January 20 of the second year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (202 AD), the sixth day after Xu Huang's soldiers entered Xunan, the soldiers of Long Xiang had arrived under the important town of Guangling, when Tao Qian was the assassin of Xuzhou, there were many families under his rule, and some of them were very powerful and even able to monopolize the counties and counties. This is a very common phenomenon in the late Han Dynasty, in the troubled times, it was common for the great families to raise private soldiers in order to protect themselves, and no one did anything about it. This was the case in Xuzhou, Jingzhou was the same in those years, and Cao Cao's Yanzhou was no exception, they constituted the mainstream of society.

Perhaps at this time, among the states of the Han Dynasty, only Liu Yi's Yandi is quite different, although those famous scholars are also famous and advantageous, there is no shortage of people in high positions in the family, but only in the population, the king of Yan is extremely strict, especially the private soldiers they raise, although the existence of this kind of force may not be able to shake the foundation of the stable rule of Yandi, but in the long run, it is a great hidden danger, so it is necessary to prevent it from happening! There are clear regulations on the number of scholars in the Yandi law, which corresponds to its status and reputation, and the implementation is also severe, of course, in order to prevent the intensification of contradictions, this law is not completely at this time, Liu Yi's first step is only to weaken the potential threat, and then slowly try it out with the method of gradual encroachment!

The relationship with the Shi clan is also very important to the Yan King, in the troubled times he wants to unite all the forces that can be united, the strength of the Shi clan in the late Han Dynasty is extremely huge, since the beginning of the reign of Youzhou Liu Yi and them are cooperation and struggle coexist, in fact, it can also be regarded as another battlefield, and its key point may not be lost. With an understanding of history, Liu Yi knew in his heart that he would never allow the recurrence of the situation of "no cold scholars in the upper grades, and no scholars in the lower grades", but it is inconvenient to deal with it with an iron fist if the world is undecided.

Guangling Chen family is one of the most famous and powerful scholars in Xuzhou, the head of the family at this time is Chen Gui who was once too guarded here, and the performance of this person in the history books is also an old fox-level character, and his son is Chen Deng Chen Yuanlong, who is now in Yangzhou under the account of Liu Xuande, who is now in Yangzhou Governance, is also a celebrity in the late Han Dynasty, and even Cao Cao will call it "**** man", and he has made outstanding contributions to Liu Bei after serving him. At that time, Ganning Pang Tong was ordered by King Yan to help Xuande seize Yangzhou, and he had a deep contact with this Chen Yuanlong, and both of them had a deep impression of him.

Chen Deng is the eldest son of the Chen family in Guangling, but his devotion to Liu Bei does not necessarily mean that the entire family will work for him, the heads of these great families in the late Han Dynasty have no lack of investment vision, in the troubled times they will choose some potential princes to connect with them as a guarantee for the family, sometimes they will not choose only one, just like Liu Yi was born out of thin air, the Zhen family, the Mi family, and the Wei family have all supported it, but now the only one who really connects the fate of all the families with him is the Zhen family, and the big family like this often tens of thousands of people, They are extremely cautious in their choice, especially in troubled times, if the position is expressed too obviously, once the princes who fully support it lose power, it may bring disaster to the family.

Liu Bei's position as the assassin of Xuzhou has been held for four years, Guangling of course belongs to his rule, but Chen Gui has not clearly expressed his full support for him, and the assistance in all aspects has not gone all out, the reason is that he can see that Liu Bei has the name of the assassin history but it is difficult to have the benefit of preserving Xuzhou, if it were not for Liu Yi to send troops to contain him, I am afraid that he would have been defeated under the joint efforts of Yuan Shao and the two, and now that Yuan is dead, Liu Cao and Shuangxiong are winning, and the biggest threat to Xuzhou is Liu Yi, the king of Yan, Chen Gui will not act rashly, here Langsheng's orthodox identity is a great advantage, and it is very appealing to the scholars!

Not only the Chen family has this attitude, but also the Mi family, one of the six major merchants in the world who has the greatest support for Liu Bei, also has reservations, and the eldest lady in the family is the concubine of King Yan. If you compare the strength and weakness between the two, it is self-evident, of course, Liu Bei also knows these situations, but if he wants to use this as a name to deal with a big family like the Mi family and the Chen family, it is not possible, these families are intertwined and widely implicated, and there is no strong foundation to attack it, which will only cause turmoil under the rule and make the fisherman profitable, how to use it and how to limit it is a problem in front of every prince.

The reason why the soldiers refer to Guangling, Pang Tong of course has his own considerations, here is the second largest city in Xuzhou after Xiapi, taking Guangling has a great symbolic significance, and it is also one of the best bargaining chips to force Liu Bei to express his position, and there are many people here for business travel, Xu Gongming can have the opportunity to repair the plank road in the dark, and the three counties of Xu Nan are just meat on the board in the eyes of Pang Tong Xu Shu, and the rapid promotion of Jiangbei to establish a solid support point for the Flying Tiger Army is the biggest purpose of sending troops!

Xu Huang led the army slowly forward, the army came to Guangling City thirty miles outside the city when there was a large group of men and horses to meet the face, looking at its formation is by no means to come to fight, but like to greet the majority, there was the experience of supporting Xuzhou in the Beihai Sea, where the people's acceptance of the Yan army is better than others, if it is not for the king of Yan to send troops to help, then I don't know how many people will die under the butcher's knife of the Cao army! Xu Huang was not surprised by the scene in front of him, and immediately signaled Long Xiang's army to stop marching, and he immediately waited for the person on the other side to come and meet.

"General Xu? After a long time, the general's demeanor is better than in the past, and it is really gratifying to congratulate, I heard that the old man came to a special place to wait here for a long time. After a while, the team of centaurs had already arrived in front of them, they stopped the team on both sides of the official road to rest, a person flew out to meet him, this person's voice is bright and the eye is also good, from a distance at a glance to recognize the Gongming who immediately stopped in the official road, listen to his words with a strong sense of cordiality, it seems that he is still a familiar person.

"Hahaha, who am I, it turned out to be Brother Yu'an, farewell to Xiapi, you and I haven't seen each other for ten years, and King Yan also mentioned it a lot when he was in Beiping, and I am quite grateful for my brother's generous gift." Xu Huang looked at it intently, and saw that the person who came was more than forty years old, with a yellow face and a long beard, and his body was quite majestic, but the belly had already stood out quite beautifully, but it was also appropriate in terms of his age! If you just rely on memory, Gongming will not remember who this person is, but before leaving, Pang Tong had a detailed explanation of these Xuzhou tasks, and it was Cao Bao, the Xuzhou Zhonglang general under Tao Qian's account.

The battle of Motianling in Youzhou, Liu Yi burned the 60,000 army of the white horse general Gongsun Zhan and captured it alive, at that time Liu Bei's three brothers in the Gongsun army were among them, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei joined forces to repel Liu Yi, and reported that his brother killed through the siege and ran south, and then threw himself into the Xuzhou Thorn Shi Tao Qian's account, Liu Bei has always had the name of a hero, and he acted in a gentleman's style, plus his identity as a Han clan, Tao Gongzu greatly appreciated it and was very important! It has caused the dissatisfaction of many local people, Cao Bao is one of them, and the Cao family's power in Xuzhou is second only to the Chen family.

In the romance, this person's daughter married Lu Bu as a concubine, and was drunk and beaten by Zhang Fei with a grudge, so he took advantage of Liu Bei Guan Yu's army to connect with Feng Xian to sacrifice Xia Picheng, and was later killed by Zhang Yide! The situation in this life has changed, Lu Bu and Liu Bei's fight for Xuzhou has indeed been staged, but the final winner is diametrically opposed, maybe Cao Bao also saved his life because of this, he and Liu Bei did not get along that day, and Liu Yi did not know the details, but the happy attitude on his face when he came to greet Xu Huang at this time was by no means pretended, and the two must not be kind to each other.

Liu Yi's assistance to Xiapi was sure that Cao Cao would withdraw at a critical time, so he could gain fame and fortune, and it was not too much to take some risks for this, so that Guo Jia sent Cao Ying, Lang Sheng played a magic stick in front of everyone in Xuzhou. Out of the intention of avoiding suspicion, Tao Qian asked him to guard Xiapi that day, and he wanted to shirk himself, and he didn't want to cheapen Liu Bei's brothers, so General Cao was at the right time and became the first good general in Xuzhou in the mouth of King Yan! Speaking of the heavy responsibility of the guards, it was none other than General Cao Lang, Tao Qian naturally trusted his words deeply, so he reused the leopard according to his words and took full responsibility for the defense of the city.

At that time, Lang Sheng said that this was just a casual excuse, but he didn't know that his words had made him a big reputation, and then as Liu Yi's reputation became more and more famous, the accuracy of knowing and employing people was even more well-known in the world, and I don't know how many unknown talents were discovered by him and became famous in the world. So a generation of good generals in Liu Yi's mouth, how can he pay it back? When Lu Bu attacked Xuzhou, he was afraid of this and did not dare to use troops excessively against Guangling, so even Cao Cao's general Wen Ze was extremely jealous of this good general's talent when he led the army, and even Cao Mengde himself had the idea of digging Liu Bei's corner, but he only gave up because of his family affairs!

Cao Bao's reputation became louder and louder between this and then, and it was not weaker than the second general Guan Zhang, perhaps this is also the reason why he failed to connect Lu Bu and later Liu Bei to scatter and kill him, a generation of famous generals should have their own backbone, and it is not advisable to connect with foreign enemies, and if you start with this person, with his reputation, he will not be able to say that he will end up with the name of "harming the virtuous", Liu Xuande is also a rat trap, an unintentional word can produce such a power Liu Yi is proud.

Although this Cao Bao is not a talent and is not a so-called good general, but he is quite grateful, always praises Liu Yi, and Liu Bei secretly fought when there was a time if Xuzhou was handed over to General Liu, how to say, after Langsheng and Mi Zhen became a gift, Mi Jia and Tao Qian all had heavy gifts, how could General Cao lag behind, carefully found a dagger with hair and broken hair as one of the congratulatory gifts, and this dagger Xu Huang saw in the palace of King Yan, only to know its origin.