Chapter 135

Gu Yi also let the three of them get what they wanted, just as agreed before.

Zhang Song was arranged to work in the Secretariat and became Li Ru's deputy.

With his ability to remember everything he saw, he was handy in administrative matters.

The last two remaining were Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu.

Because Zhang Lu married his sister Zhang Mei to Gu Yi, he was considered half a relative, so naturally, he could not be arranged without any official position.

On Gu Yi's suggestion.

Zhang Lu was appointed as "Grand Historian."

The Grand Historian of the Han dynasty was responsible for astronomy and calendar calculation.

Commonly known as fortune-telling.

In other words, Zhang Lu became the "Celestial Master Zhang" in the true sense.

In the future, he would be responsible for things like fortune-telling.

As for military and administrative matters, Celestial Master Zhang would not have any say.

The nature of Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu was different.

Because he was not a relative, and he did not have any special skills.

Gu Yi simply did not enfeoff him with an official position, but stuffed him with a title.

For the rest of his life, he would live as a wealthy man in Chang'an.

However, this could be considered a good ending for Liu Zhang.

He was not the kind of ambitious warlord who hoped to dominate the world.

Being a wealthy man, at least he would not have to worry about food and drink.

He could also have plenty of time to cultivate his sentiments and stay away from worldly disputes.

……

After arranging these trivial matters.

Gu Yi gave himself a vacation and took several beautiful concubines to travel around Chang'an.

After a full half-month, he returned to the city again.

And on the second day after returning to the city.

Gu Yi received news from the Guandong side.

Cao Cao and Tao Qian fought fiercely not long ago because of the death of Cao Song.

Chen Gong, Zhang Miao, and others took advantage of Cao Cao's absence from Yanzhou to launch a rebellion.

But because of Gu Yi's butterfly effect.

Lu Bu was still staying well in Chang'an, so naturally, he would not interfere with the rebellion launched by Chen Gong and Zhang Miao.

Therefore.

Chen Gong and Zhang Miao were soon defeated by Cao Cao, who returned to Yanzhou after withdrawing troops from Xuzhou.

Zhang Miao died, and Chen Gong fled in defeat.

Afterward, Cao Cao originally wanted to fight Tao Qian again.

But under the persuasion of Xun Chen, a strategist under Yuan Shao, he decided to stop the war with Tao Qian.

Because Tao Qian had been scared by Cao Cao in the previous war.

In the end, Tao Qian decided to sign this ceasefire agreement at the cost of ceding a county and paying Cao Cao grain and equipment.

Meanwhile.

The three Liu Bei brothers, who should have appeared on the Xuzhou battlefield, had disappeared!

It is said that after these three helped Kong Rong in Beihai, they took more than a thousand people south, not knowing where they went.

Gu Yi suspected that Liu Bei was very likely to have gone to Huainan.

After all.

The power of this guy Yuan Shu was much weaker than in history under the blows of Sun Jian and Sun Ce.

His territory was currently mostly in Yuzhou, with only a small part spreading to Huainan.

In other words.

The large area of fertile land in Huainan was still ownerless at this time.

With the ability of that guy Liu Bei to find gaps, it was also very possible to set his sights on Huainan.

And meanwhile.

In the Hebei region, the war between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan was also reported by the scouts of Dong Zhuo's army.

The two sides did not know why, but suddenly withdrew their troops.

Yuan Shao even gave up several cities that he had originally captured!

You know.

The relationship between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan had basically reached the point of life and death.

Three thousand White Horse Followers were all buried in the hands of the Vanguard Death Soldiers in the Battle of Jieqiao.

As a result, these two sides suddenly made such moves, which was really unusual.

Linking this to the reason why Cao Cao and Tao Qian suddenly stopped the war, a conjecture faintly emerged in Gu Yi's heart.

This group of Guandong warlords was very likely to form a coalition again in the near future!

Although.

After the Guandong warlords went through the big fish eating small fish mode, the strength of the remaining people had grown much more than before.

But correspondingly.

The strength of Dong Zhuo's army was also stronger than before!

Moreover, the factional contradictions within Dong Zhuo's army had basically been resolved.

Even if the Guandong warlords came to commit crimes again, they would not get any benefits.

"Hehe, but since this group of guys wants to form a coalition again,"

"I might as well have a hand in it."

A poisonous strategy was born in Gu Yi's heart that could not only make this group of coalition forces a mess but also strike the Guandong aristocratic families behind them!

Coalition, coalition.

As the name suggests, it is a group of weak people uniting to attack the strong.

As long as it is a coalition, the hearts cannot be united.

Not to mention the coalition established by a combination of warlords like Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, Cao Cao, and Tao Qian, who were all harboring evil intentions.

……

Huainan

In Shouchun City

Standing on the city tower and looking at this city that already completely belonged to him, Liu Bei was filled with emotion.

Because of Gu Yi's various butterfly effects, the original history deviated.

In the original history, after Liu Bei rescued Kong Rong in Beihai, he should have gone south to help Tao Qian resist Cao Cao.

But this time, Liu Bei did not choose to do so.

Instead, he went around from the direction of Haixi County in Xuzhou.

Taking Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and more than a thousand elites he cheated from Gongsun Zan, he went straight into the hinterland of Huainan.

Yuan Shu and Sun Ce were fighting to the death in Yuzhou.

This resulted in Yuan Shu never being able to successfully expand his power to Huainan.

Huainan today.

There was no integrated big force occupying it.

Basically, only a group of mountain bandits and aristocratic families were kings here.

Liu Bei took the opportunity to drill a gap.

He had more than a thousand elites and the two, Guan and Zhang, in his hands.

On this land of Huainan, it could be said that he killed gods when gods blocked, and killed Buddhas when Buddhas blocked.

After a month of fighting.

The troops under Liu Bei had expanded from more than a thousand to more than ten thousand.

After revealing his identity as a member of the Han royal family.