Although Liu Bei did not withdraw from Nanyang, with the stabilization of Wancheng, with Liu Bei's current state, unless God helps, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to take Nanyang from Zhang Liao, who is full of soldiers.

Liu Bei himself obviously knows that this is unlikely, so at present, the focus is shifted to the relocation of the people, and the local people who can be reached are all driven by Liu Bei to the Hanshui area, Zhang Liao naturally can't watch Liu Bei take away the people under Nanyang, and the next battle between the two sides is almost all around the people, Zhang Liao, Wei Yan, and Cui Geng intercepted it in three ways, but Rao is so, south of Wancheng, there are still nearly 300,000 people taken away by Liu Bei.

When the news reached Suiyang, the war in the Central Plains had basically ended, Cao Cao retreated to Qingzhou, Chen Mo was revising the law during this time, and at the same time implementing the military tun in the Runan area, one could raise another army, and the other was to prevent Sun Ce from crossing the river to the north, although Shouchun was in the hands of Chen Mo, but Hefei was in the hands of Sun Ce, and the initiative in the battle fell into the hands of Sun Ce.

While consolidating the security of the Central Plains, Chen Mo also had to further restrict Cao Cao, and there were heavy troops in Langya, Taishan, and Pingyuan to limit Cao Cao's range of activities to Qingzhou, and maintain a state of being ready to attack at any time.

"This Liu Bei will choose the time!" In the Suiyang General's Mansion, Chen Mo handed the letter from Nanyang to Xun You and Xu Shu for circulation, and said helplessly.

Now that Cao Cao has just been defeated, the Central Plains is full of things, the new law must be implemented cautiously, otherwise the order will be changed overnight, it is easy to damage the prestige of the imperial court, Cao Cao's side will also be redeployed, and this year's Central Plains war, resulting in many fields not being cultivated, missed the agricultural time, it is about to enter autumn, famine is inevitable, relief is the most important thing at the moment, although it is a catastrophe, but it is also an opportunity for Chen Mo to establish his own image in the Central Plains, it depends on whether this dispatch is timely, whether it can help the people of the Central Plains to tide over this difficulty.

Although some people suggested taking this opportunity to defeat Cao Cao completely in one go, the price was ...... Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of the people in the Central Plains will become displaced and will starve to death.

During the war years, the imperial court only cared about the war, regardless of the life and death of the people, which was the norm, but now Chen Mo has taken over most of the world, and the people of the Central Plains and the people of Guanzhong are no different from Chen Mo, how can they ignore it?

In Chen Mo's opinion, this price is too great, so he just ordered more people to build more forts at the border of Qingzhou to prevent Cao Cao from counterattacking, and more energy was spent on the governance of the Central Plains, and a large amount of grain and grass was transferred from Guanzhong and Jizhou, in order to let the people of the Central Plains survive this disaster year.

Even Cao Cao couldn't take care of it, how could Chen Mo start another war at this time and go to kill Liu Bei?

"My lord, I think that I can give Liu Bei the position of Jingzhou pastor." Xun You looked at Chen Mo with a smile.

Chen Mo was stunned, then reacted, looked at Xun You and smiled: "Yes, it is exactly what I want." ”

Sun Ce has his own court, Chen Mo is an edict, and Sun Ce can't respond, but Liu Bei is different, his biggest problem is that his name is not right, and his words are not good, although he took over most of Liu Biao's foundation, but after all, he is not the king of Chu, so the edict of the court still has some effect on Liu Bei.

Jingzhou is not Chen Mo's land, Liu Bei is now the actual occupant of Jingzhou, the only thing missing is the name of righteousness, and now Chen Mo gave him this righteousness is not to show weakness to Liu Bei, Jingzhou's territory is not only Nanjun, Lingling, Wuling three counties, Jiangxia, Changsha, Guiyang, the same land in Jingzhou, temporarily occupied by Sun Ce, now with Chen Mo's edict, Liu Bei is the legal ruler of these three counties.

Whether he takes it or not is his business, but with this edict, it means that Liu Bei has a reason to take back the three counties at any time, whether to take it or not is one thing, even if Liu Bei doesn't have this idea, what will Sun Ce think, the alliance between the two sides is because of the pressure brought by Chen Mo's defeat of Cao Cao, and now there is this thorn here, mutual vigilance is certain, and Liu Bei has not much room for development now, Jiangdong is a good road.

"Send someone to the imperial court, let Your Majesty write the edict, and then send it to Jingzhou to Liu Bei, and tell Wenyuan to take Xinye as much as possible, this is the gateway to Jingxiang, but it is also the gateway to Nanyang." Chen Mo looked at everyone and smiled.

"Whoa!" Xu Shu nodded, he is responsible for handling the correspondence between Luoyang, if the son is imprisoned in the cold palace today, Chen Mo does not return for a long time, it is also a deterrent to those courtiers in the court, there is no son of heaven in this world, but he cannot do without him Chen Mo, and then he is ready to be crowned king, Chen Mo is ready to establish a palace, move the court back to Chang'an District, and completely isolate the court from his own team, so as not to tie his hands and feet, at this time, cool these people, but also let them have a time to choose, so this edict of the son of heaven is basically equivalent to Chen Mo's edict.

"Lord, the matter of General Cui ......" Xun You looked at Chen Mo and wanted to ask how to deal with Cui Quan's matter.

"The crime of collaborating with the enemy is unforgivable, and this matter will allow Nanyang to execute people." Chen Mo understood what Xun Yu meant, Cui Geng was a general who had followed Chen Mo for many years, and he was considered a confidant, and now the patriarch of the Cui clan has done something to collaborate with the enemy, whether he is open to the net, but other things are easy to say, this crime of collaborating with the enemy is the bottom line, it is impossible to pardon, and it is an extrajudicial grace to be able to let the Cui family go.

Sometimes the family affair is too difficult to break, but the bottom line is untouchable.

"Whoa!" The two of them agreed, and they also understood what to do.

"Three days later, I am going to go to Xuzhou, one is to assassinate the history of Xuzhou, and the other is to go back to the family, Gongda will stay in Suiyang to continue to manage the government, the short is half a month, the long is a month, I will come back." Chen Mo looked at Xun You and smiled.

This time he went to Xuzhou to appease the Xuzhou gentry, and secondly, he also went back to the family, after all, his surname is Chen, some things can't be avoided, and he also wants to worship his brother Chen Deng, this is the Chen family, Chen Mo is the most grateful one, in addition, he also wants to go back to his hometown to see, I don't know if the manor back then is still there? But there are still people?

"Rest assured, many things are now on the right track." Xun You replied with a smile.

Now that many things are on the right track, Chen Mo's departure will not affect these things.

"These days, you two have taken a lot of thought with me, and let's go and rest." Chen Mo got up, stretched his body, and looked at the two of them and smiled.

"I'll retire!" Xun You and Xu Shu got up and bowed to Chen Mo.

In the next two days, Chen Mo was more often in the reception of scholars from all sides to appease people, until three days later, Chen Mo took Dian Wei, Xu Shu and the accompanying guards to Xuzhou, now the Central Plains is fixed, but there are still many remnants of the Cao army in various places Grass for the Kou or occupy the mountain for the king, there are also some gentry who take the opportunity to mix as bandits and rob the villagers, most of Chen Mo's troops are arranged around Qingzhou to prevent the Cao army counterattack, so the security is not very good at the moment.

He would not overestimate his ability, so he was accompanied by nearly a thousand people on this trip to deal with a possible assassination.

Facts have proved that Chen Mo's preparation is not groundless, just left Suiyang less than a hundred miles, he encountered three assassinations, and even encountered an ambush, if he was not fully prepared, as usual, only dozens of people to accompany him, there is really a possibility of accidents.

Because of this, Chen Mo temporarily changed lanes, gave up Xiao County, and took a detour from Huaipu to Xuzhou.

"Originally, when I was going to go back, I would come here again, and since I passed by, I would come back." Linhuai, Xiaqiu.

Looking at the familiar and unfamiliar city, Chen Mo looked at Xu Shu and Dian Wei beside him with some emotion.

"My lord, aren't we going into the city?" Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo with some confusion.

"No, it's another entertainment, let's go back to our hometown directly." Chen Mo shook his head and glanced at Xiaqiu County, the majestic city in his eyes when he was a child, but now when he looks back, he is pitiful, the city has not changed, and it has become himself.

The thirty-mile journey was not too far for Chen Mo's personal guards, and they had already rushed back to the former Zhuangzi in the afternoon.

In the dilapidated Zhuangzi, you can occasionally see the awe-inspiring gaze of some farmers, the Zhuangzi with a population of dozens of households in the past, now you can only see almost, most of them are dilapidated, Chen Mo took people to the former house, in the small courtyard, the beams of the house have collapsed, and the kennel that was built at the beginning can not be seen.

"My family has been poor since I was a child, my mother is frail, this house is all of our family, although poor, but life is full." Chen Mo sat on the stone pier at the door with some emotion, looked at the desolate scenery around him, shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity, how many people were ruined by the disaster of the Taiping Sect back then?" ”

"But if there is no disaster of the Taiping Sect, the lord may not have the opportunity to meet later, blessings and misfortunes lurk, and misfortunes and blessings rely on, probably that's the case." Xu Shu also sighed with some emotion, even the children of the poor family are not so poor, Chen Mo can have today's achievements, it is really admirable.

"Who thought about that back then?" Chen Mo shook his head and said abruptly: "Sometimes, people's growth is forced. ”

Xu Shu nodded, thinking deeply, they all said that heroes are born in troubled times, and how many people know that this hero crawled out of the corpses of many people?

Just as he was sighing to himself, he saw an old man in his fifties coming here surrounded by several farmers, but was stopped by the guards.

"Let him come." Chen Mo turned his head, looked at the old man who was talking to the guard, and smiled.

"Little old man has seen ......" The old man looked at Chen Mo with some trembling, not daring to look directly, and not knowing what to call it.

"This is the general of the dynasty, the Marquis of Changling!" Dian Weihong said.

"I've seen the Marquis of Changling." The old man hurriedly bowed down and said, although he still didn't know who this was, but it didn't prevent him from knowing that this matter was a big man.

"Excuse me." Chen Mo stretched out his hand to help the old man up, and asked with a smile: "Is the old man here?" ”

"Exactly, the old decay has been here for more than 20 years." The old man hurriedly said.

"It's been more than 20 years, and sometimes this time flies pretty fast." Chen Mo nodded, stood up, looked at the old man and said, "Uncle, over the years, have you ever seen the people who originally lived here come back?" ”

"Where did you live?" The old man instantly understood that this was the person who lived here before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and now he was soaring, and when he returned to his hometown, he hurriedly nodded: "Yes, yes." ”

"Oh?" Chen Mo originally just asked casually, but he didn't expect it to be true, so he hurriedly smiled and asked, "Are you still there now?" Can you take me to meet me? ”

"Of course, Master Hou, please come with me." The old man nodded again and again, turned to a farmer beside him and said, "Go and tell the blind man that the noble man is here, let him come out to greet him!" ”