If you go to Huainan from Wu County, it is more convenient to go to Qu'a by land first, and then take a boat directly across the river. Along the way, there is a flat road and a wide river, which is convenient and fast, and it only takes three or four days to set foot on the land of Jiangbei.

However, Zhang Xiu and Zhou Yu still decided to return to Jiangbei by the same route as Danyang County, although the road was rugged and time-consuming, but in Zhang Xiu's opinion, it was very necessary.

Because Tai Shi Ci hasn't recruited it yet!

Zhang Xiu did not hide the idea of wanting to recruit Tai Shici from Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu's own attitude was also extremely favorable.

After Liu Xuan was defeated by Sun Ce, he retreated to Yuzhang County, which was quite far away from Wu County. Tai Shici, who guarded him to escape, refused to go with him and stayed in the mountainous area west of Danyang. Gather the stragglers who were defeated by Sun Ce and occupy Jing County, and then use the name of Liu Xiang's Yangzhou assassin to make himself Danyang Taishou. With Jing County as the base, the army opened the government, and even contacted Shanyue, Zu Xun and other forces to fight against Sun Ce.

To be honest, the Jingxian area is not rich, and the strategic location is not very important, but it is the biggest obstacle to Sun Ce's current annexation of Jiangnan. If Sun Ce wanted to take Yuzhang County, which was relatively large and had a lot of grain, he first had to capture Danyang County in the middle. Otherwise, you must go around Huiji County in a big circle before you can come to Yuzhang.

Therefore, Tai Shi Ci also picked a good place to occupy the territory, and chose the traffic artery of Jing County to disgust Sun Ce. And according to the current relationship between Sun Ce and Liu Xuan's forces and Tai Shici, it is necessary to fight one by one.

So Zhou Yu hoped that Zhang Xiu would be able to take over Tai Shi Ci, as long as Tai Shi Ci obeyed Zhang Xiu, then Danyang County would be stable. Then, according to the covenant between Zhang Xiu and Sun Ce, Zhang Xiu would let Yuan Yin let go of the right of way in Danyang County to ensure the normal passage of Sun Ce's army, so as to facilitate Sun Ce's conquest of Yuzhang, Jiangxia and other counties.

can add a tiger general to the force he is currently working for, and can indirectly express his sincere gratitude to his eldest brother Sun Ce, what reason does Zhou Yu have to refuse to go through the mountain road again?

But to Zhou Yu's surprise, Zhang Xiu's process of recruiting Tai Shici was too simple. From Zhou Yu's point of view, Zhang Xiu just rode a horse alone, entered Jing County once, didn't even bring any gifts, and brought Tai Shici back when he came back.

Although Zhang Xiu really rode to the banquet alone this time, the danger was quite low, and it was not even as risky as Zhang Xiu and Zhou Yu riding to Wu County for more than 30 a few days ago!

Because there is no hostile relationship between Zhang Xiu and Tai Shici. However, there is a delicate relationship between Zhang Xiu and Sun Ce because of the parallel princes and adjacent territories.

Even though the territory that Tai Shici now occupies originally belonged to Zhang Xiu. But no one will say it. Because Zhang Xiu's control of Danyang has always been nominal, Zhang Xiu actually has no control over Danyang.

Because Zhang Xiu never sent a single soldier to be stationed in Danyang. The implementation of Huainan's planned economic policy was in full swing, and the intensity was so great that the powerful landlords of the big families were purged by iron and blood when they were slightly dissatisfied, but Danyang County was unusually calm, and each family should do what they should do, they should eat and play, and even quite a lot of rural landlords had not heard of Jiangbei's grain planned economy!

Zhang Xiu himself is actually very clear about this situation of two worlds. After replacing Yuan Shu as the king of Huainan, Zhang Xiu's mind actually wanted to go north to the Huai River and compete with Cao Cao and Lu Bu to achieve the cause of kingship in the Central Plains. But I have to say that I was still not mature enough during that period, I didn't have the courage, and I was too ambitious.

No guts! Yes, Huainan is experiencing a drought and food shortage, but this should not be a reason for you to watch Cao Cao's conquest of Xuzhou. At this time, you should have turned natural disasters and man-made disasters into motivation opportunities, and moved forward bravely without hesitation to directly attack Xuchang. Even though your 200,000 troops at that time were a rabble, the once-in-a-century famine and drought could be turned into a cohesive force for the whole army.

Ambitious! Yes, you snatched the essence of the Lu Bu Group from Cao Cao's mouth through some beautiful means, but you naively thought that with the joining of Chen Gong, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others, you would be able to wrestle with Cao Cao! You didn't subdue the hearts of these people, let alone see their strengths and abilities, so you wanted to rely on them to defeat Cao Mengde, who had been fighting in the Central Plains for several years and became a hob meat-like existence.

When the dream of triumphant progress was shattered, Zhang Xiu finally opened her eyes, raised her hand to touch her heart, and asked herself where to go?

When Gao Yuanyuan's gaze finally withdrew from the Central Plains, Zhang Xiu put his eyes on the parallel line and placed it in the south of the Yangtze River.

Fortunately, it's not too late to make amends!

Danyang County gradually distanced himself from his usual neglect. When Yuan Shu accepted the surrender of the remnants of the Yuan family after his death, Danyang County was still intact, and Zhang Xiu, in order to appease Yuan Yao and Yuan Shu's relatives who surrendered to Chengcheng, retained Yuan Yin, the Taishou of Danyang appointed by Yuan Shu - in fact, Zhang Xiu did not reassure Danyang at that time. Until now, because there is no military and political support from Huainan, Yuan Yin, who is actually a foreigner, is actually an empty name of Taishou, and not many people are willing to deal with such a so-called Taishou who lost power first and is now not taken seriously.

As a result, this led to Tai Shici being able to easily rely on some remnants of the defeated army to occupy important places and garrison troops to open the mansion. It can also explain why the thief Zu Xun is getting bigger and bigger!

Even now, although Zhang Xiu doesn't say it, Sun Ce doesn't say it, and Yuan Yin doesn't say it, in fact, most of the counties east of Xuancheng respect Sun Ce's orders. In fact, Danyang is too guarded by Yuan Yin, and the government and military orders can't go out of the county to govern Xuancheng at all now!

Although everyone knows that it is almost broken, no one has pierced the fig paper first. Tai Shi Ci was thinking about how to block Sun Ce, and he didn't want to have a stalemate with Zhang Xiu, who nominally governed Danyang County, Sun Ce wanted to eat both Danyang County and the entire Jiangnan. So the two interests take the heavier, or befriend Zhang Xiu first according to the south of the Yangtze River. Anyway, Danyang can't run there, and he has to eat it in his mouth sooner or later.

And Yuan Yin's power in Danyang is the weakest, so naturally he just wants to maintain the status quo and doesn't dare to have any other ideas.

But these will be because of the change of Zhang Xiu's strategic direction, and earth-shaking changes are about to occur!

For example, now, Zhang Xiushan rode into Jing County, and persuaded Tai Shici to submit to him in an hour!

Of course, no one knows the content of Zhang Xiu's persuasion of Tai Shici. Outsiders can only see that after Zhang Xiu and Tai Shici talked, Zhang Xiu seemed to be more confident, and his confidence in his expression increased. But Tai Shici is a pair of strong arms hanging down, slightly helpless and sad; But the fists were clenched, as if a bloody courage was about to explode; Walking behind Zhang Xiu and looking at Zhang Xiu's back, a pair of ape eyes were filled with a complex and indescribable emotion.

On the same day, Tai Shici followed Zhang Xiu to find another major scourge in Danyang County, the giant thief known as the handsome man of Jing County - Zu Yan!

The process of recruiting Zu Hao seems to be more complicated, because the sound of Zu Xun selling has not stopped since Zhang Xiu entered the middle tent!

"I said, I'm also a county lieutenant, and there aren't many armor of 5,000, right?"

"War horses must have this! If you want me to show you my mounts, they are all lame, and I am reluctant to kill them and eat meat. If there are no horses, I will have to ride a bull to fight when I go out in the future! ”

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In the morning, Zhang Xiu entered Jing County, and at noon, Tai Shici took Zhang Xiu to find Zu Xian, who was making a tooth sacrifice near Jing County, but he talked with Zu Xian until the evening finally finalized the matter.

At the end of the conversation with Zu Xun, Zhang Xiu's self-confidence in front of Tai Shici disappeared, replaced by slow tiredness, and a slow relief. And Zu Xun himself was extremely excited, looking heroic, and there was an inexplicable fierce light flashing in his eyes from time to time.

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Zhang Xiu didn't say anything about the conversation and conditions for recruiting Tai Shici and Zu Ying, but Zhou Yu was a smart person, so he naturally wouldn't ask.

As everyone knows, at this moment, Zhang Xiu is using the psychological knowledge he learned in his later life, taking advantage of Zhou Yu's self-righteous "being shrewd", and giving Zhou Yu a vivid realistic education lesson of "being smart but being mistaken by being smart" in the near future!

Of course, it's all for later, so let's not mention it for the time being.

Another month passed, that is, more than two months after Zhang Xiu left Shouchun, she finally returned to the first city in Huainan - Shouchun.

During this period, the former marshal of Jing County, Zu Xun, changed his flag and announced that he would return to Zhang Xiu. He also led his subordinates to Xuancheng to accept Zhang Xiu's appointment as the governor of his county.

Compared with Zu Ying, who became the military chief of Danyang County who was nominally second only to Yuan Yin, Tai Shici, who claimed to be the Taishou of Danyang, became Zhang Xiu's own personal general, and he was always inseparable behind Zhang Xiu, as if there was something worth precious on Zhang Xiu. The soldiers under his command were also collected by Yuan Yin, the Taishou of Danyang, and reorganized into Danyang County Soldiers.

After Zhang Xiu returned to Shouchun, trade resumed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and merchant ships from Huainan to Jiangdong and Guangling continued, but this inexplicable waterway blockade that lasted for several months has never had a reasonable explanation for the outside world.

Time into the middle of May 198 AD, that is, in May of the third year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was early summer, Huainan military and political reform has quietly come to an end, but the results are Zhang Xiu is very much looking forward to, especially Zhang Xiu presided over the drastic army reform, but also attracted the attention of other forces outside Huainan, Zhang Xiu's four major generals - Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Ji Ling, Zhang Xun, what ability can be so focused by Zhang Xiu and each appointed a military commander?

In order to test the effect of re-planning the distribution of generals in the army, Zhang Xiu decided to carry out a drill with military as the main content to check the strength of the generals and the armies!

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