The imperial army did not have a trace of nostalgia, and went very simply, although it lost Fanxian and Shaocheng, but these are two empty cities, after Liu Xie occupied Liyang, these two county seats, were used by Liu Xie as a place of conquest between Yuan Shao, and the people were inevitably damaged, and the people had already begun to migrate south, and the two cities were built by Liu Xie as military fortresses, and now it seems that the two cities were lost, but in fact, Liu Xie lost nothing.
However, such an ending made Yuan Shao a little embarrassed.
Although the court did not trap him, he was trapped by himself.
At the beginning, he swore to gather 100,000 troops to come to the court to find the bad luck, vowing to be ashamed, but who knew that the final result was to be beaten by the imperial court, a battle outside the city, 100,000 troops, casualties plus deserters and the army captured by the imperial court, combat attrition plus non-combat attrition, the loss was as high as 50,000, and the rest of the people were also warless, and even produced a psychological shadow in the face of the imperial court.
Now that the court is gone, Yuan Shao breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, but he was a little embarrassed, this is obviously impossible to fight again, 100,000 troops were lost and abandoned by the court 30,000 beats, and now the court has not lost much, but he only has 50,000 soldiers and horses left, and then go to Liyang to find a draw, this time is enough for Guan Yu and Huang Zhong to react, when the time comes, he will use these 50,000 remnants to meet the 100,000 army of the imperial court, and the hope of winning is almost invisible.
But if he wants to withdraw like this, as the lord of a state and the first prince in the world, where should his face go can't beat it, but he doesn't want to leave like this, Yuan Shao feels that the eyes he faces every day seem to be a little mocking, fortunately, Tian Feng's life and death are unknown, otherwise, Yuan Shao is really likely to kill people at this time.
"Lord, why don't you retreat" Feng Ji looked at Yuan Shao with a wry smile, the original proposal to send troops was put forward by them, but now the result shows that they are obviously wrong, at this time, they really shouldn't fight this battle, but as the initiator of the original proposal, Guo Tu is obviously not suitable to speak at this time, so he can only persuade him.
"This has become an empty city, and it also costs manpower to transport grain and grass, and it will be stationed for a long time, and the gains outweigh the losses, so it is better to return to Yecheng and make calculations" Feng Ji looked at Yuan Shao cautiously, afraid that his words would anger Yuan Shao.
Fanxian and Shaocheng two counties, a hundred miles away from Yecheng, and Shaocheng is only fifty miles away from Liyang.
Yuan Shao frowned and looked at these people, although he has some arrogance unique to nobles, but he is not a fool, these people under his command are naturally fighting openly and secretly, and he naturally knows in his heart, at this moment he suddenly misses Tian Feng a little, although that guy has a nasty temperament, but he talks and does things, he is mainly pragmatic, he didn't think much before, he only felt annoying, but now without Tian Feng by his side, he is a little uncomfortable, if he paints here, he may probably give himself some better advice frowned and glanced at Guo Tu, but saw that Guo Tu was trying to shrink behind others at the moment, hiding himself through the bodies of others, for fear of being discovered by himself.
In my heart, I felt a sense of boredom for no reason, no, after I go back this time, I will definitely recall my frustration, and there are such a group of people around me, which is a little unbalanced.
People will always know regret when they lose, Yuan Shao obviously has regretted it at the moment, Tian Feng, he gave it up with his own hands, but with Yuan Shao's pride, it is impossible to admit that he regrets it, at the moment, he is just thinking about returning to Yecheng, calling Fu Zhi back, and there is also a plan to balance the several factions under him.
"Retreat" Looking at everyone's implied expectant gaze, Yuan Shao waved his hand fiercely, he also wanted to retreat, after all, at this time, if he didn't preserve his strength, next, when Liu Xie was interested in subduing Jizhou, he didn't even have the strength to block it, but just retreated, where to put his face and the attitude of the court made him even more angry, he felt like a beast in captivity in the court, when he wanted to slaughter, he could slaughter, he wanted to resist, but he was powerless to resist, this feeling was really uncomfortable.
"The lord is wise" Feng Ji, Xin Bi and the others breathed a sigh of relief and bowed their hands together.
"And."
Yuan Shao remembered something, turned his head and looked at everyone: "No matter what method you use, send someone to inform Cao Cao and my nephew, and ask him to send Yuan Jun, Yuan Shao's today, it is their tomorrow to let the court go down like this, just everyone bow down and go to Luoyang to ask for surrender."
Feng Ji, Guo Tu and others were stunned when they heard this, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Lord, don't."
Now, the most troublesome for the growth of the imperial court is not Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Sun Ce, these princes, but the family, if the princes are called vassals and bound to the court, they may be able to preserve the wealth of the first generation, but the family will face the legal constraints of the court, and all the privileges will disappear.
"Hmph" Yuan Shao snorted, ignored everyone, and left directly.
Everyone looked at each other, and they could see the panic in each other's eyes, Yuan Shao naturally wouldn't really go to the courtier, but obviously, this was Yuan Shao's warning, internal intrigues, which made the court cheap, and even made Yuan Shao lose a top strategist, and now Yuan Shao has reacted, this kind of thing has obviously touched Yuan Shao's bottom line.
At the moment, Yuan Shao collected his troops and returned to Yecheng, continued to lick his wounds, this time he learned a lesson, although Youzhou Lu Bu was noisy, but he was frustrated by the garrison between the rivers, which did limit Lu Bu, Youzhou Han Yan concentrated his troops in the area of each county, the wall was clear, and he defended according to the danger, although Lu Bu was powerful, but he could not rush to the city wall with cavalry, Yuan Shao took this opportunity to silently develop the people's livelihood and train the army, for a while, but also because Liu Xie has no intention of occupying Jizhou, there is nothing to do, although small-scale battles will happen from time to time, However, the war has been suppressed by the high-level of both sides, and it has not happened, and it seems to have formed some kind of tacit understanding.
In Jizhou, the major families do not say that they have abandoned their past suspicions, but because of Tian Feng's experience, Yuan Shao obviously does not allow the struggle between factions to damage the root of Jizhou, so although the conflict exists, it is not too intense.
Time is in such a relatively calm, through the six years of Xingping, into the seven years of Xingping, the front line of the war is treacherous, but under the rule of the imperial court in this year, it is developing rapidly.
The royal trading house continued to open up trade routes in the Western Regions, even without Liu Xie's command, the characteristics of merchants seeking profits, still let them continue to open up all possible markets, Dawan and Wusun in the two years of the imperial court, gradually opened up trade routes by merchants, and even Zhen Yao in order to complete Liu Xie's task, as far as Hualazi country, where there was civil strife, although almost could not come back, Zhen Yao's caravan did not hesitate to bring all the glass, refined salt, soap and other goods to a nobleman in Hualazi country, only to save his life, Moreover, he brought back the map of the Guishan Kingdom and several scholars who admired the Han Dynasty for Liu Xie.
After Liu Xie's power in Hebei stabilized, he had already returned to Luoyang, leaving Huang Zhong to preside over the overall situation, with Guan Yu, Xu Huang, and Zhao Yun as deputy generals, which was quite a luxurious lineup.
At that time, Liu Xie received the scholars of the Guishan Kingdom very cordially, and agreed that they should exchange culture with the Han scholars, and also asked them to spread some of the language and culture of the Guishan Kingdom in the Chang'an Jiangwu Hall and Luoyang Academy.
And when Liu Xie is idle, he will study the map with Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Fa Yan and others, and some humanities in Guishan, but also have some experience, but according to the deduction of several people, even if Liu Xie can dominate the world within ten years, but with the current traffic conditions, he does not have the conditions for the expedition to Guishan, the first is the labor expedition, which consumes countless money, food and material resources, and the other point is that even if it is defeated, it is quite troublesome to govern, even if it is transmitted in the way of flying pigeons, regardless of any accidents on the road.
It would take fifteen days to spread the news from Luoyang to Guishan's place close to the Han border, and if the army was mobilized, it would take half a year for the Han army to reach the country of Hualazi from Chang'an, according to the speed of a fifty-mile march in a day.
This is still a relatively optimistic algorithm, if there is any bad weather on the road, when the army cannot be marched, this time will have to be extended indefinitely.
Of course, if the improved track made of Luoyang glass can be paved to the Western Regions, this time can be greatly shortened, but the premise is that the Han can really subdue the Western Regions, and the subjugation here is not to let the Western Regions become vassals, but the Han Dynasty will really incorporate the Western Regions into the territory of the Han Dynasty and set up prefectures, counties and counties.
Although the cost of Luoyang glass is not expensive, but when used as a track, it is a bit extravagant, and although this thing is hard, but according to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Industry, it lacks flexibility.
However, in the past two years, the Ministry of Industry has used this Luoyang glass to train a large number of iron, which can only be mixed into the material when building military weapons, and now it seems that there is a possibility of mass production.
The Ministry of Industry was overjoyed by this discovery, and the first thing it did was to use the iron to build a furnace that could withstand higher temperatures.
At present, although there is only one, but for the development of industry, this is a cross-era significance, with this first iron furnace, although the output is not high, but the Han can produce 100,000 catties of iron every year, at present, for the imperial court, the biggest problem, but in the mineral source.
All in all, the seven years of Xingping were quietly spent in such a dull atmosphere with infinite vitality, and in the eighth year of Xingping, the first batch of scholars who had completed three years of study in the county school finally completed their studies, and were called to Luoyang under the signs of the imperial court, and at the same time, it seemed to be an explosive year, and the occupation of the south was also at the beginning of the year, and there were changes that affected the world. t1706231537: