With the failure of the princes of the Eighteen Towns to defeat Dong Zhuo, the warlords of all sides ignored the central power of the Eastern Han Dynasty and turned to develop their own forces.

After Yuan Shao returned to Bohai, he used the prestige of the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family to recruit a group of resourceful people such as Xu You, Xianpei, Guo Tu, and Feng Ji to assist him.

The current Yuan Shao is not as unscrupulous as he was in the Battle of Guandu, and the current Yuan Shao is generally able to humbly seek advice, and the concerted efforts of his subordinates and martial arts to give advice to Yuan Shao.

In fact, when Cao Cao was in the coalition army's crusade against Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao once asked Cao Cao: "If the big things don't go well, where can I defend it?" “

Cao Cao asked rhetorically: "What does the foot mean?" ”

Yuan Shao replied: "I am based on the Yellow River in the south, Yan and Dai in the north, and I have the people of Karasuma, and then I will fight for the world in the south, so I may be able to succeed!" ”

Yuan Shao's so-called south is based on the Yellow River, and the north guards Yan and Dai, and the vast area in the middle is Jizhou, which is rich in products and has a large population.

However, Yuan Shao was not in a recession at that time, and when the doorman Fengji suggested that he capture Jizhou, Yuan Shao was very hesitant and couldn't make up his mind.

said to Feng Ji: "Jizhou is strong, our army is hungry, if I can't attack, I won't even have a place to stand." ”

Feng Ji offered a plan: "Han Fu is a mediocre talent, we can secretly make an appointment with Shi Gongsun Zhan, the governor of Liaodong, and let him attack Jizhou in the south."

As soon as his army moves, Han Fu will inevitably panic, and we will take the opportunity to send someone who can speak well to explain the stakes to him, and we are not afraid that he will not let him come out of Jizhou. ”

Yuan Shao valued the reunion Ji very much, and sure enough, he wrote a letter to Gongsun Zan according to his wishes.

It is precisely because of this that Yuan Shao listened to Feng Ji's words that he easily took the entire Jizhou, thus dominating the entire Hebei in history.

Gongsun Chan didn't gain much this time, but participating in the alliance of princes gave him a good reputation, which is what he needs most at the moment. This time I hurried back to Youzhou, which was to attack Youzhou Mu Liu Yu.

Gongsun Chan only says one word when he treats foreign races, and that is to fight!

The aliens around Youzhou were all subdued by him, and they were scared!

However, Liu Yu, the pastor of Youzhou, had a lot of contempt for Gongsun Zhan's behavior, and he advocated that foreign races should be appeased first, and more Huairou policies should be used.

Then there is the fact that Liu Yu himself is the official of Gongsun Zhan, and he is a relative of the Han family, so he looks down on Gongsun Zhan's background.

This caused Gongsun Chan to be deeply hostile to him, but in the past, Liu Yu's reputation was outside, and with the presence of the imperial court, Gongsun Chan did not dare to surpass.

Let's talk about Cao Cao here.

Since the defeat of Xingyang, Cao Cao came to Yanzhou with the remnants of the army to vote for Liu Dai, and Qiao Mao, the Taishou of Dongjun, was killed by Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, because he did not borrow grain and grass.

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Inside the Thorn History Mansion in Yanzhou East County

Although Liu Dai is the assassin of Yanzhou, Liu Dai chose not to meet each other with swords and soldiers in the face of Cao Cao from afar, but to treat each other politely, and actually wanted to directly hand over the big seal of Yanzhou assassination history to Cao Cao and give way to Cao Cao!

Facing Liu Dai, who wanted to give the power of Yanzhou to himself, Cao Cao looked panicked, and hurriedly held Liu Dai's hands and said: "Don't let you be like this, Cao is now alone, fortunately you have to take it in!"

It's too late for Cao to be grateful, how dare he think about it?

So that you don't have to wonder, Cao Mou is indeed sincere to vote for you! ”

Although Cao Cao was humble, Liu Dai was not stupid, he still stubbornly handed over the seal of the assassin history to Cao Cao, and pushed Cao Cao to the chief in the hall, and then he walked down, turned to Cao Cao is bow to the ground, and shouted: "Ming Gong is righteous, first assassinated Dong thief from Luoyang City, and then raised volunteers to help the Han family and crusade against Dong thief, he is really the pillar of the Han family!"

And Liu Dai is not talented, only because of the identity of this Han clan clan, he is not qualified for this Yanzhou assassin history!

Now the Duke of Ming came to Dongjun, it was the will of heaven that Dai would give up the position of Yanzhou Assassin to the Duke of Ming!

If the Ming Duke wants to support the Han family, how can he have no power in his hands? I also hope that Ming Gong will think of the Han family, don't shirk! ”

In this way, Cao Cao got the eight counties of Yanzhou and began to recruit troops and horses.

Soon a friend Xun Yu Xun Gongda came to vote, Cao Cao made him the chief strategist, Xun You recommended Cheng Yu Cheng Zhongde, a native of Dong'a, and Cao Cao looked for Cheng Yu to visit the mountain.

Cheng Yu recommended Shanyang people to be full of favors and full of Boning, full of favors to recommend Lu Qian and Lu Zike from Wucheng, and Lu Qian recommended Chen Liuping and Qiu people Mao Jue.

The military generals have Taishan Juping people Yu Ban Yu Wen led hundreds of people to vote, Cao Cao saw that he was skilled in bows and horses, outstanding in martial arts, good at training soldiers, let him do a little military Sima.

Later, Yanzhou Haojie Bian Xiang and Shan Shiqi came to vote, Cao Cao saw that Shan Shiqi was skilled in guns and sticks, and was very happy, so he made him a captain.

I also saw that Bian Xiang made a big axe, and he had the courage of ten thousand people, and also made him a captain.

At the same time, he promoted the fierce generals in his family Cao Rong, Cao Ning, Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, Cao Xiu, Cao Chun, Xia Houen and others.