Starting from Wuwei Village, Liu Bei went to Langling County, the westernmost part of Runan County, with the soldiers from Nanyang, where he joined Fu Tong.

The two went to Jingzhou together to meet Liu Biao.

Wei Yan and Jiang Ji went to Pingyu County, the county of Runan County, where they joined Fu Gan and Zhao Yun.

At that time, Wei Yan, Zhao Yun, and Liu Ye, who had already arrived in North Yichun County first, would lead their troops to Yang'an County together, preparing to join forces to attack Li Tong, the general of Cao's army who lived there.

As for the celebrities of Huainan County who newly joined Jin Jue, Liu Fu Gao Ancheng County took office and really had to take up the post of Gongcao of Runan County, while Cang Ci, Wu Qian and Dai Qian were first appointed as county magistrates of the central counties of Runan County.

In the Han Dynasty, although there was only one word difference between the county order and the county magistrate, the difference was that the number of registered households in a county exceeded 10,000 households, and the chief official of the county was the county magistrate, otherwise, it was the county magistrate.

Runan County has a vast territory and a large population, but because the Yuan family and the local family who were the protégés of the Yuan family hid many tenant farmers in the estate, even Pingyu County, controlled by Zhao Yun, and Yang'an County, controlled by Li Tong, the two most important counties in Runan County, did not reach the level of 10,000 households.

Zhang Cheng took his sons and nephews back to see his eldest brother Zhang Fan, and described in detail what they had seen and heard in Liyang County, although Zhang Ling and Zhang Jian said a lot of bad things about Wei Yan and Jin Juejun, but, in fact, after Zhang Fan listened to Zhang Cheng's words, he was already a little moved, and wanted to take his family to join Wei Yan.

Don't underestimate the vision of the wise people of this era, when Jin Jue had not yet captured Yizhou, he was able to let his subordinates gather troops in the Central Plains to prevent his enemy Cao Cao's power from further expanding, this foresight and wisdom has deeply moved Zhang Fan and Zhang Cheng.

Similarly, Chen Qun's father and son also thought the same thing in their hearts after returning to their place of seclusion.

However, later came a news that shocked the scholars in the entire Jianghuai region, and the two Jianghuai celebrities Chen Jiao and Xu Xuan, who participated in the grand event in Liyang County, were suddenly found in the Yangtze River.

According to Zhu Ji, a young handsome man who left Liyang County first, because the two of them spoke ill of Jin Jue and Jin Juejun, Wei Yan secretly sent someone to follow the two celebrities and killed them together.

However, Zhu Ji's own words were not able to convince the public.

First, if it is said that at the Liyang County event, who offended Wei Yan the most ruthlessly, it is none other than himself, in this case, why did Wei Yan only kill Chen Jiao and Xu Xuan, and let go of Zhu Ji, who has a higher reputation than the two and is much younger than both of them?

This made it impossible for anyone to believe Zhu Ji's accusations when they heard the news.

It's just that people who hear the news can't help but wonder, who killed the two of them?

Although Jiujiang County suffered a military rebellion, Chen Jiao and Xu Xuan's respective families were not weak, and when they went out, they brought a lot of retinues, so the chance of being killed by the rebels was very small.

At the grand meeting in Liyang County, Chen Jiao and Xu Xuan also made it very clear that although the two of them were Chen Deng's subordinates before, because they disdained Chen Deng's house arrest, they had actually left Guangling City and had no subordinates for the time being, so during this time, all forces should mainly recruit the two of them, and should not send people to assassinate them.

From this point of view, then, it is indeed the most likely that Wei Yan sent someone to assassinate the two of them, because Chen Jiao and Xu Xuan have already made it clear that the two of them will not serve Jin Jue, but also insulted Jin Jue.

Therefore, the Zhang family and the Chen family, as well as other Jianghuai families or scholars who were still hesitating to join Jin Juejun, hesitated again after hearing this appalling news.

In fact, the killing of Chen Jiao and Xu Xuan was really done by Wei Yan secretly. The two left the table and went out of the city with Hu Cong, and Wei Ming, who received Wei Yan's hint, personally led people to kill the two and all Hu Cong less than ten miles away from Liyang City, and threw their bodies into the Yangtze River.

Although Chen Jiao and Xu Xuan left the table at the same time, because their private relationship was very poor, they did not go out of the city at the same time.

However, why didn't Wei Yan kill Zhu Ji?

Of course, it wasn't that Wei Yan was afraid of offending Sun Ce, or because he was afraid of Zhu Ji's reputation in Jianghuai, so he didn't dare to kill him.

Actually, not killing Zhu Ji was because of Jin Jue's orders.

Although Zhu Ji later grew up to become Sun Wu's general, it has to be said that he was a very strange general during the entire Three Kingdoms period.

During the reign of Sun Qi, the young lord of Sun Wu, he and the ministers under his rule were suspicious of each other, and they did not care about the situation. Zhu Ji was worried that Sun Wu would have another civil strife because of this incident, and the Wei State would take this opportunity to send troops to attack Wu, so he privately sent a secret letter to Shu, so that the monarch and the ministers of Shu at that time had merger concerns.

Sure enough, after receiving Zhu Ji's secret letter, Shu immediately sent the right general Yan Yu to have 5,000 troops to increase the White Emperor's defense, in order to wait for Zhu Ji's follow-up orders.

However, the young lord Sun Qi finally stabilized the situation, and Shu died first, and Zhu Ji's secret traitorous behavior was not implemented, and he himself died in office first.

Langling County, located in the westernmost boundary of Runan County, originally, here is the Jiangxia Li Tong and his county friend Chen Gong together to raise troops, later, Chen Gong was killed by his wife and brother, Li Tong avenged his friend, and annexed the army left by his friend, and a person alone in charge of many counties of Runan County.

At this time, because of Zhao Yun's containment and attack, coupled with Liu Ye's sudden leadership of troops to occupy the southern part of Runan County, therefore, when Liu Ye raised his troops, he took Langling County by the wayside, and Zhao Yan, who was appointed by Cao Cao as the magistrate of Langling County, lost Langling County because of his new arrival and unpreparedness.

After Cao Cao learned of this, he did not blame Zhao Yan, but still trusted him, and reappointed him as the magistrate of Guanyang County, Runan County, which was separated from Shangcai County controlled by Zhao Yun by only a Hongjiang River, and was directly north of Yang'an County.

However, just in case, Wei Yan still placed seven of his own subordinate Simas in each of the seven counties along the Yangtze River in Runan County in advance, and these seven newly issued new county commanders each led 3,000 recruits recruited by Fu Gan from Runan during this period and trained for a month to prevent Zhou Yu of Yuzhang County from sending troops to attack Runan County in order to avenge Sun Ce's revenge.

Li Ming was not among them, and he went to Ancheng County with his father-in-law, Liu Hu.

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