After sending Tao Qian away, the potter walked in from outside the door at some point, and his face was also full of joy. Sun Qian, Jian Yong and others hurriedly came to salute, this potter is the successor of Xuzhou in the future, how can they be lazy?

The potter found a chair and sat down, and then said to Sun Gan next to him: "Master Sun, is it true that I heard that Ying'er has won another great victory?" ”

Sun Gan nodded, everyone was dealing with government affairs, and Sun Gan motioned for him to go out and talk. When I arrived at a park, autumn came, and the leaves fell to the ground, although the sun was a little dappled, but it was still difficult to hide the gloom of autumn.

"The eldest son, the lord ordered the second prince to go north to support Tan County, but the second prince went north and turned to the south. At that time, I felt that this matter was strange, the war reports kept coming in the past few days, Tanxian was in danger, but the second prince waved his troops westward to seize Pengchengguo. ”

Sun Gan said, and the potter couldn't hide his joy and said: "This matter is a good thing, for us Xuzhou to recover the lost land and save the people from fire and water, no wonder my father has eaten a lot more in the past few days than before!" ”

Sun Qian saw that the pottery merchant still didn't understand the meaning of the words and said: "The eldest prince has a kind temperament, but the second son's temperament has changed abruptly, which is always incredible. Especially when he suddenly got closer to the Chen family, the Chen family even asked the best children to assist the second son. And this time the second son occupied Pengcheng and asked for tens of thousands of loads of grain and grass, as far as Wei Chen knew, Pengcheng's grain and grass had already been enough to eat for more than a year, and I don't know what the second son meant? In today's play, Kaiyang Zang Ba went to take refuge in the second son, the lord was blinded by the victory for a while, and named the second prince as the minister of Pengcheng, so that Zang Ba became the Pengcheng Taishou, and now the lord's physical condition is going down every day, I am afraid that he will retire from Cao Jun, and the lord will die, this is the way to take chaos......"

Sun Gan's voice was a little small, but the potter was not a fool, how could he not know what Sun Gan meant? Although the ancients valued gentlemen, but for the sake of power, father and son competed, how few brothers killed?

The potter asked with some anxiety on his face, "What should I do about this matter?" Recently, the news of the defeat of Tanxian County has been coming, my father has stabilized the hearts of the people, and the war reports have spread all over Xiapi, today I passed by the city, and everyone saw that after seeing the notice of recovering Pengcheng, they all wanted to follow the second brother to fight the Cao thief, and the people's hearts were all on the second brother! ”

Sun Qian also sighed and said: "Don't be in a hurry at this time, the eldest prince must also pay attention to observe, wait more in front of the lord, and I will test the tone of other big clans, the spies I sent out brought news from Pengcheng, he said that the second prince is reused by some poor people, presumably the people of the big clan must not be ashamed to be with the husband." ”

After Sun Gan finished speaking, he turned around and walked back to the supervision institute, leaving only the potter pacing in the garden.

The pottery merchant once hinted that his father Tao Qian had the idea of becoming an official, but Tao Qian once said that neither of them had the talent to be officials. In this era of heroes, it should be hidden in the wild so as not to incur the disaster of killing.

Especially in the Central Plains where the Yellow Turban thieves are everywhere, only Xuzhou is stable and prosperous, the people's granaries are full, Yuan Shao in the north, Yuan Shu in the south and Cao Cao in the Central Plains are all salivating, but Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu did not find an excuse to beat themselves. Among these princes, anyone who fights himself can't beat himself, Xuzhou is the land of ten battles, this official is not good!

When Xiapicheng allocated grain and grass neatly and sent it to Pengcheng, Sun Qian sent another person to Tao Ying to test whether he had the intention of usurping. At the same time, Sun Qian and others persuaded Tao Qian to let Tao Ying rush to the aid of Tan County after receiving the salary, and defeat Cao Cao in one fell swoop while his morale was still declining!

The years are slow, since Tao Ying broke through Pengcheng, I thought that Cao Cao would rush to clean himself up, but he didn't want to stay in Pengcheng for a week without seeing any soldiers and horses coming.

The scouts sent out to find out the news that Cao Cao was furious after learning of the defeat of Yu Ban, and he wanted to lead his troops to conquer Pengcheng in person. However, his staff persuaded Cao Cao that Tao Ying was newly victorious, his morale was high, and he could not fight. What's more, the people of Xuzhou have recently found out that Tao should be the reincarnation of the gods, and their military horses will be lethal in every battle, not to mention that Kaiyang Zangba is throwing himself into it, and he should avoid his edge and not act rashly.

Cao Cao, who had calmed down, began to order a storming of Tan County after the threat of Langya Zangba, and shouted under the city: "Slaughter Tan County, no chickens and dogs will be left!" ”

For a time, Cao Cao's tens of thousands of troops abandoned the defense of Kaiyang, and concentrated on breaking through Tanxian County and taking Pi directly. Cao Bao, the guard of Tan County, felt that his pressure was getting heavier and heavier, so he quickly sent a message asking for help. Tao Qian also ordered Tao Ying to quickly send troops to defend Tan County, but only half a month later, Pengcheng, which had just stabilized, fell into a debate again.

In November 193, the weather was getting colder, and it was almost a month before the battle of Pengcheng. Tao Ying was named Peng Chengxiang, Zang Ba led Xiao Pei Taishou, while Xu Sheng led Xiao County Order, and Chen Deng led Wuyuan Taishou.

Because Xiao County still belongs to Yuzhou and is not owned by Xuzhou, Xu Sheng was stationed in Pengcheng. Wuyuan Taishou was already manned, and Chen Deng could not take office, so he could only stay in Pengcheng to serve as a county commander.

Winter is coming, and the winter in the north is particularly cold, let alone fighting, even if you go out for a while, you can't stand the cold. In order to survive this cold winter, Tao Ying ordered all the large armies to start cutting down the forests west of Pengcheng. The soldiers could not be fed, and the captives could not be idle, so they were dragged to reclaim the mountains around Pengcheng, and the stones on the mountains were hewn down to build the walls.

For a while, in the days before the snow, the whole Pengcheng entered into a major construction. Although he has never been out of Pengcheng, he has lived in Pengcheng for ten years in his later life, and he knows that there is a big mountain to the west of Pengcheng, and the mountain continues to Xiaoguan and then to Xiangxian.

And between the two mountains is a fertile field that can be cultivated, if you build along Pengcheng all the way to the west, use the mountains on both sides as a barrier, and plant grain in the middle, then why worry that Pengcheng will be short of grain?

What's more, he must capture Xiangxian and Xiaoguan, because there is where he needs coal the most! Coal is an indispensable energy source for the first industrial revolution, with coal can smelt steel, and then build railways, build trains, and then build all kinds of large-scale factories, sooner or later Pengcheng will be the most prosperous center in the world!

Tao Ying planned the development of Pengcheng in the future, and if he became the pastor of Xuzhou, he would move to Pengcheng, just like Xuzhou City in later generations. Just when Tao Ying was thinking about beautiful things, someone suddenly came to report that the envoy had arrived!

The envoys of Xiapi sent grain and grass to Pengcheng, and the envoys sent by Sun Qian and others also asked to meet with Tao Ying. The envoy led a line of convoys that could not see the end to the outside of the city, looking at the trees outside Peng City being cut down and the wasteland being exposed, I don't know what Tao Ying meant by this?

And when he came to the outside of Pengcheng, what he saw the most was that countless pieces of wood were being transported to the city through the moat, and the originally low moat was constantly being reinforced.

At the foot of Yunlong Mountain, not far from Pengcheng, Tao Ying sent slaves to dig a big river, and diverted the water from the big river flowing from the west to the foot of the mountain, and then built a big boat, put stones into the boat and transported them to Pengcheng to build a city wall.

The envoy was a little surprised to see the changes in Pengcheng, and when he heard that the envoy had sent food, Tao Ying hurriedly invited Chen Deng, who was building the city wall, to welcome the envoy together.

After a period of greetings, the messenger was introduced into the city, and as soon as he entered the city, he was greeted by rows of wooden houses, although the foundation stone had just been laid and was still under construction, but the busy scene of thousands of slaves constantly carrying stones and wood still surprised the messenger.

In a large family house that had not yet been demolished, Tao Ying invited the envoy in.