Cao Cao's generals, Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Brothers and others, have been a little irritable these days.

Their life is not as comfortable as Cao Cao's, with an independent courtyard to live in.

There are also little maidservants to accompany them, these generals basically live in prisons, although Liu Zheng did not restrict his freedom, but he could only walk around his room a day, and he was a little annoyed that he was also locked up.

They were already desperate, who knew that Liu Zheng would be able to let them out.

After knowing that Cao Cao had surrendered, they could only sigh and follow Cao Cao to determine this result.

Although they had some contempt for Liu Zheng in their hearts, they lost to Liu Zheng one after another, and the arrogance in their hearts was almost wiped out by Liu Zheng during this time.

So at the banquet, the Xiahou brothers also toasted Liu Zheng, compared to the Xiahou brothers, the most embarrassing one was Cao Ren.

At the beginning, Cao Ren was injured by an arrow to Liu Zheng, and almost took Liu Zheng's life.

Now that Cao Cao and Liu Zheng are out of arm, Cao Ren can only apologize to Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng is not that stingy person, not to mention the original incident, Liu Zheng has already regained face, naturally he will not embarrass Cao Ren, after a glass of wine, the two sides have already disappeared these grievances.

After a banquet, these people around Liu Zheng and Cao Cao became more acquainted, and the two sides were no strangers, and now they can sit down and have a good meal, and the relationship has become closer.

On the second day, Liu Zheng asked Yuan Zhou to prepare a boat and send Cao Cao and his party away.

Presumably, after Cao Cao arrived in Funan, the place where Funan's fart was bigger was enough for Cao Cao to toss.

Anyway, for the time being, Liu Zheng can't spare time to manage the affairs of Funan, so Cao Cao will manage some things in the frontier.

After absorbing some political measures from previous dynasties, Liu Zheng had a clear understanding of what kind of country he should establish.

From ancient times to the present, the policy of the empire is nothing more than two, central and local.

Needless to say, the stability of the localities is very important.

And the local government is nothing more than two policies, the county system and the sub-feudal system.

The more representative of the county system is the Qin and Han dynasties. The disadvantage of this system is that local officials are prone to rebellion.

For example, in the late Han Dynasty, the reason why it evolved into the turbulent era of the Three Kingdoms was precisely because the local forces gradually became stronger, so strong that the central imperial power was threatened.

The county system, as long as the military power of the local governor is controlled, is actually a very good system.

The Jin Dynasty absorbed and removed the drawbacks of the county system, and started the feudal system of the same surname, they were thinking, no matter who rebelled and seized the world in the end, it was still their own family's bloodline, at least this throne was still their own family.

But he never thought that after the infighting of the people in his family consumed his strength, he would cheapen others.

And the stupidest thing about the Jin Dynasty is that the local king can serve in the imperial court and have the right to speak in the central government, which can greatly curb the imperial power, and the rebellion of the eight kings will happen sooner or later.

Therefore, Liu Zheng felt that it was entirely possible to adopt the method of combining the county system with the sub-feudal system.

The county system must still be the main one, but the sub-feudal system must not be less.

It is very similar to the parallel system of the Han Dynasty.

The county was responsible for the management of the people, and the vassal states had military power, and at the same time set up the Jinyi Guard.

Separation.

In this way, local stability will be preserved.

As for the central power, the emperor alone has the final say, and it should be the cabinet system, designating the cabinet chief and auxiliary system like the Ming Dynasty, and electing the four strongest strategists to participate in the designation system, and the emperor only chooses the plan of the four of them.

In this way, even if the emperor does not go to court for decades, the country is still functioning.

Of course, the supremacy of the emperor is still there, but it is not some island countries, although the emperor is still the emperor, or even called the emperor, in fact, he is a mascot without any rights.

Liu Zheng's idea slowly took shape in his heart, and after he decided to become emperor, he would follow this situation.

On the third day of Cao Cao's departure from Wu County.

Jinyiwei, who Liu Zheng sent out to inquire about the news, had already sent him the news.

And it's very bad news.

Sure enough, the news sent back by Xu You from Youzhou was not groundless.

Yuan Shao and Lu Zhi have really reached an agreement.

Yuan Shao took the lead in sending troops, and three days ago he had already assembled an army of 70,000 and attacked Qingzhou from Jizhou.

When the news reached Liu Zheng's Wu County, several days had passed, presumably at this time, Yuan Shao's vanguard army had already arrived in Qingzhou and launched an attack on Qingzhou.

At that moment, Liu Zheng's side immediately mobilized.

Liu Zheng first ordered Xu Yu to go to Qingzhou to temporarily act as a strategist, cooperating with Zang Ba and Guan Hai and others to deal with Yuan Shao's attack, and at the same time, Liu Zheng himself was also ready to lead his men and horses to Qingzhou to support.

Among the three major battlefields, the Jingzhou battlefield does not need Liu Zheng to worry about, what Liu Zheng needs to worry about is Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

In order to prevent the flames of war from burning to Wu County, Liu Zheng could only take the initiative to go to Xuzhou and Qingzhou, so as to contain the eyes of Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao.

From Wu County to Qingzhou, the fastest way is to take a boat, it only takes a few days, if there is a war horse, it can also reach Qingzhou in a short time, but it is always uncomfortable to ride a horse, the bumps of the war horse, if it is a long time, the body will fall apart.

There are not so many troubles when taking a boat, at most there will be some sequelae of seasickness, but it will be good to rest for a while.

Because there were no troops to go over to support, Liu Zheng only asked Xu You to go over with a few thousand sailors, while he himself planned to go north from Xuzhou with the army of 20,000 Xu Huang who had already rushed from Jingzhou to Wu County.

With Xu Huang's 20,000 cavalry as support, Liu Zheng wanted to defeat Yuan Shao in a battle, and then end the battle when Lu Zhi's side couldn't react.

Let Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao know that he is very powerful.

Mid-May 190.

Yuan Shao raised troops in Yecheng and issued a message, calling Liu Zheng a thief, framing Liu Zheng for deliberately brewing a plague disaster, causing chaos in the world, and crusading against him.

raised 70,000 troops, went straight to Qingzhou, walked from Julu County to Pingyuanjun, and then directly began to attack Le'an County, Qingzhou.

Zang Ba, who was guarding Qingzhou, only received the news when Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses arrived in Le'an County, and he had no time to defend and could only give up Le'an County directly and retreat to Qi County.

When this news came, Zang Ba was extremely angry, and united with Liu Zheng's 20,000 horses of the Yellow Turban Army planted in Qingzhou, and began to engage Yuan Shao's army.

However, the men and horses under Yuan Shao's command are numerous, and there are elite soldiers and strong generals, just 20,000 vanguard troops, Zang Ba, who has already been defeated, has been defeated one after another, and the soldiers have been defeated.