After Zhang Lu purchased weapons, he quickly gained the upper hand in equipment, and repelled many attacks in Yizhou in half a year. Seeing that he couldn't attack it for a long time, some people suggested that Liu Zhang buy a sharp steel knife and an infinitely powerful Taoling cannon. So Liu Zhang sent envoys to Xuzhou, and then purchased a large number of various weapons and Taoling third-generation guns from Nanyang County, an old industrial base, and the war between the two sides has been disputed.

At present, Xuzhou's Taoling cannon has been updated to the eighth generation, and the provinces under Xuzhou are not really equipped with the eighth generation of Taoling cannons. Xuzhou Mansion, Guangling Mansion, Jiangnan Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion as well as Yuzhou Mansion are equipped with Taoling Cannon Seventh-generation Guns. Bingzhou, Jizhou, Liaoning, Youzhou four are equipped with Taoling four generations of guns, Nanyang Mansion because it was started with Xuzhou Mansion and Guangling Mansion, so Nanyang Mansion has a particularly good industrial base, and has been divided into a lot of artillery school scholars, so Nanyang Mansion's Taoling Cannon has been updated to the seventh generation.

Xuzhou is equipped with advanced artillery, but what is sold to other places is what Xuzhou has eliminated. When Xuzhou replaced its artillery, the replaced artillery was sold to the princes who were fighting. Not only the princes who are fighting, but also the princes who are not fighting are also buying weapons produced in Xuzhou everywhere. Yuan Shang occupied Runan and did not develop much in Runan, but went on a frenzy to buy weapons to prevent Sun Quan and Cao Cao from annexing him.

Sun Quan too, Sun Quan also bought a lot of warships, lest they be swallowed up in the future, after buying the warships, Sun Quan organized shipwrights to observe, and then built them himself to save costs. But Sun Quan's steelmaking skills were far from the standards of Xuzhou, and he couldn't do the core things of the steam engine, because the steam engine also had to be imported from Xuzhou.

Cao Cao also began to slowly develop himself in the past two years, and after Yanzhou lost Taishan and other counties, Cao Cao became disheartened for a while. However, the only fortunate thing is that Cao Pi returned to Yanzhou as the prince, and then slowly passed on a lot of the skills he learned to Yanzhou, so Yanzhou also became the second big state to move towards the industrial revolution.

In the autumn of 211, when Tao Ying completed the transformation of the four northern provinces, news came from Xuzhou that Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao had died. After Liu Biao became seriously ill, he has been recuperating in Xuzhou, although Xuzhou's medical skills are developed, but it only extended his life for two or three years. After Liu Biao's death, Tao Ying transported his body to Jingzhou. After Jingzhou heard the news of Liu Biao's death, the whole Jingzhou began to become turbulent.

Liu Biao's death is not terrible, what is terrible is that he has two sons. The two sons are not terrible, what is terrible is that his second son's uncle is powerful, and his uncle's family controls the military power of Jingzhou, so as soon as Liu Biao dies, his eldest son Liu Qi will die!

Sure enough, when he heard that Liu Biao died, Liu Qi hurriedly came to Xuzhou to mourn, as soon as Liu Qi left, Cai's family quickly grasped the military power, and then Cai Mao quickly galloped to Luoyang, asking the Son of Heaven to set up Liu Cong as the new Jingzhou pastor. When Liu Qi heard this, he stayed in Xuzhou and was reluctant to go back. Liu Qi asked Jia Xu for help, Jia Xu didn't dare to ask, Liu Qi heard that Tao Ying believed in Zhuge Liang's righteous son, so he was busy asking Zhuge Liang for help, Zhuge Liang saw that he was pitiful, so he made an idea with him: "Why don't you follow my father-in-law?" ”

Liu Qi asked how to follow suit? So Zhuge Liang came up with a big idea with him, and at the same time, he asked him to transport his father's coffin to Jingzhou. In the winter of 211, Liu Qi came to thank Tao Ying, and as soon as he saw Tao Ying, Liu Qi knelt on the ground and cried with tears in his eyes about how cruel his stepmother was, if he returned to Jingzhou, he would inevitably be forced to death by his stepmother, but if he did not return to Jingzhou, his father's coffin was not transported, and he had to bear the infamy of unfilial piety, so that Tao Ying could save him.

Tao Yingben was reluctant to take care of Jingzhou's affairs, because now Xuzhou was in full swing for the second industrial revolution, so he did not want to get involved in any of the princes' civil strife. So Tao Yingbu refused Liu Qi's request. Jia Xu, Kong Rong, Zhang Zhao and others next to him all came to persuade them, but these people couldn't bear Liu Qi being killed by Cai Mao like this, so they asked Liu Qi to stay in Xuzhou.

Tao Ying couldn't resist the requests of so many people, so he could only agree to keep Liu Qi in Xuzhou. It just so happens that Liu Qi's health has been poor, and Xuzhou's medical skills are developed, so he can take care of his body in Xuzhou.

The winter passed quickly, and Cai Mao and others asked Liu Cong to take over the position of pastor of Jingzhou. After getting Jingzhou, if the eldest son Liu Qi does not die, they will not be justified, so Cai Mao asked Liu Qi to escort Liu Biao's body to Jingzhou for burial. The Son of Heaven agreed to the request of Cai Mao and others, so he sent an envoy to Xuzhou to urge Liu Qi to set off quickly.

Hearing that Liu Cong was enthroned as the pastor of Jingzhou, Liu Qi hurriedly asked Tao Ying for help. The ancient rite is to establish the elder but not the young, so Jia Xu and others suggested that Tao Ying should praise Liu Qi as the assassin of Jingzhou. So Tao Ying united with Liu Bei's cousin Liu Bei to praise Liu Qi as the history of Jingzhou, and the Son of Heaven saw that Tao Ying praised Liu Qi as the history of Jingzhou, and he did not dare to offend Tao Ying, the biggest prince in the world, so he was busy selling a favor to Tao Ying and named Liu Qi as the history of Jingzhou.

After Liu Qi took the position of Jingzhou Assassin, Tao Ying sent several carts of pen, ink, paper and inkstone to the Son of Heaven, and then doubled the tribute. After taking the things from Xuzhou, the Son of Heaven knew that he had to abolish Liu Cong's position as the assassin of Jingzhou.

For example, today's son has some rights, and he has his own piece of land, and he also has Xiliang Ma Teng and Si Li Zhong Xuan to support him, so his ambition to dominate the world has risen again. However, he was afraid of Tao Ying, who occupied half of the country, so the Manchu civil and military began to discuss and decided to weaken Tao Ying's power.

But where is it so easy to weaken Tao Ying's rights, if Tao Ying is demoted to a concubine, Tao Ying will not agree or say it, and the people in the world will be the first to be unwilling. Tao Ying rescued the Son of Heaven from Xudu and offered the jade seal, but the Son of Heaven will take revenge, and the reputation of this faint monarch will come together, and the people who follow him in the world will be gone.

Wen can't do it, let's come to martial arts, where can he beat Tao Ying now? Therefore, Zhong Xuan came up with a strategy of snipe and clam to let the second prince Cao Cao fight with Tao Ying, and then he benefited from it. Therefore, when Tao Ying wanted to show Liu Qi as the assassin of Jingzhou, the Son of Heaven informed Cao Cao of Yanzhou, Cao Cao heard that Liu Qi had taken refuge in Xuzhou, if Liu Qi won Jingzhou, what was the difference between it and Tao should have won Jingzhou?

Tao deserves Jingzhou, so he is not his opponent! Therefore, Cao Cao was busy with the general Yuan Shang to play Liu Cong as the pastor of Jingzhou. Seeing that the two sides finally had different views, the Son of Heaven made another decision to let Jingzhou continue the internal fighting, and then provoke the contradiction between Cao Cao, Yuan Shang and Tao Ying again. So the Son of Heaven appointed Liu Cong as the pastor of Jingzhou, and appointed Liu Qi as the assassin of Jingzhou, let the two of them fight on their own!

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