After the victory of the Battle of Guandu, at this time, there was a sudden news from the south, that is, Gong Du, Liu Pi and others supported Liu Bei to occupy Runan. Moreover, in the name of rescuing the Han Emperor, Liu Bei united Liu Biao and the newly appointed Sun Quan to send troops to attack Xudu.

Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were scattered all over the place, all to deal with Tao Ying, but he didn't expect Gong Du to rebel again, and there was also the damn Liu Bei involved! So Cao Cao was busy withdrawing his troops back to Xuchang. At this time, the more than 30,000 surrendered troops are even more problematic, if they are killed, they need to be killed for an unknown amount of time, and they have to go north to indiscriminately kill the infamy of surrendering troops, so who will dare to surrender themselves in the future?

So, Cao Cao, who was busy going south, thought of another person. When he resisted Yuan, Tao Ying had signed an agreement with himself, and at that time he would surrender troops to him. So Cao Cao wanted to give these 30,000 mouths to Tao Ying, so that they would suffer Tao Ying's Bianjing.

But the generals disagreed, because if these people were given to Tao Ying, Tao Ying would definitely increase his strength and threaten Xuchang even more at that time. Guo Jia thought that this plan was feasible, because Liu Bei, Sun Quan, and Liu Biao went north, and if they combined with Tao Ying, who was stationed in Bianjing, the four forces would attack, and the difficulty of Yanzhou would be no less difficult than that of Yuan Shao!

So he threw the surrendered troops to Tao Ying, and then while Tao Ying packed up the surrendered troops, Cao Cao quickly went south to defeat their coalition army, and the difficulty of Yanzhou could be solved! Guo Jia also offered advice, Tao Ying wanted to expand his power, so it was better to sell the troops to Tao Ying one by one. Then use the money to buy Tao Ying's grain and grass, and now the grain and grass are Yanzhou's biggest enemy.

It just so happened that Tao Ying had been farming scientifically in the past few years, and Xuzhou was rich in grain and grass, so he could take the opportunity to consolidate Yanzhou without money to collect his grain. So Cao Cao followed Guo Jia's advice and sent someone to Bianjing to talk to Tao Ying.

In 201, the seventh year that Tao Ying came to this world, this New Year's Day was spent in Bianjing. exchanged 10,000 stones of grain and grass for Cao Cao's more than 30,000 surrendered troops, and Tao Ying was busy disposing of the surrendered troops every day. With so many soldiers and horses, it is difficult to go to Xuzhou if the merger is not completed. If you don't go to Xuzhou, it is difficult for the three cities of Bianjing to feed nearly 40,000 troops.

So Tao Ying divided the 30,000 army with Zhao Yun and Cao Chun and escorted 10,000 to Shanyang County, where they were reorganized into the Shanyang County soldiers, and asked Quan Rou to take them to defend Shanyang County. It just so happens that Shanyang County is a large Juntun County, and it needs young and strong soldiers to settle down and reclaim fertile land!

After 10,000 was sent to Shanyang, Tao Ying asked Tai Shici to lead 10,000 to Nanyang County to hand over. These 10,000 Yuan Shao elite soldiers also went to Nanyang to serve as county soldiers, and at the same time were responsible for reclamation in Nanyang.

The remaining 10,000 were sent by Tao Ying to Huainan County to serve as county soldiers. Now Huainan is the time of great development, and Huainan is a county that lacks people, so after these 10,000 people are dispatched, it will greatly enrich the population of Huainan.

Due to the wars everywhere at this time, there were many deaths of men, so the entire Han Dynasty was a sparse number of men and a large number of women. In places where there are many wars, such as Yanzhou, Huainan, and Yuzhou, men are even more scarce to the extent of 20 to 1. Therefore, in order to promote population growth, Tao Ying ordered the reform of the marriage system.

Tao Ying promulgated a new marriage law for Xuzhou, which was mainly aimed at the Juntun district. The law stipulates that soldiers in the Juntun district are allowed to marry, and the married soldiers are distributed land, which is then formed into Juntun villages. Soldiers need to go out for military training during the day and go home to rest at night. Whenever it was time to plant or harvest, they took turns plowing and harvesting crops.

When the war was fought, they were organized into the army to fight. At this point, except for the Pengcheng Tianwei Army, the Hell Demon Army, the Golden Wing Army, and the Sky Eagle Army, all other troops need to be garrisoned.

In order to solve the shortage of women in the Juntun area, Tao Ying issued an edict, and the edict was promulgated to all major counties, but anyone who had a daughter could bring Xuzhou, and then marry the soldiers in the Juntun area, and then give land.

At the same time, because there are few men and many women, in order to allow every woman to find a husband, Tao Ying implemented a system of monogamy and trigamy. Only three wives may be taken, and wives shall have equal status, and no concubines shall be taken.

A series of reforms began again, and when all the soldiers were sent to be stationed in various places, Tao Ying left Zhang He and Gao Ran to lead the troops and horses of his headquarters to be stationed in Bianjing, Fengqiu and Caocheng. At this time, the military horses of the three cities attacked nearly 10,000 people, and their main task was to leave 5,000 soldiers and horses to be responsible for reclaiming the land outside the three cities, and the other more than 5,000 military horses were responsible for protecting the safety of the city and the towns outside the city.

In February 201, Tao Ying set off from Bianjing to return to Pengcheng. And at this moment in Yuzhou, the combined forces of Cao Cao and Liu Bei have reached incandescent level. Cao Cao declared Liu Bei and others rebels in the name of the Han Emperor, and Liu Bei declared Cao Cao a traitor with the blood edict of the Son of Heaven. Liu Bei wrote to Tao Ying again, asking Tao Ying to also send troops to attack Xudu, eradicate Cao Cao, and assist the Han Dynasty!

For letting the emperor rule the world again, Tao Ying has no interest at all!

So Tao Ying decisively wrote a book to reject Liu Bei's request, it was already good that he didn't ask him to settle Zhang Fei's account, where would he help him? Liu Bei once again united with Yuan Shao in the north, Yuan Shao had already been lying in bed and unable to move after the defeat in the Battle of Guandu, where was the kung fu to go south?

Just when Cao Cao and Liu Bei were fighting in Yuzhou, at this time, Nanyang Jia Xu came to persuade him that it was better to take the opportunity to attack Cao Cao or Liu Bei. No matter which side you attack, you can get a huge benefit! When Jia Xu sent a letter, Tao Ying wanted to send troops, but Lu Su came to report that the military rations hoarded in Xuzhou had been sold out!

I want to fight, but I have no food and grass!

As soon as he heard that there was no food, Tao Ying could only give up. However, the only thing to be thankful for is that this time Lu Su sold the hoarded grain and grass to Cao Cao and Liu Bei, so that they could fight each other, and the income of this grain and grass was almost equal to the income of the Xuzhou General Commercial Bank for nearly a year and a half!

The grain is gone, and Xuzhou's empty treasury is gradually filling up again. With the gold and silver reserves, the central bank began to print more silver bills, and now the central bank's influence has extended to Yanzhou, Liaodong, Jizhou, and Youzhou in the north, and Lujiang and Danyang in the south, which Sun Ce occupied.

In April, news came from the north that Yuan Shao was sick, and at this time, more and more news about Yuan Shao's succession reached Xuzhou. Yuan Tan sent an envoy to Xuzhou to ask Tao Ying to support him, and Tao Ying also expressed his support for his good friend Yuan Tan.

Yuan Tan asked Tao Ying to tell him a hexagram, and the hexagram showed that he might not be able to inherit the position of the lord of Hebei. So Yuan Tan asked Tao Ying what he should do, so Tao Ying gave Yuan Tan a plan, while Yuan Shao was not dead, it was better to ask Yuan Shao to resign, and then go to take up the post of Youzhou pastor. After Tao Ying finished speaking, Yuan Tan asked Yuan Shao to resign, and then went to guard Youzhou Mu.

But at this time, Youzhou Mu was guarded by his younger brother Yuan Xi, Yuan Shao did not allow it, and in the end, Yuan Tan had to resign to go to Bohai County Taishou!