After Liaodong was annexed to Xuzhou, Tao Ying, a subordinate state of Liaodong, also changed his name to Liaozhong County. This is more harmonious, because Liaozhong County is sandwiched between Liaodong and Liaoxi. The seat of governance is Changli, a large county with a population of nearly 300,000, which is just right to start some enterprises.

After determining that Changli had become a big city, Tao Ying, the Liaoxi Zhisho, went to Jianchang City, a city occupied by the Xianbei people. Jianchang City is located in the center of Liaoxi County, which is convenient for connecting with various counties.

And after occupying Jianchang, you can continue to send troops to the north in the future to liberate more land!

With the gradual stabilization of the north, Tao Ying also took advantage of the heavy snow to rush back to Pengcheng, not to mention that the weather in the north is extremely cold, this way from the north, Tao Ying met many refugees on the way.

Zhou Tai led a refugee to Tao Ying's carriage and inquired only to learn that when Tao Ying fought with Gongsun Du, the Taishou Gonggong of Liaodong, Yuan Shao's sons had been fighting for half a year at this time. In February, Cao Cao led his troops to attack Yuan Tan, and Yuan Tan was beaten out of Gaoli by Cao Cao.

However, fortunately, Tao Ying mediated between the two families, and Cao Cao had worries, so he had to lead his troops back to Xudu. When Cao Cao withdrew his troops, the Yuan brothers fought again. Yuan Shang felt that he was brave and resourceful, and decided to solve the threat of Yuan Tan, so he led his troops to attack Bohai County.

Because of the outbreak of war in the north, all the factories in Nanpi City of Bohai were forced to shut down, causing losses of thousands of taels of silver to Xuzhou every day. Because Yuan Tan only occupies a county in Nanpi, there are few people and not many soldiers, so Yuan Tan is a lost soldier after several battles.

When Yuan Shang led his troops and was about to hit Nanpi City, Yuan Tan's lair, at this time, Yuan Tan hurriedly asked Peng Cheng for help. Nanpicheng is the seat of Bohai Sea, and it is also the largest industrial and furniture industry base invested by Tao Ying on the Yuanjia site.

If Nanpi is broken by Yuan Shang, Tao Ying's loss is far from these items, Nanpi lives in Xuzhou thousands of skilled technicians, including the master of forging weapons, if they are captured, Yuan Shang will wantonly make weapons in Jizhou, then his own exports to Yuan Shang will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, after weighing for a long time, the Pengcheng Government Department and the Military Department jointly issued a joint letter to Yuan Shang, warning Yuan Shang in his heart that if Yuan Shang dared to enter Nanpi for half a step, Xuzhou would send troops to sanction him.

Yuan Shang didn't care after receiving the letter, because the reason why he dared to attack Yuan Tan was because he knew that Tao Ying's soldiers and horses were concentrated in Liaodong County in the north at this time, and this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he would not give it up.

So Yuan Shao had nothing to do with Xuzhou's warning to continue to attack Yuan Tan, and as a last resort, Jia Xu and Zhang Zhao jointly issued a military order to mobilize 10,000 military horses from Qingzhou to garrison Nanpi and defend Nanpi City for Yuan Tan.

10,000 soldiers and horses in Qingzhou were stationed in Nanpi City in May, and Yuan Shang attacked under Nanpi City in May, and attacked under the city for nearly half a month, and the soldiers and generals did not break through Nanpi.

However, the Nanpi army was unstable, the people were panicked, some people were afraid of Yuan Shang's prestige, and the common people wanted to sacrifice the city.

Just when the Nanpi City attacked by Yuan Shang's army was crumbling, news suddenly came from the rear at this time, Cao Cao heard that Tao Ying should be in the north, so he hurriedly led the troops to continue to attack Jizhou, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were extremely elite, and Jizhou's elite soldiers were mostly taken by Yuan Shang to attack Nanpi, so Cao Cao fought until Yecheng in May.

After all, Yecheng is a big city that Yuan Shao has been operating for a long time, so Cao Cao can't attack it for a long time, so Cao Cao's wisdom group came up with an idea to divert water to irrigate Yecheng. Cao Cao asked the soldiers to divert water to flood Yecheng, and Yecheng was flooded, and the people and soldiers were miserable.

So the guard hurriedly went to tell Yuan Shang, and when he heard that Cao Cao had attacked his nest, Yuan Shang hurriedly returned to the army, but was defeated by Cao Cao as soon as he arrived in Yecheng.

In August, Cao Cao led his troops to capture Yecheng, occupied the palace built by Yuan Shang to be the emperor, and rummaged through Yecheng, but Cao Cao did not find the jade seal handed down by Yuan Shao, which really made Cao Cao depressed.

After breaking through Yecheng, knowing that the general trend of Jizhou had gone, Yuan Shang hurriedly went to Youzhou to go to his second brother Yuan Xi to seek development.

So Cao Cao quickly occupied the whole of Jizhou and appointed himself as the pastor of Jizhou. The strategists sent the tax department to say that the governor of the state was high, and the senior cadres learned that Yuan Shang had been defeated, and he knew that he was not Cao Cao's opponent, so he had to surrender to Cao Cao.

In 204, in half a year, Cao Cao took advantage of Tao Ying's absence to seize Bingzhou and Jizhou. When Tao Ying knew, he couldn't help but sigh, this Cao Cao is really a hero.

Now that Yanzhou is so poor, the people have no rice for cooking, but he can still buy food to attack Yuan Shang, but I have to admire his foresight, and I have to say that this time Cao Cao earned it.

Because the grain, grass, armor, gold and silver piled up in Yecheng have been more than the money spent by Cao Cao, I don't know how many times! However, Cao Cao's northern expedition, Bianjing, Cao Rescue, and Fengqiu made a lot of money because of this!

The three cities piled up tens of thousands of loads of Xuzhou's grain and grass ready to be sold, and half of these grains and grass were sold to Cao Cao in the three cities. After making money, the three cities continued to promote urbanization.

Among the territories controlled by Tao Ying, Bianjing has risen the slowest yet, but in the two years of war in the north, Bianjing has risen as rapidly as a local tyrant. In just two years, the three cities have absorbed nearly 6,000 wealthy families from Yanzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Sanqin.

The number of wealthy families in Bianjing soon overtook that of Juye City, where private industry was the most developed, and most of these more than 6,000 families were because Cao Cao went north, and they were afraid that Cao Cao would plunder their property, so they chose to come to the nearest Fengqiu, and thus moved to Bianjing.

After having money, the Ministry of Government sent the reformist official school to govern Juye's Taishou to preside over Bianjing, and after Taishou took office, he started urbanization, opened Bianjing University Hall, and moved all Juye's sets to Bianjing.

For a time, Bianjing's development speed quickly caught up, relying on the surrounding wars to make war money, and soon overtook Pengcheng.

However, with the fall of Jizhou and Bingzhou in the north, the places near the three cities were surrounded by Cao Cao, and the development of Bianjing fell into a place of confusion for a while.

The reward was given to the fleeers, and Tao Ying ordered the land of Qingzhou to be opened to the people of Jizhou who had been exiled due to the war. After the policy came out, Zang Ba was busy accepting refugees again, and Qingzhou was busy again.

After returning to Pengcheng, it was already March 205. The spring breeze is rippling in March, and the breath of spring is quietly coming in the north.

In the courtyard, Tao Ying sat at the desk, a little girl stood beside her and looked at him, Tao Ying shook her from time to time, and the girl giggled after a while.

That girl was Tao Ying's daughter, and just as Tao Ying was enjoying this family fun, suddenly Zhang Zhao of the Ministry of Government Affairs hurriedly came to tell him that something big had happened in the north!

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