After Liu Ye and Gao Ran occupied the land of the three counties, they heard that Xiahoudun was coming from the south, so the two of them collected the soldiers and horses and posted the list to appease the people in the land of the three counties. The first man saw that Liu Ye and Gao Ran were no longer going south, and Xiahoudun also accumulated strength and did not dare to go north. After the news of Liu Ye's southward movement reached Bohai County, Jizhou, he was so happy that Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Tan, the governor of Jizhou Prefecture! You must know that Jizhou is his own nest, so Yuan Tan asked Guo Tu and Xin Ping to send the Qinghe country closest to him.

After Guo Tu set off, he really lived up to Yuan Tan's trust, and successfully persuaded the Qinghe State Minister to surrender to Yuan Tan. After the surrender of Qinghe, Xin Ping also persuaded the minister of Anping to surrender, and for a while, the land of Jizhou was in the hands of Cao Cao, and only the three counties of Wei County, Zhao State and Julu County were left. Seeing that Yuan Tan won the two counties without a single soldier, Liu Ye was afraid that Yuan Tan would take the lead, so he and Gao Ran went south to attack Julu County, Xiahoudun went north to resist, and the two sides started a big battle in Julu.

In the spring of 210, a year had passed since Cao Cao's invasion of Xuzhou, and because of the war, the development of Xuzhou was almost at a standstill. Not only is it stagnant, but the entire economy of Xuzhou is already on the verge of collapse. The first manifestation was that many military factories had no income, and the Xuzhou General Commercial Bank was unable to sell things due to the war, and the goods in Xuzhou were piled up and were about to become moldy.

If things can't be sold, there will be no financial revenue, and it is these financial revenues that maintain Xuzhou's huge expenses, so a chain is broken, and other problems have come one after another. The first manifestation is education. Without revenue, teachers could not pay their money, and schools in many places were forced to close temporarily. After the problems of education arose, the salaries of officials followed.

After being stationed in Shanyang County for nearly a year, Zhang Zhao came to Changyi by boat to discuss this issue with Tao Ying. Outside the city of Changyi, Liu Bei's camp was stationed far away, a winter passed, there was not much war between the two sides, Tao Ying's spies got the news, Liu Bei's grain and grass were about to run out, and Liu Bei was about to withdraw his army, so Tao Ying was in a good mood these days. After Zhang Zhao arrived, Tao Ying entertained Zhang Zhao in the Ramadan Building, which is the best restaurant in Changyi.

After Zhang Zhao told Tao Ying about a series of problems at the banquet, several people have been discussing solutions, and after nearly a week of discussion, Tao Ying decided to reduce his salary to tide over the current difficulties. The salaries of officials in Xuzhou were originally the highest in the entire Han Dynasty, so Tao Ying decided to halve the salaries of all officials, halved the salaries of teachers, and even suspended the funding of many scientific research institutions, and the whole of Xuzhou entered the policy of reduction.

In addition to a series of wage reductions, Jia Xu also suggested that it would be better to cancel all the issuance of banknotes, so that Xuzhou could get nearly half of the world's wealth. Tao should be firmly opposed to the abolition of paper money, although this is a time of war, but if paper money is abolished, then the merchants and large families in other counties will no longer trust paper money, so that even if they win the war, they will lose their banking strategy.

As a result of the war, there was a exchange boom in central banks set up in enemy territory, and many large families exchanged their paper money for gold and silver. In response to this phenomenon, Tao should introduce a policy that all states and counties should stop exchanging gold and silver, and wait until the war is over to exchange gold and silver. Jia Xu's suggestion soon tied up all the big families that held central bank banknotes, especially the big families in Cao Cao's territory.

If Tao Ying loses, their money will really become a piece of waste paper. Therefore, more and more people expected Tao Ying to win, and after seizing this opportunity, Tao Ying's spies were active all over Yanzhou, and soon many big families responded to the call and prepared to set fire to Cao Cao's backyard.

In May 210, the harvest season was approaching, and Cao Cao's grain and grass could not be helped, so Cao Cao began to collect grain and grass in Yanzhou, and the people of Yanzhou complained for a while. Tao Ying promised the major families that once they responded to Tao Ying, they would promise them certain benefits after the city was broken, so in May, Yanzhou Chenliu County took the lead in the uprising, and the rebel army captured the residence of the Taishou of Chenliu County, killed the Taishou and occupied Chenliu County.

After Chen Liujun surrendered, the army went to attack Xudu, and Cao Cao hurriedly withdrew his troops from Xuzhou to rescue Xudu. After Cao Cao withdrew his troops, Tao Ying sent an envoy to Liu Bei, Liu Bei himself was short of food and grass, and Cao Cao was too busy to take care of himself, knowing that he could not win the war, so he had to accept Tao Ying's compromise policy. So after nearly half a month of negotiations, Tao Ying promised Liu Bei to restore the Han Dynasty, rescue the Han Emperor from Xudu, and then resettle. The premise is that Liu Bei needs to lead his troops to fight back against Cao Cao, and Tao should provide him with food and grass.

After Liu Bei was rebelled, Liu Bei wrote to Ma Teng, Ma Teng was loyal to the Han family, and he didn't believe it when he heard that Tao Ying wanted to restore the Han family. So Liu Bei and Tao Ying agreed that the three of them would send troops together to take the Son of Heaven out, and then place them in a place that could not be controlled by all forces. After Jia Xu made this suggestion, the three of them quickly agreed. Although Ma Teng was powerful, he fought against Zhuge Liang in the Bingzhou generation, and Zhuge Liang used various advanced weapons and sufficient grain and grass to defeat him. So Ma Teng had the idea of a truce for a long time, and now he just had an excuse.

After the three of them agreed on the same thing, Tao Ying sent someone to persuade Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, Tao Ying promised to invite credit for him, and let the Han Emperor crown him as the Duke of Southern Zheng, and Zhang Lu gladly led the troops to come. When Cao Cao withdrew his troops and returned to Xu Du to repel Chen Liu's soldiers and horses, he found that the entire battlefield had turned against him. At this time, Cao Cao's coalition forces were tightly armed, and only Jingzhou, Liu Biao, Yizhou, Liu Zhang, and Yangzhou Zhou Yu remained. Now Zhou Yu is also fighting hard in the south, and Liu Biao of Jingzhou is fighting Zhang Xiu all day long. Now only Liu Zhang can save himself, Liu Zhang excluded the general Zhang Ren from Yizhou to save Cao Cao, and Zhang Ren was defeated by Zhang Lu after arriving in Yanzhou.

After Zhang Ren's defeat and wanted to go back to Yizhou, the back road had already been cut off by Zhang Lu. With no way out, Cao Cao left Zhang Ren in Yanzhou as a general.

In the autumn of 210, the two sides had been fighting for two years, but fortunately, Xuzhou's grain and grass had a bumper harvest and could still be supported, but Cao Cao's coalition army was completely different. Sun Quan because of years of war, grain and grass were not enough, and now after Cao Cao did not give him grain and grass, Sun Quan sent an envoy to Xuzhou to be willing to stop fighting. After Sun Quan excluded the envoy, Tao Ying had already transferred nearly 200,000 military horses from the north to conquer Sun Quan, how could Tao Ying be willing to accept his suggestion.

Now after Liu Bei in the north was rebelled, Liu Bei counterattacked and sent troops to Jizhou, and defeated Xiahoudun before he could react. After defeating Xiahoudun, Liu Bei occupied Wei County in Jizhou, Liu Ye captured Zhao State, and Yuan Tan captured Julu County, so the two sides stopped in Jizhou. Cao Cao lost Jizhou, where Ma Teng also led his troops back to Xiliang, Zhuge Liang freed his hand to send troops to Hanoi County, and together with Deng Ai, he recovered Hanoi County, and connected the three cities of Hanoi Bianliang with Bingzhou.

After recovering Hanoi, Zhong Miao returned to Chang'an, and Cao Ren went with Cao Cao to Po Chen to stay, and the north temporarily settled down, just so that Tao Ying could free up his hands to clean up Sun Quan!

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