Chapter 62: The Collapse of the Alliance, the Foundation of the Imperial Industry
& Thanks to Kaha for the tip!
Cao Cao, who solved one thing smoothly, walked out of the Jiade Hall in a good mood, and Cao Cao, who stepped out of the palace gate, looked at the bright moon in the sky, and a smile rose slightly on the corner of his mouth.
& De, Mengde wait a minute! โ
Cao Cao, who was originally about to leave Luoyang, retracted the smile on the corner of his mouth after hearing the shouts coming from behind him, and looked behind him with a sad and solemn expression.
&Brother Taiwan, I don't know what to say when I stop Cao? Cao Cao clenched his fists and asked Sun Jian, who came to him.
Sun Jian walked in front of Cao Cao, and after hearing this, he also clenched his fists and said: "Meng De, why are you so eager to leave Luoyang, if there is nothing important, Sun is willing to meet Brother Meng De at the end." โ
Sun Jian invited, although Cao Cao was a little anxious to leave Luoyang, but at this time he had to accept it, so as not to be seen by him flawed, so he said: "I don't dare to quit if I want to." โ
Cao Cao and Sun Jian, in the suburbs of Luoyang, found a pavilion, and after saluting each other and sitting down, Sun Jian, as the inviter, took the lead in speaking: "This farewell, I don't know when we will be able to meet, not to mention the changes in the world, when we say goodbye, I don't know if we and the other two can sit down so calmly and chat." โ
Cao Cao didn't know if Sun Jian sighed because he felt the dark tide among the princes from all walks of life, or if it was something else, but he knew that it was impossible for him to meet again in the future and want to be like this today.
Thinking that it would not be long before he would fall into the great world of competing for domination of the world and competing for the Central Plains, Cao Cao's originally anxious mood slowly calmed down, picked up the wine glass in front of him, drank it slowly, and was silent.
Sun Jian, who sighed, came back to his senses, and like Cao Cao, he also drank the wine in the cup in front of him, put down the wine glass, and after a while, looked up at Cao Cao and asked, "Brother Meng De, I don't know where you are going to go after leaving Luoyang?" โ
After Cao Cao glanced at Sun Jian, he thought about it in his heart, and thought that even if he sued Sun Jian, he would scare him. Cao Cao, who had nothing to do with where he was going next, and had nothing to hide about this kind of thing, replied: "I'm going to go back to Chenliu, where don't try to save the country." โ
After answering Sun Jian's question, Cao Cao also asked Sun Jian: "I don't know what Brother Wentai plans to do in the future, are you going to continue to stay in Luoyang?" โ
Sun Jian didn't care about Cao Cao's last sarcastic words, in his opinion, Cao Cao was only normal in this way, if he was very calm, Sun Jian thought that he would have to doubt Cao Cao.
Therefore, on the surface, I saw Sun Jian smile slightly, and said to Cao Cao: "Dong Zhuo moved west to Chang'an, and the princes joined forces to stop moving. โ
Cao Cao looked at Sun Jian in front of him, and suddenly sighed and said: "It's a sigh, if the princes of the Eighteenth Road can work together, how can they come to today's scene, from now on, the Han Court is in turmoil, and I don't know when it will stop." โ
Cao Cao's words are not all false, there is really a bit of sighing in them, if all the princes can work together, this world may have been calmed down long ago.
Of course, in the end, whether the world will calm down or fall into more chaos, it makes no sense to say these things at this time, after all, reality is reality, and fantasy is just fantasy after all, so whether it is Cao Cao or Sun Jian, who said this, neither of them continued to talk about it.
After being silent for a long time, Cao Cao got up and clasped his fists and said to Sun Jian: "Brother Wentai, there is not much time, Cao Mou will leave here." โ
&Duc, take care! Sun Jian, who got up, hugged his fists and said to Cao Cao, who had already ridden the war horse.
Cao Cao, who was riding on a war horse, looked back at Sun Jian for the last time and said, "Brother Wentai, take care >."
The gentleman's friend, light as water, Cao Cao, who galloped on the war horse, flashed such a sentence in his heart, although he didn't talk to Sun Jian much, and he didn't usually see each other much, but Cao Cao kept this scene tonight firmly in his mind, for the peace that was about to disappear, and also for the coming world of great controversy.
Soon after Cao Cao left Luoyang, Sun Jian also led his Jiangdong army to leave Luoyang and return to Jiangdong, and the successive departures of Cao Cao and Sun Jian were like a fuse, completely detonating the bomb called the collapse of the Allied forces.
The departure of Cao Cao and Sun Jian was one of the reasons for the eventual collapse of the Allied forces, but more importantly, by this time, almost all the princes understood that the Han Dynasty was hopeless, and the world was about to fall into the battle of the heroes at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
Therefore, whether they are ambitious, or they are ready to go back and watch the tide of the world, they only care about their own one-third of an acre of land and protect the territory and the people, in the next ten days, they have asked Yuan Shao to resign and leave.
In just over ten days, the allied forces that had shocked the world, raised hundreds of thousands of troops, and moved westward under the banner of Dong Zhuo's wolf bรจi, collapsed, after the news came out, some people wept bitterly, some people rejoiced, and some people were melancholy.
Chang'an, the new imperial capital of the Han Dynasty, was built faster than the palace in the Xiangguo Mansion, Dong Zhuo said to Li Ru beside him with a smile: "Wenyou, as you expected, those thieves fell apart and left one after another soon after entering Luoyang, and from then on, our family can sit back and relax, ah!" Hahaha"
Seeing Dong Zhuo relax all of a sudden, as if there was a recurrence of the old state, Li Ru's heart sank slightly, and he immediately said loudly: "Xiangguo, the alliance of princes has collapsed, according to Weichen, in the next few years, the Central Plains will fall into a melee, at this time, as long as Xiangguo relies on the fertile land of Guanzhong, recuperate for a few years, after a few years, the soldiers are full of food, and at that time, the Central Plains is a mess, as long as Xiangguo leads the elite soldiers out of the Wuguan Pass, Hangu Pass, then the world can be determined, and the great cause can be expected." โ
I have to say that although Li Ru's words are a bit subjective, they are still very reasonable, after all, the land of Guanzhong in the Eastern Han Dynasty can be described as a fertile field, and it is almost the same as Bashu, the country of abundance.
And not to mention, Guanzhong, in the whole world, can be described as an absolute easy to defend and difficult to attack place, and compared with the same easy to defend and difficult to attack Bashu, Guanzhong is not only easy to defend, but also for the forces that occupy Guanzhong, Guanzhong is also an easy place to attack, whether it is out of Tongguan to the north, to attack the northern land, or out of the letter Guguan, to attack the Central Plains, or out of Wuguan, to attack Nanyang, and then to attack Jingxiang, it is a hundred times easier than Bashu.
This is just the geographical advantage, if you add the people in Guanzhong, most of these are the descendants of the old Qin people more than hundreds of years ago, recruit them as soldiers, and train them strictly, then their combat power will inevitably be one of the best in the world.
In the ancient saying, the time, the location, the people, Guanzhong can be said to have monopolized two of them, it can be said that Dong Zhuo, who has such an imperial foundation as Guanzhong, as long as he is a little self-motivated, even if the Xiliang Army is a big injury at this time, it is still enough to make Dong Zhuo one of the powerful candidates for the world.