It is said that Cao Cao has enough money and food now because he has the captain of the school. So he had the idea of expanding. Therefore, Yanzhou, east of Luoyang, became his first choice.

The Yingchuan Xun family is the largest family in Yingchuan, and Xun Yu is the representative of the new generation of the Xun family. He can become one of Cao Cao's masterminds, which naturally explains the attitude of the Xun family.

Since he knew that Cao Cao intended to conquer Yanzhou in the east, the Xun family did a good job of responding. Cao Cao's army has not yet set off, and the entire territory of Yingchuan has already announced its surrender to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was overjoyed, and then accepted Xun Yu's nephew Xun Yu as his advisor. So far, there are two people in the Xun family who are officials under Cao Cao!

Yingchuan is down, and Xu County is close at hand. Of course, Cao Cao will not let go, on the way to Xu County, Cao Jun's scouts unexpectedly found that a village was being attacked by thieves, but although the thieves were numerous, they still couldn't enter that village!

Cao Cao was curious and led his men to exterminate the thieves, and the people of the village invited him to a banquet in order to thank Cao Cao. Cao Cao readily agreed, curious as to why the village had survived the onslaught of thieves. When I entered the village, I found that there was a fierce general who led the villagers to defend the village, and this person was Xu Chu!

Cao Cao saw that Xu Chu was very fond of it, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Would a strong man like to come to my command and build a foundation with me in this troubled world?" ”

Xu Chu also has the heart to make contributions, and immediately knelt down and worshiped the lord! In addition, more than a dozen young and strong people in the village also followed Xu Chu under Cao Cao's command. Cao Cao's Xu Chu was in a good mood, and immediately appointed him as the commander of his personal guard, and the remaining dozen or so people were all filled into the personal guard.

The county order of Xu County at this time is full of favor from Shanyang people, this person is from a wealthy family, and he is very familiar with criminal law. Cao Cao led the army to arrive, and the full favor surrendered without a fight. Cao Cao admired his talent and appointed him as the general judge under his command and was responsible for all prison matters.

At this time, Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao, and when he saw that Cao Cao's momentum had been achieved, he knew that his Chen Liutaishou would not be able to do it for long, so he simply wrote to Cao Cao, expressing his willingness to give Chen Liu to him. Cao Cao naturally accepted it gladly, and at this time he was pleasantly surprised to find that he had unconsciously occupied most of Yanzhou! There is only one big city left in the entire Yanzhou, and the eastern county town is not under his rule!

The defender of this eastern county town is forbidden, although his military force is not high, but he is good at governing the army. However, Yu Ban deeply admired Cao Cao's performance in the battle against Dong. Therefore, after receiving Cao Cao's letter of persuasion, he decided to surrender the city! Cao Cao not only won the Dongjun City without blood, but also accepted a general and 5,000 soldiers and horses!

It took only a month from Cao Cao's dispatch of troops to the surrender of Dongjun City, and Cao Cao also had a complete state after Liu Bei. Not only that, but during this period, he also gained a group of virtuous ministers and fierce generals, among which the military general Li Dian from Shanyang and the two of the defenders Lejin were the most outstanding. The scribes were distinguished by Guo Jia, a native of Yingchuan, and Mao Jue, a native of Chenliu.

As soon as Guo Jia arrived, he was regarded as the mastermind by Cao Cao, and took over from the bedridden mastermind Xi Zhicai! The first thing Guo Jia did when he arrived was to prevent Cao Cao from expanding further, because to the east of Yanzhou was Qingzhou's territory, which had already been occupied by Liu Bei. And Liu Bei has a character under him who makes him very jealous.

Not in the east, not in the north. At this time, Yuan Shao still integrated most of Jizhou and eyed Yanzhou across the Yellow River. There is a small city in Yanzhou called White Horse City, which is a strategic location because of its location on the banks of the Yellow River. However, this city is now under Yuan Shao's hands! If Yuan Shao wanted to, he could make the army pass through White Horse City and directly enter the belly of Yanzhou.

Faced with the threat of Yuan Shao, Guo Jia strongly advised Cao Cao to suspend the pace of expansion. Let's consolidate the territory in your mouth first! Xun Yu also absolutely supports this suggestion! Cao Cao saw that the two major masterminds under his command all said so, so he stopped the pace of expansion from good to good!

Cao Cao ordered Yu Ban and Li Dian to garrison the eastern county town to prevent Yuan Shao, while he himself led a large army back to Xu County! That's right, Xu County is not Luoyang.

Luoyang is really a place of four battles, easy to attack and difficult to defend. This is not the case in Xu County, which is deep in the interior of Yanzhou, which is not only convenient but also adjacent to Yingchuan County, so Cao Cao decided to establish his own capital in Xu County! And changed the name to Xuchang, which means that it has been prosperous for a long time! As for Luoyang City, it was handed over to his most trusted brother Cao Ren to lead the army to defend it!

Cao Cao's series of actions can be described as smooth, and he occupied Yanzhou before the other princes could react. As neighbors, Yuan Shao and Liu Bei both felt threatened by Cao Cao at this time! Therefore, after Yan Liang's attack failed, Yuan Shao did not send anyone to recruit Liu Bei. Instead, he chose to garrison a large army on the banks of the Yellow River and in the White Horse City to prevent Cao Cao from moving north.

Liu Bei was the same, he ordered Zang Ba to train 10,000 recruits in Taishan County as a backup. Then he urgently ordered Jia Xu to send more shadow personnel in Yanzhou to collect information about Cao Cao's group.

Han Fei was stunned with the information in his hand, because many things had become different from history because of his arrival. Lü Bu was not driven out of Chang'an after killing Dong Zhuo, and the White Wave Thief had been killed by Cao Cao before. There is also Cao Cao who occupied Luoyang City, and now he occupies Yanzhou again, according to the current situation, it seems that Yuan Shao, who has not obtained the entire Jizhou, is not as powerful as Cao Cao!

However, this Cao Mengde is worthy of Liu Bei's death, and it was not easy for Liu Bei to pull up such a large team with his own help. If you look at Cao Cao, he easily gained a state, and there are many virtuous generals to follow. It's really more popular than people!

But will that happen? If it happens, this is a good opportunity to weaken Cao Cao's army. If it happens, it should be in the near future!

Thinking of this, Han Fei got up and went to the Zhou Pastoral Mansion, he wanted to remind Liu Bei that it was time to pay attention to the dynamics in Xuzhou. Now that it is the end of the eighth year of Zhongping, if I am not mistaken, that incident will happen before the beginning of spring! There is still more than a month left for them to prepare.

Liu Bei was very happy to see Han Fei coming, seeing that the Chinese New Year was coming, Yantian broke out the good news. Out of the salt! And it's that snow-white refined salt! After Liu Bei learned the news, he couldn't close his mouth with joy at the moment.

It's not just Liu Bei who is happy, the Xin family and the Mi family are even more happy, the two of them have really invested money and people, and now the production of refined salt can make the two of them happy. It was as if they saw a lot of money flying towards them.

Why was Liu Bei happy about Han Fei's natural way, and immediately said: "Lord, if the method of drying salt is feasible, it can make the site rebuild the salt field!" Imagine what it would be like to have dozens of salt pans on the seashore of the disadvantaged Qingzhou! ”

Liu Bei was frightened by Han Fei's words, if this is really the case, what a fortune it is! How many troops can be raised!

Seeing Liu Bei's expression, Han Fei secretly laughed, coughed clearly, and Han Fei said with a straight face: "Yantian is a trivial matter, and the lord has a big matter that needs to be decided by the lord right now!" ”