During the Chu and Han dynasties, the strategist Kuai Che advised Han Xin to occupy Qi territory. His original words were "to divide the world and live with a tripod."

He has inherited the fine style of the old predecessors, and now he is also addicted to the temptation of the five relationships to win the world, and wants to achieve this situation.

But let alone the world, in the middle of the summer of the second year of Wude (26 AD), with the destruction of the Red Eyebrow, even the small Nanyang County had become a "triple-foot force".

General Cen Peng of Wei Pingnan was stationed in Wancheng, the capital of Nanyang County. For him, this city had too many memories and regrets. Cen Peng once guarded this place as a general of the New Dynasty. He persisted for half a year. In the end, Yan You committed suicide without any rescue outside, and Cen Peng was captured by Liu Bosheng.

Now Cen Peng has recovered Wancheng, but in the battle with the Red Eyebrow Remnant Party, a fire broke out in the city. After the remaining enemies were cleared, the city was almost burned down, and the three armies could only move to the surrounding wealthy manors to live. There were countless owners in these places. Chi Mei implemented a thorough policy of fighting against local tyrants in Nanyang, which led to the disappearance of the former tycoons throughout Wancheng, which saved Cen Peng a lot of trouble.

However, the destruction of Wanye land also made it impossible for the Wei army to collect grain on the spot, and every step they took had to rely on the rear to replenish supplies. Therefore, Cen Peng did not rush to advance, and currently only controlled half of Nanyang County.

On this day, Cen Peng and his subordinates stood in front of the map and discussed the military strategy.

"Gongsun Shu, a family, coveted Nanyang for a long time. In the spring, the red eyebrows were defeated. Gongsun sent a side general Jia Fu to leave Yun (yún) Pass, travel along the northern foot of Wudang Mountain, occupy Wudang County, and conquered Zhuyang County, facing me across the Han River."

"Tsai Bo, do you know Jia Fu?"

Cen Peng called an official who was serving by his side, but Yin Lihua's brother Yin Shi. He was originally a minister of the green man Liu Xuan and belonged to the Liu Xiu brothers' party. However, when the Red Eyebrow entered Nanyang, he chose to surrender to Wei State in the north and surrender to Cen Peng.

More than a year has passed, Yin Shi was familiar with the situation in Nanyang and was referred to as a close confidant by Cen Peng and recommended to the emperor that Yin Shi would be the acting county magistrate of Nanyang so that he could attract the heroes of Nanyang to join him.

Yin Shiyingnuo: "I met you once when I was under Liu Bosheng's command."

"I heard that Jia Fu is quite young, so I know the "Shangshu". At the end of the Xin Dynasty, he became a county official and went to Hedong to return to Yannan. On the way, he encountered thieves and his colleagues fled. Only Jia Fu left his sword and fought with the thieves. After a day, he returned safely. He only said that he would fight ten people with one and kill three people with his hands. The rest of the thieves fled, and thus received praise from the whole county."

"Jia Fu saw that Xinmang was in chaos and the green forests rose in the south, so he gathered hundreds of people to respond, claiming to be a general, gathering in Wudang Mountain. Later, he was recruited by Bosheng and followed Liu Jia, a member of the Chongling tribe, to enter Hanzhong. Later, he heard that Bosheng died in battle, and was disheartened, so he surrendered Gongsun Shu with Liu Jia and became a general of Shu."

Although Cen Peng is also from Nanyang, he only heard of Jia Fu's reputation. When he surrendered to Liu Bosheng, he had already gone to the west, so he had never seen him: "I heard that this person is good at fighting, is it really like this?"

Yin Shi said: "Bosheng said that Jia Junwen has the power to win over thousands of miles! It is mostly his contribution to the Green Forest who can easily defeat Hanzhong."

Cen Peng only smiled at his left and right and said, "No wonder there are rumors from Guanzhong that even His Majesty's beloved general Wu Han almost suffered from Jia Fu's losses in Longxi. The fact that the Shu army's partial army could retreat calmly is all Jia Fu's achievements."

He sighed again: "I just finished the war in Longdi last year and was transferred to the south again. I really don't know if I should praise Gongsun Shu for being able to use people, or laugh at the lack of generals in Shu?"

After saying that, Cen Peng pointed to the southern part of Nanyang again and said, "Gongsun Shu sent Zhou Shi to advance east last year, but was defeated by Qin Feng, King Li of Chu. Although Chu was small, he was still stubborn than Jingzhou. He was busy guarding against starting a family, but was taken away by Liu Xiu's generals in Jingnan Changsha."

But the State of Chu also won Jiangxia County with its color. Now it spans the Yangtze River and lives in the core area of ​​Chu, and has not missed the collapse of the Red Eyebrow.

"Deng Feng, the general of Chu State, was originally a great surname in Nanyang, and now he led his troops to occupy ten counties south of Xinye."

Hearing this, Yin Shi showed shame. He was also a new savage. Cen Peng ordered him to go to the south to send an edict to the powerful who returned home to join Wei. However, even with the powerful Wei State, Yin Shi's call was still not as good as Deng Fengda, and there were only few responders.

"Deng Fengxian was so famous in Nanyang that he even surpassed the Liu Xiu brothers. When the red eyebrows entered Wan, everyone left, but Deng Feng insisted on sticking to Xinye and saved most of the Nanyang clans." Yin Shi could not forget the situation when everyone parted ways in Xinye. The Nanyang tyrants who once supported the Green Han regime were divided into three and went their separate ways.

"Deng Feng is indeed a good general." Cen Peng had heard of the story of Deng Feng's "defeat" Dou Rong on the other side of Fenglingdu a few years ago. Although the Wei generals like to mock Dou Rong for his poor fighting based on this, it also proved that Deng Feng was absolutely extraordinary.

"But such a good talent is willing to serve in the mere state of Chu?" In Cen Peng's view, the situation in the world is quite clear. Wei occupies half of the mountains and rivers, followed by Wu and Shu. As for King Zhang Bu of Qi, King Li of Chu, etc., they are just small forces that survive in the cracks. Can they hold Deng Feng, the general?

Yin Shi understood Cen Peng's intention and said, "Deng Feng was not loyal to Liu Xuan in the past, but now he must not be loyal to King Li of Chu. He is only loyal to Nanyang!"

"A good hero who loves the countryside."

Cen Peng sighed: "It's a coincidence. His Majesty the Emperor of Wei wants to govern Nanyang with people from Nanyang. Isn't I also a native of Nanyang? Zi Bo, Deng Feng and Jia Fu have both had the same reason. I hope I can go to communicate with each other and do not break the relationship between the past."

Yin Shi suddenly realized that Cen Peng was a general with both wisdom and courage, and he used both hard and soft troops.

But it would be fine for Jia Fu. As for Deng Feng, this person was asking for a marriage from the Yin family, and was still ahead of Liu Xiuzhi. Yin Shi felt that it seemed better for him and the Yin family to be their masters...

Although Yin Shi was quite humble and even a little timid in front of Cen Peng, he had high expectations for the future of his family. The Yin family lost too much in the Xinmo chaos, which caused Yin Shi's temperament to change greatly. He believed that only enough generous rewards could be worthy of the sacrifices of his parents and clans.

Cen Peng's eyes fell to the southeast of the map: "The Han army stationed in the Minghe Sanshi still has no momentum to advance westward?"

This is quite strange. As the western border of Wu and Han, Minghe Sanshu also gathered a large number of Nanyang powerful men who avoided the Red Eyebrow Rebellion. Logically speaking, when these people saw that the Red Eyebrow was defeated by the Wei army, they should be happy to return home to retaliate. Why are they so restrained?

"I'm afraid that it wasn't for Liu Xiu's order that the Han army would not have a soldier and a soldier crossed Tongbai Mountain."

As far as Cen Peng knows, the Han army had few mobile forces, and one was divided into two, half followed Liu Xiu in Huaibei, the other half followed Feng Yi, and Deng Yu in Jingnan. If the Han army could not bear it and divided the troops to fight for Nanyang, it would make the other fronts even more empty, and instead gave the Wei army in the Central Plains a chance.

Cen Peng praised this attitude. As a wanderer who has been away for a long time, he knew this feeling very well. Nanyang people valued the hometown, and the devastated hometown, and the tomb of his ancestors was right in front of him, but he could not be suppressed, which shows that Liu Xiu was not blinded by victory.

He is worthy of being admired and favored by Emperor Wei!

Cen Peng remembered that before the New Dynasty was destroyed, the fifth reunion was far away in Wei County, but he had sent letters several times, hoping that Cen Peng would try to get Liu Xiu to the north, but unfortunately Cen Peng was unable to take action, so Liu Xiu ran away.

He thought again: "Your Majesty's opponent is Liu Xiu, Gongsun Shu, and my opponent is Jia Fu and Deng Feng."

"I must report to the emperor to explain this matter. Jia Fu and Deng Feng must promise two thousand stones to recruit the general. If they succeed, they will not only be able to defeat the enemy without fighting, but also allow Wei to capture the general again!"

The factional struggles between the generals of the Wei State were already obvious, but Cen Peng was not jealous of talented people. After entering Nanyang, he recommended a large number of talents to the fifth reunion in one breath. He was indeed a good person in dealing with people.

The fifth reunion will not treat this beloved general who is focused on cultivating it, and let honest people suffer losses. The king and his ministers are all thinking about it. It was not long before Cen Peng's memorial was sent away, but the imperial edict from Chang'an arrived first!

"At the time, according to Your Majesty's edict, in addition to cavalry, chariots, guards, front, back, left and right generals, four battles and four town generals are also given the important title, and four Pings are given the miscellaneous title."

"The imperial edict said: General Cen Peng, the General of Pinglin, has been appointed as Fang Yu since the first year of Wude, and the enemy of Shu in the west was in Ziwu. The Red Eye in the Nanping area entered Wanye. He had the achievements of Suiyu and offered prisoners and awarded him a title, and his merits were significant. He appointed Peng as General Zhennan, governor of Nanyang and Runan military affairs. All the affairs of the south were paid to the general!"

When the imperial edict was issued, Cen Peng's confidants were overjoyed. Cen Peng was too late to submit to the fifth reunion, and often as a left-behind general, he failed to catch up with any major battle. The most outstanding victory was the great victory on Ziwu Road.

Wu Han, who was used as a sharp knife by the Fifth Reun, was already the latter general and ran to Cen Peng.

Now, Cen Peng has finally achieved enough qualifications and military achievements. With the restructuring, he has gone from a miscellaneous number to a heavy number general. Although he is still the last place, this also means that he is qualified to open the door and his subordinates' future is much brighter.

Only Yin Shi, while he was happy, heard something different.

"Why is the general's name Zhennan, not Zhengnan?"

"I'm afraid it's not just to inspire General Cen to make great contributions in the future, but it has a deep meaning..."

The difference between one word is very clear, and Yin consciousness guesses the purpose of the fifth relationship:

The south is not the main attack direction of the Wei army in the future. There is no big battle to fight in the front line of Runan, Nanyang!

...

"The peaches must be eaten one by one, first, then west, and next year we will concentrate our efforts to solve Qingzhou. As for Jingzhou, Cen Peng guards Wancheng and slowly resumes production. We will keep it in the south for Gongsun Shu and Liu Xiu to fight! It will also save them from joining forces early to fight against Wei, and to fight against the two weak and one strong."

In the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an, the fifth reunion was explaining the future strategy to several nine ministers and generals, and said:

"If Feng Jingtong could really convince Gongsun Shu to kill Fang Wang, not only could he be the enemy to plot against the leader, but also made Wei Xiang feel nervous. Today, Gongsun Shu could turn against Fang Wang, will he kill him tomorrow? Although he seized Liangzhou, Wei Xiang did not want to fight for the world. I even had some old friendship with him, why bother to live and die?"

The fifth relationship is also shameless. I took advantage of it, of course I said so.

When the tutoring ends today, the old teacher Zhang Zhan will also join Fengchang Wang Long, the prime minister of the supervisory agency Huang Chang, and the chief censor Xuan Bing, the four of them entered the interior with a serious expression and reported to the fifth reunion the summary of the report from various places.

"Your Majesty, the referendum result is out!"

In this fake democracy, the fifth reunification only chose a few places where the people were qualified to organize the people to throw themselves into the trunk. In addition to the Wei army and the Red Eyebrow captives, there were also Chang'an, Luoyang, Wugong County, Youfufeng, and Yuancheng County in Weijun. Among them, Wugong and Yuancheng are the fiefdom of Wang Mang and the ancestral land, which is equivalent to the fifth reunification of water to block the world's mouth. If even the people in these two places hope that Wang Mang will die, God will not be able to save him.

From March to May, a total of nearly one million people participated in the tiles - the numbers on paper, the real "votes" are probably less than half, and one-third is good.

Of course, when the report came, it was enough.

As a result, only a part of the Red Eyebrow Army thought of the benefits of being "Tian Weng", and the rest wanted Wang Mang to die, so the number of people threw it to the left was as high as 95%!

As a supervisory agency, Prime Minister Huang Chang vowed to ensure that the process of casting the Watts was fair, just and open, and there was no official at all, and the army forced the people to cast Wang Mang's death.

However, Xuan Bing, the chief censor of the gentleman, said that in some places, there are people following the crowd, or the number of people is insufficient, and half of them cannot be collected. The clan will submit to him, and then report hundreds or thousands of names afterwards...

However, these flaws were considered "injustice" by Fengchang Wang Long.

The fifth relationship doesn’t matter, it’s fake democracy. Just think about it and just act like it.

After reading these numbers, he only sighed to the sky.

"That's how people are."

"God's will!"

Wang Long and Huang Chang both bowed and praised him: "Your Majesty is punished in the present day, and he will punish a man with a reckless man!"

The two were happy. In this way, the fifth republic kidnapped public opinion and completely solved the trouble and embarrassment of executing the old master. It completely represented the will of heaven and the people, and there was no need to be deemed to the world.

Xuan Bingmo refused to speak, but he also felt that Wang Mang deserved to die.

However, the Grand Tutor Zhang Zhan couldn't bear it. He was an old minister of the previous dynasty and an active participant in the reform of Wang Mang. He knew that Wang Mang's "original intention" was not bad. Although he is now a veteran of the Wei Dynasty, Zhang Zhan still had some sympathy for the old emperor.

In addition, his relationship with the fifth relationship was different. He used to be the master, but now he is the Grand Tutor, so he gritted his teeth and suggested:

"His Majesty."

"Xia Jie was not virtuous and injured the people, criticized the heavens and ghosts, and was extremely tyrannical. At that time, the people were living in poverty, and they all said, "I will die together, and I will die together."

"However, even though Jie had such a great evil, after the Cheng Tang Revolution, he only exiled Jie of Xia to the Nanchao, leaving behind a famous name for all eternity."

At this point, the meaning was very clear. For a moment, Wang Long glanced at Huang Chang and Xuan Bing listened intently.

And the fifth reunion has restrained his expression and cannot tell his joy or anger.

Zhang Zhan, who has been a good man for life, looked at the fifth reunion and said with anticipation: "Now, although Wang Mang's evil is equal to Jie and Zhou, his majesty's kindness is far more than that of Tang and Wu."
Chapter completed!