Time passes...

In the blink of an eye.

Two months later.

Sun Ce, the lord of Jiangdong, known as the Little Overlord, was wounded by an Assassin during a hunt and died shortly afterwards at the age of twenty-six. After Sun Ce's death, his younger brother Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, and the military power fell into the hands of Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu is extremely good at using soldiers and has excellent strategy.

He took advantage of the fact that Jiangdong Wenwu held a funeral for Sun Ce and Cao Cao was lax, and personally led 20,000 Jiangdong troops to raid Cao's army in Jiangbei. Defeat Cao Ren and capture Liyang in Jiujiang County. After that, the troops were stationed in Liyang, recovering Guangling Port, Longxukou and other areas, and forcing all the Cao troops back to fatten.

After Cao Ren's defeat, he stuck to Hefei!

In just half a month, 100,000 Cao troops in Yuzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou marched to Hefei. Zhou Yu focused on defending Liyang, and mobilized a large number of warships to deploy on the Yangtze River, making a posture of a decisive battle.

Sun Quan was worried that he would not be able to defeat Cao's army, and after discussing with Zhou Yu, he sent an envoy to Hefei to make peace with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was angry at first and vowed to seize the Liyang Line.

However, Zhou Yu proposed a strategy that made him extremely excited.

What strategy?

Jiangdong and Cao Cao joined forces to attack Liu Biao's Jingzhou! Jingzhou is rich, the land is fertile, it extends in all directions, clamps the Neijiang River and the Yangtze River, and can raise 500,000 soldiers. Cao Cao had long wanted to attack there, but because Liu Biao had 200,000 male soldiers, and the Jingzhou warship was also known to be invincible in the world, he did not dare to attack it easily. Now that Zhou Yu wants to join forces with him, it is a good time to seize Jingzhou.

Thereupon.

He agreed with Zhou Yu's strategy and joined forces to attack Jingzhou.

Zhou Yu led 30,000 cavalry and naval troops to the south along the Yangtze River and attacked Jiangxia. Cao Cao led an army of 100,000 troops, crossed the Lujiang River, entered Runan, and attacked Nanyang, the gateway to the west of Jingzhou.

Nanyang is the largest county in Jingzhou, with a population of up to 2 million. The county governs Wancheng and Fancheng along the river, and it is a good place to hoard grain and grass and train the navy.

Take a county in Nanyang, which is worth half of Yanzhou!

Cao Cao salivated, had been planning for a long time, and pounced like a hungry wolf. But I didn't expect that Liu Ranpao (Liu Bei) was stationed in Xinye City, Nanyang County, and recently received a military advisor named Xu Shu.

Xu Shu was extremely resourceful and very good at arranging and breaking formations, and only used 3,000 Danyang soldiers to break the Cao army.

(Note: Tao Qian has an elite army named Danyang Bing.) When he ceded Xuzhou to Liu Bei, he became Liu Bei's soldier, followed Liu Bei to fight in the east and west, fought for thousands of miles, and made countless meritorious contributions. ）

Cao Cao learned what happened, arrested Xu Shu's mother, and forced Xu Shu to leave Liu Bei. After that, he broke through the momentum, took Xinye, captured Fancheng, and beat Liu Ranpao (Liu Bei) across the Yangtze River.

Meantime.

Zhou Yu's navy occupied Jiangxia and fought a bloody battle with 70,000 Jingzhou troops.

After Cao Cao captured Nanyang County, he did not continue to attack Jingzhou. Because on the Neijiang River, it is full of warships of the Jingzhou army. Cao Cao's navy was weak, and he was no match for the Jingzhou navy.

He ordered Xu Huang to lead an army of 20,000 troops and garrison Fancheng. But he led the army to evacuate Nanyang. In this way, all the Jingzhou troops were transferred to Jiangxia, with a total of 150,000 people, to fight against Zhou Yu.

Whether Liu Biao wins or Zhou Yu wins, it is an excellent result for Cao Cao.

The Central Plains war continued, and Hebei was not peaceful.

Yuan Shang's general, Gao Gan, led 20,000 foot cavalry and soldiers out of Yanmen Pass to intervene in the war between the Xiongnu and Xianbei and Wuhuan. The right virtuous king of the Southern Xiongnu went to Bei, and also led 30,000 troops to help, and Gao Gan and Hu Chuquan defeated Xianbei and Wuhuan.

Outside the Great Wall, he confronted Tian Yu and Tian Chou.

Jizhou.

Yecheng.

Soap factories were built to wholesale large quantities of soap to various families. The market price is 300 yuan a piece. There are countless rich families and ordinary people who rush to buy, and the benefits brought to various families have exceeded that of furniture.

This made the Zhen family very greedy.

It's like a piece of fat on the side of your mouth, but it's poisonous on it, what should you do?

Can only look drooling.

Military and political yamen.

Fu Zhu reported to Yuan Xi: "In the past two months, paper copper currency has been promoted to Youzhou, Liaodong, and North Korea, and the effect is very good. Goguryeo was also completely taken over by us, and the original Goguryeo Army was reorganized to form the Goguryeo Border Guard. ”

"The people of Hebei and Youzhou actively cooperated with the government to apply for household registration books and ID cards. The districts under the jurisdiction of each county are also setting up roadblocks and patrolling around to eliminate enemies in their respective territories. ”

Xun Chen handed it over. Forty thousand recruits have been recruited. Of these, 30,000 were sent to the Great Wall Guards. The remaining 10,000 were incorporated into the Youzhou Army and transferred to Zhuo County for defense. It's just that.... He said in the recital that Youzhou is poor and sick, and the people are very small. Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he has been recruited by Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan many times. The main princess Zhengyouzhou recruited nearly 100,000 Youzhou troops, most of whom were killed in battle, and now the 40,000 recruits are not yet fifteen years old. The 12 counties of Youzhou are almost all old and weak, women and children, and the labor force is very small, so there will be great problems in farming, paying taxes, and replenishing military resources in the future. Please reduce the tax of Youzhou at your discretion. ”

Yuan Xi took the document and looked at it blankly for a long time: "Is there anything else to report?" ”

"Nope."

Yuan Xi handed the document back to Fu Zhi and said: "We can occupy Liaodong and Korea in just a few years, defeat Xianbei and Wuhuan, the people of Youzhou have made great efforts, they are looking forward to living a peaceful life with their wives, I can't let them down." From now on, do not recruit troops in Youzhou. He ordered Xun Chen, the chief secretary of Youzhou, to issue a notice to exempt Youzhou from paying taxes for three years. ”

"The lord is wise!"

Frustrated and excited.

"What about the trolls? Is there any information about the Liyang Naval Army? Yuan Xi suddenly remembered that two months ago, he asked Yu Ban and Le Jin to form a water army. It's still a movement.

"Trolls?" He sneered, "How can it be so fast?" After receiving the order, they first had to build a water village, recruit soldiers, and build warships. Why don't you have half a year later? Now there is not even a shadow of the water army. ”

"No news at all?"

"Nope."

Yuan Xi said: "Since there is none, I will go and see it myself." I have new ideas about building a warship. I had to build a new type of warship based on the type of ship I designed. Also, if you let out the wind, you will say that the government buys a lot of coal. How much, how much, the price is tentatively set at 10 yuan a catty. Let those families go to the mines. ”

"No."

Fu Zhu did not understand Yuan Xi's intentions, let alone the role of coal. However, it is definitely of great use to let Yuan Xi personally intervene and acquire.

"Lord, lord..." Wen Chou ran into the guest hall.

"What's the alarm?" Yuan Xi asked.

Wen Chou was panting, and replied with his fists clenched: "My lord, there was news from the Assassin Mansion just now that the two housewives were injured. The medical officers have already arrived, asking the lord to return to the house quickly. ”

"Let's go!"

Yuan Xi's heart chuckled, threw away the tea bottle in his hand, and ran towards the outside of the hall.