Therefore, Yuan Yao and others decided that taking advantage of the fact that Xu Du had not yet been taken by Zhao Feng, Yuan Yao carried the jade seal of the country and rushed to Luoyang in person to give up the throne.

In this way, Yuan Yao can at least keep the Yuan family's wealth.

What's more, I have already made Zen concessions twice before, and this Zen concession trip is not abrupt.

After Zhao Feng finished reading it, he was also emotional.

chose to besiege Xudu instead of storming Xudu, first, to try to be stable.

In the case of a big advantage, there is no need to take risks to fight Cao Cao.

After all, Cao Cao is not easy to deal with.

Second, it can reduce the number of casualties.

After all, the number of Zhao Feng's army was not much more than that of Cao Cao.

If you attack Xudu, not to mention whether you can take it or not, even if you can take it, you will have to suffer heavy casualties.

As a result, after Zhao Feng besieged Xu Du, he gave Yuan Yao the feeling that Zhao Feng wanted to capture Liu Xie and then use it for other purposes.

At that time, regardless of whether Liu Xie is willing or not, as long as Zhao Feng is willing, can Liu Xie still give up the throne?

Therefore, Yuan Yao's trip to Zen is obviously a fork.

Of course, even if there was no situation this time, after Zhao Feng eliminated Cao Cao, Yuan Yao would still make three concessions.

Regardless of whether Yuan Yao gave up the throne to the emperor at the beginning, he was mostly tempting, or he really had the idea of Zen concession.

By now, everything is already in the boat, and Yuan Yao can't help it!

Just like Tao Qian asked Xuzhou to Liu Bei, Liu Bei asked Xuzhou to give Lu Bu, in that situation at that time, a little temptation, a little sincerity, who can say it clearly.

If Yuan Yao was angry and tried to be strong, and finally defeated Zhao Feng and kept the throne, then the original move was naturally a temptation.

Even if it's not a temptation, it becomes a temptation.

And if Yuan Yao finally gave up the throne to Zhao Feng, even if it was a temptation at the beginning, it would not be a temptation, but a sincere Zen concession.

Zhao Feng put down the paperwork in his hand and looked at the soldier: "Go back and tell Pang Tong, just say I know." ”

The soldier bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Wow! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

Five days later, Yuan Yao sent an envoy to tell Zhao Feng about their itinerary, hoping that Zhao Feng would arrive in Luoyang as soon as possible to accept the throne.

Zhao Feng just replied that he knew, so he sent Yuan Yao's envoy.

Because Zhao Feng's thought in his heart was that after ascending the throne and becoming emperor, there were too many uncertain factors.

If Cao Cao can't be eliminated, he may get into some trouble.

After eliminating Cao Cao, Zhao Feng and Liu Biao had a ten-year appointment.

Liu Biao can let his son take over Jingzhou smoothly.

As for the Jiangdong Sun clan, it is not a problem for the time being.

And as long as Zhao Feng recognizes the throne of Ma Chao, the king of Liang, and Bai Wen, the king of Qin, the two of them will not cause trouble for Zhao Feng in a short time.

Zhao Feng can also take advantage of these years to ascend the throne and later gather the hearts of the people in Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Sili, Qingzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou.

Time passed slowly, and before he knew it, Zhao Feng had been under the city of Xu for four years.

In the past four years, Ma Chao and Bai Wen have divided the right Fufeng equally.

Among them, Wang County, Yu County, Yong County, Chencang, and Yi County are owned by Ma Chao.

Huaili, Maoling, Pingling, Juxian, Wugong, Meiyang, Duyang, Qixian, Luyi, Anling, belong to Baiwen.

After that, Ma Chao and Bai Wen joined forces and attacked Zhang Lu's Hanzhong County from the Slope Valley.

The two sides won and lost each other, but because of the difficulty of grain transportation, Ma Chao and Bai Wen were defeated in the end.

In addition, in the past four years, 60,000 male soldiers and 15,000 female soldiers have rushed to Changsha for training every year.

Today, the army hoarded by the Changshe has reached 300,000 male soldiers and 75,000 female soldiers.

plus the 90,000 troops outside the north wall of Xudu, and the more than 20,000 troops outside the east wall of Xudu.

In the vicinity of Xudu, Zhao Feng hoarded more than 480,000 troops!

As for the army of Zhang He and Wen Chou, Zhao Feng had already asked them to lead their troops to Runan County to take charge.

After all, Liu Biao in Jingzhou still needs to be guarded against.

The army of Dian Wei and Wang Ping also withdrew from Nanyang County and returned to Hongnong County.

It's just that there are still many places in Nanyang County, which still belong to Cao Cao, so Nanyang County has not been handed over to Liu Biao at present.

this day.

A sentry rode into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qiqi!" ”

"There is an urgent report from Xiangyang, Liu Biao has died of illness, and the lord of Jingzhou is succeeded by Liu Biao's second son Liu Cong."

Zhao Feng said with emotion: "At the beginning, I thought that Liu Biao only had one or two years to live. ”

"I didn't expect that this job would last for four or five years."

As for Liu Cong to succeed to the position of the lord of Jingzhou, Zhao Feng was not surprised.

Although Huang Chengyan was asked to find someone to assist Liu Qi at the beginning, it obviously had little effect, or the rights of Cai's and Cai Mao and others were too great, resulting in Liu Qi having no chance at all.

Zhao Feng pondered for a moment and looked at Xiong Da: "Let the Jingzhou underground intelligence organization find Liu Qi." ”

"If Liu Qi doesn't want to be killed, let him go to Anyang, Runan County, and ask Zhang He for help."

"I will let Zhang He and Wen Chou lead troops to intervene in this matter."

Xiong Da bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Huh! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

After Xiong Da left, Zhao Feng looked at the sentry rider: "Go down and receive the reward." ”

The sentry knight bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Thank you, lord!" ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

After everyone is gone.

Zhao Feng said to himself: "Liu Biao has survived, how long can this Cao Cao live?" ”

Zhao Feng's original plan was to besiege Cao Cao in Xudu and then kill him.

After all, the land of Yingchuan County alone obviously can't raise an army of more than 100,000.

Under normal circumstances, the taxes of a county can only feed an army of about 30,000.

The counties are different, the grain production is different, and the population is different, and the army that can be fed will be different, with a small number of people being able to feed more than 10,000 people and a large number of more than 50,000 people.

Even if Cao Cao has a little food in stock, he shouldn't be able to survive for too long, after all, it is an army of 100,000.

But Cao Cao survived for four years!

Of course, the longer it takes, the more the people of Yingchuan County will be exploited.

When the time comes, Zhao Feng's resistance to receiving Yingchuan County will be smaller.

So Zhao Feng was in this kind of thinking, and Xu Du surrounded him for almost five years.

It didn't take long.

Another sentry rode into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qiqi!" ”

"There is news in Xu Du that Cao Cao has passed away!"

After Zhao Feng heard this, he was stunned for a moment.

Although it is not clear when Cao Cao died, it was obviously not at this time.

I don't know what the reason was that Cao Cao died so many years in advance.

I haven't had time to lament the impermanence of the world.

Another sentry rode into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qiqi!" ”

"Xu Du Tianzi sent a messenger to the camp to express his willingness to surrender!"

Zhao Feng knew that Liu Xie was just pushed out by Cao Pi and others.

Cao Pi and the others disagreed, even if Liu Xie wanted to surrender to Zhao Feng, what was the use, no one would listen to him at all.

What's more, the news that Liu Xie wanted to surrender couldn't get out of the Xudu Palace.

Zhao Feng pondered for a moment: "You go to Xu Shu and ask him to meet the messenger of the Son of Heaven." ”

The sentry knight bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Huh! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

In this case, Zhao Feng was naturally not suitable to directly meet Liu Xie's envoy.

So letting Xu Shu take the lead and find out the situation over there is the best choice.

A moment later.

Xu Shu walked into the big tent of the Chinese army and waved at Zhao Feng: "Back to the lord, Xu has run out of food!" ”

"According to the envoy, Cao Cao was due to poor diet and overwork, which led to a head stroke and eventually died."

After Zhao Feng heard this, he was also emotional, he didn't expect Cao Cao to die like this.

He groaned for a moment: "They surrendered, did they have any requirements?" ”

Xu Shu shook his head: "I didn't ask for anything." ”

Then the conversation changed: "It's already out of food, what else can you ask for?" ”

"If you delay for another three or five days, I don't know how many people will starve to death in the city of Xudu!"

Zhao Feng pondered for a long time: "Liu Xie is Liu Han's son of heaven after all. ”

"With my current status, I am afraid that it is not suitable to accept Liu Xie's surrender."

"I intend to let the soldiers transport some food into Xudu every day, and hang the lives of the soldiers and civilians in Xudu City."

"Then go back to Luoyang to accept Yuan Yao's concession."

"After that, as the emperor, come to accept Liu Xie's surrender!"

"What does Yuan Zhi think?"

With the situation of Xu Du, even if Zhao Feng wanted to distribute more food to the people, he would be snatched away by Cao Jun.

So it's better to treat everyone equally.

Anyway, it will only be a month or two of suffering, at least I can guarantee that I will not starve to death.

Xu Shu waved at Zhao Feng: "That's it, great goodness!" ”

In fact, what Zhao Feng thought, in addition to the so-called inappropriate identity, also took into account the impact in the future.

Because of this, the rumor that circulated later was that as soon as Zhao Feng ascended the throne and became emperor ......, the Son of Heaven surrendered to Zhao Feng.

In this way, Zhao Feng seems more orthodox.

Three days later, Zhao Feng took the tiger camp and the leopard camp and left the city of Xudu and set off to return to Luoyang.

Another month later, Zhao Feng was in the Luoyang Imperial Palace, accepting Yuan Yao's concession.

Half a month later, Zhao Feng worshiped heaven and earth and officially ascended the throne as emperor!

Because they are all made by Zen, the country name is still Han, and there is no change.

The era name was revised, abolishing the system of changing the era name frequently, and the era name was unified into the New Han Dynasty in the future.

The reason why it is called the New Han Year is that the first expression is that Zhao Feng's new dynasty is a new Han dynasty.

Another meaning is that Wang Mang also ceded the throne from Liu Ying, the son of Emperor Ping of Hanping.

And the name of the country established by Wang Mang back then is new.

Therefore, the meaning of the new Han Dynasty can be regarded as counting the new dynasty.

In order to blur this concept and let people probably know such an intention, they did not start from the first year of Wang Mang's founding of the country, but counted the first year of the residence of his son Liu Ying and the first year of Emperor Ping of Han.

And the first year of the Xinhan Dynasty, which was supposed to represent Zhao Feng, was also changed by Zhao Feng to the 208th year of the Xinhan Dynasty.

It is just the same as the year 208 A.D., another set of calculating almanacs in Zhao Feng's mind.

Zhao Feng did not deliberately make the era name consistent with the AD calendar.

But it has a third meaning, that is, I want to warn future generations that the result of the succession of the son may be usurped by someone like Wang Mang.

This is convenient for Zhao Feng, and in the future, some new ones will be established, and the system of successor candidates can be regarded as a precautionary measure.

Then in front of everyone, he sent envoys to the locations of Ma Chao and Bai Wen respectively, indicating that Zhao Feng recognized Ma Chao's position as King of Liang and Bai Wen's position as King of Qin.

Let the two of them write separately, expressing their willingness to be ministers and serve Zhao Feng as the emperor.

Later, three new titles were added: prince, county king, and county king.

The prince, obviously, is the prince of Zhao Feng's family, with only eight fixed princes, a small number of military powers, and no hereditary.

The king of the county belongs to the king with a different surname and can be hereditary.

The requirement is that they themselves seize the territory of non-Han lands, which can be regarded as encouraging those ambitious families and powerful to invade foreign countries.

It has many benefits for the stability of the dynasty, which can divide the thoughts of many careerists who are worried about the throne, and can indirectly weaken the various families and heroes.

After all, wars are fought against resource consumption, and once defeated, everything will come to naught.

In addition, it can be regarded as an alternative promotion channel, and those who have the idea of 'princely general Xiangning has a kind of' can go to those places to shine.

Zhao Feng's move is not a new creation, but a special one after revising the weekly system.

Because throughout ancient history, only the Zhou Dynasty expanded the most land.

At the same time, Zhao Feng passed on the general map of the world in the name of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Because of the geographical location of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, after the visit of scholars who studied the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it was found that it was not suitable for the geographical location of the Han Dynasty.

So Zhao Feng still has a certain degree of credibility when he says this.

As for those who want to refute Zhao Feng's statement, you can travel all over the world first!

It just so happened that Zhao Feng didn't know much about what dynasties were in the world at present.

Replacing it with the geographical location of the Mountains and Seas can be perfectly explained.

As for the county king, it is the advanced title of the county marquis, which belongs to the normal prince in the Han Dynasty, and is only hereditary for the third generation, and if there is no new meritorious service, it will be cut to the county marquis.

There is not much difference in the real power between the two, the main thing is that the prince will be more noble.

In this case, the Han Dynasty has it, but it is very rare, and it is a special marquis.

Zhao Feng can be regarded as turning the county king into a bright face.

For example, Pingyuan County, Le'an County, Yiguo, Qi County, Changguo, Langya County, Runan County, Song County, Wei County, Zhongshan Guoan, etc., these are all county states.

In the end, of course, there is a big reward.

Among them, Zhao Yun was named King Wu and belonged to the prince.

Seven other princes, temporarily vacant.

Zhao Yun also led the hussar general, Zhang Liao was named the general of the chariot cavalry, and Dian Wei was the general of Wei.

These three people, whether it is military merit or qualifications, are well deserved.

As for the post of general, it is temporarily vacant.

In addition, the former general is Hua Xiong, the right general is Zhang He, the left general is Wen Chou, and the later general is Zhou Cang.

This is based on military merit.

Hua Xiong went deep into Cao Cao's hinterland alone several times, without Hua Xiong's containment and destruction, maybe Zhao Feng would have been defeated by Cao Cao a long time ago, and the credit goes without saying.

Zhang He and Wen Chou respectively won the Yuzhou area, part of Qingzhou, part of Xuzhou, and Taishan County of Yanzhou, excluding Yingchuan County.

In terms of the territory seized, these two are the most!

Although Zhou Cang's ability is a little watery, after all, he was the first to follow Zhao Feng, and his comprehensive credit is not too much.

The rest of the generals are basically four peaceful and four safe.

Then the vacant post of general was given to someone else.

On the civilian side.

Tian Feng was named Tai Lieutenant, Bing Yuan was named Da Situ, and Wang Lie was named Da Sikong.

Mainly except for Taiwei, Da Situ and Da Sikong have no real power, so they were given to Bing Yuan and Wang Lie.

The powers of Da Sima and Tai Lieutenant are almost the same, and these two positions are not the same.

It was still the end of Emperor Ling, with Liu Yu as the big Sima, and the Taiwei remained unchanged, and after that, the Taiwei and the Great Sima were set at the same time.

But Zhao Feng has no intention of appointing Da Sima now.

Guo Jia, Lu Su, Man Chong, Cui Yan, Xun Chen, Wang Ji and others are temporarily listed in Jiuqing.

Xu Shu, Pang Tong and others are currently not worthy of credit and cannot be ranked among high-ranking officials.

After that, all the titles of officials were promoted by one level.

Yuan Yao was named the king of Huainan by Zhao Feng, and he was regarded as the prince who succeeded Yuan Shu at the beginning, but he did not have a fief for the time being.

Zhao Feng sat in Luoyang for three months, and when everything was normal, he rushed to Xudu and accepted Liu Xie's surrender.

After being broken up by Zhao Feng, the hungry and unadult-looking Cao Jun joined 150,000 male soldiers and 50,000 female soldiers, a total of 300,000 troops, and was assigned to the border to sit in the town.

After all, so many generals have been promoted, and the establishment of various armies has changed, and the overall strength has been expanded a lot.

With Zhang He and Wen Chou alone, they divided an army of 30,000.

Since then, the Cao family's power has fallen!

Zhao Feng did not kill Cao Pi and the others, and brought them all back to Luoyang for resettlement.

It's kind of a close look.

In addition to the Cao family's relatives, people like Xun Yu, Xu Chu and others were all arranged to go to the grassroots level.

Liu Xie was named King An by Zhao Feng, and he was regarded as the king of the county, but he had a special identity and needed to stay in Luoyang for the elderly.

In the following half a month, Liu Qi took the remnants of Ganning and rushed to Runan County for help.

Zhao Feng ordered Zhang He and Wen Chou to lead an army of 50,000 headquarters to return to Jingzhou with the remnants of Liu Qi and Gan Ning, preparing to meddle in the affairs of Jingzhou in the name of Liu Qi.

Then ordered Xiahou Lan and Tai Shici to lead an army of 40,000 headquarters to go to Runan County to take over the position of Zhang He and Wen Chou, and sit in Yuzhou.

Three years later, in 211 of the new Han Dynasty, Sun Shao, who had grown up, grew up with the support of Zhao Feng's arrangement, and Sun Shao said that since ancient times, the son has inherited his father's business, and how can there be a reason for the younger brother to inherit the brother's family business.

Therefore, Sun Quan is the lord of Jiangdong, and his name is not right, and he asked Sun Quan to return the position of the lord of Jiangdong, that is, the position of King Wu, to Sun Shao.

This position of King Wu was sealed according to Wu County, and was sealed by Cao Cao in order to win over Sun Ce against Yuan Shu.

The family and Haoqiang in Jiangdong are the most intact areas preserved in the Han Dynasty, so Sun Shao's statement has been recognized by many families and Haoqiang.

After all, if the uncle can rob his nephew's family business at will, wouldn't it be a mess?

And Zhao Feng also responded immediately, saying that his son should inherit his father's business, and issued an edict recognizing Sun Shao as the king of Wu.

In addition, Xu Huang, Tai Shici, and Guan Hai were also sent to Jiangdong to support Sun Shao.

Zhao Feng thought of today's situation as early as when he was preparing to support Sun Shao.

Sun Shao's identity is already sensitive, and Sun Quan will definitely be wary of Sun Shao everywhere, so Sun Shao can naturally feel the malice from Sun Quan.

In addition, the people arranged by Zhao Feng often said some provocative words in front of Sun Shao, and it became inevitable that Sun Shao would rebel against Sun Quan.

Therefore, sending troops to reinforce is naturally in the name of Sun Shao to attack Sun Quan.

As long as Jiangdong is in turmoil, even if Sun Quan is eloquent and strategic, he can only do nothing in the face of a mess.

Also in this year, in order to appease Ma Chao, Zhao Feng personally issued an edict to let Ma Chao's sister marry Zhao Yun, the king of martial arts.

After all, Zhao Feng first sent troops to help Liu Qi, which led to wars often breaking out between Liu Cong and Liu Qi, who are still in the position of the lord of Jingzhou.

After Zhang He and Wen Chou entered Jingzhou, even if Liu Qi didn't want to fight, Zhang He and Wen Chou would take the initiative to stir up trouble, and then friction continued.

Of course, the scale of the war is not too large, and it is a friction of thousands of people.

Now that he has sent troops to help Sun Shao, you have to be uneasy, what does Ma Chao think?

Who knows when Zhao Feng will make this move again to interfere in Xiliang's affairs.

Also in this year, Liu Bei magically visited Zhuge Liang, and then took Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others into Yizhou, suspected of taking refuge in Liu Zhang.

Zhao Feng, who originally didn't take Liu Zhang to heart, began to be wary of the dynamics in Yizhou again.

However, the main major danger has been sent to intervene, and Zhao Feng began to vigorously promote academics when he was wary of the dynamics in Yizhou.

This mainly includes some scientific knowledge of later generations.

Five years later, in 216 of the Xinhan Dynasty, Liu Cong was forced by the pressure of Zhao Feng to increase his troops in Jingzhou at any time, or he was indeed incompetent, Liu Cong formally surrendered to Zhao Feng.

Zhao Feng was very happy and split Jingzhou into Jingnan and Jingbei, of which Nanyang County, Nan County, and Jiangxia County belonged to Jingbei, and Wuling County, Changsha County, Lingling County, and Guiyang County belonged to Jingnan.

Among them, Liu Qi was appointed as the history of Jingnan Thorn, and Liu Cong was appointed as the history of Jingbei Thorn.

Zhao Feng also has his own considerations for arranging this, after all, Jingzhou is too big and has abundant grain production, which can be regarded as reducing the trouble it will bring in the future.

Soon after the partition of Jingzhou, Sun Quan also surrendered like Zhao Feng and expressed his willingness to return the throne of King Wu to Sun Shao.

But Sun Quan's request was to allow him to take his old ministry to expand the territory.

Sun Quan also came according to the rules that Zhao Feng had formulated at the beginning.

As long as it is the territory that has been conquered by expanding the territory, it belongs to the category of county kings.

Although Zhao Feng knew that Sun Quan was worried that he would split Yangzhou, he decisively left with the old department.

In this way, at least the Sun family is still the lord of Jiangdong, and he can also find another way for the Sun family.

In comparison, Sun Quan is indeed a hero!

Sun Quan came according to Zhao Feng's rules, even if Zhao Feng was worried, he could only agree.

After all, this is the first future county king to expand the territory.

If Zhao Feng disagrees, it will also affect the passion of the family and Haoqiang behind him.

If Sun Quan really lays down a piece of territory by himself, then there will be more people to follow Sun Quan's example.

Anyway, the 'Classic of Mountains and Seas' is so big, there will always be ambitious families and heroes.

In fact, Zhao Feng really wanted to split Yangzhou.

After all, the current Yangzhou is Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, part of Hubei, part of Jiangsu, almost five provinces, which shows how big Yangzhou is!

Since then, except for Yizhou, which was reserved for the future prince as a place to establish meritorious deeds, the Han Dynasty has basically been unified.