After arranging and deploying a qiē, Liu Qi led a team of 10,000 personal soldiers, commanding Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu, Hu Che'er, Liu Shi, Zhang Tong, Huo Jun, Zhuge Jin, Kan Ze, Yan Zhen, Jiang Wan and other generals to return to Xiangyang.

Hearing the news of Liu Qi's return, Kuai Yue led Liu Xian, Deng Xi, Han Song, Han Ji, Song Zhen, Sima Hui, Pang Degong, Huang Chengyan and others out of the city to greet him.

"Congratulations to the lord for sweeping Jiangdong and winning countless handsome people in the world."

This group of Jingzhou officials all bowed down and respectfully bowed to Liu Qi.

"You don't have to be polite, if you don't have the princes in Jingxiang, where can you calm Jingxiang with peace of mind? Your merits will not be forgotten, in order to express gratitude, this will specially add a month of Yulu for the princes, I hope that the princes will not dislike it. ”

Liu Qi smiled and helped Kuai Yue and the others, and then said to these officials sincerely.

In fact, these officials are all loyal people, although most of them did defect to Cao Cao in history, but that was only because Liu Biao's self-defense strategy made them unable to see hope, they had no choice but to make this decision in order to maintain the peace of Jingzhou, and persuaded Liu Cong to surrender, but Cao Cao immediately waved his army eastward after winning Jingzhou, intending to pacify the world, but because of the defeat of Chibi, Jingzhou fell into decades of war, which was probably unexpected.

And now Liu Qi not only unified Jingzhou in addition to Nanyang, but also unified the entire Jiaozhou and Yangzhou south of Hefei, in history than the heyday of the Eastern Wu forces are much larger, and among today's heroes, it is the most extensive princes, absolutely no one, such a huge force makes these scribes in Jingzhou see hope, they naturally will no longer think about going to Cao Cao, so they are full of absolute loyalty and admiration for Liu Qi.

It only took two years to pacify the four counties of Jingnan, occupying all of Jiaozhou and more than ninety percent of Yangzhou, such a brilliant record is not to say that no one in the world today can stand out, even if you look at history, it is rare to be able to achieve this.

Such a master is not loyal to them, but is attached to Cao Cao, who is now in crisis, are they all crazy and stupid?

Not long after everyone entered the mansion, Liu Qi saw Liu Yue, the captain of his own soldiers, running over and respectfully reported: "General Qiyu, the imperial court has sent an angel here, please go out to greet the general." ”

Liu Qi smiled after hearing this, and led the crowd to greet him.

But I heard Zhang Tong say: "My lord, now that the Han family exists in name only, the so-called angels are just slaves sent by Cao Cao, why bother to greet the lord in person?" Just order him in. ”

But I heard Liu Qi Zhengse say: "Shut up, I am a member of the Han family, how can I disobey the emperor's orders and respect angels?" If there is such a remark in the future, it will not be spared, and it will not be quickly retreated? ”

"No." When Zhang Tong saw Liu Qi like this, he knew that he was wrong, and hurriedly retreated, and later understood the intention of this move after Liu Qi's point and his own reflection.

Nowadays, although the Han family exists in name only, but its banner is still useful, such as today's princes, all those who carry the banner of the Han family, will gain more support from the world, such as Liu Bei, who has risen step by step from a down-and-out weaving mat peddler, and has achieved the high position of Sili Xiaowei, Yongzhou Mu, and General Zuo, although Liu Zhang of Yizhou is weak, he also seized Xichuan and became a prince; Not to mention Cao Cao, who is now recognized as the strongest of the four princes in the world.

And those princes who despised the Han family have all been wiped out, such as Lu Bu who seized Xuzhou, Yuan Shu who seized Jianghuai, Sun Ce who seized Jiangdong, and so on.

Therefore, the veneration of the Han family is a very useful banner for the princes to be the ruler, and now is definitely not the time to abandon it.

It was precisely because of this that Liu Qi respectfully invited the angel into the mansion.

And that angel is not a fool, he naturally knows that Liu Qi's strength is not weaker than Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, and it may even be a lot stronger, once he angers him, I am afraid that the other party will kill him, and his master will not dare to do anything, and now he sees Liu Qi respectfully to him, so he naturally does not dare to hold up his angel's shelf, respectfully let Liu Qi walk in front, and he followed closely as a guest.

Liu Qi knelt down respectfully and listened to the angel's edict: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: There are Zhennan generals, Chengwu Marquis, Jingzhou Mu Liu Qi, for my Han to sweep away the rebel party, made great contributions, specially moved to the right general, awarded the purple ribbon gold seal, the same as the secretary, Xu Kaifu Yi with the three divisions, all supervised Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou military, fake Jieyue, in addition, moved to Xiangyang County Marquis, sealed ten thousand households, Liu Qi from the younger brother Liu Pan, allowed to marry the daughter of Cao Hong, the brother of Prime Minister Cao Cao. In addition, Nanyang County originally belonged to Jingzhou, when the imperial decree was returned, you can receive it quickly, do not live up to my hopes, in order to express the loyalty and patriotism of Aiqing, I ordered people to send military rations, money, and silk horses, in order to replenish military funds, and Wangqing accepted it. ”

As soon as Liu Qi heard the will, he knew that it was Cao Cao's plan, on the surface, it seemed that he was knighted and promoted and rewarded, he was infinitely beautiful, but in fact, it was the most important thing to make himself take back Nanyang.

Liu Qi naturally knew that Cao Cao's move was to provoke contradictions between himself and Liu Bei, but he deliberately pretended not to know, and directly respectfully accepted the will.

After all, Liu Bei has now obtained Guanzhong, it is time to return Nanyang County to himself, if he insists on not giving it, then he has no choice but to fight, after all, Nanyang is the largest county in Jingzhou, and he is determined to win, and now he has a holy decree, which is even more justified.

This result is indeed as Guo Jia expected, although Liu Qi also knew that there were many masters in Cao Cao's army, and this strategy was to let himself fight with Liu Bei, and then fight with Yuan Shao with confidence, but such an opportunity in his own favor, Liu Qi naturally wanted to fight for it, not to mention that Liu Qi was from the afterlife, knowing that Liu Bei brought himself no worse threat than Cao Cao, and the other party was still a very prestigious Han clan relative, even from this point of view, Liu Qi was very necessary to defeat him and remove the threat to himself.

"Hehe, I really didn't expect that I would eventually have to fight with Liu Bei head-on, no matter what, Nanyang is our ambition, no matter who stops it, Cao Cao, although there are scheming people in your army, how can I be sure that I Liu Qi is from the afterlife, and I already have a strategy to break Nanyang, as long as I use a little trick, I can let you spend an extra month or two on the Guandu battlefield, and when I break Nanyang, I can still take advantage of the victory to attack your Xuchang."

Liu Qi twisted his beard and smiled, silent, but full of ambition and pride.

Liu Qi was promoted to the right general, which was a great joy for the entire Jingyang Jiao Sanzhou, and all the officials congratulated Liu Qi.

At this time, Liu Qi received a letter from Pei Qian, who was far away in Jiaozhou, saying that he was incapable and asked to resign from the position of Jiaozhou assassin, hoping that Liu Qi could agree.

Liu Qi was shocked, and hurriedly sent Liu Shi to Jiaozhou to inquire about the reason for the matter, and when Liu Shi returned a month later, he realized that it was Cao Cao's plan again.

However, it is said that Cao Cao sent an envoy to Jiaozhou three months ago to announce the decree according to Guo Jia's plan, canonizing Pei Qian as the pastor of Jiaozhou, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Wen Xihou, and the general of Zhengnan, and handed over the handwritten letter of Pei Qian's father Pei Mao to Pei Qian, hoping that the other party could raise the people of Jiaozhou to submit to the imperial court, and at the same time conquer Yizhou for the imperial court.

When Pei Qian heard the angel's decree, he immediately resolutely refused to accept it, and claimed that he was a minister under the command of Liu Qi, the general of Zhennan, and should not exceed his boss in the position of general, and the state pastor's approach was not appropriate, he was just the state assassin of the Zhennan general, and the general did not grant himself the power to open the palace, and he resolutely could not accept it, and as for the matter of the capital governor of the army and horses, he had already been authorized by the lord, and there was no need to add the name of the capital governor to the military.

Later, Pei Qian resolutely rejected the so-called father's handwriting, in fact, he could judge at a glance that his father's handwriting was fake, because he knew his father Mo Ruozi, Pei Qian knew that according to his father's temperament, he would never persuade himself to do such an unwise act, but for the safety of his father in the court, Pei Qian still cried a lot, and then said to the angel: "I want my father to be his master, and now I only talk about faithfulness, regardless of father and son, even if he is my father, he can't persuade me to rebel against the master, so, I also ask the angel to make amends to His Majesty, and the last will be willing to bear the sin of disobedience. ”

Since the edict was not accepted, the so-called contribution to the imperial court to conquer Yizhou was naturally even more useless, although the angel was very lost, but he could only helplessly return to Xudu and report to Cao Cao.

After sending the messenger away, Pei Qian felt that Cao Cao would definitely send someone to coerce him with the love of father and son, with his current situation, it would definitely arouse the suspicion of others, rather than this, it was better to take the initiative to abdicate and make way for Xian, so that Cao Cao's thoughts could be completely extinguished, not to mention, he heard that Liu Qi sent several other generals such as Xu Shu, Zhou Yu, and Lu Xun were all talented people who had passed through the heavens and latitudes, and they were far inferior to them, so it was better to abdicate and make way for Xian, so Pei Qian took the initiative to write a letter to Liu Qi to ask for his resignation from the history of the state assassin.

After Liu Qi heard about Pei Qian, he immediately wrote an enthusiastic letter to Pei Qian, affirming Pei Qian's loyal and unyielding character in his heart, and said that he completely trusted Pei Qian, and did not allow him to resign, asking him not to have any doubts, and to work hard to persevere, as for his crime of resisting the decree, there is no need to worry, because now Cao Cao is enveloping himself, and he will never be held accountable for his subordinates, even if he is investigated, he will definitely ensure that he is safe and sound.

In addition, Liu Qi expressed his appreciation for Pei Qian's handling of the matter in Yizhou, and hoped that Pei Qian would "help" Liu Zhang to quell Zhao Wei's rebellion, and take the righteousness of the whole Han family.

In the blink of an eye, nearly half a year has passed since Liu Qi pacified Jiangdong, and in this half year, Liu Qi has received a lot of good news, first of all, this year's Dafeng, the total grain output of counties and counties in the three prefectures is nearly 30% more than in previous years.

The various trades in Jiaozhou are also very profitable, only the tax has hundreds of thousands of dollars, and various specialties produced in Jiaozhou, such as pearls, shells, glass, jade, tortoiseshell, rhino horn, ivory, bananas, coconut, longan, etc., have been exchanged for huge profits.

What's even more exciting is that there are even merchants from Liaodong and Goguryeo who came to Jiaozhou on sea ships and agreed to exchange their locally produced horses, leather, mink fur, ginseng and other things for Jiaozhou's materials, which made Liu Qi's Jingzhou army gradually have a stable horse market, Liu Qi was very excited to set up a military horse supervisor, and ordered Wei Yan to be the order, Zhang Xiu to be the Cheng, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng were engaged in the special responsibility for raising horses and training cavalry, of which Wei Yan's treatment was equivalent to Gan Ning, Lu Xun, Yu Ban and others, Directly responsible for Liu Qi, mainly responsible for the overall affairs of horse administration, Zhang Xiu is specifically responsible for training cavalry, the status is equivalent to the high-ranking officials such as Zhizhong and Beijia, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng are responsible for the specific affairs of raising horses, and their status is equivalent to that of a county Taishou.

And the education in Sanzhou has also developed to a new **, among the students there are not only Lu Ji, Zhou Budo, Ma Liang, Ma Yan, Ling Tong and other young talents, but also many young people from poor families, although they are not yet at the age of becoming a leader, but they all show the demeanor of a generation of celebrities.

Among them, there are also many scholars who have no name in history have also completed their studies, and were appointed as county magistrates after Liu Qi's simple assessment...... (To be continued)