and it has not changed.However, Liu Yan only relied on local tyrants when he took office, and then the situation changed because of the existence of Dongzhou soldiers. "At that time, tens of thousands of families in Nanyang and Sanfu people fled to Shu." Liu Yan selected the strong and strong to form Dongzhou soldiers to check and balance the local tyrants, so he had the capital to rule Yizhou.

This move made the local tyrants in Yizhou very angry. They found out that Liu Yan had the intention of separatist in Yizhou and was very unfriendly to the tyrants of the generational family, so they rose up to resist.

At this time, Liu Yan’s external performance was to sever the normal connection with the Han court (by appointing Zhang Lu as the prefect of Hanzhong to block the road), while internally he was all kinds of arrogance, "Yan Yi gradually became more and more, and he made more than a thousand rides in public vehicles". And "establishing authority and punishment".

Liwei's method is to massacre the local tyrants, "and entrust other things to kill Wang Xian, Li Quan and other ten people in the prefecture." Powerful.

This approach aroused fierce resistance from the local tyrants in Yizhou. After Ren Qi, the prefect of Qianwei, rebelled, even Jia Long, who welcomed Liu Yan into Sichuan at that time, also joined in.Later, Liu Yan killed Ren Qi and Jia Long to put down the rebellion.

It can be seen from this that the conflict between Yizhou Haoqiang and Liu Yan at that time had intensified to an irreconcilable level.

If you follow it, you will live, if you go against it, you will die.

At that time, Liu Yan's three sons were all in Chang'an (Liu Fan was the general of Zuo Zhonglang, Liu Dan was the censor of the book, and Liu Zhang was the captain of Fengche). Both Liu Fan and Liu Dan later died in Ma Teng's rebellion against Li Jue.

The pain of bereavement and a fire hit Liu Yan hard, and he couldn't afford it. He died soon in the first year of Xingping (194), and Liu Zhang succeeded Yizhou as herdsman.

Liu Zhang's ruling situation at the beginning of his succession was exactly the same as when Liu Yan first entered Yizhou, or even worse.After a military conflict broke out with Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Zhang Lu in Hanzhong also turned against him.

In the end, because the Dongzhou people invaded and violated the law in Yizhou and could not be controlled, Zhao Wei, who supported Liu Zhang at the beginning, also rose against him, and finally formed a rebellion that spread to most of Yizhou (Shu County, Guanghan, Qianwei).

This time, the Dongzhou people were afraid that Zhao Wei would settle accounts against them after he gained power, so they fought to the death to help Liu Zhang break the rebellion. In the end, Zhao Wei failed and was killed, and Liu Zhang quelled the riot.

By this time, Jia Long and Zhao Wei, who welcomed Liu Yan into Sichuan, had all died at the hands of Liu Yan and his son within a few years.

This is enough to show that the ruling contradictions during Liu Zhang's period were more intensified than those of Liu Yan.

After this riot, a fragile balance was reached between Liu Zhang and the Yizhou people, and the two sides spent more than ten years relatively stable.

But this does not mean that the contradiction between the two forces will disappear, and Liu Zhang's rule will be stable.On the contrary, the crisis of Liu Zhang's rule in Yizhou has always been undercurrent and getting deeper and deeper.

Based on the above information, it is not difficult to understand why Cheng Yuanzhi's western expedition to Zhang Lu surprised Liu Zhang ten times a day, and he immediately sent envoys to make friends.

In the ten years after Zhao Wei's rebellion, although no similar large-scale rebellion broke out in Shu, Liu Zhang obviously had an intuitive understanding of his unstable rule in Yizhou.

Liu Zhang befriends Duke Wei (Cheng Yuanzhi) because he wants to use his huge influence to stabilize his rule in Yizhou, even if he surrenders because of this, he will not hesitate to surrender, as long as the court still promises him to be the "Lord of Yizhou" .

Cheng Yuanzhi treated Zhang Song kindly, but in order not to restore Cao Cao's wrong practice of "judging people by their appearance" in time and space, which caused the time for the unification of the world to be pushed back and forth.

But can things really develop as they wish?

Liu Zhang didn't know, neither did Cheng Yuanzhi, and even Zhang Song, the person involved, didn't know.

But one person knows.

This person is Zhuge Liang.

After many days of thinking, he finally came up with a clever plan to save "Longzhong Dui", or a way to save Liu Bei's bleak future, and went to Yizhou to speak to Liu Zhang in person.

(End of this chapter)