Chapter 337: Old Xuzhou

Landing as brothers, why bother with flesh and blood. ----------- Wei Jin. Tao Yuanming "Miscellaneous Poems"

It is said that Cao Cao got Qingzhou at his fingertips, and the situation became complicated in an instant. If Yanzhou Xun Wenruo is resourceful and good at defense, and has the big rear of Qingzhou to escape, Chen Long no longer has the desire to attack at the beginning, nor does he have the ambition to finish his work. It seems that it will take time to destroy Cao, at least he has obtained a strong stronghold of Puyang.

Guo Jia's only worry is that Cao Cao did not lose too much strength in Qingzhou. At the military meeting where Chen Long was preparing to withdraw his troops from Dong'e County, Guo Jia said worriedly: "Xuzhou Taoqian is in danger. "The Montenegrin Army was blocked by Xun Wenruo in Yanzhou, and it was indeed difficult to hold back Cao Mengde's troops, and if the Qingzhou soldiers were reorganized, it was inevitable that they would go south to Xuzhou.

Tao Qian, whose name is Gongzu, is a native of Danyang County, Xuzhou, who is seventy years old, and has sons Tao Shang and Tao Ying, both of whom are idle and have not stepped into the official career. Tao Qian himself first served in the state and county, and was promoted to Maocai, successively served as Shu, Lu Erxian Ling, Youzhou Thorn History, and Yilang, with a straightforward personality and great ambitions. Later, he followed the left chariot general Huangfu Song to fight against Beigong Boyu, served as the captain of Yangwu, and then followed Zhang Wen to conquer Han Sui and Bian Zhang.

In the official history, in the fifth year of Zhongping, from the Xuzhou Yellow Turban, Tao Qian was appointed by the imperial court as the Xuzhou Thorn History, broke the Xuzhou Yellow Turban, and implemented Tuntian to resume production. Later, he listened to the advice of Wang Lang and Zhao Yu to send envoys to Beijing to pay tribute, and was rewarded by General Andong and Xuzhou Mu, and was named the Marquis of Liyang. In his later years, due to the defeat of Cao Cao in the war, most of Xuzhou was almost killed by military disasters, so that he died of overwork at the age of sixty-three.

Tao Qian's father once served as the magistrate of Yuyao County. Tao Qian's father died when he was young, and when he was a teenager, he was famous for his dissolute personality in the county, and at the age of 14, he used cloth as a battle flag and rode a bamboo horse to play with the children in the village. His fellow villager, Gan Gong, who had been the Taishou of Cangwu, met Tao Qian when he went out, and saw Tao Qian's extraordinary appearance, so he called a car to talk to him, and was very happy, and married his daughter to Tao Qian, Gan Gong's wife was very angry about this, but Gan Gong said to his wife: "This child has a strange appearance, and he will become a great weapon when he grows up." Tao Qian later liked to study, first admitted to the students, served as an official in the state and county, and then was promoted to Maocai, worshiped Shang Shulang, and successively served as the commander of Shu County and the commander of Lu County. Later, he moved to Youzhou and was worshiped as a speaker.

In March of the second year of Zhongping, Beigong Boyu and others led Qianghu to invade Sanfu, and Emperor Ling sent Huangfu Song, the general of the left chariot cavalry, to lead the army to crusade, and Huangfu Song asked the generals to accompany him, and summoned Tao Qian to go out with the captain of Yangwu to defeat the rebels. In July, Huangfu Song was demoted and reduced under their slander because he had offended Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang.

The imperial court also appointed Sikong Zhang Wen as the general of the chariot cavalry to go to the crusade, Zhang Wen invited Tao Qian to join the army, and received him very well, but Tao Qian had always despised Zhang Wen's actions and was not convinced. After the army returned to the court, Tao Qian openly humiliated Zhang Wen at the banquet of the hundred officials, Zhang Wen was furious, intending to move Tao Qian to the border, and only pursued Tao Qian back under the persuasion of others. Zhang Wen greeted Tao Qian at the palace gate, Tao Qian did not appreciate it, but Zhang Wen was still as good to Tao Qian as before.

In October of the fifth year of Zhongping, the yellow turbans of Qing and Xu Prefecture rose again and attacked the counties. The imperial court appointed Tao Qian as the assassin of Xuzhou to suppress the Yellow Turban Army. As soon as Tao Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he appointed Zang Ba, a Taishan man who died in the East China Sea, and his fellow villager Sun Guan as generals. As a result, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated in the first battle, and the remaining Yellow Turban Army was forced to flee from Xuzhou. After the yellow scarf was broken, Tao Qian worshiped Zang Ba and Sun Guan as the captain of the cavalry, and ordered him to govern Kaiyang in Langyu County and garrison the north of Xuzhou.

In the first month of the first year of the first year of the first peace, the Kwantung herdsman supported Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance, and the spearhead was directed at Dong Zhuo in Luoyang. At that time, the counties of the world responded and raised volunteers. However, Tao Qian did not join the military campaign in the Kwantung region to denounce Dong Zhuo.

In the second year of the first peace, the famous general Zhu Juntun was stationed in Zhongmu County, and sent letters to various states and counties, summoning troops to crusade against Dong Zhuo. After Tao Qian learned of this, he immediately sent 3,000 elite soldiers, and only some soldiers were sent from other states and counties.

In April of the third year of the first peace, Wang Yun and Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo, and then Li Dao, Guo Yan and others rebelled, captured Chang'an, and controlled the government. Zhu Jun was still in Zhongmu at that time, Tao Qian thought that Zhu Jun was a famous general, who had made many military exploits and could be entrusted with great tasks, so he united with Zhou Gan, the former Yangzhou assassin, Yin De, the minister of the Lang Evil State, Liu Kui, the minister of the East China Sea, Ji Lian, the minister of the Beihai Dynasty, Kong Rong, the Pei Xiang, Yuan Zhong, Taishan Taishou Yingshao, Runan Taishou Xu Xuan, the former Jiujiang Taishou Fuqian, and the doctor Zheng Xuan and others invited Zhu Jun to be the Taishi, move the shepherd, and discuss Li Dao and others to welcome the Son of Heaven. In December, Li Wei used a trick to summon Zhu Jun to enter the court, and Zhu Jun thanked Tao Qian and responded to the summons to enter the court, and Tao Qian had no choice but to give up. In the fourth year of the first peace, at the suggestion of Wang Lang and Zhao Yu, Tao Qian sent Zhao Yu to pay tribute to Emperor Xian to show his support for the Han family. Zhao Yu was appointed as the Taishou of Guangling, and Wang Lang was appointed as the Taishou of Huiji. In the same year, Que Xuan, a Xiapi people, gathered thousands of people and proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven, and Tao Qian sent an army to kill him.

At that time, Cao Cao's father and former lieutenant Cao Song was hiding from the war in Langxi, and Cao Cao ordered Taishan Taishou to welcome Cao Song to Yanzhou. Cao Song carried more than 100 carts of baggage, and Tao Qian sent Zhang Min to escort Cao Song, but Zhang Min coveted Cao Song's assets and killed him.

In the autumn of the fourth year of the first peace, Cao Cao raised an army to attack Tao Qian on the grounds of avenging his father, and Yuan Shao also sent his subordinate Zhu Lingdu three battalions to help. Cao Cao's army successively conquered more than ten cities, and Cao Jiang conquered Guangwei along Surabaya to Pengcheng. Another striker, Cao Ren, did not attack Tao Qian's general Lu You, and after breaking the enemy, he also joined forces with Cao Cao. Tao Qian led the army to meet the attack, but suffered a big defeat, so he had to flee from Pengcheng and retire to Tancheng in the East China Sea. At the beginning, the displaced people from all over the country were attached to Tao Qian, mostly in Pengcheng, but this time they encountered Cao Cao's army, all of them were killed, and tens of thousands of people were driven to drown in the Surabaya River, and the corpses blocked the river, so that the river could not flow.

Later, Cao Cao attacked Fei County, Hua County, Jimo, and Kaiyang in the northeast, and Tao Qian sent farewell to the rescue of the counties besieged by Cao's army in Tancheng, and told Tian Kai to assassinate Shi Tian Kai in Qingzhou. Cao Cao besieged Tanxian County, but failed to capture it, so he turned to attack the three counties of Xian, Suiling, and Xiaqiu, and all the places he passed were slaughtered, chickens and dogs were not left, and there were no more pedestrians at the ruins of the old city. Tian Kai and Liu Bei led the army to rescue at this time, and Cao Cao finally had to withdraw because the army was exhausted. Tao Qian table Liu Bei is the history of Yuzhou Thorn, Tun Xiaopei.

In April of the first year of Xingping, Cao Cao once again led a large army to attack Xuzhou in the south, first pulling out five cities, and then slightly reaching Langxie and the East China Sea. The Hui army passed through Tancheng, and the Xuzhou generals Cao Bao and Liu Beitun soldiers in Tandong, invited Cao Cao to attack, and was broken by him. Tao Qian saw that the sun was twilight, and planned to flee back to his hometown Danyang, at this time, Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao betrayed Cao Cao, and his younger brother Yuan Guangling Taishou Zhang Chao welcomed Lu Bu into Yanzhou, and Cao Cao had to return to his division to quell the rebellion. In the same year, Tao Qian died of illness at the age of 63.

When Tao Qian served as the assassin of Xuzhou, after the war in Xuzhou, "the world was famine and the people were hungry", Tao Qian recommended Chen Deng, a native of Pi, as the captain of the agricultural school, and implemented Tuntian in Xuzhou. With the efforts of Tao Qian and Chen Deng, Xuzhou's agricultural production has been restored and developed, and "japonica rice has been harvested".

When Tao Qian served as the assassin of Xuzhou, the yellow scarves of Qingzhou and Yanzhou in the north rose and fell one after another, but Xuzhou was relatively peaceful, the people were rich, the grain and rice were full of granaries, and the displaced people in Qingzhou, Yuzhou and other places (such as Zheng Xuan, Xu Shao, etc.) also flocked to Xuzhou. At that time, Tao Qian appointed Xiapi Xiangrong, who was in the same county as him, to supervise the transportation of grain in Guangling, Xiapi and Pengcheng, and he used the grain in his hands to set up the Dafutu Temple, which can accommodate more than 3,000 people to read Buddhist scriptures; He also called for the exemption of believing in Buddhism, attracting more than 5,000 households, "every bathing Buddha, set up more wine and rice, cloth on the road, through dozens of miles, the people come to watch and eat and ten thousand people."

When Tao Qian was appointed as the assassin of Xuzhou, he once used Xuzhou's wealthy merchant Lu Zhu as a special driver, and appointed Zhenrong in the same county as him to supervise Guangling, Xiapi, and Pengcheng to transport grain, and at the same time appointed Zhao Yu, a native of Langyu, and Wang Lang, a native of the East China Sea, to be engaged in special driving and governance. The official history also called Tao Qian "alienated the sages and appointed the villains".

After Chen Long returned to Puyang, Puyang, Juancheng, Baima, Mengjin, Shangdang, and Anyang were connected to create water and land transportation, and people and horses were dispatched back and forth, and materials came and went endlessly. However, after thousands of calculations, it was not calculated that Lu Bu was bewitched by the white butterfly, so he abandoned the covenant, and brazenly sent troops in many ways, cutting off all the water and land transportation, and Zang Ba, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng, and Song Xian besieged Juancheng and Baima.

Zhang Liao trained the navy near Chenliu, cut off the Yellow River from Guandu, and Lu Bu took the rest of the generals to lead the army to cross the river, and the white butterfly naturally followed Lu Bu. Chen Gong asked for an errand to guard Chen Liu, and Lu Bu saw that he was resolute, so he had to follow him, but he was very unhappy in his heart.

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