Seeing that Yuan Shu was actually suspicious of himself, Yan Xiang was shocked.

"No, no, don't get me wrong, general, I'm just worried about ......"

"Worried about what? In the past, the situation was unfavorable, and you didn't worry about me, and you didn't give me advice, but now the situation is good, but you are worried, don't you look down on my good? ”

Yuan Shu glared angrily, very angry.

Yan Xiang repeatedly begged for mercy, and didn't dare to say a word more, which made Yuan Shu let Yan Xiang go.

Yuan Shu was still angry and fined Yan Xiang three months' salary, which dissipated his anger.

Yan Xiang escaped and didn't dare to say anything more, but the worry in his heart grew day by day, and he was keenly aware that something was about to happen, but he didn't dare to think about that place.

After that, Yuan Shu set out to send envoys to appease Guo Peng and Sun Ce, wanting to give his two right-hand men some spiritual encouragement.

Then he encouraged Guo Peng to make persistent efforts to catch all the people who supported Yuan Shao and helped Yuan Shao.

Then he ordered Sun Ce to let Sun Ce command the original soldiers and horses and Wu Jing and Sun Ben's troops and horses to attack Liu Xuan together, and when Liu Xuan was defeated, Yuan Shu would give Sun Ce a greater official position.

After arranging the right hand, Yuan Shu sent someone to Chang'an to inquire about the news.

I heard that a war broke out in the Chang'an area, what was the result of the war?

Yuan Shu was very much looking forward to hearing bad news that was not good for the Chang'an court, so that it would help him in his future actions.

Even Yuan Shu knew very well that what he had to do was very big and needed to be very cautious, although the current situation was very good, but if the Chang'an Imperial Court was very stable, he was still worried.

The result made Yuan Shu not very satisfied.

There were two pieces of news from the Chang'an Imperial Court.

The first news was that Li Dao won a big victory, Ma Teng and Han Sui were defeated by Li Dao and fled back to Liangzhou, so Li Dao became the hussar general, Guo Yan who made great achievements was promoted to the general of the chariot cavalry, and Fan Chou was promoted to the right general, and the power of Li, Guo and Fan was unprecedentedly huge, almost emptying the imperial court.

The second news is about the era name, the Chang'an court announced to the world that next year's era name will be Xingping.

After this year, next year will be the first year of Xingping.

Yuan Shu was a little disappointed, because he wanted to hear another kind of news, although he also knew in his heart that it was even more difficult to hear another kind of voice.

In order to ensure their own interests, as long as Li Dao and Guo Yan do not have cramps in their brains, they will never relax their protection of Liu Xie, and as long as their brains do not cramp, they will never let go and let Liu Xie fly freely.

Yes, as long as they don't have brain cramps.

So Yuan Shu is waiting, waiting for when these muscular men will have brain cramps, and he will do things justifiably.

He was anxious, he couldn't wait to do big things.

Holding the jade seal of the country all day long, I really can't bear the throbbing in my heart.

Similarly, Guo Peng is also waiting, waiting for when the news he wants to hear will come.

The time is about to be ripe, and what should be done should also be prepared, as long as the time is ripe, Guo Peng will make a decisive move and never hesitate.

However, before the time was ripe, just after four years of Chuping, at the beginning of the first year of Xingping, Guo Peng's own internal problems had some small problems.

It's really small to say that it's small, but this small problem made Guo Peng seriously vigilant.

It is different from the previous problem of corruption of township and village chiefs at the grassroots level.

Those people were directly appointed by Guo Peng, and the power of life and death was controlled by Guo Peng, and Guo Peng had countless ways to clean them up, and they could be legislated and suppressed at any time.

However, when the commander of the army is still a general of his own family who has made meritorious contributions, and has made a mistake and does something that violates the law, Guo Peng is a little difficult to do.

It's hard to do this kind of thing in front of anyone.

Yes, the offender is Cao Hong.

With the expansion of his sphere of influence and the increase of his own prestige and power, Guo Peng's majesty became more and more heavy, and on the contrary, the status and power of his subordinates also increased.

Especially after overthrowing Yuan Shao, many people were even more inflated, feeling that they were awesome and coaxing, and they could start to enjoy it, so they began to indulge themselves and took Guo Peng's orders as a deaf ear.

After the war, Cao Hong was appointed by Guo Peng as the garrison of Bohai County, commanding the garrison of Bohai County and stabilizing the place in Bohai County.

Guo Peng also plans to build Bohai County into a sub-base for sending troops to occupy Youzhou in the future, and the status is the same as that of the previous Plains Kingdom.

Cao Hong led the troops in the Plains Country before, and did a good job, and this time he fought in Bohai County, defeated Chun Yuqiong and made great contributions, and was the first among the generals of Guo Peng's family such as Cao, Xiahou, and Guo to be promoted to Zhonglang General, and the glory was unparalleled for a while.

So Cao Hong suddenly felt very happy and swelled.

Cao Hong is brave and brave, daring to charge and fight, he is the most ferocious one among the generals of the Cao Xiahou clan and the Guo clan.

But he is not flawless, his biggest flaw is greed.

At the beginning, the Kwantung Coalition Army crusaded against Dong Zhuo, Yuzhou was in turmoil, Guo Peng summoned the Cao Xiahou clan and the Guo clan to move to Qingzhou with him for refuge and accept his protection.

Cao Ren and Cao Chun even dedicated Cao Chi's share of the family property to Guo Peng to build an army, and Cao Song and Xiahou also handed over all their land to Guo Peng for him to sell.

Of course, Guo Peng will not treat them badly, and after becoming the Qingzhou pastor to expand his power, Guo Peng also gave some Qingzhou land to the Cao family and the Xiahou family, and established a manor for them to protect their interests.

All in all, Guo Peng does not let those who have helped him suffer.

The Cao family, the Xiahou family, and the Guo family were very satisfied.

However, Cao Hong seemed to be very stingy, so he got a box of gold to help Guo Peng, about 100 catties.

In fact, this branch of his family is relatively rich among the branches of the Cao family, and after moving to Qingzhou and starting over, he became the richest.

Cao Chun, Cao Ren and Cao Xiu all complained about Cao Hong's stinginess in private, saying that they used to ask Cao Hong to borrow money, but Cao Hong often didn't borrow, and if he borrowed, he would chase after his ass and ask for debts.

Cao Cao also complained to Guo Peng that Cao Hong's family is good at management, likes to collect money, and likes to enjoy it, and the servants and singers and guests are the most in the entire Cao family.

Xiahou Yuan is very observant, he will take whatever Guo Peng gives, and he will not take much, that is, he is very concerned about the education of his children, and he spends more money on education than he eats and drinks.

Xiahoudun never bought the industry, Guo Peng wanted to give him things he often refused, in the jurisdiction of the people's livelihood is very important, the implementation of Guo Peng's will, the infrastructure construction, so that Li Shu benefited.

These two people are also very unaccustomed to some of Cao Hong's actions, and when they corresponded with Guo Peng in private, they often complained that Cao Hong was the one who valued wealth the most and liked to enjoy the most among several families.

However, Cao Hong was still relatively restrained at the beginning, he wanted Guo Peng's reward, and he didn't take much of the others, he was very proper in fighting the war, and he was entrusted with an important task by Guo Peng.

Then you start indulging yourself in the pursuit of enjoyment.

Probably because he felt that there were no enemies left in the north, he wanted to relax.

So Cao Hong, at the instigation of his relatives and guests, indulged them to seize a large piece of land near Puyang County.

These lands were originally occupied by those Li Shu of Tuntian, who was a member of the Tuntian collective, but was seized by Cao Hong's guests and relatives.

They seized the land, and drove Li Shu, who had cultivated the land, to build a manor for them to enjoy themselves, and humiliated them wantonly.

When Cao Hong learned about it, he felt that it didn't matter, and he felt that Guo Peng would not do anything to him.