The news that Youzhou was going to implement the imperial examination system not only spread in Youzhou, but also spread to Jizhou and Yanzhou as soon as possible.

Whether it is Cao Cao or Yuan Shao, every issue of Youzhou Minbao will be placed on their table.

They can't trust all the contents of the newspaper, but they can learn about the situation in Youzhou through this newspaper.

At the same time, they are preparing their own newspaper.

With the eyes of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, when they first saw the newspaper, they knew the benefits of the newspaper.

It's just that at that time they didn't know about printing. Even if they wanted to start a newspaper, they couldn't get enough of them.

But now, after all this time, printing is not a sophisticated technique.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are already preparing to launch their own newspapers.

After a while, they will be able to launch their own newspaper.

But now, Cao Caohai is conquering Xuzhou again to avenge his father.

He just took the time to read the Youzhou Minbao, and he was not interested in the Zhang family's assassination of Zhao Hui.

Instead, he carefully looked at the imperial examination system three times.

Then he let it go and let out a long sigh.

Cao Cao is also doing things that weaken the family, but it is more difficult for him.

He really wanted to copy Zhao Hui's imperial examination system.

Zhao Hui proposed it on the day of the wedding, and then uprooted the Zhang family, which had the most objections.

The imperial examination system is in Youzhou, even if there are still people who oppose it, but they can only talk about it behind their backs. No one dared to question the imperial examination system in front of Zhao Hui.

Cao Cao didn't need to ask, he knew that if he copied the imperial examination system, the resistance he encountered would only be stronger than Zhao Hui's.

A meritocracy has already made Cao Cao stand on the cusp of the wind and waves, and bear the verbal criticism of those families.

Even if Cao Cao had this idea in his heart, he could only put it down for the time being.

His primary goal now is to occupy Xuzhou.

In order to be able to pacify Xuzhou in one battle, Cao Cao even shouted an order to slaughter the city in the name of revenge.

Slaughter the city!

It's a double-edged sword.

It is possible that Tao Qian will be forced to surrender directly.

But it is also possible to let the military and people of Xuzhou work together.

Make sieges more difficult.

Cao Cao wanted to end the war as soon as possible.

At the same time, it is necessary to control Xuzhou to the greatest extent.

Slaughtering the city, he can destroy those deep-rooted families in Xuzhou in one fell swoop.

In order to show that I am not just talking.

After the army entered Xuzhou, Cao Cao, after breaking a small city, really ordered the slaughter of the city.

Xuzhou's strength is weaker than Cao Cao's.

In the shadow of the massacre, some people really wanted to surrender to Cao Cao.

But there are also some people who still choose to fight Cao Cao to the end.

And Liu Bei's position is the firmest.

And now most of the military power in Xuzhou has fallen into the hands of Liu Bei.

Whether to surrender now is no longer a decision that Tao Qian can decide, but it depends on Liu Bei's meaning.

Xuzhou is Liu Bei's target, and Liu Bei has long regarded it as food on his table.

How could he be willing to be taken away by Cao Cao like this.

Even if Cao Cao had really slaughtered three cities, Liu Bei was unmoved.

One team beat gongs and drums and shouted loudly in the city: "The Cao thieves are coming, they are going to slaughter Xuzhou, the chickens and dogs are not left, and if they want to protect their families, they all take up arms." ”

"Cao thief is cruel and unkind, slaughtering the city and destroying the family, you are willing to join the army with me to resist Cao Cao and defend your homeland."

"Defend your homeland and swear to kill the thief."

Liu Bei's ability to mobilize the people's hearts is very strong.

In the face of Cao Cao's army, the originally panicked people, under Liu Bei's general publicity, the panic gradually subsided, and instead rose to the heart of fighting Cao Cao to the death.

They were willing to take up arms and go to the city walls to defend the city together and resist Cao Cao.

made many people ignore that as long as they surrendered and took the initiative to open the city gates, Cao Cao would not slaughter the city.

Ordinary people didn't know what Cao Cao had ordered.

They only saw the cities that were broken by Cao Cao, and the people of the whole city were all slaughtered, and the corpses were all scattered in the wilderness and rivers of blood.

The moats were filled with corpses.

And Liu Bei will naturally emphasize Cao Cao's brutality more when he is publicizing, and will only tell these people that if the city is broken, not only will they die, but their families will also die.

The word surrender will never be heard by these people.

In the face of Cao Cao's large-scale attack this time, Tao Qian wanted to surrender.

Liu Bei can ignore those broken cities, but the people who were slaughtered, Tao Qian, who is already in his sixties, cannot.

If it was when he was young, Tao Qian wouldn't care, but now that he is old and in poor health, Tao Qian always feels that those people who were slaughtered would come to him every night to ask for their lives.

The pressure in his heart is very great, he can't have energy in the first place, and now he is even more nervous, and he can only lie in bed every day.

Tao Qian summoned Liu Bei several times, but Liu Bei refused to come to see Tao Qian on the grounds that he needed to resist Cao Cao in front.

Unless he has really been defeated, Liu Bei will never give up.

Even if he used the corpse mountain and sea of blood to fill it, Liu Bei would not frown.

Cao Cao thought that he could rely on the slaughter of the city, get rid of some of the power of the family, and at the same time force Tao Qian to surrender, and he could easily take over Xuzhou.

It's just that Cao Cao ignored Liu Bei.

Even if he used the means of slaughtering the city, he failed to break the heart of the defenders of Xuzhou, but made the army under Liu Bei decide to fight against the water.

The difficulty of Cao Cao's attack on Xuzhou this time has risen several notches.

And just when Cao Cao's war against Xuzhou was once again at a stalemate, Lu Bu came to Yanzhou with nearly 10,000 people.

In order to be able to grasp this opportunity, halfway south, when he received the news of Zhao Hui's wedding, Lu Bu did not choose to go back to Youzhou, but continued to go south.

Finally, he was allowed to arrive in Yanzhou before Cao Cao returned to the army.

Then Lu Bu immediately sent someone to meet Zhang Miao.

Then Lu Bu took the people and horses and came to Chen Liu in person to have an interview with Zhang Miao.

Three days later, Lü Bu left Chenliu with his men and horses and headed west, as if he was really preparing to return to Chang'an.

Cao Cao, who was in Xuzhou, also retracted his heart after receiving the news that Lu Bu had left Yanzhou, transferred men and horses from the rear again, and began to attack Xuzhou with all his might.

But just after Cao Cao exhausted Yanzhou's troops, Zhang Miao united with Chen Gong and began to lobby the major families in Yanzhou.

And after Lu Bu left Yanzhou, he also stopped in the middle of the road.

If you want to grab a piece of territory, this is Lu Bu's best chance now.

He was waiting for news from Zhang Miao and Chen Gong.

Cao Cao was in Xuzhou, moving forward with difficulty.

Half a moon night did not advance for hundreds of miles. But half of Xuzhou has also fallen into the hands of Cao Cao.

Yanzhou's strength is already stronger than Xuzhou.

And Cao Cao is now mobilizing all the forces of Yanzhou to attack Xuzhou.

Although Liu Bei controlled most of the military power in Xuzhou, he was unable to mobilize all his forces to fight back against Cao Cao.

The current stalemate is still because Liu Bei mobilized ordinary people to participate in the defense of the city.