Chenhe County, Exian County, First Hospital.

Guo Jia gradually recovered, and Yang Xi came to see it once every two or three days.

"Bonghyo, how do you feel? Reinstated? Yang Xi asked.

Guo Jia said: "Thank you Chenhe for arranging this time, Jiaxian feels good, but I don't know when Chenhe will return to Xudu?" ”

Guo Jia thought that Yang Xi would put himself under house arrest here, or force himself to work for him, which was a temptation with words.

Yang Xidao: "Feng Xiao wants to go, you can do it at any time, but I think that if Feng Xiao leaves like this, I am afraid that it will arouse the suspicion of the prime minister, and the prime minister is suspicious, and I am afraid that Feng Xiao will worry about his life." If not, then I will be this bad person, take filial piety as a hostage, and exchange some benefits for the prime minister, and the prime minister will not doubt him. ”

Guo Jia was stunned, he didn't want Yang Xi to be so thoughtful, so he had to agree.

On the same day, Yang Xi and Cao Cao wrote a letter, saying that Guo Jia was fine under his own treatment, but if he wanted to exchange for Guo Jia, he would get 100,000 stone of grain and send it to Donglai Port.

Cao Cao believed it, so he had to shake his head and smile bitterly, and discussed with Xun Yu and others.

Xun Yu said: "If the prime minister wants to return to Fengxiao, this 100,000 stone grain, but he has to give it, but this 100,000 stone is too much, last year's Juntun, a total of grain, is only 1.2 million stone, hard work, but was blackmailed by Yang Xi eleven, but it is too ruthless." ”

Chen Qun said: "The prime minister can't exchange with that Yang Xi, Guo Jia has misbehaved, how can he be worth so much food, Qun suggested, refuse Yang Xi, you must not be able to feed the enemy!" ”

It turned out that Chen Qun was in charge of the law, and Guo Jia was impeached by Chen Qun every time he violated and misbehaved. But Cao Cao praised Chen Qun while ignoring Guo Jia.

Cao Cao said: "Fengxiao is my hair, how can there be no reason not to save it, reply to Yang Xi, 100,000 stone grain, sent to Donglai Port within half a month, and he is not allowed to hurt Fengxiao's hair." ”

Let's say that since the start of the war, Cao Cao ordered to send letters to various families in Chenhe District, making an appointment to rebel against Yang Xi, but Yang Xi had already prepared, and under the suppression, there were five or six hundred families to cater to Cao Cao.

Of these five or six hundred families, the population is counted to fifty or sixty thousand, and these are all feudal stubbornness.

Yang Xi ordered the governors of various places to gather all these people and send them to the Yangtze River, and it happened that 10,000 of the 30,000 soldiers and horses recruited a year ago would continue to be sent to the Wuchang Strait, so he let these more than 10,000 soldiers and horses directly escort all these rebels away, and the fleet was mighty and sailed towards the Wuchang Strait.

At this time, Pang Tong sent back the disheartened Cheng Pu, and Yang Xi personally picked it up and arranged it in the villa area, with Lu Bu and others as neighbors.

Yang Xi also ordered someone to take a boat to Jiaozhou to retrieve Cheng Pu's family, and Cheng Pu was able to live in seclusion in Chenhe County with his wife and son Cheng Zhi.

After arranging Cheng Pu, Yang Xi immediately gave orders to the new Lingling Governor Liu Du and Guiyang Governor Jiang Wan.

In order to penetrate the two counties of Guiyang and Lingling as soon as possible, Yang Xi ordered Pang to be responsible for the transportation of the army, and about 30,000 people of the whole army participated in the construction of railway tracks.

Yang Xi allocated thousands of tons of gunpowder, tens of thousands, to blow up the mountain and open the road, and it was necessary to extend the Changsha section of the railway track to the south. In addition to the army's participation in the construction, it is expected to mobilize more than 50,000 migrant workers along the road to build roads and bridges.

Yang Xi remembered that Changsha and Zhuzhou had the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway southbound, so he built a real cement official road along this road, and there were railroad tracks accompanying him.

As for the water canal in Jingnan, needless to say, it must be vigorously developed, and it is conceivable that in a few years, Jingnan will become a new granary.

In April, Guo Jia returned to Cao Ying.

Seeing Guo Jia again, Cao Cao was overjoyed, and Guo Jia also felt like a world away.

Cao Cao Xu discussed the matter, Xun Yu once again proposed that he must unify the north first, Yang Xi is so strong, and the pressure is not small.

Guo Jiadao: "Now Yuan Shang is still attacking Yuan Tan, Yuan Tan has surrendered to the lord, but the lord can use this excuse to take the opportunity to attack Yecheng, Yecheng is established, and Jizhou is at your fingertips." ”

Cao Cao said: "In this way, Yang Xi attacked my Xu Capital, but how to deal with it? ”

Guo Jia said: "The prime minister doesn't know, Jia has been in Exian County for the past two months, but he has heard a lot of news, Yang Xi has recruited 30,000 troops to guard the island, but there is really something going on. ”

Cao Cao Qi said: "Is it really something? Xun Yu and the others were also very curious.

Guo Jiasui took out a map, which was drawn according to his extraordinary talent after seeing Yang Xi's map.

"My lord! Ladies and gentlemen, please see, this is Jiaozhou, Jiaozhou has Zhuyazhou as a big island, and then thousands of miles down, Yang Xi named this place Wuchang Island, this narrow sea area, was named Wuchang Strait. Wuchang Strait to the northwest, all the way through thousands of miles of sea area, so far, there is a huge land, its vastness is no less than my Han, according to Yang Xi's overseas fleet brought back the news, ruled by a man named Amir, has almost defeated the Kushan Empire, the population is millions, the army is three or four hundred thousand. To the north of the Amir Empire, it is the Resting Empire, and this Resting Empire, as everyone knows, is adjacent to the Han Dynasty. It is said that Amir is warlike, and will also make Yang Xi kind of ships, Yang Xi occupies this island, is to defend Amir, it is expected that within three years, Yang Xi will recruit more than 100,000 troops to this point, so that the prime minister must unify the north within three years. ”

Cao Cao and the others looked at the map and couldn't help but be amazed.

Xun Yu said: "Yang Xiqi's ambition is not small, if he can't do this, with his strength, he can already take Jingzhou, and even Xuzhou." ”

Cao Cao also said: "Feng Xiao is right, if his strategic deployment of Wuchang Island is completed, he will definitely go up to attack the Central Plains, and he will have to step up." ”

Xun Yu said: "It seems that we must take Jizhou as soon as possible in accordance with Fengxiao's deployment." ”

Cao Cao nodded, immediately made a decision, and immediately went north to attack Yecheng.

In the same month, Cao Cao personally led a large army to Yecheng, raised earth mountains, dug tunnels, and launched a fierce attack on Yecheng.

When Yuan Shang's strategists tried to defend Yecheng, when they saw Cao's army attacking, they commanded the soldiers to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

In May, Cao Cao saw that Yecheng was difficult to capture for a while, so he left Cao Hong to continue the siege, and led his troops to capture Maocheng and cut off the grain delivery channel from Bingzhou to Yecheng.

In June, Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to dig a trench outside the city of Yecheng, surrounded by forty miles, two zhang deep and two zhang wide, to divert water to irrigate the city. There was a shortage of food in the city of Yecheng, more than half of the people died of starvation, and the situation was extremely critical.

In August, Yuan Shang heard that Yecheng was dangerous, and personally led more than 10,000 soldiers to rescue him, and went to a place seventeen miles away from Yecheng. Seeing that Yuan Shang's rescue soldiers were coming, the trial matched the fire and sent troops outside the city, wanting to join Yuan Shangli and break out of the encirclement. Cao Cao sent troops to intercept the trial and drive it back to the city. He waved his army to defeat Yuan Shang.

Yuan Shang was frightened and sent an envoy to ask for surrender, but Cao Cao did not allow it. Yuan Shang had no choice but to retreat, and Cao Cao then pursued. Yuan Shang's generals Ma Yan, Zhang Kai and others surrendered to Cao Cao, the army was scattered, and Yuan Shang was in a state of great strength and fled to Zhongshan County.

Cao Cao won a complete victory, and obtained Yuan Shang's baggage, seal ribbons, knots and other things. So he made people take Yuan Shang's seal ribbon to show the city, and the defenders in the city collapsed.

In October, the nephew of the trial Rong opened the city gate to welcome Cao's army, and Cao Cao occupied Yecheng, so far, Cao Cao pacified Jizhou.

In October 204, Cao Cao appointed himself as the pastor of Jizhou, and Jizhou became Cao Cao's political center from then on.