Don't underestimate Tian Chou's prestige in the Youbeiping area

In the early years, that is, before the Battle of Guandu, Tian Chou was already famous in the northern border area, and Yuan Shao's father and son had wanted to summon Tian Chou as his subordinate several times. And if it is according to the original historical process, Tian Chou moved the clan away from the northern border and moved to Yecheng to settle after he finished showing the way to Lao Cao.

On this issue, don't think that Tian Chou left the bitter cold land in the north with his clan and went to an economically developed place to live a good life. In fact, it is very likely that Tian Chou knows that Lao Cao is powerful and suspicious, so he does not dare to stay on the northern border as a local wealthy clan, so as not to cause some unnecessary trouble to his own clan when he gets it.

You must know that at that time, Tian Chou had gathered a huge local force group of thousands in the northern border area, and with Lao Cao's policy of handling things, would he allow the existence of such a local force group? Not to mention that it was on the northern border. The head of such a power group has a lot of prestige in the local area, and if something happens, do you know how harmful it will be?

Therefore, in the original history, Tian Chou led the clan to leave the countryside more or less helplessly, and at the same time, it can be seen that Tian Chou actually hopes that there will be a peaceful scene on the northern border.

However, the current situation is that Tian Chou accidentally joined forces with Lu Ren in the early years, and with the help of Lu Ren, he did a lot of things for the peace of the northern border, and some of Tian Chou's situation has changed because of this, at least Tian Chou can no longer deliberately move his family, and if something is wrong, just go to Lu Ren.

On the other hand, Lao Cao saw that Tian Chou was actually quite honest, so he didn't want to overdo things, after all, there had to be a suitable person in Youbeiping and Liaoxi. And with Tian Chou's reputation in that area, if you really force him to be anxious and run away, it will be detrimental to the peace of the northern border, since there is such an honest person, why don't you stay?

All in all, Tian Chou didn't have to move to Yecheng when there was such a retreat as Lu Ren, and then he had been living his life on the northern border. And Tian Chou's original reputation there was very good, and he has been acting as a peacemaker and buffer for so many years, what kind of degree will his reputation rise?

Now, a person with such a reputation led a group of people to block the gate of Shanhaiguan with an unarmed attitude, and used the method of "non-violence and non-cooperation" to persuade Cao Pi to cancel his plan to send troops...... This kind of thing, the soldiers who drove from the Central Plains may not feel much about it, but what kind of impact will it have on the local soldiers and people who are familiar with the fields?

So at that time, there was a bit of chaos in Shanhaiguan, and at the same time, many people joined Tian Chou, a strange group of "non-violent non-cooperation". And as the number of people in this group increased, it really made Cao Pi's army a little overwhelmed.

Regardless of the past? It doesn't matter if the warlords who don't make it out of the stream do this, they don't care if their reputation is good or not, they just need to get the substantial benefits. But Cao Pi is not one of those bandit-like rotten warlords! He is now the Duke of Wei, and he still wants to be called king and emperor in his heart, regardless of his own reputation, what can he do?

What is Tian Chou's identity in turn? Tian Chou is also a person with an official title, okay? Moreover, Tian Chou led the people to die, not to engage in any rebellion, and even made it clear that if you Cao Pi insisted on fighting, he would step over our corpses, and if Cao Pi attacked them, his nature would become a massacre of ministers and civilians, and this kind of notoriety was not something that Cao Pi could afford to bear.

To put it mildly, Cao Pi at this time had just sat on the throne of Duke Wei, and his personal reputation could not withstand the toss. Moreover, Emperor Liu Xie issued an edict to persuade Cao Pi, and the great Confucian Zheng Xuan also used a suicide note to dissuade Cao Pi. Cao Pi's insistence on sending troops was already under great pressure, and the only excuse that could justify himself was the so-called "Lu Ren killed my son". In this case, if you just fight with Lu Ren, you can barely say it, but if you slaughter the officials and civilians who admonished you......

In short, Cao Pi's head was big after receiving the news, and his vanguard was also stuck in Shanhaiguan, where he couldn't enter, and he didn't get an order to retreat, so he could only be stationed and wait for Cao Pi's order. You're going to kill? Yes! Take the order, anyway, this kind of pot that will be pointed at and scolded by the world, we will not help you carry it.

Cao Pi is also in a hurry! Lu Ren has telegraph technology, which has been made public when he is fighting against the Western Regions Alliance, so Cao Pi knows very well that Lu Ren must have received the letter a long time ago, and the time that can be grabbed now can only be the time when Lu Ren's main force is still in Central Asia and cannot return in a short period of time. But after such a delay, isn't that time all lost?

To say that Cao Pi is also ruthless enough, after repeated thinking, Cao Pi is a little inclined to no matter what reputation is not famous, no matter what, Liaozhou will be defeated first, after all, the threat of Liaozhou to Hebei is too great. As long as it can be defeated, at least it will disrupt Liaozhou and create a fait accompli, then the reputation will go back and remedy it.

But just when Cao Pi was about to make a ruthless decision, another unusually urgent news came back and gave Cao Pi a hammer on the head...... Liu Bei and Sun Quan jointly issued an edict, in which they stated that if Cao Pi insisted on "seeking revenge against Lu Ren, disobeying the edict of the Son of Heaven, and not accepting the last orders of the late Zheng Xianshi", Liu Bei and Sun Quan would send troops at the same time to launch a large-scale attack on Cao Pi's territory from two directions.

Cao Pi was dumbfounded when he received the news, and said in his heart that these two goods came out to make a fuss again? Haven't you been arguing over the issue of Jingzhou South County? Why are you so united all of a sudden? Okay, so even if you work together, strategically you're a defensive alliance, okay? It's already very good that Lao Tzu didn't fight you, but you still have this hand with Lao Tzu?

In any case, this matter is really not a joke, God knows if Liu Bei and Sun Quan made such a move just to scare people or really prepare to attack. If it's to scare people, it's okay to say, but if it really wants to attack Cao Pi's territory from two sides, it's as strong as Cao Wei has to shake a few times.

And the emergency military situation in the direction of Chang'an and Lianghuai also reached Cao Pi's hands at this time. Chang'an is to find out that Liu Bei is mobilizing troops in the Hanzhong area, and the direction of Lianghuai is to find out that Sun Quan is mobilizing troops along the Yangtze River, whether it is true or false makes Cao Pi even more confused.

At this time, it was Sima Yi, the assassin of Xuzhou, who rushed over from Xuzhou and solved Cao Pi's confusion. In fact, to put it simply, if Cao Pi really fights Liaozhou, then Liu Bei and Sun Quan will also really fight Cao Pi.

Let's put it this way, is Lu Ren's territory so easy to fight? Cao Pi mobilized more than 100,000 troops for this purpose, which will inevitably cause a relative emptiness in the defensive strength of the first line of Chang'an and the first line of Lianghuai, which means that this creates an opportunity for Liu Bei and Sun Quan to attack Cao Pi.

From the perspective of public opinion, it is the edict of Emperor Liu Xie, the suicide note of Zheng Xuan, and the opposition of the scholar class in Cao Wei, so the current Cao Pi is under considerable pressure from public opinion, which undoubtedly gives Liu Bei and Sun Quan an excellent excuse to send troops.

And then turn back to the military side...... This mainly refers to Liu Bei and Sun Quan. Lu Ren and Xun have played a lot of tricks on these two goods, and the most important thing is to make it clear that Lu Ren is already preparing for the battle, so if Cao Pi wants to fight Liaozhou, he will not be able to take it for a while. To put it bluntly, it was Lu Ren and Xun who told Liu Bei and Sun Quan that once Lu Ren and Cao Pi fought in the Liaozhou area, Cao Pi's army of more than 100,000 troops would be dragged to Liaozhou.

I don't say what kind of reaction Sun Quan has, but for Liu Bei Group, this is just in line with the sentence "Something to do in the north" in Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair". Moreover, Liu Bei's group could have been said to have gained no benefits in this incident, and even almost lost a very important trade relationship with Lu Ren.

Later, under the arrangement of Lu Ren and Xun, he was fished to Guiyang County...... To be precise, it is Guiyang's control that ensures trade with Lu Ren, which is obviously the result of Lu Ren's special attention to Liu Bei's group, if Liu Bei doesn't do something, at least he has to sell some face to Lu Ren, it will be too much to say. At this time, if Lu Ren entangled Cao Pi's main army and created a condition for Liu Bei to seize Chang'an, this would also be in line with Liu Bei's interests, so Liu Bei behaved very actively at this time. At least at least, once Lu Ren and Cao Pi start fighting, Liu Bei will definitely go out of Hanzhong to attack Chang'an.

As for Sun Quan...... It's a bit hard to say, maybe it's really just a pretentious and scaresome people. However, Ma Siyi clearly pointed out to Cao Pi that Sun Quan was very good at capturing fighters, which meant that once there was any problem with Cao Pi's two Huai defense lines, Sun Quan would definitely seize the opportunity to attack Xuzhou. In this case, it will be Cao Pi's side that has fallen into the unfavorable situation of fighting on three fronts.

No matter how ruthless Cao Pi is, he is a qualified politician after all, so after listening to Sima Yi's analysis, Cao Pi can't help but tremble. Three-front operations in the northeast, west, and south? Although Cao Wei is strong, it is also very dangerous to deal with the battles in these three directions at the same time, okay? And the worst thing is that this situation is not scaring people, but it is really very likely to happen.

Therefore, although Cao Pi was unwilling in his heart, he still showed the quality of a qualified politician at this time, that is, he hurriedly borrowed the slope to get off the donkey...... Anyway, there are a lot of slopes for him in all aspects, and the wealthy families in Cao Wei gave him a donkey under the slope, and the last letter of the old man Zheng is also a slope, and then the edict of Emperor Liu Xie is a bigger slope. Emperor, this identity is still somewhat useful after all.

In short, Cao Pi hurriedly ordered the 100,000 troops to conquer Liao to be pulled back, and instead to strengthen the defense line of Chang'an and Lianghuai, so as not to be taken advantage of by Liu Bei and Sun Quan. In public opinion, Cao Pi gave Emperor Liu Xie a table, and at the same time issued a truce of troops, announcing that he had accepted the troops in accordance with everyone's wishes...... However, Cao Pi was not reconciled, and still accused Lu Ren fiercely.

After Lu Ren heard the news, he didn't bother to worry too much about Cao Pi, and directly instructed Xun to prepare more money or something to block Cao Pi's mouth. In addition, Lu Ren wrote a whole article in response, saying that you Cao Pi didn't mean that your beautiful concubine was gone? Belle? Lao Tzu has a lot of money here, and I have been fighting with Guishan for a long time, and I have a lot of Persian beauties here in Central Asia; There is also the Asan Peninsula, and the forces supported by Lu Ren have also gained a foothold in the southern part of the Asan Peninsula, so I also have a lot of Asan beauties here. These two beauties, isn't it trivial to send you a dozen or five dozen to warm your bed? I'm afraid that your Cao Pi's small body will not be able to stand it.

As a result, Cao Pi took a lot of effort to sort out this incident, and in the end it basically ended with such a situation. It is said that it basically ended rather than completely ended because Cao, Liu, Sun, and Lu all knew that they could not relax their vigilance, so the relevant military preparations were not relaxed by half a minute, at least Lu Ren still did not have any military operations here in Central Asia, so that he could transfer his troops back to participate in the war at any time.

But when things got to this point, Lu Ren also knew that he had more or less blood here. Needless to say, Cao Pi was simply taking money to plug Cao Pi's mouth; As for Liu Bei and Sun Quan, these two goods can be regarded as a great favor to Lu Ren, and it would be a bit unreasonable not to give them something. It's like saying that something happens to your family, and someone comes to help, and you have to invite someone to eat no matter what you say, right?

Principled things can't be moved, like Sun Quan actually has the "property rights" of Guiyang County, and Liu Bei has the "right of residence" of Guiyang County, Lu Ren is already very helpless about this matter, so he wants to get any substantial benefits from Lu Ren, for example, Liu Bei wants to increase the purchase of weapons, this Lu Ren will not agree.

Therefore, Lu Ren sent Liu Bei and Sun Quan some Central Asian specialties that did not have much practical significance, such as the beauties of Persia and Ah San, Cao Pi got a dozen, and Liu Bei and Sun Quan also took half a dozen to enjoy it. And among these thank-you gifts, Lu Ren deliberately selected a group of pure-blooded Persian cats.

It's really just a kitten, not a "Persian cat" in that sense. But this kind of gift was also very valuable at that time, because the Persian cat, a small animal, was a tribute in the Han Dynasty......