Tao Ying sent a letter to Cao Cao to intercept Liu Bei to the north, and Cao Cao hurriedly ordered martial law in all counties and cities after receiving the news. The portraits of Liu Bei's three brothers were posted on the streets and alleys, and anyone who found Liu Bei's three brothers would be rewarded with one hundred taels of gold!

A hundred taels of gold! Many people even put down their work and ran to find Liu Bei. So in less than a month, Cao Ren discovered Liu Bei's movements.

It turned out that Liu Bei was leading his soldiers and horses from Runan at this time, and had just arrived in Kunyang. Liu Bei wanted to take advantage of Cao Cao's army in Liyang and quickly pass through Yingchuan County to reach Yuan Shao's territory, Hanoi County. But I didn't want to be found at the junction of Yingchuan and Nanyang County.

After discovering Liu Bei's movements, Cao Cao hurriedly ordered Cao Ren to supervise the troops in Liyang and personally came to conquer Liu Bei. At this time, Liu Bei's army was no more than 10,000 people, and the supply of food and grass was insufficient, and there were many deserters along the way. Most of the military horses led by Liu Bei were from Yanzhou, and when they arrived in Yanzhou and at home, they were naturally unwilling to follow Liu Bei to scare away.

So when Prime Minister Cao Cheng led an army of nearly 30,000 to besiege Yingchuan, Liu Bei hurriedly led his troops to meet the battle in a hurry. Since many of the soldiers and horses were newly recruited soldiers and horses, Cao Cao's army was killed, and Liu Bei's army and horses were crushed at the first touch.

Liu Bei was defeated, so he wanted to run to Nanyang. Cao Cao also sent an order to Nanyang, and Zhang Xiu, the Taishou of Nanyang, knew that Tao Ying was chasing Liu Bei, so he also hurriedly led the troops to drive the scattered Liu Bei's army back to Yanzhou.

In less than a month, Liu Bei ran out of food, and the soldiers surrendered one after another. Liu Bei saw that the general trend had gone, so he wanted to take the three brothers and his lord potter north to join Yuan Shao, regardless of the others.

But where can Cao Cao do as he likes? Cao Cao sent troops to disperse the three brothers and captured Guan Yu in Xiangcheng. Under the persuasion of Zhang Liao and others, Guan Yu took refuge in Cao Cao as in history. It's just that the location is staggered.

After capturing Guan Yu, Zhang Fei didn't know where to run, so Liu Bei had to protect the pottery merchant and flee to Hanoi County pretending to be a business traveler.

After solving the three brothers of Liu Bei here, and at this time, because of the matter of the jade seal, the entire Pengcheng was about to fall into trouble.

Whether the jade seal is a blessing or a curse, everyone argues. Zhang Zhao and others believe that the number of qi in the Han family is still there, and leaving a jade seal at this time is a scourge, and Yuan Shu is a typical example.

And some people think that it is providence! Providence let Tao deserve the jade seal, since it is the will of heaven, now Xuzhou is so powerful, Tao should obey the will of heaven and ascend the throne in Pengcheng as the emperor.

Tao Ying hesitated, so he found his own resourcefulness Jia Xu and Liu Ye. Liu Ye said that it was not appropriate to be the emperor at this time, because the emperor at this time would inevitably cause public indignation, and Sun Ce, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao would naturally join forces to attack Xuzhou.

Although Xuzhou's strength is strong, it can't resist the attack of nearly a million troops. Therefore, this emerging bird, Xuzhou must not be a bird. But as for how to dispose of the jade seal, Liu Ye hopes to leave the jade seal in Xuzhou and hide it, and wait for the opportunity to use it for other purposes.

And Jia Xu's opinion is also not to be called the emperor, accumulate grain, and slowly claim to be the king. After all, the Han family is still there, and the people's hearts are still towards Han!

Tao Ying asked how to dispose of the jade seal is the most appropriate, for being the emperor, Tao Ying really doesn't have that heart. He owns so much land, and he is accompanied by beauties such as Gan's Xiaohuan, so he is a soil emperor himself!

Thinking of this, Tao Ying was even more willing to dispose of the jade seal at will. Jia Xu asked Tao Ying, in Tao Ying's heart, is the jade seal important or the land important. Tao Ying thought about it, this jade seal is a broken stone, and he can't use him to be the emperor, of course, the land is important!

So Jia Xu said again: "Then exchange this jade seal for the land of Qingzhou, what does the lord think?" ”

Change Qingzhou?

Tao Yingyileng, can this jade seal be exchanged for Qingzhou? So Jia Xu smiled and said his idea.

It turned out that Jia Xu thought of a particularly poisonous method, that is, to let the strongest people in the world kill each other, and then Xuzhou reaped the benefits of the fisherman. It seems that Tao Ying followed behind Cao Cao and had been doing such things all along.

The difference between Tao Ying and Cao Cao is that after each conquest, Cao Cao will always withdraw his troops and horses to Yanzhou. And after Tao Ying conquers a place, he will develop him into his own stronghold.

Maybe the way of fighting is different, Cao Cao likes a lethal move, bypassing the unimportant ones and directly hitting your lair to kill you. Then kill the leader, and the other dragons have no leader and can only surrender.

But Tao Ying prefers to take a steady step by step, which is a conservative way of keeping.

And the plan of the poisoner Jia Xu was to throw this hot potato to Yuan Shao. Tao Ying asked why he didn't throw it to Cao Cao and then come in exchange for the land of Lu, Jia Xu said, this is a piece of meat, it has to be thrown up, and the two dogs of Yanzhou and Jizhou will jump up and grab it.

If it is given to Cao Cao, Cao Cao has the Son of Heaven in his hands, and he is even more justified. Therefore, the jade seal must be given to the stronger Yuan Shao, and then Yuan Shao has the jade seal, and Cao Cao has the Son of Heaven, so who do the princes of the world listen to?

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, they must kill each other!

After the poisoner Jia Xu finished speaking, Tao Ying couldn't help but say in his heart, it's really poisonous!

Jia Xu has no last resort, and Tao Ying still trusts him very much. So, Tao Ying asked people to send an envoy to Qingzhou, and then discussed with Yuan Tan, wanting to exchange the jade seal in his hand for the land of Qingzhou.

Anyway, now that the land of Qingzhou has been seized by Cao Cao, there is not much land left! Yuan Tan was alone in the south of the Yellow River at this time, and he was already very weak, and with Cao Cao's pressing steps, he already felt that he couldn't contain it.

After hearing that Tao Ying had a jade seal in his hand, Yuan Tan was even more overjoyed, and was looking for a reason to return to the north of the Yellow River to station, and now he was selling his personal favor with Tao Ying.

So Yuan Tan sent envoys to exchange the remaining Donglai County, the eastern part of Beihai County, Le'an State, Qi State, and Jinan County in Qingzhou for Tao Ying.

This Qingzhou must be very small and scattered in other states. These small countries, in particular, are small and difficult to manage. So Tao Ying took the eastern part of Beihai Kingdom as the boundary along the glue, and the east of the glue was under the jurisdiction of Donglai County. In this way, their own warships can go straight to the Bohai Sea along the glue.

After opening up this river, Tao Ying's water transportation can run through the whole of Xuzhou, from Dalian and Yingkou in the north to Xiami Port in the north of Donglai County through the sea. Then it enters the Kaiyang River through the glue, and then from the Kaiyang River to Yishui.

Yishui connects Surabaya, which in turn connects Pengcheng in the north with Peiguo and Shanyang County. Surabaya goes south to the Huai River, which connects to Shouchun City in the west. To the south, it can reach Guangling, Suzhou and Hangzhou counties.

After getting the entire Donglai County, Tao Ying promoted Han to become the Taishou of Donglai, merged Qingdao County into Donglai County, and then set up the administrative office in Qingdao City. Donglai County is located in Qingdao, but Xiami is set up as the second largest city in Donglai, responsible for connecting the maritime ports of the entire north.