In early October of the first year of Chuping, the weather in Yuzhou had turned cold at this time, and the cold wind began to blow on the land of Yuzhou, bringing a slight chill to the land.

Outside Pingyu County, Runan County, Yuan Yao rode a demon horse, hung his three-pointed two-edged knife on the demon horse, and pulled the reins of the demon horse tightly with both hands, so that the demon horse under his crotch would not go around.

Although Yuan Yao's riding skills have improved a lot, it is still a little difficult to control his mount freely, but it is much better than when Yuan Yao first came to this world and did not know anything about riding.

Now it has been several months since Yuan Shu defeated the Runan Yellow Turban, and among the five thieves of the Runan Yellow Turban, Huang Shao and He Yi were killed, and Liu Pi, Gong Du, and He Man also surrendered to Yuan Shu. Liu Pi and Gong both surrendered on the spot after being defeated, while He Man surrendered after being captured and imprisoned for several days.

After defeating the Runan Yellow Turban, Yuan Shu gathered a lot of young and strong people to form an army, and now Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses plus the 20,000 people who stayed in Nanyang have reached 100,000.

After defeating the Runan Yellow Turban, Yuan Shu was the way to divide the troops and take the entire territory of Yuzhou, and then with the support of the Yuan clan in Runan, Yuan Shu took Yuzhou into his control, and then managed the affairs of Yuzhou as a general. After Yuan Shu took charge of the entire Yuzhou, he did not continue to send troops to other places, but transferred his soldiers and horses to various counties to guard the palace.

A year ago, Yuan Shu didn't have a territory, but this year, Yuan Shu first took Nanyang, and then entered Yuzhou, and now Yuan Shu's territory can be said to be in the forefront of several major princes in the world, and there are few who can compare with Yuan Shu on the territory. Moreover, Nanyang and Yuzhou are rich lands with large populations, which means that Yuan Shu's strength can increase significantly.

However, although Yuan Shu was able to defeat the Runan Yellow Turban in the shortest possible time and take over Yuzhou because of his background in the Runan Yuan family, Yuan Shu was still short after all, and not all the Yellow Turban thieves were captured by Yuan Shujun after the defeat of the Runan Yellow Turban, and some of the remaining small Yellow Turbans were fleeing all over Yuzhou, although these small Yellow Turban thieves were not many in number, but they also posed a serious threat to the local security of Yuzhou, if Yuan Shu wanted to completely control Yuzhou in his hands, Even if the major families in Yuzhou don't obstruct it, it will take a while.

Therefore, after taking over Yuzhou completely, Yuan Shu was not arrogant enough to continue to send troops to attack other places, but turned to digest Nanyang and Yuzhou. And after occupying Yuzhou, Yuan Shu was not very easy to develop next.

The north of Yuzhou is Yanzhou, and at present, Liu Dai, Bao Xin, Cao Cao and other major princes are gathered in Yanzhou, and it is not a good choice to send troops to Yanzhou at this time.

And the east of Yuzhou is Xuzhou, and the lord of Xuzhou is Tao Qian, which is not easy to mess with.

The west of Yuzhou is Si Li, and the current Si Li is still Dong Zhuo's territory, although Dong Zhuo has retreated to Chang'an, but he is still the first prince in the world with the Xiliang Army and the Bingzhou Army, if it is not necessary, no one wants to provoke Dong Zhuo.

To the south of Yuzhou are Jingzhou and Yangzhou, and Yuan Shu had a tacit understanding with Liu Yan when he entered Nanyang, and now he is unwilling to destroy this tacit understanding. As for Yangzhou, it is now Sun Jian's goal, after Sun Jian returned to Jiangdong with the jade seal of the country, he first took Wu County, and then sent troops to Jiangdong, at this time, if he used troops against Yangzhou, he would inevitably clash with Sun Jian, but Yuan Shu was unwilling to provoke Sun Jian, a Jiangdong tiger.

As for the land of Hanzhong bordering Nanyang, Yuan Shu has no plans for the time being. Therefore, after taking Yuzhou, Yuan Shu paused the pace of the offensive and began to operate Nanyang and Yuzhou instead.

Of course, Yuan Shu's eyes were not limited to Nanyang and Yuzhou, but he also understood that if Nanyang and Yuzhou were not managed well, there might be a backyard fire when he sent troops to attack other states and counties in the future, which was not what Yuan Shu wanted to see. Therefore, Yuan Shu planned to take advantage of the fact that other princes in the world were still seeking development to completely manage Nanyang and Yuzhou, at least not to cause chaos.

And if you want to stabilize Yuzhou, there is one place that you can't get around, and that is Yingchuan. It's not that the strategic location of Yingchuan is important, but because there is a Yingchuan Academy in Yingchuan.

During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were two most famous academies in the world, namely Yingchuan Academy and Lumenshan Academy, both of which had great Confucian seats, and both the children of the family and the scholars of the poor family could enter the academy to study, and these two academies also cultivated a lot of talents.

The people who came out of Yingchuan Academy include Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You and others, all of whom are good at planning in the world. And Lumenshan Academy is not bad, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and others have studied in Lumenshan Academy.

And after starting to stabilize the situation in various parts of Yuzhou, Yuan Shu started to think about going to Yingchuan. Although due to the reasons of the Yuan clan in Runan, after Yuan Shu took Yuzhou, many people invested in Yuan Shu's command and filled the vacancy of middle and lower-level officials for Yuan Shu, and it was precisely because of this that Yuan Shu was able to occupy Yuzhou as quickly as possible without chaos.

However, although there is no shortage of middle- and lower-level officials Yuan Shu's subordinates, there is no real top strategist Yuan Shu's subordinates. Yuan Shu now has only two advisors available to his subordinates, one Yan Xiang and one Yang Hong. After occupying Yuzhou, Yan Xiang was in charge of Yuzhou's affairs, although it was also well organized, but it also kept Yan Xiang busy every day. And Yang Hong stayed in Nanyang. In Yuan Shu's heart, the importance of Nanyang is no less than that of Yuzhou, and there are many families in Nanyang, if he does not send a weighty figure to sit in charge, Yuan Shu is also worried that something will happen in Nanyang.

Yuan Shu is going to visit Yingchuan Academy this time to see if he can pull out a few talents from Yingchuan Academy. Yuan Shu's territory will definitely get bigger and bigger in the future, and it will definitely not work to rely on Yan Xiang and Yang Hong alone.

And this time Yuan Shu went to Yingchuan, and there were not many people with him, Ji Ling, Xu Chu and three hundred elite armor soldiers accompanied the escort, and Yan Xiang did not accompany him because he wanted to prime minister Yuzhou's affairs. And Yuan Yao didn't bring many people, Wei Yan was left by Yuan Yao in Pingyu to continue to train the thousand soldiers, Liao Hua followed Yuan Yao as a guard, and Huang Yi was also brought by Yuan Yao this time.

Yuan Shu rode out of the city, Xu Chu and Ji Ling guarded him on the left and right, and Yuan Yao took Liao Hua and Huang Yi to follow behind Yuan Shu. Behind them are the three hundred elite armorers brought by Yuan Shu this time.

(End of chapter)