The first half of the first year of Xingping (194 AD) finally stabilized, and the last few families were happy and a few were sad.

Li Dao opened the mansion as he wished, and he was better than the three dukes.

And Huangfu Song, who temporarily retreated to Wudu County, and Liu Yan, who was separated from Bashu and vainly the son of heaven, were seriously ill in a short period of time.

The former of these two people did not participate in the Xiliang raid on Chang'an a few months ago, and completely became bystanders and fell ill quietly. The latter used all his strength to damage his two sons and many soldiers and horses, and made him ruined and ill.

These two incidents caused a lot of shock when they reached Chang'an. Li Dao's side is once again silent in his invincible world, and he will definitely be intoxicated by the self-intoxication of his Zhongxing era.

He hyped up that those guys who tried to make trouble in vain all had no good results, what Liu Yan, Liu Yu, Huangfu Song, how majestic they were in person, it was not the end of it now.

That Ma Teng responded to the villain's poisonous plan, didn't he obediently beg for mercy in the end? As for the other groups of small people, it is not worth mentioning.

For a time, no one in the Chang'an bureaucracy dared to face its edge, and instead cooperated with Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and even Li Ru, secretly restricting Li Wei's development.

The situation in the east is even more lively.

Cao Cao slaughtered Xuzhou, so that Tao Qian had no power to fight back. However, Tian Kai and Liu Bei rushed to aid Tao Qian, especially the Yan Dynasty warriors under Liu Bei, although the number was small, but they were extremely brave, making it difficult for Cao Cao to act rashly.

Yuan Shu did not give up contacting all parties to besiege Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, he spent a lot of money to buy the powerful from all over the place, and attacked Cao Cao from different directions, among which Huang Shao and He Yi were the most powerful.

However, Yuan Shao had already formed an alliance with Liu Yan, and although the latter's Jingzhou soldiers were known for defending the country, there were also fierce generals like Huang Zu, who could take charge alone.

Yuan Shu couldn't pose a substantial threat to Cao Cao, but there was someone who could, and that was Lu Bu.

In the spring and summer of the first year of Xingping, Zhang Miao and Chen Gong, who originally belonged to Cao Cao, took Cao Cao's expedition to Xuzhou and secretly welcomed Lu Bu's arrival.

After careful preparations, Lu Bu led the army to take most of the counties and counties under Yanzhou in one fell swoop. Only the three counties of Juancheng, Fanxian, and Dong'e are still under the strategy and command of Xun Yu and Cheng Yu, and they have not been lost.

The battle of Cao Cao and Lü Bu Yanzhou, which is a heavyweight in history, broke out.

Although Tong Yuan knew the outcome of this battle, he had now reached a critical moment.

Yongzhou has laid a certain foundation, in addition to Jia Xu and Wang Yi, who served as the assassins of Yongzhou, and other leaders of the Hanyang branch of the Four Seas Merchant Gang, even the local scholars have expressed their welcome to Dong Bai and Tong Yuan.

Jiang Xu of the Jiang family, Zhao Ang of the Zhao family, Yin Feng of the Yin family, Yan Wen of the Yan family, and the well-known Dashi clan Ren and Liang families in the county also sent people to pay their respects.

However, Dong Bai did not have a good impression of them, these Hanyang County scholars usually formed marriages with each other, and their attitude towards the poor and the strong was not friendly. Now I will fall to this side, maybe I will fall to Ma Teng again next month, and I will make friends with Li Dao in a few months.

However, the well-known Yang family in the county did not send well-known children in the clan to visit, but only sent a housekeeper, saying that most of the children in the family were studying abroad, so they could not visit in person.

Tong Yuan knew through Wang Yi that there was a young talent in the Yang family named Yang Fu, who was quite talented and prestigious in the county.

Yang Fu, this is an excellent talent, although he has no intention of contacting or taking refuge, but when the right time comes, he will take out Hedong's set of substantial tax cuts, protect trade routes, and integrate interests, see how he reacts.

Tong Yuan definitely can't control the tax at present, but the trade route is an important weapon for him, for these scholars, if there is a business, they can enjoy preferential treatment in Xiayang, Hedong and the newly incorporated Zuo Fengyi counties.

In the future, the recovery of the Hetao will also require a large amount of grain and various types of equipment, and whichever is willing to provide sufficient supplies will be able to enjoy tax-free treatment in the areas to be recovered in the future.

In this way, the Jiang family, who ran to the north to trade, was very interested, and the Zhao family, who focused on the trade of Hanzhong, Wudu and Bashu, also had the idea of expanding the trade situation, but the two of them were only a minority in the county.

It doesn't matter, opportunities are always given to those who take the initiative to greet them, and he doesn't have to worry about not having enough caravan support, and the famous families in the east of the river are eager to expand their business on the other side of the river.

In his analysis, there are many similarities between the Hanyang Junshi clan and the Hedong Shi clan.

First of all, they are the kind of scholars who are more flexible and do business significantly. Pei, Wei, Jia, Liu and other families in Hedong control important resources such as salt, iron, and horses, and also have the advantage of Hedong's location, connecting Kanto and Guanzhong, and Bingzhou and Sili.

And on this day, most of the Shui Shi clan also ran a lot of business. The Wang family and the Jiang family mainly ran the business in the north, and the Zhao family and the Liang family went to the south. It can be said that each family is also at a crossroads.

Think of the low status of merchants in the early Han Dynasty, and the disdain of the smell of copper, which by this time had been greatly modified in some areas. It is estimated that the scholars in Yingchuan, Guanzhong, and Hebei may be more traditional. And the scholars in Hanoi, Xuzhou and other places should have changed to a great extent.

Then, the scholars of both places had a certain blood tie. The story of Jia Kui and Liu Fu in Hedong also wearing out to borrow pants, and there must be many others.

Zhao Ang and Wang Yi of Hanyang County were about to get married in Japan, but the Wang family suffered an accident, and now it is over. Others, such as the Jiang family, the Yang family, the Liang family, and the Yin family, also have certain in-laws with each other.

In addition, these nobles can be united. Unlike the Hongnong Yang clan and the Runan Yuan clan, they were not in a position that forced them to rely on more powerful people to a certain extent.

They had fallen to Dong Zhuo before, and they also had to cooperate with Bai Bojun, Han Sui, Ma Teng, etc. And he could completely replace them and make them have to rely on themselves. In the future, slowly change them for their own use, instead of being parasitized by them, a little bit anti-guest-oriented.

Now that the mind has been decided, Tong Yuan did not hesitate more, and after worshipping the Dong family and the corresponding subordinates, he returned to Xiayang with Dong Bai.

After the fighting in the spring ended, the influx of refugees continued.

Over the past few months, Zhang has accepted more than 10,000 people into Tuntian, and more than 50,000 people have temporarily reclaimed land in the northern part of the three counties. Nearly 20,000 people crossed the Yellow River and joined the tuntian fields in the counties east of the river.

According to the original plan, it is better for Xiayang, Haoyang and Yaxian to have a total of no more than 100,000 people in Tuntian, but now it has reached 80,000, and the remaining places are best reserved for the growth of the local population, and they are not ready to absorb more displaced people.

In the future, about five counties can be relocated to the north, but although the upper county is wide, the terrain is mostly ravines, and the natural environment is relatively fragile.

If large-scale wheat cultivation is carried out in a simple way, it is estimated that it will cause significant environmental damage, and the Yellow River will also be flooded frequently.