However, Cao Cao found a lot of treasured jade in Yuan Shao's big tent, all of which were exquisite, and he couldn't help nodding and sighing: "Playthings are demoralized, Yuan Benchu has exhausted luxury in his life, loves beauty and jade, and he didn't let go during the war, how can such a person be undefeated?" ”

Without the slightest hesitation, Cao Cao ordered that all these things be rewarded to meritorious soldiers. For such a plaything and a discouraged thing, he Cao Cao will not touch it.

At this moment, I saw a pro-soldier and said: "Lord, I found some letters in Yuan Shao's account, I think they are all books of Xu Du and the people in the army and Shao Secret, and the lord can collect and kill them one by one." ”

Cao Cao smiled and said slowly: "At the beginning, Yuan Shaobing was strong and strong, and he was in Henan, even if he was his own appearance, he couldn't protect himself, what about others?" ”

After finishing speaking, Cao Cao didn't even look at those letters, so he ordered all his soldiers to be burned, and he never looked at them.

Because Cao Cao knew that as long as he took a look, he would inevitably remember the characters above in his heart, so that he would be prejudiced against those characters in the future, affecting these people's loyalty to him in the future.

And Guo Jia on the side naturally knew that Cao Cao's approach was exactly the same as the original practice of King Chuzhuang's "Absolute Meeting", which was actually a move to buy people's hearts, and of course it could also reflect the tolerance of the lord Cao Cao. At the same time, he could naturally guess that this was actually a poisonous plan by Yuan Shao, who deliberately left these letters when he left, the purpose was just to let Cao Cao kill his subordinates according to these letters, on the one hand, to weaken Cao Cao's strength, and on the other hand, to create chaos.

Guo Jia saw that Cao Cao did not talk about Yuan Shao's poisonous plan, but instead considered things for them from the perspective of the civil and military forces, and couldn't help but secretly admire himself for the deep scheming of the lord, who not only cracked the other party's poisonous plan, but also could buy people's hearts, so that those who secretly wrote letters to Yuan Shao were loyal to the lord in addition to guilt.

At this time, Cao Cao naturally didn't know what Guo Jia was thinking, and at this time he didn't have time to think about this, this time Yuan Shao took the initiative to retreat, and he retreated unhurriedly, which really worried him, so although Cao Cao's people were still in the big tent, his heart had already flown to the battlefield, and he was very eager to know what happened to Yuan Shao now? Can you get rid of your own army and return to Hebei?

After anxiously waiting for a day, Cao Cao finally got the news, Cao Chun led a thousand tiger and leopard cavalry and finally caught up with Yuan Shao's army, although there were only a thousand horses, but like a tiger descending the mountain, the corpses of Yuan Shao's army were all over the field, the blood flowed and the pestle flowed, the 20,000 army descended, the fleeing fled, the dead died, most of the 20,000 army was scattered, and Yuan Shao only returned to Hebei with 800 cavalry after the defeat.

And with Yuan Shao's escape, all the counties and counties in Henan turned to the wind, and even the Henan part of the plain fell into the hands of Cao Cao.

At the same time, the army commanded by Zang Ba, the assassin of Xuzhou, also won successive battles, taking advantage of Yuan Tan's defeat and retreat, and captured the area south of the Yellow River in Qingzhou in one fell swoop.

In addition, Cao Cao was pleasantly surprised that in the process of Yuan Shao's panic escape, the famous strategist Fu Zhu under his command became Cao Chun's prisoner because he had no time to escape in prison.

When Cao Chun came to see the outside of the tent, Cao Cao personally went out to greet him, and asked him to invite the frustration to his tent, personally untie the shackles, and persuade the frustration to surrender.

Unexpectedly, he said: "My lord made a mistake, he shouldn't have attacked Cao Gong with the tired army that had just swept away Gongsun Zhan, and then there were repeated mistakes, and he was intellectually trapped, and he couldn't persuade Yuan Benchu, so he was captured by you." ”

Cao Cao smiled and said to Fu Zhu: "This is not a public plan, but Yuan Benchu was stubborn and self-serving, no need for public plotting, now the funeral is over discipline, the country is undecided, and the public should assist me to calm the world." ”

But he let out a wry smile when he heard it, and sighed softly: "My uncle, mother, brother and others are all hanging on the fate of the Yuan family, although we are old acquaintances, how can we take refuge in Cao Gong?" If you are truly good for me, please give me death quickly. ”

Cao Cao sighed when he heard this and said, "How can I bear to slaughter the Magi? What's more, you're the. ”

After that, he ordered someone to take him down and treat him well.

After the rectification of a qiē, Cao Cao still ordered Liu Yan to guard the East County, and ordered Le Jin to be the minister of Jibei, and the soldiers were stationed in Chiping, and the town was guarded in the northern country, and the full favor was the minister of Jinan, and Cao Hong was assisted in guarding the country of Jinan, and entrusted Zang to dominate the two states of Qingxu and Xu, and the troops were stationed in Linji, and the town guarded the country of Le'an, and then led Guo Jia, Xun You, Cao Ren, Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan and others to lead 30,000 troops to Xuchang.

Now that the battle of Guandu is basically over, Cao Cao is not able to launch an attack on the north for the time being, so he has to decide to rest and recuperate, and then discuss the conquest of Hebei after the grain harvest in the coming year.

What's more, now that Xuchang has been captured by Guan Yu and Wei Yan successively, the centrifugal tendency of the military and the people has intensified, and some so-called loyal people will take the opportunity to make trouble and plot to overthrow their own rule, how can Cao Cao not be in a hurry to go back?

The army marched all the way, it took less than two days to come to Xuchang, Xun Yu had already brought the civil and military officials to greet them, Cao Cao gave them a condolence, especially praised Xun Yu for his contribution when he held Xuchang, and then learned that the general Li Dian was captured by Guan Yu and his whereabouts were unknown.

Guo Jia sighed and said: "Don't look for it anymore, Li Mancheng must have fallen into the hands of Liu Qi, this Liu Qi even dared to forcibly detain the envoy sent to him by Sun Ce, let alone a prisoner in Guan Yu's army?" So Xia Guan guessed that if Li Mancheng at this time did not agree to surrender to him, I am afraid that there would be no way to live at all, and as long as Li Mancheng died, Liu Qi would definitely say that Guan Yu killed him, once Li Mancheng surrendered, he would say that the other party was willing to surrender, and he had no choice, hehe, this person is shameless, it can be said that he is unique in the world. According to the plan of the lower officials, it is better to be generous and send Li Dian's family to Xiangyang, so that even if Liu Qi is thick-skinned, he will definitely not plot our land in the short term, so that we can recuperate with all our might. ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he couldn't help but nodded thoughtfully, and ordered someone to send Li Dian's family to Xiangyang, if Li Dian died, he said that he would go to the funeral, and if Li Dian surrendered, he said that he would return to his family for the sake of the old feelings.

After Cao Cao gathered all the civil and military forces to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and then solemnly proposed to everyone to "persuade" the Son of Heaven to move the capital: "Everyone knows that now Xuchang is the place of the four wars, there is Liu Bei in the west, Liu Qi in the south, and Yuan Shao in the north, all of which can pose a threat to my Xu Du. Luoyang is the ancient capital of the Han Dynasty, the geographical location is dangerous, the transportation is convenient, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and we occupied Hanoi not long ago, and now we have defeated Yuan Shao, it is really an ideal place to go, now I want to rebuild Luoyang, welcome the son of heaven and return the old capital, I don't know how to do it under the public will? ”

After Cao Cao said this, no one in the ministers objected, because Cao Cao's henchmen were all his heads, and those old ministers of the Han Dynasty were originally dissatisfied with the narrow land of Xuchang, and now they saw that they could return to their hometown, and it was too late to be happy in their hearts, how could they object? Therefore, this time the matter turned out to be unexpected, which made Cao Cao nod with satisfaction.

So Cao Cao ordered the requisition of 100,000 laborers on the same day to build Luoyang City, at the same time, in order to guard against Liu Bei in the pass, he also ordered Hedong to guard Du Ji and Hongnong to guard Jia Kui, widen and strengthen the original Taolin fortress, and build a dangerous fortress, because it is close to Tongshui, it is called Tongguan.

Not long after, I saw the envoy who sent Li Dian's family to Xiangyang to report, saying that Li Dian had really been recruited by Liu Qi, and when he heard that he said that his family was returned to Li Dian, Liu Qi hurriedly thanked himself, and also rewarded a large number of treasures, and at the same time swore with the envoy that he was willing to guard the border with Prime Minister Cao Cheng, non-aggression against each other, and coexist peacefully.

Cao Cao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, since Liu Qi publicly expressed his willingness to non-aggression with his own side, even if it was to buy Li Dian's heart, at least he would not take the initiative to attack his own side in a short period of time, so that he could concentrate on developing internal affairs and restoring the economy to deal with the alliance of Yuan Shao and Liu Bei.

He believed that in the next time, Liu Bei would definitely take Guan Yu's revenge as an excuse to unite with Yuan Shao and deal with him together, so he also made some necessary preparations, such as dividing the relationship between Ma Teng and Liu Bei, sending envoys to appease the Xiliang tribes in the name of the imperial court, and even spending a lot of money to ask the Qiang people to lead troops to sneak attack Liu Bei's back road to harass him, etc., but Cao Cao also admired Zhuge Liang's wisdom and didn't know how effective these methods could be, so he still made Du Ji and Jia Kui ready for war.

More than half a year has passed, and in a blink of an eye, it has been March of the sixth year of Jian'an, and in this nearly five months, Tongguan has been completed, and Liu Bei has strangely not launched an attack.

Cao Cao knew that this was because Liu Bei was worried that he would be alone and would not be his opponent at all, so he was actively waiting for Yuan Shao to prepare his army and horses and launch another attack on him.

In fact, Cao Cao didn't know that after he sent Guan Yu's body to Xiangyang, Liu Qi just ordered someone to bury Guan Yu well, and asked the court for a decree, posthumously gifted Guan Yu as the Marquis of Hanshou Pavilion, and called him the Marquis of Zhuang Miao, and sent Guan Yu's family to Chang'an, Liu Bei had already turned his anger to Cao Cao, he would rather believe that Cao Cao asked Liu Qi to help him repel Guan Yu on favorable terms when Guan Yu attacked Xuchang, and absolutely did not believe that this qiē was all from Liu Qi's conspiracy.

And Zhuge Liang was naturally able to think of the real culprit behind the scenes, but he was afraid that Liu Bei would not hesitate to start a war against Liu Qi for Guan Yu, thus losing the foundation that he had built up with great difficulty, so he did not tell Liu Bei about the matter, and also persuaded Liu Bei to deal with Cao Cao and avenge Guan Yu, but Zhuge Liang advised Liu Bei to endure it first, and cooperate with Yuan Shao after a period of time, Yuan Shao sent troops to Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and cooperated with Yuan Shao to send troops to Hongnong, Hedong and other places, which could not only achieve the purpose of revenge, but also expand his strength to the Central Plains.

Because Cao Cao had just won the battle of Guandu, his morale was high, and Zhuge Liang at this time was deeply relied on by Liu Bei, unlike a trace of suspicion in history, so he actually obeyed.

But this time, because Yuan Shao listened to Tian Fengjian's results, he didn't have the slightest intention of sending troops for nearly half a year, and Liu Bei always forbeared, which made Cao Cao gradually put his mind at ease, because after a few months of rest, his rule was almost recovered, plus he had moved the capital to Luoyang with the Son of Heaven, and he was no longer afraid that anyone would attack his lair lightly, so he was confident that even if Yuan Shao and Liu Bei launched an attack with all their might, he would definitely be able to deal with it easily. At least it won't be like the time of the Battle of Guandu.

The update is late, ashamed to be ashamed. I wish you all a happy Lantern Festival.