In mid-November 196, Zhu Wei settled the affairs of the four counties of Jingnan and finally returned to Yuzhang.

At this time, the overall situation of the world is also changing as the original history, Cao Cao welcomed Emperor Han Xian into Xu County, and then took Xu County as the capital, and then coerced the Son of Heaven to order the world.

Immediately, Cao Cao's forces, which originally only occupied Gunzhou, soon spread to the land of Luoyang, Henan, and even Guo Yan, Li Dao and others, who were originally in Guanzhong, also came to join in name one after another, which made Cao Cao's power seem to have swelled a lot all of a sudden.

With the help of the name of the Son of Heaven, Cao Cao has expanded a lot of territory in the Central Plains, although many places are still in a state of autonomy and self-care, but Cao Cao still got some ground.

The most important thing is that Cao Cao can fight whoever he wants in the name of the Son of Heaven, and he doesn't need to find an excuse to start a war like Zhu Wei.

However, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty initially named Cao Cao as a general, but Cao Cao was still forced by Yuan Shao's pressure in the north to give the general to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao originally wanted Cao Cao to send Emperor Han Xian to Juancheng under his control, but Cao Cao naturally would not spit out the meat he ate from his stomach, so Yuan Shao had no choice but to accept the title of general given by Cao Cao, and in addition, he also clearly obtained the official control power of the four states that were also in charge of Jizhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou.

After that, Yuan Shao put his energy on attacking Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, obviously Yuan Shao was ready to pacify Gongsun Zan behind him first, and then turn back and talk to his younger brother Cao Cao about the emperor, which is also the origin of the later battle of Guandu.

Then, Huainan Yuan Shu failed to gain anything from attacking Xuzhou, and temporarily returned to Huainan, and according to Zhu Wei's calculations, he would soon be crowned emperor.

If Yuan Shu is the emperor, then Zhu Wei will have an excuse to move troops against Liu Biao, because from the information known so far, there is actually an alliance between Liu Biao and Yuan Shu.

Although Yuan Shu was driven to Huainan by Liu Biao from Nanyang County, in order to seize Jiangdong, Yuan Shu naturally hoped that Liu Biao would no longer hinder him, so the two made some transactions in secret, perhaps Yuan Shu could get Danyang, Huiji, Wujun and other counties in Jiangdong, and Liu Biao could get Yuzhang County.

But now if Yuan Shu becomes emperor, then Liu Biao, who is allied with Yuan Shu, will naturally become a rebel, and Zhu Wei will have an excuse to send troops to Jingbei to rebel.

Well, this is also a later story for the time being, and we can only see whether Yuan Shu will be the emperor.

In addition, at this stage of time, Xuzhou is still under the control of Lu Bu for the time being, Liu Bei is stationed in Xiaopei to repair, and as for Guangling County, which was nominally occupied by Yuan Shu, it seems that nothing special has happened on the surface.

However, Zhu Wei has determined through the intelligence exploration of the Three Kingdoms game system that Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and other people from the Sun family are indeed in Guangling County, it seems that Zhu Wei's previous judgment is correct, Sun Ce has secretly controlled Guangling County.

On the Jingzhou side, Liu Biao has already said that Zhang Xiu has surrendered, and asked Zhang Xiu to garrison Wancheng in Nanyang County, preparing to let Zhang Xiu serve as a buffer between Liu Biao and Cao Cao in the north, and help Liu Biao defend against Cao Cao.

It's a pity that Liu Biao's thoughts were obviously in vain, and later Zhang Xiu, under the persuasion of Jia Xu, quickly threw himself into Cao Cao, which was equivalent to letting Cao Cao get Liu Biao's Nanyang County Wancheng land for nothing, and finally Liu Biao lost his Nanyang County.

If it weren't for Zhang Xiu's first surrender, Cao Cao's lust fell in love with Zhang Xiu's uncle Zou, and Zhang Xiu turned against him again, it is estimated that Liu Biao would soon jump to scold his mother.

It's a pity that in the original history, Zhang Xiu finally threw himself into Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao's power spread to Nanyang County, Jingzhou, of course, now with the appearance of Zhu Wei, it is difficult to say what the future will be.

Anyway, now that Liu Biao has lost the four counties of Jingnan and Jiangxia County, plus Zhang Xiuwancheng to garrison troops, the actual area controlled by Liu Miao is actually part of Nanjun and Nanyang County.

However, before the outbreak of the Great Plague in Nanyang County, Liu Xian was indeed in the stage of great loss of strength.

Therefore, Liu Biao has nothing to think about, he doesn't have the strength to make moves against Jiangxia County and Jingnan County under Zhu Wei's control, but he can continue to fight with Zhu Wei in official battles.

Liu Biao seems to have written to Xu Du and asked the little emperor to make decisions for him.

But Zhu Wei also wrote to Xu Du, explaining the legitimacy of his attack on the four counties of Jingnan, and the actual control of the four counties of Jingnan was also to protect the people of the four counties of Jingnan from the invasion of barbarians.

At the same time, Zhu Wei also cheekily begged Emperor Han Xian for officials, saying that he wanted a general name, so that he could continue to help Emperor Han Xian take care of the people in the southeast like his cheap father Zhu Jun.

Of course, the book drafted by Wang Yuyan for Zhu Wei has a lot of politeness and courtesy, not these two seemingly shameless words, on the one hand, they express Zhu Wei's so-called loyalty, and on the other hand, they use Zhu Jun's name to make a play, anyway, they are all some high-sounding reasons.

It's just that there is no news from the Eastern Han Dynasty court in Xudu under Cao Cao's control for the time being, but according to Wang Yuyan's analysis for Zhu Wei, the court under Cao Cao's control may meet Zhu Wei's request.

Because there is no need for Cao Cao to express any hostility towards Zhu Wei now, anyway, Zhu Wei's territory and Cao Cao's territory in the Central Plains are separated from Jingzhou and Huainan, and there is no direct conflict of interest between the two sides.

And Zhu Wei controls the strength behind Liu Biao and Yuan Shu, and Cao Cao may also show favor to Zhu Wei because of this, so that Zhu Wei can help Cao Cao contain Liu Biao and Yuan Shu in Jingzhou and Huainan.

After all, the alliance relationship that Liu Biao and Yuan Shu maintain now is not a good thing for Cao Cao, and the strong strength shown by Yuan Shu in the Jianghuai area is also a certain threat to Cao Cao.

In the original history, Yuan Shu once sent troops to capture the state of Chen, directly threatening the Xu capital controlled by Cao Cao.

So Cao Cao had to send troops to attack Yuan Shu, but Yuan Shu was too useless, and Cao Cao captured and beheaded his generals Qiao Rui, Li Feng, Liang Gang, and Le on the first battle of Qiyang, and finally Yuan Shu fled back to Huainan in defeat, and since then he has entered the end of his life.

But now Yuan Shu has not suffered such a big defeat, so with his control of the strength of the army on the surface, Cao Cao will still be jealous, even if Cao Cao feels that Yuan Shu is a dry bone in the grave, but this bone is also piercing.

What's more, as Yuan Shu's ally, Liu Biao can also send troops from Nanyang County to attack Cao Cao with Yuan Shu at any time, and Cao Cao will have a big head at that time.

In addition, don't forget, Cao Cao still has a big enemy like Yuan Shao in the north, and Lu Bu is also eyeing Xuzhou here, so although the current Cao Cao is coercing the Son of Heaven to order the world, he is actually putting himself in the situation of a public enemy in the world, and there are big enemies threatening him all around.

Therefore, Cao Cao naturally hopes to make allies to help him restrain the strong enemies around him.

That Zhu Wei and Liu Biao are obviously in a hostile state now, and Zhu Wei is subordinate to Liu Xuan, so he and Yuan Shu are also in a hostile state, for Cao Cao, Zhu Wei is definitely a natural ally.

Under such a premise, Cao Cao should take a gesture of friendship with Zhu Wei, and he needs to use Zhu Wei to contain Liu Biao and Yuan Shu.

After analyzing the situation, Wang Yuyan gave Zhu Wei a very optimistic result, she thought that Cao Cao might be able to meet Zhu Wei's request for the title of general, and maybe he could get more benefits......