After receiving Quan Rou, Tao Ying asked Quan Rou to go home for a day of rest, and then packed his luggage and followed him back to Pengcheng the next day. Tao Ying thought about it, this Quan Rou is a minister, so he naturally knows Cao Cao, and Cao Cao is going to kidnap the Han Emperor to come to Yanzhou sooner or later, so it is better to let him go to guard Bianjing!

Anyway, Bianjing is an enclave for himself, and in the past few years, Cao Cao will not go to war with him, just concentrating his generals in Pengcheng to hold the territory tightly, even if Cao Cao attacks Bianjing, he will not break his generals.

Quan Rou received Tao Ying's instructions, and Tao Ying asked him to go back to Pengcheng to get the seal ribbon first, and then go directly to Bianjing to take office. The Yulu he received was equivalent to the Taishou, and was called the Bianjing Taishou. Bianjing County, in addition to Bianjing City, also has a subordinate city, which is much larger than Qingdao County.

After Quan Rou said goodbye, Tao Ying hurriedly went to visit Zhou Tai in prison before it was dark. When I opened the door of Wuxi Prison, a foul smell came, and it turned out that this prison was actually a water prison!

The water prison was pitch black, the soldiers lit torches, there were many people in the water prison, there were rats everywhere, and when they heard the human voice, the water rats scurried around.

Tao Ying asked people to open all the water prisons, release all the prisoners, and let them join the Suzhou official army if they were willing to join the army, and if they were unwilling to join the army and did not have much of a crime, they were directly sentenced to serve one year of forced labor to atone for their crimes. When many prisoners were released from the water prison, they all knelt on the ground and thanked Tao Ying for his great kindness.

It wasn't until the last water dungeon was opened that he found Zhou Tai unconscious, and several rats were still crawling around on him. Zhou Tai's body was full of scars, and the wounds were swollen with blisters!

In mid-June, time passed little by little, and the county seat of Wuxi began to be rebuilt. After the new county officials took office, Wuxi County gradually got on the right track.

On the carriage leading to Dantu, there was a sudden cough, and Zhou Tai, who had been asleep for more than three days, suddenly woke up. The carriage was still bumping on the official road, Zhou Tai opened his eyes, the bamboo roof was wrapped in silk, the curtain was open next to it, and a maid was fanning Zhou Tai.

Seeing that Zhou Tai woke up, the maid hurriedly called someone, and the soldier in charge of the guard next to him hurriedly trotted all the way to the front of the team to tell Tao Ying. In less than half a quarter of an hour, Tao Ying rode a horse accompanied by Zhao Yun and Xu Sheng to Zhou Tai's carriage from the front, and the entire marching team also stopped.

Tao Ying jumped into the carriage and opened the car door, Zhou Tai's face was a little pale, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Tao Ying, Zhou Tai was startled, and he was about to get up in a hurry, but maybe because he was too weak, he struggled for a long time and couldn't move at all.

Tao Ying hurriedly comforted him in the carriage: "Youping, don't struggle, you can't kill me, and I won't kill you." If I wanted to kill you, I would have killed you in Wuxi a long time ago, so why didn't I do it when I got to Dantu? ”

Seeing that he couldn't move anyway, Zhou Tai lay still instead.

Tao Ying simply squatted on the carriage and let the team continue to move forward, to cross the Yangtze River at 10 p.m., and then end to Jiangdu Port. Now Tao Ying has set off for Pengchengguo, and now it is almost the end of June, and I don't know what has happened in the north in the past half a year.

"Youping, Jiang Qin has already taken refuge in me, and it doesn't matter how much fun you struggle anymore. I think you also have some skills, empty some skills do not want to serve the country and glory to the ancestors, but on the Yangtze River to be a water thief to shame the ancestors, is this the ambition of Youping? ”

Zhou Tai wanted to speak, but his body was too weak, and he only moved his lips a few times when he opened his mouth, and he couldn't speak at all. Tao Ying knew that Zhou Tai was not the kind of person who would be unreasonable when he came up to Gan Ning, so he hurriedly patted him on the shoulder and said: "Join my Xuzhou army, and in the future, you will be indispensable to be the marquis!" ”

After Tao Ying finished speaking, he stretched out his head and shouted to the military doctor: "Doctor Han, come and show him, no matter how expensive medicinal materials you use, you must cure him!" ”

The military doctor hurriedly made a promise, Tao Ying let Zhou Tai recuperate, and then jumped out of the car and got on the horse and drove towards his car.

At the end of June, when Tao Ying arrived in Dantu, he wrote a letter to Tai Shi Ci, who had said that if he was willing to go south to see him, he would submit to Tao Ying. So Tao Ying rushed to Wu County from Pengcheng all the way to Wu County for his promise, and now after recovering Wu County, it is time for him to fulfill his promise!

The messenger sent the letter to Qu'a, but Tai Shici was not in Qu'a at this time. With the assistance of Sun Ce, Wu Jing was invincible all the way, and after defeating the city guarded by Liu Xuan's generals of several yuan, he killed the army less than two hundred miles south of Qu'a City. At this time, Liu Miao was angry and organized the defense of Qu'a.

Knowing that Tao Ying was in Dantu County, Liu Miao had an agreement with Tao Ying, so Liu Miao also wrote a letter inviting Tao Ying to come and jointly defend Qu'a City. Tao Ying had the heart to protect Liu Xuan, and wanted Liu Xuan to guard in Qu'a and use Qu'a as a barrier between himself and Sun Ce in Suzhou, so he agreed to come to Qu'a to mediate between Liu Xuan and Wu Jing.

Tao Ying personally led nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, and at the same time asked Guangling Taishou Ganning to lead 5,000 sailors to march towards Qu'a from the waterway. When Tao Ying had just arrived at Qu'a, the messenger from the north also came to Tao Ying's camp in a hurry.

Tao Ying did not enter the city of Qu'a, but stationed the camp forty miles north of Qu'a. When the messenger from the north came in a hurry, it was just morning, and Tao Ying had just stationed his military horses and was about to bring a team of guards to visit Liu Xian in Qu'a, and the messenger hurried to Tao Ying's camp.

"Report, there is a messenger from Pengcheng coming!"

"Let him in!"

In Tao Ying's tent, Xiaohuan was helping Tao Ying sort out his clothes, and when he saw the messenger coming, Xiaohuan tidied up his clothes and retreated. The messenger knelt on the ground and saluted, and after finishing the salute, he presented an urgent letter from Zhang Zhao to Tao Ying.

Tao Ying opened the letter, sat alone at the small table and read it, looking side after side, frowning from time to time. Seeing that Xiaobing retreated to receive the reward, Xiaohuan also hurriedly brought up breakfast. Tao Ying was not in the mood to have breakfast, and it happened that Zhuge Jin came over with Zhuge Liang, and Tao Ying hurriedly beckoned Zhuge Jin to come over to read the letter.

After Zhuge Jin read the letter, he couldn't help frowning and said, "Lord, Lu Bu's heart, with bad intentions, I think, let's go back to Pengcheng quickly!" ”

Tao Ying nodded.

It turned out that Zhang Zhao sent a war report from the north in June. Now Tao Ying has stationed his soldiers and horses in Qu'a, and the time has come to July. In June, a seismic change took place in the north.

In May, Cao Cao, under the advice of his advisors, first expanded his territory everywhere, defeated Liu Pi in Yuzhou, and gained the land of Yuzhou. Then he went to the Han Emperor and recommended Lü Bu as the pastor of Xuzhou, and Cao Cao colluded with Lü Bu to let Lü Bu and Tao Ying and the pottery merchants attack each other to achieve their own goals.