At the end of March, Jia Xu traveled from Nanyang along the Liangyang Avenue opened by Liu Pi to Liangguo, and then from the waterway to Pengcheng. The people in Pengcheng have been waiting for Jia Xu for several days.

Pengcheng Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, Tao Ying handed the holy decree to Jia Xu, Jia Xu took a breath after reading it and said: "What a trick to kill people with a knife." This edict is for Hua Xin, presumably Cao Cao wrote another edict to Sun Ce, if Sun Ce gets the edict, it will be unfavorable to my Xuzhou! ”

After Jia Xu finished speaking, he didn't want Liu Pi's envoy to ask to see him outside the door, and it turned out that Liu Pi's envoy had seized another holy decree. Liu Pi asked the envoy to hand it to Tao Ying with the holy decree, and asked Tao Ying to ask for 500 steel knives and 5,000 stones of grain and grass!

A holy decree, in exchange for so many things, Tao Ying agreed without blinking an eye. This Liu Pi has benefited, and in the future, Cao Cao's holy decree will be intercepted and then exchanged for things.

Liu Ye looked at the holy decree for a long time and said, "Lord, I don't think we can do it." After Liu Ye finished speaking, Jia Xu couldn't help but nodded. So at the suggestion of Liu Ye and Jia Xu, Tao Ying summoned skilled craftsmen to revise the two holy decrees, and then pretended to be messengers to send the holy decrees to Yuzhang and Danyang.

After the holy decree was sent, Tao Ying wrote another letter to Sun Shao in Yuzhang, asking him to take the opportunity to win over the generals who were already willing to belong to seize Yuzhang Nanchang, and then divide his troops to guard the main Nanchang City and Chaisang City.

The messenger hurried towards Yuzhang. In March, shortly after Jia Xu arrived in Pengcheng, Cao Cao sent troops to attack Nanyang. After hearing the news that Nanyang was attacked, Tao Ying hurriedly ordered the envoy to ask Cao Cao why he didn't keep his promise back then? Cao Cao used the name of Emperor Xian to conquer Nanyang, saying that Nanyang was a rebel army and did not belong to Xuzhou, so there was no need for him to keep his promise.

At the beginning of the Juye Covenant, the two parties only agreed that Cao Cao was not allowed to attack the land of Xuzhou, and Nanyang belonged to the land of Jingzhou, so it had nothing to do with Xuzhou. Seeing that Cao Cao was cheating again, he had already transported so much grain and grass to Nanyang, how could he sit back and watch Nanyang be beaten? So Tao Ying ordered Jia Xu to return to Nanyang quickly, and then ordered Tai Shici and Qu A to lead the 5,000 Shiting Army of Shiting Town to support Nanyang in the vanguard.

After receiving the order, Tai Shici led 500 cavalry, 4,000 infantry, and 500 crossbowmen from Shiting Town, and went south to Pengcheng.

Tai Shici was stationed in Shiting Town, recruited troops in Shiting Town, and then practiced all day long. Shiting Town is the place where Cao Cao wrote his words of shame back then, when Cao Cao vowed to kill back to Shiting Town one day sooner or later, and eradicate Shiting Town! The people of Shiting Town remembered Cao Cao's words, so the people never gave up martial arts while worshipping literature. Now the population of Taoling Town adds up to nearly 50,000 people, and almost every family will have five or six children, because Tao Ying proposed to have more children, reclaim wasteland, and Taoling Town, as a county-level city directly under Pengcheng, has nearly a dozen subordinate towns and towns have always been in the frontier, so the population density is particularly large.

The children born to the common people, the strong children will let them go to the martial arts academy to practice martial arts, and the weak ones will go to the Pocao academy to study. Therefore, the style of civil and military affairs prevailed in Shiting Town, so when Tai Shici was stationed in Shiting Town, he recruited nearly 3,000 soldiers in less than a month, plus the soldiers he brought before, and formed a military horse of 5,000 people. Tao Ying instructed Tai Shi Ci to make good use of the martial spirit of Shiting Town to train an elite army, and then Tai Shi Ci's merits would be obtained from them, so Tai Shi Ci was also more hard-working.

After a year of training, coupled with Tao Zhong's help, the two of them are even more like fish in water. Tao Zhong is the young general Qu A rescued by Tao Ying, this young general is a rare talent, Tao Ying saw that he was able to resist Cheng Pu and other generals for so long, and when he grew up in the future, it was inevitable that he would be Lu Bu and Ma Chao's generation, so he taught him carefully, and gave him his surname Tao and a loyal name, hoping that he could be loyal to the Tao family.

It is said that when the two of them received the equipment and went all the way towards Liang Guo, another letter for help came from Xiaopei at this time. The reason is that Lu Bu didn't know when he reconciled with Yuan Shu, and I heard that Lu Bu also wanted to marry Yuan Shu. Lu Bu has no children under his knees, only one daughter, and he is very favored. And Yuan Shu is also known as the emperor in Huainan, and his daughter will become the crown princess when she marries, and she will be able to become the queen in the future.

Yuan Shu also used this as a condition to win over Lü Bu, so that Lü Bu and himself would first eliminate Liu Bei, and then eliminate Tao Ying, and then occupy the lands of Xuzhou and Huainan. When the time comes, the two of them will reasonably plot the world again!

After Yuan Shu formed an alliance with Lu Bu, while Lu Bu was recovering from his injuries, Yuan Shu gave Lu Bu a famous horse and 10,000 stones of grain and grass for Lu Bu to attack Liu Bei, who was stationed in Xiaopei. Yuan Shu and Liu Bei have a very deep grudge, the first grudge is because he attacked himself, and the second time he followed Cao Cao to attack himself, which is clearly looking for the type of beating, and he is stationed in a small city, he doesn't eat enough every day, and he recruits troops and horses all day long, even Tao Ying is a little unaccustomed to him.

When Lü Bu led the army south to fight Liu Bei, Liu Bei became frightened and negotiated peace with Lü Bu. Lu Bu ignored him, and asked Tao Ying for help. The three brothers of Liu Bei control Xiao Pei's soldiers and horses, and usually the three brothers have the final say, and the potter at this time has already become Liu Bei's puppet.

Liu Bei asked the pottery merchant to write a letter to ask for help, and Tao Ying summoned everyone to discuss.

In the pastoral mansion of Pengcheng Prefecture, Jia Xu led his troops to resist Cao Cao in Nanyang, and only Liu Ye was in Xuzhou. So Tao Ying asked Liu Ye what to do, Liu Ye looked at Zhang Zhao, Zhang Zhao is an old minister in Xuzhou, with a high reputation, so he has to speak first about everything.

Tao Ying asked Zhang Zhao again, and Zhang Zhao thought about it and said: "The eldest prince and Xuzhou are originally the same family, but because he conquered excessively, he lost Xuzhou." If you don't take him in now, it is inevitable that you will not fulfill the brotherhood of brothers, if you take him in, it will be difficult for a mountain to accommodate two tigers! ”

After Zhang Zhao finished speaking, Liu Ye nodded. That's right, now the potter is also Xuzhou Mu, Tao Ying is also Xuzhou Mu, if you take in the potter, who is the Xuzhou in the end? And after taking them in, he will offend Yuan Shu and Lu Bu, you must know that Yuan Shu is the biggest buyer of his weapons, and his paper and various supplies are also being sold to the scholar class in Huainan. If you break off diplomatic relations with Yuan Shu, many of your factories will have to go out of business!

At this time, Tao Ying, in order to be able to gradually equip his military horses with steel weapons, had to sell more weapons. For the money you earn from selling a steel knife, you can equip yourself with a soldier, a steel knife, and a pair of armor. And he doesn't have any business dealings with Xiao Pei and Lu Bu, so he can't offend his main customer because of this.

What's more, Liu Bei has another thing that is particularly annoying, that is, if he takes them in, he will definitely give them a place to station. And no matter where Liu Bei goes, he keeps recruiting troops and fooling the people. If you give him a county to garrison, when the time comes, his wings will harden, and he will come back to bite him, why should he bother?