After pacifying Goguryeo, Ye Chen breathed a sigh of relief, at least he could bring back the main battle forces, and then arrange for thousands of second-line troops to go over.

With an additional 20,000 troops and a few generals, Ye Chen's confidence is enough.

News from Goguryeo kept coming back, and Ye Chen also began to think about other things.

The first thing to consider is how to strengthen yourself.

To strengthen oneself is nothing more than to increase the population and increase the territory, the population is the most important, and the territory is secondary

Although the population is the most important, it is no longer enough to rely on Ye Chen's current speed of recruiting the homeless, because the princes have a relatively tight control over the homeless.

If the displaced people can't be recruited, then they will grab it, and if they want to grab the population, they will have to grab more territory.

And what Ye Chen can grab is in one direction, south.

Xiang Nan faced Yuan Shao, only Yuan Shao could let him grab it, and he could only grab Yuan Shao's territory.

Ye Chen was thinking about how to make the next plan, and Guo Jia walked in.

"Fengxiao, why are you smiling so happily." Ye Chen straightened up, leaned back in the chair and said.

"Haha, my subordinates are happy for the lord." Guo Jia said.

"Oh, what is the joy, tell me about it."

"Congratulations to my lord, your harem is about to add another population." Guo Jia said.

Ye Chen frowned, his "harem" increased the population, why didn't he know?

"Feng Xiaoxiu wants to be joking, let's think about how to increase the population of our Youzhou." Ye Chen didn't know what Guo Jia was selling, so he said.

"Lord, this time my subordinates suggest that you still accept it, and if you can work harder, you can charge an extra lady." After Guo Jia joked, he got serious and told Ye Chen the news that Goguryeo was going to make peace.

"Goguryeo actually wants to use a princess to make peace?" Ye Chen was a little surprised, because the ancients always had too many rules, and there was a huge difference between marriage and harmony.

Harmony is a matter between the two countries, and now, Ye Chenming is just a state pastor on the surface, although he is in a high position, he is not even a prince.

"My lord, if you want to assimilate Goguryeo, it can not be completed in a short time, and it cannot be completed in decades or even hundreds of years, so making peace with Goguryeo can stabilize people's hearts and will be of great benefit to our rule of Goguryeo." Guo Jia said.

Guo Jia said that this is on it, of course Ye Chen will not refuse, besides, how can someone else give him a sister.

It's just that Ye Chen thought in his heart, as long as the girl sent is not too ugly, he will accept it if he accepts it, anyway, he earns it himself.

This Goguryeo royal family will exist for a long time, so in order to stabilize the rule of Goguryeo, it is really necessary to reassure the Goguryeo royal family.

Although from now on, the Goguryeo royal family no longer has much power, but it will still let them live comfortably, as long as they don't die early, Ye Chen won't touch them in a short time.

"Okay, let Ziyi send the princess of Goguryeo over to appease the heart of Goguryeo."

The girl sent it to the door, since she can't do without it, then enjoy it, at most, Ye Chen's lustful name is just a step ahead.

Anyway, Ye Chen's lustful reputation is already known to the world, and he is not afraid of more money.

After discussing the matter of Goguryeo, Ye Chen ordered the soldiers in Goguryeo to retreat 10,000 people, because recently Yuan Shao began to feel uneasy again.

After cultivating for more than a year, coupled with the fact that Qingzhou has stabilized, Yuan Shao's strength has increased greatly, and this is a good time for him to use troops.

At this time, Cao Cao was still attacking Xuzhou, and Xuzhou let him break through a large number of cities in a row, and the soldiers were extremely strong, and Tao Qian couldn't stop it at all.

Tao Qian began to ask for help everywhere, and the rescue letter was also sent to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen and Cao Cao were still natural allies at this time, so naturally they would not send troops.

But if he didn't send troops, he didn't return to the army, so he still sold a lot of equipment to Tao Qian and slaughtered him ruthlessly.

The wealth of Xuzhou made Ye Chen greedy, and it was a sum of money to be able to slaughter.

"Report, lord, there is urgent news from Xuzhou." Ye Chen was processing the official documents, and there was a report from Xuzhou.

Xuzhou is in a big war, and there are several messages coming every day, but this kind of urgent news is still relatively rare, mostly reporting how many more cities Cao Cao has broken and how many people Tao Qian has died.

Ye Chen opened the message.

"Interesting, interesting, Chen Gong deserves to be a top strategist, it has only been a long time, and Lu Bu's strength has increased greatly." Ye Chen looked at the intelligence and said.

Intelligence said that Lü Bu led an army of 20,000 to attack Cao Cao's rear.

Half a year ago, Lu Bu only had thousands of soldiers and horses, and his strength was not strong, but it was only about half a year, and he actually raised more than 20,000 troops.

It turned out that this Lu Bu used the weapons and equipment he received from Ye Chen on credit to pull up a team.

If it was usual, how could Tao Qian let Lu Bu be like this on his own territory, but at this time, he had no choice, Cao Cao had already killed his hinterland, where would he still have the ability to take care of Lu Bu.

So Chen Gong proposed that Lü Bu send someone to Tao Qian, and let Tao Qian give him a few county towns as bases, and then he promised Tao Qian to attack Cao Cao's rear.

Tao Qian was so helpless by Cao **, at this time he only had Lu Bu who could support him, so Tao Qian could only agree, in fact, Tao Qian had no choice if he didn't agree.

If Tao Qian does not agree, Lu Bu may directly raise troops to cooperate with Cao Cao to attack him, and then Tao Qian will not only have no support, but also face the situation of being attacked by the enemy on his back.

In desperation, Tao Qian promised Lu Bu to give up a few county towns and make Lu Bu's territory.

And Lu Bu immediately used the equipment he obtained from Ye Chen to arm an army.

"Gongtai, Tao Qian doesn't have much strength at this time, we can take the opportunity to attack him, eliminate him, and occupy Xuzhou, why do we want to help him fight Cao Cao? Defeated Cao Cao, this Xuzhou is still Tao Qian's, and we still have to listen to Tao Qian. On the way, Lu Bu asked Chen Gong.

Chen Gong smiled and said: "First, the reputation problem, after all, we are nominally Tao Qian's subordinates, the second is that even if we join forces with Cao Cao to kill Tao Qian, we will not be able to get Xuzhou, eliminate Tao Qian, but we have to face a more powerful Cao Cao, and the third is that after this battle, Tao Qian is even weaker, and our foundation is unstable, and we are slowly encroaching on Xuzhou, which is more beneficial to us." ”

Chen Gong deserved to be a top strategist, and immediately analyzed the disadvantages and advantages clearly, which made Lu Bu very convinced when he heard it.

Lu Bu doesn't know much about this, but he is not a fool, Chen Gong has analyzed it like this, and he still doesn't understand it.

Most of Lu Bu's soldiers and horses were newly recruited, and they had only been trained for a few months, so they couldn't confront Cao Cao at all, and attacking Tao Qian, who had a tall city wall, would also cause great losses, so it was best to sneak attack Cao Cao's rear.

Ye Chen looked at the information carefully and thought for a long time.

"I'm afraid that this Xuzhou will soon change hands, and we must lay out it as soon as possible to get more benefits."

Chen Gong plus Lu Bu, the two of them together, the power is huge, Tao Qian can't stop it at all, it won't take long, this Xuzhou will definitely be Lu Bu's world.

So this is also the time when Ye Chen takes the opportunity to harvest the fruit.

(End of chapter)