After the defeat of the second battle of Xuzhou, when Cao Cao launched the third battle of Xuzhou, he prepared a foolproof strategy, Mingli and Sun Ce sent troops together, although both sides had their own ghosts, but they wanted to eliminate Xuzhou Liu Bei's mind was the same.

Secretly, Cao Cao borrowed the name of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and secretly sent people to contact various families in Xuzhou. According to the spies sent to Xuzhou, Liu Bei implemented a series of new policies in Xuzhou, which seriously damaged the interests of the Xuzhou family, such as the implementation of Tuntian, which was similar to the Juntian system in Donghai County, Pengchengguo and Xiapi Kingdom, as well as some areas of Peiguo and Chenguo, such as Liu Bei's talent training program in Xuzhou.

The land should be concentrated in the hands of local families and wealthy families, rather than occupied by the lord of a state or ordinary people, which is the consensus between local families and wealthy families in various states and counties in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and even more so for talents. For example, the cultivation of scholars in Yingchuan County of Yuzhou and Nanjun County of Jingzhou has been almost monopolized by the family.

From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period, the most obvious example is Xu Shu. Because he was born in a Han scholar and a ranger, he was not valued by the Xun family and other families in Yingchuan, but when he arrived in Jingzhou and showed his talent, he was immediately accepted as a disciple by Lumen.

The Chen family is now the only two families in Xuzhou who are in charge of the rights of a county.

The other family is the Mi family in the East China Sea, because of the favor of Shufang, the Mi brothers will not betray Liu Bei no matter what. Therefore, even if Cao Cao still canonized Mi Zhu as the Taishou of Yingjun and Mi Fang as the Prime Minister of Peng Cheng in the name of the imperial court, Cao Cao only knew that the chance of rebelling against the Mi clan would be very small.

Chen Qi was appointed by Liu Bei to serve as a subordinate official of Xuzhou in Guangling, and he was dissatisfied. And Cao Cao had already prepared to appoint Chen Yu Yangzhou to assassinate the history, secretly watched Jiangdong, and after being defeated by Sun Ce, he did not dare to return to Fuling but fled to Guangling and hid in Chen Qi, but Chen Deng did not know about it.

Later, after Cao Cao learned of the news, he immediately sent a Han envoy to secretly canonize Chen Qi as the assassin of Xuzhou, Chen Yu as the minister of Xiapi, Chen Cong as the Taishou of the East China Sea, and Chen Deng Guangling as the old guard. If Cao Cao is so arranged, in addition to Peng Chengguo, the Chen family in the entire Xuzhou can be said to be the counties of Xuzhou.

With the official canonization of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Chen Qi will be more justified than Liu Bei, the unjustified second knife Xuzhou assassin.

Therefore, as soon as the news that Liu Bei suddenly led his army to leave Xiapi City with Xu Shu reached Guangling, almost everyone in the Chen family thought that the time was ripe for the Chen family to seize Xuzhou.

However, Chen Qi was concerned about the attitude of his eldest son Chen Deng towards Liu Bei, so he did not inform him of the content of the meeting in advance before convening this family meeting.

When Chen Deng didn't bring any entourage to the meeting, he was stunned to find that he had been placed under house arrest by the family soldiers.

"Father, what are you doing here?" As soon as Chen Deng saw the two clan uncles suddenly appear at home, he immediately understood in his heart, but in the end, he still tried to convince his father.

However, at this time, Chen Qi no longer wanted to listen to any of his son's arguments. There are edicts and seals of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. Chen Qi is the righteous one, and Liu Bei is the traitor who occupies the territory of the Han Dynasty without authorization.

At least, in the name of the outside world, in the eyes of the people except Xuzhou, the positions of the two sides are indeed like this.

However, Chen Qi forgot that the current Xuzhou is no longer Xuzhou where Cao Cao killed corpses all over the field and the people fled in embarrassment, but Xuzhou, which is under the leadership of Liu Bei and has the same hatred for all enemies who dare to invade Xuzhou.

What's more, Chen Deng didn't know the movements of Chen Yu and Chen Cong's brothers, but Xu Shu had been secretly sending people to closely monitor their every move, and even Chen Jue himself didn't know that in his mansion and around Chen Yu's brothers, there were secret agents sent by Jin Jue, including men and women.

Beauty is such a low-cost, high-yield strategy, how can Jin Jue not be? Before, the reason why it was not used under Hanzhong County or Liu Zhang was that he felt that he could rely on his own ability to defeat Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang, and there was no need to sacrifice innocent women in order to fight for territory.

But under Cao Cao and Liu Bei, it was different. As long as Liu Bei held out in Xuzhou for one day, he would be able to drag Cao Cao for a day and contain Cao's army, so that Cao Cao had no time or extra energy to expand his power to the surrounding areas. Therefore, Jin Jue had long thought that the Chen family would sooner or later become a big problem for Liu Bei to rule Xuzhou.

Don't look at Chen Deng has always been Liu Bei, his ability in all aspects is second only to Xu Shu and Lu Su, but after all, Chen Deng is a son, and he still has relatives and fathers. What's more, in history, when Liu Bei was in exile, the Mi brothers gave up their ancestral business and followed Liu Bei's left and right, never abandoning, but what about Chen Deng?

After helping Cao Cao destroy Lü Bu, when Liu Bei landed in Xuzhou again, Chen Deng did not help Liu Bei stabilize the situation in Xuzhou, nor did he send troops to assist Liu Bei in resisting the attack of Cao Cao's army.

Of course, Chen Deng was right to do this, and there is nothing wrong with that. But to say how loyal Chen Deng is to Liu Bei is just self-deception. Chen Deng was not so much loyal to the Han Dynasty that he chose to serve Cao Cao, but rather that he was loyal to the Chen family, so he made the decision that was most in line with the family.

After Chen Deng was placed under house arrest, a family meeting was immediately held.

During the meeting, the Chen family had always decided that Chen Deng's younger brother would immediately lead half of the defenders of Guangling County to Xiapi City.

At the same time that the Han envoy canonized the Chen family, he also sold Sun Ce. At this time, the Chen family also knew that Sun Ce had secretly sent people to prepare to attack Guangling County at any time, so at this critical moment, they did not dare to transfer all their forces at once.

When he arrived in Xiapi, Chen Dahui deceived the city gate in the name of assisting in the defense of Xiapi City, and took the opportunity to seize Xiapi City, and Liu Beijun's family members in the city were all in the city. Therefore, once the Chen family takes control of Xiapi City, it is equivalent to holding hostage all the families of Liu Beijun's civil officials and generals, including Liu Bei's family, not to mention that seventy percent of the families of Xuzhou soldiers are also in Xiapi City.

Chen Jue's plan is not ruthless, once it succeeds, Liu Beijun is really likely to collapse in an instant.

At this time, Liu Bei's assignment to Chen Jue in Guangling County played a decisive role, he could claim that Chen Deng was seriously ill and could not be a director, and everything in the county, including the seal letter of the transfer of troops, he could be transferred at will. He is Chen Deng's father, how can others doubt him?

But the premise of all this is that outsiders don't know about their plans.

(End of chapter)