Chapter 37: Gu Yi: The current Han capital is like a chicken rib to our army!

The two chatted for a while longer.

Before long, Li Ru’s wife, Dong Yuan, walked over from the back hall.

She took "Miss Li" and left the main hall.

In the main hall, only Li Ru and Gu Yi, two grown men, remained.

After teaching Gu Yi some basic skills in handling government affairs,

Li Ru suddenly sighed long and said:

"Although the Guandong Coalition was defeated, the Guandong family group did not completely decline because of this."

"In the short term, they dare not form a coalition to oppose the Chancellor again."

"But if time drags on, I’m afraid the coalition will make a comeback."

Li Ru’s worry was not without reason.

The foundation of the Guandong family group was far from what Dong Zhuo could compare to.

This was also the important reason why the forces of various warlords could develop rapidly after the coalition disbanded historically.

Without exception, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, and others all received the full support of local families.

And what was the Xiliang Army doing at this time?

Ever since Dong Zhuo died, the development of the Xiliang Army could be described as going downhill.

The "Xiliang Army F4" engaged in internal strife.

Li Jue and Guo Si teamed up to kill Fan Chou.

Zhang Ji feared bringing disaster upon himself,

took a risk, and chose to lead part of his troops to attack Wancheng.

As a result, the city was not taken, and he himself died from a stray arrow.

By the Jian'an years, after Emperor Liu Xie was taken away by Cao Cao, the Xiliang Army lost this last great banner.

What made people sigh was that

from the beginning of the Xiliang Army entering the capital to its demise, exactly ten years passed.

The reason for the decline of the Xiliang Army, aside from the internal reasons of the Xiliang high command,

was more importantly because the help the Guandong family group brought to the warlords everywhere was too great!

When the development of the Xiliang Army entered a bottleneck period,

the large number of warlord forces in Guandong were developing rapidly!

And now,

defeating the Guandong Coalition could be considered a heavy blow to the development momentum of the various Guandong warlords.

But this blow was still not enough to destroy the Guandong family group behind them.

To eradicate the tumor of the Guandong family group, the road to travel was still long and dangerous.

This was also a problem that Li Ru had been worried about.

Families had already formed a prototype in the pre-Qin period.

Their prototypes could be traced back to the nobles of the Six States.

By the two Han dynasties, the era of families had completely arrived.

Any family member, even if he was a straw bag, could enter the court to be an official and hold important positions.

And by the Wei and Jin periods, the birth of the Nine-Rank System became a carnival for families!

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As of now.

the Guandong family group had completely fallen out with Dong Zhuo.

But under the powerful military pressure, the Guandong family group had no good way to deal with Dong Zhuo for the time being.

However, the potential of Guanxi, especially the Three Auxiliary regions, had basically been developed to the extreme.

Compared to the vast land of Guandong, it ultimately seemed to lack stamina.

It was fine in the short term; no one in Guandong could defeat Dong Zhuo.

But what about five years later?

Ten years later?

Twenty years later?

If Guandong were integrated and unified, a powerful force would surely be born.

At that time, if the Dong Zhuo army were defeated, everything would return to the original historical trajectory.

Regarding this, Li Ru seemed very worried.

"Master Wenyou, facing the current situation, perhaps we can consider moving the capital."

"Luoyang is ultimately a place of four battles, and there is no danger to defend nearby."

"The Lord’s foundation is in Guanxi; if we abandon Guanxi and place the focus on Luoyang, in the long run, it is not a good thing."

Gu Yi expressed his thoughts.

In fact,

the area where Luoyang was located was originally the core region of Guandong.

As the capital of the Han Dynasty, the influence of the Guandong family group in the Luoyang area could be said to be deep-rooted.

Historically, the reason Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Luoyang, aside from fearing the might of the Guandong Coalition,

was more to avoid its edge and move the political center to a region where he had greater influence.

Chang'an, as the former capital of the Western Han Dynasty, although it had declined in recent years,

was still a quite important core city.

To the east of Chang'an, there was Hangu Pass to defend.

To the west, there was Tong Pass to hold.

The surrounding circle was even surrounded by the Qinling Mountains.

From a geographical location, it could not be more superior.

By comparison,

although Luoyang was the capital of the Han Dynasty,

its location was on a protruding piece.

Surrounding it were the Guandong warlord forces tightly surrounding it.

To the north were Yuan Shao, Han Fu, Wang Kuang, and others.

To the east were Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Bao Xin, Zhang Miao, and others.

Dong Zhuo could not occupy these lands in the short term.

Even if occupied, under the resistance of the Guandong family group, it would only fall into endless rebellion.

Looking at it this way,

Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, had become a chicken rib in Dong Zhuo’s hands.

As the saying goes, "It is tasteless to eat, but a pity to discard."

What was different from history was that

now, because the Dong Zhuo army defeated the warlord coalition,

its might was even more powerful than in the original history.

But precisely because Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang, the surrounding warlords dared not engage in internal strife, but instead huddled together tightly.

In other words,

as long as Dong Zhuo and his main army were in Luoyang for one day, these guys would not dare to fall into internal strife because of fear of Dong Zhuo’s military edge.

This is like teaming up to fight a boss in a game.

If the boss is still there, the teammates will definitely cooperate to kill the boss first.

But if the boss dies, the internal problem of profit distribution is enough to make the original teammates fight each other!

……. ===== CHAPTER 79 =====