Chapter 238

These words proved that Gu Yi did not treat him, Zhang Yongnian, as an outsider at all.

"Fulfilling the duties of a host at the gates of Chengdu City" also indicated that Gu Yi did not take Liu Zhang, this Yizhou Provincial Governor, seriously at all.

After all.

The banner of Gu Yi's southern expedition this time was precisely to crusade against the "rebel" Liu Zhang.

This concept is completely different from Liu Bei's entry into Sichuan in history.

Liu Bei entered Sichuan under the banner of helping Liu Zhang resist Zhang Lu.

As a result, he didn't fight Zhang Lu much, but turned around to deprive Liu Zhang of his foundation.

From a certain perspective, Liu Bei could be considered to have "betrayed" Liu Zhang.

And on Gu Yi's side, it was Liu Zhang who "betrayed" the Han imperial court.

If Liu Bei killed Liu Zhang, the morale of Yizhou would be unstable.

If Gu Yi killed Liu Zhang, Yizhou would not cause any turmoil because of this.

After all.

As long as Gu Yi controls this group of people with high political energy in Yizhou, such as Zhang Song, Wu Yi, Pang Xi, and Yan Yan, he can ensure the stability of Yizhou.

Liu Zhang, on the other hand, is the least important one among them.

Whether to kill Liu Zhang or not is entirely up to Gu Yi's thought.

Next.

The conversation between Gu Yi and Zhang Song went very smoothly.

On the surface, the two were talking about Liu Zhang's intention to surrender.

In reality, they were talking about the distribution of interests in Yizhou.

The Zhang family has great energy in Yizhou; Gu Yi cannot let the Zhang family continue to stay in Yizhou in its original form.

Therefore, Gu Yi intended to take Zhang Song and several direct descendants of the Zhang family back to Chang'an.

Regarding this, Zhang Song did not object.

The Zhang family can already be called the number one noble family in Yizhou.

Their focus next should be on the entire Guanzhi region.

However.

What Zhang Song did not know was.

Gu Yi, who came from a humble background, naturally understood what kind of tumor the noble families would form in the near future!

Therefore, Gu Yi could not allow such a behemoth as the noble families to continue to possess extremely high political energy.

After unifying the Guanzhi region.

Gu Yi intended to take a series of measures to sanction these noble families, gradually weakening their influence, and even destroying them completely!

Of course, this is not something that can be easily explained in a few words.

In the original history, it took thousands of years, and the problem of noble families could not be completely solved.

Let alone now?

However, because under Dong Zhuo's rule, the number of noble families is far less than in the Guandong region.

The difficulty of solving the big trouble of noble families will be relatively simpler because of this.

Suppose Gu Yi had defected under Yuan Shao or Cao Cao.

Want to solve the problem of noble families?

Heh, that is completely daydreaming!

From a certain perspective, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, and almost all the Guandong warlords, were themselves spokesmen for the noble families.

Eradicate the noble families?

That is digging up their own roots!

However.

Although Gu Yi had long since set the "ultimate goal" of wanting to reform the noble families in his heart.

But it was clearly impossible to say this out loud.

On the contrary.

He now still needs to use various ways of cheating and deceiving to coax these noble families!

Thus, Gu Yi spared no effort in painting grand pictures for Zhang Song.

Making him believe that following Dong Zhuo's army, the future is very bright!

Just like that.

Zhang Song returned to Chengdu from Fucheng in high spirits.

Liu Zhang waited expectantly and finally waited for the news brought back by Zhang Song.

Hearing that Gu Yi was willing to accept the surrender from Chengdu, Liu Zhang was extremely happy in his heart.

In this way, I believe it will be no problem for him to be a wealthy man in the future.

Little did he know.

Zhang Song did not take his life and death seriously at all.

In Zhang Song's view, whether Liu Zhang lives or dies is completely unimportant.

As long as the interests of the family can be guaranteed, everything is easy to talk about.

……

Seven days later

Gu Yi led tens of thousands of troops to the outskirts of Chengdu.

Liu Zhang personally led the civil and military officials of the whole city, as well as the official seal of the Yizhou Provincial Governor, standing under the city walls waiting for Gu Yi and the large army behind him.

Who knew, Gu Yi did not intend to pay attention to Liu Zhang at all.

Instead, he led the large army behind him into Chengdu on his own.

With Zhang Song as the leader, those Yizhou civil and military officials who had already been in contact with Gu Yi in secret hurriedly welcomed them with enthusiastic faces.

In the blink of an eye.

Only a few people like Huang Quan and Wang Lei remained by Liu Zhang's side.

Looking at the smiling Zhang Song.

As long as Liu Zhang is not a fool, he can realize that something is wrong at this moment.

However.

His life and death were already completely out of his control.

This fellow Zhang Song sold him out so thoroughly that not even a pair of underpants was left!

…….