Liu Ye then began to explain the situation in Xuzhou to Liu Qi.

Tao Qian's current situation is different from Liu Biao.

When Liu Biao was the governor of Jingzhou, the Nanjun of Jingzhou was killed because of a big move by Sun Jian before Dong Zhuo's northern expedition. Guo Yong, the governor of Nanjun, abandoned his official position and fled. There was a political gap period and was controlled by the two bandits Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, who joined forces with local clans. It was because there was no tiger in the mountains and the monkeys called the king.

Liu Biao arrived in Jingzhou, and except for the clan, there was no Nanjun County magistrate to restrain him. Liu Biao responded very quickly. After he entered Nanjun, he immediately followed the "Six Countries Ask About Things". Before the court appointed a new county magistrate, he joined forces with Cai, Kuai and other tribes to seize military power and firmly grasped Nanjun. Therefore, in terms of political identity, no one in Nanjun could be compared with Liu Biao at that time.

But in fact, the governors and county magistrates of various states are actually very likely to cause friction due to the overlap of powers, which is also one of the reasons why the royal family of the Eastern Han Dynasty formulated the governor supervision system.

Those who become emperors want the governor and the county magistrate to fight back and forth between each other.

And this is actually the case in Xuzhou where Tao Qian is located.

Tao Qian is currently the governor of Xuzhou, not the governor of Xuzhou. In terms of administrative power, Tao Qian is not qualified to make the county magistrates and prime ministers of Xuzhou surrender to him. At most, he has the authority to supervise.

Xuzhou is a special place, with feudal countries everywhere.

Among them, the prime minister of Langya, the prime minister of Donghai, the prime minister of Donghai, the prime minister of Pengcheng, and the prime minister of Pei Yuan Zhong, and none of them are fuel-efficient. In terms of salary, these people's actual status is higher than Tao Qian.

Tao Qian is actually at a weak position in Xuzhou at a political level.

In addition, there are also many clans and gentry in Xuzhou, especially the Chen family in Xia Pi, which is a famous local family. Three generations of the clan have repeatedly appeared in county magistrates, and they are a high sect of two thousand stones for generations. Among the previous generations, a three-president Chen Qiu appeared, with a very famous reputation.

There is also a local powerful Mi family with a family capital of over 100 million yuan and a large number of affiliated households. It is a very rich man who monopolized most of the land and commercial roads of Donghai County. It is one of the few super rich people in the Han Dynasty who can rely on the economic power of a merchant and control the county's governance policies...

After Tao Qian entered Xuzhou, he had a headache facing these local big brothers.

When it comes to political status, he was not as good as the Prime Minister of the State, and his control over local scholars, he was not as good as Chen Gui, the head of the Chen family. In terms of financial resources, he was far inferior to the Mi family of Donghai.

Who in Xuzhou can convince an inspector who can't do anything?

But Tao Qian has been both a central and important official in the past few years and a commander of a border county. He can be said to be both civil and military. The Grand Marshal Zhang Wen dares to laugh at him as a banquet. How could Tao Qian give in to these local snakes in Xuzhou?

Financial resources, political power, and control over the gentry...Aren't I not as good as you in anything?

OK! That guy is hard with you!

Let's compare our military strength!

Do you know the elite soldiers of Danyang? I talk to you with my fists!

Tao Qian had been a border general, and he had no ability to command troops. He was also cruel and ruthless. After he arrived in Xuzhou, his first thing was to unite the desperate Taishan man Zang Ba of Xuzhou and his fellow villager Sun Guan to defeat the Yellow Turban thieves in Xuzhou. He expanded his power with his military achievements and established his military status in Xuzhou.

As soon as the Yellow Turban left, Tao Qian immediately submitted a letter to Zang Ba and Sun Guan as cavalry commanders, and asked them to lead troops to garrison in Kaiyang, northern Xuzhou.

From a military perspective, Zang Ba's garrison in Kaiyang did bring some constraints to Tao Qian, but the existence of his power poses the greatest threat to the Yinde of the National Prime Minister of Langya and Liu Kui of the National Prime Minister of the East China Sea.

Langya and Donghai Kingdom did not have enough strong troops to support the two sides to fight against Zang Ba, so they had to obey Tao Qian and let him do his orders.

There is only one reason, that is, among the soldiers of the county and state in Xuzhou, only the elite troops of Tao Qian, Danyang, are able to defeat the generals of Mount Tai head-on.

Due to the strong combat effectiveness of the Danyang elite soldiers, Tao Qian could almost crush any powerful force in Xuzhou with this army, and suppress the situation in the entire Xuzhou with his military power.

Danyang elite soldiers perform martial arts in three days and martial arts in five days.

Full of military deterrence.

Now all the prime ministers and gentry in Xuzhou have to look at Tao Qian's face... or the words of his Danyang soldiers.

But unfortunately, just using military force to suppress local gentry and powerful people will not play a long-term role, because the clans and powerful people in Xuzhou are only suppressed, not settled. As long as Tao Qian relaxes a little, they will immediately turn against each other.

After listening to Liu Ye's explanation, Liu Qi probably knew it.

What Liu Ye said is actually roughly consistent with the historical situation.

The Xuzhou tribes obeyed Tao Qian on the surface, but in fact they were not honest in private.

For example, Chen Gui and Chen Deng are extremely active in the outside world...

For example, the Mi brothers are too generous to the outside household Liu Bei...

Tao Qian himself was also rated as a estranged wise man, appointing villains, and arbitrarily voluntarily by the Book of Later Han and the Three Kingdoms.

As for the particularity of the current situation, there may be some secret operations of the Xuzhou gentry, revealing the wrong information to later generations.

In fact, the treacherous villain Cao Hong, appointed by Tao Qian, was just the main general who led the Danyang Army for him.

Later, in order to support Liu Bei to take office, Tao Qian directly gave Liu Bei four thousand Danyang elite soldiers. For Liu Bei, these four thousand Danyang elite soldiers were also his trump card for him to take charge of Xuzhou in the future.

It can be inferred that the Danyang elite soldier in Tao Qian's hand has brought great spiritual harm to the local tribes in Xuzhou.

...

After talking to Liu Ye, Liu Qi suddenly realized it.

He probably understood the true purpose of Tao Qian's troops to Danyang County.

He wasn't here to help Yuan Shu in the war!

He came here to recruit troops to continue to consolidate his rule in Xuzhou!

Danyang elite soldiers are his lifeline in Xuzhou. The more Danyang soldiers there are, the more stable Tao Qian will stay in Xuzhou!

So that's it.

Liu Qi narrowed his eyes and began to think secretly in his heart.

Through Tao Qian's incident, he seemed to have thought of something.

Tao Qian came to recruit Danyang soldiers... This may also help him.

Just as Liu Qi and Liu Ye were discussing, suddenly, a loud shout of killing came from outside the tent.

The sound quickly became louder and became more and more chaotic. At first it was just a faint sound, but soon it became a swaying crowd, and the shouts of killing became louder and louder.

Liu Qi suddenly stood up and frowned and said, "Someone robbed the camp!"

Liu Ye was also shocked when he heard this, but he quickly calmed down.

"Cha!"

With the sound of his body, Liu Ye pulled out the sword he carried with him, his face gloomy: "I would like to serve my life and help you."

Seeing Liu Ye showing such heroic spirit, Liu Qi's favorability towards him rose sharply.

"Don't worry, Ziyang, all the soldiers of our army sleep in different parts every day. When I was in Runan, I asked the soldiers to sleep in armor. Even if the army came to rob the camp, they would not have much to occupy!"

At this moment, Dian Wei lifted the curtain and hurriedly entered the tent.

"Mr. Tao Qian's army robbed the village at night!"

Liu Qi said calmly: "Have the soldiers ever got up?"

Dian Wei said affirmatively: "Zhang Sima, Wei Wenchang, Mancheng, Shamoke, Yangzhan Cenlang and others have led their troops to fight the enemy!"

Liu Qi was quite satisfied when he heard this.

"I will go to the battle myself!"

...

The sound of shouts and horns resounded throughout the camp of the Nanman Camp.

With the arrival of Tao Qian's army, the atmosphere in the camp suddenly became hot, like a pot of boiling water, boiling hot, and people shouted and neighed, making a ball of horses. The soldiers of the Southern Barbarian Camp who had just slept cursed and rushed out of the military tent and quickly gathered together to confront the enemy troops who came to attack.

Liu Qi, Dian Wei, and Liu Ye rushed out of the tent. He flew onto Luma and personally led his troops to the central army to take charge, commanding the soldiers of the three armies to defend the enemy at the gate of the camp.

When Liu Qi left the tent, the first thing that caught his eye was a red dot, which looked particularly eye-catching in the night.

Obviously, it should be the torch that the enemy lit outside the gate to burn its own fortifications.

This red dot moves very quickly, and it moves alternately back and forth outside the camp, sometimes tight and sometimes loose, which makes people a little dazzled.

Liu Qi sneered at the corner of his mouth.

"The order is that the enemies in the village have their own infantry to fight, but they only let the soldiers of the crossbow camp aim at the torchers outside the village and shoot hard!"

"Yes!" The commander quickly ran forward.

Liu Qi turned to look at Dian Wei and said, "June Dian, you go ahead and help defeat the enemy, don't worry about me."

Dian Wei hesitated: "The enemy, the enemy robbed the camp, and there may be someone who will come to attack the King of the Mansion..."

"Don't worry, what can the little kid under Tao Qian do to me? Just go there. If there is something wrong here, I will take it."

"Wi!" Dian Wei responded loudly, then held his halberd and held a shield, and rushed towards the front with great strides.

...

At this moment, the soldiers of the Nanbar Camp had already confronted each other with the elite Danyang soldiers in front of the front. The two armies were in the gate, and the front camp area in front of the tent was close contact, and they refused to give in to each other.

Although the sneak attack of the Danyang soldiers caught the Nanman Camp a little off guard, it was fortunate that Liu Qi had a good sense of defense in this regard, the Nanman Camp did not suffer any major losses at the moment.

The soldiers of the Nanman Camp organized the defensive formation as quickly as possible and counterattacked the Danyang elite soldiers.

After a period of battle, the entire Nanman Camp, from Zhang Ren, Wei Yan, Shamoke, to Bailixi, Xiang Danjiang, Yangzhan Cenlang... they all felt unprecedented pressure.

The opponent's soldiers are so capable!

The soldiers of Danyang were all strong in combat and very brave, almost fighting at the gate with the Jingman soldiers...

The soldiers of the Jingman were also very good at fighting because these soldiers were all from barbarians and traveled through mountains and rivers all year round. Due to the harsh environment, they developed a pair of iron-killing physiques that could adapt to various environments.

But the living environment experienced by the Jing barbarians in the south is the same for the elite soldiers of Danyang. The land of Danyang is also dangerous. Before joining the army, these people also crossed mountains and rivers for many years and had excellent physical fitness.
To be continued...