Garrisoned in the East China Sea was Zhao Zhi, the Taishou.

Zhao Zheng, Liu Zheng has a slight impression, but he remembers that he is the minister of Wu State, and during the Battle of Yiling, he replaced Sun Quan as an envoy to Cao Wei.

After all, Zhao Zheng's sense of existence in the Three Kingdoms period is really not high, many Later Three Kingdoms games, not even this character, the reason why Liu Zheng remembers such a number one person, is that he paid attention to the Battle of Yiling, this battle that determines the direction of the Three Kingdoms, he remembers that there is such a number one person.

However, if you calculate according to your age, that Zhao Shi is the current Taishou of the East China Sea, and it should be the same person.

Although Zhao Zhi is too guarded, but he is just a literati, and he is not good at marching and fighting, even if he relies on the city wall to defend, it is difficult to block Liu Zheng's army, relying on the four thousand soldiers and horses in the city, after doing a simple defense, he was defeated by the charge of the Wenpin army, and was quickly defeated and chose to surrender.

Liu Zheng did not kill Zhao Zheng, he wanted to recover Xuzhou, and to occupy Xuzhou, he had to buy people's hearts, these original Taishou county ministers, Liu Zheng also needed to take care of it, keep it, if he was willing to surrender, Liu Zheng was also willing to accept it.

Otherwise, Liu Zheng would not have so many people to govern these counties for the time being.

These people who can mix into the Taishou position are naturally not unknown people, either they have real talent and real learning, or they have a lot of money, and even have the support of a big family behind them, and few poor scholars can become Taishou.

No matter what aspect it is, it is necessary for Liu Zheng to ease the relationship with them, otherwise even if Xuzhou does not have Shi Taoqian, if Liu Zheng offends too many families, it will not be easy to completely control Xuzhou.

After conquering the county seat of Donghai County, Liu Zheng didn't pay too much attention to the towns in Donghai County, but just let Wen Ping and Zhou Tai's men and horses leave 2,000 garrisons to be responsible for defense after conquering the county seat of Donghai County, and then led the army to Xuzhou City.

At the same time, the soldiers and horses of Taishi Ci's troops who went north to Xuzhou from Xiapi City also came to Xuzhou outside the city at this time.

Compared with other places, although Xuzhou is a military place in Liu Zheng's eyes, Liu Zheng doesn't care, because the intelligence here is too clear for Liu Zheng.

If he wants to fight Xuzhou, it is simply a simple matter, he can do it at any time, when Liu Zheng annexed Wu County, one of the purposes was to prevent Liu Bei and others in Yanzhou, and there was another purpose, that is, to have the opportunity to attack Xuzhou at any time.

Because after the Mi family took refuge in Liu Zheng, their cooperation with Liu Zheng can be said to have reached the limit, and the intelligence work in Xuzhou is almost completely under Liu Zheng's control, which city has how many soldiers and horses, who are the generals stationed there, where he is from, where he lives, and even how many wives this person has, Liu Zheng is clear.

So he wants to fight Xuzhou, it is very easy, plus the Xuzhou Mi family, in Xuzhou, the increasingly powerful influence, but also for Liu Zheng in advance to win over a lot of families, so that although Liu Zheng did not directly take Xuzhou, but also has a deep influence in Xuzhou, many people from small families have directly chosen to take refuge in Liu Zheng in private.

Mi Fang, who returned to Xuzhou from Donglai a few days ago, had already received Liu Zheng's order.

Mi Fang knew that Liu Zheng's men and horses would soon come to Xuzhou to attack Xuzhou and include the entire Xuzhou into Liu Zheng's territory.

And not long ago, Liu Zheng had promised the Mi family that once Xuzhou City was laid, the position of Xuzhou Thorn Shi would be directly the head of the Mi family.

It is because of this that the Mi family naturally works harder on this matter.

The Mi family has always been business-oriented, and they also want to enter the official career, but with their Mi family's qualifications and status, at most, they are just officials such as individual ministers under the original assassin history, which is still in the financial strength of the Mi family.

The Mi family wants to get rid of other people's contempt and want to ascend to the sky directly, and it is difficult to become a position like Assassin. Whether it is from the family status of the Mi family, or from the strength of Mi Zhu's personal strength, it is unlikely.

Only by taking refuge in Liu Zheng and following Liu Zheng can he further rise and lead the Mi family to glory.

It is precisely because of this that when Liu Zheng chose to cooperate with the Mi family in the early days, the Mi family would cooperate with Liu Zheng, and gradually increased the intensity of cooperation with Liu Zheng in the process, resulting in the fact that he has now completely become a vassal of Liu Zheng.

But this is good, at least the Mi family has seen a glimmer of bright future, which Mi Zhu does not regret at all.

Two days later, outside the city of Xuzhou, outside the Mijia dock fort.

Liu Zheng had been here more than once, so he was no stranger to this place, when he arrived here with his own soldiers and horses. Mi Zhu, the head of the Mi family, and Mi Fang, the second master, had already been waiting outside the dock fort.

After all, Liu Zheng's identity is different now. Mi Zhu and Mi Fang also had to change their attitude towards Liu Zheng.

After seeing Liu Zheng, Mi Zhu respectfully greeted Liu Zheng.

"My lord, I've been waiting here for a long time."

"Mr. Mi, I've kept you waiting, let's go in."

Liu Zheng was not polite to Mi Zhu, and after a little greeting, he entered the dock under the leadership of Mi Zhu, and after a brief chat about the recent situation of the Mi family and some business matters, Liu Zheng led the topic to the focus.

The main thing he did this time was naturally to attack Xuzhou and seize Xuzhou City.

So Liu Zheng asked.

"Mr. Mi, Tao Qian has been killed in Qingzhou a few days ago, and all the soldiers and horses under my command have been wiped out by me, except for a small number of Tao Qian's people who fled to Liu Bei's men and still remain, the 50,000 troops that Tao Qian took away from Xuzhou before can no longer come back."

"Now we only need to break through Xuzhou City as soon as possible to control the entire Xuzhou in name, as long as we control Xuzhou, we will no longer be afraid of the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, and we will be equal to the imperial court in the future, and we will no longer be afraid."

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, Mi Zhu nodded, but he was already prepared in his heart, and Liu Zheng answered immediately after asking.

"What the adults are planning, the Mi family has been paying close attention to in the past two months, and now there are only 8,000 soldiers and horses left in Xuzhou City, and the person in charge of commanding these soldiers and horses is Tao Qian's son and the largest family in Xuzhou City, controlled by the Chen family."

"Although Tao Qian's son controls Xuzhou, it is actually the Chen family's father and son who are in control."