In the entire four years of Xingping, the world seemed to be very peaceful, except for Liu Zhang's attack on the three counties in the south of the Yangtze River, there were almost no large-scale battles.

And state, although Yuan Shao has recruited enough soldiers, purchased enough horses, but training cavalry is not as simple as training infantry, fast two years, slow three or four years may not be able to form an army, since Xingping suffered a big loss in the third year, Yuan Shao has made up his mind to pay attention, unless there is enough cavalry to resist Liu Zhang, otherwise he will definitely not easily send troops to attack Liu Zhang. After the formation of the 11th and 12th Cavalry Divisions and the 22nd Infantry Division, the 11th and 5th Field Corps were temporarily transferred from the 5th Field Corps and evacuated from Bingzhou. Yuan Shao saw that Liu Zhang took the initiative to "show weakness", and he also had the heart to ease the relationship with Liu Zhang, so he left his nephew Gao Gan to lead and retreat to Yecheng.

Yuan Shao, who worked hard to mobilize the people, not only failed to weaken Liu Zhang, but lost nearly 40,000 people (including 25,000 killed and captured), and the love generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou also died because of this, and the losses were extremely heavy, why was Yuan Shao enough to swallow this evil breath? In the final analysis, Yuan Shao is not a stupid person like all the princes, if the cavalry is not prosperous, there is no way to defeat Liu Zhang's Fifth Field Army, not to mention that Liu Zhang has stabilized the situation in Shu, according to more than two-thirds of the land of the Han Dynasty, Liu Zhang, who has nearly half of the population, is not afraid of consumption, but he is a little unable to consume, although he received Yuan Shu's Yaoya, Donghai and other places, so that his strength and prestige have risen a lot, but because of this, he has become hostile to Cao Cao, and many skirmishes have broken out between the two armies, The situation is getting worse by the day. After several comparisons, Yuan Shao found that Cao Cao was a greater threat to him at this time, Liu Zhang's cavalry was strong, but the cavalry also had a disadvantage, that is, the lack of ability to attack fortifications, and Liu Zhang's infantry in Bingzhou was very few, more than enough to defend, and not enough to enterprising. On the other hand, Cao Cao, after getting Peiguo and Xiapi, his strength has grown a lot, and seeing that Yuan Shao's main force was contained in the annexation of the state, Cao Cao became more and more impatient day by day, and Yuan Shao was worried that maybe tomorrow, the news that Cao Cao would send troops to Yecheng would come. After some comparison, Yuan Shao left 80,000 troops to defend the western part of Jizhou, and he led the rest of the troops to retreat to Yecheng to deter Cao Cao.

The sudden 180-degree change in Yuan Shao's attitude made him feel incredible, could the policy of worrying about life and death be changed so suddenly? As a result, Frustration inevitably said something that made Yuan Shao very unhappy, Yuan Shao naturally couldn't listen to it, plus Guo Tu and others fanned the flames, and as a result, Frustrated Professor stayed in Bingzhou after being greatly reprimanded, and said that he helped Gao Gan, but in fact, Yuan Shao didn't want to see him, and "dispatched" him to suffer in the bitter cold land of Bingzhou in disguise! After Yuan Shao evacuated, the three-legged state suddenly fell silent.

Cao Cao absorbed tens of thousands of Tao Qian and Yuan Shu to surrender troops, and his strength increased dramatically, but Cao Cao was even more uneasy than before the third attack on Xu, because when he checked the map, he suddenly found that the passage between his Xuzhou and Xuzhou was only less than fifty miles wide, and this passage was Yuan Shao of Peiguofeng County to the north and Yuan Shu of Liang Guoxia to the south.

No one wants to spit out the meat in their mouths, let alone the rich Xuzhou...... Well, it's half of Xuzhou, but it's half of Xuzhou, but at this time it's already Cao Cao's most important source of taxes and soldiers, it can be said that this half of Xuzhou is related to the life and death of Cao Cao's group, Cao Cao naturally can't give up, because of this, seeing that Yuan Shao was pinned down and merged with the state, he began to provoke trouble at the junction with Yuan Shao, he hoped that through these temptations to understand Yuan Shao's reality, once he found a flaw, he would immediately send troops to drive Yuan Shao out of Xuzhou, and even south of the Yellow River. It's a pity that Yuan Shao couldn't withstand the teasing, and soon withdrew his troops from Bingzhou, and Cao Cao had to temporarily stop fighting.

Yuan Shu since getting the jade seal presented by Sun Ce, although the army was defeated in Xuzhou, lost the army, but its heart to call the emperor is more and more intense, he thinks that as the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family's son-in-law his reputation spread in the world, once ascending a call, the world will definitely return to the heart, not to mention the proverb has already been a cloud "on behalf of the Han Dynasty, when Tu Gao also", it is so coincidental, the jade seal of the country fell into his hands at this time, all this is not the will of heaven? If you go against the sky, you will be sent by heaven! Yuan Shu then decided to proclaim himself emperor next year, and ordered people to build palaces in Shouchun, privately make dragon robes, crowns, and select beautiful women to fill the harem, and ordered people to carve seals to prepare for the canonization of hundreds of officials when they ascended the throne......

Liu Zhang got Yuan Shu's attempt to become emperor, but he ignored it, he knew very well that the day Yuan Shu became emperor was the time when he turned from prosperity to decline, since Yuan Shu wanted to isolate himself from the world, why did he stop it? And what is Liu Zhang busy with at this time? No one would have expected that Liu Zhang was busy marrying his daughter-in-law at this time!

This is not that Liu Zhang is full of lust, but a large group of courtiers such as Xun Yu, including Liu Zhang's father-in-law Cai Yong, they all think that Liu Zhang, who has two-thirds of the Han land and nearly half of the population, is the king of Shu, but there are only two princesses, which is very inappropriate with Liu Zhang's identity as the king of Shu, and Liu Zhang only has one son and one daughter at this time, how can this work? Everyone in Shu firmly believes that in the near future, the entire Han Dynasty will be in Liu Zhang's pocket, at that time, it was when Liu Zhang's throne was on the verge of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the future emperor of the Han Dynasty, this harem and heirs were so thin, how could it show the prestige of the Celestial Empire? So they asked Liu Zhang to speak together, asking him to accept a few more princesses and spread more branches for the Shu Kingdom.

In this regard, Liu Zhang is not much interested, he has experienced family planning, and he is very fortunate to see that most Chinese families have only one child, not to mention that he already has five women (Shihan, Su Fei, Cai Yan personal girl Caier), maybe it won't be long before he will be a father again? And the palace fighting drama in the later generations also made Liu Zhang feel a trace of fear, he didn't want to see his wives intrigue all day long, and he didn't want to see his children kill each other!

But I don't know if it was influenced by Cai Yong, even Cai Yan gently advised Liu Zhang to take a few concubines, the reason was that she didn't want the world to think that she was jealous, which made Liu Zhang a little laughable.

In the end, Liu Zhang was "forced" by many pressures and agreed to marry a few more concubines, in fact, he was able to be the groom again, and he was also overjoyed in his heart.

After learning that she was Liu Zhang's draft girl, Yizhou, Jingzhou, Liangzhou, Yangzhou, Bingzhou, and Sanfu acted at the same time, and after screening layer by layer, 336 young women with good morality, talent, and appearance were finally obtained.

Liu Zhang couldn't help but be startled, even if he was killed, each woman could only be pampered once a year, even if these women could endure loneliness, but if they did, could it be that his life was too long? Of course, Liu Zhang refused to fill so many women into the harem, and after reading all the women's information, he left eight, including Jiangdong Erqiao, Xuzhou Mi, Jingzhou Cai, Zhongshan Zhen, and one Xiongnu woman, one Qiang woman, and one barbarian woman.

Here is a brief introduction to the eight girls. Jiangdong Erqiao is a famous big Qiao and Xiao Qiao in history, the two were supposed to live in Lujiang with their father, but after Lu Su guarded Yuzhang, he invited his friend Qiao Gong to settle in Yuzhang, when Qiao Gong felt that Yuan Shu was becoming more and more unpopular, worried that he would be persecuted by him if he stayed in Lujiang, he gladly accepted Lu Su's invitation and moved his family to Yuzhang.

Xuzhou Mi is naturally the sister of Mi Zhu, that is, the one who committed suicide by throwing himself into a well in the romance. Because Cao Cao's killing in Xuzhou was too heavy, after he captured Xuzhou, a large number of old officials in Xuzhou refused Cao Cao's employment, Mi Zhu was one of them, he sold his land and left Xuzhou. Mi family to businessmen prosperous, after leaving Xuzhou, can only return to the old business, and at this time the most prosperous, the most promising place is Chang'an, so Mi Zhu led his family to move to Chang'an, by coincidence to get acquainted with the full pet, as the head of the household book of the full pet for the Mi family such a large taxpayer to settle in Chang'an is naturally happy, from time to time to invite him to the house as a guest, and has the intention to recommend Mi Zhu and his brother to Liu Zhang, but the time is not yet ripe. In one fell swoop, Liu Zhang's full favor of choosing a concubine naturally recommended Mi Zhu's sister.

Cai is the sister of Cai Mao, one of Liu Biao's wives in history, and it was Cai Mao who recommended Liu Zhang to Jingzhou Assassin Shi Kuaiyue.

Zhongshan Zhen is both a famous Luoshen! Why did Zhen, who is in Zhongshan, appear on this list? It turned out that she was sent directly to Chang'an by Yuan Shao, the reason was naturally to temporarily paralyze Liu Zhang, originally he wanted to send his daughter, but when he thought that one day he would meet Liu Zhang, wouldn't Hou harm his daughter at that time? But if you find a random one and you're worried that Liu Zhang won't like it, isn't that a waste of effort? So the daughter of the Zhen family in Zhongshan was selected, in order to reassure Liu Zhang, Yuan Shao also sent all the Zhen family to Chang'an (he also made a fortune, and the Zhen family, who was forced to move to Chang'an, sold a huge family property, which almost all went into his pocket, and with this money he actually bought more than 5,000 war horses, which made him sigh and kill two birds with one stone, how wonderful).

As for the three women of different races, Liu Zhang deliberately stayed in order to show off his concept of being a family in the world, encouraging foreigners to intermarry with the Han people.

The eight brides Yan was fat and thin, each with its own merits, which made Liu Zhang a little * up for a while.